Scott Atheling

> ‘No, No, Gene. You don’t understand, people are dying out there, Gene. And I just want you to be… y’know safe?’
>
> **Scott Atheling**

## Other information

### Mansplain, manipulate or malewife?

Malewife

**Scott Atheling** (Atheling as in **Ætheling**), an Avian, is the owner and caretaker of an aviary located in *Morass City*. And is the main protagonist of chapter one of The Séverin anthology. He was heavily isolated as a child, living in the community of Green–Oak before being exiled from it for ‘inappropriate behaviour’ that ’broke many of their strict rules’. This caused him to be overprotective of Genevieve, his younger sister.

Later on, he is seen in the beginning of the one–shot: Rule the Domain, which is set around a year after the original one–shot. Where he is arguing with her about the safety of the community.

Scott’s character is referenced to being physically disabled throughout both one–Shots he’s involved in, as he talks about using a mobility aid to walk around:

> ‘Do you ever find it. You know, hard to get up in the morning?’ Scott spoke calmly, though you could hear the raspy tone and the scent of old morning breath; as he calmly got off the bed he pulled a pair of wooden crutches from the bed–side cabinet. ‘Gene could you just open the door for me?’ As he got a muffled response and the sound of of the latches being undone from the door with two locks on either side.
> “Thanks,”
>
>

~ Scott Atheling, The Séverin anthology. **(‘LoveBird’)**

## Appearance

Scott has fluffy, blonde, medium–length hair and lively, hazel eyes that have flakes of gold close around the iris. He is taller than most of the people who live in the Green–Oak community and posses a lean figure that intimidates even Nikolai, the Green–Oak ranger.

Scott’s arms are covered to wrist-length with layers of paper–white feathers ,of which, looked to be of a doves: and to pair with that he has, in place of his ears, wings. Though, they don’t allow him to fly since they are not strong enough to carry his weight.

## Personality

‘Curious, though protective.’

Scott is noted to be very curious about his surroundings: always trying to find ways to go out of his comfort zone and feel much more open to the things around him, with that, he also has a cheerful and energetic personality that make him easy to get along with. He is easily excited and can be quite loud, He is capable of reading social cues and can be incredibly empathetic toward others' struggles. As such, he often says just what others need to hear to push themselves in the right direction, as he is very supportive to them.

But beyond his bright and bubbly exterior, he has a serious side; Scott has a habit of being over protective of those who he considers ‘close enough’ to him. This leads to multiple arguments based upon him being “overly defensive”.

## Storyline

### The Séverin anthology

Scott originally appears and stars in the Chapter One of The Séverin anthology, which takes place in the Morass City aviary. And describes the many fantastical birds of Skyr; he also describes how he had related to them since he and his sister, Genevieve, had lost their parents and she couldn’t help him preen and it caused him to feel *alone*.

He ended the one-shot with him preening his wings, alone, in his bedroom. The mood becoming sombre as he remember what his parents had caused him.

## Relationships

### Relatives

#### Genevieve Atheling

Genevieve is the adopted younger sister of Scott. Though he is only mentioned once throughout her backstory, being at the beginning of it, begging her to not ‘leave him’.

### Scarlet Atheling

The twin sister of **Scott**, he and Scarlet have the ‘Stereotypical’ sibling relationship; with one always trying to “one–up” the other in whatever thing they’re interested in, even if they aren’t both good at it.

## Trivia (Fun facts!)

* He was born on one of the biggest festivals in the Skyrian calendar, The Summer Solstice. (On what would be the twenty–first of June.)
* He is an avian hybrid. A mix between a Swan and a human.
* Nobody knows how he does it, but, all sorts of birds find him close enough to allow him to preen them
* He is diagnosed with POTS