AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!

--Typical Civilian Response Meeting Jesse

Jesse Mayfield is a cinnamon roll in the body of a death machine. He's a shy, gentle, anxious person who ultimately would very much like to not be a giant terrifying monster. Adopted and raised by a human from infancy he never developed the natural cruelty or prey drive most members of his species have, and instead lives a fairly normal life with his now-husband, Chester. He's an academic who enjoys literature, and speaks in a somewhat stilted, overly formal way.

Being relatively well-known in his home-world for being one of the two people to successfully find a legendary gold hoard, The Pool of Wishes, hasn't lead to much progress in being actually accepted, and, while content in his own way, it's never stopped weighing on his mind how deeply he wishes he could just be a normal person, able to walk amongst others without fear or stigma.

Backstory

Jesse was found as an infant by his adoptive mother, a human woman who took pity on the badly injured, abandoned child, even if he was doomed to grow into a dangerous predator. His mother -a local explorer "Blind Betty"/"Buckshot Betty"- was already known for being "spirited", and while she was a decent parent to him, not an ounce of her bravery and taste for adventure wore off on Jesse. Forced to grow up largely indoors or sticking to more abandoned rural parts of town, the taste of companionship he received from his mother only served to ignite in him a desire to be around other people.

Of course, being one of the most feared apex predators in an already very dangerous homeland, any attempts at trying to venture into public mostly resulted in a lot of chaos and being shot at. He eventually turned to books, developing a deep love of literature, and academics. After losing contact with his mother on one of her adventures, he was able to take on a job ghostwriting for the local paper, and worked security at the local bank, his mere presence enough to scare off most any criminal.

It was at his security job that he met Chester Mayfield, after the idiot tried to rob the bank he worked at with a broken gun. He was impressed with the lack of fear Chester showed in subsequent, equally poorly planned, robbery attempts, and started just talking to him instead of bothering to intervene.

Ultimately Jesse inquired as to why he was trying so hard to steal a relatively small amount of money. When Chester explained he was going to use it for supplies to journey out into the deadly deserts to the East in a search for a children's fairytale Pool of Wishes Jesse simply gave him the money out of his own savings as a gift. He was further surprised when Chester invited him along, and he happily agreed, leading to a long, largely idiotic journey into some of the most brutal nature the continent had to offer.

Through the adventure he and Chester grew incredibly close, and by the time they'd reached the place legends said the Pool would be, Jesse had started to hope that they may be true. They were... In a way that ultimately did not matter to Jesse. The "Pool of Wishes" was not a magic location granting wishes, but instead an impossibly massive hoard of gold, and precious gems. Jesse broke down at the sight, having to realize that, while the place of legend existed, it could never grant him the one wish he desperately wanted fulfilled.

Still, life pressed on, and more happily than Jesse had ever really expected. He and Chester got married, and built a beautiful home for themselves with the vast wealth they now possessed. He's comfortable, loved, and has found his own happiness the best he can.

But the sting never really left. He still feels the aching in his chest anytime he thinks about how he'll never really be able to go out, enjoy the world, or even just kiss his husband without risking him harm. Even a warm, loving cage still feels like a cage, and it's ultimately his greatest desire to find a way to live a normal life.

Personality

Jesse is a quiet, gentle person generally prone to anxiety. No amount of being a giant monster has really shaken the fear that's instilled in a person after being shot at as a child by panicked rednecks.

He's generally very friendly, and happy to talk if anyone wants to, though comes across as deeply awkward, and overly formal. He isn't adventurous himself, but will follow anyone who wants him along and who's kind. He's a very affectionate, caring person, but can also be extremely stubborn if he decides he genuinely cares about something.

The sole exception to his natural passiveness is a defensiveness of loved ones. He'll absolutely tear someone to shreds (verbally or otherwise) if they try to harm people he cares about. He just about gave Chester a heart attack at their wedding when he got genuinely angry and went off on a relative of his because she'd implied Chester wasn't as successful as she thought he should be, and while no harm was done he's still a force to be reckoned with when convinced he's acting in someone else's defense.

He's also cautious and suspicious. He's decent at reading whether someone is being honest, and will react worse to someone lying than to an admission of wrong-doing or less favorable personal traits. He'll pretty passively accept someone being a bad person so long as they're friendly and upfront about it, but if he's under the impression you're trying to deceive him in some way no amount of friendliness is going to make him stop glaring at you like a particularly wary feral cat.

Gods favorite people tend to be his dumbest.

 

-- Chester's Mom

Chester is a deeply optimistic person, and by optimistic most would clarify "delusional". He's chipper, and spirited, but also convinced every children's fairytale he's ever read was real, and everything will work out in the end. Life is exciting for him, and he's gained an even more delusional confidence after proving one of his favorite stories to be semi-true on an adventure where he met his now-husband Jesse, a giant man-eating monster.

He's dumb as a sack of bricks, but sheer enthusiasm and charisma help balance it out, and he's lucky to a point it's debatably supernatural. Seems to be a magnet for monsters.

Backstory

Born in the town of High Lonestone, a major city on the edge of the lovingly nicknamed "Death Deserts", he had a mostly normal childhood. He was raised by his very elderly grandmother, and while he was loved and cared for, he also ended up spending a lot of his time by himself, without other kids his age around. Combined with his grandmothers extensive collection of fairy and folk-tales he ended up being a very weird, day-dreamy kid.

Unfortunately for the local population he did not grow out of this, and childhood fancy matured into a deeply annoying, kind of stupid adult man. Still, persistence, luck, and pure charisma count for something, because he eventually stumbled on a legend that seemed plausible, the tale of a distant Pool of Wishes, across the great desert. While trying to, badly, rob a bank he met Jesse, and the two journeyed out together, ultimately growing close and successfully finding the legendary Pool. It did not grant wishes, no, but was a vast wealth of gold, that made him filthy rich overnight.

Being the person he is, he fell very much sincerely in love with Jesse on their journey, and proposed to him not long after they made their way back to their hometown. They've been happily married since, and Chester gets to live his dream of just enjoying the simple things in life, and living with an affectionate giant monster. He's ultimately an adventurer, though, and it's only a matter of time until he goes out on some other poorly thought out quest, dragging Jesse along for the ride.

Personality

Chester is a boisterous, cheerful person, who can be hard-headed to a fault. It's difficult to shake him, or get under his skin, but this also leads to a general lack of social awareness, and a complete lack of respect for consequences. He'll throw himself into things without thinking, and can be a menace not just to other people, but his own health.

He's a dreamy, romantic, playful person, and loves a good adventure, even if it's something as simple as trying a new dish, or visiting someplace new. While generally unserious, he is deeply loyal, and would do anything for the people he loves and cares about, and has a deep well of patience for other people's own social quirks, well aware of what it's like to be dismissed socially.

Jesse & Chester Mayfield