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Carcharodon Family Tree

Added 2019-04-04 23:17:07 +0000 UTC

The completed tree of my favorite convoluted horse family, I hope it's easy enough to read and follow

I'm not 100% finished fiddling with the backstory, but here's the gist of what i have so far

A long time ago, a young mare named Coral decided to run away from home. Coral wanted to be a seafarer, like in the stories her grandmother old! What actually ended up happening was Coral falling into a gang of pirates, a rotten crew of the very worst scum and villainy....and she ended up liking it just fine. She especially liked the captain, a wicked and cunning stallion by the name of Morgan Maelstrom. Their story was a fantastic tale of grand romance, robbery, and riches beyond belief.

.....Right up until Coral violently double-crossed him, then fled to retire comfortably by the seaside. In tow with her was a heavy chest of gold, her young son Ishmael, and the foal growing in her belly (her main reason for leaving, really. The pirate life doesn't lend itself well to raising children.)

For a while, life was good. Coral hid away her wealth, and lovingly raised her two sons. Ishmael in particular found a best friend in his little brother, Buck.

Unfortunately, one night, during a howling thunderstorm, dear old daddy comes knocking.

Little Ishmael and teeny Buck answer the door. Morgan greets them with a warm, fatherly embrace.....that could become a lot tighter, should Coral refuses to come with him.

On the condition her children remain unharmed, Coral begrudgingly accompanies the captain. She kissed both her boys and told them to be brave.

A few days later, Morgan reappears to his sons, sadly reporting that their mother had been lost to a storm.

The children barely have time to process what this means- little Buck fearfully asks his brother what'll happen to them now- when Morgan merrily bundles them up and says they'll be coming to work for him, of course! It's really the least he can do, lads.

What followed was a very lonely few years out at sea, performing endless back-breaking labor, cleaning up after a crew of drunken criminals, forever under the watchful, unsettling eyes of the captain. But the boys have each other, and that makes it bearable. At the very least, they have each other to hide away bits of food, to help weasel the other out of punishments, to cry quietly when the thoughts of Mum won't go away. At the very least, they have each other.

You can imagine, then, Ishmael's terror when he hears Morgan playing poker with another captain- and Morgan, unwillingly to part with his gold, bets Buck. Morgan is a clever gambler, but this captain is more clever still- and he wins.

Buck will be given away in the morning. Ishmael has to act tonight.

Buck never did find out what happened that night. He only remembers his big brother shaking him awake that morning, and the two of them making their escape. If he strains his mind hard enough, he can remember Ishmael's wild eyes and trembling hooves, and a very faint smell of blood.

Ishmael vows to leave the past behind him, and the boys somehow make their way back home, among Coral's old family. Ishmael is determined to find a safer, quieter life for him and his brother both- something traditional, and sensible. Boring, if need be. To keep himself and his little brother out of trouble forever. Something like.....fishing.

And the rest is history~