[=9]original lineart belongs to Moss, but I've edited it a lot.
This is Amicus, Taliene and Rut's biological father, and can I just say I'm actually really proud of this design ;; He was born in the forest a long time ago and his deer form hasn't aged past his early thirties, and even though his human form is quite a bit older than that now, he still looks unnaturally young due to being a 'true' endless forest deer, devoted to the Gods. He is by no means immortal, but his physical form does seem to be stuck in time.
Rutilus has his eyes, as you can see, but apart from that neither Rut nor Taliene really look that much like their father. Really, Rutilus doesn't look like either of his parents, though I suppose his and Amicus' faces are vaguely similar. But seriously, where did the golden pelt and blonde hair come from? |8 Rut is all kinds of magical.
ANYWAY.
Amicus didn't actually venture out of the forest until his adolescence, when he could no longer ignore his wanderlust, at which point he met Enya. They grew very close very quickly, and Amicus took the risk of introducing her to the forest, which of course went swimmingly. He was almost a priest of sorts; devoted to the Gods, putting all of his faith and trust in them. Amicus taught Enya the ways of the forest, I guess, and it didn't take that long for them to fall for eachother.
But after Rutilus was born and they started to raise him primarily in the human world, Amicus started to wander, and Enya could never find him in the forest when he did. He'd started to travel to other realms, claiming the gods were guiding him, that it was a mission he had to complete.
In the process, he met another doe, whose name we don't know. In the process, he fell in love with her.
