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oKIE DOKIE so I adopted this guy waaay back in 2014 from @/MeghanMillie

And now. 4 years later. I'm bringin' him back with a remixed design and the beginnings of Personality And Backstory™

Reggie realized he was bi in early high school, and fell for another boy who he started dating despite still being in the closet. They were both growing up in "sketchy" neighborhoods, but his boyfriend's was markedly worse and essentially controlled by the Crip subset gang whose territory it was located in. Due to his location and older brother's preexisting engagement, Reggie's boyfriend, Derek, was just barely starting to get a little involved in gang activity at the time; just doing runner jobs and being treated like a whelp.
Reggie came out to his mom (his dad having left when he was very young) and she reacted poorly--actually physically chasing him from the house with a broom. As a result, he moved in with Derek, who was unfortunately sinking deeper and deeper into "gang life." After moving in, Reggie got sucked into the outskirts of it, too: started running, then dealing, then getting into fights. Both he and Derek ended up being expelled from school because of it.
In late 2011, when Reggie was just 19, Derek was killed in a drive-by shooting. Shit had never been calm in that life, not with the ever-present threat of clashes with the Bloods sets in the city, and definitely not with that year’s ignited war with Brooklyn’s Most Wanted--but losing Derek was a violent jerk into reality for Reggie. After getting shot in a revenge mission Derek’s older brother pulled him along on, and subsequently died for, Reggie tucked tail and ran from “gang life.” He was left with few other skills though, so he stuck to slinging drugs and dodging cops (semi-successfully.) Though he’s severed a lot of ties, he still has friends involved in the life, even if he mostly associates with Folk Nation members now rather than out-and-out Crips...and he still wears his past in subtlety, as the blue in his hair and the way he sometimes paints his nails navy.

He's the one who finds Nathaniel walking barefoot along the interstate and takes him in, helps him find a name and a job and a life to live.

He eventually meets Alaska while she's working street corners and under the thumb of her pimp. She intrigues him, and he definitely starts crossing boundaries as a dealer, what with offering her a place to stay, with trying to negotiate her out of her employment situation and get her safely away from her pimp.

Nowadays Reggie's in a poly relationship with both Alaska and Nathaniel , and they're happy for the most part, though Nathaniel has his struggles.

Reggie still deals, but backed out of the opiate game once fentanyl came in heavy and the opioid crisis set in. While his source of income may be of questionable morality--he's not a bad guy. He doesn't want to sell people their deaths, doesn't want to cut his shit with fillers and risk harming people, he's overall compassionate and goofy and laid-back. Rent's hard to make in NYC, education's hard to pursue when you got expelled for gang affiliation. Sometimes alternative occupations are all you have. He deals, Alaska works the poles and the street corners on occasion, and they make enough to support themselves and their boyfriend, Nathaniel, who's slowly getting into freelance programming. It works just fine for them.

anyway please love my boy,, i can't wait for y'all to get to know this lil poly triad better?? I have things planned for them here on the outskirts of the Edge of Infinity universe,, i love them

art refs
fashion
aesthetic

edit: now with more backstory!! I will eventually do writing for him and his partners, I have wips, EoI just tends to take priority,, I love these 3 tho and I can't wait to tell u more abt them!!

Description
oKIE DOKIE so I adopted this guy waaay back in 2014 from @/MeghanMillie

And now. 4 years later. I'm bringin' him back with a remixed design and the beginnings of Personality And Backstory™

Reggie realized he was bi in early high school, and fell for another boy who he started dating despite still being in the closet. They were both growing up in "sketchy" neighborhoods, but his boyfriend's was markedly worse and essentially controlled by the Crip subset gang whose territory it was located in. Due to his location and older brother's preexisting engagement, Reggie's boyfriend, Derek, was just barely starting to get a little involved in gang activity at the time; just doing runner jobs and being treated like a whelp.
Reggie came out to his mom (his dad having left when he was very young) and she reacted poorly--actually physically chasing him from the house with a broom. As a result, he moved in with Derek, who was unfortunately sinking deeper and deeper into "gang life." After moving in, Reggie got sucked into the outskirts of it, too: started running, then dealing, then getting into fights. Both he and Derek ended up being expelled from school because of it.
In late 2011, when Reggie was just 19, Derek was killed in a drive-by shooting. Shit had never been calm in that life, not with the ever-present threat of clashes with the Bloods sets in the city, and definitely not with that year’s ignited war with Brooklyn’s Most Wanted--but losing Derek was a violent jerk into reality for Reggie. After getting shot in a revenge mission Derek’s older brother pulled him along on, and subsequently died for, Reggie tucked tail and ran from “gang life.” He was left with few other skills though, so he stuck to slinging drugs and dodging cops (semi-successfully.) Though he’s severed a lot of ties, he still has friends involved in the life, even if he mostly associates with Folk Nation members now rather than out-and-out Crips...and he still wears his past in subtlety, as the blue in his hair and the way he sometimes paints his nails navy.

He's the one who finds Nathaniel walking barefoot along the interstate and takes him in, helps him find a name and a job and a life to live.

He eventually meets Alaska while she's working street corners and under the thumb of her pimp. She intrigues him, and he definitely starts crossing boundaries as a dealer, what with offering her a place to stay, with trying to negotiate her out of her employment situation and get her safely away from her pimp.

Nowadays Reggie's in a poly relationship with both Alaska and Nathaniel , and they're happy for the most part, though Nathaniel has his struggles.

Reggie still deals, but backed out of the opiate game once fentanyl came in heavy and the opioid crisis set in. While his source of income may be of questionable morality--he's not a bad guy. He doesn't want to sell people their deaths, doesn't want to cut his shit with fillers and risk harming people, he's overall compassionate and goofy and laid-back. Rent's hard to make in NYC, education's hard to pursue when you got expelled for gang affiliation. Sometimes alternative occupations are all you have. He deals, Alaska works the poles and the street corners on occasion, and they make enough to support themselves and their boyfriend, Nathaniel, who's slowly getting into freelance programming. It works just fine for them.

anyway please love my boy,, i can't wait for y'all to get to know this lil poly triad better?? I have things planned for them here on the outskirts of the Edge of Infinity universe,, i love them

art refs
fashion
aesthetic

edit: now with more backstory!! I will eventually do writing for him and his partners, I have wips, EoI just tends to take priority,, I love these 3 tho and I can't wait to tell u more abt them!!