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The Brushmarke family of energy tycoons has accrued impressive wealth and legacy over the years, along with a fair bit of resentment. No matter what lengths modern skunks go to to avoid their well-known pungency, they cannot avoid the prejudice of other animals… except by avoiding the animals themselves. Hence, the Brushmarkes are a lonely lot.
Courtney’s older brothers are jolly, lazy jokers. Her mother is a beauty-fixated depressive, and the less said about her father, the better.
Like all teenagers, Teenage Court knew she was different, even if she couldn’t say why. Inside there was a sweetness and curiosity that she had no model for nurturing. After learning some hard lessons about what being different could cost her, she set aside her yearning for connection and focused on building on an independent life.
So it was that with the lessons of her mother and the power of her name that she broke onto the modeling scene. She learned that the body she’d been ashamed of could be a highly effective tool. One of her greatest coups was her own successful line of perfume, a blow she intended to strike against the prejudice her species faced.
Now in her mid-twenties, the fear and resentment her father gifted her still hides inside, holding her back, chilling her blood. The more success she attains for herself, even as she prepares to leave her family behind, the more she awakens to her own frightening emptiness. If it makes her the first in her family, she intends to fight it and win.
Courtney’s older brothers are jolly, lazy jokers. Her mother is a beauty-fixated depressive, and the less said about her father, the better.
Like all teenagers, Teenage Court knew she was different, even if she couldn’t say why. Inside there was a sweetness and curiosity that she had no model for nurturing. After learning some hard lessons about what being different could cost her, she set aside her yearning for connection and focused on building on an independent life.
So it was that with the lessons of her mother and the power of her name that she broke onto the modeling scene. She learned that the body she’d been ashamed of could be a highly effective tool. One of her greatest coups was her own successful line of perfume, a blow she intended to strike against the prejudice her species faced.
Now in her mid-twenties, the fear and resentment her father gifted her still hides inside, holding her back, chilling her blood. The more success she attains for herself, even as she prepares to leave her family behind, the more she awakens to her own frightening emptiness. If it makes her the first in her family, she intends to fight it and win.
Category Artwork (Digital) / Portraits
Species Skunk
Size 750 x 1125px
File Size 476.5 kB
Ah, I saw this (very well designed) skunk lady in a comic way back when. I didn't know she had a backstory and personality! (Beyond just being rude at a restaurant.)
Actually reading that backstory and personality I really like it! Moreso because I thought the same thing about skunk's reputation in Zootopia and when I made a skunk OC (Brianne), I made one who took that societal environment and ended up almost entirely the OPPOSITE sort of character as Courtney here! (A posh snobby mean skunk like Courtney'd consider flatbroke carefree cheerful Brianne one big walking negative skunk stereotype. (Though Brianne would just note Courtney's embarrassed to be a skunk, whereas she herself is proud of her species and loves being a skunk. (And struts around with all the well armed self-confidence of a wild skunk.)
Courtney in that sense seems to all be like "I hate how other animals consider us skunks smelly and to be avoided. It embarrasses me, I want to be classy and respected." And Bri'd be like "I just love how a big ass grizzly is wary of messing with me, even if I'm small. That's something few creatures my size could say as a species. And if they don't show me that respect... well they'd better not PUSH it! But by all means, gimme an excuse if you must!"
Courtney's clearly a very unhappy character. Bri on the other hand is someone who can be perfectly happy just having a nice evening eating cheap takeout with a friend, sharing a few dumb laughs, a few equally cheap drinks and who genuinely doesn't give a damn what the world thinks of her whilst she watches a goofy comedy show she personally adores that more PC skunks might want banned for perpetuating negative mephit stereotypes.
Does go to show that it's one thing to not let others see if they get to you, but if others genuinely just don't get to you at all, you win! And if they do, all the money in the world won't keep you from being unhappy.
Of course on the other hand, if you have no money and you get into emergencies that require money to solve, life does have a way of forcing you to be unhappy through that method.
And even if you're rich and thoroughly happy in your own skin, life can always give you a horrifying incurable terminal disease if it wants you unhappy anyway! Life's kind of a bitch like that, isn't it?
Actually reading that backstory and personality I really like it! Moreso because I thought the same thing about skunk's reputation in Zootopia and when I made a skunk OC (Brianne), I made one who took that societal environment and ended up almost entirely the OPPOSITE sort of character as Courtney here! (A posh snobby mean skunk like Courtney'd consider flatbroke carefree cheerful Brianne one big walking negative skunk stereotype. (Though Brianne would just note Courtney's embarrassed to be a skunk, whereas she herself is proud of her species and loves being a skunk. (And struts around with all the well armed self-confidence of a wild skunk.)
Courtney in that sense seems to all be like "I hate how other animals consider us skunks smelly and to be avoided. It embarrasses me, I want to be classy and respected." And Bri'd be like "I just love how a big ass grizzly is wary of messing with me, even if I'm small. That's something few creatures my size could say as a species. And if they don't show me that respect... well they'd better not PUSH it! But by all means, gimme an excuse if you must!"
Courtney's clearly a very unhappy character. Bri on the other hand is someone who can be perfectly happy just having a nice evening eating cheap takeout with a friend, sharing a few dumb laughs, a few equally cheap drinks and who genuinely doesn't give a damn what the world thinks of her whilst she watches a goofy comedy show she personally adores that more PC skunks might want banned for perpetuating negative mephit stereotypes.
Does go to show that it's one thing to not let others see if they get to you, but if others genuinely just don't get to you at all, you win! And if they do, all the money in the world won't keep you from being unhappy.
Of course on the other hand, if you have no money and you get into emergencies that require money to solve, life does have a way of forcing you to be unhappy through that method.
And even if you're rich and thoroughly happy in your own skin, life can always give you a horrifying incurable terminal disease if it wants you unhappy anyway! Life's kind of a bitch like that, isn't it?
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