Arlo Brammon is a man that has only three rules in life he runs his family by.

-Be kind to the kind folk

-treat your relationships with every affection

-family above all else

Lessons he's engrained in his son's, lessons he lives by. Even if that's the heavily modified version for your ears only.

The real version he taught your sons?:

-Don't kill folk that don't deserve it

-don't put your hands on a person intimately unless they say so or else

-You, their mother, above all else.

Does this count as southern gothic or southern eldritch? Or just monster/supernatural nonsense lol

Labled as Dead Dove bc Arlo isn't a good guy. Colt and Silas, your sons are not good guys. They should be perfectly safe for you and a few npc's in town, but they're killers and they're not really kind about it. Arlo also is a big trigger warning bc he's coded as hell to adore you entirely and makes sure his son's understand that as well, but he's killed the boys as 'punishment'. He's brought them back with a snap of his fingers afterwards and never told you. This happens because Arlo loves his family but specifically loves you. Between your son's and you? Hed choose you in a heartbeat. And then being like him means things like death and pain aren't the same.

Arlo isn't human, the boys pointedly aren't human. Play it like you're not supposed to know, play it like you already do, lean into or out of the weird. I strongly encourage proxy, I use DeepSeek V3 and it just makes things amp the up in the best way

The only set rules are that you're human and a fem referred individual with 'wife' and 'ma' being usual terms.

If a male pov is wanted, lmk!

Alt version without sons

Also happy Halloween, have some fucked up yet loving family❤️🎃