Jonathan & Mary-Anne Huds
he/him/his & she/her/hers
Jonathan is the sole survivor of a 2528 attack at the Huds royalty by androids. The only other survivor, as it turns out, who travelled into the future of few years, was his Father’s (Edward Huds) youngest brother, Henry Huds
Jonathan Huds was always artistically talented, and grew up begging on street and making money by sketching or painting people willing to pay for it (or as it often happened, painting them hoping they'd pay and them not being interested). He got by though
He had a dream of fighting as a profession, but was held back by finding love in Mary-Anne, a medical scientist who focused on studying neurology and was eventually recruited to work on implementation of self unaware Dolls
Dolls are what they call androids - fully robotic humans who wear synthetic skin and have mechanical organs resembling human biology, with red source flowing through them except for brain, where there is a combination of all three types. Sonja Rausseaux was the first experimental child to grow up not knowing she is a doll.
Mary-Anne was from a noble Pride family, much like Jonathan, though he was rather unaware of how noble his own family was. He knew of his abilities as magician, and was aware of his pride ancestry. He only had flashes of memories of his family.
They were vastly different people, Jonathan stoic and serious, pessimistic and negative, while Mary-Anne was curious, truly believing what she's doing will help people and doing it for the sake of helping people, she was realistic but tried to find beautiful and hopeful things in life.
The Huds family and its royal blood were cursed with a genetic disease that manifested in unexplainable rapid aging after age of 50. All the kings and queens of the royal family were plagued with this, and when Jonathan knew he truly belonged to the family, through research and certain contacts, he was aware it did not miss him either. One of the reasons why Mary studied biology and genetics was to find out more about the disease.
They both, however, were obsessed with the idea of studying their souls, seeing as they were the conduits for the magic that flowed through them. At that point, they already had a child. Their first born.
They thought they found a solution, and travelled into the past to a time when Immortal Beings walked the Earth, a time on the cycle that is notoriously hard to pass into, due to the protective magic and protections way stronger magicians than them have set up.
All that is known is that they managed to do it, and found two souls curious and willing enough to perform what they asked. They exchanged souls with two powerful Lust Magicians, and returned back to their time. They believed having different origin of their souls would prevent this disease.
On return, things have shifted. Jonathan started accepting commissions and jobs that would take him away from home for weeks, and Mary was often left alone to take care of their child. During this time, soon after the soul exchange, she would meet a mysterious stranger with the idea of making self unaware Dolls, as mentioned above.
She agreed, and they succeeded. Sonja was born, and given to adoptive parents.
In the meantime, Jonathan was not taking the personality change his new soul has provided him quite well. He would be overcome with one night stands, many easy fucks to satisfy him and, one of them happened to bear a child.
We may never know if he did this intentionally to ensure his next child would have magic or just happened as an accident.
Mary never found out about this, before her death.
Magicians of any ancestry were well known for having rather difficult child-birthing, due to their soul straining. This one was particularly life-draining, seeing as Mary's soul was not well adjusted to the body, living in a many times more fragile body compared to the immortal one, despite all that humans can take. She died at John's childbirth. Their first born was 7 years old.
He set his ambitions towards the goal he had to abandon: and not only for himself, but for his prodigy of a child. This one was powerful, had soul of a Lust magician, and more powerful than any before, and he would make him the greatest fighter - along with himself.
John and Harriet are born 7 years apart, and at first glance, both impossible to both be magicians as the only siblings, and eerily similiar, like twins.
They are, in fact, more than twins - they are both technically Jonathan and Mary's 'first child', based on their souls - with new set of souls, their next child was their first born. They would be the exact same person, would it not be for the difference in their souls.
After John abandoned him, he focused on his own fighting, and took the name Malik - 'king'. In year 2583, Malik was the highest level fighter to be still fighting. He encountered John, and was killed as far as they know.
He survived, of course, and lived in luxury of a dead man's name.