Younger abom is really hard to draw recognizably as abom…. since he is clean and hopeful and has a whole head of hair….



How young are we talking

But like headcanon-wise….

Some of this is still in flux because I might change my mind but as I work and honestly Abom is often kind of quiet about anything that isn’t:

Immediately happening right now



Relevant to telling you how Eldritch Abomination Jail is Terrible and therefore everything else is slightly less worse and therefore he will fight his way through even if he is a lanky malnourished twig of a man.

Telling you he is kind of salty and depressed

GRAAAGGHHH! And other incoherent expressions of the aforementioned salt and depression because talking is hard.

He was from like a middle or upper-middle class family, probably not the eldest. Like had enough freedom to faff about on things besides carrying on the family matters.

He was a scholar, like a “5 PhD’s sounds sensible” sort. Not sure if he actually does have 5 PhD’s. He has background in like religious studies, engineering, astronomy, chemistry, and other things. They didn’t have as many college majors back then so he probably just sat in on like everything…

He was the sort of guy who put the end goal as more important. Like he would rather keep working on throwing shit into a crucible than hang out if he thought he was close to getting somewhere. Like not socially awkward nerd so much as “I’m more invested in getting written into the history books for being smart than going out to grab some drinks.” Probably the sort of guy whom no one is surprised disappears for a few days because he got too engrossed in something.



I think whatever lead him to getting cursed was unintentional on his end. Like an accident of some sort or getting wrangled by a cult or needing research money and saying okay to something he absolutely should not have. I haven’t made up my mind. Part of me is WHAT IS THE SADDEST OPTION and part of me is “it’s probably a repressed memory at this point.” and part of me is “maybe it really was hubris in the end…”

Anyway, that’s about where I am at at this time and before bed.