@lost_wisdom -
He's a somewhat lonely little kid, so I figured it would farther explain that. No one in the Kierstead family really talks about that incident. Idony herself only really knows about it because when she was younger her older cousins and siblings would try and tell it as some sort of spooky story to scare her - though, being children, they botched it terribly. "And they say he's always with our family, waiting and watching... and if you
ever speak his name, he'll do the same thing to you that happened to him.... Okay, now it's bathtime! Come on!" :I
She was tempted to dig deeper into it at times, go looking for old newspaper clippings, and ask some of the older members around town if they were willing to talk to her, and other such things. In the end she decided to leave it alone, though, as she knew if her mom found out she'd go batshit over it.
But uh, yeah. Noah is sort of an unwanted reminder to his mother and a lot of more elderly family members, leaving the older kids to drag him around even more so than Kierstead children usually need dragged around by older siblings. It doesn't much help the kid's ego that the next eldest siblings of his are doted on because they're twins, and considered absolutely adorable for it by their family. BUT YEAH, TOTALLY NOT CREEPY
KIDS WHO LOOK LIKE THEIR ANCESTORS WHO WERE MURDERED AROUND THE SAME AGE ISN'T CREEPY AT ALL
TOTALLY WOULDN'T CAUSE TENSION IN THE FAMILY
Also, was thinking Idony might have an uncle who runs a relatively okay, though somewhat sleazy little bar. He's a favorite among the Kierstead kiddos, as it's not unknown for him to let his underage family members slip in through the backdoor and drink in a storeroom in the back. "They're gonna get it somewhere, might as well be from me!" Is his reasoning.
Not really a set in stone thing, and very likely wouldn't ever be mentioned in the roleplay, but just... I like thinking up the personalities and backstories of all her family members. It amuses me. :P
