The Scarlet Sails: Characters
Lohengrin and Co
Lohengrin: Lohengrin is a loving but rather authoritarian, and dysfunctional, father figure to Sola. He sometimes seems to be in and out of prison primarily for only two majorly ludicrous reasons; he was secretly rioting against some of the most corrupt politicians and corporate lawyers of a whole town run by sexual harassers and has repeatedly been arrested rather wrongfully by a bunch of corrupt cops as a result.
Sola: Sola is understandably a barefoot Autistic+ADHD person with a considerable amount of childhood trauma. It is said that sometimes being bullied, scapegoated and foulmouthed upon by a lot of people (Mr Menners Jr is usually the main exploiter of it along with Mr Menners Sr, but the first Mrs Menners was considerably much worse than both of them, as she genuinely was a malignant Sociopath!) in the town of Nostra was not her fault, it’s mostly because a lot of said townspeople are ableist, but mostly to a small or moderate extent. However, it is she who turns out to be the most reasonable fella of the whole cast.
The Greys
Leonora: Leonora is possibly from a nouveau riche Jewish family. Although a rather workaholic wife and at times a spiteful parent, she has a good amount of crude humour and does not always favour a single kid over the others. She does care for Arthur however, as she was the only reasonable enough mother figure that he’s ever had at all.
Marius Grey: Marius seems to be the former military brat husband of a Jewish bureaucrat, who turns out to be the middle child of a commoner butcher’s three surviving sons. He’s a rather dysfunctional dude who tends not to get along well with his children, and sometimes loathes meeting his relatives, but doesn’t want to abuse them any further than when he was in his military career as a stiff upper lipped man. Seems to be somewhat older than his wife.
Alexander and Alice Grey: The second and third children of Leonora and Marius, who are themselves workaholic and thrifty brunette haired fraternal twins. They’re about the same age as Christopher.
Cristopher Grey: Marius’s eldest nephew, Christopher is the lankiest member of the whole family. He is a relatively well adjusted if highly unimpressed cyclist. He is about twenty three to twenty six years old, and has two surviving sisters, Orrin and Emily.
Ronald Grey: The fourth extant child of Leonora and Marius, Ronald is physically slimmer than both of his parents, but turns out to be the family’s sneakiest member because he’s the favourite sibling of his big brother Errol. He seems to be about sixteen to nineteen years old.
Errol Grey: The first child of Leonora and Marius, he is a cunning yet honest sailor who’s about twenty eight to thirty one years old. He’s a muscleman as well, albeit one who doesn’t take drugs.
Orrin Grey: One of Marius Grey’s nieces, Orrin is a woman about twenty one to twenty four years old, who sometimes feuds with Emily and Christopher.
Emily Grey: Another of Marius Grey’s nieces, Emily Grey is a foulmouthed lil rose said to be eighteen to twenty one years old.
Vincent Grey: One of Marius Grey’s younger nephews, Vincent seems to be Christopher’s rather playful trickster cousin who’s about the same age as Orrin.
Wallace Grey: Another of Marius Grey’s nephews, he is a maths fanatic who’s about the same age as Emily.
Lucinda Grey: Marius Grey’s youngest niece, she is about the same age as Ronald. Unlike the other siblings, she seems to have a muscly body like her father Percy.
Melvin Grey: Marius Grey’s youngest nephew, he seems to be about fourteen to seventeen years old.
Vivian Grey: Marius Grey’s eldest niece, she seems to be the same age as Errol.
Percy Grey: Percy is Marius’ unimpressed younger brother, whose status as a conservative family man pales in comparison to his ableist wife’s.
The Menners
Mr Menners Sr: Mr Menners Sr is the always complaining albeit just as rather equally complicit, if rarely abusive, adopted father of Mr Menners Jr. He’s also a rather ill suited husband for his second wife and doesn’t care about Mr Menners Jr in a good light much. Mr Menners Sr himself already has learned many of his worst mistakes, albeit it’s only revealed when he finally tells his similarly somewhat healed son very sensitively about what happened in his life as a parent. His first name is Henrique and his actual surname is Menezes.
Mrs Menners: Wilhelmina Menners was the horrid but sympathetic wife of Mr Menners Sr and the negligent adoptive mother of Mr Menners Jr. She is from a quite big and rather screwed up family of accountants from. Her full maiden name was Ursula Wilhelmina Schengen.
Mr Menners Jr: Even though he’s the son of corrupt corporate lawyers being badly adopted by a brothel madam and her much abused husband, he seems to have been violated only once; Wilhelmina did it in order to secretly conceive a son just when he was only twenty four but she was about thirty nine. He seems to be named Cristiano due to being the son of corrupt Catholic Traditionalist lawyers working for a corporation known for its unethical track record. Technically, it’s not quite literal incest (but it still is a really very bad idea).
Malandro Menners: Cristiano and Ursula’s son conceived in the violation incident. He really happens to be so much like his mum in hair colour terms.
The Binchies
Arthur Binchy: Arthur is implied to be from (a fictionalised variant of) Cork county in Ireland; henceforth his dark ginger hair and green eyes. He is a cute but incredibly foulmouthed young dude with messed up (beyond belief) mental health issues! Even before picking up Sola, he basically mugged his already drunk and elderly birth parents (by accident) just to show his adopted parents that his birth town is full of predatory harassers. They’d rather let him go as a result of becoming horrified about his shatteringly bad mental health, at least until the end.
