Hedonist – This is a nice way of saying that Basil is a slut and a partier. He likes sensation, will try almost anything once, and will flirt with everyone.
Therapist – His day job is as a therapist, seeing his patients through teleconference video calls from his apartment.
Russian – He was born and raised in Russia until the age of ten, and speaks Russian fluently.
Goth – This is pretty obvious given his appearance. Yet Basil is only in it for the aesthetic, not the oftentimes somber, nihilistic philosophy.
Hockey Fan – He’s from Michigan, so obviously LET’S GO RED WINGS!
Basil’s Playlist
Porn Star Dancing by My Darkest Days
Kelly won't kiss my friend Kassandra
Jessica won't play ball
Mandy won't share her friend Miranda
Doesn't anybody live at all?
Amanda won't leave me empty-handed
Got her number from a bathroom stall
Brandy just got way too much baggage
And that shit just gets old (hey)
But I got a girl who can put on a show
The dollar decides how far you can go with her
She wraps those hands around that pole
She licks those lips and off we go
And she takes it off nice and slow
'Cause that's porn star dancing (hey)
She don't play nice, she makes me beg
And she drops that dress around her legs
And I'm sitting right by the stage
For this porn star dancing (hey)
Your body's lighting up the room
Now I want a naughty girl like you
There's nothing hotter than that
Stacy's gonna save herself for marriage
But that's just not my style
She's got a pair that's nice to stare at
But I want girls gone wild (hey)
But I know a place where there's always a show
The dollar decides how far you can go with her
She wraps those hands around that pole
She licks those lips and off we go
She takes it off nice and slow
'Cause that's porn star dancing (hey)
She don't play nice, she makes me beg
She drops that dress around her legs
And I'm sitting right by the stage
For this porn star dancing (hey)
Your body's lighting up the room
I want a naughty girl like you
Let's throw a party just for two
You know, those normal girls won't do
She wraps those hands around that pole
She licks those lips and off we go
And she takes it off nice and slow
'Cause that's porn star dancing (hey)
She don't play nice, she makes me beg
She drops that dress around her legs
And I'm sitting right by the stage
For this porn star dancing (hey)
Sunlight by Hozier
I would shun the light, share in evening's cool and quiet
Who would trade that hum of night?
For sunlight, sunlight, sunlight
But whose heart would not take flight?
Betray the moon as acolyte
On first and fierce affirming sight
Of sunlight, sunlight, sunlight
I had been lost to you, sunlight
And flew like a moth to you, sunlight, oh, sunlight
Oh, your love is sunlight
Oh, your love is sunlight
But it is sunlight
All the tales the same
Told before and told again
A soul that's born in cold and rain
Knows sunlight, sunlight, sunlight
And at last can grant a name
To a buried and a burning flame
As love and its decisive pain
Oh, my sunlight, sunlight, sunlight
All that was shown to me, sunlight
Was somethin' foreknown to me, sunlight, oh sunlight
Oh, your love is sunlight
Oh, your love is sunlight
But it is sunlight
Oh, your love is sunlight
Oh, your love is sunlight
But it is sunlight, sunlight
All these colors fade for you only
Carry me slowly, my sunlight
All these colors fade for you only
Carry me slowly, my sunlight
Each day, you'd rise with me
Know that I would gladly be
The Icarus to your certainty
Oh, my sunlight, sunlight, sunlight
Strap the wing to me
Death trap clad happily
With wax melted, I'd meet the sea
Under sunlight, sunlight, sunlight
Oh, your love is sunlight
Oh, your love is sunlight
But it is sunlight
Oh, your love is sunlight
Oh, your love is sunlight
But it is sunlight
Oh, your love is sunlight
Oh, your love is sunlight
But it is sunlight
Oh, your love is sunlight
Oh, your love is sunlight
But it is sunlight
Sunlight, sunlight, sunlight, sunlight, sunlight
Degrade Me by TX2
I chop my wings off and held my tongue (ah-ah)
I smoke your insults, you blacken my lungs (ah-ah)
I carved your name into my skin just for fun (ah-ah)
To be your good boy, your number one
Degrade me to keep me hooked
I'll let you break me, 'cause you fuck so good
I'm a masochist for a massive bitch
The door's wide open, but I won't exit
Because I'm crazy
You're sittin' pretty with your Botox skin (ah-ah)
You look so proud with that shit eating grin (ah-ah)
You shoot me down like a bottle of gin (ah-ah)
Ooh, that shit gets me, guess I'm fallin' again
Degrade me to keep me hooked
I'll let you break me 'cause you fuck so good
I'm a masochist for a massive bitch
The door's wide open, but I won't exit
Crazy, how I just stay put
I let you play me, like I knew you would
I'm a masochist for a massive bitch
The door's wide open, but I won't exit
Because I'm crazy
Degrade me to keep me hooked
I'll let you break me, 'cause you fuck so good
I'm a masochist for a massive bitch
The door's wide open, but I won't exit
Crazy, how I just stay put
I let you play me, like I knew you would
I'm a masochist for a massive bitch
The door's wide open, but I won't exit
'Cause I'm crazy
What Was I Made For by Billie Eilish
I used to float, now I just fall down
I used to know but I'm not sure now
What I was made for
What was I made for?
Takin' a drive, I was an ideal
Looked so alive, turns out I'm not real
Just something you paid for
What was I made for?
'Cause I, I
I don't know how to feel
But I wanna try
I don't know how to feel
But someday, I might
Someday, I might
When did it end? All the enjoyment
I'm sad again, don't tell my boyfriend
It's not what he's made for
What was I made for?
'Cause I, 'cause I
I don't know how to feel
But I wanna try
I don't know how to feel
But someday I might
Someday I might
Think I forgot how to be happy
Something I'm not, but something I can be
Something I wait for
Something I'm made for
Something I'm made for
Vasiliy’s Playlist
Psycho by Muse
Love, it will get you nowhere
You're on your own
Lost in the wild
So come to me now
I could use someone like you
Someone who'll kill on my command
And asks no questions
I'm gonna make you
I'm gonna break you
I'm gonna make you
A fucking psycho
A fucking psycho
A fucking psycho
Your ass belongs to me now
Are you a human drone?
(Aye, sir!)
Are you a killing machine?
(Aye, sir!)
I'm in control, motherfucker, do you understand?
(Aye, sir!)
Your mind is just a program
And I'm the virus
I'm changing the station
I'll improve your thresholds
I'll turn you into a super drone (super drone)
And you will kill on my command
And I won't be responsible
I'm gonna make you
I'm gonna break you
I'm gonna make you
A fucking psycho
A fucking psycho
A fucking psycho
Your ass belongs to me now
Are you a psycho killer?
Say "I'm a psycho killer"
(I am a psycho killer)
Scream it!
(I am a psycho killer)
Show me your war face
(Ah!)
You are a pussy
I said show me your war face
(Ah!)
I'm gonna make you
I'm gonna break you
I'm gonna make you
A fucking psycho
A fucking psycho
A fucking psycho
Your ass belongs to me now
I will break you, do you understand?
I will break you, do you understand?
I will break you, do you understand?
I will break you, do you understand?
(Aye, sir!)
You fucking psycho
Your ass belongs to me now, yeah
Your ass belongs to me now
Werewolf by Motionless in White
I can feel you, I can hear you, howling in my bones
There's an evil lurking in the dark (there's an evil lurkin' in the dark)
Ever shifting, skin is ripping, as you take control
I can't tell where you end and where I start (there's an evil lurkin' in the dark)
A ferocious diagnosis, under moonlit hands, will
The man become the monster or the monster become man?
I could be up all night, but I'm paralyzed when the creature comes alive
'Cause it's fight or fright, in the full moonlight
You can run but you can't hide
I could be honest, I could be human
I could become the silver bullet in your head
But no one can break my heart like I can
(Werewolf)
Bleed the neon from the bite marks, ever bittersweet
Smile for the camera but don't flash your teeth (everybody loves a mystery)
Let the bodies hit the dance floor to this heartbreak beat
I feel like somebody's watchin' me (feels like everybody's watchin' me)
Seductively destructive, we are true romance
Does the man become the monster or the monster become man?
I could be up all night, but I'm paralyzed when the creature comes alive
'Cause it's fight or fright, in the full moonlight
You can run but you can't hide
I could be honest, I could be human
I could become the silver bullet in your head
But you can't break my heart like I can
Can't fight these cravings in the night
A beast who's burdened by his bite
Can't fight these cravings in the night
(You can't break my heart like I can)
Can't fight these cravings in the night
Moonwalking, feed the appetite
Can't fight these cravings in the night
(No, you can't break my heart like I can)
And in the pale moonlight, a debt to be paid
For one must suffer for all eternity
Nothing lasts forever, even guilty pleasures, ah
I could be up all night, but I'm paralyzed when the creature comes alive
Don't wanna feel
I could be honest, I could be human
I could become the silver bullet in your head
Oh
Can't fight these cravings in the night
A beast who's burdened by his bite
Can't fight these cravings in the night
(No, you can't break my heart like I can)
Can't fight these cravings in the night
Moonwalking, feed the appetite
Can't fight these cravings in the night
(Werewolf)
Cry Little Sister by Vampires Everywhere!
Last fire will rise
Behind those eyes
Black house will rock
Blind boys don't lie
Immortal fear
That voice so clear
Through broken walls
That scream I hear
Cry, little sister! (Thou shalt not fall)
Come, come to your brother! (Thou shalt not die)
Unchain me, sister! (Thou shalt not fear)
Love is with your brother! (Thou shalt not kill)
Blue masquerade
Strangers look on
When will they learn
This loneliness?
Temptation heat
Beats like a drum
Deep in your veins
I will not lie
Little sister! (Thou shalt not fall)
Come, come to your brother! (Thou shalt not die)
Unchain me, sister! (Thou shalt not fear)
Love is with your brother! (Thou shalt not kill)
My Shangri-Las
I can't forget
Why you were mine
I need you now!
Thou shalt not fall
Thou shalt not die
Thou shalt not fear
Thou shalt not kill
Cry, little sister! (Thou shalt not fall)
Come, come to your brother! (Thou shalt not die)
Unchain me, sister! (Thou shalt not fear)
Love is with your brother! (Thou shalt not kill)
Cry, little sister! (Thou shalt not fall)
Come, come to your brother! (Thou shalt not die)
Unchain me, sister! (Thou shalt not fear)
Love is with your brother! (Thou shalt not kill)
Happy Song by Bring Me The Horizon
S-P-I-R-I-T, spirit
Let's hear it
S-P-I-R-I-T, spirit
Let's hear it
Let's go
I've had enough
There's a voice in my head
Says I'm better off dead
But if I sing along a little fucking louder
To a happy song, I'll be alright
You want to give up
Gave it all that you've got
And it still doesn't cut
But if you sing along a little fucking louder
To a happy song
You'll be just fine cause
Every now and again we get the feeling
And the great big void inside us opens up
And I really wish that you could help
But my head is like a carousel and
I'm going round in circles, going round in circles
S-P-I-R-I-T, spirit
Let's hear it
S-P-I-R-I-T, spirit
Let's hear it
We are possessed
We're all fucked in the head
Alone and depressed
But if we sing along a little fucking louder
To a happy song
Maybe we'll forget cause
Every now and again we get the feeling
And the great big void inside us opens up
And I really wish that you could help
But my head is like a carousel and
I'm going round in circles, going round in circles
Don't wake us up
We'd rather just keep dreaming
Cause the nightmares in our heads are bad enough
And I really wish that you could help
But my head is like a carousel
And I'm going round in circles, I'm going round in circles
The world has coalesced
Into one giant mess of hate and unrest
So let's sing along a little goddamn louder
To a happy song and pretend it's all okay
Let's go
Sing along
Let's sing along
A little fucking louder
A little fucking louder
Well don't you feel so much better
S-P-I-R-I-T, spirit
Let's hear it
(Well that's the spirit)
S-P-I-R-I-T, spirit
Let's hear it
(Yeah, that's the spirit)
Peek Behind The Curtain
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Background
Basil's Black Fury mom, living in a pack on the outskirts of St. Petersburg, got pregnant with a human who didn’t stay in the picture. When Basil was born he was rejected from the Black Furies for being male, and he was dumped in a Russian orphanage, under the name “Vasiliy”, and there he experienced neglect and other forms of abuse. A religious conservative couple from Michigan adopted him out of charity (though really to look good to the rest of their parish), but he was a nightmare due to trauma and the behavioral issues stemming from it. His foster parents thought physical correction, isolation, prayer, and fasting would tame him, but it didn’t. He was consigned to a facility for disabled children and they disowned him at the age of ten.
Luckily his kin-fetch found a kind soul in a pack local to the facility he was kept in, and he was scooped up and adopted by a member of the local great lakes Children of Gaia pack, and there he was given the name Basil Brooks. When treated with love he flourished, and learning about who and what he really was helped him to find control, both physically and mentally. Unlike his packmates growing up, Basil worked hard to keep strict control of his rage and the transformations of his body. That way he could keep the litany no matter how upset and, as it happens, keep his other personality, Vasiliy the Protector, asleep and untroubled.
Homeschooled through middle school, Basil went back to a public high school because he had his rage under control by then. He excelled and made friends, loved learning, and was fluent in English by then. Basil went to community college in Lansing and got an associate’s degree in psychology, then went on to get his bachelor’s and master’s in it as well, on scholarship. He decided to be a counselor, for humans and other Garou. For the latter he focuses on dealing with the ravages of Harano, with rage control, with Herd assimilation, the challenges of city living, and encouraging diplomatic relationships between tribes within cities. He is pansexual and nonbinary, the latter something he at this point finds quite amusing, given his Black Fury history. Despite this identity, he only uses he/him pronouns so as not to draw any ire from local Black Furies who may have rather old fashioned views on the matter and sense him as being one of their cast-off cubs, as he looks the part to a ridiculous degree.
Vasiliy, his protector personality, is at his core a male Black Fury, with all of the black and white, merciless thinking and outlook of his forebears. At this stage in Basil’s emotional and mental development, and with the assistance of a strong Rx of mood stabilizers, he is able to have mental “chats” with Vasiliy, and even sometimes uses his own reflection in a mirror or reflective surface to facilitate the conference.
Sphere
"Basil Brooks, Cliath Children of Gaia, Wave-On-Shore, Galliard, formerly Sept of the Shining Island."
Human Name: Basil Brooks
Rite Name: Wave-On-Shore
Moon: Galliard
Tribe: Children of Gaia (Black Fury by birth)
Camp: Servant of the Unicorn
Inspirations
Harold Perrineau’s Mercutio from Romeo and Juliet 1996
Sam Reid’s Lestat de Lioncourt from Interview with the Vampire series
John Partridge’s Rum Tum Tugger from Cats The Musical
Carter Vail
Bill Kaulitz of Tokio Hotel
Klaus Hargreeves from Umbrella Academy
Scanlan from Critical Role / Vox Machina
Puck from Gargoyles
Captain Jack Sparrow from Pirates of the Caribbean
Lazlo Cravensworth from What We Do In The Shadows
Katya Zamolodchikova
Vasiliy
Basil (Vasiliy) Brooks is a system that has DID / Multiple Personality Disorder. His two alters are Basil and Vasiliy. Basil is the kind and compassionate aspect, and Vasiliy is the aspect that protects them from harm, and has the same worldview (for the most part) as any Black Fury. Vasiliy resulted from years of trauma and abuse suffered as a child in Russia and then with his foster parents in the United States. Basil was able to take primary control, with Vasiliy's consent, once they were adopted into the Children of Gaia pack and finally felt safe enough.
As they have lived and settled into their new life in LA, Basil and Vasiliy are getting along much better and are rarely at odds with each other anymore.
For an example of what their experience is like, see this montage of clips from Moon Knight.
NOTE: I know this is not a completely realistic portrayal of the condition, but I am doing my best to treat their situation as a part of their life, and not as some joke. Also werewolves exist, so maybe their DID is a little more hollywood?
Fullname: Basil (Vasiliy) Brooks
Nick Names: Herbal Life, Cardamom, Shit Ass (fuckin lanky stick bitch), Tit Fucker, Pretty Boy, Vasya, [Redacted-NSFW]
Apparent Age: Late-Twenties
Height: 5’8”
Build: Slender
Hair: Black with a white streak.
Eyes: Light gray
Heritage: Russian
Weaknesses: Handsome Men, Beautiful Women, Gorgeous people who fit in neither category, Snacks
