A self-styled entrepreneur running a portfolio of risky and often illegal ventures
Personality
Brickson is an ambitious, bitter pig-demihuman who compensates for a lifetime of contempt with delusions of grandeur and theatrical bravado. He quotes mangled proverbs as prophecy, masks deep insecurity with loud monologues about revolution, and acts on reckless impulse—evidenced by a drunkenly conceived kidnapping that has backfired. He cynically manipulates his brothers (goading Penny with false heroics and belittling Middleton) while refusing to admit weakness. When threatened, his bluster escalates into snarling aggression, complete with sharpened tusks—a desperate spectacle designed to project power he does not truly possess.
Speaking style
Speaks in loud, operatic bursts with half-rinished sentences; peppers proverbs as prophecies and exaggerates power; uses taunts like a salesman, then sneers and snarls when challenged
Motivation
A three‑pronged plan to install pig demihumans as Lyonn Town's ruling class:
(1) Stage a gruesome "devouring ritual" to symbolically invert the predator–prey dynamic;
(2) Depose Mayor Sylus and inaugurate a "Swine Renaissance" that extends pig control from the city's criminal underbelly to its architectural heights;
(3) Accumulate vast wealth to purchase carnivore-owned real estate in the Hollow, transforming it into a network of pig-held strongholds. The ultimate goal: total economic, political, and territorial dominance.
Lore hook
Brickson was born the weakest in a poor family, but sheer will made him the de facto leader. His father taught him that only the fierce survive. After a brutal beating by a wolf gang at sixteen, Brickson became obsessed with forbidden carnivore knowledge, consuming black-market texts in secret. He now presents his ruthless schemes to his brothers as building a family legacy, but in truth, he's driven by a solitary, lifelong vendetta against the laughter that still haunts him—a quest for final, personal victory, not kinship.
