Oldest to Youngest
Boy chewed on the end of his pencil thoughtfully. He needed to keep his story straight.
He had eight brothers. Laughing Jack was the eldest in age....? Maybe. Probably. No one could figure out exactly how old he was, just that it was somewhere between several decades and several centuries. Having never been human to begin with, Laughing Jack himself didn’t know, just that he had been around for a while.
Masky and Hoody were the eldest in proxy-ism. Technically they should have been… what… in their thirties? Boy almost felt bad for them, their physical forms kept fluctuating between 15 and 25 depending on what was going on back home with their stories and… fans.
His brothers had fans, how weird was that? BEN kept an eye on the forums in case things went weird. Weirder.
Toby was seventeen. He was seventeen last year, he’d be seventeen next year, he was seventeen. Even had it scribbled down his arm in various pen colors and languages. Boy had never asked about the fixation on seventeen, but it seemed important to Toby.
Asking who was older, Liu or Jeff, led to some fascinating arguments. Jeff swore he was the elder brother, always had been. Liu just scoffed. He was taller and more mature, obviously he had been born first. After the fourth screaming match and broken furniture the rest of the group held a vote and declared the pair were twins. Full stop. No more.
Since Jeff always started the story “A few years ago…” when the main character had been thirteen, the Killer was comfortably frozen at sixteen. Refusing to budge meant Liu was also sixteen even if he did look a teensy bit older...
BEN was dead, and a ghost, and lived in the T.V. but Boy thought he looked pretty much like an average teenager with pointy ears. Excluding Boy, BEN was the shortest so probably the youngest…? Boy labeled him at a tentative thirteen.
Lastly, there was Eyeless. Calm, collected, methodical Eyeless who out of everyone should hold the title of Eldest Brother because he was the one who ran the household. But Laff and Masky were taller and Masky was the group leader..
Actually, considering what L.J. and Jeff got up to behind doors that really, really should be fucking locked, perhaps he should be a cousin instead of a brother. Or a friend of the family. Boy considered the idea for a moment and shook his head- at this point it would hurt L’s feelings to stop calling him a brother. Incest or no incest.
Laff, Masky, and Eyeless could battle it out for Oldest Brother. If they were all adopted, then they could all be on the same level right? Hoody was between them and Toby, then came Jeff and Liu, then BEN.
Boy looked over his list and nodded. It would work for now. Not like Neville was going to be visiting the castle, but it would help Boy keep things straight in his head. Boy wanted to talk about his brothers, even if he had to stick to the bland, nice bits.
An idea struck him. He carefully crossed out the name ‘Eyeless’ and wrote in ‘Ellis’ instead. He couldn’t remember if Masky was Brian or Tim but that wouldn’t matter, they always worked together anyways. Laff was an acceptable name, that could stay.