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How Right Hand Men/Women/Non binary folks work in the Bowtie Bastards

Every single criminal faction has got to have one or more Right-Hand Men/Women/Non-binary folk and the Bowtie Bastards are no exceptions. (By the way, I'm gonna call the "Right Hand Men/Women/Nonbinary folks" "Close Advisors" from now on so I don't have to type out all that garbage)

The Conductor must always pick two Close Advisors when they take their role since the Bowtie Bastards pride themselves on the fact that they act like a democracy. They are a family of outcasts after all and not letting everyone take part would be contradictory to their morals. Can't leave all the power with a single person! The unique thing however is that these advisors must be of a certain age. One younger advisor to represent the younger side of the Bowtie Bastards and one older advisor to represent the older side of the Bowtie Bastards. The younger advisor is known as the Young Soul and the older advisor is known as the Old Soul.

This is to keep the balance between older members and younger members and their often different views on the paths the organization should take. (The age of the Conductor doesn't matter though since the point of the Old soul and Young Soul is to represent their respective ideals. A conductor being closer in age to one of them doesn't change that) They also wear a little candle hat (representing hope and guidance) to signify their role.

This system was implemented in the late 1910s, about 50 years after the Bowtie Bastards were founded. This was because due to the various events around that time (including revolutions, starvation, World War 1, the breakup of many empires, etc.) many started to join the Bowtie Bastards out of desperation. This caused a huge rift between the older members who had more influence and the younger members who were quickly becoming the majority. Many times when a Conductor was elected it would be a younger member due to them being the majority. This younger Conductor would start to put restrictions on the older members to curb their influence while the older members refused to take orders from a Conductor who didn't share their ideas.

This almost tore the Bowtie Bastards apart as the two parts constantly sabotaged each other. Seeing that their family was breaking apart, an older member named Isitshalo Dube proposed the idea to have one old advisor and one young advisor working closely with the Conductor to ensure more balance. It took a lot of convincing on both sides but they eventually adopted the system. This didn't immediately fix the various problems but it did save them from total collapse. The YSOS (Young soul Old soul) system has been in use ever since.

There's also a board of advisors that help the Conductor as well but they don't have as much influence as the YS and the OS. They are probably gonna be explained in another post.

The current Young Soul is named Aynan Daher, a 26-year-old middle eastern gay trans man with a calm attitude, a love for baking as well as cooking, and a pretty itchy trigger finger. He also doesn't really think before he speaks and is slightly impulsive from time to time.

The current Old Soul is named Frank Jenkins, a 70-year-old African American omnisexual trans man with a snarky temper, terrifying skill in Tetris, and some really strong empathy/sympathy for others. He walks with a cane that may seem harmless but it possesses the ability to fire off solar-powered lasers similar to Elg's umbrella.

They act as advisors to Elg, (no last name is given) a 25-year-old Swedish/Sami asexual panromantic woman. She's a big theatre kid with a love of dramatics and over the top plans. She's very soft around the various members of the Bowtie Bastards (acting as a big sister) but is terrifyingly apathetic against anyone outside the organization. She fights with a solar-powered laser-shooting umbrella that can also be used as a blunt force weapon. (although less effective)

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