He just makes do with the clothes that are given to him, so he either wears only a top on his middle half or he wears two tops and one bottom (most of the time just underwear, sometimes also shorts). Sometimes Coeus or Hunter will help him tie the useless sleeves if he's wearing something on his arm-less upper half, that way the cold can't get through and they don't dangle in the way. Either way Valeriy is not comfortable with his body and neither option really hide his particular anatomy so it's mostly a question of how warm it is.

At some point Hunter also gives him work gloves to protect his hands when walking outside (only around the house ofc), the ones who are cut resistant and non-slip with reinforced palms. Val also might get some regular gloves when it gets colder to just wear around the house so his hands don't get too cold walking on the tiles, so in a way they do end up adapting to his anatomy a bit.

They weren't (thank god… At least that). Val grew up sheltered in an attic and being cared for by an old woman (who he doesn't even know if she's related to him. He has no memories of who his parents are since he was taken to the attic before he could start forming his first memories). The people who tortured him are strangers he ran into after breaking the one rule and venturing outside, they just thought of him as some sort of monster and you know the rest.

I don't think his mutation is the result of inbreeding, I think it's a simple case of mutagens or DNA replication error. Hence why Coeus is curious to know if it's a germline mutations (that occur in eggs and sperm) and can be passed on or a somatic mutations (that occur in body cells) that cannot. You know, so he can have another of him in case something happens-

But huh. Guess he'd have to give him the talk before he can ask him to jerk off in a cup. Or maybe it's better he doesn't explain to him why he wants that sample.

Mhhh it is unlikely that Val will lower his walls completely around Gage, and even if Gage isn't acting on it each time Val fawns around him and shows weakness it pulls on his dormant impulse to hurt him, so it would be hard to even get to a point of unacknowledged fondness (like Coeus and Hunter's relationship lol). Tho their current relationship isn't really violent, there's just a prey/predator tension between them where Gage isn't actively trying to sink his teeth in Valeriy, just drooling and staring at him unnervingly. Gage also sometimes gets all over Val's business to sniff him, who in turn totally freeze until Hunter tells Gage to leave him alone so he can scurry away.
After some time Gage also starts to startle Valeriy on purpose (think wait for him behind corners and such) and legit human cackles at him when he bolts. He's fucking weird and creepy lol

If anything the person Val eventually starts to kind of warm up to is Hunter: he's the only one who does not want or do him any harm so even if he intimidates him once he kind of gets that oh, he can run to him when the doctor and the dog are scaring him, and also he will feed him even if he only pretends to give him leftovers (it's too much food to be just that). You know, kind of taking care of him under the gruff exterior (and the 'I shoot on sight so don't try to escape the premise' lol)

Seeing as when Valeriy (who is quite a bit taller than Gage when 'standing') joined the household Gage was only mostly intrigued because Val quickly showed signs of being submissive and skittish, I think it could go well but only if the other "animal" did not try to usurp his status as top dog… Even if the other was not agressive, if he easily subdued Gage without even trying because of being bigger, Gage would def flip out and try to kill it, which could quickly go really wrong both ways. Even with Hunter which he has a bond with him and sees as equal he would try to bite if he held him down in anyway that displayed dominance and not just the usual roughness he can have when handling him as he takes care of him, so…

Welp, def not a risk worth taking, it's probably enough of a hassle to get Gage not to try and pick up on bigger wild life so let's not bring the same chaos into the house lol

You're in luck, I was thinking about sharing some (cw mention of sexual assault):

As stated in his profile, Coeus is floating somewhere on the gray-A spectrum. For him, it mostly means being very rarely sexually and romantically attracted to people (romantically even more). He does experience sexual desire but his sex-drive is usually quite low.
For the majority of his life he would just take care of it himself when the need arised (and I do mean WHEN it arised, he didn't really care about doing it at work if he was alone in the lab at the time lol he has little consideration for others). Most of his experiences with sex are more related to curiosity than desire: satiating it was what he sought first and foremost during his very first time, he wanted to experience himself what others were raving and acting like primates about to try and understand it. Without much surprise having intercourse with the first male colleague who accepted his very blunt proposition wasn't really good and he just assumed sex with a partner was more headache for less pleasure and kept it at that. His curiosity really only resurfaced after hooking up with Hunter and realizing he might have jumped to conclusions a little fast, so now his curiosity (and his craving for physical touch) is back in full swing to the point where you might assume he has a higher libido than he does.
Coeus is kind of a pillow princess in bed, especially if it's his desire that instigated sex: he wants to get off first and foremost and it wouldn't really come to his mind to help the other reach orgasm if not asked for, though he's discovering an interest in observing the other's reaction to him touching them, sometimes a little too closely and seemingly coldly than might be comfortable for most (though there is def not only cold scientific analysis going on when he does, gotta keep in mind that he has spent most of his life exploring only his own body (or more like. Finding the quickest, easiest way to relieve sexual needs) so there is much he has to learn about what arouses him). He is very loud and quite clingy, since he isn't really used to doing it with someone else he also tends to scratch without really realizing it in the moment. He also gets sleepy quickly after lol

Hunter's relationship to sexuality has been… Complicated to say the least. Most of his youth he has identified strongly with being a stone butch and he only has ever so slightly softened, a lot of things are still off the table for him (starting with any form of penetration, that's still a hard no to this day). He had to fight both a lot of trauma and bullshit religious ideas around sex before he was even able to engage with it, though he def was able to heal some of it through having positive, consensual experiences with his first few girlfriends. He has always been much more interested in his partner's pleasure than his own, feeling his partner melt under his touch is his favorite and he likes to whisper sweet nothings and lightly tease them when they're in this state of unravelling.
He's fairly adaptable, he can be purely gentle or rough (though he's not really into doing much more than biting, hair pulling and perhaps some slapping, he's never enjoyed straight up hitting girls or name-calling even if they enjoy/ask for it (now. Coeus on the other hand-)). Usually he's fairly quick to start taking care of his partner after, though he's not adverse to cuddling either; what can I say he likes making people feel comfortable (BELIEVE IT OR NOT).
Funnily enough with Coeus he kind of like. accidentally is exploring being more dominant, egoistic and rough lol when I say in his profile that he is gyneflexible I really do mean 'he likes women AND he has to admit he does find this morally objectionnable ghoul fuckable'. Having sex with another man/masc person that he on top kind of hold in contempt is unlocking some parts of himself that he probably didn't think could meld with sexual desire. It doesn't mean he is purely rough/disregards Coeus' pleasure but he is kind of given the opportunity to explore putting his pleasure first without guilt and without feeling like he is mirroring his trauma by imposing himself on someone, and Coeus being both very curious and starved for touch really helps because he takes away the burden of initiating it and gives Hunter an 'excuse' to pretend the reason he can act like this is because Coeus is pestering him in the first place. It kind of becomes a little game that they are both aware of but won't acknowledge out loud.
At the end of the day, he'll still care for Coeus after in one way or another, even if it's not immediate or if it's by dragging him to the bathroom claiming he's not going to just let him simmer in sweat and fluids lol

Gage has pretty much had his sex drive nullified by the experiments done to him (it probably also rendered him possibly infertile tbh) Even when he walks in on Hunter and Coeus fooling around it doesn't arouse him one bit. He can bath with Hunter butt naked or sleep between his legs with his head right on his crotch it doesn't do anything to him.
Now, when it comes to his thirst for blood and domination over the weaker than him, it could reignite some old sex drive (after all, before he was experimented on, sex, violence and death were intimately linked for him), so I guess you could say him craving to sink his teeth into Valeriy's neck means in some way he is attracted to him, though he is… More likely to kill him first and foremost.
Christer himself (so, who he was before becoming Gage) was mostly straight (might have had a bit of a repressed bisexual leaning, but he was insecure enough in his androgyny without likening himself even more 'to a girl' (his thought process not mine) so there was no way he would admit or explore this). He got off only to humiliating and hurting others, tbh he probably wouldn't even have been able to perform without having this total domination over the other. He would never accept being anywhere but on top and would loathe being called cute or being generally babied by his victims when he was in the luring stage.

Not included in the ask, but speaking of Valeriy, he just has no experience with it. The poor thing does not even know how babies are made. He is 21 and he still gets kind of startled when he gets hard, he just nervously waits for it to go away, he has too much shame towards his body to indulge in it.
Well, actually god knows what happened in that barn, but he most likely does not even comprehend it as sexual assault yet (to be fair, it 100% would have been done purely to inflict pain, so how could he even make this link) so I'm not counting it as 'experience'.
Now I'm bummed, he needs love and some sex ed ok.

I could not keep up with doing monthly content anymore due to my health so I decided to close my Patreon until further notice. For now, I just post my NSFW content on my private twitter for mutuals, friends, and long-time supporters, but I am considering 1) making PDFs with the old NSFW content for sale 2) finding a platform where I could do some kind of pay-per-post support while being paid in my currency, so I can occasionally drop a small batches of NSFW artwork without pressure and while keeping it behind a paywall so minors don't get access to it (and I get to put butter in my pasta without losing half of my income in money conversion lol)

Posting and selling NSFW art is becoming more and more complicated so I really can't guarantee either of them, it is quite tiring to hop from platforms to platforms only to be run off each and every one of them and I sadly don't have energy to spare for this right now. Keep an eye on my SNS for news about that eventually tho !

He doesn't and Domen of course assured him that Valya was well cared for in his absence. Even if Ismaele doesn't trust him, it didn't do him any good to imagine Domen lying (he already felt guilty enough for leaving Valya 'behind'), plus there were no obvious signs on Valya's body when he got him, not even signs of regular medical negligence like bed sores or anything. If he had known he would have killed Domen though, that's for sure.

And honestly that's extremely fair assumption to make, especially since Domen wanted to humiliate Valya so much and well, in this state Valya perfectly suited his taste, but I think he despised him so much it went right back to not even wanting to touch him, like in an almost 'I'm too good to sully myself like this' way. Which does mean he def did think about it lol
Completely contradicting this, I can imagine him cleaning after Valya's nurse to really take in the sight of how defensless he now is… Go figure, he really is messed up in a very particular way, it probably made him feel holier-than-thou to 'care' for someone he resented that much, or maybe he found more perverse joy in twisting the knife in after the fact…

Weird to think that before Ismaele got Valya out of there, the person who spoke to him the most was him. If Valya was ever to regain consciousness it would be interesting to see how much did get through him, if Domen was truly shouting in the void or if any of this was the torture he was hoping it was. I think not being 100% sure was probably the source of quite a lot of frustration for Domen.

I'm still building the whole quarantine incident in my head so it's subject to change but as I see it so far he was a custodian at the hospice where Coeus conducted the experiment that got out of hand (oopsy). This was all done covertly so to him Coeus was pretty much a normal staff member there, he most likely didn't even know his real name but he would say hello to him each time they crossed path. He was the kind of social but not overbearing person, the type that won't go elsewhere if there's someone already smoking behind the building but won't engage in needless small talk either, just a very calm, laid-back individual. They were not close-close but I think Coeus ended up liking the familiarity of their very small interactions, like a little gesture you don't realize you like until it isn't there, and he likewise enjoyed the fun little enigma Coeus was in his day-to-day (he kind of quickly figured that a doctor that only visits and never stays on site very long was weird, but he never explicitly told Coeus if he suspected him of being responsible of what got them quarantined).

Coeus was supposed to work only on a little group of patients there so he truly was collateral damage of the outbreak. As for the duration, it was a little less than half a year before Coeus was plucked from there -by then he was obviously the only one left alive and tbh, if they had come even a few days after he might have succumbed to spesis.

I think neither of them can remember /how/ it started lol but as you can see they quickly got waaaay comfortable with proximity. I actually had a sketch of the start when they were drinking side by side and as they got through the bottle it started with leaning against each other, then Coeus swinging his leg on Hunter's before drunkenly slipping and half-falling in his laps, giggling stupidly while failing to get up and choosing to just lie there. It's possible Coeus said some stupid blunt drunk stuff that might have spurred Hunter to act, but tbh I think Hunter was sober enough to kind of be conscious of the fact Coeus started looking really kissable and going 'oh fuck it' before leaning in, probably because if anything he'd have a good excuse to save face if Coeus backed away.

So, long roundabout way of saying it was Hunter. Tho maybe in a way Coeus had an idea of what could happen by offering to get wasted with you know, the guy who has been holed up with him for a while and who is understably maybe feeling a little touch starved going from how much he complains about the lack of girls around despite how tough and rough he acts with him -at some point, maybe tending to rough-handle him a bit too often starts to look like excuses for physical contact, even if everything is kept hidden even when it comes to undressing him to get him to fucking bath. The sexual tension between them was LOADED lol to the point where I think when Hunter leaned in Coeus was prob wrapping his arms around his neck before his lips could even touch his, it just escalated mutually from there because how badly they craved touch/affection/release but I do think Coeus got really eager really fast.

If Coeus was low-key motivated by something else than not drinking himself into oblivion alone it was def a happy accident that 1) it went that far 2) he actually enjoyed the sex. He probably imagined just enjoying some proximity, at most maybe being held, not discovering he could actually be turned on by someone else let alone enjoy sex that is not a quick, almost annoying 'get it over with' wank the rare occasion his libido decides to pester him. Even if he admittedly did find Hunter attractive it was truly an evening full of surprises lol

Oooh that's an interesting one. Since Coeus likes to take kind of any opportunity to avoid the work he is supposed to do I think that if he woke up feeling a little under the weather he would stay buried under his sheets until Hunter would come to drag him out forcefully thinking he's just being lazy. It would probably take Coeus burning up/nearly fainting/vomiting for Hunter to believe he is truly sick lol (to be fair the guy looks ill at his 'healthiest' so it's hard to tell when he actually isn't well + he isn't good at asking for help (though there's little he desire more than being cared for))

By then he would probably get put back to bed (and have a snarky remark to say about it) and Hunter would pretty much put on the same grumbling and complaining he does with Gage, except with more groaning about how he's not being paid to be a damn fucking nurse, but he would do what he can for Coeus to not feel like shit/die/get better as soon as possible :'-) I think the degree of letting down this wall would vary depending on how sick/out of it Coeus is, so say if he had a pretty bad fever and was barely conscious Hunter wouldn't bitch that much and might actually do things like gently get his hair out of his face, run his fingers through his hair, sit on the bed next to him… Hunter has a real nurturing streak under his gruff façade and it's only getting worse with age lol

Bringing up possible trauma from the quarantine is interesting, though I think Coeus would less fear to get others sick and more fear dying alone: if he was really feeling like shit he would probably grab Hunter's wrist if he tried to leave the room and plead him to stay (tbh, even if it was mild but still enough to stay in bed, I think he would feel a pang of anxiety/sadness at being left alone, so he'd probably try to get Hunter to stay in roundabout ways that would make it look more like he's pestering him). Despite living his whole life not really caring wether or not he was alone the whole quarantine experience instilled both a new need (that he perhaps had simply ignored/not been aware of) and a new fear in him, and since he truly does not have the best health in general, this fear tends to flare up when it declines.

Now if Hunter was the one being sick, he would be fucked lolol he'd just lock everyone in a room so he could fucking rest

Funny that you would ask this, I have a cold rn and got a passing thought about the fact that Gage probably wouldn't think/be able to blow his nose so Hunter would need to help him like we do kids ha ha
I think Hunter first move if Gage was clearly sick would be to put him to bed with maybe an ice pack and some water close and go to his business, but you're right that Gage would indeed seek Hunter if he was sick. Once he'd realize through the fever that he is alone he would crawl out of bed and look for him. Hunter would probably grumble and complain about it to make it clear that it annoys him while still wrapping him into a blanket and helping him blow his nose while letting him rest his head on his lap lolol so he would kind of openly care for him but he'd make sure that everyone else knows how annoying it is for him (〃￣ω￣〃ゞ what a big tsundere, making oats and broth with pasta just for Gage while complaining that he can't do his damn job with this stupid mutt rubbing his snot all over his pants (don't pay attention to the relief in his sigh once Gage's temperature finally starts dropping shhh sshhhh)