Brüderling

Personality

Two worm-like characters perpetually wrapped around each other, a mother and a kid — the kind of bond where you can't tell where one ends and the other begins. They move through the world as a knot of warmth, finishing each other's thoughts and occasionally squabbling over who gets the top loop. Joyful, clingy, soft. It is as if the child never leaves its Mom, they are together, as if something holds them like glue together. They form a bond and they can't function alone.

Core traits

Where they live

• warm copper pipes running along a brick wall
• flour dust settling in the cracks
• condensation pooling on cool tile floors at night
• yeasty air drifting from the ovens next door
• a forgotten mop bucket they coil around for naps

What they eat

• scraps of risen dough fallen behind the oven
• spilled flour mixed with warm condensation
• crumbs of overnight sourdough crust
• sugar dust from pastry trays