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nothing gets his ass kicked faster than this...

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the opening riff of "the black wolf stalks again" gets stuck in my head more often than not and I take my frustration out by drawing gaius playing it.

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Nonsense on both sides.

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She can sing! She can dance! And she has this GUN.

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Two sides of one coin.

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Ego, Zenos' inner turmoil given form.

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O' Champion of Darkness

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Zenos on his own was already pretty unhinged. You are telling me that Ego is that without filters? *opens the floodgates*

Yes actually. You have his mania/more unhinged state as basically a general basis alongside the emotions Zenos has repressed over the years. And though he calms down and just exist when he feels like it sometimes, he only initially started manifesting after the ultimatum when Zenos begins to push himself too hard in trying to fit in with the scions at the expense of everything. In turn his personality will hit extremes based on why he appears, much to Zenos' annoyance.

Ego for this is quite literally a fragment of his psyche and his aether/soul given form and for the most part is probably more akin to a weird mixture of Hephaistos and Fray in his relation to Zenos. So while Zenos himself is mostly controlled, disciplined, and eloquent even in his more unhinged states despite a couple outliers for both how he acts and how he fights, Ego for Adven!Zenos is very much the "monster" Zenos was described to be and on his own is quick to anger, dangerously and overly cunning, and bearing every ounce of a lifetime of grief, regret, and resentment he's made himself forget.

However, that's not only it, because Ego is weird in that he is an extroverted (technically) Zenos. Because he was created from Zenos' isolation in the ultimatum, and is a reflection of how (for how I write Zenos anyways) Zenos sees himself as someone who is underserving of love or mercy in how Ego fights with him, yet also the embodiment of how much Zenos yearns for that connection, and is in part why Zenos deals with the optical illusion for himself that Ego shares traits of Varis and Solus. That being said, Ego just straight up kidnaps the scions. Runs up, throws them over his shoulder if he's in human form, or dives under them in beast form, and carries them off to Zenos if he's feeling lonely. He's confrontational where Zenos would usually let it just roll off and either quip or be quiet (a jumpscare to Thancred and Alisaie when he starts manifesting more) and despite it all is still very protective of Zenos, of himself, because at the end of the day despite how he is the embodiment of that which is denied or buried, he wants to be whole again.

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the zenos who swears

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I would like to know more of the madness Zenos has to deal with because gdi Haurchefant got captured and made it everyone's problem.

Ah, the Demon of Garlemald getting menaced by the Silver Fuller (I fully give you the mental image of a tiger somehow getting chased around by a unicorn/goat because that is 100% how I summarize these two poor bastards).

As much as the initial drawing and concept was pretty goofy, it's unfortunately still StB Zenos(there is angst with the madness v-v).

They basically spend this time playing the most unnecessarily elaborate game of chess(or, the mind games of ever) trying to convince one another of their position. Where Haurche is trying to convince Zenos to change his course, and defy Varis and even join them, vs Zenos continuing the hunt, and refusing them for the sake of what will be brought down upon them. And what really drives Zenos mad is Haurche actually making him feel things without them being locked in combat (where he still felt that from meteor but suddenly this "random" elezen is here "ruining" his day) and the chaos he gets to experience for himself in remembering his face, his name, and being in total shock of what is going on because this is NOT even remotely what he thought would happen. A lot of early Zenos is what I consider being defined by being very intimately in control of himself (with the repression and in turn part of his anhedonia being a result of that, even his episodes of mania are very... deliberate I would say in how he acts despite it), so suddenly Haurche is sparring with him playfully, treating him like a person, actually seeing him and trying to talk to HIM, despite Haurchefant being the captive- and zenos is stuck between believing it to just be him being used (not entirely wrong, Haurchefant bargains for Krile and the other captives when he learns of them but not for his own sake), Haurche has lost his mind and means it, or some other reason he can't even fathom, and regardless of that all, this mundane thing is making him FEEL something, however brief.

But Haurche also gets hit by the completely buffoonery that is these two being in one place. Of how attentive despite everything zenos is, and how... easy it is to ask him for stuff??? He does not know how to feel being someone who apparently has this prince wrapped around his finger just for having the balls to talk plainly with him, on top of dealing with the jumpscare of him just kinda appearing with knowledge of just general stuff going on despite being glued to thrones or business all day. Or him becoming aware generally of zenos having memory issues only for zenos to remember an offhanded comment about Haurchefant wishing he could do more than just support Meteor from the sidelines when primals emerge... and zenos offering him the resonant "as a gift" despite them being enemies at the end of the day. It is Haurche seeing how dreadfully lonely Zenos is, and coming to understand what the Hunt really is, and him having to math out if he can pick up the pieces in time before everything collapses, or the moodswings that come with moments of lucid feeling and Zenos trying to push him away (often by force aka literally throwing him out of a room) because everytime it happens its ruining his initial plans let alone steadily putting a target on haurche's back.

In turn, the 12th get to deal with everything theyre doing suddenly not hinging solely off the orders of the high legatus, but of this goofy ass charismatic elezen who has practically inserted himself as an advisor (and is... publicly seducing??? your boss???), and is able to make subtle changes just by appealing to Zenos at worst and at best its because he wore your legatus down enough to bend to the whims of board/card games as an excuse to spend time with him (which is a huge gamble because he tries against haurche).

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doodles of characters I haven't drawn in a while, Fabrice and Rosa

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So in that AU that you made of Lucius living through making a deal with Golbez- how would that go? Is he helping the cions? Does he have to face the dad in ShB too?? Consider me intrigued

Ooooo It's been a while since I've put a bit of thought into the AU but this question has the cogs turning again lmao. A lot of this is pushed by the thought that the ascians basically take the timeline (figuratively lmao) by force to try and push their plans forward. So while I personally believe that there would be a big narrative shift for Lucius' survival... the shadow coworkers get to ruin everything anyways v-v The Deal - So, this entire AU hinges off of the young twenty-something prince having to resort to desperately calling across the rift for anything to stave off the affliction that is deteriorating him. Not for his own sake, but for the sake of his people and the people of the star knowing full well how well his family would take his death instead. Golbez, having no need to deal in aether, instead forges a pact based on an unending quest for for the salvation of his world no matter what. And though it leaves Lucius pretty weak initially, he is able to recover thanks to golbez's intervention. It does however (even if IC he's only be a little giddy about that cause he's a galvus and still a bit strange) leave him as a reaper on paper, the magic and ability Golbez allows him to wield is something he has to try really really hard to keep under wraps for the time he was still in Garlemald. However, out of both respect of saving his life and just learning over time about the 13th Lucius avoids over usage of their pact, and it's more often Golbez intervening and taking control of his body than it is... Lucius... charging full tilt in void armor or throwing void rocks at people lol. The Consequence and the Ascians - Aka, the context as to why he eventually joins the scions. Lucius, no thanks to Golbez eventually getting the information of HOW the 13th got into the state it was pried out of him, has encounters with Elidibus that lead to both his defection from the empire and Lucius' drive to find, intercept and destroy the ascians. Because while Elidibus does not kill him, or hurt his family directly, or even twist Emet's arm into going through with the destruction while Lucius still lived instead of later "like planned". He does capture and clone him. And replaces him, and things start to go so terribly wrong from there that when Lucius attempts to fight him to stop him he only narrowly survives because Golbez both got his ass out of there by possession and saved him from nearly dying... again. And even though he is not one of hydaelyn's, nor does he have the echo, him being emet's progeny lights such a vindictive fire in him that he becomes one of the most consistent problems for the ascians.

The Scions and "Voidhunter" - Voidhunter, in essence, was Louisoix's guard dog and Matoya's collaborator in New Sharlayan against the rising threat of the Garlean Empire and the darkness that lingered below it. Lucius basically stands in as a pre-era WoL for the circle of knowing before the rise of the scions, and is very protective of the youth that joins both rising factions eventually because he deeply misses his family. Woefully unable to be in two places at once, he's often vigilantly guarding his charges or is off on errands for them (again, much like WoL, and he curses any reference of 'if only there were more of him' with more anger than he is able to usually explain.) Lucius by this point is mellowed, occasionally angry at the star with it channeled against an enemy that he so rarely is able to indulge the knowledge to people of, but is basically this weird mix of both a DRK/DRG thanks to Golbez's willingness to arm him. He keeps his third eye hidden, often masking himself, and few outside of the circle/the scions know of who he really is until Elidibus is dealt with. Despite it all he's still a bit of the 'puppy' he's often drawn to be, just with silent determination that is honestly more terrifying than if this 8 fulm tall giant was just outwardly happy about things. He adores the WoL when he eventually meets Meteor, and tries to be the best mentor he can be, even if his urianger-esk looming wigs out everyone he does it to.

SHB T-T - If I am to write him into being with the scions then yes he likely would've been dragged to the first (and yay maybe goofy ass thing I can write of light reaper vs void reaper). But this will probably have to be it's own post on it's own. Lucius having to fight his own father and deal with the heart break knowing he was one of the beings he was after is something I want to leave here and eventually explore in more depth. Because perhaps it is a bit controversial of a thought in regards to Emet's character, but I genuinely believe he would not have set Garlemald on complete conquest had Lucius not died, and that the cataclysm would have been after his generation BECAUSE the way he spoke about Lucius, the detached, defeated, broken attitude, is so reminiscent to how he speaks and thinks about hyth and azem that I do not think he would do so in a way that would have effected him, and that Lucius' death was what doomed garlemald in full from the context we've been given in canon and my own interpretations of Emet's hypocrisy and mindset. In this AU, it is Lucius' mission to preserve the star no matter what, to not allow what happened to the 13th to happen elsewhere if he can do something about it. And writing Elidibus' intervention always poses the question to me if there were circumstances that the convocation had to accelerate or intervene with things because of Emet's countless attempts to make judgements on the star (sorry, im just a sucker for workplace sabotage is a setting like this, there is nothing but salt between the large majority of the convocation and it would not surprise me.)

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I think he would've matched his freak T-T or... outdone it, in some regards... (aka, the 12th kidnapped the wrong blue haired elezen for the resonant project and it very quickly became Zenos' problem)

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Ego Death

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o3o