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Nero "I sense a disturbance" Scaeva. Said disturbance being the lizard woman lurking on his workouts... (ft... Nero notes while I try to get used to drawing his face unchibi'd lmfao)

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A follow up to the other tsu/nero piece, in which nero remembers to be careful about her back and that he's in biting range a bit too late.

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The wholesome tsuoodles of the past, vs the ridiculous tsuoodles of her future. also known as the dumbest enemies/rivals to lovers I think I've ever written, and now you guys get to be cursed with it too.

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"Revenge" ft. the vicious lizard herself

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All I can think of with the dialogue is Haurche going "don't worry guys, I'll hold her off!" in situations he absolutely does not need to LOL

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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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