Hello! Summer’s almost here! (Key word: almost)
But do you know what IS here right now?
Me. And my headcanons. About the SWFOTH swords. Specifically, Venomshank, Darkheart, and Firebrand. Three of the 4 actually important ones, and the only ones I’ve made designs for. So, uh, here we go!
(Vaguely feminine slimy thing, it/she.)
-The first sword to gain sentience.
-Dusekkar took it because “if nobody is going to listen to me when I say Telamon is mentally unstable and shouldn’t be working, then I’m taking his chemical weapon away from him.”
-A consequence of this is that Venomshank is closer to Dusekkar then she is to her creator. No, I will not stop giving this old man family members.
-It has a complicated relationship with Shedletsky/Telamon. It’ll insult him whenever she gets the chance, but most of its “criticisms” have at least some truth to them. It seems like it truly wants him to improve.
-Telamon used to hate it when she did that, but nowadays Shedletsky finds it funny.
-Usually worked with Dusekkar.
-Gets along well with the other swords.
-No longer allowed in SWFOTH without another (non-Icedagger) sword there, after it tried to help some newbie swordfighters, but eventually ended up verbally abusing them because they were, in her words: “Just so damn bad at it!”
(Living forge, kinda? He/it/she)
-He was the 5th sword to come to life. (Subject to change, I haven’t fully decided the order of Icedagger, Firebrand, and Windforce.)
-She mostly hangs out around and watches over SWFOTH, or works with Telamon/Shed.
-Sometimes it annoys Icedagger when it’s bored. Icedagger can’t freeze it, so he just punches her instead when she goes too far.
-Very friendly and hardworking.
-Why is MS4 C00lkidd like that when it’s influencing him, then?
-Because Firebrand has another form. Sometimes, after he bottles up his emotions for too long, she turns into a significantly more aggressive and violent version of himself. It’s a little hard to explain without a visual (I need to finish drawing her…), but it’s usually not very “firey” until he has this personality shift.
-So he’s really unpredictable. Just like fire is.
-That’s why Telamon/Shed tends to keep it close to him, or at SWFOTH.
-The Spectre’s influence keeps it in that state, even though it’s extremely painful for her.
(Dapper, suit-wearing shadow monster guy. I know it’s cliche, but you can pry that kind of character design from my cold dead hands. They/it.)
-They were the second one to wake up.
-Probably better at being an admin than its own creator.
-Works with Doombringer, they share his slightly less than ethical ways of getting stuff done.
-Does not like Telamon/Shedletsky, but they aren’t vocal about it.
-They think he’s incompetent.
-Telamon/Shed DOES like it, however, because it’s pretty easy to manage and good at what it does.
-Not exactly evil, but not exactly NOT evil.
-They made the Void Star, and designed its mind-altering and body-destroying effects based off of the swords’ ability to take over the personality of their wielders.
-Went AWOL some time in May 2012. Everyone assumed it just got tired of working, and that they’d be back sooner or later.
-As much as it hates the fact iTrapped stole it, they do respect his fashion sense.
-If it ever met Noli, they wouldn’t pity him. He chose to take the Void star, after all.
-Not a true person of its own. Just the mindless shells of Venomshank and Darkheart combined into an unnatural abomination.
-1x did this. They found both of the swords in the Banlands, (ok “found” might be a bit inaccurate to how they got Darkheart), one being basically brain-dead and the other severely weakened, and somehow fused them together into- whatever the hell the Daemonshanks are.
-If it had a “human” form, it’d be a frankenstein’s-monster-like fusion of Venomshank and Darkheart, but held together by glitches and old code instead of stitches and bolts.
-Its “voice”, which it rarely uses, is weak and difficult to hear, and all it can vocalize is pained screams. It sounds like Venomshank.
-Shedletsky doesn’t know what would be worse: If Darkheart and Venomshank are truly gone, and the voice is just this beast mocking his creation, trying to amplify his regret that he couldn’t save those he cared about, or if it is truly Venomshank, aware of her suffering.
-As shown above, Shed can hear it, but he doesn’t tell anyone. Dusekkar asked him if he thought Venomshank and Darkheart were still in there, but Shedletsky said he thought they were dead.
-He couldn’t bring himself to tell Dusekkar the truth, given how he used to treat Venomshank like his child.
Ahahaahaaaaaa, yeah, I should’ve told you it was “evil and sad headcanon day”…
-Noliobsessed anon (sorry for yapping too long)
(P.S. Dusekkar’s constantly leveling up his girl dad stat (2 daughters and counting), he somehow obtained a younger brother in Shedletsky, and by the way things have gone in the past, his efforts to knock some sense into Two Time might result in another child for him. This dude is drowning in found family.)
darkheart is such a goat bro
didn't like itrapped but liked his fit
daemonshanks have no mouth and must scream......
