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#MURDRUIDHEAN — an independent, private, highly selective and headcanon based portrayal of great holy knight hendrickson from nanatsu no taizai. by knight ( he/him, 28+ ).

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𝐓𝐑𝐔𝐄 𝐍𝐀𝐌𝐄 . cernunnos . 𝐀𝐋𝐈𝐆𝐍𝐌𝐄𝐍𝐓 . true neutral . 𝐂𝐋𝐀𝐒𝐒 . caster 𝐎𝐑𝐈𝐆𝐈𝐍 . celtic polytheism 𝐌𝐀𝐒𝐓𝐄𝐑 . varies .

𝙿𝙰𝚁𝙰𝙼𝙴𝚃𝙴𝚁

𝐒𝐓𝐑 . b 𝐀𝐆𝐋 . b 𝐄𝐍𝐃 . b 𝐋𝐂𝐊 . a 𝐌𝐀𝐍𝐀 . ex 𝐍𝐎𝐁𝐋𝐄 𝐏𝐇𝐀𝐍𝐓𝐀𝐒𝐌 . a

𝙲𝙻𝙰𝚂𝚂 𝚂𝙺𝙸𝙻𝙻𝚂 .

𝙏𝙀𝙍𝙍𝙄𝙏𝙊𝙍𝙔 𝘾𝙍𝙀𝘼𝙏𝙄𝙊𝙉 . the caster class can create a ‘ workshop ’ of sorts . cernunnos’ territory is the forest , his sacred place where he can befriend familiars ( mostly stags or horned serpents ) or simply have a place to heal . it is said his forest can only be burned down by a wicked fire . A

𝙄𝙏𝙀𝙈 𝘾𝙊𝙉𝙎𝙏𝙍𝙐𝘾𝙏𝙄𝙊𝙉 . the caster class creates various items for use . inhabiting the body of a druid , cernunnos uses much of his host body’s skill in this regard . capable of creating healing items , potions , or ‘ goddess amber ’ , the latter used to seal away other souls & evil aligned or demonic servants . EX

𝙿𝙴𝚁𝚂𝙾𝙽𝙰𝙻 𝚂𝙺𝙸𝙻𝙻𝚂 .

𝙋𝙐𝙍𝙄𝙁𝙄𝘾𝘼𝙏𝙄𝙊𝙉 . a translation of the saber servant’s noble phantasm . ‘ purge ’ . although , cernunnos can do much more with this power , capable of affecting other deities aligned as evil or designated as demonic . A++

𝙁𝙊𝙍𝙀𝙎𝙏 𝘽𝙇𝙀𝙎𝙎𝙄𝙉𝙂 . think ‘ numeral of the saint ’ where gawain gets bonuses in the sunlight , now move that to forest terrains . essentially , it’s the same thing otherwise . since he is now the vessel for a deity , this skill formerly at rank B for the saber class has been sharply raised . EX

𝘾𝙊𝙈𝙈𝙐𝙉𝙄𝘾𝘼𝙏𝙄𝙊𝙉 𝙒𝙄𝙏𝙃 𝙉𝘼𝙏𝙐𝙍𝙀 . cernunnos’ ability to bond with animals , mostly stags & horned serpents , although he can make them his familiars with ease , without taking extra mana from his master . they return to the way they were when he vanishes . A+

𝙽𝙾𝙱𝙻𝙴 𝙿𝙷𝙰𝙽𝚃𝙰𝚂𝙼 .

𝙋𝙊𝙒𝙀𝙍 𝙊𝙁 𝙏𝙃𝙀 𝙃𝙊𝙇𝙔 𝙁𝙊𝙍𝙀𝙎𝙏 . anti - army . deadly to his enemies , but a sanctuary & place of healing for his allies , those who defile the holy forest face the wrath of the trees , the animals , & the wild god himself . drained of their own power , it is fed to the earth , to allies , & to his master . those receiving power are healed of ailments . A

#* fate .#* caster servant .

DEMON BLOOD, PART 1

first off, i should start with “druids and liquor”, because that plays a part in this. much like zaratras, hendy’s sure bad at holding his liquor, because druids don’t like having poison in their bodies. their bodies do one of two things, reject whatever poison it is ( they get sick ), or attempting to assimilate it while still having a bodily response that basically means Do Not Put More Of This In Your Body. this second response also serves as a natural immunization, so if something happens again, the body is ready for it and handles it better.

from what happens to people who are incompatible with the demon blood, it’s pretty safe to assume that hendrickson’s body did the assimilation thing. experimenting on himself at all was a HUGE RISK because he could’ve died. and no, he didn’t experiment on other people first, because hendrickson has no sense of self-preservation. the experiment was done in secret on the outskirts of liones, because hendrickson knew he could die! and he didn’t want to have people deal with that, so he chose to isolate.

the initial dose of demon blood left hendy incapacitated for about a week. he told bartra that he’d managed to eat something that completely disagreed with his body, which wasn’t necessarily a lie, and was passable as an excuse because this is a reaction bartra had seen zaratras have before.

after recovering, hendrickson didn’t think to try anything new with the demon blood, because he wasn’t sure what it had actually done, other than make him sick. then, about 2 months later, he realized that he felt like he had more energy, it was a pretty big rush and it felt great. so knowing that his body had evidently assimilated whatever he took in, he did it again. soon enough, he couldn’t stop. he liked the rush and each time it took more to get that, and feeling that good made him forget how much emotional pain he was in. for hendrickson, this was literally ... a drug addiction, and it was a hard habit to break.

while hendrickson doesn’t have very concrete memories of what he did for about a good 8 years, the first 2ish he definitely remembers, because at that point, he was content to just do everything on his own. because he didn’t want to hurt other people, and retained a great deal of his humanity.

about a year and half into the experiments, the personality change started kicking in, and the experiments were done on other people, leading to the reactor class and the new generation knights. which was BAD!!!!

after the coffin burned out the ash demon blood, hendrickson was in fact left with the red demon blood, and had to go through the world’s most agonizing detox. he just didn’t tell anyone what he was dealing with, because he doesn’t love himself.

#hc tag

anyway lmao sometimes i think about how uHHH ... we don’t see hendy use any non-druid spells until the vaizel festival part 2 ... and if all the other new generation knights ended up with their abilities yeet ( and had to rebuild them, see: jericho ), then it’s not impossible that hendy had to do the same goddamn thing???

also his ability “acid” is called a “forbidden technique” by the druids which ... uhhh ... means it may genuinely be a druid thing he taught himself rather than a magic power that manifested ( eg, dreyfus’ “break”, zaratras’ “great thunder” ). i have an actual meta thought out about this but right now my brain is not cooperating but ok take this for now

#hc tag #i dont even have tags lmao

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EXTENSIVE SCAR RELATED PROMPTS

GENERAL

[ TOUCH ] for sender to trace one of receiver’s scars

[ TOUCHED ] for receiver to trace one of sender’s scars

[ DISCOVER ] for sender to see receiver’s scars for the first time

[ DISCOVERED ] for receiver to see sender’s scars for the first time

[ CARESS ] for sender to kiss one of receiver’s scars

[ CARESSED ] for receiver to kiss one of sender’s scars

[ SHOW ] for sender to purposefully reveal their scars for receiver to see

[ SHOWN ] for receiver to purposefully reveal their scars for sender to see

SCENARIOS

[ MEND ] for sender to treat receiver’s wound which leads to them having to remove an article of clothing resulting in revealing scars hidden beneath

[ MENDED ] for receiver to treat sender’s wound which leads to them having to remove an article of clothing resulting in revealing scars hidden beneath

[ BLUNDER ] for sender to walk in on receiver in a state of undress thus seeing their scars for the first time

[ BLUNDERED ] for receiver to walk in on sender in a state of undress thus seeing their scars for the first time

[ KISS ] our muses are having sex for the first time which then reveals sender’s scars to receiver

[ KISSED ] our muses are having sex for the first time which then reveals receiver’s scars to sender

[ BATHE ] our muses take a shower together and sender looks over receiver’s scars

[ BATHED ] our muses take a shower together and receiver looks over sender’s scars.

WORDS

❝ your scars are nothing to be ashamed of. ❞

❝ why do you hide your scars? ❞

❝ i see every mark as something to be proud of, proof of all i survived. ❞

❝ can i ask what happened here— how did you get this one? ❞

❝ sometimes i get these phantom pains i guess you could say. little aches and i find them oddly comforting. because my soul still hurts even if my body is healed. ❞

❝ i wish i could get rid of my scars. they’re just reminders of everything i want to forget. ❞

❝ is it alright if i touch this scar? ❞

❝ it’s okay— you can touch it if you want. doesn’t hurt anymore. ❞

❝ please don’t touch it. ❞

❝ you don’t have to tell me how you got it. i just wanted to see. ❞

❝ looks worse than it was. ❞

❝ i want to kill every person responsible for leaving you scarred. ❞

❝ i made sure the people who left marks on me wouldn’t get the chance to do it again. ❞

❝ woah— what the hell happened there? ❞

❝ you don’t have to hide them around me. the scars are just part of who you are. and i like all of what i see. ❞

❝ i don’t really like letting people see them. ❞

❝ it’s okay— honestly i forget they’re there most of the time. ❞

ON DRUID SPELLS!

taking a look at the translations of any of the druid spells in nanatsu no taizai, they all follow a process of intent of wording, which in fact makes them very powerful. it’s why some druid spells can be taught to other people, but others can’t.

druids are taught all their lives that every word has power, which is true. they’re innately magical in a different way from any of the five races, despite falling under the category of humans, they’re … n o t ,,, exactly? much like celestials are a subclass of the goddess clan, druids are like a … i wouldn’t say subclass of humans, because they aren’t, but its like if there could be a species that was like a jumble of humans, fae, and goddesses, it’s druids.

a lot of druids are fairly quiet, they’re not very chatty because of their upbringing. it also leads to things like … hendrickson thinks maybe he’ll ask someone to marry him because he doesn’t think in the same social manner as other people. that, factored in with timing of things, he comes to different conclusions than other people would expect.

ok is hendrickson the world’s strongest holy knight no no he is not. he’s well trained, he does have a lot of power, but there are also reasons that dreyfus can in fact run circles around him under normal conditions. hendrickson is a much better druid than he is a holy knight, he would’ve made a better apprentice to someone like merlin than to dreyfus and zaratras, because of his innate ability to perform magic unique to his clan. there are times where hendrickson’s druid abilities will really come out with his wording, using words can hold influence over many things, be it the self, or other outside things.

"i am not afraid of death" well he used to be, but staring ludociel down and saying that with such intent, now he’s sure not. "you can use this life and soul to your heart’s content" he breaks down all of his mental barriers he put on his own powers, but only under the condition that LUDOCIEL possesses his body. the nature of druid magic makes it so that basically he allowed one person to use his full power and it isn’t even himself, he’s a dumbass.

druids have a unique ability to turn a lengthy phrase into something way shorter, like PURGE. there is a lengthy incantation about purifying that which has tainted … so on so forth, but as soon as druids figure out how to purify with the long incantation, they’re taught to put all of their intent from the full phrase into a single word. similarly, hendrickson’s acid ability is in fact a druid thing he came up with on his own, after desperately wanting to be away from the corpses which he was told he had to watch until they turned to dust, he started spending the nights doing little chants about physical release and the denial of evil taking root usually it ended with “return to dust and the earth” and before long, he was doing this and causing the bodies to decompose. so it wasn’t really fair to call it acid when he was a kid, because it was more of a decomposition, a rapid rot, which the druids called "necrosis".

training to be a holy knight is what taught hendrickson to weaponize "necrosis" and it became acid, which can kill a live person, whereas necrosis only worked on the dead bodies or something that qualified as "undead" ( eg . vampire ). acid can clearly kill a person yikes. but in druid fashion, he managed to put all his intent from the chants as a child and the training from the holy knights into acid ( acid tower, acid down ), which otherwise for someone else attempting to replicate the effect, would take maybe a good few sentences.

#hc tag #worldbuilding

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