[ crota ] - what is your muse’s greatest failure?
Gallows, on the surface, believes that he should have gotten what he deserved. Death wasn’t what he deserved, no, but what Corvus had. Attention, praise, love. He thought that if he let the Darkness in, then he could do better. Rise higher than Corvus. Bring back what was taken from him. Of course, it all failed spectacularly. He only hurt the people he so desperately wanted approval from. He failed himself, his Ghost, and Corvus, all by just demanding more than he had. Gallows just wanted more. He always wanted more. More attention. More love. More strength. More power.
[ nezarec ] - what plagues your muse's nightmares?
Ice. It is cold and frigid in Gallows’ head. He is forever on Europa. The claw marks that rip the glaciers apart mirror the ones that peel the metal on his face. He walks endlessly, his boots becoming heavier and heavier with frost until he can’t move any more. Standing there, trapped in forever, he looks to the slow white sky and sees the one thing he was moving towards. The edge of a dark horizon, forever swallowing the light.
[ aksis ] - what corrupts your muse, physically or metaphorically?
Physically, Stasis, if you want to get technical. Corvus has an injury from when a Stasis shard was embedded and exploded in his chest, an unhealable Darkness scar. He permanently feels cold to the touch because of this.
Mentally, guilt. There's so many things he could've done or changed or fixed… but he lives with it. He doesn't let it consume him, per say, but there's reminders.
Cold air on the back of his neck. A hand always resting on his knife’s sheath. Looking twice when he thinks he sees a familiar face.
Constant flickers in his memory, telling him that nothing will be the same.
[ argos ] - what does your muse use as a shield? anger? agreeability? something else?
Violence. It's what Corvus was made to do. His claws, his teeth, his speed and accuracy — all things he was built with, and all things he uses to hide the fact that he is scared to be like everyone else. He doesn't want to feel like people should, he wants to hunt as a Hunter should.
But sometimes he hesitates. Sometimes he sees the fear in their eyes before it ends. Sometimes he doesn't pull the trigger.
[ nezarec ] - what plagues your muse's nightmares?
Corvus doesn’t sleep, at least not often. His “sleep” is more so a meditative state.
He can never fully turn his senses off, so a lot of things still filter through and bother him. If he were to sleep properly, it would not be restful. His nightmares would be so vivid due to his near-perfect memory that he would be afraid to sleep, wanting to avoid reliving bad experiences.
[ riven ] - if your muse could wish for anything, would they? what would it be? what would the consequence of wishing for it be?
Corvus would wish to be harmless. He would think it would just change him physically — reform his body to an Exo standard, maybe. This would fall apart fairly quickly, though. His frame would change, yes, but painfully so, his plating warping and breaking to reshape itself into what he thought he wanted. He would then watch as Snipe stuttered in the air, his iris flickering and going dark. The light would be sapped from him as Snipe fell, crashing and splintering into a thousand pieces, like a glass toppled from a countertop. Afterwards he’d be permanently too weak to throw a punch or to hold a gun, and too scared to even try. It’s what he wanted, wasn’t it? To be harmless.
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