Here, have we ever figured out what the craic is with people's lifespans in this setting?
(Hyperlinked dates copy pasted from the official timeline)
The Hootsman I'm willing to handwave because he's a cyborg. Ralathor I'm not even going to ATTEMPT to figure out. But what, pray tell, is up with the McFife family tree?!
Are they supposed to have one Angus per generation? Because if so, ain't no way in HELL their lifespan works like ours. Angi II-IV would've had to reproduce around the age of 100 to make the math check out. And then what, 450 years for Angi VI-XIII?
The only explanation I can think of is that they had a whole bunch of daughters between II and V, but they kept the McFife surname while marrying and continued to rule Fife in the same way as the lads, so maybe there just wasn't a whole lot of boys in those generations for whatever reason.
The 400 years for Angi VI-XII I can comprehend a little more easily, assuming that they're capable of spawning more Angi while well into their 50s like I. Not sure how healthy it is and what their fucking natural lifespan is if they don't get nuked or yeet themselves into a volcano, but sure, okay.
Also, prime!Proletius dies of old age in 1038, so when prime!Ango II is 17. However, 38-B Proletius is still around and able to help 38-B!Ango II on his epic quest, and we're talking about a Prol who dragged I's dead body out of the wreckage left by the nuke, got parts of his face MELTED OFF by the blast, and then spent the next 20 years living in a nuclear wasteland. Did the radiation artificially extend his lifespan or what? What is going on here??
Bullshitting a bit here but I believe the 500 year time skip got to be because not all of the family's male offspring got named Angus, and at some point it became a dare, because obviously the bad shit only happened if they named the kid Angus. "If we give our son the legacy name, will he invent multidimensional travel or is the universe going to end? Whatever, legacy name it is."
[DISCLAIMER: I'm aware that it's not that deep but I overthink and overanalyse shit recreationally so take everything you read here with a grain of salt - it's my brain's equivalent of doodling around in the margins of a maths notebook.]
So I know that the Henderson videos aren't official canon and we're not supposed to read a great deal into them, but I LOVE the choice to have the Hammer of Glory be attached to Angus II by a chain.
On a surface level it's cool and practical, letting him throw it and swing it around and have it come back to him - very useful in combat! But I'm obsessed with the potential symbolism of him literally being chained to it.
Chained to his duty. Chained to his vengeance. Chained to his bloodline and all the burdens it carries with it. Chained to his destiny. It's always there, always with him, keeping him grounded and reminding him of his purpose. His literal ball and chain.
[REMINDER: the chain only shows up in "He Has Returned" - he swings and throws the Hammer normally in "Keeper of the Celestial Flame"]
Now, we've all heard "Fly Away": V's lament about his destiny and his desire to be free from it and be able to do his own thing. His idea of freedom is flight: flying away on a unicorn to a better world than the one he knows. Flight is freedom, flight is being unbound by destiny, flight is being able to throw off your shackles and go where you please and do what you please.
II is literally chained to his destiny, but he does get to fly, however briefly. He does get to forget the weight of the Hammer for a short moment - and that's by the side of the Robot Prince.
The thing is, no matter how high up they fly, they're still bound by their respective destinies: Angus still has the Hammer with him in these shots, and this scene corresponds to the lyrics:
Far across the stars he travelled
Yearning to be free
In search of epic battles to
Escape his destiny
The Robot Prince can fly around to his heart's content, but even he is "destined to reign forevermore." He flies around in search of epic battles hoping to outrun it, to escape the burden of the crown. These lines can possibly be interpreted as him wanting to die in one of these epic battles to evade an eternity of dominion, but we're, uh, [clutches heart] we're gonna put a pin on this interpretation for a little while.
The point is, the Angi view flight as freedom, and at least II is visually coded to be weighed down by the Hammer like a ball and chain. He always has it with him, even in flight, even when he's the closest to freedom he can be.
And even when he attempts to discard it and reach out to the Prince with an open hand, with a memory instead of a weapon. (Shoutout to the chained and crucified corpse of the Mecha-King on Tooley's side of the room, looming above him like a phantom of his future - or perhaps even the present, with both of them being bound and corrupted by the Knife of Evil. Metaphorising aside, it's a hell of a sick visual.)
Even with the Hammer discarded, the chain remains attached. No matter what Angus does, he cannot break the shackles of his destiny.
But somehow, impossibly, he CAN break Tooley's. Destined to reign forevermore, eh? Perhaps he would've been, if it weren't for Angus recruiting him for their cause and letting him sacrifice himself in a blaze of glory to deactivate the corrupted robot hivemind. A heroic death instead of an eternity of statis and dominion in a gilded cage.
(Doesn't seem like the Mecha-King was able to move from his spot in the chamber even pre-corruption. He looks a bit like a living statue, and given the fact that corrupting him corrupted all the other robots except Tooley, he appears to be some kind of focus point, the heart of Auchtertool. I wonder if Tooley's destiny involves replacing him. I wonder if it means becoming a living statue. I wonder if it means losing his wings and being confined to his throne room for the rest of eternity or until something finally kills him. What a fate. No wonder he's flying around yearning to avoid it.)
(I wonder if his death was a relief on some level. I wonder if he was happy that at least he would die doing something important. I wonder if he was happy that at least he got to fly with Angus one final time, if only to get him out of the blast zone.)
The Robot Prince was freed from his destiny by death. Angus, no matter how much he might wish for it after the Starlords nuked the timeline and destroyed everything and everyone he's known and loved, will not get the luxury. After all, the Hammer is still chained to him, and his destiny lies elsewhere. And destiny is all that matters, no?
Well, at least one of them is flying free.*
(*or IS he? "He Has Returned" DOES end with "the Robot Prince will return" so it's possible that not even death can save Tooley from his destiny. I guess we'll have to wait and see!)
Now, in light of all that, let's take a moment to wonder why exactly Gloryhammer chose to cover "Mighty Wings" out of so many others songs out there. Sure, it's not canon, we all agree it's not canon and the interview about how it can be interpreted as II singing it to the Robot Prince is probably a joke, but that doesn't change the fact that the band CHOSE to cover this particular song and that this desperate, yearning cry to be taken away on mighty wings lines up perfectly with the recurring motif of flight as freedom.
Destiny is a Hammer chained to Angus's wrist. He can wield it, spin it around in battle, even discard the Hammer for a while, but it will always be connected to him, pulling him down to earth.
Freedom is soaring among the stars, winged and weightless, unburdened, away from expectation, obligations and prophecies. Unbound by destiny.
Angus associates the Prince with freedom - even if for a little while. The Prince, through meeting Angus, defied his destiny and found freedom in death.
Just.
I don't know. I know it's probably not that deep but that fucking chain fascinates me. Henderson couldn't have picked a better upgrade to Angus's Hammer, and the lads couldn't have picked a better song to cover in-between album 4 and "He Has Returned."
(I also think it's funny that V, notoriously reluctant to fulfil his destiny and die, notoriously yearning to fly away and do his own thing among the stars, is portrayed sleeping with a Robot Prince plushie. I know it's 100% fanservice and, again, not canon and it absolutely 100% doesn't mean anything symbolically, but it's just a funky little coincidence given everything I've been overthinking today. Little II has a unicorn plushie. V wants to fly away on a unicorn. V has a Robot Prince plushie. II finds freedom, however briefly, by the side of the Robot Prince. GOD, GLORYHAMMER, PLEASE HAVE THEM INTERACT IM ALBUM V PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE THEYRE5MY FAVOURITE ANGI AND THEY MAKE ME SO UNWELL.)
(ALSO since we all know I love to over-analyse things, II and V are very similar visually. V's helmet looks like a grown up version of II's baby one and he wears the same style armour as adult II. It doesn't mean anything, it's just Alex reusing assets and it's 100% not canon, but it's just a neat detail I noticed while watching "Ultimate Sacrifice" for the first time.)
Same helmet with longer horns, same armour with either flipped greens & blacks or SAME ONES depending on the video, same desire to fly away and taste freedom for once in their lives.
(Same flying bestie who dies at the end of the song, rip Sparky the Unicorn, you will be missed.)
I recently went through the He Has Returned video almost frame by frame for art reference reasons, and Angus "stores" the chain to keep it out of the way by wrapping it around his forearm! this makes sense for practical reasons, of course, and if he didn't wear actual bracers I would've said it's probably at least somewhat useful for blocking, but most importantly it reinforces the image of him being chained down by it.
(Notably, he also wraps it around Knifed!Tooley's legs like a snare to trip him!)
Also, I know this is mainly a post about Angus II and V (and Tooley), but if we're on the topic of flying-as-freedom I HAVE to bring up Legendary Enchanted Jetpack, aka the closest XIII ever gets across two albums to having an I Want Song. (He never utters the words "I want". That's reserved for Angus V AND ZARGOTHRAX, in Fly Away and Universe On Fire respectively - the two true I want songs in the Discography)
Here look.
So to summarise. Angus is on his way to get the jetpack so that he can charge the Hammer and fight Zargothrax better. But what he dreams of isn't the final battle. It's flying "forever free".
Not only that, it's flying "over Cowdenbeath" and "through the Kingdom of Dundee". You know. Angus' home. That got BLOWN UP at the end of the last album when one of his friends made the Ultimate Sacrifice.
The place that in this new universe is occupied by Zargothrax and not a safe place for flying either.
The fact that this is the refrain also means it keeps coming back throughout the song, like Angus keeps thinking about it as a way of distracting himself from the struggles of the quest.
And then there's the bridge.
...
remind you of anyone?
Once again, the motif of flight granting you freedom, specifically in the context of "flying away" from your destiny to some kind of hidden space or thing that lies "beyond".
Yearning for the ability to just Leave and never look back.
(and the specific phrasing of "beyond space" also reminded me of something else:
a world beyond the stars. yeah. do with that what you will.)
Yes yes yes yes YES THANK YOU FOR BRINGING UP THE JETPACK I HAVE NO IDEA HOW I COULD'VE FORGOTTEN ABOUT THE JETPACK. Ango XIII I'm so sorry I failed you.
I don't have a lot to add beyond vigorous nodding, but I thought it's kinda cute how every Angus has a flying moment. But that got me thinking: Papa Ango I is the only one who doesn't seem to care that much about it. Yeah he met a magic dragon but, aside from marvelling about how awesome it looks, he seems more focused on the power said dragon can get him.
(Mighty and glorious, huh? Where else have we seen mighty associated with flying?)
Ango I doesn't care much about flying - he cares about the mighty power and defeating the ultimate evil. Why? Where's the joy? The whimsy? The thrill? The yearning for freedom? Well, we get that in the next song (and my favourite one in the album): "Silent Tears of the Frozen Princess."
Sometimes I seem to drown in woe
But there is a hope
Glooming inside my heart alone
When I think of you
My path carries on
Seeking for you
My forces conspire
To bring back the warmth of your smile
My heart set on fire
It will burn down this prison of cold
It's burning for you
This might be the closest we've gotten to an "I Want" song for Angus I. He doesn't care about flying, or freedom, or even kicking Zargy's ass for the sake of it. Everything he does, he does for Iona. It's HER freedom that he yearns for, and I daresay that he yearns HARD. Yeah yeah I met a dragon it looked cool and majestic now SHUT UP AND LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT HOW MUCH I MISS MY WIFE.
Ango I saved his princess and NOBODY ELSE in that bloodline has been able to lock in since. Used up all the braincells on day 1. XIII is nyooming around on a jetpack, V is doodling unicorns in the margins of his star maps, and Junior over there is eager to stop Zargy and avenge his family, yeah, BUT☝️‼️in order to do that, it is IMPERATIVE that they recruit his celebrity crush. No it wasn't mentioned in his prophecy but TRUST HIM it's the only way for them to succeed. Pinky promise. Now sit tight as he tells you ALL about how cool the Robot Prince is and how much he wants to become better acquainted with those mmmmmmighty boronic wings.
Here, have we ever figured out what the craic is with people's lifespans in this setting?
(Hyperlinked dates copy pasted from the official timeline)
The Hootsman I'm willing to handwave because he's a cyborg. Ralathor I'm not even going to ATTEMPT to figure out. But what, pray tell, is up with the McFife family tree?!
Are they supposed to have one Angus per generation? Because if so, ain't no way in HELL their lifespan works like ours. Angi II-IV would've had to reproduce around the age of 100 to make the math check out. And then what, 450 years for Angi VI-XIII?
The only explanation I can think of is that they had a whole bunch of daughters between II and V, but they kept the McFife surname while marrying and continued to rule Fife in the same way as the lads, so maybe there just wasn't a whole lot of boys in those generations for whatever reason.
The 400 years for Angi VI-XII I can comprehend a little more easily, assuming that they're capable of spawning more Angi while well into their 50s like I. Not sure how healthy it is and what their fucking natural lifespan is if they don't get nuked or yeet themselves into a volcano, but sure, okay.
Also, prime!Proletius dies of old age in 1038, so when prime!Ango II is 17. However, 38-B Proletius is still around and able to help 38-B!Ango II on his epic quest, and we're talking about a Prol who dragged I's dead body out of the wreckage left by the nuke, got parts of his face MELTED OFF by the blast, and then spent the next 20 years living in a nuclear wasteland. Did the radiation artificially extend his lifespan or what? What is going on here??
tbh i always assumed that they had other rulers who just weren't named angus. like, royal families often have a grab-bag of common names, and just because angus was the most popular one doesn't mean that they didn't have others. like, the uk has had like 9 king henrys, but they have other popular names for rulers as well (george, william, and edward come to mind)
Yeah that was my reflection as well, but going with kings of France since I'm french, we've had 18 kings named Louis in total (seventeen that actually reigned) but it wasn't an uninterruped streak (Louis V and Louis VI reigns are separated by 121 years) and there were plenty of rulers that weren't named that way (we've had Charles, Henri, Philippe, Hugues, etc.)
Yeah that'd make more sense, come to think of it. I thought they had an Angus per generation due to the whole destiny thing but for the sake of my sanity I'm just gonna assume that they had other names in that stupid ass family.
That said, every time shit goes south, it looks like there's a designated Angus to deal with it. How do they decide when to have an Angus rather than a David or Connor or whatever? Is it a wizard thing? A prophecy thing?
"Your majesty, I spoke to the wizards. I'm so sorry but... But your next son's gonna be an Angus."
"Oh fucking hell if it's about that FUCKING frozen wizard again..."
Here, have we ever figured out what the craic is with people's lifespans in this setting?
(Hyperlinked dates copy pasted from the official timeline)
The Hootsman I'm willing to handwave because he's a cyborg. Ralathor I'm not even going to ATTEMPT to figure out. But what, pray tell, is up with the McFife family tree?!
Are they supposed to have one Angus per generation? Because if so, ain't no way in HELL their lifespan works like ours. Angi II-IV would've had to reproduce around the age of 100 to make the math check out. And then what, 450 years for Angi VI-XIII?
The only explanation I can think of is that they had a whole bunch of daughters between II and V, but they kept the McFife surname while marrying and continued to rule Fife in the same way as the lads, so maybe there just wasn't a whole lot of boys in those generations for whatever reason.
The 400 years for Angi VI-XII I can comprehend a little more easily, assuming that they're capable of spawning more Angi while well into their 50s like I. Not sure how healthy it is and what their fucking natural lifespan is if they don't get nuked or yeet themselves into a volcano, but sure, okay.
Also, prime!Proletius dies of old age in 1038, so when prime!Ango II is 17. However, 38-B Proletius is still around and able to help 38-B!Ango II on his epic quest, and we're talking about a Prol who dragged I's dead body out of the wreckage left by the nuke, got parts of his face MELTED OFF by the blast, and then spent the next 20 years living in a nuclear wasteland. Did the radiation artificially extend his lifespan or what? What is going on here??
I am hearing you out SO FUCKING HARD YOU HAVE NO IDEA.
Modern AU Angus out there blasting Cascada while lying on his bed, blushing and giggling and kicking his feet and twirling his hair while he's doodling hearts all over his engineering paper with a glittery gel pen.
Buddy you don't even need to cite my fanfic for this THEY FLY TOGETHER ALL THE FUCKING TIME IN THE OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO. Tooley didn't HAVE to take him on that moonlit flight after Ango zapped him out of stasis and got him to Humpty Dumpty himself back together, but he did! No words, no pleasantries, just a moment of eye contact followed by GRABBING Ango by the front of his shirt and NYOOM.
And then there's the fact that "Mighty Wings" is a cover that exists and no I'll never shut up about it ever thanks for asking. Non-canonical my ASS we all know it's Angus II behind that mic singing his heart out to his robot crush. I saw that interview Ango. I know what you are.
[DISCLAIMER: I'm aware that it's not that deep but I overthink and overanalyse shit recreationally so take everything you read here with a grain of salt - it's my brain's equivalent of doodling around in the margins of a maths notebook.]
So I know that the Henderson videos aren't official canon and we're not supposed to read a great deal into them, but I LOVE the choice to have the Hammer of Glory be attached to Angus II by a chain.
On a surface level it's cool and practical, letting him throw it and swing it around and have it come back to him - very useful in combat! But I'm obsessed with the potential symbolism of him literally being chained to it.
Chained to his duty. Chained to his vengeance. Chained to his bloodline and all the burdens it carries with it. Chained to his destiny. It's always there, always with him, keeping him grounded and reminding him of his purpose. His literal ball and chain.
[REMINDER: the chain only shows up in "He Has Returned" - he swings and throws the Hammer normally in "Keeper of the Celestial Flame"]
Now, we've all heard "Fly Away": V's lament about his destiny and his desire to be free from it and be able to do his own thing. His idea of freedom is flight: flying away on a unicorn to a better world than the one he knows. Flight is freedom, flight is being unbound by destiny, flight is being able to throw off your shackles and go where you please and do what you please.
II is literally chained to his destiny, but he does get to fly, however briefly. He does get to forget the weight of the Hammer for a short moment - and that's by the side of the Robot Prince.
The thing is, no matter how high up they fly, they're still bound by their respective destinies: Angus still has the Hammer with him in these shots, and this scene corresponds to the lyrics:
Far across the stars he travelled
Yearning to be free
In search of epic battles to
Escape his destiny
The Robot Prince can fly around to his heart's content, but even he is "destined to reign forevermore." He flies around in search of epic battles hoping to outrun it, to escape the burden of the crown. These lines can possibly be interpreted as him wanting to die in one of these epic battles to evade an eternity of dominion, but we're, uh, [clutches heart] we're gonna put a pin on this interpretation for a little while.
The point is, the Angi view flight as freedom, and at least II is visually coded to be weighed down by the Hammer like a ball and chain. He always has it with him, even in flight, even when he's the closest to freedom he can be.
And even when he attempts to discard it and reach out to the Prince with an open hand, with a memory instead of a weapon. (Shoutout to the chained and crucified corpse of the Mecha-King on Tooley's side of the room, looming above him like a phantom of his future - or perhaps even the present, with both of them being bound and corrupted by the Knife of Evil. Metaphorising aside, it's a hell of a sick visual.)
Even with the Hammer discarded, the chain remains attached. No matter what Angus does, he cannot break the shackles of his destiny.
But somehow, impossibly, he CAN break Tooley's. Destined to reign forevermore, eh? Perhaps he would've been, if it weren't for Angus recruiting him for their cause and letting him sacrifice himself in a blaze of glory to deactivate the corrupted robot hivemind. A heroic death instead of an eternity of statis and dominion in a gilded cage.
(Doesn't seem like the Mecha-King was able to move from his spot in the chamber even pre-corruption. He looks a bit like a living statue, and given the fact that corrupting him corrupted all the other robots except Tooley, he appears to be some kind of focus point, the heart of Auchtertool. I wonder if Tooley's destiny involves replacing him. I wonder if it means becoming a living statue. I wonder if it means losing his wings and being confined to his throne room for the rest of eternity or until something finally kills him. What a fate. No wonder he's flying around yearning to avoid it.)
(I wonder if his death was a relief on some level. I wonder if he was happy that at least he would die doing something important. I wonder if he was happy that at least he got to fly with Angus one final time, if only to get him out of the blast zone.)
The Robot Prince was freed from his destiny by death. Angus, no matter how much he might wish for it after the Starlords nuked the timeline and destroyed everything and everyone he's known and loved, will not get the luxury. After all, the Hammer is still chained to him, and his destiny lies elsewhere. And destiny is all that matters, no?
Well, at least one of them is flying free.*
(*or IS he? "He Has Returned" DOES end with "the Robot Prince will return" so it's possible that not even death can save Tooley from his destiny. I guess we'll have to wait and see!)
Now, in light of all that, let's take a moment to wonder why exactly Gloryhammer chose to cover "Mighty Wings" out of so many others songs out there. Sure, it's not canon, we all agree it's not canon and the interview about how it can be interpreted as II singing it to the Robot Prince is probably a joke, but that doesn't change the fact that the band CHOSE to cover this particular song and that this desperate, yearning cry to be taken away on mighty wings lines up perfectly with the recurring motif of flight as freedom.
Destiny is a Hammer chained to Angus's wrist. He can wield it, spin it around in battle, even discard the Hammer for a while, but it will always be connected to him, pulling him down to earth.
Freedom is soaring among the stars, winged and weightless, unburdened, away from expectation, obligations and prophecies. Unbound by destiny.
Angus associates the Prince with freedom - even if for a little while. The Prince, through meeting Angus, defied his destiny and found freedom in death.
Just.
I don't know. I know it's probably not that deep but that fucking chain fascinates me. Henderson couldn't have picked a better upgrade to Angus's Hammer, and the lads couldn't have picked a better song to cover in-between album 4 and "He Has Returned."
(I also think it's funny that V, notoriously reluctant to fulfil his destiny and die, notoriously yearning to fly away and do his own thing among the stars, is portrayed sleeping with a Robot Prince plushie. I know it's 100% fanservice and, again, not canon and it absolutely 100% doesn't mean anything symbolically, but it's just a funky little coincidence given everything I've been overthinking today. Little II has a unicorn plushie. V wants to fly away on a unicorn. V has a Robot Prince plushie. II finds freedom, however briefly, by the side of the Robot Prince. GOD, GLORYHAMMER, PLEASE HAVE THEM INTERACT IM ALBUM V PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE THEYRE5MY FAVOURITE ANGI AND THEY MAKE ME SO UNWELL.)
(ALSO since we all know I love to over-analyse things, II and V are very similar visually. V's helmet looks like a grown up version of II's baby one and he wears the same style armour as adult II. It doesn't mean anything, it's just Alex reusing assets and it's 100% not canon, but it's just a neat detail I noticed while watching "Ultimate Sacrifice" for the first time.)
Same helmet with longer horns, same armour with either flipped greens & blacks or SAME ONES depending on the video, same desire to fly away and taste freedom for once in their lives.
(Same flying bestie who dies at the end of the song, rip Sparky the Unicorn, you will be missed.)
i’m on my fourth reread of asr and i didn’t realize until just now that secunit doesn’t really know how to fight at the beginning. i mean 1v1, sure, it can punch and kick and shoot stuff, but it’s so incredibly competent at combat (offensively, and against multiple hostiles in complex environments even) by the end of the series that i completely missed that it didn’t know how to do any of that shit until it met presaux. it really was just kind of a generic security guard until then, for all that it called itself murderbot. even in ganaka pit, we have no reason to believe the humans put up much resistance, and the malware was running the show anyway, so probably it was just shooting at anything that moved and hoping for the best. it literally taught itself how to be an actual murderbot in order to save these specific humans.
I am hearing you out SO FUCKING HARD YOU HAVE NO IDEA.
Modern AU Angus out there blasting Cascada while lying on his bed, blushing and giggling and kicking his feet and twirling his hair while he's doodling hearts all over his engineering paper with a glittery gel pen.
I was talking to a fellow metalhead about Gloryhammer, aka "HEY I DIDN'T KNOW YOU'RE INTO THEM TOO WHAT'S YOUR FAVOURITE SONG ALBUM CHARACTER LEITMOTIF ALBUM COVER etc etc". You know, as one does. Anyway I was talking about how Fly Away is a good fucking song and I'm tired of comments shitting on it because it's not Winkler anymore, and they went "hey this actually reminds me of another song with a similar title. Have you heard Fly With Me by ShadowStrike?"
Me, still in the throes of "everything is about Twoley if you're deranged enough" and with a lengthy analysis post about flying as a metaphor for freedom and escaping destiny in my drafts: 👀👀👀👀
mymusician... oughh my little bug [remembers parasocial relationships are bad] [remembers infantilization is bad] this complete stranger is their own huge bug
https://www.reddit.com/r/DnD/comments/7asxci/oc_ygathok_the_ceaseless_hunger_final_boss_of_our/
This is the reveal of this ridiculousness during their game
You are never going to persuade me that the heroes and Zargothrax don’t have, like, drinking and gambling evenings, or outings at the local tavern.
You can’t go around for a thousand years just constantly hating each other’s guts. That’s exhausting. Even for immortal cyborgs, and evil wizards/their clones.
i like to think everyone minus angus does, bc their beef feels only professional. the various angi have legit reasons to beef with zarg, everyone else just does it to support him
Angus (your choice which one) joins them exactly once, but only because they got both him AND Zarg too drunk to give a shit. They do a groundbreaking duet at karaoke night and that single performance is the closest Fife has had to peace in centuries.
