Zacharie, the traditional items merchant that's necessary for *every* video game.
Finally have a ref for my sort of version of him! Who knows, I might redo this 100 billion times. I feel pretty confident in this design though, I think I kinda captured him pretty well!!
Ramble more below the cut. Heavy hc dump incoming.
- Zacharie, despite not much caring for fighting or getting into any direct fights, is actually very good with weaponry. More specifically, swords. He has quite good fighting knowledge and could take people down.
- Because though he has never really had to really fight anyone directly since The Toad King, hes sort of just relaxed and almost retired from any sort of direct fighting.
- The outfit on the very right is actually what he looked like during the era of The Toad King.
- He was actually far more… adventurous during the time of the Toad King. He actually still has a few maps from when he was traveling around and has them locked up somewhere in Zone 0.
- Zacharie is a fairly carefree individual and doesn’t even really care much about… anything. Really. Hes very optimistic and opportunistic, which is also why hes mostly taken up as just a simple merchant in recent years.
- Zacharie has a very interesting relationship with death. Its almost like it follows him around everywhere. Its not threatening to him, more like an old friend.
- Alot of his tattoos will shift and change. He doesn’t have an explanatory reason to it, but they just do. They never stay as one. Its an odd occurrence, he doesn’t really have an explanation himself but he doesn’t really care. He used to, since alot of the tattoos that he has are of people around him who have died or passed, and are used to retain those memories, but its become a normal occurrence for him to just wake up to different tattoos on his body of different things.
- He has days where he just goes out to the plastic to see if he could pull anything out of it. This is where hes found most of the things he sells. He often refines said things but thats where he finds most of them.
- Depending on the Zone, Elsens will react differently to him. The Zone 1 Elsens are actually less familiar with him than the Elsens in Zone 2. Zone 3 have tried to get him out of the factory, but he shows no sign of leaving and therefore just. Deal with him by ignoring him.
- He somehow is able to get in places that no one really think a normal person could. He just… can do that.
- His sarcasm sometimes doesn’t read well with Elsens and therfore he is alot more less joke-y around them, hes often very straight forward with Elsens most of the time unless he really wants to mess with them, which is rarely.
- Zacharie has a non specified relationship with The Batter and it can honestly shift alot.
- In the Judge Ending, he gets a mask of The Batter and occasionally uses it very ominously and weirdly. He also can be found staring at it for very long periods of time.
- Hes sort of a jokester and he prefers to keep it that way. The sort of guy to drop a pun mid conversation. Its annoying. He doesn’t care.
- The mask STAYS ON and theres NO WAY you can remove it. Its practically glued like hell to his face. Like GLLLUUUUUEDDD. He switches masks alot too but it follows the same idea.
- He sort of has this attachment to the heart shape quite a bit and it can be seen everywhere on any of his outfits.
- He is aware of the puppeteers but has never been controlled by them. He knows that they’re around though.
