#chirraek

[xivu-arath]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

prompted by @phthalology, eons ago: "rebirth" with chirraek

The end of everything Chirraek has ever cared for is a small thing, really. So small that they cannot pinpoint and touch a claw to where not yet becomes too late, only that by increments and all at once, it is well past time for them to do anything about it.

[phthalology]

Chirraek is interrupting something. They say so, when they walk out from the between-spaces and into some of the shallowest of Moon caverns. The place reeks of the Scarlet court. 

 Eris and Toland look up from diagrams and maps and sheets of music: the beginnings of the Deathbringer. 

“And what of it, record-keeper?” As he speaks, Toland signals to Eris to wait. 

She has stood up, reached for a spell. 

She’s quick, Chirraek notices. 

“Oh, you intruded on me once. Our accounts have now been settled,” Chirraek says. “You’ve caused me very little paperwork, really. The passage of a spark in the night? Negligible. This one, though … “ They meet Eris’ eyes. "Broods have come to be because of your depredations, did you know?” 

Chirraek’s grudge against Eris Morn is no more or less than that against any great killer.

Meanwhile, Crota’s Bane bares yellowed teeth — she’s missing one in the back — and hisses. 

“Oh, go back to your work,” Chirraek interrupts as if pushing a curious child away from their scrolls. “I won’t stand and chatter at you like some. There’s no time. I’m simply checking in. And expressing my displeasure at the loss of the Deathsingers. The lineage of them, the additions and subtractions of power … inconvenient.”

Chirraek wonders if the former Guardians see it for the wry humor it is or suspect no such thing exists behind their eyes. Before Eris can sling a spell they slip back out of the world, back to deeper tunnels and wilder halls. They certainly hadn’t enjoyed Toland’s interruption of their work, back when the wisp had bothered them in their own throne world. No, that hadn’t been practical at all. Taking scant seconds for this visit hadn’t been either. But a little bit of payback had been satisfying. 

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Quite a long time ago, @xivuuarath suggested Chirraek as a third wheel. <3

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brb shoving my personal posts out of the way because chirraek the curse eater, got a design by @saltineofswing and I Am Yelling

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got sent some asks by @cassiefisherdrake!! thank you <3

If they were a Destiny player, what activity playlist would they enjoy the most?

oni-42: probably crucible, mostly because I think she'd like the sillier modes and also has better reflexes than I do lmao

kostya: vanguard! he'd enjoy the variety of stuff it covers and it being collaborative

amita: crucible because they would likely be terrifying in it. or like. trials???

omen-5: this is funny because xe does not like the drifter at all but. gambit. gathering stuff and bringing it back and getting to shut down a team by just showing up and killing everyone? this would be fun for xem

chirraek: only picking one of the hive for this one but definitely crucible. they would be mean about it

[xivu-arath]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Toland the Shattered's curiosity does not limit him to haunting and lecturing only Guardians from afar, much to general dismay.

Chirraek is decades-deep in the planning of Titan’s broods when the intruder drifts into their throne world, skimming over needle-thin boundaries and edges limned in bloated starlight. They allow this, because they are busy and if they stopped to chase out every would-be invader, they would never get anything done.

It is only when he shows no signs of hunting for secrets (not that there are many secrets to be found, they have pried loose too much knowledge from the eager and desperate tongues of acolytes to trust even this sliver of reality to be unassailable) that they turn their attention to him.

He is a spark of a mind, pinned to a death and defined in the dying. Sharp enough to navigate the layered edges of these spaces, and his death loops around him. Not untouchable, but troublesome if one isn’t skilled enough to unravel that woven process.

They could attempt it, but they have better things to be doing.

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I am Thinking about what happens when savathun first is called out for heresy and disappears, and how this affects chirraek, who has been safely ensconced in the middle of coven affairs for so long

the high coven is a place of schemers. probably, there’s a scramble to tie up loose ends, to advance one’s position or take advantage of the chaos before xivu sweeps in. everyone scatters to pursue their own agendas first, and it is also very abruptly violent to those unfortunate enough to get underfoot. the youngest and the weakest will be eaten whole

most importantly, it’s so wasteful. so many long-laid plans, all now left to rot. the coven was always at odds with itself, like a complex mechanism of so many interlocking edges, and without savathun to direct it, it has dug in entirely

chirraek has no intention of fending off rivals for months for the chance that war will find them useful. they gather the scant few thralls and acolytes they can find in time, convince some knights and wizards who still owe them greatly in the coven’s great web of debts and favours, and -

they leave. they haven’t spent so much time specializing in the continued survival of their species to endure it all being thrown away

whether they eventually find savathun’s throne, or savathun finds them... I’m still not sure about

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between wearing a cloak made of the crests and wings of other wizards for Official Murder Business and having glowing runed accessories for quickfire spells to carve vows into reality, chirraek might well be my destiny oc who has truly won the fashion game

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♫ + Chirraek?

a more subdued hivey song, less murderous and more about the double bind they all live and struggle with. and of course, chirraek's job very literally is All About Numbers

Numbers - Great Northern

Beware of strength in numbers They play better than one A group of those who follow Can never reach the sun

I also wanted something a bit more aggressive-sounding, and this one actually suits their preferred tactics of dealing with other wizards

The Invisible Plan - Kidneythieves

Come with me Save ourselves now The art of the hustle To use the mind as a muscle Is the invisible plan