#coe ocs

[thecomfywriter]

My question about Fdryx! ...How do you pronounce his name?

hi hi illarian! literally so late to this forgive me 🥲

f'dryx's name:

f'dryx's name is pronounced as the following:

'fi' as in 'fiddle'

'dri' as in 'drip'

'x' as in 'ks'

so all together it would be [fi-dri-x] or 'f'dryx'

thanks for the ask, ilia!

[thecomfywriter]

F'dryx meets Blair what happens?

bro is on his hands and knees. like i said--fdryx is a cockroach. he will do anything to survive.

THAT BEING SAID...

f'dryx meeting blaire:

pre-AV arc? he is lying, seducing, finessing his way out of all the danger signals blaire exudes. he would recognize her as trouble from the moMENT he set eyes on her, because he has been in enough troubling situations to gain discernment. bro is the king of bad decisions LMAO but at least he develops hindsight from his messiness.

HOWEVER!

f'dryx meeting blaire post-AV arc?

this is the one situation where, if blaire didn't impress him (which, let's be so real--she probably would), SHE wouldn't leave the situation alive.

🤡🤡

thanks for the ask, wyked!

[thecomfywriter]

How did Fdryx meet Evan?

lmao

f'dryx and evan's first encounter:

they met when f'dryx arrived at evan's doorstep basically on his deathbed, bleeding out from 47 stab wounds and somehow still dragging a whole UNCONSCIOUS DRAGON behind him.

yeah, that was kinda wild. i feel like no one canonically appreciates f'dryx enough for that endeavour. bro had GRIT and WILLPOWER and he made it WORK.

thanks for the ask, sol!

[thecomfywriter]

Does Fdryx die? How much changes between his first and final scene?

oooooo broski wants SPOILERs SPOILERS

f'dryx's ultimate ending [big spoiler warning]:

on the inside? hell yeah.

a lot changes from the first scene to the last. for starts, bro is sober now. his first appearance, he was a bumbling failed artist and a complete drunk. a fool, essentially. a womanizer, purposeless, and drowning in debt. bro's only skillset was his witty sharp tongue, his ability to flirt, and his sketching abilities + a knickknack for inventing things. he isn't a failed artist in the sense of being bad at art. he's failed in the sense of soilaila's unreal standards when it comes to artisians from that family. they expect you to have the hands of the gods themselves capable of crafting life from your touch. bro was not that. so he took a societal L

that beING SAID... his last appearance?

utterly devastated and scrapped out hollow. broken mind and with so much blood on his hands, he doesn't even know if he can count anymore. the entire world hates him. even the gods fear him. and he's on evan's hitlist and under his mentorship simultaneously (somehow). also? bro went from failed artist to master of the arcane.

i love f'dryx and his arc. :)

thanks for the ask, sol!

[thecomfywriter]

Why did Evan have to heal Fdryx?

oop-

f'dryx's time in evan's healing palace:

long story short: bro got stabbed 47 times and it injured quite a few organs and magical networks, which messed up quite a bit of his health and magical abilities. so evan's purpose in f'dryx's story is to help him revive his ability to perform stable magic and to heal all the injuries he sustained.

thanks for the ask, sol!

[thecomfywriter]

Has F'dryx ever met one of the gods?

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f'dryx and the zaverena:

so like... what if i told you he not only met one of the gods, but ALL of them?

what would your response be?

what would you say?

what if i told you all the gods, like everyone else in the world, steers TF away from him?

how would you react, my darling wyked?

[thecomfywriter]

F'dryx meets von Doro what happens?

oof okay.

f'dryx meeting von doro:

pre-AV arc? he would bow and try to be as cordial and "not a bumbling drunkard fool" as possible. she wouldn't even entertain him. the meeting would end promptly and filling f'dryx with shame lmao

post-AV arc? von doro would steer tf away from him, and if she WAS forced to encounter him, she'd make the meeting short and tasteful. no chance of offending him. no chance of pissing him off. and then she's getting tf out of there.

thanks for the ask, wyked!

[thecomfywriter]

Why can't F'dryx have a happy ending? What is the source of his pain?

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why is the first f'dryx ask already smacking me in the face? i'm dead.

the tragedy of f'dryx:

f'dryx very much has a...alrighty im not even gonna sugarcoat it. bro has such a miserable ending LMAO.

(1) why can't f'dryx be happy?

but that's the point. i promise yall--i don't always write tragedies. just most of the time. that being said, there's no definitive claim that f'dryx CAN'T have a happy ending. it just doesn't happen onscreen. there is still room for an off-screen happy ending, and that's all thanks to the person he meets at the end who tells him he might be miserable now, but he isn't completely hopeless.

in that sense, i very much like f'dryx's ending

that being said, the second part of this question is more interesting.

(2) what is the source of his pain?

his own desire to survive. at his core, f'dryx is a survivalist. he will fight tooth and nail to survive. that's why he boarded the vessel. why he built the raft in the lusty waters. why he did EVERYTHING he did on the island. and why he kept putting on the earring.

at the end of the day, f'dryx's survival skills are so strong, they doomed him.

thanks for the ask, wyked!