#destiny uldren sov

[exodyss]

[v4mp-zuk1]

Testing out my new watercolors I got for my birthday with uldren sov

[thewildnopeboat]

Okay, actual spoilers

Bael: You and I are the same. Blessed to be walking weapons for things much greater than ourselves! Join me Weapon of the inner, and we can-

Guardian, squatting on a ledge higher than them: Listen, buddy, friend. I'll let you in on a secret.

Guardian, dropping down to Bael's level: I did some digging on you, and you and I could not be farther. You grew up, you remember your time with your mother and father. I know you have felt grief when she died and came back only to forsake you again. The burns you relieved never should have happened, and the Vanguard should have stepped in, but that is in past. *walks forward* I have no name, no past to cling to, nothing that can haunt me, not even a grave.

Bael, stepping back and creating a fist full of stasis: But, we both wielding powers gifted to u-

Guardian: I had to fight for my power. Solar, burning my insides and feeling blood boil. Seven tries. Arc, frying myself day in and day out. Five tries. Void, that one was the easiest. What's there to hollow out a vessel that has seen its master fall in battle. Two tries. Stasis, the gripping ease of entropy stillness, five tries with help. And Strand? A solid week of constant drilling from ripping myself asunder because I had to learn on the front lines.

Bael, stopping just short from a wall: Why did you not just ask? VI was more than he-

Guardian, stopping 6 ft away: Was knowledge just given to you, or did you lose something?

Bael: VI and I are nothing like what you and the traveler have. We have a special connection. His power bubbles up and out, of course it hurts but, I am your dark shadow.

Guardian: You are a pitiful child in a war, causing trouble you dont know how to fix. I feel pity for you. I know to what lengths you go, and yet... *gesters to the distance* You are a grave's depth in distance away. You will suffer a fanatic's death if you do not stop where you are. I've had to bury people just like you.

Bael: I will not die by your hand.

Guardian: Thats what Uldren said as well. He wielded power dark with jealousy and grief just as you do now. He struck down someone very close to him, and he died by my hand. You two even are around similar times in your life.

[aroyalbirb]

Snuggling him coz he deserves it.

[a-sweeter-solarsystem]

I’ll be better than you.

ao3 may be down but I’m still gonna find ways to post my silly little writings >:(

Also managed to find the edited version that’s up on ao3 so I didn’t have to rely on my original draft!!  Horrah!! 

Side note that sign language is its own language!  Any sign language depicted in this work is written in plain english both because I find it difficult to convey all the emotions and gestures in sign language into written english, and I'm still learning the language myself and don't want to accidentally mistranslate anything   (；v；)

This work takes place during season of the haunted, shortly after the first attempt at severing his nightmare.

Crow's body felt heavy.  The past weeks had taken a toll on everyone.  Between the nightmares and the seemingly endless patrols on the leviathan, he felt almost like a spirit wandering aimlessly for its purpose.  Commander Zavala had finally convinced him to rest.  Cal as well.  Hell, with how busy Crow had been he couldn’t even fathom what sorts of things Cal had been doing.

Cal passed out first.  He had made himself comfortable hugging Crow's chest and resting his head over his heart.  Crow held him, welcoming the warmth of his partner, but he couldn't find the willpower to join him in resting.  His mind still stirred, strong emotions lingering.

He just wished he could sleep.  Even if just for a little while.

Irritation clouded Crow's thoughts the moment he heard Uldren's voice from somewhere nearby.  "Don't you ever worry about him?"

Don't you have anything better to do?

Crow kept the comment to himself, taking Eris' advice to ignore Uldren's torment.  The nightmare walked out from the wall to his bedside.  His former self smiled, scanning him and Cal as if looking for something to jab at.  Crow instinctively placed a hand on Cal's back.

"He's so weak.  And yet, oh so volatile.  A dangerous combination, if you ask me."

Crow's jaw clenched.  Uldren caught the gesture immediately, "Have you thought about what would happen if you lost him?"

"I'm not going to."

"And why is that?"  Uldren seemed to lean closer.  A twisted smile curling on the nightmare's lips, "Remembering what happened last time you lost someone?"

"That wasn’t…"  Crow snapped his head to look Uldren in the eye.  He corrected himself and spoke through gritted teeth, "I'm not you.  I won't make the same mistakes you did."

"You say that now...But you forget how close he's already come to true death.  One of these days-"

"ENOUGH!"

Crow shouted with his whole body.  He didn't notice he had pushed hard against Cal's chest, jolting the younger hunter awake.  Crow's focus remained on his nightmare, "Cal isn't going anywhere and neither am I!  You might've been too weak to move on but I’m not.  Stop trying to make me feel so alone."

A satisfied grin rested on Uldren's face.  It disgusted Crow.

"LEAVE!"

Uldren faded into the darkness.  Crow took a few deep breaths to calm his nerves.  As the room and its sensations returned to him, he looked down and froze.

Cal was watching him, wide eyed, and scared.  He was sat upright in front of him, tense and uneasy.  He seemed to be holding his breath.  Guilt pulled Crow's heart down to his gut.

"Cal I...I'm sorry I..."

Crow held up his hands defensively, but it made Cal flinch.  He lowered them, choosing instead to only draw one hand close to his chest to sign an apology.

Crow waited and watch Cal slowly unravel himself.  Hesitantly, Cal signed, "What was that?"

"Uldren"  Crow signed a reply.

Cal looked briefly back to where he had seen Crow shouting and back.  All that was there was the empty space of their bedroom.  Crow added, "It was nothing...He was just trying to annoy me."

Cal’s brows furrowed and his eyes seemed softer.  "What did he say?"

Crow laid back down, inviting Cal to do the same by shifting off to the side of the bed.  "The usual.  That I'm weak, that I killed people...he's very unoriginal"  Crow lied with a weak smile.

Cal seemed unconvinced.  His light green eyes studied Crow, watching his partner’s smile fade more and more.  "Are you okay?"

Crow took a long look at his partner.  He thought about Cal the first time they met.  He was so scared.  He looked starved, with dark circles of exhaustion and anxious glances every few seconds to see who was watching him.  He had seen Cal grow the past year.  Seen how much stronger he became.  He learned to control both the light and darkness within him, helped fight countless enemies, and even showed him a thing or two about being a guardian.

He thought about himself, of where he started.  Nameless at first, working for Spider and being treated like dirt.  Being saved by others time and time again because they chose to look beyond his face and see who he truly was.  He recalled the way Zavala used to look at him.  Then remembered how even through the uncertainty Zavala still offered him a hand.  That he still allowed him a place in the vanguard.  And with that trust, others learned to trust him as well. 

They, Cal and Crow, they were both forced to build themselves from the ground up.  They lied.  They fought.  They survived.  And they recovered.  Even though the memories of their pasts haunt them, they’re here now.  They’re alive.  And they are a million times better now than they were back then. 

"Yeah...I think so."

Cal finally joined him, keeping his nervous gaze on Crow’s hands in case there was anything else to say.  He wrapped an arm around Cal's shoulder, resting his cheek against Cal’s head.  No matter what Uldren said, he won't let it come between them.

[fandomsareforincorrectquotes]

Uldren Sov: I have a problem.

Mara Sov: Kill it.

Uldren Sov: Can you chill for like, two seconds?

[zdotsart]

A Crow and Glint animation that i posted on Twitter A while ago. Since i have an Art tumblr now, i thought it be best to repost it here! (BTW i have a personal destiny 2/cosplay blog HERE) Thank you to the wonderful VAs for making this little interaction on a livestream!

[meeks-is-alive]

If Crow ever finds out what happened to his past self (which I have a feeling Spider is going to be the cause of that) I hope they explain everything that Uldren did and put and emphasis on the fact that Uldren and Crow are two different people, to him specifically.

I don't hold a resentment against Crow, hell, I don't even hold resentment against Uldren as we find out that Riven was the one that bent his perspective of reality and intensify his want to find Mara to an obsession. We also have to remember that Uldren didn't just kill Cayde, he enacted genocide on his own people because of Rivens influence, and he unleased the Scorn and their Barons who are actively causing damage.

Destiny has shown us before that characters who have done horrible things still have a chance to redeem themselves. There's a lore book that hasn't come out yet, hopefully soon it will, that's about a character that we all know and love who has done some horrible horrible shit and they redeemed themselves. I see the same opportunity for Crow/Uldren.