Also also, while I'm here--
Do you have any solid ideas around how Etho got hired? Because I saw you mention in some tags that he tried to be hired normally but his immortality fucked things up and. And I want to make a shitpost-y comic about it is what I'm saying
so Etho is, no surprise, a fucked up guy who somehow looks like kakashi. i dont have any canonical reason for this. i dont think i ever will.
anyways! prior to his time on the HSS, Etho was a bit of a wanderer. He had no name, only things people called him for short amounts of him. Short amounts to him, really. Time is a hard concept when you've been there since the first few seconds. But one day he got bored. Just walking about with your hands in your pockets for who knows how long can get old. He wanted to do something for once. So when he heard the HSS/Hermitterra was hiring, he leapt at the chance.
But you know how I said he had no real name? yeah. kinda hard getting hired when you have literally no legal documents whatsoever. he bullshitted the entire hiring process. At one point Xisuma asked for his name. To which Etho responded with subtly (NOT SUBTLY AT ALL) looking around the trade depot one of the HSS's daughter cargo ships was docked out and just picked a name off a shipping container. "Slabs of Ethonium." Etho Slab. He then told this to a very done-with-it-all Xisuma, who said fuck it and hired him anyway.