#he shuffles

[lyinginthedark]

When your fav dances like your dad.

[dragonflamesoul]

Some headcanons--

-- brought on by the Character Aesthetic meme.

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Talon reminding himself that those close to him can take care of themselves. They don’t need him looming over them, to shadow their footsteps, watching from behind corners for anything that could go wrong. He worries, yes. Always. But the people he’s surrounded by are skilled and capable. They might have rejected his company, but he still worries and watches when they head home alone.

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The demon’s hands shuffle endlessly. A deck of cards, worn from frequent use.

Not playing. Never playing. Talon does not know how to play.

Worn from card towers, and keeping his hands occupied during the nights when nightmares plague his dreams. When the drug addiction he shamelessly threw himself to gives him the shakes so bad that they keep him up. He’s bound to his Saint’s territory and their watch. He can’t go out heisting, drinking, or shooting up coke in Bossville. He has a life here. So he shuffles quietly. Over and over again. Cards are small and portable, easy to hide in a jacket pocket, and-- unlike a flask of liquor-- they draw very little attention.

He listens for Iris. It won’t be long before the toddler wakes and asks for water. He waits for the morning to come and ship activity to increase. Waits for someone to give him something new to do.

And he shuffles quietly. 

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Immortality via regeneration and unlimited respawning takes its toll; but it’s not just on him.

His crew has to see him get torn apart on occasion. They have to continue on with the mission, make progress like the crimson on the walls and meat chunks on the floor weren’t parts of their Boss five seconds ago. Then, not ten more seconds go by, and their Boss appears, beamed in by the ship after inhabiting an Empty Vessel, and continues the fight.

They’ve seen him go in many ways. Airlock implosion, megabeast mauling, deep freezing before being shattered, liquidation, atomization... He throws himself into danger like he has nothing to live for. His deaths often lead to saving one of their own from such a fate, but at what cost?

It’s hard to see someone you’re close to end up like that. Those who don’t know him that well don’t see the problem. They see it as something that was necessary, no matter how much it would hurt, and strategically, it made sense that the immortal one would be the sacrifice in such situations.

Talon would gladly sacrifice himself if it meant he would save them, but there’s a difference between sacrifice and recklessness. Not seeing the death for what it is leads down a monstrous path that some already find themselves taking.

Who cares about the life of an immortal when it comes to this situation? How about this one? Or this one? Where’s the line between a necessary death and an unnecessary one when it’s the same person, every time, that comes back from the dead? If every one of his deaths counted as a single soldier-- and they kept track of how many empties were used and depleted since their creation-- how many soldiers would be dead doing what he does? 

He’s been more careful recently; With a daughter to take care of, the abilities of the Warframes preventing the deaths of Saints, and the recklessness in his surge where the Empty bodies were stored, he doesn’t just throw everything into the pot anymore.

Where does the crew draw the line? Those present might watch dispassionately, becoming numb to the gruesome mess before them. He’ll be back in a minute, They might think, but then he doesn’t come back at all.

And they never even retrieved the body.

And burying an Empty Vessel isn’t the same.

It seems the more immortal a person is, the less worth their lives have. The less meaning their deaths have.

To keep themselves out of this way of thinking, everyone who is deployed with Talon on a mission most likely will require therapy. It doesn’t help that Talon himself internalizes these thoughts and shies away from therapy at the same time.

[ughkaspbrak]

why is everyone so hyped up on freddie while dean is the cutest thing ever ????