#kesivik

[mantleoflight]

//Thinking about a time travel verse for my gal Echo, letting a new-age hunter see what the Tower and city was like before the Red War and the people who lived there.

//Might even dabble either Kessivik and Yyventriz in those timelines! Maybe get them to their legs in their younger verses!

//Still thinking about it, but I might open those verses up. :3c

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//Heheheh

//Thinking about Spider and Kesivik’s deal and how Kesivik would’ve gone through all the venues he could to keep from being cut out of his own deal. Namely using City patent law to secure his design so he could get royalties for its use. Of course folks are still *squinty eyes* at Eliksni, so he had to have a guardian file it before it was validated, and then sell it to him (literally for a handful of glimmer) so he could be the patent holder/owner.

//Echo has never felt so good than helping Kesivik game the system and then get a deal written up so Spider and Mithrax could sign off on it. Spider agreeing to it and Mithrax officiating/enforcing it. :3c

//the deal? A good % of all profits made by his machines. ::3c

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Kesivik cowered, scuttling back until his secondary claws scraped the ground. He couldn’t tell who or what was standing before him. It wasn’t Hive or Vex, he would’ve been killed already if it was. Which meant it could be four other beings, none of which were friendly to houseless vandals.

“Please! Mercy!” He chittered, holding up his primary hands to cover his cloth-wrapped face. “Kesivik did not mean to trespass! Will leave! Have mercy!”

The blind vandal scrambled back farther until the back of his heels hit the wall behind him. Trapped! He didn’t know what else he could do, as fighting would only lead to his death. Kesivik swung his head as if to try and see some way of escape through his blindness.

“Please,” he tried again, reaching into his sand-stained tunic. “I give all I have for my life!”

In his claws was a collection of salvaged pieces, small ether cylinders, a bundle of good wires and connectors, tin of canned meat, and a half a handful of glimmer. Kesivik extended his hands, his claws holding the meager offering.

“I am not worth your effort but perhaps worth some of this?”

[mantleoflight]

Like for a starter from Kesivik, the blind vandal!

(Reblog if you’re a side blog)

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I imagine all these Ghosts zipping around like a flock of birds around his head everywhere the little eliksni goes

//THAT’S PRETTY ACCURATE ACTUALLY XDDDD!!!

But consider: Kesivik & his cloud of Ghost~

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Info - Kesivik

Kesivik was a dreg during the red war who had found a damaged ghost in a collapsed house thanks to its friends trying to transmat bits and pieces away from him. Seeing their struggle and seeing the injured ghost, Kesivik decided to help it. At first, the others scattered, and the injured ghost thought it was going to be hurt more or worse. But with nimble hands, Kesivik managed to get the ghost free of the debris and release it to its fellows. The ghosts quickly came, gathered around the injured one, and rushed away to a safer hiding place.

After being helped though, the ghosts began following him and leaving him useful gifts like berries and stuff to thank him for his help. This went on for a while until one day one of them actually comes to ask for his help because the injured ghost isn't doing well and in following them, they'd observed that Fallen worked really well with machines and that maybe they would be able to fix/heal whatever's wrong with him.

Kesivik tries but the little ghost has lost a lot of its inner light thanks to a slow leak in its core. So he now has to figure out how to fix and "refill" that core. He knows his crew's archon/servitor engineer has a Splicer's gauntlet (not unlike Misraaks') and steals it to try and help. The engineer finds out but decides to let things play out and actually helps Kesivik. Together, they head to the Shard of the Traveler to refocus light from it into the Ghost as they fix it and it gives Kesivik a glimpse and brief connection with the Traveler. Not enough to see anything important but enough to glimpse the Traveler's presence before the Ghost is healed.

With the ghost healed, the whole cloud of Ghosts (the ghosts 4 friends) celebrate and decide to stay with Kesivik as he is now their friend too.

Kesivik and the poor archon/engineer have a looot of explaining to do when they have to tell the crew about it.

However, after talking it out, the two decided it would be better for them and the ghosts if they kept the ghosts' & Kesivik's little friendship a secret, thus keeping both sides safe from the wrath of not-so-understanding Eliksni. In their place, however, the archon-engineer made the decision to take Kesivik on as an apprentice and decided to start teaching him to become a Splicer.

Kesivik was prodigious at it and soon began learning how to bend threads/traces of Light like he could Arc. Unfortunately, this led to further tampering with Light and it wasn't long before he tried to gather it and wield it like a Guardian could. This led to his downfall.

In attempting to gather and manipulate Light the same way he could manipulate Arc/Energy and small aspects of the Vex network, Kesivik strained the gauntlet and gathered too much power into one place, leading to a small explosion that both burned and blinded him.

Eyes that used to be bright ether blue now shine pearly white in complete blindness.

But the event was not without side effects. Since being blinded by the Light, Kesivik has been forced to use and hone his other senses - senses augmented by exposure to the Light he had gathered, allowing him to "see" through the Light - or at least see via auras caused by types of Light.

This skill of "Seeing through the Light" is not strong but it is bolstered when the Cloud of Ghosts (Quarry - the one he helped, Crystal, Iris, Barred, and Reeves.) came to assist. At that time, they decided to be Kesivik's blind-seeing-eye ghosts, helping him and showing his crew they were sincere and serious in their commitment to helping their friend.

As a member of House Dusk, he isn't exactly in the safest of places to be, but his crew (led by his aunt) keeps him either on their ship or in a safe cove-turned-bunker out in the dry sea in the Cosmodrome.

His aunt, (his last living relative), is still trying to find a way to make a life for herself, her crew, and her nephew without him being culled by their ruling baron who will not tolerate weakness or anyone considered a "drain or resources". It has been a difficult call on whether to keep him hidden away or to see if Misraak's "House of Light" will take him.

She and her crew can't just up and leave, but she hopes that he will be safe in the hands of the newly risen Light Kell.

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Kesivik

Once a dreg who found and assisted a crew of ghosts during the Red War, Kesivik was once a brilliant vandal who had high hopes of becoming a Splicer and possibly an Archon. Now he finds himself blind, having misused his master's Splicer Gauntlet to try and harness Light instead of Arc. Despondent by the disaster that has befallen him, Kesivik has been given new hope in the form of his little friends as the ghosts return to repay a great favor he'd once given them.

Now he works as a blind mechanic, doing what he can but mostly staying out of the way. Even then though, it seems the Light is not done with him -- especially after being able to see "strange things" after being exposed to the Light before.

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Kesivik wrung his hands as he sat down on one of the Quarter's stairwells.

"Hnnn I hope the guardians don't break my dispensers..." he muttered anxiously. "I worked diligently on those!"