#schala 2

[shalalalalaw]

There was a time I did art, and more accurately, I used to make pixel art. This isn't too pixel art-y compared to my other things but, here, have the only time I really made art of my own character!

[shalalalalaw]

Guardians preferred weapon type?

Additionally, do they have an exotic (armor or weapon) themed after them?

Schala has a tendency to take up long-range weapons, like snipers and scouts. But then she also tends to swipe things from Drifter's Gambit arsenal because they're feel so tactile. Less energy based.

Feros likes heavy hitters like shotguns and low rpm machine guns.

I haven't ever thought about personalised exotics for them, I'm not good at that sort of design, so I will have to think on it!

your turn! 👉

[shalalalalaw]

Do your Guardians have an affinity to any of the hostile factions?

HMM, that depends on if you mean affinity for killing them or getting along...

Feros has a long nursed hatred for the Hive, he was there for Burning Lake and Mare Imbrium and that's where he lost his first fireteam and saw far too many Guardians die at Crota's hand, and he's become very good at cutting them down since.

He also has a... complicated relationship with the Eliksni. In the beginning of his life as a Guardian, one of his biggest fears was to see humanity fall like they did, lose their home and all they've struggled to pull from the ashes of the Collapse and the Eliksni reminded him of that possibility every single day. It's not the case anymore, there's more hope to be had.

Schala has always just been friendly with some Eliksni Houses whether they like it or not. Sometimes to everyone else's ire. On the other side of the coin, she enjoys throwing wrenches in the plans of the Vex.

✌️throwing this back at you now, gimme the lore!

[shalalalalaw]

back to thinking about my extremely self-indulgent headcanon of how Schala is always gunning to save/help Vex-impacted/doomed Guardians and chooses her home in the City specifically because it used to be Praedyth+Kabr+Pahanin's place and it's 'haunted' in a way

more like, her time-dimension wammy power is soaked into the place so the afterimages of those three from other timelines overlap, it reminds her that there's still work to do and people to save

[shalalalalaw]

40?

I think both Fee and Schala avoid thinking of their shortcomings. Feros dealt with losing people by turning to drink and overworking himself until collapse, at which point he was forced to come to terms with his awful ways of coping and processing grief. I don't think he considers being overprotective a bad thing until somebody he cares about goes off without him and he flounders horribly and gets angry with them. It takes a while to work through that.

Schala cannot let things go, thinks she can do it better if she has enough goes at it. Save people, stop a disaster, keep the peace... Only they forget that they only have one go at things, no matter how far ahead and how many branches of time they can see in advance. So they also tend to linger on the past too long, living through it again and again and again, both the good times and the bad, like punishment and atonement and grief and missing someone all rolled into one.

It's a disaster no matter who brings up these bad choices to either. No matter if it's Ikora or Shaxx talking to their student and protege. Shiro bringing it up because Feros has been slipping. It's just a total shutdown until they figure it out themselves.

THROWS THIS BACK AT YOU (for whoever you want, if you want <3)

[shalalalalaw]

Schala has timey wimey powers? How'd they get em?

Alright so! Back when I made Schala-2 in the time of mid-2018, all the reason I had was "The Light!", just basing it on the fact that with enough a strong enough connection to a paracausal power, a Risen could do more than just float in the air or come back to life.

Then I thought maybe it would make more sense if it wasn't just the Light that threw open the gates, but the fact that Schala-1 got caught in a reset, just as the Collapse was happening. The clash of Light and Dark changed something in her, fundamentally, like with the Awoken. Down to the essence of her existence. And when Schala-2 got resurrected, it stuck.

Now, in the late 2022, where I'm still catching up (slowly) with everything that's come out since Arrivals, I'm thinking if I could make it instead to be Clovis' research into the Darkness and the Vex, and experimental exo frames that left a small window to the Vex network open that Schala can't close and can't access, just constantly look through.

I'm probably never going to be 100% satisfied with the true origin of this as an explanation and will be bouncing between all these, the plot point with Schala was always learning to balance the Then and the Now, while also living it all and trying to save those she can. The lesson was always that they're still human, and just one person. Letting go is never going to be something they learn.

So yeah <3 sorry for the wall of text, but tldr, The Light (and maybe the Dark)!

[shalalalalaw]

29 and 37

29. Do they usually live up to their own ideals?

Feros decidedly does not. He tries, by the Light he tries, to be nice and helpful and glad the world hasn't burnt down to a crisp beneath his feet, but it takes him a long time to come to terms with his own hurts, brusque attitude and tendency to be overprotective/overbearing instead of helpful. To curb his crushing pessimism to just brute realism. He knows he will never stamp out his own thirst for vengeance, like he'll never entirely let go of his own grief.

Schala on the other hand is perfectly content to try their best, but also know they won't always be on time to prevent disaster, no matter how well she reads timelines. Knows she gets too lost in the Before and the After to be in the Now. They forget to be considerate, forget that some things are not the same in the Now no matter how many times she's seen it in the After.

37. Do they have a system for remembering names, long lists of numbers, things that need to go in a certain order (like anagrams, putting things to melodies, etc)?

Schala doesn't need one, if there's one useful thing about seeing the Past, Present and Future(s) unfold all at once, it's this!

Feros just condenses things down to the mere basics until he remembers. Strike details, cache locations he hasn't needed in decades. But he makes a point of keeping his gun maintenance tools in tip-top shape and in a specific order/location, otherwise he flounders and goes to Banshee all moody to ask for help. Putting it all back together after the Red War was not pleasant...

[shalalalalaw]

chewing my guardians and how they met by driving each other up the wall in the crucible day after day but the first time they actually talked to each other was in the middle of Twilight Gap

Schala kept saving Feros over and over and over until their memories of the timelines where they save him and make it through get muddied and then Feros has to save Schala instead and it's suddenly no longer a rivalry or an annoyance, it's a partnership

and when the call to fall back and Shaxx decided to make a stand, Schala was torn between running to the Gap because she knew the City would survive, she knew Shaxx and the rest would make it, but the breach would get overwhelmed without cover and Feros trusted her enough to chase her off to do what had to be done and she had to believe that he would hold the line and pull through to see the next day

THEIR BOND IS BUILT ON TRUST AND HOPE AND I FEEL SICK ABOUT IT