#therion chapter 3

[alynnl]

Darius, Werner and Headmaster Yvon are really out there being Orsterra’s Unholy Trinity...

[alynnl]

So I think Darius from Octopath Traveler needs to get is stupid, smug face punched in.  No, I will not elaborate.

[theriiion-a-blog]

Therion has some pretty serious scarring on his torso and some smaller ones on his arms. The ones on his arms aren’t really visible unless you look for them, they are silvery on already pale skin and just short of taking his arm in two hands to investigate them, it would take an eagle eyed someone to see them. There are a few on his neck and one on his face, but again they are barely visible to any but the most obsessed of people. The ones on his torso are readily visible, hardly needing to be anywhere near him to see them. Large and discolored because they didn’t heal neatly until after a traveling apothecary tended to him, if one happens to see him changing out of clothings from a fair distance, it’s still apparent that he’s not lead the easiest life.

UPDATE: The lovely @moonliitwaltz​ provided me with the image for this, but Therion does indeed have a rather deep scar on his cheek. Logic says based on how he has parted his hair that it likely damaged his eye in some way. For blog canon, Therion has maybe about 25% of the sight he should have in that eye, and it’s why he keeps it covered and his hair long. The part is made thick enough to keep light from irritating his impaired vision. He has slightly better eyesight at night because of it, though it isn’t enough to make a difference, and he’s learned to adjust how he does things to deal with a slight lack of depth perception. It’s the only scar that he’s not keen on letting people see.

The scars themselves come from when Darius pushed him off the cliff after their big heist. The betrayal stung, and while Therion eventually got over the feeling of rage that came with knowing someone he trusted never had his interest in mind. Falling from a clifftop of that height into a ravine that may or may not have had a river at the bottom would have seriously injured or killed him, but given that it looks like the Cliftlands there is definitely a river at the bottom. Therion likely hit the water and was washed downstream to Clearbrook where some kind person fished him out of the water and found him help that he desperately needed.

At minimum it likely took the better part of six months to recover fully, meaning all range of motion returned and with zero lasting effects. For the sake of this blog it’ll be four years since the whole thing happened, and he’s had plenty of time to hone his craft beyond what he was doing when he was still working with his “partner” Darius.

The most they ever bother him are when he is in cold places. People touching ( which none ever had, he is truly the definition of a virgin ) won’t bother him and he has no issue with people looking at them ( again, has never happened ). They are just a reminder that trusting people is dangerous, and he needs to be careful who he gives that trust to.