they're at a party or something. dumb idiots falling in love
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they're at a party or something. dumb idiots falling in love
Concept: modern AU but they keep their disabilities
Thragg and the Viltrumites, but it's Jin and Torna. Probably my most ambitious piece of art yet. Definitely a workout, but one I enjoyed for sure.
The biggest plot twist in any Xeno game is that Addam has an off screen wife
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ripenso all'ultima volta in cui quella felicità è stata completa
completa come non lo sarà mai più
*prenderefiato*
Jin's backstory makes me feel like I'm bleeding out on the side of the road
Mikhail is one of my favourite Xenoblade 2 characters. Without the context of Torna he comes across as a pompous ass who initially doesn't have much reason to act the way he does. We learn later that he's a blade eater and his hatred for Amalthus spans from the way he killed the others with him.
However, with the context of Torna the way he acts is tragic to think about. He was a child who never knew his parents and was sold off to slave traders. He survived the destruction of Porton Village and was saved by Jin and Lora who were passing through at the time.
Jin, and especially Lora became parental figures of sorts towards him. Despite his quiet nature at the time he was happy. He opened up to Lora and became attached, she was the first person in his life who showed him the care and affection he never had growing up.
He also became close with Milton who became his closest friend. He didn't trust many others at the time due to his past but he was influenced by those around him. Especially Jin, but also Addam, his goofy, jovial nature being part of the person he created himself as later on.
Mikhail developed a hatred towards the Aegis, and Mythra specifically due to the way she was the reason behind the Destruction of Torna, and his friend Milton. After Torna's destruction he left alongside Jin, Haze and Lora, being experimented on by Amalthus alongside the other Tornan refugees.
It can be assumed Jin rescued Mikhail at a later point, sometime after Lora's death. They then, along with Malos who saved Jin from the brink of despair, then decided to form Torna as a way to fight back against Amalthus' tyranny.
Unlike how he was as a child, Mikhail is now playful and extroverted. It's interesting since it is a coping mechanism in which he distracts from his hatred and depression. His personality is like a mixture of all of those from Torna, both New and Old. It also represents the death of his old self.
I love his character so much because he is also the only person who can understand Jin's previous attachments, other than Malos who became his other half. Mikhail is loyal to Jin and would do anything he asked. They both couldn't move on past their trauma and feelings of loss until the end.