#vex ray

[scarletrebel]

ah destiny au aesthetics: ray narvaez jr / exo / hunter

The figure runs before her feet hit the ground, kicking up Venus dirt that stretches up and out, reaching for the particles that brought the Exo so abruptly into this timeline. They miss entirely. 

The Exo runs swiftly and quietly, betraying the anxious thoughts running through her head. She hopes she hasn’t missed them, hopes there’s still time. 

She’d laugh at the irony, if she could. 

She can hear the Vault opening in the distance, picks up her pace, tries to reach them before they cross the threshold. But as she breaks the top of the hill, the light of the Spire making her wince, she’s too late. Half of the fireteam are already inside, ready to undertake what will only ever be described as a torment.

The younger ones remain outside of the Vault, and the Hunter - one of two, the one she hoped to just talk to - stops abruptly. Looks around. 

She cloaks herself, knowing that her mere presence will be nothing more than an omen to him. She kneels, watches the mock Vex-head look around some more, before being beckoned inside by a Titan. 

“He has no idea.” She murmurs. Her radio buzzes into life. She ignores the voice on the other end. 

“None of them do.”

[Ryan] [Gavin] [Geoff] [Ray] [Michael] [Jack] 

art credit: [X]

au belongs to madkingray

[scarletrebel]

madkingray im tagging u bc i just heard a headcanon about exos and in relation to your Exo son the idea is pretty heartbreaking. 

i was watching this video (how many months has it been........ this game is my fuckgn life now) and #4 basically suggests that the number on the end of an Exo’s name is the amount of times their systems have been wiped. 

now. i basically made ray Ray-42 because he’s a meme loving fuck and i thought it’d be funny (and 420 was overkill tbh), but with that knowledge. hmm. 

at first, after the Vault of glass, when the problems start and he doesn’t know whats going on he thinks just a wipe will do it but. nothing. he wiped over a week ago but he’s still blacking out and hearing things and everyone says he’s acting strange so he wipes and wipes but the problems still persist and he doesn’t know how to fix it.

when they figure out that its the armour, that the Vex are inside his head he keeps up the task just to see if he could force them out. over and over and over again he’d keep shutting himself off and wiping and rebooting and hoping that maybe this time, just maybe they’ll be gone but. no such luck.

he knows it doesnt work, its not working nothings working (when he attacked michael he wiped about 14 times in quick succession. no one saw him for days) but when the Vanguard catch wind they keep making him try over and over again and he knows it doesnt work and maybe it doesnt hurt but its so fucking disorientating and over the course of months he keeps trying and trying and its frustrating and annoying and he’s not sure how much more he can take-

and right after the 41st wipe is when michael thinks fuck it and they rip the armour off of him. the 42nd wipe is just a precaution, but when he reboots and feels better, actually feels a change in himself this time he can kind of understand the human compulsion of crying. 

[scarletrebel]

I guess I never really talked about who tampered with this recording huh

idk I’ve been thinking about it a lot lately and uh

gavin does what he can.

ray confesses to him (post getting the vex armour off) that he made some audio recordings, and listening back on them he sounds insane. he’s currently under scrutiny by the vanguard and he’s worried that the recordings he made and that one in particular will give them cause to kick him out.

of course gavin isn’t going to let that happen.

lets say that recordings can’t really be deleted, they’re recorded by ghosts but also by a separate entity the cryptarchs have for the sake of retaining as much data as they can (as a slightly paranoid way of making sure they never lose a mass amount of information like they did with the golden age stuff) so

gavin tells ray to give him the original recording and at first ray is hesitant. he doesn’t want gavin to hear the things he said, the things the vex made him do. but his fellow hunter is persistent, so he hands them over eventually and gavin goes to work. 

he deletes what he can (those big sections of audio basically about wanting to kill michael are the first to go) but beyond that all he can do is mess up the audio waves and add static to certain incriminating parts. he knows the cryptarchs will be able to translate the vex speak so he tries to delete that too but it just won’t go away, which is weird.

then he makes sure that that version of the audio file is what makes it into the cryptarchs data banks.

no one knows about it. geoff managed to convince the vanguard that ray was fine before it got that far, but. ray still suspects, was too worried and then relieved with the whole situation at the time. gavins never told anyone he did it, and if he’s honest with himself, sometimes he just tries to forget that he heard it at all.

[scarletrebel]

i just really want to talk about the guys and their Ghosts for a second

Geoff-6′s Ghost: i’ve been over this a little bit before, but basically just super sarcastic. it’s been with geoff for soooooo long that geoff’s personality has literally rubbed off on it. when geoff gets worrried about anyone it brings up suggestions for him and then does whatever he asks to make sure his team is okay. 

Ryan’s Ghost: Just as impatient and yet collected as it’s guardian is. It gets super excited to share information with him, when it scans an area and gets a good reading it’ll tell ryan about it pretty much straight away no matter what. when it found out just how much of a dork its guardian was it took the liberty of downloading everything in the hall of grimoire permanently onto its database. everything. it also makes sure that ryan doesn’t spend too much time away from his team, will suggest that he go back to the tower for a little while if hes been patrolling for too long, or sends a sneaky message to jack or geoffs ghost to try and get him out of the hall of grimoire for a while. ryans ghost hates to see him burnt out.

((even after accidentally taking in darkness and affecting its guardian as such it’s light is till there, its just, lesser. ryan refuses to give up on it though. they’re both just as broken as each other now. it tries to keep the darkness inside its guardian at bay but once the hive turn their eyes to ryan theres little his ghost can do to keep them away - it can only make sure its guardian doesn’t completely lose his mind.))

Jack’s Ghost: incredibly patient. like. if jack asks it to do the same thing over and over again it really doesn’t mind its guardians insistence. it also takes the liberty of updating jack on where everyone else on the team is daily and is arguably the fastest at detecting when one of them goes down. it also tells jack to stop and look at the sunset if its the right time on whatever planet because it knows its guardian likes pretty sights. it tries to get jack to.... step up, sometimes. jack likes taking a backseat role most of the time so his ghost is basically his cheerleader when he decides to lead a mission or something like that. 

Michael’s Ghost: a lot like geoffs in that its incredibly sarcastic. but its a stickler for detail, if michaels planning something big, like a strike or a one man mission it’ll make sure to get its guardian all the info he needs. michael is absolutely ruthless, so it accounts for that and advises michael as such when buying armour and weapons. it knows its guardians fighting style really really well. it can also calm michael down really well if no one else is there, whether it be just talking to him or directing him to a big bunch of enemies to kill.

Gavin’s Ghost: basically has to be gavin’s common sense sometimes, but it doesn’t mind. gavin really dotes upon his ghost and probably has the best relationship with it out of everyone elses ghost relationships. he talks to it the most, asks it questions about the light and the traveller. it tries to keep gavin out of trouble, mainly trying to advise him away from situations where his mouth could run away from him, but is always there to help him out if he makes something worse. it gets just as excited about exotic weapons as gavin does and is the worst enabler for that habit. 

Ray-42′s Ghost: very quiet, just like ray. only pops up when it needs to or when it can detect uncertainty in its guardian. they got a lot closer when ray was going through his vex stuff because it was trying desperately to stay with ray, to pull him out of when the vex got into his mind. i imagine actually that despite everything, it tried really hard to make sure none of that was..... painful, for him. even if it meant letting the vex enter its guardians head it’d let them to spare ray the pain. a lot like michaels ghost in that it knows its guardians fighting style really really well and can advise to that. ray adventures out a lot and its constantly trying to get him to keep audio logs but its a lost cause really.

[scarletrebel]

yo madkingray i dont know if you've talked about this before but?? okay

(sad ah destiny au headcanon bc i did a public event earlier and started thinking about exo ray rip me)

so the Vex sacrifices, right? team lads are patrolling Venus and the conflux appears. they did this in the vault of glass so of course they're gonna help out here. there's a couple of other Guardians at The Citadel anyway so they totally got this.

they're at the point with ray now where everyone knows somethings going on but they don't know why, they've haven't figured that its the armour yet, they just know that he's blanking out and dissapearing and michaels heard him make.... noises in his sleep (they sound like vex but he's not sure. and to be quite frank its scary as fuck.)

so the conflux pops up and goblins and harpies are making beelines for it. the lads jump in and start taking Vex out. ray feels pretty good, he's using the mythoclast to take out a Minotaur when it gets a bit too close and he's forced to back up and

he's right next to the conflux. and it feels nice, and inviting, and he stops all of a sudden and turns, the minotaur dying behind him as michael punches it and takes it down. 

ray can hear the noises in his head, vex whirring and chattering and its getting louder and louder-

WE ARE ONE MIND. WE ARE STRONG. WE MUST BE STRONGER. WE MUST SACRIFICE OURSELVES TO BE STRONGER. WE ARE-

and he kneels. 

michael yanks him by the cloak and drags him underneath the stone bridge. rays kicking and trying to claw his way out of michaels iron grip and finally the titan throws him to the ground and yells at gavin to cover them. gavin runs over and shoots at Vex whilst michael gets on his knees and tries to get ray to just stay still and finally resorts to ripping his helmet off. 

rays eyes are red and its definetely, without a doubt vex speak coming out of his mouth. the exo is clawing at michael and michael is freaking the fuck out ray come on man snap out of it youre fucking scaring me stop! and he just. waits. pinning ray down until he stops struggling when the other guardians finally kill all the vex and the conflux dissapears. 

ray shakes his head and his eyes return to their normal colour. he's muttering something under his breath and michael barely makes it out before gavin is asking what the bloody hell is wrong with ray and ray powers down.

WE ARE ONE MIND.