There's so much natural storytelling in Vivec's split skintone. Showing vs telling in its most distilled form. (Which is tricky advice - all writers must summarize by "telling" at one point or another. It's about knowing when.) Especially when you learn that he chooses to have it that way. The unnatural sharpness of the line, the immediate awareness to anyone looking that this guy is . . . altered from normality. The gesture to his people that he chooses to look like their new appearance and it's not a problem, how magnanimous, how kind, but that he also gets to keep the Chimer golden skin and evoke the ancient high period of Velothi culture. The blend of genders and the blend of color. Except no, he doesn't actually blend, he just draws a line down his vertical plane.
Vivec does not take the opportunity to be something new. He just assembles qualities onto himself and wishes, perhaps without realizing, that he becomes more than the sum of his parts.
I haven't played ESO but they did right by Sotha Sil's analysis of Vivec. "Vivec craves radical freedom - the death of all limits and restrictions. He wishes to be all things at all times. Every race, every gender, every hero, both divine and finite... but in the end, he can only be Vivec." And that's not enough? To be a god hero? "Not even remotely."
He just cuts right to the heart of Vivec. Appropriately enough for the member of ALMSIVI who actually figured out how to use the Tools.
