#zaphkiel

[snakeguy999]

Commission for @funnycatfelix ^^

[atrophiedentropy]

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[sinceredeceit]

Can you give a rundown on the kinds of aus for Sindec you have? I'm interested in knowing all the ideas you have for how things could differ from the canon story!

EEEE!! thank you for askingg :::-3 okay, brace yourself. sorted from simplest to most convoluted.

Everything so nice au: AU where nothing bad happens EVER, instead of letting his disdain boil into true hatred, abram and zaphkiel talk. It takes a long time before they can truely be on normal terms again after arbella is in full swing. But the war is effectively prevented. Jadon, Malachi, and Gaius can use this free time to construct methods to prevent, manage, and eventually partially cure burning! They get to live their lives happily forever. This AU is mostly to explore cute shippy stuff, and also to imagine them playing and having fun with citizens. Just some nice sweet fluffy fluff. who doesn't want that on occasion?

Everything isn't so bad: AU where the batter has the ability to heal corruption, very notable that this batter is a "Healer" and not a purifier. Instead of killing each guardian he is able to heal them of their corruptions. This goes all the way to Abram, and while he is the personification of sickness, batter is able to provide him the ability to have full control over these destructive powers. Zaphkiel is stopped, and Batter forces him to adknowledge what he's doing, and why. Something I like to chew on when I want more character light angst stuff. i find it very interesting to consider the recovery from this horrific thing they've lived through. Eventually, batter becomes a third god of sorts, but once his purpose is fulfilled he becomes more of a person. since he gets to live a life that is his own. my favorite part of this au is probably Adam, because I imagine batter is the first one to truely fully adknowledge the breadth of who he is as a person. fun stuff!

District Attendants: Au where every district gaurdian gets a little helper like roland! Malachi's assistant is named Noah, he's currently trying to shoo away the bird specters, he's become more timid in his time watching malachi become unrecognizable from who he used to be. Jadon's assistant is named Aliza, she's the only person that jadon will allow to see him, and even then its just so she can say hello and occasionally bring him things from outside. She manages a lot of the higher functions at the park, and is partially aware of jadon's mental inlfuence on other workers. But He's never expressed a desire to control her, and she doesn't quite know why. So. one could argue Adam has vanni, and even Mags to be his little thang in his district. But I wanted an excuse to put my oc in there. So! Francis is a scientist who reluctantly does clean up work in the chopshop. adam keeps him around because he's particularly entertaining and kind of cute. Fran doesn't really understand it, and he is afraid of the work theyre doing. But he's MORE afraid of whats happening outside. and it's not like he has a choice anyhow.

"Swap" AU: so this one is kind of building on an OFF au I already think about sometimes, in which the zone guardians are swapped (dedan -> Enoch, Enoch -> Japhet, Japhet -> Dedan) so the corresponding gaurdians swap as well! Adam swaps with delilah for the sake of the AU. and also because WOW its fun to imagine a snakey-vampiric esq delilah skulking around and doing huge speeches and having amazing hair and a cool tail.

oops all Blue AU: Zaphkiel posits himself as a cure for the corruption to the district guardians. Instead of being fully stuck in the tower, zaphkiel makes trips in and out of it, keeping abram at bay. (he has at least one of the grand items to be able to do this) as each guardian begins to retreat into themselves more Z takes advantage of their weakness and offers them a third eye. if they become a member of his communion, he will protect them from the unholy corruption. He targets Adam first and instead of convincing him, he forces the eye into a freshly carved socket on his forehead. Adam is unable to remove the eye and thus becomes Zaphkiel's first envoy. He takes over arbella, and awakens the batter to gather the other grands for him.

Lugosi, and Delilah (who is pushed to rebel, seeing the hidden pain in Adam's eyes when her father brings him 'home' for the first time) are leading a secret rebellion against Z and the district guardians! (Vanni, Mags, and Roland are also involved.)

I have ideas for a "modern" "Human" AU but theyre all very scattered. its more like a sitcom. Thats just for fun. Also imagining Jericho as a typical talking dog kind of drives me nuts.

I'm also fond of the vampire au @tzalmavet has! It's very fun.

[pandemieinverse]

i am well adjusted about sincere deceit

[deceitfulsincerity]

Have you ever thought about a world where you don't exist?

This is a post where i say a lot of things about the Outside Tower as well as Sheol!

I believe that the Outside Tower is showing us what would happen had The Batter never appeared at all.

His absence would lead to the bosses in the tower turning into what we fight!

The Winged Scourge, Daedalus would've fully merged with Malachi.

Pazuzu would've taken over Jadon.

Gauis would fully convert himself with only his brain left.

And Adam would grow into a larger and larger Serpent.

Then come the Original Zone Guardians, had the Batter not arrived Zaphkiel would still have the grands out of reach and so Abram would win in the end, corrupting them severely more than when we fought them the first time in their zones.

This is why they look different and more corrupt in the tower, it's because Abram won in the future that it's showing us glimpses of!

Sheol might be the same or a similar dark future where Abram is on the brink of ending the world, everything is twisted and wrong. There are almost no traces of Zaphkiel's influence aside from the High Priest in the church.

With Abram ending the world Arbela has become more affected than the numbered Zones, Lugosi has fully corrupted a worm like being inside the church, Delilah and Lucretia are present as well even after all this time.

The Residence area has become flooded, the water has risen to terrifying levels, everything has sunken.

The Entertainment area holds a theater with entertainment meant for nobody aside from the wicked.

Who knows how much time has passed yet Gauis is there.

But this time he has no body, his brain is not there in the Construct. His very soul had become corrupted, Nothing remains except for his regrets.

Eternally laughing the pain away.

The Prison has turned larger, it loops at all times, summoning the corpse when someone is felt walking outside their bars. Where once was a hospital was discarded and moved elsewhere to torment Gauis. Now the little good that once was in the prison, the hospital that may have assisted some, is not there anymore.

In these Districts something remains, the ? ? ? Items, i believe these are the Supreme items that have been heavily corrupted, Each of them feel like something that correlates to the guardians

"It feels like... Feathers?" Referring to Malachi's parasite.

"It feels like... Mimicry?" The Second Guardian (Japhet/Jadon) who who held a parasite within(Japhet's Corruption/Pazuzu) that grew until it overtook the host (Similar to The Parasite in Layer 2/Pazuzu in The outside tower). Jadon's fate is mimicking Japhet's very very closely, that's why it feels like mimicry.

"It feels like... Anger?" Gauis went through the pain and agony of losing his friends and wife one by one until he lost himself. Thats why it feels like anger.

"It feels like... Persistence?" Adam was hated by Zaphkiel and implied to be treated somewhat wrong by his father from birth. He was called a failure yet his persistence was stronger, he took the prison, took the judge and then turned into the black serpent.

With all four items in hand... The waters inside the church open, but instead of rising higher, you descend deeper. Deeper than hell itself.

What happens when you descend deeper than hell?

You end up in heaven.

But the world above ends by Abram's hand. The Batter didn't arrive in time to change things in the new zones.

The future was too far gone, He couldn't change anything here.

It was pointless.

That is all.

[yami0204]

Zaphkiel, the android boy, and his stuffed friend, Sammy the Dog.

[shinzusdoodles]

Icon of a design I got from @/maple-and-pie recently.

[not-a-skeleton-and-is-a-human]

Ok, hear me out, void angel frame named Zaphkiel, passive is that damage by abilities heals it and allies, however, it barely heals and it lowers by however many allies it heals. First ability would be a bunch of homing lasers, amount increases by duration based on that one move from void state angels. Second ability releases a wave that freezes enemies, enemy cap increases with strength, frozen enemies are invincible and are targeted by other enemies. Third where it becomes a spectral form and can move like cloud walker but doesn’t stun enemies, instead when the duration ends it releases a large aoe health drain area, it also clears status affects on first cast. Fourth ability is it shoots a giant orb that homes in on the highest ranking enemy, as it is being charged and as it’s flying it pulls bullets towards it and when it hits something it does an aoe explosion increasing its damage by however many times it was shot.