#zask

[b-a-m]

favorite word?

another word i choose is 'expletive', i don't use it a lot i just like how it sounds lol

[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.

[z1leaf]

You find the best post on Seazuru so I know you are very dedicated. What is your thoughts on Yashiro and Doumeki having a happy ending.

Hello and thank you! I try to re-blog a ton to keep the Saezuru posts alive haha. In short, I hold out hope for them having a happy ending, though maybe not the usual simple "happy ending" definition, but 'happy' for them. I try to look at other works by Yoneda-sensei and while sometimes works between the same author vary greatly, overall I think sensei creates endings that are a net "positive" for her characters. Personally, I want to believe that they will have a "happy for them, considering what they've lived through" ending because I can't see Yoneda-sensei putting Yashiro through so much incessant pain and misfortune, only to deny him happiness at the end of his story. I do believe that Doumeki is the key to that happiness, the key to helping Yashiro believes he deserves to love and to be loved himself, that's why I hold out hope that their ending will be them together in some way. Aside from that though, I do figure there is still the possibility that it will not end "happy" the way many might envision, including myself. Yoneda-sensei is unpredictable to me, which is saying a lot and likely why I love this story so much, so I really can't confidently predict where she'd envision the story to go. Maybe the "happy ending" will be for Yashiro only, or maybe the "happy ending" will be more Romeo and Juliet style, depending on one's definition of "happy". I'm sorry I couldn't be more confident in my answer, but I will continue my hopeful desire of their ending to be right for them. Preferably with Yashiro accepting that he can be loved, that he isn't cattle but a beautiful soul, and Doumeki accepting that he isn't a monster but a lover, and they can finally find solace in each other.

If you wanted more in depth details/reasoning, feel free to ask again :)

[zaccrimart]

welcome back!!! 💙❤️ so glad you're sharing your lovely art again!

( : hehe thank you!! glad to be back

[its-the-edh-blog]

So, I’m building a Zask, Skittering Swarmlord deck

and I came across this card that I’d consider a hidden gem in the deck:

I love cards like this that are usually useless in EDH except in some very niche cases <3

[magicjudge]

Hiya! I have a question regarding the interaction between Zask, Skittering Swarmlord and Ashes of the Fallen. Assuming Ashes names Insect does this actually let you cast any creature from your graveyard?

I think the answer is no because of ashes not affecting spells on the stack but its a high include in Zask decks on edhrec so I'm beginning to doubt my judgement 🥲

No, this doesn't work for exactly the reason you stated.

While all the creature cards in your graveyard will be insects, you won't be able to legal cast any of them because they won't be insect spells once you put them on the stack. Zask cares about what a card you're casting from your graveyard looks like on the stack, not what it looks like in the graveyard, and so this is an unfortunately popular nonbo.

Also, Ashes won't even help with Zask's second ability since death triggers look at the creature as it last existed on the battlefield, not as it exists in the graveyard.

[strixhaven-star]

*sniff, sniff* 🥲 It's like I'm finally being seen. I can't believe how beautiful this card design is. (I need one for Plants also, though)

[sinceredeceit]

i am imagining zaphkiel with other types of wings for his face

like what if he had butterfly wings instead or something else.

this one sat in the ask box for three days whoops LOL. I like this idea, its fun to play around with him.