#[am i gonna start referring to my own manic episodes as aha-coded moments? maybe lmao /J uNLESS]

[grislyintentions]

||Personal Depiction: Aha (HC) ||

It is easy to perceive Aha as an agent of chaos and be distracted/annoyed by their joy-seeking antics but dismissing their capabilities would be a grave mistake. At their core, they are cruel in the same way children are cruel to their playthings and what out of all life would be the most entertaining to subject to the teachings of chaos? Humans.

Aha toys with the extreme emotions of intelligent creatures (love, joy, sadness, sorrow) and delights in subverting/shifting/changing the fate of others (regardless of what happens to them in the end), oftentimes with drastically devastating or different results than how they were supposed to go. They have been shown to hold a lot of influence over the movements of all living things, being able to imperceptibly and delicately manipulate their reality. But is this all a calculative approach to things? Not really. They simply do things on their own whim. [Reference: Making a Noblesse worm an Emanator to see if they can enter the Genius Society then discarding it, playing ‘pranks’ by blowing up an entire planet along with half of Akivili’s Express, interfering with the Simulated Universe and loaning their path’s blessings to those seeking to end the Aeon of Nihility and granting his blessings to the Mourning Actors because they found it ironically funny.]

All in all: Aha’s unpredictability and chaos is only a part of what their path embodies. The true crux lies in causing changes in life, be it minor or massive effects. That is what truly entertains Aha. And even if they were to be killed or defeated one day, they too would find pleasure in the unexpected nature of it all.

Demeanour

Aha’s expression of emotions are exaggerated, extreme and intense. To witness the Aeon is to be subjected to a rollercoaster of unpredictable mood swings and the sensory overload that follows. Prolonged meetings with this Aeon can often result in fainting spells, dizziness, temporary hearing loss, headaches and more.

Those who are blessed with the Elation and subsequently had their blessings stripped from them are likely to fall victim to symptoms of mania (loss of impulse control, aggression without reason, sudden onset paranoia/anxiety, delusions etc) and depressive episodes. In severe cases, it can and will lead to death.

Emanators

While Aha chooses their Emanators willy-nilly, those who are given access to the knowledge and power of his path tend to be capable of inciting large changes by instinctively knowing what, where and how to meddle with things. (One good example, given the theory and implication that Sampo is affiliated with the Masked Fools, would be how he doesn’t directly play a part in Cocolia’s confrontation or Svarog’s conflict with Wildfire. And yet he was somehow always the key to leading to the sequence of events and got to reap the rewards by watching it unfold).

His Emanators excel in their ability to disguise and can even impersonate others. They will be granted the unique understanding and perception that life is but a play and a joke: that there exists an entity (us, the player) out there, watching them go through things impassively. Some wound up losing their minds to existential dread and breakdowns. Others willingly accept that and lose their reservations about going along with what they truly wish to do.

There are, however, elements of risk when it comes to being Aha’s Emanator as well. For while it grants Emanators the power of being able to assimilate, change and disguise, the human psyche really isn’t meant to do so at an extended period of time. It could lead to the gradual diminishing and blurring between realities. As well as the inability to remember who they themselves are.