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FEMALE CHILD READER & PLATONIC LA SIGNORA
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So we all know Signora is a witch
Baby you who wants to be a witch like her big sis (´ ∀ ` *)
You get called Baby witch of Embers
Once Signora found her lil sis sitting on the floor in the dark trying to summon something
When Signora asked what you wanted to summon, you just said:
"My friend, her name is Columbina!"
(o´▽`o) -You
Σ(O_O) -Signora
Thats how Signora found out you're friends with Columbina💀
How you and Columbina became friends?
You were hiding in Columbinas room because you were searching for some fabric to make herself an identical outfit like you're big sister😭❤
Columbina just went into her room and heard you trying to hide
You were pretending to be a lamp💀
Columbina just thought fuck that and pulled you by the neck like a kitten
You were just dangling in the air : (◕‿◕)
They both sat down and had tea, Columbina found out that you were the little Sibling of La Signora and that you wanted to be like her so you tried to steal fabric to make the same witch costume 😭💕
Columbina and you had a tea party every weekend , where they both sew the costume
The day you showed your outfit was the best day to Signora
Signora now dresses you up in you're little witch costume and they both go to the meetings together
"La Signora, why is there a child sitting on the floor drawing?"
"What do you mean? Thats my helper, she takes notes of everything important said."
"Alright, Show us the notes that you're helper did"
*Signora shows the paper*
LMAO it was a drawing of them as butterflys
Childe clapped 💀🙏
You're in every meeting and when its finished you show you're notes. Lets say most of the times its them as animals
La Signora loves the drawing of them as plants
Signora took you to mondstadt so you could distract the Anemo Archon, so that she could take the gnosis
It worked somehow💀
Signora is a kind but also strict sister
Ofc you get all the love that you deserve
But Signora has to be strict when it comes to training
Signora teaches you spells and more, she has to be strict so that you can protect yourself from anyone
Signora is scared, what if her little baby sister who can't protect herself dies or gets injured?
So yeah, she teaches you combat
Well, the first thing you learned is to go for the kneecaps 💀
"You're really small , but being small can be good. Go for the kneecaps. They won't see it coming."
"Okay big sister! ┐(︶▽︶)┌
Summary: La Signora just wants to protect her little Sister. She would do anything so you aren't hurt. She may be a little harsh when she trains you, but she just wants to see you okay
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↟ ⚘ 𖥧 South Park college headcanons 𖥧 ⚘ ↟
excuse my janky ass formatting and disorganized notes 😭
KENNY
✦ pansexual
✦ PLAYBOY. INSANE RIZZ
✦ body count is insane he just thinks its funny though
✦ actually really really sweet and considerate
✦ never fixed his gap tooth 🫶
✦ always remembers birthdays
✦ scars everyyywhere like Everywhere
✦ haphazard wolfcut that he trims himself bc hashtag no money
✦ full ride scholarship, works his ASS off on schoolwork and two jobs and yet still has time to party
✦ literally nobody knows how he does it
✦ still loves wearing big jackets, doesnt get a lot of new clothes often so almost all of his shit is hand patched up
✦ supremely unlucky (trips and shatters phone screen ass shit)
✦ angel wing tats on shoulderblades
✦ LOVES weed. does not drink at all
✦ probably has done LSD and shrooms
✦ parents are extremely proud of him, he doesn’t go home very often but keeps in touch
✦ got them a phone so that they can text him!!! he saved up for a whole year to get it bc he missed his sister
✦ pierced his own ears also gave himself snake bites
✦ pierced stans ears (stan cried)
✦ small smattering of freckles! only come out in the summer
✦ doesn’t hang out with stan as often on his own bc he doesnt like how bad his drinking has gotten :(
✦ loves decimating cartman in call of duty
✦ listens to BROCKHAMPTON and doja cat (and ABBA but only with butters)
STAN
✦ raging alcoholic
✦ existential + clingy drunk
✦ grows stubble really fast, shaves when he feels like it
✦ eyebags for dayysss
✦ beauty marks! has a lot on his face and shoulders
✦ smokes weed w/ kyle and kenny (cartman isn’t invited anymore bc he hogs the blunt)
✦ only gets his schoolwork done wasted because he cant get himself to do it sober
✦ PTSD + severe depression
✦ bisexual as fuck my god
✦ emo LMFAOOOO wears a lot of muted tones, ripped jeans, sweaters, hoodies. so many beanies
✦ also smokes nic 😔
✦ probly a business major
✦ tried hookups, doesnt really care for them
✦ plays bass!!
✦ internalized homophobia but its okay hes growing
✦ had/has a phase where he’ll bleach and dye his hair and the rest of the gang look forward to it bc its always something new (always keeps the black roots)
✦ really bitter about just. everything
✦ STILL hates medical shit and hospitals got alcohol poisoning and REFUUSSEDDD to go kyle was frantic
✦ so many random ass tattoos including a paw + date memorial tattoo for sparky :((
✦ gets really anxious when not drunk
✦ listens to tally hall, will wood and mother mother
KYLE
✦ keeps his hair at a tameable length bc he tried growing it out a little in highschool and it just went up and outward. never again
✦ got fed up one day in senior year and completely buzzed it. it was that week stan realized he was bi 💀
✦ not reeaaallly jewish anymore respects tradition but rlly could care less
✦ SO. MANY. FRECKLES.
✦ pale asf burns if he sees sunlight
✦ flushes TOMATO red when he gets even a little flustered or nervous and its so funny
✦ occasionally will accidently speak like his mom (whatwhatWHAAAT) and proceed to death glare anyone who looks like theyre going to comment on it
✦ hides his face in his hands when he gets embarrassed to replace his hat which he used to use the side flaps to bury his face in (it makes him feel hidden)
✦ weekly facetime calls with ike to see how he is because he misses him so much
✦ undeclared for like half the college experience
✦ uncomfy at parties, ends up usually tailing stan and kenny to them but only if stan comes
✦ childhood crush on stan he still hasnt gotten over 😔
✦ really likes working w/ kids but you would NEVER guess by looking at him
✦ massive fucking growth spurt hes an absolute 6’5 twig
✦ ADHD as fuck gets overwhelmed by schoolwork a lot, stan helps but hes really bad at directions when hes drunk so it doesnt really go anywhere
✦ anger issues, still HATES cartman, only tolerates him around bc hes funny sometimes to laugh at also hes rich and all of them could benefit from that lmao
✦ gets into fights still, got into a lot in highschool and less so in college but still seen as a hothead
✦ not buff but can absolutely hold his own
✦ still likes painting :) does it in his own time bc he feels like a sissy (his own words) stan loves them and has like 3 of his paintings either at home or in his dorm
CARTMAN
✦ college dropout LMFAOOOO
✦ his family is just. rich
✦ his mom remarried this fucking crazy rich dude so he still lives w/ his mom
✦ forced to go to community college
✦ actually has lost weight! not too much but he got fed up with it and is at a healthier size, his mom keeps trying to push mlm diets on him though 💀
✦ twitch streamer, keeps getting banned for slurs, not necessarily a lolcow, closest example i csn think of would be like uhhh jake paul mixed with schlatt? he has a pretty genuine following but. SO many haters
✦ kenny occasionally joins him in streams over the summer when he doesnt have schoolwork (chat LOVES him)
✦ has every console
✦ has also probably broken every console
✦ a LITTLE more compassionate, gives the rest of the gang fat checks for their bdays (probably to make himself feel like he has a moral compass after how much hes bullied kenny for being poor)
✦ still listens to kanye west 💀 and to drake or any other popular rapper
CRAIG
✦ obsessed w space + NASA
✦ majoring in that field, always busy with like. hardddd work (finds it interesting though he speeds thru it. autism is one helluva drug)
✦ plays so much minecraft. probably has built an accurate scale solar system on there
✦ autistic as fuck
✦ voice is less nasally but he has a flat affect
✦ ceiling stars in his college dorm. he put them up the first day
✦ one of the only kids to still wear his hat, or at least a new hat thats so similar to his old one
✦ beanies will suffice if chullo is dirty
✦ unlike stan, he actually has soft and not gross hat hair
✦ space tattoos + a woodstock tattoo (they remind him of tweek so much he had to (tweeks matching))
✦ still dating tweek, right out of college they move in together
✦ smuggled a cat into his dorm junior year
✦ def listens to tv girl
✦ that one hot quiet dude in every class and when girls find out hes dating tweek (its so obvious he has them as his lockscreen and his picture in his wallet) they are absolutely gobsmacked
✦ completely unphased by this, kenny had to tell him that girls were into him for him to notice
✦ follows space discovery news like a boomer with politics, if a new planet is discovered he will not shut UP abt it
✦ knows a suspicious amount about astrology despite saying he doesnt care abt it
TWEEK
✦ to match w craig tweek has a TINY snoopy tattoo he almost cried while getting bc he was so nervous
✦ severe OCD, CPTSD, and anxiety from his entire living situation
✦ found out abt the meth situation in middle school, massively traumatizing
✦ lived w/ craig for a while while court proceedings happened
✦ had to go to rehab after the arrest bc he went thru withdrawal
✦ substance free for the last 5 years!
✦ took him a long time to seperate coffee and meth as sononymous, drinks decaf and sweet coffees now bc he does like the taste
✦ incredibly easily scared and really jumpy, calms down completely only around craig and is at ease with all of his friends, with strangers he gets overwhelmed so quick
✦ hes pretty bad paranoia over poisoning in his food and drink, craig usually will take the first bite or sip to help him feel better
✦ got into cooking so he can make his own meals from scratch, loves meal prep! (hes rlly rlly good. so tastey)
#south park#sp#south park college au#college au#college#stan marsh#kyle brovlofski#kyle sp#stan sp#stan x kyle#kyle x stan#style sp#cartman sp#eric cartman#eric sp#south park kenny#south park cartman#south park kyle#south park stan#kenny mccormick#x reader#headcanon#headcanons#tweek tweak#tweek sp#tweek x craig#craig x tweek#creek#craig tucker#fanart
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Hello hope you have a nice day, and ignore this request if you want! Can i ask for a scenario/headcanon with Idia, Malleus and Riddle with Gn Yuu who finds an injured winged horse in the woods and decides to take care of it in secret only for the horse to attach to Yuu and follow them back to the dorm one day, Yuu living for the Beast tamer title!. Thanks for your attention!
Hihi! Omg first askdbfbdjdb anyways, okay! Also I'm so sorry but I don't know how to write for Idia yet. Apologies.
Beast Tamer
Reader x Malleus, and Riddle.
Summary:you've met an injured winged horse whilst you were roaming around the woods and decides to take care of it without the others knowing. Unbeknownst, the horse started to get attached to you and followed you back to your dorm.
Warnings: none?? Ooc I think? I'm a bit crusty lolol
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Malleus✡
It was midnight, obviously, and you were heading back to the dorm after you took care of an injured winged horse
You were walking back when you heard some footsteps as well, but you didn't mind it
The moment you step foot inside your gate you almost immediately noticed a familiar figure patiently waiting for you!
Malleus also felt your presence but what he didn't expected was another one too
As he is, he got a bit upset he didn't get to spend time alone with you
When you walked closer to him you smiled and greeted him
"Hello, Mal!"
His heart warmed and greeted you as well, he's a bit suspicious of the fact the other presence he felt wasn't with you
He got a bit protective at the thought of someone stalking you
You both went on with your usual nightly walks and you both can't help but feel the other presence again
You guys sat down on a bench and continued speaking to each other
Was until the winged horse you found showed itself
Malleus immediately stood up and took you in your arms
You calmly explained to him that you know this horse and how you met him
Malleus somehow calmed down?? No idea but you both agreed to take care of it :>
(Malleus DOES get somehow envious of that horse of yours when you spend more time with it, so remember to give some for your dragon fae too!)
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Riddle 🜲⚘
Riddle was not at all happy when you were late for your evening tutoring session with him
Its not like he's upset you're late and he won't be able to see you! (He won't admit it lmao)
He's upset because your 5 minutes late and you know what the Queen's rules say
So he got up in search for you
The last time you both spoke to each other, you mentioned going into the forest in search for ingredients for you next alchemy project
He was searching for you for a full 15 minutes!
Riddle was almost giving up until he heard a noise in the corner a few meter away
He cautiously walks towards it
He didn't expect to see you treating an injured winged horse
You were always so kind.. No wonder he fell for you (finally he admitted it)
He clears his throat to make his presence clear
You and the horse immediately turned to see a riddle who looks like is about to give you a good scolding
The horse got alarmed by an unknown figure so he stood up from your arms
You tried to calm him down but it did not work at all
So, Riddle barged in
And oh boy did the horse calm down
It's probably because he's in a club full of horses but ok 💀
He helped you take care of the horse
Time skip-- you both decided you should keep the horse (obviously in your dorm not his)
Either way it all turned out great! Just leave out when the horse basically destroyed your table when you two were studying for an upcoming test :))
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Note: as I said I'm a bit crusty since this is my first time doing a request but uhh here ya go! I hope you liked it huhu ;; I also might not be able to write fanfics so quickly since exams are up sorysory
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regarding wesker, i have an important question: why was he so upset to learn that he was manufactured by spencer? why did that revelation cause him to spiral out of control?
It essentially comes down to his entire life being a lie & the fact Wesker always functioned under the belief that he was the true chess master, one step ahead, the guy holding the cards. To discover that basically every single part of his life including his birth was created & controlled by Spencer did some shit to him, not to mention he was already coming to learn of & battle some adverse effects of the virus in his body & always, from the moment of his “death”, battled with his loss of humanity & what this all meant for him in the long run.
I’m kind of using my own headcanons as reference but a lot of Wesker’s life was spent very carefully trying to chess master himself out of Umbrella’s grasp after he realised something wasn’t right. He never comprehended how wrong it actually was or how much of it involved him personally. Everything Wesker thought he knew, everything he thought he had achieved, everything he had lost & gained; It was pretty much all by Spencer’s design. In my personal headcanons, Spencer was largely responsible for X day & the instructions Wesker received to take the S.T.A.R.S into the mansion “to gather data” for the Tyrant Project. Wesker always knew something was wrong with this but he believed it was Umbrella trying to get rid of him. He didn’t realise it was more than that. In my headcanon, Spencer orchestrated this to force Wesker to infect himself to test his only remaining Wesker child. Wesker thought this was his last ditch effort to escape the mansion alive suspecting Umbrella intended to back stab him, especially after the confrontation with Sergi. He was right & discovered he had been locked out of the Umbrella system for 24 hours.
I DID POST A WHOLE HC ABOUT my soft “rewrite” of the mansion incident but thats the basics. Further, William Birkin gave Wesker the virus he infected himself with. Wesker believed this to be the G-virus, the miracle drug Birkin had been working on for years hence why he trusted it. In RE5, we discover that Spencer was responsible for Birkin giving Wesker the virus. (Its verse dependent for me whether or not the virus Birkin gave Wesker was the G virus or if he did as Spencer wanted & gave him the “prototype” but yeah pretty much the files of RE5 suggest Birkin was extorted into giving Wesker a virus hence why Wesker trusted the virus he was given to the extent of actually using it on himself)
He feels a mortifying sense of betrayal from all this. Everything Wesker become he became because of Spencer. Everything he did he did to escape only for it to be Spencer’s design all along. His trust of William being nothing but one of Spencer’s manipulations. His loss of the S.T.A.R.S, his loss of humanity ect, ect, its all thanks to Spencer & there was NOTHING he could have done, especially at that point, to change ANYTHING. He was always doing exactly what Spencer wanted. Even during the period where he was trying to co-opt the remains of Umrbella & monopolise its research for himself & his own organisation. No matter what Wesker did, it was always what Spencer wanted & by the time he found out the truth of this there was no way for him to change it. .
At least not one that would satisfy his own ego & the malicious force living inside of him that had rendered him nothing more than a husk of hatred & oblivion. There is a suggestion that Wesker kind of did try to push back against Spencer in an actual meaningful way that didn’t mean just trying to put his own personal flavour on Spencer’s madness. But Wesker was already mad himself. It seems however in Wesker’s more ... Normal moments he was heavily researching anti-viral counter-measures. His research was very important & VERY effective. After its recovery upon his death, Wesker’s anti-virus research is considered invaluable to modern day anti-virus organisations. So much so many of the most effective anti-virus weapons & tools are named after him. They claim Wesker’s anti-viral research was so important it single-handedly redeemed Umbrella. SO for a minute there ? Wesker could have been a hero. He was a very intelligent & bedevilled man but he was rendered a monster. He represents the ouroboros; the snake eating its own tail, a vicious cycle of hate, ego & self-importance that he had no ability to actually escape, even though there is a suggestion he wanted to. He is creation through destruction, & in the end that destruction had to be his own; whether at the hands of Chris or by his own design of the Uroboros virus, Wesker was never suppose to “live” to see whatever future he would create. FHSDJFKDFJKD but yeah I’m here rambling now ! I do have more hcs about that in particular on Wesker’s blog. Thanks for sending this though !! It makes me v happy to know folks are interested in my unhinged thoughts on shitty characters like Whiskers.
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— ❀ ﹏ ✧ . ˚ ⚘ ; TOORU OIKAWA AS YOUR GAMER BOYFRIEND | headcanons
genre : FLUFF FLUFFY FLUFFY PANCAKES KFKFKDJ
w/c :
characters : gamerboy!tooru and gn!reader
notes : self indulgent LMFAO ….. also yasss i play valo LOL
- oikawa is 101% a valo guy you can’t tell me otherwise
- no bcz he would literally violently react to the letters wasd ( LAWL SO DO I gamercore )
- he sometimes gets bruises on his fingers by tapping the keyboard too long / too hard and asks you to help massage them
- while you do that he’ll be lying in your lap complaining to you about how difficult it was to win
- his legs and shoulders cramp a lot so you have to remind him to stretch regularly
- HE HAS AN INSTAGRAM ACCOUNT DEDICATED TO GAMING OKAY it’ll have a cringe ass username like @/o1k4wagamer
- asks you to promote his account on your instagram and twitter so you do with some hashtag like # Follow My Bf or smth
- his set up is surprisingly aesthetic and is a mix of both of y’all’s favourite colours — purple, white and grey.
- you give him cute stickers you get from your friends and he sticks them on his headset
- has thousands of pictures of you and him around his pc okay and they’re all framed nicely too and when he’s on disc calls he’ll tell this to all his friends
- shows you off on discord 💀💀💀💀
- he would win games and say like “ this win is dedicated to you babeeee “ and kiss you with his mic on or smth
- would stop his lives or afk if you needed him — like that one time you burned yourself on the stove and he FLEW down the stairs to check on you
- because of him you naturally got into gaming as well
- he would literally be so helpful for the first few times you tried it — giving you a cute gamer tag, buying you a new headset and he! would! let! you! use! his! setup! ( idk if it’s just yall but when my friends want to use my setup i get pissed as hell LOL )
- he decided to go live with you while playing a horror game together , you afked so many times because of how scary it was
- you have the habit of lying in his lap after a while and he indulges it, combing through your hair as he plays
- sometimes you would just fall asleep on his shoulder while playing and he would adjust his positions ever so slightly so it doesn’t wake you up
- he gets mad at you sometimes while gaming with you but he would always apologise after
- uses light taps on your wrist to guide you when you’re gaming
#hq oikawa#oikawa x reader#oikawa scenarios#oikawa headcanons#oikawa tooru#oikawa loml LOL#oikawa fluff#gamer!oikawa
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Its time for Erol headcanon stuff at long last. This is a big rewrite of stuff from Erol’s old blog !
The first thing to address, I think, is the character ages so I’m gonna start here. They’re completely insane & Erol is one of the few characters never given an age in the canon. A lot of people tend to put Erol in his mid 30s & I actually have no idea why because he always registered as a lot younger to me, keeping in mind almost all the characters are a hell of a lot younger than you would think because Naughty Dog made some very interesting choices with JnD. So while I don’t give a shit about the “canon” ages, & Erol never got a canon age, I still tend to see him a lot younger than fanon seems to. Plus, does the man look like hes in his 30s ? Not to me. He doesn’t act like it either.
My age for Erol is around 20-23ish, just slightly younger than Ashelin. Now I think the reason people tend to aim a lot older is because of Erol’s advanced rank in the KG. But things to consider here is that a lot of the KG were implied to be very young, more so than you might think, many (forcefully) recruited as children & (forcefully) kept in the service until their deaths & all evidence leads to the fact that many KG soldiers died very young given ever present battles against the metal-heads & the extreme corruption of Haven itself.
Again, other very high ranking members of the KG such as Ashelin Praxis were only in their early 20s. I believe Ashelin was around 22-23-24 years old throughout the games from Jak 2 to Jak X. Torn, an ex KG captain was by far the oldest at 28-29-30, but still not quite as old as you might imagine. I mean, I even think Torn’s on the young side but he seems older to me. If I hadn’t looked his age up I’d imagine him to be a little older but the thing is he’s just been through some shit & honestly given how life was in Haven city, anyone making it into their 30s was probably looked at as hitting middle age. OF COURSE, there are some characters in the game that ARE actually “old” but they tend to predate all of the craziness�� we see in jak 2, as we know Haven was not always like this, but that we’re introduced to it at a time where its teetering on the edge of losing a long & grueling war with literal monsters that are literally planning to kill & eat everyone. Furthermore, they’re not shown as high ranking figures in the KG because active Krimzon Guard personnel would obviously have a much lower life expectancy all of this considered.
& the final thing to consider is that kids are a lot easier to manipulate, radicalize & indoctrinate & the Baron’s dictatorship at this point was relying heavily on propaganda & martial law. Moreover, Erol himself was essentially treated as living propaganda. This was very, very intentional & above all why Erol always registered to me as a lot younger than he seems to hit in the fandom. Erol was, essentially, in my headcanon, an up & coming young race star who was purposefully indoctrinated & recruited into the KG to help boost the appeal of the KG & the Baron’s rule. Evidence of this, I think, is everywhere but what really guides my thought process is the way Erol has been canonly dubbed “The son of Haven City”, this is an affectionate moniker given to him by Baron Praxis & Erol’s races are highly promoted & glamorized throughout the city along with Erol himself. They’re also heavily linked to Praxis as the “prizes” for winning are not only an extremely large supply of dark eco (one that we could argue the Baron couldn’t actually afford to give) but also a tour of Haven Palace. These are both things the Baron was not the kind of guy to offer to just anyone. So this meant the reality of the NYFE championship was really just Praxis putting on a show where he promotes these races that get the city hyped because not only do many of them look at Erol as a hero & a celebrity, but this also promoted massive engagement with & glamorized the KG, because even if you didn't like Erol, you didn’t like the military & you just liked racing, you’d be tempted to try your hand at beating him & snatching his crown, as well as a massive supply of eco which could probably make your wildest dreams come true. But the thing was Erol never lost. He was undefeated & undeniably the most talented racer in the game outside of Jak’s protagonist powers.
This also suggests a kind of surrogate father-son dynamic between Erol & Praxis which seems to very much fit given Erol was closer to Praxis than it seemed anyone else was, including his own daughter. In fact, it even seems as if Erol was the only person in the entire city Praxis really trusted beside himself. I think when Praxis refers to Erol as “the son of haven city” he’s practically calling Erol his son given he is haven city. Again, Praxis was very much a cunning, foul tempered, stern & paranoid man so this is extremely unusual & definitely makes Erol very note-worthy & “special” way beyond his title as NYFE champion. Also brings me to the fact that Erol was very, very much like Praxis himself, as if the man was fundamental in shaping who Erol is. It seemed to me that Erol had picked up a lot from him & there is cut dialog suggesting Erol would become the next Baron in Praxis’ defeat/death. Which is a lot given Praxis literally had a biological daughter right there but she was not favored by him near as much as Erol apparently was. Which is stuff I think all fits & works for canon & honestly ND screwed up the game in the end there horrendously so I have to fix everything & I kind of see Erol as the perfect foil to Jak & this gives them some similarities in the sense that Jak has Samos as a surrogate father figure as he isn’t able to connect with his real father until Damas death.
Which brings me to Erol’s real father & his background, which is purely my own headcanons here that I tie into all of this. This is a nutshell version of what I wrote up for Erol’s blog because I’m lazy. I haven't named Erol’s father yet & I’m following the JnD trend of character’s having fathers with no mothers, but he was a track mechanic which is where Erol’s love of racing began. He always wanted to race, something that he maybe once hoped would come with the benefit of impressing his father. The problem being that Erol’s father was an abusive alcoholic & a small time criminal who was involved in a lot of shady practices, notably drug trafficking. Which is where Erol got all of his race training from - he was the delivery / errand boy for a lot of his father’s “business”, both legal & not so legal. He took this service as an opportunity to practice his racing skills by getting himself from point A to B around the city in record time. When Erol expressed wanting to race he was delighted to find his father was more than supportive. In fact, despite the serious danger of racing, he had a plan for Erol to win the Eco. & it was here when Erol’s speed & talents on the track got him noticed by Praxis, who quickly “befriended” him & invited him into the KG. Erol loved the attention, especially from someone so important. When Erol won his first championship he found out his father planned to take the Eco & split town, & Erol seemed to have been left out of the loop on this. A fight erupted & Erol returned to Praxis with the Eco, leaving his father for dead. From here, Erol officially joined the KG & the two began to conspire about the following races. As in it was Erol’s duty to remain champion & win the races in order to keep the eco & the palace tour out of the hands of the public. Further, Erol’s relationship with Praxis meant he moved through the KG fast making him as much of a ‘solider’ as he was a champion racer. Which leads me to another headcanon I have regarding Erol’s position as Commander, as in, I don’t think it was a rank that really existed before Erol & before Torn’s defection. Essentially, in my headcanon Torn was the highest ranking KG captain & once he defected it caused a bit of chaos, & was especially troublesome in the sense that as far as the canon goes, the KG isn’t something you just walk away from, hence the tattoos, its to the death, not only that but a high-ranking leader such as torn saying “screw it, Praxis is corrupt” & ditching really does NOT bode well for both public & private image. So in order to remedy this Torn was smeared as a coward & a traitor & a higher rank was applied, & Erol was naturally chosen to fill it. Erol, who was already pretty well liked due to his race-star status & potentially “trusted” by the public as a result meant that Erol taking over in such a way & thus helping spread the word that Torn was just a cowardly traitor made the story that much easier to swallow & helped to pacify both the public & the Guard.
This gave Erol more control over the KG & the city, & Praxis more control overall since Erol was basically just a younger extension of himself. Which means, roughly by the timeline Erol has been Commander for around 4ish years in my headcanon & why Erol is considered as much a threat to & enemy of the underground as Praxis himself. You can’t really separate the two of them. Another thing that made my thoughts go this way was the KG tattoos. Now these seem to indicate rank, however, you cant just change your massive face tattoo as you level up. Normally, you’d think if these tattoo's had to do with rank, you’d have to get a pattern similar to Torn & Ashelin’s before you moved up to whatever “addition” was made to indicate Commander, that is IF the commander rank always existed. From what we saw, Ashelin & Torn seemed to have a similar tattoo pattern which makes sense as they were both top KG officers with the Rank of “Captain”. Erol on the other hand has a completely different tattoo pattern that doesn’t even resemble what Ashelin & Torn have going on. You would think if this is the tattoo you get when you level up to Captain, Erol would have had to have a similar tattoo before he made Commander. But he doesn’t. Its as if the Commander title was added just for him & thus his tattoo pattern is exclusive to him. So how it goes in my mind is Ashelin was promoted to take Torn’s place as the lead Captain, & the tattoo was slightly changed for her & Erol was placed directly into a higher role, which came with a completely different tattoo pattern all together & was no doubt a shit on Ashelin in the process & feels very Praxis to do tbh, given he clearly didn’t trust or favor his daughter.
While Erol may recognize Praxis as a little unstable, he doesn’t actually fault him because he believes in him & believes hes right in his approach to everything. & if hes wrong ? No hes not & Erol will make him right, because Erol as much looks at him as a father figure as it seems Praxis thinks of him as a son. Erol’s less about the ultimate good of the city & more about pleasing himself & impressing Praxis. Another thing to note in Erols motives for helping Praxis is that he really doesn’t seem to like Haven city that much. Sure, Erol’s fighting for his city & his people, to protect them from the metal-heads but he doesn’t seem to have a lot of love over-all for the city. In fact, he seems quite bitter toward it & doesn't seem to like many of the people in it which is why I headcanon that Erol came from a dodgy background as opposed to always being among the city elite. Which means unlike Ashelin, he cant look at the city or his hopes for it through rose-colored glasses.
For me this just explains why Erol, despite being looked at quite fondly by the general public, doesn’t really return the love & seems to be lone wolf outside of the KG troops he commands. He appears more for individuals (like Praxis & Keira ) than for the majority. Hes “protecting” the city & following Praxis orders not out of a love for it & its people, & a hope to create a better future, like Ashelin , but more because doing so is a necessity given the very real threat of the metal-heads busting in & killing everyone, himself included, otherwise. Because even if Erol doesn’t have a lot of love for everyone, he does have those few people he does care about & the metal-heads taking over was a guaranteed death sentence for everyone. As Kor, the metal-head leader described once the metal-heads take a city they kill & eat until no one is left. Being killed by metal-heads is thought of as the worst way to go.
Anyway, now that all that rambling is out of the way I was talking to @pertrahe earlier about AUs & since I’d rewrite a lot of JnD going into Jak 3 I was thinking of like alternative scenarios for Erol’s death bc tbh ND fucked this up & got a bit of pocket with it lmao. Like they knew killing him off was a dumb move & tried to bring him back right away & made a mess of the whole thing so alternative events for Erol: 1) Potentially attempts to fight the metal-heads with his own squad as he thought he could do during the start of the game, after Praxis death. Gets mauled half to death as a result. Though to keep the Dark Eco exposure which I kind of think is important going forward he could be involved in an explosion perhaps by trying to bait the metal-heads with the eco or something along those lines. The over-exposure to the Dark Eco attracts the Dark Makers & they decide to save & “rebuild” him. 2) Erol’s “death” happens as canon but we actually get more details on the aftermath including Keira being acknowledged as having sage abilities & being able to harness Green Eco to save him from death since Erol’s “accident” was a very public thing, lmao. Though maybe she should have let him die given he’s in a pretty sorry state of being & it gets worse. I like to think maybe Count Vegar had something to do with Erol suddenly being labeled “dead” & attempts to eject him from Haven Hospital & leave him somewhere to die, looking at him as possible threat to his own plans in spite of his condition, which similarly to 1, leads to the Dark Maker’s finding him & perhaps were the ones linking with the KG robots to “rebuild” him into a cyborg-nightmare that the alien from Virus 1999 would be proud of. (thats the peek aesthetic here, btw) We know that the Dark Makers were very technologically advanced & they had some weird control over cybernetics. Though they dont really explain it in the game we can at LEAST assume this is how Erol’s canon counterpart was able to “link” with the Dark Marker’s & maybe the massive over-exposure to Dark Eco made Erol appealing to them. Though we just don’t know how he got “resurrected” as a cyborg in the first place. Like there is just no info on any of that, this is just me speculating & how I’d probably work toward explaining it in AUs / rewrites because I’m def not sticking to canon after Jak 2 regardless. Theres also a 3rd option in Erol never getting exploded at all & maybe just putting aside his ISSUES to work with the underground to stop Praxis from trying to blow up the whole city cos thats a bit extra. Like Erol would have fought with Praxis to the death but he probably wouldn’t want to go as far as blowing up the entire city & himself. He might be torn over it because Erol does follow Praxis logic but at the same time he held this personal glimmer of hope that it didn’t need to come to that & they could defeat the metal-heads. Again, Erol was quite convinced he could put up a good enough fight himself. But anyway, something happening in regards to Erol living long enough to find out Praxis actually planned to blow up all of them in an effort to take the metal-heads with them. I don’t know. I love the fact I have the real, canon based potential for a gory horror cyborg Erol but the way canon did it sucked so bad ! So I’m def down for exploring all the possible alternative options.
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No rping, just neurodivergent info dumps. This is from a response I made explaining my thoughts on Wesker & motivations he has + why that I am sharing publicly as I think its very important to my blog & portrayal. Going WARN upfront that the N*zi party is mentioned. Just briefly touching on something Capcom said. I also want to make it very clear that I DO NOT support Wesker’s views, I don’t think its cool to kill a vast majority of the population because things suck or anything like that, lmao & I don’t believe in the eco-fascistic ways or the eco/bio terrorism he employs to achieve & enforce his goals against all human kind ━ I do not condone it, like OBVIOUSLY, however I don’t believe Wesker believes in what Spencer did in the exact way he did & so this post is merely an explanation of Why Wesker’s Like That Deluxe Edition. Do not take this post as excusing his actions, sympathising with him or whatever, its only an explanation for WHY & a reference for how that works on this blog / my portrayal. ONCE AGAIN please continue reading with caution because as mentioned this post may briefly touch on some sensitive stuff & also touches on some popular discourse within the fandom.
So, anyway Wesker's Uroboros bullshit is “interesting” for a lack of a better term in the sense that I'm not sure he was doing it for the same reason someone like Spencer was. I think something to note was how Spencer was just ... Extremely classist & racist. He hated most people because he viewed them as inferior to himself, due to being raised with extreme wealth & privilege. He had access to education & comfort that others did not, especially in his time, but instead of viewing this as a privilege granted to him by money he decided to view this as himself being inherently superior to everyone else because why take accountability for your privilege if it means acknowledging you’re not better than everyone else, you just have money. He was in an age where this kind of backward, hateful thinking was the norm. Because racists & rich people have been like that always, basically.
In a similar way to Excella, he thought himself to be superior to others out of pure arrogance & with Spencer particularly some very uncomfortably real world prejudice. Capcom tried to sort of “hide” a lot for the sake of game sales but initially, people like Spencer were supposed to represent real life backward ass eugenic ideals. Spencer’s own shit draws from the same places as the kind of shit Hitl*r & the N*zi party were on. It's admittedly a direct reference according to Capcom; the nonsense of the Ary*n race & "the superior men” is all there particularly emphasised from Spencer’s ideals. Capcom have said this is what they were going for; they’ve even gone on to say that Albert himself looks the way he does because of this concept of the “superior man” being a tall, blond hair, blue eyed, pale skinned individual that Spencer adhered to. Though Capcom did dial these things back a bit references & allegories for these things are still clear within the canon.
So yes. This is exactly what Spencer was going for. Wesker’s appearance is supposed to allude to what Spencer actually represents & what his intentions / goals really were. So while Spencer may have fully planned & intended for Wesker to look like that (& possibly for all the Wesker children to look like that) Wesker’s looks weren't Capcom condoning Spencer’s beliefs, just trying to clue us into the inspo behind his bullshit. This is also shown in Alex Wesker. It's not a coincidence that the only Wesker children we know of & get to see are two tall, white, blond people with blue eyes. Its also not a coincidence that the “straight” cis man was the apex of the whole fucked up project via capcom’s attempt to clue us into what Spencer represented. You can find implications of this same thing in characters like Alfred & Alexia Ashford, & again it is not a coincidence that ALL FOUR of these characters were literally created by Umbrella heads. Alfred & Alexia are literal test tube babies & Albert & Alex were the fruits of some supremely fucked up selective breeding programme.
As a result Umbrella, Spencer & anyone associated with that circle fetishized Wesker to an extreme because of what he represented to them--- but another thing to keep in mind is Wesker isn’t Spencer & the way in which Spencer actually failed is that he didn’t really make a copy of himself who, despite his best efforts, believed all the same messed up shit he did, or at least not in the same way.
This is how I personally come at things in my own take of Wesker, anyway, so though it is almost impossible for Wesker to not share some of Spencer’s ideas since they were literally programmed into him from birth & Wesker didn’t reject Spencer’s “New world” entirely, he tried to make it make sense BECAUSE, IN HIS MIND, stupid shit like being white or rich, for example, does not make you superior to any other human being. Wesker understands that. He does not champion for genocide toward a select group of humans because of some shallow prejudice. Nor did he intend to specifically, personally tailor people to look, think & act any certain way that he deemed “superior.” So no, Wesker himself does not hold the same views as Spencer in the racist, classist, messed up way, per se.
I think it's interesting how he talks about Alexia in his report & his own anger & annoyance he felt toward the higher ups of Umbrella & the other researchers for putting her on a pedestal just because of her family name + wealth. She hadn’t done jack shit for Umbrella to be applauded the way she was (Unlike William Birkin) but the researchers couldn’t get over her because she was from a well known, aristocratic family that had founded the company. You could even argue from things in Wesker’s report 2 that Wesker’s disillusionment with Umbrella & his ever growing contempt for it & its shit started as far back as his time in the training school which is something I personally believe, particularly due to his friendship with William Birkin, who is implied to not really fit the “Umbrella Mold” outside of his pure genius intellect. Further, Wesker is noted as one of the few among the Umbrella staff who found Spencer’s desire for a virus to infect all organic matter & the location of the Akrley lab as somewhere that could rapidly spread infection due to the high volume of organic matter the virus would infect, insane & dangerous.
This is literally where Wesker’s discomfort & suspicions toward Spencer personally began. He also talks in his little note about Uroboros being beautiful because it doesn’t discriminate based on shallow human prejudice. ( although we could say this is true of all viruses, which is a thing he romanticizes about them because he was born from some really backwards believes that he, himself, does not follow & as a biologist he finds to be quite stupid & shallow. But do keep in mind RE world science & real world science is not the same. )
Which we see with Excella. Excella believed she was worthy because she was beautiful, rich & powerful. But none of those things stopped her from mutating into a horrible monster. Urobous wouldn’t choose people based on how pretty, how rich they were. how white, or what their sexuality, gender or religious faith was ━ it would simply choose people it deemed right by unique / random genetic make up & this could be anyone of any gender, any faith, any sexuality, any race. In fact it is noted in canon that the only other humans who had achieved “god hood” in the “same” way Wesker had were black Africans. Thats a pretty sexy fuck you to a white s*premacist like Spencer.
Which is the major difference between Wesker & Spencer. Wesker's hatred of humanity doesn’t come from a sense of twisted privilege & prejudice, & its not directed specifically toward select individuals, even though he was basically born from this, due to being one of Spencer’s designer babies. Wesker didn’t grow up to believe skin colour or wealth made you inherently better or smarter. He doesn’t think there are people in the world that are superior to others because of shallow bias such as those. With Wesker It comes from a really weird sense of altruism cobbled together with extreme, contradictory pessimism from everything he’s experienced. Again not to excuse him or say he's a good person bc ultimately he’s very twisted, selfish & delusional & hes not coming back from that. If Wesker ever had a SLIM chance of being considered even “morally ambiguous” like someone like Ada it was lost when he betrayed S.T.A.R.S & lost his humanity.
However, Wesker has seen up close & personal the absolute horror humans are capable of inflicting on themselves & others & for the fucking stupidest reasons. He was essentially forced to participate in human experimentation as a child (16-17) to the ends of creating horrific B.O.W’s that would presumably be used by the world's militaries to wipe each other out. In the name of human pride, greed & prejudice. He believes that this is pretty much all humans have really done for hundreds of years. Kill each other, steal from each other, & fuck things up for the planet itself & every other creature that lives on it. He’s come to view humans as flawed, dangerous creatures that if left unchecked will destroy the world. However again, he's not trying to cull or cultivate any certain group of people because of a fucked up, racist sense of aesthetic, unlike Spencer & I cannot stress this enough because this is where the fandom fucks up for me.
Furthermore ! Of course, Wesker has been given power beyond comprehension. He calls himself a god to great mockery but if we’re being honest, what else does he have to compare himself to ? There is nothing like Wesker out there, particularly not anything known about at height of his activity & the time of his death. Moreover, I should mention again that the only “beings” like Wesker who ever existed where the “evolved” African “god Kings” of Ndipaya mythology. AGAIN This to me further illustrates the fact that Wesker himself doesn’t exactly adhere to White S*premist ideals & his entire existence is more a dunk on people like Spencer who did, as Wesker, a white man obtaining this status through the Stairway of the Sun, was so far an anomaly. Meanwhile we’re aware it wasn’t undocumented that black Africans were able to achieve god status through progenitor infection as per Ndipaya mythos, Wesker is the only white person who did “”naturally”, despite Spencer having lined up HUNDREDS of specially bred & selected candidates who carried his racist ass aesthetic.
I think this goes to show Wesker’s intentions with Uroborus ( A virus engineered directly from the progenitor ) was not to cleanse the world of any select race or races, but to instead wipe out the vast majority & leave only the “Most choice humans” ( his quote ) to evolve & inherit the earth. These humans would not just be white or share his “”personal DNA”” ( idk what ppl are talking about when they say Urobous was somehow only safe for Wesker’s DNA .... Its literally got nothing to do with Wesker’s DNA. It was JILL’s antibodies from her infection with T that was used to engineer it, but its not connected to her DNA specifically either. Thats not how viruses work. ) Anyway, Urobous was about individuals, not races. But I digress, Weskers powers are truly extraordinary. There's no way anyone gets power like what Wesker got & doesn’t crack in some way. If anything he was holding it together pretty well until his confrontation with Spencer & his discovery of the Wesker project which is what really sent him “over the edge” in my opinion.
None the less Wesker doesn’t believe he's doing something evil.
"Every day, humans come one step closer to self-destruction. I'm not destroying the world, I'm saving it!" "War and pestilence wherever you go! Nothing but loathsome humans!"
Some of the stuff he says in re5 when you fight him shows that Wesker thinks he's ultimately doing the right thing here. Again, he's given an insane power, him alone, of course he feels as if he SHOULD play god with it because everything up till now has shown him Humans Are A Danger To Themselves & Everything Else, plus he was groomed by Spencer & umbrella to believe in things like Might Makes Right & Survival Of The Fittest. He further doesn’t think of himself as god as a ruler, but as a creator.
In Wesker’s head he was chosen to be the Messiah, he is ��the hand of god who judges the corrupt humans & sorts the good from the bad or rather “the worthless from the worthy”; only he has the power to accomplish this & this is how he makes sense of that power & why he alone has it, & with Uroborus he has the tool to strip everything back to its basics & begin anew; "The human race requires judgment!" “The din of six billion screams will close the book on humanity's ignoble past.” The only humans that would be left alive by Uroborus would be those randoms who were genetically compatible with Uroborus & therefore “better” & again Uroborus wouldn’t discriminate on race, gender, sexuality, class or faith which is what we’re told via canon.
SO yeah, that is why the mass human extinction event lived in Wesker’s head & why he went that way. & while he's WRONG in his intentions, his motivations don’t exactly come from the same place as someone like Spencer's apparently did, HOWEVER, its not wrong to acknowledge & criticise Wesker’s character as a type of allegory for white s*premacy even if the character himself may not have believed in this in that particular way & thats not literally what the text of the story is displaying. Keeping in mind Wesker believed the human race as a whole was unworthy & he planned to allow the virus to choose which individuals had the correct genetic makeup to ‘evolve’ leaving the humanity he grew to hate behind.
My biggest criticism for the RE series is that in the RE universe it has been established there is humans who are “”superior”” to others, or at least its very easy to view it this way, which is what muddies the water when it comes to discourse about this. While the story with Wesker serves to show that these “superior” humans are not necessarily “Ary*n” & this doesn’t seem to have been Wesker’s belief, the science in the resident evil world is not real & doesn’t reflect real biology. HOWEVER, that also being said the RE universe has already demonstrated with Wesker & other characters who were able to “”evolve”” beyond humanity, that having genes compatible with the virus or parasite or what have you was pure luck & isn’t all its cracked up to be. There is almost no B.O.W characters, for all their gifted “”biological superiority”” who survive to live normal lives. Their minds & bodies are eventually destroyed by the virus/parasite/whatever. Even though Wesker was the closest thing the RE series ever had to reaching “”god hood”” aside from Mother Marinda, who was infected with a whole different thing, the virus was STILL destroying him. I intended to write a post about why I believed this was the case , outside of y’know, the innate horror in ones body being hijacked & co-opted by an invading force even if that force just happened to give you neat super powers for a short time, I just haven't got to it just yet. ( Update: I finally did it, here it is )
Wesker is an unhinged bioterrorist & shameless misanthrope to an extreme, but NO he’s actually not a white s*premacist, racist, or neo n*zi in my opinion or portrayal BUT yeah he is a delusional misanthrope, he is NOT a good person, & its perfectly fine for people to point out HIS CREATION BY SPENCER alludes to white s*premacist ideals because it truly does. Its not wrong for people to be uncomfortable with this either, imo.
He was designed & groomed by someone who had an underlying racist aesthetic & vision. While Wesker seemed to not believe in this vision in quite the same way I think it makes sense, from his POV, why he tried to co-opt the idea of lower humans & better humans, into “wicked primitive humans” vs an enlightened, evolved race of godlike beings who would rise from humanities ignorant & evil ashes to claim the earth & make it a better place. I also have to say that while Wesker seems to have good intentions, or at the very least he likes to think he does, the reality is he’s very selfish so I’m not saying this isn’t insane, out of touch & delusional, can’t stress this enough bc another thing I have written about & touched on briefly is the fact he basically never saw the good in humanity & was instead lead to view humans in a very negative light. Even when he was human, Wesker was deprived of much of the ability to actually associate with, relate to, & really BE a human. By the time Wesker was free of Umbrella, the damage had already been done & there are VAROUS events through canon that solidified Wesker’s views on humanity as opposed to allowing him to see more than what he had experienced & beyond the insidious idea that had been implanted in him during his time with Umbrella that there is no such thing as “good” people.
SO that being said I will never be sympathising for him or trying to portray him as someone who is “”worthy”” of “”redemption””, & I do not hope to portray him as someone good.
I study why he is what he is, why he thinks what he thinks, how its wrong & maybe “tragically” misinformed & thats kinda the purpose of this portrayal of him. Like I’m not gonna police people if Albert Wesker is their blorbo or whatever but don’t think I don’t know exactly what Wesker is.
I know the games. I know the canon. I understand the allegories, etc. Its fine if you take away anything different or feel uncomfortable with this character but I’m not in support of, excusing, or trying to support anything heinous or malicious. I’m just an rper & RE is one of my hyper-fixations & I am playing Wesker because he was a huge part of the series & I am good at playing shitty evil little men.
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(i sent this to your old wesker blog but only just saw you moved to here,sorry) In one of your posts about Wesker's views on gender and relationships, you mentioned he would parent a daughter quite differently to a son which I found interesting! Any more thoughts on how he would hypothetically be as a father?
OKAY SO DFJDFKDLF, mentioned a bit about this before but like in a nutshell Wesker kiiidna has some sort of out-dated views & suffers with toxic masculinity. Despite how smart Wesker is, these are just facts. He was raised in the 60s. He’s an actual fuckin boomer & while he would have been considered progressive, even, I dare say, feminist in his own time, he’s still got some outdated thoughts & behaviours. So, yeah, Wesker would be a lot harder on a son & more demanding of them. He expects them to succeed in life, he expects them to BE something. For a woman, or a daughter, that's just a fun optional extra, not a requirement or expectation. You ever seen Sing 2 ? Jimmy Crystal & Porsha Crystal would basically be Wesker with a daughter on so many levels. She would be the most spoiled little princess, getting everything she wanted handed to her the only string attached being that she doesn’t do anything to get in the way of dad’s hustle. But thats kinda just the thing. Like Jimmy & Porsha, a lot of her being so spoiled by daddy was just because he wasn’t that interested in like cultivating her as a person. He was more interested in himself, his image & his job. His parenting was here have everything you want, I love you, but I expect nothing of you as a person. This could easily be interpreted as Wesker being a great dad, just a soft guy who gives his little girl everything. But no ... Its not really that ideal given its kind of self serving in the end. With a son it would be so opposite yet so the same. He’d expect so much more & put more interest into building the person he wants them to be but less through like, genuine love & affection, because Wesker’s an emotionally constipated werido at the end of the day in both situations, more through strict curfew & demands. He would push his son to do more, study harder, strive toward success as a person; he’d want his son to be a little replica of him, to take after him, because in all situations Wesker is highly nepotistic. The whole point of a son to him would be to replace him if / when the time comes. Thats the guy Wesker is, unfortunately. I mean thats the theory, anyway, its possible that the practise could "change” him a bit & “improve” some of his behaviours & attitudes, but this would be his default approach in the idea of Wesker having kids & being somehow involved in raising them (not recommended though, imo SHFKKDF)
#⊰ ° ‧: 。* ⚘ 💀 ━◞ From The Mun ⊱#⊰ ° ‧: 。* ⚘ 💀 ━◞ 𝓜𝓾𝓼𝓮 ↝ Wesker ⊱#⊰ ° ‧: 。* ⚘ 💀 ━◞ 𝓗𝓮𝓪𝓭𝓬𝓪𝓷𝓸𝓷𝓼 ↝ Wesker ⊱#wesker headcanons#⊰ ° ‧: 。* ⚘ 💀 ━◞ 𝓕𝓪𝓷𝓭𝓸𝓶 ↝ Resident Evil ⊱#SORRY IF THIS DOESNT HELP ANSWER MORE OF THE QUESTION#:) he just sucks see like even when hes not sucking hes kind of sucking its his curse#like i dont think wesker could ever be an actually good dad bc hes... not even human anymore#everything he does is kinda fake#like on some level theres no real emotional depth or love to it he cant do that anymore#things might be different if we're talking human wesker but he still has toxic masculinity & shit#ITS SO COMPLICATED Skfkdfldf#but anyway jdfkdkf
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Okay so this is a headcanon post but first & foremost it is a rambling about the AU I’m installing for Erol as main verse for the back end of Jak 2 & going into Jak 3 because we in the fandom can all agree Jak 2 was great but 3 had some problems & if ND wanted to bring Erol back like they did some things need to change so heres the quick & dirty version, some things may be subject to change as I think about them more & go through the games more: I think I like the idea of Erol getting severely mauled by metalheads as opposed to trying to take Jak out in the championship. This gives a ton of foreshadowing to Erol’s earlier conversation with Praxis & the fact that Praxis tells Erol he attempted to take the metalhead nest when he was younger so he knows full well that such an act could only result in death / dismemberment, as he lost most of his face to the metalheads back then. We know that soon after Jak wins the championship everything starts going to hell fast. In this AU or rather “canon reboot”, this still happens, only with Erol not crashing into eco & instead he & the other KG attempt to apprehend Jak as per the Baron’s orders, only for him to escape like in canon. Between Praxis death & the metalheads beginning to get into the city, Erol & an elite force of KG troops proceed face off against them, again paralleling Erol’s conversation with the Baron during the start of the game. This doesn’t go to plan, just as warned & they’re brutally killed during the battle. Jak eventually finds Erol - or rather whats left of him - before the fight / confrontation with Kor. Its presumed Erol will soon die given the condition hes in & its not as if Jak could do anything to help him except step up to fight Kor himself. When the others arrive upon Kor’s defeat they also find Erol who to some shock & horror due to his his injuries is still alive & has possibly witnessed the battle between Kor & dark!Jak. He is rushed back to the hospital in the city where he remains & due to his grim condition & probably long road to recovery Ashelin instates Torn as the new KG ( Or the re-branded “Freedom league” ) Commander in his absence. Erol soon disappears from the hospital, however, entering Jak 3. And also insert my previous ideas of Count Vrger being the one to try and eliminate him by ordering he be dumped somewhere outside the city. We know the Dark makers were very technologically advanced which makes perfect sense given they were once Precursors & we know Precursors were technological masters who built robots to aid them & used mech-suits to hide their true forms. Theres not too much on the Dark makers in canon other than that the were once Precursors but Dark Eco fucked them up, & it seems over time they have all become twisted, bio-mechanical monsters, literally fusing with the machines they built to aid them.
The idea is that they were able to link up with & take over the KG robots, which Erol had been overseeing production of to supplement the living-blood KG troops in the war against the metal-heads, but were pushed to the background in favor of the Dark Warrior program that the Baron insisted on after Onin foretold of Jak’s arrival in the city. Taking over these robots they “abducted” Erol & “rebuilt” him in the hopes to use him as their Commander on the planet in preparation for their hostile take over. Erol being pretty damn agreeable to this given he wants his position in the city back & he wants to get a piece of Jak because he blames him for running his life & doesn’t see Jak as a hero but as a self-serving monster, much like he has become or perhaps always was to some extent ! Difference being Erol thinks he’s the one in the right here as he has the rightful claim to Haven City, to rule over it as the new Baron, just like he was suppose to & Jak’s in the god damn way.
& here are a few other misc little tidbits of info for the verse:
The Dark Makers / Precursors vs Metalheads were taking heavy ass inspo visually, aesthetically & functionally from the Alien franchise this I’m very sure of, in the sense that the Dark Makers / Precursors represent the Engineers & the Metalheads are the Xenomorph & therefore they have a similar history in the sense that Metalheads are actually biologically engineered weapons who were genetically / cybernetically modified by the Dark Makers as terraforming tools to use against the Precursors that got way out of hand / control hence why the Mentalheads were cited as the destroyers of Precursor civilization, who had been warring with the Precursors for untold centuries & shared almost too many similarities with the Dark Makers in aesthetic & purpose for anyone to be content with them being two entirely separate fractions with the Dark Makers also just randomly warring with the Precursors because it actually makes no sense inside of the Jak 3 narrative until you look at it from this context. Nextly, something else I just wanted to mention:
Funnily enough, outside of Erol’s antagonizing of Jak, Jak doesn’t really seem to have any beef with Erol. He’s literally just defending himself & tbqh hes not as idk, aggressive about it as you wouldn’t think he should be. Which is interesting, like one would think Jak would have more clapback for Erol, so to speak, given he vowed revenge on everyone who tortured him over the last two years & we know Jak doesn’t seem to show much of the same reserve when he encounters Praxis himself. It seems that Erol should be one of the people hes desperate to throw hands with, especially if he was as involved in the Dark Warrior program as extensively as it seems. Yet, Jak seems to only identify the culprit as Baron Praxis. Which could be just that Jak knows that the entire program was Praxis idea & thus he gets the blame but I just think its interesting that he doesn’t seem to have that fury toward Erol, who was Praxis enforcer & was at LEAST present for Jak’s last Eco treatment.
I mean, that being said its possible Jak was just, idk, afraid of Erol, more than of Praxis, because looking at it from another direction its possible Praxis, being the head of the city & having better things to do, probably wasn’t present for all Jak’s Eco treatments, only the last one himself. ( The later of which I think is probably true ) The same could be said about Erol, though, & I dont think Erol was the one injecting Jak with Dark Eco either. But I feel like even if he wasn’t Jak’s torturer he was his captor & probably had more to do with the prison via Praxis orders than Praxis himself because as the right hand I’m pretty sure Erol got all the “important” jobs from escorting & acting as the Barons personal body guard, to the way more dirty stuff like, as we did see in canon, being tasked with the disposal / execution of the failed experiments & I suppose anyone else who Praxis deemed no longer worth while.
So it would probably make sense if Jak had more caution toward Erol than of Praxis because he knew what Erol was actually capable of & basically to stay out of his way as much as possible. I mean, Ashelin does warn him as much as well. This being said, I dont Erol took time to personally bother Jak in prison either, because he would have had so many other things to be doing at any given time,
Like, imo, is kinda funny to me to think of how much shit Erol’s apparently doing, like multitasking king, hes gotta be a jack of all trades at this point. He races, he fights, he guards, he enforces, he chairman’s for Praxis against members of the council like Veger, he oversees important experiments, when the man said he runs the city he wasn’t kidding, hes probably more running the city than Praxis is, at least in the hands on department. Its also funny cause Erol’s probably not qualified for half of that, especially not for running complicated experiments on prisoners. If he was it would imply that Erol’s both a scientist & some sort of Dark Eco expert & while I def think Erol was doing things via Praxis orders he probably wasn't really qualified to do & def learned plenty about Dark Eco in the process, I actually don’t think Praxis or Erol were overly present in Jak’s Eco treatments. I feel like most of the time it was carried out by a computer & by random guards. Sometimes Erol was present as an observer to report back to Praxis, sometimes not. We know they had recordings of Jak’s treatments which was probably for later study & observation. We also know it SEEMS they were carried out by a robot so the whole process was probably just take Jak to the lab, stab him to the device, turn it on & hope for the best. Don’t know why there wasn't more, idk qualified personnel present. They either didn't exist & what needed to be done was programmed into the AI / Robot that does the “injections”, or were possibly somewhere else maybe manually controlling the robot. So yeah, all that might explain why Jak doesnt seem to have the intense hatred for Erol that he has toward Praxis.
#⊰ ° ‧: 。* ⚘ 💀 ━◞ Out Of Character ⊱#⊰ ° ‧: 。* ⚘ 💀 ━◞ 𝓜𝓾𝓼𝓮 ↝ Erol ⊱#⊰ ° ‧: 。* ⚘ 💀 ━◞ 𝓗𝓮𝓪𝓭𝓬𝓪𝓷𝓸𝓷𝓼 ↝ Erol ⊱#erol headcanons#⊰ ° ‧: 。* ⚘ 💀 ━◞ 𝓕𝓪𝓷𝓭𝓸𝓶 ↝ Jak and Daxter ⊱#im so sorry this asshole has taken over my blog lately u_u#i get hard brain rot for him once every year or two#yes i live like this
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Here we go, a few more Frieza things. Continuing from the last post.
Frieza is not a lizard, they're actually not reptilian at all. I sometimes liken them to a snake or a lizard, because visually they appear similar, but they are actually not related to either creature in any way. Frieza is from an entirely different evolutionary chain, despite visual similarities with reptiles. Some other things on Earth that resemble them would be tardigrades, henneguya salminicola, & particularly creatures in the cnidaria family which they share some anatomical & vaguely reproductive similarities with.
In my headcanon, Frieza's home planet was called Wyntara. I haven’t decided what I'm calling their race yet, "Frost Demon" is popular but I haven't decided if thats the official name or just something they're called by other species who aren't sure of their name/origin. Personally, I really like the name “arcosian” for Frieza’s race but whats canon & whats not around this seems to be up in the air so in order to kind of tie both things together with my own headcanons, I’m gonna say both arcosian & “Frost Demon” are valid, with Frost Demon being what Frieza’s people have been called by races who were made familiar with them through their conquests & less through knowing them before they were reduced to glorified space pirates.
I imagine Frieza’s home planet to have been beautiful, but in a completely otherworldly kind of way. Its popular to imagine their planet like some kind of snowy tundra but I'm taking a different approach. I imagine their planet was quite dark & bioluminescent flora & funa was not uncommon. The only scenery on Earth I could possibly liken it to is a vibrant, phosphorescent coral reef in a deep, dark ocean.
I imagine the dark & alien atmosphere of their home planet is responsible for many of the unique traits Frieza's race posses. This namely including their natural bioluminescence & the ability Frieza’s kind has to survive in a vacuum. I also follow the idea that Frieza has bluish, metallic blood & their inner anatomy is quite different to, say, a sayian, who aren’t too different from humans. Frieza’s race on the other hand share more similarities with Namaks than humans. Again, Frieza’s race apparently don’t need oxygen making them anaerobic. I also imagine their inners to contain mesenchyme again very much like jellyfish, for example. They also have similarities with caecilian, including occasional annuli & strong “bony” structures that form their horns. The texture of their bodies is similarly silky & shiny as opposed to being rough or scaly. On their native planet Frieza's people wore minimum “clothing”, instead relying on their natural bio-armour for protection. What they did wear tended to be silk-like & flowy, invoking the aesthetic of fins on a fish or the bodies of jellyfish floating in the ocean. Everything about them in their natural habit came across as ethereal. Jewelry was also common, usually corresponding / complimenting their natural “bio-gems.” Naturally, the more adornments they possessed, the higher they were in class / status.
#⊰ ° ‧: 。* ⚘ 💀 ━◞ Out Of Character ⊱#⊰ ° ‧: 。* ⚘ 💀 ━◞ 𝓜𝓾𝓼𝓮 ↝ Frieza ⊱#⊰ ° ‧: 。* ⚘ 💀 ━◞ 𝓗𝓮𝓪𝓭𝓬𝓪𝓷𝓸𝓷𝓼 ↝ Frieza ⊱#frieza headcanons#toriyama gave the bare minimum for me to go insane with#anyway this is all relevant and important#⊰ ° ‧: 。* ⚘ 💀 ━◞ 𝓕𝓪𝓷𝓭𝓸𝓶 ↝ Dragon Ball ⊱
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Thinking about my favorite awful alien, so heres a headcanon drop !
The reason we hardly see anyone from Frieza’s race outside of their family in the main timeline is because they’re almost extinct. Much like the saiyans, Frieza’s people are rare, few and far between and in current day its believed those who do still live are part of Frieza’s family. ( This is obviously with the exclusion of those from Alternate dimensions or time hoppers & so on. Though the universe is huge, it wouldn’t be a stretch to say there are others out there somewhere, just to be friendly to all the OCs in the fandom. ALSO note these are just MY personal headcanons & they dont have to be followed ! I know they are completely outside of fanon norm. )
Frieza’s family was the ‘royal’ bloodline of their species. This was due to the mutation they possessed which caused abnormally & overwhelmingly high power levels at birth. Frieza & their “father”, King Cold, were particularly potent examples of this. This mutation does not effect everyone in their family as Cooler is not considered to posses the mutant gene. This gene granted them favor among their family & species given the high power levels it gave them & thus what forged the “royal” line.
Frieza’s species were very similar to the saiyans in the way that they valued strength among all else & often considered things such as kindness & love to be a weakness. However, while the saiyans were considered barbaric, Frieza’s kind were thought of as aristocratic. They were galactic snobs of epic proportions who looked down upon most other races throughout the cosmos. There were little tears shed for their apparent destruction. Though, there are very few creatures in the galaxy long lived enough to recall any of this. In present day, Frieza’s kind are looked upon as a type of unicorn or mythical creature. However, thanks to the notorious actions of Frieza’s “modern” family line they are also pretty well feared.
The exact specifics of what happened to Frieza’s species is unknown ( Translation: I haven’t decided the exact details, but yes, Beerus was involved. ) Not even Frieza has any idea what exactly happened to their kind. King Cold does not speak of it, if hes are aware of what actually happened. It seems to be considered a shameful event & thus not spoke or thought of. Frieza, in general, knows little of their own kind, their culture & the like. Frieza was born long after their near extinction. What little Frieza does know is passed down from Cold & it would seem Cold’s knowledge is also second hand. King Cold is thought of as the current eldest living member of their kind. However, again, its possible not even he is old enough to have ever lived naturally on their home planet. Its suggested the event that lead to their near extinction happened even before Cold was born, given Chilled was already functioning as a space pirate during his own time & he far proceeds King Cold.
The planet trade organisation was founded by & has been maintained by Frieza’s family & kind after their own world was destroyed. Control of this immense galactic, criminal empire was passed down for generations before landing in Frieza’s hands. The organisation was founded after Frieza’s species home planet was destroyed & the aliens realized there was a profit to be made in conquering & selling planets to similarly “homeless” aliens. With their unchallenged power levels, they were able to pull this off. It is thought however, that originally, the survivors of Frieza’s kind attempted to settle & trade peacefully with other planets as refugees but found every attempt they made to be met with hostility. Growing impatient, eventually the “Frost Demons” started to take what they needed by force, exterminating any opposition.
Again, Frieza’s race are exceptionally long lived. Frieza themselves is at least 60 years old in humans years, though appears to be little more than a matured adult psychically. Frieza was roughly 16 when they were given the title of Emperor of the planet trade organisation & this was a gift to them by Cold. Needless to say it was one hell of a sweet 16. However its also true that Frieza demanded this, so it wasn’t done at random & King Cold has always helped Frieza maintain the organisation from the shadows, even as an “adult” Frieza has co-controlled the planet trade organisation alongside Cold & Cold is respected as & considered as much of its “owner” as Frieza.
Frieza’s race are “simultaneous hermaphrodites.” Their race did not have separate sexes very much like the Banana slugs of earth. Friezas’ people do have a sense of gender expression but it varies from individual to individual. Some express more masculine, others more feminine, then there are some that remain in-between / undefined. Frieza tends to be androgynous, though is also known to lean somewhat femininely. They were able to both reproduce asexually or sexually. Cooler was born from the union between Cold and a mate who’s name was Krisp. Cold was ultimately disappointed that Cooler did not posses the mutant gene & was considered a ‘normal’ child. Thus, it was believed that as a result Cold could never have a proper heir in Cooler.
What happened to Cold’s mate is unknown. Its possible they were killed in their line of business. They would have been Frieza’s parent as well had this not occurred but due to this event & Cold’s discontent with Cooler’s lack of their prized ‘mutant’ gene, thinking of him as a poor choice for an heir Cold chose to have another child, thus created Frieza asexually. This was considered a great success, given Frieza was in fact born with the mutant gene, something that was pretty much guaranteed.
Cooler is at least 10 years older than Frieza. Due to Cooler’s non-mutant status, he had to train hard to keep up with Frieza’s natural born abilities. Cooler did in fact train hard enough to keep up with his baby sibling, however it never seemed to be enough for Cold. As a result there is definitely a strong rivalry between the two siblings & a deep bitterness Cooler feels toward King Cold & Frieza. Frieza was never really ‘good’ or ‘kind’, they were not ‘made’ evil. Frieza’s species for me take a lot of inspiration from reptiles. They are born - or perhaps ‘hatched’ - formed & intelligent, not like a typical infant, much like a baby lizard leaves its egg- able to fend for itself for the most part. From “birth” Frieza was considered exceptionally powerful. Their callous & wicked temperament was very heavily encouraged by their parent, although Frieza was also feared by Cold. They were not ‘abused’ or neglected in any typical sense that might serve to ‘excuse’ Frieza’s behavior.
That said, “love” & “affection” seem to be very muted in Frieza’s life. King Cold was not exactly cruel to them in any way, but his affection was more or less given by spoiling Frieza with material wealth & praise & as a result Frieza has little concept of actual affection, particularly on a psychical & emotional level. Its foreign & uncomfortable to them to witness or experience those type of emotions. That being said Frieza obviously has some kind of care for their Father which extends in some way to their brother despite their fierce rivalry. What largely formed Frieza into the “monster” they are is lies more in their nature. Frieza is not human, does not conform to human standards of culture/behavior/morality & is from an entirely separate evolutionary chain. It also should be noted that Berryblue was Frieza’s nanny of sorts, she guided & cared for them & perhaps spent more actual time with them then their actual parent from their birth, on to present day. As a result she seems to have a closeness to Frieza no other creature has ever had. They would not call her a ‘mother’ or be caught likening her to one for a number of reasons ( despite the true likeness ), however, but she holds a “rank” no one else outside of Frieza’s class or species could ever posses as a result.
#⊰ ° ‧: 。* ⚘ 💀 ━◞ Out Of Character ⊱#⊰ ° ‧: 。* ⚘ 💀 ━◞ 𝓜𝓾𝓼𝓮 ↝ Frieza ⊱#⊰ ° ‧: 。* ⚘ 💀 ━◞ 𝓗𝓮𝓪𝓭𝓬𝓪𝓷𝓸𝓷𝓼 ↝ Frieza ⊱#frieza headcanons#⊰ ° ‧: 。* ⚘ 💀 ━◞ 𝓕𝓪𝓷𝓭𝓸𝓶 ↝ Dragon Ball ⊱#I have so many more of these but I have to dig them up cos Ive most actively wrote frieza on twitter LMFAO
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Sasori’s nb & considers himself agender to be precise. He accepts all pronouns but he/him pronouns are used most frequently. In all aspects Sasori has gone out of his way to liken himself as much to a doll or “ puppet ” as possible & this is perhaps another reflection of that process. Though he is uncannily life like in all other ways, in part attributed to being built from a real human base, no, he hasn’t actually bothered with anatomical correctness. Reason being that he finds this to be just pointless to his ~aesthetic~.
Furthermore, while Sasori is comfortable projecting certain aspects of masculinity, he typically teeters over to more feminine aspects frequently & preferably. Appearance wise, Sasori does not like to look like a man as such. A very pretty young boy is as far as he's comfortable with as far as male presentation goes. He prefers to look feminine & doll like & as he sees himself as more youthful & beautiful this way, so his overall appearance can be rather ambiguous. The best way to describe Sasori’s appearance is young & angelic with no completely obvious gender on either side.
In line with the above, no, Sasori has never had any romantic flames in any way. Sasori lived most of his life, even while human, isolated from others. His great skill set him apart from any in his age group & his mastery of puppets frequently othered him further, given in Suna puppet users were often considered oddities in the first place. ( Which I believe was suggested with Kankuro ) Dire loneliness was one of the overarching factors that warped his psyche. Kumoshi was the only living person in Suna who treated Sasori like a human being, & not a form of object, be it a weapon to serve the village or a column on a pedestal only to be looked up to. Since then, the only other living people Sasori has found comfort & a sense of kinship with are the Akatsuki. His loyalty to the organisation is truly genuine.
Sasori has no filter, he’s extremely blunt no matter who he is speaking to. Besides Itachi he is one of the members of Akatsuki who talks the least, however in stark contrast to Itachi he isn’t ever polite about it. If Sasori has something to say he’ll say it regardless to what anyone thinks about it. Canonly, almost everyone BUT Sasori was prone to using honorifics when speaking to others. Sasori rarely ever used them. ( Never to my knowledge ) Where as Itachi almost always used them. He has ZERO qualms when it comes to cutting others down, using harsh / foul language & can be particularly insulting when he wants to be. Sasori will read you for fifth at a moments notice. Its a talent he has.
While he was able to eat Sasori’s favourite food was MAPO DOUFU. He tended to enjoy spicy dishes the best. He also had a massive sweet tooth & was a fan of all sweets, particularly those in the caramel family. On top of that, Sasori was & is a decent cook, contrast to his grandma who wasn’t fond of the culinary side of things which pushed him to take an interest in this himself, especially if he wanted to eat a proper meal at any point. It should be noted that while Sasori no longer needs to eat he does actually still sleep. This is not so much done to recover physical stamina but rather mental stamina & to pass the time. Sasori may not have a body to keep recharged anymore but he still has a consciousness, which does still benefit from sleeping.
Sasori’s mother & father had never planned for him to become a shinobi. They did not want that life for their child & had kept him majorly away from it while they were alive. After their deaths, however, Chiyo taught Sasori puppetry to cheer him up. It worked for a short time but Sasori’s talent became obvious to all around him which resulted in the council of Sunagakure pushing Chiyo to train Sasori for combat, due to their desire not to waste this talent when they believed their village was struggling. Chiyo reluctantly agreed & Sasori proved to be as talented in battle as he was in the workshop.
Sasori is in fact distantly related to Chikamatsu Monzaemon, which is precisely how the Chikamatsu’s collection wound up in Chiyo’s possession, having been passed down their family for generations. As a child, Sasori was occasionally referred to as “Chikamatsu’s second coming”, or “Chikamatsu reborn” in acknowledgement to his prodigal talents, something which he took great pride in as he always studied & idolised the man. Even to this day if Sasori was given the option to face anyone dead or alive in a friendly battle of skill Chikamatsu would be his choice without hesitation.
Another, probably more controversial headcanon I have is that Sasori is also in fact related to an unknown member of the Uzumaki clan. This is known possibly only by Chiyo however. Sasori’s grandfather was never given any identity in the series that I know of & as far as we saw he didn’t get his bright red hair from his grandmother. Chiyo also makes no reference to any husband or indication that she ever had one leaving Sasori’s grandfather a complete mystery. Taking the known traits of the Uzumaki clan relatives we know of and applying them to Sasori does make a lot of sense in my opinion, particularly when I think of the amount of Chakra Sasori was able to effortlessly expel and his precise control of it even at such huge quantities I think this is most clearly demonstrated in both Sasori’s 100 puppet performance technique & his living core, which I would think is mostly logically the result of a type of macabre Fūinjutsu. As for Sasori’s grandfather I haven't named him or given him any type of personality in my HC but I do HC Chiyo possibly met him during the second war & had a relationship with him then. I believe this has always been kept a secret, whether or not Chiyo knew his origins.
A little bit on Sasori’s core: As stated this is quite literally Sasori. The cylinder seen in his chest is Sasori’s actual form & contains all of his consciousness & life force, making it generally sentient. It is able to move itself in a somewhat psychokinetic manner. Technically, Sasori’s core is able to “merger” with whatever organic material it comes in contact with, allowing Sasori’s spirit/lifeforce to possess it & Sasori does have consciousness & control over what his core targets. In theory, this could mean Sasori could posses a still living human, however the tendrils that protrude from the cylinder are short & are not designed for grappling with living things that might seek to reject its presence. This is also why Sasori’s shell bodies all have a special space carved out for the core to slide in nicely & take control.
The shells that hold Sasori’s physical likeness are really just that ━ shells, of which he has created numerous in his former image, as shown briefly during his battle with Chiyo & Sakura. Sasori’s original body, however, is the one he was shown fighting in & it only differs from his human puppets due to his own design, which is why Sasori considers himself his greatest masterpiece as he is the closest to a living puppet there ever has been in any way. Unlike his “human puppets” Sasori initially appears completely lifelike & with the exception of eating & breathing, behaves lifelike as well. He has even taken measures to camouflage any obvious joints that might be visible outside of his Akatsuki robes with a layer of what would be best described as a type of “skin” over top. This is why Sasori’s fingers, wrists & toes do not appear to have puppet like joints as his human puppets do & why his skin doesn’t take on that greyish “dead” appearance they do either.
In some places, however, it was shown Sasori hasn’t bothered to hide his joints or his obvious puppet parts as they are concealed by his cloak. This was also due to using his body as a battle puppet, fitted with deadly weapons & simplifying himself for repairs & additions. If he wanted however, he could have made his puppet body look exactly the same as his human body with absolutely no obvious joints & free of weapons entirely. The difference merely being the lack of a sign he is actually alive. ( Body heat, breath ect ) & since I like to use pieces of the game’s canon in my portrayal, I do imagine Sasori’s body had been in this more entirely “human looking” state once before, before he decided to alter himself to add weapons, to explain why there was no visible sign of him being a “puppet” when confronted by Konan to join the Akatsuki despite the fact that at that point he should have already been converted.
Sasori’s desire to collect puppets would very much go into the realms of compulsive hording if the Naruto world didn’t have that handy little thing called scrolls where you can just instantly & infinitely store items, + Sasori’s always forced to move around being a criminal & all so he never gets settled anywhere. As things are now, of course, Sasori’s “”collecting”” is dark in the sense that it combines a serial killer & trophy taking kind of angle which would slow down MOST normal people outside of Naruto’s world but since death & killing is almost considered a norm, Sasori is just as able to freely acquire mass amounts of human puppets the same way he would able to acquire Barbie dolls in our wold. The only things limiting his collecting is the hunt & the “materials” he can find & deem worthy.
Sasori can be very picky, he wont just convert ANY shinobi into a human puppet for his collection, he prefers strong shinobi with interesting jutsu so obviously that limits what he can collect for either unavailability or the challenge of having to kill that shinobi – though, nearly 300 puppets later, obviously killing them hasn’t been THAT MUCH of a challenge to Sasori. After proving himself the victor, Sasori feels himself entitled to collect that person. He would not find the “piece” as valuable or as desired if he couldn’t face & defeat them in battle, meaning Sasori almost never makes puppets out of anyone he hasn’t personally confronted & killed himself. Furthermore, Sasori does not consider this an evil, twisted act but rather quite the opposite. To Sasori this is a show of utmost honour & respect to them & their abilities. In his mind he’s immortalising them, so they will “live” forever, never broken or defeated again.
Regardless, he does sometimes “convert” shinobi who aren't strong. These are literally spare parts. As his puppets are “human” the only materials that aren't human are the weapons & mechanisms within them. To do that he needs human parts to work with as well . Sasori likes to keep his materials organic as much as possible.
I believe Sasori’s death was certainly linked to the amount of puppets he lost. His fight with Sakura & Chiyo essentially laid waste to his life’s work & Sasori’s puppets have always been more important to him than just pieces of art he's proud of. They're… A condition. The manifestation of a severely damaged psyche & trauma. They’re a coping mechanism. Since he was a child creating puppets was how he distracted himself from his sadness & loss & really existed to fill that void. I don’t think Sasori really took the loss of over 15 YEARS of tireless work, dedication & attachment as well as it seemed. I think it was…. Very hard for him to watch his favourite puppets completely destroyed & with most of his collection wrecked I believe he began to feel the only comfortable outcome for himself was to “die” with them & so when the opportunity presented itself Sasori simply allowed it, keeping in mind Sasori would have been the victor had he chose to be.
Puppets of course aren’t the only thing Sasori has in his collection. He also obviously collects poisons / toxins & the equipment to make all of these things, from the poisons to the puppets. He has a fascination for bugs & creepy crawlies so he has some preserved bug specimens as well + a little bug collection. Then being an artist he also tends to have various things for artistic mediums beside JUST making puppets. Another one of Sasori’s most important artistic mediums is drawing. He has a few sketch books, one in particular which is rather large & slightly tatty showing its age. These books are full of deigns for Sasori’s puppets, including their mechanisms & brief notes on how they will work & other things. He makes sure not to go too much in detail however as he prefers to keep his puppets secret weaponry just that.
He doesn’t create a puppet without a good design in mind, especially for how he can best utilise the puppet’s human traits. He often has to make special mechanisms to get a human puppets particular kekkei genkai working at the same level it would when that puppet was still alive. Sasori likes to have all this planned out before he begins working for convenience sake, he at least likes to have a rough map for what components he’ll need to access & utilise those special abilities, as often he can add other things later & usually does when he feels a spurt of inspiration or thinks he's had a good idea. Sasori’s artistic style is very hyper realistic, he likes to get everything as perfect & precise as possible which he's very capable of given his extensive anatomical knowledge. Sasori will also make designs of people who… Aren’t dead. Many of his fellow Akatsuki members he's already made design plans for with very detailed & descriptive images. This would probably be seen as threatening if discovered but Sasori doesn’t exactly see it that way. Its really just like drawing someone a portrait of themselves to him & as far as his fellow Akatsuki members go no, he doesn’t really plan to ‘act’ on making them into puppets for now, he's simply imagining what they'd be like as puppets.
Typically, Sasori will start “designing” someone he finds interesting as a puppet the moment he meets them & if he decides he likes them enough he will eventually start putting his designs to paper. Again this would be seen as frightening & threatening to most normal people really it should be taken as flattering or complimentary. To be designed in one of Sasori’s sketch books Is Sasori’s weird way of saying he likes you or he respects you / admires your power & thinks you deserve to be ‘eternal’.
Sasori & Chiyo had a rather serious fight prior to Komushi’s death. This was the product of Sasori confronting Chiyo about lying to him about his parents deaths for all those years & Chiyo defending this by claiming she wanted to spare him the pain & Sasori arguing against what he felt were hypocrisies. It went on like this, Chiyo defending the village’s ( and her own ) decisions. Sasori was already kind of suffering selective mutism at this point & this didn’t really help. The communication between them wasn’t very fruitful or satisfactory for either of them. This resulted in Sasori opting to “move out” in a way as he decided to retreat to suna’s puppet workshop & stay there, avoiding his grandma as much as possible. This is why Komushi started acting as a messenger between him & Chiyo since the two were not speaking. This went on for a number of months, I would go as far as to say nearing a year, but Sasori’s mental state wasn't thought of as dire as it was due to the fact Sasori was though of as just naturally quiet & Chiyo herself noted Komushi was Sasori’s only real friend so his absolute withdrawal was not entirely thought of as unusual or noticed too much until too late.
I always found Chiyo recounting past events in ep 319 really strange since her & Sasori are shown to have this awkward standoffish relationship despite the fact we’re not shown any clear reason for it. We’re not sure why they seem to be avoiding each other otherwise but this is my explanation & to me looking at it this way it makes sense why Chiyo felt so responsible for Sasori’s collapse as she says she distanced himself from him when he needed love by allowing him to withdraw away & essentially encouraging it as she did the same. Her attempts to make peace with Sasori were there but since they weren't direct Sasori did not interpret them as such & he was already hurt & angry that she had lied to him all those years.
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You know, actually, I realise I was talking earlier about villains & their motivations & all that & I just gotta say tbh Wesker is probably one of my “least” valid muses in terms of his motivations because while he can definitely put his views across in an understandable way, a way that may even make you think he’s more-or-less “right”, there’s really a lot more going on with Wesker than what meets the eye.
In fact, I would probably say Wesker’s not really as concerned about humanity as he thinks, deep down, but he is using humanities very real follies as a justification for his own hatred which doesn’t come from any “valid” place. Being that Wesker’s “hatred” is a result of his loss of humanity.
So while Wesker’s right about some things he’s not entirely doing what he's doing for the reasons he claims. He has convinced himself “thats” why hes doing it, because it sounds “good” & in ways it makes a degree of sense from an intellectual perspective, but the underlying problem with Wesker is that he's insane in a bad way. More specifically he's not able to grasp why what he’s trying to do is extreme at best & horrific at worse because his soul, his empathy, his human-feeling is long gone.
Wesker is driven by one thing since his resurrection & that is hate & bloodlust. His intellect however is still there, so his desire for this is at odds with his intelligent & rational brain. Thats why he bothers to try justify himself in the first place. He doesn’t have human feelings anymore but he still has “human” intelligence. Which is the horror of Wesker’s condition & means he could fit the term tragic, not exactly because he’s right & misguided, but more prominently because there is a sense of real horror in the complete loss of ones self & the ever conscious knowing that who & what you were is gone & has been replaced with something totally different; something that is deeply & restlessly malicious. Though Wesker isn’t a victim of societal scorn or in any real way disadvantaged / oppressed, so his life & experiences may not be as clearly relatable & understandable as some villains, he IS a victim of ideological grooming, abuse & manipulation & the product of a deeply wicked breeding program with heavily racist aesthetics & horrifying genocidal intentions.
WHICH kinda brings me to thoughts about villains like Henry / Vecna. Henry & Wesker are VERY ALIKE but the difference is Henry’s “motives” are more “powerful” because they’re coming from a more meaningful place. A place of lived oppression & a hopeless lack of reprieve from it. I think something that is overlooked about Henry is that he was a neurodivergent child living in the hell scape of the 1950s. While this is kinda in subtext it came across very bluntly to me that Henry, beyond the ooo spooky psychic powers stuff, was suppose to be autistic.
While Henry’s psychic powers & his “connection” with some evil influencing entity take the “spotlight” due to being a horror based series, we know such powerful psychic abilities & hopefully evil entities are not real or at least are not a common societal struggle. Autism is however a VERY real & very common thing for people to struggle with & a very real source of social stigmatisation, & a lot of Henry’s struggles were as closely tied to his autism as his telekinetic abilities & the mindflayer’s insidious influence within his life. Like, the demonic presence & psychic abilities are there for the sake of the horror genre but all of this is super metaphoric to the demonization, the oppression & the struggle of the neurodivergent & mentally ill, particularly back in the time period that Henry exists within, in which these types of oppressions were hyper-emphasised. I think a lot of people kind of miss that these time periods, in the western world, were utter hell for anyone who didn’t or often times COULDN’T fit what was deemed to be “normal” by a heavily bias & prejudicial, power structure. This was a time when anything that was labelled “abnormal” was considered worthy of destruction. Whether by outright murder or by fucked up attempts to FORCE conformity & invisibility out of the non-conforming thing. Henry EXPLICTLY talks about the flawed & artificial constructs of human society, his inability to fit them, his discontent & struggle with the expectation to do so & the completely abysmal state of the world through the eyes & experiences of people like him & the fact this shouldn’t have to be a thing & his aspirations to use his powers to change it, SO why anyone thinks that this characters is nothing more than a psychopath who likes killing for the lols is beyond me. These motives are still present even as Vecna, they’re just very heavily warped by the unfortunate state of lichdom; the becoming an undead, supernatural being of terror. Vecna’s methods are wrong & evil. He is ultimately murdering innocent teenagers & like everyone else to be fair like despite the memes the v-man is pretty indiscriminate, to achieve his goals but its a case of, again, being supernaturally poisoned by an evil entity that, in his continuous rejection & exile from everyone else, he willing embraced as the only thing that presented itself to him as a friend & an ally to help him in his goal. You could also say that Vecna’s goals are possibly not going to be as benign to humanity as he may have originally intended them to be when he was still human but his motives still remain & make him tragic as opposed to just being a psychopathic monster. Because the thing about villains like Henry & even Wesker is the things that made them what they are are the most terrifying & monstrous of all. These things are as at fault & to blame as the characters actions themselves, if not more so, as the absence of these very real & painful evils would mean neither Henry or Wesker would ever be driven to the places they were that made them the villains / antagonists they are in the first place.
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Penguin headcanon drop, lamenting the fact tumblr apparently completely deleted his old blog ( Which had to be pretty recent cos I was still able to access it last month !! ) so heres whats left of my big ass hcs for him, nutshelled: Oswald was disabled in his late 20s. As a result. he walks with a limp, giving him his characteristic “penguin waddle." As is canon with Gotham, this was punishment for “snitching” on his then boss, Fish Mooney. Additionally he is also blind in one eye & wears a monocle over the artificial eye for aesthetic purposes. Technically he requires a pair of reading glasses, but of course he does not wear them as much as he should. Oswald is also a smoker & has been since his late teens. He always hid the fact from his mother while she was alive, due to fearing backlash from her. Sometimes, when Oswald returned home smelling of “perfume” his mother would accuse him of being in relationships with women. The truth was often that Oswald would attempt to hide any cigarette smell with perfume from the woman's dressing room at Mooney’s. Oswald’s smoking is very pronounced in his later years, easily considered a ‘chain smoker’. This has resulted in wheezing, noted as Oswald's iconic "quack”.
Oswald's most notable quirk is his obsession with formal wear. He is known most famously for his immaculate dress sense & rarely to never seen outside of full & proper formal wear if he can help it. He does NOT skimp on the details. For Oswald this means going the full nine yards, including undergarments & all accessories, ranging from tie pins to cufflinks. Though Oswald didn’t always dress this way it has become something that is nearing compulsive in his modern & later years. I tend to describe Oswald’s love of suits in the same way a bird loves its feathers ━ a bird with feather’s is beautiful, a bird without not so much. Due to the dysmorphia & low self-esteem Oswald suffers, Oswald gets a lot of confidence & comfort from his suits. In his later life, Oswald also has his own clothing line known as “K!ng P!n" of course dealing chiefly in formal wear. This is very successful. All clothing articles carry Oswald's embodied "Umbrella" logo.
Oswald in his later years has came to possess a dozen pet penguins. They are mostly Gentoo penguins & Oswald refers to them typically as his babies &/or children. Penguins are not the only birds Oswald possesses however ━ he also has a pet vulture & an ostrich. If left to his own devices Oswald will somewhat compulsively collect exotic birds, at certain points he has had a house full of birds, to the point where it has become a health hazard. As a result in later years its common that he’s forced by authorities to surrender animals to various zoos around Gotham. It would be fair to say he sometimes suffers from animal hoarding, & though he means no harm to the animals (quite the opposite) this is just one of the more tragic manifestations of Oswald’s fluctuating & usually poor mental health.
Oswald is exceptionally intelligent though he doesn't posses any form of Masters or PHD. In fact, Oswald is a high-school drop out. Prior to becoming infamous as the Penguin, Oswald was an "umbrella boy" ( a nice way of saying "servant boy” ) & ultimately a clever con-man beyond that. Needless to say Oswald had been “affiliated" with the Mafia since he was in his late teens & was about 22 years old when he began officially working for Fish Mooney. He spent at least five years as her personal servant before eventually seeing an opportunity to overthrow her. As a result, while Oswald is not overly academically gifted, or at least he never had the opportunity to be recognised as such, he’s extremely cunning, street smart, worldly & a fast learner. Naturally, despite popular “caricatures” of him Oswald is not grotesquely obese & nor does he have fused fingers. He is also not quite as short as people make him out to be. the Penguin of "rumour" & the Penguin of reality are quite different. In his later years Oswald dons a receding hairline, & his hair in general is not in fantastic quality, possibly due to a lifetime of constant bleaching, cutting & styling. He often wears a top hat to conceal this fact. Again in his later years Oswald is quite "pudgy” & frequently goes on “diets" which usually entail simply starving himself on & off, although occasionally this is less down to dieting & more down to depression / disinterest in eating & other self-care. Regardless, Oswald doesn't seem to understand his "diets" are as unhealthy as his eating habits as he lacks the proper restraint for a "real" diet, though as a result of this Oswald’s weight is often as fluctuating as his eating habits.
Oswald occasionally online dates. He’s never had any truly serious relationships particularly due to low self-confidence / fear of revealing himself. He is usually crushingly lonely. One of Oswald’s greatest goals in life is to experience real mutual love. Despite his criminal lifestyle & nasty reputation, Oswald has a profound capacity for love & compassion. He is as touch adverse as he is touch starved which make for an interesting combination. He pines for love & affection but frequently shuns it & hides from it simultaneously. Oswald grew up the son of a poor Austrian immigrant. He was entirely estranged from his multi-million air father, only ever learning of his existence after his mother’s death when Oswald was 31 years old. Oswald was bullied harshly for his odd appearance & mannerisms. His mother was very overbearing & their relationship was quite toxic. It would easily be defined as "covert incest” which has had a lasting negative impact on Oswald & his relationships throughout his life. Oswald isn’t extremely open about his sexuality, either, both due to fears of homophobic backlash (Something drastically increased while his mother was alive.) & because in someway, particularly after his mother’s death when Oswald became much more “”expressive””, he kind of thinks if someone doesn’t know they don’t deserve to know or perhaps more those who deserve to know already do know. Further, Oswald grew up watching old fashioned gangster movies, where frequently mafia men were depicted as heroes. Eventually, Oswald came to idolise Carmine Falcone, seeing him as the real life version of his movie heroes & ultimately the great man his mother told him he would be. Needless to say, Oswald’s view of gangsters & criminality were warped from a young age & this was only ever emphasised by the hash, backward reality of Gotham’s streets & the heavily corrupted police force. When Oswald was young, his mother would occasionally do odd jobs, though perhaps due to her own mental illness she never really held anything down. They managed fine however, though Oswald never knew that this was at large to due the decent sum of hush money Gertrude always received from Alida Van Dahl, prior to the latter’s passing when Oswald was in his mid-late teens. This is around the time when Oswald decided to drop out of school & find a job due to his mother’s increasing stress. It’s no secret that Oswald suffers from mental illness, though he has found himself in both imprisoned in Arkham Asylum & Blackgate penitentiary at different points throughout his life & it doesn’t seem as if Gotham’s justice system can decide where exactly he most belongs. As far as anything concreate goes, its theorised that Oswald most likely has STPD ( Schizotypal personality disorder ) which accounts for his social anxiety & all other peculiar traits & mannerisms. He has been described as having narcissistic tendencies as well as the aforementioned unhealthy relationship with his deceased mother. He also has bouts of extreme depression & mania as well as some mild sexual aversion & considers himself “asexual” though if only in coping / shielding from his trauma / abuse. Other notes on Oswald’s psychological profile include mild to high body dysmorphia as well as his odd obsession with birds & umbrellas.
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Late Erol post part 2, this was meant to go with the first one but I had to go to bed & couldn’t get back to it till now. So basically when the JnD fandom was alive many years ago I would often see people blame Erol for like, everything. Man couldn’t catch a break. He’s been everything bad you could imagine which is funny because while hes an unhinged little prick for sure, this is extremely exaggerated in the fandom, at least during the events of Jak 2. It might seem a bit cliche but the concept of “every villain is a hero in his own mind” applies to Erol in Jak 2. That being said though, stepping out of Jak’s perspective & into more neutral ground, the only thing that really makes Erol villainous at all is his desire to personally antagonist Jak, which a lot of people have read as “over the top”. Which yes, Erol does go out of his way to be in Jak’s face so its understandable & that this can come across as extra, especially given a lot was cut out of the game probably because of time constraints BUT Erol’s problem with Jak doesn’t just stem from some bizarre sadistic desire to hurt him. His motive is literally that to him Jak is the bad guy & seems to be trying to get everyone killed. As far as Erol can figure Jak might as well just be working with the Metal-heads, & technically, though Jak doesn’t know it he actually is. Jak is a threat to Praxis’ regime, the one that Erol is deathly loyal to & upholds, the one that, for all its SERIOUS faults has kept the city form being taken by the metal-heads. What ends up getting missed a lot is that when we’re in introduced to Haven city its on the verge of losing a war. A war with monster’s that fully planned to kill & eat every single one of its residence the minute they’re able. They are not subtle about this. Essentially, the efforts of Jak & the underground takes away support for Praxis regime. This takes away attention & resources from the war effort. If the city turns on Praxis, it turns on itself & the city could NOT afford to fight against itself. The underground, though they didn’t seem to know it, were so dangerous to the city that even the metal-heads recognized their movements potential to get everyone killed & sent spies, including Kor himself, to disguise themselves as humans/elves & to join the underground & help them. If Kor was anything to go off these spies became well respected underground members & were VERY valuable in the fight against Praxis. The underground didn’t know this but the metal-heads were using their efforts to free themselves of Praxis to instead lead them to death.
& honestly ? Without Jak & his main character armor & powers the efforts of the underground WOULD have gotten everyone killed if Praxis didn’t crack the Precursor stone & blow everything to kingdom come first. I kinda wonder how they (The underground) planned to handle the metal-heads themselves with Praxis gone, the one thing that everyone, including the metal-heads, had acknowledged was holding them off. But that being said something else cut from the game was the fact that Praxis planned to blow everything up, as in this was intentional. I believe in the game we’re lead to think it was unintentional but cut content says otherwise. Basically, Praxis knew they were going to lose to the metal-heads & in a twisted act of both mercy & a last ditch effort to win, he planned to use the Precursor stone to cause a mass explosion that while killing himself & the entire population of the city, it would utterly devastate the metal-heads as well. You could think this is an insane thing to do & yes it is, but before Jak it seemed to be the only option & a death via explosion was thought to be quick & painless, particularly contrast to the agony & torture the metal-heads had in store for the city if they won.
Shit in Haven City was bleak. Bleaker than any of the characters beyond Praxis & Kor knew & for Kor it was all going great. Keeping in mind, even Ashelin despite knowing her Father’s dictatorship was bad overall believed in him & didn’t believe he would ever do anything to knowingly harm the city & supported him against the metal-heads.
Bringing me back to Erol. Like Ashelin He truly believed in Praxis & in the idea that they could win the war. He didn’t seem to know about the blowing everything up plan. No, in Erol’s mind he & Praxis were going to win. He was hopeful enough to ask permission to lead an army to the metal-head nest & take them out as he knew they needed to make a move. Going back to my last post Erol was very much positioned as the Hero of Haven city beside Praxis himself. Erol, “the son of haven” was a race-track star & the guy who did all the work when it came to defending / protecting the city / people as not just a member of but the commander of the KG.
When Jak came along he began to undermine this. Jak & the undergrounds efforts caused political uproar & “empowered” people who had been wise to & against the corruption of the Baron’s regime ( with good reason ) Jak became their symbol of resistance & hope. He became the hero to rival the Baron’s propaganda & the Baron’s dragon, Erol. In Erol’s prospective Jak was dangerous & a threat to everything & everyone. He was chipping away at everything that was holding Haven together. Jak would have seemed like an enemy cause everything he did seemed to work to help the metal-heads, even going back to his apparent inability or what probably started to look like a straight up refusal to use his powers to help Praxis win against them.
Then came the personal conflict over the affections of Keira which is what the game focuses on between them but basically in Erol’s eyes Jak’s not just trying to steal his girl, he’s trying to ruin his life & force the Baron into losing the war, which would end up killing everyone. Then theres the idea that Erol only liked Keira to hurt Jak & that Erol was dragging out Jak’s “death” for fun. To start, by the time Erol found Jak again after his prison break, Jak had become this figure in the city that a lot of the underground was backing which made up a fair proportion of the lower/middle class of Haven as well. To kill Jak would be to cause an uproar that would lead to the civil war they couldn’t afford during pre-existing war with the metal-heads
& Erol had to try keep his image as the righteous protector in tact to keep support of the Baron strong. He couldn’t just execute Jak, someone that much of the opposing side of the city had grown so attached to, even if he would have been “allowed” to do so “legally”.
Beating Jak in the NYFE championship was the only way to put him & the threatening rebellion back in its place. Once Erol won & he city saw Jak wasn’t all they thought things could cool down & go back to “normal.” That was the plan anyway. Didn’t work since Jak won but that was the plan. Which I think Erol & Baron Praxis agreed to together & I’ve always maintained that as far as canon goes Erol’s charge at Jak at the end of the championship was every bit suicidal as it was homicidal.
On to Keira though, I mentioned before the thing with Erol & Keira was in no way exclusive to messing with Jak. Opposite actually. Erol’s relationship with Keira had been going on for a long while before Jak came back into the picture. Some people think Keira didn’t like Erol at all & I’ve legit seen the fandom claim “sexual harassment” toward the relationship which is ABSOLUTELY WEIRD because while we didn’t actually see Keira & Erol personally interact there was more than enough there to say the attraction was mutual. Keira even has an argument with Jak defending Erol because Jak spoke badly of him, like. She talks highly of him as we have moments like Keira dreamily saying “Erol’s the best racer I’ve ever seen” & Erol explaining “Keira loves a winner” ( Erol at this point being the winner ) & also when Erol wins in the race during game play he will sometimes say “I'll get a victory kiss from Keira later.” Like damn what made him think that was gonna happen. Doesn’t that kind of suggest its happened before ? I mean, I don’t know where he’d get any of these ideas from if the “crush” wasn’t on the side of being mutual. I also think Keira’s position in the city is something to take into account. Haven was a horrible, brutal place. It seems unlikely that a young woman, regardless to her mechanical talents, would get as far as she did entirely unscathed on her own. I feel like it wouldn’t be way out of line to think her friendly / vaguely romantic relationship with Erol helped elevate her to being the only character of the 4 in a fairly good position during the events of Jak 2.
I’ve also seen people saying Keira just didn’t know Erol was KG / evil & that this of course makes her an idiot due to how obvious it is. Which is all nonsense because yeah, Keira would know Erol is KG, but evil ? It wouldn’t appear as if Erol was ever antagonistic toward Keira ever. Entirely the opposite. He’s literally in love with her. & this is something thats even obvious to those who know Erol. Complete evidence of this exists when Praxis scolds him for spending his time with her rather than hunting down the true air to the throne & another moment in Daxter’s game suggests that Erol does not love his job & is generally miserable & that it seems his time with Keira & racing is his refuge from this misery. Which all makes perfect sense. Even though Keira might lean toward helping the underground because thats really the ‘good thing’ to do, she was probably more of a neutral party, & as I said, Erol & the KG weren't exactly evil or inherently malicious. Hell, a lot of the KG were forcefully recruited, it wasn’t even a choice for a lot of them. Naturally they just did what Praxis said. & again, Keira having a positive relationship with Erol probably meant she was spared A LOT of the typical KG harassment so aside from disagreeing with the Baron’s politics & the entirety of Haven being a corrupt hell hole, she probably didn’t have many negative experiences with the KG & especially not with Erol. BUT I MUST ADMIT ... For Erol ? Keira was an exception. He wasn’t exactly mr friendly to really anyone else outside of the Baron, the council (largely begrudgingly) & some of his own troops. Erol came off as borderline psychopathic toward Jak & pretty much anyone who posed a threat to the Baron, & was otherwise just very bitter / jaded outside of that & these are facts regardless to his motives.
I think he also harbored a lot of Praxis’ paranoia given his position in the city. I mean, in the underground hideout theres a big candid pic of Erol with who he is written all over it to let underground members know to look out for & target him against Praxis, this meaning hes probably the target of assassination attempts & the like so he needs to watch his back around the city. Which also does explain his unfriendly temperament in some ways as well. There was definitely two sides of Erol. The side Jak & the underground saw which was unstable, sadistic & extremely dangerous & the side Kiera saw & the one that was presented to the city as a whole which was loyal, super talented & heroic.
#⊰ ° ‧: 。* ⚘ 💀 ━◞ Out Of Character ⊱#⊰ ° ‧: 。* ⚘ 💀 ━◞ 𝓜𝓾𝓼𝓮 ↝ Erol ⊱#⊰ ° ‧: 。* ⚘ 💀 ━◞ 𝓗𝓮𝓪𝓭𝓬𝓪𝓷𝓸𝓷𝓼 ↝ Erol ⊱#erol headcanons#⊰ ° ‧: 。* ⚘ 💀 ━◞ 𝓕𝓪𝓷𝓭𝓸𝓶 ↝ Jak and Daxter ⊱#the kg stop keira at some point only to realise who she is & let her go immediately#erol at the kg briefing with a picture of keira like fuck everyone else we respect HER#SJ#FHDKFDJFKDKFJDFKDKF#it probably happened at least once tbqh
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