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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.
[ Repost from here. ]
#⊰ ° ‧: 。* ⚘ 💀 ━◞ Out Of Character ⊱#⊰ ° ‧: 。* ⚘ 💀 ━◞ 𝓜𝓾𝓼𝓮 ↝ Wesker ⊱#⊰ ° ‧: 。* ⚘ 💀 ━◞ 𝓗𝓮𝓪𝓭𝓬𝓪𝓷𝓸𝓷𝓼 ↝ Wesker ⊱#wesker headcanons#⊰ ° ‧: 。* ⚘ 💀 ━◞ 𝓕𝓪𝓷𝓭𝓸𝓶 ↝ Resident Evil ⊱#racism mention cw#n*zi mention cw#long post for ts
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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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For muns with multiple muses, past and present, on any blog. Fill out the form according to which muse suits each title best. (The same muse can have multiple titles.) Repost and tag. Feel free to add more !
Doing my muses on this blog ! Favourite Muse: Literally all of them but I’m gonna go with Henry for rn since he's got the brain cell so bad its literally embarrassing. Most Character Development: Shadow, fr. Maybe Frieza too. Trash Muse: Frieza, Wesker, Alexia. The Meme-Lord: Shadow & Alastor but only in spirit. Most Likely to Start a War: Loki & they have. Oswald & Erol. Worst Personality: Probably Frieza. Best Singer: Sasori, Alexia & Henry cos JCB is doing the most. Most Attractive Muse: IDK they’re all pretty fuckable especially if ur not a coward. 🤷 Biggest Heart: Shadow, Bowser, Ivy, Oswald. Falls in Love Quickest: Oswald, Loki, Bowser. Most Likely to Drop Their Phone in the Toilet: Loki & Bowser. Ice Ruler: Frieza. The Edgelord: Shadow DJFJDKFKDLF. Most Tragic Backstory: Henry, Ivy, Shadow & Sasori. Best Case of Puberty: Hhhh, probably Oswald. Most Awkward: Henry, Sasori. Busy Bee: Wesker, Erol & Sasori. Most Clueless: Henry & Alexia. Both due to long periods of isolation from society lol. Most Likely to Forget Their Wallet at Home: Loki, Oswald, Bowser. Best Dressed: Oswald & Alastor. Biggest Flirt: Alastor & Loki. Most Dramatic: Oswald & Alastor. Least Likely to Show Up Late: Sasori & Wesker. One with Weirdest Habit: Sasori & Alastor. Most Likely to Be Caught at the Gym: Wesker & Erol.
Tagged by: No one, I stole it ! Tagging: All my fellow multis & anyone else who wants to !
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𝐑𝐄𝐒𝐈𝐃𝐄𝐍𝐓 𝐄𝐕𝐈𝐋 . . . Subject 001.
Alright I’ve been thinking about it A LOT & I’ve come to decide I’m gonna give Henry a complete RE-verse rather than just a cross-over ! I can still do cross-over stuff but I want to be more authentic to the RE universe because I do think I can fit Henry in there pretty well & you know RE is a long time massive brain rot of mine.
In the verse the Hawkins lab becomes a Umbrella facility hidden in the small town of Hawkins, again removing all the 80s & other dimension stuff & replacing it with Umbrellas wacky monster virus stuff. Its pretty low key as far as Umbrella facilities are concerned & Umbrella began to use it as a storage place for some of their B.O.Ws in the early 2000s when they were on their way out, during the trails after the Raccoon city disaster. However, the Hawkins lab itself had been experimenting with psionics almost as long as Umbrella had been experimenting with viruses. Heavily inspired by MK-Ultra, & the capability some parasites had to bestow minor psychic powers on their mutant hosts, the scientists at Hawkins Lab, lead by Dr Martin Brenner, had hoped to introduce & exacerbate psychic powers in human test subjects in order to create highly intelligent, super-human weapons. Henry was a young, troubled boy living in the town of Hawkins, who apparently had clairvoyant properties. His mother repeatedly took him to doctors in town as she believed something to be medically wrong with him due to his “odd” behaviour. Doctors were able to record Henry’s uncanny perceptions, which they were entirely unable to explain, but other than that they couldn’t seem to decide on what was actually “wrong” with Henry; everyone seemed to have a different theory. Not long after being diagnosed with possible “childhood schizophrenia”, it was said that Henry’s father, who had served in the war as a young man, went insane & murdered his sister & mother, with Henry avoiding the attack through unknown means, although he was found at the scene of the murders unconscious. What really happened in the Creel family house is unknow, but to authorities it seemed to be a clear case of insanity from Victor Creel, who was promptly arrested & charged. From this point Henry became the perfect target for Dr. Brenner & his developing psychic weapon project. He abducted him from the hospital, having records falsified that Henry had simply never regained consciousness & passed away. Henry became the first test subject for an unknown virus, derived from the progenitor & the cells of one of Umbrella’s NE-parasites, known as the “Ultra virus” due to the source of its inspiration, or the “Hawkins virus” due to the location of its development. This was a fairly minor virus that had been drastically overshadowed by the development of the G-virus. Henry, now known as subject 001 showed no outward signs of mutation after infection, however he was able to unlock remarkable telekinetic abilities within himself. It was unknown whether Henry truly possessed “psychic abilities” before his infection but what was known was that his infection dramatically increased this power by hundreds of times. Deeply restless, a device was planted into Henry’s neck to supress his powers & attempts to replicate him in increasingly younger & more manageable children were made; too valuable to destroy but too unruly to properly utilise, Henry remained trapped in the lab as Brenner’s prisoner for 20 years as Brenner & his team struggled to recreate “Subject 001′s” powers in other children. This is something that would never come to fruition, however, as Umbrella struck trouble upon the release of the T-virus in the Akrley mountains, which lead to the Raccoon City disaster. Losing funding fast, the Hawkins lab became little more than a storage shed for some of Umbrella’s more successful & well known B.O.Ws & viruses as the company battled the legal repercussions of Raccoon City. Typically in this verse an outbreak occurs at the Hawkins lab, allowing Henry to escape. I’m leaving the cause of the outbreak kind of vague but TBH it probably had something to do with Wesker & HFC, given fucking things up & stealing any piece of possibly valuable Umbrella research was Wesker’s JAM at this point in the timeline lmao.
#⊰ ° ‧: 。* ⚘ 💀 ━◞ Out Of Character ⊱#⊰ ° ‧: 。* ⚘ 💀 ━◞ 𝓜𝓾𝓼𝓮 ↝ Henry ⊱#⊰ ° ‧: 。* ⚘ 💀 ━◞ 𝓢𝓾𝓫-𝓿𝓮𝓻𝓼𝓮 ↝ Resident Evil AU ⊱#⊰ ° ‧: 。* ⚘ 💀 ━◞ 𝓕𝓪𝓷𝓭𝓸𝓶 ↝ Stranger Things ⊱#u know like all my muses actually have RE verse but I I had enough brain worms to make a whole post about henrys :/
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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.
#⊰ ° ‧: 。* ⚘ 💀 ━◞ Out Of Character ⊱#⊰ ° ‧: 。* ⚘ 💀 ━◞ 𝓜𝓾𝓼𝓮 ↝ Penguin ⊱#⊰ ° ‧: 。* ⚘ 💀 ━◞ 𝓗𝓮𝓪𝓭𝓬𝓪𝓷𝓸𝓷𝓼 ↝ Penguin ⊱#penguin headcanons#⊰ ° ‧: 。* ⚘ 💀 ━◞ 𝓕𝓪𝓷𝓭𝓸𝓶 ↝ Dc / Gotham ⊱#idk if i need to tag anything else#incest mention cw#mental illness mention cw#abuse mention cw#bullying mention cw#the fact i had big ol posts for every one of these things and theyre now gone makes me feel a bit murderous ngl but w/e#heres the short version of a bunch of important stuff!!
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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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Time for a big Ivy thought dump bc the brain rot’s real today. So to start I don’t think Ivy is “naturally” able to charm anyone. She’s not particularly charming or manipulative. She’s always been considered weird & little off-beat. Her physical beauty ? Exceptional. Her social skills & grace ? Near-non existent. As a normal human, despite her also being incredibly intelligent ( Eventually becoming a botanist & toxicologist ) it was really her physical beauty that has ever caused anyone to take interest in her. & she would be oblivious to it if she wasn’t forced to take notice of it because people suck & are creeps. Still previous to her “transformation” this was really back-of-the-mind, don’t think about it unless something explicitly made her recognise it.
But as a mutant Ivy’s dangerous. She’s predatory & she's misanthropic (leaning a little further toward misandry, entirely trauma based). She’s highly “antisocial” per say, & she’s learned to harness her abilities to do it. But again she doesn’t really have a lot of natural charm & becoming a semi-undead mutant didn’t increase this aspect of her socially, she just secretes a potent pheromone that makes people far more susceptible to her suggestions which she’s had to become aware of it because she can’t seem to turn it off naturally (much to her dismay). It’s not only men that this effects, btw, but occasionally it seems more potent with (*straight or bi) men, but its because they’re more likely to feel attracted to her physically, which seems to make the pheromone work better on them. It inspires devotion to her & when there's a form of physical attraction present people tend to get their wires crossed & it can quickly turn into romantic obsession. It however works on everyone, regardless to sexuality / gender. For straight fems & gay mascs its just like, more of feeling very, very compelled to do as Ivy wants & to be friendly / close to her. Devotion, but without the common romantic / sexual infatuation that tends to effect straight & bi mascs & bi & lesbian fems. She’s a siren very much in the traditional / mythological sense of the term, she uses this power to lead people astray & get what she wants. This, while def having its advantages, has compounded with her trauma in making her extremely distrustful toward others. Since she can’t naturally turn it off ( though I imagine it can be artificially weakened, as can her other powers, just for the sake of being able to contain her in Arkham ) she can’t often be sure if people are being nice / friendly to her out of authenticity or because of the pheromone she secretes. I also follow the idea that she’s also highly poisonous / venomous but this seems to be something she does have some form of control over. I like to keep some comic canon in the sense that this is something she is able to develop an antidote for, so that not everyone who is kissed / bitten by her has to die or become dangerously ill. That being said she’s usually the only one who possesses the antidote & its in limited supply without her. I also don’t portray Ivy as like. . . Caring about plants to an all consuming extent. She’s a lowkey echo warrior but not to a nonsensical extreme. The fact is Ivy has always loved plants, gardening & nature, but she’s not entirely illogical about it. The thing is however she is extremely chlorokinetic & she uses those powers to their fullest. She can & will influence all organic / plant life around her. She is able to alter / mutate plants / vegetation & typically any plant that has come in contact with her power / influence will be genetically different to whatever it started life as. A lot of the plants Ivy influences become aggressive & are entirely susceptible to her will but will function in a monstrous / predatory manner entirely on their own. Others simply become jumbo size & are extremely strong. They occasionally start doing really weird shit that isn’t really “normal” for plants, or otherwise they do things that plants might normally do but on a much smaller scale thus meaning it doesn’t normally effect or cause any issues for the majority, so suddenly when Ivy amplifies them it becomes a problem. Think the killer plants scene from Jumanji amplified by 100. You can imagine how truly dangerous this makes Ivy if she's able to have any unrestrained contact with plants / vegetation. She can essentially make biological weapons out of any plant life within an instant. Its more Ivy’s misanthropy that drives her than her concern for plant life however. As a result yes, she is a echo / bio terrorist, yes she does lash out under the pretence of preserving / aiding the environment & she does genuinely believe in this to an extent but the more excessive aspects of it is her hatred of people & a misguided sense that she's ultimately helping someone / something in the process. She uses her powers to promote green-life & given the way Ivy’s plants are, ie are naturally predators they are actively hostile to humans / animals / insects which is ultimately not great for the environment, since they have the capacity to COMPLETELY alter life on earth as we know it. & after experience Ivy does come to realise this. She's not out for plants to take over the world, because she doesn’t care about world domination, but she will weaponize them for her own means. Whether for self defence or as a means of exerting her will / force. As I mentioned the result of all this makes Ivy one of the most powerful meta-humans known. She's also an object of scientific intrigue as are the plants she influences. A few have probably been taken & kept as lab specimens, but there is only ONE Ivy therefore she's not really able to be studied effectively. Theres been attempts, but they don’t go anywhere largely because Ivy is still recognised as a human with rights, & she is particularly protected as such within Gotham city (probably a lot thanks to the influence of Batsy / Bruce, but I also think its fair to say the population of Gotham has grown to take a weird pride in their “home-grown freaks” & can be protective / supportive of them in cases like this ) But its not uncommon for others to try & violate these rights in the name of the greater good. As a RESULT & through experience with these things, when Ivy isn’t in Arkham she’s usually left alone & she understands the danger she's in by acting out which means she's very reclusive & doesn’t tend to associate with human populations if she can help it. She never goes far from Gotham because that is the place she is “protected” but usually if she's not in Arkham she’s probably hauled up somewhere in Gotham’s surrounding wilderness in a personal grove of protective / man eating plants. Typically, as long as Ivy isn’t doing anything to threaten anyone in Gotham she's left alone & the general consensus is if you stumble upon Ivy’s grove you need to leave asap & stay away from her. Shes kinda like a local & very real cryptid in that regard.
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#⊰ ° ‧: 。* ⚘ 💀 ━◞ Out Of Character ⊱#⊰ ° ‧: 。* ⚘ 💀 ━◞ 𝓜𝓾𝓼𝓮 ↝ Ivy ⊱#⊰ ° ‧: 。* ⚘ 💀 ━◞ 𝓗𝓮𝓪𝓭𝓬𝓪𝓷𝓸𝓷𝓼 ↝ Ivy ⊱#⊰ ° ‧: 。* ⚘ 💀 ━◞ 𝓕𝓪𝓷𝓭𝓸𝓶 ↝ Dc / Gotham ⊱#ivy headcanons
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Fun Wesker things that live in my head rent free : (Repost from here) Teenaged genius. He was headhunted by Umbrella at 16-17 & enrolled in their executive training school. ( More here ) Here he met William Birkin here, another teenaged genius headhunted by Umbrella who was two years younger than him. Heads at the executive training school deemed Wesker & Birkin their top students & instantly tried to incite a rivalry between them. They became close friends instead. It’s heavily implied Wesker was contacted by Spencer to steal samples of Marcus’s T-virus to not only graduate from the training school but to secure a position as head researcher at the Arkley Laboratory. He apparently bargained for William’s inclusion in this. Ever wonder how / why two literal teenagers were put in charge of Akrley & why they were the only ones to graduate from the training school which was then promptly shut down ? Didn’t know Umbrella was trying to make B.O.W.S until much later. Explains the research into creating B.O.W.S is the same research as protecting/preventing them which is why this research was allowed. ( Again, good insights into how insidious Umbrella was & how it groomed & shaped characters like Wesker & Birkin. ) Was the one who noticed Umbrella was in fact making B.O.W.S for nefarious reasons. ( Not researching them for prevention measures as originally presented. He continued to support this as it made sense from a monetary stand point. ) Noted openly that from the moment he & William were “introduced” to Lisa Trevor they were essentially trapped & had no choice but to produce good research or end up like her.
Only started considering murdering people himself when they were upsetting / disrespecting William. Thought it would be funny if not completely appropriate to use these colleagues as test subjects. Details his justification for why which offers some MORE fun insight into Umbrella’s grooming. Was the one who become concerned about the T-virus research & why Spencer was trying to engineer B.O.Ws & get a 100% infection rate when this was just insanely dangerous for the world + made no sense as a monetary thing that Wesker had originally excused/understood it as. (Pay attention to the bolded text :)) Was the one who, due to this “concern”, began to conduct his own research on the T-virus. Discovered the virus was able to infect all biological matter & was then instantly troubled by the fact the Arkley research facility was located in a dense forest & therefore a T outbreak could be absolutely catastrophic. Begin to wonder if this was intentional & if so, why.
Laments not being able to share much of this with William at the time due to his bad headspace after the Alexia ordeal. However, he started to suspect Spencer was up to something due to his disregard for the cost of the research. Decided to slowly distance himself from his work as a researcher & eventually transferred into the Umbrella intelligence division instead to find out more. Was heavily implied to have been betrayed by Umbrella himself. Canonised it for my own portrayal. Ada somehow knew about this ━ whether because Wesker told her or because she dug around & found out something herself.
Spent time personally trying to screw over Umbrella & steal/outsource their products to amass wealth / take over the company for himself. Was described to feel immense anxiety toward Spencer, reaching its peek upon their final confrontation with the greeting “You're back” & the smile that made Wesker realise just how much of all this was planned out by Spencer, & BOY DID IT GET WORSE FROM THERE. ( Just for fun heres my fat THINK post about some Wesker + Spencer thoughts )
Researched anti-viral counter measures extensively. Whether or not this had something to do with the Uroboros plan is uncertain but it is known Wesker’s research into this was so important & prominent he is credited for the redemption of Umbrella & several of the most well known biohazard counter weapons are named in his honour. (Hilariously ironic) Came up with a theory that is largely true that the personality/emotional/mental state of the host largely influences their mutations + the virus evolution inside the host. Continually questioned & lamented his own loss of humanity privately. Implied Wesker’s doom’s day plan was as much suicidal as it was genocidal. Consider, for a moment, that if Wesker did release Uroboros, & Uroboros wiped out most of, if not all of the human race, not only would there be millions of rampaging monsters most likely destroying all civilisation but with this who would prepare Wesker’s all important medicine ? Notice he didn’t keep a huge supply of it with him, in fact, there only seemed to be enough (several doses) for him to complete a certain task ( presumably releasing Uroboros & the finalisation the Uroboros plan ) ( More here )
#⊰ ° ‧: 。* ⚘ 💀 ━◞ Out Of Character ⊱#⊰ ° ‧: 。* ⚘ 💀 ━◞ 𝓜𝓾𝓼𝓮 ↝ Wesker ⊱#⊰ ° ‧: 。* ⚘ 💀 ━◞ 𝓗𝓮𝓪𝓭𝓬𝓪𝓷𝓸𝓷𝓼 ↝ Wesker ⊱#⊰ ° ‧: 。* ⚘ 💀 ━◞ 𝓕𝓪𝓷𝓭𝓸𝓶 ↝ Resident Evil ⊱#wesker headcanons#i wake up i eat i have brain rot about wesker i sleep then repeat#suicidal ideation cw
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I’d been wanting to do a post about Wesker’s “illness” for a while but rip my activity. Anyway, tbh, canon only really gives crumbs about it & I haven't fully decided how / what way I want to explain it. I think the suggestion from canon was not so much that Wesker’s virus was killing him, as such, but more he was supressing it & it was kinda getting out of control & consuming him as a result. For now that's probably the take I’m going to go with because it feels to add up & I was theorising a similar thing with my G-virus AU anyway. That is to say the Virus in Wesker had met its “limits” in Wesker’s human form & wanted to break free of it, but Wesker consciously held it back which resulted in it beginning to overact & poison / kill him.
When he was no longer able to hold it back through sheer mental fortitude, Excella helped him develop a serum that would supress it. Obviously supressing it to much could be fatal, but so was letting it run rampant (at least, possibly for Wesker’s mind + image anyway). It wasn’t uncommon for Wesker to wonder what he would/could become & it was Wesker who originally came up with the theory that the hosts mutations have something to do with their mindset / personality, after observing the mutations & eventual unseemly demises of several other B.O.W.s This theory is supported by basically EVERYTHING in the canon. Its also supported by the fact that people like Steve & Manuela simply willed themselves not to succumb to the virus. Steve was able to completely reverse his mutations as he died & Manuela refused to let them happen in the first place, having been disgusted by the creatures her parents became. This can be further evidenced in the mutations of Marcus, Morpheus, Sergei, Alexia & Jack. Sergei & Jack didn’t really “mutate” until they were good & ready & Marcus showed some ability to return to his “human” form. Alexia was similar. She was able to mutate at will & seemed to be able to reverse her mutations at will as well, up until her body became too badly damaged. Even William showed some incredible mental strength in having some control over G until he was forced into conflicts with Claire & Leon. So indeed, canon seems to suggest that infected hosts can have some kind of “control” over how/when they mutate. & further canon suggests that the viruses are kind of their own entities in ways. There is a idea that they have their own type of consciousness so a lot of the infected hosts “personalities” are tainted by this. The severity of this depends on virus to virus, but all seem to have an effect on the mind / actions of their hosts. Wesker personally describes it as being driven by pure hatred. The other B.O.W.s we know of, regardless to whether they’ve kept their intelligence or not, show similar states of mind. Alexia, Marcus & Morpheus are absolutely driven beyond what I would call “human” logic to hunt & kill the protagonists. This was kinda shown with G as well as even after G consumed William entirely & there was no William holding it back, even after it parasitize Sherry, etc, G continued to pursue Claire & Leon even after it had lost any need to do so. Though it might just be bad writing on canon’s behalf, it seems that Wesker’s powers were on the steady increase ever since he became infected. This makes sense for the virus to keep getting stronger as it adapts to his body & Wesker lived consciously with the virus for the longest of all known canon hosts ━ but as an invading force who's intentions were to shape Wesker to its own design & means, Wesker’s human form could very well start to hinder what the virus inside him would have considered an optimal shape to support its predatory nature.
Essentially Wesker didn’t want to mutate, he didn’t want to risk losing control of his body & becoming nothing but a slave to the virus. He wanted to remain something that resembled a human, not become like William, Sergei, Alexia or Marcus, who all became grotesque creatures which basically spelt their loss of control & death. There was nothing beautiful or divine in that. Even in his moments of pure desperation it seems Wesker was able to hold off mutating. Even when infected with uroboros his mutations were relatively minor in comparison to other infected hosts. Theres a fun sense of irony in the idea that Wesker, a man who wasn’t really shy about his supreme hatred of humanity, desperately clung to what was left of his after his infection, which is really heavily implied by canon outside of this as well. So why DID the virus do all that if Wesker & other’s were “Compatible”. Why were the “god-kings” of the Ndipaya not described to suffer similar fates ? Well we could def put that down to the fact that its possible that only scraps of the Ndipaya’s knowledge was uncovered, & perhaps that was the case in some ways. Its HIGHLY possible that the few mutated creatures that eventually lead to the downfall of the Ndipaya’s civilisation were some of the former god-kings who had lost their humanity to infection eventually ? I also think a contending theory would be that all of the viruses we see infect characters in canon are NOT in their pure / natural form. They were all man made, all corrupted & bastardised with the evilest of intentions. All of these designer viruses were made, specifically, with largely evil intentions. They had evil beginnings. We never see anyone infected with the pure progenitor strain that was used to choose the Ndipaya’s kings. Most of the viruses in the hands of Umbrella were made specially to kill. This could explain why all the viruses have such “demonic” natures, outside of a viruses typical need to ‘spread’ & why that need to spread never really seemed to halt even when properly bonded with a host.. Moreover a majority of them were not really infecting the best people, emphasising this. If the “mindset” of a host was important to mutation it could be said that anyone who is less than “pure” of heart could suffer from mutations essentially making their evil inside match the outside. This could have just been an inherit trait to the progenitor, meaning even the pure-form of myth could cause hosts to devolve if they allowed themselves to “become corrupted.” But those are all really just theories & thoughts. For Wesker, he def fought right until his end to keep the traces of humanity he was left with, even if only in shape & not in heart or mind & thats how I’m explaining that for now. [ From here ]
#⊰ ° ‧: 。* ⚘ 💀 ━◞ Out Of Character ⊱#⊰ ° ‧: 。* ⚘ 💀 ━◞ 𝓜𝓾𝓼𝓮 ↝ Wesker ⊱#⊰ ° ‧: 。* ⚘ 💀 ━◞ 𝓗𝓮𝓪𝓭𝓬𝓪𝓷𝓸𝓷𝓼 ↝ Wesker ⊱#⊰ ° ‧: 。* ⚘ 💀 ━◞ 𝓕𝓪𝓷𝓭𝓸𝓶 ↝ Resident Evil ⊱#wesker headcanons#today I give u brain rot from my wesker blog... tomorrow? who knows
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I see a lot of people who aren't like “those types” of fangirl say that Henry is just a natural born psychopath & tbh, as cool as that would be if I thought it was true I just don’t think thats a true or accurate read of the character at least in my opinion so now I need to talk about it because its very important to me & of course to my portrayal of him.
I had a whole previous big ol’ headcanon wrote up about Henry & why he is Like That, & yes it had to do with my speculation of his very EARLY connection with the mind flayer which later was proven to be completely canon, yay for me, but it got deleted so I don’t currently have it to reference. I don’t think I need to re-write the entire thing because a lot of theory was proven canon so in this post I’m just gonna talk about Henry in general. He wasn’t acting when he was trying to help El. It wasn’t as entirely self-serving as people seem to think. Sure he wanted to get out & he took the opportunity when it was presented to him but seriously WHO wouldn’t ? When he said “No, I saved you” when El accuses him of tricking her he really meant that. Something the fandom misses is the fact that Henry stood up to some very brutal torture because he was helping El, something that we could ASSUME was a common occurrence for Henry. He spent TWENTY YEARS of his life has a prisoner in the lab, & we’re aware from other characters like Kali that the Lab was not so nice as the rainbow room suggested & cruelty from the guards to enforce “order” & absolute obedience was not unusual. Nor was cruelty from Dr. Brenner himself. We outright saw him torture 002 as punishment for bullying El & again we saw him have Henry tortured for helping El. We also saw Henry’s face & demeanour when 002 was being “punished”. He doesn’t seem to like 002 personally due to him being a well known bully, but he’s obviously uncomfortable with what's occurring. Papa was never the benevolent force he pretended to be because anything that displeased him or did not fit in with what was considered “correct behaviour” was punished with what was basically torture. Another key point, I think, is the fact that Henry didn’t suggest escaping with El. It was El’s idea to help him, not Henry’s idea to be helped by her. I would say that her accusing him of tricking her was more a result of her feeling very confused & guilty about what he did thanks to her help, rather than that actually being the reality of the situation because we actively saw that Henry was only trying to help HER & up until SHE suggested to help him so he could escape with her. ( Because El had witnessed Henry being tortured at this point thus knew he was in danger too ) It seems more likely that this was entirely for her benefit & Henry wasn’t initially planning his own escape. He tells her he can’t escape & she has to go on her own originally. I also want to note he doesn’t start killing people as soon as the chip is removed from his neck. Initially he tells El to run & they try to escape until they are cornered & he is not left with another choice.
Like, he really did think he was doing this great, heroic, caring thing & I think that should be clear. Again, keeping in mind since he was like 12 Henry had been a “prisoner” of Dr Brenner’s. He was literally kidnapped, his death falsified & he was imprisoned as a test subject. This was all entirely against Henry’s will. He was a child when this became his “life.” When Brenner realised Henry would never be a tool for him he routinely had him beaten into “submission” & forced him to work as a fake orderly where he had to watch Brenner attempt to find / create another him, except one who would be more susceptible to control. Henry had a fantasy in his mind from childhood that one day he would be free of all his oppressors, who would also be punished for what they had done to him. He had childish ideas of some heroic idealised figure coming & taking him away one day because that's how children think. But Henry remained in the facility until well into adult hood. He started to feel like he was trapped there & there was no escape for him. He tells El as much. His rebellion against Brenner seemed to be by freeing the other test subjects that were “like” him. Eg genuinely powerful & able to think independently of Dr Brenner. In El’s case it was because she was both a genuine powerhouse & because she was an outcast & the other test subjects would abuse her. We can assume El might not have been the only one Henry helped, given the escape of Kali / 008. When Henry saw El suffering abuse & plans were being made to seriously harm her he had to step in. He saved her & to his surprise El offered to him him in return. Henry didn’t plan to “trick” her, he showed her the way out. Had El not offered to help what would he have done ? Told her no she cant go suddenly ? It seems like he was content with just getting her out but when she offered to help him in return of her own accord suddenly Henry’s childhood dream of being saved was on the verge of reality, but now he's an adult & he’s with a child who needs his help too, they could help each other. This is why Henry didn’t just kill the decidedly abusive & deserving guards. He killed the other young test subjects as well, not because of truly personal beef with them. No. As an orderly Henry was regarded as quite kindly which think was genuine as it could be also knowing that he was a prisoner being forced to play a role. He killed them because it was becoming a known fact that they enjoyed bullying El, because even in an environment where El was suppose to be surrounded by her peers, El was excluded & set apart from them. She was different, she was “the real deal”. Henry related to this as someone who suffered the same treatment all his life as he too was considered “different”. Henry saw his own childhood bullies in those “other” test subjects. Henry & El were both “the real deal” who were being disrespected by others who hoped to beat & control them for their own benefit, taking their greater powers & using them for themselves.
Moreover, & equally importantly Henry knew that these children were more enemies than friends at this point & though their powers didn’t compare to his & El’s, Dr. Brenner could easily use them to relocate Henry & El if they could escape. The other text subjects would assist in this without question. The other children would do anything to please Papa. Like yes its VERY TRAGIC because yes despite all that the other test subjects were children & victims too & had the circumstances been different maybe they could have been saved as well but the circumstances weren't different. They were dire & they were desperate. Henry was doing what he believed he had to to make sure he & were free & could stay free. Henry knew that if he let El go on her own there was a chance Dr. Brenner would forget about it & that was his initial plan. But if he ever escaped Henry knew this changed things because Dr. Brenner would do everything in his power to relocate him & the power he had to do that lied with all the other test subjects. This is absolutely the case as we know Dr. Brenner kept searching for Henry after El banished him to the other world by using El’s heightened perceptions. It was ALWAYS Henry that Brenner wanted, Henry was the real ONE, the ORGINAL. Henry’s mistake was that he assumed El had the same type of worldly experience & understanding he had, or that he could make her understand what he meant. He assumed she hated the other test subjects for how they treated her, he assumed she understood how different she was & she needed someone to tell her she was great. He underestimated El’s lack of experience & understanding & Dr. Brenner’s manipulation.
Because El just didn’t have the kind of experience or knowledge he did. She was sheltered from most of the cruelty of society & while she suffered bullying from the other test subjects she probably perceived it as something she deserved, as a child with such underdeveloped & isolated understanding of self & autonomy. & other things I don’t know how to describe because I’m not that smart, but basically El was very sheltered & spent all her life in Brenner's facility where she wasn’t aware of & didn’t really have any experience with social norms & constructs, let alone negative ones that saw her shunned & outcast, with no hope of ever escaping the othering that had been forced on her, etc.
So she saw what Henry did as just mean & unnecessary & not helping her as he intended. All she could see was that Henry had killed a bunch of her “”friends / siblings”” & hurt her “Papa.” Its tragic that by the time El is mature & experienced enough to start to understand Henry’s own story & why he thinks the way he does & that Papa was always the real bad guy just like Henry had said, he’s become so “lost” to her. I don’t really get how people can think that ANYTHING that Henry told her was a lie or wasn’t right on the money.
“To your Papa you are nothing more than a monster, a lab rat to be tamed. But the truth, Eleven, the truth is just the opposite. You are better than they are – superior. That is why you frighten them. If you come with me for the first time in your life you will be free. Imagine what we can do together. We could reshape the world, remake it however we see fit. Join me.”
Like how are people really deciding that anything he said to her wasn’t a product of lived experience & real facts about actual systemic oppression. So let me touch on Henry’s early life. When I say I don’t think Henry is a psychopath I mean it. I think that was well displayed in canon if you paid attention to the fragments of his life prior to becoming “Vecna” that Henry was not a monster of any kind. There are A LOT of parallels directly made between Will & Henry & among them are that Henry was a quiet, “sensitive”, odd kid who didn’t fit in & was subject of ridicule due to this. With Henry this was emphasised due to his powers but a lot of this is metamorphic for the experiences of minority groups. ( The subtext being Henry seems to be neurodivergent & Will most likely being gay) His family moved in order to “start fresh” implied to be because of whatever Henry was going through wherever they lived before. I imagine he probably lashed out due to the general bullying & out-casting he experienced.
This turned out to be a major mistake because Henry’s powers made him susceptible to other-worldly entity we know as the mind-flayer & it just so happened that the Creel’s new home was in a place where the barrier between our world & the other world was thin. Now the aesthetic is kind of like haunted house, demonic force / possession type deal which is probably also a metaphor of demonization toward ND / mentally ill people & the old believes that ND / Mentally ill people are possessed by satan. But I don’t believe Henry was actually “”possessed"” by the Mind-flayer, so to speak, but he was already a lonely, isolated kid with the ability to do things others couldn’t & the entire world beefing with him because he was different & it was considered “Wrong”. Thus it was easy to prey on & “corrupt” him, so to speak. He wasn’t being controlled by it but he was being INFLUENCED by it. It was drawn to his powers & his pain & heightened everything. When the mind-flayer made contact with Henry it apparently boosted some of his powers. Namely it coached him to see into peoples minds & in my headcanon it coached him to search for dark, negative, hateful thoughts & memories inside of people because these are the energies the mind-flayer feeds on. This continues on into Henry’s existence as Vecna. Max explains that Henry cannot seem to see the good in anyone & he can only find the darkness. I feel like a lot of this has to do with the mind-flayers malicious force. So this was a toxic combination when Henry started to read the thoughts & memories of his family. With his mother he became aware hated him & was afraid of him but worst of all she was planning to him him committed. His sister was much the same & someone who he was already envious of because she was “normal” & cherished for it & his then there was his father who he was also he sadly turned on due to his father being a war veteran who had done & seen HORRFIC things in the war that Henry was forced to be privy to by seeing his mind & memories. So as a result, even if Henry’s father cared about him it wasn’t hard to make young Henry afraid of him & see him as monster & a hypocrite due to the things he did during the war & the fact it would be implied that Victor was probably aware of Virginia’s desire to commit Henry & its unclear if he did anything to oppose this. Again, all these negative thoughts & feelings were emphasised by the mind-flayers presence. Keep in mind, this is the 50s, an era not known for its kindness & fairness to the “mentally ill” & the neurodivergent, the latter of which I think is clearly displayed to be where Henry sits. Personally, I couldn’t think of a single more terrifying prospect in that era than to know one of your family members was gonna hand you over to an institution. Especially that family member being your own mother & you’re really just a kid. I mean even if Henry as a child wasn’t able to understand the true scope of horrors he would have been being set up to experience it would have been painful & terrifying enough to learn that your mother just wanted to get rid of you deep down inside. & that everyone was judging you as “broken” & “wrong” while they were guilty of terrible things like Henry’s father’s “mistakes” during the war. ( side note, in my headcanon a parallel between Henry & El is the memories of their mothers. When Henry tells El to find strength in a memory, one that makes he sad but also angry, she thinks of being taken away from her loving mother. For Henry ? His memory is the day he found out his mother didn’t love him & wanted to get rid of him. Henry is the one who learned to channel his powers through hurt, sadness & rage. & even as Vecna that is the true source of Henry’s overwhelming power. )
So with everyone against him & the future of being handed over to an institution, yeah, Henry killed his mother & sister & let his father take the fall in the hopes of escaping. A terrible thing to do, sure, but not one done out of a complete lack of remorse or some kind of psychopathy. It was more something done out of fear, sadness & anger that felt like his only option. Self preservation. Guided by the hand of a malicious otherworldly entity. It was also confirmed in the final ep that the shape of the mind-flayer is Henry’s own design. Given it was his only “company” during this period of his childhood he imagined this guiding “presence” as something he found enjoyable & comforting, which was a spider, as he was very fascinated & soothed by spiders as something that was clearly a “special interest” of his. He perceived spiders to be artistic loners just like him. This thought was also later darkened & corrupted by the mind -flayer when Henry starts to think of himself due to his powers as a predator, like a spider who’s purpose was to cull the insects of the world which is how Vecna comes to be.
We see the ultimate example of this when Henry does finally find the mind-flayers real form in the upside down. He instantly morphs it into the shape he imagined it in during his childhood ( the spider-like shape he drew it as ) which is what we’ve seen it represented as throughout the series. I had a whole HC / theory up about how Henry shaped the upside down just as much as it shaped him which is the facts but I’m not gonna bother to rewrite that because it all turned out to be completely canon, so I don’t really need to go back into all of that I don’t think.
Also, thanks to Jamie talking about how Henry isn’t a monster, but his life experiences essentially turned him into one & therefore he is very sympathetic toward his own character ( THANKS, KING ), I’m not done yet & I’m gonna now talk about Henry’s self-label of “solitary” creature & his comfort in relating to spiders. Jamie basically said Henry has spent his life only ever knowing scorn, rejection & exile from others. Whether imposed by others or self-imposed to cope / feel safe. I noticed a lot of people take Henry’s interest & relation to spiders as scary & proof of “psychopathy”, because they think of spiders as scary, weird things that need to be avoided or eradicated; they're just not viewed as living creatures worthy of respect or sympathy, despite the fact they very much are. & Henry literally says himself this is why he relates to them, because they’re a misunderstood creature, because people have treated him the same way, he takes comfort in being able to relate to something so much & he finds them inspiring as a result. He draws strength from them because they're his special interest, his comfort thing, he looks at a spider & someway, somehow, & don’t even ask me to explain in depth how, its just the autistic experience; the girls that get it get it, the girls that don't don't, he feels safe, he feels elated to know this thing exists & the only thing that's topping that feeling is the feeling of “I am like that thing!”. That makes him feel less alone, more empowered. Even if the thing he's related to is a spider & not another human being. A lot of people have boiled the whole thing down to “Spiders kill things, spiders are scary, spiders are unrelatable, spiders are emotionless = Henry loves killing people, he is a remorseless, evil sadistic psychopathic monster since his childhood, he is scary.” & it drives me a little nuts but rather than write up a whole new thing about it I’m just gonna copy paste something from my multi where I talked about this a few days ago because like Henry I am very abnormal & I need to rant about my discomforts & my villain origin story !
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 mind-flayer'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 & origin 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.
Henry’s actual quotes, furthermore:
"Most people fear spiders. They detest them. And yet I found them endlessly fascinating. More than that I found a great comfort in them – a kinship. Like me they are solitary creatures and deeply misunderstood. They are gods of our world, the most important of all predators. They immobilize and feed on the weak, bringing balance and order to an unstable ecosystem."
"You see, humans… are a unique type of pest; multiplying and poisoning our world, all while enforcing a structure of their own. A deeply unnatural structure. Where others saw order, I saw a straitjacket. A cruel, oppressive world dictated by made-up rules. Seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, years, decades! Each life a faded, lesser copy of the one before! WAKE UP, EAT, WORK, SLEEP, REPRODUCE, AND DIE! Everyone… is just waiting… waiting… for it all to be over, all while performing in a silly, terrible play, day after day. I could not do that. I could not close off my mind and join in the madness; I could not… pretend."
He spat straight facts about the experience & unending stress of anyone who cannot conform to societal norms, anyone who doesn’t live up to societies expectations & the restrictive, unfair standards of what's ‘good’ & ‘right’ vs what isn’t as these standards DO NOT apply to everyone, are largely unnatural & that its downright evil to try an enforce them on everyone since its almost impossible for everyone to fit the “mold”, because its heavily bias & flawed from the start. He's trying to say this is all nonsense thats been made up by evil, bigoted stupid people in power. He’s talking about the real struggle “othered” people face against systematic oppression. He’s trying to say that a spider is considered an important part of the ecosystem. They fit in whether people like it or not & despite their “differences” they have a valuable role in bringing order to the natural world. He’s not saying he wants to murder people because he finds it funny & he’s a sadistic freak, he’s ensuring himself he belongs & he’s trying to illustrate that someone with powers like his would be able to fight & perhaps dismantle the painful, oppressive system that is currently in place & bring about balance. Equality. If he has to eat a couple of insects to do it, so be it. He also specifies that he wants to be a predator BUT FOR GOOD. The last part is VERY IMPORTANT. He’s not saying he wants to murder people because its fun, he’s literally saying he wants to do good. WHICH SOUNDS FANTASTIC IN THEORY but I think he was being extremely optimistic, which makes a lot of sense given, despite Henry having so much more life experience than El, he’s still been pretty sheltered by being trapped in a lab for 20 years & just generally holding on to this big dream of his that regardless to being a fairly noble aspiration at its core, is probably going to be more of a chore than he thinks, BUT maybe that's my own pessimism speaking & either way that's another discussion / post for another time particularly for AU scenarios because we also know canonly that Henry as Vecna is no longer as restrained or benign as he once intended to be. Or at least I don’t think he is. He’s lost the sense of & the attachment to humanity he once had. I’m super interested to see where he goes in s5 thats for sure.
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Okay so THIS is going to be the big official Alastor info post covering portrayal notes & other little bits & pieces about the muse in an effort to give myself & others a reference on how I plan to write him & a little bit of info that I think is important to cover for good faith & transparency reasons. Due to some of the sensitive nature of this post please read on with caution. This post contains mentions of creates in Native American folklore & mythology. Out of respect these creatures names will be censored & will be mentioned as little as possible, however I believe it is necessary to cover them in some way as they are canonlogically stated to be sources of heavy inspo for the character which is very obvious to the text. The post also contains mentions of real life bigotry & religion, please read on with caution !
Lets get the messy stuff out of the way first. I know its been admitted that Alastor takes heavy inpso from W*ndigo but I ACTUALLY personally think Alastor is infinitely more similar to the slightly less popular mythology of Sk*n W*lk*rs & I am pointing this out souly because of how many similarities there is in Alastor’s design / history & these creatures as opposed to the fandoms silly obsession with him literally being a W*ndigo which he's actually literally not & which is very disrespectful all around so no, I will not be portraying Alastor as actually either of these creatures & anyone in the fandom trying to say this is what he literally is, is factually wrong on multiple levels. He’s a demon. Folks really have no reason not to leave it at that, god.
Anyway, in the same vein I am not Navajo & I don’t want to be disrespectful to Navajo culture so I’ll always do my best to keep things tasteful & vague, which is why I am also censoring the names of BOTH the creatures in question here & this will be the last time I actually mention either of them if I can help it, but this character shares sooo many traits with these beings, the latter more than the former, & this isn’t even the only thing I want to address here with Alastor. Even though Alastor is literally NOT one of these creatures they were used for inspiration so there is & always will be a big overlap in aesthetics & visuals that will probably be associated to them no matter what I do to try separate them from who / what Alastor actually is.
Another inpso stated for the character was Dr. Facilier & this actually furthers the fact that there is almost infinite similarities between Alastor & Sk*n W*lk*r myths, while the same can’t be said about the W*ndigo. The only similarities Alastor has with W*ndigo are the bastardisations of W*ndigo in popular horror media which came about due to frequently being mixed with & confused with Sk*n w*lk*rs. In fact almost all popular media’s take on W*ndigo’s freaky traits aside from the cannibalism are actually attributed to sk*n w*lk*rs & are NOT traditional to W*ndigo themselves, W*ndigo actually have nothing to do with deer or stags & do not resemble them in any way. These likeness are traced back to a very old movie where inspo for the appearance of the creature was taken from werewolves, but anyway moving on & back to Dr. Facillier The other thing I want to mention is that its been made pretty clear that Alastor is, in fact, a “Witch Doctor” type of character. He is a bokor. He is more so than anything HEAVILY linked to Vodou / “Voodoo” which is actually another complication with the character as the “Voodoo” we see with Alastor is what we call “Hollywood Voodoo” which is pretty much a racist parody & demonization of Voodoo sensationalised by white folks for media. If not obvious the problem here is Vodou / Voodoo is an African religion. Its an actual legitimate religion & popular portrayals of it being evil, scary dark magic is both totally false & also extremely racist & disrespectful. Vodou / Voodoo practitioners are still victims of hate crimes to this very day.
So, again, without trying to be insane & going too far into all the bad parts of all this & being overly critical of everything, I want to state up front that while I CANNOT remove these things from the character entirely I’ll do my best to handle them in a way that I hope to minimize any offence. To start with I wont be portraying Alastor’s magic as “Voodoo” as such. I’ll be placing it down to Hoodoo which is more general occult & less associated to the actual religion. That being said given these things will always be related in someway, what does draw from Voodoo I will try to handle in a more empowering way as opposed to a demonising way, although I realise that may seem contradictory when Alastor is a literal demon. But I feel like I can kinda lessen the negative parts of this with the fact that IMO, Alastor is a POC. For me he is very much mixed race but its not exactly a perfect secret that Alastor’s not white. In my personal headcanon his mother was of African decent & most likely practised Voodoo in its true form as a religion, where Alastor learned what he did to use in his own personal way, removed from the actual religion. This makes the most sense to me given Voodoo is an exclusive religion & you don’t just sign up & you’re in. Its usually passed down. I also wanna just share a quote from an anthropologist that studied this stuff named Ira Lowenthal. This is in regards to the origin of Voodoo & its practise among African slaves.
““They were treated as cattle. As animals to be bought and sold; worth nothing more than a cow. Often less. Vodou is the response to that. Vodou says ‘no, I’m not a cow. Cows cannot dance, cows do not sing. Cows cannot become God. Not only am I a human being - I’m considerably more human than you. Watch me create divinity in this world you have given me that is so ugly and so hard. Watch me become God in front of your eyes.”“
This is kind of where my head is at when I say when I come at the strong influence & direct display of Voodoo in Alastor’s entire existence with a more empowering approach as opposed to something innately bad / scary / evil. Because I know while Alastor is a demon he is using his powers to navigate hell in a comfortable way, taking down powerful demon overlords as opposed to being downtrodden & treated as a lowly human soul. I think as a POC who lived in the 1910s-1930s Alastor is very used to tackling & navigating oppression & having others think they can push him around as a result, only for him to continually subvert this via his own cunning & merit. Also to put it out there I made another post wondering if/how this stuff will be addressed in canon (Deleted I guess, smh) cause the fact of the matter is Alastor’s “Voodoo” is displayed in canon with literal Veves (these are real Veves. Some of them are broken or drawn slightly differently to IRL but they are the real thing, none of them are fictional or ‘made up’ Veves.) So what Alastor is suppose to be doing when his powers come up is “”voodoo””. As a result Alastor’s powers are, obviously IMO, not drawing from hell. They seem to draw from within himself / he's accessing another realm. Which explains a lot about his powers & how powerful he is & was able to become rapidly despite being a “human soul” & the canon having noted the kind of power Alastor was able to wield from day one being unheard of for a human soul. But yeah, not sure how or if this is gonna get addressed but I’ll be interested to see if it does. So now that THATS all out of the way I’m gonna go back over my other more general notes for him. I don’t claim to know all the Alastor trivia or anything so I might be missing some things but its fine, I like to just make stuff up in the meantime so until canon starts giving me some more solid content for Alastor these are just some thoughts in various states of development:
A lot of this was mentioned on my old multi but I’m gonna use this post cover some stuff I’ve already mentioned, to update some things & to add some new things : I like to view Alastor in life as having some relationship with medicine but I think the decision I’ve come to is that Alastor was less a legitimate physician & more an unlicensed surgeon. I think Alastor may have perhaps aspired to be more of a real physician but never actually made it to being a legitimate medical practitioner, despite his talent. That being said, it wouldn’t have been unusual to find Alastor preforming “back ally” procedures for the rich & the criminally inclined alike. Alastor was perhaps best described as a jack of all trades, with vaguely con-man tendencies. He knows the hustle. This ability to do a “little bit of everything” meant Alastor would occasionally “preform” in small time theatre. This was actually where he was picked up by a radio station & employed as a host as this was a fairly common occurrence at the time.
As its also been state that he was a serial killer with a twisted moral code but I’ll touch on this in a little bit. Its been said Alastor is a man of duality & I think him presenting himself as clean cut, well bread radio host by day with some secretive sketchy hobbies that lead to him being a somewhat “” satanic ”” butcher by night as his demeanour fits in well with this theme. Duality is also a common theme in Voodoo & the beliefs & spirits therein.
In my mind one of Alastor’s good qualities is that he is fiercely anti-misogyny which brings me to Alastor’s odd moral code. He has a deep seated hatred for men who treat women badly. Despite all the underhanded & bad things Alastor has done & is capable of doing, Alastor was very against abuse toward women. In my portrayal none of Alastor’s victims were / are women, they are all men & violence / disrespect toward women was a big factor in Alastor’s choice of victim. Alastor was noted to have a very close / fond relationship with his mother which is a factor in where his deep respect of women stems from.
In my eyes Alastor’s father was possibly French & white, though I’m not sure if he knew him very well or if he was in Alastor’s life at all. Alastor himself is white passing or ‘racially ambiguous’, something which he was able to use to his advantage in the white man’s world but that being said, given Alastor is not actually white, his fairer skin & more european eccentric features could only take him so far. Therefore he is very understanding of & sympathetic toward the struggles of “less fortunate”, POC & women alike & he is very anti-racism as well as quite keyed in to classism during his time as he is intimately familiar with these struggles. One of the reasons Alastor was successful on & chosen for Radio was because no one could actually see him, meaning his racial ambiguity was further pronounced & many would assume Alastor was white or by hearing his voice would have no reason to imagine him as anything else. Again, quite comon at the time.
As mentioned in another post, Alastor’s the kind of guy women feel safe around, which has translated to his demon form & life, which probably feels a little odd to start with because most know him as the terrifying radio demon, which there is literal warnings about all over hell, yet he def doesn’t exert any real aura of danger toward female / fem identifying folks, aside from knowing his reputation, they don't feel any reason to be afraid of him, which only gets better with time but none really know how to categorize him. He doesn’t really fit the gay bestie category & he's not exactly a boyfriend, although some of them might want to think that way in the end, no one has ever been able to actually tie him down. ( I have a WHOLE other headcanon about this to post later tbh ) ANOTHER something to add to this is that while Alastor is very anti violence & disrespect toward women he is a mischievous trickster type creature. He will torment women, playfully & he will manipulate them to achieve his own goals (See Charlie & Vaggie, respectfully). He doesn’t mean them real harm, of course. Further, given Alastor lived roughly through the late 1910s & died in the early 30s, yes he does so some things that might be considered a little sexist. He puts women in dresses & he tends to refer to them with lots of pet names “Darling, Dear, Doll, Belle, Sweetheart etc”. He means this in an endearing way & not in a degrading way however, despite the fact it can & probably does come off as such. I’m also not going to say he would correct it immediately if told about it, not because he’s trying to be an ass but more because of habit. Its been noted that Alastor’s a little “stuck” in his ways. On to the next thing I’m not here to erase peoples sexualities so ofc he's Asexual & grey Aromatic. He can have queer platonic relationships & all but he's not AT ALL interested in sex (he’s kind of touch adverse + a bit sex repulsed, actually) his stance on romance is less repulsed & more just vague disinterest. He’s preferential to women in all ways but I’m not gonna say that's an inflexible preference given his general disinterest either way. On that note, Alastor doesn’t label himself as ace/aro or aspec because he just doesn’t know that exists & even if he did he’d probably reject it. It wasn’t a part of his time & Alastor can be a little bit snooty about things that didn’t exist as he knew them. Again, hes a bit stuck in his ways.
For Alastor himself he describes himself as having other engagements & this might change if he finds the “right” one, but he also takes some type of comfort in the idea in the back of his mind that the ‘right one’ doesn’t / cant exist for him. Though his logic FOR THAT is because he’s a demon & all that kind of stuff has passed him / the others by. He hasn’t had any “real” relationships in his demon life but Alastor does kind of “preform” romance or behave in a way that suggests he's open to it but he never really leaves the ‘courtship’ stage into a real relationship with anyone, which has so far been the case. Strangely enough he does have an ‘ideal’ relationship in his mind but he doesn’t find anyone will ever measure up to it. Its unclear if Alastor is actually open to romance in some way or if this exists for him due to heavy societal pressure (thankfully lessened by hell) & a vague desire to conform. Personally I’m just going to see where / how this develops before I decide which one is most true for Alastor. I know Alastor does at least experience some kind of sensual attraction & behaves as such given, contrary to his own dislike of being touched, he does seem to like to be a bit touchy with others. This is however mostly reserved for people he likes or initiates with.
Other things to note for Alastor is he is indeed very duplicitous as previously mentioned. Despite his well put together & dandy outward demeanour he is actually very feral for lack of a better way to put it. He may dress well & speak / act gentlemanly but this is mostly a façade Alastor puts on as during his time period this behaviour was accorded to the wealthy & the powerful & Alastor was a very fake it till you make it type personality. Indeed, a majority of Alastor’s outward demeanour is fake. Its a show intended to fool others on all levels, again, because Alastor relates speaking, dressing & behaving pleasantly as reflective of high power & status. His near constant smile exists for exactly the same reason. It displays power & dominance to him. Alastor’s reality is that he is very bloodthirsty, deceitful & violent. His true self is mischievous & he frankly seems to enjoy causing harm as he finds it amusing, though he has fully convinced himself that his victims are completely deserving, which just makes it even more fun to torment them. In complete contrast to Alastor’s polite exterior he is ready & willing to throw down at a moments notice. Related are his yellow teeth, that are like that not for a demonic aesthetic per-se but actually because his oral hygiene sucks, he’s got yellowed teeth & bad breath, another canon fact. He has no problem taring his victims apart & eating them right on the spot. Indeed, Alastor eats mostly meat which he prefers to eat raw, & while Alastor may not have been a “cannibal” in life (I actually think this bit of trivia maaaybe on the debatable side) he’s 100% cannibalistic as a demon. I have a vague idea of how Alastor’s death went down based on the little trivia notes given, although I don’t think I’m going to follow canon to the letter but we’ll see. Rather, I’m toying with the idea of him being “ hunted ” , perhaps by a mob of townsfolk who suspected him of his crimes, given the other titbit of information about him being a serial killer -- I have vague ideas of him attempting to escape through the wilderness which might have worked out if not for the dogs that tracked him. -- Which could potentially be where his deer-like attributes as a demon stem from, as Alastor wouldn’t have looked like a deer in life (unsure if he had shapeshifting abilities in life, however, I don’t think so, though.). I’m going for it to be symbolic of the hunter becoming the hunted & more broadly of Alastor’s polite, friendly demeanour in life having hidden the monster he truly was. Also kind of a sick hell-brand irony given Alastor’s favorite meal / meat as a human was ( & still is ) venison. Aside from this, Alator’s beef with dogs for me stems from them being harder for him to fool. Humans were easy, but dogs always seemed to know exactly what he really was & tended to act frightened / aggressive toward him, meaning they could alert their owners / others to the danger of Alastor, which they otherwise might not have picked up on till it was too late. Its noted he’s not afraid of dogs, he simply dislikes them so this is how I’m thinking I’ll explain that aspect of him as well.
& Heres another messy hc drop of a bunch of thoughts on Alastor added to this post for convivence sake. Alastor was never really interested in medicine for the purpose of helping people. He might have liked to think that but really Alastor’s interest in medicine was more to fuel his morbid fascination with death & dismemberment, hence his stint as a back ally surgeon. Alastor had genuine talent & he was damn efficient in his work, his skill, precision & overall good rapport made others think Alastor had a lot of care & passion toward helping his patients but rather it was the opposite that gave Alastor a lot of talent in this field. It was his hidden callous disregard for his penitents & this his ability work with very little stress or concern that made Alastor a “skilled surgeon.” This was never an official job of his though. It was something he dabbled in when he was younger, again, more to slate a morbid fasciation than to genuinely help people & to make a quick buck.
Nextly, Alastor doesn't appear on camera + TV. I mean, he does, but he doesn't. He tends to translate in a very distorted manner. If you were to take a picture of Alastor or try to record a video of him he will be a distorted figure, looking like a static glitch as oppose to his “true” self. “”Modern”” technology doesn’t register Alastor. Its another part of his demonic affliction & he does have a lot of resentment for it which, IMO, ties into his dislike of Vox & of modern technology in general.
Alastor has a type of influence over sound however & can essentially manifest / project his voice wherever he wants. His voice is not necessarily attached to him, meaning, he can speak while seemingly not being physically present. Alastor’s voice is a supernatural manifestation & works independently of his body. Though he is used to moving his mouth to speak he doesn’t have to & sometimes his mouth movements can be off in contrast to what he’s saying. Its a very strange & off putting thing to witness.
The little deer hoof prints at the bottom of his “shoes” are the demonic representation of Alastor’s tap dancing skill from his human life. Tap dancers have little metal plates on the soul & heel of their shoes, Alastor’s are simply shaped like the hooves of a deer because Demon Aesthetics really go hard in the hazbin universe. This gives Alastor the ability to tap-dance whenever & otherwise further likens him to a deer as he makes a little tapping sound when he walks, invoking the impression of a deer's hard hooves moving over a solid surface.
Alastor was born in the late 1800s. His popular fan given age is early 30s but I think Alastor was more mid 30s personally, (maybe like 33 or 34) either way, for him to have died in his 30s in 1933 he would have been born in somewhere in the late 1800s, like about 1898 at least, which is actually very important because I’ve seen people say Alastor is from the 30s which isn’t entirely true. The peek of his life would have been the 20s & his most formative years would have been the late 1900s. He died in the early 30s so he only actually experienced 3 years of “the 30s”.
Alastor has a lot of resentment for his death. He was, in my headcanon, essentially lynched. Not only does Alastor not like the manner of his death but doesn’t like the fact that he thinks it was premature, purely for the fact he really had a lot more murders he’d like to have committed ! Which to him meant there was more life he wanted to experience. That being said, Alastor doesn’t dislike his time in Hell. He quite enjoyed it at first. His only problem is that he’s become bored & honestly after decades of balling too hard most of the other demons in hell are deathly afraid of him, going as far as to hang warning about him all over hells streets, which makes entertaining himself hard as very few have the balls to actively engage him. Alastor’s patron sin, if not obvious, is the sin of Wrath.
Wrath often reveals itself in the wish to seek vengeance In its purest form, wrath presents with injury, violence, and hate that may provoke feuds that can go on for centuries. Wrath may persist long after the person who did another grievous wrong dies. "If anger reaches the point of a deliberate desire to kill or seriously wound a neighbour, it is gravely against charity; it is a mortal sin." Hatred is the sin of desiring that someone else may suffer misfortune or evil and is a mortal sin when one desires grave harm
Alastor’s name translates to avenger / vengeful spirit. Its a name that has been given to spirits, typically of the demonic kind sent to avenge / attack / destroy those who invoke the ire of others after doing them harm. In origin & meaning the name Alastor is considered on par with the Greek Goodness Nemesis, a deity who enacts retribution upon others. This is incredibly on point for Alastor as it was heavily implied if not CONFIRMED that Alastor’s motive as a serial killer was to kill those he deemed wicked / corrupt / villainous toward those he deemed innocent / oppressed.
Again, we’ve seen in canon that Alastor largely considers violence / abuse toward women as a grave misdeed & will actively murder & cannibalise other demons if he catches them participating in harming / assaulting women. There has been lots of other canon indicators that Alastor protects women & has a much better / stronger rapport with them than with men who he conversely doesn’t respect at all.
We’re unsure its only displays of misogyny that set Alastor off or if Alastor in general defends those he views as oppressed / victims. I like to think the latter as tbh Alastor enjoys murdering & if he can find a “good reason” to kill he’s more than happy to indulge himself, its not exclusively restricted to witnessing acts of misogynistic violence or assult. ALL THIS BEING SAID, Alastor doesn’t view himself as a good person. He’s aware of what sin he repeatedly commits, the sin that got him dammed to hell, he enjoys it & he actively chose it knowing the “ consequences ” it has on his own soul. He’s basically at peace with his actions & doesn’t / never expected NOT to go to hell or to have a ‘lesser’ punishment due to the fact he was technically murdering ‘bad’ people or people who “deserved” it. This is also why he's completely uninterested in redemption because Alastor can’t look at his own actions, feel regret, feel remorse, or promise he has any intentions to never do it again. & this is also why Alastor tends to look so far down his nose at most other sinners. Lastly I like to think while Alastor was cut down in “his prime”, again, something he resents, he did get a few good murders to his name & some small infamy as a human / in the human world for them (though nothing compared to what he planned or would have wanted). I haven't decided on Alastor’s serial killer moniker yet or too many details other than I think Alastor was a simultaneously calculated & opportunistic killer & was incredibly savage in the sense that he didn’t have one special method of murder & it wasn’t a ‘clean’ thing for him.
He preferred bladed weapons like knives, hatchets, axes & so on in comparison to guns though. Even just a nice blunt object was favoured. Some of Alastor’s killings were more contained / ritualistic, while others were just frenzied & characterised by their extreme violence / gore. As a result while Alastor didn’t have a huge kill count to his name the killings that were attributed to him were ghoulish & inspired much fear & revolution. I also like to think there is some debate as to whether or not Alastor WAS the killer given Alastor’s outward demeanour vs the murders he committed didn’t seem to line up & some like to speculate that well put together gentleman like himself couldn’t have been responsible.
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