#▋┆main. → a reaper free from his curse and himself again; but at what cost?

[theristes]

“I’m relieved that you’re all right…”

meme; odin sphere sentence startersstatus; accepting ( @terredna​ )

          in truth, he expects more of an outburst from her. not this quiet acceptance. some part of him wanted her to be angry at him for abandoning her for all these years. it was enough that he’d not deigned to return home when he’d still had control of himself as a malak, but to allow himself to succumb to malevolence—even if it was to save the world—and become a dragon as well ?? forever nearby, yet forever a threat ?? hinging on madness ?? able to lose himself at any possible second ?? it would be enough to have him boiling with rage, audacious enough to just put himself down. like he’d had zaveid promise to do. edna, though, she’d suffered through it all. she’d allowed herself to deal with what eizen would assume to be unmeasurable pain because of him. it was not right. he’d failed her as a brother.

          ❛ edna… ❜ he whispers, stony features cracking with guilt. eizen couldn’t say that he wasn’t happy to see her—safe and all grown up ( more so than she, an early bloomer, had already been so many centuries ago ), but there was nothing he wished more than for it not to have been because of his own neglect and failure. ❛ I’m glad that I am as well. ❜

          his throat bobs as he extends a hand to affectionately place it atop her head, just as he used to. he hopes that she doesn’t catch onto his slight hesitance—he’s never too sure about how she’ll react anymore. she’s an enigma to him now. nevertheless, he forces his trademark smirk onto his lips.

          by the kraken queen, she must’ve thought him to be a ‘ big dummy ’. 

          ❛ I must’ve caused you a lot of trouble, little sister. ❜

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Crash Bandicoot the Series Episodes

52 Episodes; To stop N Tropy and Cortex’s Plan Z that puts reality in jeopardy, Crash and Coco must travel between dimensions to gather crystals necessary. Along the way, the duo meets familiar faces and it’s a guess of whether they’re friend or foe. Then again for Crash, an enemy’s just a friend you haven’t made yet.

Method of the Marsupials: Spelunking down an ancient temple, Coco slowly feels inferior compared to Crash’s spontaneity always lucking out. Then again, Crash has never been one without his sister.

The Titanfields and Mucoltants: A chase after a baby mutant leads to a universe where two different clans have been feuding for generations and it’s up to the Bandicoots to finally put an end to it, or make the fighting feel different.

Crash Cultivation: Our siblings split up momentarily and Crash’s adventure involves helping a farmer confront a curse that prevents anything from growing on his land.

In My Element: Coco’s adventure is a puzzle room, literally a room full of puzzles she has to solve to get out. She’s having a blast, but comes to realize that the joy could be endless.

Breakfasticoot: Taking a break from gathering the crystals, Crash decides to go into the morning wilderness to get his sister breakfast in bed. Needless to say, it isn’t easy for our unbreakable hero.

Tense Theory: In order to get the next crystal, Coco needs to show that she can relax like her brother.

Tales as Old as Tiny: The Bandicoots encounter Tiny Tiger, depressed and very lacking in muscle. Crash wants to help, leading to the two entering the wildcat’s mind.

Minuscule Madness (Part 1): The Bandicoots reach a dimension that has everyone in it out to kill them. The problem is that the “everyone” are too small to be noticeable by the duo.

Minuscule Madness (Part 2): Crash’s body has been invaded by the small people and Coco must figure out how to save her bro before he dies or the small people die first due to Crash’s surprisingly volatile insides.

Jake and the Crashman: Crash is split from Coco and is thrust into a noir story involving wumpa fruit, cars, and a hidden conspiracy.

War the Game: Crash and Coco face off against a supercomputer possessing a crystal where losing will mean the end of that world, the heart and mind of our Bandicoot siblings truly at unity this episode.

Coco Kaijuu: The next dimension our siblings enter have them transformed into giant monsters and while Coco wants to be peaceful towards the civilians, Crash is having fun with his new form which unleashes a force trying to stop them.

Rip Roo Ca-Choo: Ripper Roo is alone after his original defeat from Crash, rejected by Cortex and with no direction. He then sees Crash again and becomes determined to exact his revenge.

Crash the Bachelor: A hopeless romantic Skunk finds love when Crash is the one being that isn’t driven away by his putrid stench. And while Crash enjoys being friends, our bandicoot doesn’t care about getting closer.

Tawna Comes to Tango: Dimension hopping Pirate Tawna shows up to help our Bandicoots win the crystal at a casino but her love of risk soon gets in the way.

Bookbrain: Our new trio visit the library where a crystal’s hidden and the former two decide to get Crash into more advanced reading. Crash loves it at first, but when the three discover the comic book section, it’s a challenge to keep that and Crash separate.

Animal House: Crash, Coco, and Tawna have to strengthen their teamwork to face a chicken, a monkey, and a shiny jellyfish in order to get the crystal.

Ghostdusters: Tawna doesn’t believe in ghosts, but a trek through a haunted house suddenly has her scared sneezing. The three try to make their way in and out, but finding the crystal will mean cleaning things up.

Crashket Ball: A game so complicated for Tawna and Coco leads to Crash helping them understand things his way.

Why Love Him: Tawna is separated from her friends into another dimension and stumbles across a dejected Crash that’s been through what she went through long ago in her dimension. She tries to cheer him up, and comes to realize what she saw in him originally.

The Messiness of Music: Our trio have to confront N Gin in a music contest in three days but instruments aren’t their forte, Crash and Tawna can’t and won’t sing, and Coco is overwhelmed in making the best song. However, music doesn’t have to be flawless to feel good.

Crashcading Fury: Crash wakes up angry and on destructive rampage for the next crystal. A scared Coco and Tawna do what they can, desperately trying to get their more cool, easy-going buddy back. 

Lunchtime: Crash, Coco, and Tawna have the chance to relax and get sandwiches and the Komodo brothers are sent out to kill them.

Ahoy Baby: A young group of aliens claim Tawna as their mom and she joyously comes to teach them how to live her way.

The House of N (Part 1): Knowing the trio’s progress, Cortex comes up with the idea of bringing multiple versions of himself to come up with ideas in stopping them.

The House of N (Part 2): A battle of the one true Neo Cortex ensues, leading to our main scientist at odds with himself of where everything went wrong.

Aku Uka Alone: Uka Uka and Aku Aku mentally link and argue over the faith they have in their hero/villains.

Dream Reaper: In this silent but musical episode, N Tropy sends a villain capable of killing people while they’re dreaming to the trio, only for our villain to underestimate all three’s imaginative capabilities.

Pace and Test: Crash is challenged to a simultaneous physical and academic exam for a crystal which is where his sister and bestie put their all into making him the best of both worlds.

Ferally Feud: Crash and Tawna get into an argument, leading Coco to try moderating and sees why she loves them both.

It Takes a Bandicoot to Save a Village: Former chief Papu Papu asks Crash to help rebuild his village after Cortex’s meddling might force them to leave the island.

Crate Minds Think Alike: Cortex manages to weaken the trio to the point where they can’t bash crates anymore, leading to them pushing each other to get stronger in the real way.

Dial D for Dingo: Meeting up with an old chum at his “established” restaurant, the Bandicoots take a stand when health inspectors have come to shut down the place by ANY means.

Two Times Tropy: While Cortex is out, N Tropy and his female alternate are working on repairs but are ignorantly making things worse with their constant ego stroking.

Crash The Banditoon: The trio reach a blank dimension where things feel different, more animated and that’s saying something. Crash isn’t complaining though.

Juicy Juiced: A special wumpa Crash finds gives the trio enhanced ability but at the cost of sleeping for days. So they keep eating it in order to come up with an antidote to null the effects at the risk of an eternal sleep.

Lab Rat Revolution: The trio arrive at a place populated by a majority of Brio’s rejects and helps them get revenge.

Wayback Brio: An encounter with N. Brio has him and Coco stuck in a cavern. While Crash and Tawna figure out a way to their freedom, the two inside are forced to rewalk their former relationship.

The Skinner (Halloween Special): Crash is possessed by an evil spirit that’s known for desiring the skin of its victim, unbeknownst to Tawna and Coco though, an unstable spirit can’t control an unstable body.

You’re a Bad Man, Dr. Cortex: Cortex arrives in a dimension where he’s the leader of the world, only this version is a good guy. Naturally he replaces the other Cortex and tries to spin the world into his image, but is conflicted that he’ll destroy a utopia he technically made himself.

Nurse Bandicoot: Coco catches a high fever after a trip through the arctic dimension, and the others do what they can for her. Crash surprisingly takes things slow while Tawna is frantic in making things better.

Do Mursupials Dream of Magic Sheep?: Crash suddenly gets nightmares and it affects him while awake. One night, a figure appears in his dream and the two adventure to found out how to resolves these bitter feelings.

Cocomotion: A trip to the future has Coco visit a successful version of herself. As such, it’s the age old case between future versus family. 

Crunched Kindness (1/2 Hour Christmas Special): Infiltrating Cortex’s castle, the trio frees a disheveled Crunch Bandicoot and helps him see the beauty of the world.

High School Bandicoot: The Trio are stuck in a video game dating sim where Crash has to win in one go or get deleted forever.

Fishing for Crystals: A fish eats a crystal, a bigger fish eats the little and so on, forcing our heroes to fish differently in the effort to get it back.

Continue?: Crash finds himself alone in a dreary world where it turns out he's dead. He meets a little possum girl and her big bodyguard as they help him uncover a way back to life.

The Trials of Crash Bandicoot: Crash is framed for multiple interdimensional crimes in space court, all of which are Cortex’s doings, and while Coco and Tawna play defense, everyone he’s encounter over the series comes to either his aid or prosecution, and Cortex has something up his sleeve, Crash himself is seemingly out cold during everything.

The Dimmer of Hope: After the events of the previous episode, Cortex has all the crystals and the trio’s banished to the end of the universe. All feels lost, so all that’s left to do is reminisce of the adventures the three got to have.

The Dimensional Dance (Part 1): Cortex and the N Tropys have everything set for multiversal domination but argue over how they want to do things. Meanwhile the trio get back to reality and figure out a way to destroy the crystals. 

The Dimensional Dance (Part 2): Crash has absorbed all of the power of the reality machine to make a universe in his own image. Tawna, Coco, the N Tropys, and Cortex are aware and find out that this won’t be stable for much longer and have to save Crash to reverse the effects.

The Never Ending Story (Series Finale): Crash is alone again, not dead, this time in a plane outside all existence and, given the chance to speak for the first time, reflects on his life and everything he got to have to a being he’s familiar with.

[hajimsblog]

In Tales of Grandier

There are two leaders who rule hell together. They are Lucifer and Death. Though the land was originally given to Death as a punishment, Lucifer does more leadering. Meaning, he keeps things running.

Death had taken the life of Celeste, and now must handle the deaths of all living beings. He also has been cursed to never touch the living again. Anything organic will turn to dust in his grasp, no matter what. However, over the centuries, he has found a loophole or two. He is the original reaper, and most others come from him.

Death spends his days in his office, filing each death file without a break. He doesn't eat or sleep, but he doesn't really need to. Still, his more "human" form has rotten away into a skeleton.

If you were to peek inside his office, your presence would be a warm welcome. However, do prepare to have your mind fully analyzed.

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Lucifer is the second ruler over hell. You are more likely to see him than any other demon. Despite his high status, he likes to make himself known with both members of the under and overworld. If you do see him, don't expect to realize it immediately. The only tell tale sign is his earrings, which he always has in all of his forms. They have a blue bead and a skull. He often switches bodies for one reason or another. He has a preference for men, but can pick a woman's body from time to time. He has another form outside of possessing bodies, but it's too horrific to be shown to anyone.

Lucifer has a multitude of abilities at his arsenal. His main one is his use of soul magic. By making contracts and deals, he can turn people's souls into raw and potent magic. This type of magic is extremely powerful, but at a high cost. However, there is nothing stopping the average person from practicing it. The only issue would be the soul magic itself, which can easily consume the user. Lucifer seems to have a solution for this, as he's still "alive."

After making a deal with Lucifer, depending on the contract, a person can live life as normal. However, there will always be a mark of Lucifer's presence over them as their master. This comes in the form of earrings that they cannot take off. They match Lucifer's, except the blue bead is red on a slave. Even if one cuts off their own ears, they will not be free of Lucifer's presence. At any time, he could use one of his slaves for

Whatever he may feel like.

Luckily, he doesn't do that often. Since Tales of Grandier takes place during a time of "peace," there is little reason for Lucifer to actually use his slaves. Instead, he continues to gather them for his own plans. But when he isn't out doing that, he enjoys leisure. Way too much leisure. He gets up to everything and anything, and is a womanizer. And a manizer.

He doesn't have a preference for that either.

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The people of the underworld are quite fond of their rulers, since their undead life is quite enjoyable. that is if you're without too much sin, of course. Once you pay for your crimes, you can live an easy afterlife regardless. It was Lucifer's idea to make the underworld actually enjoyable for those who "didn't do much wrong." He also wanted a workforce to build out his world of endless worldly desires, since he's technically banned from heaven and the overworld. Also also, he really hates the rules of heaven in the first place. All of this lead to some kind of las Vegas underground.

[theristes]

@oathburn

          ❛ so you are a friend of my sister, I take it ?? ❜ he is blunt in his questioning of the woman. there was no need to really beat around the bush after all. she was there when he could not be, and so that made her something eizen was not: someone who’d stuck with his dear sister through it all.

          ❛ you’ve been watching over her all this time ?? ❜

[theristes]

▋┆main. → a reaper free from his curse and himself again; but at what cost? | Canon Divergence

This verse takes place during Zestiria, but only after the second confrontation with Eizen. At the end of the fight, since the idea of purifying a dragon was introduced in the anime, that becomes his fate. He’s returned to the form he once knew, now also free of the curse that had once plagued him.

Of course, his feelings towards the Shepherd are mixed, as he lived through the same era that Artorius and the Abbey attempted to revive Innominat. So he cannot completely trust this era’s Shepherd, even if he was saved from his damnation by him. When he learns of Sorey’s innocence that was so reminiscent of Laphicet’s and that he had his sister’s trust, he decides to side with him. If only to ensure that things still did not go awry. 

[theristes]

001.

Eizen often refers to things by outdated terms in his Zestiria verse. This is mostly due to the fact that even as he lived a good few hundred years into the Glenwood calendar system, he still was not around for more pivotal events due to his becoming a dragon after consuming the Lord of Calamity of another era. He’s slowly learning the new terms, but you can definitely expect him to stumble over words like malak and seraph.

The same can be said about the sea. There wasn’t nearly enough time for him to explore and revise the maps he’d made after the shifting of the earth’s crust during the second Era of Asgard before all hell broke lose again during the Death Age. To compensate for his lack of knowledge, he can often be seen with several maps and books and adding to his own personal collection of maps by continuing revisions.

[theristes]

“This is the beat of my heart.”

IF YOU LOVE ME, LET ME GO ; accepting ( @decordepuro )

          ❛ So it is… ❜ 

          He couldn’t deny that he felt ire towards the mantle of the Shepherd, but he also couldn’t deny that Sorey was so innocently human. That his presence in the world was necessary. That he wasn’t some madman like Artorius had been. That he truly was trying to save the world and all of its people. Even those like Eizen who should not have been able to be saved.

          The malak turns away from the Shepherd, his expression shifting from controlled to angered to, finally, despondent. That was ages ago, and it’d be best that he let go of that nostalgia now. 

          ❛Well, then, Shepherd…Tell me—Does your beating heart bleed? ❜

[theristes]

“I’m here for you, always.”

THEY’RE THERE FOR HIM, ALWAYS ; accepting ( @tersatellus )

          Always...

          But was that really something he deserved? He’d abandoned her long ago, returning years later in a form that had terrorized the place that they’d called home. To be with his sister again and no longer live as a dragon was nothing short of a miracle. Yet even then he felt as if he owed her far more than this.

          ❛ Edna--- ❜

          His lips curl downwards, cerulean gaze averting. The words that he should’ve been saying leave him all at once. Just what could he tell her to try and explain himself? She’d not said it aloud, but he couldn’t shake the feeling that she wanted some explanation for why everything had happened, even if they both knew whatever answer he’d give.

          ❛ ---I’m sorry. For leaving you, for everything...I wasn’t there for you. ❜

[theristes]

"Just because you can't read the words, doesn't mean you can't enjoy the book in a different way." (IDK MAN THIS ONE SEEMED FITTING AND I CANT NOT SEND 50% OFF MEMES TO PEOPLE LOL)

50% OFF ;  accepting ( @decordepuro )

          ❛ At least this isn’t the language of Ancient Avarost. I can make some sense of it, but you are right. The design of the book as well as the pictures within tell us that this must be a book of religion or art. Otherwise there would not have been so much effort into making it so beautiful. ❜

          He carefully leafs through the pages, becoming more and more intrigued by the ancient tome with every one he turned. It couldn’t have predated his own time by much. And it was not in the ancient tongue. What could it possibly originate from…? He knew the language, at least a bit, so it had to be from a time he knew…

          Aha!

          ❛ The floral design…It’s reminiscent of the Era of Asgard. This predates the revision of the calendar system…So I’d say it’s one hundred or so years before Glenwood adopted it that this book was made. ❜

          The fact that it existed then also meant one more thing for this book.

          ❛ This person just had really horrible handwriting. ❜ 

[theristes]

“I’m walking the long road, watching the sky fall.”

IF YOU LOVE ME, LET ME GO ; accepting ( @umbrellabcw )

          ❛ Be careful not to get too lost, sister. ❜ 

          He meant it only as a joke, of course. An attempt to lighten the mood. She was able to handle herself on her own, after all. Since he’d been gone so long, she likely didn’t need him much anymore as it was.

          ❛ And be sure to come back. ❜

          Maybe that last bit was more serious than what he’d said prior. But it was the truth. He didn’t want to be separated from her again.

[theristes]

“I’m here for you, always.” Edna

THEY’RE THERE FOR HIM, ALWAYS ; accepting ( @asinfinitum )

          His gaze, if possible, softens as his eyes rest upon his little sister. Well, she wasn’t so little anymore. The blonde was more grown up than she’d once been, and it was a fact he was slowly starting to accept.

          ❛ And I’m here for you now, Edna. ❜

          He was there for her just like he’d been before he’d left home, setting aside his own problems for her sake. And if she wanted to do the same for him, he wouldn’t protest, but there were still so many things that he just couldn’t burden her with. Not now, not ever.

          Eizen extends a hand and places it on top of her head, just like he used to long ago.

          ❛ We’re siblings, yeah? ❜

          I’m sorry for not properly returning to you sooner.