#( al being a glass cannon is also partially based on my own personal headcanons about his deal + how his powers work )
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i want to expand on my yapping in the tags of this post real quick, because this is yet another thing that's been burning a hole in my alastor-rotted brain.
my al really doesn't have many scars at all — the most prominent you might see at a glance is maybe a little nick on the finger here or there. a moment of distraction while handling a knife. something casual, something mundane, something unremarkable. he isn't shy about tearing you apart with his own hands if the mood strikes him, but he generally is more the type to stand back and overwhelm with eldritch-flavored magic at a distance. this naturally means al is less likely to be in the direct line of fire simply because you need to cross a veritable sea of tentacles and summons and whatever other horrors he feels like tormenting you with at any given moment, but i also believe it's a matter of pride for him. ( see: his little quip at pentious — not many people have been able to take even this much off me. etc, etc. ) he thinks so highly of himself, he is not going to give you the opportunity to leave a mark on him. and i feel he's particularly smug that he has such a reputation for slaughtering such powerful people while coming out the other side not only the victor, but appearing totally unscathed — like another way to establish his own dominance and superiority.
that being said, this is ( at least partially ) yet another facade. because he isn't completely unscarred — and in fact has two very prominent ones. the first is ( unsurprisingly ) from adam. the second is a particularly nasty wound from his fight with vox which nearly cost him his entire left arm. the majority of the damage is centered on his shoulder — you would never know that it's there, of course, and he moves as though nothing is wrong. there is definitely a non-negligible degree of nerve damage, though — almost as if they were cooked by electricity. phantom pains skittering across his flesh, pins and needles when he least expects it. sometimes you might catch al rolling his shoulder or his wrist as if he's trying to banish some sort of stiffness, but he'll cheerfully lie through his teeth if you try to inquire about it.
he'll never actually admit it, but he's much more of a glass cannon than he lets on. few people know this because they're never given the opportunity to land a decent hit.
#𝟎𝟎𝟒 : 𝘧𝘪𝘳𝘴𝘵 𝘣𝘭𝘰𝘰𝘥 𝘤𝘢𝘮𝘦 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘣𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘵𝘰𝘯𝘨𝘶𝘦. ◟ hc .◝#( based on how he has those funky stitches over his shoulder in certain frames )#( ofc i am absolutely willing to be flexible on this when i'm interacting w/ any vox writers )#( i just like the idea of him not coming out unscathed. he has a permanent reminder of what happened and boy is he bitter about it. )#( al being a glass cannon is also partially based on my own personal headcanons about his deal + how his powers work )#( which is another bout of babbling i'll subject the dash to at another point i'm sure )#( but tl;dr the power he's drawing from isn't actually his own so naturally his physical body is actually kind of squishy )
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