#also he wears stupid hats and looks like a deranged hobo and talks like a smarmy supervillain

[grandwitchbird]

Ardyn Izunia dragging himself through the blighted world he tried to save by taking all its pain into his own body. A healer crucified for millenia for the crime of healing his people. Causing as much chaos as he can because his own gods cursed him to carry the weight of their mistakes. And when he fought back they tortured him into something like defiant compliance. So he becomes a genuine monster perfectly crafted to destroy the world. Because now his fate and the fate of the world he tried to save rests in the hands of yet another chosen sacrifice. One he can’t save. One that wears the face of his first and worst betrayer. One that can hopefully kill him.