#anon if ur reading this ilysm and thank you for letting me blabber 💖💕

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I loved your villain Ion, do you have any more ideas with that? It's a really good idea!

anon i can't thank you enough,,, 💕 i simply Adore villains and i intend to make that everyone else's problem !!

i imagine his descent into becoming what he swore to destroy as slow, yet that brief time leading up to his fall would be a telling one. unless they wanted to feel the wrath of a literal god, no one dared disagree with him. i stress the macbeth comparisons here: a tyrant on a throne of bones, willingly sacrificing the lives of those who followed him but just fucking living for it yknow?

the klavigars' reactions to his newfound god persona could also be interesting. lovataar and orok were unwavering, too caught up in their own siphoned powers to give it thought. saarn, ever self-serving, knew damn well ion's hubris would be the death of him so had her own contigency plans for when shit inevitably hit the fan. as for nadox.. he saw it too, but stayed by ion til the end. was it out of brotherhood? or just the tiny glimmer of hope that he might be rational enough, kind enough to bring his ozi̮rmok back to himself?

(he wasn't.)

so ion dies. well- as close to dying as he was going to get, most likely at the hands of a certain pretty mekhanite priest with a zealot's conviction and ichor running through his veins. ion uses this period of time to further solidify his connection to yaldabaoth, using his grotesque power to gradually rebuild himself.

don't even get me STARTED on the pure fuckery that is ion on earth again. his hobbies include:

conducting Shady Dealings between the gods, typically at anyone's expense except his own

gathering allies old and new to make sure nobody gets in the way of the deathless empire's rise this time around

being devilishly handsome

periodically visiting a certain pretty mekhanite priest (who may or may not be the church of the broken god's current leader) for the sole purpose of doing that thing where the villain leans in real close to the hero's ear and purrs their evil plan in the most intimate way possible you know exactly what i'm talking about

being insufferable

dropping his crystalline wine glass in a deeply theatrical manner

starting conversations just to leave people on read when they reply

summary: descending into power-driven madness and tyranny might result in getting your ass kicked, but at least you'll come back and be sexy as hell