#asmaros tag.

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i reached tag limit on a post i wanted to do but.    anyways.    at first glance asmaros may not fit into the archetype of the innamorati simply because they are not motivated by romantic love but trust me they do fit into the archetype.    just not in the way u think

the innamorati in the commedia dell’arte are depicted as two people,  which is a little befitting because asmaros technically is two people.    they are the product of the ritualistic reunion between noor and his disciple’s souls.    their conscious is literally the result of both noor and his disciple being torn apart and sloppily sewn back together to form an independent entity,  hence their initial amnesia and lack of memory when their corpse was awakened,  but remnants of noor and the disciple still remain.    they still whisper to asmaros,  they still writhe and anguish within their awful form.    those remnants,  however,  are not strong enough to act as the dominant conscious over their shared body,  because again,  asmaros is the horrific union of them both.    asmaros is them    /    they are asmaros.    both of their emotions,  every echo of the life they lived,  it is all asmaros’ to suffer and to feel.    (    however,  given noor had been a god who had lived centuries beforehand and the disciple was only a human,  what remains of noor’s memory seemed to be the more powerful of the two in terms of what asmaros remembers.    for example,  asmaros can remember most of noor’s life,  whereas asmaros does even know the name of the other half of them.    )    asmaros’ motivations are the product of the people they are;    they are a hollow shell with only the ghosts of who they were to guide them and they must fulfill the plea of a bygone era in order to feel some imitation of completion.    that rage,  that grief,  it gives them purpose.    noor’s final call for deicide guides them.    the disciple’s devotion and admiration for noor leads them to answer that call.    if they are forsaken of that,  why else do they exist?

one of the innamorati’s biggest characteristics in theater is their selfishness and self-centeredness.    in asmaros’ case,  it is a kind of selfless selfishness.    they are doing this to avenge the god within them.    they believe they are doing this on behalf of every god,  civilization,  and person who has been affected by celestia,  but truly,  it is all for noor.    despite feeling guilt for many of their actions,  asmaros will do anything to bring about their resolve,  even if it means destroying everything and cutting down anyone in their path.

the lovers often faced obstacles preventing them from their happiness and.    man.    that basically summarizes asmaros’ time in the fatui.    every single day since their awakening,  they urged for the fatui’s plans to speed up,  they urged for more direct action instead of waiting.    every time they asked,  those requests were shot down,  they were told to be patient.    and they were patient!    they were patient for fifty years.    asmaros is living on borrowed time;    they are not meant to exist.    their body required heavy experimentation just to stabilize the heavy amount of archon residue in them.    they are literally a bomb just waiting to detonate,  able to enact just as much devastation that leveled munirah,  a devastation that still affects the environment around it even after two thousand years.    the apostates are their means of continuing a fight the fatui are too cowardly to face.    they refused to be bound by bureaucracy for any longer.

the lovers were depicted as overemotional.    asmaros’ biggest downfall is following their emotions.    nearly anything they do is based off of their own emotions and care for their loved ones.    it is all about violence and bloodshed in the name of grief and love.    need i say more