#destiny void

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Destiny 2 Void Hunter once again

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♠️ ‘ ‘ Some of us.. touch the void.. make it apart of us… … … Then we take on a name… Nightstalker…’ ‘

{ Void users within the Darkage, Tevis Larsen and Andal Brask. }

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⚜️ ‘ ‘ His body is cold.. not usually that..cold.. as I wield what is left of my fallen brother.. I only pray to the traveler above… that I won’t.. go under..’ ‘

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🃏 I hope you guys enjoy these newly finally updated designs of Andal and Tevis of our Hunter crew. I know they are different than the comics or slight official designs in game but I wanted to have fun with these. When I first started this blog I didn’t know how to design Tevis and Andal so I used as a placeholder the designs from the artist @sylenth-l ( amazing work please go check them out). So now these are MY official designs for the Raincloud and Sunshine Boys. NOW- some headcanons of the Sickness AU’s world of Void based users- well atleast for these two.

How the Void works in this AU:

Void isn’t a common thing to gain within this universe especially in the darkage, you would need to gain it either by fully subcoming to the fine line between light and dark or picking it up from another Void user. The Void is more cold and numbing in this AU, and usually distorting the light, kinda like an ever growing battle of light and dark within their bodies. With this the user with experience high levels of possible insomnia, night-terrors, and even hallucinations of the ones that was before them ( only if they picked up the void from someone else). Void usually locks/tethers to certain parts of the user’s body causing those points to be fully numb compared to the fade towards the chest which feels more line pin and needles ( aka foot tingle tingle feeling)

Tevis - Tevis in this AU used to be an Arc based hunter, but due to his body not being able to fully control the current of the Arc he had gained lightning scars of where Arc usually sits on a person ( arms and legs), When covering them up with interesting tattoos, it actually blended the tattoos and scars within the light/darkness in his body. With this causing the “eyes” of his arms and legs to pulse with void whenever he is mad, or goes for a shot with his bow.

Andal - Andal was a Solar Hunter in the AU before picking up void, the help of solar aided him actually being able to control it. Causing it also be formed into a more solid/collected form of 2 blades. He also has less likely the changes of the void creeping up through his scars and/or mouth like Tevis’s smoke. But the void has caused some of Andal’s hair to start slowly turning gray due to the constant stress of the nightmares.

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(that is all any more questions of these 2 or void users for hunters/others please throw into my “ask me” box!)

[baede-6]

Genuinely freaked out my friend on my Nightstalker build because I kept going invisible and he turned and I was "right there."

Apparently he almost dropped his controller.

I hope I made Tevis proud...or at the very least smirk. 🤷🏼‍♀️

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GOOD EVENING. YOUR "VOID FRENZY" HEADCANONS. HAND THEM OVER 🔫

GEEZUMS OK-

so um.

for me to talk about my headcanons for Void Frenzies, I gotta first talk about the Void and how it relates to Nightstalkers especially, cause, y'see-

The Void is a quirky lil thing.

There are numerous accounts and lore bits that talk about how the Void is, even though it's technically Light, almost like an entity unto itself.

"...I've discovered another little trick to getting in good with that yawning mouth of nothing we call the Void: exhaustion. When I start slipping into that twilight, where I'm not sure if I'm awake or dreaming, I can feel the absence. It's close enough to touch. I guess it doesn't matter if it's literal or metaphorical. The Void just likes it when I'm running on empty." - Nightstalker

"The Void ain't special. It sure is creepier than Solar or Arc, that's for sure. But it isn't special. Just show it respect, thank it for a lovely evening, and make sure you always pay your bill. So to speak. Then you've got nothing to worry about. See?" - Shard of the Traveler (Nightstalker)

"There are those who see the Void as dark. It is the folly of the simple mind, unable to perceive the brilliant richness of nothingness. The Void is not only the absence of Light, but Dark..." - Apotheosis Veil

Even further, countless lore tabs talk about the risks of using the Void and the reasons why it can be detrimental to use, especially for Nightstalkers, who balance on the knife's edge of powers and abilities that could prove to be exceptionally dangerous if not exercised with paramount discipline:

"I've had a dozen Hunters ask me why it's so hard to summon a Dusk Bow. I asked 'em what they thought of the Void, and their eyes told me everything. You can't be afraid. That's the secret. No fear." - Tevis, Log Entry 19338

"Picking it up is the easy part, Hunter. Putting it down again, well, you’ll find that it’s addictive, that power. This weapon is something special. Your Light gets twisted. Changed. You find the power to punch through and borrow something from the other side. The Void opens up a hole, and draws from the deep. Go ahead. Carry it a while, Hunter. You’ll feel how heavy it can get.” - Cayde-6, The Nightstalker's Trail

"Doesn't matter how good you are—you stay out there too long, you're not coming back. Not the same way you left, anyway." - Tevis Larsen, Graviton Forfeit

So I asked myself, what happens when a Guardian does go too far into the Void? What happens when the Void they take from finally decides to take something back?

And that's when the idea of Void Frenzies came to me.

So, how do they work?

I imagine they happen to Nightstalkers more often than Sentinels or Voidwalkers just due to the nature of their class and how it works, as well as my own personal knowledge being more expansive when it comes to the Void subclass for Hunters compared to Void Titan and Warlock. So for brevity's sake, I'm going to solely be referring to Nightstalkers for this. Although y'all can feel free to add on your own thoughts on how this might happen for Sentinels and Voidwalkers!

There are a few ways that Void Frenzies can be triggered, but more often than not they tend to be caused when a Nightstalker overtaxes themselves and overuses their Void without giving themselves room to breathe or time to calm down. Huge bouts of emotional turmoil and/or copious amounts of stress can also make a Nightstalker more susceptible to snapping thus triggering a Void Frenzy.

The telltale signs of a Void Hunter experiencing stress that, if it becomes uncontrollable, could lead to a Void Frenzy are as follows:

Living things such as trees, flowers and grass begin to die and wilt around them and any living creature feels like its energy is being siphoned from their body, mirroring the effects of the power we know as Devour.

The temperature of the air around them suddenly drops and turns stagnant. It's not just cold, it's also thick and musty. Unnaturally still. Entropic. Dead.

Void energy begins to course along their arms and face. It creeps under their skin like dark tendrils that they seem to be unable to control, as if it's infecting their very body. The Light underneath the skin of Awoken Guardians turns a dark purple. Their eyes, and the lights in Exos' mouths and optics, turn a brilliant violet, and their sclera—the whites of their eyes—turn black. Energy seeps from their eyes like thick, smoky tears. Purple smoke also can escape from their nose and mouths, even billowing up from the hollow cheeks of Exos.

They seem distant. Hungry. Tired. They become far more prone to spacing out. More often than usual. The Void likes when they run on empty, and the emptier they are, the stronger their connection to the Void becomes until, without proper discipline and control, it consumes them.

When a Void Frenzy occurs, it begins with the Hunter expelling a MASSIVE amount of Void energy around them as if they were casting a Super. Void Light bathes their form and often times will manifest in bladed weapons that look much like Spectral Blades, or in some cases, claws. This varies from Hunter to Hunter.

After this point, they have slipped into the grasp of the abyss and it will refuse to let go. They're only goal will to be to kill and consume as much energy as they can to feed the insatiable appetite of the emptinesses gaping maw. They cannot differentiate between friends and enemies and will attack anything that they see. The Void does not discriminate between energy sources and now neither do they. They do not control the Void anymore. The Void is in control of them. They are ferocious, insatiable, and extremely dangerous and will not stop consuming everything in their path until they either pass out or get shot.

The only ways to combat a Void Frenzy is to wait until their own energy has become exhausted and they burn out (which is not recommended as trying to contain Hunters in a Frenzy has proven to be nigh impossible), by suppressing them with the very energy that is controlling them and thus severing their own connection to the Void, or by killing them and allowing their Ghost to rez them so that the Light bathes and grounds them. The Vanguard tends to opt for killing Guardians in Void Frenzies on sight as it acts as a sort of hard reset that has proven to be the most effective and reliable method for quickly snapping a Guardian out of a Frenzy without causing too much extraneous stress, trauma or damage.

Guardians that have suffered from Void Frenzies are often given a one to two week mandatory leave of absence from their duties—the length being determined by the severity of the incident—and are encouraged and given the resources to take care of themselves until they have recovered enough and feel fit for duty.

In the fight against the Darkness, the last thing they need are Guardians losing themselves.

[tarakanpaintedpurple]

Honestly, would love to lose to this super

I don't think I shared any of the recent pixel I've made! Continuing on my little series of art based on the supers from Destiny 2, here's Nova Bomb!

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Caiatl Moo Deng cause I can

[vivichor]

into the void

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Forgot to add this one:

"Summing up my understanding: Void packs a punch because it's subtle. Sometimes slipping through the guard is the hardest part." - Nimbus (The Void Gazes Back)

RZ and the Void

A collection of my favorite Void-related quotes, with a few of my own headcanons mixed in. 💜

For the official in-game description, click here. For fan lore, see Myelin and Byf's videos, and this Reddit post.

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"The Thanatonauts say the Void is what you see in that brief moment between death and rebirth. It is the in-between, the pause." - Osiris (Harnessing the Void)

"The Void is the same in the Ascendant Plane, or anywhere. Its universality is part of its power." - Ikora Rey (Void Between Stars)

"Those who have stared into the Void are not bound by the laws of space and time." - Voidwalker D1 description

"The Vex wield impossibility as their weapon, but they're as vulnerable to it as anything else." - Ikora Rey (Null Vector)

"The space between defines the shape. The rest before the note, the breath before the word, the blank space on the page." - Voidwalker 3.0 description

"Even in the empty spaces between, there is Light." - Misraaks (Void Defiance)

"Not even the Darkness can survive the Void." - Mara Sov (Void of Alignment)

"Take your ship up to orbit and climb outside. Meditate there. You'll feel it." - Ikora Rey (Cold Cosmos)

"To harness the Void is to enter a state of tranquility, free from the clatter of ordinary matter." - Apotheosis Veil

"Walking with the Void is learning to embrace that which cannot be pinned down." - Ikora Rey (Employing the Uncertain)

"Picking it up is the easy part, Hunter. Putting it down again, well, you’ll find that it’s addictive, that power. [...] You find the power to punch through and borrow something from the other side." - Cayde-6 (The Nightstalker's Trail)

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Headcanon: While mastery of Void Light requires some understanding of the Void itself, instinct seems to work just as well as advanced theories, since the Void is also associated with secrets.

"The Void requires precision. It demands mastery. The Void is bottomless—take care not to fall in." - Ikora Rey (Crystalline Contender)

"Harnessing the Void is as much a philosophical practice as a combat technique. Osiris taught me that." - Ikora Rey (PsiTactics: Void)

"Must you understand the Void to wield it? That understanding is within you already, even if you can't articulate it." - Ikora Rey (Void Melee Games)

"Some see Void Light as mysterious. To me, it is simple: It is another weapon for defending our City." - Saint-14 (Void Strike)

"Stay safe, and carry your secret Light to the sky." - Eva Levante (Null and Void)

"Void Guardians tend to keep to themselves. They like to guard their secrets, I suppose. Except the Titans. Titans are always so polite." - Eva Levante (Screaming Into the Void)

"This is true even of the devouring black hole, which remembers all the secrets it eats. It will only confess these secrets when it evaporates, 10 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 years from now, long after the last stars have flickered out." - Savathûn (YOU MUST)

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"None are immune to the call of the Void. But only Guardians harness it for their gain." - Mara Sov (Void Ascendancy)

"Of all the Lights, yours may be able to drive [the Hive], manipulate them. Their kind is drawn inexorably to masters of the Void." - Calus (Shadow's Gloves)

"The Void does not play favorites; it comes for you all." - Ikora Rey (Deadly Fireworks)

"Once the Void has you, it never lets go." - Quantis Rhee (Chain Reaction)

"The Void bends all, especially those who resist." - Ikora Rey (Cosmic Casualty)

"Not everyone has the strength to stare into the Void and return to the surface with the power it offers." - Toland, the Shattered (Gazing Into the Abyss)

"Doesn't matter how good you are; you stay out there too long, you're not coming back. Not the same way you left, anyway." - Tevis Larsen (Graviton Forfeit)

"Keep one foot in the tangible. Diving head first into the Void would be like swimming in a vacuum." - Ikora Rey (Vacuum Sealed)

"When I start slipping into that twilight, where I'm not sure if I'm awake or dreaming, I can feel the absence. It's close enough to touch. [...] The Void just likes it when I'm running on empty." - Nightstalker 3.0 description

"Light is scarce in this place. But Quantis [Rhee] knows how to find it—how to feel for the un-ripples of the Void, to draw Light from the infinities between spaces. She knows how to roll black holes between her fingertips, and how to nock her bow with the inescapable gravities of the universe." - Orpheus Rig

"A Bow appears in my hands, and I let a single binding shot loose from the shadow. Now there are Orbs of Power everywhere. Eat, my friends. Eat." - Nightstalker description

"Feast on the sky. Gorge yourself until all starlight has been gnawed to black—then the cosmos will tremble with your roar." - Star Eater Scales

"From the space between I come. Fragments of stars burn in my footsteps. In my hands I hold Death." - Nova Mortis

"I still must confront the silence after glory; I feel the nature of the Void most keenly in these moments. I have begun, I think, to look forward to them." - Sentinel 3.0 description

"There is still and calm in the Void. I find it comforting." - Eva Levante (Voidslayer)

"I think of the Void as the hum that you must quiet everything else to hear. Am I right, Guardian?" - Eva Levante (Gauntlets: Void's Anvil)

"The Void calls to some Guardians; a subtle tug on the back of your mind." - Eris Morn (Devoid of Vex)

"Does it also whisper to you? Fear is a natural response to the unknown. But in time, the Void's voice will become familiar to you." - Ikora Rey (Into the Abyss)

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Headcanon: although Void users are known for being "fearless," using the Void is less about disregarding fear and more about facing it.

"I've had a dozen Hunters ask me why it's so hard to summon a Dusk Bow. I asked 'em what they thought of the Void, and their eyes told me everything. You can't be afraid. That's the secret. No fear." - Tevis Larsen (A Ranger Found)

"It's very simple. You reach into the Void - past visions of your own death and the extinction of life, past fears and nightmares - and take what you find. I don't know why every Hunter doesn't do it." - Tyra Karn (Shard of the Traveler, Nightstalker)

"Must you all be so dark? [...] What I have done is found a way to channel the Void to draw that essence in before it is lost to the ether, to return it to Light so it can be properly bestowed back on our enemies. [...] What's so dark about that?" - Satomi (Mask of the Quiet One)

"Now, looking back, it strikes me that he talked with the arrogance of one who can always return from the Void. One who has contemplated the darkness so long he thinks of it as a friend, of sorts." - Ophidian Aspect

"Gravity seizes her. She falls forward in space and time, into the future, into the mystery. Yang Liwei is behind her. Uldwyn is behind her. She wants to be the first." - Cosmogyre IV

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"The Void draws you in. It is as fascinating as it is gravitational." - Ikora Rey (Gauntlets: Singularity-Tempered)

"If you have ever felt a chill when gazing up at the stars, you know the power of Void." - Ikora Rey (Into the Abyss)

"The arrow is still broken, but it hums with a more dangerous energy: cold twilight, binding gravity, a guttering lantern in the gray mist." - Fractured Arrow

"Here, take off your helmet for a second. Smell that? Not the gasoline… The ozone. Smells like the Void." - Sloane (Scent of the Void)

"What is the void? [...] The vacuum between the stars. The smell of rot. The taste of metal. The deafening roar that can only be heard when it is truly silent." - Tyra Karn (Shard of the Traveler, Voidwalker)

"She could feel the faint call, the scent, the color that drew the eye. The Void Soul was drawn to her as she to it." - Briarbinds

"Even now, the very tip of the visual spectrum, violet-blue light, is shifting up into invisible ultraviolet, the color of speed, the color of future." - Brephos I

"A shallow cold saps the heat from Zavala's fingertips; he pulls back. [...] Banshee clinks the analyzer into a tool tray. 'Leeches a bit, kicks out Void.'" - Ruinous Effigy

"Void hungers, does it not? It yearns for the antithesis of its own profound desolation." - Into the Abyss

"That feeling where you just get hungrier the more you eat? That's the Void." - the Drifter (Circling the Drain)

"YOU WILL DREAM OF TEETH AND NOTHING ELSE." - Voidfang Vestments

"A Voidwalker's strike does more than harm you. It takes from you." - Ikora Rey (Withering Strike)

"A Nightstalker's bow leaves behind very precise scarring. Fascinating." - Ghost (A Ranger Lost, The Nightstalker's Trail)

"Void is absence in the universe and in oneself. It devours and darkens, as we do when we are in pain. There is grief here, and regret. But so too the wisdom of introspection." - Eris Morn (Legacy: Lacuna)

"When you wield the Void, you wield a key. When the Void touches life, it unlocks the Light within. Sometimes with terrrible results." - Vance (Create Orbs of Light)

"Somewhere in the Void are answers to questions we have never thought to ask." - Rahool (Deepest Purple)

"There are intricacies to Void energy only now made known to us, in the presence of the Dark." - Eris Morn (Make Hole)

"It's very similar to how you use Void Light—manipulating spacetime and gravitational fields. In fact, I would argue that Void has more in common with Stasis than it does with Solar or Arc. Perhaps they're reverse sides of the same coin." - Elsie Bray (Scalar Potential)

"What stops the Darkness from entering into the places between the stars? The answer is simple: the Void is just another type of Light." - Ulan-Tan (Talk To Ikora)

"The Void is not the Darkness. The Darkness is what it is. Void energy is like all things of this universe, it is Light seen through a prism." - Toland (Complete the Path)

"Void, Solar, then Arc. Hmm. We're not naive enough to think the order is a coincidence." - Zavala (Trichromatica)

"Everything comes from nothing. Find the power in emptiness." - Eris Morn (Void Vanquisher)

"The Traveler came out of the void that surrounds all things. Thus we know that the void is full of power. Thus we enter the void without fear. " - Toland (Shard of the Traveler, Voidwalker)

"Void takes the form of a great hemisphere, quiet and secure. As it began." - Xûr (Paraversal Defender)

"Look at Truth to Power simply. What are the topics it centers upon? Black holes. Vex simulations. Ahamkara. Manipulations of Hive tribute." - Ikora Rey (The Hidden Dossier)

"To seek the truth of the matter is to join venerated orders of Void-wielders: Nightstalkers; Voidwalkers; Sentinels. If this is your path, Guardian, walk it carefully." - Ikora Rey (Ikora Rey: Gazing Into the Abyss)

"There’s truth in the edge of Light, and beneath that truth a deeper truth, hidden from all but a few. That truth is this: monsters need not fear the night." - Nightstalker D1 description

"And what of the Sky? [...] Soar high enough, and far enough – dodge enough bait-stars, enough membranous predators floating lightly on the wind – and there, too, is darkness. What may survive in that empty space between stars? Only that which has clawed its way up." - Savathûn (Old Friend, Beloved)

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Draw from the Void. Light the way.

[starcurtain]

Following Topaz's explanation that Cornerstones are made to fill the hole in the user's heart, what "hole" in Aven's heart do you think his drag queen powers are meant to fill? Especially since Topaz remarks he's the only one with such showy powers

Still trying to catch up with all the messages in the inbox; sorry to everyone for taking a million years to respond.

So cunty, and for what???

Anyway, first, when Jade talks about the Stonehearts' "voids," the alternate reading above that word is actually "ambition." And she mentions that the reason she risked reaching out to Firefly is that she views herself as similar to Firefly--Jade is someone with an unfulfilled wish.

I think there's enough here to suggest that the Stonehearts' voids are not quite what we would normally think of when hearing the word "void"--rather than being best understood as something removed or something lost, their voids seem to be "something desired." An unfulfilled goal. An unmet need. A burning ambition. A secret wish. They all have somewhere they want to get to, and they've signed on-board with Diamond's Preservation project because his power is the fastest way--maybe the only way--to get there.

The implication here, by the way, is that the Stonehearts are acting out the very act of Preservation itself with Diamond. The goal of Qlipoth is for the universe to be saved, an unshakeable resolution to stop Destruction's wanton obliteration. Thus, Preservation itself can be understood as "A desire that must be continuously protected and relentlessly pursued." To live. To endure.

In using the power of an emanator to protect and provide the Stonehearts with ways to pursue their own desires, we replicate in miniature the exact resolve and endless pursuit of perseverance that Qlipoth is acting out in the broader universe. The will of Preservation empowers the Stonehearts--and in turn, the Stonehearts swear an oath to aid in Preservation's mission. It's a mutually beneficial arrangement, and it also simultaneously imitates Jade's shop perfectly: I'll give you exactly what you want, if you give me what I need.

I should clarify that I don't actually think the cornerstones themselves fill the Stonehearts' voids. Rather, they seem to me to be a tangible symbol of the oath between Diamond and the Stonehearts--"I'll give you this power to fulfill your deepest wish, if you work for me." Jade suggests that the power of the cornerstones provides Stonehearts with the means to fill their voids (I.e., having superpowers makes it possible for you to pursue your wish), so I think their individual cornerstone abilities are best understood as "The exact power I need to achieve my particular goal."

So what does that say about Aventurine's "showy" transformation?

Pretty much all the rest of this is just going to be my personal speculation, but I'd say the most telling glimpse we get into why Aventurine's power is so "visual" comes from these lines with the future "Aventurine" in 2.1:

There's two completely contradictory desires being expressed here: Aventurine's life "is the chip he's most eager to lay down" and "always has been"--that is, he genuinely wants to die. He isn't just willing to gamble with his life, he's eager to. The future "Aventurine" also says real Aventurine wants to be "polished up" (to be controlled and molded by others) and "cuffed with red-hot chains" (to be made powerless and not responsible for making his own decisions, to be punished).

But conversely, the real Aventurine also wants to be perceived as "a smooth operator" and "the solid gold deal-maker who doesn't waste a drop of sweat." He wants to be in charge of his image. He wants to be the one who controls the narrative and defines how others think of him. He wants to be "spotlit center stage"--to command the eyes of the world. In short, we could say that Aventurine wants his death (and conversely, his life) to mean something.

From these conflicting desires, I think you can derive a few totally opposite but equally valid interpretations of why Aventurine's cornerstone power is so "visual":

A combat-oriented transformation is another means to seek death.

Jade's power is scary, but she isn't using it to literally launch herself into fights. Topaz's seems to be similar--something that might allow her to win over her opponents in some way (she was about to use it in Belobog to no-sell the Trailblazer), but she clarifies directly that it is not a "transformation." Aventurine just literally turns into a boss enemy and goes straight out on to the battlefield.

In the fight, he doesn't even use shields. (Now whether that's something he never does because the cornerstone powers don't actually come with shields while in his monster form, if he couldn't use shields because his cornerstone was broken, or if he just chose not to use shields in this fight to give Trailblazer and Co. a fighting chance, only time will tell. However, it might be worth noting that his empowered Apocalyptic Shadow form doesn't come with shields either, despite having other new mechanics.)

The point is, this form, while looking cool and seeming strong, is actually a gamble in and of itself. To go out onto the battlefield, where you might not actually be the strongest combatant, is always a risk. And I think this is the kind of risk that Aventurine manifests continually in his life. He is constantly creating opportunities for his own luck to fail. His unfulfilled desire, the "ambition" he was desperate enough to join the Stonehearts to pursue--as his original goal to save his people is completely gone, his only current goal might actually just be a chance to die. His powers may manifest as a combat-oriented transformation because that is just one more way to throw himself into the crossfire.

In fact, this is exactly what Sugilite accuses him of in Jade's myriad celestia:

You didn't need to snatch his wig this hard, Sugilite. (Also I need you all to know I originally wrote "You didn't need to come for him this hard, Sugilite," but then I realized how unfortunate that wording was, so...)

You could even argue that the fact Aventurine's transformation comes with a mask that obscures his entire face is a sign that we're supposed to see this form as dehumanizing.

The facial features are completely obscured and asymmetrical, there's no mouth, his fingers have become claws--despite his body staying mostly human-shaped, it's obviously intended to hint at something monstrous, subsuming his original identity behind a violent facade.

Kakavasha disappears entirely behind "Aventurine" when he transforms, becoming a faceless enemy at the risk of (perhaps in hopes of) entirely losing himself. Maybe every transformation lets Aventurine throw himself closer and closer to the edge of death--and perhaps, before Penacony, only death could ever have filled the "void."

But, on the complete opposite hand (because Aventurine is always both sides of the coin), we could also argue the other end of the spectrum entirely:

A combat-oriented transformation is a show of force.

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Aventurine's entire life has been marred by disenfranchisement, by violations of his basic human rights, freedoms, and agency. At every turn, he has been victimized by others more powerful than himself: his childhood consisted of his clan being relentlessly hounded and hunted to extinction by the Katicans, having their food constantly stolen, their meager belongings burned to the ground, and each one of his family members systematically slaughtered, often in front of his eyes.

After his childhood, he was bought and sold as chattel for pennies, branded like an animal, and forced into a fight where to he had to beat other innocent people to death just to keep himself alive, all for the entertainment of the masses. Even Jade, who promised to help him achieve his goals, treats him like a business investment more than a friend.

In Penacony, we watch everyone he talks to degrade and ostracize him. Even though Aventurine led him into doing it, Sunday tortures and re-traumatizes him live for our entertainment.

Even more that, we see Aventurine constantly struggling with the question of whether his life is really his own or whether his blessing from Gaiathra means that his entire existence has been predetermined, his fate sealed in blood and sand from the very moment of his birth, utterly inescapable.

No matter how Aventurine tries to portray himself as the ultimate winner, he's only ever the "final" victor--being the only one left standing at the end is meaningless if on the road to getting there, you were treated like fate's favorite punching bag. Winning in the end is utterly pointless if on the road to winning, you still lost it all first, from the things you loved to your personal freedom.

What does a person who has been made powerless again and again truly desire? What void do you seek to fill if life has denied you your agency over and over?

Power. Dominance. The ability to literally strike back at those who've wronged you. The strength to intimidate and force people into a corner the way you've been intimidated and forced before.

If we say that Aventurine's "void" is not a literal desire for the release of death, then it might make sense for the "void" to instead to be a frantic desire to gain control over his circumstances. To be the one finally in charge of deciding his own fate.

Particularly in light of his character story which tells us that Kakavasha's original goal for joining the Stonehearts was to save his people, the desire to take on an impressive form that screams "I'm powerful" and has the ability to physically enact vengeance on others feels directly aligned. And it remains aligned even after the reveal that the Avgins are all gone--once more fate strips Kakavasha of his power to make a difference in the world, to achieve what he truly dreams of.

The Apocalyptic Shadow version of his boss fight is called "Desperate Diceroller."

How angry he must be, deep down. How hateful the world must seem. How sad it is to feel that way.

If destiny won't let you out of the cage, your only choice is to grow claws to tear it open.

Okay, but WHY so much swag though?

Are the peacock feathers and spandex really necessary?

Listen. Everyone talks about Ratio having "gifted kid" syndrome, but I'm here to tell you that Aventurine is actually a burnt out gifted kid extraordinaire.

He's literally, canonically, explicitly the chosen one of his people.

From the moment of his birth, his mother and sister--and presumably others in his clan even--were telling him that he was their clan's most precious treasure and that he would lead them to prosperity and safety.

He carried this weight even after fleeing from the massacre, all through his childhood and teenage years, through slavery and abuse, putting his very life on the line to join the IPC in hopes of finally fulfilling the destiny his mother and sister promised he could.

He was supposed to save them. That was his meaning. That was his purpose in life.

But he was too late.

The fate he was born for, raised believing, and risked everything to achieve... is still incomplete.

So, for all that talk about suicide and power-seeking, my real answer is this: Aventurine's "void" is his unfulfilled destiny.

His whole existence has been predetermined, his life's journey laid out in prophecy and blessings from the very beginning. Yet what he thought was his fate betrayed him, and where you head after becoming an unsuccessful chosen one is a question without answer.

His thoughts constantly circle around how he is a "failure" and a "loser."

When you have no sense of purpose, when your life has no meaning, when what you are still seeking is the role you were supposed to have from the moment of your birth: the glorious destiny of being a savior, being the "happiness" of your people, being the hero...

Of course you crave the spectacle. Of course you long for the spotlight--you long to be recognized. Because Kakavasha's the chosen one. "Spotlit center stage" is where he's supposed to be--in the leading role that was stolen from him.

I think that Aventurine's cornerstone transformation is so flashy because, at the core, it represents a longing to truly be the "precious wealth" of the Avgin that his sister promised him he would be. It represents his desire to transform from a useless, "discarded" person into a larger-than-life version of himself. (Hey, fun fact, out of every official depiction of Aventurine, his boss model wears the only outfit in which his slave brand is not naturally visible.) He literally transforms into a supernatural being, capable of seizing others' fates in his hands. It represents the power he needed to save his people and himself. Its extreme flashiness screams for attention, demands to be witnessed as something beyond a helpless human.

It's almost as if Aventurine is a child writing a wish-fulfillment story where he transforms into a hyper-glamorous, all-powerful masked superhero who is capable of saving the day and winning against his enemies every time.

Unlike Jade and Topaz, Aventurine can't hide his deepest desire. It was always going to be a "transformation," because Aventurine's unanswered wish is to be someone better than himself.

His "void," his deepest unachieved ambition--it's written right there, all over his body.

Aventurine's cornerstone power is a story he's telling himself about the person he was supposed to be.

But as Acheron claims, that's life itself.

Aventurine doesn't feel like he has any control over his journey's ultimate destination.

He doesn't know where's he's headed or what the purpose of it all is. But...

Jade explicitly describes the Ten Stonehearts and Diamond's endeavor as a "journey" as well:

Because Preservation represents the continuance of life itself, and the Stonehearts with their endless "voids"--Aventurine with his soul-deep longing to become someone better than himself--represent all of us very real human beings, trying our best to find our own "cornerstones," to gain the means to finally, finally achieve our own sweet dreams.

[abyssalcleave]

PRISMATIC

[theavocadojam]

Ikora Week Day 1: Void

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Prompt list by @hiseumingo

[destiny2skeleton]

🏹 and 🐚 is there any distinct differences the void affects you both? Is it worse for one compared to the other based on what weapon you summon?

Tevis and Andal answer.. and another ❓appearance..?

[ghostywind]

Back on my bullshit with some jfjehfjrdestiny2jfjf wlw. Send help to me.

[epsilonhybrid]

sure whatever. endermen roll out

[anbroids]

something about roxy growing up with the knowledge that she is almost completely alone and will continue to be alone on a dying planet and that probably the only way she’ll be able to meet her friends and also her mother is through playing sburb yet still trying to convince them not to play it because of the risk

specifically trying to convince jane who grew up thinking she had a promising future ahead of her and might meet her friends someday under normal circumstances

what if your best friend was from the future and ready to die alone on an abandoned and hostile planet if it meant protecting you from danger and preserving your chance at a normal life she could never have and you didn’t even know it even if she tried to tell you because how could you even begin to believe it

[trilobitepunch]

Okay so I haven't played Destiny 2 in a bazillion years but I still love this game's lore and I've been sitting on drawing the boys in class gear. It's only fair since I did the 2012 boys in Destiny armor a long while back.

I cut a lot of corners with the gear details because the ref pics I found aren't that great for it, but anyway, here is Hunter Mikey and Warlock Donnie, rocking Solar and Void, naturally.

......I can't believe I forgot to draw some Ghost buddies for them!!!! But then that means picking Ghost shells apefajgafkga

Bungie plz make reference books. Like Phantasy Star Online used to do! ...actually i have no idea how big those pictures were but PSO did seem to release a lot of books dedicated to gear alone from what I remember seeing at the bookstore...