#elsword dark magician

[lilith-devi-nyx-elsword-theorist]

I just really like this class a lot, and the only gif I'll ever have among my Eve's.

[magical-characters-tourney]

ROUND ONE BRACKETS

Are these brackets even readable? I dunno. Either way, here’s the bracket!

Matchups (randomly seeded) under the cut to make them easier to read. Each matchup will last a week.

The winners of each bracket will face each other in one final match to discover who is the ULTIMATE magical boy.

Criteria used to decide who got in: 1) Use magic, or 2) Have a transformation sequence, or 3) Fight with the power of friendship (and sometimes that gun they found on the sidewalk over there) or any of the above combined.

edit: Magikal Nuko Len Len has been disqualified due to the only picture being available being disgusting. Sorry for making people uncomfortable by being ignorant and bad at observation.

edit 2: I have been provided a better image of Magikal Nuko Len Len. I’ll be setting his poll back up. Sorry for the confusion, everyone.

Riku Amami (World Embryo) vs Schubert (Classicaloid)

Jio (Magical Crash) vs Kousuke Nitoh (Kamen Rider Wizard)

Tatsuhisa Kamijo (Yu-Gi-Oh Sevens!) vs Black Pepper (Delicious Party Precure)

Taishi Manza (Cute High Earth Defense Club Happy Kiss) vs Judar (Magi)

Cure Kagura (Dancing Star Precure The Stage) vs Cure Lock (Dancing Star Precure The Stage)

Saiga Arata (Dear Magi -Mahou Shounen Gakka-) vs Takuto (Mahou x Shonen x Days)

En Yufuin (Cute High Earth Defense Club Love!) vs Dark Magician (Yu-Gi-Oh)

Mozart (Classicaloid) vs Haruhito Sugiyama (Mewkledreamy)

Chiaki Nagoya (Kamikaze Kaitou Jeanne) vs Io Naruko (Cute High Earth Defense Club Love!)

Gabe Travolt (Magical How) vs Garnet Heart (Magical Warrior Diamond Heart)

Yue (Cardcaptor Sakura) vs Takuto Tsunashi (Star Driver)

Kairi Sanjo (Shugo Chara) vs Bright Illusion (Elsword)

Viperion (Miraculous Ladybug) vs Carapace (Miraculous Ladybug)

George Honda (Star Driver) vs Yumoto Hakone (Cute High Earth Defense Club Love!)

Merlin (The Sword and the Stone) vs Takeo Takumi (Star Driver)

Yuki (Mahou x Shonen x Days) vs Qu Le (Magical Boys)

Peter Grant (Rivers of London) vs Blanc (Kidultic Showtime)

Cure Break (Dancing Stars Precure The Stage) vs Basil (Magical Boy Basil)

Kazune Kujyo (Kamichama Karin) vs Superman (My Adventures with Superman)

Mamoru Chiba (Sailor Moon) vs Shun/Schlain Zagar Analeit (So I’m a Spider, So What?)

Ichiro Dougo (Cute High Earth Defense Club Happy Kiss) vs Rio Kuroki (KiraKira Precure A La Mode)

Synn Sakura (Twinkle Crusaders) vs Ge Jiuzhong (I Don’t Want to be a Magical Girl)

Atsushi Kinugawa (Cute High Earth Defense Club Love!) vs Jason (Kidultic Showtime)

Hinomiya Kaito (Dear Magi -Mahou Shounen Gakka-) vs Shining Spiral (Elsword)

Ukiyo Ace/Kamen Rider Geats (Kamen Rider Geats) vs Asahi Minamikawa (Mewkledreamy)

Camilo Madrigal (Encanto) vs Vivi (Final Fantasy)

Ryouma Kirishima (Cute High Earth Defense Club Happy Kiss) vs Magolor (Kirby)

Qifrey (Witch Hat Atelier) vs Tsubasa Yuunagi (Hirogaru Sky Precure)

Shu Yan (Ye Luoli) vs Takara Utashiro (Fairy Ranmaru ~Anata no Kokoro O-tasukeshimasu~)

Visare Nightfall (Vampire Magicka) vs Hideki Shibuya (Star Driver)

Kikyou (Magical Boy Troubles) vs Ayumu Aikawa (Is This a Zombie?)

Kousuke Kasuga (Kimagure Orange Road) vs Ryuu Zaou (Cure High Earth Defense Club Love!)

Yakumo Katou (Shuriken Sentai Ninninger) vs Ran (Mahou x Shonen x Days)

Kirby (Kirby) vs Akihito Sugiyama (Mewkledreamy)

Henri Wakamiya (Hugtto Precure) vs Bright Heart (Elsword)

Ikuto Tsukiyomi (Shugo Chara) vs Syaoran Li (Cardcaptor Sakura)

Mephisto (Lolirock) vs Max Owen (Magical Boy)

Cure Top (Dancing Star Precure The Stage) vs Blue Knight (Tokyo Mew Mew)

Mei Xin (I Don’t Want to be a Magical Girl) vs Ranmaru Ai (Fairy Ranmaru ~Anata no Kokoro O-tasukeshimasu~)

Antonio Madrigal (Encanto) vs Magikal nuko len len (Vocaloid)

Adora Flora (Magical Mom) vs My Cat Stormy (real life)

Tsukasa Tenma (Project Sekai) vs Satoshi Hiwatari (D.N.Angel)

Harry Dresden (The Dresden Files) vs Minatsuki Sakuya (Dear Magi -Mahou Shounen Gakka-)

Haruto Souma (Kamen Rider Wizard) vs Juka Mutsuoka (Fairy Ranmaru ~Anata no Kokoro O-tasukeshimasu~)

Cure Soul (Dancing Star Precure The Stage) vs Souta Kishibe (Magical Girl Raising Project)

Tadase Hotori (Shugo Chara) vs Shining Cosmo (Elsword)

Ryousuke Katashiro (Star Driver) vs Hikaru (Mahou x Shonen x Days)

Daisuke Niwa (D.N.Angel) vs Homura Hoterase (Fairy Ranmaru ~Anata no Kokoro O-tasukeshimasu~)

Nagihiko Fujisaki (Shugo Chara) vs Shining Astro (Elsword)

Kirio Karasuma (Kamichama Karin) vs Takashi Dai (Star Driver)

Felix (Star Warrior Cosmos Leo) vs Eylan Hasegawa (This is the Magical Boy Training Center)

Howl (Howl’s Moving Castle) vs Giyru (Warriors vs. Warriors)

Daichi (Mahou x Shonen x Days) vs Xia Lou (Mahou Shounen Shuurai)

Uru Seiren (Fairy Ranmaru ~Anata no Kokoro O-tasukeshimasu~) vs Kevin (Power Up)

Heir of Lightning - Prince Citron (Pretty Princess Pomelo) vs Beethoven (Classicaloid)

Saki Uno (Magical Girl Ore) vs Saiki Kusou (The Disasterous Life of Saiki K.)

Gandalf (Lord of the Rings) vs Kim Dokja (Omniscient Reader’s Viewpoint)

Wagner (Classicaloid) vs Chat Noir (Miraculous Ladybug)

Bright Marine (Elsword) vs Ultraman Zero (Mega Monster Battle: Ultra Galaxy Legends)

Kazama Mika (Dear Magi -Mahou Shounen Gakka-) vs Emerald Heart (Magical Warrior Diamond Heart)

Starchild (Scooby Doo) vs Mugendou Niki (Dear Magi -Mahou Shounen Gakka-)

Mashira Shinkiro (Isekai Mahou Shounen Momopuri - Keiji to Yakuza ga Kawaikunatta Kudan) vs Kukai Soma (Shugo Chara)

Itsuki (Josou Mahou Shounen Battle Flyer Itsuki) vs Kuranushi Rin (Dear Magi -Mahou Shounen Gakka-)

Kyoutarou Shuzenji (Cute High Earth Defense Club Happy Kiss) vs Rikumori Yuu (Dear Magi -Mahou Shounen Gakka-)

so many tags.. so so many aghhhhhhhh

[overanalyzingelswordiswhatido]

About Add and Aisha

They're two sides of the same coin. They're both of the opinion that their knowledge and skill in a particular area makes them better than everyone else. They're highly defensive and feel like they have something to prove.

Now, I'll be honest, I don't know much about Aisha. She REALLY doesn't fit my play style so I don't know her backstory that well. That being said, she gives me the vibe of measuring her worth on her skill and power. It feels to me that her magical ability was the only thing she was ever praised on and, whether it was true or not, she got it into her head that it was the one thing that gave her value as a person. Subsequently, losing it was likely very traumatic for her and caused her to doubt everything she believed about herself. So, she feels the need to prove that she's still of value which causes her to be hyper defensive whenever any aspect of her is called into question, whether it's her intentions, her ability, or anything else.

I talk abouy Add a lot and I don't feel like rehashing old points. I will say though that unlike Aisha, he was actively made to believe by his father that the only thing of value was technology and he was only valuable for his ability to use it. His defensive streak is a method of survival.

So while, naturally the two of them clash, I would say that Aisha is the more amicable of the two. Because Add's defensiveness stems from survival instinct, he's more likely to be absolute in his thinking, making him pretty immovable. Aisha on the other hand, does believe she is right, but if you bring well thought out points to the table, she'll at least chill out, and may just change her mind.

[reylay]

cause I didn’t draw him for so long

[chordatal]

Redraw old art challenge~

March 2019 vs jan 2018

[nyan-gu]

I've been waiting for this moment. My child is beautiful

[ojalameacuerde]

Attempts of Aisha and Ain~

[ainchase]

All About That Ain Design

Ain Base Class

Ainchase Ishmael. Two faced representative of God.

Celestial - New race.

Two faced

His story is deeply connected to the lore

Exterior: Appearance and personality created to naturally blend with the world. (Soft, polite, gentle, social, laid-back)

His true form is revealed only when he unleashes his true power, who looks like a “typical” celestial in the Elsword lore, which appears mysterious/ expressionless face/ only acts toward fulfilling the mission.

Incorporated the “intervention” aspect of his character into the awaken system to portray his duality within the game.

vs Demons - When facing demons who defies Ishmael’s ideologies “It’s outrageous to think that I have to work with such impure things.” (Disgusted)

He starts saying rude things he would never say normally, or instinctively react in a negative way.

vs Henir - Dominion of darkness and chaos “...” (Surprised)

He becomes speechless for a while from shock. It’s like he stopped functioning because he doesn’t know how to cope with the situation.

Lofty: Executor

Melee specialist utilizing weapon projection and creation mode. He avoids human emotion and human contact.

A transient period where he heads toward becoming the perfect, emotionless representative of God in his 2nd class.

Pure White, Silent, Watcher, Melee, Serious, Holy

Because he specializes in a fast melee battle with daggers, long sword, and spear created with creation magic, we stayed away from big silhouette and went for more tight suit-like fit, while showing less skin at the same time for more of a strict and serious feel.

Arme Thaumaturgy

The perfect representative of God who has his eyes only on the mission. His hair is one color now that his determination for the mission is clear. A bigger silhouette that displays a celestial dignity. His coloring is monotonous which reflects his cold, logical personality. Minimized the revealing of skin. 

Design elements derived from priests, as he is a follower of God. Though he is a representative and his atmosphere should reflect that, his priest-like design should not be overdone, or become reminiscent of the stereotypical image of an angel in renaissance works, as the celestial realm in the Elsword lore is more close to the world of “nothing,” visually. His awakened form should appear as a mysterious being with powerful force as if he was possessed by a God.

Richter

Richter’s design should succeed Arme Thaumaturgy’s characteristic “clean, perfect, cold” feel while making sure it does not feel as if he added on decorations to adorn himself for his appearance’s sake.

Clean, symmetric appearance to reflect his position as the Judge, one who keeps neutrality. His outfit is in a straight-lined, “still” silhouette to appear dignified. Minimized the revealing of skin to emphasize on his sacrosanctity.

To show a noticeable progression of time after the 2nd job to a character who does not age while also adding to the “godly” image, we gave him longer hair.

There were more gold details in the earlier drafts of his design. However, much of that was removed for a more neat and simple priest design as the previous design looked too extravagant. We also wanted to show a more tight-suit style like when he was Arme Thaumaturgy, so his Spiritualism outfit is a suit form without the priest cape.

Lofty: Anpassen

He has lessened his burden of the mission and accepted the experience he’s gathered in Elrios, starting to believe in the bond between his friends.

Power of El, Active, Free, Fluffy, Street-fashion

An all arounder who uses eids, a fusion of circulation magic (power of the El) and creation magic (power of God). His hairstyle reflects his effort to keep his appearance while he stays in Elrios along with thick, cozy over-fit leather jacket, comfortable sneakers. The modern look of his style shows his full embrace of the culture he was previously foreign to. He still carries around the cylinder-shaped ornaments, made up of creation magic which symbolizes God’s power, reflecting his hesitance to completely be free of his responsibility as the God’s representative.

Erbluhen Emotion

Free-spirited “nerdy boy” / carefree and soft image. Big collar, wide sleeves, long coat reminiscent of a magician. A more active image has been implied through the use of a modern fashion choice such as sneakers and half gloves.

Design derived from Loki of Norse Mythology; adept at different kinds of magic, carefree, and enjoys making fun of others. Smart enough to lie extremely well. Front bangs are positioned so that his emotions can be better expressed through his eyebrows. Winter street-fashion: carefree style - a layered look with a leather jacket, high top, boots.

Bluhen

Emotions in bloom. A conductor of emotions who reveals his true self and grows together alongside his human friends. Focus point on Ain’s emotions as he walks the future he chose through his own will and not the mission he was given.

He had a light and upbeat image in the 2nd job, and now he is dressed more prepared for the new journey ahead: to match his theme as a “conductor,” his outfit is a conductor’s attire remodeled to appear a bit more casual and fantasy-like. Fur added for a cozy and soft image. His design reflects his image when he first met the El Search Party; he keeps the earrings from his previous 2nd, 1st, and even base class.

His silhouette in Spiritualism becomes bigger as his awaken level increases to echo his concept as a “blooming” emotion. His “intervened” appearance appears longer in this Spiritualism to coincide with the fact that he is Ain who grows together with humans. His eids changed due to the fact that he now belongs to a different God, and that his emotions are in full bloom. Instead of the symbol composed of God’s power, the eids are formed of light particles as they were at the beginning of time.

Lofty: Wanderer

A wanderer consumed by chaos in search of himself. Ain who is confused by the expansion of the injury he’s received in Henir. 

Wavering mission, anxiety, broken, chaotic, closed-off.

His power of creation begins to deteriorate due to the increasing influence of chaos from within while his Henir mark continues to grow. His desire to hide his unstable condition as a representative of God is reflected in his hood, and bandages over his body.

Apostasia

Absolute ruler of the Void who betrayed the God. Ain who abandoned the Goddess and his mission and accepted chaos instead.

Void/ Freed from worldly experience/ Eye of the Storm/ Chaotic

He was being watched through the rifts of chaos and slowly consumed by unknown things in his 1st job - now he’s reached a point where he can accept and control them. He understands human emotions and all of the cycle of life, recognizing that they’re all meaningless things that will eventually disappear in time. His bangs cover his eyes to hide his emotion. The mark is left to spread over his body. His hair is duller now, and he’s let go of the pendulum from his hand. His awaken form shows him changing into a completely new being, not a divine celestial, as a result of accepting chaos.

Herrscher

The master of the void who calls everything to his side. He was reborn inside the void. His design should show that this is the result of abandoning the Goddess and choosing chaos and void.

His newly reborn body exists separately within the void, after accepting the chaos in his 2nd job and abandoning his previous body he’s received from the Goddess.

Normal: Parts of his body are hollow to show that his empty shell is constantly breaking apart. To express his unstable and neglected state, hands crawl up toward him from the ground as if to devour “abandoned” things.

Spiritualism: His main body in the void takes over his shell. He gains strength and willpower, which completes his breaking and empty body. Including his weapon, everything appears as a full, complete version without any trace of breaking or shattering. His true self seen in the void during Hyperactive is portrayed as a black silhouette to allow people to freely imagine what he could be. Apostasia’s Absorption (the floating eye thing) appeared to be watching Ain through the rifts of chaos, whereas Herrscher’s Absorption aids him by his side.

[emptywires]

Your absence.

Pairing: LPMM / DBrDom

Genre: Hurt/Comfort 

Rating: T (Language)

Word count: 8179

Summary: After the battle in the Eltower against Hennon, Psyker left Mastermind side without leaving a trace. Mastermind tries to find him but the more time passes he realizes that maybe his effort is in vain.

“Mastermind!” A voice screamed his name. Mastermind knew he had to move, to escape from the laser’s reach Hennon – if that creature could still be called Hennon – just shoot to his direction. The scientist was frozen on his spot and even if he could move his dynamos laid broken on the floor.

“Mastermind!”

Again, that voice called him. Fear covered every inch of his body, Mastermind could only close his eyes as he braced from the impact.

Mastermind jumped on his spot on his bed, his breathing was fast and agitated. After looking around to make sure he was save in his bedroom, he laid on his bed and tried to fall asleep. Tears fallen against his will from his eyes as he hugged a pillow as tight as he could.

It was the same dream – well memory – that haunted him every night. He tried to calm his breathing and his beating heart but as more as he tried to ignore that memory the more felt his heart clench painfully.

-

The sound of the alarm Mastermind set last night resonate in the room. The scientist groaned and turned off the alarm by pressing behind Apocalypse’s ears. Today he would meet with the El’s search party to go to a cave in the outskirts of Elrianode.

Yesterday they talked to Ventus about a cave that he found while he walked around the city, something about "a place that was used for training before the explosion of the El" which caught the attention of Elsword who decided it was a good idea investigate the cave.

Mastermind couldn't care less about that damned cave but since he had nothing else to do –Aside from his research–, he decided to go with them; he didn’t care to hear the comments of Ain or Aisha, much less the screams of Lu or Ara, while he was distracted he didn’t care about his teammates.

-

“We finally arrived.” The Elemental Master announced. They all stopped at the entrance.

“Is this the Elrian Sanctum?” Elsword asked. “It’s quite dark inside.” Ara peaked inside the cave. “Don’t worry, Elsword and I can use our swords to light up bit.” Elesis answered as her sword lighted up.

“Don’t forget about me Ms. Knight Captain.” Ain commanded some eids to turn Rein. “Be careful. I feel Henir energy inside.”

Elsword nodded. “Let’s stay together.” He lighted up his sword. “Let’s go.”

Mastermind huffed and opened a few holograms to light his way. There was no way he would rely in them to guide the way.

After everyone got ready they entered the cave.

-

As they made their way inside the cave Henir creatures appeared, some of them where like the ones they defeated in the Water Dragon Sanctum and some were new to them; the new ones were harder to defeat.

"Who said that?" Chung asked as he turned his head looking for someone. “No one has said a thing.” Answered Mastermind with a confused look.

“I swear I heard someone talking to me, I don’t think it was my guardian stone.” The paladin decided to stay alert.

“I don’t think it was a good idea to come here…” Erbluhen mumbled as he seemed troubled and thoughtful. “Is everything alright Ain?” Aisha asked. “Is nothing Ms. Magician, Let’s just get out of here soon.” Ain wavered his hand.

“I have got some strange readings since we entered this cave, they worsen as we step further.” Eve decided to summon Ophelia.

“It must be the Henir energy, let’s be more caref- “Elesis was interrupted as more Henir creatures appeared in front of them.

“What ends the path of redemption?” a strange voice resonated inside the cave; it sounded like several voices in one.

“Everyone, stay alert!” Elsword screamed. “Tsk” Mastermind mumbled under his breath as he activated Skyfall, not so far away from him he saw Chung running to other direction. “Mr. Chung!” Ara screamed as she followed him.

“Ara wait! We must stay-” Rena tried to stop Sakra Devanam but a creature got in her way. “Gungnir!” with a quick move of her hand she shot an arrow to the sky and spears fell from the sky.

“Can you shut up?” Lu screamed at anyone as she fought the creatures. “I know I must take my throne but this is not the right time to talk about it!” Ciel looked her confused. “Lu, who are you talking to?”

Lu summoned Apollyon who smashed the creatures with its fist. “To that voice! It is talking to me!” Ciel looked more confused. “You can hear it too?” Lu nodded. “I didn’t hear what Chung said but since the one who summoned the creatures talked another one has been talking to me.”

“Big sis! Where are you going?” Elsword shouted, Elesis dashed between the Henir creatures. “I hear the voice coming from this way, follow me.” “But we must stay together!” Elesis didn’t hear Elsword and disappeared in the distance.

“What was that just now? Was it Henir's Order?” Aisha created a giant summoning circle to fire numerous ice shards, the ice shards pierced through enemies. “No. It's a bit different. It seems like a life form.” Eve opened a dimensional gate summoning Ferdinand and Oberon to support Ophelia; the three Nasod Servants making a quick job of the creatures around Empress.

“What are you doing, Mastermind?” The scientist heard a voice behind him, when he looked back he did not find anyone. “Don’t tell me you feel affection for your teammates, kuhuhu.” The voice talked again, this time it seemed that it was coming from the road in front of Mastermind.

Mastermind annoyed by the voice followed it. He had to get rid of the creatures that blocked his way but he didn’t mind; he just wanted to know who was that voice.

“Add, where are you going?” The Blade Master shouted to him while he pierced a creature with his sword, the scientist didn’t answer and continued his way.  

“Do you have what it takes?” The voice talked again. Mastermind huffed and activated Ultimate Fury. He dashed between the creatures screaming in pain as he followed the voice.

“Tell me Mastermind, what are you looking for?” The voice chuckled. “Well, who are you looking for?” Mastermind froze in his spot. After he looked around making sure he was standing alone in that part of the cave he walked following the voice’s direction.

A few steps further he saw a white figure, it somehow resembled his own image.

“Don’t tell me you are looking for that damned berserker. He left you didn’t he?” The figure talked as he stood up from some cubes that fell at its sides, Mastermind stepped back. “What are you?” He heard himself mumble.

“What am I? I think the right question is what are you Mastermind.” The figure smiled. “Look at you. You are nothing without that idiot.” Mastermind closed his fists with anger.

“You even failed to go back to your past. Did you finally realize it’s impossible? Shame on you. All your time wasted.” The figure continued talking.

“…Shut up.” Mastermind shivered in anger.

“Oh? You knew so well it was meaningless didn’t you? You also knew that something was in Psyker’s head but you tried to ignore it.”

“Shut up.” Mastermind mumbled again.

“He knew you are weak, that’s why he left you. You became a burden for him; look at you, you are nothing.”

“Shut up!” Mastermind snapped and shoot Panzer Buster to the figure, it’s cubes got the impact and returned back to its master’s side. The scientist froze in his spot.

“Kuhuhu, come on, Mastermind. You can be more than this.” Mastermind got surprised by the figure’s words. “You have all the possibilities to do what you want. You have all the data you need and if you don´t well…” the figure chuckled. “…You can always research don’t you?”

Mastermind calmed himself. “What can I do?” He asked, the figure chuckled again and sat on its cubes.

“You tell me.”  

Mastermind glared at it.

“Don’t get me wrong Masi.” The figure raised it arms as surrender. “I can only tell you one thing: Forget him, he is the reason why you are holding back.”

Mastermind felt his heart clench. He lowered his gaze. “What if I don’t want to forget him?” he mumbled.

The figure sighed and stood again. “It’s up to you. Come back here when you have your answer.” After that the figure disappeared. The wall behind where the figure was standing shattered and showed a clear path that led to the entrance.

Mastermind stepped out of the cave to find the El’s search party outside. The way back to the El tower was silent as everyone looked full of thoughts.

-

When Mastermind returned back home –well, the one he had in Elrianode– he made himself dinner; just a simple sandwich with a cup of tea. While he looked for the tea bags he found the cup Psyker used to drink coffee; a simple black cup with white outline of ears and whiskers of a cat. It was a gift the scientist made for him on his lab.

Psyker at first made fun of him because “Really? A cat?” was what he said when Mastermind gave it to him followed by his laughter and a hug. “I love it. thank you.” Psyker mumbled on his ear before giving a soft kiss to the scientist cheek, from the corner of his eye he saw Mastermind shifting something with his hands behind his back, the scientist cleared his throat and the berserker leaned back.

“Well, I made other one. Y-you know so we can m-match?” The scientist studded as he showed a white cup with the same print but with black outline. Psyker gave a heartwarming smile to Mastermind as he leaned to kiss him. After he broke the kiss he took both cups. “Well, what are we waiting for? Let’s use them!” Psyker turned on the coffee machine and Mastermind decided to take out the remains of the cake they bought a day before.

Mastermind smiled to himself as he looked at the black cup. He took it and drank his tea on it. After he washed the dishes –A task he used to fight with his partner to decide who washed them and sometimes, if both of them agreed, wash them together–, he took a shower before going to sleep.

After taking a shower Mastermind brushed his hair as always. It hurt him to think that back when Psyker was still with him he would brush it for him, always making comments of ‘how much he loved his hair’, taking extra care of it and most of the time he would even kiss his white locks.

That was one of the reasons why Mastermind cared so much for his hair but now that the berserker was gone all he could do was brush it to get rid of the knocks on it, no paying attention if it seemed pale or if it had split ends.

Mastermind passed by Psyker’s room when an idea came to his mind and decided to sleep in his room. After laying in the bed and making himself comfortable he took some blueprints that laid on the bedside table –something about a battery to improve the performance of his dynamos– Mastermind chuckled from time to time as he read his lover’s notes in the blueprint and noticed the coffee marks in the blueprints. He fell asleep reading them.

-

The weeks became months and Mastermind still could not find any clue to Psyker's whereabouts. Mastermind tried his best to ignore the emptiness he felt but it grew worse over time.

Psyker did leave a note to him. It was next to him on the scientist bed, right were where he used to sleep with the scientist. He promised he would come back to his side, that he just needed to do something for their sake, to grew stronger. He didn’t specify how long he would be apart but Mastermind waited every day, patiently… now he felt fooled and anxious about it, patience was long gone.

‘What if he got himself in trouble? It’s dangerous to be alone in Elrianode. It’s full of Henir creatures!’

‘What if he got injured and he didn’t make it out alive?’

���What if he got tired of always protecting him?’

‘Did he leave because he was weak?’

‘Did he leave because he got tired of Mastermind always talking about his research?’

‘Did he found someone else?’

‘Why did he leave him alone?’

Alone. He was left alone and there was nothing to do about it…

It hurt him; it hurt him how he felt about the word alone.

The first weeks were easier to handle since he had high hopes of Psyker returning at any day and he had the El’s search party to get him distracted from his loneliness but since they stopped meeting it grew harder to distract his mind of those thoughts that haunted him every day.  

The El search party didn’t even meet to talk like they used to; Elsword was too busy training, Aisha was researching in Elrianode old books something about “Aether”, Rena received some “Spirit stone” for the spirit world, Raven was working on his Nasod Arm –he used to get help from Mastermind, but last time he saw the Blade Master and offered his help he declined the offer and said something about “I must do this.”– Eve was busy with her servants, Chung was training with his Guardian Stone, Ara training with Eun, Last time he talked with Elesis she was talking nonsense about ‘charisma’ and ‘morale’, The demonic duo were defeating Henir creatures alone and Ain passed his days inside the El tower.

The only thing that kept Mastermind distracted was his research. It nagged in the back of his mind what the figure inside the Elrian Sanctum told him and somehow he wanted to know what was figure talking about.

Before, when he took days locked up in his lab with his research, Psyker used to send him messages constantly asking him about his advances – although he could not understand some things about them –, about whether he had slept the previous nights and about whether he needed him to bring him something to eat at his lab.

Other times Psyker would knock his door later at night when he saw light coming under his door to tell him to go to sleep, and if Mastermind was in a very good mod he would let the brawler in and they slept together.  

Mastermind thought that Psyker was too overprotective and childish but at the same time he liked the feeling of someone caring about him. The thought of Psyker always waiting for him outside of his lab patiently made his heart feel warm and motivate him to finish as soon as he could his research or to take breaks to spend them with the berserker, even if they only had coffee and a small talk it was enough for the scientist; just seeing the smile of his lover made him feel that it was the place where he wanted to be; next to Psyker that always made him feel loved.

Now, it was just he and his research. Mastermind tried to fool himself thinking ‘I don’t care; I can finally research freely.’ And he did make a great advance. Mastermind felt proud of himself but that didn’t fill the emptiness inside of him.

What was the meaning of making a great advance if he had no one to talk about it? Mastermind couldn’t answer that question.

-

One day late at night the scientist took a bath. He filled the bathtub with warm water in hopes to relax his body. He had spent days locked in his lab sleeping for short periods leaning on his desk using his forearms as pillows.

Every part of his body cried tiredness and Mastermind just wanted to rest in his bed after the bath. When the bathtub was filled almost to the top the scientist closed the tap, got undressed and slipped into the tub. He could feel his body relax and his mind clear little by little.

After some minutes enjoying the warm if the water, Mastermind took the soap and rubbed it on his body enjoying the sweet strawberry aroma coming from the soap.

When his body was clean he opened the bottle of shampoo with the same strawberry smell and poured a generous amount into his hands. He rubbed his hands in his long hair enjoying the massage.

It had been so long since Mastermind had taken a bath this relaxing and he wished he could have the luxury of having them more often.

In the back of his mind he remembered that the last time he took a bath like this was with Psyker. Mastermind smiled and after rinsed his hair. "Hmm, if you were here I would have let you wash my hair." the scientist gave a slight laugh and took a handful of bubbles that were on the surface of the water. "Tell me. When are you going back?" He blew the bubbles to the direction where the brawler would be in front of him.

"You are an idiot you know?" Mastermind gave a small laugh as he laid his head on the tub. "But you know..." the scientist closed his eyes.

"You are my idiot."

-

Mastermind was walking around the Eltower. The sun was setting and its orange rays adorned the horizon. The scientist felt calm despite not knowing anything about his loved for more than eleven months. His long white locks, his coat that hung from his shoulders and violet scarf danced together with the air.

He had not changed the way he dressed since he stopped calling himself ‘Arc Tracer’ and the clothes he wore now kept him warm from the low temperatures in Elrianode – this being one of the reasons why he had changed his clothes – his dark purple turtle neck sweater kept him warm with the help of the white jacket he wore.

“Add!”

He was walking with his eyes closed humming a tune when he heard his name being called.

“Lu, wait for me!”

Mastermind heard another voice approaching him.

“Mastermind! Wait, we found something!” Lu insisted as she got close to Mastermind. The scientist opened his eyes and turned to face the demon duo.

“What is it Chiliarch?” the scientist asked as Lu tried to catch her breath.

“Look.” Lu panted as she opened her fist. Mastermind’s eyes widened and tried to cover a gasp with his hands.

“It was on the outskirts of Elrianode City.” Ciel finally catch up and tried to explain. Mastermind with shaky hands grabbed the item Lu had on her hand; it was Psyker’s choker.

The memories of what they got through in Elrianode City came back to Mastermind.

“Can you show me where you found this?” Mastermind spoke softly, fear covered all his features.

“We will lead the way.” Lu answered and Ciel nodded. The three walked towards the place.

-

“We were looking for some Henir creatures in this place. You know, since we left some creatures alive last time we were here after Raven told us he founded the one opening the portal to the creatures.” Lu talked as she leaded the way.  “we thought they may be lurking around.”

“Yes, I myself left some when Ara came looking for us.” Mastermind nodded. Now that he paid attention to the demonic duo he noticed Lu had her hair grabbed in a ponytail and her horns had grown. On the other hand, Ciel’s Hair was completely white and he had some hairpins on his bangs that Lu used to wear.

“Here It is.” Lu stopped, Ciel knelt next to Lu to inspect the dust. Mastermind could only stare with wide eyes the sight.

“Lu smelled a strange scent when we were walking around here.” Ciel explained. “When we saw this we decided to take a look to get a clue of what happened here.”

It wasn’t a pretty sight; There were broken trees, the ground seemed to be burned and Mastermind could confirm this when he knelt and the burned odor made his stomach turn. There were tear marks on the trunks that laid on the ground and parts of Henir's creatures were scattered everywhere. It was obvious that a fight had happened in that place.

“Lusa…” Mastermind mumbled to himself.

“I’m sorry Add.” Lu spoke softly. She got near to the scientist to pat his back.

“I don’t want to think the worst but I had never seen Psyker without his choker.” Ciel stood up and crossed his arms. “I’m sorry Mastermind.”

“…Can you give me some time alone?” Mastermind voice was lower than a whisper. Lu nodded and patted his back again. “Do you know the way back?” Lu ask worried about his friend.

The scientist nodded, a sniff followed his answer.

“We will be in the ruins of Elrianode City if you need us. This area is clear of creatures now so don’t worry about it.” Dreadlord passed a hand on his hair as he leaved the scientist alone, Chiliarch following him.

When the duo disappeared in the distance Mastermind sighed before standing up. He hated the scene. All his fears were in front of him and as much as he wanted to ignore them he couldn’t think of anything else.

He walked around trying to find any clue of what happened, the rotting smell coming from the dead Henir’s beasts covered the place when the scientist moved them to see if they weren’t over a clue. he did his best to not puke.  

As much as Mastermind wanted this to be one of those nightmares he had every night he couldn’t face the fact that he was there, in front of what could be the remains of his lover’s last fight.

Mastermind couldn’t find anything in that area besides the choker Lu and Ciel gave to him. He was about to return to the Eltower when he stumbled with something. The scientist fought to keep his balance. After recovering his balance, he turned to saw with what he stumbled and froze on his spot.

The remains of one of Psyker’s dynamos laid on the floor; broken with dusted marks, Mastermind felt tears roll on his cheeks.

When he bended down to take the weapon from the ground he saw it had dried blue blood on it –Probably from the Henir creatures – and that it seemed to be shattered due an impact. After taking the weapon on his hands he saw another dynamo not so far from the first one. This one was shattered but with some burnt marks.

At this point Mastermind only thought the worse and slammed his fist on the ground, tears kept falling from his eyes, his voice was weak and it broke when he finally spoke.

“Why? Why you did this?” He couldn’t calm himself, he wanted his lover back, why did it had to end like this? Why him?

“Why you didn’t ask me to come with you? Was I too weak?” Mastermind sniffed.

“I was a burden, right?” Mastermind smiled between tears. “It’s my fault, isn’t it?” The scientist cleaned the tears in his cheeks with his forearm but more tears felt from his eyes.

“I’m sorry. I’m so sorry Psyker.” Mastermind whispered as he stuck his forehead to the ground. “It’s all my fault. I’m so sorry.”

Mastermind stayed like that till he stopped crying.

After taking all the remains of his lover’s weapons he took a look at the sky; It was dark without its stars and there was no trace of the moon. It was empty, just like him.

When he arrived home, he left the broken dynamos on Psyker’s desk and slept on that room. He hugged his lover’s covers as tights as he could to try to get some sleep.

He couldn’t sleep that night.

-

It has been a whole Month since Mastermind discovered the remains of Psyker’s weapons. He kept himself locked at home since then.

Several times Rena, Raven and Ain went to his house.

Rena used to take him tea and coffee and comforted him when he cried in front of her.

Raven tried to encourage him and was careful with the feelings of the scientist. He understood Mastermind’s situation since he had already gone through a similar situation.

Ain invited him to take walks around the Eltower and curiously Mastermind accepted even through the two walked in silence. Ain used to try to talk with him and to convince him that maybe his loved was still alive and that he prayed to the goddess Ishmael for Psyker’s safety.

Mastermind at this point didn’t know if there was really a Goddess who looked for others.

One night after he took a shower he was about to brush his hair when he paid attention to his reflection; He had dark eye bags under his eyes and his skin was paler than it used to be. Mastermind hated his reflection but what he hated most was seeing his hair, his long, neglected hair.

Again, the memories of Psyker returned to his mind, his head hurt as well as his heart.

"Stop..." he heard himself whisper as he covered his face with his hands, he didn’t want to cry but his body refused to obey him.

The memory of Psyker kissing his hair returned to torture him.

"Stop." He spoke louder and gritted his teeth.

It was useless, his brain was against him and he remembered how Psyker played with his hair when the two of them were lying together in bed, when the scientist could hear the brawler’s heart beating in his chest.

"Stop!" Mastermind shouted and threw the brush on the floor.

He was tired; tired of crying, tired of himself and tired of being weak.

“Forget him…” Mastermind eyes widened. “He is the reason why you are holding back.” The voice resonated in his mind.

“Shut up.” The scientist gritted his teeth again. He opened a drawler next to the sink and took a scissors. Without thinking he took strands of hair and cut them out; the long locks of hair fell to the floor and piled up as Mastermind cut his hair.

After more than an hour Mastermind looked at himself in the mirror; the hair that tormented him and brought back bad memories to him was gone. He could see another person in his reflection, one with more authority.

Mastermind sighed and picked up the mess of what was once his hair, he put it in the paper bags in which Rena used to take him tea and throw the bags on the trash. While he was in the kitchen he turned on the coffee machine and made himself a coffee, with a wave of his hand he called his dynamos.

"Delete the Mastermind code, it's a waste of time."

His dynamos followed his orders and beeped when the order was finished.

"Open the file "Virtual Reality" and the model “2.42.72” on the main computer. Make sure to prepare the printer." the scientist took a sip of his coffee.

"It is time for a change."

-

Mastermind laughed hysterically. “Finally! After weeks of endless research and development, let’s try this out. Distortion Zone!” He typed a commands on his holograms before shutting them and releasing a cube of energy in front of him. Mastermind got surrounded by a cube of holograms that projected figures inside of it.

Mastermind laughed again and he commanded the holograms to project a figure of his mom. She was sitting under a tree while reading a book, when Mastermind approached her his mother looked him in the eyes and smiled as she tucked her hair behind her ear.

Mastermind smiled and bent down to hug his mother. “Oh, I miss you so much mother.” With a gesture of his hand the figure of his mother disappeared.

“Don’t think I have forgotten you.” A hologram of Psyker appeared in front of the scientist and caressed his check. Mastermind leaned to the touch and hugged the waist of the hologram. “You left me in the worst of times.” Mastermind leaned to kiss the figure but all the holograms around him disappeared and has left alone in his lab. The scientist laughed. He felt alive again and powerful, like if he could conquer the world and destroy it if he wanted. He was now the ruler of his own world.

“Excellent! this is how my world of perfection is formed.” Mastermind commanded his cubic dynamos to collect the data of the experiment. “Let’s work on the improvements to increase the time of virtual reality next time.”

“Yes master.” His dynamos responded in a robotic voice. He smiled again and sat in his desk chair. He was slipping his eyes closed when he remembered he had to save his progress. The computer asked him how he wanted to call his new code and the scientist had to stop there for a second; If the ‘Mastermind’ code no longer existed that meant that he had to take another nickname, one that fitted his new personality and his new abilities. One that reflected what he really was. The scientist chuckled, he typed the name and saved his data.

"System..."

The scientist closed his eyes and laid his arms behind his head. The computer beeped affirming it had listened to its master.

"Call me Dominator." The scientist laughed.

-

Dominator stepped inside the Elrian Sanctum. He had a bone to pick with the Henir creatures and he wanted to burn alive with Ultimate Fury that damned figure that cursed his life.

His way through the cave was easier than the first time and he got rid of all the creatures that made the mistake to cross his way. In the middle of the cave he heard the voice again.

“Oh, you are here again?” the voice resounded. Dominator smiled and followed the voice without hesitation, in no time he has standing in front of the figure again.

“You’re late.” The figure spoke, irritation in his tone.

“Isn’t that unfortunate?” Dominator teased.

“You are a failure. You can’t even hope to redeem yourself. Kuhuhu…” The figure laughed, Dominator was alert for any incoming attack.

“But no need to feel shame. This is your chance to create your perfect future. Of course, if you can survive this!” The figure commanded his weapons to attack. “Apocalypse!”

Dominator’s eye widened when he recognized the attack aimed to him. He dodged the laser without problems but he was taken by surprise when the drone exploded. The scientist took the damage of the explosion and a thick layer of smoke covered his vision.

The figure chuckled. He was about to disappear when it saw a figure through the smoke.

“Ku...Kuhahahaha! You're not even trying, are you? Watch and learn! With these hands... I will no longer be stuck on the past, and create my perfect future!” Dominator laughed as he typed commands on his holograms, after he shut them he released the energy cube trapping the figure inside the holograms giving it a wave of electricity. The figure cried in pain and fell to the ground. “...Still on about that? Well-” the figure coughed.  “that's to be expected, I guess.” The figure snapped his fingers and Dominator’s vision was blinded for a second. After the light disappeared the figure was no longer in front of him. Dominator scoffed and turned around ready to leave the cave.

While he was trying to get out of the cave Dominator got lost since all the paths looked the same.  He did his best to find the exit but the more he walked the more he found Henir creatures. Dominator saw light coming from a path and decided to follow it. When he stepped inside that part he realized that the light did not come from outside, but came from a huge creature.

The creature looked like as if it were made of just purple bandages and crystal with one eye in the center. The chrysalis saw Dominator from the corner of his eye and throw one of his bandages his direction. The scientist dodged the attack and shoot panzer buster, the beast wasn’t bothered by that.

“Tsk.” Dominator mumbled, he changed installations and aimed Starfall followed by Shooting chaser to the creature, again It didn’t even move. Just when Dominator was about to fire Panzer Buster to the creature it moved.

The creature started to absorb El energy and Dominator had a bad feeling about it so he constantly attacked the creature till it stopped. The scientist cherished his victory but that soon changed when the creature melted on the ground, a huge shadow followed him and the scientist didn’t want to know what was the creature planning so he levitated with his dynamos far away from the ground. As soon as the shadow was below the scientist it summoned its bandages twisted and aimed to hit Dominator.

Dominator evade this attack without a problem and waited for the creature to appear again.

When the chrysalis appeared it stared to absorb El energy again. Dominator already knowing of what this creature was capable of decided to attack the creature till it stopped.

Just when Dominator thought he already won this the chrysalis summoned a piece of crystal and hit the scientist and making him stop his attacks. Dominator hissed in the pain; the crystal didn’t make any damage to his body but it still hurt.

The scientist forgot about the creature and as soon as the chrysalis gathered all the El energy it needed it released It summoning more crystals aiming to Dominator who couldn’t dodge neither block any of the attacks.

After the sudden attack the creature melted again on the ground, this time Dominator had no time to levitate over the shadow so he waited and looked for a spot where the shadow didn’t reach.

When the shadow stopped moving Dominator dashed to the spot he founded dodging the bandages just my mere inches and felt to the ground.

Again, the creature appeared from the ground. Dominator could barely move but he didn’t want to give a chance to the chrysalis to attack him again.

“Distortion-” Dominator tried to aim his attack but he coughed during the command.

He tried again.

“Distor-”

“Burst Plasma!”

Another voice screamed. Dominator saw a black coat cover his view and six weapons release plasma around the chrysalis as circular holograms appeared between the figure wearing the coat and the Henir creature; Dominator recognized the holograms and gasped.

The figure charged his right fist with plasma as he waited to his weapons to release enough plasma. Dominator heard a mechanical sound and saw how the figure punched and released all the plasma in one shot; the chrysalis cried in pain.

“Oh, that’s not all. Psychic Storm!” The figure released a plasma storm around the creature.

The attack range was bigger than what Dominator remembered.

The creature stared gathering energy again. “None of that, I will reduce you to mere particles before you can release that energy.” The brawler laughed. “Conqueror!” The figure fired a huge energy blast and stared punching the creature relentlessly. Dominator stood up.

“Apocalypse!” Dominator commanded as he typed on his holograms. After shutting the holograms lots of purple cubes gathered and formed a weapon that constantly shoot lasers to the creature. Dominator didn’t stop there and stared shooting panzer buster and changing installations to attack the chrysalis.

A few punches more from the berserker and lasers from Apocalypse made the creature to cry in pain and fell on the ground. Its eye disappeared followed by his body.

“We did it!” The brawler exclaimed. Dominator stood there watching the familiar person; He wore a black coat around his shoulders just like Dominator wear it, a jacket that showed his forearms, under it, a torn T-shirt that revealed a black tank top that adjusted to his body, black gloves, black torn pants with two belts and three chains on the back, metal accessory adorned his left calf.

He looked just like Psyker aside from his hair that covered his unscarred eye and the black marks on his chest and his forearms.

“Heh, you look like if you have seen a ghost.” The brawler teased and grinned. Dominator didn’t respond. He thought he was never going to hear that voice again. He couldn’t believe his eyes neither his ears and was afraid he was dreaming.

“…Psyker?” The scientist asked, the brawler smile softened and nodded.

“Sorry I leave without a trace.” Those words, those words the scientist thought he was never going to hear were enough to make Dominator cry.

“Hey come on Masi.” The brawler approached the scientist. He took his wrists with one hand as he kissed his tears and caressed the scientist's hair with his other hand. “I-I looked for you everywhere!” Dominator sniffed. “And when I found your choker and your broken dynamos I thought – I thought…” Psyker hugged the scientist tightly. “I’m here Masi. I will not leave your side.” He gave a peck to Dominator’s temple. “Never again, Never.”

The scientist let out more tears as he returned the hug to his lover. He felt save Psyker’s arms, oh he missed his touch, his warm, his scent, his everything. He wanted to embrace his lover for more time but his body ached and he needed to treat his wounds.

“I need to get out of here.” Dominator cleaned his tears and gave a weak smile to Psyker. “My everything hurts.” Psyker smiled, Dominator saw the tears in his lover’s eyes.

“Of course you do dummy. What were you thinking when you decided to fight an Henir boss all by your own?” Psyker asked as they walked their way out of the cave.

“Excuse me? I just came to talk with a strange figure” Dominator pouted. “I never knew that thing was here.”

“Wait…” Psyker turned to see Dominator. “A white figure talked to you?” He asked. Dominator gave him a confused look. “Yes, it was annoying. Why you ask?” Psyker blinked. “…It’s nothing.” He scratched the back of his neck.

“… How did you find me?” Dominator asked, Psyker shrug his shoulders as he gave a nervous smile.

“I- uh, was walking by the cave when I found the dead bodies of some Henir creatures.” Psyker looked anywhere but the scientist eyes a clear sign that he was lying.

“I heard your voice giving commands to your drones but at first I thought my mind was playing games so I decided to take a look.” The berserker scratched the back of his neck. “I followed the trail of dead Henir bodies you left and well…” his voice became serious. “When I saw you on the ground, I knew I had to do something.”

“So you were following me?” Dominator asked. He didn’t believe Psyker found him just because he passed by the cave.

“Wha- Noono!” Psyker exclaimed and waved his hands. “I-Look. I was fighting some creatures myself too. There I said the true but I really heard your voice after I ended with them and so I looked for you.”

“Then why you didn’t say the true since the begging?” Dominator was still not convinced by Psyker’s words.

“Look, I have my reasons.” Psyker pouted. Dominator laughed at his lover’s childish attitude. Psyker rolled his eyes and decided to change the subject.

“So, you cut your hair? no that I’m complaining, you look good.” Psyker asked. Dominator blushed. “Y-yeah, it grew and It became bothersome. Besides, there was no one to help me brush it.” Psyker chuckled. “Aww, don’t worry. I will make sure to brush it from on.”

“What about you? What with your long hair?” Dominator asked. “What? You are not going to tell me I look good? Geez that’s rude.” Psyker pouted again. “I just was very focused on something and I forgot to cut it out. I decided to roll with it and well here I am with this long bangs.” Psyker blew air to his fringe.

“Well, it suits you.” Dominator mumbled. “Thanks, Masi.” Psyker smiled. Dominator responded the smile with one of his own. “You know, I changed my nickname while you were gone.” The scientist lowered his gaze. “I’m Dominator now. Mastermind sounded too weak for my likening.”

Psyker blinked a few times. “Well, I did change my nickname too.” Dominator turned to face the berserker. “I’m Doom Bringer, Lunatic Psyker sounded to ‘edgy’ for me.” Dominator laughed. “Well, you are now wearing almost all black and you have a long fringe. You look more ‘edgy’ now.”

“Hey! I didn’t laugh about your name!” Dominator laughed again, Bringer cheeks turned red. “Cut it out!”

“Sorry, sorry. It just…” Dominator lowered his gaze again. “I missed this.” The berserker stared at his lover.

“… Look, I’m really sorry about what I did.” Bringer sighed. “You see this marks?” The berserker uncovered one of his gloved hands reveling the back of it with more black marks. Dominator hummed as telling Bringer to continue his explanation as he passed his fingers on the marks.

“Well, these are scars from where I fussed with my Nasod Armor.” Dominator froze at Bringer’s words. Confusion covered the scientist features and his mouth dropped. Now that Bringer talked about it, if he paid close attention to Bringer's marks, he could see that the skin around the marks were purplish.

“…Why?” Dominator mumbled as he run his fingers over the scars; slowly and afraid of hurting the damaged skin.  

“…I had to do this. I was too weak and I couldn’t afford to lose you.” Bringer brought Dominator’s hand to his face. He rubbed the back of his hand with his own cheek before bringing it to his lips to kiss it. There were tears on the brawler’s eyes and Dominator could feel tears already rolling down his cheeks.

“I-I knew you wouldn’t had let me do this. That's why I left without saying anything but… that has been my worst mistake.” Bringer mumbled between tears as he kissed again the scientist’s hand.

“It hurt and the chances of success were small. I put my life at risk fussing myself with my Nasod armor but it was worth it because now I can protect you more than I could have done before.” Bringer looked up to see Dominator in the eyes. “I love you and you know I would give my life for you.”

Dominator sniffed. “You don’t have to do that.” He took both of Bringer’s hands. “Don’t give your life for me, just… live for me. Stay with me please.” Dominator cried and released Bringer's hands to wipe his eyes. The berserker hugged the scientist.

“I will, I-I promise.” The brawler mumbled close to his lover’s ears as he caressed his back. They stood like that for a couple of minutes.

“S-sorry, I’m such a crybaby…” Dominator leaned back and wiped his tears. Bringer chuckled. “Then ‘we’ are crybabies.” He kissed the top of Dominator’s head. “Fuck, I had never cried this much in my life.” He sniffed. “Please don’t tell anyone, that would ruin my badass reputation.”

Dominator chuckled. “Only of you don’t tell anyone about this. It will ruin my cold and smartass reputation.” Both of them laughed.

“It’s a deal then.” Bringer hummed and took Dominator’s left hand. “Let’s get out of here. Shall we?” Dominator nodded. “If I’m with you then it’s fine by me.” Bringer blushed. “Don’t tell me that! You are injured? Nuh-uh none of that. We are going home and if I have to carry you in my arms I will do it.”

Dominator laughed. “Oh, please do so. My everything hur- Wait! Stop!” Without heisting, Bringer carried Dominator in his arms and kissed everywhere he could. “Stop! Put me down, I was joking! I can walk by my own.” Dominator tried to break free from his lover’s embrace. Bringer laughed and let Dominator walk again.

The scientist settled his coat and scarf. When he turned to glare at his lover Bringer extended his hand. Dominator blushed and took the hand as they exited the cave.

When the two exited the cave the sky was dark. Both walked together holding hands without knowing that someone saw them from above the cave. It was the figure that fought against Dominator. He was sitting on his dynamos while looking at the couple.

"So they finally met again?" Another white figure that resembled Bringer approached the figure of Dominator.

"Yes, I thought they would fight when they met ..." The figure's eyes narrowed. "It was not what I expected."

"Well, what did you expect? It's us anyway." The other figure blows air to his fringe. "Now what?"

"Our purpose ends here, there's nothing else we can do." The figure of Dominator stood up from his dynamos, approached the figure of Bringer and caressed his cheek.

"Oh come on, don’t be so emotional about it." The figure of Bringer murmured and kissed the lips of his beloved. "They're going to be fine, it's us you're talking about."

The figure of Dominator laughed. "Yes, I think we have that in common." He kissed his beloved again and took his hand. "Shall we get going?"

"If you are by my side then till the end of the world."

Both figures rested their foreheads together and disappeared leaving a trail of white glitters.

-

After both arrived home, Dominator decided to prepare dinner while Bringer took a bath. When the berserker exited the bathroom he saw the scientist already serving dinner; Macaroni with cheese and tea served in their kitty cups.

“So tell me, did you improve your cooking skills while I was off?” Bringer teased as he took his seat.

“To be honest I didn’t. I prepared myself like the same three plates every day.” Dominator took his seat. “I guess I didn’t I think judging by the fact that I still burn fried potatoes when I prepare them.” Both of them laughed.

“You don’t need to worry about it, I will make sure to cook you from now on.” Bringer smiled and gave a soft kick to Dominator under the table. “Please, I got tired of eating toast in the mornings.” Dominator responded the kick.

The two of them spent the rest of the dinner joking and talking about what they went through when they were separated. Bringer even explained how he lost two dynamos and decided to build new dynamos with new materials and to expose his neck’s scar. Dominator talked on how he created a virtual reality, how it worked and why his dynamos were cubes now.

After dinner Bringer insisted on washing the dishes and since Dominator didn’t want to argue with him he left him wash them while he took a shower.

When Dominator exited the shower he was too busy thinking about his lover that he didn’t noticed he entered Bringer’s room without knocking. He froze on his spot as he found the berserker sitting on his bed tightening the screws of his dynamos, he jolted and turned to look at the scientist.

“… Sorry I-I used to sleep in your room when you were gone.” Dominator gave a nervous laugh. “I will go to my room. Sorry to scare you.” He was about to close the door when Bringer called him. “No, wait!” He stood up and took Dominator’s wrist to stop him. “W-we can sleep together. Y-you know I-it’s been a while a-and well…” he scratched the back of his head as he tried to control his blush. “I would like to sleep next to you.”

Dominator stood there for a couple of seconds. “You don’t mind?” he mumbled.

“I don’t. Please…” Bringer looked at Dominator’s eyes. “Sleep next to me.”

-

Omake:

It was late at night in Bringer’s room, both white-haired males where sleeping together when Dominator woke up and sat looking for something between the sheets.

“What’s wrong?” Bringer groaned as he lifted the arm settled on the scientist waist to rub his eye.

“I forgot to take off my ear set before sleep.” Dominator responded as he passed his hand on the sheets looking for the accessory. “I would call my dynamos to light up so I can find it but I can’t without it.” He mumbled.

Bringer blinked a couple of times before he got an Idea. “Hey, Dom. Look at this.” He activated his Nasod armor and his black marks glowered a bright lilac light. In mere seconds he found the ear set between them and handled it to Dominator.

Dominator was frozen in his spot as he looked at Bringer with open eyes.  

“What?” Bringer asked nervously.

“What the hell, Bringer?!”

[diregate]

Elsword Job Paths, but the storyline gets rewritten by me because I’m bored Pt 1/2

Hi this is me I’m doing this because why not

Also first disclaimer I’ve only played so much Elsword which in general involves me only playing up to 3rd job, non transcendent, so anything from transcendence onwards is just baseless assumption from me

Also I’m picking out all job titles that are really similar because this game tries to be original but we all know that’s false because Add is basically Geas The Character and Elesis is A FakeTM

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Elsword, the Knight who really likes smacking things in the head with a flat sword, really, who does that

After a long training session, he goes back to his home and what he picks up next will determine his fate:

Sword Knight > Lord Knight > Knight Emperor*

*:Not to be confused with Knight or Emperor, which is Elsword’s first job and Jin’s fourth job respectively

He picks up a picture of his sister, whom had magically disappeared an hour prior. Developing a hard onee-chan complex because he really aspires to grow and become just like her (minus the hair), he vigorously trains in the sword, and also starts using swords with sharper ends, good on you Elsword.

Magic Knight* > Rune Slayer > Rune Master^

*: Not to be confused with Spell Knight, which is Ronan’s first job

^: Not to be confused with Rune Caster, which is Mari’s first job

He picks up Aisha’s bag of supplies while she isn’t around and takes out the first thing, which was a pair of runed gloves. With the power of robbery gone unnoticed he develops the ability to use! Runes! Wow! Who could have guessed from that job title!

Sheath Knight (really?) > Infinity Blade* > Immortal (god why)

*:Not to be confused with the hot selling mobile app game Infinity Blade

He picks up Aisha’s bag of supplies while she isn’t around and takes out the first thing, which is apparently an entire box set of anime discs and manga which were completely misarranged. Elsword decided to do her a favor by rearranging everything, after he went through her entire Shoujou series. Now with the power of god and anime on his side, he decides to smack people with sword sheaths instead. Wonderful. I don’t know where to begin.

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Aisha, the Magician whom is clearly in any form not completely identical to a specific girl named Arme Glenstid, as she has the ability to cast multiple fireballs instead of just one at a time (plowed fire doesn’t count).

After going out to shop for supplies and magical items and trinkets she realize her bag wasn’t with her. What she does next will forever change her path:

High Magician > Elemental Master > Aether Sage

She decides that everything in her hackysack wasn’t important anyway, her magic power was lost! She couldn’t be sitting around watching anime. She gets a little antsy and fidgety and starts taking it out by trying to have fun smacking enemies but eventually becomes a full fledged Sage by her own capabilities, twice. A wonderful girl.

Dark Magician* > Void Princess > Oz Soceress

*:Not to be confused with Dark Magician, the monster card that Atem summons in almost every duel episode ever

She decided that she really needs to get her stuff back. After discovering Elsword rummaging through it, she starts being absolutely pouty and learns how to channel her angsty emotion into destructive power. Eventually she learns how to channel any emotion into destructive power and now she’s literally rewritten the story of Oz into a manual of her road to (re)power.

Battle Magician* > Dimension Witch > Metamorphy

*:Not to be confused with Battle Mage, which is Arme’s fourth job, but it’s pretty friggin’ close to it anyway so really what’s the difference

She decided that she really needs to get her stuff back. After discovering Elsword rummaging through it and looking through her Shoujou anime and manga, she decides to join him. Nothing like anime to de stress, right? Eventually like Elsword, she becomes suffused with the power of god and anime and is now literally a Madoka Shoujou, and also as overpowered.

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Rena, the Ranger whom really likes her shape and really likes flaunting it. Even if she has a very close resemblance to a certain Eryuelian archer, the inhumanly oversized chest of abundance really points out a difference. And also her spine is really goddamn flexible like yeesh. (Also whoever shittalks me about Rena for describing her like this really needs to play her because unless you’re going Sniping path, you are getting a lot of skimpy wear)

She embarks on her journey to Elrios (Gee where had I heard of this before) and decides that if she were going to have to fight through demons, that she’d have to pick a specific school of combat to major in:

Combat Ranger > Wind Sneaker > Anemos

Rena decides that her diet will now be calcium and protein based, and her bones grow strong and her muscles bulge from the daily workout of a commando. Her kicks prove to be insanely painful and she performs backflips and soumersalts, and occasionally performs for the poor. She also communes with the wind elemental to give her feet their blessings, so she basically becomes someone that is definitely not from a certain anime named DGrayman.

Sniping Ranger > Grand Archer > Daybreak

Rena decides that her arrows were too blunt and she spends almost all of her free time fletching new, super sharp ones. Also she gets the wind elementals to bless them too. Coupled with her flexible spine, she is able to haul a rain of arrows to end people before they could even look up after being downed by her. It’s useful when you can turn things to your advantage.

Trapping Ranger > Night Watcher > Twilight

Rena decides it’s time she used that stolen blade she snuck out of the shrine because she’s secretly a kleptomaniac. The blade Eldrassil is also super magical and gives her the power of nature while simultaneously sap her positive, then negative emotions. Eventually she becomes Not Batman, wearing a hoodie and for some reason deciding only covering majority of her upper parts alone was good enough to carry on her edgy aura. She also comes with a free bowl of sass and a ton of cuts.

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Raven, the Taker whom is apparently a man with a robot arm and what the hell does a Taker even mean anyway. Why are you an antagonist that dies super easily to an infinite stretch of combos that I juggle you with because you’re just that easy to lift. Obviously he’s edgy, and generally upset with himself, and constantly seeks redemption for deeds he could not control doing. Also the Nasods used him as a base to replicate more robots like him and honestly Rena, yeah I’m disturbed too.

He doesn’t do much, he just says he wants to atone and that he’s good with a sword and also his robot arm has some weird ways to turn energy into weird looking fire. When he is finally free from the mind control of capitalism, he decides that:

Sword Taker > Blade Master > Furious Blade*

*:Not to be confused with Unlimited Blade, which is apparently everyone’s 3MP attack

He hates being a robot and he hates his robotic arm with a passion. But not like, in the way where he’d rip his own Nasod arm off. Are you kidding? That thing has nerves in it. Now that he’s dedicated to destroying Nasod he starts wearing long sleeves and returning to his old self, which is apparently an emo man by first dyeing his hair fully black, and then keeping it down so that it almost always seems to obscure one eye. Yeah, very easy to kill things when you can’t see them too well, right? Also he gets a guy to rebuild his arm to look like his other one.

Over Taker (really?) > Reckless Fist > Rage Hearts* (?????)

*:Not to be confused with Burning Heart, which is one of Fake!Elesis’ 3rd job

He loves being a robot and he loves his robotic arm with a passion. But not like, in the way where he’d make love to his own Nasod arm anyway. Instead he focuses more on his burst potential. With his newfound fascination for pyrotechnics and white hair, he starts streaking his hair with white and also keeping it from his face for a grand total of one job before he feels the comforting embrace of his fringe between his eyes. 

Weapon Taker (yeah, what else are you going to take next) > Veteran Commander > Nova Imperator*

*:I swear they’re just making things up by this point

He doesn’t really care honestly. But not like, in the way where he’d use both of them together in a combination way. He just uses other weapons now. He also has so much gratitude for Elsword and his team for saving him that he streaks his hair red now, instead of his white, and attaining maximum edge hairstyle. Also he likes looking very judgmental and upset about things.

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Eve, the Another Code, whose introduction does not match the general sentence and has thusforth failed itself, is a Nasod. Elsword, you’re travelling with a Nasod, wake up your eyes. You’d think her slap would be good enough. But noooo, you had to give her feelings. YOU GAVE A ROBOT FEELINGS. THIS IS WHY SHE ENDS UP HAVING THESE THREE JOB PATHS:

Code: Exotic > Code: Nemesis > Code: Ultimate

Absolutely deciding that feelings is a very not okay thing in computation and artificial intelligence, she resolves to create the ability to wipe out all that stands in her way of her making her empire of Nasods. As such, she slaps that emotional circuitry out of her and starts developing the ability to make some additional machines to murderize both enemy robots and humans. And elves. But mostly robots apparently.

Code: Architect > Code: Empress > Code: Esencia

Absolutely deciding that feelings is a very okay and even important thing in computation and artificial intelligence, she decides to keep the emotional circuitry in herself. And because Elsword gave her feelings and then decide to watch anime instead of talking to her, she gets lonely. So she makes robots, and eventually after mingling with everyone she thinks that, well, maybe Nasods and humans can live together. And elves. But mostly humans apparently.

Code: Electra > Code: Battle Seraph > Code: Sariel

Absolutely unable to decide, her own emotional circuits start short circuiting and now she’s unable to control what she’s feeling, so she goes with the general method of ‘I’m a robot I can’t feel, hoooh’. Also the overloaded circuits start giving her power and pain, until it also short circuited her own pain circuits. In fact basically everything in her short circuits and she becomes a weapon herself to destroy both enemy robots and humans. And elves. But mostly elves apparently.

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(Disclaimer: I played Chung for a grand total of 30 minutes)

Chung, the Guardian who apparently failed to guard his own city from demons. You had one job*. Also his surname is Seeker, and I’m almost sure that’s actually his job name in KR. You had one job. He has long hair, and in fact looks super androgynous, you could mistake him for a girl fairly easily. He’s also the heir of the throne. Like Ara. Like Lu. Like Eve. Boy, you are just one cog in a series of clockwork.

*:He actually has 3 job paths and 3 jobs in each so that’s actually 9 jobs, but details, details.

Eventually he runs into the El Search Party, whom apparently named themselves that because they’re the only goddamn people in the entire world of Elrios trying to save the entire world. Wow. Infatuated by a noble cause and in dire need for one himself because otherwise he’ll break down (and trust me you don’t want him to, his /cry is 13 seconds long), he joins in and decides to hone on his talent with a cannon on his back, or something else:

Fury Guardian > Iron Paladin > Comet Crusader

He loves his hair, he grows it longer like his cannon as he starts to make it stronger with little tinkering. He also loves shooting cannon balls and blowing things up. He ties it up in the end because the hair was getting so long it was starting to block his eyes (which miraculously affects his field of vision unlike every one else in this world). With the martial artist of Rena to help him, he swings that cannon round and round baby, round and round.

Shooting Guardian* > Deadly Chaser > Fatal Phantom

*:GEE WHAT ELSE IS NEW

He doesn’t like his hair, it reminds him of home, and probably the blood of several thousand citizens that he failed to save. So he cuts it, Mulan style, with his new weapon Go Go Geagles. Armed with two more pistols aside from his huge ass cannon he puts on his back, now he starts running around and yelling ‘FIRE’* so much you could swear he’s an audible fire alarm. In fact I’m almost pretty sure he hates fire and his cannon now too.

*: Actually I meant to put this link there but you get two links for the price of one!

Shelling Guardian > Tactical Trooper > Centurion

He likes his hair, but it could probably use a new addition. Flipping through some of Elsword’s (and Aisha’s as well, presumably) manga collection, he decided what he needs was some fox ears. So he asked Ara to see if Eun could bless him with some of her kitsune powers. So she did. Now he has fox ears. He also learns alchemy and ends up making his cannon less reliable, for more destructive purposes. Literally now his shots go everywhere. It’s almost like you don’t care to aim away from your new friends, Chung. Do you really want all of this to happen just because you want your fox ears?

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Ara-Ain will all be on a later post because holy crap this is long

[spirify]

Stargate― CH. 7

w. Rielin “Stargate; the path leading to another you.”

bgm hotaru no koi ― reve

In abyss of complete darkness, the crimson eyes jolted open, revealing its rubiness that shines even in the void. Awake from the strange nightmare that cannot be remembered, the male's breath was raspy and quick as beads of sweat rolled down his temples and down to his chin.

Where am I?

Darkness.

What time is it?

Unknown.

What was I doing before sleeping?

Slowly, he started to collect his knowledge piece by piece as if he was completing a puzzle.

Who are you?

Elsword. A Lord Knight, one of the members in the El Search Party.

Who are your fellow teammates?

Uh, Rena, Raven, Eve, Chung, Ara, Elesis, Add, Luciel, Rose, Ain… and um...

Are you excluding someone?

How could I exclude her? Her name is Aisha.

Is that person the most important?

Yes.

He let out a rather depressed sigh.

But she's no longer in this world.

He didn't wanted to get up. He didn't even wanted to start another day. How could he even continue on living when she's no longer with him? It would've been way better if she was living far far away to the point where he could never see her, but at least the fact that she was alive would make him continue on with his own life. Yet that didn't happen. It would've been way better if she was placed in an eternal sleep, but the fact that she's still alive and breathing would be a much happier ending. The world is so cruel, why did it have to take the innocent one's life away? Why her?

"Elsword, wake up!"

That voice… what?

It rang so loud and clear, echoing within his mind constantly.

That was… Aisha, wasn't it? That was for sure, Aisha's voice!

He threw the blanket away from his body as it lazily spread across the wooden floor. He quickly stood up to the point where he almost tripped over, but swiftly regained his balance. With his heart pounding, with sweat rolling down his back, with his mind constantly praying, he opened the door without hesitation.

Aisha.

It was for sure, Aisha. Her petite body that was glowing radiantly with health, her violet hair that shined luminously as if she have just taken a shower, her lilac eyes that vividly glowed with life. It was Aisha.

Without a second thought, he embraced her tiny body within his arms.

"E-Elsword, what are you-?!"

She yelled out with embarrassment yet her cheeks were flushing with pink hue.

The white robe which smelled like lavender, her violet locks tied in a low twintail, and the ancient magic book she always takes along. It was all so familiar. No scent of unfamiliar, unusual aura. No hint of forgetting how she looked like or what her name is. Everything felt so nostalgic as if he came back to his hometown.

Wait, magic? What kind of magic did she use?

All Elsword could think of was… fire, water, earth, thunder… the four elements which she conjured expertly. Why did he have a feeling that she was controlling some dangerous spells?

"Wait- no physical contact!"

He thought and quickly he released her from his embrace. Her violet eyes were widened with shock and confusement and her face have turned extremely red with embarrassment.

"Wh- what are you talking about?! Come out and eat breakfast!"

She screamed shyly, stuttering her words as she whipped her head back to hide her reddened face and quickly dashed out the room.

The knight does not know, the magician does not know, the―

Stargate. The path leading to another you.

The parallel world of Elsword. He enters through the starry gate, to come to a world where everything is exactly the same as his own world- except his beloved one, Aisha. The Elemental Master he knows of, is Void Princess here. The dangerous, cursed magician. Her extreme powers slowly devours her own lifespan, eventually leading to her own death. There is one possible way to extend the duration of her life, which is to leave the El Search Party and become the magician no one even have heard of, that no one even speaks of or speak to; to become the lonely mage in the world with no society surrounding her. Yet she couldn't do that. The desire of wanting to see more of Elsword, to see more of his growth, and to be near him while being surrounded by her family- she loved him. She couldn't leave him. But after realizing that he indeed, loved her back, she was finally able to leave- yet it was too late to even leave, and had to face death as her choice. Perhaps it was a happy ending for her, at least she was able to confirm the mutual love. Perhaps it was a happy ending for him as well, as he realized that it doesn't matter what kind of world he is placed in and how Aisha even looks like, he just knows- that he deeply loves her.

Stargate ― fin.

note:

There is an epilogue that is posted at the same time as this chapter, since the two chapters are so short!

And with this, every secret about Stargate is revealed and this is the official ending! I'd say it can be both happy and sad ending, since the Void Princess Aisha died in the parallel world, but the Elemental Master Aisha is alive! And with that, Elsword learns he must value his love!

Although I did mention that every BGM will have moon/star/light in the title, the title translates to Firefly's Love! There is 'light' in Firefly in Korean so I just used this lmao. /pls I couldn't find a song that had happy and sad feeling except this.

Also, sorry for uploading this a day late from fanfiction net! I posted this on the 25th there, but I’m posting the 26th here. Even though I’m a day late to say this, MERRY CHRISTMAS!

Thanks for reading!

Rielin’s Fanfiction Site

[magical-characters-tourney]

ROUND 3 BRACKETS

The winners of each bracket will face each other in one final match to discover who is the ULTIMATE magical boy.

Criteria used to decide who got in: 1) Use magic, or 2) Have a transformation sequence, or 3) Fight with the power of friendship (and sometimes that gun they found on the sidewalk over there) or any of the above combined.

Matchups under the cut. I’m… less scared than last round, actually. Prove me wrong? …and, uh, elsword fans? forgive me? please?

Kousuke Nitoh (Kamen Rider Wizard) vs Black Pepper (Delicious Party Precure)

Cure Lock (Dancing Star Precure The Stage) vs Dark Magician (Yu-Gi-Oh)

Garnet Heart (Magical Warrior Diamond Heart) vs Yue (Cardcaptor Sakura)

Viperpace - Viperion+Carapace (Miraculous Ladybug) vs Merlin (The Sword and the Stone)

Peter Grant (Rivers of London) vs Superman (My Adventures with Superman)

Rio Kuroki (KiraKira Precure A La Mode) vs Shining Spiral (Elsword)

Vivi (Final Fantasy) vs Qifrey (Witch Hat Atelier)

Takara Utashiro (Fairy Ranmaru ~Anata no Kokoro O-tasukeshimasu~) vs Ryuu Zaou (Cute High Earth Defense Club Love!)

Kirby (Kirby) vs Syaoran Li (Cardcaptor Sakura)

Blue Knight (Tokyo Mew Mew) vs Antonio Madrigal (Encanto)

My Cat Stormy (real life) vs Haruto Souma (Kamen Rider Wizard)

Tadase Hotori (Shugo Chara) vs Daisuke Niwa (D.N.Angel)

Shining Astro (Elsword) vs Howl (Howl’s Moving Castle)

Uru Seiren (Fairy Ranmaru ~Anata no Kokoro O-tasukeshimasu~) vs Saiki Kusou (The Disasterous Life of Saiki K.)

Gandalf (Lord of the Rings) vs Emerald Heart (Magical Warrior Diamond Heart)

Kukai Soma (Shugo Chara) vs Kuranushi Rin (Dear Magi -Mahou Shounen Gakka-)

[overanalyzingelswordiswhatido]

I'm projecting I think

But Add and Aisha feel ADHD to me. There's a few reasons for that I do have. First off I'm horrible about foils. I want characters to foil each other in literally everything I do ever.

Also, Aisha has the most active idle animation in the entire game. She seems to bounce from one idea to the next without much of an actual train of thought. Just... bouncing.

Add also seems to bounce from one idea to the next without much of a train of thought. He doesn't seem to have a lot of impulse control. It's most obvious, of course, in the Doom Bringer route. But that's interesting to me since it is his canon route.

Idk. That's all I got. And that's part of why I think I'm projecting but eh.

[imagineelrios]

Yeah I can't stop I am so sorry but I love your work x3, so can I get Aisha and Ara vp x yr?: Aisha and Ara are sitting on the balcony and they are asking each other about the reasons why they are choosing their dark powers.

“It’s not dark powers!” Ara protests when Aisha asks.  “It’s just… uh…”

“Using your opponents’ energies to defeat them?”

“Shut up,” Ara grumbles, blushing at Aisha’s smirk and Eun’s laughter.  “At least I’m not making demon contracts.”

“Angkor didn’t know I’d be using his power to put down a demon invasion.”  Aisha’s smirk turns to a smile, and she swings her legs, looking down at the ground from her perch on the balcony railing.  “So.  Joke’s on him, really.”

“At least I don’t get yelled at by my power source every time I fight.”  Ara laughs.  Eun growls.

Is that all I am to you?

I’m kidding, Ara says silently, and ignores Eun’s annoyance.  Aisha is smiling at her.

“Whatever works,” she says lightly, a far cry from the stuffy magician Elsword says she used to be.  “If our powers help us win, who cares about our alignment?”

[elsword-x-aisha-oneshots]

Sacrifice

Setting: abandoned ruins

Characters:

Elsword (Lord Knight)

Aisha (Elemental Master)

Story:

After saving the world, Elsword and his friends were taking a break… Until Aisha found him… the man that took the ring that took her power. Unfortunately, he was too strong. Aisha used every spell she knows, but this man won’t go down. Elsword followed Aisha and was helping her, but there was just no way to defeat him. Unless…

“Aisha, go get that ring. I’ll distract him.”

“What?! But you’ll get hurt!”

“Aisha, you’re the only one who can defeat him. Don’t worry about me…”

The two are hiding behind a pillar, trying to come up with a plan. Aisha is worrying sick about Elsword’s safety. Sure she wants her powers back, but not willing to sacrifice Elsword for it. He was too important to her for some reason. She looks at him with an angry look, but what she did next shocked Elsword a lot. She grab her shirt’s collar and peck him on the cheek.

“You better make it back alive, dummy…” And then she left. Elsword just stood there, blushing at what happened. He snapped out of it and came out of the opening to fight the man.

“HEY! OVER HEAR!” He then charged at him.

Aisha is going behind him, since the man is protecting the ring, but he was too busy fighting Elsword. She needs to get the ring, get her power back and defeat this man. And then smack Elsword for making her do that kiss. She’s just a couple more feet away.

Meanwhile, Elsword is dodging all of the enemy’s attacks. He’s trying to get close enough to attack, if only he knows some magic with range attacks. But he’s a knight, and a knight must protect those precious to him.

“DIE!”

“Not gonna happen!” Elsword jumped and went for final blow. But the man smirked, as if he planned this. He then let out his hand, facing at Elsword.

SLASH

Elsword managed to cut the man, but only a small cut on his head.

“Not bad kid… but not good enough.”

BZZT

SLASH

Just when Aisha finally has the ring in her hand, she saw the one thing that scares her more than never getting her powers back. Watching Elsword dying; for he just got struck, by the wizard’s lightning sword on his hand.

“ELSWORD!” Aisha attacked the enemy from behind, piercing with an ice arrow. He was heavily wounded, but still standing, coughing out blood. Aisha didn’t care, her main focus is Elsword.

“Elsword! Elsword! Please, stay with me! I’ll patch you up and-”

“Ack...it’s too late for me… just… go…”

“No no no no, you gotta live! You gotta live for me! I can’t… I can’t lose you!”

“I’m sorry… I’m sorry being such a jerk to you…”

“You dummy! Don’t apologize! I won’t forgive you if you die!”

“...”

“Elsword? Elsword! ELSWORD!” Aisha was trying to get a word from him. Nothing… Elsword is dead.

“Heh, serves the kid right. He should’ve never interfere with my plans,” said the man. Aisha said nothing; instead, she put elsword down, and attack the wizard.

“YOU BASTARD!” She summoned all of her magic at once at him. He didn’t even have enough time to properly set up a proper shield for him. One by one, magic was hitting him. The man can’t hold out much longer.

“DAMN IT!” He yelled. “DIE!” He then threw fireballs at her, but she was just too mad to care about anything. The first time she saw Elsword almost die, it was in Velder. She was so scared, she didn’t want to accept the fact that he was gonna die. She didn’t want to lose him. It was on that day when she realized the truth… she was in love with the red knight. No matter how much they argue, fight, or bicker, she can’t live without him in her life.

“You took him!” She yelled. “You took my power, my pride, my family’s quest… and now… Elsword… the boy I fell in love… you took him away! YOU TOOK EVERYTHING FROM ME!” Aisha was in tears, but is on a rampage for revenge.

The two battled out so much, the building they were inside was all ruins now. The wizard gave it everything he got, but it wasn’t enough to defeat Aisha.

“How… how are you this strong?!” He said.

Aisha came closer and closer, with eyes hunger for revenge. Just as Aisha was about to put in the final blow.

“AISHA!” Elesis and Rena arrived at the scene, which gave the chance to escape. He made smokescreens, and escaped with his life.

“DAMN IT!” She yelled. “You're not getting away!”

Aisha started conjuring an ice arrow. Then started aiming.

“Heh… Got away… Barely,” the wizard grunted in pain. He was bleeding a lot, but he'll live. “I'll get the ring back soon. Just... Need to heal and-”

SLASH

An arrow pierced through his heart.

“ACK- impossible… That... Damn... Magician…” Then he fell to darkness.

Aisha had done it… She got the ring back and her power. But it wasn't worth Elsword's life.

“I'm sorry… I'm sorry… I'm... I'm…”

Aisha started shedding more tears at Elsword body.

“Aisha… What happened?” Elesis asked. Aisha explained what happened, Elesis couldn't believe it… her little brother is gone.

“He sacrificed himself for me… He was willing to do everything for me. Despite how much I treated him. Elsword… You dummy…”

“Aisha,”

“Why did you have to be so noble?”

“Aisha,”

“I'm sorry… I'm sorry... Elsword… I lov-”

“Aisha!”

Aisha snapped out of it and looked at Rena.

“What?!”

“That ring… I heard of it!”

“What?”

“Back at my village… There was a legend where a ring with immense power… So powerful… It can bring the dead back to life.”

“How? Tell me!”

“The ring must sacrifice its entire power, but once you use that spell, the ring will dissolve into dust.”

“In other words, my powers could save Elsword?”

“Yeah…”

Aisha began chanting the spell.

“Aisha! You’ll-”

“I don’t care! It can take all my power, all my knowledge, or even my life, I don’t care! I’ll give whatever it takes to bring him back alive!”

The ring glow brightly, lighting the entire room. Aisha then remember all the memories she had with Elsword. When they first met back in Ruben, how they helped the mercenaries in Elder, met Raven and Eve at Bethma, fought the demons in Feita, saw Elsword almost die in Velder, save the water priestess at Hamel, defeated the behemoth in Sander, stopped Scar in Lanox, she wants to make more memories with him. If giving up her powers would make that happen, she’ll gladly sacrifice it.

[Later]

Elsword woke up, only to find himself inside a tent. “Where am I?” He ask. He then remembers what happened to him. “Aisha! I need to-” he groaned in pain. He still feels the pain he gotten from that wizard’s attack. Footsteps were heard outside, coming towards the tent.

Aisha opened the tent, with a worrying look on her face.

“Aisha! Where are we? What about the ring? The wizard? Your powers?”

Elsword stopped asking questions after Aisha jumped and hug him.

“It’s over… It’s finally over....”

Aisha explained what happened after Elsword died. The wizard was defeated, Aisha gotten the ring back. But… she sacrificed it for his life?

“What?! Why? That was your power, your goal, your quest, your family’s legacy! Why give that up for me?!”

POW

Aisha punched him in the head for asking such a stupid question.

“You dummy! That’s only an object, and powers can be replenished through years of training! But you… you’re more precious to me then anything right now!”

“But why?!”

“Becaus I love you!” Aisha said, crying with tears of joy; joy that Elsword is alive. “I don’t when, but I fell for you, idiot…”

Aisha held tight on Elsword, never wanting to lose him again.

Elsword didn’t know what to do. I mean, a girl just confessed her feelings to him. What was he supposed to do? He’s already freaking out on what to say. Should he reply? Should he stay quiet? Should he do something? Heck, he’s blushing mad because of what she said; truth is, he cares about her. Instead… All Elsword did was just simply hug backs.

“Aisha… I’m sorry… for scaring you…”

“Dummy… don’t die on me again…”

“I promise… I’ll live… for you...”

[sunflowerkinnies]

Hey! I love your blog, and I was wondering if I could make a request? I'd like a moodboard/aesthetic of Aisha (Dark Magician) from Elsword! I'd like pastel themes of purple, pink, and blue, with additional themes of positivity and protectiveness! If it's not too much trouble, thank you!

Claimed! I’ll get this one done for you as soon as possible, Aisha!

-Mod Komaeda