#i think it's a cute and satisfying closure to eight's story. a bit underwhelming but i really like when being a hero is a choice | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

eorzeashan · 2 months ago

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greatly amuses myself by picturing Eight permanently becoming a wandering cheese merchant/sellsword who still remains loosely involved in the greater Intelligence networks after all the KOTXX business is said and done. he's content to live out life as a freelancer who puts his ear to the ground for going-ons, but he's accepted that the world of espionage he came from will never return.

occasionally he comes to visit Theron and Lana (who are happy to see him) as an informant but by now he's grown a sense of humor and whenever they ask for info he smirks and says they have to buy a wedge of cheese from him first. cheese, then information. sometimes it even comes with some homemade bread that contains slicer spikes loaded with stolen files baked inside if one asks nicely for something to spread the cheese with.

#ooc #retiree eight is sort of the point that happens after all the alliance business is done #lana and theron still hire him to do their dirty work but he's free #i think it's a cute and satisfying closure to eight's story. a bit underwhelming but i really like when being a hero is a choice #and that there's something *after* all that as well #also cheese merchant is a funny cover but one i think that brings him the most peace to connect with others through a simple task #and small talk. he forms these connections with communities he didn't as an agent and learns to broker info in a mundane way #but he also solves problems still for the price of cheese. it's cute #this is his way of 'settling down' which is to adventure but take it slow

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