#lok moebius

[incorrect-nosgoth]

Moebius after saying something cryptic: Don't ask me what I'm talking about. I don't know, okay? I'm just the vessel. The message has been gifted. I've moved on.

[bigcchalupa]

[janosxvorador]

made a quick doodle for my stream page.

if you haven't heard I'll be streaming the Soul Reaver remakes starting 12/23 at 12pm central. LINK HERE

[moebiusthetimestreamer]

Was it fun living in a cave?

Well, Not So Much. See, the Humidity was doing a real "number" on my joints.! Not that the Sarafan Fortress is any better....

[fallenrazziel]

Moebius, the Time Master #9

[obscure-imaginations]

Monster Mash

Vorador takes Umah, Sebastian, Marcus, and Faustus trick or treating! Mirrored on AO3.

"Sebastian! Stop running ahead!" Vorador called to no avail, the whelp dressed as a king continued to run ahead of his 'siblings'.

Umah sighed. "I'll get him, sire." The eldest went to capture him while the remaining broodlings argued.

"This is ridiculous! Faustus got a full-sized bar!" Marcus said, stomping his foot.

"So? You have way more candy than I do!" Faustus's eyes widened as he realized something. "SIRE! Marcus is using his gifts to get more candy!"

"Don't be ridiculous." Vorador said, dragging the bickering whelps along with him up to the next house.

Ariel answered the door. "Oh."

"Trick or treat!" The four broodlings chorused, holding out their bags, while Vorador stood behind, his arms crossed.

Ariel faked a smile and passed out treats, shutting the door as Nupraptor's complaints rose up from inside the house.

Faustus's jester bells jingled as he bounced excitedly. "Ooh! White chocolate."

Sebastian made a gagging noise and Vorador impatiently tapped the back of his head. Umah, dressed as a cat, chuckled. Marcus, dressed as a skeleton, led the group to the next house.

Umah bounded past him, reaching the door first. She grinned. "Mortanius always has the best candy."

When Mortanius opened his door, a dramatic cloud of smoke wafted out as well. He was wearing his skeleton robes, peering out at the vampires theatrically. "Who dares disturb my rest?"

"Hello Mortanius." Vorador said, nodding politely.

"Hmm. You invoke the necromancer for earthly riches? Very well then." Moranius passed out expensive chocolates to the four, and tossed one to Vorador.

"Told you." Umah said as they walked away.

A few houses later, Vorador groaned. "No. I am not doing a repeat of last year."

"Oh, come on." Faustus said with a grumble. "We got candy out of Moebius eventually."

"But it was all candy corn. What Vorador didn't eat, we gave to Kain." Sebastian said, looking warily at Moebius's poor attempts at decor.

"Buttering up Kain for the next time you break something of his." Umah said. She bravely led the group to ring Moebius's doorbell.

A pause ensued. Eventually, Moebius's voice sounded from behind the door. "No one's home! Go away!"

"You left your porch light on." Vorador called from the driveway.

The porch light flickered off. Umah rolled her eyes and rang the doorbell again. When more silence answered her, Faustus took initiative and slammed his hand on the door.

A strangled yelp came from Moebius as he tumbled away from the door. Finally, he opened the door a peek, tossed five candy bags on the ground, and slammed the door.

"Thank you for your patronage." Marcus said sarcastically.

When they solicited from Malek, tense eye contact occurred between him and Vorador. The brood took this opportunity to raid his candy bowl.

Bane handed out beef jerky, DeJoule handed out individually-wrapped caramels, Anarcrothe gave a generic candy mix, and Azimuth handed out glow-in-the-dark spider rings (which were complained about when they left).

Finally, they stopped at Kain's house. Vorador had to smack Sebastian away from the garden, the whelp moving to kick Kain's prize-winning roses.

Turel answered the door, the sounds of a party bellowing out behind him. "Kain's not here."

Vorador raised an eyebrow. "And you're trashing his place in his absence?"

"We're not trashing it-" Turel began, cut off by Raziel's screams as Zephon, dressed as a spider, pounced on him.

"Why didn't we have a party?" Marcus asked.

Vorador ignored him. "Hmph. I suppose he'll be the judge of that. Do you have candy for them or not?" He gestured to the four fledglings.

Turel pointed to the "take one" candy bowl on the porch.

Vorador looked at him, unamused. "It's empty."

Turel sighed. "Oh, those damned kids. No one ever just takes one. Here." He disappeared inside the house.

A few moments later, Rahab came out. "All we have is this." A shook a full bag of caramel popcorn, and Umah snatched it immediately.

"Thank you." Vorador glanced inside the house. "You'd better take care of that fire on the stove before Kain comes back."

[finlaena]

Huh, guess Tumblr now lets you upload 30 images in one go, eh?

Perfect timing, as I found this from around 2018/2019-ish!

This is an unfinished (or perhaps finished, depending on your POV) Legacy of Kain fan comic I did that attempted -emphasis on 'attempted'- to tell a take on a hypothetical backstory for Mortanius the Necromancer and, arguably, by extention Moebius the Time Streamer during their younger years before the Humans' revolt against the Ancients.

For those who pay attention to LoK lore and read between the lines, Mortanius is portrayed as someone who is trying to fix his past transgressions and is at his heart an honorable, if deeply flawed individual (which is probably why he gets posessed by Hash'ak'gik later on). You see it especially in his brief but memorable scene in 'LoK: Defiance' when he's talking to Raziel, whom he mistakes to be one of the Hylden.

If I can scrape my brain hard enough, I believe the reasoning behind this was not to excuse the revolt/genocide that Moebius and Mortanius were responsible for starting, but to theorize that Mortanius was essentially manipulated into it by Moebius, the latter who took advantage of the Necromancer's affection for him (probably at the behest of the Elder God, idk) to help instigate the revolt.

The Ancient/Original Guardian of States, Phanuel, is a fan character of mine created specifically for this story, so they were fated to die during the revolt anyways. I don't think Mortanius would've taken any enjoyment in it, but had I got to that point, it probably would've been Moebius who murdered them when Mortanius hesitated.

Anyhow, the story was never finished due to scope creep and realizing I lacked the artistic and narrative skills to realize the story the way I envisioned. I also drew this with Procreate back in the day, so it's kind of scuffed in some spots.

Also, a small indie game called 'Warframe' entered my periphery around the end of 2019. You might've heard of it, it's kind of obscure. ;Y

Either way, it's something I'm still quite proud of to this day, even if there are a lot of parts I'd probably have done differently nowadays.

[fallenrazziel]

Kain, Raziel & Moebius in TESO

The mans 5 hours in

W his palico Raziel & introducing Ronderu the Seikret

[razielim]

Kain!

How I feel about this character

For a long-ass time I fucking could NOT care less about that shit-ass bastard lmfao bc I'd only played SR. Even shipping him with Raz back when they were both vampires did not make me warmer towards him. Playing BO actually went a long way to making me feel more sympathetic towards him, tho BO2 and Defiance didn't do much. (I'd already read the whole plot before playing any of the other 4 games, so I think they maybe had trouble penetrating bc I was still super SR-oriented.)

(I think my early and long-lived hatred of Kain actually really influenced the extremely tender RK characterizations I dreamt up and ended up favoring for decades, rather than falling in with the bloodplay/rough/BDSM side of RK fandom. Don't make me explain it, idk how the math on that works, but it does.)

What REALLY changed the game is when I downloaded and started listening to the cutscenes of these games, sometimes all the way through, sometimes just my favorite parts, sometimes relistening to the same game over and over, just listening to what was being said and how and what that revealed about the characters. I still don't "love" Kain, he doesn't even make my top 3 favorite LoK bastards (cough-Moebius-cough-Vorador-cough) but he has become so delicious to me. I feel now very intrinsically how he is the linchpin to this story and how it is precisely he who drives the changes to the timelines even if Raziel is the one who has the potential to actually enact them. He's kinda just bursting with agency and willpower, and that's really hot of him, and sometimes I think that the reason BO2 kind of sucks is not the usual reasons given, but it's that the writing makes him a bit of a action-hero gofer instead of this prime mover he normally is, both crushed by fate and ripping it apart with his bare talons, power or no power.

All the people I ship romantically with this character

Raziel. This is Kain's only romantic attachment that's valid and interesting; I will die on this hill.

(i just made this image today and it's already my favorite thing ever. i WILL abuse it.)

My non-romantic OTP for this character

Vorador!!!!!!!!!!!! I wish Vorador had had more interactions with Kain before he was beheaded, moving past the "Vorador boasts, Kain listens politely rudely" stage of their relationship. In my head, I think I've just gone ahead and filled in those blanks, but do wish there was more canon. BO2 doesn't count. They don't interact in SR2 or Defiance that I can remember, and I wish they had. BO2 doesn't count. Mostly bc I don't know and wasn't led to care about any of the suddenly rebooted and unfamiliar relationships that were happening there. I feel like the devs also had the idea "MORE Kain and Vorador interacting in our game!" which is admirable and relatable, but they executed it... meh.

My unpopular opinion about this character

The inner machinations of his mind are an enigma.

Seriously, he tends to be dumbed down to an overbearing straightforward action hero/bastard, but he's like the most fucked up wretch ever. I was guilty of this too before I started becoming more professionally insane about this series.

One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon.

SHOW US THE SEQUEL FORBIDDEN PLOT DETAILS, AMY HENNIG!!! JUST GIVE US THE PLOT!!! I think the most information we've ever gotten was Daniel Cabuco relating that Kain would be traveling back to the... post-apocalypse period (? that might be wrong) and going around destroying nodes to kill the Elder God once and for all? Something like that. I've started to forget what he said, and it'd take some digging to find. But that's not a plot, that's a gameplay loop. I WANT THE PLOT. I WANT TO KNOW WHAT TIMELINE ZERO WAS LIKE?? WHY DID ARIEL'S MURDER WORK TO SHIFT THE COURSE OF HISTORY, HOW HAD THE PIECES BEEN ARRANGED PRIOR TO THE MURDER, AND HOW DOES ALL OF THIS CONNECT TO THE CONCLUSION OF KAIN'S CHARACTER ARC AND MOMENTOUS BURDENS TELL ME TELL ME TELL ME TELL ME TELL ME TELL ME

[unsoundedcomic]

Did you watch the new Noclip documentary on LoK? Mark Hamil auditioned for Janos Audron, and Robert Picardo for Moebius.

I used to have such a crush on Robert Picardo, as the Doctor, and also as Johnny Cab. It's a little cute that Rene Auberjonois, another Star Trek staple, later had a major role instead.

And I did watch the documentary! I suffer psychic damage to imagine anyone else as those characters. Obviously Kain was always going to be Simon Templeman in Soul Reaver, but I just don't think I'd have fallen so hard for Raz if he wasn't Michael Bell. There's a vulnerability to his voice that stabs me right in my softest bits. Even when Raziel is good and pissed off he sounds a little bit like a tiny gerbil backed into a corner. There's also a timelessness to his voice. It's really hard to gauge how old he is, or any particular accent, and that's perfect for an immortal. My sweet blue baby wraith.

[incorrect-nosgoth]

Moebius: I took out the batteries in the carbon monoxide alarm because the beeping was giving me a headache.

[necromancer-4-hire]

Random LOK: Personal quotes

Kain: I was impaling your grandfather when you were a mere topic of discussion between your mother and the bishop...

Raziel: You need help and I'd be willing to pay for it...

Janos: I may be kind but I wasn't born yesterday...

Vorador: Well I like four-somes but we can't have everything we want!

Turel: Maybe if I shut my eyes all the stupid people will go away

Dumah: I f*cked your mom

Rahab: No I'm not helping you cheat your way through life

Zephon: I hate everyone... No one is safe.

Melchiah: How are you not dead?

Umah: I don't share... Period.

Magnus: I'm not lazy... I just like beating people up without extra duties. (His answer as to why he doesn't strive to be a lord/king)

Sebastian: You'll never take me alive suckers!

Marcus: Good morning bitches destiny has arrived

Faustus: Beggars can't be choosers... I love everything that walks

Moebius: I know something you don't know...

Mortanius: I won't get mad just tell me what stupid moronic thing you did this time?

Hylden Lord: (Usually when insulted or annoyed) Well damn just shoot me why don't you?

[janosxvorador]

forgot about these

[moebiusthetimestreamer]

[fallenrazziel]

Moebius, the Time Master #8

[kainissoable]

Sensible Sarafan Headcanons

The Sarafan take a lot of visual cues from Christianity and for years now I've been steadily grabbing bits and pieces from the real world religion for my Sarafan theories and headcanons, so here are the main ones I can still remember rather than leaving them in a dozen different discord chats. (also note I'm in no way a Christian so if anyone who is wants to correct me on anything, please do)

In SR2 the use of haloes in art is really inconsistent, which is a shame because they could have done some really cool stuff with that. A specific halo for members of the Circle incorporating the spirit glyph into it, like the specific haloes for the Holy Trinity. I also prefer the depictions of vampires with no haloes as opposed to red, because that's literally dehumanising them by depicting them as beings without a soul. And not a headcanon, but the crossed Reavers in William's chapel having a halo around them? Delicious.

It's so interesting that the Sarafan kept the angel motif as a symbol of righteousness whilst having hunted down the ancient vampires who would have inspired the mythology as winged messengers of their god.

Speaking of, the Sarafan Church definitely originated as a splinter group of the Ancients' faith.

And now we get onto the dark shit, so don't look under the cut unless you're prepared to deal with heavy stuff involving sex, death, and violence, often at the same time. Like we're talking suicide, abortion, sexual assault, it got worse than expected pretty damn quick.

I don't think the Sarafan would consider suicide a sin, because while they share the "your life/soul belongs to God" thing, the Elder God hungers for their lives and I don't think he would want to dissuade people from speeding the journey in extremis.

But then I realised the same probably wouldn't be true of Sarafan views on abortion. In LoK canon, souls aren't indivisible and eternal. Shades are formed from coalesced fragments of half consumed souls, in SR1 Raziel can sip a human soul without killing them, and in SR2 the Reaver will devour part of an enemy's soul when it hits them but only fully devours the soul on a killing blow. Therefore, I think it's reasonable to headcanon that in LoK, a soul grows along with the foetus rather than appearing fully formed at a certain point in the process. Given this, I think the Elder God would ban abortion simply because he wouldn't be able to consume the partly formed soul in the same way Raziel can't consume defeated shades.

But if we go with the Catholic belief of souls appearing at conception as LoK canon, I could see EG going either way on the issue. On one hand, he'd be able to eat the soul since it's a whole human immediately and would therefore be in favour. On the other, pregnancy is dangerous and if the pregnant person dies then that's even more food for him. Of course, either way he wouldn't justify his explanations like this when giving commandments through Moebius.

BUT EG and by extension the more strict branches of the Sarafan Church would be 100% anti-birth control. Not only does it get more delicious souls, uh, believers, but if LoK souls do form at conception then that's a whole lot of fertilised eggs that just aren't going to implant, giving EG a whole lot of snacks over the years.

While faiths both real and imaginary are no strangers to hypocrisy, I do believe that the Sarafan are in favour of live saving magic, as we see vampire hunters in Defiance using it, plus Moebius and Mortanius lived for goddamn ever.

Having said that, I 100% believe there was at least one Ancient cult that was anti-live saving magic as "it's against God's will" which to be fair it probably is.

Deeply fucked up, but there's also massive scope here for using a Sarafan turned into a vampire against their will and thus being excommunicated and seen as the evil they were taught to despise as a metaphor exploring Christianity's appalling real world treatment of survivors of sexual assault. Once again, vampires really can be a metaphor for anything.

Okay, that got not fun fast. Better make that post about my happier, sillier headcanons.