#man ive been thinking about avia and variks actually

[scarletrebel]

@mrpinstripesuit replied to your post: im loving all of this stuff about forsaken thats...

how Does avia feel about the fallen/variks ? It must have been weird right cause the queen owned some of them right? Do you think she’d of fought alongside any before? ( also like her feelings on vex/hive/cabal/taken in general if you wanna)

oooh good good question!

so interestingly when i started playing destiny and was thinking up avias backstory (around house of wolves time was when i really, really started to think about it), the one thing i knew above all else was that she hated the fallen the most. they just, reminded her too much of being on the reef, especially considering if i have my lore right the queen would have become the kell after petras sister died, so right after avia started to question everything in the reef

(i dont think she’d have fought alongside them whilst at the reef, i think maybe mara might have just sent them out as a force of their own. avia was always eager to do things alone in an effort to impress the queen anyway, so she would have heavily resisted any help, especially from the fallen.)

in the beginning she was petty and bitter, and convinced herself she wasnt seeking them out on purpose, its just a coincidence she spent most of her time on earth, the moon and venus

variks is something different. whilst she was at the reef she stayed clear of him, he was the queens business and no one elses but. i like to think variks foresaw her jumping ship before anyone else did and didnt say anything. variks sees the fallen as ‘lost’ and technically they are, they’re ruined after the traveler left them. so he understands running away from what you thought you were fighting for when it starts to fall apart, when you start to feel like a slave, and trying to find something else. 

still, avia doesnt like the small, slyly arrogant way he speaks to her, like he knows something about her that she doesnt. (he just gets her, in a way that he may never digress, unless the opportunity arises in forsaken) i like the idea of a conversation between them, but i dont know how it’d go. its not that she doesnt like him, she just doesnt know what to make of him. theres a part of her, after becoming a guardian, that thinks she may understand him better now. though shes loathe to admit it. 

(after cayde, after uldren, after everything. after certain actions become commonplace; ignoring vanguard messages and shushing levi on the regular, she stands before someone she once called her sister and demands revenge. a clicking emerges from behind her, chuckling. she doesnt want to admit it - she wants to hear this. wants to hear variks convince himself he doesnt care to see her rip uldrens throat out. 

‘our guardian wants to kill the little crow, yes? once and for all.’)

as for the enemy factions in general:

shes sees a lot of the reef in the fallen. she thinks that maybe if they had anything close to the queen (and skolas came close, but that wasnt her business, she made it so) they might actually be formidable foes. no ladders to climb, no vandal above you to kill, no captain, no kell. but its hard enough for the houses to get along, so she doesnt see them as a threat. and has a massive amount of respect for the titan orders for keeping them out of the city so long ago and basically making it impossible for them to rebuild. 

the vex she used to hate quite personally as well, but only on the words of the exo stranger. she believed they posed a threat to taking away the light, and her light, her second chance, which wasnt going to happen. in my head avia was the guardian to take on the black garden and the destiny story and just kind of chilled out after, the story of d1 is what she needed to give her clarity and put her on the path for the rest of her journey. now theyre just freaky future simulating robots that she keeps having to kill, no thanks to osiris constantly fucking up the simulations cause hes bored. 

as for the cabal, she never, ever saw them as a particular threat in d1. the outbound signal on the skyburners ship gave her cause for concern though, (as i kind of wrote about in the first chapter of good intentions) and she started trying to keep an eye on them, but obviously that didnt help. after d2 she started to take them a lot, a lot more seriously for obvious reasons, and now she just sees them as territory hungry war mongers and nothing else. she doesnt really care for whatever ikora/whichever warlock of the time is looking into calus and the rest of the empire are telling her about the cabal as a species. they nearly destroyed her home. 

the hive and the taken she kinda just lumps together in her head (to griers great, great dismay). everything they do reminds her of oryx and toland and after CoO, the dark future. she can handle it, she’s acclimatized after spending so much time with grier and being on the dreadnaught for so long when they did the raid. but sometimes she just. needs a break from them. from trying to convince herself she isnt hearing some sort of laughter coming from whatever vacuum the taken she’s killing are getting sucked into. they’re the only enemy type she gets that feeling from. 

she understands the hives hierarchy quite well though, its one of the things shes glad she picked up from grier and carver and scarlet. it helped her figure out what toland was trying to do, even if she didnt understand it fully. all she had to gather was that the sword logic demanded whatever was powerful enough took the space that it killed, which would only lead to more death. somewhat reminiscent of the fallen, but it was mostly the queens iron fist that made it all click, the idea that if you were to challenge the most powerful thing, you would die trying. no ifs or buts. which is why no one ever challenged her, or oryx. that, avia understood very well.