#micolash has heterochromia

[articskele]

Been thinking about a plant themed Micolash. Beecolash if you will

Like he's got a flower over one of his eyes, my first thought was a white lily with that gradient to blue in the center?

Maybe he's always being followed around by bees bc the Mensis cage is some kinda honeycomb situation, something something Nicolas Cage bee meme

Instead of spamming you with that tentacle attack he spams you with vines

[katyspersonal]

With Fromsoft, it is hard to ever say whether there is an underlying implication with some choices or they genuinely just forgor or made a mistake 🤔 Cutscene model had more effort put into it, but at the same time, why not just make NPC model have blue eyes? Meanwhile, Arcane in Bloodborne IS blue color.. and if you look very closely at his eyes, it might seem as though the blue is sort of 'aura' atop of darker color, rather than full color!

(As well as Micolash having raccoon eyes fshfhd)

Again, NPC creator has an option of making eyes different color, and they didn't use that. Still, it can be a headcanon! At the same time, maybe he has multiple eyes quite literally, or more than one pupil on an eyeball, and they change. This could cover all variants at once by an effect, if you think of it 🤔

[synthwayve]

what are your favourite headcanons for micolash? or maybe damian and/or edgar?

Oops, the doodles ended up under the cut lol. Still not sure how formatting works. Thank you so so much for the ask!! Sorry I talk so much as well, from now on I’ll keep asks concise unless asked otherwise!

For Micolash, some of my favorite casual headcanons are;

-He has heterochromia, I like drawing him with this attribute because it compromises on the “are his eyes blue or brown” dilemma

-he ran track at Byrgenwerth/runs as a hobby, I just find the idea hilarious

-He knows Edgar is a spy and has known pretty much instantaneously, and is always using this knowledge to pester/mess with him. Despite this, he is careful not to “out” Edgar’s position to the other scholars so they don’t get hostile towards him.

-I love the idea that he’s actually stronger than he physically looks but ONLY in regards to punching. He’ll get tired from holding a stack of books but will clock a Hunter in the face so hard it leaves a dent in the wall. Very nonsensical, but the thought is super entertaining to me

-while he regularly looks like he’s in his 50’s, he’s actually quite a bit younger than that. This HC is entirely for comedic purposes because I love the idea of him being offended that everybody thinks he’s nearing his deathbed when his face is just like that.

-he’s a dog? Bird? Dog bird? Bird dog? Person.

Some of my favorite serious headcanons are(brace yourself);

-He and Laurence were childhood friends, for some reason I’m really attached to this hc even though I know it lacks substance. I just like the idea that they contrast each other from a young age, with Micolash being a very frail/sickly child who’s often bedridden and is thus visited frequently by an optimistic and curious Laurence, basically the only source of entertainment/companionship for him besides his family and books. Then as they get older, they become academic rivals before just straight up drifting away and disliking each other. I imagine Micolash joined the Choir initially(for like, a day or such) just to witness Laurence’s recklessness turn him into a monster, giving him mixed feelings(mostly terror) since their Byrgenwerth days. I imagine Laurence to think of Micolash as having grown to be a pessimistic heretic, while Micolash sees Laurence to be too starry eyed for his own good and stupidly impulsive. Good ol’ “friends->rivals->good Kos what have you become” pipeline.

-This is more so fan theory territory and I imagine widely unpopular of a belief, but I like to think Micolash did NOT choose to incite the ritual himself. Either the responsibility was pushed on him by the other scholars(consequence for being a leader and all that) or a defector(probably not Antal but it’s fun to imagine lol) shackled him in at the last minute so the School of Mensis could not continue their practices if the ritual failed. This is based PURELY off Micolash being shackled to the chair he’s on, and honestly a more reasonable explanation for that is just that he probably shackled himself in so if he writhed/flinched it wouldn’t disrupt the ritual but what can I say, I like a little moral ambiguity in my unforgivably heinous villains.

-I find it more terrifying to imagine Micolash was actually fully unprepared to meet Mergo and just couldn’t show it, only losing his sanity and going mad after the weight of losing everybody(The other scholars, Rom, and Laurence if we also add the prev. HC) AND meeting a great one really settled in.

For Edgar, my casual headcanons are:

-He was basically brought up in the Church since his teens. Can’t explain this one, just seems appropriate.

-He is a neat freak of sorts and requires everything to be organized, which drives him absolutely up the wall when he’s around Micolash who is a walking tornado of harmonic chaos

-He really hates having to be the most normal person in both the Choir and The School of Mensis. It’s hard work.

My serious headcanons are;

-he knows that Micolash knows who he is, and is constantly afraid this information will be used against him(in a more serious manner than just light teasing). By the time he thinks about abandoning his mission and returning the Choir, he’s in too deep with the School of Mensis and has compromised his values already to bring himself to leave of his own accord.

-By the time the Hunter meets him, he’s already gone a bit loony himself. Who knows how long they’ve been stuck in that nightmare?

-He is close friends with Yurie and she is the strongest tether he has back to returning to the Choir. It’s just not enough for him to actually leave.

For Damian, I only really have casual headcanons because I don’t own the game and thus haven’t had the chance to thoroughly explore every Mensis character on my own(and also I feel like my serious headcanons are a littleeee too atrocious to be shared, haha. Need to smooth them out first);

-He’s Micolash’s voice of reason(Edgar is the irritated sigh/scream of reason) but can only do so much when the Provost is so…eccentric.

-He is always trying to get Micolash to eat/sleep/drink properly and it never works, but that doesn’t deter him.

-He won’t admit it but he’s also very fond of the bird-dogs, even though they get fur and feathers absolutely EVERYWHERE.

-For some reason, and I can’t explain it if I tried, I can so clearly see him being an astrology/literature student. Just the general energy he gives off I guess?

-He’s honestly more concerned with Edgar’s status as a choir intelligencer than Micolash is, and feels the constant need to keep an eye on him as if he were an assassin and not a spy.

-He’s a lot more melancholic than Edgar when frustrated, and is the least likely to lose his temper out of the 3 (at least in Synth’s headcanon land, anyway)

Thank you again so much for the ask! Here’s some doodles to go with it.

[synthwayve]

Also I love your hc that Micolash had brown eyes that gradually turned blue because of arcane! (I have a really similar headcanon! but for me both eyes gradually changed at the same time).

But I noticed yours literally have heterochromia at some point! So I was wondering around when his left eye changed and how much time later his 2nd changed as well. What was people reaction to it?

I’m so excited to answer this! I should say, the hc that his eyes change color because of arcane knowledge is not something I came up with. I’m not sure where I saw it, actually 😭 but it’s part of what inspired the glowy veins art/hc. I can’t take credit for that! Also, you’ll notice my older art is the only time I drew him with same-color blue eyes. That’s because I was color picking/referencing from his cutscene model, I had no idea that his hunter model had different eyes!

(I ramble a lot I’m so sorry. More under the cut!)

In all honesty I imagined he was either born with it/his eye turns blue when in contact with anything eldritch-y after the veins reach his socket or vice versa, but now you’ve got me thinking! I suppose if I were to adapt that hc to my Mico(and staying faithful to how I draw him), it would make the most sense for his eye to turn blue after coming into contact with Kos(or some say Kosm). I think he and the other scholars would be fascinated by it, but the novelty would wear off in the face of the coming discoveries.

If I were to adapt this hc to my idea of the timeline, though,(and be unfaithful to how I draw him- so no heterochromia Mico during Byrgenwerth times) his eye would likely turn blue during the Mensis ritual. I imagine the ritual to be the peak of his character arc, the absolute point of no return. I have a lot of hcs about the ritual, namely that it was INCREDIBLY painful, lots of bleeding from the eyes+nose+mouth and agonized writhing. Perhaps, once the blood has been scratched away, Mico would realize his eye has changed color(assuming he’s lucid enough to even notice that).

I think that’d be neat, anyway! In all honesty I just draw him with heterochromia because I think it looks nice and compromises on the “what color are his eyes?!” Dilemma, but I like to indulge in some deeper interpretations!

Thank you so much for the awesome ask, fantomette! I love your interpretation on his eye color too 👀