#my kiransona things

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Fur and fang and furry fangs (sorta).

Shout out to @sammiyafethings (and Xiliang) for being super patient with me. It was a ride..

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Hell hath no fury like a vengeful chef scorned.

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Oops, More Summoners

So before Erin, Teru, Sparrow, Ephrel, Kyo and Eclair, there were other summoners, some of whom predated these six, while others went under massive revisions as ideas marched on and expanded.

Lately, I’ve been working on a massive lore doc to try to get everything about them all better organized, consistent and chronological, but while the doc itself I’m still trying to work on and clean up in its final stretch (albeit delaying it due to personal reasons, a bit of backlog, and unexpected stuff popping up that I had to juggle), I thought it best to share this much ahead of time. Partially it’s me easing into giving these summoners a bit of a final, proper send-off, and partially it’s also to give a bit of a preview of things to come.

Kiran, who is also known as The First Summoner.  Records revealed how they spent their lifetime with King Lif and Emperor Thrasir as the progenitor of all other summoners, and with their prominence in summoner history, it is common practice to name successive summoners after them in absence of a proper name to call them otherwise. Although their signature robes were passed down with every successive summoner through Breidablik as the immediate, obvious tell of a new summoner, ironically, very little is known about them personally, or what they looked like besides their signature garb otherwise. Despite this, many rumors of widely different interpretations were spun, particularly of their varied relationship with the kingdoms of Askr and Embla and their progenitor lords. 

They are both the most and least represented summoner, as while they have no unique symbol associated with them, every summoner without a prominent and distinct look, alongside Breidablik, is in itself heavily associated with Kiran, and their robed, hooded likeness is frequently used to represent ancient summoners whose actual looks were otherwise lost in history. Usually, it is fair to assume a statue of a summoner where Breidablik is prominently drawn is attributed to Kiran specifically. The statue, Summoner Aflame, is believed to reflect on Kiran’s immense strength and will as a prominent hero of Zenith.

Eclat, who is also known as the Dimensional Traveler. Though little is known about them personally, to the degree nobody is even sure if they were fully human, they were highly versatile in their power to travel to the inner and outer worlds far and beyond Zenith’s originally-understood scope at the time, rather than just simply call heroes to them in Zenith. As a pioneer, their disappearance in history is also just as mysterious as their identity, with only guesswork and rumors to piece together of their ultimate fate. It was a long-held belief that their disappearance was a result of one final attempt to travel to a new dimension, from which they never returned, and their ultimate fate is still occasionally disputed. 

In their pursuits of crossing uncharted worlds across the multiverses, they pioneered research into ores and alloys of unusual origins they found in their travels, leading to a handful of rare books they published in Zenith that documented their properties. Unfortunately, the rarity of such books were attributed to the highly situational usefulness of such information over minerals Zenith didn’t have ready access to, that could help test and fully exploit properties of such findings, especially as they were published in a time Zenith was much less comfortable to interact with the outer worlds in particular (where such minerals were more plentiful). Their greatest achievements that Zenith as a whole relented to embracing were the tested properties of certain ideally-easily-gathered minerals to produce stones reminiscent in properties to dragon and beast stones, though this gratitude was usually held in secret event then (given the number of Zenithian kingdoms hiding their beastial lineages). 

Nevertheless, Eclat is frequently depicted with some form of glass, crystal or minerals, or symbolized with mirror or crystal portal-like imagery. The detailed depths of their research in beast-related powers and their reactions to otherworldly minerals also led to the long-standing debate of Eclat’s dubious humanity. The structure, Ebon Summoner, is said to reflect the imbalanced stability effects of Eclat’s form as they exist across multiple planes at once mid-dimension-travelling. 

Kilana, who is known as the Beloved Mender. She was a devoted cleric of incredible power in her lifetime, whose exploits resulted in a permanent curse on Zenith where the veil between the living and the dead is weakened and bridged for a limited time each year, but at the cost of her life, under circumstances long lost in history. The phenomena still occurs to the present day, and became the date known as the Day of Devotion. There were rumors she fell in love with multiple partners in a harmonic group, including at least one member of royalty, but it is heavily debated on which royal house she was betrothed to, and different historical figures have different interpretations. Nevertheless, Kilana’s lovers were equally devoted and dotting to one another as they were to her, and she was among many historical examples pointed to when citing the age old practice of supports. 

There are multiple interpretations to the tale of Kilana’s death in relation to her lovers, all of which relate back to the Day of Devotion. Some retellings say that she fell terminally ill, and in an effort to remain close with her lovers, she spent her dying moments preparing the curse that would allow them to reunite at the crossroads between life and death, even if only once every year at the anniversary of her passing. Other more cynical retellings say that as Kilana had died, her lovers - who were so determined to keep her that not even death itself could dissuade them - ventured through the Realm of the Dead to seek her out and rescue her, but though their efforts were successful, the trials and turmoils simply allowed them to die together as a reunited group just as they were about to enter the edge of the Realm of the Living. If any case, with the prominence of Kilana’s love and devotion with her beloveds in her tales and history, the Day of Devotion is typically also treated with an air of romance on top of its more sentimental roots.

She is not only often symbolized with some form of bird, or calming centerpieces (such as fountains, leading to many fountains carrying bird-themed statues at their center), but is typically depicted either heralded by a flock of birds, or bearing one or more pairs of angelic wings. The structure, Shining Summoner, is said to reflect Kilana’s power drawn from the unity and love of her supports.

Hiru, who is known as the Mirage Melody. He was a summoner whose prominence was much more thoroughly recognized by Nioavellir and Jotunhelmr than in the rest of Zenith, as was his ultimate fate. He dealt heavily in magi-tech, which Nioavellir and Jotunhelmr specifically noted was tech either heavily related to, or originated from, the Digital World, a detail that was only fairly recently recognized for what it was. That being said, given Zenith’s sparse dealings, understanding, and record-keeping of the Digital World in general, Hiru’s achievements is muddled even to digimon historians, due to a mixed understanding between either worlds and their conflicting records of what could be attributed to him, what was already established in either worlds, and clunky, inconsistent details throughout of which world called what. What could be agreed upon is that Hiru was very musically-inclined as a bard-like summoner (a coincidence not lost in the sudden uptick of musically-interested summoners in the present), and he is noted to have futuristic themes heavily borrowing from the Digital World and the World of Steel. 

While Zenith as a whole only knew he disappeared one day, and Jotunhelmr in particular knew his departure led to a rise in digimon and pokemon between them and Nioavellir’s territories (which went on to heavily shape either country’s livelihoods with them in mind), the only trace of his existence was his abandoned prosthetic limbs, and an artificial clone of his Breidablik with still-unknown power, which strangely no longer could summon successor-summoners. While originally kept in Nioavellir, in the present day, this unusual Breidablik was previously kept in Embla, until stolen recently by Eitri. 

In the Digital World, records better elaborated on his disappearance, where it was said that he converted his original Breidablik into a new digimental, and both he and this new digimental converted their essence into spiritual energy absorbed into the Digital World, maintaining a permanent link between the Digital World and Jotunhelmr to the present day as a result. It is believed the unique digimental Breidablik turned into is kept among the Harmonious Ones, leading to the Digital World’s ever expanding ability to influence outer worlds, and why there’s select digimon even originating or otherwise basing themselves heavily on them in modern times. 

Hiru is often represented by gears, machinery, or modern-day tech, and in statues or figurines, the material of his right leg and left arm differs from the rest of his body, representing his prosthetics. Musically-inclined summoners tend to invoke the blessed superstition of invoking Hiru’s help and guidance, whether they realize it or not, as they’re seen as a sign of Hiru’s legacy continuing on. Rumors say that Hiru continues to sing and make music that can be faintly heard in and out of Zenith and the Digital World as a spirit, and may also add to why Jotunhelmr and especially Nioavellir are highly musically-inclined, likely as an old show of honor related to the superstition of musical summoners (albeit interpreted more generally). The structure, Cogent Summoner, is reflective of Hiru’s innovation and mobility as both a digi-engineer and refresher unit.

Solle, who is known as the Forgotten Hero, and ze are frequently accompanied by zeir partner, Hilo. The title references how, in the twilight of Solle’s life, records of Solle were almost entirely lost, leaving sparse crumbs of zeir accomplishments and history within Zenith’s records. Rather, the missing pieces to Solle’s lost history - up to and including zeir ultimate fate - was discovered to have been preserved in the Alolan Region of the World of Pokemon. However, as zeir accomplishments were stretched across Zenith and an outer world, zeir significance and full impact is still one that is gradually reintroduced and rediscovered even into the modern day, as Zenith collectively maintained continued efforts to try to fully document what is an ancient, faded memory of history even among long-lived Alolans. 

Ze were among a handful of ancient summoners called upon from the outer worlds, where ze pioneered not just the foundations of Zenith’s continued understanding of such drastically different universes, but the effects it had to introduce brand new lifeforms of fluctuating levels of power, in zeir case, pokemon. Ze were said to have heavily utilized pokemon in such a manner that outright terraformed dead, decayed, barren landscapes to breathe new life and prosperity to support ailing villages and kingdoms, and while the symbolism is crude, and the titles change between nations, ze are usually depicted with various magnificent creatures that modern day pokemon-versed summoners immediately recognized to be specific species of pokemon, including legendaries. 

In a time Zenith, particularly Askr and Embla, found themselves in the crosshairs of an all out war with the Realm of the Dead (an event that brought immediate concerns of whether or not the events of Book III happened multiple times in history well before the trials and tribulations of Lif and Thrasir in the modern day), Solle and Hilo aided the empire of Embla and the kingdom of Askr in their hour of need and contained the hefty cost of the Rite of Heart, but in the process, not only did many brave pokemon sacrifice themselves to the curse of Angrboda to minimize the otherwise devastating lives the curse would claim, but also claimed the life of a xerneas in Solle’s service, whose resting place anchored and rooted itself in tree form to interconnect what would’ve been Erin’s and Sparrow’s respective Zeniths. (However, they were eventually resurrected in the present.) 

Though Solle was able to stave off an immediate death through sheer will, determination and bravery, and ze were able to save Hilo from sharing zeir fate, ze were inevitably doomed to die, and with the aid of zeir lover, invoked the same wormhole esque powers that spared countless lives in Askr and Embla to disappear into the Alolan region, in accordance with Solle’s dying wish to return to zeir motherlands. Solle’s history and legacy in Zenith proper was misconstrued or misattributed to many famous deities (dragonic, beastial or otherwise), other summoners, or other historical creatures and folktales throughout history, especially as confusion rose of Hel’s more recent attacks eerily mirroring that of Solle’s final battle, to the point Solle and Hilo were said to have disappeared into the heavens accompanied by shining wings as they ceased to exist. In reality, what was misattributed as the light dragon was instead a legendary pokemon, and according to Alolan records, Solle successfully returned to zeir homelands, where in zeir final hours, the lingering instabilities from Zenith, zeir unusual powers as summoner, and zeir dying state attracted the attention of the four tapu gods of the region. 

It was said Solle and Hilo both underwent trials under the original island gods that fully, truly embodied the four aspects of the gods: patience, virtue, endurance, and intent. They became the first trainers to have undergone what later became known as the Trial of Alola Aina, where the gods, in respect and honor of seeing what Solle’s and Hilo’s deeds have done in another world, granted them four powerful warriors who in modern day, are recognized as the four guardian deity pokemon, Tapu Koko, Tapu Lele, Tapu Bulu and Tapu Fini. Although Solle became recognized as the first to have successfully completed the Trial of Alola Aina, ze died shortly afterwards, and so Hilo became the second known trainer to have completed the trials, and later perpetuated both the trial, and of z-moves. 

In life, Solle was a very sensitive soul who was said to hold heavy interest in dances, especially with Zenith’s and the inner worlds’ long standing history of dancers holding legendary powers in their dance. With the blessings of the Alolan gods, the protection of their own guardian deities, and with the unusual reaction many of Solle’s Zenith-born artifacts held when kept in Alola, this eventually led to Hilo spending the rest of their life in dedication to Solle, which later passed down in history in the form of Z-moves, z-crystals, and the eventual establishment of trials beyond Trial of Alola Aina. 

Solle is often represented as being seen in a mid-dance stance, holding glowing and otherworldly designs and balls as artistic interpretations of the wormholes and unusual powers ze used in saving Askr and Embla in their most dire hours. Ze are also sometimes occasionally depicted with very crude interpretations of zeir various pokemon, particularly with a stag, a lion, a vulture, or a bat. In Alola, the ‘z’ in z-moves and z-crystals eventually lost the original impact of Solle’s legacy or attribution via Hilo, but it was originally said to represent both Zenith, as well as a nod to Solle’s pronouns. Over time, the ‘z’ has been assumed, instead, to mean Zenryoku Waza in outer regions, referencing the immense power z-dances invoke, as a pokemon is empowered to perform a z-move. It was believed the very first, earliest instances of z-crystals were the various shards and crystals hoarded in Solle’s lifetime as a summoner, who held an unusual reaction when kept for the long-term in Alola, if not also a reaction to the various incidents eclipsing Solle’s final hours as summoner. As a devoted couple, Solle and Hilo are also represented very abstractly with sun and moon iconography. The structure, Vital Summoner, represents the life Solle and Hilo granted to others in their final efforts.

Jerem, who is known as the Traveller among Dreams, but whose prominence is far more significant to Nifl than to the rest of Zenith. While the extent of Jerem’s accomplishments were fairly minimal, it was said Jerem had once united the kingdoms of Muspell and Nifl for a time (before their respective deity dragons and recent events reignited friction of the two nations again), and primarily allied with the two nations well into her passing. The sparse history, however, was left vague and light on purpose, as her full history would’ve heavily outed the long-guarded secret of Niflians, but especially their royalty, being crane beasts, and thus the full extent of Jerem’s significance is seldom shared outside of a Niflian’s account, and only in confidence to a very close significant other. Fortunately, the legends of Summoner Jerem and Lady Leiptr of Nifl are highly treasured tales, especially for mushy Niflians wishfully thinking about love. 

Both were highly romantic, devoted lovers, to degrees that Jerem knew about Leiptr’s ability to turn into a crane and embraced her for it. In some embellishments, supposedly, Jerem also was a shapeshifter of her own right as a tengu, so symbols of a white and black bird paired together would represent them. Unfortunately, Jerem was stricken by a mysterious illness of unknown origin, and not long after, passed away due to related complications. While it varies heavily on what the exact illness or cause was between a genuine, unfortunate illness Jerem contacted, or a more calculated curse by the gods, the immediate result upon death was a feud between Freyja and Hel over who would lay claim on Jerem, leading to Freyja ultimately claiming her for herself. 

What followed was Leiptr, in her complete and utter devotion to save her beloved, travelling to the far reaches of the Realm of Dreams and Nightmares, going so far as to out herself as a crane in her pursuits, and was more than willing to fight Freyja and Hel to the death if it meant even to just see her beloved alive again one last time. Her sheer determination and love for Jerem was enough for Leiptr to reunite with her beloved, but nearly died herself both from Freyja’s attempts to ward her off, and the collateral damage between her feuding with Hel otherwise. Out of pity and sympathy, Freyr took away both Jerem and Leiptr to give the reunited couple peace in their time together. It’s heavily debated on what their ultimate fate was, between them dying in each other’s arms, Freyr letting them pass in a peaceful area out of mercy in their final rest, the two living on eternally together in the Realm of Dreams, or if both returned to Nifl to live a longer, fulfilling life before dying peacefully alongside one another. However, their final resting place was considered what would’ve became Nifl’s tallest peak, eventually being the birthplace of a powerful lance whose namesake reflects on the mountain peak’s history in Niflian lore. 

Because Jerem’s tale of romance was heavily diluted as a wayward summoner who was said to have been left roaming between Ljosalfhemr and Dokkalfhemir to the rest of Zenith (due to the aforementioned carefully-guarded secret alluding to Nifl’s history with cranes), Jerem’s history was focused instead on being a spirit whose heavily significant with dream connections and with Freyja, leading to Freyja’s clinginess to summoners (as heavily evident with Ephrel), and seen as a spirit whose tethers between the world of dreams and reality caused connections made by the Rite of Dreams among other like-rituals to transcend multiverses, much as the Realms of Dokkalfhemir and Ljosalfhemr already operate. When the rite is performed, seeing a summoner-esque figure in the early stages of the rite is a good sign of the rite’s success. It is often believed by Niflians that the rite’s cost of binding the invoker to a chosen other is a bond not unlike one believed to be shared between Jerem and Leiptr, and is thus a bond highly treasured by Niflians. 

Jerem is often represented with symbolism tied to the alfrs in general, due to her deep connections to the dream realms, and thus is typically seen with floral motifs and butterflies. The structure, Winged Summoner, is not only connected with Leiptr’s willpower surpass her limits for Jerem, but represents Jerem’s role in the Realm of Dreams, especially as it is still contested whether or not Jerem was turned into a definite alfr or not herself (like Ephrel).

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Noel, a summoner who lacked a formal title or associated structure, and of whom records are sparse, to the degree that it was debatable if he even truly existed. Chrom in particular was unfortunately heavily acquainted with Noel, in large part due to how similar-sounding Noel’s name was to Ephrel’s, to the point any mention on Chrom’s part of Ephrel in his search for his lost love was instead misattributed to Noel and assumed Chrom is stubbornly wrong of who he’s actually remembering. 

Noel’s lack of heavy prominence stems from a source of infamy, as when Noel was called upon by Breidablik, he was said to have defected from his would-be allies who called upon him, only to focus moreso on how to exploit and expand on Breidablik’s power in general. This pursuit not only led to him heavily neglecting his duties, but his tampering of the weapon itself led to the weapon, in a fit of instability, to kill him. Adding more insult to injury, the manner of which he killed himself caused a devastating explosion with the weapon as he died partially-transported into his own world. For Chrom in particular, not only has he learned to hate Noel for going down in history as highly irresponsible, but the ongoing confusion he had to constantly fight between people’s insistence he clearly meant Noel when trying to find info on Ephrel led to many a misgendering, misinterpretations to assume Ephrel was just as deadbeat (for their failings as a Shepard being misinterpreted as well by proxy), and when Ephrel returned properly to vindicate Chrom all along, Noel’s own history was suddenly far less discussed or remembered as a result. 

To this day, it is heavily debated by Chrom and his peers if Noel was a very distorted lie of what would’ve been memories of Ephrel’s tenure as summoner, if he truly existed and was unfairly lumped together with Ephrel in their own absence until their return, or if Noel was an urban legend made up as a cautionary tale with or without Freyja’s ‘help’ of a horrible summoner.

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Teru: Grace of the tides (and tamer of many furbabies...)

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So for a change of pace, I tried to make my own FEH sprites from scratch. It’s been something I’ve been meaning to do for a long time, but something I found hard to commit to. However, rather than make sprites of the summoners in their OG states (I’m still thinking over some design changes I’m thinking whether or not to commit to), instead, I went with a set of formal alts I hope to fully realize soon, and the RNG gods chose Teru to take the lead.

Compared to a lot of other times I drew him fully realized in his ho-oh based kimono he uses for ceremonial dances (or technically, his Hoshidan Summer alt), this time he also has a lugia-based alt for use in other formal events. 

I hadn’t done FEH sprites in forever, and the last time I did it was significantly less complex by comparison, so Teru didn’t disappoint in the slightest of being a crash course of re-learning it all over again to ease back into it. 

(And then there’s Papri and Oriana just because. As a treat.)

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“The least you can do is prove to me that my time and efforts weren’t misplaced in creating you...”

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Off to new worlds to smooch your girls.

This was supposed to be for Mermay, but then stuff happened and better late than no smooch.

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It’s National Take-your-summoner-spouse-pirating Day.

Either that, or both older Nohrian sibs had the same date idea and neither will back down to the other to change themes. Either / or.

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“To bring even one of them into their original worlds would bring about disaster. What do you think would happen when the divine beast of one world is combined with the blight of another?”

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Like father, like son. (Unfortunately.)

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When you want to visit your trainer-summoner/husband’s world, but you’re already afraid of bugs, and his world has tiny murder bee-flies who slay dragons.

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He learned a bit too well.

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A concept: Galarian Queen of Pudding

The dessert primarily combines elements of both Queen of Pudding and Battenburg cake, but also has other elements here and there to bring out the whole theme. The idea was that the pudding itself consists of color-dyed custard, jam and meringue topped with a lightly burnt layer of whipped cream and covered up in the rest of the decals afterwards, including a more colored cream resembling Zacian’s braids, sugar cookies frosted with details based on the wings and sword, and finished with the Battenburg cake, held together with blue fondant and decorated with details of the legendary’s head with frosting.

The idea behind the entire dessert is that the cookie sword can be used to “cut” the cake and pudding, as it’s being eaten, and so is set aside, rather than into the pudding like the rest of the pieces.

In terms of headcanon-lore, Kyo and Teru both collab with people they’re both very close to back in their original homes in the World of Pokemon, and both tend to work together to come up with new dishes in their down times in Askr to then tutor to the rest of Cafe Papilon’s staff back in Lumiose to then add to their menu and business if it turns out well.  

Some of these testings are a bit more eventful than others, however, especially with occasional misunderstandings (like the fact the pokemon do tend to eat the same dishes served just as much as trainers, in a world still somewhat grasping the concept of digimon and pokemon among other mayhem).

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A little digimon baby hailing from chaotic roots. There’s a lot to unpack about this digimon line, but for now, here’s the baby, in-training and rookie forms of Grimon, while the rest of the family tree will be revealed eventually. (For now, I held back on them as their designs are more involved.)

Grimon is Chrom’s very first partner digimon. While he had experience and had many digimon in general pass through his hands, thanks to two of his supports being tamers, Grimon was his first definite partner. Grimon’s creation resulted when Chrom attempted to destroy the Crest of Grimeal (a viral false crest initially posing as the Crest of Fate, itself a whole other story of its own to talk about), the crest manifested in the form of a newborn digimon Chrom didn’t have the heart to destroy, knowing digimon are more times than not born with a clean slate. To ensure the resulting digimon could have a fair chance in their newfound life, Chrom’s resolve resulted in him finally gaining his own digivice with them (after piggybacking off of Sparrow, then Ephrel, up to this point), and the rest is history. 

The current line above includes the baby, Marmon, the in-training, Yilimon, and the rookie, Grimon. Despite the rookie stage raising a boatload of concerns of how similar Grimon sounds to Grima (on top of their looks and their origins), Chrom, and especially his more digimon-verse supports, try to be optimistic in the face of their otherwise generally calm and passive personality (or the rare, understandable exceptions). Following the same trend Sparrow and Ephrel established prior, Chrom’s grimon specifically eventually earned the nickname “Tangie” as early as their form as Marmon. For reasons. 

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Old scrapped concept of Ephrel, the dokkalfarian summoner.

Ephrel might have some tweaks done to their hair shape eventually, but otherwise, they were mostly as I hoped they'd be, especially given the context. In general, I wanted to strike more of a balance between how closely they resembled one of the possibly-generated Robinsonas in Awakening, but also have somewhat of a strong resemblance to Robin and Sparrow respectively, further going with the idea of what drew Chrom to the two (their similar looks). Otherwise, I was definitely planning on redesigning their clothes completely, where this was originally one of many ideas on open-back clothes with neutral tones to them that I'm still not entirely satisfied of.

I also did eventually want to draw their fully realized state as Spectabilis at some point too.

Character details under the cut.

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Having been a summoner prior to Chrom and Sparrow, Ephrel was eventually succeeded (unknowingly) by Chrom, who later then became more officially succeeded by Sparrow as summoner. Having came from a world heavily tied with the Digital World, Ephrel would've originally been teleported to Zenith through Breidablik's power as their chosen. But right before they could be taken, Eitri among other forces from the Digital World all tried to intercept Breidablik at the same time, only to all simultaneously fail to retrieve the weapon, but in the process, heavily impacted Ephrel into an unstable, in-between state of existence. A part of them became a robinsona-esque being dumped into a World of Awakening, where they completely replaced Robin's role and went on to befriend and assist Chrom as their tactician. In this state, Chrom heavily bonded to, and fell in love with this version of Ephrel, whom they initially identified as 'Robin' as a name Chrom gave them in their memory-scrambled state, but would later reveal to him in private their actual name as 'Ephrel' when they had enough time to process and remember. In a desperate attempt to try to go after Ephrel in this state when their physical body became lost and distorted in their home world, and Breidablik itself displaced with them, it completely threw this World of Awakening off the rails of the original destiny laid out for Chrom, ultimately leading to Ephrel gaining forewarning of their fate to betray and kill Chrom, only for Ephrel to die to protect him instead, all while the fate of all Chrom knew were killed in ways neither could prevent, leaving Chrom as the sole survivor of his world.

Their death as a robinsona had the adverse effect of heavily corrupting what remained as a digital "echo" of their state as a robinsona (often dubbed "Mirage Robin" or "Digi-Grima"), which led to a rogue ghost of this robinsona-Ephrel wandering lost, confused, and in an unstable state of constantly seeking Chrom, but not having the "programming" to retain full self-awareness of themself or their surroundings (there's a few times they even technically found Chrom, but were so broken they couldn't realize and process it). Their fragile mental state when forcefully mashing the pieces of both Ephrel's actual persona, yet Robin's scripted fate as Grima's vessel, led to a very unstable "Grima" whose obsession heavily betrays the actual Grima, only wishing to seek Chrom and regain his love and approval again. At the same time, the actual Ephrel was restabilized, and Breidablik resurfaced once more, but in lingering mental corruption from their split displacement, Ephrel, in a psychotic break, completely disregarded their role as summoner or an ally of Zenith in favor of returning home in a near daze, only wishing to seek Chrom out at both lingering remains of the damaged state of digi-Grima as well as their confused, mental exhaustion from the sudden split. In their attempt to try and fail to get back to Chrom, the end result let to catastrophic damage in bursting Breidablik's power, sending the weapon to Chrom and displacing him into Zenith, but ultimately killing Ephrel's actual self in the process, along with one of their digimon partners, Leona (a Grappu Leomon, eventually reborn as Hina, who eventually was fully realized as Leopardmon. She came full circle.). Before Hel could get to them, Freyja, having witnessed Ephrel from the start of their intense wish to reunite with Chrom, stole them instead to force-feed them her nectar just before Ephrel's soul would've given in, causing them instead to be reborn as the dokkalfar Spectabilis and join her for a time as their right hand. Though they were eventually drawn by Robin's deep-seated insecurities and desperate dreams for a normal life with his found-family, this led to a domino effect of being sought out by Robin with Chrom and co, and piecing back together the memories they broke from all their intense stress and trauma, eventually finally reuniting Ephrel and Chrom in full.

As Spectabilis, Ephrel is regarded as the Dokkalfar of Longing Dreams, whose focus are on dreams that are the strongest wishes from the heart that the person whose source of the dream thinks is impossible to achieve, whether or not it truly is. Due to the ambiguous nature of their nightmares, Spectabilis maintained a neutral approach to dreams, rather than be inclined to cause the greatest negativity in a victim like Triandra and Plumeria initially do, being ambiguously inspiring in reminding a subject that the impossibilities are entirely on them and their ideals. Two instances they brought up such is recognizing Robin's impossible wish was to live a normal, peaceful life with his newfound family and lovers after hailing from a background of grief, misery and uncertainty, or Lyon's wish to reconcile with Eirika and Ephraim among their other party, but his deep-seated fear to ever actually face them, despite their expressed interest to speak to him. Despite being dismissed and antagonized by Peony for being a dokkalfar and misinterpreting the nature of their dreams, Spectabilis maintained a neutral opinion of all alfrs, including the ljolsalfar, and they eventually befriended Peony and Mirabilis throughout the events of Book IV. Freyja initially trusted and looked up heavily to Spectabilis and their advice in recognizing their inherent maturity from having been turned into an alfr as an adult (rather than as children like the other alfrs), which wound up deeply upsetting her when Chrom "stole" them from her, only for Spectabilis to be a key part in stopping Freyja's nightmare onslaughts and calming her and Freyr into surrendering. Despite recognizing Freyja's negative aspects and their supports' (especially Chrom's) justifiable misgivings to her in particular, they still hold some regard of respect for her enough to protect her and Freyr's life over the course of Book IV and reconciling with Freyja in her defeat, despite them having a tentative, distant relationship in caretaking for the other alfrs while having otherwise parted ways with the siblings, give or take minor visits. In her absense, Ephrel retained the role they served as an older sibling figure to the alfrs, but especially in helping Triandra and Plumeria better process their past traumas and struggles in transitioning to normal lives again in Askr.

As Ephrel, while they eventually gained the ability to regain their original form as a human through Eclair's stones and Lyon's heavy research in inventing a fae stone with it, the side-effect to this unusual craft led to them still retaining the unusual pigments of their hair color as Spectabilis (minus the floral details), an issue Ephrel never cared enough to fix, and thought it was neat enough to keep. They held a very lax, calm, "going with the flow" attitude that led them also to hold very little interest in reclaiming their role as summoner from under Sparrow, and in fact holding pride in both her and Chrom while engaging more to help them or guide them when needed. Instead of take back Breidablik, they primarily use their weapon, the Flower of Fate, still leftover from their time as Spectabilis that they could still call upon on a whim. When combined with Breidablik, however, it can turn into the unusual, unique digimental of Fate, fulfilling the role that Sparrow was originally exploited and tricked by of the original crest of Grimeal. Even after their time under Freyja, they still regularly use their powers of dreams and sleep-based powers to otherwise support and help others through complicated thought processes and issues, and have otherwise rekindled their partnership with their surviving digimon partners, Angie and Devi while realizing their lost partner Leona was reincarnated into Hina. This assistance with dream-based advice and focus eventually influenced other alfrs, in particular Triandra and Plumeria, who shifted their own powers to more neutral focuses between clarity and love in general. Though their eventual daughter in Lilium (a ljolsalfarian Lucina) eventually yielded another Flower of Fate, their flower and Lilium's are composed of very different flowers, likely sharing the same loan name due to Lilum being naturally born as an alfr, rather than be converted to such by Freyja or Freyr.

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Old scrapped concept of Sparrow, the digimon tamer summoner.

Sparrow's hair and overall looks are pretty much what I hoped she'd be, give or take figuring out if maybe I can make her hair easier or distinct to draw or not. Her clothes, on the otherhand, I've been debating on other styles or themes, as the context originally behind this one was that Oboro purposefully made her a set of clothes resembling Hina's as a way for her to remember her, after she lost Hina, but before Hina eventually made a return. (But I worry out of context, it just looks like a lazy recolor of Hina's clothes with nothing much to add.) I especially wanted to add more themes based around her current partner in Rena (renamon) or her eventual partner (that better realizes Gallantmon's themes in her) for more recent lore development reasons.

Character details under the cut.

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Hailing from a world heavily connected with the Digital World, Sparrow initially came from a background she would've died under neglect, alienation and poverty, only for Chrom to swoop in and heavily change her way of life. Pioneering a Zenith deeply connected with Erin's Zenith, she takes up the mantle as summoner that Chrom willingly bestows on her while heavily guarding her and tutoring her. She recognized early on that while she lacked heavily in the stamina and strength to fight directly, she refocuses her efforts in harnessing her Breidablik's powers to shapeshift itself, making it take on forms similar to the weapons of other digimon's whether or not the original digimon was currently present and/or in that state. Her most common weapons include Kongou Shakujou, Sakuyamon's staff whom she primarily uses as a powerful healing stave (despite Sakuyamon's initial properties as a mage), and splits between Gram and Aegis, Gallantmon's lance and shield, when she eventually find enough resolve to fight of her own accord. With long-term exposure, Sparrow's Breidablik has the power to heavily influence other legendary weapons, as it causes Chrom's Falchion to develop a similar property where it can also resume the form of Randgridr (Randgríðr), a bow harnessing the powers of Falchion and Mastemon (the frequently-appearing combined form of Angie and Devi).

Right from the start, Sparrow was made immediately aware she was not the initial summoner picked, and further aware through reading between the lines or shreds of hints from The Order of Heroes to Chrom otherwise that the summoner before her was believed to have abandoned Zenith if not died in their own world under circumstances nobody has the heart to elaborate on. Later on, it was revealed the summoner she succeeded was not just Chrom, but he himself succeeded the aforementioned summoner, Ephrel, and the circumstance of Ephrel's sudden disappearance haunted Chrom heavily to the point of developing overprotective behavior of Sparrow, then all their other supports (and worse so Ephrel when they came back). The legacy Sparrow picked up from what Ephrel left behind had outright reflected even to their digimon, where she wound up inheriting Ephrel's digifarm while prefaced as a free-to-play game that led to a friendship ended upon tragic circumstance with the AI, Hina, only for it to also lead to her gaining both her and Ephrel’s partners. After Chrom successfully unlocked the gate to the Digital World in his panic at Sparrow's initial ailing health, this revealed the existence of not just Angela and Devinia, an Angewoman and LadyDevimon pair, but also Lerena, a renamon who was Sparrow's actual digimon partner (when Angie and Devi were originally Ephrel's). Ephrel's legacies also haunted her even throughout her tenure as both summoner and tamer, as the influences behind what led to Ephrel's demise twice over in both a robinsona state and their actual self had also tried heavily to corrupt Sparrow by any means necessary despite her lack of easy openings (like Robin's Grimeal blood), including trying to corrupt her through the use of a fake Crest of Grimeal posing as a Crest of Fate that tried prematurely to unleash an unstable, partially-realized version of Mirage Grimamon.

Although she holds her head up high and tries to manage with her newfound roles and responsibilities both as a tamer and as a summoner, she's professional and down-to-earth, but deeply insecure when she's constantly aware of the legacy Ephrel left behind on both counts and the big shoes she's called on to fill. Although she grew into herself eventually, where her confidence shines best with her natural renamon and eventual guilmon partners, the constant fear of disappointing and failing others led her to be subjected to many failings, such as when she and Chrom were tricked to use the Crest of Grimeal, thinking it would grant Sparrow the ability to become a full-fledged digidestined. That being said, she's also highly careful and thoughtful in her heavy research, as she often looks up and cites moments and experiences achieved by past digidestined or legendary digimon and their mishaps while taking more careful steps when working toward similar goals, the crown jewel of such being her goal to recreate the Royal Knights to protect both Zenith and the inherent connections it developed with the Digital World (the strongest points being throughout Nioavellir). It also led her to develop anxieties and overcaution, such as immediate panic when Triandra and Plumeria's lopmon digivolved into a viral cherubimon to protect them from Freyja, or to gently caution Chrom of letting his emotions spike when he eventually gained his own digimon in Tangie, worrying of the already questionable grimon potentially dark-digivolving.

Compared to Ephrel, she's also the most insecure about lapsing into "digi-speak", and tends to be the most prone to simplifying or relating digimon-based terms and subjects to existing systems in Zenith while getting embarrassed using digi-terms (such as using "evolution" rather than "digivolution").

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Old scrapped concept of Kyo, the burst summoner.

By accident, his design still managed to change a bit from then and now more from consistency shift than intentional. Overall, he remained mostly the same idea even all the way back from his original concept (albeit his tones are better fleshed out, and there's lore reasons now for the change in hair color), but the way his hair's parted and the way the colors split wound up shifting around by accident. I had ways I initially was strict on drawing Erin and Kyo (both of whom are similar in looks) with slight differences to set them apart, but over time, the rules initially meant for Erin wound up bleeding into Kyo when I drew him way more often than her, so he ended up developing his own new rules in the process while forcing Erin to be due for a retooling. Whoops.

Character details under the cut.

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He and Teru hail from the World of Pokemon, and were both subjected to intense, cruel experiments that left them in their current states with their current powers. While both initially attributed these experiments to Team Rocket, it was later eventually revealed to be a far bigger, concerted effort, extending outright to the World of Zoanthropes, a world far off the scope of Zenith until Loki's and Thorr's interventions. He was transformed into a hybridized pokemon-human known under different names from a burst to a pokemorph, specifically that of a ditto, with intentions to harvest his genes and streamline the experiments until his entire being ceases to exist. But due to time-travelling intervention from Kamui and Lifonse, he and Teru escaped in their own ways, deeply traumatized but nonetheless alive and free.

His supports, Kamui and Lifonse (a male Corrin and Alfonse respectively) initially held a relationship with a previous Kyo whom they failed, and whose scars of his worsened distrust and overall attitude were prices this current Kyo paid for and picked up the pieces after in his gratitude of his better-realized rescue. Although this Kyo eventually humbled himself and worked on trying to be a much better person (and far outshining his dead counterpart), he is usually the sassiest and stubborn out of all the summoners, and the one who frequently sneaks off on his own accord while completely dropping the ball of actually doing summoner duties. (Instead, he leaves it for the others, Erin in particular, to catch up on instead.) He is also tied with Sparrow of being the summoner most prone to sneaking back to his original world, as he prides himself in his original job as a cafe host and co-owner of Cafe Papilon, whom Teru and their mutual friends primarily run in Lumiose together.

His power is entirely focused on transformation, and at will, he can transform into either a burst-like state of any creature (most commonly pokemon), or transform into a clone outright of anything he focuses on. Unless he imprints deeply onto a given subject, however, he can only fully realize their powers and form if the subject is within range of him to base himself off them. More, due to the blessed-with-suck nature of being a shiny specifically, his transformations always take on the "shiny" version of whatever he tries to transform into, even if the subject is not a pokemon and/or doesn't have a technical "shiny form". (For instance, transforming into Kamui or Corrin's dragon forms leaves him nigh identical, except for being shades of blue over white, black and grey.)

While he was initially a ditto, eventually, the deep influence of Breidablik, combined to the number of stressors he was subjected to in his tenure as summoner, caused a genetic reaction in him that stabilized his genes to allow him to eventually develop a "base" state as a shiny mew, a trait heavily realized when he transforms without a focus, is sick and/or weak, or is highly emotional and reactive to something. (Or he just felt like being cute and spoilt. That too.) As he didn't start as a mew, however, his psychic powers initially became nonexistent, then heavily weak and limited, thus robbing him of a lot of conventional powers an actual mew would've had (such as levitation/flight).

While he initially developed some of his more shittier aspects due to a background of neglect, distrust and jaded feelings that consumed his dead counterpart, his powers as summoner are also eventually realized in the form of bolstering others to unprecedented potentials in the same manner his burst forms suited to him, or similar to the gigantimax'd state of pokemon in his world. His Breidablik can combine with certain artifacts if not substitute for them outright, and he shares his powers through his intense bonds with the others, leading to unique powerful alts. One such example includes the many ways his supports (such as Kamui, Cronos and Eclair) wound up shifting their own forms, or even affecting his pokemon, such as Zacian, through his eventual findings of powerful artifacts native to his world, Zenith, or otherwise.