#sorry to those of you that like the non-servant characters this is specifically a project about media that uses real life inspiration

[antique-lamplight]

calling all fate/series fans!!

im doing a little research project on the Animefication of Everything Ever(tm) and i need YOU—yes, YOU—to tell me some things!

show me your favorite guy. tell me why you like them. if you fw their irl inspiration tell me a bit about that too. go wild! can be any servant in any entry in the series ever. if i choose to quote you in my presentation i will dm you asking your permission to do so.

perks include: also helping a newbie to the series (me) get a better grasp on what i got myself into. have fun!

[far-away-stars]

Zholem Dhars seems pretty interesting can you tell me more about him? What does he his face look like? How did he get captured? Does he remember his Past?

oh dear, bless, thanks for the interest! ♡ (this has gotten long, please sip a cup of tea)

So! Zholem Dhars was captured by a squad under the control of Darth Abraxas, an hybrid group of people between military and Sith hand-picked specifically with the purpose to bring live Jedi to the Empire. He wasn’t chosen for any specific reason, if only that he was an easy target at the time (because he was young-ish -in his early twenties-, and something of a very idealistic and newly appointed knight), but he had been “studied” from afar for a while, to study weaknesses and mentality type, and eventually isolated and subdued.The project at the time had been mostly finalized on troopers and other non-sensitives, Abraxas being a popular “motivator” in the military first and foremost, but his purpose was to design a “training” that could make defective Sith and Jedi more.. obedient in the long turn. Zholem Dhars was one of his first catch, or at least the first one he planned to take his project on in its entirety instead of only making him a crash test like many others. So he took his time, and it did end up being quite successful for a while.

Zholem Dhars had been “broken” -thanks to alchemy, poison, torture and “talks” personally led by Abraxas himself-, enough to somehow reduce him to an obedient husk, and to nourish an alter-ego for the Jedi that the Darth had designed to his exact needs.Zholem Dhars hadn’t completely disappeared, but he was secluded to a secondary mental state, essentially passive/sleeping. His new persona was “Lord” Scretzio, who was basically a puppet, a blank state for Abraxas to mold. He wasn’t cruel or evil per se, but certainly “emptied”, devoid of resistance. His memories and ideals and such were somehow still present, but essentially dormant, put aside in a box where an unconscious part of the Zabrak could feed -useful to have a part of him knowing what he was being done was bad, was inhumane, but even better to have that voice being put to silence- but far from his conscious mind.

Scretzio was taught around, used here and there for all sort of things. He fathered two children during his time in the Empire, one born out of a violence he had been ordered to inflict to a servant (poke @trashmuh ) and the other from a Sith Lord enthralled by the pretty “game” that the brainwashed Jedi represented. He was in many ways like a child or a slave, but with the years this Scretzio truly started to become a person of his own, taking life as Abraxas creation but taking shape from experience -for as much as he was allowed in his “experiment” environment.Probably the building of an autonomous consciousness -even if distorted and limited and shaped by his surroundings-, that started to awake again his “original self”, Zholem Dhars, first as distortion of consciousness, his old persona fighting desperately against the bounds of his current active mind, lashing with personality disorders, lapses of consciousness, memory loss, hallucinations, etc- eventually breaking his brainwashing with heavy scarring.

Zholem Dhars re-emerges from his brainwashing after five-ish years of Imperial life, almost completely “absorbing” the Scretzio persona as if taking back control of his own body after years, but the identity crisis that this all brings leads him very close to his downfall. What was “Scretzio”? The one doing all those horrible things? Where is “he” now? Who is Zholem Dhars? Were they one and the same all along? Can the former Jedi sleep knowing he may not be the same waking up? Was it “Scretzio” doing those things or was it really Zholem Dhars all along?The guilt, paranoia and general PTSD brought him to a point where, even back among the Jedi (having sent a distress signal while still in the Empire that allowed him to be rescued and Abraxas to be killed and his projects overthrown), he got pretty close to ending his own life more than once.All the outside help he received -from Master Vhan’Zham, Master Hiet Frodynn (poke @hfbeasty-legacy ), for example- helped him come to terms with at least part of all that, and despite ultimately leaving the Jedi, he did start on a route to be again at peace with himself. Went to Voss, Illum, went on to do some “vigilante” work.. The one real thing he truly closed himself from were his children, because he just couldn’t deal with the reality of that, so he only knows the child he had with the Sith Lord Lorvania had been rescued by the Jedi, but he refuses to see her. He knows nothing of the other child (honestly, probably doesn’t even know of his existence, since the servant had run from the Empire pretty quickly after being abused).

Those are his looks in game as Scretzio (the purple hue of his skin and the white hair are due to the “treatments” he underwent during Abraxas’ experiments, the yellow eyes are from the dark side corruption; originally he had brown hair and green eyes) :

And those are his looks some time after being freed (the scarring he made to himself during a very bad nervous breakdown, the darkened skin around eyes and mouth is the second step of the violet hues after months of stopped “treatment” and may possibly go away with time) :

In general I headcanon him with longer hair, and probably tattoos running down a bit more on his neck/shoulders but aside from that his looks on game are my main ref.

Sorry I may have spoken more about Zholem Dhars than his “Scretzio” persona, but honestly that is still partially WIP since I haven’t had the chance yet to build much around it, but those are the basis, I hope they satisfied! :3 Don’t hesitate to ask more precise questions if I skipped them over!

(btw most/some of the characters mentioned above (Abraxas, Vhan’Zham, Lorvania and his “mysterious” daughter) belong to a friend of mine! :3 So I may not be able to answer precise questions about them without consulting him first.)