#this is like the thiiiirddd time i had to do an ancestor pass im losing it

[isaacathom]

anyway to build off the at10dant thing. i do still like that (even if by most accounts noone says it at-ten, they just say a-ten). but i think mb something else would work better. easier, certainly. mostly because im not sure exactly how replacing ten with 10 in words makes sense for Lyndel’s character?? like, the fuck does she have to do with 10s, right? plus once being a pain to convert (1s? 1ce? hh). so, i had alternatives for her pre-Apostasy

Follower and Adherent are kinda neat. Follower implies a stronger connection to the Director than i think i like. I don’t think the Apostate really joined the Director because she wanted to, in contrast to the Lawmaker, who basically busted when the Director made offers. oh thats an image. oh i didnt want that. euugh. but yea. so, Adherent seems.... sliiiightly more in line with my interpretation of the Apostate’s loyalties. shes not completely loyal like the Lawmaker, she’s loyal to the point where it doesn’t completely contradict her values. which she DIDNT, until she ordered the deaths of dozens + of burgundies and bronze bloods because of the actions of the singular Fugitive in slaying the Lawmaker. it was a level of retribution that just didn’t click. it didn’t work. she just did paperwork, but this..... its getting out of hand. the almost wholesale deaths of the entirety of the Recreant’s army, despite the Desolate’s explanation that they were contracted and not willing, did not help matters.

also, yeaaaaaa, Lyndel’s ancestor definitely interacted with the Desolate. his plight as one of the few (if not the only) survivor of the Recreant’s illfated power grab absolutely tears at their heart. and then the deaths of all those bronze and burgundies just mmmmm nah thats it. not immediately - there is time. she bides her time. she waits for the best opportunity. she wants to take them both out, if she can. and she does! did she have help? maybe? its unclear. the whole thing is shrouded in mystery. noones even positive it was Her that did it - she was simply branded the villain for the purpose of obtaining justice. Not that this succeeded - she completely dropped off the map. maybe she met up with the recreant and fucked him up too. thats a fun thing to think about. like she comes across the Recreant utterly pitiful out in the wastes and goes ‘this is for starting this bullshit’ and just fucking curbstomps him. she could, too. even though shes a pencil pusher and the Recreant had aspirations of greatness and probably worked out, theyre only two castes apart, and she’s just more powerful. assuming he survived to meet her as the Apostate, he wouldnt stand a fucking chance. absolutely shit canned, lads. completely reamed.

ok. well.... i actually think, in terms of raw sound, Follower sounds better? i think ill actually go with that. it makes a clearer distinction between her two points, as Follower and Apostate.

ok. thats cool. now i actually really wanna fix the Fugitive? that sounds boring as fuck. she needs more oomph. she killed the Lawmaker and shit. she needs oomph. Assassin could work but thats sorta plain. theres also potential to utilise Serren’s quirk - rolling her rs. like Soldierr. Tor- Torrpedo? Torpedo means assassin? huh..... interesting. id probably prefer that if theres a rolled r, its in the middle or front, rather than the end. its an aesthetic thing. The Torrpedo is kinda hilarious, though. Invaderr? hmm. that has a little more truth to it, certainly, since the majority of their legacy is breaking into a law office and killing the Lawmaker. Invasion? yea. their being on the run was a far lesser part of their story, just a footnote in the Champion’s conquest. Also the Champion and the Director also will get names (like dualscar and shit) but thats later. god its complicated because i want it to be clear that she’s not like, a hero. people believe in her, but she’s not the Sufferer or even the Summoner. she’s a killer, just like the high bloods she despised. a hypocrite. oh fuck that might be the ticket hold on

hmm.... ok. Impostor is nice. issue is that her quirk would kick in, wouldnt it? since its generally demonstrated that the names uses the quirks (except for Expatri8 which uses the wrong quirk even though the x is RIGHT THERE Darkleer. E%patri8. though mindfangs still there). maybe i wont do a rolled r quirk. it looks kinda shit and doesnt make sense for me to do (mostly because i CANT roll rs). but ok lets say no double r. Impostor. how does that sound. It sounds about correct, perhaps ties into how to managed to GET to the Lawmaker to kill her in the first place. Like, false pretenses. Something echoing her descendants later Cobalt Masquerade, as it were. But also an Imposter because she wasn’t like, in the right sorta thing. rather than killing the person using to the tool, she killed the tool. yknow? its sorta iffy on that but i think it fits enough? sure. better than Fugitive, i think