#which makes fans speculate his hand must be wounded or scarred in an awful way he refuses to show

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I know nobody asked but I feel like. I must. I mu. I must open my big huge mouth and talk about them so here we go, a little introduction (and context) to Seox and Nehan, from granblue fantasy:

Seox: part of a group claimed to be the 10 most powerful fighters in all of the realm (which reflects ingame, their units are insanely powerful AND equally hard to get because of that). All of them are friends of the main character/the chara you control, and join your crew now and then. Seox/Six (alias) is the number 6 in the group, an expert in martial arts. But also. Mister social anxiety. First time you meet him, he can’t even speak if you take his mask off, and is only able to converse with the rest with it on. From the beginning they tell you though, he’s terrifying. He’s the last standing person of his clan, Karm, a clan trained to be the most skilled assassins, and not because they got wiped by other enemy assassins or organizations but because. Seox killed them all. Only data they give you is that he killed them when he was little and he doesn’t remember much of the event. With time you learn that he was the prodigy of the clan, but because of his immesurable power, they feared him, so he spent all his childhood locked and alone, basically abandoned. And then you sort of understand where his anxiety comes from (though not much else). The guilt of killing his whole clan, his own family included, eats at him

Nehan: the “villain” of last year’s game anniversary event! A knowledgable young man, head pharmacist of the mafia. He appears with the revelation that Seox is not the last one standing of Karm; he is the other. The REAL survivor that somehow managed to not get annihilated by Seox, and escaped the village and its massacred people. Living a good, normal childhood up until that turning point, he gets caught while wandering aimlessly through the streets after the massacre, and gets sold off to the mafia as a slave. From there and thanks to being a quick learner and knowledgable about all kinds of plants and herbs for the development of drugs due to his training in Karm, he escalated ranks up to the position where he is now, though the scars over his body prove it was Not a swift process nor relaxed experience at all. The mafia then uses him to develop drugs of their own. 

Although the event was. Truly awfuly built narration wise, and their interactions together are scarce, they’re important and big plot points for seox. Nehan confronts him at the end of the event, about how and why he did what he did, and why having done such an atrocity “destiny” still deemed right to give HIM a chance at life, to give him an opportunity to be raised up and then befriended by other people, leaving behind his past, when he himself didn’t have nearly as much mercy and “destiny” put him in even crueler and crueler hands with the passing of time. Nehan even admits wanting to d*e during those years, but only being driven forward by the wish of seeing the person who killed his family and ruined his entire life.

Obviously, seox wins the fight. Even with the potion nehan ingests to be able to face seox, he’s not even nearly as powerful. It’s stated canonically even that he was the runt of the clan, and his strong area wasn’t fighting really, it was books and information about the properties of plants.

The event ends with nehan walking away from seox, leaving to another city, and getting persecuted and shot by the remnants of the mafia, which he betrayed through the event. The crew (you and your teammates) get there just in time to save his life, but despite healing him he stays in a comatose state ever since.

SO YEAH. ANGST! ANGST