#who else wants to meet all my 28 Swatchling OCs???

[delta-gambit-au]

[[THE STOICISM OF THE FATHER]]

Presenting one of the 28 Swatchling siblings of my AU. Though all Swatchlings are able to change their range of colour depending of their mood or upon request, these Swatchlings were born of a particular colour in the spectrum, which matches with their personalities but doesn't lock them in one single mood (as the mind is fickle and malleable as clay). They are "shards" of the original body of Swatch.

Glace is one of the Swatchlings who has the longest of legs, thus making him taller than average. I drew inspiration from the bird Sagittarius serpentarius for the design of his character. I guess the opposite could be said for Tempranillo (who was born with shorter legs compared to his size and now sports robotic motorized legs as an adult Swatchling).

Glaze is naturally the most impassive of the siblings, being born with an apparent stolidness that hid strange preternatural capabilities for computation. He's regarded as the one to have failed to convert his previous drone personality to the one of a fully fledged independent Darkner. Talking to him requires of a particular technique because Glace is unable to understand nuances. He will take everything literally so one must have great care with the choice of words while asking him for something. He also speaks in the same way as Queen, but with all the feelings removed and in a more hoarse synth voice.

Because of this apathetic nature, usually none of the siblings hangs with him outside of work, only Ciel. Glace was the first to be drafted by Ciel for his personal "guerrilla", admiring his sibling's natural traits and gifting him a weapon on behalf of Swatch, who also acknowledged that such tool would suit Glace to increase the defensive power of his flock and deck better the defenses of the Palace at large. Glace is then seen mostly following Ciel as if he were some manner of personal bodyguard, and the loyalty Glace shows to Ciel is only matched to his obedience to their father. The times Queen has ignored Glace because of taking all of her words in the literal sense are countless, and she only tolerates him around because of his practical usefulness, but would rely on Swatch to issue any commands to Glace. She is jokingly worried about Glace turning against them because she knows about A.I. Being a Crapshoot, and would ask Swatch to take good care of "His Borgling".

In all, despite being a cold-hearted Swatchling, he still has his own moral boundaries, being a zealous protector of his family and of those who is charged to defend. He would be also the only one daring to question Ciel without making this one to burst a fuse. The honesty of Glace is what keeps Ciel sane, as he knows that only subjectivity will come out from the beak of his brother, relying on his input when Ciel wants to hear a second opinion. This steeliness of Glace has tempered the fortitude of Ciel in a positive way, and Swatch has seen this improvement on Ciel after he paired them together for work. He thinks that Glace is what keeps the furore of Ciel at bay, and since then, his squabbles with Marama has diminished somewhat. However, he's still worried that Ciel's paranoias might end rubbing on Glace, but the Swatchling seems to be enduring through all of them in the only way Glace knows: impassionatingly.

As an integral part of the Bird-Butler-Band (BBB), Glace doubles as the beatbox of the group, complementing the keyboard of Tartaglia with a myriad of new electronic sounds. Once his sibling Fenouil composed a score for Glace to sing to and to increase the repertoire of the band. The song was named "Hero Facing the Black Sun" and it was Fenouil's way to say that the one who would never succumb to despair in the event of an apocalypse would be their sibling Glace.

Though his strength is on par with the average Swatchling, his abilities excel at keeping the enemy at a distance while snipping the the weak-points of the target. His weapon of choice is a custom Walter WA 2000 that Swatch made for him, baptized as the Chanterelle Noir. He wields it upside down as he has no need for the scope in order to triangulate the targets with pin-point accuracy.

If not available, he's also able to use any other fire-arm, but has special predilection for his rifle as it was a gift from his father. He can summon and unsummon it at will. Like his father and all of the other Swatchling siblings, he's also able to shed feathers from himself that can turn into dart-like birds to attack enemies in a pinch. These feathers can regrow at will and the amount is tied to Swatchling's remaining stamina.

Along with his siblings, he's a shard of Swatch, embodying the cold-hearted nature of Swatch's subconscious. Swatch keeps special care of him, because Glace reminds him to the apathy he could have succumbed to if not rescued on time by Queen and Tasque Manager. He desires the best for his progeny and wishes for Glace to be always on the side of ORDER and to never side with CHAOS, to avoid his son to fall into that dangerous spiral of nihilism that almost seized his sanity and Darkner heart in the past.

Thanks for reading all of my non-sense (if it makes sense to anybody).