#worldless oc: Aziel/the hunter

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First of all, Context:

This here is a side-blog for my various Worldless creativity. I noticed there was a small Worldless fandom here when I first played the game, so here I have deposited myself.

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Complementary Conundrum - A what-if concerning additional Starfolk colors. Also only art and maybe an ask.

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GloomGlow - An Eden Eclipsed ficlet set of seven <400 word drabbles using the five stages of grief to explore Duality as a character.

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Aziel, The Hunter

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Also imagine:

Human-starfolk oc trying to talk, or just trying to comfort themselves in general.

And on a happier note: The Duo, General and Aziel gets thrown into Starblood Valley. Cue chaos-

Awwww..... *teary eyes* (please please please can i just give them a hug-)

Oh boy. Yep, cue absolute chaos. Also known as: Aziel being the only chill one, the General very nearly stabbing a guy, and the Duo trying to wrangle to abruptly encountered strangers plus the new environment.

Oh, and the abject (and vaguely existential) horror of discovering exactly what went on in Starblood Valley. Small detail there.

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Alright!

*Hands Aziel a plushie of his choice*

Hope you like it!

Aziel chirps happily, then purrs, hugging the plushie and squishing it a few times before securing it to one of his tassets, safely tucked on the inside and out of harms way.

(...It's little willow wisp plushie)

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Also what if.

Aziel gets yeeted into the Modern world... how well does he cope with it?

Hm.... well, once again, he's pretty friendly, and sticks to the "don't want none don't start none" philosophy. He's also a rather curious individual, so he'd be more curious to learn about this strange new place than anything else. I imagine that once he gets past the initial shock of being Somewhere Else, he'd be a very curious and friendly fellow, but also... cautious of the locals.

Now, if we smoosh him into the previous Modern World scenario and the Trio becomes the Quartet, things go a touch differently.

In that case, he's easily the most social of the group, and functions as a bit of a liaison between the humans and the trio, who's a bit...skittish. However, he's also at a slight disadvantage with sign language, since he's confined to one hand, but he gets the point across. Either way, he's easily the first to adjust, and the most level headed about everything. That said, he's a little bit too trusting sometimes, and the General has to check him a bit.

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Oh and silly Starblood Valleys thingy...

Imagine General and Aziel meeting Endling... hope this goes well I guess?

Hmmmm.

Well, Aziel is pretty friendly, and avoids confrontation where he can (cuz...arm...), so he's not gonna start anything if Endling doesn't.

The General... depends on when the General is, at this point. If we assume best case, she's pretty wary of potential threats, but if it's something she doesn't recognize (and quite frankly, is bigger than her,) she's going to wait until they show signs of aggression to act.

With that in mind, we've got two wary but non-aggressive starfolk, one of whom is much friendlier than the other. Both are even more wary because this critter is most definitely starfolk adjacent, but also definitively not simply a starfolk. So... wary and curious sonar pings.

Assuming Endling is being friendly and curious, the three probably get along just fine as soon as our two resident Wanderers get over the initial scare of "WHO AND WHAT ARE YOU-"

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Also Aziel seems pretty cool! Got any lore for them?

Ah yes, Aziel.

Aziel is another Wanderer that managed to escape the initial massacre at the Conflict's onset, though not without a hefty price. He was overtaken by a heron and fenced in by a crawler. The heron pinned him down and the crawler consumed. Fortunately, the heron was sloppy in its pinning and Aziel threw it off before it could kill him, then fled deeper into the Silver Peaks.

At the time, the passage between the Silver Peaks and the Twilight Tundra hadn't sealed off yet, and he made it through about a day before it collapsed, leaving him quarantined in the Tundra and Azure Islands. The bridge between the Islands and Tundra got burned down shortly after as well.

Like the rest of his kin, Aziel also lost his sapience in the Conflict. However, with his isolation from the primary warzones and the comparative lack of enemy starfolk in the Tundra, he had more time with his own head.

You see, Worldless took away the starfolks' sapience, but another way to think of it would be free will. Many starfolk - such as the Wanderers, Angel, Demon, Paladin, and Lightning Nightmare - still retained a shadow of "sapience". They appeared sapient. They appeared as though they had a semblance of interpersonal interaction. It was just...void of any true meaning. There was no will behind it. No conscious ability to decide. They were neither able to nor at liberty to act outside of their Polarity's urges, even though a shadowy pretense of sapience still lingered.

Therein lies Worldless' mistake. As long as the demands of Polarity were strong, that held up. Of course, we know that transcendence can carve right past this barrier like a knife through butter. But, there's another solution as well: if removed from the warzone for long enough, the barrier between apparent sapience and free will gets thinner and thinner, until it can be torn.

And so, Aziel woke up.

As a result, the rest of the world opened up to him as well. Like our duo, with the return of sapience he gained access to the In-between, and could travel again. That said, he still has to fight past Dark Starfolk to make much progress, and without an arm that proves difficult. He tries to avoid direct confrontation, given that he can't absorb, and until he finds a solution to the missing limb issue he's not in top combat condition. His fights are either an ambush sprung on him, or something he carefully calculated to handle from afar with his ranged attacks. He's not much of a close quarters fighter for the time being. Before the Conflict, that was a different story. Now, not so much. He was already skilled at evasive fighting and using the terrain to his advantage. Losing a limb has only sharpened that skill.

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Oh and is Aziel missing a finger? I noticed one of their fingers seem to be covered with a metal piece

Nope! Not a missing finger (though my bad on the lack of clarity), it's just a claw piece. He doesn't have natural claws, so he has that as a sort of... "equipable" claw. It serves both as a functional claw and as a sorta showpiece/decoration.

Although, to briefly run with the missing finger, now I'm also trying to envision what on earth this lad would be doing that he got his middle finger bitten off or otherwise removed.

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Also Aziel... would you like a plushie?

(AKA I am giving all the Wanderers plushies because they all deserve it!)

He pauses, clearly mildly confused but pleasantly surprised, and then nods.

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After...way too long.... here's this-

Also, here's that answer I mentioned ages ago, @octahedral-chaos