#zephyrite illuso

[moonlit-grove]

Sometimes I remember how I was raised. Back when I was Reflection. I was raised pacifist. I was raised not to fight. I guess that's part of why my magic lets me trap people in that mirror world. Mesmers have signatures, I've learned. Mine is the mirror world. Glaust and her crystals. I still think it's her. Not Lyssa, like everyone else is suggesting. Mirrors, yeah? So it must be Lyssa.

Reflection was a zephyrite. I still am, I suppose. At my heart. At heart, even though I've changed my name, become an assassin, a criminal... I'm still a zephyrite. I still sing our songs. I still revere Glaust. And Vlast, and Aurene.

It's hard to believe Aurene's already finished her mother's legacy. I didn't even have much to do with it. Dragging the team out to Thunderhead Peaks to join the battle. Seeing her die was... Cazzo, I don't think I'll ever get that image out of my head. Her Champion, shaking as they tried to keep themselves together.

My childhood friends didn't care that I was an assassin. They asked me- Illuso, not Reflection- to join them. To join them in singing to Aurene one last time. It hurt to know. I'm not sure the team really understood. And then she came back. And Scion and Champion rode into battle again.

And there I was. A zephyrite assassin. I really need to reconnect with my people. Maybe it'll be good for me. Embracing who I was and who I am now.

Maybe then I won't feel like I'm betraying myself when I carry out jobs.

[moonlit-grove]

Gw2-verse illuso being a former zephyrite is really rotating in my brain rn. The fact that he was raised pacifist in a culture that follows a crystalline dragon and his whole thing being about mirrors which arguably crystals can be reflective. Where people assume it's about Lyssa but no. It's still Glint. It's still the Scion.

Being a zephyrite never left him. As much as he thinks it did, as defiant as he is to what they are, it never left him. That's why he's present for the battle at thunderhead peak. In the end, Illuso is still a zephyrite. He still hums their songs and still trusts in the legacy.

[moonlit-grove]

Zephyrite Illuso. Rotating at Mach 5.