#achilles ended up stumbling across her and she took pity (read: semi-condescending，'wow this is kind of pathetic. he couldn't be a threat

[luvsavos]

You did mention Safi’jiva FTL (Achilles, sorry…I’ll refer to him as that when we’re talking about your AU/interpretation of him) and I have to ask…does he like…become EVIL after he transforms? Does he tap into the Ganondorf side of his voice and go "do not look away. You witness an emperor's revival. And the birth of his new world!" Though I should probably ask…how did he and Aiden even BECOME elder dragons? Unless you answered that already. In which case I’m sorry (Aiden Anon)

hmmmm Yesn't? he's kind of like. morally grey, i'd say

he's definitely a LOT more quick to anger and spiteful/vengeful, though that's also partly due to everything else we've put him through, but he IS still well-intentioned for at least the commission; the reason he chose to keep the safi form was specifically so he could better protect seliana (after the Guild Arc Part One he felt like he had failed seliana and his grandfather and kind of had a uh. spiral, which directly led to the second part of the arc)

as for HOW they became elder dragons, both were from instabilities caused by vodrem, the one that fatalis'ed aiden was prior to him showing up (and i can't recall if anyone else got monster'ed or if it was just him), and the one that safi'jiiva'ed achilles was after it was all said and done, since the Vodrem Event™️ and the guild arc part 2 happened within a few days or so of each other in-universe, so the five hadn't yet managed to fix all of the damage vodrem caused before achilles happened to get Just A Bit Too Close to one of the instabilities

Bad Things tend to happen when aiden and achilles get separated (so many things dear god) so when he felt the draw to the confluence of fates aiden came with him, a nergigante sensed the surge of power from achilles becoming a xeno, which ended up making aiden go fatalis again (protective instincts go brrr), which is what led to him letting achilles drain some of his energy and that's what led to achilles becoming a safi so quickly! still mostly has safi's abilities, but he's got a few modified fatalis-esque things he can do too, though still more in line with safi'jiiva's precision than fatalis' all consuming destruction

#mar.txt #answered #aiden anon #he also ended up accidentally emotionally attaching himself to the og safi (who was the xeno from world bc shang refused to kill her) in #between the vodrem event and the guild arc part 2 #bc she'd sensed vodrem's sheer power and homed in on it and was actually unintentionally the one to figure out his singular weakness #(that being getting his energy drained) #and chose to stay around the reach for a bit afterwards in case he showed back up #achilles ended up stumbling across her and she took pity (read: semi-condescending，'wow this is kind of pathetic. he couldn't be a threat #to me even if he wanted to be') on him and let him vent out his emotions and somehow ended up playing impromptu therapist??? that #interaction was fun LMAO #after the Vodrem Arc she kind of marginally calmed down bc since she had helped the commission (indirectly but still) they weren't going to #go after her (also shang was VERY strongly opinionated on 'if any of you bastards lay a HAND on her i will rip your throat out with my #teeth so fucking help me') #and she had some actually civil conversations with the admiral (see: they bonded™️ over vodrem having bragged about killing shang and both #of them wanting to Murder That Motherfucker) #and more conversations with achilles in which she just kind of. Decided like. wow. this guy has issues. fiiiine i GUESS i'll let him around #me. Whatever. #and after he got jiiva'ed she just kinda took him under her wing to Teach Him How To Elder Dragon #nobody here makes good parental adoption choices aiden's got the literal destroyer of humanity and achilles has a safi'jiiva with distortion #powers (thank you vodrem) and a massive superiority complex and general disdain for people #and the ruiner nergigante from iceborne (who took Massive Offense to vodrem taking the form of a nergigante so he showed up in a mortal #guise to help the commission i think sometime after the first Vodrem Event and ended up revealing his true form during the second one to #throw hands with vodrem. this did not work and he became a projectile flung at my friend's teostra and spawned a meme which i still think #i'm absolutely hilarious for) #his name is rodeinmaar and his human form fc + his voiceclaim is karl heisenberg re8 so you can probably get a general idea of his #personality LMAO #oops i got rambly in the tags again