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A little update on Zero and Golbez - still allied, still hanging out with the nixie, still searching for anything salvageable on the Thirteenth. Brings together various scattered details and anchors Zero's distaste for consuming the essences of other voidsent to a specific incident.
I like the way it ties together a few separate ideas while exploring the idea of personal identity. Zero's mother had either not known or chosen not to communicate the end of the tale of Zeromus - a hero who restored the Light to the world, only for the people to turn on him in fear of his power.* She perhaps spared her child the ending because the people ostracized her, too. Growing up alone, she followed in her mother's heroic path but could not find a way to trust others. Even when the voidsent began to consume one another, she couldn't bear the "company" of diluting her soul with another. And though she accepts that she is too weak and alone to save anything, over time she becomes more like Zeromus than she knows - a would-be hero, seen as a monster - and a statue manifests in her domain that she can no longer recall. And yet in the end this inspires Golbez to forsake the one law of the void - not because he feared he might lose his identity, but to embrace fully becoming his true self.
* The claim that Zeromus did indeed save the star (for a time) is fun to consider, too; especially if the Ascians being outdone by a Warrior of Light right out of the gate informs - at all - why Igeyorhm went so hard she caused a Flood. Certainly more fun than putting 100% of the weight on, "I AM ASCIAN, SERVANT OF ZODIARK, DARKNESS WILL CONSUME ALL LIGHT." etc. Nabriales was willing to throw even Lahabrea under the bus to get closer to Zodiark, but Mitron could juggle motivations a little better.
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A little update on Zero and Golbez - still allied, still hanging out with the nixie, still searching for anything salvageable on the Thirteenth. Brings together various scattered details and anchors Zero's distaste for consuming the essences of other voidsent to a specific incident.
I like the way it ties together a few separate ideas while exploring the idea of personal identity. Zero's mother had either not known or chosen not to communicate the end of the tale of Zeromus - a hero who restored the Light to the world, only for the people to turn on him in fear of his power.* She perhaps spared her child the ending because the people ostracized her, too. Growing up alone, she followed in her mother's heroic path but could not find a way to trust others. Even when the voidsent began to consume one another, she couldn't bear the "company" of diluting her soul with another. And though she accepts that she is too weak and alone to save anything, over time she becomes more like Zeromus than she knows - a would-be hero, seen as a monster - and a statue manifests in her domain that she can no longer recall. And yet in the end this inspires Golbez to forsake the one law of the void - not because he feared he might lose his identity, but to embrace fully becoming his true self.
* The claim that Zeromus did indeed save the star (for a time) is fun to consider, too; especially if the Ascians being outdone by a Warrior of Light right out of the gate informs - at all - why Igeyorhm went so hard she caused a Flood. Certainly more fun than putting 100% of the weight on, "I AM ASCIAN, SERVANT OF ZODIARK, DARKNESS WILL CONSUME ALL LIGHT." etc. Nabriales was willing to throw even Lahabrea under the bus to get closer to Zodiark, but Mitron could juggle motivations a little better.
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