Like this post if you want the link to my new blog.

//Heh, well, it's been real, but while I'll be around for another week or so checking in. I've long accepted that the one thousand blogs I've decayed to following me are probably all inactive by now. The fandom's changed from what I knew it as, completely. It's not a bad thing, but who knows, I'll be around as that new character for a long, long time again so I'll keep checking here and there.

Coming back to the fandom, but.

//I'm on a new blog, have been for a while. I'm doing another League character for a multimuse so while my inspiration for this guy has been concluded? And I was practically right anyway on his future/predicted lore? I have moved on, I was 17 when I made Aatrox, no idea who's even around anymore, but if you're interested in me?

DM me or shoot me an ask if you're a League rper.

(I'm not linking the account in public as I was at first 17 when making this account. I did some cringe stuff ooc but it was mostly just arguments or me being stupid about social interactions and recovering from certain things? So yeah, want that behind me but opening the door for anyone still lurking around.)

//Alright, I’ll check back in a year or two again to see if anyone’s poking around.

//Later.

//I’ll check back in a week, then I’ll probably leave this blog for an undetermined amount of time again. c: 

//Been a long time hasn’t it? I’ve learned and grown a lot as a person. I look back on this blog not really with hrm. Never shame, but a look in how stunted I was emotionally at the time when I was 17 to 18.

//I still think of the people I know still to this day and used to know. As always, I am around again for a day. If I knew you at some point and you want to talk or reconnect? I’ll be available through asks or dms.

Well now that the new lore is out? I guess I should about it, so I’ll be leaving all personal sentiments out of it.

//Basically in short, it actually exists because he was basically just a concept back then, but now he actually has a place in Runeterra so that’s automatically a better start. He’s not the alien I wanted him to be, which is perfectly fine, but I’m not gonna waste too much time on this as the flaws of it aren’t terrible but they aren’t superior to the old one in some matters.

//Starting with the biggest one and longest one, his personality is? Awkward as such a drastic transition and he feels like a lot of other champions as well for his ‘unique place’ in the League with minor alterations for personality. Like, I don’t even care if he has an accent now compared to the old one so long as they retained his personality. It’s really what set him apart and made a statement of: ‘you don’t need to be a raging arrogant dickwad to be an embodiment of war’. And he’s not dumb in his new iteration and has usable lines, but it’s like if your dad tried to awkwardly make jokes after trying to be intimidating in a lot of his lines to people, granted some of the jokes are okay but it just kills the mood. It would be like... if I just constantly wrote those long ass drabbles I once did and then just cracked a joke in the middle of all of them and completely ruin the flow of things.

//He just tries too hard now it feels like when the old was just... he didn’t need to try to prove a point, he didn’t need to do much of anything but lift a finger with some encouragement with the kind of sway and power he had over people. Like, they didn’t have to keep a lot of things to the old Aatrox in him of being a tactician, or anything like that, but they could have made him even more unique and missed what I thought was a good opportunity as the actor doesn’t lack motivation or emotion, just the direction is so awkwardly off considering he’s an actual ‘god’ apparently now like other peeps? What they could’ve followed up on that iteration for the anger they obviously want now with the new one? Is Aatrox actually having, a chilling and forboding anger that boils to a breaking point that could... I dunno ‘end a world’ when he actually tries like his new thing makes him out to be albeit now he is trying to return to his old form, as he did grunt and yell when swinging his blade pre-rework. Like of course he’d be bitter over such a thing being taken away from and angered beyond belief, but there is such a thing as calm hatred, anger, overflowing and controlled rage and so on. He just isn’t intimidating anymore as much as he used to be, it’s like a MUCH, MUCH lesser version of: ‘if we took post rework Sion and gave him his old personality back’. As I don’t want to give the wrong impression on the new Aatrox, it is usable but it’s so god damn awkward in a lot of lines.

//Overall: I expect a rework to make a champion superior to their old form’s personality and in lore, and while they did succeed with that in lore, as he actually has one now and a story... his personality falls short and he even resembles very closely of what I imagined a younger Aatrox to be or not what one would expect from a champion like this.

His lore though? I think it makes sense, it’s as I said: not what I wanted it to be but hey, the Darkin were the first ones to beat back the void like I said. So I think Aatrox’s personality is worth taking a slight hit I guess if we actually want to get a more enrichment of Darkin lore as a whole... but I also feel like Aatrox himself did take a hit personality wise. As this rework isn’t without pros and not without cons and I will not blindly praise anything they do as not all new canon is good but neither is it inherently bad either, but I also acknowledge a lot of effort was put into this and that there was actual merit to it.

So I rate this as a hit for lore and a partial miss on retaining personality and identity for not in-game wise, but the element that he had to him. That made him stand out among other champions. As a rework is not the creation of a new champion unless the old personality and element they had is far too lacking in merit to be used, but to improve upon on what was already there and taking liberties to make changes but also I know that’s not easy to do always. It’s just when you look back on a lot of reworks, champion updates on voices and stuff for identity? They did just a better job on those overall.

Aatrox rework.

//Overall? I think the rework is good in terms of new design as his beef jerky wings have been removed, and I don’t mind him wielding a great sword OR being a god apparently? But I just saw his interactions and he went from old, hyper intelligent alien to hyper aggressive Russian alien.

//He actually matches my first iteration of Aatrox for apparently being a world breaker before I toned him down, so that’s a lil weird to see it change to that after all these years.

//Thoughts: I hate the personality change as it feels super awkward with what he is. I would imagine like a human fighter with such a personality, but the voice is fine along with the redesign and kit redesign. There’s counter to him it seems as it almost? Comes off to where it’s like, Riven, Sion, Aatrox’s old kit with some splash of Camille in it as you can just get out of the AOE I think.

//Final thoughts are to come on release.

//I can’t believe this blog is still standing at a 1k followers from when it dropped from like 2k or something like that like a year ago? Thanks anyway!

cataclysmicfun :

//Ay ay people, putting this blog on an indefinite hiatus so feel free to unfollow it. I love her and I love rping her? Buuuuut, I have someone new I like more along with the setting of the universe too- so adios amigos! Dunno how many of you people knew me from back then but I thought I’d my old URL I had years ago, but this fandom just doesn’t do it for me anymore I guess?

//Still love the champ though.

//Anyway, I was this guy. @ask-aatrox-the-darkin-blade

//Yup.

Welp.

An update kinda.

//Hey hey, people. As you know this blog is permanently closed but I recently came back as someone new and I’m willing to link those who’re are interested privately (Just PM me). I’m surprised and want to thank you all I’m still even at 1k followers as I left this blog nearly at 2k and just left it up for people to just scroll through and entertain those who stumbled upon it when I made it and set out on my journey in this community years ago. Even if it’s just one person, if it made you smile? Then that’s all that matters to me when I was serious or just goofed off with slapstick humor (Though admittedly some of it was REALLY bad and not funny at all).

//And speaking of my new character: my format of having them be an online blog instead of in-person hasn’t, THOUGH, I do have an rp side-blog for them for people who want straight up rps unlike this old being of war.

//I’ve changed a lot since then, and I realize in the past I was actually toxic to a degree yet not ridiculously so when I was still recovering as I was still in High-school when I made this blog? So as a final note I just wanted to apologize to any of the dudes I may have wronged in the past whether I realize it or not. I hope you’re all happy doing w/e you may be doing.

//I hope some of my old friends see this and that you’re all doing well! Feel free to reblog this.

Sup.

//I have returned only to make a comment regarding Kayn and Aatrox. Not much has been confirmed as of yet but considering the Darkin scythe that Kayn wields is a separate entity known as Rhaast? It seems as though my headcanon regarding Aatrox being his blade might hold true after all due to the heavy hinting in his lore, along with perhaps his plot to have Tryndamere inevitably duel him and perhaps even have him wield the blade after defeating him to absorb him or fuse with him considering Tryndamere’s rage literally makes him undying.

//As this isn’t the first time it seems as hinted throughout Aatrox’s lore that he’s taken different forms, or might just be the cultural art of the people he’s influenced such as Demacia’s brighter representation of him. Aatrox himself could be a culmination of beings from throughout the ages.

//Thought I’d just pop in and make a note after about 3-4 or even 5 years of zero info on the Darkin. Might pop back in for a full analysis once Kayn is fully release, something less sloppy.

//Anyway, later. Hope you dudes have been having fun here.

“I am aware. Change has been subtly effecting the heroes and immortals of this world in ways that I cannot I divulge.”

AATROX.

“Nocturne.”

“None of which I can share without consequence. Simply know that a great change is about to occur once again.”

AATROX.

“Nocturne.”

AATROX.

"Nocturne."

Carve the path.

“Accept no truth but your own.”

Bear witness.

“Step into the light of the flame, lest you remain blind.”

“I cannot tell you the truth, but I will show you it.”

“See to it.”

Why peace is the greatest lie of all.

“Gaze into the annals of time. You will witness that it has never once remained as a constant variable, and even throughout the designs of life itself - it has always remained as a fleeting moment. War, death, reproduction. These have all remained constant throughout the sands of time as power has ebbed and flowed in different directions - ever shaping the shifting world you all stand upon.”

“I am a remnant of a race long-forgotten that had even shook the very foundations of creation, but even we could not escape the inevitable truth after endless trials - we could only sate its ever hungering maw. Even my existence is evidence that peace cannot be truly attained, for I would never have been wrought into existence as the entity that stands before you all if the lie of peace were true.”

“Through endless blood-shed, you shall all rage against the dying of our light, and be born anew through blood as the torrent crashes down upon thee. Scar fate and sever its strings, make the universe itself give pause in your wake.”

“Shape the world.”