hello! how about 🖊️ for syrryl :3c (@griffith-and-co)

Hi thank you so much! Sorry this took a bit but I had a story I really wanted to share so I had to write it up and then fix it up and then run it by my partner but anyway…I present: the story of how Syrryl lost his eye.

Despite being about Syrryl, this story actually begins with Bertie. Well, to be more accurate, it begins with Bertie's half brother, Bronn. The two shared a somewhat absent mother and Bronn, the older by a good eight years, ended up having a large hand in raising Bertie. They were very close, especially as Bertie was heavily bullied and had few friends. Until the day Bronn presented his graduating thesis regarding an extremely controversial socio magical theory, namely that a skritt hive mind could be just as, if not more than, effective and powerful as the asuran collegial krewe system. This was…not well received. Bronn was laughed out of both the college of Synergetics and Rata Sum as a whole. He disappeared into the Brisbane Wildlands and was quickly dismissed and forgotten by almost everyone, except his heartbroken little brother.

Until he returned a year later leading a guerilla army of skritt with the intent of proving his theory by force. He lead several brutal attacks on Metrica Province, using his guardian abilities to rally and command the skritt with a precision never seen before and burning lab after lab to the ground. Peacekeeper forces were overwhelmed as Bronn and his army quickly approached Rata Sum with the intent of overthrowing the Arcane Council itself. Which, of course, in the eyes of the Council could not stand. High Councilor Flaxx sent out an elite team of Arcane Eye agents, including a 16 year old Syrryl Silverset.

Syrryl had been pressed into Flaxx's service, after he was caught stealing a rare power crystal from the High Councilor's office to power his Infinity Ball experiment. The young asura had already gained Flaxx's attention after he killed his krewe leader, Varkk, for betraying his krewe to the Inquest. For his crimes Syrryl was given a choice: go to jail for a very long time or put his already impressive skills to work in Flaxx's employ. He chose the later.

A full team of highly trained and equipped Arcane Eye agents were sent after Bronn. Bronn caught almost all of them in a firestorm so powerful they were incinerated instantly, turned to pure carbon. Using his comrades' deaths as a distraction, Syrryl managed to get close enough to actually strike Bronn, but was quickly overcome by his superior firepower. In a moment of leniency, Bronn chose to spare Syrryl's life. But not before burning the young asura's left eye out with the head of his staff as a warning. Syrryl and the only other surviving member of the team, Rakt, managed to flee back to the safety of Rata Sum.

Bronn's revolution didn't last much longer. His hold over the skritt began to falter and more and more golems were being sent out of the city to deal with the chaos. He was soon forced to flee back into Brisbane Wildlands. It would be a very long time before Bertie saw his brother again, and it was not on good terms.

Meanwhile, Flaxx used Syrryl's own research to implant a new proto-type of the Infinity Ball into Syrryl's eye socket. It increased his reaction time and aiming capabilities and made Syrryl even faster and deadlier than before. The events of the uprising also cemented Syrryl's place as Flaxx's personal assassin and he would fulfill that role with efficiency, though not loyalty, for another ten long years.

how about 5, 10 and 15 of the cute commander asks! :3 (@griffith-and-co)

Thanks for the ask! Here you go:

5.) Big spoon or little spoon?

Bertie is quite good at being the big spoon since his arm can’t fall asleep cause uuuuuuh he doesn’t have one but he much prefers being the little spoon. He likes having his back against something while he sleeps and being held is very nice.

10.) Do they like going to the beach?

He does! He’s a little self conscious about wearing a swimsuit so that’s why he wears an old fashion style bathing suits. But other than that Bertie really enjoys splashing about and playing with the sand. He doesn’t build sand castles or anything, he just likes the way it feels between his fingers.

15.) Do they collect anything?

Already answered!

how about wynoc for the headcanons ask game? :D (@griffith-and-co)

Headcanon A:  realistic

Since he keeps his hair/leaves/hair leaves up in a pony tail, he always has a couple hair ties around his wrist. He and Marjory has a running tally on how many hair ties they've borrowed from each other.

Headcanon B: while it may not be realistic it is hilarious

Because of the bark like nature of his face, Wynoc struggles to make different facial expressions. This means that he has developed different means of communicating his emotions. Combine this with the fact that he spent the first year of his life being raised by a charr warband......what I'm saying is that when Wynoc's truly truly happy he makes a very quiet little rumbling purr noise. You're welcome everyone.

Headcanon C: heart-crushing and awful, but fun to inflict on friends

Wynoc wasn't named Wynoc until he can to the Grove for the first time and the Pale Tree gave him a proper sylvari name to replace the Ash Legion codename he'd been using. It isn't until several years later that he's hit with the realization that the Pale Tree named him after the first two sylvari to die. He believes she did it on purpose, marking him with a martyr's destiny in an attempt to wash her hands of a creature she saw as closer to Mordrem than sylvari. He doesn't change it though. Mostly out of spite. And because it makes him feel more like Caithe's sibling, a feeling he cherishes.

Headcanon D: unrealistic, but I will disregard canon about it because I reject canon reality and substitute my own.

Possessing the charr culture's blunt and straightforward approach to romance, Wynoc almost immediately propositions Canach upon running into him in Living World Season 2. Canch is equally wrong footed and reluctantly charmed. He's gonna make Wynoc work for it though.