Your Avendurer! Zenos comics are always so good, and I love how you write him. The touch about him being functionally doomed to immortality is the perfect level of extra spice on top, too. Imo it's the perfect motivation for him to genuinely try to better himself as a person.
Thank you! Tbh the concept has had a hold on my brain since the end of Endwalker, and I'm glad you really enjoy it ^-^
It’s the subtle character development he’s gotten over the course of the story and the potential he has that makes me adore writing Adventurer!Zenos and the journey he has in turn of following the WoL's (Meteor, in my cases) footsteps.
Making himself immortal is actually the main inspiration behind it too, it's a consequence that self-sabotaged his original goal. Maybe eventually becoming a wake up for him that Alisaie was absolutely right and that he may still have an opportunity to not doom himself to being alone forever.
It's actually why I also made him a tank too, having him turn away from being "the man who was willing to destroy the world for his own chase of his desires" to him being willing to throw himself in and to help and protect others even at the cost of himself for a time, a thought that has stuck with me since the theory of him saving WoL with the remote crossed my mind.
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weeks have gone by and still im constantly tempted to post the transfeminism manifesto that my prof had us read for class. imo it was genuinely a really good piece overall, esp when it comes to understanding gender essentialism + why it's bad, but there's a few things in there that could be controversial(tm) such as What Trans People Experience Male Privilege.
the author is a trans woman and she does have a section at the end saying that she came back to the piece years later and finds it lacking in some ways (like nonbinary inclusion), but still thinks it's a good start to transfeminist works.
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spare more vesper and fenix facts pleaaasee 🤲🏼
i love both of you SO MUCH. thank you for making me talk about these two. i'm going to answer the asks together since i'll be touching the same themes mostly mwah
I'll start by saying that yes, they broke up. They spent something like 2 years together as an “official” couple but ultimately broke up over the fact that...basically Fenix never being there. He would simply disappear for days, weeks even without saying a word, he’s a mercenary so sometimes he would just go get jobs done but other times he would be god knows where doing no one knows what.
That’s what put a strain on their relationship: Vesper wanted someone to be there for her, during good and bad times, and he would simply..not be there (he also has...not the easiest personality to deal with). Like she would wake up one morning and see he’s gone and she doesn’t know where he went and when he’s gonna come back. She’s been alone since age 14 when her father died, she just wished to have someone with her finally. On the other hand Fenix never knew what having a stable home feels like, always going back to the same place and so on. He never learned how to live that kind of life.
Funny (or sad?) thing is that they didn’t have a very dramatic end: Vesper had to choose to break off the relationship by herself, too tired of his treatment she just had to come to terms with the breaking up on her own, she had no way to contact him nor she knew where he was. Fenix came back after like 3 weeks to an empty home and he knew he was done for with her.
Now Vesper thought she was done dealing with him forever, during the times they are apart she meets her brother (who she never got to meet since her mother left her and her father when Daniel wasn’t even born) and they start living together as a family. THAT’S when Fenix suddenly shows up to their door asking help from Vesper because he fucked up something big with the wrong people and needed a hand to fix it. At first she refuses and sends him away but she cares about him, she’s upset about it but she’s not able to stay away from him so she decides to help (and they manage to get Fenix out of trouble for a while)
After that Fenix starts to hang out more and more around her and Daniel, at first she’s fighting it, “what are you doing here now” she would say but slowly it became almost natural to have him around (when he decided to show up)
So basically they are living all together like a divorced couple hkjfhjs and ofc Vesper and Fenix would have their moments from time to time: an unxpected gentle embrace, a very strong tension followed by a kiss, a night spent together that “it’s never gonna happen again”. It’s the memory of the old times, the few moments when everything was perfect
This is also the phase that is my delight to write because it’s either Fenix being jealous, Vesper trying to fight the subtle feelings for him (and cursing herself when she can’t), both of them fighting each other over little things and Fenix being his damn charming self
Vesper also has a kind of relationship with Rogue during game events and Fenix is basically always there trying to get between them and antagonizing Rogue until Vesper has to put him back in his place
The thing that has me so irremediabily lost with them is that...it’s like they attract each other whenever they are in the same room? Or even when far apart. There’s always something that brings them back together, like destiny. Which takes me to what my main point of the story with them and Daniel is: family. We have Vesper and Daniel, brothers separeted before even meeting each other by their own parents and that are trying to catch up on all the time they lost together, all the things they couldn’t do together, and then we have Fenix, someone that never had a family, doesn’t even know what “family” means, someone who was betrayed by his own blood twice (his parents abandoning him and his brother when he was 4 and his brother shooting at him and leaving him nearly dying). I think they all found family after a long journey of never having one and i’m just so emotional about it AAAA
Also to focus mainly on ves/fenix bc that’s the main thing here: truth is that Vesper loves staying with him so damn much that she can’t help being sad and upset that he’s so elusive. She would observe him being like a big brother to Daniel, a best friend, and she would wish for him to stay there forever. Fenix looks at her and he sees the first person he knows he can trust, home is a person to him and that’s Vesper. Family is staying with Vesper and Daniel. LIKE the fact he always comes back to her, for help or for simply gravitating around her world. HE JUST WANTS TO BE THERE but he never experienced a feeling so strong to be part of something, to be loved, he can only run away from it!!
I’ll give a little spoiler but i’m maaaybe developing his story on the road of healing, or even better: learning in this case. Might even have a second chance with Vesper? Can’t say anything more, we will see ;))
Like one point i like to analyze with Fenix is that you don’t always change for the better because of love/a loved one. Sometimes people...stay the way they are and can’t change, that’s life. Doesn’t mean he can’t learn tho. His personality is still.....a whole mess to deal with but i think he might deserve to go through the process of learning something that his own parents had to teach him: what family means.
also just to end on a funny note: Vesper was and still is the one in the relationship that goes “excuse me, he asked for no pickles” with Fenix <33
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relating the laptop time post- i intentionally set a watch we have to a few hours ahead because its fun to figure out the actual time </3 we don't wear it often but its confusing when we do and forget its like that. also that one time we went on a weird streaming website and got a virus that set our pc to like 5/6 hours behind and only noticed when the sun started rising and we realised it wasn't actually midnight :/
HANFHNF pc virus of fuck your clock
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