- mainly ffxv's incarnation of ifrit
- multiverse is ok
- primarily takes the form of a human (depending on which verse, ifrit can either be willingly human or forcibly trapped in his mortal vessel)
- messenger is hewlette (@preincarnette), their dynamics are hilarious and also sort of sweet
- heavy, heavy references to the famous pitioss theory, in fact the majority of this ifrit's narrative has strong ties to it, and eos. you will see me building on the mythology of it based on my own understanding of it, and also introducing familiar entities like doomtrain (aka charon) as well as cerberus. the only thing that stands out apart from the existing (well-crafted) theory is that ifrit and eos are twin siblings in this verse; ifrit is therefore not in love with her and there's no one-sided romance or anything (though i concede it was extremely tragic to read all the same)
- another far reaching headcanon of a headcanon: eos' children grow up and branch out into the lucis caelum and nox fleuret families. one of the twins grows up to fight alongside the astrals when ifrit wages war after eos' death, and eventually becomes the first king of lucis. there is no reason to believe that he assaults heaven immediately after breaking free of the underworld, so i might go with this. somewhere in that family tree is the izunia figure who eventually succeeds ardyn after he becomes corrupted; my previous solo mistakenly had eos naming them both izunia and lucis caelum, but....... u can ignore that. <3
- ships are fine, but ifrit holds a torch (ha ha) for gentiana/shiva. another headcanon (post-ch 12 update) is that ardyn manipulated besithia into harnessing not only daemon energy but astral energy, and the first astral they attempted to kill was ifrit. ardyn lured the infernian to niflheim where he was to be slain or put under control; shiva then rushed to gralea to save him but was slain in ghorovas rift. the news of her death enraged ifrit, who broke free of his bonds and fled to ghorovas to hunt her killers, not knowing that he was infected with the scourge once more. when noctis and his retinue return to insomnia to kill ardyn, ifrit realises the severity of his newfound bond with the Accursed and has to fight them in the plaza.
- if the glacian calls him pyreburner, he doesn't mind, but if anyone else presumes that they have that same privilege, he's going to get real pissed off
- on that note, he has a terrible temper
- maintains a relationship with bahamut reminiscent of obi-wan and anakin skywalker
- absolutely resents ramuh
- another pitioss headcanon: titan's dead eye was caused by ifrit when he broke into the underworld to save eos
- he gets along well with leviathan
- general impression of ardyn is one of pity, though it easily turns into resentment after verstael slays the glacian in ghorovas rift. he witnesses the change in ardyn's personality post-corruption and deems him the perfect example of why mankind is dangerously flawed and undeserving of grace. yet it is not impossible that these two share a bond, perhaps over how they have both fallen from grace, or perhaps how easily they have both been erased from history.
- 'The Great Betrayal': part one, part two
jul 12 2017 ∞
oct 20 2017 +