ah dammit im too dumb for copying embed code rn fricc 

o did i tell y’all the big mood re: Ascian conflict and my galaxy brain sipping that Souls-series juice???

i’m not gonna go too far into it but im imagining a big shippy twist where the conflict resolves Demons Souls style with Wol and Solus as diametric opposites becoming equals but in order for Balance to continue and calamities to end they both have to be sent to slumber between worlds hhhruuueuhe

bc the way DeS handled it is like this… you are still the hero, you did everything right, and it did make a difference–just that in doing so you also by the nature of things became something more powerful than all the Demons you slew put together

so your activity in the universe, whilst required in order to beseech the Old One to go to sleep again, also necessitates that you rest–you’re a hero, and also an aberration of sorts.

Of course, being the kind of game it is, DeS gives you a choice at the very end. You can agree to your slumber, accompanying the Old One below the nexus between worlds and allowing the world to heal. This is sort of coded as the Good Ending–this theme plays as the credits roll. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqhqbsdpAXo

…or 

you can reject the duty to sleep beneath the worlds, in which you murder the spirit guide who has been with you the whole game, take her soul for yourself, and wander off into the wilds of a dying world to feast on whatever souls still remain there to be reaped. 

And if you do that, this is what plays instead:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ESqvGzdnvs

It’s also super nice of Varis to outfit all of the clones with Solus’ favorite threads, so he doesn’t have to flounder around naked a vulnerable every time he has to jump into a new body.

ikr?? I guess Allagan cloning techniques also involved like, matter-forming together raiments and associated characteristics of the biological form they were replicating

not that i mind the idea of a disgruntled Solus waking up totally naked and scoffing at the silliness of getting murdered yet again

So all he has to do once his current vessel takes on damage or dies in a away like with how varis shot him, all he has to do is soul travel to where ever those clones are stored and take possession of them?

Basically yes, whatever his characteristic relationship is with formlessness versus form-inhabitation is, all he has to do to appear physically now that the clones are available is just slip one on like a favourite jacket. He doesn’t have to modify a different body and doesn’t have to expend tons of energy crafting an aether-body for himself 

*still screaming into a pillow that he refers to the bodies as ‘my own image’ HE HAS AN IMAGE HE IS HIMSELF!! OMG!! squeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee*

HMM it also feels worth mentioning that Solus expresses a mild degree of surprise that there are so many clones of his body available to him

surprised and extremely amused that Varis used his biological information as the substrate for cloning research 

so in a way it doesn’t have anything to do with what Solus needs or doesn’t need… it was more of a serendipity that OH LOOK I’M BACK AND THERE’S A WHOLE BUNCH OF MES TO USE IF I NEED ‘EM

THANKS KIDDO 

But why would he need that many clones? That’s my question.

OKAY THIS IS PART HEADCANON BUUUUUUUUUUUUUT 

basically????????? he probably expects a degree of lethal to danger to any given body he lives in? being Ascian means he isn’t beholden to the singular experience of ‘if this body dies, i die’

Having said that, he says so himself that having his body premade for him makes the process MUCH easier and less tiring. 

basically even if the number of cloned bodies is very redundant because there’s variable amounts of risk to whatever body he has at a given time, because of the nature of his work, if he needs another one and another and another, this is a basically effortless reservoir.

like having extra ‘lives’ in an arcade game without having to farm for them :O 

gingerly-writing:

“I brought you a rose.” The hero held it out, the black bloom perfect, dew still glittering on the petals. 

“You should have told me we were exchanging gifts,” the villain deadpanned. “I would have brought you a corpse.”

(via ladyramora)

Solus has brought out the most resplendent and bizarre kinks i didn’t know i had