Bound, Break, and Failure for the not so nice ask game! :3
Thank you so much! These are, on reflection, honestly really fascinating questions to ask given that I’m still in the process of digging into this character’s history! So thank you for such great material.
I’ll be answering these about Nasfiras, one of our Slayers (anime) OCs.
I’m actually going to break up these answers into separate posts, or else it’ll get REALLY LONG.
failure: What’s your OC’s greatest failure? Have they been able to move past it? Does anyone else know about it?
Nasfiras’ greatest failure is, in a way, the very result of his creation.
As a mazoku (a type of demonic race), the entirety of his existence is formed from a piece of the astral body of his master to create a separate being. Mazoku are creatures of pure spirit, existing independently only by their own will to exist and be, and their confidence in their own self image.
The mazoku ‘party line’ is that they are creatures of pure negative emotion that exist only to bring about the end of the world, and that anything like love, respect, etc is antithetical for them, and that even something like a lack of pure confidence in themselves could weaken them, or destroy them entirely. And because– by and large– they believe the party line, that makes them vulnerable to it. Because they believe that positive emotions will harm them, it can.
Nasfiras was created by his master Xelloss, when Xelloss’ worldview started to change, and he found himself unexpectedly doing things because he cared about someone. He created Nasfiras to tear out that part of him. He did it expecting the mazoku born from it to basically shrivel up and disappear immediately, unable to sustain itself. But Nasfiras existed, and continued to exist, despite everything. Which basically proved Xelloss’ whole assumption about what would destroy a mazoku wrong.
Nasfiras’ failure–which he, loyal to a literal fault, will always be sorry for– is that his creation didn’t absolve his master of the burden of affection, but deepened it instead.
bound answer link (forthcoming)
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