THERE WILL BE NO HIDING PLACE FOR EVIL.

( very gently scratching behind her ears. )

No offense. It's a good look for you. Not so much for me.

I've done it before a few times. This is probably the longest my hair's gotten in a while, honestly. Hairless kavat or drowned pobber are kinda my only options.

Kinda tempted to shave my head again.

i should talk about how zed Does have an actual brother, and those memories also color how drifter zed treats the operator but that's a whole different can of worms lol.

operator zed does get annoyed with drifter zed treating him like a child, and it's a fairly constant source of conflict for them, alongside contrasting views of the warframes themselves (drifter zed feels Weird about transferrence, operator zed sees the warframes as nothing but tools) +

the company, but isn't as desperate for normalcy as drifter zed is. he doesn't remember his family, so he feels no need to try and recreate it the way drifter zed does. which isn't to say he's emotionless or anything, he's just much more muted than drifter zed is. a little more utilitarian. +

do his best to cover with an air of nonchalance. he wants SO badly to not care about things and people lol.

whereas the operator is, while still childish in nature, much more than emotionally detached. he recognizes that his drifter self has an important role to play, and can appreciate +

greater good be damned. he has asserted himself as the more dominant presence, because he thinks he's doing what's just and merciful. he is very empathetic with a strong sense of justice, sometimes to a fault and to the point that it gets a little self-righteous. which is something he does +

try and protect/preserve what little innocence may still remain in the operator, because he wishes he'd had someone Real to do the same for him. he sees the operator as a baby brother of sorts, and part of him resents the lotus for what he feels is the further dehumanization of a child +

// talking about drifter-operator dynamics, so: there is a huge disparity between the way Drifter Zed views Operator Zed, versus the way Operator Zed views his drifter counterpart. Drifter Zed sees the operator as a child, despite it all. he is largely motivated by a (pointless) desire to +

Magic.

She's got her big ol' paws in my face right now.

Got your kavat sitting on my chest like she's a sleep paralysis demon, purring like crazy.

Oh, I'm attempting. I'm attempting and I'm gonna succeed. She likes me sooo much.

We're all fucking old.

What the hell.

Oh. Yeesh. That's rough.

Like I said before, that's kinda sad to me. Did she just, what? Pop some veils, take out the Archons and dip?

Well. How do you feel about that?

Hi?

Sure, I guess it's not 𝘶𝘯𝘪𝘲𝘶𝘦𝘭𝘺 fucked up. But fucked up nonetheless. Sorry about your wife.

That's fucked up.

Just occurred to me that there's probably a bunch of void kids out there without their, uh. Counterpart. Outsider guy like me. I dunno, I think that's kinda sad for both of them. My void kid is like a little brother I never wanted, but wound up with anyway.

Pretty easily.

Yeah, yeah. If I'm some kinda geezer, what's that make you, huh?

Yeah, I guess you're right. Still kinda crazy the sheer amount of crap I— We?— wasn't taught. Never think too much of it 'til it's put right in front of my face like this.

Oh, come on.