I'm so glad you've enjoyed everything Mife'ra has to offer! despite him being one of my two alts he's definitely the one i find most muse writing with,,, even if it's just to hurt him lol. i'm constantly thinking about other fics for him and i'm super excited for dawntrail, too, to see where that gets us! as someone with a bunch of wols (i may have a main and two alts, but i have Many More that i rapidly spin in my head at all times) i always like to parse through how i think each one of them feels and reacts differently to plot. while hawa (my main) is a very gentle and passive character (and, frankly, has gone through a depression arc post endwalker), i feel as though writing her is similarly passive. she's a good kid, but there's not much spice to her story as canon tells it. isheaux, my other alt, is already a wild canon breaking kinda guy, but mife'ra... mife'ra hurts. not just because of his own lore, his past, but because out of all of my wols, he's not just damaged - he's angry, and he wants to prove that he's worth a damn. different parts of plot are violently hard for him, and i really wanted to showcase specific characters that impacted him in ways they probably don't impact every wol (except, let's be honest, haurchefant, lol. we are All suffering together.) but yotsuyu, especially, is one i really love writing with mife'ra, because in my head they are a Disaster, foils of each other, with such similar upbringings and dispositions but having turned out radically different. i like to say that in soulmate aus they would be soulmates and still reject each other, recognizing that together, there's something a little too sharp, too toxic, too broken. overall, thank you, for this comment and your others! all i ever want with mife'ra is to make people Feel, because mife'ra isn't... he wouldn't call himself a hero. he's not hero material, he's a guy that grew up surrounded by violence and trauma, he's vulnerable and lashes out over it. because wol should be angry. wol has gone through so MUCH shit, and are so quick to brush it off. but mife'ra is the story of icarus, as his ancient self was named, just like how the amaurotine civilization lived: icarus was happy, strong, vibrant, and flew too close to azem, the sun, sundered in the wake of destruction that was left. and he has to go from a blissfully sunshiny, passionate ancient to an abused keeper that doesn't believe in love until he nearly watches it die in front of him. and he'll never be icarus, again, unburdened and happy. he'll always have scars, permanent, constant pain; he'll always have dark moods and grief and anger. but he has his family of scions, and he has his sweet kiddo zaze'li, and as tired of the bullshit he is, he won't stop throwing hands back if it means no one else ever has to feel what he has felt. probably more than you really wanted to read in reply to your comment but! it is three am and i'm always full of feelings about my boy aaa
feelings are good! its what keeps it going xD. Always happy to read peoples thoughts on their characters so no worries! you love them enough to put them out here for us to see, so really ty for sharing!
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