Just Found Out My Entire Personality Is A Trauma Response

just found out my entire personality is a trauma response

KAYNETH EL MELLOI ARCHIBALD of FATE/ZERO by percival (he/him, 30+)

app. stats. meta analysis. thread tracker. permanent starter call. relationship post. rules under readmore ⎛ affiliated with ❲ . . . ❳ @isolaradiale ⎠ ⎛ housed in ❲ . . . ❳ house 116 ⎠ ⎛ ranked ❲ dwarf, 10/5/24❳ ⎠

a study in [ . . . ] the world as a canvas. letting go of tradition. forging your own path. love for the sake of love, art for the sake of art. death and rebirth. the meaning of honor. pride where pride is due, humility where humility is due.

rules tba. but tldr affiliated but will interact with indies!

kayneth's a mess and who knows if this will be good for him or not.

anyway, its me ⎛ hi im the problem its me ⎠ percival and i love kayneth unironically and its my sacred goddamn duty to do what nasu failed to pull together!!!! enjoy your stay here

i am drawing my icons not all threads will have them because i am slow and need to rest my wrists here and there!

this is a starter call capped at like 3 except castmates of which there are many

lmao lets kick this blog off with a meta as usual. 

today we will talk about kayneth, the artist, how his artistry manifested in his magecraft, and why he should’ve stayed out of the war. 

so, in the character materials, it’s said that kayneth’s talents ( outside of his mastery of five areas of magecraft ) include drawing and sculpting. i’d also like to note that kayneth and kiritsugu are the same age when they participate in the war, ( they’re 28 ) kayneth just looks older because all of the stress of his life has absolutely aged him. anyway, the one thing kayneth was doing that kept him feeling like he wasn’t already 80 years old was art. 

this man has talent like da vinci as a painter and sculpts like michelangelo. kayneth’s art and sculpture sells for absurdly large sums of money, and he’d be able to sustain his lavish lifestyle on his art alone. being an artist is his main talent. “but percival, he mastered 5 areas of magecraft!” you may say, to which i answer: yes, but there are other aspects of magecraft, namely the workings of mage mentality that kayneth actually DIDN’T master. he didn’t grasp what counted when it came to surviving as a mage. 

kayneth comes from a noble bloodline and thus was raised to be chivalrous. and he actually is. he wants his opponents to fight him with honor, and that’s why he was guaranteed to fail in the fourth war. because that was just going to be a bunch of underhanded tricks. kayneth, unlike the other masters, set up an incredibly complex bounded field that displayed everything he was capable of. he wasn’t hiding his talent as a mage ( and yes, he’s a prodigy at performing as one ). he would’ve done well if he battled tokiomi, because tokiomi is also much like kayneth in traditional manner. mind you, kayneth also would’ve won that, because while tokiomi is from a long ass bloodline, kayneth is a literal prodigy who can and will use every skill he has. because he sees no reason NOT to. 

and speaking of that, his main mystic code, volumen hydragyrum, is really. 1 artistic 2 incredibly OP when used properly. kayneth’s affinity to air and water make him the perfect person to use the mystic code, which is made of mercury. it’s a very artistic code in itself, because kayneth is an artist. it comes out in basically anything he does. against any other mage but kiritsugu, kayenth’s artistry would’ve … given him a win in some way or another. he’s got skill above the majority of the cast ( 3000 mp to waver’s 5 mp for example / kiritsugu says the only person more dangerous than kayneth is kirei ). he has a knowledge basis that goes beyond most of the cast when it comes to magecraft, too. and he’s creative. really, the only way to take him down would be to use underhanded tricks. 

unfortunately for kayneth, using underhanded tricks is also a surefire way to win against him. looping back to the whole chivalry and honor thing, kayneth won’t tarnish his own honor like that, no matter who he’s faced with. this is how he gets absolutely screwed over by kiritsugu ( and i have a few choice words for the whole kayneth using the gun to kill risei, because that’s just. not his style ever lmao ). there’s no amount of skill that will keep you from getting fucked over by someone who cheats; the worst part perhaps of this is kayneth KNOWS that. he KNOWS kiritsugu will cheat and YET he also still fights because he knows running away will ALSO be a slight on his honor. 

really, all of this could be avoided if he just did art and didn’t care about mage society lmao thanks for coming to my tedtalk

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for a sketch of your muse!

notes - an interesting person at the starlight path!

*trying to call a woman beautiful but i've forgotten how to engage other humans in conversation* girl, you remind me of architecture