Kayneth El Melloi Archibald

kayneth el melloi archibald

prodigy mage of clocktower ⎛ for real! he's noted to be the greatest of his generation, but no one actually addresses this properly so its my job now ⎠

also an incredibly talented artist ⎛ thats ALSO canon and no one addressed it so its my sacred duty to unleash "da vinci level paintings and michaelangelo level sculpture" kayneth on everyone ⎠

⎛ accel zero kayneth vc ⎠whats with that accent? he ❲ waver ❳ sounds like a country bumpkin ... sir you have no place to talk, country bumpkin says the scotsman

he does believe in the seelie and unseelie courts and is the arthur conan doyle post no one beat him up about this because man's 6' and he hauls large carving stones ⎛ often marble ⎠ from the mineralogy department as he is its lord and they cant stop him

master of diarmuid in the fourth grail war ⎛ he's bisexual and couldn't figure out how to approach the situation and it went to absolute shit ⎠

bad at expressing emotions because he's clearly been raised to be "perfect" and it's done nothing for his mental health

a great teacher but a strict teacher and that doesn't work for everyone ⎛ especially if your name's waver velvet ⎠

in the world's worst arranged marriage ⎛ and doesn't know how to leave it, because he's in so much denial that he's being abused on any level??? but it's very clear and also canon that he is suffering that!!! ⎠ and needs to be with literally anyone who isn't sola ui

proud of his magecraft so he's not handling this situation great, but at least he still can do art!

if he tries, he can get along with people, and maybe in a not toxic environment ⎛ mage life ⎠ he will get to relax a little and his mental health will get better

he looks stressed but he's actually 28 ⎛ also canon ⎠

whats that one quote "hes lonely, i think. lonelier than he thinks he is" or something because that sure is exactly whats going on and kayneth has no coping skills

kayneth vc this isn't what volumen hydragyrum is used for ⎛ see: kept abilities ⎠

i wish you kinder, softer days that put your heart at ease

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!

just found out my entire personality is a trauma response

With no access to his usual riches ... it looks like he'll be living the artist life! As in, at least he can make a fair amount of money selling drawings ... so he could get paints and canvases ... but hadn't he wanted to live like an artist for a while?