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tinfoil hat tellius theory I just came up with: Lehran can't die.
Or at least, by natural/mortal/non-goddess-blessed-means.
Something that always struck me as bizarre is Lehran sacrificing the whole world because he wanted to die. He's a heron, he's got innate empathy not to mention decent emotional intelligence. Not that people can't go all unhinged Joker-esque 'fuck da world y'all bitches deserve annihilation and so do I", but he's kinda one dude I'd put low on the totem pole of going postal versus quietly finding a corner of serenes forest to off himself.
But what if he can't.
What if, literally, Ashera's blessing on him (given his "weapon" is his singing powers) made him effectively immortal and impervious to normal means of others killing him, and him killing himself. By the time he figures that out (I'd say after Altina's death and him being driven by grief and despair to shit he wouldn't normally do), it's too late - both Ashera and Yune are asleep, the singular two deities who could probably reverse the blessing.
So he kinda has ... a span of empty meaningless time where he tries to off himself by increasingly creative/desperate means to get around that loophole, but nope, it doesn't work. And then he gives up for a real, fuckin' long time, until he seizes on the idea of "well, waking Ashera up might do it..." Bang, events of the two games.
What holds this theory aloft, too - is we don't see Dheginsea die, and it very specifically takes Yune-blessed weapons to actually kill him at last. There's a few secret endings where he chooses to come back afterwards, but he gets his wings back n' shit, and I'm not sure how canon I consider those. (Tho man, there's some exquisite horror to be found in how he lost his wings in the first place - did they rot off when Altina gave birth to the second Empress?)
this is sorta contradicted by Soan dying of natural means but imma handwave that to say "herons be special/shit's different with him losing his laguz powers and maybe the blessing glitching"
the reason i got on this train of thought is darkly hilariousgiven it's an AU where Lehran gets to talk to somebody who also can't die for delicious body horror spirit charmer reasons and yes this is the self insert AU lmao.
anyway work is batshit and somehow this is what my brain cells are focusing on. :v
edit: l m a o e i just realized this isn't the first fandom i headcanon one of the main dudes wanting-to-die-but-can't-b/c-of-body-horror-magic: one of my very unpopular hellsing opinions is alucard is the same way. shit's interesting, man, life ain't all roses. :v
Or at least, by natural/mortal/non-goddess-blessed-means.
Something that always struck me as bizarre is Lehran sacrificing the whole world because he wanted to die. He's a heron, he's got innate empathy not to mention decent emotional intelligence. Not that people can't go all unhinged Joker-esque 'fuck da world y'all bitches deserve annihilation and so do I", but he's kinda one dude I'd put low on the totem pole of going postal versus quietly finding a corner of serenes forest to off himself.
But what if he can't.
What if, literally, Ashera's blessing on him (given his "weapon" is his singing powers) made him effectively immortal and impervious to normal means of others killing him, and him killing himself. By the time he figures that out (I'd say after Altina's death and him being driven by grief and despair to shit he wouldn't normally do), it's too late - both Ashera and Yune are asleep, the singular two deities who could probably reverse the blessing.
So he kinda has ... a span of empty meaningless time where he tries to off himself by increasingly creative/desperate means to get around that loophole, but nope, it doesn't work. And then he gives up for a real, fuckin' long time, until he seizes on the idea of "well, waking Ashera up might do it..." Bang, events of the two games.
What holds this theory aloft, too - is we don't see Dheginsea die, and it very specifically takes Yune-blessed weapons to actually kill him at last. There's a few secret endings where he chooses to come back afterwards, but he gets his wings back n' shit, and I'm not sure how canon I consider those. (Tho man, there's some exquisite horror to be found in how he lost his wings in the first place - did they rot off when Altina gave birth to the second Empress?)
this is sorta contradicted by Soan dying of natural means but imma handwave that to say "herons be special/shit's different with him losing his laguz powers and maybe the blessing glitching"
the reason i got on this train of thought is darkly hilarious
anyway work is batshit and somehow this is what my brain cells are focusing on. :v
edit: l m a o e i just realized this isn't the first fandom i headcanon one of the main dudes wanting-to-die-but-can't-b/c-of-body-horror-magic: one of my very unpopular hellsing opinions is alucard is the same way. shit's interesting, man, life ain't all roses. :v