eden🌩

the thought fumbled into my mind a peaceful evening last week or so and now it's rotted me so severely that I don't know what to do with myself.

ok design choices: the cloth over his face under his visor is tucked into his helmet, like that. he refuses to take it off. if i could draw this again, i'd change the fabric on his left side and make it cover his entire neck. he has a jacket under there and he has another swathe of fabric draped over the back of his helmet, tucked into the left side of his jacket and falling free over the right side. he has another part of fabric on his left andddd he's got some funny bandages on his hands and his side/knee. i gave him another jacket/hoodie to wear under his main one because i saw that all the followers had quite bulky builds, kinda wanted to replicate that without making him swoll.

THE LORE

so this is follower Eden, i reckon that he probably wouldn't be such an avid cultist whatever and his moral code would definitely be extremely questionable. he's like 70% more unhinged as a follower because he went off the deep end. i like to imagine that his reason for living then became ... whatever the hell it is the followers are doing in czm .. rather than lenny!

though: i think it would be an interesting plot point if he did still meet lenny and basically adopt her. itd be a fascinating conflict of character cuz he's obviously very dangerous and fucked up but now, what he believes his morals to be, are conflicted with the fact he's obviously not gonna just kill a defenseless child much like his follower bretheren wouldn't hesitate to do... you would think it would make him a weaker follower, less willfully strong to cause harm... but actually it makes him even more dangerous imo. insert about a killer with rules vs a killer without rules here: []

also, bb's place in this AU: what about him? well, i wasn't too sure but i was thinking that it'd be a massive point of conflict as well but I reckon it could sort of be an undercover scenario or kingpin scenario where eden has all this information but works with bb/CONTACT to get stuff sorted and done -- maybe the moles have some secret that CONTACT know or something... dont know...

either way, it could go multiple ways with bb. if we thinking more ship-related, the main one is

eden and bb have a sort of enemies to lovers situation going on where bb has a conflict of interest between eden being a literal fucking follower but also eden seems like a pretty good guy.. (corruption bb arc)

but in all honestly like.. CANONICALLY (to this AU, to me!) i think lenny finds Eden first, lenny goes off wandering or escapes or something but keeps coming back to eden. bb finds lenny, it's a sort of cat-has-two-homes situation. bb learns of the danger that eden poses, is VERY disapproving of her interacting with him but also like... hes her pseudo-father cuz its been years atp. cue bb learning about eden, cue trading and canon stuff. maybe something happens with the cult, they find out eden isn't as devoted or is liasoning with CONTACT and exchaning info.. maybe they try and kill lenny. maybe they DO kill lenny... regardless, eden the absolute maniac goes a bit buckwild. after it all, bb asks eden to join him in CONTACT and cue canon!

AND THEN this idea would lead to some FASCINATING IMPLICATIONS for CH once he's got his memory back! he's remembered himself, his identity, and he learns he was fuckking insane! like a horrible person! a follower! but he had a daughter! and also he was crazy!!! and hurt hurt HURT people!!! which would be SOOOO delicious.