I love dark twst us, especially those involving Styx because I find the expansion of these topics really interesting, my friend introduced me to this AU and I love it!
but anyway I have a few questions :3, firstly how is everyone doing mentally, I know that Jamil is the least mentally well out of all of them because of the neglect but how is everyone else? Also can Jamil even stand or function with the lack of food? Also how is everyone coping and if they get out how will the experiments further affect them? Like how could the physical scars affect vils acting career especially concidering the secrecy of Styx and how little the public knows about them? Also things like chronic pain and nerve damage and just him losing some organs. Also will malleus’s stalking affect the pacing of his overblot. And as Idia mental state decends will he begin to hurt Azul more?
sorry this is such a long posted I totally get it if you don’t respond but thank you for making this au! Also sorry for typos
firstly, about everyone mental states: none of them are doing incredibly well but they all started going downhill at different times. vil actually started losing it the quickest due to the nature of his tests, by the first visit to the medical ward he was already completely done with idias shit. riddle and leona were next, though leona succumbed to the exhaustion quicker due to the fact he was being gassed. jamil fell the hardest despite how long it took for him, the starvation and neglect all hit him at once like a truck, and azuls was the slowest and most drawn out since he got to overhear everyone else losing it while he was being left alone. (if you couldn’t tell azul is going to have some massive survivors guilt by the end of this)
jamil’s functioning on the bare minimum, he has just enough food and water to keep him alive and nothing else. if he was made to stand or walk around i think he’d crumble into dust /hj
i’m keeping the ending a secret for now but as a hypothetical if EVERYONE gets out, azul would fully recover with survivors guilt seeing how the experiment affected his friends and probably be severely hydrophobic & even more self conscious about his merman form, riddle and leona would nearly fully recover with serious trauma related to sleeping, leona would be even more averse to interacting with people and riddle wouldn’t be able to take his usual massive workloads anymore. jamil and vil would never fully recover. jamil might physically recover one day but his mental state couldn’t ever be fixed, and vil would have serious after effects from the surgeries (plus the scars from the stitches would always be there) and be even more insecure and obsessive about his appearance. i don’t think any of them could be housewardens anymore.
if it’s any consolation the 5 of them would absolutely try to expose idia and styx and be very vocal about what happened to them
i haven’t decided about the malleus thing yet, i’ve been debating having him eventually overblot because of that and if idia would get to take him to styx. it would be interesting and i like to think about what idia could feasibly do to him that he can’t get out of. malleus’s fate is simply TBD
i think the closer idia gets to overblotting the more he would try to do to azul. the mental barrier that keeps him from doing more tests on azul could definitely be broken down, but between you and me idk if idia would be able to last that long ;3
sorry for the long post but i hope this answered all of your questions !! feel free to ask more if you want !’ (*^▽^*)