Mountain getting high on poison he use to kill needs a fanfic too but im not here for this...
Plus i always imagined mountain being the best at hunting on earth (because mist is the best in water) with something like he being so silent and knowing woods as his habit
Im here for nightmare hunter Aether!
Please i promise to not get scared but i need you to elaborate Aether hunter...
I wrote Mountain poisoning his victim here! (Also featuring rough sex with Sunshine, fair warning).
ANYWAY since the people want to know about Aether, here are some of my thoughts (I will write the whole fic someday, just like I WILL write the one about Swiss corrupting a priest and eating him...I mean uhhhh)
Also tagging @askingforthesun since Mal DM'd me asking for this too ♡.
-I think Aether's true form is barely solid. Sort of wispy. Can fade into the shadows. Can slip his, semi-solid fingers deep into bodies and pull out still beating hearts.
-Aether's favorite way to feed is less of a real hunt and more like....a spider. He waits for food to walk into his web.
-His web being his general, care-taking demeanor. He's the nice one. The trustworthy one. Siblings aren't afraid of him. They should be.
-He has a spot--a lair--in the basement where he keeps his catches. He doesn't kill right away, see. He draws it out. He feeds off of their emotions first. Whichever one's he's craving, until they're empty. Until he has had his fill on their memories and their fear. Only then, does he feast.
-he uses quintessence to keep them compliant. And maybe it's a mercy that they aren't aware of where they really are. But he is also digging through their memories. Finding triggers. Pulling strings. Toying with their brains, feasting on their lives. Forcing them to relive their worst moments. To think their worst fears have really come to life.
-He tends to draw it out for weeks. He sucks them dry of every thing he can find. He loves to make them last. To savor them.
-the flesh and blood are more of a necessity than a want. The real pleasure comes from the manipulation. The fear. The thoughts. Those are the delicacy.
-he sometimes shares his meals with the ghouls who like the blood more. A handful of them won't take him up on it--the meat tastes too much like quintessence and not everyone likes it.
-he's very delicate with how he does it. Graceful even. He has perfected the art of this. He's training Aeon to do the same.
-bonus Aeon lore: Aeons favorite hunting method (so far) is to make his prey think they're being chased by the thing they're most afraid of. He loves the taste of fear and quintessence mixed together.
