#disctober

IM SO PROUD OF HOW THE SKILL PORTRAIT LOOKS!!! LIKE I THOUGHT I WASNT GONNA FINISH IN TIME. Anyway- This au is set during the initial attacks that Delores Dei's Army of Humanity launched on Mesque. Steban is still a revolutionary, trying to pull his people together while they get massacred. Ulixes (bless him, I've focused solely on Steban. I promise I'll do his sheet at some point) is a Gottwaldian run away, a petty criminal camouflaging with whatever group will get him the furthest.

As you can see, their dynamic changed quite a bit! Steban is forced into a position where his values, the thing he holds closest, can no longer be validated only by talk. He sees the action first hand, he knows his decisions can and have killed innocent people. On the other hand, Uli's survival instinct is pushed to the limit. This may be my own gross misunderstanding of the characters but Ulixes is different from Steban because his subconscious reason for being revolutionary is individual fear/helplessness and a want to eliminate the outside source of that fear. In this case, he is not initially a revolutionary. He wants to join Steban's band for simple protection while he stays in town but ends up becoming trapped there by the enemy army. This leads to them talking and developing a relationship similar to what we see in the game (but a little sadder as they're stressed and angry up til their last moments).