#o3s

V3S CLEARED!

let's call this Killswitch

so to start out lets just say hunter goes to the OE colony

basically imagine hunter gets the rot surgically removed (probably by saint or smth, a spear Will Not Be Enough, don't ask how saint's there) enough for the rot to be larely benign and saves his life

but also, the rot's been in hunter for a long ass time, and after a long time inside an intelligent being, it grows its own intelligence too (thank you Out Of Our Skin)

so, after the procedure is done, hunter looks fine, but tries to stand and goes completely pale and collapses

enter long legs, the personification of hunter's rot that's actually been fighting to keep hunter alive but could never fight hard enough

these two now share a body and whenever hunter is feeling too frail, in pain, or just not enough energy, long legs takes over for them (you can easily tell by hunter's eyes clouding and crossing out and his skin going like 3 shades paler)

these two both know exactly what the other was doing because they completely share each other's memories! one remembers what happened exactly as well as the other did, but doesn't necessarily remember which one did it

hunter has an extremely high pain tolerance, is jaded to almost everything, and generally doesn't care for muxh of their own safety, but cares deeply about his friends

long legs is a bit more innocent, and is still getting to know the people hunter calls friends, but gets along very well with everyone

now in my headcanons hunter is good friends with artificer (nothing romantic though), so arti kinda flipped out when first meeting long legs and put a spear therough their head. hunter was not happy about that next cycle

“How’s O3S progress going?”