#obron

All the pilot stuff that came out about Obron (AKA pilot Belos) made me think I should make at least one thing related to it, so I’m gonna make a keychain where one side is his pilot design, and the other side will be his proof of concept design :3

The way Belos warps the "Titan's will" in the actual show is directly akin to religious colonization and manipulation—imposing a god figure and then saying you're the sole voice of said god, as a means of control. Meanwhile, Obron is implied to be using the will of an actual tangible "rightful" monarch to enact control, not an intangible god, which removes these themes and could easily just end up falling into the trap of "oh no, it's just the wrong person in power, nothing is wrong with the actual system. Monarchy/empire is fine actually with the good guy in charge".

Of course, I trust the toh team would have pulled it together somehow if this wasn't changed. But Belos both being the actual emperor himself, and also creating the whole empirial rule & coven system himself, is such a more succint way to directly position the systems of power—not just the man in charge—as the fundamental problem.

Shadow Puppets AU - Obron and Pupa

Another collab between Bragi and I. 

I guess I can throw my headcanon that his curse stopped his hair from growing in the trash