#yllarah

Cylox’s psionic powers are pretty pitiful, but they can work well as a distraction.

Yllarah sees Cylox as her nemesis because he escaped their colony even though she tried to stop him, leading the colony to cast her out for her failure. Cylox sees Yllarah as a huge asshole because she killed his friend and destroyed half his face. Marian doesn’t know what’s going on.

but in his old colony, he was a sanitation worker. his only job was carrying stuff to be thrown away. not HEAVY stuff, mind you, but still, it was physical labor. a thrall would have been doing it if his colony didn’t have a shortage of thralls and a mind flayer who they saw as too incompetent to do anything else.

so when the other mind flayers look at him, especially high-ranking ones, they see this big hulking meathead with more muscles than brains because they’re EVEN WEAKER AND NERDIER than him.

i felt like drawing an upcoming scene from the unfinished Gauntlet fic. basically Tal tries to use a disguise to sneak past Vree and Yllarah as part of a stealth mission, Yllarah sees through them, and Cylox immediately teleports in and wrecks the entire plan trying to help.