Of The Swirling Abyss

SPOILER WARNING: — All information on this card will discuss every bit of up-to-date lore existing for Vivian. That means it will contain spoilers of his own lore and history. Thiere is a lot of story to Vivian that I feel will never really reach the surface through simple interactions, and thus I wanted to create this for those interested in lore that may never actually see the light of day. I hope you all the reading is enjoyable, and thank you!

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content warning for mature themes: suicide, abuse, sexual content, etc.

SOMEWHERE ON THE 13TH SHARD — A woman named Edinth Crowe, a knight of a royal family, gives birth to a child that she lovingly names Soleil, just as the world was being consumed by the darkness. A child already suffering the corruption of all-consuming darkness in the womb when Edinth was wounded by what would later be known as Voidsent. With the help of Andromaeda, an archmage of tremendous power and Varun, a rogue with the ability to use runic stones for power, Soleil is placed into a crystalized stasis in hopes to stay the corruption and save them from the horrors that would eventually befall the shard. Soleil is then sent through the space between worlds where he would eventually land, some 9000+ years later, in Garlemald and found by Regina mal Cassius and Leonidas van Cassius and given the name Vivian.

GROWING UP IN GARLEMALD WAS, FOR THE MOST PART, UNEVENTFUL; PEACEFUL.— Though his parents were often absent due to their ranks, they were always loving and supportive of Vivian, and gave him everything that they could to ensure his childhood was a happy one. A strange, small child with eyes as black as night, small horns that grew from their temple, and hair that was as white as the blistering snow of Ilsabard. Both Leon and Regina knew that this would garner more than unwanted attention and taught Vivian how to hide these aspects of himself (at least in public). Things such as wearing special contacts to cover his eyes, keeping his hair long to hide his horns and making sure the white was dyed a deep auburn. Regina often encouraged the practice of medicine and piano, while Leonidas was always eager to try and teach Vivian how to wield a gun. When left to his own devices, Vivian was found building music boxes.

Though Vivian was taught to keep under the radar, he still was often brought to lavish parties and special events with his parents when the occasion arose, while maintaining as a somewhat mute and well-behaved child. In later years, Vivian is accepted into the Magitek Academy around the age of fourteen (14), and though he did not have a powerful name like Garlond to back up his credentials, he excelled in engineering and his knowledge of robotics and magitek, receiving honors when he eventually graduated. Despite his technical ability with magitek, he is drafted into the Imperial Army as a combat medic for a year or so, due to his mother's influence.

When his time as a combat medic is finished, Vivian is deemed MIA. In actuality, he is sent to Landis, where he undergoes a variety of combat-oriented experiments in an attempt to create and recreate the equivilant of monsterous soldiers. It was also here where Vivian's ECHO awakens or comes to exist. When discovered, it was also used in tandem with other echo users to research the Resonant Echo. This is also where he meets Eos.

For I am the First and you... shall be the Last.

LANDIS — It is here, somewhere beneath the city, that lays the now destroyed and abandoned research facility for the Garlean Empire. Once a flourishing hub for a variety of experimentation from combat, atherial manipulation, and a bit of fucked up agriculture, it now lay dormant like a ghost town. This is where Vivian Hallows had been taken after his time as a medic for [x] Legion. While here, he is put through a variety of combat-oriented tests after an incident caused the researchers to be particularly interested in his endurance. Vivian is thus pitted against a wide range of creatures, beasts, and former humans to test his mettle, to push his body beyond its breaking point. To show that he was stronger than the rest of them. It is this monstrous endurance that makes him, and one other, their core projects within the facility.Introducing Eos. A woman of mysterious origins with winged ears and feathered tail. Her skin was graced with patches of soft downy feathers, and her eyes were a mix of the ocean and the sun. Whether the disparage between the colors was true to her or a result of experimentation, Vivian never got to find out. She was gentle and kind; often soothing those around her with song and soft words. She would eventually grow close to Vivian, patching up his wounds where and when she could after every test, singing to him as he tried to fall asleep, and giving him purpose to keep going. Much of Eos was a mystery to everyone around her, making it little surprise that she was a source of great interest to the researchers. They acted as if they had caught something both divine and abhorrent. And Perhaps they had.

All things would come to its end. Vivian would wake up to an eerie silence that felt out of place within the facility. Not even the deadest hours of the night bore such silence. He would find door to his cell eroded and broken, allowing him the freedom to walk among the empty facility halls until he comes upon splattering of blood dragged on the floor and smeared on the walls, leaving a trail into the unlit darkness.

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