Tag: character study

Hey it’s Anon from the big question about Feuriah. Thank you for the very in depth answer, I hope I didn’t come off as rude. If you don’t mind me asking another question : for some reason I always get the feeling that Hysteria would be the kind to betray her own family for more power or for her own survival (like executing them to join the Kuros for example). Is it the case or am I completely wrong here ?

OOC : Hello again! Oh no not at all, you didn’t come off as rude to me. Honestly, that was an awesome ask, and very much enjoyed answering it and it gave me the chance to delve into and explain a complex character. So thank you!

As for Hysteria, you’re pretty much right on que; at least, that was what she was originally made to do. 

A few years ago, a7xsparx and I made the Divine Havok AU, where Kaos is thrown into a time portal when Havok was a child which caused a series of events to turn him into a psychopath. The time portal shoots Kaos like 25-30 years into that future and attempts to re-connect with Havok, who had taken control over Skylands, but Havok instead turns on his own father and attempts to kill him. Spyro, Sparx, and a few other Skylanders had gone into the portal to try and bring Kaos back to prevent this future from happening, and they succeed in the end. Kaos returns and to prevent him being afraid of his son, his memory is wiped by a character and he returns a week after he fell into the portal.

Quick little tid bit to note, that I always seem to forget to mention, is that during this AU, I was so bothered by how Kaos was missing a tooth in Swap Force that we had a scene that explains why x,D He and Spyro get into a fist fight after Kaos discovers that Circuit (who, in a7xsparx‘s verse is Spyro’s daughter) was the one that kills Feuriah in that AU. The fact he had an unexplained missing tooth drove me INSANE!!! 

But the reason I explain that, is because since that future didn’t happen, Hysteria was born. When I was first writing her character, she was meant to be a very, very cold creature with an ambition that was even greater than Kaos’. Originally she was going to create a future similar to the Divine Havok AU, and yep, would turn on her own family in order to do that. 

Now, after a year or so of her being on the blog, her character has changed since her creation, which usually happens x,D She’s still very narcissistic and cold, but she has grown attachments to other characters wether she likes to admit it or not. But, there’s no saying that she wouldn’t turn against her own family in due time, if she was given the choice 😉

~Weird Hyenas

Something I really do not understand about the Lost Queen… She knows the pain of losing home, friends, family, children. And yet she keeps trying to put people that has done nothing to her through the same pain she herself went through. Doesn’t the thought of a mother Mabu or any other species crying over a child they lost because of one of her attacks on the Skylands ever bother her ?

OOC : One thing to keep in mind, is that she is a villain. She takes pride in being one, as her race believes they were born to be evil to keep balance. 

Feur herself is a mess after the fall. The event really scrambled her, yet she still tries to stay true to what her people would have wanted. But she is very much a hypocrite, not that she thinks she is. Yes, she knows the pain, but the reason why she does it to others is because that is her job. The Kuros saw being evil as contribution to the universe and keeping it in balance. She was raised to think like that, especially after ‘the good guys’ of Warfang showed her just how flawed the ideals of the good are.

So, she has little issue doing that to others because she feels that it is her place to. Not many villains have the gull to do the things the Kuros had to do, which was why they were so feared. They would even go after other villains who became too out of control.

Another thing I don’t know that really comes out about Feuriah’s character, is that to her people, Feuriah was actually considered mentally weak. In the way that she does care too much, she has too much heart. Why?

  • She cries at funerals. In Kurosian custom, that’s a social no no. Death isn’t meant to be seen as something bad, but rather one is meant to feel joy and pride and funerals are a show of gratitude of their life. Feuriah cries at them as she felt so emotionally close, and that is seen as weak and selfish.
  • Feuriah loves babies. She could never bring herself to hurt children. That’s probably one thing that has carried over from her personal experiences. Kuros, however, did kill offspring as it is something most other villains won’t do, yet it is a thing that must happen in order to eliminate a city. As a child, when she leads the attack on Warfang, she lets the children escape despite her hatred for the city. The Kuros didn’t know this, as she had to use a Guardian to distract them just so the children could escape. During war attacks, Feur has to hide the fact that she wont kill eggs or children, and when she is Queen, Kurogh is the one that handles most war situations which leaves Feuriah more freedom to hide this.
  • Feuriah fell in love. Most Kuros despise the idea and of course, find it a poison of the mind and soul. Kaos was the first person she realized she was in love with, however, she actually did love before. Her first ‘love’, was Kruta. She went to school with him and the two were almost best friends, eventually becoming the kurosian equivalent of boyfriend and girlfriend. Feuriah did have a major crush on Athrenna, but it was a love that came from a lifetime of admiration and respect. Wash Buckler, or Davey, came close to winning the Queen’s heart right before Kaos, as he was the only one to show her how love was really meant to work, but the Queen’s loyalty to her people’s ways not only forced her to go back to evil, but back to Kaos as well. 

    Feuriah probably wouldn’t like this news, but if her people came back and saw she was in love, she’d most likely be killed with Kaos, and her children (if they wanted to stay with the people) would have to be the ones to do it. If they refused, they would be banished. Or, depending on wether the Kuros found her loyalty worth considering, she’d be banished unless she revoked Kaos. Feuriah uses her ability to love to help aide her in continuing the ways of her people, but the Kuros before the fall wouldn’t understand.  

  • Feuriah still loves and considers Cynder her daughter. I think that comes out of her character on the blog, but it can be confusing. When she banished Cynder, she wasn’t suppost to ever consider her a relation again. But she still does. She doesn’t show it, but it utterly crushed her to have to send Cynder away. She didn’t have the heart to carry out the real punishment Cynder would have gotten if the Kuros were still around; Cynder should have been killed for her betrayal. But the Queen couldn’t do it, so she found loopholes in the Kurosian law to banish her. She still found being loyal to her people was important, as she was raised by them and because of her (she feels it’s her fault in a way), her people were killed.

    Havok and Hysteria have no issue staying true to the banishment since both of them hadn’t been born yet. They honor her banishment by not considering her a relation.

Feuriah can be a mess to understand, but I feel she should be like that especially with what happens during the Fall. The event was incredibly traumatic for her, and without her kind heart, she wouldn’t have survived the guilt. She’s not the kindest out there, but more kind than a normal Kuros would be, and I kept that in her character from the LoS version of her.

Apologies for the rant! I don’t really get a chance to delve into characters OOC like this, and Feuriah is probably the most complex of the characters. Yep, she’s a hypocrite, but there’s reasons why she feels the way she does. 

~Weird Hyenas