I've been a big fan of the art from persona 5 for a while, and since I finally managed to get myself to play the game, I decided it would be fun to see if I would do any good at mimicking the art style.
Pretty proud of these, considering they were my first attempts too.
If HK ends up with a squire, how would he treat them? How would they become their squire? What's the process for something like that?
Really wanted to try to write a snippet for this but the more I thought about it, the more I thought, no I don't think Helsknight would ever want a squire. If he were given one, he would treat them fairly, and try his best to be a good knight to train under.
Normally, squires are either taken on as a willing apprentice [the knight chooses a squire out of willing candidates], squires are assigned as vassals by a lord [for hels, I think this would translate to an archbishop, head priest or paladin of Helsknight's Order giving him a squire.]
Squires aren't just knight's apprentices. They are also, basically, fancy footmen. They run errands for the knight, help them don and off armor, clean and polish that armor in the knight's stead, keep the horse and tack cared for, etc. Some squires might even be asked to prepare meals for their knight, and serve them at formal events. In turn, they are trained in swordcraft and accompany the knight on tasks of errantry, in the hopes of getting the recognition they need to also be knighted.
Helsknight has been very independent for a very long time. If he ever got an official squire, I think the adjustment period would be rough. There would be a lot of push and pull when it came to sharing responsibility, and a marked learning curve for patience and boundaries. Really, it wouldn't be too far off from getting used to Tanguish, I don't think. ;)
“He betrayed your trust and you aren’t more upset?" Helsknight scoffs. "Pathetic.”
Wels rolls his eyes. “It’s a death game, Helsknight, that’s kind of the whole point. I should’ve seen this coming, honestly.”
“You’re naive.”
“Iskall’s my friend. It’s not naive to trust him.”
“He broke that trust!”
“Well, yes, and I plan to get him back for that someday, but also: it’s a death game. We all agreed to it. I’m not mad at him for killing me, I just wish he’d been a bit more upfront about it.”
If he’d been more obvious about trying to kill Wels, then maybe Wels wouldn’t be dead, also. But Iskall’s whole goal was to kill him, so he can understand the deception.
“You’re infuriating.”
Wels shrugs. He generally tries not to be, but in this instance, he finds that he doesn’t mind. “Maybe so. Look, can we finish this later? I need to go get my stuff back from Iskall, and your presence would probably freak him out.”
you know when you get to that point of dealing with intrusive/self deprecating/etc thoughts that you're just like. "yeah okay. consider: you're stupid and wrong. also: go away, i'm busy"? that should be wels and hels
hels as a reaper wouldve been SO fucking funny. imagine doing fuckall whatever in the minecraft adjacent of hell and then your annoying ass clone brother pulls you up to the surface and asks you to do a favor for him. you refuse. but then he tells you that you get to kill someone. you instantly change your mind