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BWAAAAHHHHH wake the fuck up everyone on earth

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Basically that's what he is to me

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Reblogging because yh... this is real.

I’ve been thinking a lot about Incendia lately, and I do want to start making more content for her..... it’s just unfair to focus so much on one and completely overlook the other, the plots themselves r even connected in game!

i don't really care that much about calligos tbh but it reeeaaaaally pisses me off how much fan content is dedicated to him in comparison to incendia. like. they're characters of literally equal importance in the plot / "screen time"

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i think i do l0ve that one (since how .... i was in trying to understand him) although i never really understand what exactly the 10ve is🥶🥶🥶😨😨😨😰😰😰😰😰😰

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Sigh... I commissioned this analysis, and it basically aligns with what I already thought.... But STILL, it doesn't really answer why the hell would Calligos willingly go visit someone who witnessed his blackest hour....😭😭😭

Psychological Analysis Report on Calligos Winterscale

After reading the in-game texts, my first impression of Calligos was that of a cunning, smiling predator—a conclusion that, counterintuitively, contradicts his external presentation.

His physical description—"Calligos Winterscale is a broad-shouldered, athletic-looking man. ... His smile is crooked, as if ready to turn into a hostile snarl at any moment."—suggests animalistic dominance and an overwhelming presence, especially in his obsession with hunting. Typically, such figures are depicted as impulsive or primal. Yet, upon rereading, I began to think otherwise:

He possesses a dominator’s personality, and more importantly, is highly skilled at performance and deception. Even his posture, body language, and general demeanor are likely calculated—a psychological offensive upon anyone who sees him. His emotions, especially his anger, are carefully managed tools of control, not impulsive outbursts.

Take this line for example: "The moment I show even a trace of anger, they should be groveling, begging for my forgiveness!"

This is telling—it shows that Calligos is perfectly aware of the emotional impact he exerts on others. His rage isn’t the byproduct of uncontrollable impulse, but a finely tuned performance. It’s a mechanism for dominance. His obsession with control betrays a deep fear of losing it. For him, losing control is intolerable, and if necessary, he’ll assert control through brute force.

People like him often bury vulnerability and fear deep within. While the texts don’t delve deeply into his family life, one indirect window comes from his son, Evayne:

"I wasn’t my father’s favorite child. We’ve barely had any meaningful conversations."

This subtly reveals Calligos’s emotionally distant family dynamic—he doesn’t love his children, perhaps because he doesn’t know how. He only understands issuing orders. This might reflect his own upbringing: raised in an affectionless, survival-of-the-fittest environment. Any emotional response is suppressed and redirected into the pursuit of power.

Evayne is markedly different in temperament—he values diplomacy and peace, traits Calligos clearly despises. The disdain is likely not about Evayne’s abilities, but because Evayne fails to reflect his own worldview. Calligos doesn’t understand concepts like personal difference or cooperative value; his metric for worth is purely based on control and conquest.

He’s also deeply, almost obsessively, "solitary." He craves stimulation, danger, and bloodshed—not for the reward, but for the sensation. His disappointment at retaking Footfall, and his indifference toward sharing war trophies with RT, demonstrate that these actions weren’t fulfilling. His identity hinges not on victory, but on the experience of domination. When this cycle of stimulus-response breaks down, he teeters toward collapse.

The betrayal arc—his "spine-breaking" moment—is pivotal. This line ("His hair was in disarray... the usual radiant smile replaced by a wicked grimace") marks his transformation from a theatrical warlord to a beast driven by raw instinct. His addiction to control has surpassed his reason. The betrayal by his arch militant, Worten the Grey, signals the breakdown of his entire system of control. Worse, it reveals that his emotional performances—his choreographed rage—are no longer sufficient to maintain power. The literal breaking of his back is a symbolic castration—an irreversible dethroning.

What enrages him most isn’t personal betrayal—it’s the failure of his dominance system. For a man like him, being betrayed by a subordinate isn’t emotionally painful—it’s existentially humiliating.

And so, he spirals into a phase of self-reconstruction disguised as redemption. I don’t believe his "atonement" is genuine. Instead, it’s emotional compensation, or psychological self-medication—part self-deception, part performative coping.

Take this line: "When the Tech-Priests repaired me with steel, I ordered them not to fix me too well. I want every step I take, every move I make, to be accompanied by pain, to remind me of the mistake I made."

It sounds noble, but it reveals his real mindset: pain is the only thing left he can control. His supposed redemption isn’t true repentance—it’s a dramatic narrative he writes for himself. Even at his lowest, he’s still performing, trying to direct how others perceive him.

And his divergent endings reflect that state. In the corruption path, he succumbs entirely to his addiction to violence and destruction—a logical outcome for someone whose personality is built on overstimulation and dominance gone awry. In the redemption path, he "refuses all augmentations that would restore his vitality... and remains seated on the throne until the end of his days." Here, he transforms power into a static form of responsibility—not to atone, but to stage a revenge against his own failure.

Yes, revenge—not against others, but against the version of himself that lost.

Because no matter how much he postures or masks it, deep down, Calligos knows the real tragedy: he was undone not by external defeat, but by the collapse of the very mythology he built for himself. He chased control, but was betrayed by his most trusted. He glorified battle, but lost his ability to fight. He prided himself as the hunter, but became the prey.

In both endings—corruption or "redemption"—he is not saved. He is a tragic figure in the classical sense—not because he fails, but because his very method of success eventually guarantees his ruin.

That, I believe, is Calligos Winterscale’s true wound.

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ain't be able to pee in the same urinal bottle with fellow stans makes me sorry

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He would be triumphantly showing it off if his spine hasn't been broken🫢😔

just wanna draw his 嫌いな顔 again n again 😌😌😔

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When I think of what I've done to my stans, I want my fellow stans to block me.🙂🙂🙂

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Behold mutuals I commissioned this people this man this face🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳

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play with friend( ◜‿◝ )♡

2 years( ◜‿◝ )♡

finally fellow stan to play with(´o̴̶̷̤ㅂo̴̶̷̤`)

love( ◜‿◝ )♡

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my understanding to his face😱😱😱🫢😤

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again chewing on your calligos you don't need to reply but he's so lame I LOVE HOW YOU DRAW HIM!!!

.........AAAAAAAAAAAA I'm so happy u feel the same way I do and yh just look at his power thirsty (& powerless)nature 😤😤😤😤🤭🤭🤭🫢I'll be chewing him with u.....

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abuse disable😭😭😭😱😱😱😱

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What your eldari do behind closed doors 😏

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Yeah haha

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there's too much ego leaking when i draw Regill maybe i should stop posting him(not stop drawing haha) such a character....🙂🙂😭😭😭so easily seduce(seduce??)(traps)(provokes)personal emotion in drawings and it feels sick to publish them

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