HEY GUESS WHO! GEAR SWAP TIME!! I need to stop these rambles lmao.
Okay so I was making notes for the fanfic (as one does) and I came up with four characters that are essentially the leaders of each faction.
Ghostfire: Harden war vet, Subspace's caretaker and leader of Blackrock.
Party Cannon: Also a war vet but they are super chill and leader of Playground
Azure Periastron: Leader of Thieves Den tbh I don't have much of a personality for them other than he is very involved with her faction (also any pronouns too)
Crescendo: Leader of Lost Temple that may or may not be funding the church of the true eye a bit.
And yeah they got affected by the swap too, Ghost got Party got swapped and Azure and Crescendo got swapped.
I don't have much in mind for them for the au rn, just kinda there to make the world feel more fleshed out.
Except Ghostfire, I have some ideas in mind so if you would let me ramble:
As I put in her mini description, Ghostfire was a war vet more specifically from the great faction war. If you went up against her during that time then just prepare to see Ghostwalker later lol.
After the war she soon rose up to become Blackrock's leader. She made it clear that technological advancement was her goal, especially to the military.
When Subspace was a child she saw great potential in him as he had always been very smart and had a talent for robotics, so she took him under her wing and essentially became his caretaker.
So you bet that Subspace was really conflicted when she threatened to take everything from him while he still worked for Blackrock after gaining the Darkheart.
Like this was essentially his mum but she was also kind of a bad parent, not abusive but controlling, and he kind of soon realized he was being brainwashed most of his life so uh existential crisis for Subspace because tormenting him is fun/j.
By this point in the story he hasn't fully spiraled into madness (I mean he's close) so he doesn't kill Ghostfire and just flees Blackrock and just has a crisis alone somewhere before saying, "Screw it! I'm literally a God now so why tf do I have to listen to anyone!" And oops there goes the last of Subspace's sanity! Surprised he still had some left/j
Yeah this ramble kinda went off the rails but hell I doubt I'd be here if Cap didn't present me the idea of giving Subspace a SFOTH sword and letting him be evil and stuff. (Jk this is so fun to think about).