So What Is Fray's Deal Anyway
Jul. 25th, 2025 11:13 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beaffrayedNote: I am not claiming this is what Fray's deal is in the game, but it is how I play them!
- does a xion-style 'changes depending on who's looking at them' but they wear full plate all the time so mostly the voice changes and you've got no fucking idea why
- but only when they're thinking of themselves as fray who lives in the wol's brain rent-free and not Fray, The Real Guy Whose Corpse You Touched
- they're read as 'more alive' when they're a mirror to whoever they're speaking to, and extremely dead when they're not (ie observing themselves as the ghost of a dead man)
- if you had any actual opportunity to cut them open for whatever godforsaken reason, there would be a drk jobstone where a human heart would be
- their body situation is Nevermind Don't Worry About It (they are literally the armor, the armor cannot be removed, but there is Flesh In There. The armor is essentially skin.)
- also they have the wol's memories from like, when dark knight starts onwards, but anything they weren't actually 'present' for like the DRK quests is strictly as an outside observer, like they're watching it in a movie theater third person and heckling you about your bad decisions
- they know the broad strokes of every expac past heavensward but they had NO input in the shit you did, whatever you did. they were napping in the theater
They have a WoL's memories up to current content, and also a second set of memories from their life as Fray.
Pronouns: He/she/they, Yours Specifically.
Fray's pronouns are 'whoever they're threading with in any given thread', unless they're thinking of themselves as 'Fray who traveled with Sidurgu and Rielle and died'.
- In Japanese translations, it's made more clear that Fray is Separate From You. The way I personally want to interpret this is that Fray can be a convenient corpse (ie they can possess an empty body), or they can just be an aetherial construct when no body is available.
- For any given WoL, i can roll with "this is Your Fray Who Has Your Memories" or "this is a fray who has Meteor's memories", whatever works. Trust me when I say I do not mind AT ALL which way it goes, a certain degree of identityfuckery is Fray's entire thing anyway.
- does a xion-style 'changes depending on who's looking at them' but they wear full plate all the time so mostly the voice changes and you've got no fucking idea why
- but only when they're thinking of themselves as fray who lives in the wol's brain rent-free and not Fray, The Real Guy Whose Corpse You Touched
- they're read as 'more alive' when they're a mirror to whoever they're speaking to, and extremely dead when they're not (ie observing themselves as the ghost of a dead man)
- if you had any actual opportunity to cut them open for whatever godforsaken reason, there would be a drk jobstone where a human heart would be
- their body situation is Nevermind Don't Worry About It (they are literally the armor, the armor cannot be removed, but there is Flesh In There. The armor is essentially skin.)
- also they have the wol's memories from like, when dark knight starts onwards, but anything they weren't actually 'present' for like the DRK quests is strictly as an outside observer, like they're watching it in a movie theater third person and heckling you about your bad decisions
- they know the broad strokes of every expac past heavensward but they had NO input in the shit you did, whatever you did. they were napping in the theater
They have a WoL's memories up to current content, and also a second set of memories from their life as Fray.
Pronouns: He/she/they, Yours Specifically.
Fray's pronouns are 'whoever they're threading with in any given thread', unless they're thinking of themselves as 'Fray who traveled with Sidurgu and Rielle and died'.
- In Japanese translations, it's made more clear that Fray is Separate From You. The way I personally want to interpret this is that Fray can be a convenient corpse (ie they can possess an empty body), or they can just be an aetherial construct when no body is available.
- For any given WoL, i can roll with "this is Your Fray Who Has Your Memories" or "this is a fray who has Meteor's memories", whatever works. Trust me when I say I do not mind AT ALL which way it goes, a certain degree of identityfuckery is Fray's entire thing anyway.
