▷ First Impressions▶ VISUAL: -> TAKE A LOOK AT ME
Visually, Asch isn't immediately obviously different from a human; he's got a fairly normal physical build (small but sturdy, topping at a a whole 5'7/171cm), with bright red, long hair (though he is less religious about wearing it in the same all-down rooster-bangs style than his canon counterpart), with blue-green eyes and a fairly sharp nose. His eyebrows give him the impression of a constant scowl even when he's relaxed, and he's not exceptionally expressive (especially of positive emotions). He looks like a young adult, in a way that's hard to exactly quantify exactly - it's hard to match an exact age to even child-shaped blades, and a child he is not. Unlike some blades who have features that overtly link them to their elements (hair that's constantly a little on fire or a wind blade that constantly floats), in his usual clothing Asch can pass for completely human, at a glance.
Only, however, because of the way he usually dresses, in dark clothes from just under his chin on down. Even his hands are covered, in black leather gloves, and the usual majority of his clothes are either also black or a very dark grey, making the color of his hair downright alarming by contrast. They're casual clothes, loose but not too loose, the style a little temporally out of step (jeans and tunics were not meant to be combined in such a way) but the fabrics soft and thick.
Because underneath are his ether lines, and the whole point is to keep the bright glow of them from being obvious to an external viewer. Not so much because Asch is actively hiding that he's a blade, but more because he's hiding exactly what kind of blade he is. Aegisites are horrifying fusions of seven blades; accordingly, where a normal blade has a single ether color and a harmonious design, usually evocative of their element. (For example, Jade as an ice blade has hexagonal designs; a fire blade might have a pattern of swirls that look like flames, an earth blade a series of cracks, and so on.) Asch's ether lines are a crazy quilt chaotic mash of the shapes of the blades used to produce him, and the color, while overall "red," shimmers between distinct microshades ranging from a near-orange to almost pink.
Asch's core crystal is also atypical (though one would need familiarity with ywkon blades specifically to know this). In contrast to the squares of normal blades, Asch's looks like a square standing on its point like a diamond, but with the upper corner cut off. The location of his core crystal - in his chest in line with where his sternum would be, a bit higher than a human heart - is typical, and his ether lines flow from there. The same shimmering sort of glow comes from his core crystal as his ether lines.
Basically: Young adult male, humanlike, with intensely red hair and bluegreen eyes. Prefers to dress covered up. Weird glowy tattoo patterns in shimmering red from the neck down, in erratic patterns centered on a hunk of crystal embedded in his chest.
▶ AURAL: So canonically Asch is voiced by Yuri Lowenthal. However I've never vibed with that performance absolutely and I vibe with his JP VA even less, so like... Midrange masculine, the kind of voice that has a full body and can carry across rooms if he wants it to, but generally low-volume. Soft or rough by moods. Basically the masculine version of those anime BGMs that's "one lady singing with minimal instrumental backing during melancholy character-is-reflecting-on-their-backstory scenes."
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oncedriven) wrote2021-04-19 01:27 am
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POINTS OF INTEREST: I can't think of anything, but if you want to make assumptions that turn out to be correct about Zel's backstory, go ahead!
ELEMENTAL LEANINGS?: Given Zelgadis is part rock golem, earth.
There isn't much canonical information on the 'brau/blow demon' that makes up Zel's remaining third, besides that they are NOT actual demons, so I'll just say that whatever elemental affinity that grants, it's masked by residual spells making the golem bits work with squishy biology.