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“There he was,” said Jonathan. “My savior from that infernal realm.”
“What is he?” asked Jake.
“He is…” Jonathan shook his head, not really sure how to explain to his son what he saw. “It’s difficult to say. It’s complicated on what he is. But there is a race of beings that exist in the Great Multiverse who bend no knee to any god, nor do they abide by any mortal rule. They don’t need to. They were the First Ones, the Kethosi, the Precursors to all life. And not even us Ancient Dragons can hold a candle to these creatures. If anyone in the Multiverse who knows more about the Far Realm, it’s them.”
“And that’s how he saved you?” Jake asked.
“Yes,” said Jonathan. “That’s how. But he looked so familiar. His voice…sounded like he was a friend I know. But it was like I could not even say the name of the friend. He was forcing me not to say it. But I want to say his name. I couldn’t. And I can’t.”
“It’s okay, Dad,” said Jake. “You don’t need to. What matters is you’re home.”
“Yeah…” Jonathan said. “I’m home.” But I don’t feel like I’m home.
His thoughts returned to the problem of the ever-growing dark energy inside of him. The Stone of Aster was becoming stronger. While he was on the Kethosi ship, the Blitzardi kept him bound in a collar that the energy of the Stone in control. The Blitzardi also showed worry over the growing energy from the Stone. Though, the Kethosi never interfere with inferior beings unlike what Dragons do. The Blitzardi was going against his own laws to help Pyrothraxus. Why, Jonathan did not know. But he knew that the Blitzardi more accessible than he ever thought a Kethosi would be.
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Okay....
This may be a spoiler of what may happen in the next couple of chapters in the Crimson Dragon II. LOL. Hmmmm....why does the big dragon/wolf dude look familiar? And why is Jonathan turning black and purple again?
The background was done in Vue 7 Infinite. Sooner or later, I'll upgrade to 8.5, I swear. But I think they're cooking up 9 now, so I may wait.
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I like your dragons fan art! They all looks so beautiful and artisticly awesome! Especially Kiryuu Knight!
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Kiryuu Knight is not a dragon, dude. He's a reanimated cyborg mutant dinosaur. He's the first Godzilla.
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I knew that, but his name means machine dragons, besides his original design got somewhat of a dragon impression. By the way, you can call me, Naked Snake.
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I wonder about what Tahkisis would think of what's happening with what's going on with Pyrothraxus. I know that she is forbidden from interfering according to the story. Though I still wonder what her take on this whole situation is.
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She takes an unbiased take on the whole situation.
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I see, Lovecraft certainly puts a spin on things in his own perspectives in his works from me just looking at Lovecraftian horror on wiki
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Yup, that's what's fun about it.
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I have a feeling the good guys aren't gonna win this one...
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The Far Realm in all of your stories I assume has a bad stigma with the Hydra and other nasties emerging from it. And the fact that Tahkisis doesn't look kindly on people like David, the gnome, releasing a monster from that realm. Does this take from from D&D's portrayal of it?
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This is more Lovecraftean than anything else.
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The thing that would make me scared of the Far Realm isn't Ghidrah, and it isn't what happens to people who enter that do not belong there. It's this thought: Besides the Hydra, what else could have come through? There are a lot of Eldritch Abominations in the DnD world; the Rakshasa may have come from there, or the Taint from the Heroes of Horror guidebook. Even worse, suppose the Far Realm was the home of the Slender Man...
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No kidding. I been I read the latest update. The fact that Pyro will be considered something worse when he escapes the Far Realm hits home for him. Yet, keep up the good work
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Yes, everything just gets worse as the story goes.
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Cool artwork. Though this likely is off topic: I don't know if I understand this fully about the Stone of Aster, but from what I seen in the story and from reader comments and your own, it's not something that the good guys want taking control of Pyrothraxus. And him trying the escape the shadow plane through Baator likely will have some serious consequence. On top of the that with the threat of Pyrothraxus's mother waking up....
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The point of all of this is...the shit is about to hit the fan. And it's gonna smell.
That's it. It's going to get worse.
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The grain effect, I'm not sure if I'm saying that right or not, looks very cool too!
So the collar helps sustains the engery of the Stone of Aster from completely controling Jonathan, and the Precursor is breaking his own rules to help his buddy out...wow!
I can't wair to read more of the upcoming chapters!
You'll have to go to fanfiction.net in order to read more of the chapters.
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Ok then. THanks.
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Wow you did a really awesome job on the lighting effect, and view of the earth too!
Fansinating!
Great job!
The details of the Precursor are very sweet!
THe dragon/wolf dude is very awesome!
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The purple fits really well with dragons, especially Jonathan. Maybe a chaotic zombified dragon might really punch it with intense purples.
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Well, he's not turning into a zombie per se, but he is going to be controlled by a super intelligent magical artifact that's really evil.
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Very cool, I really enjoyed the story bit. Should like to read more!
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Well, you can if you go to my fanfiction.net page.
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From what I'm seeing, it looks like this Blitzardi fellow is sort of like that universe's version of the Doctor. He's a member of an ancient and powerful race, controlling technology no one could ever dream of, and he certainly doesn't seem like he wants Johnathon to succumb to the Stone's power. It also looks like he's breaking a law of non-interference to do this; are you sure you don't watch Doctor Who? Because the Kethosi sound remarkably like the Time Lords.
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I told you, I don't watch nor do I like Dr. Who. And there isn't just one Blitzardi, there's a bunch of them.
I created the Blitzardi back when I was in junior high and then I watched the Third Doctor. But I only watched a few episodes and then I didn't really understand what was going on. They called him a Doctor, but he wasn't a doctor of anything, not even medicine. He just had a phone booth that could travel through time and I made a comment that stated that I much rather he ride around in a Delorean.
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For not being really based on the Doctor, the Blitzardi reminds this big-time Whovian a lot of the Doc. Also, Three did have a car, an old open-top 20's style car called Bessie.
It's just what little I know about the Kethosi reminds me so much of the Doctor's people, the Time Lords. They're the oldest races in their respective universes, they're incredibly advanced, and are both so arrogant you couldn't pull their heads out of their collective asses with a monster truck. The Blitzardi, as you've said, is breaking laws of non-interference, or at the very least ancient traditions regarding it. Whatever he's doing, it's probably not what his people would rather he do here. The Doctor's habit of interfering on Earth's behalf against alien invasions was what got him banished in his third body, which is where you first saw him.
Oh, and I don't think the Doctor is a doctor of anything that he could show a diploma for; I do know he is an expert on science, technology, and galactic history. I think he just likes to be called Doctor all the time; it's a Time Lord thing, his nemesis calls himself the Master.
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I suggest you to refer to this image for more info on the Blitzardi at least.
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The Kethosi, I assure you, are not based off of Doctor Who. Mostly because by your reasoning, even Kiryuu should be similar to a Time Lord. So would Malcho and Manda. And it's all because of Technomancy. In fact Pyrothraxus could even be seen as a Time Lord for well, time manipulation is not beyond his powers. Pyrothraxus even has the ability to cross various planes of existence, as it was seen in the second chapter of Crimson Dragon II that he had a lair in a plane known as Pandemonium.
Time manipulation is allowed in the Great Multiverse, but it is controlled for fear of too much time manipulation shatters the Multiverse itself. So, somebody like Doctor Who or the Time Lords would not exist, at least not freely. They would not be able to do what they are able to do because of regulations and any deviation of those regulations will give them a good smack down from "You Know Who".
The thing that sets the Kethosi separate from all other creatures is that every creature has a dimensional duplicate. The Kethosi do not. They exist as one unified species across multiple dimensions. Also, no influence came into the creation of the Kethosi. I swear, I wasn't influenced by anything when I made them.
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It's not that simple. In a setting with planar travel, the Time Lords themselves would not be as remarkable. Magical travel is quite an easy feat. However, inventing a machine that moves almost without restriction would be an incredible achievement. The Gallifreyan scientists who discovered the secret to time travel basically coupled a newborn star to a black hole, and stuck the patents on it and called it a day.
Even in Doctor Who, free manipulation of time is not always allowed, especially now that the Time Lords are all but extinct. In fact, one episode demonstrates the perils of changing the past quite well; basically these creatures called Reapers appear and erase anyone whose life is altered by the change, among other things. At their peak, the Time Lords could on occasion seal off a period of time from the Reapers, such as when the Doctor was given the assignment to eliminate the Daleks before they were created; in the end, that proved fruitless, as the Doc's conscience would not allow him to destroy an entire species like that, even one of the most evil races in existence.
No, none of them do strike me as something similar to Time Lords, although Johnathon's position with the Air Force does remind me of the Third Doctor's time as scientific adviser to UNIT, the United Nations Intelligence Taskforce. I know enough about the Old Days to know that Dragons were similar morally to the Time Lords, but completely different. Technomancy is far beyond the reaches and interests of Time Lord science, they were more interested in finding ways to monkey around with the laws of the universe; they liked making things that were bigger on the inside, and nonsense like that. As for Kiryuu, his power level puts him more on the level of the Osirans, who were actual living gods, and with all the morality and conscience you would expect from beings that could fry the nerves of lesser beings with but a thought; thankfully, they've been extinct for centuries.
The Blitzardi ruling class is warriors, eh? Seems fitting for a race of space dragons.
One the subject of a dimensionally unique species, I think that the Time Lords are as well, because in a story in the revival, the Doctor and his companions accidentally breach a parallel dimension. It features, if not always doubles, than at least counterparts of everybody from their own dimension, except for the Doctor. But it could just be a coincidence, and the Doctor's counterpart was off on some other world.
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Dude, that's basically the Sands of Chronos, a time device created by the Titan Chronos which is accessible to anyone who can use electromancy.
The whole lineage of Technomancy, the science itself came from the Kethosi, who found a bunch of humanoids in a dimension and taught them, they became the Forerunners, and the Kethosi to the Forerunners became known as the Precursors. The Kethosi left, the Forerunners were charged with the continuation of Technomancy and well...made their screw up which killed them, and one left to teach two dragons so that they could teach the next in line the Humans.
But Technomancy itself is a manipulation as well as an understanding of spacetime because of where it comes from, which is "You Know Who" and the beginning of the Multiverse.
The Kethosi, being the ones who were so close to the beginning of the Multiverse, can almost breath the one rule regarding the Far Realm and that's the fact that the Far Realm can't affect them. This is how powerful they are.
I don't think the Kethosi are even remotely close to the Time Lords.
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Well, the Time Lords, powerful as they are, are also extremely arrogant and corrupt. Neither they nor the Kethosi sound like who I'd like to picture as what's out there. The Kethosi are ruled by a race that makes the Klingons seem peaceable. The Time Lords would have done anything to ensure that they could have had the full power of Chronos; unrestricted time travel, unphased by causality or the Reapers, would have probably ended in the creation of an Empire of Time, probably wage war on the Precursors if they wanted.
I must admit, they're both better than the alternative; the Daleks as supreme beings. If they were to gain Kethosi tech, they would be unstoppable in achieving their ultimate goal: the Extermination of all non-Dalek lifeforms.
Is there a Technomancy word for "Wrapping a finite object around infinite space", by the way?
Wait, wait, wait. If the Forerunners created the dragons, and the dragons created humans, why does Forerunner technology only seem to respond to humans?
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Where did you get Forerunners created the dragons? They just chose two dragons to teach humans Technomancy. And Forerunner technology in my universe response to either humans or Technomancers. And the Ark, only Technomancers.
Technomancy word for wrapping a finite object around infinite space...the Great Wheel. And even the Great Wheel with a finite dimensions is also in itself infinite.
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Sorry, misread that bit.
Anyway, what you said sounds a lot better than just saying, "It's bigger on the inside."
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You're talking about the TARDIS, right? Yeah.
I mean, Pyrothraxus can create a pocket dimension that is both finite and infinite and just insert it into a closet space.
Technomancy can do the same thing.
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In theory, the Doctor ought to be able to do that, too. But the chameleon circuit on his TARDIS broke, and it's been stuck as a police box for centuries. A fully working TARDIS can actually grow or shrink, as well as change it's shape. The Doctor's done that several times, usually on accident: One time the TARDIS malfunctioned and landed on a kitchen counter, at about the scale of an insect; there was also the time his archenemy, the Master, sabotaged the block-transfer computation that was to have restored the TARDIS' chameleon circuit, resulting in a TARDIS the size of a Castle Greyskull playset.
Are you getting the sense that half the time the Doctor really doesn't know what he's doing, and just makes it up as he goes?
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I kinda figured that. Which goes to show you how different the Blitzardi are compared to the Doctor.
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Yeah. But still, back to my original point, why does this one Blitzardi going out of his way to help Johnny, if they're all so high and mighty? What would a warrior elite want with him? What is this guy planning?
And yeah, the Doctor doesn't really plan things out, but that's how he rolls. He loves using his brain to outwit his enemies, especially in his seventh form, which was that of a clownish figure who was also a master strategist and manipulator. In his own words about how he just makes it up as he goes, "Yeah, but I do it brilliantly."
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Well, I gave a hint to Kim about who it is. I said that the guy is Jon's best friend. But he's not Galen. So, who else could it be?
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I was about to say, when did Johnathon go into outer space, but then I remembered he's apparently been to Faerun, which in this story is a planet. I've really got nothing, of all the things to throw out from his days as Pyrothraxus, space aliens would probably be the last thing I would picture. Before I guessed "a warrior from the center of time and space", I probably would have guessed Connor McLeod, or maybe some ugly spawn of Tiamat he thought he killed, but didn't really and now it's out for revenge. For all I knew, you could have been planning some crossover with Gargoyles. Actually, that sounds really cool.
Anywho, sorry to keep coming back to this, but I still think he might have met the Doctor at some point, probably tried to make a meal out of him, and was perplexed by his disappearing blue box.
Why do I get the feeling that the answer's already in the text somewhere, but I'm going to have to sift through all these clues and riddles, probably some stuff written on a dead monk. He's probably going to be trying to manipulate the Stone's energy, which sound dangerous, but the samurai outfit suggests he has some honor, so I really don't know.
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Actually Faerun is a continent on Abeir-Toril. Should have just said Abeir-Toril instead. But Faerun is where most of the action happens so sometimes that gets mixed up.
Why would Jon be perplexed by a disappearing blue box? He'd probably chock it up to it being a teleportation device, and he wouldn't be all that far off.
Dude, it's actually a simple question. Jon only has two best friends. One is Galen who really is Bahamut in disguise, and the other is...
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Wait, please tell me that that isn't who I think it is. Please say it isn't his old love interest. I need to hear those words. Read those words. YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN!
Well, he'd just shrug it off at first, but what happens if one day, the box comes back? And then a man in a cricket uniform comes out and slowly realizes that this is in fact, not the Ed Sullivan Show studio, but in fact somewhere in the mountains, with a very large and probably a little curious DRAGON coming up behind him.
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Sayan'i? No! The Kethosi up there is a male! Damn. Dude, two best friends. Do I need to spell it out for you? One is Galen, the other...is Colonel Samuel Davidson.
Sam Davidson, the star character of an old story of mine called Dragon Fire (unoriginal name I'll admit) I wrote when I was 12, was a victim of an alien abduction by Cerenath Khan Draconis himself, the current overthrown Emperor of the Kethosian Empire. His nephew Xi Kedzuel Draconis overthrew him and took the throne, but Khan escaped. Though Blitzardi shapeshifting is perfect, however, other Blitzardi can sniff them out. Khan had to find a new way to hide. So, he came to Earth and found a victim for his experiments. He abducted Sam and switched personalities with him, entrapping inside Khan's body while Khan escaped to Earth in Sam's body.
Kedzuel and his men discovered the act and were about to kill Sam, mistaking him for Khan until Kedzuel did a mind read of him and realized who he was. Sam said that Khan was down on Earth and showed him a picture of what he now looks like. Kedzuel searched for Khan and found him only to bring him to justice. Finally, to a very distraught Sam, Kedzuel killed Khan, not even promising to fix the problem of returning Sam back to his own body. Kedzuel's own reasoning was that because Khan was now in a weak and feeble human body, it made it easier for him to execute.
Kedzuel then Connected to Sam, teaching him their technology so that he may be able to use it for his own purposes, but with one promise that he never reveals himself to be a Blitzardi to ANYONE. Then, Emperor Kedzuel departed, leaving Sam with Khan's body behind with a warning never to come to the Kethosian empire. Why? Because Khan and Kedzuel look so much alike, it would be easy for people to mistake Sam for Kedzuel. And that's the story.
Sam Davidson, the name, came from that old story. His personality came from that old story. But then I drew a Blitzardi standing beside Jonathan who looks like Khan, so, who else could it be. It's Sam Davidson! There you go.
Was it so hard to guess?
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Sorry, it's just that you gave me no clues in story. I thought Sam was just a cool scientist guy who was learning about the magical world, sort of like a black Arthur Dent. You really M. Night Shyamalan'd my ass! I guess I was kind of in another world at the time, because I was just reading on TV Tropes about Shocking Swerves, which is where there is this crazy plot twist, just to have a plot twist; my brain was a bit bruised from reading all those stupid plot twists.
By the way, how much do you want to bet M. Night Shyamalamadingdong would have had Sayani turn out to be either really or disguised as a male Blitzardi; I wouldn't put it past the man who made Lady in the Water.
So, yeah, Sam's an alien now! It makes sense, I suppose, it keeps with the whole theme of secrets that keeps popping up in Pyro's story. It's just going to be weird hearing what I've imagined Sam sounds like coming out of THAT. It works for Pyrothraxus, because I know Jeff Bennett is a talented voice actor, I'm just curious how he'd pull off Johnathon when he's serious, as opposed to the huge dork we know and love, and make it sound distinct from the Huntsmaster. Hearing the regular Johnathon Long voice coming from a chromatic dragon, however, still makes me at least smile; the dissonance works quite well with the character. Sorry if I'm rambling, it's just that, frankly the Blitzardi sounded pretty badass for smug warlords, and Sam was probably the best character you invented for the story, so seeing them both as one is kind of a shock.
One last thing, how big is Johnathon in this picture? It's hard to tell, since he can change his size, and I don't know what kind of scale the Kethosi live on.
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The Blitzardi are 230 ft tall. So, Jon's sitting on a pedestal to get up to Khan's eye level. Sam could hold Jon in his arms.
Yes, I did M. Night Shyamalan your ass!
Well, Jeff Bennett would pull off his sort of Huntsmaster/Brooklyn sounding voice for serious Pyrothraxus and well, goofy dork dad voice for Jonathan Long. It still would be distinct, but having that almost darkened tone, and MUCH deeper.
As for Sam, you know he's black right? So, who's voice would come out of him, and then at the same time, come out of Khan? Because basically, it's the same voice.
Yeah, the Blitzardi are badasses for smug warlords. Actually, Kedzuel is a bit of a dork on his own when he wants to be. His motto is: "Gee, but I'm really a nice guy!" Especially when someone like Selena Myles says something hateful about him. But then he will turn into this badassed warlord emperor who's down to business when the situation arises. Like the issue with Khan. Khan is just an asshole. There's nothing surprising about that. And Selena is a bitch and someday I would love to have a funny talk show where I lock Kedzuel and Selena up in a closet like I would Malcho and Lofwyr and have them settle their differences.
Sayan'i as Khan. Blech! There is NO YAOI in this story! Sayan'i is a girl, she's a Silver Dragon, and she's a mean bitch at times. That's all. Ew.
Jon may be a huge dork, but in this story, he's my huge dork.
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Well, this still begs the question, where did Sam get samurai gear that big? I know that's like asking why the Ninja Turtles wear masks, but I just wonder these things? Is that what he wears under all that armor, or does he use the same tailor that made the huge Avatar clothes?
It's weird, I know it's still Sam in that body, it's just I'm having the same kind of trouble adjusting as he was in your story when he found out that Johnathon was, well, you know the rest. You keep using Khan and Sam interchangeably, are they still switched in this story, or is it still the same guy, just with shapeshifting powers of his own?
I still maintain that either Johnathon or Kedzuel would get along well with the Doctor. The Doctor's a huge dork as well, especially in his current body, (He maintians that bowties are a cool fashion choice.) He's also crazy enough to steal a broken down, outdated junker of a time machine, try to pilot it himself when it requires six people to operate properly, and leave the parking brake on when he takes off because he like the noise it makes. I actually think that if they had met in the past, at one point Pyrothraxus chomps the TARDIS down whole, only for it to reappear outside of him about a minute later. This sort of chance meeting would go on through the centuries until the present day, when the TARDIS crash lands behind Lao Shi's shop.
And I will go on record as saying that I intended it to be a reverse-Crying Game twist, where a guy turns out to be a girl. Or was that the twist in the movie?
And yeah, Jeff Bennett alone is why I imagine Mark Hammill as Zestos, just so I could hear the current voice of the Joker go up against the legend.
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That's just it, Sam is Khan, Khan is Sam. Sam just switched personalities with Khan. But he didn't switch minds. So, Sam is trapped inside Khan's mind. He even has Khan's memories.
And as for where he got those clothing? Well, that's the traditional costume of the Blitzardi. That's what they wear when they are in a solid form. The armor is also a traditional form of clothing. Blitzardi tend to wear sort of Asian style clothes, which mirrors what You Know Who wears when she takes on the form of a Kethosi.
Here's another example of Kethosian dress.
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What he wears is what the Emperor normally wears under an enormous cloak. What Sam/Khan is wearing is more formal dress for a nobleman.
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Let me see if I've got this straight. Sam's spirit was transferred into Khan's body. So Kedzuel must have taught Sam how to assume his old body, which is why he's here now. Sam has been keeping this whole thing under wraps so tight, nobody could have seen this coming. Have I got it, or will my head keep hurting trying to get this straight?
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