Thank you for the ask !! So happy to think about the beautiful moon man.
12. What’s a headcanon you have for this character?
I’m kind of thinking about my endless list of mental illness i slap on this poor guy but to be broad, very much into giving him hallucinations. Some TAY moments fits so well with that. Just keeps hearing voices and seeing monsters (and my favorite, bugs everywhere). Also some delusions and dissociation but yeah I like my hallucinatory golbez.
For something more general… I like to explain his radical change in design as a child and adult with him being litteraly immaterial under that armor. So I consider the lunarians to be being of pure magic energy, only taking up a physical form when they need to (like interacting with physical beings like humans). After Theodore became Golbez, he slowly abandoned the more human part of him, eating, sleeping… When he got his armor, he completely lost his materiality and became more of a ghost thing than a human than a body.
So, when he let go of the armor, he needs an appearance again. And he goes from what he has. Cecils long pale floaty hair, knowing he’s still tall and menacing, memories of his mother’s darker skin, of comments on his unnaturally purple eyes… a mix of subconscious memories and representation of himself that gives him an idea of what he’d look like, and that becomes his new body.
