Overseer: Side stories/Extra

Happy Halloween (2024)

Howdy, Howdy here to drop my special for this 'holiday' again. THREE YEARS IN A ROW!! YAYYY! Also happy birthday Ruby Rose. 

Enjoy.

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It was that time of year again, the time of the year many kids love; the day in one of the coldest months, Halloween.

A day many get to dress up, play pranks, get candy, and more. For the Storm family. They were in the house getting ready. As the primary member of the family, Xavier Storm was helping one of his youngest kids, mainly Xerxes Storm, get their outfit on. This year will be similar for the current reaper trait users, Xavier, Rezza, and Xerxes.

The two little ones still wanted to get dressed, and what was Dad to say no to his kids, who shared a crucial part of him in them?

They finally got the outfit on, like last year, a dragon outfit fitted with wings hand-crafted by a close friend of Levy at her guild. Once he got it out, Xavier stood back to let out his handy work; Xerxes cheered and said,

Xerxes: "Rawwr!"

*THUD!*

Xavier: "I'm just going to ignore that." He chuckled. "Okay, little guy, I need you to put this on." He pulled out a little bracelet, Xerxes gave a little cute pout. "I know, but we can't have an incident like a few days ago. Not with the Shield family coming. The last thing I need is having one of the kids get hurt because a hyper power baby blew them high in the air or something. Can you do that for Papa?" Xerxes looked at the bracelet and smiled.

Xerxes: "Okay, papa!" Xavier put the bracelet on him, and he sighed in relief.

For the past few weeks, Xavier hated to admit he had been exhausted, combined with the trait coming hit him with all times of nightmares, combined with the amount increase of soul harvest in the underworld with the rapid death that has been happening at an alarming rate, plus now Xerxes power starting to act up and more power outburst then normal.

One of the incidents they had was when Xerxes accidentally fired different element blasts in the house. This injured Pichu and Amethyst, but thankfully, Byleth and Kana were able to heal them. But not long after, a few days later, it was one of the scariest. Xerxes released a massive shockwave that knocked out Rezza and injured Nagant, Es, and Neo. Thankfully, Xavier could sense it and return to calm down and put Xerxes to sleep.

With the increase in incidents and power outbursts, Xerxes had become the norm, and he had to wear this to reach his power limit.

From what he has gathered from Zero, this is a thing that happens with overseer babies given rapid growth compared to kids or older like overseers. How Xerxes was made could have something to do with it, and provided most of the doctor stuff was destroyed and the information they have on overseer kids locked deep in the vault for the council, something Zero doesn't allow access to, it basically has them limit access to.

The issue they seem to have run into is the genes Xerxes has inside him. It wasn't the fact he was a mix was Storm's DNA, given Byleth's unique circumstance with her being a human sacrifice and having a god inside her. Xavier already has one of the most potent spiritual energies of any Storm in the past. Put both of them in one little body, and then you have a nuke ready to burst at any good moment. They had two options: put a seal on Xerxes by the family, which is the problem that's brought up. For one, the reaper trait is already not fully formed; sealing an incomplete trait can harm an overseer, and who knows what will happen to the child? Both Xavier and Byleth already said hell no, they are not putting their child through any more pain than he already has to go through.