Lyle Dylandy Headcanons

 Happy birthday @quantumseraph!  Hope it’s a good one.  I dithered about what kind of headcanons to do, so I hope you don’t mind some Lyle Dylandy ones.

 

Lyle was actually a pretty important part of Katharon–not so much rank-wise, though he did have some seniority, but in that he was one of the people who knew most of the ins and outs of the organization.  If he didn’t know the answer to a question, he knew someone who did; he was also more accessible than Klaus to to the average member.  Giving him up to Celestial Being was a loss in more ways than one.

 

He actually feels pretty uncomfortable in the Celestial Being uniform–it’s the first uniform he’s worn since boarding school.  Katharon couldn’t afford matching clothing, after all, they put what clothing budget they had into boots and body armor.  So it’s an uncomfortable feeling of déjà vu, at first, to put it on.  He almost feels like a kid again.  But after he gets used to it, it starts feeling nice.  Like he’s a part of something.

 

He does realize that the rest of Celestial Being doesn’t always mean to make him feel like the odd one out.  They aren’t all falling back on history that he doesn’t share with them out of malice.  They don’t mean to leave out explanations that only he, out of the Meisters, needs–they really are just forgetting.  But it still feels like coming in second to his brother, and it’s frustrating.

 

Space is amazing, and it is not somehow less amazing to Lyle because he’s an adult fighting against an oppressive regime.  Sometimes he just spends his downtime staring out a window at the stars, and thinking about this one advantage that CB has over Katharon.

 

After he punches Setsuna for shooting down Anew, he thinks about the fact that he didn’t even once snap at the man for working with the people who killed his parents.  Somehow, he could forgive that, but not the death of a woman he’d only met a few weeks ago.  He remembers a grief counselor telling his preteen self about how grief was irrational, and tries to let that be the end of it.

 

He has possibly never been more jealous of anything his brother had than that silly little orange robot. Lyle loves the heck out of that thing, and tries hard to get Celestial Being to let him take Haro with him after the war.