1. Being "living metal" as opposed to just "metal", Zed does have to eat. He just has a different diet than a human might have - protein, for example, doesn't do a whole lot for him. Instead, the minerals you'd find in vegetables tend to be what he needs the most of. He also gets hungry less, because it takes metal a lot less time to wear down than flesh.
2. Animals don't like him, much, because he doesn't smell alive.
3. Alzahad created Doom Bringer. He messed with Zed's head to make him dependant on it as a weapon. Giving him a sword pretty much destined to mess him up in a variety of ways was just another of Alzahad's science experiments.
4. Furthermore, Alzahad has just generally messed with Zed's head, as well as his body, which explains some of his idiosyncracies. Zed is aware of this, and doesn't really mind or see anything wrong with it. It's a way he could be useful to the Quarter Knights, and it got him a sweet secondary weapon out of the bargain. Alzahad has left some scars that would be evident on his skin, because it let him know where he'd already worked
5. He has a natural talent for anything computerized. He can work and understand pretty much any kind of program without much effort. He is, however, the worst kind of user - the kind with boundless enthusiasm who has no true idea what he's doing. Not really applicable here, I know.
6. He still has the capacity for evil - he's discovered that Good Feels Good, but given sufficient pushing or provocation, he'd go back to being a bad guy. It would pretty much just require taking Aura out of the equation, at this point. He actually did love Mother, and really want to see her reborn. Had he still been around when she was, he might have changed his mind.
7. He already had natural translation capabilities built in, thus allowing him to understand and be understood by a different species on a different planet. Thus, Zed is usually speaking the demon's language whenever he's talking. Without that, he probably couldn't speak a lick of whatever they speak on Filgaia. Writing, however, is still a problem - that doesn't get translated quite so easily, thus Zed isn't half as eloquent in writing and his handwriting is appalling.
8. Most of his theatrics are born out of loneliness. All of the Quarter Knights thought he was useless, except for Alzahad, who thought he'd make a good test subject because he was useless at everything else. Thus, Zed got used to talking a big game and making his presence as big as possible just to get noticed. He's very much the kind of guy where negative attention is better than no attention. Even though he's used to it, though, that kind of mental and emotional effort still takes it out of him - hence, why conversations with people he doesn't know well tend to the short side.
9. He's resistant to the elements, and overall gets tired a lot less than an average human. He still does, however, and does actually sleep.
10. His orange scarf is a piece of festival booth canvas stolen from Adlehyde during the attack. Similarly, his armor is just steel - high quality steel, but still just steel.
Zed
2. Animals don't like him, much, because he doesn't smell alive.
3. Alzahad created Doom Bringer. He messed with Zed's head to make him dependant on it as a weapon. Giving him a sword pretty much destined to mess him up in a variety of ways was just another of Alzahad's science experiments.
4. Furthermore, Alzahad has just generally messed with Zed's head, as well as his body, which explains some of his idiosyncracies. Zed is aware of this, and doesn't really mind or see anything wrong with it. It's a way he could be useful to the Quarter Knights, and it got him a sweet secondary weapon out of the bargain. Alzahad has left some scars that would be evident on his skin, because it let him know where he'd already worked
5. He has a natural talent for anything computerized. He can work and understand pretty much any kind of program without much effort. He is, however, the worst kind of user - the kind with boundless enthusiasm who has no true idea what he's doing. Not really applicable here, I know.
6. He still has the capacity for evil - he's discovered that Good Feels Good, but given sufficient pushing or provocation, he'd go back to being a bad guy. It would pretty much just require taking Aura out of the equation, at this point. He actually did love Mother, and really want to see her reborn. Had he still been around when she was, he might have changed his mind.
7. He already had natural translation capabilities built in, thus allowing him to understand and be understood by a different species on a different planet. Thus, Zed is usually speaking the demon's language whenever he's talking. Without that, he probably couldn't speak a lick of whatever they speak on Filgaia. Writing, however, is still a problem - that doesn't get translated quite so easily, thus Zed isn't half as eloquent in writing and his handwriting is appalling.
8. Most of his theatrics are born out of loneliness. All of the Quarter Knights thought he was useless, except for Alzahad, who thought he'd make a good test subject because he was useless at everything else. Thus, Zed got used to talking a big game and making his presence as big as possible just to get noticed. He's very much the kind of guy where negative attention is better than no attention. Even though he's used to it, though, that kind of mental and emotional effort still takes it out of him - hence, why conversations with people he doesn't know well tend to the short side.
9. He's resistant to the elements, and overall gets tired a lot less than an average human. He still does, however, and does actually sleep.
10. His orange scarf is a piece of festival booth canvas stolen from Adlehyde during the attack. Similarly, his armor is just steel - high quality steel, but still just steel.