The question is, is this simply a promotional poster, or a insight into how Emil envisioned himself before fighting but not after[/sr?
scary good question...
We may never know O___O
he definitely would have imagined-up the muscles and über slimness though*cOUGH* so would i
Get ready for the wall of text.
It's supposed to be from
here, just after the Karlstad Disaster and Emil's lauding as 'the Hero of Karlstad'. At that point, the higher-ups decided to brand Emil as 'the Face of the Cleansers', meaning his image was
everywhere. This is why I wrote what I did in
this Author's Note. It's also why Emil hates it so much: the same swine who left most of them to die are now using his image to recruit; and also, his successes in PR are born of his passionate conviction that what he's telling people is the truth: the Cleansers are Sweden's future, and one of the best paths any Swede can take. The kind of artifice that the poster represents, Image exalted over Reality, becomes more and more bothersome to him as the years go by.