Okay so I got curious about your "Kayne would be wholly a slaughter avatar" opinion because in one hand I do agree. Like, YES, he IS slaughter.

He can be so easily confused with spiral bc he acts showy and silly but those are NOT traits reserved to the spiral?? And, He doesn't thrive on the confusion, or in driving people mad, even when he does lie he does it to achieve destruction (Ex: [INTERMEZZO SPOILERS] promising to wipe Arthur's memory and then not doing so)

All the other Fears are completely out of the table to me EXCEPT for the Web.

Don't get me wrong, I don't think he'd be a web avatar, not by a long shot, but I do think he could be web-aligned with his whole "being able to play all the keys" deal,

I wanted to hear your thoughts on this tehehe ( this is all /lh of course )

ooohhh yeah ur thoughts are really interesting!! i think the reason i’m so certain of the slaughter and nothing else is because it’s not about the themes or aesthetics, it’s about what type of fear the character themself invokes within you. and the only fear i could plausibly see being in kayne’s presence producing is “holy shit this guy might explode my head at any second for no apparent reason” which i’d categorize as slaughter. but you do make a good point about the web!