Week 6 cyoa: hei, jiuqing, vin, and kashuu

[saturations]

spoiler warnings: ff14 heavensward and some light endwalker elements
content warnings: violence, death, war, terrorism (short), brief mentions/references for eyegore, brief mention/reference for decapitation, depression, suicidal ideation (nihilist flavor), suicide, dragons and monsters eating people

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[disestablishment]

[ This was not what Hraesvelgr meant when he said turn the tides, but her despair is too strong... It has taken her and she, too, ends in a different way. In this draconic serpentine hybrid, covered in blood thick and dark as tar, she is but a shell of all of her sins, her hurts, and her pain.

... At times, she will murmur a regret. She will cry out. But that is simply mimicry of when she was alive. She has no emotions, no thoughts, either. When you're without hope, it's better to not feel the sorrow, isn't it?

Right now, she is without aether. Like "Itsuki", "Jiuqing" is dead. She only knows one thing and that is to kill.

The smaller monsters stop biting her entirely, having no interest in their own. They only attack those with aether, thirsting for the very thing that made them alive. The remaining knights look at her, frowning deeply to see this woman who tried to help them turn into a monster. They hesitate at first, but attack. It's too late for their friend that "Itsuki" has devoured, but they must save the rest of the refugees.

Those refugees are locked away deeper in the vault. However, she doesn't have object permanence. She kills what's in her path. Out of sight, out of mind, but these knights in front of her are not. Empowered by the dragon eye, she can kill them swiftly if she wanted to. ]

[countermeasures]

[out of sight, out of mind - perhaps these knights should have turned and ran when they had the chance.

a roll of 9 means that even a mimicry of who she was before isn't enough to get her to hesitate for a moment or two. she pays no heed to their weapons, or to the way they're trying so hard to protect the people further in - she just wants to see them dead, wants to drain the aether from them as if it will replace the aether she lacks.

she lunges forward, fangs sharp, and sinks her teeth into the skin of the nearest knight. there's poison in her fangs, unfortunately, so this knight is going to have a very rough tiem of it.

it's fine. maybe kashuu and vin will walk in on her draining this poor knight of their blood. i don't know their lives.]

[disestablishment]

[ They do not... Instead, Jiuqing gets to kill all of these pitiful knights that she can see! They struggle and try to stab her with their weapons, but to no avail. She's too quick. Some escape her gaze and slip through the gates deeper into the Vault, but it's closed. There is no sound to beckon her to them, so she's left with nothing to kill.

...

This leads her to roam aimlessly in the main room a bit before she ends up outside, then. She will kill all in her path, anything that moves, then the stars align. ]