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]

[ They do not respond, but she gets the feeling she should not lose hope. ]

Why are you calling for them? They left us!

[ hahAhhaha. We are here, with a scene change where Kashuu just BOOKS it when Vin monster asks him not to leave her. When she lost combat ability, he would ditch. It is obvious that monochrome Vin doesn't want to be abandoned, to be unloved, and her voice shows it despite the lack of emotions earlier.

It's a sorrowful scene, with Vin also being swallowed by its weight, but then... Another voice.

"I wish I had a piece of her still with me. A daughter, perhaps, with Mare’s same dark hair and resilient stubbornness... I don't want to be responsible for something happening to you, Vin. Not again."

This voice, too, gives her warmth. The warmth ushers her to not submit to this. ]

[allomantic]

They didn't want to!

[the tears sound in her voice, too, as she yells.]

For once, they didn't want to! So I'm going back to them, and nothing you say can stop me! I... I love them, and they love me, too!

[disestablishment]

[ ... Monochrome Vin goes silent when she hears that, like she's broken.

The scenes in the background glitch, they start playing all the sad moments in Vin's life, including scenes in the Prism.

But this Vin, she looks at her. ]

They... Love us?

[ It is such a hurt question, like this copy doesn't want to know the answer.

Another voice: "I just want to see you happy, yeah? 's the most important thing. No matter what." ]

[allomantic]

Yes.

[it's firm, and angry, and determined - but she reaches out a hand towards her other self.]

So, we have to go back to them.

[disestablishment]

[ This Vin goes silent as she looks at her. Those words settle and slowly, but surely, this monochrome Vin regains her color.

This black void—it blooms with flowers. ]

... We are loved. They are waiting for us.

[ This Vin closes her eyes, then slowly disappears. In this test of wills, Vin overcame her despair. ]