[this is a lot - as soon as wis'adel starts providing specifics, she's getting frightened. but there's something about wis'adel; she doesn't want to look like a coward to her. she doesn't want to admit she can't handle hearing this, isn't sure she wants to know about this.
so she sits and listens, her expression stilled, but her mind traveling miles a minute.]
...I know about the artefact that was actually a person. The rest I don't know. Perhaps something similar happened to me, and perhaps it didn't. I don't have any memory of that period of my life.
[so anything could have happened to her. and she could have done anything, too. it's terrifying, and hearing about torture and knives and making people repent is not doing much to soothe her fears.]
...hard to guess at whether they had a reason at all, but if things are supposed to line up, then I figure they must have, you know? Why else would Anders there have mentioned it was weird that I got blanked more often?
One of the only things I remember about my childhood was that I did have a friend there. A tiefling boy, Renauld. I can't remember anything else, other than his name and that we were friends, but...
[maybe it's relevant. also she actually doesn't even remember her name because she is trans and doesn't use that name anymore but this is the only memory shadowheart has of her. just noting that because i will use she/her pronouns for this character in metatext.]
So maybe it was true. We both went through these things together, but for some reason, they were focused on me. I wish I had insight into why.
Maybe I was particularly rebellious. [...] I actually thought this was something Shar said to anyone who attempted her trials, but she told me I was her chosen champion. [she really is god's favorite princess (derogatory)]
[so now she's wondering what the fuck that means.]
Maybe I was important to them in particular, for some reason. Though I truly cannot imagine why.
[thinking about that quietly for a few seconds, tail flicking.]
Then-- if she really wanted to keep you, maybe that was part of it? Keep blanking everything else out, make sure there's no chance you end up turning from her, or leaving. Remembering anything else but that.
The Nightsong was there for a century. Lady Shar sent those who wished to become Dark Justiciars to slay her again and again. She was immortal, so she always recovered from death eventually.
Somehow my meeting with her was different. Both Lady Shar and she seemed to believe that a death delivered by my hand would be her permanent end. And I don't know why that would be, but perhaps it has something to do with what Lady Shar wanted me for.
...we didn't do it, either. I used some spear we found to bust them out. But after that, we definitely had to get a move on, or I feel like we'd have been in some pretty deep shit.
[they didn't see whoever it was again, that's for sure.]
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Date: 2025-03-06 01:40 am (UTC)so she sits and listens, her expression stilled, but her mind traveling miles a minute.]
...I know about the artefact that was actually a person. The rest I don't know. Perhaps something similar happened to me, and perhaps it didn't. I don't have any memory of that period of my life.
[so anything could have happened to her. and she could have done anything, too. it's terrifying, and hearing about torture and knives and making people repent is not doing much to soothe her fears.]
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Date: 2025-03-06 11:33 am (UTC)There's no way to really know, so... would it change anything for you if it did?
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Date: 2025-03-06 02:14 pm (UTC)Yes. I don't know if I want to know the specifics of what they did to me, and what I did for them, but I'd like to know why. Why me?
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Date: 2025-03-11 04:56 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2025-03-11 01:02 pm (UTC)One of the only things I remember about my childhood was that I did have a friend there. A tiefling boy, Renauld. I can't remember anything else, other than his name and that we were friends, but...
[maybe it's relevant. also she actually doesn't even remember her name because she is trans and doesn't use that name anymore but this is the only memory shadowheart has of her. just noting that because i will use she/her pronouns for this character in metatext.]
So maybe it was true. We both went through these things together, but for some reason, they were focused on me. I wish I had insight into why.
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Date: 2025-03-12 12:53 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2025-03-13 01:54 pm (UTC)Maybe I was particularly rebellious. [...] I actually thought this was something Shar said to anyone who attempted her trials, but she told me I was her chosen champion. [she really is god's favorite princess (derogatory)]
[so now she's wondering what the fuck that means.]
Maybe I was important to them in particular, for some reason. Though I truly cannot imagine why.
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Date: 2025-03-13 04:26 pm (UTC)[thinking about that quietly for a few seconds, tail flicking.]
Then-- if she really wanted to keep you, maybe that was part of it? Keep blanking everything else out, make sure there's no chance you end up turning from her, or leaving. Remembering anything else but that.
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Date: 2025-03-14 01:15 pm (UTC)[it's a very unsettling thought.]
The Nightsong was there for a century. Lady Shar sent those who wished to become Dark Justiciars to slay her again and again. She was immortal, so she always recovered from death eventually.
Somehow my meeting with her was different. Both Lady Shar and she seemed to believe that a death delivered by my hand would be her permanent end. And I don't know why that would be, but perhaps it has something to do with what Lady Shar wanted me for.
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Date: 2025-03-14 06:18 pm (UTC)[wiš'adel has no idea how or why, but-- that seems likeliest to her. that shar had a need of her in some way.]
Did you do it?
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Date: 2025-03-14 10:23 pm (UTC)[pursing her lips, though.]
I didn't. When it came down to it, whether I'd acknowledged it, my faith in Shar had been wavering for some time.
But I also didn't live long enough after to find out whether I'll ever learn anything from her.
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Date: 2025-03-14 11:39 pm (UTC)[they didn't see whoever it was again, that's for sure.]
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Date: 2025-03-15 12:13 am (UTC)[that's pretty much how it happened to her.]
I wasn't able to get out of there in time.