I hope this isn't weird, but I've always had this headcanon:
Yui has suffered horrible nightmares since she was five years old due to having the heart of a demon (Cordelia). In her nightmares, Yui is tormented by a woman with completely burnt skin and a hole in her chest.
Could you make an aesthetic/moodboard inspired by this?
i love this idea and even wrote a little excerpt for it
night terrors || a yui and cordelia experience:
❝And I've grown familiar,
Seiji Komori unlatches the door to the kitchen and bangs it open, torchlight swinging crazily across the tiles and sink. "I have the police on the phone!"
There is a gasp, then a quick skirmish of motion. Seiji feels his heart turn to jelly, before becoming stone with a surge of righteous anger. "How dare you invade the home of a man of God, you...you rapscallion!"
The insult feels strange in his mouth - so used is he to intoning the Holy Words - but he manages to spit it out all the same, and follow it up with a booming, "Have you no fear of the Lord, you miserable ingrate?"
He spins around the torch beam once more, hoping to catch some glimpse of the intruder. He's rewarded for his effort - an opened box of cocoa, a mug of steaming milk, two fairy cakes, and a tiny, quivering shoe that peeps out from under the table.
Shifting down faster than a man his age ought to, he flings aside the table cloth and brings up the umbrella in his left hand, ready to bash this criminal's head in. "I'VE GOT YOU NOW, YOU BEAS- Yui?!"
Wide pink eyes blink up at him, and the girl curls in on herself, rendered mute by terror. Seiji stares at her a moment, baffled, feeling the anger seep out of him as quickly as it had come. "What- Yui, what on God's good Earth are you doing down here? Why I- I thought you were a robber! I was ready to knock you out!"
Her tiny features scrunch up, and she whispers out, "I'm...I'm sorry. I couldn't sleep, Father."
"That's...no excuse for frightening me like that, young lady." He halts here, unable to lecture her while she is in such a state. So scared, so small - it tugs at his heart too painfully.
Sighing, he reaches out and pulls out from underneath the table and into his lap. She clings to him like a little monkey, and he can feel her heart pattering along at an abnormally high pace. "Alright, feeling better? Now then, what's got you so frightened?"
He raises a brow, asking, "Didn't you say your prayers? Or even more importantly, didn't you seek assurance in the Lord when you woke from this dream?"
"And what does the Bible say, Yui?" he continues, already slipping back into his habitual lectures. "It says: 'In peace I will both lie down and sleep-'"
"'-for you alone, O Lord, make me dwell in safety." she finishes quickly. "Psalm, 4:8. I know, Father."
"Then why were you so afraid?"
The silence that follows is heavier than he expected it to be. Seiji is casting about in his head for another verse when she speaks, her voice quiet and hushed.
"I see a woman in my dreams."
He blinks, startled. "...what sort of woman?"
"She's...she's tall and...and pretty. She's got the loveliest long hair."
"Rapunzel?" he suggests, making a weak attempt at humour.
"No, no, no, it's not that long," she corrects at once. "And it's purple."
"Purple...? A little odd, there...but she hardly seems like something to be frightened of? What's so scary about her?"
He frowns at that, "Is she mean to you?"
"No. Well, yes, but that's not what I mean. I mean she hasn't got a heart...there's this big red hole where it should be." Her father does not respond, slightly shocked, but Yui goes on anyway. "And that's not it! She's got these long white scars running all over her -all raised and puffy- like- like someone tried to set her on fire!"
"And she's so mean, Father! When I try to run from her she grabs me and pulls my hair, and when I kick she kicks back harder, and when I cry and tell her to go away she screams-"
But a dam has been broken in Yui's thoughts, and every instance of torment from the tall, heartless woman is flooding out. "She screams, 'I can't go away! I can't leave!' And when I ask why she points here-" The child jams a finger into her sparrow thin chest, "And she yells 'Because of this!' and she-"
Seiji stands up so fast that he feels his bones creak, and the girl goes tumbling out of his lap and onto the floor in a mess of blonde curls and utter indignation.
Fear of such enormous, terrible magnitude is rushing through him, and he knows, he knows at once that the deal dealt with creatures far more terrible than he, has finally begun to unfold.
The awakening is at hand.
