Unleash The Kraken!

To them, this was a treasure trove and it was a crime that it had been abandoned for so long, aside from serving as a battlefield in recent years. In was in the depths of this place that Vanta would stumble on the thing that would turn into their obsession...Though damaged, some of the innards were able to spring back to life, teeming with chaotic power, sparking and flickering, the sanitized ooze bubbling and glowing, much to Vanta's delight. Things would take a "dark" turn after Vanta took some of the ink, devoid of life, and attempted to tamper with it, channeling what power was around them and funnel it into the sample, twisting it into something new, something abhorrent.

The room filled with smoke as the machinery began to fail after being pushed beyond its limits, the sample now pulsing to the rhythm of a distorted beating heart. Vanta's cackling was soon cut short as a sudden spark caused the room to go dark, save for the growing and glowing blob in front of them that started to twitch and spasm rapidly. In an fantastical explosion of overwhelming power, something made itself clear, a vision of another world, similar to the one Vanta knew but...different, something about it felt empty. the colors, what little there were, had been muted, mostly hidden behind the various shades of black and white. Before losing consciousness all Vanta could do was smile and laugh, for them, this was something wonderful, a new world, a world full of untapped potential.

The memory of that night ignited a powerful drive within Vanta's hearts as their body was changed by the incident, holding on to some of the power they unleashed in that moment. It would come in handy when it came time to escape the prison ship they had been locked up in afterwards. Their whistling would go unnoticed amongst the blaring sirens, angry hollers, and sounds of the riots and fights between guards and other prisoners that masked Vanta's casual walk to the front of the ship.