* DEATH & REBIRTH.

I've got an Inquisition verse I need to DO THINGS IN. SO yes. Altho we need to do more regular stuff too tbh

i’m totally here for it!!!! if you have d.iscord my handle is sweet bean#1865 so feel free to add me there or else we can use IMs here. 

my main da verse does assume a prior relationship w/ loki in her backstory, but i’m totally open to making adjustments or an alt version if none of it works. 

        if the warden takes sigyn/empathy into the tower during broken circle quest, her experience in the fade is similar to cole’s during the plot of asunder. she loses herself to the memory of her sons’ deaths so completely that the spirit in her subconsciously shapes the fade around her into a replica of the home her human self once shared with her family (though the room she’s inside of is the only room that exists in detail; the fade being such a malleable place, the “home” she builds is actually smaller on the inside, confined to that single room). 

        depending on how gently or aggressively the warden manages to get her attention, sigyn may lash out at them at first. regardless, the spirit empathy will emerge at that point with eyes that blaze white and an image that briefly returns to its spirit form—a glowing figure swathed in glimmering fabric of pure light that seems to twist into smoke around the edges. 

        if her approval is neutral or higher, sigyn will apologize for keeping the truth of her being a secret from the warden with slight variances in her reasoning (neutral approval, it’s because she doesn’t know them very well; high approval, it’s because she feared how they might react). if her approval is below neutral, she’s a bit colder in how she responds to the warden’s discovery, and potentially expresses some resentment to the implication that she “should” have told them when she really doesn’t trust them. 

        at that point, her condition appears to be unprecedented, and so she considers her decision to keep it to herself a wise and understandable choice, no matter how she feels towards the warden. 

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        empathy does genuinely believe that sigyn’s entire family is dead, but as she becomes more and more human, a larger and larger part of her is afraid that some of them might still be alive. this isn’t because she doesn’t want them to have lived, but she is viscerally aware of the PAIN it would cause them to discover her as she is now. to accept that the woman they loved—and who loved them—exists now only in a spirit’s memory is to accept that she is dead. 

        it would be extremely difficult to tread such a tenuous line, and she predicts that if they lived and were to find her, it would cause all parties more grief than if they simply believed sigyn to have died as a mortal typically does. she doesn’t know how she would handle it if they came back into her life, if she would be able to fill the role of wife and mother that sigyn once filled or if they would even want her to. 

        as a spirit, empathy is used to living in a world that bends to her will and is always changing. being human means experiencing human emotions as a mortal, in a world where her power to affect its behavior is limited to herself. not knowing what to expect frightens her, and ultimately she just wants peace for sigyn’s family, in life or in death.