ˡᵒᵛᵉ⠀/⠀ 𝖜𝖆𝖓𝖊𝖘,

It's not fair to be pissed, Ki points out. You know that it wasn't on purpose. Well, I am pissed, Aika shoots back. At them? At their bitch sister. Mostly.

a hand comes up to straighten the bottles on the shelf aika's in front of, less out of annoyance and more to have something to do as they talk. ❝ i'm assuming it has to do with the person you're looking for. ❞ so much for not reading into it—— nosy, a little voice that sounds like nana nags, you're being nosy. well, it's not like much else happens in town. a stranger with a story is just too good to pass up—— so their smile turns into something more friendly as they turn to face aika, eyes crinkling at the edge.

( they hope they don't look too eager. )

alysia's gaze turns skyward — not for the beast outside of question, no. she bears witness to the clouds that envelop and mask the sacred creature, ( she feels the familiarity of home, of family ) and exhales harshly. she looks to iseul ( wayward sister, the other half to a fractured whole ) with her usually - grumpy demeanour. but it's not something that gets a rise out of her. ( their family was a heavy burden to bear, even with two of them. )

but hyrule has always come second. hyrule means nothing without the ones she loves most.

three houses. → part of the blue lions house. hiding from her sister, taking refuge in the monastery. hides her pointed ears with illusory magic. high in magic as well as strength. during the timeskip, she was captured by those who slither in the dark and experimented on by alysia. post timeskip, she has white hair.

genshin impact. → takes the role of the traveler; separated from her sister by the primordial god, she wanders teyvat in order to find her again.

dead by daylight. → entered the fog alongside her sister; they break the entities rules. one match, they may be killers; the other, survivors. her killer name is "the star."

kingdom hearts. → i'm still thinking this through don't look at me but i think iseul has reincarnated multiple times throughout the series. one life during the age of fairytales, another during missing link, one final one that places her at the adults' age by the time sora starts his adventure. keyblade master and intimately familiar with the final world.

general fantasy. → iseul is unaware of her divine nature and lives as a mortal. adopted by a woman she calls nana, she has an elder brother and sister; they all live in a small village sustained by traveling merchants.

( she was gone too quickly. here and there, like sand 'twixt slender fingers. alysia reaches out, hand holds towards where her star would be, wishes upon it a hundred more times for her to come back. don't leave me alone here! ) a soul that was made with the intention of spending the rest of it alongside one another was not a soul that fared well alone.

burdened by the mantle of mortality, the two of them endlessly tumble throughout time and space, parallel to the wishes of their forefather. (were they a cruel man for this?) alysia tenses, her shoulders heavy with the weight of the memories. how long had she been chasing the sun around the earth? how long had she been wandering like a man without water in the desert? hoping, aching, for a successful trial.

the knife that cuts holds tightly in her right hand, and she suddenly sees iseul as a feral animal cornered. her sister, hylia bless the both of them, her sweet sister had fangs and claws (and a sword of silver, please remember), whether she remembered them or not. this is suddenly a dangerous position to stand in, glowering up at the other.

❝ we’re two separate people in the exact same shade. ❞

alysia's hands shake, (do you remember?) trembling at the notion. where, before her, she saw soft edges and a dulled exterior, a simple physician (just like her). but backed into her proverbial corner, (the killer and the survivor, just as the entity had always intended. soldier and martyr.) but now, she sees the other for what they are. a predator, trapping prey. in this tale, alysia is the butterfly that just wandered into the spiders web.

( the vision rises too late; a mass of wings expands into iseul's shadow on the wall, alysia sees the holy ichor bleeding from nose and mouth and ears, she is blinding light, and alysia blinks the image away and sees just iseul, terrified and afraid. ) a trick of their mother, surely.