#fto kit

I wanted her s4 attire to be more reminiscent of a street fighter — she's still in fight or flight mode even if she hasn't realised it. She's also not yet fully confident in dressing more 'feminine' but that changes as her support system grows throughout s5 and she recovers from some serious trauma (cough cough), which makes her more confident to express her personal style.

Her cape was frayed and literally falling apart but she insisted on keeping it. Also I changed the cut of the cape to give her more arm movement.

At the beginning of the s5 timeline, she was heavily scarred, for a multitude of reasons (I didn't draw the scars because I Forgot but pretend I didntttt), but after Pyrrhos (Polly) 'imprinted' on her, they basically all disappeared — perks of Divine Magic¹, you can't really scar. Slowly, after gaining Phoenix Slayer Magic, she developed markings, with wings growing behind her ears. At first she tried to hide it because she didn't want to look inhuman, but eventually she learned to embrace them.

She has the symbol of Aries on her because uhhh Celestial Spirit with a Fire Element ! I mean it when I say they play a much bigger role in my rewrite.

Her necklace has beads the colour of Menodora's (Marshie) eyes. The other beads she wears were gifted by Polly. Her belt with the green gem symbolises Tapio.

Honestly, originally I was happy to keep Kit's design quite canon compliant, but the more I developed the Culture of Atlantide the more I realised it just wouldn't really make sense for her to dress like that, so I had to make changes.

I didn't include her powered up form because I already spent quite a while on this and gonna be so real I'm tired and hungry lmao. It's just a red ombre hair and red eyes like in canon, 'bout it.

“Statement of…

… miss?”

“Huh?”

“what’s your name again?”

“Oh right! I’m Kayla Lockwood. But everyone calls me Kay.”

“Right. statement of Kayla Lockwood, regarding-“

“It doesn't make any sense, right? Like. I’ve been going over it dozens of times and it just. There wasn’t. Nothing happened, it was just, gone. Everything was gone.”

“Miss, if-“

“And it hurt! Which. Which makes sense. If it happened. But it couldn’t have happened. I think… but… i don’t think it should have hurt that much. And…I don't think anything really came fully back? Or maybe I didn't come back. Are you real?”

“Miss, sorry, could we. Backtrack a bit. Start at the beginning.”

“Oh! Right, uhm.”

“Statement of Kayla Lockwood, regarding.. getting lost in an abandoned building?”

“I didn’t get lost! Everything else vanished.”

“…. Right. Statement recorded directly from subject, overlooked by Archival Assistant Kit Phoenix. Statement begins.”

“…. I’ve been here before, you know? I. Came in before, after a few of our outings, made statements, but you've never taken me seriously before. Might have spoken to you…. I cant tell.”

“I’m… sorry?”

“… whatever. So. Me and my friend, Inmo, we … We do ghost hunting stuff. Something I thought this place would respect. But whatever. You’re stuck up assholes… I’m getting off track, whatever.

The gist of it is, we go into abandoned buildings, get readings on ghosts, try to help them sometimes. Film it. We’ve got a few thousand subscribers, and we find a bunch of real stuff!

… I. I got this tip off about a building recently. Some ancient building. A big old law building, with some massive drama on how it got shut down. Huge massacre, supposedly?

You might have heard of it, actually? Its from a hundred years ago, but, it’s often credited to be supernatural, seems like the kinda thing your institute might have researched.

That or its called a mass suicide.

There was a body in each room of the place, and they’re all brutally dead, seemingly at their own hands!”

“Sorry, Miss Lockwood, do you have the address?” 

“Uh, yeah, i uh. I wrote it down in the paper you made me sign. 

Anyway, I was actually kinda surprised I hadn’t thought to visit it before, and that no one else in the supernatural community had thought to go there? 

It was weird! 

Because, the supernatural community, we obviously love supernatural stuff, we love mysteries! It's literally our whole thing!

And like 30 dead bodies, all in locked rooms, killing themself in the most brutal way possible?! 

That's supernatural! That’s scary! That’s compelling! 

When me and Inmo heard about it, we were sure it was crawling with ghosts! 

So, we started planning the video. 

The theme of the video would kinda depend on the ghost’s mood, but if none showed themselves too obviously, we decided to try and look into what could have actually caused the deaths, and at the very least, make some exposition about the victims.

So we did a lot of research before going in!

And, we found a lot!

Like, half of the victims had lost loved ones, either a parent, a partner, or a pet! 

Which kinda lends to the suicide theory!

But, when we actually got inside, it was. Weird.

All our tech started bugging out. Which is usually a good sign of ghostly presences!

But. It bugged out in a weird way.

We could still recorded and the footage was fine…

But.. we couldn’t contact anyone. It was like we hit a total dead zone.

Like.. we were cut off from the world.

We didn’t notice for a while, obviously. We were focused on filming.

There. Wasn’t much to film at first, honestly.

We decided to go for an ominous but tragic vibe, and we were just. Getting some footage, when.

…

uhm…

….

I…I want to say I heard something that made me wander off? But I.. can’t remember what it was? It might have been singing? Or… maybe a scream? A sob?

… anyway, i. I walked into another room. 

I.. noticed there was a mirror, covered by some dusty fabric. so I decided to take a look. Sometimes, you can see ghosts in mirrors! I made a statement about that before 

So i.. I wandered over to the mirror, and removed the sheet…

And there was.. nothing.

I couldn’t… I couldn't see myself. The mirror reflected a completely empty room…. I probably spent ten minutes just staring at it. No matter what way I turned the mirror I just.. wasn’t there.

I had.. a lot of thoughts about what could have happened. What could have caused this.

.. things got.. really weird when I started trying to record it…

My.. my phone wouldn’t turn on. Or well. I could turn it on, but i.. i have it set up so it needs either my Face ID or my fingerprint to open, and it didnt… it wouldn’t work? It wasn’t that it wasn’t recognizing me, but I… 

It was like I wasn’t even there?

I… that’s what started scaring me, really.

I couldn’t open my phone. The mirror couldn’t see me, and

.. when I left the room, I.. couldn’t find the stairs. I couldn’t find… anything. All the other doors were gone, and I was.. stuck, in a long, long hallway.

There. There were no windows, no clocks, nothing.

Just a long hall.

I.. I started walking. Figuring eventually I have to reach somewhere, you know?

as i was walking, I.. noticed something. There were paintings on the wall, and earlier before I got stuck in that.. place. I’d taken some pictures of them, thinking they looked, vintage and creepy, ya know?

But… now the people in the paintings, none of them… none of them had faces. Just. Blobs of nothingness over where their faces should be.

… i.. I swear to you, I Swear, I walked in a complete straight line, I didn’t turn at any point. So it is... Completely impossible that I reached the door to the room with the mirror.

I.. I think it was the same room. The mirror was tilted the exact way I’d turned it. 

I started running after that. I thought.. maybe i was in some kinda loop, and.. maybe i could outrun it, you know?

I just.

Ran and ran and ran. But i didnt get anywhere.

I think I was screaming by that point… maybe i was calling for help? I.. can’t remember.

I kept running until every bone in my body ached, and I could barely breathe.

And even after that, I kept running, until I physically collapsed… I started crawling then.

I.. I didn't want to die there. I didn’t want to die alone. I just started thinking of how I didn't want to be alone, and… of everyone that I wanted to see again, but I.. I couldn't remember what they looked like! I couldn’t remember what any of them looked like. And at that point I just. Curled into a ball and started sobbing.

… I.. eventually dragged myself back into the room. And i just.

Stared at the mirror. I still couldn’t see myself…

I want to be clear. I wasn’t trying to … hurt myself.

But I thought.. I thought, maybe, somehow, I'd gotten stuck in the mirror. And. Maybe if I broke it… 

….

Inmo said he found me collapsed on the ground in front of the mirror.

It wasn't damaged, but I was badly cut. I had glass in my face. Inmo says you can barely see the scars, that the doctors did a great job.

….

At least I. I think it’s Inmo. I think that’s what Inmo sounds like.

I… still can't see his face.

….

Or anyone else’s.

Is.. is that all you need?”

“Uhm. Yes. Yes. It is, thank you for… Are you okay?”

“… I don't know. I think I'm gonna take a break from ghost hunting. Maybe adopt a pet. I’m.. thanks for listening this time.”

“Yeah, uhm of course. Do you want me to walk you out?”

“That was.. concerning. I have actually seen miss Lockwood before, quite a few times, but her previous statements were… quite frankly, ridiculous, and were all immediately filed as discredited

The. The thing that concerns me is the previous times she’s come, she’… she would greet me. Recognize me. She even learned my name, and Jakey’s. In fact, I think she and him were starting to build up quite a friendship.

But today she just… Walked right by everyone. It didn’t even feel like her eyes focused at all this entire time.

I’m… gonna ask Miss P to see if we can help her in anyway…

Main appearance/body: I tried to make her hair look like a realistic blonde, and accidentally made it darker in the second outfit. I also gave her red pupils, to add some interesting features to her, the same reason I added the red markings near her eyes. I did try and make it appear that her putter most eyelashes are like feathers but it isn't very visible, but please know that was my intent. I get that she is drawn with a six pack in her second design, but I didn't want to give her one I did try and make her look toned, but in a more realistic fashion. Also gave her some moles/beauty marks.

First outfit: This more or less her canon outfit with some additional details. I added a loop for a sword scabbard, and made her arm guards ho farther over her hands. Then a fun detail I added was to make the inside of her cloak look like the train feathers of a peacock, since I decided to make peafowl the design inspiration of Phoenixes in my rewrite.