#vendela

6th anniversary celebration artwork

5 star incantation medic! Neat! She seems to have a spinning sawblade on her healing staff which is concerning but not that out of pocket for Rhodes, let’s look a little closer and-

Oh.

Oh she’s a little fucked up actually

We know those eyes, we know them very well

The only person with eyes like that to my knowledge is our very own Amiya.

Things only get more concerning when you look at her headpiece, that is what appears to be a crown that is half “Civilight Eterna” and half “White Flower Crown.” Two of the more concerning IS collectibles

Civilight doesn’t need much introduction, we know it’s bad news but the white flower crown’s description is no less concerning

“Used in Vampire rituals it’s once vibrant redness has been sucked empty”

When Vendela uses her abilities in game, the flowers on her crown pulse from red back to white as she deals damage to enemies and pumps health into allies

All of these alarming implications lead me to a terrifying theory, that for her sake I hope is wrong

She’s also a Chimera.

The Sanguinarch is trying to make his own heir to the throne, one with Vampire ancestry, to claim dominion over all Sarkaz

❝ Our future is not built atop despair and resignations.

Vendela / Magdelene Shaw from Arknights

"I seriously do not know what's going on with her. It feels like there are like four different design elements fighting each other to the death for your attention and I don't. Get it. She's the only survivor of vampires raising the whole town she lived in and also a gardener and also she's using blood magic now (???) and also she was like a soft launch for amiya (medic)'s design motifs. "