#videon

"I didn't actually want to join the Enforcers at first," Vi said suddenly. "They killed my parents, but then I didn't have anyone left except for Cait, because my sister didn't want me anymore. And she was the head of the Enforcers. But then she died, too, in the battle against Noxus. Sword through the eye and into her brain."

Kiriona winced in sympathy. Death by stabbing wasn't fun, though at least that sounded a little faster than a fence.

"So now I have no one. Zaun sees me as a traitor for both being an Enforcer and that time I spent in the commune, one of the few people who made it out without becoming a puppet. Even when Piltover looks past the fact that I'm from the Undercity and grew up in Stillwater, I'll never escape the fact that Jinx was my sister. Not that I want to most days. So I joined up to meet the offworlders as a guard for the Piltovian delegate. Sorry, I'm rambling."

"No, I get it," Kiriona said. "I didn't grow up knowing I'm the daughter of the Emporer. The Ninth is the most backwater planet in the system, and it wasn't a good place to grow up. I used to have a different name. A Niner name. There's a reason why I didn't keep it."

Kiriona took a breath she didn't actually need to steady herself. "And I didn't want to join the Cohort. Well, I did growing up, because it would've gotten me out, but then I found out what we were actually doing. And like, hopefully our alliance with Runeterra can mean we can actually do some good, but it wasn't a good first meeting with my dad. But my necromancer was gone, and she was in practically every way my other half. But she didn't want me, and now she's gone. I don't even know if she's alive anymore. I didn't have anyone left, other than my dad."