[[CREDIT TO MIRO HAVERINEN]]
WARNING: FROM THIS POINT ONWARDS THIS STORY WILL HAVE MAJOR SPOILERS FOR ARTIFICER'S CAMPAIGN.
DOUBLE WARNING: I will be experimenting with a '2nd person POV'. Just to see how it goes and how it works, if this irks you in any way, you can quickly skim though the first section and skip to scene 2.
Scene 1:
Artificer's P.O.V:
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"Mom, look what I got!" A cyan colored slugpup held out a freshly caught batfly, neck snapped and ready for consumption.
Artificer could only smile after seeing her child graciously devour the thing swiftly with utter joy in their eyes. They learn so quickly.
First, her children found an amazing hunting spot in the west sector of Garbage Wastes. Next, they were catching batflies like they were nothing. Now they've learned to kill them quickly and efficiently.
Another slugpup, this one being navy blue in color, also dropped another batfly in front of their mother, as if offering a sacrifice to their god.
This child's prey was more mangled than the previous one, its wings were bent in an unnatural shape.
"Did I do good?" They said, waiting for their parent's judgment.
"Ah, you hurt it a bit too much, you want to end them quickly, like this" Artificer picked the batfly up and snapped its unbroken neck. "See? It stops them from feeling hurt for too long and you get to eat them quicker!"
Her child's eyes sparkled in revelation and immediately hugged their mother.
"You're my everything"
Artificer went to hug back but...
There was nothing.
No children. No batflies. No Garbage Wastes.
Just Artificer and the ever-claustrophobic space of pure nothingness, worming into her psyche like a parasite.
It forced a cruel revelation that no matter how much blood is spilt, no matter how many bones are broken. It will never change anything.
Yet she kept going.
More blood.
More ashes.
A Cycle of wrath and an endless blissful ignorance of the truth.
...
"I have nothing but my sorrow and I want nothing more."
"It has been... it still is... faithful to me."
"Why should I begrudge it, since during the cycles when my soul was crushed by the depths of my heart, it was seated there beside me?"
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Morality & Mortality (Artificer x Reader)
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