Cirrus breaking in freshly summoned Aurora.
As soon as she emerged from the summoning circle, they could see in her eyes how feral she was. Gnashing teeth, baring claws, growling low and deep.
Cirrus could fix that. It might take some extra time but she could fix that.
As they lock eyes, the growling stops but the teeth and claws remain. Cirrus mind is filled with a surprisingly soft voice, “Aurora. My name is Aurora.”
Cirrus yanks the blanket out of Mountains trembling hands and approaches the ghoulette, throwing the blanket around her shoulders and wrapping her like a burrito in order to keep her claws in check. “Enough of that, sweet thing. I can take care of you.”
She doesn’t wait to meet Phantom. She doesn’t wait to be dismissed. She just grabs the new summon by the shoulders and pushes her out of the chapel and through the back hallways into the ghoul den. Into her room. Door locked.
She finally has the brain power to consider for a moment that perhaps she should be scared, all alone in a locked room with a feral ghoulette. But then her eyes flicker over as the blanket falls from her shoulders. The rage in Aurora’s eyes burn as she bares her claws again and Cirrus thinks she might be the prettiest little thing she’s ever seen. Pale skin that looks soft as silk, pastel blues and purples and pinks marbling her body.
“Oh, sweetheart” Cirrus coos, “I know you’re not silly enough to attack me. I do not like being wrong. I’m not wrong, am I?” She maintains eye contact but sees auroras claws flexing in her peripherals. “Come now, Angel. Don’t be so stupid just yet. We haven’t even gotten started.”
As she stalks towards her prey, she starts letting up on her glamour just a little. Just enough to really loom over her new little plaything. She can smell her fear rise and it’s so delicious. “You know what, I’ll be generous. I’ll let you get one hit in first. It’ll just make breaking you all the more exciting.”
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Finally: The Official DBHC Etho Reference Sheet!
I had to clarify that the “current” look is for Season 9, because I’m not sure how or if he’ll change for s10 yet! The “current” version is essentially his updated “default” look! Thought I might mention also that “Back Around” on the loose timeline lineup at the bottom is a reference to a song on his playlist in which he takes some time away from everyone after re-deviating to re-remember and find himself <3
Side note: Etho wears his mask under his chin mostly just around bdubs, but he starts wearing it down more often around doc, tango, or others who are used to seeing the damage. More than anything else, he’s sure to keep it for protection purposes when he’s outside working, exploring, or anything else that isn’t just hanging and chatting with friends :]
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Working on my own Disco Elysium skills! Individual art pieces and descriptions (in the style of the game) below the cut :]
DIALECTICS
Examine verbal landscapes. Get to the truth of the matter.
Cool for: Logicians, Philosophers, Asshole Devil’s Advocates
Dialetics urges you to look beyond the basics of conversation. It encourages you to discuss theories, truths and falsehoods, until you exhaust everyone around you with your sheer affinity for taking the most convoluted routes to your deductions—but, hey, it works! Those people are only *really* annoyed because you very accurately psychoanalyzed them.
At high levels, Dialectics will help you reason with even the most convoluted of situations. You will be an unstoppable detective, who may occasionally suffer from some unintended side effects such as: your brain and mouth moving too fast, overcomplicating little things, becoming an insufferable jerk, and joining your local debate team. With low levels of Dialectics, you’re going to have a difficult time seeing through both worldly and interpersonal deceptions. You may find yourself being taken advantage of.
EVOCATION
Recall emotions and imagery. Paint complete pictures of the past.
Cool for: Visualizers, Chronic Observers, Witnesses Of Crimes
Evocation allows you to call forth memories that may otherwise be lost in the recesses of your mind. Previous instances of sound, touch, taste, feeling, sight—all of these are at your beck and call: able to be summoned within and around you in a great miasma of experience. You will be able to relive important events, even those that were only mere seconds, and examine them closer to reveal what you couldn’t comprehend in the moment.
At high levels, Evocation will help you reimagine scenes that may have happened years ago, lasted the length of a blink—or, perhaps, even allow you to picture memories that you were not present for. You will find yourself constantly transported to the past: a single whiff of a familiar perfume enough to completely derail your senses. With low levels of Evocation, you’re going to have a hard time remembering simple conversations and potentially important visual details. You will have to rely on others in such scenarios.
BODY OF LAWS
Know your rights. Remember fun courtroom trivia.
Cool for: Lawyers, Law-Evaders, Stick-In-The-Muds
Body Of Laws is responsible for your ability to follow the law at any given time—or don’t! Just because you know the rules doesn’t mean you have to play by them. Regardless, it certainly allows you to recall a, frankly, embarrassing amount of your government’s regulations, and may encourage you to ‘stay in your lane’, so to speak, regarding them. Governments aren’t the only entities that enact rules, though: you will also find yourself privy to understanding unspoken boundaries set by people, nature, and even your subconscious self.
At high levels, Body Of Laws will either make you an *extremely* insufferable goody-two-shoes, or a *wildly* effective cheat-of-the-system. You may end up feeling suffocated by all these restrictions you can so clearly see, causing you to become complicit with the movings of the machine—or potentially apathetic to why we need some of these restrictions in the first place. With low levels of Body Of Laws, you may find yourself accidentally violating boundaries you didn’t know existed—whether they be legal, personal, or cultural.
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