#⚠️ Profuse Gore ⚠️

[susielesbianism]

been wondering abt that gruesome hc you mentioned you had about the ring of thorns and I must say I'm deeply curious abt ur thoughts

Oh boy. Here we go.

⚠️TW FOR MENTIONS OF BLOOD AND GORE AND GRAPHIC INJURY⚠️

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So, the longer you wear the Ring of Thorns (this amount of time gets hastened if you cast a powerful spell with it, like say, Snowgrave), the more it starts to coil around your finger and the more the thorns start to dig into your skin until it's completely wrapped around your finger and the thorns have burrowed themselves all the way into your skin. By that point, once the ring's on, it's on. You could try and remove it with a sharp implement like scissors, but then you'd have to deal with trying to removing the thorns deeply embedded in your finger and the profuse bleeding that would ensue. But by then it wouldn't even noticeable because the ring induces a Trance effect when worn. You could be walking around dazed with a broken, bleeding finger and never know.

I'm not sure how this headcanon would translate to when Noelle wakes up in the Light World, though. Perhaps she wakes up with a broken, heavily scarred finger and barely even notices as the Trance effect of the ring of thorns is just wearing off by that point? And since Dark World items become mundane objects in the Light World, I'm not too sure what the ring of thorns would become. Maybe a tied piece of itchy twine? Maybe a few splintered pieces of wood? I'm still filling in the blanks on that one.