#''at least it was painless'' as if she didn't defile corpses and kill at least one of them

[highlifeboat]

In swap au, are dau... (wait, how do we call them now collectivly? Siblings?) are they aware of how they all came to be, since they were transformed at different points in time?

I've been calling them Children or Siblings.

I think Mia was always very secretive when making a new kid.

Elena and Max were created fairly close together, though. As in, there's maybe a year or two of separation between them, where Mia was trying to perfect using the Cadou (because she kind of butchered Elena's face her first attempt. She still feels bad about that).

For Elena, Max just kind of showed up one day and Mia said "This is your new sister." and she never questioned it.

Melony has a much bigger age gap between her siblings. Like, at least 20 years, if not more, since Mia didn't turn her until she was an adult. Of course Elena and Max could recognize her, and of course that brought up questions they hadn't considered before. So, of course, they ask Mia about it.

And she tells them... a truth. They had been very ill people, looking for some form of salvation from their suffering. Ethan provided her with the Cadou to save their lives, and while it worked, it was not without a consequence. And that was all there was to it. She tells them Melony was no different. She wanted freedom from her pain, and Ethan provided, as he always does.

And neither Elena or Max really questioned it. After all, why would their mother lie to them? They have no memories of their previous lives anyway, so they're happy to believe this eternal life is some form of salvation. A gift from Father Ethan.

(Mia thought it was best they not know Ethan had basically gifted her Elena's corpse for experimentation. Or that she had dragged Max's dying body from the Village streets. Or... The entire mess that happened with Melony. They don't need to know any of that. And she hates to imaging the reaction they would have. She can't risk it.)

Melony is the only one of them that's completely unaware about how they were created. It's never been brought up around her, and as far as she knows this existence as human eating bug creature is all she's ever been.