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trashcanwithsprinkles · 2 months ago

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i can just imagine childe beating the abyss’ will down with a stick whenever it tried to make him take on a new form like it’s a particularly bad dog

genuinely unsure how to answer this ask because on the one hand yes, that's kinda funny and it would indeed be something like that had the abyss essentially come back to him time and time again like 'new form? 😳' and childe would've slapped it away like 'no!!!' like some sort of shitty spam email that lands on your regular inbox without fail, BUT

the abyss only wanted him to take on one form. in cyanide that form was the foul legacy, and to be frank childe did take it. he just refused to remain with that form. and also like- for it to have reached the 'haha the abyss is like an insistent dog' status, it would've had to have been-

not agonizing. like i get the joke but the process of rejecting the abyss' insistence on taking the FL form was not only a one-time process, but also like- nearly cost him his life. so uh.

yeah

#IF the abyss had then returned with a new form for him to take and then proceeded to do that again and again #over the course of a long-ass time #enough time for childe to get powerful enough not to nearly die everytime the abyss insisted he change clothes #then yeah it would've eventually devolved into that dynamic #but i do remember childe menioning how the abyss 'offers' you one (1) form #it's not a thing that's constantly trying to turn you into a different monster #more how durin and the melusines and elynas see the world differently #and so the abyss sees all things differently #and by being within it you sort of subject yourself to its reality. and if its reality has you in a different shape #that's where the problems come #but afaik the 'different' sight the melusines and elynas and durin have isn't one that shifts and changes #i may be wrong on that tho #for the purposes of cyanide it's a set reality #it's just not one that aligns with the normal reality and that's what causes problems #what nearly kills childe is finding a way to remain in the shape he was born in as the abyss is essentially dismembering him #and the FL transformation is him gaining enough power to dismember himself into the form the abyss wants #and then dismember himself again back into his usual human form #so it feels- odd; to think of it like childe beating the abyss with a stick like a bad dog #not that i don't see the humor of course #like i said i don't know how to answer this ask hahah

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