#muse: kirika

[justsescape]

[Introducing the throwback drabble series: old stories brought back to tumblr!]

Ready for your swimming lesson, anon? A shame you don't have some flotation devices of your own~ <3

Kirika's texts read as loudly as her voice; you could almost hear her laughter echoing across the tiled walls. Though this indoor swimming pool was accustomed to dozens of visitors, the club leader spent her nights as a lifeguard, so private access was but a swipe of a badge away. She remotely opened the front door from her cozy security desk. Nothing but the gentle hiss of the HVAC system followed you inside.

I'm going to get into my swimsuit... and so should you, she texted. I'll meet you at the pool, cutie!

If the changing stall Kirika was about to use was anything like the one you had just used, she would be cramped and freezing cold. Surely she'd walk out wrapped in a towel and shivering from head to toe. That's exactly what you were doing, anyway. Even the surface of the pool water was so still that it's like it had been iced over. Moonlight spilled through the skylights and illuminated the room in an ethereal glow.

You spent a few moments handling the bitter air on your own before Kirika revealed herself.

"Here I come~," she called out. Her reputation had always preceded her -- as did her gigantic boobs as she rounded the corner. She'd never win a game of hide-and-seek in a forest. Her breasts would lunge out from behind the trunk of a tree.

"Hey anon, like my new swimsuit?" Kirika's thumbs slipped under the straps like she was wearing overalls. "I went up a few sizes, so I got something brand new!"

Kirika skipped the towel and went straight for the cowprint bikini. It was startlingly, unreasonably small, so much so that the outlines of her puffy nipples drew the cups taut and left a shockingly large portion of her areolae on display. Her stomach was entirely hidden behind the heft of her breasts -- and yet, for their impressive size, they didn't deviate from being nearly perfect spheres. Even beach balls would look on in jealousy at their generous proportions. And with every sauntering step she took, they ever so gently knocked into one another -- making a satisfying and rhythmic bounce that was every bit as hypnotic as a swinging pendulum.

"Sorry about the wait, anon. I took a shower before I came out here, so now I'm all squeaky clean!" Glistening droplets of water slipped down the lengths of her arms, coiled about her shapely legs, and dripped from the tips of her fingers. Some must have been on her stomach as well -- not that you could see it with her massive breasts in the way. What you could see, however, was the bottom half of her swimsuit digging into her waist. A rigorous swimming routine had granted her thighs and buttocks a thickness usually reserved for apple buckers and Olympians.

"Anyway, I brought some floats," Kirika said, taking your hand and intertwining her fingers with yours. A sudden warmth jolted up the length of your arm. With body heat like hers, she could melt ice like she melted hearts. "So why don't you just grab on to mine instead~?"

But what Kirika reached for were not floats -- at least, not in the traditional sense. She dragged your hand between her tits until you were wrist deep, forearm deep, elbow deep into her cleavage. It was comfortingly warm, yet undeniably wet; a combination of her perspiration and the shower water had taken up residence inside and rendered her skin slick to the touch.

"How do you figure, anon? Think they'll float, or are they too heavy?"

She had no interest in putting her question to the test. With you in her breasts' clutches, she forced your back against the nearest tiled wall. Dust shook from the ceiling. She was stronger than she looked.

Kirika couldn't hold her moan. The tiles on your skin were cold, cold, cold -- but her breath was hot, hot, hot. If she got any closer, she'd be swallowing you up completely. After all, her cleavage already was. Your arm all but disappeared into its depths, and now they were fully wrapping around your torso like molding clay and enveloping you from shoulder to waist. Meanwhile, her thighs surrounded one of your comparably slender legs. One little squeeze and she could snap your knee like a twig.

"You're so easy to toy with," Kirika teased, dragging two fingers gently across your jawline. A bead of water dripped from her chin like it was falling from beneath a melting icicle. Her lips were close enough to kiss. "But that's why I like you so much, anon... and that's why I'll let you do this..."

Kirika took your free hand in one of her own and guided it to her nipple. All it took was one little touch, one tiny graze, and milk began to soak through her swimsuit and trickle down her breast.

"Mmmmmmnngh... mmmOOOOoooo...~"

Kirika's moos echoed off the tile walls. The quantity of milk she was lactating was comparable to a garden hose, and soon her product slathered the floor in lazy, haphazard patterns. Puddles soaked into the grout between the tiles; some even dared to venture into the pool itself. You felt a sensation of stickiness underneath your bare feet.

The HVAC system clicked several times as it switched from heating to cooling.

"Forget the swim," Kirika breathed. She craned her neck until her mouth was right beside your ear. Her voice was as smooth as melted chocolate. "Let's drain the pool and fill it with my milk instead...~"

[aparticularbandit]

meta i want to write but probably won't:

chloe is very clearly meant to be the dark parallel to kirika (most evident when we see kirika in true noir mode), but altena is meant to be the dark parallel to mireille.

(and altena's relationship with chloe is meant as a warped sort of parallel to mireille's relationship with kirika. altena pretends to love chloe, but if her hate can save quote is correct, she never truly loved her and only used her as a means to an end. mireille, from the beginning, intentionally said she was using kirika as a means to an end and pretended to hate her, but ended up truly loving her.)

...i could be so much more specific in meta but idk if i actually want to. write that essay.

[lawain-dimensional-heroes]

So these two dorkette's got summoned--

[godtiertalk]

Happy 4/13, suckers, I've been mainlining Magical Girls and have an all new collection of psych meds. You know what time it is!

Symphogear Time!!!!

Tachibana Hibiki: Bard of Void

I knew I would have to limit Hibiki to the Void aspect since she specializes in unarmed combat. This was particularly tricky given her overwhelming association with Light, but luckily there are inversion prone classes to work with.

Bard was an ideal fit for someone whose goal of bringing the world together to a place of mutual understanding is so fundamentally at odds with her skill set as a combatant.

Ultimately, Hibiki is at her strongest when she is at her most passive: not fighting, but beseeching. Reaching out with an open fist to every villain and god she encounters, and in so doing insuring the total destruction of their plans.

The whole "haha she sings the song of the apocalypse because she's a bard" thing was a nice bonus!

Kazanari Tsubasa: Rogue of Blood

Ah, the lush irony of Tsubasa and blood. Despite her constant rejection of the constraints of her bloodline, there is no denying that Tsubasa has internalized the ideals of her family and pursues them with relentless fury. If Blood as an aspect represents the indelible effects that the people around us have on our lives and selves, well. Tsubasa certainly captures the complicated pain and glory of that.

However, the thing that truly makes her a rogue of blood, in my opinion, is the way she interacts with other people's family trauma. Consistently, she has the capacity to take on other people's fear of vulnerability and intimacy, cracking through their walls to allow those deeper bonds to form. Breaking in, but never stealing.

Add to that her association with Breath/Flight/Wings, and Rogue looks even more appealing for its ability to interact with an aspect to the point of its own opposite.

Yukine Chris: Prince of Life

Bang bang big gun go shooty pow boom.

I mean, there are legitimate reasons too, but this one is pretty straight forward. Chris is a very rich character, but uhhhhh. Not a super deep one.

In more serious terms, Chris is very much defined by her relationship to death. She is a killer, yes, but she doesn't want to be. The immense value she places on life, whether her own or others' suggests that she is not a Doom player, but a Life one.

Her willingness to sacrifice her own life to achieve the Biggest Bang also comes to mind. Whether she is using her life as a weapon, or using her weapons to protect lives, she's very much a Weapon of Life. And thus, a Prince of it too.

Maria Cadenzavna Eve: Seer of Hope

I feel like this is another relatively self-evident one. Maria always sees the best in people, even in her abusers. Whether it's the brain maze for the Linker recipe, or pretending to be Finé, Maria always sees the possibility for success.

Where light is the best possible turnout, hope is the impossible made manifest.

Also, her weapon is not designed for direct combat, but rather for redirection of immense amounts of energy. That screams "hopey bullshit" to me, as well as being a more passive style of combat overall.

Akatsuki Kirika: Knight of Mind

Okay, so, the underlying logic here basically comes down to "beep boop this bitch gay." Can you believe they legit named her 'eclipsed sunlight reflecting off the moon'? I love how obnoxious the names in this show are.

That in mind, why not heart? I actually waffled on this one a lot. Heart seems so obvious for the genki girl desperately in love with the moon. Right? But...

The thing is,

Tsukuyomi Shirabe: Maid of Heart

Drafty draft moon bunny boing boing

Girl has 0 impulse control. I almost said 0 chill but that's not true. If anything she has too much chill. She is so unhingedly chill about following all her most insane and self-destructive impulses. Every heart player ever does this, whether it's Dirk's beheading or Nepeta confronting Gamzee.

Bonus: Fraymotif (Light and Heart): Total Eclipse. If you're thinking this has IMMENSE deja vu, it's because I've definitely covered this before, here.

Anyway, imagine a cool fun total eclipse of the heart reference here

More personalized than Collective Effervescence, Total Eclipse is a pretty simple 1-to-1 translation of Kirika and Shirabe's various duet superpowers. I imagine it would functionally involve Kirika identifying strategic decision their enemy could make in her own and Shirabe's favour, and Shirabe forces the enemy into an emotional state conducive to making those bad choices. Like I said, it's basically 1-to-1 with how their duets function.

Kohinata Miku: Lord of Space

I have not watched Season 5, but if Miku doesn't get back her Symphogear by the end of it, I will be BURNING SOCIETY TO THE GROUND.

Anyway, as the Great Unmaker whose power was so immense that she unmade the concept of Original Sin, I think we can go ahead and give her a master title.

And when it comes to "able to destroy anything, anywhere, right down to the very concept of it" well. That's gotta be space.

Elfnein: Muse of Time.

This one was so easy that I kind of feel like it must be wrong. Too easy!

But I mean, she's literally the most passive person in the show, whose primary skill set is in giving other people enough time. That's muse of time behaviours!!

ETA: I've now watched enough of S5 to get to That Part now, and I'm more sure than ever. Even in the moment of utmost need, Elfnein's special ability is to summon previously killed allies for a cameo fight. I cannot think of anything more "too passive to live, too powerful to die."

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These are my opinions, not declarations of fact. I am always interested in hearing your opinions in turn.

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Bonus round: Genjuro ends up in Hibiki's sprite after being killed by SGAME. Tsubasa's cool politician dad voluntarily puts himself in Tsubasa's sprite to act as an ally to the kids. Ogawa is unkillable, Gamzee style, and this is never addressed.

[aparticularbandit]

-gently sets Kirika Yuumura and Noir here-

Enough of the trope where memory loss undoes the damage or the corruption or whatever. More content where removing memories just removes the context.

The tragedy of needing to grieve and not knowing what or who you lost or why. The angst of having trauma and being denied the awareness that it's trauma. The suspense of being different somehow and left to wonder how and when. The tension of knowing that something is off and you can't find where it hurts. The Adventure Zone gets it. Kingdom Hearts gets it.

There is an aching inside you and you don't know how it got there.

[runemyth0]

We should put Duo Maxwell in the Igalima and Kirika Akatsuki in the Deathscythe. As a treat.

[tokufan400]

New Muses (Senki Zesshou Symphogear)

Hibiki Tachibana

Another Hibiki Tachibana (Edgebiki)

Miku Kohinata

Tsubasa Kazanari

Chris Yukine

Maria Cadenzavna Eve

Kirika Akatsuki

Shirabe Tsukuyomi

Kanade Amou

Ryuko Sakurai/Fine'

Elfnien (Physically aged up)

Carol Malus Dienheim (Physically aged up)

Saint-Germain

Vanessa Diodati

[rpking99]

Muse suggestion: Kirika Akatsuki (Symphogear)

Yes to the girl who transforms by doing a pole dance

[thewolfisawake]

Who/What Inspired My Muses

So all my muses have some sort of inspiration whether that be a character or trope. Some of them are very obvious...some are not. But I thought it a little fun.

Kesil: I.kuto T.sukiyomi. Look. Look, in so many scenes, this boy is a menace. And annoyed the shit out of the rest of the cast. It was interesting.

Artemis: The 'straight man' trope. He just is living in a very chaotic world and knows it's chaotic. And yet somehow the one with the sense. Out of his entire family.

Samir: Z.iva and Tony from N.CIS. His background is a variation of the two meeting and falling in love. His job is a lot like a certain division of that series. As for the personality, it was actually from a novel idea of an infamous incubi's daughter that was fighting against her nature to be who she wanted to be but also dealing with her nature in order to live.

Bijou: J.oker from P.5 Pretty straight forward there. I just thought of if the phantom thief was a lady. She does have a little B.ayonetta flair in there too. Especially with butterfly motif.

Aspis: S.ora from K.ingdom H.earts. The boy makes friends everywhere he goes while running away/not thinking about the trauma he has lived through. Very sweet boy but also fighty boy.

Crowe: N.ino from A.CCA. He is actually where Crowe gets his namesake. He is a spy that ultimately gets close to certain people because of his job but stayed because he got attached. Weirdly also his FC, Lavi. Although that came over time and it's still weird.

Dominicus: R.ed from the B.lacklist. I didn't stick with the series long but I think of a person that is steps ahead and continually holds the cards. Dom is bit greener but no less of that sort of persuasion. And that it was a learned thing for him.

Tannim: The feminine healer. It was supposed to be a small subversion of giving traits that seemed to be popular with a healer, mainly the 'token girl' and just giving it to fighter that is also masculine. What I get is a cinnamon roll that just wants to help. Also keeps very questionable company but not necessarily judging them. He and Noita are both also based on my interpretation on the player character of a very cherished game of mine: Dragonfable.

Noita: The edgy loner protag. Also a subversion of just giving these traits of your run of the mill broody protagonist that just so happened to be feminine. They had evolved long since then since they do not always identify as feminine. They are also meant to be the hero whose destiny was taken. And also how that is not always maliciously. Tannim, by his nature, 'stole' Noita's destiny. And honestly? Doesn't begrudge him and in fact has allowed them to share that burden rather than it belong to one character (this is not as much featured on this blog but is a hold over of their close bond).

Kirika: She was supposed to be me proving I can make a non-angsty muse. I failed that spectacularly. I don't think having her inspired from F.atal Frame helped that.

Sullivan: He was my first go with the idea of therians for the blog. Anyone that has known me long enough has known this idea has shifted several times so he's been a bit stuck since I only recently found the idea I'm more happy with.

Sorin: Daisuke from D.NAngel. For some reason I was really stuck on the idea of this boy just wanting to be normal yet casually just coming home to a boobytrapped house. Not that this home is (his mother would have a fit) but like the dichotomy of mundane and lack of mundane side by side like his life tends to be as a child help run a family business and learning some sneaky rogue stuff too that is ALSO family business.

Altair: Y.ue from Avatar . Also going with concept of half-bloods and minor introduction to the gods.

Yukina: The concept of summoners such as Yuzuriha Nekoi from X/1999 and Shiemi from A.o no Exorcist.

Makari: The mage families in the T.ype M.oon universe. Pretty fucked stuff. He is not but like magic people be like that.

Arsene: S.oo-won from A.katsuki no Yona.

Gisilbert: The Green Knight with a little bit of J.ames B.ond

Biserka: Literally the quote "Twas beauty that killed the beast." (It's so stupid too, I don't even like the movie this came from but it sticks in my head). Her personality and the like was purposely meant to mirror Kesil's relation to @arcxnumvitae's Veritas.

Hijiri: The Divine Heir, Kuro from S.ekiro. There was an explanation about the Dragon Heritage that had me come with 'what if there was blood that was prosperous?' As in prosperity is literally around them.

Beatrix: What would Hera be like by modern standards?

Alec: I literally was looking up 'interesting powers' and found one and thought 'y'know what would make this even better? daddy issues.' Also really was stuck on some aspects of the 'southern gentleman.'

Kyri: Apollo's luck in love continues! Also, the logical conclusion for 'well if fire doesn't hurt them why not use that for their job???'

Taehyun: At the time, me and Kristen and Angie had our hands on just about all of the main 12 of the Greek pantheon in some way. Except Dionysus and I called that.

Jasper: The cool uncle most fams supposedly have? Small attempt of making Aspis' life suck less?

Belun: P.yrrha Nikos and boy would I be here all day with all the accidental things I've done by having those all together. (Achilles is accidentally everywhere with him!)

Veronika: Ngl, her power and concept literally came from a badass scene in my head that an older Artemis infiltrated, threatened and assassinated her within her own keep. Later came from having forces that oppose the Empyreans.

Yuliya: The opposite to her sister. Her power came from the shikai Ichimonji from Bleach because that's OP as hell.

Anri: D.ungeons & D.ragons & C.hild Support. Aka, being a bard's kid goes exactly how you think it does.

Rukiya: The cool aunt that every family has?

Faye: The theme of the crossroads.

Anastasiya: There had always been the betrayal that caused the divide of Betrayers and Empyreans. But I had always been vague about it. But I had decided to think logically of how that came to be. And what better of getting the drop on your enemy than having one of them help you out? That is Anastasiya.

Ashte: Eresh deserves a friend. That's it. That's literally it.

Luis: I found the history of executioners fascinating and how it tended to be an inherited sort of thing. And how they do a lot but it's such a thankless job??? And like??? They are basically physicians without the prestige why??? And of course I like vamps so--

Niamh: N.ina from S.ix of C.rows. Her backstory with Flynn should have made that very obvious.

Bayani: The concept of McGuffin creatures in fairytales such as the Ibong Adarna. Like they have thoughts and feelings too, right???

Donovan: An edgy birb. The phoenixes made so far have all been sweet and that's fine and dandy. I love them. But leave it to me to continue the angst and dark of it all. Also trope of the capable second in command like R.iza Hawkeye.

Kidane: Okay but if there are nonhuman cops, why can't there be other criminal related jobs in the nonhuman world? Also I lowkey have always been fascinated with the history and scary detail that criminal profiling has.

Yaenako: The Enma-tei event from F.ate/Grand Order. Also I wanted a kitsune character but not necessarily a typical trouble maker and found that they can be very faithful companions and good homemakers.

Oren: Was originally a concept in collaboration with the covens with Angie. However it ended up being concept of a coven in itself that wanted surpass their traditions but not abandon their history. Oren embodies his entire coven's philosophy as a person.

Reyes: Originally I thought he was gonna be the introduction character to the Intoner specialization. But then randomly I thought to add a twist and thought of this cute little one shot I remembered reading god knows how long ago called Hakamori Majo Bianca. That is what set up his background.

Iris: Edgy changeling. As you will find, I will make an edgy anything if you give me time. But no, this was really an exploration because I thought of so many really messed up things that changelings can be used for. And while I certainly will be in trouble putting Samir through that sort of thing, there is no bar stopping me from doing it to a new character...so I thought.

Calla: Weirdly enough, I really like fear-based episodes/quests. They stick to me a lot because of what fear can do or tell about a person. While Calla is not that in-depth, she does serve as someone that has the ability to conjure and manifest fears. Her magic is most directly influenced by Phobeist, a NPC in Dragonfable.

Altyn: The female cover of 'It's Tough to Be a God.' I literally found an animatic and came to friends and said 'this is my crazy idea, does anyone want to go in with me on it?' Kristen stepped up and that's how we get Zhifeng and Altyn on their little scheme. I thought that Altyn was more like Miguel but I feel she ends up more like Tulio somehow???

Percy: Ezekiel Jones from the L.ibrarians. Probably less cocky somehow and more book smart. His background also makes this clear too.

Deianeira: I was bullied to make a sin (this is a joke, I was asked by my friends if I would like to join in the sin pantheon. Lust was the only one left). But the idea was 'does the sin necessarily have to be one person?' Belinda is based on the ingenue trope (even called so in her background). Tamiko is actually based on I.ron W.idow's Wu Zetian. Also was a chance encounter within the history of the slave trade going on in the 19th-20th centuries.

Ceilidh: I love the mundanity placed beside the incomprehensible. Or even something contradictory is the solution to something strange. So Ceilidh is the collision of that. Her being one that literally records words that fae tend to twist to their own ends. Also wanted a fae that had reason to be in the Court but not exactly in Court because that can make a difference in treatment.

Mikoto: The Night Parade of 100 Demons. I learned about the concept from Inu x Boku SS and found it interesting. And combined it with the idea of being spirited away. She is also influenced from C.hilde from G.enshin because something something 'stare at the Abyss and it stares back.' It was a joke at the time, okay?

Eiji: I actually wanted to do a character that had something to do with the takarazuka revue. And while a lot of times the 'masculine' version of the revue is usually placed as kabuki (which don't get me wrong is a lovely art), I felt like the revue chooses to go with more modern sensibilities rather than keep strict to tradition. So what is a more modern convention to the pageantry and talents required in the revue? Idols baby.

Nico: The Book of Tea. Like the conduit of his power is based off of that. As for his relations...well, I actually had played with the idea of Noita having another sibling for a long time. Considering their father is a giggolo and their mother pretty much ran away to do whatever the fuck she wants......it's really more of a surprise they haven't run into more siblings within their life.

Eriskyne: I think I proposed a random idea for court intrigue for Kristen? But their conception was inspired by Yu Suffiad from C.ritical R.ole as someone serving fae but uses their changeling nature for subterfuge. Their personality I did get inspired by J.amil V.iper from TWST. Mainly because I tried thinking what would work alongside their background. A low-key schemer works, who knew.

[wonderalmighty]

Hold oon, you have Symphogear muses too?! I love Symphogear, no kidding is like my favorite anime ever, I am totally down to have some shenanigans with your muses.

((Yep, I have Hibiki, Chris, Tsubasa, Carol, Kirika, Maria and some others, they are crossed over with Kamen Rider Gotchard but that doesn't change much in terms of canon give or take a few events so they are mostly the same and I am always for fun))

[justsescape]

what if girl but milky

"You called?"

[aparticularbandit]

Thank you, Noir, for teaching me that Kuroi means Black.

[lawain-dimensional-heroes]

Everytime November ends...Kirika's Christmas song gets in my head more and more...

"DESS~"

[xaracosmia]

hihi! this is maya. i’ll be dropping all my muses: ai minato from psychedelica of the black butterfly who was housed in isle ten, kirika akatsuki from symphogear in condo ten, ryne waters in cabin six, kairi from kingdom hearts in suite 009 and velvet crowe from tales of berseria in lodge five. you can contact me here with any questions. thanks!

hey maya, your drops have been processed for you. wishing you the best! o/

— mod thin mint 🦇

[peachmuses]

hey, i’m peaches. they / them. beta-user. student. mother. 32. gemini sun, gemini rising and aquarius moon. mentally ill and often paralyzed by ADHD. this is a multi-fandom blog . do not follow me if you are a minor / and please hard-block me if you decide to unfollow me. this blog will have n/s/f/t themes at times due to adult content and violence such as: losses of loved ones; suicide ideation; self-harm; war; mental / physical / and other abuses; and much much more. here’s the other important bits.  character list and rules.  my open meme tag. - send me things from here whenever you want.  a sideblog where musings are posted.  another sideblog for musings. PLEASE reblog character inspo from that blog. main knb timeline is the NKRU timeline.  unless otherwise plotted, all knb muses interact in that verse.  fandoms: kuroko no basket. naruto. boruto. tokyo revengers. ATLA, bungo stray dogs. dc comics. fandom/fandomless oc's. currently active canon muses: shuuzou nijimura, tatsuya himuro, satsuki momoi. ino yamanaka. karin uzumaki. currently active ocs: suwa kirika, handa ichika.  characters currently on hiatus: yumi. fuuka. calix. lucian. maeil. mitsuya.  associated with: ROBYN / TENACITYRETURNS ; MARS / SOCIIETIES ; POLOMA / BARRENSTARS ; IRENE / BRUMATIFL. spotify link.

[kanohivolitakk]

Been thinking about this paragraph from Legacy of Evil chapter 5 a lot today.

Despite Lariska’s insistence that neither she nor the ex-Toa were responsible for the defeat, she was punished severely and Nidhiki was shunned

And just feeling so many emotions about it.

Like, both BOADH as well as Legacy of Evils version of the events make it very clear that Nidhiki was shunned by most of the other Dark Hunters due to him betraying his Toa team. Nidhiki constantly gets punished for his betrayal, either directly or indirectly. Everyone saw him as a bad person and reminded him o that. No one cared for his well-being. Both versions of the story make it brutally clear that the Dark Hunters did see Nidhiki as a traitor, as someone who was even lower than most of them. No one cared for Nidhiki when he was shipped away from Metru Nui with rest of the Dark Hunters, no one mourned for him when he transformed into his insectoid form. It’s bleak but the story does make good job by showing how insignificant Nidhiki is to the Dark Hunters through word-choices

Yet this paragraph shows us with only like six or so words that Nidhiki being  treated like trash by everyone is a lie to some extent. Because Lariska did care about Nidhiki. Unlike the rest of the Dark Hunters, she didn’t see him as a failure or a traitor. Instead, Lariska was capable in feeling sympathy towards Nidhiki and thought he wasn’t responsible for the Dark Hunters loosing the war. With the way the text uses the word insist, we can come to the conclusion that she went so far as to freaking defend him from the slander he received despite Nidhikis status as an outcast. Lariska could’ve easily not interfered, and probably would’ve been saved from the punishments she received as a result. Like, given her high rank  in the organization and her history with TSO I feel she most likely was aware of the punishments she would receive were she to defend Nidhiki. Yet she chose to do it anyway because she didn’t see Nidhiki as responsible for the wars result, consequences be damned.

This sentence, no matter how brief it is, is such a huge reason why Daggerspider is my main OTP in this series. Like, even if everyone else is against them, even if the whole world hates them and is willing to punish them, they still care for each other, and fight for death (or at the very least Lariska would, Nidhiki is a bit too self-serving bastard for that haha). God I’d die for more content of these two they are perfect and I love them so much.