#sidenote blue seems to be the theme color for a lot of my inserts lately? and i kinda like it?

[ditty-nightsong]

(art by risurisu on vgen!)

she's arrived at the bureau - sinner MBCC-S-505, liebling! (did she once go by another name, i wonder? shalom might know... these two seem awfully close.)

(notes/some Lore UTC!)

-her sinner code number is a reference to an arctic monkeys song. if i believe, it's a shalieb song. 😌 (there doesn't seem to be all that much rhyme or reason to sinner code numbers except for the ones that are references LOL. so i said. why not?)

-her sinner power is that she's able to use flowers as a healing device, which also has the side effect of "she has an incredible green thumb and flowers rarely die or even wilt under her care." this has made her quite a popular gardener in eastside, especially amongst the rich, powerful, and famous, and i thought it was a nice touch since shalom really likes flowers but has a really terrible time keeping them alive. :')

-speaking of her flowers, the ones on her legs are actually a mobility aid for her! she frequently deals with swollen ankles, varying levels of leg pains + aches + weakness, poor balance, and fatigue - among other things, that's just what directly affects her legs. while her flowers can't seem to totally cure her issues, wearing them does help her stay upright and out-of-pain enough to do her job as a gardener.

-for those of you who don't know PTN lore: shalom is a victim of human experimentation, and had a procedure (the hush procedure) done upon her to "sever her emotions." (it's basically a lobotomy... my poor lovely. thankfully, as of canon events, she's quietly and surely beginning to re-ignite her ability to feel these severed emotions!) per canon, before becoming the hush, shalom was actually extremely rebellious and would attack the people that experimented on her.

-i thought about it and experiments never have Just One Person like. that is never how it works. so, liebling was in the same experimentation group as shalom. she was far more passive than shalom, but always admired her rebellious nature, and followed her everywhere, becoming close with her. of course, once shalom had the hush procedure done, she never came back. however, following that, all of the other test subjects were released. after being freed, liebling found that her power had awakened, and she was now a sinner.

-shalom had originally forgotten, as a side effect of the hush procedure, that there were others in the group. but as her emotions rekindle, so do some memories. she begins to remember flashes of faces, but none more haunting to her than the face of someone she remembers by the name of elodie - a scared girl, slightly younger than she, with blue-grey eyes, who always clung to her and kept her company. going through records and experiment logs, she does find proof of elodie's existence - but once shalom had undergone the hush procedure and everyone else was released, all records of elodie cease to exist further. it becomes a haunting obsession.

-liebling has long-forsaken her real name - elodie - as a mark of her own failure, that she was powerless and hopeless to do anything to help or save shalom. she's assumed this whole time that shalom had been killed, presuming her dead. she took upon herself the name "liebling" - for the life she must live is dear.

-we meet again completely by chance. shalom decides to take a night walk during a heavy rainstorm, because she can't sleep. the only other person out and about is a woman wearing a rain jacket, tending to a garden. and of course, since shalom loves learning about people and observing them, she can't help but ask her about the flowers. she catches a glimpse of the gardener's eyes... and stops dead still. (we're reunited at last.)