Board Thread:Roleplay/@comment-28920015-20180217231640/@comment-26892768-20180218013553

Valeena pauses. Her head hangs low. It seems like she's been shocked into silence. And then...

"Did you know that before I was pulled into this, I was dead?"

Her voice is quiet. Soft, even. The otherworldly quality of her voice seems subdued.

"Before I got pulled into this, I'd been blasted into ash. My entire body, disintegrated in one blast by a master I thought would reward me for bringing him back to life. I didn't really have any time to register it. I may have died in agony, but if I had a choice now, I would've preferred to stay dead. Stay innocent. Let myself believe in my last moments that my life had a purpose."

She lets out a weak laugh, tears starting to stream down her face. "But no, that'd be too kind of a mercy, wouldn't it!?"

She slams her fists into the ground, snarling, magic flaring around her.

"No, I had to be revived. I had to live. I had to live with her; she who would take my mind from me, she who would lock me in a pretty cage and force me to wear a happy, loyal mask for three years as she casually revealed to me that everything I thought I knew was a lie, crafted by an uncaring master who saw me as a means to an end and parents who used me as a pawn! And I just had to...accept it! Accept it like my entire world wasn't just shattered before my eyes over and over for THREE YEARS!"

Magic's just pulsing off of her at this point, sending out waves of destruction as her breakdown progresses.

"And then someone broke me free. I thought I was free. I went off to gather myself and properly mourn for my waste of a life. I thought that maybe, just maybe, I could figure out how to make myself useful without getting involved in this chaos between worlds. But no! It follows you LIKE A PLAGUE!"

Another wave of destruction as her voice breaks into sobs. Valeena looks at Karkat, eyes glowing with power uncontrolled.

"You can't ignore it! You can't get away! It'll come to you, with cities of gold and a reminder that YOU'RE NOT EVEN SAFE IN YOUR HOME UNIVERSE! The only escape is death. And you heroes like justice, right? I may not have been in control of myself at the time, but I've done you many wrongs. So PLEASE!"

Valeena grabs Karkat and pulls him close, looking at him with pleading eyes.

"I am offering myself to you heroes, and all I ask is that you grant me the one mercy the omniverse has forsaken me! END! ME!"

And then the magic dissipates. Valeena's eyes return to normal, and she slumps to the ground, letting go of Karkat. She's practically crying a waterfall now.

"S-sorry...I...I didn't mean to make a scene..." Valeena mutters, barely managing to compose her voice into something other than sobs. "Just...take me away."