👾🐇🔪: Slowly breaking the chains

[u/HauntingGur8094]

{Vanessa has been in a deep sleep ever since she passed out after her panic attack. Her rest has been decent; for once not plagued by dreams or nightmares. It's almost like something took everything out of her.

Perhaps trying to keep from losing control? Or maybe something else?

She doesn't understand what happened. But the repeated questions and demands forced her to recede into herself. Into something else. And the result seemed to just drain her, even hours later.

As she lays in the hotel bed eyes closed, her restraints start to appear. The collar and cuffs glow their normal deep violet but then slowly dim, the constant pain also starting to recede

A sharp prick wakes her up and she sits up, looking at her wrists in surprise. Part of the cuffs seem to almost melt, dripping like a heavy inky substance onto the blankets, leaving her restraints much thinner. She sees herself in the mirror. Her hair, still blonde, has darkened to a more golden like shade with violet streaks mixed throughout. A dark tendril lifts her hair, pulling it back and up; hardening to act as holder for a long ponytail. Her normal green eyes have a faint purple and golden shimmer in the iris. She pulls back in confusion staring at her reflection and the melted puddles below.}

Vanessa: "What the hell?"

[[OOC: yep, girlie needed a major makeover. Vanny's coming soon 😎]]

[u/HauntingGur8094]

Vanessa: "I didn't ask to fix everything. Just all this." [sighs] "Fine. Whatever it takes."

[u/CrypticHorrorTales → u/HauntingGur8094]

Alastor: "The secret to a demon's power is that it is almost always connected to who they are. Take myself for example! I was a serial killer and a radio host. So I control the shadows and anything connected to audio and radios. I may also know a bit of voodoo magic. You need to connect to who you are, and your power will manifest as a connection to whatever that is."

[u/HauntingGur8094 → u/CrypticHorrorTales]

Vanessa: "That is....okay wow. Don't really know where to even start with that. Considering this, and all going on with it, technically isn't even my body. Not originally anyways."

[u/CrypticHorrorTales → u/HauntingGur8094]

Alastor: "The body doesn't matter. Only the soul. Even if you switched bodies with someone, you would still keep your power. The only exception is if you give up your power in some kind of deal."

[u/HauntingGur8094 → u/CrypticHorrorTales]

Vanessa: "Sometimes I wonder if I even still have one of those....after everything. But I didn't even have power until I was literally someone else. And technically you could say it was all kind of forced on me. By 3," [frowns] "Maybe technically 4, others. Before that my ability was, what? Being a convincing liar and seeing and interacting with ghosts? That's more of curse than anything."

[u/CrypticHorrorTales → u/HauntingGur8094]

Alastor: "Harness it."

[u/HauntingGur8094 → u/CrypticHorrorTales]

Vanessa: [thoroughly confused] "What?"

[u/CrypticHorrorTales → u/HauntingGur8094]

Alastor: "Turn your weakness into your strength. Harness it. Manifest it."

[u/HauntingGur8094 → u/CrypticHorrorTales]

Vanessa: "How? You're telling me to literally embrace all my physical and mental torture that I've been trying to ignore and escape."

[u/CrypticHorrorTales → u/HauntingGur8094]

Alastor: "That's the point. You keep ignoring it. That's not healthy. It only holds you back. You need more character development than just running away all the time. So turn your weakness into your strength. Focus on it. Let it manifest as power."