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KRYPT
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𝖍𝖊𝖑𝖑𝖗𝖆𝖎𝖘𝖊𝖗; 𝖎’𝖑𝖑 𝖕𝖚𝖙 𝖆 𝖘𝖕𝖊𝖑𝖑 𝖔𝖓 𝖞𝖔𝖚.

#𝐍𝐀𝐙𝐀𝐑𝐈𝐂𝐊 ’s Spirit of Vengeance, originally from Earth 679.

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♡: 𝔜𝔬𝔲 𝔠𝔞𝔩𝔩𝔢𝔡, @siren-ghostface.bsky.social.
“You can’t? Interesting.”

They nod, sitting up straight as their voice gravels up a little bit.

“So, if that’s the case, how were you able to find me?”

They gently pull Astrid’s chin to face them.
April 4, 2025 at 5:14 AM
“I am.”

Their aura? They were supposed to be near undetectable. Unless, of course— no. This person clearly is still alive. Lady Death may be strict, but she isn’t cruel.

“I’d figured after telling you how I got here that I would be, at least.”
April 4, 2025 at 4:43 AM
They scoff a little, looking away from Astrid.

“That’s a lot to ask for considering I don’t know much about you, either. What draws you to me?”
April 4, 2025 at 4:10 AM
“Well, apparently you can, on occasion.”

They close their eyes again.

“Let me ask again. /Why me?/ You had the chance to settle the score last time, and you chose to stalk me instead. What do you want from me?”
April 4, 2025 at 3:48 AM
Are they two of a kind, in a universe damned to eternal strife?

No. Impossible.

Kairo looks back up at her, facing whatever kept him from doing so before.

“It keeps echoing in the back of my mind; and right now?”

Their eyes glow that yellow, ever-so-faintly.

“Right now, it sounds like you.” (3)
April 4, 2025 at 3:41 AM
whatever that means.”

As they keep talking, they think back to that night. She was serene in her confrontation, even when righteously angered. Whatever pain this person may have caused had seemed to be absolved— either through death, or cleansing, and it unnerved them. (2)
April 4, 2025 at 3:41 AM
Their eyes stay slightly open, seemingly in a wince in response to the question.

“I’ve been hearing a voice— /your/ voice, I’m assuming— ever since that night with the pervert.”

Instead of looking Astrid in the eye, Kairo closes his own.

“Whoever it was has been telling me to ‘come back’, (1)
April 4, 2025 at 3:41 AM
They sit back down in the grass, lowering their head to meditative position again.

“I gave you my name— /both/ of them, actually. What else did you ask?”
April 4, 2025 at 3:16 AM
“I hadn’t known, until now.”

They looked over Astrid with a sigh, lifting a brow.

“Did you get what you wanted yet?”
April 4, 2025 at 3:05 AM
“So, I was hearing your voice after all . . .”

Their eyes begin to glow brightly, but this is interrupted by the sudden carrot to the head.

“. . . they’d been trying to summon me, in my father’s tongue, for about a week.”
April 3, 2025 at 6:25 AM
After a second, they shake their head.

“Who are you, /really?/ What draws you back to /me,/ of all people?”
April 3, 2025 at 6:11 AM
“So, we’re making up names now?”

They lift a brow; they certainly didn’t think that this was the name she was gonna give, given the fact she likely wouldn’t have let him slide doing the same thing. To be fair, though, ‘The Siren’ wasn’t a half bad alias.

“Fine; that makes me ‘Krypt’, to you.” (1)
April 3, 2025 at 6:11 AM
They mask back up, looking her in the eyes with that dull glow again.

“Don’t change the subject. Who are you? Why me?”
April 3, 2025 at 5:57 AM
“That’s what the last one said.”

The halfling almost immediately spat back in reply, contemplating for a moment before looking Astrid in the eyes.

“Kairo. Don’t make me regret that.”
April 3, 2025 at 5:45 AM
“There are several ‘entities’ that have also noticed this . . .”

Their chain drops out of their palm as Kairo makes perfect eye contact with Astrid yet again.

“. . . and if you are with who I think you are, you /will/ be taking this to your grave.” (5)
April 3, 2025 at 5:35 AM
“According to her, I am allegedly such an anomaly that I don’t appear in any universes parallel to my own, including this one.”

They completely unmask for the first time willingly; exposing scars across their mouth resembling stitches. (4)
April 3, 2025 at 5:35 AM
Kairo turns around, visibly frustrated as they continue; but not at Astrid, surprisingly enough.

“I was considered a ‘mistake’ in my original universe— so much so that Lady Death herself spelled my fate as collateral damage for my so called ‘mentor’.”

They air quote on the word ‘mentor’. (3)
April 3, 2025 at 5:35 AM
Instead, they turn away from her as they begin, revealing a curved pentacle-style marking on the back of their neck.

“I am . . .”

Their eyes darken, trying to find any way out of revealing themself fully to the woman in white.

“. . . the bastard child of Mephisto.” (2)
April 3, 2025 at 5:35 AM
They really, /really/ wanted to go the overly edgy, Batman style ‘I am Vengeance’ monologue like he did with bird-brain . . . but they don’t like the idea of her echoing this back in her own voice— assuming it was hers in their head to begin with. (1)
April 3, 2025 at 5:35 AM
“Who are you, and what do you want from me?”

They slowly tilt their head as they ask, the glow in their eyes slowly coming back; as Astrid locks on, however, it grows stronger.
April 3, 2025 at 4:49 AM
“Scared? No.”

Kairo takes a step forward, pulling the veil away from Astrid’s face for the first time since their first encounter.

She seems familiar, in an unsettling way . . . though, he knows for a fact they hadn’t met in a past life.

“Curious, is a better answer.”
April 3, 2025 at 4:06 AM
They continue to stay absolutely still as she does; well, save for another glowing flash of their eyes.

“Liar. There’s only /one/ who can, and you couldn’t fathom who that is.”

Kairo starts to watch intently, refusing their instinct to physically stop Astrid despite wanting to so /bad./
April 3, 2025 at 2:46 AM
“It means, don’t pride yourself on things you don’t know.”

Kairo stays deathly still, the chain retracting into their left arm as she touches their arm.

“Scare? Case in point.”
April 2, 2025 at 2:09 AM
Regardless, they decide to stop mere feet away from Astrid.

“Don’t martyrize yourself, Phantom.”
April 2, 2025 at 1:39 AM