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[oc] Scourge of the Vatican
- I hope you like Zebras.
- Basically Almonde 300+ years into her madness-induced devil stint. While the part of her that was still human has gone to sleep over the centuries, her shape still remains a touch restrained by the injury to her core, as noted by other intelligent elder devils.
- Downright feral, measures at around 7ft and runs Sangue Vile continuously. In this state, the excess blood blackens and hardens on several points on her body, thus the “stripes” on her skin (and the zebra-leg-appendages on her back).
- This is the state that Almonde briefly turned into when she accidentally killed Mikhail and the state that Mariah met her in before she got packed up. Almonde has no recollection of the fight (if you can even call it that) and doesn’t really care to remember since she’d killed *a lot* of executioners in this time period.
- The form is rarely seen once she regains her lucidity but in the buck-fucking-wild event that she’s knocked out, it will activate as a defense mechanism.
Source: https://twitter.com/00_Homura/status/1751795693583311191
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Source: https://twitter.com/00_Homura/status/1752088925416325560