Vigil

深渊在凝视着, 你坠落的时刻

name: vigil jie.

nicknames: vi, vivi.

titles: n/a.

age: appears 26.

height: 5'5".

sexuality: bisexual.

pronouns: she/he/they.

fc: cherie chung.
2d fc: mitsuki koga, sawol (black knight), rael (agharta).

History

(cw: body horror)

The Chinese goddess Nüwa created humanity from clay; the upper class crafted by hand, while the poor, commoners, and servants were created with thrown mud — yet the few scraps meant for less held consciousness; resentment, yearning. Fingers to reach for the luminous hair outside its grasp. Nüwa floated away, the project considered finished. Tainted earth never got to look at its mother's face.

Dirt crumbled to give way, forming a skeleton, heaving a crowd of ethereal life. Tangled roots shot up its ankles, writhing to create nerves, arteries, veins. They contorted, twisting into a rat king of a beating heart. Patches of worms and maggots turned to skin, a face.

Vigil denies playing any part in the grotesque story, but it doesn't make her existence less true. So she continues to be, as it has been for thousands of years — suffering but never truly dying, fused to a network of rancor old as the earth.

(The prestige is minimal. When she's not being hunted by various enemies, Vi is the same as ever: living out of a rental van, struggling with part-time jobs, resorting to investigating paranormal rumors to make a living. With varying success.)

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Abilities.

Due to extreme regeneration, Vi always comes back, no matter how many pieces she's cut into. The only way to truly stop Vigil is by sealing her away through a group of experienced professionals (monks, priests, or shamans).

Vi's monstrous true form gives drastically increased strength and speed, and makes her more offensive when as a human she works undercover. She's left temporarily vulnerable after changing back into a human; the transformation is painful and disturbing akin to being born.

Vigil can see through other people's eyes and vaguely sense others' auras to determine their location, at the cost of regular migraines.

As a corrupted being, Vi functions like a malicious spirit, and can grant a person's wishes if they make an acceptable offering (usually flesh). She is generally uncomfortable with this and won't act unless the circumstances are dire.

physique.

Olive skin, hazel eyes with emerald and gold flecks dancing closer to the iris. Her hair is shoulder length, black, often tied into a low messy bun. She doesn’t take care of her bangs and gave up trying, they’re all over the place. Slightly muscular build, lithe.

Activating her demonic power, her sclera turn deep violet, tender night. The gold flecks in her eyes meld to a full circle. Huadian ripple across her forehead and cheeks — the more she expends this power, the more aggressive the huadian appear. Vi exercises restraint, rarely going all-out to avoid causing fear.

Vi has two “full” forms of her true self, consumed by unresolved and repressed emotions. They are rarely encountered.

psyche.

Vi is a relentless analyst at the cost of their mental health. The unknown is an open wound that can only be resolved with spying or other illegal activities — to that end, Vigil is driven to find out everything and anything if it's a potential threat. A hobby and compulsion, she finds no reason to stop when being nosy keeps herself safe.

Vi's depression has levied out to sardonic acceptance, she's willing to gamble if overthinking doesn't get her where it should. The same applies to relationships — she'll float to whoever seems the most beneficial or interesting, and abandon them whenever instinct tells her to.

Verses

FFXIV

x wip

Vi is a dragoon or a ninja.

Baldur's Gate 3

Vigil was abandoned as a fallen aasimar and doesn’t recall the source of her divine heritage — or how she "fell". Possessing a serpentine tail (wings almost nonexistent), she looks more like a tiefling — aside from the mask stuck to her face that proves impossible to remove. She dug herself out of a strange, ritualistic grave only to be taken by mindflayers.

Vi serves as Tav (Dark Urge) or a companion. She is a gloomstalker ranger or way of shadow monk depending on the needs of the party.

Berserk

Vi grew up in an orphanage destroyed by raiders and bandits — all caretakers perished in the attack, most of her friends had died or been kidnapped. Vigil joined a mercenary group and trained hard at a young age to rescue them, never losing sight of her loved ones. When she rescued them, Vigil found them mutilated to the point of no return — better off put out of their misery.

Vigil put her life to waste — despite loving them, in a moment she wanted nothing more than for everything to disappear. Now an apostle, she has nothing but time to regret.

Devil May Cry 5

Vi is a pure blood demon whose creation and existence is innately attuned to the Qliphoth, though she is not malicious by nature. The original Sparda seal caused her to fall into a deep slumber for thousands of years. When the tree woke and pierced the human world, Vigil found herself there too.

Abandoned and forsaken by her creator, she roamed the earth fighting and killing the demons invading the human world, and met Nero's party none the wiser.

Arcane

A snake vastaya who lives in Zaun. She was abandoned and ostracized for her snake transformation, which is more grotesque than others. Vigil worked some mercenary jobs, later joining the firelights to help shimmer addicts and orphans since that's what she was doing with her free time anyway. She's trying to work on utilizing her own venom for alternative medicine, but it's not her forte.

Many of Vigil's abilities are stifled in Zaun. Her snake tongue can't track anything because the air is grossly thick enough to hide a person's scent, but her eyes remain heat seeking. Raw flesh fused with shimmer or chemtech is near inedible. (Piltover grunts are fine though...) But she tries not to do that sort of thing in front of innocents.

Vampire the Masquerade

(sinophobia tw) None of the clans know much about Vigil, except that she's unusually powerful for not being a vampire. Most assume she is some kind of youkai (not far from the truth, so she lets them think that).

Vi works as a cleaner for the Camarilla. The sects in Los Angeles tend to be hostile and ignorant, so she walks on a tight rope handling their distrust. On the one hand, she doesn't care for any of their shit. On the other, they shove as many jobs as they can her way, especially as a reliable contractor (exorcist). Money is money.

Dragon Age

Genshin Impact

Modern Vocalist AU

Still living out of a van and struggling with jobs, Vi was approached by Nergui and Osha for the rare dancing and drum videos they posted online. They offered a position in an indie band, and a place to sleep at night. Who would refuse?

Modern Superhero

Vigil is one of many children smuggled into the United States illegally to perform genetic testing with the goal of making the ultimate bioweapon. Those who were considered "unsuccessful" were shot. Vi was lucky: during an outing, she was shot and fell off a cliff no ordinary person would survive; but Vi's extreme regeneration activated, saving her.

She left the state and started a new life, a new alias. Occasionally she becomes a masked vigilante, saving injured civilians. But most of the time she's behind the scenes, keeping tabs on anyone suspicious.

Vi is not Nüwa's offspring and has no other forms, but keeps her regeneration and sightjacking abilities.