I've been thinking about Oliwia's vicissitude, more specifically her learning Blood Form eventually and I really feel like that'd be the most unsettling thing she could do in her eyes.
She's fairly high humanity and generally fairly comfortable with being able to change her body to her whim. True, Zulo form is definitely much more drastic, but in her eyes, it's still "just" altering her own body. But I feel like shifting into Blood Form just doesn't feel quite right to her, like it's no longer just altering her own body, but actually becoming something else. Something not quite herself anymore.
Vicissitude at the end of the day should feel unnerving and eldritch, in my opinion. Obviously it's usually experienced like that from an outside observer's perspective... but what if it just doesn't quite feel right to the practicioner?
Look, I hate the alien infection nonsense, but that doesn't mean I'm not gonna lean into the horror of arguably one of the most overtly terrifying disciplines in the game.
I wonder how mich body dismorphia you would get after ysing it for so long, like ‘I wanna fix my little wrinkle here, and here and here and here and then eventually you cant look at your own fave without seeing endless potentially fixable imperfections that are technically all your fault. Like I looove my tzimisce, but if I had vicissitude it would give me psychosis, and then add on top of that just how inhuman you can look eventually, like what if you get used to some monstrous shape that was super hard to pull off, the. eventually you get bored of it, change it, but you realize a few days later that you dont like it as much. Like imagine getting a bad haircut except its your face and you gotta put your inner perfectionist at rest by making a perfect and inhuman monster.
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