OPEN you're depraved! // post-eruption survivor regroup

[VALE]

graphic gore ★ genderfluid ★ skullfaced white wolf

At hearing xyr name, Vale looked up. Immediately, xyr beak fell to the gray stone.

And the crow’s body contorted. Joints snapped. Black feathers sloughed off to reveal white fur. Before Kole was halfway through his words, Vale had become a skull-faced white wolf. Cackling, xe flopped to the ground.

“Hahaha, I’m glad you’re alive to appreciate my feast!”

Black sludge—smelling of rot, decay, and nothing like how blood should smell—seeped from where the white fur met bone-yellow skull. “Me? Drop dead?! Haha, even if this body should die, my soul’ll slip into another skin.” Vale waved a paw. “It’s happened before, and it is sooo unpleasant!”

When Meteor arrived, though, Vale serious’d. The lion had enough reason to think Vale was a lazy piece of shit, xe didn’t need to hear a lecture about how everyone else put their life on the line to help minimize the damage to the island… or, whatever, ‘cause, like, what did Vale care about this island? If it became inhospitable enough, the cannibals would just migrate to the mainland and eat some fuckers to take their territory, right?

Still… the fact Meteor hadn’t outright told Vale to fuck off or get eaten (haha, who would want to eat Vale and all the gross decay?!) probably meant that xe scored some friendship points by bothering to return with coconut crabs.

Vale’s head tilted as xe listened to Meteor. Then stared at what was obviously Valerius’s skull. Xe clutched a paw to xyr skullface and sighed dramatically. “Ughhhhhhh, Valerius was my second best friend! This is an irreplaceable loss!” Vale’s voice actually cracked at the end. Xe was genuinely upset, though the fleshless skull didn’t communicate emotion.

Xe licked xyr fangs. “Eh, well, you were doing most of the bitchwork for leadership, right?” Xe glanced at Kole, as if expecting the coyote to back xem up on this. “The timing’s fucked, but, eh, maybe Requiem and Vayu were pissed at Big Toof Prometheus? Hopefully the gods are done with their angry shit now!”

YOU NEVER TRUSTED ME ★

BUT I’M OVER IT NOW

[W]isker