[Unspeakable Vanity, a silhouetted version of Yi Xi with red outlines, stands behind the All-Consuming Butcher, a heavier version of Yi Xi dressed in different clothing and adorned with a dark gray rag for a cowl.] Vanity: "The absence of hope in this paltry plane is.. disheartening, Kindred." [The All-Consuming stares into a square model of another world.] Butcher: "Perhaps I was mistaken in thinking a realm like this would refuse the siren song of despair." Vanity: "I was promised indomitable wills, the unbreaking human spirit. All I have seen are cowards, idolators, and nihilists. Given up before the game has even begun." "I had such aspirations for them, and they consign themselves to fates that they could have been delivered from." "Tell me, Kindred." "Was it a mistake to place such expectations upon them?" [The All-Consuming turns to her counterpart.] Butcher: "It is not their fault for failing to meet our expectations, Kindred." "It is ours for believing in them." Vanity: "How disappointing." "I suppose it is not the first, and shall not be the last time that we feel that familiar disdain for the lot to which we have been cast."

how disappointing
(art by @sugativa404.bsky.social, writing by me and [redacted])

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