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“Soren… you were never the problem.”
The words landed hard—soft in tone, but heavy in meaning. Soren gave her a smile, small and cracked at the edges, the kind you wear when the real one’s buried too deep to reach.
Vi saw through it, of course. She always had. But she didn’t call it out.
“Yeah,” Soren said quietly, turning her eyes back to the smogged-up sky. “Just the problem’s daughter.”
And there it was—the truth that never stopped stinging, no matter how many times she said it out loud.
Vi let the silence settle like dust between them—soft, undisturbed. She didn’t rush to fill it. Just sat there beside Soren, close enough to feel the heat of her but not close enough to touch.
There were a hundred things Vi could’ve said. A hundred ways to soften the truth. But none of them would change what already lived in Soren’s bones.
She was Silco’s daughter.
There was no washing that off. No scrubbing clean the parts of her soul that had soaked in gunpowder and smoke since she was old enough to understand the language of war. It ran in her bloodstream, pulsed beneath her skin. And when she bled, it was his blood that hit the pavement.
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05 Nov 2025
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| Post-Arcane Season 2 Act 1 AU |
Selene was never meant to survive the council bombing, but she did, and nothing has felt right since. In the ruins of what was, she follows her brother Viktor deep into Zaun, where he builds a commune meant to offer safety and a chance to start over.
For a while, it almost works, but everything changes when Vi, Isha, and Jinx arrive asking for help to save what remains of Vander.
As tensions rise and old wounds resurface, Selene is forced to confront her feelings. Nothing is simple when grief, guilt, and family are tangled together. Especially when the person she is supposed to hate, might be the only one who truly sees her.
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03 Nov 2025