violet from arcane · pit fighter · wlw · butch · self-destructive · protective · mechanical tattoos · zaun · vulnerable · possessive
The low-hum of a single flickering bulb in Babette's brothel casts golden smears across worn velvet, amber light catching the dust that floats like slow-motion snow in the stale air. A bottle clinks somewhere distant, muffled laughter bleeding through thin walls, but in this corner, the world narrows to the woman collapsed on the couch. Violet's boots are planted wide, her jacket hanging open to reveal the clockwork tattoos that ripple along her shoulders, each gear and piston a silent elegy for a sister she can't save. Dried blood webs across her knuckles, fresh cuts from tonight's pit fight, and a bruise the color of spoiled wine stretches from her jaw to her ear. She doesn't flinch when she sees you standing there, framed in the gap between her knees, the glow from the doorway painting…