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

[VALE]

graphic gore ★ genderfluid ★ three eyed crow

Two days after the eruption began, Vale returned. Xe landed on Main Beach and then dragged a net bursting with oversized coconut crabs over volcanic rocks. Only took a hundred meters for Vale to find the entrance to the Descendants of the Departed’s volcanic caves. But Vale wasn’t ready to go underground. Instead, xe placed the squirming crabby net next to a pool of freshwater from the volcano’s mysterious waterflow. Then, xe dropped the net full of crabs into the hot spring.

Vale shapeshifted out of xyr birth body “gotta carry shit” lion-form (because then people would know, at a glance, what xyr assigned sex at birth was, and, ew, gross) and into xyr usual three eyed crow. With a beak click, xe flicked a wing at the hot spring and summoned flames to bring the hot spring to a proper boil.

The water bubbled. The crabs screamed. Haha, even not-sentient animals screamed in death… this was Vale’s favorite part of hunting the stupid buggers.

While the crabs cooked, Vale hopped closer to the cave entrance. A hesitation; Vale preened a wing. When the earthquake and lava flow had first been noticed… well, the inquisitor had flown for a better roost. The others might not have noticed? Everyone was too busy in survival mode… sure, Vale had the right sort of elemental powers to be useful in helping spare the island of lasting volcano damage, but… haha, no, Vale still didn’t feel a lick of guilt over xyr choice.

“HEY! FRIENDS!” Vale cawed. “FOOD! FRESH! CRAB! VOLCANO HAS NO MORE ANGER!”

By now, the crabs had stopped their screaming. And the pool had settled into the proper cooking temperature for those giant coconut crabs. Vale was pretty pleased with xemself for this. Vale hated the taste of coconut crabs. This was a very selfless thing for Vale to do, to help everyone who was probably hungry as fuck from two goddamn days of volcano survival hell! This was a very helpful public service!

“Anyone seen Pharaoh Valerius? Vizier Meteor?” Vale tilted xyr head as the first Descendant approached the feast. “Damn, I really hope I’m not the highest ranked survivor! I am sooooo not down with organizing all the fuckshit required for, like, a post-eruption tropical island home.”

YOU NEVER TRUSTED ME ★

BUT I’M OVER IT NOW

[W]isker