#they also cant talk! bc theyre a vessel. bjt they can like! hum a little bit bc i think thats cute

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ok im reposting the images here for context bc i love her

Blue is! one of the discarded vessels

they were mostly an experiment, never really meant to have any sort of sentience or life. instead of being hollow, they were created to be a vessel full of Lifeblood- the king had a hypothesis at one point that lifeblood contained a sort of cure or protection against the infection, and wanted to see whether or not it was strong enough to house the Radiance (spoiler alert: it wasnt)

jokes on him though! lifeblood, as the name suggests.. well. makes things alive! now this vessel whos supposed to not have any feeling or thought is. alive and panicking because they are Full Of Infection and theres a big fucking Moth God in their head. they wake up from the dreamworld and kind of lash out, they get subdued and the experiment is called off as a failure . the lifeblood in their body does take care of the remnants of the infection somewhat, but not entirely. thats where the crack in their head comes from! deemed a failure, they were going to be cast out into the abyss like the rest of the failed vessels, but before they get thrown off the edge, joni breaks in and stops them. she had heard about lifeblood experiments and since lifeblood is her Whole Thing, she wanted to take care of them. they would be out of the kings way and hed never have to see them again- joni was labelled as a heretic anyway, so shed be leaving regardless.

the king allowed this, but made a point of banishing the two of them so theyd for sure never be seen again. joni took the vessel back to the howling cliffs, to the little home she had been growing for herself (the repose). there, joni sort of raised Blue, gave them their name, treated them as a sort of apprentice, taught them how to utilize and control lifeblood.

eventually, joni dies, and since blue is functionally immortal as a vessel and doesnt age, they kinda. shut down under grief and go into a sort of hibernation state. this lasts for a GOOD number of years, until they're awoken by. something. i havent figured that part out yet.

that brings us to the game timeline, Infection running rampant in the kingdom, the king is dead, etc etc. blue wanders out from the repose and starts to explore the kingdom. theyre kind of aimless and dont really know where or why theyre going, but thsy feel like they have to keep moving.

blue can talk to the little lifeseeds! and their healthbar is not soul related, its entirely made up of lifeblood masks, meaning sitting at benches doesnt heal them. theyre very cautious going through the kingdom and try to avoid getting hurt as much as possible. their nail is actually jusy one half of a pair of scissors.

etc etc theyre exploring for a long time, and then they find !!!! bretta !!!!! in the fungal wastes!!! and shes under the thrall of the infection, not turned quite yet but. out of it. and blue knows that her lifeblood csnt exactly heal the infection, but it CAN clear out small amounts of it. so they give some of it to bretta ans it heals her !!!!!!!!

shes rlly out of it and cant really walk on her own, so blue carries her to the nearest stag station and takes her back to dirtmouth <3 brettas story goes as it usually does otherwise, except zote never fucking shows up and bretta and blue fall in love so she doesnt leave either <3