Kiana hates when people sacrifice themselves. She hates when they push themselves too hard, especially for her.
Because that's what happened with Himeko, isn't it?
Kiana was supposed to die. They sacrificed themselves for her, and she lived, and now she gets visibly upset when people try to do things that are similar.
What does she think about when she sees people work themselves till they faint? It's stupid. Not just because it's not healthy, but because it's sacrificial. She hates martyrs. She hates it when they're her friends.
Kiana has a weird complex, right? Sacrificing herself left and right, fainting, but not allowing anyone else to do the same? Hypocrite, right?
It's weird, is it not? This complete lack of awareness is concerning. It's almost as if she's oblivious to the fact that she does the same thing all of the time. To everyone else, yes, this situation with Bronya fainting after using four Thrones of Selene at once is a perfect parallel to Kiana using her Herrschers powers too much and coming close to dying.
But Kiana doesn't see her actions in the same light. She really isn't trying to sacrifice herself 90% of the time. The collateral damage (bleeding, pain, fainting) is usually not part of her prediction, and if it is, it's more than she expected.
Her thoughts and intentions are always about keeping everyone safe, and she's okay with coughing up a bit of blood to do that. Just a bit, maybe enough that it will look scary, but it won't hurt her in the long run thanks to the Gem of Serenity and that's okay.
If she faints? It wasn't planned, so it's not really sacrifice. Maybe a lil', but she's selfish enough already, it's the least she can do. Honestly.
When Kiana puts herself in danger, it's for selfish reasons. Self-declared selfishness, but that's how she sees it.
Kiana doesn't sacrifice herself. She does it because she chose to. She chose to. If it doesn't hurt too buad, she doesn't consider it as doing much at all. The level of pain she experiences in every situation is her way of determining how much she's accomplished (sacrificed).
Not only that, but there are circumstances she must be in to even consider it of consequence to other people. If it doesn't happen while someone dear to her is in danger, it doesn't really matter does it? She doesn't understand why someone would be asking about her well-being. She doesn't plan to let anything that happens affect her plans.
There's no reason for them to worry.
If she's not on a battlefield, all of the effort she puts in? (Training, being in pain, strengthening her friends, planning nad strategizing, learning how to control her cores and so much more.)
It doesn't count. She is familiar with optimizing her time, because as a Valkyrie, the Honkai attack indiscriminately. Being prepared and working hard to be strong is nothing when compared to the battle soon to come, therefore, it doesn't count. It's what is expected. It is the basic standard for what is required to survive.
Where everyone sees Kiana working nonstop for weeks, months and years, it's a normal weekend for her. those days outside battle don't count. She worked like that for countless years, so much stress is easy for her.
But....why doesn't she recognize that she pushes herself until she faints? There's a threshold that she passes where she faints, but she still keeps crossing it?
She doesn't recognize her fainting as sacrificial, because as long as the battle ends on a good note and she's still able to think and plan relatively soon after she wakes up, she hasn't sacrificed much other than time. She also has the Gem of Serenity, which lets her feel rejuvenated after a 'nap'.
You see, Kiana Kaslana is interesting. She doesn't know how to distinguish being selfish and selfless, because being selfless is in itself, an act of selfishness. When Kiana, from the perspective of her friends, ruins her healt hand runs from battle to battle without resting or thinking about her friends concern...it's pretty selfish of her.
Wen everyone else considers her selfless, she thinks of herself as doing the obvious amount of work and being selfish too. That much work is expected of her, so it ain't selfless. It's all for her own gain, because when everything is over, she'll be the one going away to slack off in a mansion. Haha!...She's seven steps ahead of everyone (and on the verge of collapse.)
How selfish.
Turns out her inability to realize the irony of her actions is because of the traumatizing 16+ years of mental conditioning where pushing herself over the edge is normal and expected, spurred on by her socially isolated past that led to to somewhat a lack of empathy and emotional awareness and her mentor sacrificing herself for Kiana, just so she can live another day to finally confront Void.
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