#so heroes would arrest or kill you on sight and you CAN'T leave the 9 even if you want to

[n0brainjustvibes]

"Mannequin's trial demands that a candidate changes themselves, and that it be hard."

here [throws a S9!Toga lore snippet at you and runs]

#plea.mse ignore the hand positioning it's late icant figyre out anatomy #my girl #yeh she cuts her face off #i ahve. thematic Reasons. fort his #mainly like #her whole desperation to be more like the ppl she loves hints at a dissatisfaction with/disconnection from her own identity #and why wouldn't she be dissatisfied with it? #it got her shunned and branded a villain before she even did anything yk #anyways this just amplifies/literalises that #(since jack would definitely prey on it) #and represents how the trials entrap you in the 9 by leaving you with nothing to go back to. #no identity outside 'the nine's changer/trump' #no self that hasn't been stripped away by trauma #and now LITERALLY she cannot have a civ ID without drinking other people's blood (i.e. the thing she/the 9 use to motivate her killings) #she is marked forever. which kind of happens yknow. the s9 trials are designed to force you to do unforgivable stuff #so heroes would arrest or kill you on sight and you CAN'T leave the 9 even if you want to #also her infatuation with being 'cute' leads me to think that losing her 'cute' face WOULD be hard for her! similar to cherie #so uhhhm. #toga himiko #(i'm sorry ;-;) #wormblr #vibes art