khaleel's outfit for @tzimizce's Palla Grande prompt!
he didn't go wild and fleshcraft an outfit (he's Lazy and prefers watching his ghouls scramble to assemble outfits For him), but he did give himself three new Ethically Sourced tiger eyes (he fought the tigers for them).
making a cool outfit?? nooo. messing with his own Ocular Nerves for a statement piece? absolutely.
Playing a tzimizce made me realize that there is not enough content about the specific horrors of being a tzim and rather about encountering one.
You are tied to people, places and objects and it doesn't matter what happens to this place or who these people are. Friends or abusers. You cannot leave. If you do it feels like you're dying. And you can't have them leave so you need to make yourself as appealing to them as possible.
This is your land, even if it hates you. Even if the people who live in it discriminate you. Even if the woods in which you live get smaller and smaller and you cannot go out anymore wearing the form you are comfortable in. You can not stay in your ideal body, you need to make yourself small and human so that they won't kill you. No matter if there's war or flood or radioactivity, you don't want to leave.
It is your object. Even if it is cursed or poisonous. Even if it hurts you.
Listen I do dearly love all the monstrous tzimisce, do not get me wrong... BUT as someone from Eastern Europe (specifically Romania ( extra specifically kinda from transylvania)) I am missing out on the Politeness. On the priding themselves to be good hosts, upholding old heritage and follow ancient rules you have never even heard of (all depending on their own cultural and the common tzimisce backgrounds).
Im not saying full on hannibal types, but there's many ways to be polite and nice and also unsettling at the same time.
For each monstrous tzimsice wearing their inhumanity on their sleeve, there should be one who keeps it hidden under a thin layer of manners and good conduct, who shares their food and home willingly and eagerly until you get on their bad side and all of a sudden, they turn cold and just as monstrous as you expect.