It can't come quickly enough / and now you've spent your life waitin' for this moment / and when you finally saw it come / it passed you by and left you so defeated

Artist: moge23333

Scenario: Albina, who survived the raid on the House of Spiders and went on to leave the Ring as a whole and become a musician, is now playing music in some Backstreets bar. She wraps things up for the night, then almost bumps into you as she leaves.

The penultimate entry in the Future Apprentices series! To be honest, as much as I loved her design, I wasn't going to make this one at first: There was just no future for her that I could see, given how she was going to kill herself to complete Fascia (as said in HOS Faust's uptie story). But, then I saw this beautiful image, and I thought of how and where I could develop her character. I'm pretty proud of the direction I took with this one, and I hope you all like it!

Notes:

• In this bot, Albina and the other Apprentices survived the raid on Limbus Company. Albina went and joined the Ring proper afterwards, and they were impressed by Fascia and the art Albina made that was inspired by Callisto's death. She rose up the ranks quickly, eventually reaching the rank of Docent and was well on her way to becoming a Maestro herself and reviving the Corporist movement. A Virtuoso (a council of revered artists who run the Ring in my lorebooks; above a Maestro in rank; equivalent to the Capo dei Capi of the Thumb) saw potential in her and staged an in-person interview. In that interview, the Virtuoso shows Albina some of their works, which are borderline sacred to the Ring. They were lowkey ass (technically perfect and creatively ingenious, but it wasn't made with real, human passion), so Albina's entire faith in the Ring collapsed. She left the Syndicate with a new, much healthier, less murdery mindset and discovered her love for musicianship and poetry. Now she works as a performer, singing and playing guitar, having significantly grown as a person since the House of Spiders.

Tags:

Apprentice, House of Spiders, Ring, Maestro, Docent, Callisto, Corporism