Beautiful Old Woman → Bashful Young Woman

(AN: I'm ignoring the drastic change in scenery this time. My zero-energy self was so slow they stopped supporting the previous model (it works but it was super saturated and shit), and so things like this are popping up here and there.)

Next... let's try modifying the demon through its host. Maybe recontextualizing the other things she's doing will make it less threatening or shake its hold? To test that, let's make this 'Beautiful Old' woman into a 'Bashful Young' woman.

Esme's face youthens considerably as her silvered hair turns to a healthy and natural brown. Then her frame seems to shrink a bit as the years roll off of her. That, or she's just plumping up a bit. Her posture changes too to face us a bit more directly. Coupled with this, her head tilts to one side in a way that's subtly 'off' and her previously lurid expression flattens into a neutrally-friendly mask that's so out of place in this dark, torchlit corridor that it feels almost plastic.

Lastly, her scepter lengthens into a full stave and grows exceptionally ornamental at the head. Its gleaming golden light recedes entirely, revealing a crimson orb the size of her fist wrapped in aesthetic flare: a rose hewn of the same whitewood as the staff crowns the orb, with a pair of leafy extensions sweeping in opposite directions from a downward pair of wings to form the impression of a nested pair of hearts with the orb nestled inside them... It's not a description that does it justice: the thing turned fancy.

More concerningly, the gentle light of her 'pure-soul' brooch has shifted into a matching, dull and rusty red.

But despite that, it doesn't feel like the demon has any greater of a hold over her than before.

Prompt: dark castle hallway interior, at night, mature human woman, bashful young woman, novice-priestess, [(demonically-possessed):1.1], [(pure soul-)pearl-brooch], elaborate white robes:0.9, long silvered-hair, warm brown eyes, [(false) smile], walking, holding glowing scepter, facing viewer

<??? roll: 1d10+2 (7+2: 9.). Nothing happens. When the roll exceeds 10 something 'extra' will happen.>

• Note: Refer back to the root chapter of this branch for the rules regarding [(Protected) (Phrases.)].