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PROJECT is what Light in the Tower turns into. Itās not just that theyāre compatible with each other; LitTās plotline ends where PROJECTās begins.
[[SPOILERS AHOY if you care about that sort of thing]] Basically, Kat finds out that Beatrice is still kicking. And there. And she flips her shit, because why the hell wouldnāt she flip her shit, and attacks her. Beatrice takes that about as well as can be expected, which isĀ āforcing Ravenous Flocks on Lux to defend herselfā. Beatrice stops before Katarina dies, although whether this is because Lux manages to wrestle control of her own body back or because the demon thinks that everyone will be much more miserable this way is a little bit unclear.
Lux keeps Kat from immediately dying as best as she can, then gives up on the concept of putting her back together and just puts her in magical stasis to be sent back to Zaunāand, more specifically, to the guy who would have the first idea of what to do to fix her.
Katarina mostly resembles ground beef when she gets to Viktor. Her injuries are the worst heās ever seen on a living person (even if she is stuck in what amounts to a longer-term Zhonyaās without the āuntargetableā part by the time she shows up).
She lives. No one is exactly sure how. Even Viktor fully expected her to die the second she was out of Luxās stasis even if he finished the operations.
By the time she is taken out of the spell, she is literally more machine than human. Her skin was in tatters, so Viktor went ahead and replaced almost all of it with what basically amounts to very thin, very flexible synthetic armor. Her torso was in fairly decent shape, as it had the most clothing covering it when she was attacked, so most of that is still flesh and blood. The patches of skin on her chest and back that were fucked up got grafts from her legs. Her face and arms got the worst of the damageāthe birds went for the face first, then continued the attempts when she tried to shield herself. Her eyes were gone and had to be replaced entirely; the skin and much of the muscle of her face was shredded, but was replaced with several panels of artificial musculature, covered by a thinner and more flexible material than the rest of her new skin so as to better work like and resemble a human face. Her left arm, being the dominant one, got the worst of the damage to her limbs; Viktor ended up just cutting it off at the shoulder and replacing it entirely. The right arm was salvageable, if only just. Her legs are primarily still the original ones, but theyāre also covered with the tougher material due in part to the patchwork of skin grafts that ended up going to her torso. After she woke up and looked like she was going to stay that way, Viktor attached the kneepads becauseā¦ hell, clearly she needs all the protection she can get and if he has to bolt armor to her body to get her to wear it then thatās exactly what heās going to do.
She somehow needs therapy even more than she did beforehand. Instead, she nurtures the deepest, most desperately personal grudge of all time against Lux.
Lux needs therapy too. I mean, she was forced into sharing a body with a demon who then started literally eating her friend. Unwilling cannibalism by proxy is gonna fuck you up a bit.
Katarina doesnāt really leave Zaun much anymore.
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