#fi 3.0

[tafferling]

All Zofia wanted was to sit on the stairs in peace. Then there were heavy footsteps and her back got warm.

By @theluckybard who has me feral. I didn't think I could love the loading screen stairs any more but here we are. (I should get another comm with Kyp in there, too.)

[tafferling]

Zofia Sirota and her shadow, Kyp

(Fi 3.0)

She found him before he got around to fully growing into his paws. He was bushy tailed (literally), covered in ick, and hanging out two floors deep in a volatile hive. The same one she'd gone into looking for one of two things: death or an armful of raspberry pis. She'd have been fine with either. Then the dog happened.

Since then, Kyp has stayed glued to her heels, and Zofia has lived an irritatingly persistent life as a Librarian, slash, Archivist; a sub group of Pilgrims who specialize in trading knowledge and documenting the fallen world.

You can read more about those two in Dying Light: We Don't Stop In Hell.

ART BY THE AMAZING @rageflippedtables! It was finished a while ago, but Fi hadn't actually made it into the fic yet then so I waited until she showed up.

I'll add a pinch more lore about her under the cut.

She likes Star Wars. And she loves borrowing names, so when she found Kyp, she was going to name the pup after her favourite Star Wars character (which happens to be my second favourite). She should have. Because that's Kyle Katarn. But since a writing test of having Kyle and Kyle in the same paragraph with the same pronouns has failed spectacularly, I decided she'd name him something else that goes well with Kyle: Kyp. Like Kyp Durron (also a Star Wars character).

She is, literally, the same Zofia as the one who co-stars in the Latchkey Hero series. But while Latchkey!Fi went back to work for her stunt agency after recovering from an accident, this one did not. She quit the business, meaning she wasn't with her boss in Harran during the games. Meaning she did not watch Kyle fall from the skies and she did not turn his life into a direction that'd spare him the Baron's lab.