I think I finally got a concept down for an older Kit + potential mate idea but now I’m wrecked with FEELS cuz it comes with a sort of bad end AU LMAO
Many many years into the future when she’s all grown up, Kit works at a hospital using her telepathic empathy to soothe and calm the patients. She emits a wave of calm and hums music to ease the weary. Although she was trained to hone her skills in combat, she chose to utilize her abilities differently, following the footsteps of her older brother Rurik in the art of healing.
One day, a patient is brought in. He is in severe agony and half his face is scarred/burnt. During a skirmish, this warrior got blasted by a mortar strike. Kit is immediately called to calm the thrashing draenei, who was screaming about not being able to hear anything. Kit uses her telepathy to reach out to the man and gets him to stop shouting enough for the doctors to do their work.
A few days later, Kit returns to the warrior, who was awake by now. He is clearly upset with his loss of hearing and was muttering to himself hoping that the loss was temporary. Kit knew the damage was permanent, but she didn’t have the heart to tell him herself. She spends some time with the warrior, communicating with him telepathically so that he wouldn’t be alone in the deafening silence. They would talk about their favorite foods, music, places to visit, small stuff like that. The warrior was a music enthusiast as well, which upset Kit knowing that he’d never be able to listen to music properly again.
Even after the warrior was discharged, over the next few weeks he would return to visit Kit, to talk to her, hoping that his hearing would return soon enough. Eventually, the doctors broke the news that his hearing loss was permanent, and that there was little they could do to fix the damage. The draenei was devastated. He left the hospital without saying anything to Kit, and disappeared for a while.
Years later, Kit finds the warrior once more. He looks as fit as ever, though there was something in his eyes that worried her. He notices her and immediately comes up to her and gets down on his knees crying. His words are garbled, so she soothes him again and tries to get him to speak to her with his mind. He tells her that he went off searching for anyone who would be able to help him regain his hearing and that he regret leaving her behind. He tells her that he was lonely in the silence, that he missed her voice. He couldn’t find anyone else who was willing to speak to him in such a way.
Kit calms the weeping warrior and takes him back to her house and care for him. They end up living together for a number of years, working at the hospital and helping out around the city wherever they could. Eventually, he proposes to her and she accepts.
But now there’s the bad end AU, where years down the line after they marry and have a few kids, there is a war and the two get caught up in the mess. Kit ends up using her magic for combat, while her mate takes up the sword once more. In the struggle, Kit gets caught by the enemy and is taken hostage. Furious, the warrior goes and tries to save her, but he is too late. She is slain before his eyes and is spared to live, thus breaking him because now he is left all alone in silence once more. None of their children inherited Kit’s telepathic abilities and could not communicate with him. Kit’s death and the maddening silence drives him over the edge and he goes on a killing rampage, dying by the hands of his fellow warriors who were sent to stop him. Both his body and Kit’s get buried under the collapsing building and are never recovered.
:’) SPARE ME THESE FEELS I DID THIS TO MYSELF