Mancudera: What is the most physical pain your muse has felt?
Torture Device-Inspired Headcanons
after one of her first breakouts, after she was being dragged back home, her mother decided she had already enough of that new situation. she could have physically restrained Chris and prevented her from leaving the house, but she was highly afraid any kind of restraint (i.e. locking her in her room for good) would somehow compromise her status as savior, thus making hers and Rowan’s efforts completely useless and condemning their community further. but, while she could not physically stop Chris from running away, she could do something to stop her from running too far away: sealing two of Chris’s abilities which could help her leave (mentokinesis, for she could have convinced people to let her go; and teleportation, which could have easily brought her out of her parents’ reach) by tattooing two symbols. the ritual was safe and would not damage Chris at all, therefore Moira did not think twice about stripping her daughter to a table and tattoo her with her own hands.
leaving the spiritual pain Chris felt as two parts of her being were locked away from her reach, the physical pain she felt was the most excruciating she had ever experienced. at first, her mother used a needle to carve the first tattoo (an elaborated tangle of roses and thorns surrounded by runes) around her belly button, then poured ink in the bleeding wounds, all while reciting formulas under her breath, uncaring of Chris’s screaming. once the ink, thanks to magic, dried off, Moira turned Chris on the table, tied her again and proceeded to tattoo a spiral on her right shoulder - this one surrounded by runes too. needless to say, she did notanesthetize Chris’s skin first.
an year ago or so i wrote a few paragraphs about this moment of Chris’s life. even if i have to revise it and rewrite a few details, if you’re interested you can read it here.