Diffido is no more...
Not the victim of 'Permavore,' the aspect of
Abrienda's power has simply ceased to exist since the complete resurrection of
Samantha_Grey in March 2016. Hope has won against hopelessness, despair and sloth. It has been years, but the wails of the demon are no more, fading and with it heralding her release.
Blame latroma for this alt.
Diffido - Distrust, Despair, Sloth...
Romans 12:11, "Do not be slothful in zeal, be fervent in spirit, serve the Lord."
Sloth is a state of spiritual or emotional apathy, neglecting good and righteous teaching. In its strongest incarnation, it may be seen in a state of physically or emotionally inactive mindset. In shortest, and simplest understanding, to be consumed with Sloth is to stop caring what happens.
Ever since Abrienda claimed the Nega_Inval, somewhere in the valley there has grown a patch of the ground where nothing grows anymore. The plants in that place are not so much dead as they are dormant and unchanging. Cobwebs hang from their branches like a veil. Animals and life that has entered it has dropped to its knees and fallen asleep, almost as if the will to live has been drawn from it completely. Eventually they die, their hearts no longer caring enough to beat nor their lungs to breath, though they do not decompose. Their bodies cannot even be bothered to decompose.
Within its veil lurks the Diffido, the living incarnation of Abrienda's sloth. To see it, one would need to gird up one's strength of will to push past the veils of webbing and into the depths of the small, dark and dust-covered jungle. There is a girl there.
Her features are unchanging, and she is almost completely unmoving. Her eyes look rimmed with red, the only real color that has ever reached them, almost as if she has cried to the point of dehydration, but cannot bring herself to cry anymore. She would look familiar, were it not for the cobwebs that adorn her dusty, dirty clothes, covering everything around her.
If, however, you have come this far, you are in incredible danger. The woman's presence is like a void, sapping the will to fight back. Though, blessedly, she lacks the will to drain anything's soul, and so death at least brings release that can allow a soul to escape her presence, the draw of her presence upon the living is incredible. She does not fight back. She does not lash out. She simply looks up at anyone who would disturb her state of rest, and in those eyes is a vacuum and hole from which the light of hope will never escape again.
Only creatures of incredible will can bring themselves to turn away from those eyes or the intense sadness in her voice as she speaks, dragging out the reasons one fights, struggles and lives, reminding them of its futility ultimately.
Attacking her...? Why bother? Even if you could kill her, what would it matter? The satiation of hunger? The stomach will growl again soon, and you will expend more energy than you gain each time. Your body will continue to decay, and even the immortal will ultimately crumble. Stone degrades. Kingdoms fall. Steel rusts. Gods die... forgotten... alone... why are you different?
Saving her? I almost pity the creature who first comes with the hope of saving her. There is a reason that none of the other incarna come anywhere near her...
OOC Note:
Diffido is not capable of eating you in the traditional sense. That would require working her teeth and swallowing, which would mean that she has to care enough about feeding to consciously chew. She won't do that.
She devours your life essence, your will to live. The act is almost like coming into quicksand, only the air itself around her is the quicksand. Eventually, as the struggling comes to a slow end, you stop caring if you die and crumple to the ground.
She does not reform you, but neither does she consume your soul, so feel free to go about reforming yourself however you please. She is not meant to perform Permavore (that... would require she care whether you come back to life, reincarnate or whatever. And she's not good at caring about anything anymore...), so don't ask.
She is 100% Pred unless you have a convincing reason why you are devouring a vacuous void of the will to live given flesh. It's not that she will 'resist,' but the effort it would require... why are you bothering?