Grief (character)

**Grief** was one of four game masters in Weighted Mortality: Ludomania.

## Appearance

Grief appears to be a tall, slim, feminine humanoid. Grief has ivory colored skin and salmon pink hair. Grief appears to be in a cut up black shirt, whether this is her skin or not is unknown. Grief has damaged bandages wrapping around her neck like a scarf and black bandages wrapping around her head; one of her eyes is covered by black bandages. Griefs eye color is grey.

## Personality

Grief originally presents herself as a pained, hopeless prisoner of King, but as the game goes on Grief gets more and more hostile. After the death of Oliver and End, Grief becomes more and more secluded, only ever showing heightened emotion when antagonized. Eventually, Lilith would convince Grief to combine Ends old processor with Olivers soul, creating O.V3.EV. Grief showed great distain towards O.V3.EV specifically.

## Death

Griefs death marked the ending of Wm4. When Grief died, she took everyone in the casino with her. She shed a tear that corrupted and coroded the casino itself.

>  (Grief): “I guess it’s my time. I understand why you chose me, but I pity you.” Grief sheds one tear, the tear of a prisoned wife, a mother turned vilomah. As the tear sulks down her face. The tear falls and strikes the floor. The tear seeps into the ground, turning the ground, corrupting it. A scream is released, your emotions change and shift from fear to grief, to anger, and finally nothing. Your emotions race through your brains like gazelles running from the lion's jaw. (Nothing): “What is this, I-I I… What is this?” More of the floor corrodes away. (Grief): “Retaliation. Retaliation from the soon-to-be widow. I will die, but at least you will too.” Grief, trying hard but failing to conceal her bloodthirsty smile, blows a kiss to Nothing and waves goodbye at you all. Nothing falls to its knees and hands, now visibly crying and a pillar above Grief falls, Crushing her. 2 glitched voices speak over each other. End and Oliver fight for dominance and as one of them seems to have won, they freeze. Their body cracks and bit by bit they fall apart. Finger by finger, eye by eye, until finally, the entire body crumbles away, leaving only the head left. Nothing leans back off of his hands, but still crying on its knees. Its hands tighten and constrict as the blue tears shift into a red liquid, blood. The veins, or at least the mimic of veins, inside Nothing, expand and contract. More and more of the Casino crumbles away, opening up into an empty void below. Crunch crunch crunch, the sound of bones breaking as Nothing's fingers snap backward. Its eyes roll back shining a spotlight of black light. Slowly, hair by hair, finger by finger, Nothing slowly deteriorates into black smoke. As the corruption of the casino finally reaches Nothing, the floor opens whole, swallowing Nothing below, and right as it starts to fall, it deteriorates into nothing. Gone. Three corners of the room start to corrode, reduced to nothing but what shouldn’t have been. As you all run to the corner Devesh reaches to the wall and his arm falls off, and then a leg, another arm, then the head, and on his last leg, he falls back, consumed by the void. Lyric reaches the wall, breathes a sigh of relief, and then falls through the floor, consumed by the void. The corner you all are standing on slowly shrinks and shrinks. You all have no room to move, a single gust of wind will cause your death. You can feel the panicked breaths on your neck, the sweat falling on the other’s arms. The floor stops, a second, 2, 3, 7, 56, it feels like forever… A breath of relief comes from one of you, and then the floor continues. One of you falls, then another, someone drags another with them, and finally two. Lilith and Rose. Two flowers stuck on a platform in the neverending void. A strike of silence. Lilith, completely empty, pushes Rose off. Rose begins to scream but before the cry could leave her mouth, gone. Only one remains. Sadly, no door will be opened for any of you. No afterlife, no casino, nothing. As the last bit of platform crumbles away, Lilith falls, time seems to slow down. The trapped and tortured amalgamation of screams finally is freed. They all fly upwards coloring the walls around white. They ascend up and up until the void constricts around them and they disappear. Time, feeling like it no longer exists, continues. Lilith continues falling until black. Nothing. Everyone is gone. Every God, scream, and the suffering participant is gone. The pantheon, once ruling over the timelines, crumbles before itself like paper in water. Well, I guess the game is over. You beat Chaos and Harmony, Grief and Nothing. You won some gambles, you lost some. You died and you lived. The timelines are all still there, unregulated, able to break apart at will. Peace, finally peace. This isn’t normal. Welp, the game is over my friends. You reached this ending… Such a fun ending. Welp I will get going now, I shouldn’t leave vanishing waiting, but I will pose one last question. Was it worth it? You fought, you loved, you cried, was it worth it all?
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 - Ending of Wm4

## Trivia

* Grief is King's wife.
* Grief created O.3V.EV.