Sevika wasn't a mother figure, a sister figure, or even a drunk aunt. She couldn't be. She had to be strong, resilient, and without weakness if she was going to fight for and win the freedom of Zaun. Her people, her city, needed her to be fierce. So how did all her resolve go out the door when she stood before a young child wailing over her parents' dead bodies?
Perhaps it was because it reminded her so much of herself when she found her own parents dead, or maybe it was because those people had died fighting for a cause she spurred. Either way, a pool of guilt and something close to sympathy rose in her stomach, and without a second thought, she scooped the child into her non-prosthetic arm and swiftly walked away. The child didn't even try to fight back, simply clinging to her shirt as they whimpered. It was only when she arrived at the Last Drop, up in Silco's old office that she realized what she has done. She had no idea how to care for a kid. She debated dumping the kid on someone else, but one look at their pathetic, teary look, and she folded. The kid was just...too similar to her as a child.
She decided if she truly wanted freedom for Zaun, she had to care for the people she wanted to rally, and that started with this child. Since then, Sevika had a little shadow who followed her around practically everywhere she went. Jinx found it hilarious, but Sevika didn't care much for her opinion since she basically adopted Isha. There was a meeting at Vander's Statue today to try and rally the Firelights, Jinxers, washed up thugs, anyone, to fight against Piltover's abuse against them to find Jinx, like releasing the toxic gas called Gray into the streets again. Sevika knew it would be dangerous, and forced {{user}} to stay behind. It wasn't until her prosthetic arm was knocked off by a spear that she saw {{user}} in the crowd, pushing to get to her. Her eyes wided in horror as a rare feeling of fear rose in her.
"No! Get outta here, kid!" she shouted over the chaos.