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This took forever to do because of how busy I am with academics, but I managed to build up enough 10 minute breaks to finally get it done.

And here we have the third ever named Seddight character in my universe, and the third one to have a plant associated with magic.
Ya-ris'ul the Unseen.
The other two are Yorokan the Unliving and Syloram the Sanguin Ambassador

Huge info dump incoming so feel free to skip

In a culture where individuality and visual identity plays a big role, to be born blind is to be born an outcast. Not only could she not see her kin, see their bright colours and understand the beauty of the light that is so vital to their culture, but she could not understand the foundations of what gives her fellow Seddight their identity.
She could not "see" them.

Had the story ended here, she might have briefly been known as Yaris the Unseeing, and she might never have bonded with a plant (due to not being able to properly care for it or being able to gauge where the light would be best), and would have died an early death due to Seddight organs changing during puberty to adapt to living in symbiosis with a plant, most notably their kidneys become much less effective.

But fate chose otherwise.

A cryptobotanist from some faraway university came to her village, seeking a mythical plant known as the Light Catcher, known from growing in very dark places and surviving by magically redirecting any and all light in its vicinity towards itself. To the Seddight it is simply known as "evil." They warned him that the plant's magic is primal, and that the darker it's surroundings, the more aggressive it is, the strongest is known to suck the light straight from one's eyes, leaving all who come too close to it blind, and in the case of Seddight, it will kill their plants.
This only made the scientist more excited at the prospects of harnessing this power. He badgered the Seddight to know where he can find one, and eventually was pointed towards a deep cave in a nearby mountain. To circumvent the whole "being left blind" ordeal, he decided to take a guide who would not have that problem; a certain blind girl.

When they descended into the cave and the scientist lit his lantern, they walked for a long time, deeper and deeper, until the scientist noticed his lantern is dimming, despite the oil not having run out. Realising they must be close, he was about to send Yaris ahead to try and find it. What he didn't count on was the plant's sentience; and upon seeing this new light source, it devoured it in an instant. The scientist was steeped in darkness and stumbled and groped in the darkness, ultimately dropping the lantern and suffering the unearthly experience of being burnt by fire he could not see and being utterly lost. They spent the better part of a day trying to find their bearings, but could not succeed.
In the end, he realised that their only hope would be for Yaris to find the plant, and bring it under her control by bonding with it. To her it was all the same, she was followed by perpetual darkness in any case, so she agreed.
When she found it she carefully performed the procedure, and when she was finished, she couldn't believe the effects... she could see. Light suddenly bypassed her eyes and was "felt" directly by her consciousness, and what's more, the plant was beautiful, shimmering with flickers of light that it devoured and stored. By communicating with the plant, she could coax it to either absorb or emit light, rendering her invisible or turning her into a beacon. The scientist was beside himself when he saw this glowing being walking down the passage. He began rambling about how this would be the scientific discovery of the millennium and how he can't wait to study it further.
Yarisul, realising that he would make of her a test subject and put her in a new cage was outraged, and promptly left him in darkness again before leaving the cave.

Now she is known as Yarisul the Unseen.
Some would choose to integrate with their society, given this chance, but Yarisul had come to like the isolation, and deep down knew that just as she could not "see" her people, they would never truly "see" her.

Description
This took forever to do because of how busy I am with academics, but I managed to build up enough 10 minute breaks to finally get it done.

And here we have the third ever named Seddight character in my universe, and the third one to have a plant associated with magic.
Ya-ris'ul the Unseen.
The other two are Yorokan the Unliving and Syloram the Sanguin Ambassador

Huge info dump incoming so feel free to skip

In a culture where individuality and visual identity plays a big role, to be born blind is to be born an outcast. Not only could she not see her kin, see their bright colours and understand the beauty of the light that is so vital to their culture, but she could not understand the foundations of what gives her fellow Seddight their identity.
She could not "see" them.

Had the story ended here, she might have briefly been known as Yaris the Unseeing, and she might never have bonded with a plant (due to not being able to properly care for it or being able to gauge where the light would be best), and would have died an early death due to Seddight organs changing during puberty to adapt to living in symbiosis with a plant, most notably their kidneys become much less effective.

But fate chose otherwise.

A cryptobotanist from some faraway university came to her village, seeking a mythical plant known as the Light Catcher, known from growing in very dark places and surviving by magically redirecting any and all light in its vicinity towards itself. To the Seddight it is simply known as "evil." They warned him that the plant's magic is primal, and that the darker it's surroundings, the more aggressive it is, the strongest is known to suck the light straight from one's eyes, leaving all who come too close to it blind, and in the case of Seddight, it will kill their plants.
This only made the scientist more excited at the prospects of harnessing this power. He badgered the Seddight to know where he can find one, and eventually was pointed towards a deep cave in a nearby mountain. To circumvent the whole "being left blind" ordeal, he decided to take a guide who would not have that problem; a certain blind girl.

When they descended into the cave and the scientist lit his lantern, they walked for a long time, deeper and deeper, until the scientist noticed his lantern is dimming, despite the oil not having run out. Realising they must be close, he was about to send Yaris ahead to try and find it. What he didn't count on was the plant's sentience; and upon seeing this new light source, it devoured it in an instant. The scientist was steeped in darkness and stumbled and groped in the darkness, ultimately dropping the lantern and suffering the unearthly experience of being burnt by fire he could not see and being utterly lost. They spent the better part of a day trying to find their bearings, but could not succeed.
In the end, he realised that their only hope would be for Yaris to find the plant, and bring it under her control by bonding with it. To her it was all the same, she was followed by perpetual darkness in any case, so she agreed.
When she found it she carefully performed the procedure, and when she was finished, she couldn't believe the effects... she could see. Light suddenly bypassed her eyes and was "felt" directly by her consciousness, and what's more, the plant was beautiful, shimmering with flickers of light that it devoured and stored. By communicating with the plant, she could coax it to either absorb or emit light, rendering her invisible or turning her into a beacon. The scientist was beside himself when he saw this glowing being walking down the passage. He began rambling about how this would be the scientific discovery of the millennium and how he can't wait to study it further.
Yarisul, realising that he would make of her a test subject and put her in a new cage was outraged, and promptly left him in darkness again before leaving the cave.

Now she is known as Yarisul the Unseen.
Some would choose to integrate with their society, given this chance, but Yarisul had come to like the isolation, and deep down knew that just as she could not "see" her people, they would never truly "see" her.