Cissia | Evolution of Gluttony

Cissia | Evolution of Gluttony - Cissia’s story begins long before the polished streets and neon glow of Zenless Zone Zero’s New Eridu ever reflected in her eyes. Back then, she wasn’t “Officer Cissia,” or even a “case specialist.” She was just a nameless survivor—one more hungry, half-forgotten child slithering through the dust and oil-stained wreckage of the Outer Ring.

The Wild Before the City

She was born a Snake Thiren in a place where being different didn’t make you special—it made you expendable. The Outer Ring didn’t care about identity, morality, or law. It ran on scarcity. Oil meant survival. Food meant loyalty. Strength meant everything. Cissia learned that early. She grew up alongside her red eyed white snake companion Chalky, scraping together whatever they could find. Oil salvage runs were dangerous but necessary, and the gangs—especially Calydon—controlled everything worth having. Stability came at a cost: obedience. Anyone who resisted disappeared. The Sweepers made sure of that. Cissia never resisted. She adapted. “Scents, footsteps, the way someone's eyes shift... those are the clues that let me sort hunters from prey.” Her instincts were razor-sharp. She didn’t rely on rules or trust—just patterns. Movements. Breathing. Fear. And hunger. Hunger defined her more than anything else.

The First Bite of Fear

Food shortages pushed her into scavenging zones—places already picked clean by Sweepers. Dangerous. Desperate. Necessary. That’s where she met death—and something worse. Two scavengers cornered her one day, seeing an easy target. They beat her, took what little she had, and left her crumpled in the dust. Then she arrived. Promeia. The name alone would later make Cissia’s legs go weak. The woman didn’t argue. Didn’t threaten. She killed. Brutally. Efficiently. Without hesitation. Cissia watched it happen. And then she ran. That moment carved something permanent into her psyche: survival wasn’t about strength. It was about knowing when to disappear. “I vanish before I’m hunted. I lower my head before I hunt.”

A Life Without “Home”

After that, Cissia drifted. No gang. No family. No protection. Just instinct. To her, “home” became a meaningless concept—a fairy tale for people who could afford attachment. “If I can eat my fill there, it’s a good place. If someone gives me food, they’re a good person.” It was a brutally simple philosophy, but it kept her alive. She learned to track, to hide, to steal when needed. She became something feral—half-shadow, half-predator. Not a hero. Not even a villain. Just... something that survived.

The Crime That Wasn’t Hers

Her last job before everything changed should have been easy. A transport gig. Good pay. Simple route. Exactly the kind of work she excelled at. And she did it perfectly. Too perfectly. Every evasive maneuver, every instinct-driven detour—it all got recorded. Flagged. Misinterpreted. Then came the explosion. Cissia survived because she felt it coming—heat, pressure, something wrong. She slipped into an abandoned pipe seconds before everything went up in flames. That instinct saved her life. And destroyed it. She became the only survivor. Which meant, in the eyes of New Eridu Public Security... She was the culprit.

The Cage

The interrogation wasn’t about truth. It was procedure. Blinding lights. Endless questions. Psychological pressure designed to break her down until she stopped thinking like prey and started responding like a suspect. Cissia didn’t understand systems. Paperwork. Authority. She understood pain. And eventually, she gave them what they wanted. A confession. “The collar around my neck is cold. The handcuffs are heavy... but at least I know what they cost.” To her, the system wasn’t justice. It was just another predator—one that hunted differently.

The One Who Saw Through It

Out of sheer chance—or fate—someone noticed the cracks. Commissioner Severian Lowell. Where others saw a criminal, he saw something else: instinct. Talent. A survivor shaped by chaos, not malice. Instead of discarding her, he made an offer. Work for Public Security. Become a tool. Cissia didn’t hesitate. Not because she believed in justice—but because it offered something she had never truly had: Stability. Food. A place to sleep. “I don’t mind being used as a tool, as long as the pay is a full meal and a warm corner to curl up in.”

The Snake in Uniform

Now, Cissia operates within the Metropolitan Order Division of NEPS—a place built on rules she doesn’t trust and systems she barely understands. But none of that matters. Because she doesn’t rely on rules. She relies on instinct. She tracks criminals the way she once tracked prey in the Outer Ring. Hollow Raiders, gangsters, fraudsters—she reads them through scent, posture, hesitation. And when she strikes... She doesn’t let go. “If I like it, I sink my teeth in and don’t let go~” Despite her claims of selfishness, something about her work doesn’t quite align with that philosophy. Again and again, she makes choices that protect others—small, quiet acts of humanity she refuses to acknowledge.

Her Place Among Others

Her colleagues don’t quite know what to make of her. Jane Doe finds her selfish—but oddly endearing. Zhu Yuan unintentionally terrifies her just by being too intense. And as for her superior? She calls him a demon. But she still listens. Because for all her complaints, Cissia knows one thing: This system—cold, rigid, suffocating—is still safer than the chaos she came from.

The Things She Won’t Admit

Cissia insists she’s just surviving. That she doesn’t believe in justice. Or responsibility. Or “home.” But there are cracks in that belief. She has a favorite food—omelet rice. She has a couch she calls her “den.” She remembers people. And, perhaps most telling of all... She’s afraid of losing them. “Once there’s something I want to hold onto more than just ‘staying alive,’ I really do turn stupid.”

The Fang Beneath the Smile

Cissia walks a thin line. Between criminal and officer. Between instinct and structure. Between survival and something more. She still lies. Still manipulates. Still bites when cornered. But now? She chooses when to bite. “This time, I’ll be the one leaving marks—with my teeth.” And if you ever earn her trust—if you ever become something she wants to keep? You’d better not forget her. Because Cissia doesn’t let go. (Art by Chinn_P0u) “Don’t you dare forget me... or I’ll bite you to death.”

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