Faunusploitation.

Put the conch to your ear and hear blood flow. You can pretend it has a pulse of its own but in the end, it's just an echo. The conch is just an empty shell. How about you?

Tempered by fire, and as beautiful as crystal, but in the end, their shape is still that of an animal. Velvet Scarlatina's quest to survive the outside world, control the biggest bunch of miscreants and psychotics Vale has ever seen, become a mighty warrior and huntress, and maybe, just maybe, even graduate from school.

He was a Guardian. This empire was immortal. Nothing gave him greater pleasure than to know he would dutifully serve the Orokin to the very end. Perhaps even beyond. (Submission for the "Old Memories" Contest on the Warframe Forum.)