Talk:Senna/@comment-7709681-20191016163712/@comment-7709681-20191021221753

But why the Angel part? Is vestigial at best and obsolete at worst, because as a race no longer exists within the canon and there's no hook to it anymore that sustains it narratively.

Don't believe Yorick is much cursed as is stretching the little life he has left, because the Black Mist is always with him and is only held at bay by the water reliquary, rather can redirect the Mist that's attempting to consuming since the Ruination happened.

With Senna is cursed, but don't believe is a traditional curse as is being branded like cattle to die which is certainly frightening to everyone and hence being a "curse", but she didn't let the Mist go near her as it was in constant flight until she was already dead within Thresh' lantern, before that nothing could protect her unlike Yorick. Her weird state of undeath does not let the Mist recognise her as a consumable target anymore, because Thresh took the kill first, but somehow is still cursed because her soul is her own again.

The following can come as silly but hope I can get the point through: I think the Mist is somewhat attracted to lifeforms it couldn't consume at first, to the point it almost feels "salty" about those lives being their own individuals, so the best it does is 1) tempt them to embrace the Mist (like Yorick, which thus far is the only character that can conversate with the Mist through the Maiden) and 2) await the cursed to leave their guard down to consume them. Until then, they have the ability to redirect the Mist away from them with a command to achieve in mind.

Much like traditional tropes of outer presences, it requires an invitation to get into the living, but only to those it didn't take at first have the right to do so. Yorick carries sacred water, Senna carries a soul that became mortal again, both are lifes the Mist can't and couldn't take respectively.