{1st Angel Feather; Video}

[oblivious_klutz]

[ooc: Backdated to evening of the 1st, after her initial arrival.

Colette turns on the locket, taking a moment as she adjusts to using it for the first time. There is some initial shaky moments, but she seems to get the hang of it well enough as she sits at her bed in her accommodations, the light of the moon filtering through her window enough that she has no more than one candle flickering nearby. It's late, but she's not tired yet so she figures she may as well try figure using the lockets properly and introduce herself.]

Hello everyone. I'm Colette. I only recently got here, and it's....a lot to take in. But I guess for now I have no choice but to try my best to consider all of it and where I stand. Whether I want to fight and what I want to protect. Either way....there's a chance to make so many new friends here, and hear about so many different worlds! So I'm curious about all the other worlds and some of their stories, so what do you say we share some together? I'll start!

[A deep breath and she closes her eyes for a moment as she recites the story - the history, from memory. Having spent so many times going over the history, the Chosen and their role, of course she has memorized it.]

Once upon a time, there existed a giant tree that was the source of mana. A war, however, caused this tree to wither away, and a hero's life was sacrificed in order to take its place. Grieving over the loss, the goddess disappeared unto the heavens. The goddess left the angels with this edict: ‘You must wake me, for if I should sleep, the world shall be destroyed.’ The angels bore the Chosen One, who headed towards the tower that reached up unto the heavens. And that marked the beginning of the regeneration of the world.

Comments

[individualist]

[Cause just cause they exist don't mean you gotta worship them.

Anyway, she doesn't bother bringing that up. Just gets onto the more relevant, less loaded topic.]

Alright! So...

A really long time ago, worlds were full of magic and the old gods, who existed alongside humankind in harmony. [Chaotic harmony. Lot of slaughter, lot of ritualistic sacrifice, it was really awful.] Life was owed to the mother goddesses, the ones born from the planet that gave life to all things. Every other living being paid tribute to them for it, even if they favored other gods, all to thank them for the life they bestowed upon them.

But this all changed with the arrival of a new God. Nobody knows where He came from [Well, Lucifer does, but details.] but He was even more powerful than the mother goddesses combined. He used his power to subjugate the mother goddesses and seal them away within the Earth. His legions of Angels swarmed all worlds they could find and destroyed the old gods, stripping them of their power and casting them into hell, reducing them to monsters known now as 'demons'. He also forbid anyone to use magic except for Him and His legions, so that nobody could ever grow strong enough to overthrow Him. From that point on, history was forever changed, and as far as everyone is concerned it was Him who created all things, and nobody ever learned of the truth. From that day on, everyone paid tribute to Him instead for work He never did.

[oblivious_klutz]

But that's--that's terrible! Why would he do that...?

[It doesn't seem fair to the mother goddesses at all!]

[individualist]

You can't imagine why someone would want all that power? That authority?

Don't think of these gods as anything more than you or me. Just think about what a human in that position would want - it makes them easier to understand.

[oblivious_klutz]

I don't know. I never really....aspired to my status back home or wanted it. It's just...part of being the Chosen. I didn't consider to think of the gods or goddesses as being like us though. I guess in that case even they could make mistakes and have their goals.

[Even if said goals weren't necessarily for the better, but more selfish.]

[individualist]

Honestly, in most cases they do. Just like people, supernatural entities like that usually have something to gain from dealing with others.

That's why you have to be careful when dealing with them in return! In my experience, things like that don't lie, they just leave out the important bits. It makes what they say sound more convincing. If I were you I'd be a little wary about this Martel, too.

[oblivious_klutz]

I never thought about it like that. But maybe that is true. At least, for some perhaps.

Why would you be wary of Martel? [The question is hesitant, and yet layered. Protective of the one she turned to in the midst of growing up with the knowledge that she is to die at the age of sixteen.]

[individualist]

Well, the same reasons you'd be wary of anyone in a position like that...

[not that she's actually wary of anyone, but.]

She's never spoken to you, so you can't know what she's like right? And putting total faith into a stranger is just...well, dumb.

[oblivious_klutz]

I guess I just....like to think the best of anyone.

[Even the likes of certain assassins that were sent to kill her back home. Colette really is sheltered and doesn't really get this 'caution' thing.]