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(It's very long you don't have to read it but here)

Long ago in a different realm lived the three concepts, higher gods beyond understanding by their creations, they created the planet and the world all led by the single mighty pen, the true god of this world two of the concepts created the god dimise, destruction primal led by the core tenants of kill consume multiply and conquer. And goddess hydra, A goddess of good, and healing, and everything else that dimise is not, but being that they were the only two in the world, they came together and while it was just the two of them they were in love, but all that changed after one night, nine months later come the first of falling leaf there were suddenly not just the two of them, dimise, his mind not comprehending that he had helped to create this entity, Grew jealous of all the attention that this new being got from his wife, but for now he would bear with it for surely his wife would choose him over this random new entity that appeared, that wasn’t until it was blessed by the third concept, who was asked by the great pen two create an entity as well in order for there to be balance however the concept of the ever green what’s too busy playing in their own world to have created one, but all three sensing the birth of the child the concept of the Evergreen claim that this was their plan all along was to bless the child of hydra and dimise, and so they did. And what followed was now the child many years after their birth grew to an adult, and with the power of the Evergreen, the power that the fae wield in their world, coursed through the child’s very being, created new life, proceeded to create humanoids of all kinds that they could imagine and set them loose into the world and other layers of reality within that world, but with such a violent explosion in population the land and sea shook as the plant life over extended its grip as humanoids proceeded to spread their creator’s will deep to land and bodies of water, hydra being born of the goddess of wisdom, and thus, water.  for wisdom flows like water Wisdom and the sea welcomed the humanoids and wisdom and water became key components of humanoids and all life for many generations to come, now they not run on electricity alone.  Land, dimise however- their rage burned like the fire that adorned their helm, for the humanoids were not welcome, yet they went where they pleased like the plants that crept down into the many minds that the humans would dig, dimise felt robbed. The precious minerals jewels and gems were all his and not for the pathetic sniffling worms that were created by this fae entity. they were never or ever will be welcomed in the Lands domain. Unfortunately though the  Sovereign Arch fae went where they pleased filled with endless energy and excitement for adventure much to demises displeasure even more so he was frustrated with how much attention the sovereign arch Fae was getting from his wife he couldn’t stand not being the most important thing to her and on top with the humanoids robbing him he lashed out, collapsing mines cave ins and burning away the sovereign arch Fays beloved plants with magma hellfire and malice, some humanoids adapted, as they were trapped deep in the mines developed into dwarfs and various other underground species, because life and the Sovereign arch fae’s humanoids always find a way to persevere. For the arch fae finds that in this time years after their humanoids first came into being, the first of them have started to wither, and lived in pain of the body’s they currently inhabited, they have power over life, and death, so granting those in pain to slip into the endless slumber… and perhaps leaving some of the ones who chose demise’s influence control them and be cruel to others to simply… rot For eternity never free of pain, they are still indeed related to dimise after all whether or not the man knows it, thus why their humanoids are susceptible to malice as well, but after so many passing away and so many wanting to continue living who are kind and good gentle people that did not deserve to have their life taken from them from the failings of their own bodies the Sovereign arch fae wondered. Perhaps being the last say over life and death, they could perhaps simply, put more life into them? Or perhaps find a new body for them to inhabit? And so it was done. Souls if they so choose could continue to live perhaps not with all of their memories for the Sovereign arch Fay themselves we’re quite forgetful at times living their immortal life as fast as they do, but nonetheless reincarnation perhaps not the most well-known still happened just as often as people passing away, and wouldn’t you know it? as soon as that happened another baby would be born into the world and the same soul could go on a whole new adventure. A new story to read after putting the old one back on the ever growing shelf of tales and story’s. But for dimise? It was a disaster. The only GOOD thing about the mortals is that when he killed them they STAYED DEAD. The sovereign arch fae left him FURIOUS, so if they’re just going to keep resurrecting them, he’ll just keep killing them, distorting them. Creating his own army infused with his own malice swine like kobolds and trolls. but it didn’t stop there he created armies of every type of troupe he would need for total hostile take over, I am so it started, malice rips holes through the deep deep land easily bending to the will of dimise, its god. Then out floods armies of malice ridden abominations, with the core tenants of  KILL. CONSUME. MULTIPLY. CONQUER. Echoing through their minds, and they simply did as told. From each entryway slowly became a field of death that the sovereign arch fae could not keep up with, and many souls became lost, Lost looking for their god- their mother- to put them to rest or resurrect them once again but as black smoke poured from the erupting mountain tops it choked the blue sky in black smoke suffocating the plants and trees and wildlife. Choking out the gods influence, eyes and ears, around the planet they all called home. Many souls are still lost from that great tragedy, and the sovereign arch fae still seeks to lay the tormented souls to rest or give them another life, and with this great tragedy invoked hydras RAGE, how could the father of her child- her husband be so cruel and evil? So violent and repulsive? No, she would not have it he was her husband no longer, he was her enemy, and she did not hesitate to let him know. violently she commanded the sea that shared her rage to slice away at the land, water and weather thrash against the land flooding between all of the weak joints splitting it apart and storms snow and hail to drive away the smoke clouding the skys and the hail of water blessed with her fury to drive away the abominations.  The sovereign arch Fae seeing their mothers wrath joined in the fray adding thunder and lightning to the already horrible storms, destroying the land overcome by malice until the combined power forced the openings to collapse back in themselves leaving behind massive ditches that quickly filled with water from the severe storms forming lakes of holy water that trickle through the cracks to form beacons of light in the under dark, beacons that burn and drive away the abominations that linger and fester thereafter. Massive Ravines forming rivers similarly. And plant life around these areas thrived unbothered and unworried by foul magic and the humanoids, being their creator‘s children of course, VERY quickly -at least to the gods sense of time- repopulated each of their own sub species without wasting any time. And seemingly life was restored to normal, despite the great island being shattered and being violently pushed apart by the currents so dimise would not have the chance to do another full out invasion again. dimise now buried deep underground a island- well certain that hydra has picked the new entity over him, once again he does not understand, he is angry, he’s upset, and violently furious at the sovereign arch fae most of all. Millions upon millions of years the two were fine- ALONE. And as soon as that new creature appeared everything started to go downhill he does not understand he doesn’t get it what does that creature have that he doesn’t he’s far better- of course, obviously. He is beyond that disgusting little festering cesspool of life. And as centuries go by, he festers in his hatred not realising the hate he feels is for his own spawn, and hydra unknowing to the fact he is simply unaware of who their child- the Link between the two of them- who that child is… their Link 

Chapter two: but wait! There’s more!

As centuries go by humanoids developed into various great cultures and powers, so many generations and so many of them as individual groups with their own cultures, Spawned new gods, The new gods created of pure faith, we’re not as powerful as those created by the concepts but gods and goddesses all the same having domains over the respective peoples. And this is how it is for many of the years. But now Link- the sovereign arch Fae is now being expected to act certain ways, they’re directly interacting with these other gods. And since they are born of humanoids they have mostly humanoid custom, expectations. Demands. And so whispers and talk began to spread. And spread they did.  started blatantly being asked invasive questions, things these other gods and goddesses had no business in knowing, roles that they’re being forced into or disrespect being casted on them for either dressing a certain way one day and dressing a different way another, to the very color that they chose to wear that day, hydra mostly took over duties involving dealing with the other gods and goddesses as it was clearly stressing Link out, link decided to take a small… vacation 

And as the concepts watch on with a twinge of sadness they prepare a plan B for who to rule this world as they sense the oncoming chaos.

Assuming mortal form and going down to the great river of a large divide between two continents and making their way to land of sand that they remembered used to be a lush green forest, but a lot can change in 10,000 years they suppose, still it was fun to roll around in sand dunes and see city’s wildly devoid of traditional building materials and how those humanoids developed without them, for the most part it was peaceful besides the occasional giant hippo in the great river they would travel down to see the city’s that was until they got to one specific city. Where they got stopped dead in my tracks not immediately sensing that theee was a god present they got pretty blindsided to see the mortal incarnation of a jackal headed god, who refused to name themselves but at one point they said they could be called Mimi and that is what link proceeded to call them much to “Mimi’s” regret later when they were out of their human personas different disguise, the two, both pretending to be normal a human, and half elf respectively, ended up hanging out a lot and spending time together, over the next 80 years they fell in love got married, ruled together Mimi’s kingdom together- even eventually 26 years into the relationship unfortunately they had to both explain why neither of them aged past 20 and they proceeded to help each other with God work as well Link consuming hearts that were not lighter then a feather after Anubis weighed them, but to them both just more- violent way to initiate a reincarnation. And for the next 54 years. All was good.  Until unfortunately… links presents was demanded, hydra was not there nor was mimi, the only two gods in the a crowd of many others not present, the only two who defend Link,  This wasn’t a meeting. it was in the middle of a Colosseum

Demands and questions flood the Colosseum there’s no running away from them this time they can’t leave not without breaking their human form and not being able to see Mimi again- for goodness only knows how long- the demands and questions i’ve been shouted out and far louder than before overwhelming the arch fae despite being there superior being looked down on for not being purely divine but also brood of The King of Evil Dimise  something link has always been ashamed of. It was a secret that could only be hidden for so long before pieces could be put together, and at this point being choose to only pick between the two and not the third option which they’ve been happy with of just doing whatever they felt was right theres a cookie cutter version of one thing and a cookie cutter of the other pick one and you can’t do anything outside of it you have to be one or the other that’s it you have to fit and look a certain way this is just how it is pick one Link.

it was time right now they had to make a decision what’s the decision what are they about what even are their options? Do they REALLY? have options? What if they don’t really like what they picked? What if they want something different?  What if everybody else doesn’t like what they pick? Some are expecting link to be one way and some are expecting them to be another because of what roles they fill Thoughts race though their mind as at this point they’re being threatened? Why doesn’t matter that much? Why are they being threatened surely maybe Link could take them all out and flee this is too much but what if they can’t what if they’re not actually strong enough to take all of them out they’re all purely divine Links not links damaged by radiant power not like them their all immune to it why are they immune to it everybody’s waiting tic tock what’s the answer link?? Everyone’s waiting for an answer 

WHAT ARE YOU?? 

And just before a blades tip touches their chest, an eclipse. And a guttural RIP as link, is torn in two , too many conflicting ideas of what they are or their purpose in the world, the urge to kill everybody in the Colosseum right now and the urge to simply say something to placate them, a man and a woman now stand in the spot where Link once was as the eclipse passes as the sun starts to set to the west as a new moon offers no light in the sky, and smoke starts to plume out of volcanoes once dormant for many years beginning to rumble as the evergreens power in the world begins to wane and centuries old bindings in ice weather causing the ice to lose its rigidity and crack on dimises cage the two gods born of being at odds instantly disliking each other and each running off in their own directions the goddess going west and the god going east towards the rising moon  And the concepts, seeing the imbalance, must do the only thing their willing to do, simply try again, let’s skip the whole only two in the beginning slowly fading to good and evil, let’s skip the theatrics, the concept of power and the concept of wisdom plot, but the concept of energy, ever the stubborn one refuses, and goes back to watching their chosen… ones… plural now, great. More work. Just what the concept of energy wanted, more work, great. It personally could not give a damn what dimise and hydra do, only Link… or..  Li and nk? L and ink…  Lin and k, whatever too much work. But the other two have long ago implemented Plan B, the demons and deity realms

As the goddess races after the sun they very quickly on a raft of twisted vines and roots, taking control of the live wind they ride across the sea to the new world wnd stumble into the forests eventually finding a rock in a clearing and promptly lounging on it, far to tired to put up with whatever happens the rest of the day 

As the god races east to  to their realm of pure dark the only real place he can hide, he thinks of what he will say and how to explain himself to the others, surely he can win their favor, then they’ll all worship him as he deserves eventually he gets somewhere towards the end of the continent simply walking across the water to the large island off the coast and there he remains feelings constant Changing with the month as the moon changes so does he

The goddess finds people of her own to rule over, and they rightfully see her as a goddess, I mean who else has flowing hair made out of acid and makes your plants and trees grow if you give them human sacrifices in increasingly extravagant ways?  time goes and passes as generations of these people live and die, they made hot coco although really bitter it could stand to be a bit sweeter not too big of an issue though it’s still cocoa at this point though they don’t even know why they’re taking sacrifices it just feels a little familiar after suddenly being in arena and not remembering anything except you hate this guy who’s right next to you and you need to get away from him you don’t really remember all who was there, all you know is that they’re all dead. passed though your jaws into the beyond some point during the boat trip to the other half of the shattered single continent all the way across the sea at this point though she doesn’t really care to find out she’s not leaving unless someone makes her to leave and good luck doing that, She has anything she could ever want, some of her plants in oasis’ on the other continent told tale of a great god of death killing many gods in revenge for some reason, screaming in rage and influenced by some young arch fae boy and the boy using the opening to cause the Exodus not any of the goddesses business as long as they keep it over there but she thinks it’s sweet the God of death killed all of the other gods because they took his love or whatever for some reason, but as she stated before and many times again “not   My business not my problem.” Although she does have a strong urge to meet the God for some reason, maybe eventually As majora, the name the goddess chose for herself enjoys all of life’s pleasures while simply picking her scales and the occasional bout of boredom but constantly filtering people through cycle of life and death putting their souls in better bodies so they can do what they wish when they wish or to free them from whatever may plague them

The god on the island is having much less success… well not really being worshipped they are protecting a lot of people and that’s pretty nice, most thankful for being protected and not being killed by yokai most thank him for his service, fondly calling him kijin, on account of the horns and spikes from his hairline down his spine yet ethereal glow to him rare is it to see his scales though they come with a deep shame and embarrassment, despite being a dragon of so highly praised and valued by the people for him causes uncertainty and unease causes him to have questions about his worth and existence for the only others to bear scales like this are majora and dimise two people he wants no association with. One an ancient black dragon filled with hate for all things alive and the other… well he just doesn’t like her but they will all worship him in time, and he’s starting to get impatient

1000 years before these events the demon king Delkila, and the deity he’s courting, lady Amuri after hundreds of of years in power he is breaking the one hard rule between demons and deity’s, a rule that he thinks is stupid because it is. So what if they date and stuff not like they HAVE to have children… because they’re totally not derkila doesn’t even want kids, and neither does Amuri… right?

 they meet together in secret in the surface world, the demon realm or the neather realm isn’t as safe as derkila wants it to be yet, and the deity realm isn’t exactly open to new ideas, so they both meet in secret and mostly spend their time hiding from both of the royal duties to be with each other… they both ended up having seven kids together 6 ranging from 15 to 9 with another shortly on the way… 

until-  unfortunately 

A malice ridden humans take Amuri’s  life while carrying their 7th child, derkila, ridden with grief goes on a purge for the next few hundred years, before eventually slowing down and taking time to grieve he believes his children’s lives were taken as well that day they were all lifeless and his eldest son melted into a puddle of black tar what’s left behind when the Evergreen is violently ripped from the fae, because that’s what you get when you combine demonic and divine magic. And for whatever reason someone has taken his family from him but for now he’s between bars though his magic may be demonic in nature it doesn’t dictate the ability of what the magic can do, healing, restoring eyesight, all of the selfless act he know his late wife would want him to do  after years violently getting revenge he WANTS to be the kind of deman that Amuri would be happy to call her husband and friend, the kind of example he should lead for his children although they may also be gone from the world, he truly has nothing left at this point… well that’s not entirely true he has the neather world, but he never wanted to be the Demon king, he simply wanted the nether world to run itself world that wouldn’t need him to run it. he’s sure the 13 crown fools he left in charge are doing fine, there’s no way for one of them to coalesce power and take over or whatnot…  he wonders what his father Sullivan would say, what advice could he get… but he’s already been gone for so long he doesn’t know how Sullivan would react… at the bottom of a tankard and in the mist of the thoughts, Roman soldiers kick the door in, grab him, and place him under arrest, the once great Demon king Derklia too drunk to stand too drunk to defend himself, is hualed off and seizing the opportunity knowing they can’t hold him captive for long,  Derkila is crucified   While the dark tar like shadows that grow to humanoid shapes as the sun sets silently scream and cry in horror as they witness their the life leave Derkila’s eyes as their father is stabbed with a silver plated spear Able to Pierce demon flesh and the shadows scream and bang on wall between that realm and the one their in, the only thing holding them back from stopping the soldier, ripping them the shreds and leaving them to rot like how their father had to his enemies when he was getting his revenge. Narinder, eldest of the demon king. Will have his revenge.

And so arch fae Narinder need only tell the god of death what happened to his love, need only whisper to one mortal to build a boat with one of each animal and plant to not upset the evergreen and whisper to the goddess hydra what has happened, for gods actions have repercussions on their people same as any king or other ruler  10 plagues in total in total All at the command of a grieving child.  one of their younger brothers, tinky, has sway over the flow of time, they are all the sovereign of time, link’s, nephews of course and are all arch fae, and with this power they’ll hop where they need too, and they’ll pay, ALL HUMANOIDS will pay what is owed and Narinder will wash them all away

But what other god could hate humans so much?

Dimise has escaped.  it was bound to happen eventually now the other gods and goddesses basically freed him by putting stress on and already strained entity And first things first , kill everyone… but wait where IS everyone, it’s just a small patch of land surrounded by ice and water firstly he figures out he just needs to build a land bridge and so he does which is probably the most intelligent thing he’s ever come up with, right to some of the densest populations on the continent blindsiding everyone there and running it into the GROUND and Rome fell in a day under the brute force of demises army hydra is too distracted violently throwing tsunami after tsunami at the place she thinks tore her child in two as Dimise begins to decimate and set everything ablaze in his path eventually getting to a place lined with marble, and a very unprepared for battle goddess

Dimise, immediately walks in like he owns the place and demands hydra gives up, she almost considers it, before Dimise blurts out stupid to and surrender the arch fae to be executed, wrapped up in her emotions she immediately lashes at him with a mini tsunami, and thus the start of the Great War begins  Majora and Kijin are no where to be seen mimi is still trying to find Link while the world is falling apart the Sun and moon no longer both show in the sky now being at completely opposite times of day and night everything is in disarray and confusion and panic spreads through the planet as new gods arise and die like leaves on a tree, timeline discrepancies universe colliding into each other alternate realities interacting somehow realms melting and melding together a completely apocalypse until finally centuries later after the start of the great war, the final battle between good and evil, hydra and dimise. They’ve taken a lot from each other in these past centuries fi and girahim, once designed to raise and nurture Link their child how to use the respective abilities now both sword spirits designed to kill each other, no words are said not knowing this is their final battle, and the last time demise will ever see hydra again. Without link to assist her the two are just wearing each other out best case scenario is both of them die and this never gets solved. Worst case… dimise hunts both halves of link that she has no idea where they are then this ASSHOLE kills them both hydra wont let that happen it kills her she’s putting him back in the seal.  Majora and kijin both sense something wrong, the land and water are both unusually still, usually they stay out of whatever’s going on but… they have a horrible feeling about today, and so they both leave the safety of their domains.

And the battle begins for three long days and three long nights the dimise and hydra fight to the death, but no that’s a lie on both of their parts. Neither wants the other dead but they know have to at least disarm the other to progress

Until majora and kijin show up, and they know moms in trouble. And despite hydra about to plead with them to run, dimise grows enraged and starts fighting more ferociously more violently, the two kids just trying their best to stop him from hurting hydra  they don’t want their mom to get hurt from whoever this guy is and he shouting in the language neither of them can understand but it doesn’t matter. they want him dead and he wants them dead and so the battle becomes more bloody and violent until with one chop. and one stab. Dimise attempting to slice through both majora and kijin, stopped by hydra throwing herself inbetween them… and stabbing him in the chest with a light arrow and hydra and Dimise both drop…  Dying Dimise quickly sucked into and bound by a sealing spell Kijin and majora both rush to hydra crying as she bleeds out trying to comfort her children apologising she couldn’t find and help them that she loves them so much before drifting off  and passing on… by majora and kijin, cannot reincarnate them, their noy strong enough to reincarnate a god… and so they’re both left alone staring at the corpse of a got, do they blame each other? Maybe maybe if the other just knew how to fight better, it’s only a seal they need to make sure dimise stays dead for good. No matter what it takes the two attempt to re-fuse themselves with very little success then the in fighting starts before they both just huff and say they’ll do it separately before storming off back to the respective corners of the world as one evergreen leaf floats by  and lands on hydras hands spawned by the two sides Coming to agree on the one specific fact that they need to protect everyone from dimise and a little baby fae fox looks down on the “sleeping” goddess, and the baby fae fox stays by hydra for many years to come now a kitsunè yang Li waits with incomplete memories.

(there's a whole thing all unnecessarily long eight pages of it there are certain parts that I'm probably gonna rework in the future like the more specific reasons why Link split in two and certain conflicts like the Great War and hydra and dimises death and thank you for reading if you did)