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Kurt Angle

Kurt Angle, God of Endearing Insults

• Symbol:
• Intermediate God
• Alignment: Lawful Good as a Face, Neutral Evil as a Heel.
• Portfolio:
• Domains:
• When it comes to wrestling, if the audience says "You suck!", they absolutely hate your guts. Kurt Angle defies this since, whether he's Face or Heel, the audience will still chant "You suck!" in time to his trademark music. When asked how it became this way, Kurt can only tell the story of how he and Edge feuded in the past, and Edge somehow convinced the audience to chant those two words to his music. While he was annoyed by this, he has come to embrace these two words better than most would. For this, the Court decided that he's ascended. And, of course, every wrestler and god at his ascension ceremony screamed "You suck!".
• Has wowed various gods in the House of Sports for his feats in getting his famous gold medal at the Olympics. That itself is no easy feat; it's more difficult when one does it with a broken neck.

James Sunderland

James Sunderland, The God Revealed to be a Killer (Jaaaaaaames Sunderland, Fart-face [by Laura])

• Symbol: Mary's letter.
• Theme: "Theme of Laura"
• Lesser God
• Alignment: Varies, but mostly presents himself as True Neutral
• Portfolio: Classical Anti-Hero Action Survivor, drank in order to escape the revelation of his wife's sickness, being abused by Mary and then later abusive to her, The Everyman, his love for Mary drove him into insanity, killed Mary but for tragic and understandable reasons, Tragic Hero, learns in horror that he killed Mary and then suppressed it
• Domains: Horror, Abuse, Trauma, Murder, Love
• Herald: Laura (Adopted daughter), Frank Sunderland (his father)
• Allies:
  • Silent Hill: Harry Mason and Cheryl Mason
• Dislikes: Desire of the Endless
• Other Relationships: Pyramid Head (his Enemy Without)
• James Sunderland was a humble clerk who was deeply attached to his wife, Mary Shepherd-Sunderland. She died three years ago to a "damned disease" but he somehow found a letter from her stating that she was in Silent Hill at their special place. With nothing else to do, James drove to the eponymous town and was confronted with numerous people who were all lost in their own world, along with a woman who had an eerie resemblance through his late wife. Throughout his trials in Silent Hill, particularly in regards to the monster known as Pyramid Head, he learns the horrifying truth that Mary was dead at most a week ago, by his hands. Upon realizing the truth, he stands up to the dual Pyramid Heads that are his final stepping stone to confront his sins. What happens next depended on how James reacted throughout his trip.
  • At most, there are three possibilities (out of six) gods have come to debate with: he either leaves Silent Hill with Laura (though whether or not he adopts her is unknown), he ends up driving his car into Toluca Lake to be with Mary, or he refuses to admit that Mary's gone and hooks up with Maria...who ends up succumbing to the "damned disease". For the most part, what truly happened to James is unknown.
  • The James that entered the Pantheon is the one who gets to leave Silent Hill with hope. As he and Laura were about to take the car out, they found a letter left for James, stating that the Pantheon was "waiting for him". With nowhere left to go (especially since James committed uxorcide), James drove himself and Laura to the Janus Crossroads, and to the Court of the Gods. The court reviewed his case and revealed that the revelations of him being a killer this whole time made him perfect for the Killers and Assassins sub-house. James was unsure about it all, especially since Laura is known to frolic about without a care, but decided that this was a good way to make amends without dying for it.
  • A later herald turned out to be his father, Frank Sunderland. Frank was wondering what happened to his son and daughter-in-law and was terrified to learn the truth. There was a bit of a pause before Frank calmly hugged his son and said that he still loved him.
• James was surprised to find that there were two other gods that entered Silent Hill and lived: Harry Mason and Heather Mason. James and Harry have had discussions over their lives and how they became entangled with that town while Heather has become a big sister figure for Laura, making sure to babysit her whenever Laura decides to travel to some of the more vile houses in the Pantheon. Heather also makes jokes about how Jason doesn't have second qualms with sticking his hand into a dirty toilet.
  • One night, James woke up to hear a familiar scraping sound. He learned the hard way that it was Pyramid Head standing at the door of his temple. Without question, James prepared a spare shotgun to attack. Instead Pyramid Head just nodded his head then walked away. Despite having stood up for himself, James will never let go of the panic that monster brings him. It also doesn't help that Heather is actually friends with Pyramid Head (kinda, it's more like another version of her is capable of summoning Pyramid Head as a guardian entity if need be).
• The House of Love is wary about him. Killing your significant is a serious crime, but they understand the pain and grief Mary's disease caused him and her. Having to deal with Mary's mood swings about hating him and then being afraid of dying, along with the frustrations of not being intimate with her would cause one's mental health to fray. James, for his part, wants no business with the house as he's focusing on taking care of Laura.
  • One day, Laura woke James up and told him that Mary was actually in the Pantheon. James knew that this couldn't be true as he saw Laura hanging out with an exact replica of Mary herself, stating that she came back to be with him. James...rejected the offer, stating that the real Mary would want him to be happy and to take care of Laura. Then the fake Mary revealed herself to be Desire of the Endless, who couldn't help but be amused at James' resolve. James calmly told Desire to eff off and to never pull that trick around him or Laura ever again.
• He ended up becoming a father figure to both Mima Kirigoe and Nina Sawyers, both girls having to deal with manifestations of their own traumas in some way but ended up becoming stronger once they stood up for themselves.
• "I was weak... That's why I needed you [Pyramid Head]... Needed someone to punish me for my sins... But that's all over now. I know the truth. Now it's time to end this."

Stardust Cookie and Space Doughnut

Stardust Cookie and Space Doughnut, Deities of Bonding By Sharing Snacks (Stardust Cookie: Fiery Star's Wrath, Meteor 1 Cookie, [You] Pathetic Flatster | Space Doughnut: Alien Doughnut, The [Space] Doughnut, Doughnut No. 325)

• Potential Houses: Food, Sub-House: Consumption or Tastes and Friendship and Camaraderie, Sub-House: Acts of Friendship
• Intermediate God (Stardust Cookie, Greater God as Fiery Star's Wrath) and Demigod (Space Doughnut)
• Alignment: Neutral Good (Both, Stardust Cookie was initially True Neutral)
• Symbol: A bag of Starflour Crisps and two train tickets.
• Portfolio:
• Domains: Stars, Space, Friendship, Snacks, Dreams
• Heralds: Milky Way Cookie (Both), Moonlight Cookie (Stardust Cookie's sister) and Astronaut Cookie (Space Doughnut)
• "My voyage...goes on." (Stardust Cookie)

Ritchie Foley/Gear

Richie Osgood Foley, God of Sole Caucasian Representation in Ethnic Works (Rich, Push, Gear, Brainiac the Maniac)

• Potential House: Culture, Hall: Racial Appearances
• Lesser God as Gear and Push, Demigod originally.
• Symbol: Backpack, a spider-like drone/portable computer
• Alignment: Neutral Good
• Portfolio: Muggle Best Friend to Static (initially), Gadgeteer Genius, gradually becomes a Bang Baby through Super-Intelligence, embraces how his gadgets and intelligence is a great power, His superhero name is based on the gear he has on hand, travels on rocket-powered rollerskates, Good with Numbers, Technopath, a huge fan of heroes who became a hero, Awesome Backpack
• Domain: High School, Superheroes, Technology, Intelligence
• Allies: Virgil Hawkins/Static Shock (his best friend), every single hero from the DC Pantheon,
• Enemies: Brainiac
• Ritchie Foley was an Ordinary High-School Student and best friend of Virgil Hawkins. After Virgil obtained his powers, Ritchie suggested that Virgil could use them to become a superhero, and Ritchie would aid him by creating numerous gadgets to aid him against the Metabreed. However, Ritchie would gradually become a superhero in his own right (after a brief stint with an old man who bestowed him the ability to create force fields) when it was revealed that he also gained powers of Super-Intelligence thanks to exposure to Quantum Vapor on Virgil's clothes. While he was initially upset that all he could do was make cool gadgets, he would eventually embrace his intelligence and gadgetry as his true power and named himself after all the gear he equipped himself with.
  • Originally was a deity in the House of Heroism, but was removed when his trope title fell out of favor. Virgil was okay with him being his Herald until one day he noticed Ritchie just vanished. However, he got a message to meet in the House of Heroism. Confused, Virgil traveled there to find Ritchie back in the Pantheon. When asked what happened, Ritchie said that he'd been busy trying to convince the Council to find him a suitable seat but kept running into trouble until he jokingly suggested he should try out for the Token White god...and they accepted it. While somewhat annoyed by it, it still meant he was back to being a god again. The two reunited with a fist-bump and burgers. Richie's temple is the abandoned gas station he and Virgil used to hang out in, now decked with all the tools he needs to create all sorts of gadgets.
• Naturally, as a big fan of superheroes, Ritchie was ecstatic to catch up with the numerous DC superheroes in the Pantheon, going around each of their temples and squeeing at seeing them up close once more. He also spent time visiting heroes from outside the DC bubble, determined to make up for lost time by getting their autographs. One superhero who he's decided to team up with is Tony Stark, given Stark's reputation of building his first suit IN A CAVE! WITH A BUNCH OF SCRAPS!. He's hoping to reverse-engineer one of the Iron Man suits in order to make his own Powered Armor. Stark has given him pointers that Richie should create gadgets that gave him his original Barrier Warrior powers as Push, although Richie is on the fence on it given that his Push days aren't something he's proud of.
• Even after his return to the Pantheon proper, his hatred of Brainiac still remains. He won't forgive the megalomaniac for brainwashing him to take control of the Justice League and gets annoyed if someone tries to call him "Brainiac the Maniac" (Virgil only said it out of concern of how Ritchie was somehow creating sophisticated gadgets out of nothing).
• Has a dislike of guns due to how he was (accidentally) shot by one and nearly lost his leg. Given how this was caused by a victim of bullying trying to get revenge, he's taken a stance as a Bully Hunter so that this situation never happens again. Also dislikes racists as this gives him reminders of his father disliking Virgil just for his ethnicity.

Cedric the Sorcerer

Cedric the Sorcerer, God of Kindness-Induced Alignment Changes (See-drick [by Sofia], Ceddy-kins, Cedric the Sensational, Cedric the Great, Uncle Ceddy)

• Potential Hall: Ambiguity, Sub-house: Alignment Changes
• Symbol: His magic wand
• Lesser God, Intermediate God when channeling other's magic.
• Alignment: Neutral Good, originally a combination of True Neutral/Neutral Evil
• Portfolio:
• Domain: Sorcery, Shame, Kindness, Lineage, Friendship, Redemption
• Herald: His family: Goodwyn the Great and Winifried the Wise (his parents), Cordelia the Conjuror (his sister), and Calista (his niece)
• High Priest: Inugami (original holder of the seat)
• Allies: Princess Sofia Balthazar (his friend), Merlina the Wizard
• Enemies:
• Idolizes: Merlin
• Cedric was the son of two prominent sorcerers but an incident when he was younger caused a change of events that stunted his abilities in magic and his confidence, and he slowly decided that he would do anything in his power to be noticed. Being the Court Mage to the royal family of Enchancia didn't help, especially since King James couldn't help but rub it in his face over his failures. His life changed when he met Sofia Balthazar and how she was given the Amulet of Avalon. If only he had it, then Enchancia would be his! There was just one teeny problem: Sofia's unwavering kindness towards him. From the get-go, her compassion made his heart waver at every single turn, and he always tried to excuse his failures that he has another chance. That and his numerous plans to get the amulet kept backfiring in his face. Slowly but surely, he would eventually come to realize that power and recognition was nothing compared to seeing Sofia hurt from his betrayal when he got his hand on a Medusa Stone. It was her words stating that he was so much better than he gave himself credit for that gave him the strength to change for the better, which was cemented when he helped defend Enchancia from the likes of Vor through the use of the Amulet of Avalon and finally given the name "Cedric the Great". But that was nothing compared to him returning that amulet to Sofia, as he fully treasured their friendship more than power.
  • Cedric was working on some spells when he was suddenly given an invitation by Clover. Going through the contents, he could only cry "Merlin's Mushrooms!" in shock at what he was given: an invitation to the Pantheon! He immediately flew on the first pegasus-drawn chariot to the gates, where he was met with Princess Sofia, who was glad he got the invitation to become a deity. Cedric was unsure if it was okay, but upon understanding that means he gets more time to be with his close friend, he graciously accepted the offer.
• The first deity Cedric went to visit was none other than his inspiration, Merlin. Merlin just had a knowing smile on his face upon seeing Cedric, proud that the sorcerer helped defeat Vor using the power of love from all of Enchancia to save Sofia. Merlin has now asked Cedric to help him train his apprentices when he's too busy with other projects. Cedric immediately agreed and then fainted in happiness.

Bobby the Bob-Omb

Bobby the Bob-Omb, God of Flashbacks Preceding Death (Bob-omb, Bhomas, Bobert, Bobunoske)

• Potential House: Death
• Symbol: The Important Box. Alternatively, himself lazily reclining.
• Theme Song: "Bob-Omb Encounter", "Bob-Omb's Memories" and "Bob-Omb's Encouragement"
• Demigod
• Alignment: Neutral Good
• Portfolio
• Domain:
• Allies: Mario (aka "Big M")

Borrowed Profiles

GingerBrave

GingerBrave, God of the Endless Running Game (Brave Cookie)

• Potential House: Gaming, Sub-house: Gaming Genres (A to M)
• Borrowed from: Excessive-Menace
• Demigod
• Symbol: His candy cane
• Alignment: Neutral Good
• Portfolio
• Domain: Bravery, Running, Kindness, Heroism, Hope, Friendship
• Heralds:
  • His OvenBreak Party: GingerBright. Strawberry Cookie, Zombie Cookie and his Combi Pet, Choco Drop
  • His Cookie Run Kingdom Party: Strawberry Cookie (again), Wizard Cookie, Chili Pepper Cookie, and Custard Cookie III
• Allies: Cotton Cookie and Sherbet Cookie, Many Disney deities, Sonic the Hedgehog, Miles "Tails" Prower,
• Fears: Every witch in the Pantheon, Dr. Eggman
• Enemies:
• "No cookie left behind!"

Ruby Gloom Cast

Ruby Gloom, Doom Kitty, Iris, Misery, Skull Boy, Frank & Len, Mr. Buns, Poe, Scaredy Cat, and Boo Boo, Revered Collective of Halloween-Inspired Locales

Counterclockwise from left to right: Frank and Len, Iris, Ruby Gloom, Misery, Skull Boy, Boo Boo, Scaredy Bat, Doom Kitty, Poe, and Mr. Buns

• Borrowed from: CrimsonShark
• Demigods collectively
• Symbol: The mansion they all reside in
• Alignment: Chaotic Good
• Theme
  • All of them
  • Ruby
  • Skull Boy
  • Misery
  • Iris
  • Frank and Len
  • Scaredy Bat
  • Poe
• Portfolio
  • Ruby only
  • Skull Boy only: Friendly Skeleton, Trying out numerous hobbies to figure out his purpose, Child Prodigy Jack of All Trades
  • Misery
  • Iris
  • Frank and Len
  • Scaredy Bat
  • Poe
• Domains:
• Allies
• Enemies
• The city of Gloomsville is Always Night and filled with friendly and eccentric characters. No other example can be shown than a Victorian mansion where Ruby Gloom and her friends have adventures in their day to day lives.
• Many gods can plainly see that Ruby and Skull Boy crush on each other, making it just as obvious as Marinette Dupain-Chang and Adrien Agreste. However the two have pointed out that they really don't see each other in a romantic way before they looked away with blushes on their faces.

Ascended Profiles

Aldo

Aldo, God of Waking Up Beginnings (Kyros Chronos, Sorik, Aldie, Adders, Aldwin, Al, The Cat Beyond Time and Space, Master/Sir Aldo)

• Potential House: Beginnings
• Lesser God, Intermediate when in the Dragon Bearer Class or if utilizing the power of Ogre Rancorem
• Symbol: His sword, Ogre Rancorem
• Alignment: Neutral Good
• Portfolio: Hero willing to help those in need, Oblivious to Love despite having multiple women hitting on him human or otherwise, wields swords, gathers a party from multiple races and throughout space and time, protective of his little sister, Kindhearted Cat Lover (who was also a cat given human form), Champion of the Dragon God, Happily Adopted by the Chronos family in the future before being Raised by Grandparents in 300 AD, has two different versions of himself in the Gallery Master and Time's Forgotten Shop Master
• Domains: Heroism, Beginnings, Time, Space, Cats, Swordsmanship, Brotherhood
• Heralds: Feinne (his little sister), Mayor of Baruoki (adoptive grandfather), Varuo (pet cat)^note A black cat, not the one in the picture, and every ally he has ever met.
• Allies: Chrono's Party, Serge (his successors), The Phantom Thieves of Heart, Gods from the Tales Series (specifically Lloyd Irving, Colette Brunell, Yuri Lowell, and Velvet Crowe), Good-aligned Feline gods (especially Puss in Boots), Sakaki, Sissel, Roxas, Link, Shulk, Lewis Anthonio, Any heroes with younger siblings whom they are protective of, Anyone who wishes to protect time, Those who were raised by grandparents (Adoptive or otherwise)
• Enemies: Lavos, Katz, Eobard Thawne, Dio Brando, Odio, SKYNET, Those who would distort/destroy time for nefarious deeds.
• Conflicting Opinion: Ogre deities, Simon Laurent, Matt Hardy, Tanukis
• Pities: Nox, Homura Akemi
• Other relationships: Anri Sonohara, Mai Takatsukasa
• Most games start off with the main character waking up to start the day, the name of the trope coming from when Crono was awoken by his own mother on the day of the Millennium Fair. However, since this was already a common trope, and the Trope Namer himself already shared a seat with his friends, the Main House had trouble finding a candidate. Thankfully, Serge came to the rescue as he recalled someone who would be perfect for the role. Said someone was a swordsman named Aldo, who hailed from the small village of Baruoki where he lived with his little sister, adoptive grandfather, and their pet cat as a knight who protected their sleepy village from monsters. In 300 AD in the continent of Miglance, Aldo was thrown into a strange adventure involving time and space in an attempt to save his sister and the future from the menace of the Phantoms, learning some very shocking truths about the two. Namely that he was actually a cat that stepped into a tear in space-time, was adopted by Feinne (real name Cecile Chronos) in the future before their father sent them back to the past. And then it turns out his human form actually came from Feinne's older brother, Eden, and he gained his human form thanks to the Geo Prisma inside Feinne. At the end of each adventure, Aldo wakes up to someone opening the windows who he assumes is his little sister...and it's always someone else mimicking her voice, much to his annoyance.
• It was another beautiful morning when Aldo woke up to the sound of his sister's voice. Rubbing the sleep out of his eyes, Aldo woke up to find a white haired girl opening the windows...and she had dark skin and wore colorful bracelets around her wrists, ankles and neck. The girl introduced herself as Elena, who wished to give Aldo a welcome to his new role as a god. In a panic, Aldo was about to bring out his sword for self-defense, before he was blasted with confetti by Pinkie Pie's party cannon and given a handshake by a person named Gentaro Kisaragi, who welcomed Aldo into the Pantheon because of his habit of constantly waking up at the end of his adventures. Aldo was a bit confused but eventually settled in once he saw Serge was responsible for his ascension. Given all of the stuff that Aldo has seen across his journeys, becoming a god seemed like another Tuesday for him.
• The first thing Serge did after Aldo had enough time to settle in was to have Aldo reunite with numerous warriors who he had met across his travels since many of them forgot about their adventures with Aldo when they returned to their home worlds.
  • First off were the Phantom Thieves of Heart, as Aldo recalled how they helped change the heart of a Control Freak mayor and later a bride who had forgotten her memory. While Aldo is unable to obtain a Persona, he's willing to lend a hand during their heists. Along with catching up to them, he was surprised to find that there were two new members in Sophia and Zenkichi, especially since he had no idea that AI and adults could obtain Personas. He's also confused at seeing Mona's cat form, seeing as Mona was in his Metaverse form when they met.
  • The second group were from the Tales Series: Lloyd Irving, Colette Brunel, Yuri Lowell, and Velvet Crowe. The conversations the group has had around a campfire had been quite intriguing, and Aldo is grateful for whatever recipes they taught him, although he requests that they don't make the foods too hot (both in temperature and spiciness). His (cat) tongue can't handle it.
  • Finally, Serge introduced Aldo to the Chrono Trigger gods. Aldo was quite amused to find that there was another female purple-haired scientist and frog-man who wielded a sword, along with how they also went through time and space to stop a giant monster from destroying all of human life as they knew it. Serge then went on to explain why Kid was freaking about one of Aldo's friends, Ashtear (who has many similarities with Lucca), and the tragedy that befell on the Chrono Trigger gods that would allow Serge's world to emerge. Naturally, this makes him pissed off at Lavos since it reminds him too much of Chronos Menas in his world.
• Aldo's "main" party consists of himself, a Synth Human hunter from the future, a frog-man wielding a katana, his sister, and two female androids. If we're talking about who else he's met up with, then we can include more cyborgs, a grim reaper, samurais, mermaids, ninjas, a princess who takes up the guise of a traveling swordsman, a vampire, dark elves, beast-men and everything in between. He and Serge have a bit of a game where they talk about who had the weirder party amongst them.
• Since there was terrible war between humans and ogres where he came from, Aldo is quite hesitant about most ogre deities. Shrek and Fiona are two of the more "friendlier" ogres (even if Shrek can be a bit of a grump) he's had conversations with. He's also found it quite amusing that Puss is a talking swashbuckling cat who ironically is the god of Puppy-Dog Eyes. The more complicated reason why Aldo has complications with ogres is due to his sword, Ogre Rancorem, was actually born from the hatred of the ogres inhabiting a sword. Ogre Rancorem only takes commands from Aldo, and even then the sword has a mind of its own and wants nothing but to enact vengeance on humanity.
• Given his affection for cats, and the fact that he, technically is one, Aldo is usually seen in the House of Felines. He's relieved that none of these cats have the abilities of the cats from his world (namely that they're somehow able to pass through rips in time and space.) One deity who he's become close friends with is Sakaki, who is known to adore cats. He was happy to learn that Sakaki was eventually able to adopt a cat as her very own. He was interested in hearing the story of Coraline Jones and how she was aided by a black cat in her travels. Coraline's head did spin a little when she learned about how Aldo himself gained his form. He has a dislike for Simon Laurent due to how he has a hatred for everything non-human, although he feels somewhat sympathetic since this was caused by Simon's denizen partner, The Cat, abandoning him as a child to save her own skin and leaving him to fend for himself, making him fall for Grace Monroe's lies of "I know how the Infinity Train works" that would lead him to leading a cult, Sanity Slippage, and eventually his death. Meanwhile, the Cheshire Cat is a unique cat whom Aldo has met, given his wide grin and the fact that he's capable of vanishing on a whim. Conversations with said cat have done nothing but made Aldo's head spin over the Cat's riddles. He sometimes fishes alongside Big the Cat. It helps that Big has a froggy friend just like Aldo has Cyrus. Although Aldo has questioned how Big has been able to appear in different parts of the Pantheon. When asked, Big went something on the lines, "I just wanted to go fishing, so here I am."
  • Given that Aldo was once a black cat, he was glad to find two other black cats in Salem Saberhagen and Sissel. For the former, Salem was actually a warlock who was cursed into a cat form, who ends up doing nothing but snark at just about anything and everything. Meanwhile Sissel is a cat who has the ability to rewind time up to four minutes of a person's death who also didn't know he was a cat and assumed that he was his owner, Yomiel. Aldo was amazed that Sissel was able to bring about a happy ending for everyone in his world, especially when he learned that in the original timeline, Sissel's refusal to play along to Ray's requests ended up with everyone dead.
• Aldo wasn't that shocked to find cat-people in the Pantheon, seeing that a few of his allies are beast-folk. One goddess he was interested in was Mae Boroski, who he's been doing his best to comfort over how she hates growing up. Mae has had a few talks about wondering if it was possible for Aldo to go back in time to help prevent Casey's murder or to stop those cultists from summoning their god or whatever. Aldo could only answer that his time travel didn't work that way, and that if he could do all of that, then there wouldn't be any valuable lessons for Mae to learn. Mae agreed, stating that no matter how much it hurt, she wanted it to, because it meant she struggled for her life and that it would make me her feel awesome. After the talk was over, Mae mumbled a "Thank you" and headed off. Then there was the time Aldo met The Cat in the Hat whom, while he doesn't have time powers, seems to be able to have Reality Warper ones instead, acting as a Karmic Trickster and getting people into loads of trouble, like that one time The Cat asked Aldo to find his "moss-colored, three-handled family gredenza". Aldo was sent on a goose chase throughout the Pantheon asking anyone if they've found it, before The Cat revealed the truth...it was his umbrella. Aldo then asked why The Cat didn't reveal that he was searching for his umbrella. The Cat replied, "Why didn't you ask me what it looked like?"
• Is a frequent guest in the House of Time and Space, and is surprised to find that there are people who can manipulate times to a certain degree or how they can travel through time in cars, trains, or phone booths. He's had adventures with the deities of these strange time-traveling machines from The Doctor, Dr. Emmet Brown, and even Bill & Ted, each of them having their own flavor of "Excellent adventures" that were all about protecting the timeline. Amongst some of the weirder deities he met who can travel through space and time it would be Matt Hardy...or rather, BROKEN Matt Hardy. From what Aldo was able to understand, seven deities made Matt their avatar to fight off the "Darkness of Deletion" and imbued his drone, Vanguard-1 with the power to teleport him throughout space and time and to converse with animals who had the souls of sacred beings. Aldo blankly stood there before walking off, muttering that he never wanted to see the wrestler in his world.
  • He's also curious to find that there are many gods who have been struck with the "Groundhog Day" Loop like Phil Connors, Sunset Shimmer, and Subaru Natsuki. He's understood that pain of waking up to a previous time while everyone else doesn't; at least none of them lost their memories like Nona did. He was also curious to learn that Sunset Shimmer used to be a pony who decided to become a human, and that horses can talk in her world. Sunset also explained that time magic is actually a difficult branch of magic and only one pony has ever accomplished a feat — Starlight Glimmer. Starlight didn't seem too annoyed when she brought up how she wanted to time travel to make sure that Twilight Sparkle and her friends never obtained their Cutie Marks, only to wind up making the future worse than they were before. While Aldo had concerns over how far Starlight was willing to go to spite Twilight, he can see that she's willing to make amends.
  • Homura Akemi was another goddess that Aldo was curious to meet up with, because of how she would rewind back in time to prepare a large amount of weaponry to fight off Walpurgisnacht and how she would do everything to protect the ones she loved. While many gods still hate her for her decision to steal Madoka's powers for her own, Aldo is one of the few that shows pity for her and hopes that she and Madoka can be friends again. He also couldn't help but be amused that her friend had the same name as Madoka Chronos, who also became a goddess. Although Homura has warned Aldo that if he even tries to take back Madoka's powers, she'll end him with a bullet to the brain, Aldo has stood firm on his decision to somehow bring the two back together no matter what. Homura shrugged her shoulders and walked off.
  Homura: You're welcome to try, boy. But we both know you have no power to stop me.
• Aldo is quite amazed with how there are many gods who are somehow able to travel in time, some of them being kids. Jack and Annie's method of time travel was the most unusual — it was based on an enchanted treehouse that would take them to any place in time and it was used to help them learn valuable life lessons. He was also interested in how they were tasked to help save the kingdom of Camelot and its ruler, King Arthur, much like he also had to save the King of Miglance on multiple occasions. The treehouse does have one weakness to its time travel whatever has happened in the past cannot be changed. While Aldo is concerned that there these kids can be thrust into danger, he was reassured by their teacher, Merlin, that they are in capable hands.
• One of Aldo's wishes is to be able to reunite with Eden, but that wish is just unable to be fulfilled. Even the most sympathetic of genies who want to fulfill his wish just aren't able to, as it's something that is beyond their capabilities. That said, Aldo is not willing to sign a Deal with the Devil in order to get his family back so easily and refuses to fall for their tricks. Still, numerous wish-gratners feel nothing but sympathy as Aldo continues to search for a way for him, Feinne, and Eden to be together once more.
• That welcome party from the Avatars of Friendship aside, Aldo gained a friendship with Gentaro Kisaragi because both were raised by their grandfather and have deceased parents (kinda, Aldo's feather is dead whereas his mom is worshipped as the Goddess of Time thanks to going back to the past and swapping places with the queen of another time period, long story). Aldo was happily welcomed by the Kamen Rider Club where he was given a chance to walk on the moon's surface (after getting a lecture in that space has no oxygen). Other gods raised by grandfathers were Arnold Shortman and Yugi Muto, and Aldo was amazed to see that both were kind-hearted boys who wanted to help others, with Yugi also having traveled into the past to help Atem uncover his past as Pharaoh. The three have reassured Aldo that he'll find a way to reunite with his family and that he always has a family in the Pantheon.
• Aldo has helped a struggling theater in his world gain an audience by having himself and his friends perform multiple shows. Thus he can be seen acting out in some plays written by William Shakespeare from time to time, sometimes even bringing his friends along as extras, getting rave reviews from the audience for how authentic his acting is. Unfortunately, just like in his world, he's always billed as "Aldwin" instead of "Aldo".
• It's a Running Gag in the Pantheon to have either a female with white hair or someone good at mimicking voices to pretend to be Feinne and to wake Aldo up in the morning. And he falls for it every time.
  • Aldo got really annoyed at this gag and decided that the next person who did this was going to get a taste of Ogre Rancorem. So the next time this happened, he was awoken...by someone with a voice similar to his. Aldo snapped and was about to strike the god down with his sword...who happened to be Roxas, since Roxas had his own temple in the House of Beginnings, who asked if he wanted to have sea salt ice cream with him, Axel, and Xion. Feeling slightly embarrassed for jumping the gun, Aldo agreed. He felt nothing but pity for what the Twilight Trio went through, given how Xion was erased from everyone's memories and Roxas had only been alive for a little over a year, and the last seven days of his birth was nothing but a simulation so Sora could be brought back, each of them punctuated by him waking up each time. Aldo also has nothing but outrage over Master Xehanhort's abuse of time for his own uses.
• While traveling through the House of Death and Postmortem, he happened upon a white haired girl whose voice was similar to his sister's. Turns out this was Meiko "Menma" Honma of the Super Peace Busters, who was quite shocked to see Aldo. Aldo couldn't help but feel sorry for how she died in a drowning accident but was happy that her friends were able to reunite. He also invited Menma to have sandwiches with his little sister Feinne, and the two had a talk about how the work they worked through in order to have their happy endings.
• Is wary of any tanukis in the Pantheon, because one of them imitated his appearance in order to attract the ladies and got him into plenty of trouble like pushing people into the water, beating up kids, and ditching on paying a drinking tab. He once found himself awoken by someone who looked just like him and it turned out to be Yasaburou Shimogamo playing a prank. And although Tom Nook isn't planning on stealing his face any time soon, Aldo has run a few chores for his temple. He gets along with Michiru Kagemori, who was a regular girl who suddenly was given Tanuki traits and learned to accept her new Beastman form.
• He isn't the only swordsman who could travel through time. Link is another swordsman who used his ocarina and the Song of Time to either travel back and forth in a span of seven years or repeat a loop of three days to stop the moon from landing, and also has used the Harp of Ages and Time Stones as well. Aldo sees Link's protectiveness of Zelda like how Aldo is protective of his little sister. Aldo was shocked to learn that Link is part of a prophecy that he and Zelda would reincarnate in order to fight off Ganondorf in a never-ending battle against light and darkness. Link, for his part, is proud of how Aldo has continued to fight for the sake of his home and to avoid the fates that have hurt thousands of people. Aldo also was amused to learn of how Zelda sometimes disguises herself as different people, since it reminds him of a princess in his world, Miyu, who would rather travel the world and fight with a sword than sit on a throne. Zelda laughed a little when she heard what Miyu looked like — a princess in a pink dress and blond hair — because it reminded her of her friend, Princess Peach. Aldo was then invited to have cake and tea with Princess Peach and was quite amazed that even though Peach doesn't wield a sword, she's still capable of kicking ass with a parasol or frying pan. Speaking of which, Aldo was happy to learn that one version of Link has a little sister, Aryll, and his first step into his world-saving adventure was to save her after she was mistaken for Zelda.
  • Another sword wielder who uses time is Shulk, whose sword allowed him to see visions of the future and then can change them accordingly. Aldo was amazed to see how the Monado was capable of using different types of arts to enhance his powers, and can even warn him of critical events or potential deaths to those around him. The two swapped stories as to how they have become the chosen ones for their respective swords with Shulk hoping to analyze the structure of Ogre Rancorem in the future.
• Heard of the tragic tale of Nox and how he wanted to go back in time to save his family but all his work only ended with him going back a mere twenty minutes. It reminded him of King Palsifal from Antiquity, who went mad with power after his wife and son were killed and how he was willing to ruin the timestream through the use of the Visus Embyo program and even killed Aldo's father, Professor Chronos, who was masquerading as the mysterious Oracle in order to stop the Phantoms from destroying the timeline just for kicks. While he can't justify Nox's actions, he can't help but pity the robot a little.
• Naturally, as someone who has had to stop evil forces from destroying time and space, Aldo has major beef with a few gods who would use their time powers to destroy the timeline just for the hell of it. Eobard Thawne and Dio Brando are two of the top gods on his list, but then you add Lord English who can warp time like it was child's play and is too powerful for even Aldo to fight on his own, and Porky Minch who is a childish brat who wanted to destroy what was left of humanity and ended up as immortal.
• Is absolutely relieved to find that there are various Gods whose job is to protect the time stream. There's Future Trunks and Silver the Hedgehog, who come from bad futures and went back to the past to eradicate the threats. Then there's Max Walker, who represents the Time Police trope. When Max (Walker) learned Aldo's story, he was quite amused to learn that Aldo is yet another cat god who could travel through time and introduced Aldo to a friend of his, Blinx. Aldo was quite amazed that Blinx had a device called the Time Sweeper that allowed him to manipulate time at his whim after sucking up enough Quantum Crystals. Blinx wanted to test Aldo's fighting skills and made the swordsman go through a series of trials to prove himself. After Aldo passed, Blinx announced that he was now part of the Pantheonic Time Police. Also, Max Walker gave a reminder to Aldo to use his full name when he comes visit the House of Time and Temporality, else he might get the attention of Maxine "Max" Caulfield, goddess of the Butterfly Effect. Aldo was amazed at how Max was a photographer, as he himself used a Polaroid for a side-quest to give a kid a photo of the sea. While he was downfallen over how Max had to choose between sacrificing her home or her girlfriend, he did smile when he learned that she eventually found a way to reunite with Chloe for good.
• Aside from making sure the timeline isn't damaged beyond repair, Aldo has used his ability to leap through time to gather artifacts from the past in order to sell them off at auctions to make money on the side. Many gods have shown a bit of concern that taking stuff from their time periods might accidentally caused unwanted side-effects in the future. That said, Aldo is not one for destroying environments just to make a quick buck so greedy gods who don't care at the collateral damage they cause gets under his skin. He does find some amusement when he learned Bill and Ted used their time travel device in order to gather historical figures for a school presentation.
• Aldo thought he was the only god who had to worry about a sword trying to possess him as Ogre Rancorem has done that to him on a few occasions. Then he met Anri Sonohara, whose sword was even worse than Ogre Rancorem. Said sword, Saika, is a sentient sword who slashes others in order to "love" them and anyone who is given even the tiniest of slices from her or her children are filled with her "loving whispers". Anri is able to control Saika because she herself is incapable of feeling love, and is trying to use Saikas a force for good. Aldo feels pity for her due to how that happened, but reassured her that she has nothing to fear when it comes to getting close to him.
• Aldo has been compared to Ash Ketchum for many reasons: black haired boys who have grandiose adventures and are Oblivious to Love due to having many girls crushing on him, human or otherwise. Aldo is confused when people ask him who he "loves" out of the many females he's become allies to and asks why it's that important for him to be asked who he has a crush on, if any. He's been slightly annoyed that there's a betting pool over who he'd finally pair up with. His Oblivious to Love factor is so high that he sometimes cannot understand familial love, like when Feinne tried to hint that she wanted to make sandwiches for her special someone...himself.
• Aldo has come to hate the villain known as Odio, for he is a manifestation of hatred of one's heart who came about from a noble knight known as Oersted, whose life was an utter tragedy created by his "friend" Streibough that lead him to lose everyone he has ever loved, and Odio then created avatars throughout space and time to test the depravities of humankind, only to be thwarted each and every time. Due to Status Quo Is God, Oersted is forever tied to Odio and trying to undo the tragedies that caused Oersted to fall would simply cause Odio would possess Streibough. Still, Aldo is determined to find a timeline where neither knight nor sorcerer became a Demon Lord. He was also happy to find that one of the heroes who fought Odio, Oboromaru, made it into the Pantheon, and how the ninja was able to bring the bodyguard of Ryoma Sengoku to bring about a new dawn to his time period.
• He is glad to find himself a group of allies who would do anything to protect their siblings, although he is worried at how some might cross the line in doing so. One such got is Kaito Tenjo since they both would do anything they could to help their little siblings although Kaito was more of an Anti-Hero than Aldo was the "golden boy" of Baruoki. Their meeting played out similarly to how Aldo met Roxas. Namely that he was awoken by another person with his voice and opening the curtains to his window.
• Aldo has a unique stance when it comes to robotic deities, seeing as 1100 AD of his world is stuck in a Forever War between humans and robots. Many of these robots, Synth Humans, are rogues who would do anything to kill humans whereas he has at least two or three allies who are androids who wish to co-exist with humanity. It turns out in his homeworld that the Forever War between humans and Synth Humans was manufactured by a strange coalition called the Cardinal Vestige in order to help humanity evolve, and said Vestige didn't care if a few humans were killed off for the sake of movement. Aldo can see the good robots from the bad, though, so he detests SKYNET for creating genocidal robots and how they send their "Terminators" back in time to prevent John Connor to become the savior of humanity.
• As his sister is also a MacGuffin Super-Person for being the vessel of Geo Prisma, Aldo has become a good ally to Mai Takatsukasa, who also serves as this to her world, trying to go back in time to warn everyone of the events that would befall them, only to fail at getting the message across. He was downright horrified to learn that Ryoma Sengoku dissected her to obtain her powers, to the point that he was ready to skewer the depraved scientist with Ogre Rancorem. Thankfully, Mai was revived as a goddess and is grateful that Aldo has continued to move forward to save his loved ones.
• Aldo is not fond of hoverboards, as he's seen dangling on the edge whenever he uses them. Thankfully he's been getting some lessons through the Babylon Rogues. While he's still getting the hang of it, he's less likely to grab onto the edge of his board in a panic.
• He's become a bit of a big brother to Lewis Anthonio, a blond haired boy who eventually finds himself in quite the eccentric family, because of one of his allies Ciel (the main difference is that Lewis was adopted, Ciel isn't). He's relieved that Lewis's family didn't have the problems of Ciel's own (namely that Ciel's family escaped their own world because individuality and creativity is heavily frowned upon) and that Lewis would eventually become a well-renowned scientist who would create time traveling cars. He also couldn't help but pity Bowler Hat Guy, since he is a future version of Lewis's friend Goober, who grew bitter after he failed to catch a baseball on an important day (due to being sleep deprived from Lewis's all night inventing). Lewis also admits that he messed up on that and was able to rewind time to ensure these events didn't happen in his homeworld.
• "Here me now. I am Aldo, a traveling swordsman and the cat beyond space and time!"

Tulip Olsen

Tulip Olsen, Goddess of Those Without a Reflection (Miss Tulip, Bud, Tulip the Literate, Kitten, Tulip Van Helsing)

• Potential House: Personal Appearance (Altered Appearance)
• Demigoddess
• Symbol: The characters of her video game, Good Guy and Bad Guy. Alternatively, a green "115".
• Theme: "Running Away" and "Word Up!" (she will deny the latter though)
• Alignment: Neutral Good, formerly True Neutral
• Portfolio: Fiery Redhead Badass Bookworm, tries running away to coding camp, Parental Issues, loves onions, named Tulip because she bounced back like the perennial flower, Smart People Wear Glasses, has a love for game coding, Logical Latecomer for the Train, one passenger on the Infinity Train who sends big changes throughout the cars, abrasive front, depressed within
• Domains: Runaway, Coding, Parental Issues, Emotions (particularly Anger and Sorrow), Logic, Trains
• Heralds:
  • From her world: Megan and Andy Olsen (her parents, divorced), Mikayla (her friend)
  • From the Infinity Train: One-One and Atticus (her denizen partners)
• Allies: All good-aligned Cartoon Network deities (particularly Gwen Tennyson and Kevin Levin), the Pine Twins, Good-aligned Canine deities, Sabin Rene Figaro, Pit, Anne Boonchuy, Sasha Wabright, and Marcy Wu, Coraline Jones, Mako Mankanshoku, Captain Lars Barriga, Mae Boroski, Wario and the WarioWare employees, Steven Universe, Radical Ed, Luz Noceda and Amity Blight, Xion
• Enemies: Simon Laurent, Kyubey, Odio, Michael Morningstar, Kuroto Dan, Calypso, Philip Whittlebane
• Other relationships: MT (her reflection), Claire Stanfield
• Train-related gods: Ryotaro Nogami, The ToQgers, The Steam Team, Tetsuro Hoshino and Maetel, Giovanni & Campanella, Pteradon Family
• Pities: John Wick, the Puella Magi (particularly Homura Akemi)
• Fears: The Terraformars, Pyramid Head
• Odd Friendship: Shrek, Daria Morgendorffer, Jane Lane
• What's the first thought that comes to mind if someone is missing a reflection? They're either a ghost or a vampire. Tulip Olsen is a unique case in that she's a bonafide human, but after an incident where she wound up on a train to help deal with the frustrations over her parents' divorce, she helped free her reflection from being grinded down by the Mirror Cops, which meant that she permanently lacks a reflection. Tulip doesn't feel bad about it, as she notes that it's a reminder of the choices she made and how she worked on her emotional struggles.
  • As for why she was on that train? Again, it all stemmed from dealing with her parents' divorce, and her father unable to take her to a coding camp she wanted due to a scheduling error on his part. Angry that neither parent could understand how it's "not that hard" to raise one child, she decided to march her way to the camp. In the middle of winter. And her camp was 300 miles away. As she began to understand the situation she was in, she then found a train appearing in the middle of the forest that she assumed would take her to her coding camp, only to wake up in a snowy car, befriending a small round robot named One-One and later Atticus, King of Corginia, as they traveled across the Train to confront the Conductor in how to find a way home...which ended up badly when the Conductor nearly killed her and shot Atticus turning him into a cockroach monster that tried to suck her life-force. Thankfully, she learned to move on from her anger and frustration, learned the truth about the Conductor, and made it back home with better understanding of her parents...and her reflection gone for good.
• Tulip Olsen was in her room, working on her video game and eating an onion when she got a message of a "new adventure" awaiting her. Curious, she packed up some supplies, said a farewell to her mother and walked to a specific destination. There, a large white train was waiting for her, and she entered...to find herself at the Gates of the Pantheon. There, she was quickly judged to become the Goddess of Missing Reflection and was even surprised to even find her Mirror Self ascending alongside with her. The two had an awkward talk about what they've gone through, like Tulip being the one who brought One-One back to his role as Conductor and MT ending up killing someone, before they were taken into their new temples. Her temple is a recreation of her house, and she also learned that her parents are heralds. However, given their divorced status, her mother mostly stays around as herald duty with her father visiting every now and then. While she's saddened that even as a goddess that her parents are still separated, she's come to accept that the two are trying to become better. She's also happy to see Mikayla popping in from time to time, even if she's a little out by the whole "god" thing.
  • She once asked the Court of the Gods if she could have her denizen partners as additional heralds. The problem came up with that it was impossible for denizens to leave the Infinity Train, and One-One has duties as the Conductor. They did decide to create a video-messaging service so that she can still communicate with them, however.
  • Her temple is in the House of Personal Appearance which is known to have numerous mirrors. When gods initially noticed her lack of a reflection, they assumed that she was a vampire and tried to push her towards the House of Otherness. Tulip groaned as she explained the truth of what happened, feeling a bit awkward of people knowing her secret. While many gods know the truth, some still like trolling her by calling her a vampire. It's notable that she's the only one whose temple does not have mirrors in them.
  • Of course this has made her have a tense relationship with vampires with only a few that she can be on good terms with. The closest she can get along with are the likes of Count Duckula, Arcueid, and the vampire wrestlers. She's kinda confused over what's going on with Gangrel and Luna Vachon; why are they vampires and not living "Gothic lifestyles"? She was then directed to one of Gangrel's old "disciples", Edge, and he stated that it was more them being "pseudo-vampires". Then Tulip asks what's this whole thing of him being called Brood Edge. He decided to just shut up after that.
• Tulip's favorite food is onions, and she's shown to eat them like they were apples. It's not one of the weirdest tastes in foods, and she's known to bring a basket of these back to her temple to munch on. She's not the only one who loves onions, since Shrek is also known to love them since onions are similar to ogres in that both have layers to them. She has a lot of common with the ogre, given that one of their partners is a talkative loon (Donkey) and a talking cat ends up becoming an important ally on their journey after showing them kindness, not to mention that they went on their respective journeys to reclaim their homes.
• Tulip's hobby of choice is coding games, with her first one being called "Good Guys Popping Bad Guys". While the naming can use some work, she's quite proud to see that many of the gods are actual video game characters and uses them as inspiration to improve her coding and game design. More specifically, she was interested in learning how Wario has a company that makes "microgames" and decided to apply for a job so she could also have have some experience in the field. Wario shrugged his shoulders and said it was fine. She makes games, he makes money. This also led to Tulip hanging out with the rest of WarioWare Inc. In particular, she's amazed at learning of Dribble and Spitz being space cabbies, befriended Ashley, ended up singing karaoke alongside Penny, and found a supportive mom figure in 5-Volt.
• Hates to admit it but her favorite song is Camio's "Word Up!" which reminds her of the road trips she had with her parents when they were still together. She'll only sing it under special circumstances, like that time she couldn't leave a car unless she sang a song with special meaning to her. When asked why she likes that song, she can only explain that it was due to something about "dancing". She was once tricked into singing the entire song when someone invited her for karaoke, much to her utter embarrassment.
• Tulip was glad to find many deities who share many similarities with her. Gwen Tennyson was the first goddess who welcomed her to the Pantheon, looking like a magical/alien alternate of her (and they also had red hair and similar voices). Then Tulip was shocked to learn about Gwen's boyfriend Kevin, who has the ability to transform into different matter just by touching them, especially metal. Unfortunately, the fact that she has matching red hair and voice of Gwen, this made her the target of Michael Morningstar, who wanted to have "Lovely Gwen" in his grasp. Thankfully, the real Gwen unleashed her Anodite form to blast Morningstar away, and Tulip has hated him ever since, due to his draining powers being similar to the two times she dealt with the Ghoms.
• Because of her friendship with Atticus, Tulip is a frequent visitor to the House of Canines and is a friend to all talking dogs. It was during one trip that she met up with a man in a suit with a black pug. Said man was John Wick. Tulip had a talk with him and she learned how John lost his wife, his car, his first dog, Daisy, and then his home, that caused him to go on a rampage of vengeance that could never be satiated until his death. Tulip can't help but pity that Wick cannot let go of his anger after losing so much, but offered him some words over how he hopes that he can find some peace. John sincerely thanked her before heading off.
• Tulip feels sorry for many of the gods in the House of Despondency since they were all broken by their experiences and have no way of moving on. She once had a talk with Despair of the Endless, who told her that sadness is necessary, as it also represents the concepts of memory and mourning. Tulip understood, as she also had to help Amelia Hughes (the one who usurped One-One) to move on from her sorrow of losing her beloved because running away from your pain is unhealthy, and that venturing into her own memories was the key to understanding how her parents' divorce was painful but that they still cared for her. Despair gave a smile to Tulip and let her be on her way.
  Despair: You're one of the few who understand what despair means and to move on from it. Be proud of that.
• She's not fond of gods who try to make her have her family whole again via Deal with the Devil or Lotus-Eater Machine, because she has learned that it's not real. Yes, the divorce was painful and unfair, and yes she's frustrated about it all, but running and denying reality is not a good thing. She can't help but pity the Puella Magi goddesses, most of them wishing for something to escape their pains only to be screwed over by their wishes and turning into witches. She's honestly disgusted with how Kyubey doesn't understand the pains these girls with you as long as he gets enough energy to avoid the entropy of the universe. While she's glad to have them obtain karma from Homura, she also can see that Homura is just full of despair that she is not able to let go, as that means coming to terms with Madoka being her enemy. She hopes that Homura will eventually move on, though.
  • Another god she hates is Calypso, who would easily warp her wish to be with her family in some grotesque way he can think of. That said, Calypso leaves her alone due to how she's not only learned to move forward with her life, but also because she's only 13, thus too young to participate in his tournaments. She's not sure what to think of Calypso's backstory or the one time he ended up hugging his daughter — who was turned into a time bomb to kill him and end the Twisted Metal tournaments — except to ponder that even someone like him can feel pain and sorrow.
• Was glad to hear that there was another passenger who got into the Pantheon...only to learn from Lake that this god, Simon Laurent, was an asshole to the extreme who wanted to wheel Lake and all other denizens that got in the way. Learning about why Simon became this way didn't help — he was neglected by his denizen partner, The Cat, while they were being chased by a Ghom. Simon was rescued by Grace Monroe, who lied that her number (142 to Simon's 55) went up because she totally knows how the Train works and that Grace worshipped the Conductor for her big number, and it led to them leading a child cult that destroyed everything in sight and wheeled anyone not human ("Nulls"). Tulip has nothing but anger at Simon for that, especially when he eventually tried to wheel Grace, but couldn't help but pity him as well as he ended up Dying Alone, unable to face his problems with his family never learning the truth. While Simon rejects her pity and hates her because it was she who ascended One-One/"False Conductor" back to his throne — not to mention The Cat went back to save her but never him — Tulip still hopes to get to him somehow, as not even he deserved his fate.
• Due to having two horrible encounters with the Ghoms (canine-cockroach hybrids that suck the life out of you and turned Simon into a pile of ash), Tulip is downright terrified of the Terraformars, and runs away screaming in a panic whenever she gets in sight of them. It's probably the only thing she and Simon Laurent have in common.
• Her experience with the Infinity Train made her question if there are other Cool Trains in the Pantheon, or gods who can give her pointers to them. She first met up with Ryotaro Nogami, who can access a train that travels through time. Tulip was tempted to try and "fix" her parents' marital problems so that the divorce didn't happen, but shook her head when she realized that it would cause a paradox that would prevent One-One from returning as the Conductor. Instead, she simply asked Ryotaro to let her go back to a time when the three were happy before leaving it at that.
  • The second group of gods she met were the ToQgers as they are able to board a train that can only be seen by those who are either children or a child at heart. While she and the ToQgers are opposites (Tulip is a teenager who is a logical thinker, the ToQgers are actually children who transformed into adults due to their imagination), Tulip is awed at how they can use their imagination to create wonderful things or to empower them in a fight.
  • The next source of Train information was the Land and Sea Travel sub-house where she found a plethora of Trains to encounter. The first was the Steam Team, a brigade of talking trains. She began asking them questions as to how they were able to talk and why they were steam engines instead of modernized ones. She was then led to the likes of Ringo Starr and George Carlin, who have narrated many of their adventures, to which Tulip gathered her notebooks and a basket of onions for story time.
  • Then she learned that there was a train that travels in space. This was where she met Tetsuro Hoshino and Maetel, who board the Galaxy Express 999. Tulip was saddened to learn the world Tetsuro lived in, but was glad that he decided to not turn himself into a robot and destroyed the facility that created these mechanized human begins. She can't help but pity Maetel a little, since she's an artificial human trying to fight the system like MT was.
  • She was surprised to learn that there was a train that takes people to the afterlife. Giovanni and Campanella were the deities of the trope, to which Tulip was surprised both in the fact at how they were quite young and they were talking cats (since she's met one in the past). She was happy to learn that Giovanni moved on from losing Campanella since it was a happier (albeit bittersweet) ending than what happened to Amelia and her fiancé Alrick. Thankfully, while their temple (a replica of the Train) won't take her to the afterlife, Giovanni and Campanella state she's always welcome aboard.
  • Finally, she learned about another time-traveling train from a family of talking Pterandons used to help people learn about dinosaurs and their natural habitats. Tulip herself has taken numerous trips on said Train and even brought up the time she played baseball with a couple of dinosaurs while on the Infinity Train.
• Speaking of Trains, Ryotaro warned Tulip to be wary of Claire Stanfield/The Rail Tracer, as he has convinced himself that he is God and would want to learn about the Infinity Train to prove that it was all his creation. Tulip herself thought it was completely illogical, only for Claire to appear at her doorstep...to invite her to lunch where they had a pleasant talk about his beliefs. He pointed out that despite his reputation as an assassin, he would never sink to the lows as to what Amelia or even Simon Laurent did, as he cares deeply for the passengers on the train he worked on (as Isaac and Miria can attest to). Claire also said that if Simon should ever come knocking on her door, all she has to do is bring up his name and Simon will never try that again. Tulip (awkwardly) appreciated the support.
• Due to her logical mind, she ended up being pals with Dipper Pines and Wirt, as they've also been through adventures with surreal and quirky characters. Tulip was amazed at how Wirt outsmarted the Beast with logic, and Wirt also found it cool that Tulip talked down Amelia through the use of moving forward. Dipper also has been journaling the numerous cars that Tulip saw on her trip and comparing them to the wackiness he's seen. As for females who have gone through numerous adventures like she did, she heard of the tail of Anne Boonchuy, Sasha Waybright, and Marcy Wu. the three were friends growing up but a strange box transported them to the world of Amphibia where they ended up fighting one another. Tulip connected the most with Marcy (as it was her idea that got her friends trapped in the first place and at each others' throats) but gently told her that letting go is healthier than running away from your problems. She's glad to see that the three were able to move on, with Anne eventually introducing Tulip to the Plantars, who she sees as a secondary family. Sprig was enamored by all of the strange creatures and adventures that Tulip went on, while Polly wanted to see if she could enter the Train and see how it worked (to which Tuilip refused since that's what Amelia did and everything always ended up having turtles for some reason).
  • It's through Anne that Tulip met up with the couple of Luz and Amity, as Luz was a human who ended up running away to another world to escape a conformist camp and ended up wanting to become a witch, gain new friends, and even a girlfriend. While Tulip isn't into magic, she can't help but be awed at the tales of the Boiling Isles and how the two ultimately put an end to Philip Whittlebane/Emperor Belos. Tulip is absolutely disgusted with now Belos is so deluded to seeing himself as a hero, making him a million times worse than Simon. Oh and he sounds just like the Conductor who tried to prevent everyone on the Train from moving forward all so they could create a car of their own making instead of actually moving forward and accepting that they can't change everything. While he can no longer influence the Boiling Isles, it wouldn't take much for people to sway into his rhetoric.
• Tulip ended up becoming a Cool Big Sis figure to Coraline Jones, a girl who also had to deal with parental problems and ended up entering a surreal world where she got everything she wanted...for the price of sewing buttons into her eyes. They also got along well because one of their allies ended up being a talking cat (Tulip's was female, white, and wore clothes. Coraline's was male, black, and didn't wear clothes) and how they learned to move on from their frustrations towards their parents. She also finds it interesting how both of them have a Black Best Friend (Mikayla for Tulip, Wybie for Coraline).
• Was shocked to learn the tale of how Sabin and Cyan were sent into an Afterlife Express, and how Sabin suplexed the damn thing. She wrapped her brain around that feat for days, trying to calculate how much strength and force it would take, calculating velocity and the physics needed before Sabin told her to just let it go as it won't do her any good questioning it. Of course, she also learned that the same Phantom Train was the one which carried Cyan's wife and son to the afterlife, so she consoled the samurai by stating that they're at peace now and he has to do what he can to move on.
• Tulip doesn't like fighting, but if she does, she decides to arm herself with a rusty pipe..or a donut holer as she likes to call it. When asked why she calls it that, it's because a cat (THE Cat) sold the pipes as such, and stated that their purpose was to punch "holes" into things and make them donuts. She's hoping that some donut-obsessed gods don't try to take that offer.
• She wasn't the only deity who had a Mirror Self in the Pantheon, as Pit accidentally created his — Dark Pit — after smashing the Mirror of Truth. At least Dark Pit didn't try to trap Pit in a mirror dimension in an attempt to become free. Dark Pit doesn't really care for Tulip, so she's not his hit list. Should Tuip ever find herself in trouble, Pit is ready to fight back with some light arrows if necessary.
• Given that she's a goddess about logic, one would expect her and Mako Mankanshoku to not get along, but surprisingly the two get along swimmingly. It helps that Mako's argument of "winning with friendship means winning at life" had some merit for Tulip. If she didn't go back to save Ghom-transformed Atticus, she wouldn't have learned that One-One was the true Conductor, stopped Amelia's rampage, give One-One the idea to create the video system that finally explained how to survive the Train, got her reflection to live her own life while getting Jesse Cosay out, and lead to Amelia helping to dismantle the denizen-slaying cult known as the Apex. So yes, winning with friendship meant winning in life.
• Her experiences with the Crystal Car had her learn about The Great Diamond Authority and how they all suffered from the death of Pink Diamond. She understands that what happened was really depressing (even if you disregard the fact that Pink faked her death) and that it will take a long time before they are able to move on, but she's happy to hear that they are making progress. She also ended up befriending Lars Barriga, as he also was insecure about himself before he ended up in space, died to protect the Off-Colors, then was resurrected by Steven to become the infamous "Lars of the Stars". She finds it saddening that Lars will eventually outlive his parents, but Lars reassures her that his parents always love him and that they're happy that he's living his best life.
  • Tulip has also become great pals with Steven Universe, due to his kindness and altruism changing the lives of everyone he touches. Upon learning of how he was unable to process his trauma, to the point of transforming into a monster, she can't help but ponder what would happen if he ended up on the Infinity Train to confront himself. She's glad to learn that he's finally getting therapy for his troubles, but that lead her to another question: Why aren't there any therapists able to step in before the Infinity Train intervenes?
• When people heard of her tale across the Infinity Train, some pointed out that the Train is a much more "benevolent" Silent Hill, as both locations have obstacles generated to help visitors confront their inner turmoils...whether they want to or not. Tulip shuddered at the idea of her somehow ending up in that fog town and of the executioner known as Pyramid Head. Thankfully, Pyramid Head doesn't see Tulip as a target, but Tulip has decided to not be around when she hears an eerie scraping sound.
• Tulip learned of the tragic tale of Oersted, who lost everything due to the actions of a selfish friend and gave into becoming the Demon Lord as everyone feared. While it's impossible for her to actually reason with him, she cant' help but wonder if she could've become like Oersted if she didn't learn to let go of her parents' divorce. She also admits that while Oersted had a right to be mad over everything Streibough did to him, it's no excuse for having thousands of people suffer.
  Tulip: It sucks what Streibough did, I won't lie. But holding onto that anger won't do you any good. The only thing you can do is let go, and hope to be a better person.
• Tulip wasn't a stranger to talking cats. Outside of Giovanni and Campanella, she became a good talking buddy with Mae Borowski, who is struggling with the idea of growing up, having run away from college back to Possum Springs. Tulip has done her best to comfort Mae in that trying to go back to her past won't really solve her problems, but that it was unfair that she lost a good friend in Casey. Mae asked Tulip how she's able to just "get it" when it came to moving on.
  Tulip: I didn't just "get it". It took me looking into the tape of an old British lady to learn how to empathize with others. But for now, you're in a safe place and have a chance to move forward. And you have a friend in me as well.
• Aside from talking cats and dogs, Tulip also entered a car filled with turtles. Master Oogway is a turtle that she frequently visits, as his calm demeanor and advice has helped Tulip when she's at a crossroads with herself and how many gods just aren't able to let go of their struggles. Oogway assured her that she was fine as she is, as long as she maintains the inner peace within herself. This also makes her detest Simon even more as it was during an Apex raid in the Unfinished Car that spiraled into the events that lead to his death. Simon doesn't give a damn though, stating that those Nulls had it coming. Thankfully, Tulip has allies in the like of Master Oogway and the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, who despised how Simon was ready to kill Hazel (a girl who was actually a turtle humanoid denizen created by Amelia) and didn't feel any sorry for it.
• Not the only green wearing girl with glasses in the Pantheon, Tulip ended up becoming friends with the snarky Daria Morgendorffer. Daria respects Tulip for how she was able to move on from her parents' divorce, while Tulip has come to accept Daria's sarcasm. She's been allowed to join pizza dates with Daria and Jane, whom Tulip also has come somewhat concerned for how Jane was raised by her parents growing up.
  • Speaking of which, she's not the only red-haired girl with interests in coding who also befriended a corgi. This is how she met up with the Playful Hacker Ed, after being challenged to a game of chess. The two of them shared stories of their adventures and their respective family life, Tulip's parents are divorced but love her, whereas Ed's father is absent-minded and easily distracted with his job to even remember he has a daughter. Tulip has pondered that with Ed Walking the Earth to find her home, that perhaps she might've entered the Infinity Train to sort out her issues.
• Finn Mertens was quite interested in learning about the Infinity Train since it sounded similar to a train that trapped him with numerous adventures and bosses for him to kill. Unlike the Infinity Train made to help Tulip deal with her issues, the Dungeon Train slowly transforms people into bosses whom other heroes would kill for loot. While Finn spent two weeks on the Dungeon Train, he was shocked to learn how Tulip was unable to leave home until her number dropped to 0, and it took her five months before she could go home.
• One day, Lake asked Tulip to meet up with some of her friends to eat some sea-salt ice cream. Tulip agreed to visit these friends, which is how she met with the Twilight Town Trio. Out of the three, Tulip ended up bonding with Xion the most, who had the worst experience of the three (she was a puppet who existed to keep Roxas in line and prevent Sora — who she absorbing memories of — from awakening and then she would be completely forgotten by everyone) and consoled how Xion was allowed to move forward. They also bonded over Xion's love for dogs, to which Tulip was happy to tell the tale of one of her friends on the Infinity train, Atticus, King of Corginia and Uniter of the Pembrokes and Cardigans.

Lake

Lake, the Goddess who Abhors Their Nicknames (neé MT/Mirror Tulip, Sliver, Chrome Girl, Null, Dracula 2, Gambit)

• Potential House: Naming and Ephitets (Nicknames and Renames)
• Demigoddess
• Symbol: Her reflection from her own hand.
• Theme: "Cracked Reflection"
• Alignment: Neutral Good with shades of True Neutral
• Portfolio: Mirror Self of Tulip Olsen, Close-Call Haircut that doubles as Important Haircut, wishes to be her own person, her original name is a play on "empty", Hates Being Nicknamed, frustrated that she isn't considered a person, changes her name to distance herself from being a reflection of Tulip, Chrome Champion, Hair-Trigger Temper, her chrome body makes her super durable, flicks someone's forehead in annoyance, The Conscience for Jesse, Children Forced to Kill to defend herself, successfully makes it out of the Train to live in the real world and gains a new name, names herself "Lake" after freely seeing her reflection in a lake after leaving the Train
• Domains: Identity, Rage, Naming, Metal, Mirrors
• Heralds: Jesse Cosay (her closest friend) and Alan Dracula (a deer with superpowers)
• Allies: Xerneas, Rick Deckard, many of the allies of Tulip Olsen (like Gwen Tennyson and Kevin Levin), Megamind, Wyldstyle, WarioWare Inc. (particularly Young Cricket), Cybersix, Gentaro Kisaragi, Ryusei Sakuta, Kamen Rider Club, Tetsu Hoshino and Maetel, Luz Noceda and Amity Blight, Roxas, Xion
• Enemies: Simon Laurent, Dark Meta Knight, Illuso, Takeshi Asakura/Kamen Rider Ouja, Philip Whittlebane
• Other Relationships: Tulip Olsen
• Odd Friendship: Dot Warner, Dark Pit, Rex Dangervest, Heather Mason
• Avoids: Gods who use electricity and magnetism, Claire Stanfield
• Pities: Noah Kaiba
• Some people like it when they have nicknames, some people...don't. Lake (formerly MT) is the latter, as the nicknames reflect her status of being someone else's reflection and never her own person. It also doesn't help that some of the nicknames are very derogatory slurs that denote her as a denizen who could never leave the Train since she has no number. As she tried to figure what she could do to survive the Mirror Cops at her heels, she encountered the denizen and passenger who changed her life forever: Alan Dracula the deer, and Jesse Cosay the passenger. In an attempt to find a way home, MT decided to help Jesse get his (small) number down so that when his door opens, she'll join him...only to learn the hard way that denizens can't get their exits at all. After going through several trials and calling out the Conductor to demand a number, she was given a miracle when Jesse came back for her (his desires to bring MT out of the Train created a Logic Bomb that couldn't be solved) and it was then that MT was able to reflect Jesse's number onto herself tricking the system. One-One agreed to let Lake go on a technicality and she and Jesse returned to Arizona, free to live their own lives. And after all that, she finally decided to choose her name.
  • Was awoken one day to find herself staring at Tulip Olsen, questioning what was going on. The answer came when the Court of the Gods announced the two would be deities...and Lake's just so happened to be in the Nicknames and Renames sub-house. While Lake was initially annoyed with it, she stated that it was better than just being in the House of Hatred; it's too toxic even for her liking.
  • She was amazed to learn that her temple had a beautiful view of the forest and a lake for her to stare at her reflection without fear of being hunted. She can usually be found there, staring at the beauty that is her reflection and being free to live her own life. It was during one of these reflections of herself that she saw someone approaching behind her and immediately pinned them to the ground...only to find that it was none other than Jesse Cosay, her friend. Jesse explained that he was given an invitation to go see Lake and be her herald. Lake's response was to flick her finger on his forehead before hugging him, glad to see him again. She also asked if there was a way for Alan Dracula to be in the Pantheon, but realized that if it took a Loophole Abuse to get her out of he Train, then what would it take to get him out? Her question was answered when Alan Dracula suddenly popped into her temple, chewing grass. Lake shrugged her shoulders and accepted it as a passible outcome.
• Isn't really into Dracula or anyone who bears that name. It's not that she hates the vampire, but rather she just doesn't understand the appeal of her friend Jesse trying to name everyone he comes across as Dracula — even her. She also has to be wary because she's unable to see their reflections on her arms or hands, but is glad that no one is going to try snacking on her because of her metallic skin.
• Her metallic body means that she does not do well with those with electric abilities, so she tends to avoid the House of Electricity when she can. She also makes sure to flee anyone who can use magnetism, since again, she's made of metal. That said, Magneto has known to sympathize with her for her past of being seen as "lesser" and vowed to protect her. Lake awkwardly thanked him for the help.
• After trying, and failing, to find gods who also hated nicknames, she ended up bonding with Dot Warner as she dislikes being called Dottie ("Call me that and you die."). While she's not used to the zaniness of the Warner siblings, she's quite amused in their antics. Another god she's become friends with is Dark Pit, as he was born when Pit crashed through the Mirror of Truth, and both he and Lake are the darker, broodier, black-wearing mirror counterparts to Pit and Tulip who hate their nicknames. Dark Pit couldn't help but smile when he learned how Lake got her happy ending and that her killing the Mirror Cops was "badass". If anyone asks if the two are an item, Lake is quick to flick their forehead.
• While some gods pitied her situation in wanting to be her own person, others pointed out that she was being quite selfish about it, like how she ripped open a pod that had an old man inside it, abandoning him on the top of a random car without any hopes of figuring out what to do, and she tried to steal the number from a girl who mourned her dead pet lizard. Lake put up a defense that she wasn't thinking properly since these two actions came about after she was running for her life when Grace sicced the Mirror Cops on her and she was forced to kill one through grinding of the wheels, but admits that yeah, she was being selfish.
• In contrast to Tulip, Lake will do anything she can to escape her fate, even if it meant killing someone. Claire Stanfield was quite amused to find that he wasn't the only god who used the "grind someone into a gooey paste through the train wheels" trick (and to later have Alan Dracula cause another one to explode with laser vision). L Ake is unsure as to whether or not to take that as a compliment or not and admits that she still felt horrible of what she did even if Mace was an asshole. That said, Claire also swears to protect her from Simon like he would with Tulip, as he finds him an annoying insect.
• Lake was surprised to find Xerneas, a giant deer who was the symbol of life as they reminded her of Alan Dracula, a seemingly normal deer who had a plethora of super powers. Xerneas senses a kind soul within Lake and allows her to watch them bring about life throughout the Pantheon after large fires knocked them down.
• Does not want to be reminded of that time that she had to wear a pair of butterfly wings and a teal wig with pigtails in order to pass through a challenge. In fact, she's really not into being a fashion model and can barely bring the effort to wiggle her arms when asked to. Gods like Rarity have suggested that she can try a new wardrobe instead of her black hoodie and combat boots, but Lake states that she's fine as she is and doesn't need to change. Plus, she honestly doesn't know what she'd look like if she became completely naked.
• Was not happy to learn that Simon Laurent ascended into the Pantheon. When she asked whatever happened to his girlfriend, Grace Monroe, Simon went on a rant over how Grace "betrayed" him, how that "Void" became a total "Null-lover", and that he was better off without her. The truth was that Grace had a Heel–Face Turn and tried to save Simon (before he kicked her into the wheels). Lake still hates Simon, but even she thinks that dying to a Ghom was overkill.
• She has a soft spot for Rick Deckard, even though his job of retiring Replicants was similar to how Mirror Cops tried to kill her. She was glad that he was able to escape that life and reunite with his daughter, although she's also confused as to what's going on with that unicorn dream and whether he's human or a Replicant. Rick himself was never the type to address Replicants with the slur of "skinjobs" and was relieved that Lake could find her own path without any cops chasing her.
• As she's also been questioned about what she would do once she made it out of the Train, Megamind has become her personal advisor on figuring out what to do with what she has been given. He's tried giving her many devices, like a watch that allows her to look like a human via holograms. Lake has politely declined the watch as she's learn to accept herself in her own skin, although she thanks for the effort. The Cutie Mark Crusaders have also worked to help her find a new purpose outside of helping passengers who need a bit of a wake-up call when they're dithering.
• Since she named herself after staring at herself in a lake, Lake herself loves exploring the Water and Moisture sub-house, as she can finally stare at her reflection without fear of the Mirror Cops teleporting without destroying her. She's also learned about how there are gods who can actually travel through mirrors/reflective surfaces, specifically the Kamen Rider Ryuki deities. Shinji Kido once asked if it was possible for him to travel through her body. Her response? To flick him across the forehead and tell him he was an idiot to even suggest that. That said, she admits that it's better Shinji than the likes of Takeshi Asakura/Kamen Rider Ouja doing that; Lake hates to admit that Ouja makes Simon look like a schoolyard bully. Speaking of villainous mirror travelers, she despises Illuso since his Stand allows him to not only travel through mirrors but also makes him invisible, although she thinks his death to Purple Haze was gruesome.
  • She has disgust for Dark Meta Knight since he was trapped in a mirror and his bitterness was the cause of Queen Sectonia's fall into darkness. The fact that he chooses to serve a greater evil yet also willingly allied with his arch-hemesis baffles her (until she was clarified that it was more of an Enemy Mine siuation and Dark Meta Knight was working solely to get more power). She does make sure to keep quiet on how he's a Terrible Artist though.
• Lake is weirded out by frog deities, because it reminded her of the Toad Car, in which the only way out was to kick Terrence the Toad. While she would never kick any of them (mainly because some of these frog deities can and will kick her ass if she tries), she tends to stay away from them if need be. The god that weirded her out the most is Frog, who is a human cursed to take on a froggy appearance. Talking toads/frogs are one thing. Humanoid frogs are another.
• She's considered the Distaff Counterpart to Rex Dangervest, both of them rejected and decided to alter their names and appearances to seem "edgy", but Lake only did so to find her own person and to leave the Train, while Rex was willing to destroy his old world due to feeling abandoned in an event called "Armamagedden". Yes, Lake has done some cruel things but not to Rex's extent. She couldn't help but laugh when she learned how Rex used a sharpie to give him stubble, but then again Rex quickly pointed out that she used black spray paint for her outfit (although she justifies it because she had to hide her identity from the Mirror Cops at the time plus painting something black makes it harder for the Mirror Cops to jump out), As for Emmet, she can't help but like his cheery attitude and love of songs, since it's a reminder of Jesse and how his kindness and determination to come back for her is what made her get a happy ending.
  • She gets along with Wyldstyle fairly well as both of them wear black to stand out from their old identities and also went through different names before settling for one that fit them well (with Wyldstyle going back to her old name as "Lucy" and Lake settling on Lake). Funnily enough, Lake finds it amusing that Wyldstyle is embarrassed about her being one of the original singers of "Everything is Awesome" as it reminds her of how Tulip is embarrassed over singing "Word Up". She was also shocked to learn that Wyldstyle was indirectly responsible for Rex's plan by wishing Emmet was tougher to their new apocalyptic world, in contrast to her only chewing out Jesse for how he deliberately let his little brother get injured but learned to like his positive and dorky personality.
• Heather Mason was one goddess who ended up terrified of Lake, due to Heather's spectrophobia. Her reflection was sentient and knows everything she did whenever she looked in a mirror or reflective surface? Lake explained that reflections only become sentient if you entered a specific car on the Infinity Train, so Heather calmed down from that. They became friends due to them learning to separate themselves from their pasts, Lake from being seen as a reflection of Tulip and Heather being the reincarnation of Alessa Gilespie, and also find it amusing that they went the opposite direction in fashion (Lake shaved her hair and wears black, Heather dyes her hair and wears white). Lake shuddered when she learned about Silent Hill, supposedly a city where you are to confront your inner darkness before you're given a chance to leave, especially that of Pyramid Head since she did do some horrible things (killing Mace being her biggest one and feeling guilty for doing so). Despite having a metal body, Pyramid Head won't stop until his target dies or she moves on from her actions.
• As someone who tried to switch places with another in order to escape, Lake hates those who do the same thing and get away with it. One god who had a change of heart was Noah Kaiba, who was stuck in a virtual world after being rendered comatose and was willing to not only brainwash Mokuba into being a shield against Seto, but would eventually try to swap places with the boy to escape. That said, she can't help but pity Noah due to him living under the thumb of an asshole of a father or how he was stuck living with characters who could only repeat the same lines over and over again since even she would've lost it.
• Tulip has tried to bring Lake along to meet up with the deities she's befriended. Aside from Pit, Lake has found a kinship with Gwen Tennyson and Kevin Levin, who don't find it weird that she's a reflection given how Gwen is actually an alien and Kevin can absorb matter to become stone, metal, even rubber. Lake also learned of the threat that is Michale Morningstar and was relieved that her metallic nature means he can't drain her life force. She's also met up with Steven Universe and the Crystal Gems, with Steven's positive attitude reminding her so much of Jesse Cosay. Out of the Crystal Gems, she gets along the best with Amethyst the most, since both of them have a similar fashion sense and also felt like that they were defects from those around them. She's also gained another Odd Friendship with Peridot; despite Peridot being capable of magnetism, MT also sees how Peridot has suffered from the suppression of the Great Diamond Authority. She does have massive respect for Peridot telling Yellow Diamond off for being a Know-Nothing Know-It-All.
  • Lake dislikes how Tulip loves coding games, but she begrudgingly joined Tulip to a coding session with the WarioWare employees. She has to admit that the kids who work there — Ashley, Kat and Ana, Lulu, 9-Volt and 18-Volt — are definitely better than The Apex (Who destroy and crush anyone who stands in their way). She also does not want to admit that she likes being around Young Cricket. When asked why she finds him interesting, she flicked the questioner on the head and said something of the lines of him having a familiar voice.
  • Another set of gods whom Lake bonded with were Luz and Amity. The two of them understood Lake's stance of not being her own person, as they have numerous friends who aren't "human": there was Vee, a basilisk who was experimented on for Philip Whittlebane/Emperor Belos' draining spell, and Hunter, who was actually a clone of Philip's brother, Caleb. Luz and Amity told Lake that she deserves to be seen as a human, causing Lake to shed a single tear in being accepted. She also finds Belos to be an absolute douchebag to the third degree and couldn't help but smirk when Philip ended up meltig from the Boiling Isles' acid rain before being stomped to death.
• Found herself seeing Cybersix as a big sister figure since Cybersix also has had philosophical debates on whether or not she's human, wears black while on the job, goes under a different name, and the Ship Tease between Cybersix and Luis is similar to that of Lake and Jesse. Lake has decided to work with Cybersix to fight off the Fixed Ideas, since her metallic skin makes her withstand hits than a normal human can't.
• Lake was invited to have a trip on the moon by Gentaro Kisaragi, to which she didn't have to wear a suit since she was metal, and ended up hanging out with his friends. Gentaro's friendly attitude and optimism was infectious, but she was shocked to learn that he died by the hands of Ryusei Sakuta if it'll bring his best friend back (it did, but Jiro went back to a coma when he learned how far Ryusei would go). Gentaro told her that Ryusei has atoned and it's all water under the bridge. Lake also found herself becoming pals with Shun Daimonji, a quarterback who was pressured by his father to be on top by any means necessary. Shun states that he's not proud of that side of him and wishes to be better.
• Isn't really interested in the other trains in the Pantheon, but she found herself becoming friends with Tetsuo Hoshino and Maetel, particularly since Maetel was trying to fight against the system of her home where people can swap their bodies for cybernetics. Lake shuddered at the idea of people wanting to become some sort of mechanized machine and finds it to be overkill.
• When asked to look up some friends in her House, someone suggestined to meet up with some nobodies eating sea salt ice cream. So she followed the instructions to find three people sharing sea salt ice cream, but didn't understand the meaning of "nobodies" until the female of the trio, Xion, explained that a Nobody is the body and soul of someone who lost their heart. In the case of Xion and Roxas, they were the Nobodies of Sora (albeit Xion's identity was based off of Kairi). Both Roxas and Kairi were seen as puppets for Master Xehanhort, but slowly obtained their own hearts and identites with Xion having to be completely forgotten by everyone until sometime later. Lake has comforted Xion by stating that she is her own person now and nothing can take that away. She then asked if Xion is going to change her name, but Xion refused given that she was the Goddess with the title of Meaningful Name for a reason.
• "I'm Lake."

Cotton Cookie and Sherbet Cookie

Cotton Cookie and Sherbet Cookie, Deities Pleading For Their Loved Ones to Stay (Cotton Cookie: Granny Cotton Cookie, Cookie with the Lantern | Sherbet Cookie: Frost Child/Spirit, Child, [A Little] Sugar Plum, Water Drop Cookie, Old Friend, The spirit cookie who travels with snow)

• Rank: Demigoddess (Cotton Cookie) and Lesser God (Sherbet Cookie, originally Quasideity)
• Symbol: Cotton Cookie's lantern and Sherbet Cookie's staff with a cotton ball pin between them. Alternatively, a tree decorated with lanterns.
• Theme Song: "When the Snow Feels Warm" (A Capella version)
• Alignment: Neutral Good (Both)
• Portfolio:
  • Both of them: Childhood Friends, both of them based off of Gerda and Kai from The Snow Queen, the love for each other helps Sherbet Cookie be reborn, the two vow to see each other again and finally reunite after decades
  • Cotton Cookie: associated with sheep and uses them for attacks, Light Is Good, Braving the Blizzard for her friend, waits for her friend to return from his adventures before she grows stale, Make sure nothing stops her seeing Sherbet Cookie again and vows to protect him from the Frost Witch, crumbles on seeing her friend die in her arms, still wears Sherbet's cotton pin.
  • Sherbet Cookie: Initially Delicate and Sickly, faded away into snow but reborn as a Frost Spirit who doesn't age, Icy Blue Eyes, emulates Jack Frost, Mystical White Hair, fires a volley of ice shards, fades away into snow in his friend's arms, Scarf of Asskicking, leaves Cotton Cookie to travel Earthbread, Walking Spoiler
• Domains: Winter, Snow, Friendship, Rebirth, Love, Light, Nature, Separation, Reunion
• Herald: Frost Queen Cookie (Sherbet Cookie's boss)
• Followers: TK and Nanno
• Allies: Each Other, Jack Frost, Princess Anna, Elsa, Olaf, Jack and Annie, Peter Pan, Tinkerbell, Pinkie Pie, Gentaro Kisaragi, Carl Fredricksen, numerous Disney deities, Frosty the Snowman, Sora, Kairi,
  • Cotton Cookie only: Ezalor, Palutena, Danielle Baptiste, the Guardians of the Northern Lights, Lucy Heartfilia, Shaun the Sheep, Hop, Rose DeWitt Bukater, Wreck-it Ralph,
  • Sherbet Cookie only: Hermes, Takumi Aldini, Cirno, The Groke, Smokey the Bear, Fujin, Rashid, Hestia, Scootaloo, Shiva, Tidus, Yuna, The Snow Miser, Avatar Aang, Katara, Sokka
• Enemies:
  • Both: Prince Hans Westergard, The Heartless, The Radiance
  • Cotton Cookie only: Gods who fall under Light Is Not Good, Dawn Bellweather
• Avoids: Almost every God with a Sweet Tooth, Fire deities, Chirin (Cotton Cookie only), Arthas Menthril/The Lich King
• Conflicting Opinion: Witches, Sora Shiunin
• Pities: Madoka Kaname and Homura Akemi, Victor Fries, Kolin, The Ice King
• Once upon a time in a snowy village, there were two little cookie friends — Cotton Cookie and Sherbet Cookie. Sherbet Cookie had fallen ill and Cotton went out of her way to see him. There were rumors that he would be whisked away by the Frost Witch, but Cotton Cookie vowed to her friend that she'd save him no matter what. Unfortunately, Sherbet was called away by the Frost Queen at night, but that didn't stop Cotton Cookie from following him into the snow. Tragically, the truth came to light that Sherbet Cookie was a Frost Child, one who was fated to become one with the snow. Even with Cotton Cookie grabbing a rare flower to prolong his life, he ended up fading away in her arms while she pleaded for him to stay. However, her love for her friend granted a miracle — he became revived as a Frost Spirit, free to roam the land at his leisure. Sherbet Cookie asked for Cotton Cookie to join him, but she declined. Instead, she waited for him in their snowy village, where lanterns are strewn on the tree as a sign that says how she waits for him. Years passed as Cotton Cookie grew into a grandmother and Sherbert Cookie traveled the world to fix the balance of nature. Yet Cotton Cookie waited and waited until the day Sherbet Cookie finally renited with his friend, ready to tell her stories of everything he's seen.
• One cold winter's evening, the elderly Cotton Cookie fell asleep by the fire before she suddenly awoke to seeing Sherbet Cookie telling her to take his hand. They were off to fly towards a wonderful place where they could have endless adventures. She was unsure until she saw a vision of Frost Queen Cookie telling her that she earned this. Seeing herself returning to her youthful appearance, she and Sherbet flew above the sky until they landed at the Gates of the Pantheon. Sherbet Cookie explained that the two had been given an invitation to be deities together, so now they'll never be apart. Cotton Cookie just sobbed in her friend's arms while Sherbet made a gentle snowfall between them. They became the deities of Pleading for their loved ones to stay when they learned how other deities wept at their tragic farewell scene. Their temple is a recreation of Sherbet Cookie's house along with a tree covered in numerous lanterns and a perpetual snowfall. There are also numerous sheep that frolic in the snow to keep Cotton company when Sherbet has to make his rounds to deliver a snowfall.
• The two always dreamed of traveling the world together through the books that they've read, so the two spend plenty of time in the House of Knowledge gathering as many books as they can to learn about new and exciting places. This is how they met with Jack and Annie, who have a treehouse that lets them travel into books with a simple wish. The two are allowed to visit the Magic Tree House to read from the numerous books inside but do not wish to enter them without permission. They are also excited to learn there's an entire House that is based off of Travel and are planning to spend an entire month traveling with each and every deity there. One god they befriended was Carl Fredricksen, who grew up marrying his Childhood Friend and planned to travel to Paradise Falls together before Ellie died of illness. Carl was able to fulfill their promise to have an adventure in Paradise Falls before moving forward with his life. He hopes for the best for Cotton Cookie when it is her time to go, and is interested to hear all of Sherbet Cookie's stories of his adventures across Earthbread.
• Upon learning of heralds, Cotton and Sherbert Cookie decided that Frost Queen Cookie should have that role. After all, it is thanks to Frost Queen that the two were able to be reunited and Sherbet was allowed to travel the world without his sickness weighing him down. Frost Queen was unsure of this kindness since she was only following her duty as a guardian of Nature, but eventually accepted it.
• The first god the two met was the god who gave Sherbet Cookie the idea to ascend the duo together: Jack Frost. Jack understood the pain Cotton Cookie had upon losing her closest friend, as it reminded him of how he sacrificed himself to save his little sister, and how he had to watch her mourn for him. Jack can't help but find Cotton and Sherbet to be adorable and question if they ever thought of ever becoming something more. Cotton Cookie admits that, in truth, her place was to stay in their village while Sherbet was always destined to leave her for a faraway land.
  • Other ice-theme deities they met were sisters Anna and Elsa, alongside Olaf. Anna and Cotton Cookie love to discuss how it was true love that saved Elsa and Sherbet Cookie — Anna taking a sword from Hans Westergard instead of being revived by True Love's Kiss while Cotton's tear and her determination to save Sherbet let Sherbet be reborn — while Olaf loves to talk about Sherbet Cookie on all they have seen now that they don't have to worry about melting. Speaking of Hans, Cotton is furious on how Hans would manipulate love to his advantage whereas Sherbet's first action was to throw a volley of ice shards at the prince.
• They are terrified to learn how many gods who are known to like sweets, which includes cookies. Number one on their list of deities to avoid is none other than the titular Cookie Monster. Thankfully, the other Sesame Street deities are quick to reign him in if his appetite gets the better of him. One goddess they hang around with is Pinkie Pie as she is known to take promises seriously, crying a waterfall over how they vow to see each other again. She decided to host a party in honor of them reuniting, bringing in many of her friends as well. One friend of hers was Gentaro Kisaragi, who also cried a waterfall over their friendship since it reminded him so much of his relationship with Nadeshiko Misaki (only difference is that Nadeshiko travels through space than the world) Sherbet Cookie is downright terrified of Stocking Anarchy. Not only due to her being an angel (actually a demon) with a voracious appetite of sweets, but something about her voice just sends shivers down is spines. And not the good shivers.
• The gods they are terrified of the most are witches. This is because witches are essentially the creators in their world who make cookies to be eaten. Naturally, not all witches are about bringing cookies to life only to be devoured, but Cotton Cookie and Sherbet Cookie still can't help but be wary of being on someone's dinner plate.
• They were surprised to learn how many deities have been in their shoes before, some who end up Happily Ever After, some who end up separated for good. An example of the latter came from Madoka Kaneme and Homura Akemi, as Homura kept rewinding time in order to save Madoka and destroy Walpurgisnacht, only to have Madoka make a wish to not only destroy all witches, but also made her become a deity. Homura was broken from this decision, even trying to fighting off Wratis with a bow and arrow like Sherbet throws ice shards, but the way she tried to keep Madoka from leaving her was wrong. Even if it hurt Cotton Cookie, she knew that Sherbet's destiny was to be free, yet she can't help but wonder if she'd end up like Homura herself to keep Sherbet with her. Sherbet Cookie himself shudders at the idea of having his powers taken away.
• Unfortunately, while there are many characters associated with ice who are lively and cheerful, there are just as many who are filled with tragedy. Victor Fries is one such god who the two cookies pity, since he wanted to do all he could to heal his wife Nora, but was turned into a monster who can't survive without his special suit. Sherbet Cookie was lucky since Cotton Cookie's love has given him the ability to keep a form that won't melt so easily, but Victor saw this as a curse, due to him never being able to be with Nora due to unfortunate circumstances. Cotton Cookie worries sometimes if her love of Sherbet Cookie could turn her into a villain like Mr. Freeze.
  • Kolin is another goddess whom the two feel sorrow for. While Cotton Cookie lost her friend, Kolin lost everything — her home, friends, family, even her name — and was ready to die in the snow without any hope. She was saved...by Gill, who vowed to create a land where there would be no need for war, along with giving her the name she has now. The two know that she's working for evil, but also can understand the situations that would drive her to join Gill in creating his utopia.
  • Then there was the Ice King, who was really a normal man named Simon Petrikov, who lost someone important to him (Betty) and then gained ice powers after obtaining a crown. And said crown was put on his head to sacrifice someone he loved. The two were glad to see that Simon was able to return to his normal self, and come to visit his temple to keep him company. Sherbet Cookie is hoping to learn the art of Fridjitzu. Speaking of ninja arts, this would later spur them to learn of the Ninjago ninjas, particularly the White/Titanium Ninja Zane. Zane was actually a robot who would eventually outlive his creator and father figure, and ended up sacrificing himself to save the city (before it was revealed he survived). Cotton Cookie tends to knit a few scarves for Zane and his friends while Sherbet has training with the ninjas to better harness his ice powers.
• For as much as she accepts that Sherbet Cookie and her were meant to live separate lives, a part of Cotton Cookie wishes to fly alongside her friend. One day, she met up with a glowing fairy who sprinkled her in glowing gold dust. Seconds later, she was able to fly just by thinking about it. As she got used to this freedom, she met up with Peter Pan, the boy who never grew up. He had befriended Sherbet Cookie over how they were The Ageless and wanted to bring fun and joy to everyone and invited Sherbet Cookie for some adventures in Pleasure Island. Sherbet agreed, although she's made sure to steer clear of the Lost Boys who tried to devoure her at first sight. Tinkerbell has also given her a bag of pixie dust so Cotton can fly wherever she wants, while Cotton Cookie has knitted her a few sweaters so she doesn't get cold. Also, for some odd reason, whenever Peter Pan and Tinkerbell enter her and Sherbet Cookie's temple, they have cookie forms.
  • It turns out, there were a lot of Disney deities who have cookie forms due to a magical storybook that allows the Disney deities to maintain a Cookie form so long as they stay within the vicinity of Cotton and Sherbet Cookie's temple. The two were awed to learn of their numerous adventures and the love they shared with one another. They've made plans to visit the temples and share amazing memories together, like dance with Belle and the Beast, take a magic carpet ride with Aladdin and Jasmine, or even meet with Stitch's family in his and Lilo's temple. These ties to the Disney Cookies lead Cotton and Sherbet to the likes of Sora and his friends, since Sora was once heralded as a God of Light before he went through numerous house changes. Unfortunately, Sora had been taken far away to who knows where, but his friends know that he will return soon enough.
  • The Cookies' story reminded Yuna of how she and Tidus were also separated, since Tidus was a dream of the Fayth and when they went away so would he. Tidus told Yuna that all she had to do was Just Whistle and he would come back as soon as possible, just like Cotton Cookie strung lanterns on a tree to guide Sherbet Cookie back to their village. Cotton Cookie is amazed to learn of Yuna's summoning magic, particularly that of Shiva, and feels a bit ashamed that all she can do is just summon sheep into battle. Yuna reassured her that just like she is friends with those she has summoned, Cotton Cookie also cares for her sheep as well. Tidus sympathized with Sherbet over learning how they weren't actually "human" and how they became resurrected through the love and determination of both Yuna and Cotton Cookie.
• Cotton Cookie only:
  • While Cotton Cookie isn't a fighter, she has the ability to summon sheep and also granting a temporary attack boost and healing. This has made her a great support character, which is greatly appreciated when it comes to traversing the more dangerous parts of the Pantheon. When not fighting or exploring the Pantheon, Cotton Cookie mostly spends her time making deliveries to deities alongside her sheep. She also is good at knitting, so she makes care packages of hats, scarves, mittens, even adorable kittens.
  • She learned of the House of Light and Brightness and decided to see if she can meet some friends there. Needless to say, she was horrified to learn that many gods of the light AREN'T as altruistic as she is. She was thankfully taken in by Ezalor, who saw her as a shining light in the dark, and how one person can give hope and life to others. As a symbol of her being an honored member in the House of Light and Brightness, he gifted her a lantern that never darkens so she can continue being a warm yellow light to guide others home. Another goddess whom she's become fascinated by is Satsuki Kiriyuin for her ability to summon a shimmering light behind her akin to a battle flag. Satsuki can't help but admit that she has a soft spot for the cookie, as her kindness and energy reminds her of Mako.
    • If there's one god of Light whom she hates, it would be the Radiance. The Radiance created a zombie army all because she was forgotten by the populace which is in heavy contrast to Cotton Cookie creating a tradition of hanging lanterns as a rememberance of loved ones and to have people's wishes come true. The actions of the Radiance would be like if she bred an evil herd of sheep just because Sherbet Cookie forgot about her. The Radiance pays no mind to the Cookie with the Lantern, as the light Cotton Cookie shines pales in comparison to hers. The Light of Destruction is just as bad, given how it corrupts people and turns disciples into mindless white-wearing cultists.
  • While in the House of Magic one day, Cotton Cookie was suddenly surrounded by a large ball of wool which was the softest she's ever felt. She was then picked up by a girl with pink hair and sheep horns apologizing for hurting the cookie, to which Cotton Cookie didn't mind since she's been through worse with her sheep. Regardless, the sheep girl asked if there was someway to make up for the attack, which is then Cotton Cookie met up with a girl with blond hair and a collection of keys. Turns out that was Lucy Heartfilia, and the one who covered her in wool was the Celestial Spirit, Aries. Cotton Cookie was amazed to find how Aries is associated with sheep and that her wool magic could be so potent and how Lucy was so dedicated to fighting alongside her Celestial spirits and keeps her promises to them seriously. The two also bonded with how they lost someone important to them — Aquarius for Lucy, Sherbet Cookie for Cotton — but eventually found a way to be reunited. That and Lucy vowed to find a Celestial key for Cotton to summon a Celestial Spirit so she doesn't have to rely on her sheep all the time.
  • If there is one sheep Cotton Cookie refuses to go near, it's Chirin. Chirin was once an adorable sheep who turned into a monster thanks to Wor's training, who eventually became ostracized by his flock and then died. Chirin refuses to be given pity by the likes of a shepherd like her, but Cotton Cookie still tries to get closer to him, if only to show him that there are others who can give him love, and that even the tiniest bit can change others for the better. That said, she has no pity on Dawn Bellweather, a sheep who despises predators and engineered a Hate Plague so she can keep herself in power. It's one of the few times that Cotton Cookie was angry at someone. Thankfully, she's found Shaun to live to the trope of Sweet Sheep, and he usually has Cotton Cookie partake in any fun activities he and his flock get into.
  • Lucy wasn't the only one who had a sheep partner. Cotton Cookie met Hop after nearly being steamrolled by his Dubwool. The Pokemon Trainer was surprised to find a talking Cookie, even though many Pokemon in his world are based off of food. Nevertheless, he enjoys Cotton Cookie's company and allows her to use Dubwool as transportation when he isn't busy. Cotton Cookie is glad that he's found his purpose in life to help others.
  • Cotton Cookie bonded with Rose DeWitt Butaker over how they had to be separated from their loved ones but promised to live full and happy lives because of it. She wept a storm when she learned of the tragedy of the Titanic, and how an iceberg caused the deaths of thousands of people. Rose has been consoling Cotton over how Sherbet Cookie will outlive her, but vows that he will never forget her kindness and love.
  • Out of all the gods she ended up befriending, it was Wreck-it Ralph. This is due to how Ralph went through his own crisis with his friend, Vanellope von Schweetz, and was frustrated of having to be separated from her. So frustrated that a virus he obtained somehow mutated into a giant version of him that nearly broke the Internet. However, he came to terms with his feelings and let Vanellope be on her way, promising that the two are still friends. Cotton Cookie understands that feeling of staying behind while their friend travels the world, but it doesn't mean they stop being friends. Ralph has vowed to wreck anything in her path...when he's not on the clock, of course.
• Sherbet Cookie only:
  • Sherbet's role as a Frost Spirit is to summon a snowfall when winter arrives and to also travel across Earthbread to send messages to the other Guardians of Nature. This lead him to becoming allies with Hermes, who is also the messenger in his Pantheon. Hermes was touched with Sherbet Cookie's story and decided to give the cookie a costume to emulate Hermes himself. He also became friends with Hestia, since her role as Goddess of the Hearth is also similar to that of Cotton Cookie and her lantern, along with having a warm and kind personality which is loved by all. Sherbet Cookie likes to bring Cotton Cookie to her temple to relax around the fire and taste some of home cooking.
  • Sherbet Cookie's body can withstands most temperatures, but he tends to avoid any deity who can control fire just in case. He can also use his snow to help put out fires, if need be. This makes him a good ally to Smokey the Bear, who takes forest fire prevention very seriously. It also helps that Sherbet Cookie also checks out what goes on with the balance of life energy being out of whack, akin to preserving the natural ecosystem.
  • Surprisingly has a friendship with Takumi Aldini, due to the Italian chef being loud and bombastic like Sherbet is capable of making puns despite being an ageless frost spirit. Also helps that Takumi is very close to his little brother like Sherbet is with Cotton, and they both have blue eyes and similar voices. Takumi has asked Sherbet to use some of his ice powers to help with his cooking, and in return, Sherbet always gets free samples of Takumi's food to bring home to Cotton Cookie.
  • Ended up finding another kindred spirit in Cirno, as she's also a frost spirit like him. When they first met, Cirno boasted that she was much more powerful than a mere cookie, to which Sherbet Cookie saw as a challenge. The two threw frost and ice at one another before Sherbet won by summoning a giant blizzard on Cirno's head. Cirno vowed to have her revenge on the cookie the next time they met, to which Sherbet laughed and accepted the challenge.
  • Learned of The Groke, a tragic figure who causes things to freeze with a single touch. Sherbet Cookie flew towards her and told him that he understood her pains, as he himself was destined to fade away like snowflakes were it not for Cotton Cookie's love for him. The Groke hopes to be able to find a warmth inside her like Sherbet Cookie, but is happy to have another kindred spirit keeping her company.
  • While Sherbet Cookie is associated with ice, he also has the elements of wind as well, since he uses he the winds to travel across the land and to spread gentle snowfalls. This means he became allies with the likes of Fujin, a God of Wind who is an All-Loving Hero and has a soft spot for mortals. He silently wept when he learned of Sherbet Cookie's farewell to his friend, along with the implications that Sherbet will outlive Cotton Cookie, but Sherbet Cookie vows that Cotton will always be in his heart, and he will use his powers to protect the world that she never got to explore. Fujin is willing to summon winds for Sherbet to fly across the Pantheon, along with enjoying the beauty of the snow which he summons whenever he visits the Wind and Air Sub-house. Another Wind got Sherbet Cookie befriended was Rashid, as Rashid went to the ends of the Earth to rescue his friend...but was too late and watched as FANG melted her into acid. Thankfully, Rashid received a message from his friend telling him to move forward and to save the world, which he did. Sherbet Cookie stated that even if he never knew about this friend (not even her name), she was a brave soul to risk her life to save everyone.
  • As someone who was ill all the time before becoming a Frost Child, Sherbet is sympathetic to those who are incapable of following their dreams due to physical handicaps. One of these gods he befriended was Scootaloo, a pegasus who would never be able to fly because of her smaller wings. That said, Scootaloo learned that this gave her one advantage — it lets her ride her scooter at rapid speeds than usual. Sherbet was also glad that Scootaloo and her friends found a calling to help others find their purpose in life, like Sherbet's purpose was to protect the life force of the world and spread joy through his snow. The two of them love having races across the Pantheon, with Scootaloo hoping to improve her scooter so it also works on snow.
  • Sherbet Cookie was flying one day when he nearly got run over by a young boy speeding by. Riding a sphere of air. He decided to follow them in curiosity, only to nearly be swatted out of the sky a boomerang. Thankfully, he was caught just in time by a gust of air and taken to be healed. This is how Sherbet Cookie met with Aang and his allies, Katara and Sokka. Sherbet Cookie was amazed to learn how people in their world can bend the elements; something that only super powerful cookies in his world can do. Even more, Aang can bend air, water, and also earth and fire, while Katara can turn water into ice. Upon learning that Aang is the Avatar, who helps bring about the balance to the world, Sherbet Cookie vowed to be by Aang's side since he's also a messenger who keeps an eye on an imbalance of the natural energy of the world as well. He's hoping to learn more ice abilities alongside Katara and finds Sokka's jokes to be hilarious. Cotton Cookie also understands Sokka's pain over how Yue died and became reborn as the moon, but that Yue will always remember him even after he's passed on.
  • If there's one god that terrifies Sherbet, it's Arthas Menthril. He is a man of ice who can control spirits, meaning Sherbet Cookie might fall under his domain. Arthas, for his part, does not think a mere cookie is worthy in his army.
• "I'll light the way!" (Cotton Cookie)
  • "Winter is approaching!" (Sherbet Cookie)

Sara Berry

Whoa, down on your knees before the queen.
Whoa, down on your knees before the queen.

Sara Berry, Goddess Who Unleashes Chaos at the School Prom (A Popular Bitch, Queen of Highschool Land)

• Potential House: Celebration, Sub-House: Killjoys and Griefers and School, Sub-House: School Activities
• Approvals: 4 (ForgoLight, Excessive-Menace, rmpdc, Necromancer10), Expected Ascension: February 1st, 2024.
• Quasideity
• Theme: "The Ballad of Sara Barry"
• Symbol: A bouquet of roses covered in blood alongside a similarly bloodied Prom sash, scepter, and crown. Alternatively the photo which inspired her song.
• Alignment: True Neutral normally, Chaotic Evil during Prom
• Portfolio: Academic Alpha Bitch who is also loaded, Cruel Cheerleader, Will do everything she can to become prom queen, has an abusive father, loses her mind as prom queen becomes further and further away, kills six Prom Queen candidates in order to get rid of the competition, "crowns" herself queen but gets to enjoy it for a brief moment is swiftly arrested for her massacre and ends up in an asylum trapped in her delusion believing she's queen of High School Land, goes from the most popular girl at school to a lunatic, refuses to end up as a princess at prom, Villain Protagonist, Murder Ballad
• Domains: High School, Riches, Cheerleaders, Prom, Massacre, Insanity, Delusions, Envy
• High Priestess: Mary Lou
• Allies: Biff Tannen, Libbie Chessler, The Evil Queen, Hera, Kotonoha Katsura, Eliza and Neil Reagan, Princess Morebucks, Azula, Kimmy Howell
• Enemies:
  • Many Gods in the House of School. Particularly: The Kamen Rider Club (especially Kengo Utahoshi, Miu Kazashiro and Shun Daimonji), Kim Possible, The Equestria Girls, and The Breakfast Club (Claire Standish in particular),
  • Others: Mima Kirigoe, Nina Sayers, Juliet Starling, Ron Stoppable, Marinette Dupain-Chang and Adrien Agreste, Mai, Ty Lee, Ozai, Gentaro Kisaragi, Ryusei Sakuta, Luz Noceda and Amity Blight, Bad Girl, Travis Touchdown, The Phantom Thieves of Hearts, Sam, Clover, and Alex
• Despises: Disabled gods (particularly those who lost their legs)
• Evil Counterpart to: Charlotte LaBouf, Suzune Horikita
• Pities: Carrie White, Pacifica Northwest
• Pitied by: Sunset Shimmer, Iroh
• Sara Berry was the atypical Alpha Bitch complete with the hot body, hot guy, being the leader of the cheer team, and loaded. But all of that changed when a classmate named Julie Jenkins gained everyone's attention for having lost a leg in a car crash. Sara didn't see anything important about her until Prom Queen nominations came rolling in. Sara was a shoe-in for queen...until the gossip spread across the school that Julie might be crowned queen out of a Pity Vote. This didn't settle well with Sara's father, who told her that there would be nothing for her if she didn't win the crown and that she'd be an utter disappointment to her mother. Thus begins Sara's journey to do all she can to become Prom Queen...by any means necessary.
  • Unfortunately, no matter what Sara did, Julie always was one step ahead of her. She pushed away everyone — her clique, cheerleading squad, and boyfriend — to focus on her goal, only for her friends to shun her and her boyfriend giving a final text stating he'll take Julie to the prom. With her sanity hanging by a thread, Sara had the most evilest plan of all...if there are seven other candidates vying for the crown, why not kill them so that there's no more competition and she'll win by default? And on the night of the Prom, she unleashed a murder spree, killing six other girls in gruesome ways — poisoned punch, slamming a rock on another girl's head, drowning a third, and dismembering a fourth — before the cops pulled her away. Not that she cared at that point, crowning herself Prom Queen. Ultimately she was taken into asylum where she will spend the rest of her life in her delusions.
• In the midst of her delusions, Sara was wheeled out of the asylum and into the light...where the Court of the Gods announced that she was to be deified as the Goddess who Unleashes Chaos at Prom. Sara responded by laughing in glee for she was no longer a queen, but a Goddess. Never mind that she was merely a quasideity, but that meant that she could finally show her father that she made it. In exchange for her godhood, Sara has to take mandatory counseling and have a bodyguard with her at all costs. Regardless, Sara was ecstatic to know that she was a goddess in two houses, something she's quick to brag to everyone around her.
  • There is one blessing about everyone being deities though; should Sara kill one of them, they return to their temple without any harm done. Plus, now that gods know about her most famous act, there's no way Sara can go on another killing spree without causing attention. Sara has conceded and decided that she's going to become Prom Queen the "proper" way.
• Naturally, the House of School is quite wary about her reputation. Even the most sadistic teachers find her acts to be disgusting. Sure, they're sadists, but they're not killers! The Kamen Rider Club hate her the most, Miu Kazashiro especially. To her, prom is a ceremony that is akin to Passing the Torch, and something that should hold precious memories, particularly with a person who has changed you the most. The same sentiment to hating Sara can be said with Shun Daimonji, who despite being mad that Miu wanted to dance with Gentaro Kisaragi at the prom, let her go because he loved her so much. Sara sees Miu as "opposition" for being the Queen of Amanogawa High three years running, to which Miu coldly responded that she worked for her goal even after she was assaulted by one of her friends, was bandaged and on crutches. She then told Sara to get out before Shun suited up in the Power Dizer.
  Miu: I am Miu Kazashiro, Club President of the Kamen Rider Club. I will not bow to you.
  • Ryusei Sakuta also joined with the hatred since Sara killed six people without remorse and for an utterly petty reason, while he killed Gentaro in a desperate attempt to revive his friend from a coma and even felt horrified at what he accomplished, ready to die for his sins. Gentaro himself also has no kind words to say to her (which is saying something, coming from the guy who forgave the Big Bad of his world who murdered Kengo out of jealousy)!
• Many gods pity her that she only became the way she was due to the pressure of her abusive father telling her to strive for a queen. After all, there's no future for a princess at prom. Many are furious that he ended up without going to jail for his emotional abuse towards his daughter. If Sara would finally have the strength to shut her father up, perhaps she'll get a much happier ending. However, there are a few deities who point out that her backstory doesn't excuse the fact that she still thought of murdering six innocent girls who had no idea of her Sanity Slippage. As for Sara, she refuses to have her father be her Herald, although she did get some satisfaction of sending him a letter stating that she's a Goddess now, and he can't do anything to hurt her anymore.
• As she was cheer captain at her school, she detests the other cheerleading goddesses. Aside from Miu, there was both Kim Possible and Juliet Starling who are also well loved for being cheerleaders. While she can get away with being rich, the three are much more powerful than her: Kim fights bad guys on a weekly basis, Juliet kills zombies with a chainsaw, and Miu knows how to use sci-fi guns and a Mini-Mecha with the Queen Dizer. Sara just grumbled to herself that they'll settle this in a cheerleading competition in the future. She also tried to make a passing jab at Kim going to her prom with her loser friend Ron Stoppable. Kim remarked:
  Kim: At least I have friends who supports me! Didn't you push away your boyfriend aside for the sake of becoming Prom Queen?
  • Even if Juliet is more murderous than she is, Sara thinks Juliet running around with the head of her boyfriend strapped to her waist is weird. Juliet responds that she's only murderous towards zombies, not actual people. And she herself only cut Nick's head off as a way to save him from being zombified, not out of actual malice. Juliet also hates Sara because her envy reminds her of Swan, who decided to unleash a zombie apocalypse all because Juliet was going steady with Nick since Nick actually approached Juliet instead of pining from afar, not to mention that there must've been a good reason for Sara's boyfriend to take Julie to the prom if Sara herself couldn't spend time with him.
  Juliet: There are like, other ways to get attention instead of murdering people. Did you ever use something called your mouth?
  • The Malibu WOOHP agents, Sam, Clover, and Alex, have nothing but ire towards Sara. Not only does she remind them of their rival Mandy, but her crimes are even more heinous than many of the villains they've fought on a daily basis. And for all the things Mandy did to them, even she would never stoop as low as to kill the three.
• Is considered the Evil Counterpart to Charlotte LaBouf. Whereas Sara is a Rich Bitch, Charlotte is Spoiled Sweet. While Sara's father is abusive, Charlotte's is doting. Sara can't stand being a "Princess at Prom" while Charlotte not only is fine being a princess but she wants others to obtain their happiness too, willing to kiss Prince Naveen (who was a frog at the time, long story) if it means her friend, Tiana, gets her happy ending. Charlotte doesn't understand what's wrong with being a Princess since it's every girl's dream of becoming one. Sara just stomped off in annoyance before she grabbed a baseball bat to cave Charlotte's head in.
  • Of course, Sara had competition with the other most notorious Prom Wrecker in Carrie White. However, Sara actually pities Carrie since the girl didn't deserve any of the shit she got from the school, particularly the pig's blood. Her pity isn't just out of pragmatism, due to Carrie's psychic powers slaughtering more people than Sara did by herself, but because Sara understands what it's like to be under the thumb of an abusive parent. Carrie was shocked that Sara of all deities gave sympathy, but Sara notes that when it's time for Prom, she will work hard to become queen once more and Carrie shouldn't solely rely on pity votes. She's also shown to feel sorry for Pacifica Northwest for having to be manipulated via Pavlov's conditioning by her own father, like she is a dog and admits that Pacifica was strong to stand up to her father. Pacifica, for her part, awkwardly thanked Sara for the comment, but also asked that Sara not go and kill her parents.
• She dislikes gods who have one leg because they all remind her of Julie Jenkins, who was only the #1 nomination for Prom Queen out of a pity vote for losing her leg in a car crash. That said, she's picky on who she chooses to assault, particularly those who are in wheelchairs. For example, she stays clear of Nunnally vi Britannia since the girl is not only too young, but attacking her means a direct assault from her older brother. So long as these deities don't get in her way, she can just be indifferent towards them. Bentley Turtle is another crippled god that she dares not badmouth. Not just because of his tech, but because that brings the wrath of the Cooper Gang onto her as well. Another goddess whom Sara stays away from is Cherry Darling, as she not only lost her leg to zombies, but replaced it with a gun. That said, Sara does respect how Cherry survived the mess that was the Zombie Apocalypse of her world.
• For all that she did in murdering the competition, she stays away from the House of Slaughter. She made it a point that she only killed the competition, everyone else were free to leave as they chose (not that it mattered as Sara was so lost in her delusion of being the last contestant). She wants to become Prom Queen the traditional way this time around and will refuse any additional "help" (not that it matters given that Death Is Cheap).
• Surprisingly was given pity by Sunset Shimmer since she was in a similar position of wanting to be queen at all costs, going as far as brainwashing the school populace and sending manipulative texts to her friends. Sara herself noted that was a bit too far, to which Sunset agreed. The Equestria Girls are on the fence over forgiving Sara so quickly, especially since murder is a crime that is far beyond what others have done, like Starlight Glimmer trying to create a tyrannical dictatorship and rewound time to ensure Twilight Sparkle and her friends never got their Cutie Marks solely because she didn't like it when her friend got his own, but Sara has agreed to be neutral towards them at best.
• Naturally, as someone who was jealous of someone else becoming Prom Queen, she ended up becoming allies with the Evil Queen, who would do anything she could to murder Snow White for being "Fairest of them All". Sara did point out that the Evil Queen's plan with the poisoned apple backfired since the potion to make her the apple peddler no longer made her "Fairest of the land" and that she didn't get her hands dirty. The Evil Queen pointed out that Sara's no better — Why not talk to Julie about why being Prom Queen is so important to her? Still, Sara does admit that she'd like to learn potion brewing from the Evil Queen so she can get a leg up against her cheerleading rivals. She also can relate to Mello at being irate in being "second place", but Mello points out that Sara is still a killer at the end of the day.
  • Princess Morebucks is essentially a younger sister of Sara, who is completely spoiled rotten by her dad to the point she can purchase tech that lets her combat the Powerpuff Girls. Princess Morebucks is more than willing to have Sara use some money in order to bolster her chances of being Prom Queen seeing it no different than the time that she became Mayor of Townsville.
• Surprisingly gained an ally with Azula, as both of them were groomed to become who they are today by their abusive fathers and ended up in a mental asylum while trapped in their hallucinations (Sara as Prom Queen and Azula hallucinating her mother hated her). Azula doesn't do friends, but she admits that Sara has the drive and brains to do some damage if she was pushed hard enough. Of course, Sara became the target to Azula's former "friends", Mai and Ty Lee, who were quick to use their knives and pressure-points to knock her down when she tried to approach them. Sara also finds Ozai to be a total piece of shit for taking away Azula's chance to truly be a Fire Lord and then turning her into a puppet ruler. For how horrible Sara's father was, at least he didn't try to take the glory of Prom Queen away from her.
• Tried to find a kin-ship with two other goddesses who also went through mental breakdowns — Mima Kirigoe and Nina Sayers — but both of them refused to associate with her due to her crimes. Mima already had to deal with Me-Mania and her manager trying to take her place to the point that both wanted to murder her solely because she no longer was the squeaky clean idol, while Nina herself felt horrified over the idea of (seemingly) killing Lily and just wants to focus on her craft in ballet. Sara did question to Mima why she tried to save Rumi in the first place, to which Mima answered that she didn't have the heart to see someone murdered and that Rumi "made" her into the actress she is today.
• Amity Blight found her to be utterly disgusting since Sara is a shadow of who she could've been if Luz didn't come into her life. Amity had been horrible to her Childhood Friend, Willow Park, and was even shown to be good in Grugby like Sara was a cheerleader, and both were under the thumb of abusive parents. However, Amity was able to bounce back due to her friends, her siblings, and her father giving support, while Sara pushed everyone away because they were in the way of her being Prom Queen. But for as much as Amity hates her, even she thinks having Sara fighting off the Grometheus in order to confront her mental turmoil is excessive.
• One would think that with their crazy mentalities and distant relationship with their dads, Sara and Bad Girl would become besties. Bad Girl does pity Sara that Sara didn't have a loving relationship with her father, but she still sees Sara as a hypocrite who set her sights way too low in murder and deludes herself to thinking that this will make her "Queen of Highschool Land". Travis Touchdown, however, can't help but feel some sympathy for Sara being fucked up as she is, but refuses to kill her for the reasons that she's a high-school student and he vows to never kill a girl after what happened with Kimmy Howell. Speaking of which, Sara has reached out to Kimmy Howell, and the former schoolgirl turned pop idol decided that Sara should get some practice to really carve up the competition through the use of a beam katana. When Travis heard of this, he only had this to say.
  Travis: Charlotte, give me some of those beers. NOW.
• Of all deities who could relate to Sara, it was Hera. Hera could understand Sara's frustrations of having their lover leave her for another girl, as Hera is stuck with Zeus being a humongous skirt chaser. She's vowed to help protect Sara from her abusive father and to also give her the power to fight back against those who would take away her title as Prom Queen (even if Hera finds it as thinking a bit too small). Naturally, this desire to become Prom Queen and her kill record made Sara the perfect target for the Phantom Thieves of Hearts in helping to steal her treasure. However, there have been concerns that Sara would just retreat into her delusions of being the "Queen of Highschool Land" as she cannot live with the fact that she might become a disappointment to her parents. Phantom Thieves like Ann and Ryuji are unable to decide whether or not to pity her. Yes, Sara living under her abusive father is unfair but it's not an excuse to take it out on innocent people and ruining their lives forever.
  • The other goddess whom Sara has become besties with is Kotonoha Katsura, as they both went off the deep end to remove any competition for their chosen target, the only difference is Kotonoha targets those who wish to target Makoto whereas Sara was eliminating those who prevented her from being Prom Queen. Kotonoha has the utmost respect for how Sara was able to plan six murders in the span of one night, even if she did miss out on killing Julie Jenkins. Meanwhile, Sara has also found it amusing at how Kotonoha and Sekai are considered frenemies for live in regards to their love for Makoto and honestly would like to become a sister figure to the two when it comes to fighting off anyone who gets in the way of their goals.
• She's become wary of Calypso due to his reputation of twisting someone's wish with unexpected results. Given that she just escaped her deluding herself into believing that she was "Queen of High School Land", she's refused to participate in his Twisted Metal tournaments if it granted her heart's desires. Some gods are worried if she will ask Kyubey to make her Prom Queen since that would also mean making a Magical Girl Contract. The last thing needed is for Sara to start another killing spree but being backed up with magic.
• Surprisingly, SpongeBob is terrified of her. When he learned that she was a Prom Wrecker, he thought that they could bond over their own experiences in ruining the prom since he ended up causing trouble when he and Pearl ended up dancing. However, he learned to stay away from her when he learned that her way of wrecking prom was to kill six other girls who were stopping her from being Prom Queen.
• "Check Sara, choose Sara, vote for Sara Berry! Check Sara, choose Sara, vote for Sara Berry!"

Luka Redgrave

Luka Redgrave, God of Belief in Fate Guiding Others To Meet (Cheshire (by Bayonetta), Seeker of Truth, The Divine Journalist, The Marvelous, Magnificent, Magnimous Luka, Strider the Twilight Wanderer, Lukaon, the Wandering King of Twilight, Arch-Adam)

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• Potential House: Prophecy and Fate, Sub-house: Destinies
• Demigod normally (Intermediate God as Strider, presumably Intermediate God as Lukaon)
• Themes:
  • As himself: "Here's Luka"
  • As Strider: "Red Moon" and "Red Lupus"
  • As Lukaon: "Féth Fíada: The Mist of Illusions"
• Symbol: His trademark scarf and grappling hook. As Strider, it becomes the constellation pattern on his chest. As Lukaon, it becomes the Symbol of the Fairies.
• Alignment: Neutral Good, briefly Chaotic Evil as Strider when under the influence of Dark Adam
• Portfolio:
  • As himself: Born Lucky Intrepid Reporter with a Grappling-Hook Pistol, arrives to tip the scales in Bayonetta's favor, Dragged Off to Hell with Bayonetta so she wouldn't be alone in Inferno, Non-Action Guy who Took a Level in Badass, initially hated Bayonetta for (seemingly) killing his father, likes flirting with other women, Distracted by the Sexy, called "Cheshire" by Bayonetta, became a reporter like his father, Tall, Dark, and Handsome, Battle Couple with Bayonetta and later Action Dad, a mortal man hooking up with an Umbral Witch, has an acute sense of smell, "Fate brought us here together, and it will never tear us apart."
  • As Strider: Savage Wolf later turned heroic wolf, initially believing himself to be a monster, Red Eyes, Take Warning, literal Papa Wolf,
• Domains: Fate, Journalism, Investigations, Truth, Grappling Hooks, Lycanthropy, Fae, Reincarnation (maybe), Romance, Inferno
• Heralds: Trish, Sylvie, Claire and Ammy (His pets: three cats and one dog), Viola (his daughter, shared with Bayonetta), and King Lukaon ,his Alternate Self
• Allies:
  • From his series: Bayonetta (his wife), Jeanne, Rodin, Father Balder
  • Other: Dante Sparda, Nero, Dipper and Mabel Pines, Stanford Pines, The Wonderful 101, Aisling, Ben and Saorise, Battler Ushiromiya, Beatrice the Golden Witch, Rika Furude, Luz Noceda and Amity Blight, Link, Travis Touchdown, Greninja, Jack and Annie, Artoria Pendragon
  • Fellow reporters: Carly Nagisa, Aru Akise, Peter Parker/Spider-Man, April O'Neil, Jade
  • Fellow werewolves: Bigby Wolf, Genn Graymare, Larry Talbot, Robyn Goodfellowe and Mebh Óg MacTíre
• Neutral with: Oberon, Titania, and Puck, King Arthur Pendragon, Morgan le Fay (his previous father and mother, respectively) , Mordred/Saber of Red, Medea and Souichirou Kuzuki
• Enemies: Aesir, The Angels of Paraidso, Fenrir Greyback, Bernkastel, Philip Wittebane, Jasper Batt Jr., Mordred
• Annoyed with: The Cheshire Cat
• Being Observed by: Bruce Thomas Wayne/Batman
• Not to be confused with: Luka Alan Smithee (Wonderful 101), the other Luka
• Luka Redgrave was once an innocent child who looked up to his father, the famed journalist Antonio Redgrave. This all changed when he unearthed a strange tomb somehow at the bottom of the lake which awakened the slumbering witch Bayonetta and subsequently led to Antonio's murder. Twenty years later, Luka followed in the footsteps of his father to become a journalist for the sake of uncovering the truth about what happened, particularly blaming Bayonetta for his father's death. Yet despite his pursuit, Bayo couldn't help but tease how her beloved "Cheshire" had bloomed along with her having to save him from numerous dangers from the likes of Paradiso. It took babysitting her younger self (long story) for him to learn the truth: Bayonetta was trying to kill off the true killers of his father, the angels of Paradiso. After this, he has become an ally to the Umbra Witch, somehow having an uncanny ability to arrive at exactly the right moment to provide Bayonetta with the information she needs.
  • Given how his world is part of a multiverse, this particular Luka Redgrave was plucked out of Inferno as he went there so that his Bayonetta, whose Umbral Watch got destroyed in the fight against Singularity, wouldn't suffer alone after saving their daughter, Viola. While under the protection of Madame Butterfly, Luka heard a voice in his head telling him to find a way into the Pantheon, which he did by using the portal that connected Inferno. He began following his instincts to where Bayonetta and Jeanne were currently killing a few angels. He made himself look good by swinging via his grappling hook pistol...only for the two Umbral Witches to dodge at the last second and he face-planted in front of everyone. Thankfully, Luka managed to salvage it by transforming into Strider and mauling the angels with his claws before reverting back to normal.
  Bayonetta: And what took you so long?
  Luka: Hey, had to wait for when Fate decided it was time for us to reunite.
• One of Luka's pick-up lines is to state how "Fate brings us [him and whoever he's trying to woo] together, and it will never tear us apart". He's also had an uncanny ability to arrive just when Bayonetta needs him the most. This was later revealed as a voice in his head guiding Luka to wherever he needed to be, the voice being a fallen version of him called Dark Adam to ensure that Bayonetta, Arch-Eve, was at the right place and right time, which is something that all Lukas across the multiverse share since they are the Arch-Adams of their worlds who are tasked to seek "The single truth". This Luka embraced this role as a messenger for the Umbran Witch, as it not only means he has an excuse to go on investigative reports, but it also gives him a chance to fight alongside his wife.
• When he learned about being a deity, he made sure to point out that he needed his girls by his side. Girls like Trish, Claire, Sylvia, Ammy. This got the likes of Trish, Claire Redfield, and Amaterasu confused...they've never heard of this journalist before. And Joe Black would definitely have been aware if his girlfriend dated Luka prior. It turns out he was talking about his pets: three kitties and a puppy that surprisingly have similarities to the four females. He also made sure his daughter, Viola could be a herald here as well, that way he could make up for lost time.
• After ascension matters were settled, Luka was granted a temple in the Sub-house of Destinies, but he doesn't spend time there. With so many places to explore, Luka set off to create a detailed report about his adventures. He instantly hit it off with another reporter who was also a believer in fate, Carly Nagisa. The two have traded stories over the lengths they went to uncover the truth — which includes how both of them got thrown out of a window — and how they were corrupted by the darkness at one point. He once asked if Carly and Jack will ever get together, to which she replies that it's a bit complicated at the moment. Luka does find it amusing that she technically became something akin to Bayonetta as a Dark Signer — a sexy, black wearing sorceress who summoned a variety of witches to do battle against a man in white — but accepts that her nerd-glasses wearing self is who she truly is.
• Many gods have come to ask Luka for juicy details about Bayonetta (for research), with one of them asking what's the deal with Bayo's love of lollipops. Luka sheepishly admitted that was kinda his fault. To calm a young Cereza down, he cheered her up by handing her one and that stuck with her when Cereza went back to her own time. He was amused, and kinda disturbed, over learning that there was another spunky female with a love of lollipops in Juliet Starling. He's really glad that for all of Bayo's teasing, she hasn't gone as far as to cut his head off and used some dark magic to keep him alive.
• He was glad to reunite with Jeanne and Rodin, as he never really had time to bond with the former and he's become good drinking buddies with the latter. Jeanne does question what exactly Bayonetta finds in Luka, but has decided to let it slide for her friend's sake. She also apologized for any trouble she might've given him while she was brainwashed by Baldur, to which Luka replied it was water under the bridge. Speaking of Baldur, things were complicated due to Baldur being the one to instigate his father's death and threw him out a window, but he understands that this wasn't solely the Lumien Sage's fault and that he was under the possession of Aesir. Now that Luka is in the Pantheon, he's ready to make sure Aesir gets what's coming. Of course, the reporter was nervous speaking to Baldur about how he and Bayonetta were married...although Baldur reassured that if his daughter puts faith in him, he'll let it slide. And honestly, Luka and Bayo's story of how they fell in love isn't so different to his and Rosa's romance.
  • When it came to a weapon upgrade from Rodin, Rodin was willing to give Luka a new grappling hook in exchange for a few items of Japanese origin that involved a list of impossible tasks that Luka has sworn to never reveal to the public. His grappling hook can now morph into extendable claws to grab opponents from a distance, pick up items too far away for Luka, or can resonate with his werewolf form akin to a whip.
• He once heard that someone in the Pantheon was using an alias of "Tony Redgrave". Pissed that someone was trying to go under the name of his father, Luka chased after them and ended up in the temple of Dante Sparda. Dante didn't look too annoyed at the werewolf roaring at his face and placed a gun at his muzzle. The two had a small talk over pizza where Dante explained that he respected Antonio and was saddened to learn how the old man met his end. Luka calmed down after that, although Dante did have a question to ask.
  Dante: By the way, what the hell does Bayonetta see in ya, wolfie?
  Luka: That, is my secret.
  • Naturally, a friendship with Dante meant being an uncle figure to Dante's nephew, Nero. It helps that Luka sees many similarities between Nero and his daughter, Violet. Like their punk attire and use of a katana, and Nero being human-demon hybrid while Violeta is part Umbral Witch, part human, part fae. Nero likes to joke that at least Viola's never had to worry about having to be disarmed although he's not sure if he wants to have a giant cat demon to ally with him. His reaction to Virgil was much more tense. Sure, Luka can understand the idea of wanting to be strong so he could never be hurt again, but rejecting his humanity wasn't the right way to do so. It'd be like if Luka forgo his father's ethics on the truth to get vengeance, a lesson Luka learned the hard way.
• He hates the Angels of Paradiso being in the Pantheon as they're the ones who killed his father, not like they could care less for an insignificant mortal like him. Thankfully, there are numerous angels on the side of good that he's come to get along with. One such angel was Aru Akise, who is also an investigator who was sent to play a role in the killing game between oracles and fashions himself as a detective. Luka does admit that having a Future Diary of his own would definitely make his life easier and notes that Aru being sent as an observer of the game wasn't any different to the voices in his head guiding him to seek the Truth.
• Due to his transformation into a fae-werewolf, Luka has gone to train with fellow werewolf deities in the Pantheon. He was interested in the girls, Robyn Goodfellowe and Mebh Óg MacTíre, who can transform into werewolves in their sleep via Astral Projection, and decided that he'll be a Cool Big Bro by bringing them along on his journeys across the Pantheon. That way if one of them gets knocked unconscious, he can turn into Strider and fight back while the other carries the fallen body to safety. The girls were happy to oblige, and have also taken the time to read many of his reports. Robyn and Mebh also lead Luka to their fellow Celtic deities: Aisling, Ben and Saorise. This isn't just because of his interests with folklore, but also because of him learning of his Fae background and he wanted to get more in touch with those roots. His connections with the Fae means he spent plenty of time in the Fairies sub-house as well, as he is the reincarnation of Lukaon, the King of Avalon Forest where fairies reside. Naturally, this made him have beef with Oberon, who didn't like this human trying to usurp his position. Thankfully, Titania was able to stop her husband from engaging in a battle that would have them demolished by both Luka and his wife and desires to learn more about the Fae in their world. Bayonetta herself was wary about the Fae, who were known to kill children and harvest energy to sustain them, but she's decided to form a truce for Luka's sake.
  • One day, Luka had been resting in his temple when he met with an alternate version of him with glowing eyes, confused as to how he even got here. After Luka finally calmed down, he recognized them as King Lukaon, who was drawn to the Pantheon under mysterious circumstances. Seeing as Lukaon had nowhere else to go, Luka signed the paperwork to have him be his additional Herald, as he would like to learn more about the fairies and their connections with Bayonetta. Turns out they go way back when Lukaon, back when he was just Prince Lukaon, asked Bayonetta to find him within his home of Avalon Forest, where they bonded over the loss of a parent and made a vow to see each other again. With this knowledge in mind, Luka had a question to ask Bayonetta.
  Luka: Are you only in love with me because of Lukaon? Or is there something more?
  Bayonetta: There's nothing more to it, Luka. It's like you said, "Fate brought us here together, and it will never tear us apart". No matter where I go, I know you're there to follow me like a shadow. And in all honesty, my life would get a bit boring without you hot on my trail.
• Luka never travels without his trusty grappling hook, which is how he can make quick, yet stylish, entrances and exits. Naturally, this made him friends with Mabel Pines, who always keeps a grappling hook on her. Mabel has found herself gushing over Luka's pets to the point of knitting sweaters for them all, whereas her brother has become interested in reading all of Luka's reports over the years. Luka also befriended Stanford Pines, as he also dedicated his life to jot down the weird phenomena in Gravity Falls. Another grappling hook user he met up with was Link, who had his trust Hookshot to launch him to certain areas, fight baddies, or gain objects for him. Luka has been compiling a history the multiple incarnations of Link that has fought the forces of evil, even amused at how the Twilight Princess incarnation could transform into a wolf.
• One day, Luka raced towards the sigh of an alien invasion when he caught sight of Bayonetta, Jeanne, and Rodin allied with an entire army of masked heroes easily taking care of them and going under aliases like Wonder-Bayonetta, Wonder-Jeanne, and Wonder-Rodin. As soon as the invasion was over and Luka could finally ask what was going on, Bayonetta just remarked that she has a "side-gig" with the Wonderful 101 before teasingly suggested that if he joined, his alias should be Wonder-Cheshire.
  Luka: Goddammit, why does it have to be 'Cheshire'? The name's Luka!
  Bayonetta: So's this kid who I'm sure you'd get along quite well. He's basically a mini-Cheshire, don't you think?
  • Sure enough, Luka did have a talk with Luka Alan Smithee/Wonder-Goggles and did note that they had very similar backstories, and even wore the same scarf. At least Luka Redgrave didn't go as far as to kill Bayonetta in revenge for his father's death or allied with even alien invaders as revenge. Still, Luka has taken up the offer to join the Wonderful 101 under the name "Wonder-Strider" since he's pretty sure the 101 hasn't recruited a werewolf yet.
• Speaking of Cheshire, Luka has gotten annoyed being trolled by his namesake, the Cheshire Cat appearing and disappearing with cryptic advice. It was then he came to realize why Bayonetta kept calling him that — for his constant appearing and disappearing with the use of his grappling hook. His ability to appear/disappear so quickly, along with his skills in gathering information and strong sense of smell, has made him be watched by Batman, who he thinks will become a superhero after a bit of training.
• Gained a friendship with Peter Parker/Spider-Man as both are reporters, he and Spider-Man swing around through a grappling hook/web-fluid, they have to deal with the death of a loved one (Ben Parker for Peter, Antonio Redgrave for Luka) and oddly enough they kinda have similar voices]]. Luka joked that if Peter needs to, he can substitute for the web-slinger on superhero duty by getting the appropriate costume. The same similarities in voice made Luka seek out Benjamin Tennyson, who surprisingly enough also has werewolf and fairy transformations. Ben rejected Luka's requests to get the full scoop on him. Even if Ben sometimes is a Glory Hound, he knows that Luka has more important stories to follow up than his own escapades. Luka also was quick to befriend Gwen Tennyson as well, since she was essentially the "witch" of the group (even though she was technically an alien whose powers were similar to magic) and find it bemusing that she had a cat-like motif to her "Lucky Girl" persona.
• Luka hoped to find someone who could relate to marrying a witch. The first god he met was Battler Ushiromiya, who married the Endless Witch Beatrice. The truth between their marriage was kinda complicated, from Battler's "promise" to return for Beatrice's true self went backwards, Beatrice's six years waiting for him being like a thousand years, the fact that there was a bloody massacre over money and the two witches who wanted Battler and Beatrice to fight forever. And Luka thought that his life couldn't be shitty. Thankfully, Battler was able to see Beatrice's message for him and bring the two into the Golden Land which is much better than Luka's fate into Inferno. Luka and Bayonetta are always invited to tea parties with the two, even trying to get into debates that end up backfiring. He also was disgusted at Bernkastel's cruelty towards the two as her traveling across the sea of kakera reminded him way too much of Singularity's meddling and how she was like Dark Adam — the collective darkness of all Lukas across the multiverse who died and became a mass of anger and chaos changing him into Strider. He's not into Bayonetta's teasing but at least she cares for him! This also made Luka become protective of Rika Furude, as multiple versions of her who never made it to the end of Summer 1983 would collectively form Bernkastel, and he's hoping to help her save the other Rikas from dying through his investigation skills and werewolf abilities.
  • Another human/witch couple whom Luka found about was Luz Noceda and Amity Blight, who fell in love when Luz ended up in the Boiling Isles for the summer. He honestly finds the two to be adorable, and they deserve all the happiness! The two witches note how one of their friends, Hunter, would faint if he learned how Luka had a werewolf form, as Hunter has a fondness for wolves. That said, this also meant he became a target for Philip Wittebane, who hates the idea of a mere human like him falling in love with Bayonetta. Luka wasn't afraid of this self-proclaimed hero at all as he sees Philip as who'd he be if continued to see himself as the "Marvelous, Magnificent, Magnanimous Luka" and didn't open his eyes to the truth of what happened to his father. Philip tried to launch a sneak attack on Luka, only for Luka to not only avoid it easily by turning into Strider, but also making him open to an attack by Bayonetta, who only had this to say.
  Bayonetta: These girls are under our protection. Don't you dare harm them, or Luka, ever again. And don't fuck with a witch. (shoots Philip in the head)
• As a reporter who travels to exotic locations in regards to supernatural phenomena, Luka spends a lot of time in the Investigative Work sub-house. Of course, he can't help but make a flashy entrance either by swinging in with his grappling hook or flirting with the ladies with his "Do you believe in fate?" routine. Hoping to improve his stealth game, he's following tutelage from Solid Snake on how to really be more like the Cheshire Cat (not that he's realized that). However, even he thinks that a cardboard box is kinda stupid.
  Luka: Seriously, a cardboard box? Why the heck would I use something like that?
  Snake: Tell it to the guy who treasues his little grappling hook too much...
• Became drinking buddies with Travis Touchdown after realizing that they had many similarities: they were on the hunt of the person who killed their parents, they ended up hooking up with the hot girl who can't help but tease them a lot (even having children), and they like cats. Travis can't help but be a little jealous that Luka was able to win Bayonetta's heart and somehow manage to still be standing after all the shenanigans he's been put through. Luka, in the meantime, was glad that Travis able to let go of his hatred after beating the shit out of Jasper Batt Jr.
  Travis: Man that guy was a whiny piece of shit.
  Luka: I know. Reminds me too much of...well, me.
  • Luka also has gotten threats by Travis's twin brother, Henry Cooldown, who vows to send Travis in despair by killing off anyone who allies with his little brother. Luka was resting up in his temple one day before he smelled blood in the air. Thinking quick, he morphed into Strider to mow down the multiple Henry clones who compsed of Henry's heralds, the Order of the Emerald Eye, before bisecting Henry in half...only for the torso to still crawl towards him screaming, "Don't cry, LUKA!!!" Needless to say, Luka would call for a cleaning service shortly after dealing with that threat.
• Thanks to Travis, Luka became a father figure towards Badgirl as she also lost her father to a monster and arrived too late to save him. While a little unnerved by Bad Girl's drinking and penchance for violence, she can be pretty chill when off the clock and vows to help out beating the shit out of some angels when he asks.
• Due to the World of Light shenanigans, Luka ended up bonding with Greninja, who allows Luka to partner with him to escape some of the more dangerous parts of the Pantheon. Luka kinda jokes that having Greninja means he also can summon a frog into battle, like Bayonetta can summon Baal.
• After he learned more about his original life as Lukaon, Luka decided that it would be time to confront his parents — King Arthur and Morgan le Fay — for a "family reunion" of sorts. When Morgan le Fay first saw Luka, the first thing she did was weep and embraced her precious Lukaon, reunited at long last. Luka tenderly returned the hug and apologized for what happened to her and states that he's doing fine, reunited with the same witch who set him free. Bayonetta wasn't really happy to see Morgana again — as the elder Umbran witch only took her in so she could sacrifice her demon friend, Cheshire, to save Lukaon from his curse and even tried to kill her when she refused — but she has come to be more understanding since that's essentially what her own father would do centuries later to bring back her own mother. Later, Luka presented himself towards King Arthur, who was quite surprised to learn how he and Morgan le Fay are husband and wife in one world, but nevertheless was happy to learn of Luka's adventures and how he technically is the rightful King of Avalon. While Luka is flattered, he knows that his true purpose is to guide Bayonetta to her fate. Of course, no meeting of King Arthur isn't complete without a visit to Merlin, who welcomed Luka with open arms and decided to make the boy an apprentice to better hone his Fae abilities further. Luka was flattered to say the least — not every day the Marvelous Luka Redgrave gets an audience with Merlin, of all people! — and takes time off from his investigations to hone his skills so that he doesn't have to transform into Strider all the time.
  • One day while meeting with Morgan le Fay, Luka happened to bump into the sibilngs, Jack and Annie of Frog Creek. He was curious to learn that Jack and Annie were the apprentices of Morgana and two of the only gods who can make Morgana act even more motherly than she is with him. He was quite amazed to learn how the two can travel through time and other worlds by using an enchanted treehouse created by Morgana and even helped King Arthur on occasion. Luka has decided to make these two his apprentices in investigation and reporting as well, since many of the missions to interact with historical figures and jotting notes about them aren't different than his escapades (minus the whole "being smacked around and belittled by Bayonetta" stuff).
  • Of course, being the "son" of King Arthur and Morgan le Fay made him the targets of (male) Mordred, well known for usurping King Arthur and killing him. Luka was not happy about this, since in his previous life as Lukaon, a wannabe fae known as Puca did the exact same thing, trapping him in a crystal prison and drove his mother to train witches in the hopes that the demons they summoned would finally break the spell. Mordred has tried to skewer Luka with Clarent, but Luka's sense of smell, his grappling hook, his transformation as Strider, oh, and his wife have been factors stopping him from getting a clean hit. As for the other Mordred, Luka was capable of being more civil with her. While the two of them have different ideas of fate, Saber of Red believing that she needs to seize her destiny while Luka was guided by the voices in his head and accepted his role to be Bayonetta's guide against the forces of evil, this Mordred showed a bit of pity for how Luka had lost his father to a bunch of asshole angels. Finally, Luka decidd to befriend Artoria Pendragon, as he felt like it should respectful to address the other King Arthur in the Pantheon, vowing to fight by her side as the Marvelous Luka Redgrave alongside his wife (when she's in a good mood)
• While he likes to joke about being a ladies' man, he was told by Jeanne that he had nothing in compared to the other Luka who had a seat in one of Bayo's houses. Seeing that as a challenge, Luka went to see this other Luka before reeling from how his sense of smell sensed something off. This was due to Other Luka having a smell that made female monsters find him to be tasty. Both Lukas ended up becoming good friends with one another as they shared stories of how they would eventually end up as the romantic partner of their loved ones, although Luka Redgrave kinda finds it weird that other Luka is an angel (a big reminder of the Angels who killed off his dad) who fought off against the god of his world. Bayonetta finds other Luka amusing at how an angel can capture the hearts of so many monsters, before reminding him that Luka Redgrave was hers.
• His relationship with Bayonetta is a lighter version of Medea and Kuzuki's. While Kuzuki and Luka are the male Badass Normal who later get empowered to fight alongside their significant other and were also trying to find their purpose, Kuzuki's life was much rougher than Luka's due to him being an assassin who questioned if it was worth killing until he took care of Medea. And while Medea did horrible things, it was only so she could stay with Kuzuki and live a happily married life. Luka can understand where that's coming from since Bayonetta killed angels both for the thrill and also to extend her life before being dragged into Inferno, falling in love with Luka for his support and unwavering loyalty throughout her adventures. Bayonetta has decided to engage in a friendly rivalry with Medea, hoping to put her skills to the test with one of the most powerful mages in history.
• "Do you believe in fate? Fate brought us here together, and it will never tear us apart."

Grace Monroe

Grace Monroe, Goddess of Leading Others To Following Her Beliefs Despite Lacking Concise Knowledge (A Coward Leading Cowards, Void)

• Potential House: Characterization, Sub-house: Extrovert Characterization
• Demigoddess
• Theme: "The New Apex" (Her theme after her Heel–Face Turn) "A Little Extra Flair/Dance Partners" (shared with Simon)
• Symbol: A gold mask with a red lipstick wavelength sign in the middle.
• Alignment: Neutral Good, formerly Chaotic Evil who believed she was Neutral Good
• Portfolio: Know-Nothing Know-It-All who corrupted children to follow her twisted worldviews, ultimately wanted to be looked up to, Dance Battler, Lonely Rich Kid with Abusive Parents who pay little to no attention on her, wanting people to notice her because she Hates Being Alone, mentally called out for being nothing but a coward, did everything she could to not be alone but ultimately ended up in that state, hates denizens and calls them "Nulls", thinks Virtue Is Weakness until she's forced to face humility for her actions, Freudian Excuse Is No Excuse, The Corrupter and encourages children to do as she says, learning her lesson meant destroying EVERYTHING she created and learning that her bigotry was pointless the entire time, slowly transforming into an altruistic person after her haughtiness is all but crumbled, Poor Communication Kills, Protagonist-Centered Morality and It's All About Me, emulating Peter Pan in the worst way possible
• Domains: Loneliness, Cowardice, Liars, Manipulation, Corruption, Cults, Slaughter, Leadership, Entitlement, Humility, Selfishness, Pride
• Herald: An origami bird (her denizen partner).
• Allies: Asuka Langley Soryu/Shikigami, Mae Boroski, Gentaro Kisaragi, The Kamen Rider Club, Kubo, The Equestria Girls, Sunset Shimmer, Carrie White, Pacifica Northwest, Starlight Glimmer, Anne Boonchuy, Sasha Waybright, Marcy Wu, Coraline, Kuzo
• Commonality Connection with:
  • Lonely Rich Kid: Karen Minazuki, Adrien Agreste, Nanjo
  • Dance: Nina Sayers, Elena
  • Wrong Genre Savvy: The Three Heroes, Subaru Natsuki
  • Other: Nevan
• Enemies: The Terraformers, Arael, Sara Berry, Queen Chrysalis, The Pied Piper. Philip Wittebane/Emperor Belos, Svengali, Malty S Melomarc, Sun Li, Turbo, Lord Shen, Abusive Parents, Rafe Adler, Syndrome, Eliza and Neil Reagan, Gaston
• Avoided by: Every single train-related deity in the Pantheon and the House of Adolesence, Most turtle deities, The good-aligned Cartoon Network deities, numerous primate deities, Peter Pan,
• Avoids: The House of Slaughter, Claire Stanfield, Pyramid Head, Yuno Gasai, Martin Walker
• Other relationships: The other Infinity Train deities: Tulip Olsen, Lake and Simon Laurent
• Pities: Shinji Ikari, Punishment Bird, Judgment Bird, and Big Bird
• On Neutral Terms with: Applejack
• Odd Friendship with: Nena Trinity and Merlina the Wizard
• Grace Monroe was once a Lonely Rich Kid who only wanted her parents' love. So she decided the best way to do so was by shoplifting. It failed as her parents tried to hide their daughters' crimes under the rug else ruin their reputation. Despondent, Grace was suddenly whisked away by a carriage complete with a red carpet onto the Infinity Train, where she would meet up with a strange monster with a massive green number, save a boy wearing socks and sandals from a giant cockroach, and bluff her way of stating she's a total expert on how to survive the Train, creating the cult known as the Apex — a group of chidren who ransacked cars and injured/killed innocent denizens in order to survive. All because she wanted to deny that she had no idea what the hell any of them were supposed to be doing.
  • Things changed when one day, in a raid in a car full of turtles, something caused the car she and the Apex were in to move on its own. She and Simon were thrown back to another car where they met with a girl named Hazel and her gorilla denizen partner Tuba. Noticing that Hazel's number was broken — it wasn't glowing like other numbers did — the two decided to have her join the Apex in order to get the numbers game to throw Tuba into the wheels. Unfortunately, Grace slowly learned to care for Hazel. Simon didn't. After more and more revelations arrived and Grace had to admit that her communication skills caused more problems than good, she was left to pick up the pieces of everything she did in the slimmest chance she and the Apex would finally leave.
• Grace spent a year or so working on getting every member of the Apex's number to 0, seeing them off with a bittersweet farewell until she was left with her origami partner. The last thing that was on her mind was how she would face her parents; it had been more than a decade since she saw them last, and they most likely forgot about her or would still be the same neglectful/abusive parents they were previously. After thinking of it, Grace ultimately had to accept that it's pointless to get their attention and that she must work on herself from now on. This finally made her number reach 0 and a door opened for her...but instead of it leading to her house (which meant her origami partner couldn't follow her per Train rules), she ended up in the Gates of the Pantheon. The Court of the Gods were waiting until she was finally free of the Train before bringing her in, since she was the best represented of "blind leading the blind". Grace initially wanted nothing to do with the god business since this is the entire reason she screwed up so many people's lives, but decided that if this will make others learn to not make the mistakes she did, and also because she wanted to be far away from her parents, she accepted. And as a token of faith, her origami bird partner was allowed as a herald.
  • One of the first deities Grace met with was Kubo, who was capable of manipulating origami. Kubo questioned how Grace's origami friend was alive to which Grace had an awkward talk about how she visited a Train that had strange denizens that came alive. She pitied Kubo because his past made hers look completely tame — lost his eye to his grandfather, his dad died to his aunts, and his mom is in a catatonic state with brain damage. Kubo has also taken the time to tell Grace that he will send some origami birds to protect her since she will always have a target on her back. Grace was thankful that someone like him was kind enough to even care for her well-being.
• Grace was shocked to learn that Simon was alive in the Pantheon. Unfortunately, being in the Pantheon just made him worse as he plans to make sure the "Void" pays one way or another. Simon was only saved when he was punched and then bashed across the head with a pipe...and the one who punched him glared since that was Lake, who was not happy to find the Apex leader ascended. And the one with the pipe was Tulip Olsen, whom Lake was the reflection of. Grace was then given a thorough tongue lashing by Lake, stating in no certain terms that Lake will not forgive her for trying to wheel her and Alan Dracula and then trying to sic the Mirror Cops on her. Tulip was also furious as well, especially when she learned that Grace invaded the Unfinished Car (full of delegates from the Corgi Car) but she could see that Grace wouldn't have known better and is moving on. Although, Lake was surprised about one thing.
  Lake: Kinda amazed you went so long without the instruction videos.
  Tulip/Grace: What instruction videos?
  Lake: Y'know, the videos that explain what the hell you're supposed to do? (beat) You honestly didn't bother to look for one?
  • Grace's relationship with Tulip was more complicated when she learned how Tulip is the one who placed One-One back as the true Conductor and made Amelia change her ways and that Tulip decided to ask questions and use logic then lie about the truth. While Tulip still promises to be supportive, Grace has asked that Tulip steps away for now as she comes to grip with her mistakes.
• Since Grace has at most a 4th grade education due to her extended trip on the Train, she has been ordered to take remedial lessons in the Elysium Academy to make up for it. Naturally, many students are wary of her due to her reputation for corrupting children and never feeling sorry for it, and the fact that she's actually killed numerous denizens without a shred of sympathy. Grace was ready to accept her fate of being alone...until she met up with Gentaro Kisaragi, who decided that he'll be her friend so that way she wouldn't be alone anymore.
  Grace: But why me? I've killed others! I lied and brainwashed kids for years. Why would someone like you be my friend?
  Gentaro: I befriended the guy who wanted to use me as a shield, the guy who killed me to bring his friend back, and the principal of my school who killed my friend out of jealousy. And the way I see it, you're pretty remorseful for what you've done, right?
  • Grace then met with Gentaro's friends who also accepted that she's willing to work on herself. They invited her to have some time on the moon so she can have a heart-to-heart with Gentaro, before cementing it with his handshake. The Friendship and Camaraderie house is willing to accept her with open arms, and Grace has slowly gained allies. One of them being Magolor, who betrayed Kirby to obtain ultimate power but turned a new leaf. She also admitted that she was jealous of Anne Boonchuy, Sasha Waybright, Marcy Wu — despite everything the three went through, they were able to open their eyes, change themselves, and then made up. Grace questioned if things were different, Simon wouldn't have died...but bitterly notes that she can't do anything about it now, and she and Simon can never be friends again.
• Ended up bonding with Asuka Langley Soryuu due to how they both suffered from having abusive parents and hide their insecurities with a haughty mask, although Grace is a bit disturbed with how abusive Asuka could be towards Shinji as not even she would lash out at Simon like that. Grace considered herself lucky that her mind wasn't defiled as badly as Asuka was by Arael, leaving the Eva Pilot a catatonic wreck since her worth was tied to how good she was in fighting the Angels. Unfortunately, Grace was unexpectedly caught in one of Arael's heavenly beams and began screaming in agony over how Arael tried to pry her mind over what made her want to kill denizens for the sake of it and forced her to recall every single victim she killed/mutilated in a never-ending loop until help arrived. It was during her time in the House of Medicine that she met with Shinji Ikari, and the two bonded over their painful pasts and how they obtained the strength to face their traumas head on instead of running away.
• Grace is unsure whether to pity Sara Berry or not. On one hand, Sara was pressured to become Prom Queen under her abusive father's thumb, pushed everyone she loved aside and then snapped by killing six innocent girls who didn't know better. On the other hand, Grace had to remind herself that she was much worse than Sara because Sara didn't corrupt others to do what she said and her kill tally was less than Grace's overall. At least Grace has no intention on being Prom Queen, which means Sara is aloof at best to her. Grace did bond with Pacifica Northwest and Carrie White though, since they also dealt with abusive parents who treated them much worse than Grace's parents being neglectful.
• Many Train deities have banned her from their temples, given the chaos she enacted on the last one she was in. Most notably, Ryotaro Nogami and the Pterandon family want nothing to do with her. After all, they deal with time traveling trains, so what are the chances she does something stupid and rewinds time and makes things worse? Grace accepted that her reputation has pretty much made deities look down at her and it'll take a long time, if ever, for others to see she's not the "total expert on the Train" as before. She's also been banned from the Hall of Primates and many turtle deities want nothing to do with her given the incident with Tuba and Hazel. That said, she's disgusted by the likes of Atriox, Gorilla Grood and Mojo Jojo so that's a blessing in her book.
• Due to her reputation, she ended up having a kinship with Nena Trinity and Merilna the Wizard since she functions somewhere in the middle. She is just as atrocious as Simon Laurent, if not so, because she's the one who put it into numerous children's heads to kill all denizens without remorse. But she's also innocent because Simon's Sanity Slippage and refusal to change was all on him and she does not owe him anything. She is disgusted with Nena killing off wedding-goers out of boredom, but also finds that Nena is a saint compared to her brother. She sympathizes with Merlina with wanting her kingdom to last longer because Grace only did what she could cause she had no idea what to do on the Train but also notes that Merlina was being somewhat selfish in her goals. The two like how she's someone who is both sympathetic and also stern with how she thinks of them, giving her some comfort that she's not the most polarizing goddess in the Pantheon.
• One of Grace's talents is that she's a really talented dancer, as her parents pushed her to learn many different styles. The Hall of Dance have welcomed her to perform there if she needs alone time or if she still needs to work out some issues after leaving the Train. She was practicing some old ballet movements when she bumped into another ballerina, Nina Sayers. Nina nearly went into a meltdown and slammed Grace into a mirror, but Grace quickly stated she meant no harm before the two had a talk over their experiences in regards to abusive parents pushing them into being dancers with the major difference being Nina's mother was smothering, Grace's parents neglectful and never bothered to show during a performance. They gave each other comfort over how they finally moved forward from their parents' expectations and neglect and vowed to perform a show together in the future. Nina smiled and said that it'll be "Perfect". Another dancer whom Grace befriended was the Street Fighter, Elena, who acts like a total opposite of Grace: while both travel, Elena wishes to seek out friends whereas Grace wanted followers. Grace was also surprised that someone as cheery as Elena would accept being her friend.
  Elena: Did you not hear what Gentaro said? You are working on yourself, and your rhythm is one of atonemen. Why shouldn't I befriend you.
  Grace: You get along well with Gentaro, huh? Are you —
  Elena: Nope, Just Friends. Thanks for asking, though.
• As her acting out and stealing a cheap bracelet was caused by loneliness, Grace has found common ground with other Lonely Rich Kid deities. She felt jealous of Nanjo over how he had someone act as a parental substitute in his butler since Grace had constant hired help that she only remembers them as a bunch of clothes. Meanwhile, she understood Adrien's position in being pushed to be a little perfect doll by their parents when it came to being a fashion model while she was to become a dancer but is at least she's glad that Adrien's bodyguard, The Gorilla, has slowly warmed up to being his Parental Substitute.
  • When it came to people who were transported to a new world who ended up botching things to a misunderstanding of what they were meant to do, she found solace with the Three Heroes and Subaru Natsuki. They all thought they were living their best fantasy lives only for reality and the world they got trapped in recognizing how selfish they were and strived to become better.
• Avoids the House of Slaughter because it brings back bad memories of the person she used to be, killing denizens by pushing them onto the wheels of the Infinity Train without a shred of remorse. More specifically, she avoids The Jigsaw Killer, who would put her into a Death Trap so that she would learn to value her life and to understand the pain she inflicted onto other denizens. She's already gone through a horrific experience of being kicked onto the Train's wheels, thank you very much. She also cringed when she heard of Legolas and Gimli having a Body-Count Competition, as it made her recall all the "games" she and Simon used to play with the lives of denizens.
• As someone who had neglectful parents, Grace hates every abusive parent in the Pantheon as she's come to realize that her parents not arriving for a ballet recital is relatively tame to those who throw people into volcanoes or burn their faces. Thankfully, there are just as many good parents as there are bad which made Grace break down in how stupid she was; if she had another adult figure who told her right from wrong, how much good could she have done? Thankfully, one turtle by the name of Master Oogway has shown pity on her and allows her to listen to his sermons to find inner peace.
• Despises Emperor Belos from the bottom of her heart as she's basically everything she was times infinity. And worse, Simon supports his rhetoric to destroy everything non-human. Belos looks down on this "Void" for many reasons — being female and her racial status being the biggest ones — and states that a foolish girl playing pretend has no place in his coven. She also hates those who use mind control like Queen Chrysalis and the Pied Piper, the former for how she "feeds" off of others' love even though the Changelings get stronger by sharing it and she hates the latter finds whisking every single child away from their parents as unfair since she technically prevented the Apex from changing just to amuse her desires of idolization and love.
• Naturally as someone who lied her ass off to make herself appear as the greatest, Grace hates liars and those who twist the truth to satisfy themselves. She loathes Svengali who actively brainwashed an innocent singer in order to gain recognition from her. Svengali brushed off the claims cause what she did is exactly the same — brainwashing children to kill denizens and not give a damn about them. She also hates Sun Li for knowingly sabotaging his students while Grace honestly (somewhat) taught the Apex how to defend themselves. She also loathes Turbo for trying to usurp Vanellope von Schweetz as the true ruler of Sugar Rush but then came to realize that she's also a hypocrite with a point; sure what she did to survive was horrible, but not only was the Train dangerous but it kidnapped children without giving an explanation as to what the hell they had to do and why they were trapped in the first place.
• Grace was given a warning by Tulip to avoid Claire Stanfield if possible. When asked why, Tulip gave the rundown that he took his role as a conductor very seriously, and was also known to be very gruesome in torturing people, once slamming someone's head across the train tracks while the train was moving, reducing the face to raw hamburger. Grace immediately got the hint that he was more dangerous than her and dreaded the day he arrived at her doorstep...to have a chat. While he's miffed that Grace did cause plenty of harm to the denizens on the Train, he can see that she is remorseful and didn't deserve death by giant wheels. However, Claire isn't as courteous to her as she was with Tulip, stating that the next time Grace does something reckless, she'll be bathed in her own blood.
  • Lake also gave her own warnings to avoid Pyramid Head, the executioner. A symbol of guilt of murdering people, if his sights are on Grace, she's as good as dead. Grace thought that a monster with a pyramid for a head was nothing to be afraid of...until she heard the scraping sounds of Pyramid Head's Great Knife and suddenly found herself skewered by the beast then waking up in her Temple, all while Lake smugly replied,
  Lake: I Warned You, didn't I?
• Surprisingly, Grace ended up befriending Mae Borowski. While Grace was initially weirded out by Mae being a cat, given the last cat who completely ruined everything, Grace understands how Mae is struggling with the concept of growing up in a dying town but still wants to keep living so that she could tell herself she is awesome. Mae has invited Grace to hang out with her sometimes and listen to some of the songs she and her band play, or to just talk about how "everything sucks forever".
• As someone who walked on the road she wanted to avoid, Grace pities the three birds who warped into monsters in an attempt to save their beloved forest from becoming a wasteland. She knew what that paranoia and distrust can do to a person, knowing that she was the architect of her own downfall. She also learned of another bird who got a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy in Lord Shen and even his actions of genocide through the use of cannons was disgusting. While she did wheel Denizens, she only wheeled those who she thought would be "negative influences" on a passenger that prevented them from "surviving"...which is just as bad as if she did commit genocide since she didn't show concern of the children's feelings of destroying their partner and lying how she is their messiah. Speaking of the House of Pride and Egotism, while she tries to avoid many of the gods there for fear of them making her fall back on her growth, she did end up befriending Kuzco, as she understands his position of being arrogant before everything crashed down on him. Given how he's also been going through schooling before he can truly become emperor, the two have become something akin to study-buddies.
• Grace learned of the tale of Coraline Jones, who had neglectful parents and ran away to a fantasy world where everyone loved her...and learned the price of staying there. Coraline explained that her parents did love her, but a deadline to a gardening catalogue and some unknown incident that got her mother in a neck brace meant they were too busy to pay attention. This made Grace double-check on how her parents might not have been as abusive or neglectful as she thought; maybe they did love her but were busy with their own lives. Maybe that incident with her stealing a bracelet was just their way of looking out for her. Maybe they were worried for what happened to her and she didn't give a damn about them. She'll never know the truth but she can at least start moving forward.
• Has gotten divisive reactions from the Cartoon Network deities due to her actions. Gumball and the Camp Lazlo deities run away from her because she would categorize them as "Nulls". Sector V of the Kids Next Door loathe her because she's a lying, manipulative adult who brainwashed children to follow her lead (although they will work together if it comes to fighting Father). The Kanker Sisters also don't find her funny at all but they do sympathize with how she nearly died to Simon when she tried to reach out to him. Wirt has little esteem for her, since she did turn Simon into a monster and has made sure that Greg is never in her vicinity. The only deities from that circle who see she's trying to be better is Steven Universe, who has changed the hearts of the Diamonds (who have engaged in a 5000 year rampage and White Diamond being abusive to her own sisters) and Kevin Levin, who understands what it's like to become a monster.
• She got along with Revan because both of them manipulated someone close to go down the path of evil, but ultimately recognized that they weren't responsible for how Darth Malak and Simon continued to make the bad choices that ruined their lives. Or, as Grace puts it to Simon, she doesn't owe her old friend anything. Revan hopes that Grace can ultimately figure out how to use her position to do some genuine good this time around.
• The Equestrian gods have a complicated relationship with her. On one hand, they did forgive ponies/humans who have done worse — Sunset sent hateful emails to split her friends apart, Starlight tried to create a town where everyone followed to her totalitarianism speeches of being equal and then tried to rewind time so that Twilight Sparkle and her friends never got their Cutie Marks, and Discord enacted chaos across Equestria and briefly sided with Tirek — but on the other hand, she still did more harm than good until she was forced to see the consequences of her actions. For the moment, they're taking a friendship with her "one day at a time".
• "I just...wanted to be noticed."

Story Arcs

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The Friendship Asylum

The Friendship Asylum: (Sora's Encounter)

It didn't take long for the asylum to do as Sora commanded—to transform the guards that protected the asylum into his loyal soldiers against the Darkness Proxy? It did that and more. It would do whatever Sora wanted it to do, for him and him alone as long as Sora needed the asylum.

And for as long as the asylum needed him.

In the meeting room where Sora originally encountered the Darkness Proxy, Sora slouched in Alternate!Gentaro's chair, seeing his handiwork. Each of the guards were now loyal to him and him alone, bound to the asylum just like he was. For Riku, it was like he could sense his close friend's thoughts as if they shared a link—right now, he could sense Riku's uncertainty on what would happen next, but Riku also agreed on one very important thing:

The Darkness Proxy had to pay for going against their word.

Sora: (stands up) Yesss.....I can feel it...the asylum will work with us, work for us. Together, we shall show that blasted proxy no mercy. (snarls) They will pay for what they did to Kairi.

Riku: What do we do in the meantime?

Sora: We get ready for war...and we send a message to the Proxy that we mean business. I suggest we raise an army...an army of restless spirits such as I, to devour them until nothing is left of them.

Ash: But Sora! That would cause even more attention onto us. We can't—

Sora turned his gaze to Ash, and soon it felt like Ash's head was being surrounded by pins and needles. The boy dropped to his knees, clutching his head in pain for a second or two, with none of his fellow guards showing concern. After a second, Ash slowly stood up, his eyes glowing with the same eerie light that radiated throughout the asylum's walls.

Ash: You're right, Master. The Proxy needs to pay.

Sora: Glad you see things my way, Ashy-boy.

Riku: We need to get a move on. Sora, I'll coordinate the guards into preparing the strike. What shall you do?

Sora: I'll explore the asylum...I feel it calling out for me. It wants, and I want too.

Riku: Sounds like a plan. (to the guards) All right, guards! Fall out!

The Asylum Guards: Yes, sir!

Riku lead the entourage out as Sora looked at the table in front of him, hands on the surface as he felt the darkness enter the room. As the footsteps of six to seven people started to fade away, he could now sense that presence once more.

Sora: I sensed you in my mind a while ago. Are you...the asylum?

???: In a way, I am.

The voice, breathy, feminine, soft, distant, dream-like...it echoed in the empty hall just as it did in his mind. Sora turned around, but found nothing.

Sora: And you are here to help me?

???: With whatever you desire deep in your heart. Come Sora...I wish to show you something...

Sora nodded his head, feeling the ghostly presence of the asylum lead him to a corridor far away, far away where no one knew where it went. As he did, he paid no attention to the snaking darkness wrapping itself around his arms, legs, torso, almost as if they were drawn to him like moths to a flame. Wrapped around his fingers, arms, neck, and last into his mind, shadowing him, covering him, almost masking him from the outside world.

Sora: I was called here...for a reason.

???: What was that reason? Tell me, Sora.

Sora: Something called me...told me I had a purpose. (places a hand on one of the walls) And it was to protect you, wasn't it?

???: I called out to you, I wanted you here...with me...

Sora stopped at a door marked with a heart. He ran his hand down it surface, feeling something pulse from within. It was power, plain and simple...power for him to be strong enough to protect Kairi, power for him to be strong enough to destroy the proxy, power for him to be enough to destroy anyone and anything who stood in his way.

Sora: But promise me one thing: should we join forces, you do not harm Kairi in any way, shape or form. If I find out that you had a hand in her death, directly or indirectly, the deal is off. Understand?

???: I am not like those proxy monsters. I will keep my word for as long as you want me. Sora, are you ready?

There was a pause as Sora thought about it. Opening this door would give him what he needed...and the asylum needed him. They were two souls in one...that's what it felt like. He smiled.

Sora: Yes. I am ready...let me in, asylum.

The door opened, the heart outline on its surface glowing an inky black color. The shadows seemed to wrap themselves around Sora, the boy not even reacting to how it forced itself into him, clawing against his skin, piercing his mind with an icy chill that caused him to go numb. Sora embraced this feeling, knowing that together, nothing could stand in their way.

???: I'm not hurting you, am I?

Sora: (smirks) No, I'm fine. Please, give me more...

As if pleased with the response, the asylum laughed.

???: You're interesting to say the least. The two of us could do such wondrous things to the Pantheon.

Sora: Exactly.

The darkness seeped into Sora's bones, it flowed through his veins, filling him with the strength he needed for what he was about to do. That bastard would pay...they all would pay.

Sora: From the darkness we were born, and from the darkness...we stand as one!

And soon, the empty halls of the asylum were once again filled with his laughter. After he calmed down, he thought he heard someone calling his name. That voice was familiar...he snarled as he looked around.

Sora: You again? The one who was laughing at me. (bares his teeth) Show yourself right now!

???: I think I will.

A flash of light caught his attention, and Sora blocked an attack from two Keyblades from that same black-cloaked figure with the cracked porcelain face. A name came to his mind...

Sora: Roxas...

Roxas: You gave in that easily then? Seems like you don't make a good other after all.

Sora: I don't think you understand what is going on. No one else does.

Roxas: I do, and I'm here to snap you out of it.

Sora just laughed once more, his voice combined with that of the asylum's.

Sora: "Snap me out of it?" you say. No, I don't want to be snapped out of it. That son of a bitch will pay and anyone else even connected to him is going to burn when I get my hands on them.

Roxas: That's all that matters to you now? Vengeance? I thought you were better than that!

Sora: It's not only vengeance on the one who broke his promise. I have another goal now.

Roxas: And what's that?

Sora: I was chosen for a greater purpose...After my vengeance on that proxy is finished, I shall protect the asylum from all who would destroy her. Anyone who sullies her name will have to go through me.

Roxas: You need to snap out of it; the more you trust that asylum, the more you lose yourself.

Sora: I know myself! I know everything that I need to know. And if you stand in my way, then I will kill you.

As he said this, a pair of black wings unfurled from his back, making him look similar to a fallen angel, Keyblade ready to defend himself. Roxas stepped back, the Oblivion and Oathkeeper Keyblades ready. Somewhere in the darkness, he could hear a young girl giggle.

Roxas: Prove it then.

Sora: What?

Roxas: I said, "Prove it". (starts walking toward Sora) Tell me everything that you know about yourself. Every. Single. Thing. Are you sure that's the real you that's talking? Am I confronting the real Sora or are you nothing more than just a puppet without its strings? Are you the one in control or is there someone else in there (points to Sora's chest) that's in control at this very moment. Tell me, where's the boy who would go out to befriend everyone and save everyone from the darkness? Where are you, Sora? What are you, Sora? Who are you, Sora?

With each question, Roxas circled his counterpart, his empty eyes staring into Sora's own pair of black eyes ones as if judging him...mocking him. Sora, not willing to take a threat or challenge lying down, closed his eyes, concentrating on the memories that was stored within him while Roxas placed his hands over Sora's own, closing his eyes as a memory entered his mind....

The memory he saw was of Sora, Donald and Goofy fighting against a strange metallic creature that was a mix of a large metal face and a scorpion body in a desolate wasteland underneath a dark sky. Sora's face was filled with nothing but absolute rage as he unleashed an assault of attacks on that dark monster. Before Sora could unleash the final blow, Roxas stepped back.

Roxas: That memory...that monster...Metal Kor. Who was that?

Sora: Kor? I have no idea what you're talking about.

Roxas: You should. I just entered your memories and I definitely don't recall a monster like that.

Sora: I trust in my memories—they will show me my way.

Roxas: How can you trust in your memories if they aren't. even. yours? Tell me Sora, how can you—

Sora: SHUT UP! I don't need sympathy or questioning from a Nobody like you! It's all because of them...all because of Baron Praxis and Errol that I'm like this. The first thing I told Donald and Goofy after they found me was "I'm gonna kill Praxis!" and I did. And if you have to get in my way, I'm just going to have to kill you.

Roxas: You're insane, Sora...You have to be stopped.

Sora charged toward Roxas with his Keyblade in hand, Roxas shielding himself with his dual Keyblades. Their weapons clashed across the narrow hallway, knocking down the walls like they were building blocks, pushing each other back and forth. When Sora was pushed back, Roxas's Oblivion Keyblade placed against Sora's neck to suffocate him.

Roxas: Had enough yet?!

Sora: (choking out) D...Da....DARK STRIKE!

Sora fired a blast of dark energy at Roxas, sending him hurling at least three or four feet, crashing into a brick wall where black LEGO bricks dropped on his head like raindrops. Roxas groaned as Sora walked toward him, a smirk on his lips.

Sora: Having fun yet?!

Roxas: I'm just GETTING STARTED!

Roxas's keyblades fused into a sword with a glowing white blade as he jumped into the air and began to strike down on Sora. Sora jumped back, parrying each and every blow. Unfortunately, he wasn't able to stop the four pillars of light that raced toward him, hurling him toward the door. The two Keyblade wielders panted for breath, neither of them willing to surrender so easily.

Sora: You don't understand my pain...if you had someone you cared for about to die after being promised they wouldn't be killed, wouldn't you be angry?

Roxas: If I did have someone like that I would, but I wouldn't go as far as to become a monster.

Sora: A monster?! Well at least it's better than you becoming a Nobody, an empty shell without any heart.

Roxas:...Take that back.

Sora: And if I don't?

Roxas: (snarls) Then I will have to make you.

The two began to fight once again, unleashing everything that they had with each of the strikes. But Sora had an advantage...he had the asylum on his side.

Roxas: (steps back) Gotten cocky, haven't you? Well, I think it's time for me to—

He never finished that sentence as a dark vine grabbed him by the ankle and hurled him into another wall. Roxas had no time to react as more and more vines wrapped around his arms and legs, muffling him by having one thrusted inside his mouth. All he could do was look in fear as Sora approached his Nobody.

Sora: It ends here, Roxas. It all ends here. Say your prayers before I—

Jaune: Master Sora!

Jaune's voice momentarily stopped Sora as he saw the Hunter rush toward him.

Sora: Jaune, what is it?

Jaune: We have what you requested: the girl is in our grasps.

Sora: That's right, the plan. Thank you; you shall be greatly rewarded for your services.

Jaune: (bows) Anything for you, sir. But, if I may ask this...

Sora: You may...

Jaune: Before I encountered you, I heard your voice echoing across the halls. Were you talking to...yourself?

There was some silence before Sora looked at where Roxas was...or where he was supposed to be. There was some silence as he placed a hand over his heart, trying to figure out what had happened.

Jaune: You don't look good, sire. Maybe you should rest.

Sora: I can't...I won't. Not until the Darkness Proxy pay for their crimes.

Jaune: And I won't rest until I know that Pyrrha can rest in peace. Then, I will return to her.

Sora: Good. Prepare everyone else. When the Proxy comes, we will be raising cain.

Jaune: Understood. Take care, my lord.

As Jaune walked off, Sora tried to make sense as to what happened. Roxas was there...he was there and Sora was about to defeat him. And the talk of memories...of Metal Kor, and of Baron Praxis and Errol...did those happen? Were they a trick of his memories?

No. Just like he told Roxas earlier, Sora had complete trust in his memories...the ones that counted anyway. After the unnecessary things disappeared, he could see the real picture clear as day. He knew what he needed to do.

And yet...there was something else he needed to confirm. Turning around, he walked the endless corridor to the door marked with a heart. However, when he finally reached the end, there was nothing but a wall.

Sora: (places his hand on the wall, whispers) Dead end, huh?

Riku: (teleporting from behind) Sora, we need to get ready. Night is coming.

Sora: (turns around) Right. But first...Riku?

Riku: Yes?

Sora: I...I've been thinking of something recently. About how Donald, Goofy and I were fighting off the monster known as Metal Kor...but I don't recall anything about it. (places a hand on his forehead) I feel...(leans against a wall)

Riku: (helping Sora up) Metal Kor? Sora, I don't recall you ever fighting someone like him.

Sora: I...I also remember how Count Veger mistreated you when we were separated...it took me two years to find you again. You don't know how happy I was to see you again.

Riku: But Sora...I've never encountered anyone named Count Veger. There's something wrong with you.

It was then that the Keyblade Master noticed something off about his friend...the dark aura that radiated around him all while Sora stared back at the corridor. Something was wrong here.

Riku: Sora, lead the rest of the guards to the Proxy's castle. I'll stay here and keep an eye on the asylum.

Sora: Are you sure?

Riku: (nods his head) I'll be fine. Get going, night is approaching.

Sora nodded his head as he walked away all while Riku recalled what Sora said about Count Veger. He knew that something was off about the asylum, but now he knew that something was messing with Sora's mind.

Riku: Asylum...hear me out. I know you can hear me and I know you did something to Sora. (summons the Way to Dawn Keyblade) You better watch out; I'm coming for you.

He marched out of the hall all while somewhere deep in the asylum, there was a presence of concern that radiated through the walls.

Rewriting The Pantheonic Tales Without Overloading It With Personas

Muse Hysteria Act 1

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Tales of Life: Episode 8: Beneath Dark Wings

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