History Literature / DivisionByZero

* TheAce: [[WeDoTheImpossible Isleen]] [[ShroudedInMyth is]] [[TheLancer brilliant]], but she [[AloofAlly can disappear for days]] and [[IWasJustPassingThrough reappear without explanation]]. She habitually answers questions in a narrow, noncommittal manner and does not volunteer more than what’s required. She hoards time, space, energy, and access to herself. What you get are [[WhoNeedsEnemies signals of superiority and secrecy—intellectual arrogance]], an appearance of being above emotional expression and [[IWorkAlone beyond the need to explain herself]].

* TheAce: [[WeDoTheImpossible Isleen]] [[ShroudedInMyth is]] [[TheLancer brilliant]], but she can disappear for days and reappear without explanation. She habitually answers questions in a narrow, noncommittal manner and does not volunteer more than what’s required. She hoards time, space, energy, and access to herself. What you get are signals of superiority and secrecy—intellectual arrogance, an appearance of being above emotional expression and beyond the need to explain herself.

* TheAce: Though Kohana is labeled a prodigy by Celestial Beings, Hiroyuki himself admits Isleen is leagues above her in terms of magic and ability. During Isleen’s introduction in chapter 3, she [[spoiler: saves Kohana’s life and plows through a horde of Shadows with little effort. Where Kohana struggles with invoking her magic, Isleen displays mastery over hers. Hiroyuki does not feel the need to explain things to Isleen. In fact, he mentions Isleen uses abilities that are too advanced for Kohana to grasp at her current level, and is so impressed by her that he is convinced Isleen has known she is a Summoner for a while.]]

* AbusiveParents: Growing up, Kohana was respected for strength, assertion valued over compliance. She quickly found it necessary [[TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior to close down]], [[WiseBeyondTheirYears to be savvy]], [[ConditionedToAcceptHorror aggressive]], to be a good opponent, [[RebelliousSpirit and to learn to oppose]]. It’s difficult for her to have a relationship with someone she cannot push up against due to her poor relationship with her father. She’s awake to aggressive ploys: manipulation, passive aggression, and withholding information seem to be just as aggressive to her as honest anger. She meets covert hostility with direct confrontation. Kohana's father is a [[ParentalAbandonment deadbeat dad]], with intermittent servings of verbal abuse and why-don't-you-inherit-my-legacy-that-i-worked-hard-for?

* AbusiveParents: Growing up, Kohana was respected for strength, assertion valued over compliance. She quickly found it necessary to close down, to be savvy, aggressive, to be a good opponent, and to learn to oppose. It’s difficult for her to have a relationship with someone she cannot push up against due to her poor relationship with her father. She’s awake to aggressive ploys: manipulation, passive aggression, and withholding information seem to be just as aggressive to her as honest anger. She meets covert hostility with direct confrontation.

* CastFullOfGay: Kohana [[spoiler: has a crush on Isleen.]] Hiroyuki stutters over his words when he contacts D'ivoire, and mentions how attractive he is. Isleen, at the very least, [[spoiler: acknowledges Kohana’s crush by flirting with her.]]

[[FromBadToWorse Things escalate further]] under ''Division by Zero's'' surface. The multiverse Kohana is told she must save is the [[PiecesOfGod rotting body of God]]. We are all accidents in the universe and our existence is totally arbitrary, [[HumansAreInsects having the same significance as bugs]] in a much grander struggle between cosmic forces that Kohana finds herself taking center-stage for.

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Being a MagicalGirl has never been so stressful.

[[FromBadToWorse Things escalate further]]. The multiverse Kohana must save is the [[PiecesOfGod rotting body of the God]]. We are all accidents in the universe and our existence is totally arbitrary, [[HumansAreInsects having the same significance as bugs]] in a much grander struggle between cosmic forces that Kohana finds herself taking center-stage for. [[HaveYouSeenMyGod There is a complete absence of a divine presence]] in the multiverse, and we are insignificant in the [[BlueAndOrangeMorality larger scheme of intergalactic existence]]. Perhaps we humans are just [[InsignificantLittleBluePlanet a small species]] [[HumansAreMorons projecting our own mental idolatries]] onto the vast cosmos, ever susceptible to being wiped from existence at any moment by some ''thing'' that could destroy the multiverse with no preparation, intent, or effort, with the same ease it takes [[CessationOfExistence for you to step on an ant]].

->''"Life is a punishment. You are God pretending that you are not, reliving the same life over and over and over and over again until you have gotten it right."''
--> — Wren, (iii. i’m drowning here on solid ground / i’ll step lightly lest I grow tired of the search for the cure for apathy, was it her?)

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[[caption-width-right:350: [[TheOldGods What beast must I worship]]? [[KillTheGod What sacred images should I destroy]]? [[AMillionIsAStatistic What hearts shall I break]]? What [[DoUntoOthersBeforeTheyDoUntoUs lies am I supposed to believe]]? [[HeWhoFightsMonsters March through whose blood]]?]]

->''"[[ItSucksToBeTheChosenOne This isn’t like my mother’s stories]], nor is it like the shōjo manga that I read. I don’t [[FiveManBand have 4 friends]] to help me who also have Summoner powers. I don’t have a [[MentorMascot helpful mascot]]. There isn’t anyone around to [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold be my witty love-interest]] that [[RescueRomance saves me when I am in distress]]. [[ICantDoThisByMyself I can’t do this by myself]]. I’m not sure how long [[StepfordSnarker I can keep convincing myself I can]]."''
--> — Kohana Outtaike, (iv. it takes so long for you to realize / ten thousand years won’t save your life.)

[[http://divisionbyzeros.com/i-is-this-darkness-in-you-too-have-you-passed-through-this-night/ Division by Zero]] is a [[ScienceFantasy Science Fantasy]] web serial novel written by Solange Salgado. On the surface, ''Division by Zero'' is about Kohana Outtaike, a 15-year-old, Afro-Asian girl [[note]]Kohana is nonbinary, demigender to be specific, but does not mind being called my feminine terms.[[/note]] from Earth who finds herself in the middle of a multiversal, [[ForeverWar eons-old]] cosmic war. What she thought would be a night of sneaking out, setting up shop in a tree, and stargazing at 4AM turned into a fight for her life against an EldritchAbomination that [[BloodKnight goes around destroying planets for fun]]. She is [[YouWillKnowWhatToDo guided through the battle]] by Hiroyuki D’Accardi, an alien from another universe who came looking for her, and is then told that she is both a [[PlanetDestroyer cosmic weapon]] and [[YoungAndInCharge his planet’s]] [[ChildSoldier military]] [[FourStarBadass general]]. Things only escalate from there: the Earth [[AlienInvasion is being invaded]] [[AboveTheGods by Shadows]], and Kohana is [[EnemiesWithDeath being hunted by Death]].

[[http://divisionbyzeros.com/i-is-this-darkness-in-you-too-have-you-passed-through-this-night/ Division by Zero]] is a [[ScienceFantasy Science Fantasy]] web serial novel written by Solange Salgado. On the surface, ''Division by Zero'' is about Kohana Outtaike, a 15-year-old, Afro-Asian girl [[note]]Kohana is nonbinary, demigender to be specific.[[/note]] from Earth who finds herself in the middle of a multiversal, [[ForeverWar eons-old]] cosmic war. What she thought would be a night of sneaking out, setting up shop in a tree, and stargazing at 4AM turned into a fight for her life against an EldritchAbomination that [[BloodKnight goes around destroying planets for fun]]. She is [[YouWillKnowWhatToDo guided through the battle]] by Hiroyuki D’Accardi, an alien from another universe who came looking for her, and is then told that she is both a [[PlanetDestroyer cosmic weapon]] and [[YoungAndInCharge his planet’s]] [[ChildSoldier military]] [[FourStarBadass general]]. Things only escalate from there: the Earth [[AlienInvasion is being invaded]] [[AboveTheGods by Shadows]], and Kohana is [[EnemiesWithDeath being hunted by Death]].

Here is where the very basis of cosmicism comes into play in a/0: being a multiverse-set story, all inhabitants of the multiverse (gods, immortals and all) [[HumansAreInsects have the same significance as bugs]] in a much grander struggle between cosmic forces that Kohana finds herself taking center-stage for. Due to everyone else’s small, unimportant nature and the incomprehensibility in which a/0’s conflict presents itself, they cannot recognize, prevent or protect themselves from Kohana's foe, and it is ''Kohana'' who finds herself given the responsibility to protect everyone in the multiverse from ''it'' regardless of their own cosmic struggles, because [[SurrealHorror they cannot protect themselves]] against [[YouCannotGraspTheTrueForm what is impossible]] to [[RealityIsOutToLunch know]] and [[GoMadFromTheRevelation fathom]].

''Division by Zero'' shows its readers that there is a [[HaveYouSeenMyGod complete absence of a divine presence]] in the multiverse, and that everything else is insignificant in the [[BlueAndOrangeMorality larger scheme of intergalactic existence]]. Perhaps we humans are just [[InsignificantLittleBluePlanet a small species]] [[HumansAreMorons projecting our own mental idolatries]] onto the vast cosmos, ever susceptible to being wiped from existence at any moment by some ''thing'' that could destroy the multiverse with no preparation, intent, or effort, with the same ease it takes [[CessationOfExistence for you to step on an ant]].

[[http://divisionbyzeros.com/i-is-this-darkness-in-you-too-have-you-passed-through-this-night/ Division by Zero]] is a [[ScienceFantasy Science Fantasy]] web serial novel written by Solange Salgado. On the surface, ''Division by Zero'' is about Kohana Outtaike, a 15-year-old, Afro-Asian girl [[note]]Kohana is nonbinary, demigender to be specific.[[/note]] from Earth who finds herself in the middle of a multiversal, [[ForeverWar eons-old]] cosmic war. What she thought would be a night of sneaking out, setting up shop in a tree, and stargazing at 4AM turned into a fight for her life against an EldritchAbomination that goes around destroying planets for fun. She is [[YouWillKnowWhatToDo guided through the battle]] by Hiroyuki D’Accardi, an alien from another universe who came looking for her, and is then told that she is both a [[PlanetDestroyer cosmic weapon]] and [[YoungAndInCharge his planet’s]] [[ChildSoldier military]] [[FourStarBadass general]]. Things only escalate from there: the Earth [[AlienInvasion is being invaded]] [[AboveTheGods by Shadows]], and Kohana is [[EnemiesWithDeath being hunted by Death]].

Here is where the very basis of cosmicism comes into play in a/0: being a multiverse-set story, all inhabitants of the multiverse (gods, immortals and all) [[HumansAreInsects have the same significance as bugs]] in a much grander struggle between cosmic forces that Kohana finds herself taking center-stage for. Due to everyone else’s small, unimportant nature and the incomprehensibility in which a/0’s conflict presents itself, they cannot recognize, prevent or protect themselves from Kohana's foe, and it is ''Kohana'' who finds herself given the responsibility to protect everyone in the multiverse from ''it'' regardless of their own cosmic struggles, because [[SurrealHorror they cannot protect themselves]] against [[YouCannotGraspTheTrueForm what is impossible]] to [[RealityIsOutToLunch know]] and [[GoMadFromTheRevelation fathom]].

[[http://divisionbyzeros.com/i-is-this-darkness-in-you-too-have-you-passed-through-this-night/ Division by Zero]] is a [[ScienceFantasy Science Fantasy]] web serial novel written by Solange Salgado. Influenced by shōjo and shōnen manga, it follows the life of Kohana Outtaike, a [[WideEyedIdealist naïve 15-year-old girl]] who makes up for her idealism in [[LittleMissSnarker endless sarcasm]]. Visited by an alien from another universe named Hiroyuki D'accardi, she is told she is a [[PlanetDestroyer cosmic weapon]] called a Summoner and must assume her role as his planet's extraterrestrial war general. She is 1 of 8 Summoners, and is encouraged by Hiroyuki to find the others scattered throughout the cosmos. Kohana is a [[MagicalGirl Magical Girl]] who [[WillNotBeAVictim refuses to be beaten no matter what]]; using her universe-destroying powers, she must fight those who are as strong as her in order to protect the multiverse from a great, unknown evil.

A CosmicHorrorStory, Kohana fights [[EldritchAbomination Eldritch Abominations]] called [[TheHeartless Shadows]] who travel the multiverse [[OmnicidalManiac destroying planets]] [[BloodKnight for fun]]. They are led by a being called [[MotherOfAThousandYoung the umbrakinetic]] who strengthens their assault on the Earth as Kohana comes into her power.

Division by Zero shows its readers that there is a [[HaveYouSeenMyGod complete absence of a divine presence]] in the multiverse, and that everything else is insignificant in the [[BlueAndOrangeMorality larger scheme of intergalactic existence]]. Perhaps we humans are just [[InsignificantLittleBluePlanet a small species]] [[HumansAreMorons projecting our own mental idolatries]] onto the vast cosmos, ever susceptible to being wiped from existence at any moment by some ''thing'' that could destroy the multiverse with no preparation, intent, or effort, with the same ease it takes [[CessationOfExistence for you to step on an ant]].

** Alpha, GodEmperor of the First Universe, does not tell Wednesday who Clotho is so much as he lists her personality traits: indifferent, childish, and [[RespectedByTheRespected selfish with a universe-destroying temper]]. Alpha is not afraid of the Umbrakinetic, but Clotho puts fear into the very marrow of his bones. Death is final and forever. It is inevitable, a physical ending as well as a psychological ending, a release from the burden of existence. [[MiseryBuildsCharacter But life is hard]]. Life is suffering. It is complex, challenging, a struggle. Life is a FateWorseThanDeath.

He has the type of beauty that would make strangers do anything for him. I would’ve done anything for him, had I not pulled myself together when we met in the same spot I fought that Shadow in. He overwhelmed me.