#Beneath the Hood a Cold Hand Beckons || Worldbuilding

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Deity is one of the oldest, if not the oldest, things of the multiverse. There are a few other deities, or Origins, as I have slowly leaned more and more to call them, but there are not many of them.

Origins are more or less where the multiverse's roots are. That's where the world and all its chances begin. Origins are not like gods or people, they are more like. Nature? They're a force rather than something with the same sentience and emotions that gods from say, mythology are shown to have. Their will is to create, to continue. They can, however, make bodies for themselves even if just to leave a message. Which is why Deity was shattered and left as they are now.

MOST worlds stem from Origin worlds. But not all.

Everything that exists in the multiverse is made because someone thought of it. Some worlds exist purely because someone thought of them. What may be fiction in one world becomes reality in another.

Worlds like that are not entirely disconnected from the multiverse, or from the Origins, but they are somewhat of a singularity in the whole. But that's about the only difference. Worlds can collide. Worlds can pass through each other. You may get visions of what could be in parallel worlds, much like the Mandela effect. People can disappear and maybe you're the only person that notices. Maybe some worlds are a mixture of someone else's fiction and your real world.

Some singularities can entirely disconnect from the multiverse as a whole, it's much rarer than the simple existence of another world. That'll usually exist within its own bubble.

And the multiverse more or less works on the principle of a black hole's time dilation. There's denser power closer to the Origins, meaning time actually moves slower closer to the Origin worlds. As the worlds get further and further away, the perception of time will speed up.

Which is why Solita ages so slowly, is because the "time" that her Origin soul trumps over the aging of the world around her.

This isn't even going into the whole quantum physics shit where there's the idea of jumping into an alternate timeline of the past and technically being able to change the future in your timeline-

The past and present can exist simultaneously, separately, while still affecting each other all the same.

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I'm thinking about Solita and Deity's relationship in a lot of ways.

I'm thinking about Deity in a lot of ways.

Deity is a force of nature forced into form. They are everything, used to seeing and feeling everything. In their true form, all living things are basically ants. The world, the multiverse, is an ant farm.

And then there's Solita.

Forced to be the errand girl for that force of nature. Shouldering responsibilities well beyond her means, and punished harshly for not meeting them. Deity can't do anything on their own. Solita has facilitated the means to have basically an infinite supply of manpower without the need to make deals.

And I have to reiterate this: Deity's end goal is not evil. Their treatment of Solita is.

Deity is a shattered god, a shattered force, that makes up reality itself. One of very few pillars that holds up the multiverse. Naturally, it has some instabilities, and naturally, Deity wants to return to their true self so that everything they, and the other pillars that hold up reality, worked to make isn't gone.

The situation isn't as simple as saving Solita. There's the consideration of something breaking down if Deity doesn't return to themselves soon enough.

The needs of one vs the needs of many.

And Solita is aware of this. Solita knows the circumstances that she's under with Deity. She knows exactly why her hands are covered in blood.

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Thinking of a situation where Sol asks for Deity's help.

A situation where Solita shows herself as more than just a wilting flower to Deity's whims.

A moment where Solita flexes how well she really knows Deity, and how she can get under their skin if she really wants to.

Just a moment to let shine the bond the two actually have. It's hard sometimes to show more than just an abuser and their victim, but it's so much deeper than that?

Deity is Solita's parent, her creator. To the deepest depths of her soul, they know her. While her quirks from world-jumping have gone beyond the realm of their expectation, Deity more or less made Sol from the ground up.

For Sol, she's witnessed Deity grow since their shattering. From something that was more of a concept, to a near-person having to be forced to take a physical form to be able to interact with the world around them. Sol has basically watched Deity grow a personality and learn their own emotions. From developing a controlling streak to just their curiosity about the things that people make by hand.

While apart they are two independent people, Sol and Deity kind of grew into being two halves of the same whole. And developed a dependency on one another, and on some level, there's separation anxiety between them.

The difference between Solita's true ending versus her Abandoned verse is all in how attached Deity truly is to Solita. It's are they attached enough to take pity on her and fulfill her wish, letting her pass on in a peaceful death? Or are they attached in the way of disregarding her feelings, leaving her behind with a "gift" and leaving her no better off than being an abandoned doll?

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Thinking of starting to refer to Deity as an Origin.

Like Solita is from an Origin world and Deity was the one who made that said world. Before they were shattered, they weren't as simple as a god. They were a force of nature. Omniecent, omnipotent, omnipresent. They were the world itself. They were the one that kept it stable.

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Thinking about old AUs Sol had, there was a spinoff one with Perse.phone in Sol's body. While Sol was "asleep" for the most part, and Seph controls her body, but Sol basically immediately takes control of her body when she is awake. With Seph in her body, it's a loophole in her deal with Deity because she isn't alone, there's a whole other person inside her body. It helps Seph would probably blast Deity out of existence. But it's a temporary solution to Sol's problem.

There's another one that I won't talk on too much just bc I don't talk to the person who I had this au with anymore, but through killing a deity, Solita inherited that deity's power, and replaced them. It became a permanent solution to Sol's deal with deity, as it severed her connection to them, and she eventually hunted the shards down and destroyed them.

Solita's "spirit" is very possibly stronger than most deities. Cheating since for one, it's an Origin soul since those are a commodity in it of themselves, the "roots" of an ever-growing tree. On top of that, she collects the souls of herself unwillingly every time she dies, and those souls eventually amalgamate, and eventually there's only small blank souls that hang around her. Like a big bunch of balloons, and a bigger balloon is hidden inside of the bunch.

The amount inside her body can almost consume most curses and more spiritual magic people may try to use on her. It's just Solita is human, not originated from a world where magic truly existed, and not equipped to handle the power that's in her body, and the souls can more or less retaliate against her body and kill her from the inside because everything inside her just has nowhere to go. And since she has absolutely no basis, trying to get into it now that there's SO MUCH going on, is near-impossible.

Imagine trying to use magic to light a candle. Sol attempting that would probably blow up the entire house.

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Thinking about how Sol and Deity's deal works again.

Like. Solita still has free will. She has the ability to say no. It's just Deity can retaliate.

The deal they have is "if you do as i say you will never be lonely again." Deity can "ask" her to basically have her body torn apart from the inside. They have full control over her through the nature of just how vague do as i say is. But, obviously, no opens her up to a world of pain that even death can't save her from.

I'm thinking kinda hard about the intricacies of like. If Sol breaks the agreement with refusing what they ask, can Deity break it? After leaving her to deal with the consequences of not doing as they ask, can they just leave her drowning in her own blood in complete isolation? Just hmmm.

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thinking about Deity's design again and i think im gonna mix a few ideas.

More or less Deity is a shapeshifter. They're already a silhouette of a person, but that silhouette can change to resemble other people. Their body is quite strange-looking, which is usually kept under a cloak to at least appear less so. And also less eye-catching.

Solita is probably one of the few people who's seen Deity without their cloak, and I can imagine Deity taunting her by changing their appearance to match people she likes.

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Imagine like. Getting touched by Deity? It probably would feel like getting touched by a corpse. Deity has no real heat, although they can make others feel warm by touching them.

Well, they can make the person Deity is touching to feel any way they please. If a person doesn't have a deal with Deity, manipulation of their body has to be done through touch. But Deity is basically capable of endless possibilities. A broken god that is partially responsible for reality is still incredibly powerful, even in pieces.

But, sometimes their power still is a little out of their control. A touch may give you images of somewhere else. Maybe the world through the eyes of a different shard, or maybe, just maybe, a small glimpse into the Origin world that they created.

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If I were to liken an Origin Soul to anything, I'd probably use the same thing I referred to an Origin World as, a black hole. Of course, the effects of an Origin Soul really only effect anyone who branches off of that person. Sol's soul is in it of itself a singularity that'll slowly eat alive any version of herself that has the misfortune of getting too close. And the Origin will just grow and grow the more it comes into contact with fractions of itself.

Involving anything from an Origin world is a consequence Deity wouldn't have wanted, but it's practically given them free reign with Solita and any version of herself that follows. They don't need to search for someone to do their dirty work when they've basically got the golden goose.

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If we're talking about the different shards, they're all at different levels of power and, despite being a hivemind, power is not shared between them. Deals are not shared between each shard either. Deity is careful with the shard that has Solita's deal, so it leans towards being rather weaker. Last thing they need is for that specific shard to get caught up in something unexpected and to lose Solita.

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Okay just bc I forgot to mention it last night, I’m gonna explain origin world’s time and how branch world’s times become distorted as they branch further from the origin.

Essentially, time goes faster the further away from origin worlds are. It works much like how time distorts in the presence of a black hole? If you throw something at a black hole, the theory goes that time slows down until the object is perceived to be frozen in time. Multiverse traversal can be a bit complicated at times because of that. 

Because Sol’s Origin soul basically trumps all else, the changes in the flow of time don’t effect her, but she effects how time effects her own body. 

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Semi-Selective, mutual-only independent RP blog for two fandomless OCs. Written by Fawn (21+, she/they) originally est. 2017. Remade 2021. 

A character study in: Manic pixie dream girls, the black swan theory and symbolism, the beauty in unpredictability, the manipulated, being your own worst enemy, trauma bonds, toxic dependency, the consequences of choice and lack thereof, never being able to return home, existential horror, the horror of immortality, paradoxes, the multiverse, death and revival, the inability to be honest even to oneself, the needs of all versus the needs of one, being unable to save someone who doesn't want to be saved, and more.

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Rules updated - 1/31/24 Solita updated - 2/15/24 Deity updated - 1/31/24 Verses updated - 2/07/24 Bonds updated - 7/26/23

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There's some level of instability in the multiverse since Deity was shattered. While realities can bend and sometimes brush against each other, causing epiphanies, and Mandela effects, sometimes there's more extreme examples when people can get dropped from one world into the next. It's a fairly rare occurrence, it calls for some pretty large instabilities for a world to bend enough to practically eject someone.

Unfortunately, this is something Sol has experienced on more than one occasion due to practically being a walking anomaly. An Origin soul outside of where it belongs, and a mass of lives that shouldn't be.

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Not me realizing that Deity’s bio might not be as clear as I’d like it to be..

So more or less when Deity makes deals with people, any other world that may split from the decisions of that one person are basically under Deity’s control. When the person under Deity’s control dies, every world connected to that specific version of the person more or less get destroyed and turned into energy that Deity can then take themselves. 

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Thinking about how it’s totally possible for a shard of Deity to be powerful like that set of panels I posted a while back. Some shards are more powerful than others, the one that has Solita’s deal being the weakest of the bunch, as that piece spends most of their time managing Solita and any other offshoot of her that they might be utilizing. That shard is real easy to kill, but more powerful ones take more effort.

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In the multiverse, Deity is a creator of an “original” world. It does not branch off from anything else, and is something purely of their creation. There are several other “original” worlds, each with their own creator. Those creators do not interact with the worlds outside of those base worlds, nor do they really bother with each other. Those who are not from the original worlds cannot enter them, and if they aren’t the creators themselves, if they leave they will not be able to re-enter them. 

There can be smaller versions of original worlds, creations by those who are unaware of them. They act in similar matters to true original worlds. 

Original worlds can be a bit unstable at times, and the people within even moreso. Especially if an orignal soul is somehow taken from an original world, without something to anchor it, they can be awfully erratic. In Solita’s case, she has two things. Her original creator, and another soul in which her own was tethered to for Deity’s benefit. 

Time moves much slower in original worlds, and the further a branch in the multiverse strays from the origin, it will speed up. Usually people moving from world to world would adjust in the same manner, but with an original, it’s almost impossible to change without being the one who made it in the first place. An original will affect something, rather than be the one affected.