Lightning, water, and fire! Like forever before the plot starts. By the time the plot starts, the lightning and fire deities have been subjected to punishment by the two gods that picked them.
Oh (the fire deity) is first to be punished. They basically decide that since they're going to live for a long time, gotta set some long time goals! And they opt to be the wrath of the gods since most of the other deities are too 'soft' in their opinion. So Oh just. Smites humans. This isn't really a /good/ thing and in their defense mentally, they do it to help Ymber since he's the softest of them all. So their punishment by the gods is to be split in two, effectively halving the power of one into two. (Now they are in a male and a female body and use both male and female pronouns apart since they together make they but apart it feels weird to be they. But prior to the split they use they/them. Also the split bodies go by the names Ohiwe and Ohime.)
Fulj is the second to be punished. She falls in love with a mortal woman and that is a crime according to the gods. Mortals and immortals are not to be together and it will only bring suffering to both sides. So her punishment is her memories of the woman are stripped and her body basically broken to the point she can't remain physical all the time.
Ymber, unfortunately, is the one who blames himself for the discoveries and punishments. If he had only tried to restrain Oh more then maybe they would have chilled out and stopped before being punished. If he had only tried to persuade Fulj to not continue seeing the mortal woman so often perhaps she wouldn't have been punished. So he's just increasing the guilt on his shoulders every day that he remains unpunished since the elder gods have both laid down to rest. They can't enforce their laws anymore and none of the deities are keen on harming one another at this point. They just want to continue existing in peace.
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[ATEEZ X Six of Crows] Jeong Yunho as Matthias Helvar
Jeong Yunho was raised to hate.
It was never said out loud, never spelled out explicitly, yet it was carved into the very essence of the drüskelle – its roots running as deep as the sacred ash tree’s of the White Island. The drüskelle was the salvation, the only shield against the monsters that used witchcraft to kill the innocent and spread corruption through the world.
And the world was as simple as that, just black and white.
Orphaned and alone, Yunho never got the chance to challenge these values because the sense of belonging, the safety of being part of their country’s sacred brotherhood, was much too compelling. It was everything a Fjerdan boy could hope to achieve, the greatest honour to befell them in their life.
Yet, despite being their best fighter, Yunho could never truly belong.
Like his wolf companion, he was trouble. He questioned and resisted, just barely enough to be visible, yet through the years he grew into an entirely different shape. He was a birch tree amongst a forest of ash trees, the one who yearned to see beyond the confines of their worldview.
He was someone who never stopped wondering.
But it took a disaster, the touch of death and a stubborn witch who refused to break without a fight, to truly open his eyes. It was slow going, much like the maturing of a tree, but he began to see where lies were told as truths. Where the blind fear and hate set so deeply, it became part of everything he knew.
There was more to the world than what he knew it as. It wasn’t just black and white, but everything in between, and he hoped to show it to his people, too.
Jeong Yunho was raised to hate, yet he learned to open his heart to love to take root in, and even betrayal and the shackles of Hellgate couldn’t tear these new roots out.
(@applejongho 😉)
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Pspspsps it’s ya anon 🦋 I wanted to say:) hope you like the photos of my kitty! But I wanted to ask! If ok could you do a comfort ask? If not 100% that’s ok!!! But if ok can I have big moth baby seeing reader sobbing from stress. They’ve just had enough with the day. :( todays just been a lot and I just want childe to cuddle and try and comfort the reader in any way reallt:( sorry about the rushed and jumbled ask:( thank you! 🦋
of course, dear anon!! i hope life gets easier and you feel so much better very soon <333
ah, if Childe sees you crying... he has to hold himself back from crying, too. if you're sad, he's sad, since it tears at his heart to see you hunched over trying to muffle your cries behind a hand. so he comes up behind you and carefully wraps his arms around your torso, giving you a reassuring squeeze when you start in surprise. seeing Childe makes you wipe your tears away, like nothing's wrong, but he nudges his head under your chin with a knowing whimper, and the shaky smile you plastered on your face fades. you exhale, trying to keep everything together, but tears start flowing against your will and soon you're covering your face with your hands again to try and hide your sobs
Childe whines in concern, blinking his own tears away and cupping your cheeks in his hands, claws pressing delicately at your skin. you feel him press his forehead against yours, purring deeply like he's trying to heal you, take away your sadness and stress. winding your hands in his fluff, you allow Childe to scoop and carry you like you're a treasure, like you're something precious, and he gives your face quick licks to wash away the tears- it makes you laugh against all odds, Childe crooning at the sound as he swipes his thumbs under your eyes as well. he sits down, in the nest of blankets he's constructed, but doesn't release you, instead covering you and his lap with a soft quilt and gently patting your head. when he sees you falling asleep, exhausted from living and life in general, he almost removes his hand until you reach out and bring it back to your hair, nuzzling into his touch
the stress isn't entirely gone, but you doze off with the knowledge that Childe is here to help, and you'll get through this to see the dawn of a better tomorrow <33
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