⌠ glossary ⌡

۞ the ark
the realm of which angels live and interact with each other. it occupies a different time and dimension than humans reside in, allowing angels to change the fates of humans.۞ soul
a permanent installment in all living things, except for those who succumb to corruption. the soul transcends lives and memories, though the memories retained across past lives may not be consciously retrievable. but the soul always remembers.
all living things possess a soul except gods and corrupted angels, including plants, bugs, etc.۞ the void
the Nothingness that all souls rest in after death, while their karmic value is totaled and their place in the next life is determined by the Council. it is a place for quiet reflection over one's actions throughout the most recent life.
angels have the longest rest period before they can return to the flow.۞ the flow
the stream of souls and all life forms awaiting rebirth.۞ chaos
the natural inclination towards disorder that plagues every living being, as an eternal test of the spirit from ENTROPY. those overcome by chaos become corrupted. in angels, this manifests as a chronic physical and mental deterioration that may become deadly, and in humans, this manifests as mental disorder.
chaos is enforced by ENTROPY.

۞ the gears of fate
the mechanism that controls and maintains the order and flow of events. manipulating the gears increases the total amount of chaos in the universe, as well as causing a temporal disruption in the initiator's cognition.۞ angel
eternal beings of light who reside in the ark and oversee the creatures that reside on earth. they have a number of responsibilities, delegated by the rulers of the ark. on death, they rest for a thousand years before reincarnating.
their wings and halos are unable to be observed by humans without the aid of special technology.۞ corrupted angel
angels who have been tainted by chaos, as per their karmic retribution upon birth. their sclera, wings, and halos turn grey or black over time, their blood thickens, they regain mortality and their souls wither away. this process is sometimes reversible if their karmic debt is resolved before death, but if not, it results in eventual and permanent death.۞ the council of rebirth & retribution
high-ranking angels in charge of determining the collective karmic value of a soul's current and past lives. they decide the form and conditions of a soul's next life.۞ karma
energy generated from a soul to preserve cosmic balance. karma is generated by a variety of factors - thoughts, willful choices, temperament, effort expended, responsibility, accountability, ambition, and generosity. karmic debt is accumulated by hostility, apathy, greed, selfishness, and laziness. at the end of a life, a soul's karma and karmic debt are zeroed out to determine their karmic retribution.
karma is enforced by FATE.

NOTE: ENTROPY does not entertain the notion of forgiveness. perhaps she'll learn to, in time.

03.ENTROPY

02.THE FORMER

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❝ if you demand the heavens when I have given you the world, then do not pray for rain when I give you the sun. ❞

when any metric of her body is attempted to be observed (other than physical measurements that can be perceived with the eye alone), it is not uncommon for the device to malfunction or outright break. human technology cannot comprehend what it has measured.

an entity of ORIGIN who created the universe along with the other three gods. when mankind demanded empathy and equality from her, she naïvely gave it to them, not realizing they had no intention of reciprocating. being an initially generous god, she had given up her immortality temporarily as a show of peace. mankind saw this as an opportunity to use her as an exchange for power, and IT died under horrific conditions. ITS energy was returned to the void, and IT spent a thousand years in quiet solitude before IT was able to resurrect and take its revenge.following ITS descent, ITS wings were left in the heavens, which GOD used to create the Ark from, and house all angels to separate them from humanity's rot.ENTROPY's halo is where her existence is stored after her death, as it was all that remained when her mortal body perished. her immortality is untouched, but her body differs from the rest of the gods in that it can be destroyed.though initially gentle, she now detests mankind and waits with bated breath for their extinction. their lives and deaths mean nothing to her, and she plays with their fates as if they're nothing but actors in a play of her own warped creation. she takes on the secondary name DIRECTOR as a narcissistic nod to her own egocentric behavior.in response, FATE excludes ENTROPY from allowing fate to work in tandem with her will, unlike the rest of the gods, damning her to the whims of it as well.

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❝ ...what use for endlessness does a finite, mortal creature who is shackled to temporal realm have? neither you nor your flimsy vessels could ever hope to contain eternity. ❞

03.Seraphiel

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seraphiel is a cute bean
that's all you need to know for now

05.Angel

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NOTE: Angel is known to refuse help even when they're not in a position to deny it. it seems they have deep-seated trust issues and a fair bit of paranoia.

❝ ...if god has forgiven you, he sure as hell didn't send me on his behalf to deliver the message. what do I look like, an angel? have you even seen this halo? ❞

your average delinquent nightmare who's no stranger to frequent confrontation, fighting, deceit, destruction of property, intoxication, and whatever else it is that those kids get up to. avoid making eye contact; they like to play with their food before they eat it.

Angel comes from an extremely abusive home life that was immediately followed by homelessness. they find it exceedingly difficult to meld with society, struggling to foster meaningful relationships and keep their aggression contained long enough to maintain a job.they possess frightening intelligence and have adapted to exploiting others for survival, so manipulating their way through life has become second nature - call it one of the gifts their mother bestowed upon them before her untimely death.they make a living by discreetly supplying and trading illicit substances, medical supplies, counterfeit technology, and weapons illegally. the shady nature of underground transactions means that inevitably, there's some dishonest practice happening in order to meet unrealistic demands of clients seeking illegal goods that may not even be attainable. and well, broken contracts, unfulfilled orders, and deception tend to make people disappear. they insist that they pursue this line of work out of necessity, but everyone around them recognizes that they're far more capable than they let on. the question on everyone's mind is: is this just thinly-veiled self sabotage?angel deeply fears any sort of emotional intimacy, as they live in a state of near constant hypervigilance and are unable to disengage survival mode long enough to develop social bonds.they've said that the only comforting certainty in their life is that their days are numbered. whether their story ends by betrayal, overdose, suicide, or murder — between their risk-taking behavior and line of work something will have to give eventually.

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NOTE: when the pronouns seem to be unclear, (as is often the case when speaking of seraphiel and angel together) angel's pronoun changes to "she".

❝ ...who cares if I kill myself or not. either I do it or someone else will, and I figure I've made enough work for everyone else already. ❞

07.Silence

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❝ ...why do we hope to live pure and righteous lives anyway when we're condemned from the start?... ❞

1 JOHN 1:9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness.

a troubled girl who has some sort of tie to the divine - she sees threatening messages and drawings of eyes scrawled over walls and around people, seemingly claiming that GOD IS WATCHING. whether it's a threat, a warning, or a twisted reassurance, something is coming, and no one will ever believe her when her premonitions are obfuscated by her existing paranoia and hallucinations.

one of angel's only friends. she's a soft-spoken girl of few words and prefers to communicate via an accessibility texting app, even face-to-face unless she has a particularly strong bond with the one she's communicating with. her turbulent home life has shaped most of her meek personality, but under angel's rough companionship, she hopes to be able to hold her own eventually.her parents have high expectations for success, strongly discourage when she speaks her mind, and are prominent members of the church; religion is a value that they've decided silence needs to structure her life around, fearing that she'll "succumb to the wiles of the devil" without it.to minimize conflict, she seeks to be as convenient and obedient as possible rather than a person who makes her own choices. when conflict is unavoidable, she chooses to turn to obsessive prayer, hoping a divine force will save her from her dilemma instead of taking action to change her situation.she feels trapped by the religious beliefs imposed upon her, but finds herself unable to escape them for fear of the consequences.

one question remains; who is her god?

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❝ if you weren't sent by God to save me...
...then, did you come here to save me from God? ❞

INFINITY
- created the angels and all living things
- created the concept of infinity
- its gift to humanity was morality
known as GOD to humans.CHAOS (ENTROPY)
- created the apocalypse
- created the universe
- responsible for entropy
- its first gift to humanity is equality
- its gift to humanity was futility
known as CHAOS to gods.LOGIC
- created time, space, causality
- its gift to humanity was curiosityFATE
- created coincidence, superstition, free will
- paradoxically also created fate, which even divinity must answer to