#... for now

Yep, I'm doing more stuff for this Au. I'm still working on Coal and Jacaranda solo pages, but for now you have this two!

"Body slick with sweat and trembling, Mavis collapsed onto the floor and could do nothing but watch as the walls caught and the sconces burned. Her hearing tunneled, the Oracle’s cries nothing more than whispers. The building began to crumble, chunks of stone falling to the ground, and she lay there, blinking slowly, her breaths heavy, and her body alight."

DETAILS

☆genre : fantasy ☆pov : third//multi ☆themes : martyrdom & victimhood, fate, human divinity, grief of a nation & oneself ☆status : drafting ☆draft # : 3

CHARACTERS

☆mavis : believes the world is inherently rotten. her parents abandoned her, demons terrorize the streets, and in her most vulnerable moment, the people of the world she is meant to save did not pause to help her. and now she knows that she was saved for the sole purpose of dying an even more agonizing death in service of a world she does not care for ☆an :  inherited a fracturing empire in the wake of a plague that has all but completely destroyed it. when a girl with the power of a god shipwrecks on his island, he is forced to reckon with what is right and what his people need ☆juai: has spent her whole life without imperfection in order to prove to her family that the mercy of letting her live was not a mistake. she is willing to pay them back with everything she has, whether it be through magic or marriage. but meeting mavis reveals wants in her she didn't know she had; although she understands mavis is marked for death, the more she gets to know her, the more she needs that not to be true

SYNOPSIS

Mavis was born to die. A thousand years ago, a young girl burdened with the power of a god sacrificed herself to save her people and became known as "The Death of the Empire." Now, Mavis has been born with that same purpose-- to sacrifice herself for the greater good-- completely unbeknownst to her. She lives within the kingdom of Yvelin inside of its wretched capital city, Rohaire, lorded over by the Blood King and his host of demons. Until one day Mavis makes a shocking discovery and the demons smell un-captured magic in the air and come for both her and her adopted father, leaving only tragedy in their wake. Alone and with powers she doesn't know how to control, she flees and shipwrecks within the archipelago nation of Catar where she must hide both her abilities and her foreign identity in order to receive the aid she needs and fulfill the prophecy, even if it means sacrificing herself.

EXCERPT

Mavis’s heart stuttered in her chest, both from fear and the sickening knowledge that there was nothing to be done. She had been born to die and she would, no matter what. «It will be painless. You saw Imene, how she smiled.» I’m not worried about pain. It was true. Why worry about pain when she was too consumed by the grief of knowing that she had so little time left and had not even lived much of life? Why am I a Champion? Why not just call me a martyr? «You are not a martyr yet.»

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