#faileon

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Contains injury to a minor - about 14 y.o. If you think that might upset you, please, avoid reading this. It isn't too graphic imo, but yeah. If you know you can't handle it just skip it, take care of yourself first. (he survives and gets better after this btw)

"What's that sound...?" Lissele said, mostly to herself.

Rennard was the closest and heard her. "What sound?"

"Probably just a deer, but..." she listened harder. Something didn't seem right. The steps were eratic, heavy... And they were quickly getting closer. She froze. In a haze, she turned around several times, trying to locate it, before regaining clearer thinking again. "Draw your weapons!"

Sorontur and Rennard did so immediately.

L'amieil first flinched, then prepared his bow.

Barret took a stronger hold of Storm's reigns and drew his axe.

Faileon put a rock in his slingshot and began spinning it.

Lissele's ears rotated like crazy, desperate to locate the sound, but it seemed to be moving so fast... One second it was in front of her, the next it was in the complete opposite direction.

And then suddenly... it stopped. "What-" began Rennard, but she shushed him. "Rude," he whispered.

The silence weigh on her. It grabbed a handful of her guts and squeezed. It coursed through her veins. It polluted the air in her lungs.

Quick as lightning, from her right, came an enourmous shadow. She didn't turn around fast enough.

A scream. An ear shattering, soul crushing scream.

OH BOY I'VE BEEN WAITING MY WHOLE LIFE Okay okay calm down.

Thank you so much anon you have no idea how much this means to me TT__TT

Lissele is an OC I've spent like 9 years with. She began as a Mary Sue, but evolved into a person with flaws and strengths and most importantly someone her world needs.

She was created as an art project of the gods, to mirror how I made her. This is what she looks like in my head, with the wing size growing with age.

Because she isn't only human, but a combination of creatures, her body runs on magic as well as food. As long as she has at least one of those, her body will live, more or less. Her soul cannot die at all, though. The god of death is forbidden from taking it.

The point of her creation was to have someone guide and protect humanity, so the gods wouldn't have to interfere as much on earth. That resulted in many breakdowns over the years, because How Could one person do all that? Even though their world is much smaller than ours. Well, turns out they can't! But the gods are stupid.

Once in a while there's big stuff happening, that could result in uncountable deaths. And when she fails to prevent those, she often falls into depression because she Should Be Able To Help shouldn't she? She was made for that, right? So why was she unable to? Does she just not try hard enough? And it's really just gifted child syndrome but blown out of proportion. When everyone tells you you're so talented, but you're struggling so much it doesn't seem true. It's like they see someone completely different.

She is... A complicated character. On one hand she's been so beat down by everything over the millenia, she just wants to give up and die. On the other, she realises her presence Can help. And she tries to, as much as she can, because it also makes her happy. Mostly little things: helping someone carry their bag or fetch something or get someone. But also the big, as stated above.

She's mostly kind, or at least tries to be, but can be harsh, when she needs something urgently. She gets startled easily. Her favourite colour is green. She loves children and is good at taking care of them. She's even raised a few. (she can't have children of her own, they were someone else's)

The kids she helped raise most recently were and Faileon and Sorontur, other favourite OCs of mine.

I should probably stop now, before someone puts a bullet thru my head lol-