True Verse Ylah and Titus

“True” as in (in-world) this was the path that was Supposed to happen.

In the main verse story, Ylah goes against fate to save Macrides from a death at the claws of his father Korgrove, instead dying in his place. I had wrote and drawn some things about how Ylah post-death becomes a sort of lesser-god lower-management for the god of Fate, and sees all past versions of themself from that place. Each sees that future version of themself, and swears that they won’t end up like that. But they All Do, something Ylah chalks up to Nature, and a lack of True Free Will.

So True Verse is like. What if one of them didn’t make the same choice? And had to live with the knowledge that they’re some unhappy anomaly that didn’t save the person they loved? They feel guilty about that, so they try to keep him alive in any way they can; at first by filling the roles he was supposed to hold in the Mortal Realm, and then by deciding to find some way to Bring Him Back.

Titus is there too, taken in by Ylah as his new parental figure. Instead of being raised in the woods however, Ylah (a person much less accustomed to Roughing It than Macrides) lives and raises him in Society (note: still figuring out whether that’s in Pironbury or if Ylah would have migrated further)

I’m still figuring it all out but as you can probably tell I’m getting lots of inspiration for this; highlighted thoughts include:

Themes of missing someone you feel responsible for losing, parental figures who’s absence defines your childhood but still must be regarded well, found family, responsibility and duty, What Should vs What Is vs What Can

Twelve year old Titus beating up extraplanar beings with a baseball bat