HOLY / BURNED !

VERSE: FAIRY TAIL.

a demon. one born to her state long before zeref created his own demons. yui shizuka is considered a gorgon. a woman who resides in solitude in the ruins of an old temple, where she is worshipped by a neighbouring village that simply calls her the lamia. she is considered dangerous yet a revered creature, thought to bring peace and safety to the little village below the temple and its mountain. more creature than woman, though she is still considered docile until her domain is interfered without permission. 

before she was born, her mother was cursed to only bare monstrous looking children. this curse is of unknown origin but believed to have been placed there by a mage who practiced dark magic. the reasoning is unknown.

similar to her main verse, she has a venomous bite along with many snake-like attributes to her appearance. more info about that is here.

her nickname was given to her by the villagers long ago and additionally has connections to the guild lamia scale. some time before the main events, a member of lamia scale was given the task to destroy her but was unsuccessful. however, they did injure yui and obtained a number of her scales, which was used to say that the beast was killed.

𝗘𝗬𝗘𝗦  𝗔𝗚𝗟𝗢𝗪  𝗪𝗜𝗧𝗛  𝗖𝗛𝗜𝗟𝗗𝗟𝗜𝗞𝗘  𝗪𝗢𝗡𝗗𝗘𝗥,   𝗜𝗭𝗨𝗞𝗨  𝗛𝗢𝗟𝗗𝗦  𝗧𝗛𝗘  𝗕𝗢𝗢𝗞  𝗗𝗘𝗟𝗜𝗖𝗔𝗧𝗘𝗟𝗬  𝗜𝗡  𝗛𝗔𝗡𝗗𝗦 .      while  always  driven by the heroes of now and the heroes he would read in comics,   there was something to be said about legends of old,   stories that have withstood the test of time to be retold again and again.     he glances to the book and back up to the librarian      ╱      she always had such keen sense of people.     perhaps this tale would only cement izuku’s love for heroism,   seeing it in different forms      ⸺      and if she believes  he  will enjoy the iliad,   who was he to complain ?

❝    thank you,   miss shizuka !     i promise to take care of the book.    ❞     the freckled boy cracks open the book to look at the contents      ⸺      he gazes at the names,   some of them acutely familiar,   and looks back up to the woman.     ❝    i recognise the names of some of these heroes.     hector,   ajax,   achilles …     hmm.     miss,   they all have tragic deaths,   don’t they ?     do the greeks truly enjoy such tragedy in their stories ?    ❞

    heroic deeds whisper of heroic hearts  .  society has always been drawn to them  ,  admiring those with often divine virtue  .  that was the old world  ,  a time before quirks  .  yet  ,  even today people still glanced back to the days of old  .  often comparisons made between modern heroes and ancient ones  ;  the cry of achilles  !  the love of perseus  !  the strength of hercules  !  yui often made these comparisons herself  ,  watching others and learning what defines them  .  before her stood a boy akin to patroclus  ;  a figure of kindness and enlighten wit  .

    ❛  you better or i’ll hunt you down myself  .  ❜  gentle chuckle along with playful threat  ,  a rare shine in her eye  .  though  ,  at his question  ,  it vanished  .  a tragic tale for any hero  .  countless legacies of bravery scorned the earth  ,  empires and bones lay as the remnants of the past  .  of their tragic ends  ,  their cursed lives of heroism met only with such a ending  .  she pondered on his question for a moment  ,  recalling various legends for a conclusion to assist in her answer  .  ❛  that's the sad truth of any great hero  ;  they’re doomed a tragic ending no matter how loved or respected they are  .  tragedy is in their blood  .  ❜  not exactly what she should be telling someone training to be a hero but he was curious  .  ❛  the greeks adored them but you have to remember that countless heroes were both god and man  ,  neither one or the other  .  their stories often were fuelled with heroics that men could only dream of  ,  something that only gods could do  .  maybe they enjoyed tragedies so much is because it reminded them that their heroes were more human than god  ,  a way to connect to them  .  but yes  ,  the greeks adored them  ,  even today in modern society we adore the tragic hero  .