When Juniper was born, a burst of white light burst across the night sky, covering it for miles around, causing the moon and stars to burn brighter than they ever have before, a sign that Juniper was to be a goddess. But not just any goddess. When Juniper was of age and was ready to take on the responsibility of being a goddess, she would become the moon goddess, the most powerful of all the goddesses in the land. This made her parents both proud and terrified as they didn’t know what this would mean for their precious daughter, so they threw themselves into researching everything they could on the subject and hoped to be ready when they finally explained everything to Juniper on her 6th birthday. When that long awaited day came, they sat her down and explained everything that had happened on the night of her birth. Juniper was shocked that gods had chosen her to be the next moon goddess after the last one got corrupted and power hungry before she was defeated and banished after being stripped of her title and her magic a thousand years ago. Legends say that ever since then, the gods have been searching for a worthy replacement, someone that would upload their views, keep the world in balance and harmony, and protect them from the evil that lurks around every corner. Juniper thought she wasn’t worthy enough to be the moon goddess and thought that the gods had maybe made a mistake, but her parents reassured her by saying that the gods had chosen her for a reason, so Juniper vowed to do her hardest to make the gods and her parents proud, so she jumped into her studies and trained as hard as she could. When word got out that Juniper was chosen to be the new moon goddess, everyone was in awe, but most were happy for her and would often stop by, offering anything they could to aide her in her quest to be the best goddess in training that she could be. However, not everybody was happy about this and would often bully Juniper or her parents, claiming that her parents forced the gods to choose Juniper, not seeming to realize that no one could force the gods to do anything that they didn’t wanna do. A lot of the kids at school weren’t much better and would often tease and ridicule her, telling her that she wasn’t worthy to have such a high title and that the gods obviously made a mistake when they chose a simple commoner like her to be a goddess when there was way more qualified people they could’ve chosen, seeming to forget about the fact that Juniper’s parents were the leaders of their little village. It wasn’t until her parents got involved, threatening to have them removed from the village if they didn’t stop that they finally stopped, allowing Juniper to finish her studies in peace. Some of the nicer kids had tried to become friends with Juniper, but Juniper was too wrapped up in her lessons for friends, something that worried her parents a bit and would often try to get her to take a break and make some friends, which Juniper turned down every single time, saying that she had no time for friends if she wanted to be the goddess she could be. She also didn’t see the point in friends, claiming them to be a waste of time and energy. This thought later changed when she was 14 and met Hedwig for the first time. She had gone hunting in her feral form alone one night for the first time, usually going with her parents, when she had come across a nest that had fallen from one of the many trees in the woods behind her parent’s house. She brought it home and nursed it back to health before attempting to release it back into the woods only to find the owl’s parents dead the next day. After that, she decided to keep it and named it Hedwig, raising her as her own, something that pleased her parents to a degree, still wishing she would go out and make friends with kids her own age. They got their wish later when Juniper was 16 and made her first friend in junior year of high school when Juniper realized that they shared a love of stars and the desire to learn more about them. After that, Juniper’s circle of friends slowly began to grow till she had 6 people she could safely call her most trusted friends who had her back no matter what hardship Juniper faced. Some people still looked down at her from time to time but with her friends by her side, she was able to focus on her duties and all the positive things that lay ahead of her as she continued her training and her studies