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There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits
than this distant image of our tiny world.
- Based off a blue dragon/blue glaucus nudibranch, angler fish, and cliones
- A lot of her color scheme and outfit motifs are based off of Tiamat from FGO/A
- Her full goddess form is even more fish-like
- The design shown in this profile is her when she first awakened, she can shapeshift
- Her eyes have a cross design for her pupils
The manifestation of Earth's consciousness and it's resolve to not let itself and those that inhabit it die.
A lonely goddess who spent a millennia on her own, only forming superficial relationships with those around her. Perpetua is cursed to be the observer of everything that happens on Earth for all eternity. It was her self assigned duty since awakening after the magical world collided with her own non-magical one to keep the world from falling apart. A more natural decay she would have accepted, but the world as it is now is "wrong" and cannot survive without her aid.
Every time a disaster occurs that wipes out a significant part of the world, it is Perpetua's job to reset it back to the point where the worlds first merged in an effort to somehow fix it. It is her job to lead her people to peace and prosperity, and by the time the story starts, she has already succeeded.
Yet even at her most victorious of times, she cannot help but feel isolated.
To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another,
Time LoopsAt any time, Perpetua can reset the world back to when she first awoke on that day that changed everything. Anything and everything on Earth is affected by her loop resets, even other gods should they be caught in Earth's atmosphere. This results in time passing for everything outside the Earth while everything inside of the planet begins anew. It is like a perfectly sealed terrarium.
Perpetua has looped the world thousands of times now in order to achieve an era of peace that has lasted several hundreds of years.
World MagicWhile Perpetua is rather weak physically, she has the power to manipulate the world itself as she is Earth. Wherever she stays ends up prospering with bountiful gifts given by nature that can benefit the magical and non-magical alike.
In specific areas like her library, or just in general anywhere she has spent an extended amount of time cultivating magical energy, Perpetua is nearly unstoppable.
ShapeshiftingPerpetua routinely changes her appearance and identity every few millennia in order to create the illusion of her death as she plants roots elsewhere to continue her work. Usually she sticks to nudibranches as a basis for her appearance as she is seemingly limited to only sea creatures to mimic the appearance of.
Earth always held a sleeping will in itself. Buried far beneath the grass and ground and deep below the sea lied Perpetua slumbering in her shell. Her duty was to simply observe everything and let herself be used as an energy core for the planet's life. She was to do nothing but sleep and let whatever outcome happen. The life on Earth would use the products of her energy and sleeping mind to benefit or harm themselves, and she was not supposed to interfere with it.
The day the magical world collided with her non-magical Earth changed everything though. Rudely awoken in her shell, the goddess resurfaced to a broken and crying sky. Without her knowledge, it seemed as if armageddon had swept through her slowly dying world early. When she found out it was caused by the actions of those outside her "ecosystem" however, she grew enraged, breaking free from her duties and vowing to ensure that even with these new hurdles, she will ensure her people survive.
While she first hated the magical beings that had rudely merged into her world, through multiple loops she eventually grew to care for them too, seeing them as no different than the people who have inhabited her lonely blue planet for millennia. Perpetua's anger softened fast into care and concern for everyone and everything on her world. They were all scared and confused. They all needed guidance to help survive the world that has evolved past her control.
She kept resetting and resetting until the world finally became less hostile. After many loops, she has finally achieved a somewhat stable outcome, leading to an era of peace that has spanned a few hundred years now. However, during these loops she became paranoid that if she did not follow her self written script, she would end up derailing it into a worse outcome. She is a bit too cautious for her own good. Perhaps there could be an even better outcome if she decided to be more direct with her help...
For the time being however, she is content with the state of the world.
- As said before, the areas she stays in prosper. They end up becoming flourishing civilizations. She probably was the one who ended up helping set up the teleportation crystals in certain areas.
- The library's true purpose was to figure out how different people react to certain situations. It was just a way for her to provide a service to people and to know them better so she can properly take their reactions into account for future situations.
- The library is currently the longest she has gotten without having to reset a loop.
- Her favorite food is actually black forest cake. Her least favorite food is anything bitter. She does not like eating bitter vegetables.
and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.
The only sort of company she has gotten in a long, long time.
She taught him how to love the world and everything in it. She taught him how precious everything is. Meanwhile Arche was the only one who stood up for her and wanted to help her. Along with that, he also showed her it was ok to go off-script in an effort to make things even better than she has before.
The pair are married.
Perpetua hates Tempo.
How dare he leave her to be taken in a prisoner. How dare he allow Nexus to use her planet as some sort of sick experiment. How dare he have the gall to come back crawling to her for forgiveness, claiming that he would be better suited for helping her and staying by her side than the one person who decided to stick with her and help her from the start.
"Such a weak willed god has no place helping me preserve my world."
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