The Forgotten First Life

Born during the Singularity universe's infancy it was known as Izanagi, the UR-DEVA of life, counterpart to its twin sister Izanami, the UR-DEVA of death. Together they aided in the shaping of the universe using the divine naginata Ame-No-Nuboko which is capable of tearing matter asunder. Izanagi created nature and kickstarted the emergence of mortal life, then continued to serve by bringing life to all corners of the universe.

Many aeons had passed and yet the twins remained loyal to one other. When Izanami went missing in search of her wife, Izanagi waited for three long days for her return. Worried, it retraced her steps into Yomi where it found her cowering within the darkness. She claimed to have found herself unable to return to the world of the living, yet Izanagi was unwilling to give up on its beloved sister. It offered to take her to Valfrey to argue for her freedom and she agreed under one condition; it was not to look upon her along the way.

Initially Izanagi kept its promise, yet the urge to check in on its sister's condition became too strong. Using its magic it produced a small light and looked upon her only to discover her form in a state of rot and decay, infested with maggots. Horrified it fled the scene unable to comprehend what it had seen. Enraged Izanami went after it and eventually it found itself cornered. Then the end came and Izanagi was no more.

Rebirth

Many years passed, its soul remaining in the afterrealms unwilling to move on until a little Halcandran necromancer called out to the soul of her deceased sibling to revive him. Its consciousness weakened by many years of rotting it mistook her voice for that of its sister and followed her call, meeting with the soul of her brother and merging with it, nurturing it and allowing it to gain enough energy to create a new body for itself, the positive energy of the sister boosting it further.

Izanagi was reborn as a soul matterborn orbie with no memories of its past. The sister introduced herself as Muthsera and recognised it as her deceased brother, Serjo, henceforth calling it by his name. Her parents were sceptical at first, yet their closest advisor proclaimed that this orbie wasn't just any matterborn, it was the reincarnation of the very God they worship as the supreme deity, the UR-DEVA of life and light, their lord and saviour. Overjoyed they showered Muthsera with praise and offered Serjo everything a young orbie could need and more.

While early life was comfortable, it was met with frequent unpleasant encounters with its worshippers kneeling before it. In order to keep it protected its parents hired a warrior to bodyguard it who was known as Galacta Knight, a passionate dream matterborn that was about the same age as Serjo. Galacta Knight not only protected it from outside influences, but also urged it to perform certain tasks and behave in certain ways to live up to a certain standard. He didn't just worship it, he tried to push it into a life it did not desire.

The Ascension

Serjo was stuck in a cycle of abuse, moments of love and adoration were overshadowed by the knight's aggression, yet were just enough for it to believe that it was loved for years and years. Its destiny was all but foreseen by its worshippers, planned out step by step giving it not a single day to think for itself. Eventually it could no longer handle the pressure. It was supposed to perform a grand ritual when a rare celestial event took place. All three of Halcandra's suns were going to align, eclipsing one another and Serjo was to protect the planet from the combined power of the three.

When it stood upon the altar and the moment had come for it to intervene, it instead embraced the power coming its way. It had long gone numb from the constant preaching and the expectations put upon it, there was no living up to what its worshippers made it out to be. There was only emptiness in its heart where once was love and an identity that was solely its own. The grief for its lost sense of self turned into ill will and malice towards those who had forced it into this position the moment its vitality was boosted by the cosmic energies coming from above.

When the beams of the three stars connected with the surface of Halcandra the impact alone sent shockwaves of heat and radiation across the planet the likes of which can only be compared to an atomic bomb. Thousands lost their lives in an instant, their souls swirling around Serjo like moons orbiting a star. Absorbing their memories to drown out its own, the sheer volume of new identities warping its very body and turning it into something unrecognisable. It had become Samsara, UR-DEVA of Rebirth, a wicked being who sees joy in trapping all that lives within a cruel cycle of rebirth and death.

Dreamscape of the Consumed

Despite the planet sustaining mass destruction and enduring levels of heat that would cook flesh within the minute, some survived the ordeal, among them Galacta Knight who searched for his lost love vicariously uncertain as to what had happened that caused the ritual to go wrong. What he found was a being that was clearly his lord, but also nothing like it. With a wicked smile on its face it charged towards the knight seeking to claim his soul. Galacta Knight did not give up on his life so easily, just barely making it out of the situation alive, hiding away to analyse the situation further and come up with a plan. His lord had been corrupted by an outside force, surely.

The Dream Matterborn decided to enter his lord's Dreamscape to search for its true self, forcing himself inside with uncanny will to aid the one he worshipped. There he found himself in a land of horror flooded with numerous consciousnesses pressing against the warrior like a tide of terror. Despite the hellish sight of the minds of those he once swore to protect reaching out for their hero, he marched forward, past them all for what felt like months if not years until he came across that which he loved above all else, the one he believed to be the one true God.

It wasn't the happy reunion he was hoping for. The consciousness he once knew was surrounded by malice, looking upon him with an aura of disdain. It subjected him to its memories of their past from its perspective. To it Galacta Knight was nothing but a slave to duty, a man who swore an oath and made it his entire identity. There was nothing to him but a false promise, a being who couldn't comprehend himself and its God as anything but that which he was told upon speaking his oath. Samsara did not intend to let him go at this point, it was hellbent on casting its judgement upon him, first devouring his memories, then casting his soul into the deepest pits of Naraka to be reborn in the land of torment and dwell there until his karma had been cleared.

While he was loyal to his Lord, Galacta Knight did not intend to die here. When Samsara sunk its claws into him, seeping away his memories, he defended himself, fleeing the scene. Upon making it out of Samsara's Dreamscape he found himself still alive, yet with a gaping hole in his mind. Samsara did not intend on letting the warrior go, chasing him until the warrior jumped into a portal to another universe, causing it to lose track of him. For now.

The Parallel Afterrealms

Samsara calls the Afterrealms its home. When it first set foot into the realms after its ascension, it didn't take long for their ruler and personification to appear before it. It was Valfrey who had known it since before its death and rebirth, yet just like it she had changed and become something twisted after losing it and its sister. Valfrey recognised it as who it once was, yet the feeling was not mutual. Samsara knew of no Izanagi and Valfrey was nothing but a stranger to him. This did not stop this Valfrey from following it around. She claimed to now go by Freyr, but everyone called her Little Freak, a name Samsara finds fitting.

It took some time, yet the two eventually became an unlikely duo. While Samsara found Little Freak tedious at times as she enjoyed getting on its nerves, it was a breath of fresh air to have a loyal companion who doesn't force anything but its annoying self upon it. Encountering one of them was nightmarish enough, both meant none would live to see another day. Samsara's main goal remains to find Galacta Knight and kill him, yet it also is content with its position alongside Little Freak acting as a god of rebirth, light and life, judging the souls of the dead and boosting its strength with their memories.

• Main inspirations for its character were Diaboromon from Digimon and the Super Visitor from No, I'm Not a Human
• It went by many names throughout its life starting with Izanagi, then Serjo and eventually it settled for Samsara, the only name it chose for itself
• Almost always floats
• When on the ground its arms drag across the floor
• It has only three facial expressions; soft grin, toothy grin and dumbfounded
• Its eyes are hollow
• It primarily uses its claws in melee combat
• Its voice is inconsistent and will change completely on a whim
• While Izanagi approves of being called masculine terms, it reacts very negatively when someone refers to it in that way
• It does not remember nor care for its past life as Izanagi
• While some may think it is a mere cluster of minds, its consciousness is its own which is merely influenced by the dreams it consumed