Agnes

There’s a very fine line between love and hate, and Agnes and Kai are almost always toeing that line. It’s a constant and hellish cycle of marriage and divorce, fire and ice, war and peace. Oh, they’ve tried to break it off. Sometimes they manage up to a century. And yet at the end of it, someone’s always on their knees begging for the other back. Usually Kai. Sometimes it’s Agnes, but she hates to admit it. Regardless of where they are in their relationships, however, Kai will stick around for the kids. He cares about them deeply and wants to be a stable parent figure in their lives, no matter how old they are.

Although the relationship between Agnes and Mimi follows a similar cycle to that of Agnes and Kai, it’s somehow softer. They manage to stay both together and apart longer and there’s no fire and ice, just the exhale of a candle being blown out for the night. It’s obvious to literally everyone that Mimi does genuinely care for Agnes, but is well aware at how much damage she’s inflicting on herself because of it. She too primarily sticks around for the kids, whom she cares about deeply. Agnes appreciates this - she knows she’s an awful mother, and is glad her children have someone to rely on.

Supernova is literally Agnes’ oldest child. Not her oldest living child but the actual first child she bore all those many years ago, back when she still lived peacefully with the progenitors. Somehow, Supernova’s loyalty has remained with his mother all these years for which Agnes is grateful. He’s a very powerful ally to have, what with the fact that he’s half progenitor and all. Supernova even sprouted himself a tenth tail to be like his mom! What a sweet not-so-young man.

Even though Winona’s been around for a while, Agnes somehow manages to forget about her the vast majority of the time. It’s probably the fact that Winona prefers not to be noticed by anyone, least of all Agnes. They really don’t have a great relationship, even if Winona keeps all the shrines clean and well maintained. And quite frankly, Agnes doesn’t really care to maintain the relationship. That’s how she is with most of her children anyways.

Okay, so Agnes might’ve freaked out just a tiny bit when Kraken was born. He’s just a bit freaky with all those extra eyes. Of course, Agnes should’ve figured he’d turn out like that considering that his father Terry communes with many eldritch beings. Incidentally, Kraken does too! He’s bound himself to the primordial construct of Order much the same way Agnes has to Chaos and spends his days hunting down monsters from beyond the void. Although their primordial alignments are complete opposites, Agnes couldn’t be prouder of him (even if he sometimes messes up her hard work by cleaning it up).

In what must be the turn of the century, one of Agnes’ kids has become a productive member of society. Quark is in fact a weaponsmith who provides weapons to the many settlements in the Outlands. As such, Agnes is extremely disappointed in her. Didn’t Agnes raise her better? Wasn’t she such a wonderful young arsonist, and now this? How dare Quark be a reasonable person who wants to relate to other people?

Listen, there are very few things that can truly confuse Agnes these days. The whole “gamer” culture is one of them. Unfortunately for Agnes, Olivia is extremely invested in gamer culture. Olivia spends all her time playing video games, making videos about video games, and generally doing modern things that Agnes simply can’t wrap her head around. In general, Agnes leaves her to her own devices. Too many things going on over there.

Although Agnes may hate the Exiled One, her cult, and that little brat Ayaka who fancies herself to be “old” while not even being 1,500 years old yet, but Agnes well and truly despises Satsujin. There’s something about her “salvation through tail removal” shtick and the fact that she’s as tall as Agnes that simply drives Agnes up the wall. As such, Agnes goes out of her way to try and mess with Satsujin. She’s doing her damndest to break Satsujin’s mind, but it doesn’t seem to be working.

Although they might have started off cordially - doing favors for each other and the like - Agnes now well and truly despises Christine. She’s just too Chaos-damned organized! Seriously, what’s the fun at being the top of the chain when you could revel in the absolute anarchy? Agnes devotes a decent amount of her time to messing with Christine, but that damn woman just seems to laugh and laugh and laugh. Perhaps she’s already gone off the deep end.