A Unique God and Villain in fiction part 1

So I led us off on a journey where I attempted to tell my fictional story, but I then quit. But fret not dear reader, I am back and with a philosophical twist.

Let’s do a quick refresher or a quick summary of David, the 5th and Final celestial on the council of the Protectors. David was the Ruby ambassador of the Galaxy, think of that like a mortal-god, then we have his counterpart, Alago, the herald of the will, who is a divine-god, in fact he is the mortal manifestation of the Will itself, whom I believe to also be the best god in fiction. Gods in fiction often have grand plans, that remove agency from their characters, and cheapens every plot twist or character development, because it means nothing if it was always bound to happen. The Will, my god, is different, he has a grand design, not a plan. It’s grand design to hold the galaxy in balance, the mortals must never overpower the celestials, and the divine celestials must never overpower the mortals. It’s a tough job, but how does the will manage it? It only intervenes via alago when it needs to, in the story it often gets characters where they need to go, and offer advice, but never tells the character what to do. The will understands balance requires not playing teams, and the will is willing to wait an eternity to get what it wants, which is a new mortal champion.

Back to David, he was the ambassador of the Ruby Galaxy, and appointed the divine council to oversee and step in to preserve balance on his behalf, but David understood the will’s grand design, and he appointed Flawed Champions. Susan is an expert bowmen, but a warmonger always eager to spill blood, Justin is the personification of ambition, he will do anything to seize power that he thinks is rightfully his. Urlim is the unshaken moral voice, he never attacks first, but won’t hesitate to step in and defend. Jackson, their leader, is an idealist, and believes that the only proper way to govern the galaxy is to let the council vote in a democratic fashion, instead of leading without question. See the problem? the council will stagnate 2-2 more often than not, Because Susan and Justin are always out for blood and war, whereas Jackson and Urlim are more reasonable, and stagnation is the enemy of Balance. The Will allowed this for a time, before it removed David from his position as Ambassador, because he no longer uphold balance. The will sent him back down to the celestial plane, where all celestial beings are from, instead of killing him. David then cast the protectors from the plane, and they would make their way back, then came the crucial decision, David’s life was at the mercy of Jackson. Jackson had the voices of Susan and Justin begging for blood, whereas his inner morals and Urlim said to spare him. Jackson asked Alago what to do, and Alago spoke two crucial words “Choose Carefully.”, Jackson decides to spare David and allow him to join the Council. This was a fatal mistake, but he didn’t know it yet. David knows all 4 of them too well, he knows this group is a volatile time bomb, and he’s going to exploit it. Think about this, Jackson and Urlim are never likely to choose aggression, whereas Susan and Justin won’t hesitate. Based on how the council of 5 now votes, Jackson is always going to be the last and likely deciding vote, David knows this. David puts immense pressure on Jackson by knowing when to vote for and against aggression, always putting Jackson in impossible decisions, which is Jackson’s own doing. This comes to ahead with when the council votes whether to intervene on mistora, whether to wage war to neutralize Thunder or not. I’ll explain Thunder, Praxis, and Puengi all in part 2. Let’s focus back on this pivotal moment. In this moment, the vote goes as you’d imagine, Justin and Susan vote to wage war, Urlim votes against this, but as a shock (Or perhaps not, you know where this is going) David too votes to wage war. The final vote is 3-2, David understood that Jackson doesn’t want to wage war, thats a lot of needless bloodshed of mortals when they only need to kill 1, this sets the stage for WWX, what is that? find out in part 2.