TW: Implications of torture and abuse
She started in a lab, having been created by a scientist named Okiler Thorn Withervine. He created her to have a child to raise so he wouldn’t be so lonely floating in the void where his possessed brother had driven him off to. He took out a part of the abyss itself and after many, many trial and error he formed a child from it. Creating a vessel for it, he put the void inside, and he had created a child he named Snow.
Snow grew for several years in that lab, just living out her childhood in Okiler’s home. Often she would play with another strange child in the lab, one also made of void but without a vessel, yet shaped like her. She gave this child the name Winter and called her a sister. Little did she know, it was in fact her twin sister.
Of course though, things don’t end in a happy little family in this story. One day, Snow was sitting on the edge of the island, just playing with her hair when she heard voices. Voices from the void, the abyss, calling their stolen part back. Hands burst out and grabbed her, dragging her back down to where she’d originated from. They erased her memory, hoping she’d stay. She however, did not; she wandered the abyss until she found a strange mirror on the edge of a cliff. This mirror showed her her true self before it transported her to another world, another dimension entirely.
In this dimension, she made friends, met other people and formed for herself a name: Alex Rose Snow. Soon, though she began to have strange dreams of a figure coming after her. They got worse and worse before finally she met this figure in the waking world, its black cloak with purple symbols being a sign of a threat to her. She ran, but the figure caught her and took her back to the lab where she’d once lived. Her father, who was the figure, had now gone mad from a demon possessing him named Hourglass and from losing his daughter. He ran countless experiments on his own daughter, meanwhile keeping her locked up in her room. After a few weeks, with the help of an unknown person, a female dressed in purple, she managed to escape that lab. She stood at the edge of the island after breaking out a window, and turned to the footsteps following her. It was her father, Okiler covered in blood.
“Snow, don’t go over that edge, you’ll die! Just come back, we can be a happy family again!”
Alex stared at him, knowing what he said wasn’t true.
“I don’t even know who you or Snow are.”
With that, she tipped herself backwards over the edge, falling straight back into the abyss.
She lost her memory again, and again she wandered the expanse of the void, alone with nothing but her voice to echo back to her. Eventually, she found the mirror again, and again she was transported out, to yet another dimension.
Little did she know, she was on the surface of the world she had just left. No longer in the void, but in a forest now. She began to walk until she reached a town. Here, she thought the people could help her, however they all seemed scared of her, except the ones dressed in metal. Guards. One grabbed her and dragged her off to the castle, where she met their wicked king, who she didn’t know was Arkin Withervine, Okiler’s aforementioned brother. He ordered she be locked up and scheduled for an execution, knowing who she was. Execution day came, and they dragged her out to the square to burn her in front of the entire town.
As they had just begun to burn her though, void began to burst from her body uncontrollably. She lost control of herself, breaking out of her restraints and running through the crowd to the forest beyond, killing a few people on her way out. She kept running away, into the forest, until she couldn’t run anymore. She then heard a voice and she turned quickly to find a dark-skinned woman with a southern drawl talking to her. This was the witch named Sally Orchard that Alex would later know as Ma. This witch convinced Alex to go with her, and she took care of Alex for a long while, well earning her the title of mother.
This story’s not done yet though. Alex had gone out one day to pick flowers and collect some wood for her mom, and when she returned, she found the door oddly open. She paused, the approached the hut they lived in, only to find the house torn apart and her mother dead on the kitchen counter with a spear in her back. Metal clanking sounded as guards appeared in the doorway. Alex escaped narrowly through a window and ran into the forest again, screaming and crying as guards chased her.
She managed to escape them by hiding in multiple spots, gradually making her way away from them and to the mountains beyond the forest. For days, she trekked these mountains until she ran upon a village full of supernaturals, people like her. She entered this town, and at first she got stares, but soon they welcomed her. She met their leader, a priest named St. Ferware, and he took her in, fixing her up and letting her heal. He then introduced her to something he was working on in his home: a way to travel to other worlds and dimensions so his town could escape and live more peaceful lives away from the king hunting them down. She helped him with it, and this took a long while.
During this while, she got in a gang that called themselves the Withered Roses. They would fight back against the king and work on dwindling his numbers. If any guards came to their town, they would be the ones to fight them off. She got to know their short tempered leader named Irv and acted almost like his right hand man.
The alarm bell in the town rang one day. Guards had come again, and expecting it to be another easy venture, the gang went out to fight them. It wasn’t an easy task, there were more guards than there had ever been, and many of the citizens lost their lives or became captives that day. Alex gathered a handful of townspeople and ran with them to St. Ferware’s hidden laboratory. There, he almost had the portal finished. Guards began breaking in just as the portal flickered to life. He ushered Alex and the townsfolk in, then quickly took a hammer to his work, destroying it all before guards could kill him.
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