A.MNESIA WORLD-BUILDING: the gods, granting wishes & after effect ( discussing heterochromia ).
disclaimer. This is 100% accurate to MY portrayal, making the world-building lore & headcanons actual canon to my blog. There are other people in the A.mnesia RP community who have their own take on things. They don’t need to recognize my canon as their canon I’m not trying to dictate anything aksjdhakjhg, but if anyone WANTS to consider any pieces of this as relevant to their blog as well, you don’t like… have to ask.
THE GODS & GRANTING WISHES.
The world(/s) A.mnesia takes place in normalizes the belief in multiple Gods in a way that makes it seem as if polytheism isn’t exactly rare among the denizens of whatever world happens to be active at the time (whether it be during U.kyo’s world hopping or in the original, “Joker,” world before the events of the game or after everything is said and done.) Both I.kki & U.kyo have referred to “THE GODS” at some point in time, while also hinting at a remaining belief in one particular God as a center of worship (switching gears to headcanon territory): polytheism, henotheism, and monotheism are all common beliefs that can be found throughout society and there are several religions crafted based upon these – some definitely familiar to the real world, others completely fictional and specific to the A.mnesia universe that I’m not even going to try to build into existence, but most being rather common, so hearing someone talk about Gods plurally OR a God singularly are both commonplace. Likewise, hearing beliefs that differ on other supernatural creatures vary as well (the belief in angels/spirits/demons/etc.)
Of course, it’s established in canon itself that there are multiple Gods active in the A.mnesia universe: there are several Gods, one of which who felt U.kyo’s anguish over losing his loved one, another that heard I.kki’s plea when he was a child, and, by extension, many more who occasionally latch onto the prayers and desires of the mortals beneath them whenever they reach them or, alternatively, whenever they simply “feel like it.” Why a God will grant certain wishes is up to their individual tastes – the reason Neil granted U.kyo’s is because he felt his pain from losing the Heroine was so intense he couldn’t bear the strength of it and, therefore, he took pity on U.kyo and ended up sacrificing his godhood to grant his wish out of pure sympathy for the two of them, even dragging one of his servants (a spirit – O.rion) down with him, knowing that the Heroine had made a similar wish.
The God who granted I.kki’s wish would’ve done so simply because it seemed easy enough, with no regard for consequences, but eager to seem as if they’re accomplished something. Sure, the wish itself ended up ruining the human’s life, but it had been intended that way. A child wished “for girls to like me” because he wanted to make friends; given the nature of the wish and how insignificant it was, the God in question was likely to have looked at the short-term rather than the long-term. Girls look into the child’s eyes and instantly want to become friends; wish granted, good deed for the day done. The Gods in A.mensia’s universe are clearly not all-knowing, so thinking of the long-term and what that would mean for the human affected wouldn’t have even crossed their mind. On the other hand, it clearly would’ve been a God who does not care about what happens after the wish is granted. Seeing mortals as lesser beings, there’s no reason to look back on these wishes to see how they panned out – humans are closer to play-things than they are lives to worry about or watch over. They wouldn’t even know what happened with I.kki afterwards or how the wish panned out years later.
The Gods are as varied as their mortal counterparts: some of them are frivolous, some are sympathetic, some are products of anger who may try to hurt the wish-maker, others may grant the opposite of the wish made out of spite or as a “joke,” some may see humans as toys, others may seek to protect them, play tricks on them, meddle with their lives, etc. Because of this, they will be attracted to the wishes and prayers of humans who appeal to their personality or desires. I.kki’s wish was seemingly simple and quick – something that could be done to feel as if something was accomplished in a moment of downtime and (supposedly) inconsequential enough they wouldn’t have to care about it later. U.kyo’s was intensive and required a great amount of empathy and patience. Etc. Wishes aren’t granted left and right, of course, but when they are, the wish granted will have attracted a God whose personality matches with said wish. They are beings of opportunity who pay little attention to the on-goings of mortals: occasionally, a human is noticed and, for better or worse, their wish may be granted.
With that in mind, as a whole, almost all Gods do see humans as lives they can tamper with, whether their intentions be good or bad, with little in the way of consequence. Most do not have much regard for what becomes of the human.
Of course, interfering with humanity at large is forbidden and, thus, if anything drastic is altered, a God will be stripped of their position and sent to live among the mortals along with any supernatural being that aided them; demonstrated by both O.rion and N.eil being cast to live on Earth as humans after altering time in several realities to help U.kyo save the life of someone who was meant to die (& later bending Joker World’s set rules/reality to allow them to continue existing at the same time, post good ending.)
Beyond wish-granting or dealing with their own agendas, they have little to do with humanity: thus, the beliefs society takes on go in every direction depending on the stories, etc, they’ve been told. The Gods are elusive enough that there is still doubt that they may even exist, meaning atheism is also common among the populace.
AFTER EFFECT: ( HETEROCHROMIA. )
I’ll start off by saying that the heterochromatic eyes in the A.mnesia universe are obviously a stylistic choice and (bouncing off of @tragedis / @devotedis‘ headcanons, with her permission) my portrayal of I.kki will not recognize that the others also have heterochromatic eyes (applying to S.hin, T.oma, K.ent, the notable girls, etc – whose eyes are all one “default” color w/o the stylization.) This, of course, may change depending on who I’m interacting with (I won’t stomp on your own headcanons kajshdkjg), since this is by default ofc, but the only other people who actually have heterochromia in the cast by my portrayal’s standards are U.kyo, W.aka, O.rion / N.eil, and the Heroine.
The only people who have heterochromia (among the cast) are those who have MADE A WISH that was GRANTED by the Gods. Upon having said wish granted, their eyes, previously one solid, natural color – become heterochromatic after a secondary color mixes in with their natural eye color (in I.kki’s case, the PINK in his eyes is unnatural: a result of his wish.) I.kki wished to be liked by girls as a child, U.kyo wished to save the Heroine’s life, the Heroine wished to see U.kyo again as she was dying, W.aka was cursed by the Gods after a wish he made in a past life backfired (as per @congruis‘ headcanon), and O.rion & N.eil both fell from spirit/godhood and thus retained those features.
That being the case, those who have heterochromia as a result of their wish being granted (if they can RECALL making said wish) are open to having suspicions of others who also have it. This isn’t to say people don’t naturally end up with it through genetic means or anything, it isn’t specific to divine intervention, but, at least for I.kki himself, he’ll always assume it has something to do with the Gods first, before thinking about it logically (”they were probably just born like that”) since his own heterochromia comes from having his wish granted.
There is a societal belief in place that people with heterochromia have been “blessed by God/the Gods” since most stories from people who claim to have wishes granted would have heterochromia. This is largely part of the reason so many people believe in I.kki’s eyes being enchanted – they’re heterochromatic and those who knew him when he was young know they weren’t always that way. Thus, his explanation that he had his wish granted makes sense to people who believe in all of this. It’s also the reason those among the cast who have heterochromia (and can remember the reasoning behind it) are more likely to believe U.kyo’s story if he ever told them.
In short, heterochromia is the result of having a wish granted by a God and society as a whole (minus those who do not believe in any higher powers) whether they believe in one God or several, are far more likely to assume that someone who has it was blessed by a heavenly power rather than being born with it. For some people, like U.kyo, this is true, despite the pain his wish brought him: for others, such as I.kki, who sees his wish being granted as a curse, it furthers his desire to damn the Gods rather than worship them.