ONCE UPON A DREAM | ACT I : THE PROPHECY.
pairing : zeus! satoru gojo! x fem! goddess! reader x hades! ryomen sukuna
synopsis : gojo satoru is a dream. the king of gods, the all-powerful, and your loving, prophesied husband. but power comes with corruption, and retribution doesn’t come easy to the divine.
author's note : we're very excited for this y'all
Somewhere in the sea, on an island humanity hasn’t yet sullied with firebrushed fingertips, smoke curls from a cave, painting the sky a malachite, ominous, jade. For the first time in a million millenia, a voice seeps from the cracks, pulsing with waves that lap at the shore and pull back to carry the message faraway. Skyward.
When truth prevails in shattered night
her light shall cradle power's flame
An eternity vowed to love's great might
a fate now bound to whispered name
When pomegranate stains the skin of worth
and tears fall soft on darkened earth
With a walk to the tamest place
The fall of grace marks love’s rebirth
The Titans’ domain is a peculiar place.
You can’t really make sense of it, not with your divinity or wisdom. It's something beyond your comprehension as they stand there, towering over you, faces fading away into the heavens, oaken branches on a misty afternoon.
The entire hall is made of slate, shades of lilac pulsing deep beneath the stone like violet veins. Thrones sit from the floor, up the vine-covered pillars, to the expanse of the heavens, above and below and all around where you sit. Across from you sits the God of Power, his foot resting on his thigh as he slumps forward, seemingly uninterested in the entire ordeal. To your side sits an empty throne, the gilded plaque at its head reading Retribution.
In your entire, eternal, existence, you’ve never once visited this realm. Nothing has required you to be in the Titans’ presence, nor have they called for yours. Until the prophecy.
A vague and indefinite revelation, open to many interpretations. The first event of a millenia that has the council frantically organizing an assembly to discuss how to go about carrying it out.
A gentle rumble has you fiddling with your fingers as the Titans speak, voices indistinct. The timbres mold into a cacophony of a singular thought, echoing through each of your minds, leaving a slight ring in your ears.
We have called you here to discuss the prophecy.
You still, and so do the others, their gazes falling on your form. And you think you know why. For a moment, you dare to assume that the prophecy could be, is, about you.
You don't get to dwell on that thought for too long, though. You don't get to dwell on the possibility of it, or the doubt, because another rumble shakes you, another ringing in your ears as they speak.
The Goddess of Truth is to be wedded to the God of Power. The prophecy has deemed it.
You stiffen, and your eyes drift over to the white-haired god. His bright blue eyes are already fixed on you. Intense and thoughtful and a little amused, if you’re reading him right, as if he’s pondering what this could mean.
You aren't able to hold his gaze for long, too intense to your liking. It almost has you melting underneath it. So you look away, down to your thumbs as they fiddle with one other. You don’t have much of a say in this, anyway. Because, after all, if the oracle has spoken it, then it is to be.
You dare not say anything. Not about how ominous the prophecy is or about how you're unsure if Satoru is the one. Or about how it left you feeling unsettled. The fall of grace. That part is too daunting to your liking.
“How do we know it's about them?” one of the minor gods asks, and you pause.
The same question that is on your mind. The one you dare not speak.
Your eyes flit to the titans’ murky forms, letting the tension settle into silence. Another rumble comes, accompanied again by the resonant buzz in your ears.
Truth is to cradle power's flame.
That’s all they say, as if that is enough of an explanation. As if a single line can determine, with absolute certainty, how you will live out the rest of your waking days into a forever. Married.
You’ve never cared much for titles. Gojo Satoru could be the least powerful of the gods, and it wouldn’t change how you view him in the least.
Now, you don’t talk to him much. But from what you can glean, he’s got a playful fondness to him. Like he’s not a god at all, but rather a satyr dancing and eating grapes from the vine when the sun sits high in the morning light.
It’s never mattered much to you. He’s in the peripheral of your eternity, and you’re certain you’re the same way in his.
But now you’re to be wed.
Admittedly, you’re a little confused, a little hopeful, and really, really terrified. You’d think as the Goddess of Truth you’d have more insight as to what to do in this scenario. Or at least be able to know if the interpretation of the prophecy is correct.
But you can’t. Truth and fate tow the same line, and while you’re able to seek out an honest gaze and bless those who pray to you with remarkable (in human terms, at the very least) intuition, there are certain boundaries you just can’t cross. Meddling with destiny is one of them.
So you twiddle your thumbs and offer a little smile back to the ivory-haired god sitting in the throne across from yours. His expression – all alabaster teeth and aquamarine eyes – seems to turn even more pleased at your gesture, if possible.
You’ve heard the whispers. Manchild.
But right now? He seems kind of sweet. Like a baby that’s been given a teddy bear and won’t let its hug loose. Like a man that’s known nothing but megalomania and finally has something, someone, to keep for himself.
So when the council is adjourned and he steps off his throne and offers you an arm, you take it with a quiet giggle.
He grins, all charming and boyish, and places his hand over yours. “Shall we make our departure, wife?”
“We’re not married just yet,” you muse, eyes crinkling.
He gasps, hand flying to his chest as you descend the slate stairs. “Ah, how you wound me, goddess. We might as well be.”
“You may call me by my name.”
He pauses, and his smile falters. If only for a split second. For beings like you, a million times that timespan is nothing at all, and yet the moment seems to linger in the catch of your breath, in the twitch of his fingertips resting over yours.
In a world where names mean power, where uttering a god’s name can have their eyes snapping to your form from the area behind the beyond, you’re telling him he may use your name as he sees fit.
He turns away, and his Adams' apple bobs a little in what you can only assume is a gulp. “Then.. you may call me Satoru.”
How oddly.. endearing, of the God of Power, to fluster so easily.
You consider telling him this, before deciding he might melt under the pressure if you apply too much too suddenly. So you simply smile and rest your head on his shoulder. “I suppose I will… Satoru.”
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