⚠️TW DRAWN GORE BELOW THE CUT!!⚠️
I might end up deleting this post because spoilers & stuff but for now here’s a little shitpost on some late Arc I StarWay stuff
I know this image might make it seem like Nightfall (purple fox) killed Hazel (dead as hell brown cat) but it’s actually not like that at all!! For context: Ember (orange cat) is a ghost, hence the blue outline. She’s been dead since she was six rotations old (which is just StarWay vocab for six years old, literally meaning six rotations of the planet). After her death, she was trained by Sveltyy, the StarWay’s god, to act as Nightfall’s guardian angel. Nightfall is the main Prophet in Sveltyy’s latest prophecy & Ember has been watching over him to make sure he carries out his duties & stuff.
Nightfall & the business he’s a part of worked for Hazel & her abusive boyfriend, currently an unnamed villain character. Said unnamed villain ended up killing Hazel after Nightfall’s business cut ties with the two, & while Nightfall & co. tried to save her it was far too late to do so. Ember ended up taking in Hazel’s ghost after her death & the two became really close in the Afteelife, Hazel being the first real friend Ember’s ever really had.
Ember is closely tied to Sveltyy being the guardian angel in his largest prophecy ever & all. But of course, Sveltyy is not the all good god he poses to be & is very much a tyrant in disguise. Hazel gets dangerously close to Ember & ends up discovering the truth behind Sveltyy’s rule. Hazel confronts Ember over this & Ember FREAKS out since her entire life she’s been groomed into blindly worshiping Sveltyy. As a result of this, Ember tells Sveltyy that Hazel knows pretty much everything & Hazel is promptly executed to silence the truth from getting out (when a ghost is killed,:they disappear from existence entirely. they don’t go to any second afterlife or anything - they’re quite literally gone forever.) Ember was pretty much responsible for Hazel’s (second & permanent) death, & the guilt has been eating her alive ever since.
Nightfall also discovers the truth about Sveltyy- which is the main conflict of the back half of Arc I. Ember & Nightfall are constantly at each other’s throats since Nightfall believes Sveltyy needs to be overthrown while Ember is Sveltyy’s biggest bootlicker. The two are mutually toxic & are actually destroying each other’s mental well-beings’. Nightfall’s main goal to expose Sveltyy to the rest of the world, making his grudge against Ember both political & also deeply personal given the two’s extensive & rough history. Nightfall hates Ember & through his corruption arc is actively trying to get her to crack.
At one point, Nightfall discovers what happened to Hazel, & at the beginning of his corruption arc as the first genuinely despicable thing he does, he digs up Hazel’s rotted corpse & leaves it at a place where Ember would see. He does to get his point across as a “look at what your blind devotion to Sveltyy has done” statement. Both petty & horrific, it symbolizes the point of no return for both Nightfall & Ember.
So there you go there’s your shit load of context for this shitpost 😭