To Vegance's Vice.
A Double-Hell Prequel/Explanation Story.
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CW: Talk of;
Miscarriage (not great detail).
Abortion (not great detail).
Insanity (not great detail).
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For as long as Heaven has existed, the citizens have feared one thing and one thing only.
An angel going “mad”.
If an angel looses their mind, they're prime victims for the fallen.
There have been many cases of angels, loosing their mind, and then the timer moves up by five ticks.
This timer? A warning.
A warning for what?, I hear you ask.
Why, a warning until the Balancer is let free.
The Balancer themselves, is a fallen Seraphim.
In an attempt to prove a weakness in Heaven, they used their God-given power to create monsters.
These monsters, went on to kill.
To harm.
To destroy.
And so, The Balancer was deemed as sin.
Their argument? “What is good without evil?”
“What is peace without suffering?”
“What is a kingdom without a plague?”
All of these, valid yes, but not good enough for the Lord.
He wanted peace in his kingdom of Heaven, he would not accept these monsters he deemed this defiance as a crime against him.
So, the Balancer was cast away.
Down into a void where they were chained, and unable to use their power to access Heaven again.
But, as fair as God is, he gave a rule.
If enough angels succum to this idea, of total, utter, despair, that they loose faith, and fall into the void, he would let the Balancer go free to fix the world of it's grievances.
Lucifer was the first.
His dreams cast away by the higher Seraphim.
And discovering Lilith... Crying from the actions of God's ‘perfect’ man.
Yet he wasn't believed when he told the Seraphim.
So he wanted to prove to the council, and to his Father that humans were capable of such defiance.
With the ultimate sacrifice.
Having Adam's second wife, Eve, disobey God's order and eat from the tree of knowledge.
Bringing Sin into the world.
For this, Lucifer was to be cast away to the same void as the Balancer.
But when Lucifer landed in it's void, they were cornered immediately by one of the Balancer's monsters.
A beast called Ophiuchus.
A serpent, made to endlessly eat, consume, all that are in it's path, to protect the Balancer from aany being come to harm them, as they're pretty much defenseless.
But, The Balancer stops their beast from attacking.
The Balancer went up to Lucifer, and lifted the fallen Archangle up.
They saw potential in him, They always has regarded him as special.
And if the Lord was to cast him aside like this.
Then they would nurture this power he holds and use this opportunity she'd been given.
Seeing the wingless woman that stared up at her, Lilith had to quickly explain herself.
The first woman.
The reason for their exile.
The Balancer was enraged.
And so, with their infinite power, created a land below the void.
Far, far below, where those who followed in Lucifer's act of free-will, those humans who sinned, could live, and be free of consequence.
They made Lucifer and Lilith in charge of this land.
But, with one catch.
Lucifer is unable to harm any of his people. To avoid this same fate they were given.
Lucifer agrees and becomes the King of Hell, Lilith his Queen of Hell.
God is aware of this, of course, but he allows it.
The Judgement system is put in place after Adam and Eve's deaths, they get into heaven.
Soon, Abel too.
But Cain? He's the first soul in Hell.
Time passes, The other sins, the past virtues, fall down too.
Each being granted their own ring of Hell by the Balancer, where their own people, the imps, can thrive.
Sinners however, confided to the Pride ring, so the Balancer can watch over them.
Lucifer calls for the Balancer's blessing one day.
Whatever for?
For the birth of the Princess of Hell.
They bless the child, and then leave, deciding that, if birth was going to be so difficult that the sinners would need their blessing each and every time, then they'd tweak up the rules about birth.
The Sinborns.
A merging of two sinners souls, entirely devoid of sex, and thus, birth is not needed, but contact is.
Essentially, they make it so any sinner who tries to conceive naturally, or using sperm and eggs, IVF or not, it always ends up becoming a miscarriage.
Because they will always kill the unborn child of two sinners whilst it's still in the womb, if the conceiving was done the “human” way.
Once they've confirmed all of the rules, they come to Lucifer with this new rule, Lilith is in agreement, no sinner should have to go through the pain of childbirth while in Hell.
Lucifer forgets to tell the citizens of Hell this because he's too busy with his own child.
Many centuries pass... and suddenly the Balancer feels an imbalance in the power description.
A new-comer.
An unstable mind.
With the power to eradicate many powerful overlords in the span of a week.
They see immediately that he's on a leash.
So they follow the golden thread.
To an overlord that's slipped under their nose for some time.
Rosie, Overlord of Cannibal Town.
So, Hell being their little chessboard, she plucks Rosie up.
Rosie is terrified, the true look of the Balancer is something no mortal can comprehend.
So they shape shift, to be something more... Human-like.
They warn Rosie that what she is doing could get her killed.
And that she needs to control her manic soul, before he breaks the equilibrium of Hell, and they have to get involved.
Rosie agrees immediately, thanking the Balancer for the warning, and Rosie gets dropped back into cannibal town.
The Radio Demon is off the air for seven years.
During that absence, Lilith summons the Balancer's presence.
She is regretful of her sins, and wishes forgiveness.
The Balancer begins to tell Lilith that they are not the ones to tell about this, and Lilith will have to go to the Heaven Embassy in order to ask for forgiveness.
And then she reveals Adam's offer to them.
The Balancer still believes in “what is peace without suffering” and so, with the King's absence as of late, they give Lilith their protection into going back to Heaven.
The Exterminations begin. With the exception of the Hell-born, soon Hell's population decreases in the Pride ring.
After the first, the Balancer adds a timer on top of the Heaven Embassy.
The sinners now have a countdown, a warning.
Just like they have.
They then lay in wait, six exterminations.
But this unofficial one, they are angered at.
It is supposed to be every year.
They did not authorize this one be shortened to six months.
So, they go up to the top of their void, the strings of fate.
By Adam doing this, and him entering their territory, they cut the string connecting him to Heaven and tie him down to Hell.
He's damned if he dies.
They watch the final extermination with bated breath.
And then, seeing Adam might make it out alive, they place down Niffty behind him.
Adam is dead, and now his soul belongs to Hell.
More specifically, his soul belongs to them.
Lucifer simply owns the title of King of Hell.
The Balancer owns all of the souls who inhabit it.
Then, they see their grand escape.
An Exorcist, so close to the edge, but they just need a little push.
An Exorcist so desperate enough to kill a traitor that they gave up apart of their body to try and catch them.
Their new target.
Their way out.
Lute.
They find her string, slowly pull it down to Hell, to Adam's, and ties them together.
If they can get Lute to give up all of her faith in heaven, and fall down to the void, they'd be free.
But, they see a string of theirs be lifted up to Heaven.
They try to grab at it, but it's no use.
From the muffled barrier, they can hear the squeal of a small Seraphim, and a very familiar hissing.
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