BoltBeam
Falling Into The Sky
#FAC51C - Life
#EB6B56 - Death
#3D8EB9 - Anonymous (will be named later)
#FBA026 - Life and Death (in union)
#A38F84 (Bold) - Lord Father
#E25041 (Bold) - Lord Satan
#EB6B56 - Death
#3D8EB9 - Anonymous (will be named later)
#FBA026 - Life and Death (in union)
#A38F84 (Bold) - Lord Father
#E25041 (Bold) - Lord Satan
In some ways, Life and Death can be seen as both partners, opposites 'and' colleagues. They count on each other to maintain a balance in the world, nature, and make sure there is any semblance of both at any time - for without one, there cannot be the other one. However, what happens when you complain about life, and you assume nobody hears your pleas - be it desperately sobbing and begging for the end, or wishing for something more pleasant to befall you in your most dire times?
This is what happens - in an alternate reality in another dimension - no, above the clouds - but in the medium of light and dark. This is the 'Dear Mortality Support Centre' - or the DMSC, where Life and Death regulate complaints and desires from those who plea and would either choose to hand them out - or outright deny them. However, they would both need to agree on what they receive, which is normally in letter form. The DMSC is ran by Life and Death - the respective highest operators of both Heaven and Hell, with Life being an angel and Death being a demon - on the lords of their respective realms, The Father and Satan respectively.
Life and Death work together in this business - however, they sometimes conflict and their work turns into conversations about what 'they' are actually meant to do for the human race. The two would get through the last letter they received one day when Life rises from her throne of crystals and white feathers, seeming worried about something. One day, the exchange started like this. "Why do they love me but they hate you, Death?" She said plainly to him, to which Death looked up from his desk and atop his throne of a dark grey, with purple horns raising from every conceivable end of it. He put his hands together before him and chuckled. "Because you are the beautiful lie, and I am the painful truth." Death said coldly to the angel, rising up and looking at her with a deathly look as he trudged towards her.
"Like it or not, we are the sole reasons the planet Earth can be so full and so empty of life. It's a part of our business contract, Life." He added, looking away with a a sinister smile. Life shook her head. "Then what happens if we are not here to do our 'business contract'? Do you know what happens then?" She would ask Death, to which the demon ceased his sinister smile before turning back to her. "If you do not exist, we have no life on this barren world at all, meaning nothing will ever happen to it outside of what is natural. We need more like than that. And if I do not exist, then the world will become far too populated, and the worst will very well be possible. We both exist in tandem to make a balance of the living and the dead." Death explained to her.
Life seemed outraged. "I don't understand! I create all of this life for this job and this world! Why do you take it all away after it is all done?" She countered sharply. Death stood back in surprise but sighed. "I believe you do not know who you are talking to. I am Death, the destroyer of worlds. I take what the world does not need, and I require you to keep the life numbers rising so I can decrease them less than what you have raised them. You give man lemons, and I will take what you do not give them instead." He said to her calmly, seeming unnaturally calm about this whole explanation. Life sighed. "Is 'anything' safe from your ways?" She asked. Death cracked up into a maniacal laughter, his face lighting up with a malicious smile before he stopped laughing to speak.
"Woman, child, man, monster, and everything in the world belongs to me. I control when it all ends, therefore I have the majority of our combined power. But I would not have this power if you did not create them all in the first place. Furthermore, your own power and abilities limit my own should you do nothing, Life." Death said calmly, his laughter ceased and with no signs of amusement on his face. Life would try to counter Death when a buzzer went off in the DMSC building, in the main room - where both Life and Death were. It buzzed off three times, signalling the end of the work day, and Death would head straight for the door. Life would begin to follow. Death stops her, turning her excited face to shock and disappointment. "...Death, let me through. I have every single right as you to leave - you will let me through this door right now, demon!" She roared, to which the demon just turned to her with a malicious smile once again.
"Dear Life, shouldn't you be granting people's wishes?" He mocked, as Life knew he would take them away. Life stifled her anger, growing a flustered red as Death laughs and walks away. "When it exists, I own it - and everything in their possession. Family, pets, loved ones, plants... All of it bows to me." He boasted before he left the door. After Death left the building, Life sighs and walks the other way to the main room, slumping down on one of the desks. "When life gives you lemons - don't make lemonade, make life take the lemons back!" She said aloud to herself in a stressed tone. She would look down and see a black little kitten under the desk. This was one of Death's kittens - one of the several dozen, actually. Life picked it up and it let out a fearful purr. Life smiled, having gotten an idea. "Although... What if I no longer give out anything... Strictly nice...?" She said in a somewhat sinister tone. The kitten looked at her with a malicious smile. It liked her way of thinking very much.
The next few days, Life would arrive late to work, often with varying excuses, but Death seemed just as impatient as he always did upon her arrival. The most recent time she arrived, her excuse was 'wardrobe malfunction', to which Death rolled his eyes at. "Life, we do not have wardrobes in the spiritual realm..." He said coldly, shaking his head. Life blushed upon realising this and her latest excuse was pretty much just shot down like that. "W-Well, we can still work, right?" She asked. Death chuckled. "Of course we can. Come with me, the wings that light the future. We have much to do before I darken those wings for humanity at a later time." He said in an evil tone, that same kitten from before - no, it's not, it's 'multiple' identical kittens, all watching without Death noticing. Upon Death's leave at the end of the job, Life would look down to the kittens. "Hello there, you lot... I'm glad you're with me on this plan, you adorable little fluffy balls... Now, if only-"
"LIFE! Emergency!" Death boomed, running back into the room and seeing her with the kittens - though he paid it no mind. "We have an intruder! Someone managed to get to us!" He said frantically. Life seemed amazed and surprised - nobody had done this before, but she assumed it was someone from Earth. Life, Death and the numerous kittens would go and find the source - it seemed to be stuck in some kind of cube. Death pointed at the cube and with a snap of his fingers, that cube was no more, and the contents of the cube were revealed. It looked like a human girl, barely old enough to be in teen years - presently unconscious. She then woke up and looked up to the two, in both fear and amazement.
"W-Woow! A real angel! And a real demon! Is this what fantasy looks like?!" She said ecstatically. Life had a cringing look on her face. "What do we do about her..." She said silently to Death. Death gulped. "I... don't know... We will have to consult the lords." He responded to Life before looking at this girl. "Stand, child, and follow us. We have a conversation to make with you and our superiors. You can introduce yourself later - this is the first someone in your case has made it to this realm apart from those delegated to it. You will listen to our rule, or else." Death threatened. The girl stood up and saluted. "Sir yes sir! Whatever you say!" She said innocently, following Death and Life as the duo would lead them to a giant door with a golden and red crest on it. Life and Death would knock on it together. "Lord Satan! Lord Father! Open your doors!" They both announced together, and the doors would slowly open to reveal both of the lords sitting on their own thrones - they were exactly like the thrones of Life and Death's, only far bigger and more elderly in their old looks - a grouchy old human man, and an evil demon lord.
"Dear disciples. Come in, and state your case." Lord Father said sternly to the two, with enough peace in his tone to make Life shake in her boots. Lord Satan cackled. "Yes, yes! Enter! We are waiting to listen..." He added, sounding even more serious than Death - to which even he cringed in fear at. The girl just looked at the two and squealed. "Oh... my... Gods...! Yes, yes, yes! THIS IS AMAZING!" She said innocently while the quartet - the two gods and the disciples looking down on her. She then looked to them all. "...Where am I and who are you?" She then said. Death groaned. "Introductions later, now silence. The grown ups are talking." He ordered her. Life looked to the gods. "Apologies for the intrusion, Lords - but... we have... her... a problem..." She said, looking down and sighing as the girl in question seemed to not know where she is, who the surrounding figures are apart from 2 gods, an angel and a devil - and that's all she seems to know now. The two gods shake their heads in disappointment.
"It is time we consult the law books of both Heaven and Hell." Lord Father said simply. Lord Satan cackled again. "Yeees, it is time to read and find out this child's fate... Let us see if we have anything..." He said as the two gods summoned their respective law books and began flicking through page by page before the entire chamber would fall deathly silent. "...We have a job for you two. A new one." Lord Satan said. Lord Father nodded. "Raise that girl as your own - as you would do a human. You two were once humans yourself until you reached Heaven and Hell. Now, raise her together - no exceptions." He ordered. Life and Death looked to each other, seeming confused. It seems the gods had nothing on this - their faces of bewilderment matched up from the cheeks to the eyes.
"Wait, what?!"
TO BE CONTINUED
"I am Death, the destroyer of worlds." -Reference to the famous quote said by J. Robert Oppenheimer after testing the first atomic bomb ("I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.")
"You give man lemons" -When life gives you lemons trope.
"When life gives you lemons - don't make lemonade, make life take the lemons back!" -A direct quote said by Cave Johnson in Portal 2.
"She would look down and see a black little kitten under the desk. This was one of Death's kittens - one of the several dozen, actually." -Kittens and cats usually bring dead things to their owners. I found it oddly fitting and too good to pass up to have the embodiment of Death own several of them given this fact alone.
"Although... What if I no longer give out anything... Strictly nice...?" -A reference to the fact that some people in Life are born with life altering mental conditions, permanent damage, birth defects, so on and so forth. They can be either a blessing or a curse, but in this case Life is on about the more negative side.
"You give man lemons" -When life gives you lemons trope.
"When life gives you lemons - don't make lemonade, make life take the lemons back!" -A direct quote said by Cave Johnson in Portal 2.
"She would look down and see a black little kitten under the desk. This was one of Death's kittens - one of the several dozen, actually." -Kittens and cats usually bring dead things to their owners. I found it oddly fitting and too good to pass up to have the embodiment of Death own several of them given this fact alone.
"Although... What if I no longer give out anything... Strictly nice...?" -A reference to the fact that some people in Life are born with life altering mental conditions, permanent damage, birth defects, so on and so forth. They can be either a blessing or a curse, but in this case Life is on about the more negative side.
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