once upon a time…
In the beginning, this world was created.
A wonderful experiment for the bored gods in ether realms to entertain themselves.
At its creation, they drew a [concept]—and the following, its [meaning]—and lastly, its [purpose].
First, they applied [concept], which consist of living things of plants, animals, men. And the non-living things earth and heavens, light and darkness and water and sky.
As it was made, they were pleased at the product and celebrated its success as they gathered a feast.
Second, they gathered themselves and applied [meaning] as they declared that men will have most of its territory of the world.
The gods agreed and reformed the men into split-images of themselves, including their strength into them.
But what about the others? One god inquired.
Taking this consideration, it was declared that animals and plants will have dominions of its own—a region that can't be reached by men nor interfere with them.
The gods agreed and those who favored plants and animals altered their appearance into images of themselves, including their gift into them.
But what about the others? Another god inquired.
Taking this concern, it was declared that earth and heavens will have constant dominion over everything—but with a compromise that they will not interfere to the relations of living things.
The gods agreed and applied its [meaning] into their minds.
The light and darkness—water and sky, what would be their [meaning]? A certain god inquired.
It was declared that those things will be up to the minds of men and the [God of Miracle] will oversee their actions.
The gods agreed and they continued with their creation.
Lastly, they started apply [purpose] unto their experiment.
Shouldn't we leave this to the matters of men? The [God of Age] insisted. It wouldn't be entertaining if it was only us 'creating' this wonderful experiment of ours?
After a while of discussion, they decided to take [God of Age]word and agreed to take the [purpose] to the matters of men.
After the many succession of their applications of their experimental world, they celebrated to their hearts out with smiles and dancing until they find themselves exhausted.
It is truly their wonderful experimental world. They were proud of its creation as they witness the matters of men developed themselves into improvement. They were grateful of it that they left this world in joy and went to create other experiments.
But not all of them.
Few gods chose to the stay at the new creation. Fairly attached to its development as they continue to witness the matters of men. They continue to exist in this world and watched the [God of Miracle] mingle at the humanity as they continue to grow.
But, the more they watched the god, the more they are racked with jealousy. Their laughs and sadness, betrayal and trust and promises and lies, all of it they wanted experience themselves. Without question, they humbled themselves and hooked down to mingle with humanity for the sake of satisfaction and curiosity.
And they fell in love.
They loved how innovative humanity is. Their creativity and their ambitions, all of it was fascinating to the fallen gods. The diversity, the colors, especially their personality—as humanity called it—they fell in love with the concept of it.
Truly, they fell in love.
But…
Receiving the affections of collective gods is not always a great concept.
As greed and selfishness came to them—an emotions that gods was unfamiliar of—humanity eventually started to wane. Cruel, yet passionate gods started to collect humanity who were up to their standards. Beauty, intelligence, talent… these people started to disappear gradually among humanity.
This was the start when humanity started to doubt the gods.
How could they do this to us? They questioned. How could steal our people from us?
Surely… but progressively, they started to lose faith to the gods.
Stop this disgrace this instant! [God of Miracle] demanded to other gods. Do you know the consequences of your actions?!
Why would we stop this? Isn't the [purpose] of this world to entertain us? The opposing gods boasted.
[God of Miracle] seethed in anger. The opposing gods are attached to the humanity of what they are—not who they are. They treated humanity like toys, doesn't see them individually of their identities. Their unique yet common characters is what makes humanity for they are. And these gods are not respecting it.
Seeing no light in continuing the argument, he went his dear brother [God of Age] to gained help for the opposing gods and explain the situation to him.
Aren't they not wrong? It is true that this world is experimental for entertainment. His brother's words rang. But… seeing that you are needing my help… what kind of brother am I if I'm not assisting my little brother?
The [God of Miracle] was overjoyed. Seeing that his brother agreed to help him to his cause, he was delighted at his words and asked him to what was his plan to overthrow the other gods.
The elder brother's plan was not simple. They can't directly intervene the gods themselves. Since its humanity who they were supposed to set free, it will be humanity themselves who would directly do it.
His little brother agreed at the condition. After all, they were gods of constant state. Him who governs the concept of [Miracle] and his elder brother with the concept of [Age]. They had no power to intervene. Their titles doesn't signify of the concept [Savior] nor [Heroism] in them.
But the humanity's journey to save their own won't be simple. The [God of Age] decided to create an ultimate obstacle before they can ascend to the ether realm. For the journey was going to be devastating of the minds of humanity.
The absence of the concept [Abstraction].
In other words, with the efforts of both brothers—they removed all colors that made everything meaningful to the everyday lives, making the world at the constant color of black and white.
The minds of men went into shock.
The sudden absence of colors itself was an act of betrayal from the gods.
They were angry at the treachery and promised themselves to overthrow the gods.
And that was the start of their double-sided first step of the plan, and it miraculously worked.
The lack of colors' purpose is to sparked determination and anger in their hearts against gods. And the other is a mind trial for the sake of fortitude of humanity if they are qualified to enter the ether realm.
Because the ether realm was not a pleasant place. It was the epitome of the concept [Constant]. There was no progression nor regression in that realm. If you enter the realm unprepared, you'll be blinded at the sight of its fixed state.
Only the determined ones can enter the ether realm. The one with strongest minds are allowed to roam that realm. Only the stubborn ones can walked freely in the stifling realm.
Only a single-minded person can looked in the ether realm.
Only the humanity can. That was the rule that both brothers applied to the gates as an unseen condition.
With the resolute embers lighting up in the hearts, humanity started a raid against the gods. One by one, they move forward to defeat the gods in the ether realm.
But none had returned.
Despite this, they still continued, the flames of determination steeling their stubbornness as they continue to defy the gods with their armies leading against them.
But still they failed.
Again and again and again and again.
With an everlasting defeat as their spirits started to wane.
But still, the [God of Miracle] never lose hope to them. After all, these are the creation that was created as an imitation to them—the gods themselves. As long as they reached a certain singularity of their gift that was given to them, they would be unbeatable. No matter what.
The humanity goes on with waning spirits of their hearts as some had given up to rebel against the gods and started to adapt themselves in the monochromatic world.
While some still determined to revert their former world without accepting any failures.
And that was the moment where humanity continued lived on with a reluctant acceptance of their colorless world.
This… was story of how the world believed came to be. A common story passed down in oral literature generations to generations. A world of black and white that goes on for years without any indication of changing. A monochromatic world that was stolen by the both brothers who wanted the overthrow the other gods.
No knows this was a real story nor was it an accurate history. Perhaps, this was a self-indulgent piece of literature created by men who still had faith in gods and blamed the reason of the colorless world to the fallen gods. And the brother gods was forced to take a desperate measures for humanity to defy against them and retrieved the stolen creations.
No one knows the truth behind their black and white world.
It was a mystery that was either someone cared nor was lost to the minds of humanity.
In this monochromatic world of theirs, it was believed that a single spark can make a difference. A spark who came from a certain determined, strongest, and stubborn minds of humanity. As long as they are a simple-minded individuals who cared about the simple things with a simple reasons.
A story of duality—one of who is right and who is wrong. A story of heroism—the one who is a hero and who is a villain. And most of all, a story of individuality—of one who is strong and who is weak.
It was believed a paradigm shift can happen in this world—will happen in this monochromatic world as long they are honest nor they are deceptive individual living in this world.
It is a start of an adventure—of those who walked on it and those who stray from it. As long as the hearts of humanity continue to burn, the minds of men can make a change.
At least, it was believed so.
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I see… then, I expect more from you, little adventurers.
Make my expectations go further beyond, humans. As long as you deserved it, the embers burning in your bodies will continue to light until the ends of the netherworld.
No matter what you do, your desperation and willpower will make you go move forward. The heights of obstacle you'll encounter will be devastating into your little minds.
Especially that your ultimate enemy is humanity yourself.
I shall give you luck to all of you, adventurers. The journey will be long in a threshold from now on.
Continue to light that embers burning in your hearts and face your fears.
…E Pluribus Unum…
Summary:
Humanity will triumph! Humanity will gain victory! Humanity will win!
Humanity will take back what was theirs!
Those were the words of the forgotten past used to utter by the men of who lived in the history—words that was used as pillar of hope as they continue to defy the fallen gods who stole what was rightfully theirs. It was their support in order to move forward of their rebellion.
But, Midoriya Izuku saw a different history. A history that wasn't so idealistic.
In his childhood, he remembered a vision, an apparitions retold in the edge of hallucination; a story of the fallen gods and god brothers who wanted the humanity's help.
But ever since that day, he knows that wasn't a true history. A history that was frequently brought up whenever someone asked about who are the god brothers. He just knows in his gut that wasn't a real story.
But suddenly, in the same night of that day, he received a dream of an unfamiliar voice.
"I am you, and you are me. In order to reach that singularity, set out to the real world and know your true identity."
He doesn't know what those words truly meant but somehow, he was compelled to obey the strange voice. But, he has to wait. He was still a young man at that time so he told the voice to wait until the days comes to his age.
Ever since that day, it was start of his dream to become an adventurer.
And when it was finally his day to go out—
...
"Are you really going?" His mother's worried voice echoed in the corner as if she was afraid to come out. "Are you really… going to go out there and face the dangers yourself…?"
His mother's pained voice got through him. He can understand the concern of his mother for him. But, the worry she's giving him was already unnecessary. He had already grown and he knows how to take care of himself against the dangers he will face that he would soon encounter.
But still, the thought of leaving from his mother's bosom was an agonizing one.
"You don't have to worry about me, mother. I know how to survive in the plains."
But, that wasn't his intention this whole time. Yes, his intention was not about him obeying the voice in his dreams.
He turned his head behind him and gave his mother with a brightest smile he can muster. "I'll come back in the countryside and show you my achievement in my adventures!"
That's right, it was about him making his mother proud of him.
That he is no longer a child that she used to take care of him in her embrace.
This is his adventure of the unknown. Discovering himself through multiple travels and making new friends while facing various obstacle. A quest of wmeaning and finding out the intention of the strange voice in his dreams.
A journey of a startling paradigm shift.
A/N:
A little fact about this; the eventual story of this AU fanfic is based on one of my initial idea/plot for my original story. the settings are the same, there's a divine presence (the gods) and the adventure/traveling thing. The only difference are the protagonists-which are both former criminals who seeks redemption for their past actions (an assassin and a thief) and the fact that all humans are immortal due to someone's slip-up.
My original story keeps constantly changing everytime i see inspiration everywhere but I managed to FINALLY have a concrete idea of what my original story what im supposed to make. And I gave the 'black-and-white world' idea to this AU.
Well... aside from that, the format of this story is one character per chapter. I already tried this format to my fate/stay night (which i kinda abandoned for now) so I think I can do this for this story. This story will have a trilogy type of thing. Regarding about what are those three, i think you can see it the prologue above.
The actual chapter will be posted soon, like later soon. Probably around april or so. I still need a bit of research for this story because I think it wasn't enough. This is more of a sneak peak sort of thing.
I guess that's that...
see you next chapter...?
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