Tapestry of the Feathered Robe
Warp of the Feathered Robe
Leitmotif: "Low of Solipsism" — the Death Note soundtrack
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Kaguya Ōtsutsuki was a goddess. That was the undisputed truth. Had she not eaten the fruit of the God Tree for which she and her clan had waited for millennia? Had she not ascended to godhood and used her newfound power to quell the wars and silence any dissent?
How, then, could her own creation be so unlike her? Hagoromo, who had been woven of the holy threads of herself and Harafu, the Ten-Headed and –Tailed Beast of Mount Hōrai's God Tree, was to be like his namesake and be her legacy, draping over the world and snuffing out the evils of these pathetic worms.
But no. He walked among such scum, showed them kindness and mercy. He even shared his God-given gift with them! She had tried, of course, tried to reopen his eyes to the mortals' true nature, but to no avail.
"How can you tarnish yourself among those pathetic worms? How can you tatter your divine gifts sharing with beasts such as these? Forget you how below us they are in everything?! They're nothing but brutes that stain the world with each other's blood and breed like the vermin that they are!"
"Well, then, why don't you teach them how to better themselves instead of lording it over them?!"
Oh, how close she was to tearing out her horns…
How dare he deviate from her designs! How dare he! Raiment, celestial or not, did not form an opinion of its own; it did not have an existence separate from its wearer! Without its wearer, it was merely a heap of fabric. Purposeless. Extraneous.
Nothing.
Nothing. That was what Hagoromo had been before she wove him on her loom…and that was what he would be when next they met. She wove him into being, and she could unweave him just as easily. He wasn't irreplaceable; she and Harafu had intertwined once again, weaving Uimaru—a perfect, more fitting raiment.
And so, Kaguya Ōtsutsuki, Princess of Radiant Night, gathered her second garment, assembled her Five Sacred Items—the Stone Begging Bowl of the Buddha; the Jeweled Branch of the God Tree; the Dragon's Pearl; the Robe of the Fire-Rat; the Swallow's Cowrie—turned her steely gaze to the endless sea…
…and waited.