The Depths of Both Sides
Do you hear the people sing...?
(Pre-SDR2. I don't own SDR2.)
Before the Tragedy, the world turned on the axis of regularity. It was a place that hatred and love mingled together to create emotion. A place where blood ran rampant on one side of the globe, and a celebration of birth on the other. It was far from perfect, but nevertheless, people managed to prosper.
Then a monster called Despair swallowed the world.
The Tragedy- also known as Mankind's Most Despairingly Maleficent and Monstrous Malefaction- seemed to have come out of nowhere. It was like a whirlwind that swept and swallowed the world. The Tragedy was a series of malicious events overlapping each other in a rapid series of fear, anger, death...And most prominently of all, despair.
The strong massacred the weak, the weak slaughtered the weaker, and the weaker banded together to kill the strong. People were quickly swept away in the tsunami of tragedy. Helpless civilians were quickly swallowed up by the despair...
Now, let me tell you about a young Princess named Sonia Nevermind.
This following tale of the Princess might not seem to have a visible connection to the Tragedy that I have been referring to...But I assure you, they are most certainly not superfluous.
Before the Tragedy that overtook the world, Miss Sonia Nevermind was the Princess of the Kingdom of Novoselic.
She was a young lady- a spritely high schooler- who held the position of royalty since birth. She was a bright and cheerful girl, with a natural aptitude for politics. Although slightly naïve, she had an aura of authority and assertiveness.
She was the treasure of Novoselic, and the most loved Princess in the world. She was even invited to the prestigious Hope's Peak Academy private school- where only the most talented and elite students in the world attended- for how wonderful a Princess she was.
Sonia Nevermind came back to her country from the illustrious Hope's Peak Academy, right after the Tragedy started. Along with the King and Queen, the entire nation warmly and enthusiastically welcomed her back to her homeland.
Why wouldn't they have been? The royal heiress was safe and sound, back where she belonged, instead of romping in another country.
Then, strange things began to happen.
A few weeks after her return, her parents disappeared without a trace.
A nationwide panic occurred. Fear spread upon the masses of Novoselic. Every citizen wondered of the fates of their rulers.
Where could they have gone? Were they taken by force? If so, how come the guards didn't notice? Numerous rumors flew, ranging from the pair running away, to abduction by enemy spies.
No one suspected the Princess.
Who would? She was the sweetest girl imaginable. She was their beloved, precious Princess.
Who would suspect the Princess of Novoselic to kill her own parents?
And with the disappearance of her parents, she was the only one left who could rule her country. So she did.
Sonia Nevermind became their Queen.
As soon as she became Queen, the nation changed. Gone was the quaint and charming atmosphere of the lands. Gone was the air of elegance and satisfaction. Gone was the bright cheerfulness that permeated all citizens.
All that was left was a sense of dread...Of despair.
Novoselic had become overthrown by Despair- their ruler at the helm, spreading the dreadful plague-like emotion to all her citizens. People quickly lost their common sense, their morals, their sense of justice. People ran rampant- ferocious, wild, violent. They were no more than beasts.
It was as if the entirety of the nation had gotten swept up in an upheaval, a revolution of madness.
But this was far more gruesome, far more violent, and far more dreadful than that.
This was no mere revolution, nor was it war.
This was anarchy, anarchy in its purest, strongest form.
...But that is not the end of this foolish tale. There is more.
Novoselic became a mad country full of blood-lust and warmongering, led by their equally mad Queen. Terrorists spawned like rabbits, and missiles were launched with regularity.
The situation quickly escalated, as the world veered out of control. When Novoselic became too much of a threat, the other countries did not even bother sending generals, politicians, peacemakers, or armies. Rather, they sent in missiles of their own, in retaliation to the despairing country.
Now...The country named Novoselic does not exist any longer. It can no longer be called a country. It is merely a land full of death and fear, a large ghost-town in the midst of the world.
Among those killed- thousands upon thousands of Novoselic people- the mad Queen was one of the few that survived. The only evidence of her surviving was the absence of her corpse among the ruins of the former country, when the lands were searched and raided.
No one knows what has happened to Sonia Nevermind.
No one knows what she's doing. No one knows what's she's planning. No one knows where she is.
And that, my friends, is the end of this tale.