The screen began to bubble and boil as the familiar silver door rose from it's depths, the thick purple chains corroding and breaking apart as the door opened up and bathed everything in dark purple.
From the tainted light, came a single red eye that glared at the screen before the door slammed shut and everything became static, a crumbling rose symbol appearing every so often as the title began to form.
The Ruinverse: Chapter Ninety Three, Domina Lucis Sceleste.
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-Unknown Location-
The darkness slowly faded away as the screen became illuminated by a menagerie of light before revealing a strange…endless void of blue cloudy skies, the ground covered in clear transparent blue water that seemed to sink into the ether in all directions.
A faint breeze occasionally stirred the water's surface as all seemed…peaceful, almost tranquil.
Yet, in the very center of this water-covered world, a small platform of ice jutted from the water and floated upon it like a lost ship in the ebbing shallows as a figure stood at its center, their eyes darting around in confusion.
"What…where am I?" muttered a tall fair skinned woman with long white hair that was tired in the back on her left side, two long bangs on the right side of her face along with a small curled lock of hair down the left just above her shoulder, slate-blue eyes, a F cup chest and wide ass, wearing a white long sleeved coat that went down to her ankles with a single dark blue clasp around the center waist holding it shut, a red jeweled brooch on the collar, a split on her sleeves that went from the shoulder to the elbows, a white pleated sleeveless blouse, a dark blue waistcoat, black forearm length gray trimmed cuffed gloves, a silver curved sword on her left hip, white trousers with dark blue garters and gray thigh boots with black detailing around the knees, whose face was filled with a mixture of confusion and stress as she looked around the waterlogged landscape. "Wasn't I in my bedroom?"
As the woman looked around, her right hand moving towards her sword's hilt, she began to realize that she was utterly alone in this unknown reality, making her feel small in comparison to the seemingly endless skies around her.
"...just where am I?" she muttered to herself before feeling something…off just behind her and spun around, only to see nothing at all. "I must be losing my mind."
"That is a matter of perspective, for only those with weak wills find themselves unable to comprehend the nature of existence."
SWISH!
Her eyes widened in shock before spinning around, her weapon at the ready as the blade was inches away from the 'assassin's' neck, only to pause in her attack as she noticed it was...a familiar face. 'What in the world?'
For lo, standing in front of the surprised woman was a tall fair skinned woman with long whitish blonde hair that went down to her chest and sporting violet and light purple tips, bright yellow eyes, a E cup chest and wide ass, long red nails, a large circular multicolored gemstone on her forehead, wearing a long sleeved white hooded robe that went down her her legs, deep sapphire blue lining around the cuffs and hem, bright yellow crescent emblems around the chest and hips, light red buttons around the neckline, twelve long golden metallic wing-like halos circling her body with bright sapphire blue hues in between the flattened tips and dull orange slippers with a single white spike on the toes, whose expression seemed calm and collected despite having a blade near her neck as a brilliant golden light illuminated her body like an aurora.
"Mother? What are you doing here…and why are you wearing those robes?"
"Winter Schnee." 'Willow' said calmly, her voice seemingly reverberating against the water's surface like a ringing bell. "I am here to offer you a once in a lifetime chance at happiness."
"What…wait, who are you?" Winter said with a frown. "You have her face but…you don't seem to act like her at all."
"My name is of little significance in this conversation, only your answer is relevant."
The Schnee narrowed her eyes as her 'mother' began walking around the ice 'island', her wings seemingly floating around her body like miniature suns. "What answer?"
"The answer to my offer."
"Don't play games with me! Either you tell me your intentions or I will-"
"The offer will bring Weiss Schnee happiness." 'Willow' interrupted, causing Winter's eyes to widen in surprise. "A happy life away from the flawed regime of your father."
"..."
"Does that intrigue you, Specialist of Atlas?"
'...Just who is this woman? And why does she know so much about me?' Winter thought while sheathing her blade. "Just tell me or I will make sure your words sway my hand no more."
The robed woman nodded before moving off the platform, her water's surface seemingly holding her weight as small ripples formed with each footstep she took. "My offer is one I never gave to the flawed beings of creation. Light, darkness, polar opposites that break and bend against the stronger forces of either. Yet, you and your kind seem to merge the two forces together, a great responsibility to those without a protector."
'She's speaking in riddles, yet she seems to allude to the Brothers? But why?' Winter thought while completely stunned at the fact the woman was walking on water, a feat not seen even in the most accomplished Huntsmen.
"Normally neither force can exist in harmony, only one or the other, yet your kind is the exception. A design flawed by their maker, but I digress." 'Willow' said calmly before turning around. "You, Winter Schnee, shall know the truth and make right the sins of billions."
"What are you even talking about? What kind of offer is that!?"
Bubble.
Bubble.
Bubble.
"One that will be revealed in time." she said while several hundred orbs of water began to rise from the depths of the endless ocean and crystallized into solid ice. "Lo, look upon the orbs and witness its visions of endless pasts and never ending possibilities."
"..."
"Come, look upon the orbs."
Winter frowned before looking at the closest orb on her left side, its reflective surface shimmering like diamonds.
"MOTHER FREE US!" screamed Weiss' voice as Winter's eyes widened in horror, for her sister was trapped in a mercury infused white mirror.
"What the? Weiss!?"
"It is but a vision of past and future events. You can not reach her." 'Willow' said calmly as Winter turned to another orb, only to see a massive black and white humanoid Grimm freezing Atlas in black snow, on her right side. "For that is not your fate in this flawed reality."
The Schnee felt her blood run colder than the most brutal Solitas blizzards as she looked upon the orbs, each one containing a vision that forced her to hold back her own vomit.
From her sister being grounded into paste by purple chains to being mauled to death by Manticore Grimms…to even her being digested by a Queen Lancer and transformed into a monstrous abomination of nature.
All these fates…pertaining to her sister, the one she loved more than life itself, no matter how brutal she had to be in the cruel reality that was Atlasian politics.
"Made from false dreams and wrong choices, this realm, this Realm of Ruin, is a cesspool of darkness. Unworthy of existing." 'Willow' said with a frown as she held one of the orbs in her left hand.
"No…No…NOOOOOOOOOOO!" cried out an image of Weiss as her glyphs began to overload, freezing the entire area in ice and snow, her body transforming into breakable ice in front of the stunned Winter's eyes.
"W…Why show me…this?" Winter asked while trying to hold back the tears, her mind panicking at the fact her sister was experiencing fates worse than death and she couldn't do anything to stop them.
"Truths are painful to those with noble intentions." 'Willow' said calmly while the orb melted away into water once more. "Your affection for Weiss Schnee is admirable but pointless in this endless nightmare of infinity. This realm, this reality is flawed, bathed in a mistake from an inexperienced god's envy and left alone amongst a sea of predated nothingness. Locked behind Silver Gates, this realm is fated to forever consume itself in flawed hunger and self destruction. This I can not allow."
Bubble.
Bubble.
Bubble.
'What now!?' Winter thought before noticing the cream beginning to boil, changing color from clear blue to a pure blackish purple, the ripples growing larger and larger as a strange red 'bubble' started to form underneath her ice platform.
Bubble.
Bubble.
Bubble.
"I strive for order amongst the darkness, perfection in a realm defined by flawed fate." 'Willow said as the bubble began to flatten, forming a deep red eye that seemingly blinked at Winter with malice. "These myriad of realms needs everlasting order to eliminate the dark tyranny of endless suffering, to be purged of the taint of imperfect survival in favor of a new order, one devoid of suffering, of pain and of senseless death. What I offer you, Winter Schnee, is the chance to create a new realm, one where Weiss Schnee is allowed to choose her own path, to choose a fate better than the ones dealt to her by this flawed reality."
"..."
"Order and perfection is what you desire. It is in your blood, it is your very nature." 'Willow' said as her body glowed brighter than before, causing Winter to shield her eyes. "You can grant your sister the happy end she rightfully deserves across the countless realms of flaws. All you have to do is offer yourself to me and all shall be made right."
"Offer…myself? What do you mean?" the Schnee asked while feeling...conflicted by the doppelganger's words. 'Helping my sister, across realms? Just what does that mean…but even if I don't know the truth behind her words...I feel some connection to them? Yes, like...they resonate with my goals.'
'Willow' nodded while the light around her began to die down, revealing her smiling face…which seemed off for some reason. "To obtain the order you desire, you must submit to me, body and spirit. To become one with my will to create, the power to bring light to this Realm of Ruin."
As the woman stared back at the Schnee's location, her wings began to spin faster around her body, her eyes glowing a bright white hue as Winter felt…drawn to her 'mother's' words of 'perfection'.
"Winter Schnee, eldest of the Schnees and order personified. Join with me and your sister shall be free from her cage. Help bring about a Realm of Light to this reality of flaws." the woman said while extending her left hand outwards, waiting for the Specialist to decide her fate.
"..." 'Should I follow this stranger's words…or should I refuse? If this is a trick then Weiss might get hurt…but the offer is so tempting, a chance for Weiss to be freed from our family's gilded cage…away from the horrors of the Grimm, the spite of Atlas' elite, the rage of the faunus...a new life of her own choice…one where everyone is happy.'
"What is thy choice? Everlasting light or flawed despair from a specter, clad in oceanic nothingness?"
"...will Weiss be saved once these 'realms' are cleansed?"
"Yes, by my will, the essence of Weiss Schnee shall be collected across the flawed myriad of this realm, preserved until the day all is made clean once more."
"..." Winter stared at the figure's left hand, seemingly enthralled by the idea of…a better world for her sister, her most precious and cherished sibling, before her right arm extended outwards towards 'Willow's' hand. "This is for you, Weiss."
The figure's body began to glow even brighter as Winter's hand met her own, the world quickly becoming engulfed by the radiance as everything faded into a white void.
(Elsewhere)
-Remnant, Solitas, Atlas, Atlas Academy, Private Barracks, Winter's Room-
Within the darkened room, small yet cramped in design as the cold icy blue walls reflected the shattered moon's light from its light blue window, the nearby dark gray bed, attached to the right wall, began to stir as the covers fell upon the ground, revealing Winter Schnee's body rose up and stare blankly at the walls above her.
FLASH!
Instantly a bright flash of light erupted from the woman's eyes and mouth, illuminating the darkened room as four flat white helix-like wings formed around her body, each one glowing with multi-colored hues as her forehead gained a small white star-like orb that seemed to 'blink' every few seconds.
"..."
As the light began to dim, the woman moved off the bed and stood upon the tiled floor before a faint golden light formed around her and started to float off the ground, several golden glyphs, each one sporting a multicolored orb in its center, forming around her body and began to absorb the materials composing the room itself.
"This realm shall be remade in my image." she said in an angelic yet sinister voice as her eyes shimmered with a mixture of sapphire, gold and crimson red hues. "As shall all of this flawed abyss."
CREAK!
CRUNCH!
Metal began to buckle under the intense suction of the glyphs as strands of golden 'string' shot out from Winter's hands and began to spread outwards, quickly moving both inside the academy's hallways and outside towards the Atlasian skyline.
"Once I create a new body, this world will be the start of the cleansing long overdue. Pathetic brothers, leaving such an abomination exist while drowning the light." she said coldly as the sounds of screams echoed across the academy. "This reality shall be rectified, so the Lord of Light decrees."
FLASH!
"For it is the will of Galeem, the savior of the Ruinverse!" she cackled as the screen began to be illuminated by a miniature of color before everything faded to white.
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Name/Designation Title: Winter Schnee/Lady of Light/Galeem (Domina Lucis Sceleste Winter Schnee- DLSWSRWBY)
Age: 20~25
Affiliation: Omniversal Evil
Dimension: - 800091219- 99 DLSWSRWBY
Abilities: Enhanced strength, speed, durability, agility, reflexes and endurance, Huntress skills and knowledge, Atlasian Military skills and knowledge, high Dust handling and knowledge, high swordsmanship skills and knowledge, duel weapon handling and skills (blades and guns), firearm handling and skills, high charisma, magic manipulation (via both the Seasonal Maiden powers, the Relics and Galeem's influence), light manipulation and control (via Galeem's influence), soul extraction (via Galeem's influence), soul manipulation (via Galeem's influence), reality manipulation (via Galeem's influence), mind control (via Galeem's influence), matter manipulation (via Galeem's influence), flight (via Galeem's influence), black hole creation and manipulation (via Galeem's influence), dimensional travel (via Galeem's influence), energy manipulation (via Galeem's influence), destruction manipulation and control (via Galeem's influence), power bestowal (via Galeem's influence), illusion manipulation and control (via Galeem's influence), self regeneration (via Galeem's influence), immortality (via Galeem's influence), eternal youth (via Galeem's influence), limited omnipotence (via Galeem's influence), limited omnipresence (via Galeem's influence), extremely limited omniscience (via Galeem's influence), high shapeshifting/limited omnifarious (via Galeem's influence, originally limited but later negated through power absorbtion), power absorption, magic absorption, Dust absorption, inorganic material absorption, organic absorption, aura absorption, omniarch (via Galeem's influence).
Semblance(s): Glyphs (Enhanced by Galeem's influence.)
Bio: In this timeline, a few days after Weiss Schnee left Atlas to become a Huntress in Vale, one Winter Schnee would be troubled and worried about the state of the world and how it would affect her younger sister's life. From reports of White Fang activities in the Kingdom of Vale to her own father's greed affecting the social and economic landscape every day he existed, the oldest daughter of the Schnees would find no relief in her anxieties and decided to emotionally shut herself off from the world and continue serving the Atlas Military to the best of her abilities…yet her thoughts always turned to Weiss' safety, despite the fact that her fractured mental state was detected by an unknown entity. This being, known within the entire verse, known to outsiders as the Smashverse, as Galeem, an angelic god-like entity that threatened the verse with a 'reboot', but before it can plan its next move...it was suddenly sucked through a crack in reality into the Ruinverse itself and collided with ancient Solitas, causing its body to shatter upon the dimensional transition, reducing it to an evil spirit that wandered across Remnant for centuries [...nO]. During this time, the entity learned about the history of Remnant and the Ruinverse itself, which caused the deity to be disgusted by the blackened omniverse itself and its 'flawed' nature [FoOlIsH pArAsItE. sPaWn Of LiGhT, eNeMy Of DaRkEsT vOiD], allowing it to change its goals from remaking the Smashverse to turning the Ruinverse into a 'perfect' reality of its own designs [ThIs ReAlM iS nOt YoUrS tO cOnTrOl]. However it needed a host to regain its lost powers and sensed the 'order' within Winter's very soul…allowing the deity to enter her mind when she slept, masquerading as Willow Schnee, to convince the woman into letting it control her mind and body, tempting her with dreams of order, of hope and happiness that no one, not even her father could influence…a world where Weiss was safe and protected from all harm [FaLsEhOoDs. DeCiEt]. Viewing Galeem as the only one to bring order to an order-less omniverse, having seen several timelines within the Ruinverse where Weiss was hurt or killed, that would allow her sister to fall into darkness many a time, she submitted herself entirely to the angelic god, allowing her mind to be suppressed as Galeem began using its powers, along with Winter's augmented abilities, to construct a new body from the most powerful objects and relics on Remnant as it absorbed all of its enemies, from either humans, faunus, Dust, relics or the Maiden's powers, to regain the full entirety of its godly powers. For the next three years, Galeem would obliterate everything deemed 'flawed' [ThIs iS mY rEaLm!] on the planet while absorbing anything needed for the entity's new body, soon creating a humanized fusion of both its original form and Winter Schnee's human body, the world burned away by light as the Four Kingdoms were all but wiped from the face of Remnant's surface…yet Vale remained as the final resting place for sentient life and home for the last remaining Huntsmen, now collectively known as the Twilight Guild. Annoyed by this resistance, the newly reformed deity [LeSsEr GoD, tHoU sHaLl PaY fOr YoUr ArRoGaNcE. oThEr GoDs HaVe FaIlEd BeFoRe, YoU aRe No DiFfErEnT.] began using its powers to find the strongest of the Twilight Guild's Huntsmen and forcibly transform them into mindless minions for its personal army, not realizing that Weiss Schnee, one of the last students of Beacon Academy, is leading the resistance against Galeem. Viewing 'Galeem' as her greatest shame, Weiss tried to bring Winter's mind to the surface, to take back control so they can save the world from Galeem's tyranny...yet this was fruitless as Winter's mind has long since been absorbed into the entity's soul and, in a moment of hesitation, Weiss was obliterated from existence along with the rest of the Twilight Guild. Seeing this timeline as 'flawed' [BrOtHeRs GrImM fLeD fRoM tHiS rEaLm...ThIs ReAlM iS sUPeRiOr To LeSsEr SiStEr ReAlM], even after purging it of all flaws, Galeem wiped the timeline from existence and moved on...for there are other worlds to 'save', other timelines to make 'perfect' for their new omniverse [YoUr PlAnS wIlL fAlL tO rUiN's WiLl]...their new Realm of Light [ThE rUiNvErSe WiLl SwAlLoW yOuR eXiStAnCe InTo ThE vOiD lIkE aLl ThE rEst!].