Okay I know this isn't a "plot" story chapter but it is more of a background on Karma and what happened to her. My history teacher is a pain and he always interrupts my nap in his class, so I'm sorry if my history line is off (which it most-likly is).
It was sometime in the 1400's when Karma Gooding became only Karma. Her father was a sheriff of the town she lived in. Karma's family was known to be a prestigious family because of her father. She believed heavily in the justice for everyone who was deserving of it. The king was kind and fair, he was the biggest supporter of the justice of his town but he believed the punishment had to be dealt by the rank of how horrible the crime was.
She wanted to be apart of the Justice system and be a sheriff just like her father, but she was a woman and that was looked down on. Her family didn't want to have anything to do with her after she said she wanted to do anything else other then have five kids or something. She fought tooth and nail for it, but she was then looked down on. The once greatest good girl ever known, became a decrease to her family name. Karma didn't want her family to be brought down just because of her, so she left. When she left her father, died from illnesses, her brother then was trying to become the sheriff but kept failing at what ever the king asked. So she cut off all of her hair, wrapped her chest and dressed like a man of a noble family, and said she was the younger brother of her father's. So she rode in to town acting like a man, and looking like a man, just to take his job and help her family in some way. She felt bad for her mother and had to do something. She soon fooled the King and became the town sheriff. Making the city once more secure and fair for all of them, she did better then her father did at this. It was her passion. Then one day her brother got suspicious of her, as she constantly hid from them and kept her head down. For months she hid as the man who was now sheriff, then her brother found her out one day. He was angered that his sister took his rightful place, but even though out her begging for mercy, he reported to the king this crime of impersonating a man, taking a role as sheriff, and lying to the king.
When he told the king that she lied and impersonated a man. She tried to reason with him, but the king being a Just man as he saw himself to be, he carried out the punishment with her as anyone else would have done it. The punishment was death for lying to the king and that was the highest thing that could happen. So in spring one day during the time of Easter, the King scheduled a hanging in front of the whole town. Karma was not stupid, she knew that she couldn't swindle her way out of this, but she was done begging and just wanted for her sentence to go through already. The day of her hanging she stood tall and proud thinking of all the good things she did for that city, but no thanks was ever given to her, especially now. She stood in white rags that she had. Her white hair was short like a boys but ruffled as the wind blew. She didn't say a word, just tried to think of the justice she gave to people and the king. Her mother begged in the front to her brother, to the king, to anyone but none of them listened. When Karma swung from the rope around her neck, she was just happy to think she did something good, even if it was for a short time, she brought someone justice.
Karma was told only her first name, and that was it. Over time her hair grew from the short white to longer but the tips still whiter then snow. The rags she wore she made them into a dress of a sort that fit her well. The clasps she has around her neck she wore when she was hung as chains, but now the chains broken and the clasp remain. She brought justice to everyone at some point in their life. People believe in Karma, but she never wants to be seen. So she hides, unless being seen was part of the punishment or if it was for a spirit of a type. Karma didn't mind being lonely, it was things that people held dear to them she found interesting. Things people where willing to give anything for just to have; money, objects, even thoughts sometimes. When she would "Bring Justice" to someone, she would take it in trade for some type of pain; bad memory, loneliness, loosing something, and anything people found dear to them, but it was only based on how harsh the punishment should be. Over time she became stoic with her job and it wasn't the greatest thing in the world to know that if someone was to touch her then she would cause them pain in some way. But that is her job and she did it. Over time she found joy in some pains, so when she sees one suffering sometimes, she can't help but smile. It's not that she wants to smile at the pain of another but the sight of seeing someone paying for their ways.
Bunnymund was the first spirit to see her doing a round with some people. She caused people pain and Bunnymund didn't like it at all. So soon he ended up getting a visit from her. She collected his mischief, but he only knew more about Karma then other because he was the only person in the world that could make her stop and question the reason of justice. She opened up slightly from her stoic and sort of maniacal way to him.
I will try to get the next chapter up tomorrow! I hope you liked this one! Thank you for reading, and please keep reading! Tell me what you think!
- Nik