Once Upon a Time (He Saw All the Gold in the World)
Governor Ratcliffe was a racist. He was cruel and harsh and wanted to kill everyone who didn't have pale skin and English features. He didn't believe in the other cultures of the world {all they were was bullshit}. He didn't believe in other religions, didn't understand the concept of gods, plural. There was only one God, and anyone who thought otherwise {anyone who spoke to spirits in willow trees} was a heathen.
That was why he like Captain John Smith so much. World-famous in the colonies (sent specially from London) the man who conquered and tamed the savages of the new world. He did find the Captain too free-spirited, too wild, but he'd deal with that if it meant the death of the savages, of Powhatan and princess Pocahontas and their tribe that were concealing the gold that he knew was just around the corner.
He had never spoken of the events that followed the creation of the Jamestown settlement {certainly not of her marriage to John Rolfe, a white man}, not of Captain Smith's deflection and the subsequent gunshot wound.
He passed all of his beliefs on, to his daughter Gianna. She was Aryan and had been born with hate in her heart, said the legend of the Isle of the Lost {no one ever spoke the truth; her mother was half-Powhatan, born in the Tsenacommacah}. Gianna had been hurling racial slurs and beating up the impure behind taverns as long as she could remember.
One day, it went a little too far. The blood of a black man's skull dropped against a rusted pipe, and her hands were covered in the same blood. He didn't ever stand up again. And sure, Gianna stashed the body, but now she had a taste for killing, and she loved it. And so, all the scum on the Isle, all the ones who weren't as good, as civilised as she was, all the savages, she eradicated them. Stole their food and their money, let them starve and go poor because that's what they did to her and her daddy.
And then the Isle four went over there, and dear lord, they made friends with half-dwarves and Asians and all sorts of pathetic scum, and what she wouldn't give to go over there and kill. Them. All.
{She had made several attempts on Felicia Facilier's life, but that was all they were, attempts, because the voodoo bitch thought she was too good to die}.
And when High Queen Mal gave her free reign, to kill her bastard father who she'd caught in bed with a Red Indian whore, Governor Ratcliffe was hanged, the proper British way to kill someone.
To kill Pochahontas.
Not long after that, Gianna was locked in the Blood Palace and tortured, eventually murdered {she broke her contract, they said. And besides. Mal was fae, and Evie was a succubus, and Jay was a djinn and did she really think she'd get away with calling them half-breeds?}.
All that killing had messed with her brain, and Gianna was mad, demented. She screamed and laughed in the chambers of the Blood Palace, and when she was put to death, her last request was to sleep with a Powhatan {she killed the woman afterwards, before Chad Charming could escort her out}.
(Because her daddy hated the savages, he turned her into what he hated most.).
This was the first work in the Seven Deadly Sins 'verse. The next work is called 'Haven't You Heard the Word of Your Body'. You can also find the entire series in one story titled 'The Horsemen's Cycle' on my profile.