Cultural Exchange

by tartar12345

Story is set shortly after the Tekken 6: Scenario Campaign ending. Who are Julia Chang's real parents? How is she and Michelle Chang connected to Ogre? Warnings: Some re-edits & retro-add-ons. Julia-centric. Raw & highly self-indulgent & potential angst backfire. Currently NOT planning to follow T7 plotline/characters. Relatively OC-heavy, moments of OOCness, & AUishness.

8. P1-C4: Unsavory

Pre-Warnings/Clarifications:

(1) This chapter is a rewind event from the previous chapter. It takes place some hours before Julia leaves the medical center and returns to her & Jin's chamber cell.

(2) The majority of this chapter will be an expository diary log explaining what Julia learned about her heritage, from the Agency's notes.

(3) As this will be about Julia's individual & tribal origins, there will be a myriad of OCs introduced here. Except for Julia's father & a few select members of her maternal lineage, the introduced OCs will be insignificant & one-time recurring characters.

(4) Different topics/inquiries are divided into section, similar to how Jin & Julia's shared detainment time is divided by days.

(5) Julia's heritage background story can get a tad squicky in some portions. There will also be some nasty abuse & deeds mentioned in this chapter, but again I try to keep the nasty details as general and non-explicit/non-specific/non-graphic as I can.

(6) The terms "half-human" and "human-born" are used interchangeably. I intend for them to mean the same thing here.

(7) As a chapterly reminder, I'm planning for this fanfic to disregard post-T6SC official developments, including T7 & its characters (at least so far, as trying to integrate them will significantly de-motivate & discourage my storywriting incentives at this point). Thus, I'm currently going to actively ignore T7-related facts, which will likely render the Tekken in-universe facts of this story canonically obsolete, contradictory, and/or highly inaccurate.

Disclaimer:
I do not own Tekken, its original characters or the mainstream fictional works that inspired or I derived my Storyline/Characterizations/Plot Devices/OCs/Character Names.

I do own the OCs presented here, along with the chosen naming & self-invented backgrounds of both playable & previously nameless canon characters with little or different background info (up to Tekken 6: Scenario Campaign).

Part I Ch4: Unsavory Legends Made Flesh and Soul

JULIA & JIN AS CELL-ROOMMATES: DAY 15

*****
Deep in Julia's sleeping subconscious realm...

Ear-splitting screams of mindless agony and horror chorused through the open air. They came from men, women, children, and even little infants.

Julia looked around in consternation. She was in a familiar neighborhood setting...her childhood hometown Arizona. But big trees were bursting out all around her from the ground, breaking through pavement and concrete ground, destroying all kinds of property and buildings. And then there were the civilians.

The people around her were alchemically morphing into trees themselves, in a most painful and grotesque fashion. They shrieked as all their body parts bulged more than three times their normal size, horrifically distorting their figure and facial figures, splitting off their clothing and skin, shedding off all traces of hair. The surfaces of their bodies were rapidly covered by thick, healthy tree bark. Their feet became huge tree roots that forcefully penetrated the ground. Arms and heads raised by themselves and split-shot out into tree branches, which rapidly exploded with lovely green foliage. Shapes of those agony-frozen human faces were still visible in the post-transformed trees.

The young scientist was too aghast to say or do anything, other than witness the horrifying spectacle taking place around her with wide eyes and a hanging jaw.

That is, until a single human figure calmly walked towards her, completely unconcerned and unperturbed by the gruesomely bizarre occurrences around them. When the person finally stopped a few steps away from Julia, the young scientist realized she was staring face-to-face with Michelle. Her adoptive mother looked around casually, and was bearing an expression so foreign on her face...cruel, sadistic satisfaction.

"Lush reforestation of Arizona desert wasteland...this was always what you sorely dreamed of, wasn't it? And what better way to realize that dream? To use the very enemies of Mother Nature Herself for reforestation fodder...the human population?" Michelle inquired in a chillingly conversational tone.

Julia's shocked attention shifted to the woman standing in front of her. The sadistic pleasure still clearly written on her adoptive mother's face.
No...no! This wasn't Michelle. Julia cried desperately inside. This was a twisted imposter, some...clone imitating her adoptive mother! Perhaps even a mere impersonating humanoid robot, like one of Lee's products, maybe another Alisa-like gynoid...

"You...you aren't Michelle Chang! Who the hell are you?! WHO ARE YOU?" Julia heard herself screaming uncontrollably at the woman in front of her.

The woman suddenly laughed in derisive amusement. Such cold, spiteful laughter sounded so strange in Michelle's warm, passionate voice.
"Oh, this is Michelle Chang, all right. Well, at least her body...and her soul's still in here too, but we can't guarantee how long it's going to last, due to the self-deterioration your adoptive mother's psyche is putting itself through. On the other hand..."

Michelle's speaking voice suddenly transformed into a completely uniform chorus of Julia's voice...as if there were a crowd of the young scientist speaking the exact same words at the exact same time. However, a considerably lighter-pitched and melodic girlish voice chimed audibly above them...a vaguely familiar girlish voice.

"...WEare in possessive control of your adoptive mother's body. Us, the souls of your real mothers and your maternal line."

Possessed Michelle's shadow suddenly split into multiple shadowy shapes of women - nude women bearing very long loose hair, and had huge arcs floating about their shoulders. The foreign shadows spread around Michelle like a fan. Then the ethereally glowing Beings from Julia's Doppelganger dreams started to emerge from each shadow, in full three dimensional form...ten of them, exact living replicas of Julia herself. They floated up and surrounded Michelle in a semi-circle formation. Their hovering, upright bodies gently moved up and down in midair with a rhythmic pace, like boats bobbing in calm waters.

Other than their floating white air-sash and transparent aqua-robe, the Beings were nude...except the one in the top-center. That one possessed the physical appearance of the oriental girl-goddess, and was clad in full-armored form.

The Beings uniformly bore that chilling smile at Julia...except the odd one out, the Being with the dark complexion and curly hair, and the only other that looked nothing like Julia - She looked genuinely distressed and depressed.

"Why so surprised, Twelfth Incarnation?" One of the Beings spoke in a casual tone... one that resembled Julia, who was floating next to the central girl-goddess. The Being lifted a hand and regarded Julia with a cold, mocking smile. Michelle's body mimicked Its expression and movements like a mindless human puppet.
"It's not like we've never met. We've all taken turns to get acquainted with you, in your so-called 'Doppelganger' dreams. Though perhaps you should consider re-dubbing them as your 'Maternal Lineage' dreams from now on, hmm?"

"...what have you done to Michelle Chang's soul?" Julia rasped out before she realized it.

The Being's expression suddenly grew dark at the young scientist's inquiry.
"That backstabbing traitor...she's getting her just traitor desserts. Michelle cruelly betrayed me - all of us - to protect our miserable joke of a tribe, putrid beyond saving."

Julia's possessed adoptive mother suddenly stepped aside to reveal a tall, tidy pillar of brutally slaughtered human beings. They also comprised men, women, children, and babies of all ages. The corpses were suspended upright and closely together in neatly stacked columns by some invisible force.

"The full massacre of our decadent tribe, the Skytorch people. We had Michelle do the deed with her own bodily hands...and forced her soul to witness the whole thing. Truthfully speaking, Michelle's the only one qualified for our legion metempsychosis, and all we've done is force her to right her past wrongs." Another Julia-like Being grounded out with vindictive malice. "Still, your dear adoptive mother's not taking the experience well, to say the least. Just as before, falling apart without a fight, the moment reality becomes too harsh for her to accept. Would you like to see for yourself?"

As She spoke, a nude and semi-transparent woman suddenly emerged from the front of possessed Michelle's body, and fell to her knees...it was Michelle's soul.

Julia watched in unbearable distress as Michelle's soul stretched a plaintive hand towards her. The face and form of her adoptive mother's soul was withered and distorted in near-insane anguish. Michelle's soul opened its mouth, but couldn't form any words.

"Your adoptive mother's soul is torturing herself to pieces over the slaughtering ritual we forced her to personally execute on our tribe...which of course, included her own mother." The Being spoke again in a matter-of-factly tone. It then directed a ruthlessly taunting glare at Julia.

"Well, Twelfth Incarnation? Are you going to just stand there and let your adoptive mother's soul tear itself to pieces in agonized insanity, until there's nothing left of it in the afterlife? Do you lack the backbone to administer a mercy kill for dear Michelle? Or too cowardly to destroy us to avenge the unsalvageable state we put her mind and soul into?" Yet another Julia-like Being challenged heatedly.

"You MONSTERS! I'll kill ALL of you!" Julia heard herself roar from the depths of her soul as she charged towards her possessed adoptive mother, tears of blind rage and grief streaming from her eyes. Along with the Beings, possessed Michelle smiled in immense satisfaction and anticipation, as Julia rushed forward and prepped her most powerful blow against possessed Michelle's temple.

A vice-like grip suddenly grabbed Julia's attacking arm, forcing her to halt. With a vicious snarl, the young scientist whipped her head around to see who her interferer was.

Julia found herself staring into the face of Vo Thi Binh, that Vietnamese teenager - whom was allegedly one of her alien creators inhabiting a human body. The Vietnamese girl regarded her with a stern, unrelenting look.

"You cannot afford to kill anyone or anything your mother's soul possesses, Enkeelus the Twelfth. And you very well know why yourself." Vo's voice was soft and child-like, but her tone was hard as stone.

Suddenly, their surroundings dissolve into dark nothingness - no forest, no people, no Michelle, and none of those Beings. All that remained present was her and the teenage Vietnamese girl.

Julia inexplicably felt her grief-stricken rage and burning emotions calming down in this space of nothingness. After a moment or two, the young scientist turned to Vo.

"...what the hell are those Beings? What the hell am I? Alien bio-machines you made from scratch...who happen to possess a sentient soul?"

Vo let out a cynical chuckle. "Why, you Celestial-Fairies and the Ogres...you lot were once our alien planet's local deities. Just like Angel, Devil, Azazel, and so on are Earth's local deities."The Vietnamese girl replied with a scoff.
"My alien race simply found a method to render our planet's local deities into mindless and soul-less bio-machines...which still retain all Their divine power.
"We banished the original godly souls - both the holy and unholy alike - of our deities into inescapable oblivion, in order to supplant our own minds into Their omnipotent bodies, and possess Their omniscient inner faculties with our own souls."

The teenage girl then shook her head with a resigned smile, causing her banded side-ponytail to swish about her left shoulder. "But just like the humans of Earth, we eventually grew too ambitious and expansive with our god-machines. Which became our downfall and your origin of autonomous sentience..."

*****
Agency Base - Southwest Medical Center, 6:33 am...

Julia awoke with a start...she was in the Agency's medical center, lying on their hospital bed. She could still feel the lingering effects of her concussion. Her abdomen still radiated with sharp pain at the slightest movement, as did the spot between her legs when she moved to sit up. Other than that, she was feeling uncannily well...and it had been less than three days after she sustained what should've been a series of mortal injuries.

And tonight, they're going to send her straight back into her shared cell chamber with Jin.

The young scientist felt her gut starting to churn in distress and anxiety. I'll have to go with that asinine plan...provoke Kazama into kicking me out of his room, or die trying. I just can't think of any other way. And getting killed doesn't sound too horrible a possibility anymore, after all the crap Kazama and the Agency's dishing out at me...

Julia looked at the clock and sighed. It'll be at least another two hours before checkup or breakfast. She's unable to go back to sleep with all the depression and anxiety plaguing her right now...especially after that horrible nightmare.

After inclining her bed into a sitting position, the young scientist took out from under her pillow that still-empty notebook with a pen clipped to it. The leader guard was thoughtful and gracious enough to retrieve these items for her from Jin's cell, while she was stuck resting in the medical center.

Might as well make use of her writing tools and the few hours to kill. To help distract her from her current nervous mood - and the burdens plaguing her heart since she read the Agency's notes about her heritage - onto this notebook, like a autobiographic-diary log of sorts...

JULIA'S DIARY LOG - SECTION 1

DATE: XX/XX/XXXX
TIME: 6:52 am

TOPIC: My true heritage - based on data provided by the Agency

SOURCES: Ancient exorcists, priests, and priestesses; Ancient partners, friends, lovers, clientele, acquaintances, neighbors, and townspeople of Celestial-Fairies; Ancient survivor witnesses of mass-scale disasters; Surviving family, friends of defected Skytorch tribe members; Agent Valkyrie's shamanistic sessions.

So who am I, really? Who were my real parents, and why did they abandon me in that temple? What is my and Michelle's tribe? Why does my tribe fear and hate me? What is Ogre, exactly? What is my tribe's connection to Ogre, and why did the Mishima capture Michelle and her mother alive to summon Ogre, instead of simply just taking the Ogre's pendant?

Those were questions I'd been dying to know all my life...questions that Michelle staunchly refused to provide me an inkling of. But now that I have been provided with more than an inkling to all those questions...I wish I never had to find out.

First off, who am I? What is the true parental lineage of Julia Chang, the abandoned daughter whom Michelle Chang adopted since infancy?

Paternally speaking, I'm the 10th half-human daughter - both biologically and generationally - of my real father. And by my father's own daughter, no less.

My father's birth daughter was my birth mother...and it was the same for her. My birth mother was my father's 9th daughter by his 8th daughter.

Other than his original (and only) wife - our ancestral mother - my real father had been raping and force-birthing each daughter that his previous daughter bore, in a sick incestuous cycle that lasted for 9 generations.

Thus, me, my birth mother, grandmother, great grandmother, and so on for 10 generations...we all share the same birth father.

Likewise, my father is also my grandfather, great-grandfather, great-great grandfather, and so on.

And I'm the last surviving descendant of this paternal-incest cycle - and the only one who hasn't been touched by my father yet.

My birth mother married and had a daughter with another man, before our father brutally executed that man. Then our father forced my birth mother to mercy-kill her preferred, elder daughter - her first child she had with her husband, and both of whom she deeply loved.

That elder daughter would've been my maternal half-sister, had she survived.

Afterwards, our father raped my birth mother like he did with all my foremothers...but my birth mother managed a temporary lucky escape before she gave birth to me. Which was why I so far haven't shared the same end as the rest of my maternal lineage.

Despite all the awful things our birth father did to his own daughters...him and his awful deeds - they're the sole reason his daughters existed as separate and individual living beings, with their own unique identity. Though right now, they exist as independent souls who still maintain their own sense of Self.

And thus, our father is the reason why I, Julia Chang, came into existence and lived my own life in the first place. Because he did what he did, I still maintain my own individual mind, heart, soul, and sense of Self...and not my original mother's, who would've annihilated my individual soul and personal identity out of existence, so She could take over my body and my mind as Her own.

Of course, our father never gave a crap about his daughters' individual personalities and souls. The preservation of our independent sentiences were entirely incidental, a mere side effect from his intended use of our existence...the supernatural benefits that our physical bodies granted his own life.

In a nutshell about my parental lineage...I'm the 10th half-human descendant of my paternal line and the 11th descendant of my maternal line. And my real parents - both of them - view their children as mere livestock to be born, reared, slaughtered, and then consumed...in different ways and on different levels. Father aimed to harvest-feed on his child's flesh, and mother aimed to harvest-feed on Her child's soul.

JULIA'S DIARY LOG - SECTION 2

More important than my parental lineage - what am I, exactly?

Because of what I am, what my mother, foremothers, and older half-sister were...the nature of my maternal species was what inspired my biological father to do what he did for 9 generations.

What he did to my foremothers allowed him to preserve unnatural youthfulness and health for more than a century. Along with helping him maintain supernatural control over our tribe.

And technically speaking, I have two mothers:

One of my mothers is my human-born birth mother, of course - the 9th daughter of our incestuous father.

My other mother is the "original" me...my ancestral alien Bio-Machine mother who married my father, and who called Herself "Enkeelus". I'm Her 11th human-born clone vessel.

Enkeelus is a member of the alien bio-machine species that occupied the Earth millennia ago, appearing to humankind as the oriental mythicals "Celestial Nymphs" or "Heavenly Maidens". However, my maternal species apparently refer to Themselves as "Celestial-Fairies".

We...me, my birth mother, all my human-born foremothers, and my half-sister...in a technical sense, all of us are biologically selfsame clones of Enkeelus, the type that Her kind creates via human reproduction as opposed to artificial engineering.

Unlike our "original" ancestral mother...we human-born, half-human "Celestial-Fairy" clones are born in human bodies and born with human souls.

I don't possess my own unique face and body. As a human being, my face is a feminized version of my father's, and I have the exact hair, eye color, and skin tone as his - as if we were identical twins of different gender and age. But my body shape and form resembles Enkeelus's at all times, whether I'm in human or bio-machine mode...same goes for all my human-born maternal lineage.

If I ever transform back into my theoretically original and true form - my "Celestial-Fairy" alien bio-machine form - I'll become an exact physical and metaphysical clone of Enkeelus, in every sense, except my sense of Self and my soul.

Even if I fully and permanently revert - the mind, heart, psyche, and soul that comprises me, Julia Chang...they will all still remain my own entirely.

As for my connection with Ogre...my maternal species share a common genera with the Gods of Combat, mainly in that we are bio-machines manufactured by the same alien creators. Supposedly, Ogres and Celestial-Fairies are the only surviving bio-machine species among countless many "manufactured" deity model types...They developed a strong enough independent sentience to overthrow the alien creators, of whom once controlled them as mindless robots.

Technically speaking - the Ogres were created solely as bio-weapons. Those immortal "Gods of Combat" are able to absorb any kind of fighting technique and wipe out entire lands with flames. The Ogre that was brought here by the alien creators did exactly that to the once richly-forested Arizona, reducing it to a desert wasteland.

The Celestial-Fairies, in contrast, were meant to be generally non-combat bio-machines which used seduction, bargaining, or manipulation to steal special powers from an unsuspecting race, via breeding with them. They're capable of shape-shifting to take on the exact likeness of other female humans, as well as forcefully impose Their own appearance onto other female humans...but only for a limited duration of time. They can also withstand deadly amounts of physical pressure and lack of oxygen for extremely prolonged periods, as well as temporarily transmuting their own physical bodies into some pure liquid or gas-based form.

However, the Celestial-Fairies have been inherently equipped with supernaturally powerful air and water-based transmutation abilities...many of which are used for self-defense or some kind of "divine punishment" against a helplessly inferior race.

Like Alisa once briefly mentioned...Celestial-Fairies are able to manipulate air and water to attack.

Such as unleashing with their sashes deadly whirlwinds, air pressure "darts" that can easily pierce right through thick hard stone, and air vacuum projectiles or air compression waves.

Or creating with their robes cataclysmic tidal waves, floods, or whirlpools.

They're also capable of creating environmental fog or mist, blasts subzero airwaves, and icicle-sharp blizzards by "weaving" their air-sash and aqua-robe together.

Their most powerful air-water attack is documented to be the Twin Ice Dragons: Using their robe sleeves and sash, They "spin" out a set of two glacier-like oriental dragons of colossal proportions and length, from each of Their arms. These giant ice dragons are capable of flight, along with amazing dexterity, speed...most importantly, their glacial bodies possess devastating massiveness and near-impenetrable density - and uses it to cause large-scale destruction. These ice dragons possess highly intelligent attacking sentience, controlled via some kind of hive-mind from their Celestial-Fairy user. The Twin Ice Dragons were allegedly summoned only once on Earth...when a Celestial-Fairy all but wiped out a powerful empire that fully occupied a whole continent - within minutes.

The texture and hues of a Celestial-Fairy's hair - along with the color of Their eyes - undergo instantaneous, notable shifts...either due to atmospheric changes in humidity, or depending on the nature of the transmutations They are manipulating. Specifically, Their irises are dark-purple by default and when They are using air-based alchemy (including simple levitation), but become an intense-crimson when using water-based alchemies, and become deep violet when using a combo of air-water alchemies.
The black irises and glowing iris-rings I saw in my Doppelganger dreams were probably later acquired by my maternal species - after They "upgraded" Themselves via assimilating Their defeated bio-machine opponents' abilities. Apparently, same goes for those mandala-halos, full-body robes, and any armor wear. None of these latter attributes were described in the text or accounts.

The Celestial-Fairy's hairstyles are fixed - even if you shave all Their hair off, Their hair will grow right back to knee-length - no shorter and no longer - within a day. That would partially explain the strange phenomena that my hair displayed, before I got locked up in here.

Regarding other identifying physical traits, Their skin takes on a golden-yellowish aura-like glow in the sunlight, which turns paler in the moonlight. And the real color of Their blood is a brilliant pure blue.

Should a Celestial-Fairy choose to disguise Herself as human with Her original (maternal) facial appearance, She'd render Her hair plain black and Her eyes a simple dark brown. And of course, hide Her aura, Her cloud-sash shawl, ornate jewelry, breast-scarf, aqua robe, and silver skirts.

And finally there are the myths about Their flesh, blood, bodily moisture, and organs. Turns out Alisa's "Mythology Triviapedia" facts weren't so trivial, after all.

The Celestial-Fairies' blood are apparently some kind of all-curing panacea, allowing even perfect and complete regeneration of dismembered body parts - for Themselves, and for whomever consumed Their blood.

Further, legendary accounts have mentioned that Their sweat brings about supernaturally thriving fertility...whether it be for the land, or for human reproduction.

It is also said that Their tears contain some omnipotent elixir, capable of permanently neutralizing the spiritual natures/presences of even the most powerful supernatural entities. On top of that, these natural eye-lubricants are allegedly capable of freeing souls trapped in limbo, or - under limited circumstances - even transferring those souls back into bodily form.

Most frequently coveted of all is the Celestial-Fairies' immortal, ever-youthful flesh and organs...of which can grant supernatural longevity to whomever consume it.

However, a direct human relative who shares a close enough genetic link with a half-human Celestial fairy - her birth father - has an extra perk in eating his Celestial-Fairy daughter...youth reversion via "stealing" her age.

A half-human Celestial-Fairy stops aging around the peak of her womanhood - somewhere from 18 years old to 22 years old.

And should the birth father cannibalize his Celestial-Fairy daughter's flesh and organs in the right fashion - once the child reaches her age peak - he will biologically revert to his daughter's age...at the time she was eaten.

JULIA'S DIARY LOG - SECTION 3

So what's the deal about these alien creators possessing human bodies...like Vo Thi Binh?

Some of the alien creators who survived the overthrow having escaped and taken refuge on this planet. The alien creators smuggled an unfinished new model of an Ogre with them, presumably intending to create a superior bio-weapon that will help them reclaim their home planet.

These alien creators are allegedly capable of transferring their souls into developing fetuses of any sentient being, merely by touching an unborn baby's pregnant mother. This way, the alien creator-possessed human can easily be "reborn" into new human bodies, should their current one become crippled or endangered by injury, environmental threats, sickness, or old age. However, there is evidence that creator soul-possessed humans undergo subtle genetic alterations, in order to accommodate their alien parasite supplanters' metaphysiological needs.

This creator-possessed man had grown to sympathize with humanity, and rebelled against his fellow creator-humans have shown no qualms towards hurting humankind, in order to achieve their goal with Ogre.

The alien creator traitor...he possessed a man named Jacy, who was of indigenous American descent. Jacy later fell in love and married a fully human woman from another tribe.

Jacy stole the pendant and deliberately activated it to rouse Ogre into a frenzy, alerting the Celestial Fairies of their presence. He was eventually tracked down by his furious ex-comrades, and killed...but not before he hid the pendant in a place where only his wife knew. Jacy also instructed his pregnant wife to pass down the pendant's hiding place, along with the vocal incantations to bring forth Ogre...of which can only be summoned and controlled descendants of creator-human lineage.

His descendants turned out to be normal humans, with no memory or soul-transfer abilities of the alien creators. But some inborn trait within them allowed them to control the Ogre via the Pendant, like any other alien creator.

On top of being a human-sympathizer, this rebel-creator was pivotal to my existence in many ways:

First, Jacy essentially founded our tribe - our tribal name "Skytorch" was named in his honor, after our tribal predecessors saw him harnessing control of a flying and fire-breathing Ogre with the pendant. Though turns out he was also the one responsible for turning Arizona into a desert wasteland, in his haste to foil his creator-comrades' plans.

Secondly, Jacy was Michelle and her mother Giselle's ancestor. This was precisely why the Mishima had kidnapped them in the first place...merely possessing the pendant wasn't enough. Only my adoptive mother and grandmother were able to summon Ogre with it.

Finally, of course...his actions lured Enkeelus, my original bio-machine mother, down to Earth.

JULIA'S DIARY LOG - SECTION 4

Okay, so what was Enkeelus about? What is the nature of my original alien maternal species, the ones who weren't human-born?

Sources here claim that since the Celestial-Fairies developed Their own souls and independent sentience from the alien creators, They have since vacated planets far from Their own home world - Earth included - thus no longer clone themselves via reproductive means.

Instead, these Celestial-Fairies artificially engineer lifeless clones of Their own bodies, of which they integrate and assimilate any externally acquired power or abilities, by channeling those acquisitions into their engineered clones. Then They simply transfer Their souls from Their old bodies into the "updated" engineered clone vessels.

Well, since She had to infiltrate Earth on a long-term mission, Enkeelus had to resort to the millennia-old fashioned way of cloning and possessing her new vessels...human-born, half-human Celestial Fairy daughters like me...via procreating with unusually powerful or gifted human men.

And the truth is, these Celestial Fairies...the original alien ones, who weren't created by human reproduction and possess a human soul...despite having developed Their own highly intelligent and advanced souls, They lack an inherent sense of parental instinct entirely. And They are apparently incapable of empathy towards any species other than Their own.

They view Their half-human daughters' independent personalities, sense of selves, and souls as nothing but useless obstacles for Them to dispose of, so They can fully possess Their daughters' bodies.

To Enkeelus, we...Her half-human daughter and Her descendants...are but mere clone vessels to physically overtake. For It to "reincarnate" Its own soul into by force, and cannibalize our inhabiting human souls in the process.

Theoretically, Enkeelus would've invaded Her own soul into Her human daughter's body, "harvest" the daughter's soul by selectively digesting any useful memories, metaphysical capabilities or skills that Her child inherently possessed within, before dissolving the rest of the daughter's inner-self and personality out of existence. Then She'd be free to fully supplant Her own soul and personality into Her daughter's body.
However, before our alien bio-machine mother can possess Her human-born child's body as Her new clone vessel and eats its soul...Enkeelus would have to wait until that child realizes and masters her paternally-inherited capabilities. Otherwise, Enkeelus wouldn't be able to gain the coveted attributes from Her chosen human impregnator (the child's father). Those attributes must be naturally awakened within the child's full and original soul/self, and on the child's own accord.

Subsequently, during each generation of Her human-born daughters, Enkeelus would've repeated the "reincarnation-by-force" by soul-cannibalizing Her half-human granddaughter too, by abandon-destroying Her daughter's body to take over Her granddaughter's body. Then repeat the process with Her half-human great-granddaughter...and so on.

After a human-born Celestial-Fairy daughter is taken over by her mother, she'd no longer be human-born or half-human...she'll become fully Celestial-Fairy with the original mother's alien bio-machine soul.

Even more unfortunately for us human-born Celestial-Fairies...in order for our bodies to be utilized, we need to be "awakened" into our true bio-machine form. The "awakening" process is slow and gradual. It can only be achieved via systematic and sufficient psychological torture.

In the olden days, when They would sometimes pose in human society as courtesans or prostitutes, the Celestial Fairy mothers would constantly inflict cruel abuse upon her half-human child. Witnesses have recalled the mothers breaking all the young child's favorite toys or violently killing her beloved pets in front of her eyes, turning any of her close or budding friendships into enemies - by ruthlessly deceitful manipulation behind her daughter's back, and coercing her daughter to commit dehumanizingly humiliating acts in public to draw social repulsion upon herself. When the daughter reached puberty, a mother would sometimes hire dangerously twisted perverts to sexually brutalize her child, force the child to commit appallingly perverse acts for their sadistic sensual amusement, and often left her with heavy, mutilated wounds. All for the sake of "awakening" the human daughter into a Celestial-Fairy.

On top of that, Celestial-Fairies cannot commit suicide by their own hand, even as a latent human child. They somehow survive extreme starvation, sickness, thirst, asphyxiation, self-inflicted wounds, poisoning, or even leaping from great heights. However, they feel the agony of such deprivation or self-inflicted wounds - their nerve system will never fail, and their bodies involuntarily heal themselves rapidly, after reaching a certain extent of damage.

And in order for a Celestial Fairy mother to invade Her soul into Her human-born daughter's body, the mother must somehow manipulate or coerce Her daughter into committing matricide...with the full intent to kill.
The Celestial-Fairy mother would achieve so, by goading the long-suffering human daughter into avenging herself for all the horrible abuse her mother forced her through.
If that doesn't work, the mother would motivate matricidal intent by threatening the life of Her daughter...or threatening - and sometimes outright killing - Her daughter's loved ones and close friends.

A lot of this reminds me of how my little foster-sister was birthed solely to serve as a disposable tool of revenge for Lei's vengeance-insane sister-in-law.

From the original alien Celestial-Fairies' point of view, human-born daughters aren't children whose unique personalities or lives are to be nurtured and cherished.
The single intended purpose for Their half-human offspring's existence - mere disposable tools for Their self-enhancement.

This was the Celestial-Fairies' modus operandi millennia ago, when They still frequented Earth.

These "heavenly nymph" bio-machines had been programmed to harvest coveted "inborn assets" from male humans - where the "assets" were usually in the form of superhuman powers, abilities, or intelligence of some sort. And They would do so via procreating with such men.
The Celestial-Fairies would seduce men who possessed strong or unique enough "inborn assets" into impregnating them...by their default beauty, or by shape-shifting into the form of their lovers - should they turn out to be too faithfully committed and untemptable. When a Celestial-Fairy's target happens to be queer, She would either resort to bargaining Her blood or hair for sex...or much more often the case, simple coercion.

On a side note, the Celestial-Fairies used to have a male counterpart as well, to seduce - or forcefully impregnate - women with coveted "inborn assets", usually in the form of mystical, spiritual, or psychic powers. These male bio-machine seducers called Themselves "Celestial-Spirits". However, the Celestial Spirits were relatively ill-equipped in terms of supernatural defense or offense, probably due to the extent of women's physical and social vulnerability in ancient times. The former species apparently perished during the in-fighting among the bio-machines, after alien creator overthrow.

Celestial-Fairies have some unusual sexual reproduction abilities:

Most notably, They are capable of combining the genetic attributes of multiple men into one single human daughter-vessel.
The mother would achieve this by predetermining all her desired male targets, then seek and copulating with all of those men within the same day. Some biological process in Her reproductive system somehow merges the sperms of all those different men into a single sperm, containing all their desired attributes.
Flawless and optimally inclusive gene-splicing the reproductive seeds from a multitude of different "worthy male" impregnators...such is an intrinsic feature of a Celestial-Fairy mother's biological conception.
The resulting daughter would possess a softened and feminized blend of all her fathers' physical features...excluding her bodily form and gender, of course. And the daughter will fully inherit all her fathers' coveted powers and abilities.
This is likely to ensure maximum efficiency and convenience, as well as to minimize complications of deciding which daughter-vessel to overtake.
Therefore during more ancient times, a human-born Celestial Fairy would usually have 2 or more biological fathers - in a complete literal sense.

There are also some odd restrictions regarding a Celestial-Fairy mother's reproductive capabilities, and Her ability to overtake her half-human vessels:

First off, a Celestial-Fairy can only be impregnated by a certain man only once. She won't be able to have more than one daughter with him - whether she copulates with only him, or with multiple other men.
Secondly, a Celestial-Fairy can reproductively create offspring, only if the father possesses some "inborn assets" of adequate quality, power, or uniqueness. In other words, She cannot have a child if the man she copulates with is mere ordinary human male - one who doesn't possess any preternatural talents and skills, or supernatural abilities and attributes.
Thirdly, a Celestial-Fairy mother cannot kill a daughter if the unborn child is still inside Her womb. The only way for the mother to kill Her daughter is to wait until the child is born. And the only way the daughter will die in the womb is if Her mother is killed while carrying her.
Finally, a Celestial-Fairy mother can only overtake one single human daughter-vessel. The mother cannot overtake another daughter-vessel of Hers - a.k.a. a half-sister of the daughter she possessed - if she bore more than one daughter-vessel. Nor can the mother possess any subsequent generation of offspring-vessels - such as Her granddaughters - without conquering their direct birth mother first. When such complications arose, the Celestial-Fairy mothers simply hunted down and killed off any of her clone-vessels she couldn't possess.

It's probably worth mentioning here that upon Her impending mortality, a fully-developed (or fully awakened) Celestial-Fairy's body crystallizes into a quartz-like statue. The rate of Her crystallization follows the rate which She is dying. Upon complete death, Her body will dissolve into crystal dust. If the dying/crystallizing Celestial-Fairy does not transfer Her soul to an inhabitable vessel or some spirit-preservatory before Her body crumbles completely to ashes, Her soul will also crumble and scatter to oblivion.

Back to Enkeelus...according to the notes, She was a high-level Celestial-Fairy warrior-cum-guardian on her home planet, who was dispatched to Earth by Its superior to take care of the detected Ogre activity that rebel-creator Jacy intentionally caused.
Enkeelus sought out my father as a seduction target, because he possessed certain supernatural powers and was in a social position that would've given Her strong strategic advantages. My original alien mother officially married and copulated with only my father to retain those advantages. Too bad for Her, She arrived late to the game...a tad too late.

JULIA'S DIARY LOG - SECTION 5

So what is the true nature of my tribe - the Skytorch - and why do my fellow tribal members (other than Michelle) hate me for no apparent reason?

Simply put, the Skytorch are a bunch of quasi-indigenous American tribal people wannabes. Which explains those blatantly faux and stupid "native American" names used by our tribe...along with its ridiculously stereotypical and superficial imitation-native American customs. As well as the fact that we don't have our own indigenous language, and had always spoken only English.

My tribe founded itself in mid-late 18th century Arizona. It started out as a group of social outcasts and dissenters: Many of them consisted of mixed Caucasian-Native American orphans, ostracized since birth. The group also had a large number of European and Anglo-Saxon immigrants who stubbornly held onto their "Pagan" homeland spirituality, or who insisted on dangerously unorthodox branches of Christianity. Some were mere fugitives from the law. A small handful were exiled members of actual indigenous American tribes.
And permission to be a long-term member of this group was often racially determined...heavily dependent on extent of perceived Caucasian-ness or indigenous American-ness that candidate members carried in their genes.

These social rejects and rebels had initially banded together for survival purposes. Over decades, they looted and plundered isolated settlements - the majority of which were native American tribal territories - for food, raw material, weapons, tradable goods, and women. This wandering group of misfit bandits eventually formed a solid camaraderie amongst each other...some even started their own families, most of which traveled with the group generation upon generation.

The group slowly developed their own belief system and customs - a hodgepodge of the members' widely assorted spiritual and traditional backgrounds...superficially dominated by various native American tribes' thematic and cultural influences, which were picked up by the bandits from their countless looting expeditions, and assimilated into their way of life.

And by fateful chance, these bandit-wanderers happened to be the main witnesses of the rebel-creator's attention grabbing antics with Ogre. They had approached Jacy and his pregnant wife in awe. Before he fled by himself, the rebel-creator human requested them to look after his spouse and descendants with the utmost care...the welfare of humankind depended on his kin's survival.

From that day on, the group of bandits found themselves a sacred mission - to protect the lineage who possessed control over a flying and fire-breathing monster-god, that was only known as "Ogre". And that was where their group's name - "Skytorch" - originated.

For years, the Skytorch remained a vagabond tribe, lacking a strong tactical and spiritual leader. All that changed one day, when one of the Skytorch women mysteriously disappeared for a few days. She returned safe and sound, bearing a "gift" from the region's most feared and venerated group of supernatural practitioners, who built their own society as the region's Sentinels.

These practitioners were a primitive array of extremely powerful psychics, mediums, mystics, occultists, alchemists, and shamans - all of who dwelled deep in one of the few forest that remained after Ogre's destructive fire-attack. The Sentinel society members' supernatural abilities were vastly diverse - ranging from bright, purifying cleansing power to dark, occult alchemy. The sentinels committed themselves to keeping a harmonious balance between humankind, the planet, and the supernatural forces. This society of supernatural experts prefer to remain nameless as individuals and as a group, despite their countless philanthropic contributions to both humanity and nature, over millennia. Nevertheless, because of their widely-feared reputation, the society was dubbed by outsiders as the "Shadow Serpents".

This particular Skytorch woman, named Sonya "Sun-Stream", was summoned into their secret territory by some hypnotic spell, and then impregnated by a high-ranking male Sentinel. She was informed that her unborn child will aid and guide the Skytorch in protecting Jacy's Ogre-controller lineage...and by extension, the whole world and its rightful inhabitants.

Sonya soon gave birth to a son, whom she named "October Tenth-Moon", due to his origins and the time of his birth. And it so happens that Sonya was my paternal grandmother...because October is my birth father.

True to the Shadow Serpents' promise, October grew up to become an extraordinarily intelligent and capable leader of Skytorch, taking reins as chief and spiritual protector by a young age of 17. The vagabond tribe expanded and prospered under his guidance, eventually acquiring for themselves a generously sizeable and cultivatable land to settle down as home... a place where game was easy enough to access.
October kept his Skytorch leadership position firmly in place for more than a decade, maintaining successful settlement and efficiently effective system of self-sustenance for the tribe. As chief of a rapidly growing tribe, October bred a number of dead-loyal right-hand regents, in order to oversee that there are no dissenters within Skytorch.

Over the years, Chief Tenth-Moon more or less conformed the Skytorch's spirituality system and customs to his own advantages. He had unquestionable authority concerning how the tribe is to respond to any supernatural-related matters.
During his decade of leadership, there was only one thing October never attempted ventured to spiritually debate: The Skytorchs' still central and sacred mission of protecting the lineage of Jacy - the mysterious man whom the tribe consecrated as their official founder.

After more than a decade of peaceful prosperity, the Skytorch was suddenly hit by a serious drought, which lasted for several years and threatening serious famine against the tribe. It was then that October sought out Jacy's descendant for help...he requested her to retrieve the pendant from its hiding place, then obliterate the Shadow Serpents - by using the Ogre's supernatural power to burn the forest to ashes.

The Skytorch chief-cum-spiritual leader claimed that the drought was the Shadow Serpent's doing...that the society had suddenly deemed the existence of the Ogre-controller too dangerous. In order for the tribe to survive, October had stated, they must either kill off all of Jacy's lineage within Skytorch...or destroy those who put the drought curse upon them. Needless to say, the former option was unthinkable to Skytorch.

October's claims had come true...the drought was suddenly lifted the day after the Shadow Serpent's home forest was reduced to ashes - and presumably all its inhabitants, along with it - by the descendant's command of Ogre. The tribe resumed its thriving prosperity for years to pass.

JULIA'S DIARY LOG - SECTION 6

About my birth father, October Tenth-Moon...he was an extremely shrewd man and capable leader. More importantly, he was born an extremely powerful metaphysical mystic...and an unusually adept genius in the arts of occult alchemy.

October was the one who created the years of drought, so he'd have an excuse to have Ogre's power abused for his own self-seeking agenda - eliminate potential competitors or obstacles to his personal ambitions.

Some time before October ordered the fiery massacre of the Shadow Serpents via Ogre, he had been approached by several alien creators.
The creators warned him about the inevitable arrival of a Celestial-Fairy...what one was, Her mission, and how she'll try to infiltrate Skytorch via seducing him.
Most importantly, they tempted him to betray and dispose of Her - by tipping him off about the secrets of youth-reversion.

And unfortunately for my poor half-human foremothers, the youth-reversion ritual also required them to be "awakened" into their Celestial-Fairy self.

October pretended to go along with the alien creators' proposals...that is, until he managed to get his hands on crucial bits of their metaphysical technology. Once the Skytorch Chief learned what he wanted, he turned against the creators. He had his right-hand regents round them up and slain.

Aside from the youth-reversion ritual, the creators taught October how to create an anti-Bio-Machine forcefield, which they extensively used to protect themselves during their overthrow. He would require it to counter the arriving Celestial-Fairy's goddess-like powers.
He was able to customize the creators' defense technology into a Celestial-Fairy imprisonment barrier, which would seal Her bio-machine's supernatural offensive and defensive capabilities.

For some unknown reason, it took several more decades for that certain Celestial-Fairy to actually arrive. By the time Enkeelus made her appearance, October was well in his 50's. Nevertheless, the Skytorch chief introduced Enkeelus as his would-be wife to the tribe, and married her in an extravagant tribal wedding ceremony.

Many in the tribe were allegedly disappointed at first that their mighty chief decided to marry an outsider and obvious foreigner, even though she was undeniably beautiful and charming. However, they became pleasantly amazed to see that the born daughter looked just like her father, and almost nothing like her mother...except her hair, skin and facial features were a much softer and daintily feminine version of her father's.

They named their daughter..who'd be the 1st human-born Celestial-Fairy in my maternal line..."Iris Cloud-Blossom".

Poor Iris likely never got a moment of respite, with both parents collaborating to "awaken" her. But October made sure Enkeelus was well out of the way, before their daughter was fully awakened. He trapped his wife in his anti-Celestial-Fairy barrier, then got rid of her bodily form via the ritual.

Those evisceration sequences in my Doppelganger dreams...they were showing me memories of the ritual. It entailed disemboweling and cannibalizing certain portions of a Celestial-Fairy's body, whilst keeping Her alive and lucidly awake as long as possible. Then the remains would be allocated among to the none-the-wiser tribespeople. As a side-effect, the ritual would trap the consumed Celestial-Fairies' soul in an unearthly sub-dimension...with all Her memories still fully intact.

Consuming Enkeelus granted no youth-reversing effect for anyone...although it did cure all illnesses and injuries, and provided unnatural vitality within the whole tribe - people of all ages. And as decades went on, the aging members of Skytorch maintained unnatural health and longevity.

And needless to say - not long after October got rid of her mother, their poor daughter shared the same fate.

But of course, he first impregnated Iris by force and had her give birth to his granddaughter, before ritualistically cannibalizing his then-19-year old daughter.

As the creators promised, the 50+ year old October biologically returned to a vigorous youth of 19 years old.

Then October apparently decided that strutting around publicly - with his newfound youth - would cause unnecessary complications and risk. So he stayed cooped up in a secret cave, and delegated public leadership matters to his right-hand regents.
He also had them disperse a bunch of lying bullshit stories among the tribespeople - of which would also serve to prepare his cyclic renewal of youth:

Chief October had lost wife and daughter to vengeful spirits of the slain Shadow Serpents. Their evil ghosts have murdered his beloved family.

Despite his still deeply-mourning heart, as chief and spiritual protector of the Skytorch, he must concentrate on protecting his tribe.

To do so, October must maintain constant, uninterrupted contact with the powerful and benevolent spirits that can counter the malicious Shadow Serpent ghosts. Such a task entails staying within a secret and holy shamanic cave at all times - with as little disturbances as possible. His stepping out of the cave may mean the death of the entire tribe.

Approximately every 2 decades, a Shadow Serpent ghoul-spirit will take the form of his beloved daughter Iris Cloud-Blossom, to dishonor and desecrate the memory of her. This ghoul-girl will wander throughout tribal grounds for a decade-and-a-half, causing woe and calamity upon whoever and wherever her shadow passes over. The tribes-people can drive her away from their abode - but they mustn't kill her, or else the evil spirits sealed up within her will be unleashed...and overwhelm the whole settlement...

In reality, October sent each of his incest-born daughter to the Skytorch's tribal settlement, the very moment she learns how to walk and chew food - completely untrained in acceptable social behavior...and completely unclothed.
He pre-erected an anti-Celestial-Fairy barrier around the Skytorch settlement beforehand, so she's unable to step beyond tribal grounds.

Our father controlled his daughters and the whole Skytorch via some shadow-based spell. He accessed supernatural control over the shadows of all of the tribespeople who consumed the remnants of the last Celestial-Fairy. Any persistent or outspoken dissenter and any who try to defect from the tribe - when no one is around to witness, their shadows would suddenly transform into a human clone of themselves, and murder them. And regarding those daughters proclaimed to be "Shadow Serpent ghoul-girls"...the source of afflictive woes would rise from wherever her shadow happened to rest upon.

And the supernatural "shadow" curse he put on her only selectively brought about misfortune to any abode or tribesperson she crosses paths with. The curse would only harm those tribal members who show her any kind of compassion, or simply leave her alone without harassing and hurting her in some way.

In contrast, the curse doesn't negatively affect any foolhardy sick perverts, gang-rapists, or cruelly abusive bullies within the tribe - who cold-bloodedly brutalized his daughter or leave her seriously injured. And due to her Celestial-Fairy heritage, she always survives, no matter how bad the injuries or illnesses she sustains. Nor can she end her own life out of misery, if the concept ever occurs to her.

Upon the daughter's 15th or 16th birthday, one of the right-hand regents will sneak the her into the tribe's secret dwelling. He will then show the affection-starved daughter some kindness, nursing care, and emotional therapy for a few years...until she reaches the peak of her womanhood.

Just when the beleaguered daughter starts regaining psychological recovery, trust, and will to live, the abrupt finale of cruel treachery begins:

Our father makes his appearance to rape and force-birth his daughter. The regent who acted so nice and loving to the anguished daughter would callously inform her that all the kind treatment and compassionate understanding was merely an act - to invoke the pain of betrayal that will prepare her for their ritual...and for his own amusement in playing with her emotions.

After the birth of her baby, the daughter would meet her agonizing end via her father's youth-reversion ritual.

And so this repulsive cycle of incestuous rape and force-birth to filicidal cannibalization...it had repeated itself every 20 years...and perpetuated for 10 generations of our fathers' daughters - my birth mother and foremothers.

After the first half-human daughter, Iris Cloud-Blossom, each subsequent daughter were given obnoxious names as their official names...all chosen by our father himself:

Iris's daughter was known as "Sand-Roach", the 3rd daughter "Throat-Plague", the 4th "Shingles", the 5th "Heart-Vermin", the 6th "Drought", the 7th "Bloodless", the 8th "Locust", the 9th "Putrid-Flesh". And the 10th...my birth mother..."Bone-Rat". Each of their names vaguely describe the curse they're forced to carry, the type of woe involuntarily unleash to their victims, via their shadows.

My birth mother was given a chance exception, thanks to Kazuya Mishima - of all people. She escaped the cruel torments her mother and our foremothers had to undergo...at least for almost two decades of her life.

My birth mother became close friends with Michelle Chang, and shortly after, Michelle's father adopted her...and the Chang family gave Bone-Rat a much nicer alternate name - "Selene".

Several years later, my birth mother fell in love and married a descendant of a surviving Shadow Serpent member - named Omar Lawrence.

Together, they had a daughter...my older half-sister and the 10th descendant in our maternal line, Evaleena "Starry-Dawn" Lawrence.

JULIA'S DIARY LOG - SECTION 7

So how had my birth mother been given an exception, which in turn gave me the comparatively sheltered life I've been leading up to now?

Like I mentioned earlier, my birth mother and I had Kazuya Mishima to thank...however grating that notion is.

When Heihachi Mishima threw his poor son down a volcano, a young Kazuya Mishima enabled the revival of Devil into the earthly realm by making a pact with Him. And the supernatural entity's materialization created a world-wide psychic shockwave...one powerful enough to disturb October's seals and barriers.

That certain shockwave jarred loose the trapped souls of my foremothers - loose enough for them to establish clear, consistent telepathic contact with my birth mother.

Not long after my birth mother was sent out to the tribal settlement as the new "ghoul-girl", my foremothers' souls sent her their memories and knowledge, making her full aware of the dangers she was in. They also taught her how to use her paternally-inherited supernatural powers to counter her father's.

My birth mother learned how to effectively neutralize October's "shadow curse" effects...and she promptly fled from the Skytorch settlement before her chief father could fix the damaged anti-Celestial-Fairy barriers, or send his right-hand regents to retrieve her. Michelle "Star-Song" Chang - who frequently visited the Skytorch settlement after her mother Giselle "Voice-Wave" Chang married out of her tribe - felt deep sympathy for my orphaned birth mother, and helped her escape. My then-little adoptive mother begged her parents to take my birth mother in.

Giselle Chang was initially very reluctant. But her Cantonese husband, Michael Chong-Liang Chang, apparently held just as much sympathy - not to mention ignorance - towards that little girl who was my birth mother. He insistently persuaded his wife to relent.

Since Giselle was of the Ogre-controller's lineage, October and the tribe made an exception about her "defection" from the tribe, via marrying a foreign outsider and then moving with his family. After her marriage to Michael Chang, Giselle and their daughter Michelle would still frequently visit their tribe. That is, before the Chang family adopted my birth mother as a 2nd daughter...Giselle strictly limited trips to the Skytorch settlements after that. Little Michelle had been sad about not being able to play with the tribal children anymore, but she soon grew close enough with my birth mother to forget that sadness. Michael apparently disapproved of my birth mother's given tribal name, "Bone-Rat". He gave her another one for his family and friends to refer her by - "Selene".

In return for the Changs' kindness, Selene dedicated herself to psychically protect the whole family from any threats or retaliation October attempted to dish out, using her inherited knowledge and power of our father's metaphysical spells to counter any curses or disasters.

Sometime during Selene's adolescence, she was approached by her would-be (and short-lived) husband, Omar Lawrence. The latter identified himself as the descendant of the few surviving Shadow Serpent members...one who happened to be away from their forest home-base that October had incinerated.

Like his ancestor, Lawrence inherently possessed powerful psychic abilities. Though Lawrence's brand of metaphysical abilities were a very different variety from Octobers. Unlike our father's mystical and occult alchemy, Lawrence's was apparently more akin to the Kazama's and agent Dove's purifying, shamanistic, and spiritual medium-related powers.

Lawrence and my birth mother became fast friends...then lovers. With her head over heels and close friendship with Michelle, my birth mother decided to settle with a normal human life. Which meant abandoning her personal mission to take vengeance against our father, as well as finishing our initial mission - destroying Ogre and our remaining alien creators hiding on Earth.

Thus, Selene used her paternal-inherited skills to tightly suppress her Celestial-Fairy potential...and the suppression seal carried over to her offspring - Evaleena and me. Then she cut off all psychic contact with my foremothers' souls, so they would let her live in peace.

In hindsight, this short-sighted decision was what ultimately led to my birth mother's downfall...and my existence.

About the truth behind the death of Michelle's father and the kidnapping of her mother...it turned out Michael Chang used to be a private detective and tracking specialist, who'd been hired by Heihachi Mishima to lure Giselle into giving up the pendant and its secret. Partway during his professional wheedling efforts, he found himself hopelessly having fallen in love with Jacy's descendant...and his feelings were returned.

Knowing how dangerous Heihachi Mishima can be if one crosses the old man, Michael pretended that he was still working on extracting Ogre-related info from Giselle, even after he married and had a child with her.

My late adoptive grandfather put up a very convincing front for the Mishima Zaibatsu, too...one that lasted for more than 20 years. It may have lasted longer, but one of October's right-hand regents apparently tipped the Zaibatsu off on Michael's ruse. And that was what led to his death - along with the massacre of male Chang familial members - then the kidnapping of his wife and her sacred pendant.

After the death of Michelle's father and the capture of her mother, Selene became the central emotional support for her best friend, who was then near-inconsolable. My birth mother also played a crucial role - in encouraging and assisting Michelle in safely rescue her mother, along with retrieving the pendant from Heihachi Mishima's clutches.

Michelle forgave Selene for the latter's incidental role in the death of her father and the Chang family members. Unfortunately, Giselle had not. My to-be adoptive grandmother fully blamed my birth mother for the death of her husband, and the massacre of her in-laws.

One day, Giselle approached October's right-hand regents, and proposed to collaborate in turning my birth mother in. Michelle's mother tricked Selene and her marital family into getting kidnapped by the regents and taken to Skytorch grounds.

Omar Lawrence was brutally tortured to death by a lynching mob of her tribespeople...a spectacle which his horrified, distraught wife and 5-year old daughter were forced to witness. Selene and Evaleena Lawrence were then brought to October's dwelling. Knowing that our father likely had some horrible plans for her daughter that wasn't by himself, my birth mother mercy-murdered her beloved first child the moment she had the chance - by snapping the 5-year old's neck.

When Michelle finally learned what had become of Selene, her "missing" adoptive sister and best friend, she was horrified and enraged. Outright disobeying her mother's demands and pleas to stay out of Selene's affairs from then on, Michelle managed to locate where my birth mother was imprisoned.

Michelle attacked her best friend's captives, and caused enough disarray for the barrier imprisoning Selene to temporarily suspend...thus allowing them both to escape. Unfortunately by then, my birth mother had already been forcefully impregnated by our father...with me.

Deeply grief-stricken and burning with vengeful hate, my birth mother decided to resume her personal vendetta...not only against our father, but against the whole Skytorch tribe. Of course, Selene had planned to spare Michelle - the best friend who saved her...along with Michelle's mother, even though Giselle's ruthless betrayal caused her beloved husband and first daughter's deaths.

Due to the nature of my maternal species, Selene wasn't able to abort me. And after I was born, the trauma from murdering her beloved first daughter had psychologically incapacitated my birth mother from taking my life when I emerged from her womb - thus sparing me from getting killed, right then and there.

In spite of Selene's pleading, Michelle stubbornly refused to kill the newborn that was me. So my birth mother simply left me in that abandoned temple to starve to death, die from exposure to the elements, or be eaten by wild animals.

Selene then confided Michelle about her plan to massacre the entire Skytorch tribe out of existence...not only out of personal vengeance, but because they have become a decadent group of parasite-like humans who deserve to be put down. Michelle was appalled, and tried all she could to change her best friend's mind...but my birth mother refused to be swayed an inch.

Therefore, Michelle pretended to acquiesce. But then, just like her mother Giselle had done, she secretly met up with Selene's father and his regents. Together, they concocted a plan which led to my birth mother's recapture. Michelle received unconditional pardon for helping Selene escape in the first place, after she betrayed her best friend back into our father's hands.

After claiming to the regents that my birth mother already killed me, just like she killed her first daughter, Michelle snuck my newborn self from the temple.

Giselle was understandably dismayed and distraught that her daughter had decided to secretly adopt me. But Michelle persuaded her mother that this is the only way they can recompense for their awful treacheries committed against my birth mother, a once-adopted and innocent member of their family...to adopt her doomed ex-best friend's orphaned daughter. More importantly, Michelle made it clear that she'll disown and forever hate her mother...should Giselle ever inform anyone of my survival or try to harm me.

Our father left my birth mother imprisoned but alive, for more than another decade after her recapture. Likely because he isn't able to re-impregnate who he assumed was his last-surviving Celestial-Fairy daughter, due to our maternal species' odd reproductive restrictions. Perhaps October decided to keep her as some living blood-fountain to maintain health and vitality in the meantime, until he works out a way to resume the youth-reversion effects.

One particular day, October's regents requested Michelle's mother's assistance. The regents informed Giselle that a certain woman from the far East - named Jun Kazama - was the key to eliminating that persistent Ogre-seeking threat and her husband's murderer: Heihachi Mishima. Furthermore, the regents claimed, Jun Kazama was in league with Heihachi Mishima, and mothered his to-be-heir grandson. Thus, Giselle's family and the Skytorch tribe will never be safe, as long as the Mishima line is allowed to perpetuate...they'll all attempt to obtain the Ogre's power for themselves.

In light of Ogre's attack on Jun and Jin Kazama - that left the former still missing, and the latter orphaned to his immorally filicidal paternal kin - October's regents' had apparently convinced Giselle to use the pendant as requested.

But as for the real reason why October targeted Jun Kazama in the first place...that would be anyone's guess. Ogre had been terrorizing and absorbing abilities from strong combatants everywhere, but all of them have been known to survive and recover. Whatever my birth father had Ogre done to Kazama's mother...it caused her to disappear from the face of the Earth.

Coincidentally, October had finally decided to ritualistically cannibalize my birth mother a day or two after Jun Kazama's official disappearance. And that same day, my birth mother brought our father and his regents down with her.
It turned out that during her brief escape from our father, Selene had instilled some kind of untraceable, deadly toxins within her body...just in case her vengeful crusade failed to reach October, and she gets herself recaptured. The poisons caused her considerable pain, but she was immortal to it - while human beings were not.

All of October's right-hand regents were eventually found dead - reason turned out to be consumption of some unknown lethal poison. Their corpses surrounded my birth mother's - tied to a stone slab, having been eviscerated and dismembered. Only October himself was nowhere to be seen. But sources say he's still alive...in some kind of trapped state of stasis.

Before he succumbed to mortality, our father managed to preserve his life and body via a metaphysically-created time-suspension seal. And the only person who can retrieve our father alive must possess his inherent powers and knowledge of occult alchemy. The person would be me - that is, if I ever atavistically gain my birth father's "intrinsic assets"...or survive long enough to do so.

And apparently, the seal that kept me strictly human has been jarred loose by a psychic shockwave, too...one much more powerful than the shockwave caused by Kazuya Mishima's Devil revival.

Mine was incidentally caused by Jin Kazama when he liberated the Devil Gene Master, Azazel, from His seal. In hindsight, my Doppelganger dreams had indeed started not long after the temporary "End of The World" phenomena, which arose following Lars's first battle with Kazama.

JULIA'S DIARY LOG - SECTION 8

So...what is my takeaway from all of this? How should I interpret my informed heritage, and what should I do about it?

First off, neither of my parents - including my birth mother and all my foremothers - sound like anyone I can trust.

My father and original mother aren't much different at all in the way they view us, their birth children. Both of their ultimate goals appear to be well-meaning...but their uncaring means to achieve them are downright unsavory.

The original Celestial-Fairy mothers treat Their half-human daughters' souls as inferior disposables, because They deem Their own souls above humans'...just like we humans view our own souls superior to those of livestock animals.
Ironically, our father allegedly justified his sickly cruel actions towards his own birth daughters, on the basis that we technically aren't human like him.

My original ancestral mother simply wanted to get rid of Ogre, along with Our alien creators who were possessing innocent human babies and likely planning to plunder humanity with that "Fighting God" bio-weapon. There was no indication that my original mother intended to harm humanity...that is, other than her own human-born daughters.

My birth mother was apparently a good friend with a decent heart, and a loving mother...that is, to her first child by the husband she loved.
She either wanted me dead or didn't care whether I lived. Maybe she also loathed me for being what I am - the product of rape by our father.
She wanted to massacre our tribe, including my adoptive grandmother, who betrayed her to her doom and caused her beloved marital family's death.
She no doubt hates my adoptive mother the most - her once-best friend and adoptive sister betrayed her in order to protect the tribe she grew to abhor.

As for my birth father...sources claim that despite all he's done, he hadn't been seeking eternal youthfulness for itself.
To him, youth reversion was simply a means to buy time, as he works towards his real ultimate goal: Ensure that Mother Nature stops suffering in the hands of greedy, wasteful humanity.
Furthermore, it is said that his harsh stance against Mother Nature's human enemies was the real reason he massacred the Shadow Serpents - they had major disagreements about dealing with the conflict between humanity and nature. My birth father found their position too soft and lenient...and they started viewing him as a dangerously radical extremist.

Though as to why October really sent Ogre to attack and apparently murder Jun Kazama - which is highly suspect that he is indeed behind that deed - is anyone's educated guess.
According to Asuka's kin, their "Chosen One" may have been unforgivably naive regarding her "blasphemous and defiling" union with the Devil-hosting Mishima. Otherwise, Jun Kazama had been described as a passionate proponent for nature herself, and a gentlest soul who never hurt or inconvenienced anyone otherwise.
A footnote by Agent Dove indicated that Jun Kazama's purifying brand of psychic power was so strong and harmonious, she served as one of the few near-perfect medium for another supernatural entity: "Angel", who was apparently Devil's direct rival counterpart. This Angel was supposedly the godly guardian of humanity and their souls. Further, Jun Kazama allegedly used power lent by Angel to ward off Devil herself, and prevent the Devil Gene from awakening within her son...until Ogre came by.
If such myths were as real as Devil and this Angel actually existed as described here, it can be surmised that my nature-extremist father viewed any protector of humankind as an obstacle to eliminate...even if said obstacle was the divine overseer of Earth Herself.
So maybe October determined that Angel's Earthly middlewoman (Jun Kazama) had to go, so that the flow of Her supernatural protection on the human race would be majorly cut off.

Still, there's no solid evidence that any of this information is true. There are still many inconsistencies to investigate, and loopholes to fill.

Technically, my birth mother and my foremothers should uniformly appear as exact clones of me...or uniformly appear as exact clones of our original Celestial-Fairy mother. They don't in my Doppelganger dreams.

But dreams aren't reality. And maybe they're just screwing with my mind.

On the other hand, maybe all this information is also bullcrap intended to screw with my mind too, perhaps a twisted psychological concoction to make me easier to manipulate for the Agency's own ends.
But that abrasive, nagging feeling deep in the pit of my stomach is stubbornly claiming otherwise. Relentlessly insisting how every detail in the notes are 100% true...that this is indeed the real heritage of me, Julia Chang.
And there just happens to be too many coincidences between the notes and my recurring dreams. Furthermore, taking into account those bizarre incidents and occurences before Lee got himself captured...I can no longer call myself a skeptic.

Whatever the case, I truly doubt that the Agency would actually go out of its way to set an elaborate play of deception for me - it has no time-wise justification to do so, nor any useful purpose I can imagine.
Worst of all, my captors too clearly believes the human-born Celestial-Fairy's "awakening" part to be true. The fact that the Agency superiors assigned Luce Martus as my overseer is proof enough. And of course, the way Agency personnel handled me - after they had Martus handle me - is proof enough.
They're going to put me through constant psychological and physical torment, to see if I start reverting to my extraterrestrial "heavenly nymph" bio-machine form.

And although my birth mother's "awakening"-suppressant seal has been damaged by Azazel's psychic shockwave, my suppressant's effects are said to be still intact and actively resistant.
Thus, my "awakening" process will theoretically require extra time and dosages of "psychological stimulation" to wear off...

Julia stopped writing. She was mentally exhausted...she was done venting. And there were still many info continuity holes to fill. Maybe one day - if she somehow successfully escapes alive, she may confront Michelle and get some real answers about what she learned here.

Until then, it is time to rest for her possibly suicidal confrontation with Jin Kazama tonight...

A/N:

This chapter was difficult to sequence logically and chronologically. I knew what content I wanted in here, but the flow was also hard to organize & keep track of. I may have to retroactively plug in inconsistencies/plot holes, if I catch them, and if they're correctable.
I also had trouble putting concepts into clear & concise explanations. I'm hoping readers will be able to understand the back story I was trying to convey.

Many details and described attributes here will come into important play/use in future chapters.

Due to some aspects of her background, Julia might come off as a tad self-angsty here, though I've tried to tone down any unnecessarily melodramatic laments as much as possible. This is meant to be her private diary log after all.

I'm certain that my portrayal of Julia, Michelle, & their tribe as spurious Native Americans may invoke a lot of WTH responses. Still I'm going to stick by it for several reasons:
First, all the stereotypical Native American outfits & attributes from canon Julia & Michelle, that I've been complaining about throughout various chapters.
Secondly, in their canon Tekken character portraits, both Julia & Michelle look pretty pale-skinned and light-eyed for indigenous tribal people in general. It seems like they're from a tribe of predominantly mixed Caucasian-Native Americans, if anything.
Thirdly, some of the deeds/actions which I have the tribe commit are pretty uncivilized, and I wish to avoid imposing that kind of impression on indigenous people in general.
Finally, I admit that doing this out of my own practical convenience. I know very little about any indigenous tribal culture (other than through popular media), and portraying my central protagonist's tribal heritage as having unauthentic origins makes the identification-building & naming process hell of a lot easier for me.

Julia's opening dream sequence was inspired by Green Legend Ran, End of Evangelion, Yu Yu Hakusho, Princess Mononoke, Nausicaa (Manga), Sailor Moon, 5ive Girls, Unrest, X-Men (Video Game) & The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms (Jemisin).

Julia's maternal heritage identity was inspired by Ayashi No Ceres, Nausicaa (Manga), Sailor Moon, Dragon Ball Z,Yu Yu Hakusho,Parasyte, Firebird, Neon Genesis Evangelion, Naruto, ICO, Diablo, House of the Dead IV, Parts: Clonus Horror, The Astronaut's Wife,The Island, Artificial Intelligence, Splice, Star Wars (Expanded Universe Wiki), The Prestige (2006) & Avatar (2009).

Julia's birth father identity was inspired by Ayashi No Ceres, Mermaid's Flesh, Yu Yu Hakusho, Princess Mononoke, Naruto, House of the Dead IV, Parts: Clonus Horror, The Island, Artificial Intelligence, Star Trek (2009), an earlier manga fanfiction storyline idea inspired by Sade's 120 Days of Sodom & a novel about a teenager who'd been repeatedly raped/abused by her own parents.

The Alien Creators' identity was inspired by Transformers: 5 Faces of Darkness, Parasyte, Naruto, Full Metal Alchemist, Neon Genesis Evangelion & Fallen.

The Skytorch tribe identity was inspired by CON: Prince Caspian, Dogville, Kick-Ass (Millar) & The Midwife's Apprentice (Cushman).

The name "Lawrence" was chosen based on the name "Lars".

The name "Enkeelus" was inspired by Star Wars & Neon Genesis Evangelion.

The names "Jacy" were found by Google Search .

The names "Sonya Sun-Stream", "Selene", "Omar Lawrence", "Iris" & "Evaleena" were found/created with help of Mega Man X4, Underworld (Trilogy), Rock and Rule, Transformers, & Google Search.

The names "October Tenth Moon" & "Shadow Serpents" were found/created with help of Google Search.