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When the creation titans first descended upon the world, none had understood the ‘chaos’ it would bring after
Cerces plants ‘suspicion’ onto the masses’s knowledge , forcing them to doubt what they had know about the world. They remain calm while doing so, always turning the human head gears around.
Mnestia spreads their love and determination to the masses, they will come to understand it’s value and meanings later in time. Despite their lessons coming off as not valuable , least , till calamity comes , Mnestia continues to do so.
Then one should know that Reason and Romance are inseprable , yet , they also bring conflicts together. The two would never cease their arguments, but they perform their duties diligently. The two titans would turn against one another , telling them that what they embodies is but nonsense.
Still , they were never seperated from eachother from ever since they have descended.
When the conflicts were too much for the masses , they turn to Kephale , asking for solutions to the never ending quarrel for their colleagues
Kephale only laughs at such questions , sometimes sighing fondly. All that Worldbearing had ever said about Reason and Romance was
‘ they will cease in due time. ‘
The humans worries did not cease even after hearing Kephale’s Reassurances.
-
As soon as Cerces arrived at the nether realm, the titan insantly went further to find their beloved Mnestia. What a desprate one, maybe those thousands years without Romance really made Cerces so. Anaxa mused.
But he is also no different from them. There, man stands at the gate of the realm. Anaxa will become the next Cerces anyways , so why not start now, when he still has his memories?
So he waits.
-
It is said that, when the three titans of calamity arrived , Romance’s lessons finally became what it should be
Humans became mortals, Thanatos’s two hand looms over them , their fate finally has finally became concrete. It is then that humans finally truly learned to love and cherish , they began to have dreams , ambitions and so on, no longer just ‘living’.
Some began to be interested in art , they began to treasure history. So they carve depictions of the titans onto murals, they didn’t expect the titans to add some persona touches to it , though.
Like the way whenever Cerces is depicted as humanoid , a little leaf or some roots would cover up one of their eyes. Nikador’s figure would always be pierced by spears, carved quite crudely by the titan’s own ones. Kephale would look at each one with them with glee, then add some finer details to their clothings , Mnestia and Cerces will then reject such changes and say ‘the poor mortals need not your curse to be showcased.’ The Worldbearing would always sulk after each attempt of modification being stopped.
Romance delights in the changes. They share their arts and passions with the mortals. Golden threads flows all around the grove , Mnestia’s joy was visible to all. Their threads light up the skies of the grove , every scholar’s morning was like bathing in yellow.
The titan would then assume a human form, one with long golden hair flowing , their kins would fly around them in circles. Mnestia teaches humans the actual beauty of weaving, the beauty of dancing. Their lessons would always gather a large crowd , but they never get overwhelmed from the attention, as if used to such things happening.
Cerces never commented on it, they would always watch from afar when it happens. When Mnestia’s lessons occurred , it was one of the rare times when reason and romance didn’t bicker.
When Zagreus visted the lessons ( to find some valuables of course! Even Mnestia’s threads have an incredible weight on the scales! ) they would notice Cerces’s gaze on their inseprable half ( it was as heavy as Georios's gold! )
‘it was such a funny thing! That geezer stopped spreading their seeds of sus and stared at the butterfly like a thief yearning for gold. ‘
Legends after when Cerces knew of what the other titan said, Zagreus was absent from their thievery for years , presumably trapped in a cocoon with many puzzles that took them so long to break out.
Mnestia’s classes also ended after the news of Zagreus breakout sounded, they seem to have found the event hilarious
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Anaxa sees Aglaea running to him , halting to catch her breath before finally looking up at his face.
The weaver almost spoke of the flamechase journey before she sees the tender smile present on the scholar’s face. Aglaea says that she happy to his face in the same colors of thousands years ago, not by her threads aid. He tells her that he is happy to see the expressiveness on her face.
They stay in silence before Aglaea asks him why he is here.
‘ I was waiting for you. You sure took your time up there. ‘
-
Amphoreus was shaken to the core when the it heard that during a heated bickering with Cerces and Mnestia. Reason was the one who spits out the confession of love to Romance.
Apparantly, so flustered by their own words , Cerces snickered in the silence of their own doing and fled.
Mnestia , who is so surprised by the confession , burned themselves by the butterflies flocking all to them, melting them down to a puddle of golden water.
In the end, Mnestia arose reborn from their cocoon soon after , traveled around the whole planet finding the flustered Cerces who had fled away ( Even Zagreus was impressed of how well they hid! )
They had asked Janus of Cerces’s wherabouts , but even Passage didn’t know where they was, Mnetia reslove to find the hiding titan heightend
They fought against Nikador’s , offered Zagreus a house full of gold, ventured down to Thanatos’s realm, helped Georios followers , attended Phagousa’s once in a century banquet , flew to the giggling all seeing Aquila , get judged by the fair Talanton and have a long stare battle with the eccentric Oronyx.
When Mnestia finally arrived the last of the Creation titans , did they finally have an answer for their years long search,
‘ why not go back to where you’ve started? They do say the most dangerous place is the safest place afterall. ‘
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‘ If the next cycle will have us as destined lovers , we should be now too.’
Aglaea responds with a flushed face , ‘is it.. truly necessary?
won’t we lose our memories of this when we are reborn?’
‘ I promise to you that my next life , I will belong wholly to you.
My soul and intuition will fall in love with you before I find back my memories. ‘
-
Mnestia comes back to the grove , they has refined their own Romance over the course of the journey. They believe they are ready to answer Cerces’s unintentional declaration of love.
They hear of a blasphemous scholar with mint green hair and one eye , the other scholars say he is insane .
First he appeared out of nowhere , declaring that souls are to be experimented on. Second , he experimented with his own not so long after ,then returned like he was enlightend.
The sages thinks he is a lunatic who decided to appear after Cerces abrupt disapearance to take advantage of it. They deemed him ‘the blasphemer’.
Mnestia only sighed fondly.
-
‘when I get back my memories , you will hear of a blasphemous scholar once again. ‘ Anaxa declared loudly.
Aglaea giggled ‘ heh, you’re really… proud of such title aren’t you? ‘
‘ what else is my trademark then?’
‘ those dromas merchandise that you have. ‘
Castorice stared at the reconciled couple. She knew they were chaotic , just not THIS chaotic.
-
The crowd full of scholars at that time , didn’t know why the long absent Cerces , their murmurs sounded across the grove , called them to the main stage where big presentations were held. The stand that one usually in to present was gone too.
Admist murmurings , one of the people pointed out that the blasphemous scholar ‘who-experimented-with-his-soul’ standing on the large stage , looking down on the crowd.
“ You!... what are you doing up there?! Get down this insant!” The crowd roared with displeasure.
The man merely smirked and and answered “ im the actor of this stage , why shouldn’t I stand here? “
In spite of the hyperactiveness , the ‘blasphemer’ scanned the crowd and sees Polyxia and Castorice Thanatos’s two hands , Phainon Kephale bright blue eyes blinking with glee, Mydei Nikador next to them with a curious gaze , Cipher Zagreus somewhere on the trees instead , one of Hyacine’s Aquila’s numerous eyes flying around, Tribios Janus’s small fragments standing at the center. All audiences had arrived. How astonishing. Jaw-dropping, even.
The crowd turns silent when countless golden threads suddenly flows around once more , reminiscent of the Grove years ago. The scholar onstage extends his hand towards one of the threads. Threads began to focus on him , they lunge haphazardly , wrapping around his hand.
It transforms to something unseen in centuries , when Cerces was still looking from afar , the woman with yellow hair and yellow butterflies flying around her , not to melt but to welcome. She says-
“ I’ve finally found you, Cerces. “
“ Yes. You’ve found me, my dear Mnestia. “
And she brings the answer Mnestia lack to the confession Cerces made years ago-
“ You damn scholar , of course I love you too. So don’t run away like that again.“
The woman clicks her tongue, the other simply melts away cackling in her embrace
-
‘Trianne thinks it should end with a boom!’ the small maiden says with her arms up in the air , demonstrating her vision.
‘ I think it would be too much… ‘