player information ● name: Javid ● age: 27 ● contact:erlking / discord @ javid#6941 ● other characters: n/a
character information ● name: The Tetherer ● canon: Original ● canon point: Beginning of Nina's route ● age: This isn't a huge difference, but they appear in their early 20s, but are actually 32. Amazing. (There's a running joke where they are all "oooo i'm older than i look" and because they're a god it's like, wow, they must be so old, but actually they're not)
● (canon) background: n/a ● (original) world: Long before anyone can remember, before recorded history starts, there was one world. The world was chaotic and dangerous, full of too many elements and too many creatures. The people were extremely diverse, but one trait linked them all: each and every one of them was born with a Nature. These Natures vary in strength and number. There are a few of which only one person may have at a time. There are more still, weaker ones that many share.
Three powerful possessors of singular Natures came together, known only now as the Separator, the Tetherer, and the Destroyer. They saw the world was too dangerous to continue to exist as one. The Separator separated the worlds into many, not into pieces but into new wholes; the Tetherer tied them together so they would not drift apart and remain linked; and the Destroyer destroyed what worlds proved too dangerous to continue to exist. Even with the Destroyer, the worlds remained countless. These three powerful beings came together in one world and continued their work until their deaths.
Only one world has a record of this time. And that is the Nexus, where Natures are revered and followed religiously. Those with powerful Natures, the same as those of the three powerful beings, are even revered as gods. New Tetherers, Separators, and Destroyers are found among the countless worlds and instated whenever the old ones die.
The worlds vary wildly from one another, most completely unaware of the existence of Natures at all. One world may be completely peaceful and otherwise just like ours; another may be one out of high fantasy with monsters scattering the lands.
The Tetherer was lucky enough to be born on the Nexus and shed their name to obtain their title early on, as the Nexus has Nature-scanning technology due to its preoccupation with this truth of the world, to a religious extent. The Tetherer has been bred to become a god since an early age, being privately tutored in all a leader would need to know in order to assume their role.
While still being taught, they became close to a person that had been found from another world to be the new Destroyer, who essentially took them under his wing and contributed to their studies extensively. The Tetherer became extremely attached to the man, and they each shared their personal misgivings with the idea of becoming a god with one another.
The Tetherer sees their gender as part of their Nature of Tethering, two halves of a shared whole, and worries that the only reason it is accepted is because they embody their godlike Nature in that way. When they share this with the Destroyer, he lets on that he doesn't even want to be a god of Destruction. Who would? It's a scary thought, to have that kind of power, to be able to destroy worlds and erase lives on a mass scale.
The Tetherer had never thought about it that way. Being born on the Nexus, they accepted the Destruction of worlds as a necessary aspect of the universe, as something that must be done to keep order.
It is soon after sharing this insecurity with his role that the Destroyer, while attempting to control his powers of Destruction, gave into his nature and Destroyed himself. As the Tetherer (and the rest of the Nexus) grieved his loss, a seed was planted in their heart. A seed of uncertainty in the three gods' role in the universe, and the necessity of a god of Destruction.
They would keep their misgivings quiet throughout their officially taking on their title as the Tetherer and beginning their solitary rule over the Nexus. While their position as one of the three gods gave them the final say on all goings-on in the Nexus, they were also tasked to assist with locating the other gods from all the worlds in the universe with the help of their connection to the Tethers between all the worlds.
Over time, they discovered the Separator, a woman named Vida Veisi who led a painful life on a version of Earth that was still stuck in the late 1700s, where she was the bottom of the hierarchy and was involved in a freak Separating accident. Vida took to worshipping the Tetherer like any other and accepted her place with enthusiasm, seeing the Tetherer as a god that saved her from a horrible existence on an awful world that she wanted to see Destroyed.
The Tetherer kept their misgivings about the idea to themself.
Together, the Tetherer and the Separator took their place as two parts of a trio, and the Separator loudly lamented the absence of their third party. Until a vast, accidental Destruction of a portion of a world alerted them to the existence of a new Destroyer.
The two spirited away June Summers, a young woman with the Nature of Destruction who is investigating an outbreak of otherworldly monsters on her normally peaceful version of Earth and, through a series of hijinks, ended up traveling between worlds and Destroying the capital of a war-obsessed country. June, not wanting to accept her Nature, ran from them into the Nexus.
The Tetherer, in a moment of weakness due to the rejection and the stirring of old memories of the former Destroyer, shared their misgivings about the gods' role with the Separator. Horrified by a perceived betrayal, the Separator lashed out at them and they both Went To Bed Angry.
Hilariously, at the same time, June was found and manipulated by a skeevy doctor, who originated from the Separator's world and held a longstanding grudge against her, into taking on the mantle of god of Destruction under false pretenses to begin the doctor's plans of ruining the Separator's life. June returned to the gods, who were surprised by her change of heart and took her in as promised, with newfound tension in the air due to the fight.
Hijinks ensue, the Tetherer ends up in the Quarantine, etc.
● abilities: Due to their Nature manifesting as essentially magic powers on the level of a god, the Tetherer is incredibly powerful.
They are able to link worlds together and travel between them without the aid of Tethering-powered technology of the Nexus (that previous Tetherers helped perfect, in fact), which will obviously need to be nerfed. They can also create smaller Tethers between points in space, essentially warping themself and others or objects to different locations that don't necessarily need to be between entirely different worlds.
This can include objects or even entire areas of any size if they try hard enough, but they won't do that without it being necessary, which isn't a particularly good reason to not nerf a potentially game-changing power, so I'll say they're limited by size and thus can't go around warping the Quarantine to the dark side of the moon or anything game-changing like that.
They can also essentially fuse two objects, people, or even worlds together, creating new wholes or just making a weird amalgamation, but I'm nerfing this to just objects because without a Separator, it would be a tall order to undo this.
● strengths: Calm - As a leader and a god, the Tetherer has vast experience in keeping a cool head under tough situations and calming people who may be upset or angry. They can defuse situations and raw emotions by simply being understanding and by staying collected, providing a much-needed presence to refugees displaced from their worlds to the Nexus. Of course, their calm exterior can be penetrated in upsetting situations, but they're the type to try to put extreme emotions aside to look at something logically.
Compassionate - Caring and compassionate, the Tetherer is someone who doesn't pass judgment on others no matter what kind of life they lead. This can manifest negatively, such as when they extend this to despicable people, but most of the time this allows them to look at situations from other people's point of view and accepting lives very different from their own. Surprisingly, this also lends itself well to cases when they are providing the final word on something -- with empathy directed everywhere, the Tetherer can look at issues without bias and choose a course of action that is the best for the most amount of people, even in the most morally grey areas.
Methodical - Due to their early acceptance of their role, the Tetherer can willingly accept any task set before them without complaint, even the toughest. They're unused to manual labor, for example, but would gladly take on a heavily physical role if that is the best course of action. In fact, they are incredibly open to new experiences, especially in areas they have no history with. They see this as broadening their worldview and important for their role as a god. They are tenacious and see things through to the end, and approach situations with careful emotion and compassion.
● weaknesses:
Sheltered - Despite what I mentioned about them being open to new experiences, the list of things they have yet to experience is much longer than what they have. Because of their incredibly insular and focused upbringing as the next god of Tethering in the Nexus, they have yet to live a normal, human life. This is something they want to do, but have no clue how to go about doing so. They are empathetic to situations different than theirs, but don't have true understanding of what those are like. They've never walked a mile in the shoes of the working class, despite ruling over them all the same.
Sensitive - Despite putting up a calm exterior, the Tetherer is actually incredibly sensitive to people not bothering to understand where they are coming from, especially in an emotionally heightened situation. They don't take offense easily for the most part, but they have little experience not being the center of attention or being thought of highly, so if someone writes them off or ignores them or slights them intentionally in some fashion, they'll take it extremely personally as a failing on their part.
Unconfident - A part of themself they avoid sharing with others, they are not at all confident in their place as a god or their necessity to the universe. Thanks to the previous Destroyer meeting his end in part due to his lack of confidence, the Tetherer tends to second guess themself guiltily and privately. They don't believe they're even suited to be half the god he was, and compare themself to others negatively and frequently.
● job skills (optional): The Tetherer would express a willingness to work in a "working class" or even undesirable job in order to broaden their horizons and better understand the common people. They don't have... experience though... so they'd only be able to list their leadership skills and mediation abilities. This sounds like the worst resume ever. ● housing (optional): No preference!
● network username: the.tetherer (yes they are boring)
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● name: Javid
● age: 27
● contact:
● other characters: n/a
character information
● name: The Tetherer
● canon: Original
● canon point: Beginning of Nina's route
● age: This isn't a huge difference, but they appear in their early 20s, but are actually 32. Amazing. (There's a running joke where they are all "oooo i'm older than i look" and because they're a god it's like, wow, they must be so old, but actually they're not)
● (canon) background: n/a
● (original) world: Long before anyone can remember, before recorded history starts, there was one world. The world was chaotic and dangerous, full of too many elements and too many creatures. The people were extremely diverse, but one trait linked them all: each and every one of them was born with a Nature. These Natures vary in strength and number. There are a few of which only one person may have at a time. There are more still, weaker ones that many share.
Three powerful possessors of singular Natures came together, known only now as the Separator, the Tetherer, and the Destroyer. They saw the world was too dangerous to continue to exist as one. The Separator separated the worlds into many, not into pieces but into new wholes; the Tetherer tied them together so they would not drift apart and remain linked; and the Destroyer destroyed what worlds proved too dangerous to continue to exist. Even with the Destroyer, the worlds remained countless. These three powerful beings came together in one world and continued their work until their deaths.
Only one world has a record of this time. And that is the Nexus, where Natures are revered and followed religiously. Those with powerful Natures, the same as those of the three powerful beings, are even revered as gods. New Tetherers, Separators, and Destroyers are found among the countless worlds and instated whenever the old ones die.
The worlds vary wildly from one another, most completely unaware of the existence of Natures at all. One world may be completely peaceful and otherwise just like ours; another may be one out of high fantasy with monsters scattering the lands.
The Tetherer was lucky enough to be born on the Nexus and shed their name to obtain their title early on, as the Nexus has Nature-scanning technology due to its preoccupation with this truth of the world, to a religious extent. The Tetherer has been bred to become a god since an early age, being privately tutored in all a leader would need to know in order to assume their role.
While still being taught, they became close to a person that had been found from another world to be the new Destroyer, who essentially took them under his wing and contributed to their studies extensively. The Tetherer became extremely attached to the man, and they each shared their personal misgivings with the idea of becoming a god with one another.
The Tetherer sees their gender as part of their Nature of Tethering, two halves of a shared whole, and worries that the only reason it is accepted is because they embody their godlike Nature in that way. When they share this with the Destroyer, he lets on that he doesn't even want to be a god of Destruction. Who would? It's a scary thought, to have that kind of power, to be able to destroy worlds and erase lives on a mass scale.
The Tetherer had never thought about it that way. Being born on the Nexus, they accepted the Destruction of worlds as a necessary aspect of the universe, as something that must be done to keep order.
It is soon after sharing this insecurity with his role that the Destroyer, while attempting to control his powers of Destruction, gave into his nature and Destroyed himself. As the Tetherer (and the rest of the Nexus) grieved his loss, a seed was planted in their heart. A seed of uncertainty in the three gods' role in the universe, and the necessity of a god of Destruction.
They would keep their misgivings quiet throughout their officially taking on their title as the Tetherer and beginning their solitary rule over the Nexus. While their position as one of the three gods gave them the final say on all goings-on in the Nexus, they were also tasked to assist with locating the other gods from all the worlds in the universe with the help of their connection to the Tethers between all the worlds.
Over time, they discovered the Separator, a woman named Vida Veisi who led a painful life on a version of Earth that was still stuck in the late 1700s, where she was the bottom of the hierarchy and was involved in a freak Separating accident. Vida took to worshipping the Tetherer like any other and accepted her place with enthusiasm, seeing the Tetherer as a god that saved her from a horrible existence on an awful world that she wanted to see Destroyed.
The Tetherer kept their misgivings about the idea to themself.
Together, the Tetherer and the Separator took their place as two parts of a trio, and the Separator loudly lamented the absence of their third party. Until a vast, accidental Destruction of a portion of a world alerted them to the existence of a new Destroyer.
The two spirited away June Summers, a young woman with the Nature of Destruction who is investigating an outbreak of otherworldly monsters on her normally peaceful version of Earth and, through a series of hijinks, ended up traveling between worlds and Destroying the capital of a war-obsessed country. June, not wanting to accept her Nature, ran from them into the Nexus.
The Tetherer, in a moment of weakness due to the rejection and the stirring of old memories of the former Destroyer, shared their misgivings about the gods' role with the Separator. Horrified by a perceived betrayal, the Separator lashed out at them and they both Went To Bed Angry.
Hilariously, at the same time, June was found and manipulated by a skeevy doctor, who originated from the Separator's world and held a longstanding grudge against her, into taking on the mantle of god of Destruction under false pretenses to begin the doctor's plans of ruining the Separator's life. June returned to the gods, who were surprised by her change of heart and took her in as promised, with newfound tension in the air due to the fight.
Hijinks ensue, the Tetherer ends up in the Quarantine, etc.
● abilities: Due to their Nature manifesting as essentially magic powers on the level of a god, the Tetherer is incredibly powerful.
They are able to link worlds together and travel between them without the aid of Tethering-powered technology of the Nexus (that previous Tetherers helped perfect, in fact), which will obviously need to be nerfed. They can also create smaller Tethers between points in space, essentially warping themself and others or objects to different locations that don't necessarily need to be between entirely different worlds.
This can include objects or even entire areas of any size if they try hard enough, but they won't do that without it being necessary, which isn't a particularly good reason to not nerf a potentially game-changing power, so I'll say they're limited by size and thus can't go around warping the Quarantine to the dark side of the moon or anything game-changing like that.
They can also essentially fuse two objects, people, or even worlds together, creating new wholes or just making a weird amalgamation, but I'm nerfing this to just objects because without a Separator, it would be a tall order to undo this.
● strengths:
Calm - As a leader and a god, the Tetherer has vast experience in keeping a cool head under tough situations and calming people who may be upset or angry. They can defuse situations and raw emotions by simply being understanding and by staying collected, providing a much-needed presence to refugees displaced from their worlds to the Nexus. Of course, their calm exterior can be penetrated in upsetting situations, but they're the type to try to put extreme emotions aside to look at something logically.
Compassionate - Caring and compassionate, the Tetherer is someone who doesn't pass judgment on others no matter what kind of life they lead. This can manifest negatively, such as when they extend this to despicable people, but most of the time this allows them to look at situations from other people's point of view and accepting lives very different from their own. Surprisingly, this also lends itself well to cases when they are providing the final word on something -- with empathy directed everywhere, the Tetherer can look at issues without bias and choose a course of action that is the best for the most amount of people, even in the most morally grey areas.
Methodical - Due to their early acceptance of their role, the Tetherer can willingly accept any task set before them without complaint, even the toughest. They're unused to manual labor, for example, but would gladly take on a heavily physical role if that is the best course of action. In fact, they are incredibly open to new experiences, especially in areas they have no history with. They see this as broadening their worldview and important for their role as a god. They are tenacious and see things through to the end, and approach situations with careful emotion and compassion.
● weaknesses:
Sheltered - Despite what I mentioned about them being open to new experiences, the list of things they have yet to experience is much longer than what they have. Because of their incredibly insular and focused upbringing as the next god of Tethering in the Nexus, they have yet to live a normal, human life. This is something they want to do, but have no clue how to go about doing so. They are empathetic to situations different than theirs, but don't have true understanding of what those are like. They've never walked a mile in the shoes of the working class, despite ruling over them all the same.
Sensitive - Despite putting up a calm exterior, the Tetherer is actually incredibly sensitive to people not bothering to understand where they are coming from, especially in an emotionally heightened situation. They don't take offense easily for the most part, but they have little experience not being the center of attention or being thought of highly, so if someone writes them off or ignores them or slights them intentionally in some fashion, they'll take it extremely personally as a failing on their part.
Unconfident - A part of themself they avoid sharing with others, they are not at all confident in their place as a god or their necessity to the universe. Thanks to the previous Destroyer meeting his end in part due to his lack of confidence, the Tetherer tends to second guess themself guiltily and privately. They don't believe they're even suited to be half the god he was, and compare themself to others negatively and frequently.
● job skills (optional): The Tetherer would express a willingness to work in a "working class" or even undesirable job in order to broaden their horizons and better understand the common people. They don't have... experience though... so they'd only be able to list their leadership skills and mediation abilities. This sounds like the worst resume ever.
● housing (optional): No preference!
● network username: the.tetherer (yes they are boring)
● network sample: Sample 1 and Sample 2
● prose/action sample: Sample 1 and Sample 2