Pride and Elpis: Candle in the wind

PRIDE IS MY FRIEND CHARACTER AND ELPIS IS MINE

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Hope was like a lit candle. It was a flame that could burn as brightly as a thousand suns but could be extinguished as fast as a sneeze. Elpis embodied Hope and for millennia she allowed humans and other gods to feel hope and she struggled to set herself free from the curse cast upon her.  She was driven by one thing and one thing only: Her love for Pride. It was the main reason of her curse, to begin with, and the reason her pantheon was destroyed.  She might have been weakened by the seal, her connection to her siblings didn't disappear so she knew they were gone.  



Alone in her prison of flesh, the goddess of hope was slowly starting to give up on being able to escape from it one day. She slowly found her flame suffocating as doubt invaded her body. She might not have her whole power, she could still enter the human dreams and memories. pride had changed. Fundamentally became a worse version of what she first knew of him. A version that never knew her and grew to be what he had always been. There was no love for her inside of him. There was no warmth whatsoever. So why would she bother? Why would she come out of this vessel if it only was to find desolation and heartbreak? She slowly lost hope to find what was stolen from her. 



Asma felt the change inside of her. She felt Elpis giving up on fighting. She felt that little hopeful flame gets extinguished and wept for the goddess and herself. Maybe it was solitude that made Elpis withdraw herself that way or maybe it was the certainty of not being able to reach out to Pride's core and ultimately just being reduced to vanity prize that hurt the elder goddess. She couldn't pick up where they left. It was gone, forever gone and she knew his older ways. She knew he could never give her what she deserved something good and stable and genuine. He could not. She couldn't. So the hope was gone. Despair remained. If she couldn't have Pride, she still made a promise. To find him, to avenge them both and she shall. She would be driven by her urge to make Ayasha and Ishtar pay for what they did. She would wipe out their allies and then maybe. If Pride still wanted to destroy earth and mankind, slaughter all pantheons, she shall fall by his hands. 



That was the plan, but Elpis knew deep down that it was all smoke to hide away from the realization that her love didn't mean anything anymore and probably never had. Deep down, it was all smoke to ignore her undying love towards her lethal enemy. 

(Tbc)