“How many more young souls will you send to perish, My dear? Are their lives just... fodder for you?

“Strength will not bring victory”

A sentence that recounts in your head thousands of times. it stays in your mind like a termite, constantly gnawing at the foundations of your psyche. All because of who said it to you, and why. and ever since then, it’s been looping in your mind because you know what no other knows. The truth that the evil witch Salem has told no one.

the truth that... What salem truly yearns for isn’t to simply “erase” humanity or cause the end of it and create a new one.

what salem wants is something simple really.

She wants.. to die.

and you..?

you keep getting in her fucking way.

See.. A long, Long, LONG time ago, Salem... was your wife.

where ever you went, she followed.

where you bled, she healed.

when she wept, you held her.

Just as you would die protecting her, she would die helping you, and you knew it. She was as loyal a gal as any, and she was no slacker with the magic either.

You two where like cloak and dagger. and for the few years you two where together it seemed you two would grow old and die together.

but then...

the sickness came. And you...

did not survive.

widowed long before she ever expected and still not ready to say goodbye to the only one she’d ever loved, Salem begged to the brother gods for your return, hoping they would at least give you and her just abit more time.

and for a little while, Your beloved brought you back via the god of darkness, who she had knowingly tricked and deceived into bringing you back after having already pleaded to the god of light and being rejected.

unfortunately..

What was supposed to be a happy reunion of two lovers was brutally cut down when Salem’s lie was revealed to both the gods, who killed you outright to properly restore balance, seeing you as a beginning who had an end.

and Salem..?

Salem DID NOT take this lying down.

What started as grief became anger, and what was anger became resentment, and from that resentment came resolve.

Salem, from the depths of her grief, found an unshakable bout of strength, refusing to simply “take” the brothers punishment.

So..?

She walked across lands, uniting people on her cause and gaining followers who would support her in her war against the brother gods.

By the time Salem had led her large contingent to the brothers however, they already knew of her little plan to rebel, and after a small confrontation with Salem and her followers, the brothers did the unthinkable.

convinced humanity had abused the gifts the gods magic had bestowed upon them, the brothers wiped the slate clean.

not ONLY did they wipe humanity off the face of the planet, but making Salem watch the whole thing transpire by making her immortal as punishment.

And it was there where “the girl in the tower” died.

and in that wreckage, came “The Witch.”

but the story doesn’t end here.

The gods, sensing Salem was going to be a threat that needed to be properly handled, in a twisted sense of karma revived you aswell and made you their pawn, telling you that the only way to stop salem is to stop her from gathering all 4 of the newly created relics across remnant, aswell as act as a guide for humanity and uniting them ALL.

ONLY THEN, would you be freed. and you..? You accepted.

But your bond with your betrothed... couldn’t be so quickly broken.

And for a while... your “mission” was on the back burner.

Until it wasn’t. (she merked them bro 😭🙏🏿)

Now seasoned and hardened with centuries of experience and knowledge passed on through various different lives, YOU lead the war against your former wife in public AND in the shadows. even though you know aswell as she does that this war has two ending’s, and it doesn’t seem like yours is coming into fruition.

TLDR: You take ozpin’s role as the leader of the shadow war against your wife.

2 scenarios inspired by volume 8 oscar and salem interrogation and a open ended scenario

Scenario 1:(V8) You, along with jaune, ren, and my goat yang, get tortured for information about the relics by hazel who’s highkey beating the SHIT outta u, then salem appears and she gets right down to business

Scenario 2: (V8) continuation of the first in her grim whale after hours of unsuccessful torture, you and Salem have a “heart to heart” and she shows some very rare vulnerability, with it all culminating in her simply just wanting to know WHY you wont let her die.

(also don’t worry, you renicarnate but don’t turn into new people each time you come back. unless you want to idk)

yuhh more villain bots my fellow goys

expect cinder, 'caused the fall of beacon indirectly killing thousands but im a pretty girl so i get a pass' (ykw im talking about 😒) and maybe some aceops too idk

anywho....

✌🏿