— the deity of creation —

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Ao Pachikame, known as the current Goddess of Creation, daughter to the previous Goddess of Creation, Medeis and the exalted God of Strategy, Koa. Being one of the six Essence deities, Ao is part of the Essence of Pantheon, which is the regiment of the entire Pantheon faction residing in the KOI-087 Kepler Galaxy.

She lived a blissful life until her mother passed away during the birth of her younger brother Pavonine. Her childhood, once happy, turned to dust quickly after this event. Ao's and Pavonine's father vanished out of grief, turning the two siblings essentially into orphans. They were taken in and cared for by the goddess Aphrodite soon after, which was a drastic change for Ao. For a long time Ao blamed the downfall of her family on her younger brother, but with the great care she needed from Aphro, she realised at some point it was no one's fault. Ao would grow up to be an adventurous teen with her friend Athryne, similar to what she once was during her childhood.

It wouldn't be until adulthood that Ao would come eye to eye again with her father, whom she thought was dead. Their relationship wouldn't be properly repaired until Koa would save Pavonine from a dangerous incident in the future, which would make Ao respect her father again once more.

The deity, normally in a peaceful state of creation, might be more chaotic than she lets on. There have been times the goddess went on sprees outside of the galaxy to play around with others, even creating new galaxies as she went. Due to her circumstances, Ao Pachikame had to adopt the official title of Goddess of Creation when she was pretty young. Without her predecessor to teach her, Ao was left pretty much in the dark about fulfilling her title. She learned slowly as she grew up to adulthood with the aid of other Essence deities, but even now Ao only has her own ideas of what is and isn't balanced. Ao is one of the few gods that legitimately visit planets to interact with mortal life and learn more about them, essentially destroying the myth around the reality of her existence. In her most powerful state, Ao's eyes and gem give off a bright glow, and she's capable of creating mass destruction if she wanted to. Luckily this happens rarely in the span of time, and Ao is more often than not a positive ray of sunshine.

— DESTRUCTION ARC —

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When Ao was roughly 180 years, the goddess was instructed by the Essence deities to work together with the God of Destruction in-training, Fenrir. It was of utter importance two opposites were able to work together and balance one another out. However, it was apparent from the start the two deities didn't get along, resulting in chaotic fiascos here and there. No feud ever ended up beyond the two and close connections, although it was pretty tiring for the other Essence deities to force Creation and Destruction to get along.

Whilst Ao is normally one of the friendliest deities to approach, even for mortals, something inexplicable about Fenrir's demeanor made the goddess want to strangle him and throw him off a cliff practically every time they had to practice together. It took a little over half a century for the two to finally be able to join forces adequately. At that point more-or-less formal with one another, the two could have banter from time to time, slowly becoming friends with the aid of other deities such as Athryne. The balance they kept together would grow over time.

It would take another amount of decades for the two deities to get along so well, they'd declare their love. One that no one saw coming, yet expected at the same time. Somehow the polar opposites, initially seemingly sworn enemies, balanced one another out down to the tin. Both Creation and Destruction were in complete sync with their roles, able to maintain peace between the two. As an act of utter devotion to both their titles, the two deities have sworn to die together, in order to bring forth their reincarnations. Ao would reincarnate as Jirachi, and Fenrir would reincarnate as Vamargandir.

— FUTURE ARC —

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Hundreds of years in the future, it finally comes to light what has caused the mysterious deaths in the Pantheon faction, Ao's mother included. After Pavonine had discovered something was up with the wormholes in the galaxy, he came home crying. Soothing her brother Pavonine, she can't think of anything but to kill the God of Order gone rogue. Her mind is filled with thoughts swimming around everywhere, most of all why?

Why? Why? Why?

All this time, the causes of death were unknown for seven deities in the Pantheon. Thanks to a self-fulfilling prophecy, their souls were consumed by Iokaci, in order for him to escape death. The Pantheon deities almost immediately take action, and Ao is dead set on finding the traitor and taking what he'd stolen for himself. With a bunch of other deities, they enter the maze of wormholes, which all lead to different places and times, in order to find Iokaci. Time starts ticking, once they notice deities left and right are falling- Iokaci is consuming whatever's in front of him, in order to gain power as to not pay for his crimes.

The God of Order keeps consuming, and consuming, and consuming until he's transformed into the most horrifying thing any deity's ever seen in their lives. Ao knew the past Divine Divide war was bad. But this, this was a whole other level. Taking in deities and even wormholes, Iokaci transformed into an Eldritch-esque horror. With it, comes an unimaginable amount of power. It starts to feel hopeless, with the only possible solution being a universe Overseer to end Iokaci. "Unless," Pavonine says out of the blue, "we can cause a paradox."

So they go. Ao, Pavonine and their father Koa, back into the maze. Time is running out. The consequences of Iokaci's actions are extremely severe, and they have to find the past Iokaci fast. When Koa spots the deity, the three of them immediately fight him where he stands, not paying any mind to any witness. Despite it being three on one, past Iokaci still puts up a good fight- Immediately taking up a defensive stance. Ao's fuelled by rage. Words, profanites and what have you are thrown at Iokaci. What makes every witness not interrupt, is when Ao screams that he killed her mother as if it were nothing.

Eventually, the three deities succeed and they take Iokaci's life source, and are about to go back. But Ao can't. Everything around her is coloured red. Her vision is red. The ground, the sky, the buildings are all red. The witnesses are red. Her father and brother are red. And yet, the reddest thing to still stand out like a sore thumb, is Iokaci's corpse.

Ao's kneels next to it, and keeps hitting it and throwing it as if it could hurt Iokaci's essence in the afterlife. "Ao, we've got to go!" her brother exclaims, at the look of the wormhole that's quickly shrinking. Ao doesn't listen. Anger, anguish, rage, whatever negative emotion existed, it felt as if Ao felt all of them at once. Nothing could ever punish this scumbag of a failed deity enough. The fight wasn't satisfying enough. Iokaci should've been tortured. Painfully. Squeeze all of what he had left out for others to claim back again.

The deity isn't moving an inch where she sits. Her younger brother, screaming at her but nothing is coming through. Tears in his eyes, pulling at an arm in hopes to get her up. The father has already gone through the wormhole. Ao hears something vaguely among the words of insanity. Before she realises what's going on, she's pushed into the wormhole, and Pavonine comes right through a second later- Just as the wormhole is about to close, their father comes through, albeit not wholly. He loses a limb, but despite the shock still checks on the well-being of his two children.

They were just saved from being lost to time. Thanks to their father.

After Iokaci's implosion as if nothing happened, and expanding the graveyard for the many, many dead.. Ao has a talk with her father. One of reconciliation. She thanks him for saving her and more importantly her brother, despite knowing he could've been left behind. Much to Pavonine's relief, Ao finally makes up with her father after centuries of being estranged. Nothing could ever rid them of their pain, knowing how Medeis truly died. At last, however, they could go through it together, with a better bond than ever before.