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Nov. 25th, 2023 11:00 am
Heset, ???
do you feel you are worthy?
CW: Incest, Sexual Assault. Her world shatters in one moment, when she walks into a room to find her younger brother, Seth, in her brother-husbands (Osiris) lap moaning and begging. It breaks apart further when she learns her sister, Nephthys, that very younger brother's wife, has given her husband, Osiris, the one gift wholly forbidden from the gods and granted wholly to the goddesses -- the gift to create a child. It all crumbles into pieces and then reforms, a sharp and nasty thing as she sobs. It twists and shapes itself into rage at the betrayal, guilt because she missed what Osiris was planning all along.TO LOVE A MONSTER
She is the goddess of Magic though, the strongest of them all in this. So she casts a curse upon herself and her siblings; stopping her own heart to do so. Set will never have a child of his own, Osiris will never have Seth, and Nephthys will never be able to die but will live with the guilt of what she's done. And Isis will never be able to have Osiris for herself, will never be able to fix the broken things in him.
If she cannot have the happiness of a family, of love, then they cannot have the things they want.
CW: Incest, Necrophilia, Murder, Death, Mummies. - In revenge for his assault, Seth tricks Osiris and murders him. He scatters his body into the Nile where he cannot regenerate himself and takes the throne of Egypt. He goes to Isis and asks her to rule beside him as Queen, but she refuses. Instead she runs.BIDING HER TIME
But first she does something she knows he will hate, knows Osiris would loathe her for as well because he sees a child as a shackle to a marriage he does not want. She finds his body in the River Nile and wraps him together in linens, takes him in her womb and uses the gift each goddess is granted to create a child - Horus - with him. She knows that Osiris cannot survive in the land of the living, but the life she gives him allows him to take a seat as King of the Afterlife. Then she takes the child and runs, hides from Seth so he cannot find her.
CW: Genocide, Sexual Assault. Isis remains in hiding for hundreds of years; during this time she lives amongst humans and learns their suffering. She witnesses Seth's rage as he kills any woman that reminds her of him, any child that reminds him of the teenage boy he thought was his own son.SWEET REVENGE
Her divinty fades slowly and she shrivels, looking less a beauty and more a withered skeleton. But she does what she must to survive, to raise her son. She finds herself disgusted by the priests that serve Seth and what they do; she finds herself hating men, mortal and divine, though she keeps a pitied soft-spot for the youths. She curses that the other gods and goddesses will not help her in fear of Seth's retaliation. But her power is gone and she is weak, ruled by fear and simply the need to survive that starts to fade. Her son is growning but she is fading, feeding what power she has to keep him strong. She tells him that he must grow up and defeat his unble, to take back the throne to stop the suffering of the people and thinks of her own revenge.
And then Nut and Thoth intervene, offering to help. They share their Divinity. She doesn't understand why -- but who can know the true motivations of the gods of Wisdom and Prophecy -- but she takes the oppurtunity, hands Horus to them to keep safe and flees from Egypt to find help in a foreign land.
Isis returns to Egypt some time later, with Horus at her side and a Foreign God's backing behind her schemes. She has Horus challenge Seth to a trial to see who will become the Ruler of Egypt, hoping that she can pull enough strings that Seth will have his soul destroyed. What she doesn't anticipate and much to her ire, is the feelings of affection her son develops for his uncle.
But she uses her cunning to make deals with other gods. It works for her until Sekhmet plants seeds of doubt of her altruism in Horus' mind, where she needs to change tactics and appeal to his heart. She needs him on her side, needs her one link to Osiris and family to hold his love for her.
In the end, Seth loses and faces his crimes. Isis watches with glee and then in rage as Ra decides he will not be dissolved but will be sent to live amongst the humans who he's caused so much suffering to. Isis is enraged but cannot act against Ra, cannot strike out or the other gods and goddesses will know that she did all this with selfish motivation and not for the betterment of the humans of Egypt. Even if she is proud of Horus as he takes the throne as Pharoah, she keeps her eyes on him unable to trust him after all she has seen. She needs for him to love her for all she's done for him, for Egypt, and worries that he is too weak to not fall for his uncle's trickery.
Isis transforms into harpy like creature that is half woman and half bird. She keeps her face and hair, though they grow monsterous. Her eyes turn black, her teeth elongate into fangs, her tongue snake like. Her coloring follows the depicitions of Ba which is the symbol of the mobility of the soul in death, a process Isis oversaw in her divine duties.
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The tranformation starts with her face and then it moves downward, feathers growing from her arms and torso until her arms become wings, her legs twist and become strong talons with which she'll catch her victims. It is a painful transformation, yes, but it does not turn her into anything but what is lurking inside. Her voice becomes a shrill shreek that can disorrient her prey as she hunts and finds pleasure of the struggle. As a monster she will hunt, will show her vicious anger at men lash out first but she will not discriminate if there is no old fool at hand. She will tear them apart and lavish in their misery, peck out their eyes and innards to see how long they breathe. She is fury emboddied, creature spitied and gleeful for the suffering she can suffer. She is swift in this form, can carry the weigh to a victim much larger than herself. Her breath is hot, her talons burn those she touches with a seering fire from within.