The longer
time that Josie had that Mictlan blood running through her, though, the
more violent and angry she grew, the more she felt the need to kill mercilessly,
the more she became unlike herself. She wanted revenge, for what
she knew not, but she just knew she needed it.
The
blood thirst ran deep into her system, and she couldn’t shake it like she
had before. This time it wasn’t leaving. She never regretted
her decision to become a Mictlan anymore, she embraced it with open arms,
she let the power flow through her without care. She didn’t care
about pacifism anymore; she thought it to be stupid, foolish, and pointless.
She
had no conscience anymore, she just killed without reason the longer she
stayed a senshi from Saturn. Deep, deep, hidden inside, she ached
to be herself again, to rid herself of the power, but the darkness of her
power seeped that far, and the good, kind part of her soul was suffocating.
So she
fought her final battle a completely changed person, killing and attacking
without reasons or conscience, just knowing she had to kill, kill, and
destroy.
History:
Josie
was born on Saturn, the cold dark colony planet that Earth had made.
She was raised up to believe that the Earth was the evil force that was
behind all of their misfortune, though she herself disagreed with this
notion. She never really talked to anyone about her feelings toward
Earth, and went through her schooling with good grades and many friends.
The
older she got, the more complicated things seemed to be. She didn’t ever
really want to cut her precious pink locks, and so she just let them grow
out, and out, and out. Soon, that was one of the things that she
had to revolve her life around, just the seemingly simple task of managing
her hair. Being all the way down to her knees, it wasn’t so simple
any more. People nagged her to cut it, but she didn’t pay attention
to them and continued to treasure her hair like chains of diamonds coming
from her head.
Paying
all this attention to her hair ruined her health, though. She got
as much sleep as she could, but it wasn’t always a very good amount.
She never ate, she was too busy doing other things, and she began to shed
her healthy girlish figure into an eerily lean yet even more strangely
still curvaceous body, skin seeming to be just about the only thing covering
her bones.
She
looked one day through a photo album that her parents had kept of pictures
of her through the years and smiled at her cute face as a small child.
She flipped to her 10th grade pictures and gasped at the stark difference
from that cute, almost pudgy little kid. How could she have done
such a thing to herself?
Immediately
after that, she changed her diet, eating as much as she could, not caring
as much about the way she looked, she had to regain her weight; she had
to be good again.
Her
friends were genuinely concerned for Josie, but Josie didn’t seem to notice.
She was too busy feeding herself to care about friends anymore. They
never liked her, anyway, they always were repulsed by her, weren’t they?!
She cried out to let this anger loose, and found an outlet through the
Mictlan Senshi. She wanted to get back at Earth for being so foolish
leave her on this cold planet full of cold people who hated her, no one
ever liked someone that was a stick. The Earth people wouldn’t, she
was sure.
Suddenly,
it hit her. She was becoming one of the Saturanians, someone who
hated Earth for no good reason, they just wanted to get back at them for
putting them someplace somewhat better than Earth, better in some ways,
worse in others, different but something to learn from.
She
almost wanted to change her mind on the entire becoming-a-Mictlan thing,
but she decided to stick with it, and show Earth that her people were strong
too, and could hold their own against their warriors, that she had a point
that they needed to see once and for all.
Josie
looked deep inside herself and could feel an inner power boiling up, ready
to be unleashed. She knew there must have been some way to get in
touch with other Mictlans, and soon found one of the people she hoped to
help in her endeavors as a Mictlan.
“Help
me,” she asked of a priest she found. “I can feel the power, but
I don’t know how to get it out.”
He smiled
and laid his hands on her shoulders, and closed his eyes, and she could
feel him tugging on something deep inside of her as he struggled, eyes
closed, but brow furrowing in difficulty. But she could feel something
weighing onto her mind, impressing something into her brain, as the priest
opened his eyes and took deep breaths, hands still on her shoulders.
“You
have… Great powers… Inside you... Use them… For the good… Of us all.” His
words were paused by heavy breathing, and he took his hands off her shoulders
and sat down on the ground, still breathing hard, and smiled at her.
Josie
felt a headache rack her brain as she struggled with the magic that had
been brought to the surface by this all-too-kind priest, the magic she
wanted. She cringed once more before letting up and smiling gently
at the man. His face had been hidden the whole time he’d been
working, and even now as they rested, she could just feel his facial expressions
by what she felt in his hands.
She
could have sworn she knew those hands, and she knew the person who lay
under the hooded robe, but then again, she knew just about everyone, so
it wasn’t anything to really brag about or be clear on. She rolled
back the hood and found the face to be the one of her best friends, Winfred.
His
eyes were closed gently and his mouth was slightly open. His face
was going slowly whiter, and his body was getting slowly colder.
Josie could feel his magic leaving him, going back to where it had come
from, and she almost felt like his body was disintegrating in her very
hands. She dropped him, scared that holding him would speed his death
further, until she held a skeleton.
She
then gasped sharply and stepped back, looking at her hands, she felt like
there were open wounds in them and blood was gushing down her wrists.
But there was none.
Was
this what it felt like to kill a man? If it was, she never
wanted to do this again. It felt so insanely horrible... It
was a horrible, terrible thing to happen.
And
yet, she could feel that power surging through her veins as she looked
at her fingers, examining them gently and seeing that a golden ring lay
on one, a symbol embossed into it. This was what would let her become
the thing she wanted to become: that entity that could do anything, the
entity that would show the Earth the error of its ways.
Josie
herself didn’t know that her friend Winfred had been watching her all this
time, as a priest of the Saturanians, watching others as well, and she
never knew that he had been watching her actions to see if she had been
right for the job of combating the Aztecas and the people of Earth.
When she came to him asking him to show her the power, she knew that some
other priest had planted a seed of power in her heart a time ago, when
she also had shown her power. Winfred had been told to help an undiscovered
Mictlan, and quickly, for they had already started to assemble. He
had been out without much food or strength left, and felt a relief when
he laid eyes on his friend. He had no power in himself left to keep
alive, only his magic was really keeping him alive.
All that Josie
knew was that she now bore a power, and a weight on her shoulders, to fight
against those that others had deemed wrong and evil: The Aztecas and people
of Earth.
She
let herself henshin once, when she could feel the power surging more and
more. It felt good in some ways, but she could feel the spirit of
Omacatl pushing her own spirit down, down, and away. She wasn’t sure
this was such a good idea. Josie let herself slip out of the henshin,
and ran from the site as quickly as she could, chills running through her
body.
Josie
didn’t feel that she was worthy enough to return back home, she felt a
little tainted by carrying the god of Glutton inside herself, and she wandered
off, trusting her instincts and the pull she felt from Omacatl, on where
to go to find her teammates. Having little to no money, she didn’t
eat well, and often found herself starving, begging people for food.
Sometimes she would help people to get money for food or other such things.
Her henshin
ring would never come off of her finger, no matter how hard she tried.
After a few tries, she gave up on taking it off, and sometimes showed it
to people as a sign of her power as a Mictlan senshi when she was desperate
for quarter. And sometimes to prove it was truly a ring of power,
she had to henshin and show her magic or her fuku. She didn’t like
doing this, though, she felt it a wrong use of the power her late friend
had given her.
So,
she found the rest of the Mictlans as soon as she could, and sought to
train with them, inexperienced in battle and unready for the power she
held. She wanted to train her soul to overcome Omacatl’s, she wanted
to be the one in power, the one who controlled it all.
However,
she henshinned again… and again and again. The more she transformed
and the more she fought, the more comfortable she got with it, the more
Omacatl hid under her soul, hiding and waiting to strike. The more
ready Omacatl grew ready to kill, needing to kill.
The
more her soul drowned under the entity, unnoticing of the subtle changes.
She became more violent, more bloodthirsty, more angry. But Josie
didn’t really seem to care. She continued to fight for her
cause, that the Earth people had done something wrong and they had to see
the light of truth and wisdom. And she was just one ray, fighting
with others to shine down on them like the brilliant sun that she had rarely
seen on Saturn.
And
so Sailor Omacatl faced battle after battle, attacking with her food, to
kill people by feeding them, or at least try. She would destroy her
enemies with what she had been deprived of. She was maniacal about
her battles, attacking with a bloodlust, and almost a lust for food as
well, wanting to take the attacks and use them but feed herself with them
after the kill. She wanted to be more gluttonous herself, and
she tried to be, ate all the time between battles. But the battles
seemed to knock the weight right back off. This, of course, made
her furious, and only made her fight harder.
Soon
she found herself looking at what she had become and was shocked.
What was she doing? Fighting all these ridiculous battles, trying
to kill people who hadn’t done anything to her, being furious because she
couldn’t gain weight? What had she done to herself?!
She
started to go to fewer battles, trying to concentrate on her weight gaining
and she found her teammates become furious with her because of this.
She tried to make up excuses, but they just seemed to fall through, and
the Mictlans grew angry with Josie. She told the senshi to henshin
one final time, so that she would have some sort of honor and all that
followed her would have the memory of what was about to happen.
A small
few Mictlans took Omacatl and planks of wood, a hammer and nails out into
a cornfield. The season had been dry, and most of the stalks were
fallen or wilting down. She walked into the field and watched as
they assembled a large cross and with the back of the hammer crudely ripped
her name into the wood. They then laid the thin Mictlan senshi
of Gluttony on her cross and nailed only her arms onto it. They put
the cross up, and left her there like the ancient Romans left criminals,
but took their tools with them.
As they
were readying Omacatl’s “place of rest”, Xiuhcoatl came through, but the
Senshi of Gluttony knew that she couldn’t forgive herself for letting herself
slip behind in the battles, and she herself couldn’t face the pain of going
back to a team that hated her enough to leave her to die. Though
her leader wanted to help, Omacatl refused it and took her place on the
cross.
Omacatl
died painfully slowly from starvation and dehydration. During the
first stages of her slow demise, she struggled, and tried to get the corn
that was so far from her up high. She lasted less than a week up
high with the scorching sun blazing overhead, constantly badgering her
and the cold nights where she had nothing to keep her warm in the near-desert
climate.
She
died just as the final battle started. She never learned of the outcome.
::Opinions::
Religion:
Despite Josie’s appreciation for the religion’s balance and spreading of
power, she thinks it’s a silly idea. She also thinks that since it’s
not Mexico’s real religion it’s kind of silly to follow. She also
thinks that you shouldn’t be chained to one religion, you should be able
to go out and explore others, which is another reason why she doesn’t like
the current political situation on Earth.
Political:
Tiede. Josie thinks that the rule of the Earth currently is silly
and unfair for all the people who lived in space. She believes that
everyone should have a place to live, and that everyone should be treated
fairly. She also thinks that the whole concept of being the leader
solely because you’re high up on the religious charts is foolish.
Josie thinks that the people should be allowed to make a choice as to who
is ruling.
Science: Josie
thinks that these mutations due to science, the guardians, are cruel and
unfair to the animals. She thinks that if you think it’s so important
to do something, do it yourself, don’t send mutilated, unnatural animals
to do it for you.
As for colonization,
Josie thinks that this is a good step for mankind, and she believes that
this will enable more people to have their own space in which to live,
instead of being forced to cram into the tiniest space possible.
She likes the idea of people having room to walk around and frolic and
do whatever else they want to do.
Saturanians:
Josie thinks that the idea of colonizing Saturn is a good one, but also
that these colonies should be better built and better kept, so that the
people don’t become mutants and have to deal with all these foreign diseases
without very much help from the Earth. She thinks the treatment of
the Saturanians is cruel and unnecessary. She thinks they should
be treated just like anyone else and that there’s no need to punish them
for just trying to show the Earth what happens when you fail at something
in outer space. Josie thinks that the Earth needs to learn a lesson from
the whole Saturn episode, so that they can develop better space colonies.
Homeland:
Josie doesn’t really like Saturn, but she doesn’t hate it either.
She loves the concept, but she finds the planet’s harsh conditions and
the alterations to the human system that are “necessary” not to be so and
thinks that if the Earth had colonized Saturn the RIGHT way, it would be
okay. She just really doesn’t like people putting her off as some
weird alien that’s coming to invade the planet.
Mictlan Creation:
Josie thinks that being a Mictlan is good in some ways but bad in others.
She finds it good that there is a faction finally supporting the colonies
(god, I sound like I’m in GW... eek) and that the people from Saturn have
somewhere to turn when they have a conflict they need resolved. Someone
to look to, to help the people of Earth realize their errors.
It doesn’t change Josie too much, but does make her more cynical, more conniving, crueler in her intentions. But she tries to keep those emotions and feelings at bay, tries to keep them away from the people of Earth she’s come to being somewhat close to.
When the magic
of Omacatl and gluttony was given to Josie, she was ecstatic. She thought
this would be the opportunity to finally escape her anorexic state and
actually gain weight, and become more normal, and stray from the horror
she found herself to be. She was very excited about her powers being there
and excited to find out just what she could do with them.
Teammates:
Josie generally thinks that the reasons they have for fighting aren’t nearly
as deeply felt and meaningful as hers and thinks they’re probably fighting
somewhat for fame and power, but some do have legitimate reasons for becoming
a Mictlan. Josie really just wants the Earth to see their mistakes,
but she knows that others feel a great hatred for the planet and doesn’t
understand how one could dislike the human race’s mother planet.
She just wants an equal share of attention and care in space, whereas many
others feel that the Aztecas, Pures and people of Earth have ruined their
lives and need to be killed for their misguided words or actions about
or to individuals.
Enemies:
Aztecas –
Josie thinks that the Aztecas, though brave, wonderful and fighting for
a beautiful planet, are blind to their world’s problems. She thinks
that they are good people, and not bad like many of the people that Josie
has come to work with, but she just believes that they need a wake-up call
to the real world, and need to stop believing that they’re living in a
world were everything is good and beautiful and where the world works as
it should. She also thinks that the Aztecas aren’t as wonderful for
taking part in the scientific experiments on animals, using these mutated
creatures, who were surely once beautiful and glorious, to help them in
their killing of all those who put down the planet, including Josie herself.
She knows that her own people use the creatures, but she also knows that
her team isn’t the best group of people around. But if she could,
Josie would join the Aztecas in a heartbeat. She has strived to bring
the Earth to see the mistakes it has made, and she won’t turn back now.
She thinks that they’re a little silly for protecting the Pures as well
as the world, but she still thinks that they’re good.
Pures – Josie
doesn’t like the Pures one bit. She thinks that their control over
the world is foolish, and she thinks that they aren’t necessarily ready
for the burden of ruling the world. She thinks that the Pures had
a lot to do with the current problems in the world, and she also, as stated
before, doesn’t like the concept of being the ruler just because you’re
a religious leader. Religion is important, but not that important.
She thinks that they are too powerful for their own good and that if they’re
going to rule the world, they shouldn’t go out and fight, and risk getting
themselves killed. Josie just thinks they’re going about their lives
in all the wrong ways.
After Book
was Given – Aztecas – Josie still thinks that they are good and kind
and such, but after this, she thinks they’re blinder than most, especially
Ehecatl . She knows that the Azteca was just trying to be nice, but
she thinks that Ehecatl was foolish and naïve to give such a
treasure to such bad people. Josie thinks that, even though some
might have thought it selfish and the Mictlans still would’ve fought for
the book, the Aztecas should have kept it. She thinks that the Aztecas
were just trying to be peacekeepers and they wanted everyone to “share
nicely” but she knows that this will never happen, and this idealistic
intention was a bit too immature for her. They should have thought
it through more.
After Book
was Given – Pures – Josie thinks that after this, the Pures are more
insane and power-crazed, and she still hates them. She thinks that
they’re trying to keep everything to themselves and they can’t take a kind
act nicely when they see one. Josie is angry and frustrated with
the Pures’ need for power and control, and she wishes they were never again
allowed to have an office as a leader again, except perhaps as religious
leaders. She thinks that they’ve just gotten a little greedy and
they need to get their own personal wake-up call. They
need to be shaken up and woken up more than the Aztecas now, and Josie
aims to show them that they can’t control everything, especially not her
or her fate.
Earth People
Before – Josie was taught to hate the people of Earth and at several points
in her life, she actually believed them. But she, in her heart of
hearts, knows that the citizens of Earth are people just like anyone else.
She never had a good feeling or a bad one about the people of Earth, but
she did tend to have a nicer impression of them. Josie often found
herself defending the people of Earth when people were talking about how
horrible they were, and was often ridiculed for it. She was called
a spy on many more occasions than one, a traitor, and just a general unpatriotic
person. And even through all of this, she refused to change her opinion
about the people of Earth and their place in the universe. She did
think that they tended to be a little bit less intelligent than the people
of Saturn by their show of technological achievements, but she never considered
them complete morons or not smart enough to add two and two.
Earth People
After – When Josie came to Earth, she felt all eyes were on her, and when
she smiled and looked to other’s faces, all she saw was hate and disgust
looking back. She was surprised by this, but continued to be a cheerful
person, and found that more people hated the Saturanians than liked them,
and she felt like she was in a reversal from her place on Saturn, though.
She wasn’t being called names and evil from afar, they were right in her
face telling her how horrible she was. Though there were some people
who were nice, and often people didn’t pay attention to her when she was
disguised, she found the people of Earth to care a lot less about their
planet, and was saddened by this. She found the Earth people to be
a little more selfish, and most were very enthusiastic about the current
world leaders. Josie found very few people of Earth who had similar
beliefs to her own, but found a few who were of the Tiede party of thought.
She befriended them, and became more of an outcast than just being from
Saturn. From Saturn was just a bad thing, but to betray the Earth
and act like one from Saturn? That was a horrible thing, something
one would have criminal charges brought against if people could help it.
But everyone was allowed to have his or her own opinion, even if it was
foolish or “wrong”. Josie felt quite a little bit less enthusiastic
about the people of Earth after she was there, to put it simply.
::Powers::
Attack 1:
“Shocking Sugar Shield!“ – The Lollipop Shield attack. Omacatl calls
out “Shocking” and holds her left arm horizontally in front of her chest.
She yells “Sugar” and places her right hand over her left arm as if to
catch something. When she says “Shield!”, a white piece of metal-like
material wraps around her left arm and from the centre of it out spirals
a yellow and green lollipop about 1.5’ in diameter. The strength
of the lollipop depends on the amount of magic she has remaining, but at
top performance, it can withstand about 2 magical attacks or about 10 non-magical
hits. When attacks hit it, usually a sort of sugar shrapnel comes
off, and may injure people, including herself. Omacatl can’t hold
up the shield forever, it usually wears off in about five minutes if it
has not been destroyed. The shield stays on the left arm and cannot
be removed, and it cannot be put on the other arm, the incantation will
fail if she holds out her right arm instead of her left.
Attack 2:
“Gliding Pizzazz!“ – The Flying Pepperoni Pizza attack. Omacatl crosses
her arms and grabs her round gold earrings. The symbols glisten as
she calls out “Gliding!” Pulling the earrings off of her ears, with
no harm to herself and no backs lost because this is a magical attack,
she uncrosses her arms and opens her hands out, the earrings falling into
her palms. They grow to about 3” in diameter and are still flat and
gold. She calls out “Pizzazz!” and they turn from metallically golden
to bread golden and sprout tomato sauce and cheese, melting as soon as
they hit the crust. Over these, pepperonis may also sprout up if
Omacatl doesn’t release them immediately. They grow hot very quickly,
so Omacatl has to toss them out as quick as she can or her hands will start
to burn. They can hit the enemy any place where the Mictlan aims,
and the pizzas may stick, with the cheese or the sauce. You could
take them off of where they hit and eat them if you wanted. They
tend to burn the victim’s skin slightly, especially if the sauce hits and
not the cheese. The pepperonis are rather spicy, giving the burning
sensation again, and if they hit your skin, they’ll scorch you pretty bad
as well. The pizzas will disappear after a little while, but if you eat
them, they’ll stay in your tummy. ^^; The attack drains Omacatl more the
longer she keeps the pizzas in her hands. It’s not all that draining,
but it is a bit difficult to cast it many times, mostly because Omacatl’s
hands get burned as well, while she’s holding the pizzas.
Attack 3:
“Crystal Delight!“ – The Rock Candy Making attack. Omacatl has to
have her spork in ready hand for this, her mega-super-duper attack.
She starts by putting the spork along her victim’s back, and speaking (meaning,
could be whispering, could be yelling) “Crystal.” From the spork
come out strings coated in chocolate, and they wrap around the victim,
almost always around where the torso is only (if their arms are near their
sides, they will most likely be bound as well, which is what that means).
These strings may be cut, or, on the rare occasion, struggled out of.
There is a short lapse, in which the strings can be attacked. Then
she says “Delight.” Crystals of rock candy (which is crystallized
sugar, I believe) sprout first from the strings, but after they start to
get thick there, they also grow from the spork. The crystals start
slow, and then gain momentum as they grow. Omacatl must be nearby,
and focused on the attack, though if it’s gained enough momentum, or she
can feel it reach its peak, she can draw her attention away and sometimes
even use other attacks. This attack drains her more and more as it
goes on, but once it’s reached it’s peak, it may give a slight bit back,
but it no longer draws from her. When the attack goes down, crystals
may fall off, but the spork remains attached to Omacatl’s victim.
The crystals are very strong, and almost armor-like, but they will chip
off with the use of a weapon (bladed weapons do more damage than blunt
weapons). The crystals will cover most of the face, but do tend to
leave a mouth or nose hole, or those will fall off when it hits bottom.
Omacatl tends (not always, but there is a good chance, especially if this
isn’t the first attack she casts) to fall unconscious after the attack
reaches its peak and she tends to stay that way, often dehenshinning out
of her body’s need for the reserves that her magic takes up. She
stays unconscious for between several hours and several days. This
attack drains her a lot, and she is pretty well vulnerable while she’s
still casting the rise of the spell’s strength, because she has to concentrate
on it. Josie-Omacatl doesn’t really enjoy using this attack that
much, because she doesn’t like casting this as much because the victims
tend to struggle and she doesn’t like watching them suffer. And falling
unconscious for several hours to several days seriously cuts down on her
ability to scarf down.