Void Girl - Agatha
“Nothing is ever truly lost… some things simply find darker paths back.”
“I was not meant for this world, and yet here I stand. Destiny has poor aim.”
“Life is most clearly seen from the place between breath and silence.”
“The living cling to certainty. The dead cling to me.”
“Roots grow deepest where the light is afraid to look.”
“Fate does not break its promises—it merely waits for you to notice they’ve come true.
- The universe gives, takes, and sometimes… miscounts.
- Being both the child you keep and the child you lose makes family dinners very interesting.
- I do not fear death. We were neighbors once.
- I remember dying. I do not remember stopping.
- People fear death. Death merely watched me grow up.
- My sister and I share a heartbeat. It’s a crowded rhythm, but we make do.
- If I walk strangely between worlds, it is because one of them never let go of my hand.
And her siblings breaking through:
“You call this world home. I call it… adjacent.”
“I hear echoes where others hear emptiness. That is how I know I am not alone.”
“Death is not a door. It is a corridor. And some of us simply walk it both ways.”
“Shadows are not frightening. They are company.”
Child Agatha:
- I found a friend in the dark. She sounds like me but sadder.
- The trees don’t lie. They told me I wasn’t supposed to be here.
- I don’t like sleeping. That’s when she tries to pull on my hands.
- I don’t think shadows should move when I don’t.
- Sometimes I breathe twice—once for me, once for her.
- I’m not lonely. She’s always with me.
Quotes about her father, the god of justified death:
- He opens only the doors that must be opened. Mine he closed with a whisper.
- If he comes for me one day, I will not fear him. I was his before I was anyone else’s.
Dialogues with her sibling:
Sibling: “I remember mother’s heartbeat.”
Agatha: “I remember her fear.”
Sibling: “Do you hate them?”
Agatha: “No. But I do not visit graves that were dug for me.”Sibling: “You should smile more.”
Agatha: “It scares people.”
Sibling: “Exactly! Free space around us.”Sibling: “You like them. I can hear your heart jitter.”
Agatha: “Shut up.”
Sibling: “If you hang around with them, I’m absolutely haunting them too.”Sibling: “You hear it calling too, don’t you?”
Agatha: “I hear it. I just don’t answer.”
Sibling: “You will. Everyone answers eventually.”Sibling: “You weren’t supposed to live.”
Agatha: “I know.”
Sibling: “So why do you act like life belongs to you?”
Agatha: “Because I paid for it.”Sibling: “If you let go for just one heartbeat… I could switch places with you.”
Agatha: “That’s why I never let go.”Sibling: “Do you think they’d have loved me more?”
Agatha: “…They didn’t love either of us enough.”
Sibling: “…Then why do I still miss them?”
Agatha: “Because you’re still human where it hurts.”Sibling: “I remember when you took your first breath.”
Agatha: “…I remember nothing.”
Sibling: “That’s because it wasn’t your breath alone.”Sibling: “Do you ever wish it was just you in there?”
Agatha: “Sometimes.”
Sibling: “…I wish it was me.”Sibling: “You’re tired. I can help.”
Agatha: “Help me or replace me?”
Sibling: “…Yes.”Sibling: “Just one breath. Let me hold it.”
Agatha: “It’s not yours to hold.”
Sibling: “It should have been.”
ZipZap! Void and back again! What did I miss? Wow, sister, I didn't know THAT would burn so well.
... and then I said, I'm just not that in to you - do you get it? IN TO YOU? Like the voices in my head? - I think we're hilarious here!I am one with the void. Just kidding! More like three or four.
Background
Half mortal child, half something claimed by the void, shaped by abandonment yet touched by powers beyond. Her voice can be unsettlingly calm, oddly insightful, and threaded with the whisper of the siblings who never quite let her go.
Her parents had suffered three stillbirths and wished for nothing more than a healthy child. As her mother got pregnant with Agatha, she went to a fortune teller who told her, that she would only ever have one healthy child. All others shall belong to death. As Agatha was born, she did not breathe and her heart did not beat. Desperate, her father appealed to the heavens and all the hells to finally give them the child they had hoped for for so long - after a while, a calm voice responded. "I shall grant your wish and let your daughter breathe. But know this, if she breathes, she will be as much my child as she is yours and the doors that I open can never be closed. Do you accept this?". In despair, both parents agreed and not a second later their daughter was screaming, her heart beating and her pale skin turned rose. Soon afterwards, to the surprise of both parents, her mother gave birth to a second daughter, alive and breathing as well - alas, they had two healthy daughters! As they knew that the gods would not grant them this joy for long, they decided to let go of the cursed child and they left Agatha in the woods, where she would surely die, fulfilling the fortune told and granting them to have at least one child. But Agatha did not die.
(Secret background story, probably not for the game itself: The void is not one thing, but consists of a plethora of worlds, a mixture of demons, creatures and the souls of the deceased. Her father of the void is a god of death, not violent, not cruel, but only the law of nature, that all living things must die. In this sense, the fortune teller was right, and Agatha also belongs to death, though very different as her siblings. The voices she hears in her head are a mixture: one childish voice could be that of a deceased sibling, a warning and caring voice could be her father, an angry and chaotic voice could be a demon who snuck in.)
Background for different specs
In each spec, Agatha is the vessel for one of her deceased siblings.
- Tank: The reclusive sibling, closing Agatha off from the world, using dissociation to avoid damage
- Healer: The erratic sibling?
- Melee: The mauled sibling, a victim of violence, perpetuating violence
- Ranged: The drowned sibling, building and releasing pressure
Spell Ideas
Tank:
Healer:
Melee: Ouroboros, reflecting the cycle of violence