Melodies of Eternity History

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At the dead end of a doomed timeline (her second bad end), Tyzias was abducted by the Interdimensional Cloud of Vaikuntha to save it from a world-destroying Calamity. After recovering from the double whammy of getting violently culled and waking up on a world straight out of one of her classmate's East Alternian RPGs, Tyzias woke up the next day with a mouthful of whinging complaints and snark, but pushed on with the steely determination that guided her on Alternia. If she couldn't escape Vaikuntha, then Tyzias couldn't make a change back on her home world, and that was something she refused to give up on.

Since Vaikuntha was somehow more dangerous than the hellplanet Tyzias came from—you couldn't go five minutes outside of a settlement on Vaikuntha before you bumped into a random encounter, never mind that the world was teetering towards apocalypse—Tyzias was forced to take up arms to defend herself from the roving monsters that plagued her commute to work. And to aid the other outworlders in finding a way to stop the corrupted dragon god Bahamut from being summoned. Like you do. Although weak (by Alternian standards, and even then she underestimates her strength) and apprehensive at the prospect of physical violence, sitting back and cheerleading for her allies when she could finally step up and make a difference herself on the front lines didn't feel right to Tyzias. After all, Vaikuntha's asterisk system could greatly empower even the wimpiest of nerds with the strength of a berserker. So Tyzias developed a custom asterisk based off of the legislacerators of Alternia, leveraging the strength of the enforcers of her old world's brutal order to protect the liberty of her new home. The irony wasn't lost on her. Once the initial hurdle of her first real battle passed with only slightly scarring Tyzias for life, she began applying the same endless, steady drive that made her excel in her legal studies to physical training. Even with the shortcut of her asterisk, Tyzias's physical prowess improved significantly and reached parity with the power the job gave her by the end of her journeys on Vaikuntha. Her vicious, underhanded fighting style (clawing at eyes, kneeing groins, biting off ears) made her an unpredictable foe.

At the end of her first month of Vaikuntha, Tyzias was visited by the Spirits of Starlight due to not knowing what a Christmas is and being grumpy in general. After being shown her best and worst memories, Tyzias was reinvigorated, but what came next shook her to the core: Tyzias and the rest of the Heroes of Light were shown a vision of the ruins of Vaikuntha if Bahamut was summoned and they fail to defeat him, and it was revealed that should they die, their worlds would die with them. Plagued by the implications of this and whether she should let herself perish to eliminate the threat Alternia posed to the rest of the galaxy, Tyzias's goals expanded to not only get back home but to save Vaikuntha in the process, a notion that she hadn't given any thought to before. It's one thing to know the world will end, it's another to see its ruined corpse after it's gone up in flames. As if in approval of her newfound conviction, she received the blade of her personal hero, Neophyte Redglare, from Vaikuntha's Santa Claus.

The next several months were a whirlwind of adventuring and adjusting to life on Vaikuntha. Tyzias enrolled in university after learning that most species had a thing called a "defense attorney," and began helping her roommate Samuel Vimes out at his precinct. In February, Tyzias vanished into the Interdimensional Cloud surrounding Vaikuntha and became trapped in her own memories. More specifically, her essence was shattered into every timeline that the MSPA Reader could've brought about. Once she was rescued by Megatron the warlord-turned-pacifist and Vimes, Tyzias had to deal with the knowledge that the specific timeline she remembered was just one of many and that she now has the sum of all of their experiences rattling around in her head. While she was still reeling from this, a strange force heightened the emotions of many of the heroes and Tyzias spent five days stewing in existential despair, sobbing into dry cereal and screaming at the sky for hours on end. Although she recovered quickly afterwards, Tyzias nonetheless filed away those revelations in the, "don't think about while I've got work to do or else I'll spend days in a pointless navel-gazing session and come out of it just feeling real shitty about myself" box.

When the time finally came to confront Bahamut and his summoner, the world ate itself whole before the apocalypse even started. Cults and criminals burned down cities, empowered monsters destroyed even more, and through it all Tyzias could do nothing but watch and prepare herself for the end. The deep ache of pure helplessness brought Tyzias back to Alternia, where she shambled through every day watching untold cruelty, putting herself through hell just for the vague hope she could pave the way for somebody else to make change even if she could do nothing to stop the cycle of violence herself. When the heroes confronted the dragon's summoner as it destroyed the world, Tyzias was almost too numb and bitter inside to care that the Melodies, the limit breaks that drew upon the power of the Heroes' homeworlds, destroyed Vaikuntha before Bahamut could deal the final blow.

But it wasn't over yet. As the overflow of Melodies unraveled the fabric of spacetime on Vaikuntha, they gave the heroes one last, desperate hope: they were sent back three days in time to fix things and gain enough strength to defeat Bahamut's summoner. And they did it again when they failed the next time. And again. And again. And again, fifty times total. These endless chances to fix the world finally shocked Tyzias out of her cynical belief that trying to save Vaikuntha was as useless and futile as trying to save Alternia, and reminded her that she did try to change things on her homeworld despite the immense danger posed to herself and the impossibility of the task. Like on Alternia, Tyzias focused on the small things first: giving people hope, helping evacuate, brightening the days of the citizens of Vaikuntha one snarky but optimistic conversation at a time. After moving on to large-scale efforts, Tyzias applied her expertise on endless seas of paperwork and eye for minute detail to manage logistics in between evacuating dangerous areas en masse and fighting off (and often sacrificing herself to defeat) hordes of Calamity Monsters.

The process of defeating Bahamut and watching the world end a fifty times scarred Tyzias both physically and mentally—her entire right side is burned from the dragon god's Teraflare, even after she was resurrected. But it taught her an important lesson: to never give up hope. Period. It reinforced her attitude that even if the situation is hopeless and she should just stop trying, she needs to keep fighting anyways. To celebrate her victory, Tyzias augmented Redglare's blade with the body parts of the dead dragon, creating Dragon's Spine. It couldn't fit in the cane that it had been originally been designed for, making the statement that Tyzias had forged herself into a hero of her own right and that she was no longer willing to hide her intention to cause radical change when she returns to Alternia.

Everything calmed down after the world was saved, even when Bahamut's summoner disappeared into the Interdimensional Cloud. Until Tyzias, Vimes, Corrin, and Richard all went on a vacation, unaware that a high density of law enforcement officials going on break inevitably meant that they'd get tangled in some criminal conspiracy. One thing led to another, and Tyzias found herself dueling the nefarious Knave of Blades atop a construction site. She hacked off his swordarm, but in return the Knave cut out her eye, and she spent weeks nursing her wound and a grudge. After she recovered, the trail of the summoner was found in the Interdimensional Cloud, and the Heroes chased her to the world that created Vaikuntha. Once Tyzias and a few others cornered and defeated her for the second time, her assistant stepped out of the shadows and revealed that as the summoner was lamenting her failure, he had created a new Calamity to destroy the worlds of every Hero and altered their timelines so they died or had never existed at all on their home worlds.

Having learned from the process of defeating Bahamut, Tyzias set to the task of saving the her world and the worlds of all her friends. She aided the other Heroes in destroying the devices responsible for the corruption of their homes, bisected the Knave of Blades—in actuality Darth Maul, a fellow "Hero of Light"—in a galaxy far, far away, and eventually returned to Alternia, bracing herself for a situation somehow worse than the one she left. It turned out that Tyzias was thinking on far too small a scale. The technology found its way into the hands of the being that had created Alternia's system of perpetual violence: Lord English. He used it to destroy the true heroes of the story Tyzias inhabited, unaware that Tyzias even existed. Tyzias had always known that she meant nothing in the grand scheme of things, but having her eyes opened to the sheer scale that Paradox Space operated on disturbed her; deepening her nihilism and further damaging her self-esteem. Pushing those issues aside, Tyzias was helped by the original heroes of her story and Megatron, Vimes, and Miles Morales to defeat Lord English once and for all; god-tiering into an Heir of Blood and claiming the legendary sword Caledfwlch to reaffirm that she was making herself relevant in this story and would no longer be content with being a side character in the narrative of Paradox Space—even if, deep down, she still doubts that she can accomplish that.

Through the combined efforts of all the Heroes, the new Calamity was defeated, and Tyzias's world was restored to its original state. Paradox Space, however, is massive. Infinite, to be precise. Alternia in the time that Tyzias lived there is a miniscule part of it, even with her Heir of Blood abilities giving her the power to sense and follow her bonds to the planet to some extent. Tyzias has been traveling with Captain Red Savarin aboard his ship the Asmodeus for over a human year, complaining about but nevertheless partaking in his adventures as she searches for something that could help guide her home.

However, a human year later, Tyzias was abducted to a different world: the Tenscore Kingdoms, where she's currently living out the life of a magical student and trying to conceal her heroic past.