As I mentioned last time, Seth has been around in some form or another for a long time. I'm pretty sure he's the first RP character I ever made, for a Digimon RP that I don't think I can remember the name of anymore. This was like around 2000. He was created to be the opposite crest to a friend of mine who was running the game. Crest of Destruction, and his original name was Sariel Triton. Sariel was the name of a messenger angel I found on a list and Triton for the moon of Neptune, which is said to be doomed, because it's slowly spiraling in towards its planet. Everyone in that game would have crests that were opposite qualities, so while Sariel was Destruction, his opposite, was Creation. A boy named Soushi.
Sariel always had long brown hair, but because anime, he also had a white streak over one ear because "trauma". What that was changed over the years until I realized it was a dumb idea. And his eyes were bright purple, 'cause once again, anime. He was a pissy little street kid with a temper like you find until being around friends civilizes him. His symbol was a wicked bloodied sword. As I've come to notice from many RPs, they die off or blow up unless you have really dedicated people (and probably even then). This happened with this game, the creator who had several characters, most specifically Soushi, had internet drama, got pissed and disappeared one day. Some of us tried to pick up the pieces, but the game was done for. Because even then Sariel's story was so wrapped up with Soushi's, I decided screw it, I was taking him. Me and another friend, Willow, decided to take our characters and write our own story. Which is how Heikin came about. But that is another, long and ultimately sad, story.
I was left with the unfinished remains of the extensive world of Heikin, and I did nothing with it for a long time as it was too painful. I had other characters who were less entangled and I picked up with them. But Sariel and Soushi's existence together drew me back to them and so I decided to change their names and use them in my own works, most prominently in what would become Fairytales Don't Exist (FDE). Additionally Sariel was also the name of Kephri's mother in YinYang, which was a little confusing to have a female and a male one, so he became Seth. It still had the doomed angel thing going for it.
A version of them now existed in the fantasy world of FDE, but it wasn't quite enough for them. Honestly ever since that one long walk home where I decided how exactly I could understand Soushi and make him mine, he's popped up to talk at random, unasked for moments. They were never people who intrinisically had magic, they were just weird broken people. For a fantasy writer, was there enough to just write a modern romance story with them? The world they would now belong to (FDE's other world, the modern Earth that Ryukuto Academy now occupied) would just be "normal", especially where they were concerned. Still not sure how well it does as a gay contemporary romance, but Seth became the MC of his own story, the story of him and Marion (Soushi) and second chances. Titled Don't Let Go.
As to why I use the name Doomed Messenger? Seth became the writer, the one who wanted to tell stories. And he does get to tell one story in particular, thanks to his friendship with Kuro Tenshi, the singer of Dark Angel and fellow fan of a certain anime called Heikin... ^^
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