The Rules of Retribution part 1
CHARACTERS in my Graphic Novel
SERPENT represents the frailty that sees us stray from the path and often into darkness. Big predators make the headlines, but ordinary people are tempted to commit small-scale cheating when shielded under the mantle of anonymous. On good days we can fight off the temptation, but on bad days when we have lost something, and the world seems unfair, our hands reach out for it while a sinking feeling spreads inside our heart, warning us that this is not the way to get even with life. However, God or the universe may not mind if the gain is minimal? So we tell ourselves.
Perhaps,
horror stories draw us in because we may slip into darkness any time of our own
will. We may need religion or fantasy stories hoping that they will take
us back into the light. The best you can do…or instead I can do is accept that I am not as good as I would like to be. I may not have
wronged individuals, but my integrity did not always hold out strong against
faceless organizations. My story combines horror and fantasy, but you will
find it oddly accurate because I will not sugarcoat the truth. To myself, I
will be brutal.
GODDESS IRIS/NEMESIS: Instead of picking one from the existing religions, all of which I respect, I opted to represent the universe's will via Goddess IRIS. God gave us light, and Goddess followed it up with the sound, but as sound travels slower than light, no one knows her existence despite benefiting from her gift, music. Something turned this once open-book IRIS into NEMESIS, Goddess of Retribution.