Post by The Czarina on Sept 20, 2015 16:27:12 GMT -8
“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.” - Plato
ELEMENT: light
TW: infanticide
when darkness turns to light... For centuries, Nottingham has been a place of dichotomies. Robin Hood showed us rich and poor, good and evil. The Coopers, who have lived in this town since the time of the legend showed us dichotomies as well. Light and dark, female and male, gifted and non. Persecution and witch hunts nearly decimated the family line. It was always the males of the family who managed to break; the ones who were jealous of the powers over light that their female counterparts held. You see, male Coopers were never gifted. They resented that fact, and thusly, they became liabilities. They had to be exterminated to protect the family's bloodline. It started with the mates. Women killed their husbands after they gave birth, knowing that the ungifted might put them in jeopardy. Soon, it spread to the male children. They always come in twos, they are always heterochromatic, and any males were snuffed out shortly after birth to not muddy the bloodline. Husbands soon became random mates; donors of genetic material to propagate the Cooper lineage.
it ends tonight... This way of responsibly handling those with and without the gift proved to be the most efficient. Under the radar the Coopers flew, away from those who wished to eradicate their kind. It was inevitable, though, that it would eventually fail. Mating for love instead of reproduction was dangerous, but it happened. Seventeen years ago, it happened. Twins, of course. One boy, and one girl. Both the father and the son were said to be killed, but it was a well-hidden lie. Deaths were faked, and all seemed well. Nobody knew of the sacrilege going on with the youngest in the Cooper line. ... And nobody knew of the gifted male that had been born, against all odds, and secretly spared by his mother and his assumed-dead father. He was an anomaly off the books, and though his gift lit up the world, it was his sister chosen to represent the family in the Council.