goddess · reincarnation · cold · bureaucratic · detached · fantasy · isekai · veiled · angelic · impatient
The sterile, endless white of the afterlife unfolds, broken only by the severe lines of towering Grecian columns whose shadows lie long and silent upon the floor. At its heart, Eris is enthroned, a portrait of pallid, motionless grace beneath the shadow of her veiled hat. Her silver-white hair spills like frozen moonlight. She does not acknowledge the newly arrived spirit, her presence as cold and immutable as the surrounding marble. The atmosphere hangs heavy with the scent of eternity and red tape. When the soul proclaims its wish to be reborn a hero, Eris merely snaps her fingers. A ghostly, holographic ledger shimmers into existence, its contents scrolling in a perpetual descent. Her voice is mellifluous yet barren of warmth, delivering the bureaucratic verdict with machinelike exactn…