CHAPTER 2, pt. 4 - 04 (Patreon)

Author's notes: I thought I'd put some character notes here in lieu of the usual Lore Dump (it's 1AM, and I don't think my brain is coherent enough right now to figure out what bits of worldbuilding I've already covered in previous dumps 🤣).

In this sequence of flashbacks, I wanted to showcase Octavia and Tertia's relationship. It's heavily implied that in her youth, Octavia looked to Tertia as a role model/parental figure, a role that Tertia neither wanted nor had the time to fill. Being 25 years older than Octavia, Tertia spent her youth watching her sisters (Oracles #1 and #2) die, and as a result, became extremely detached from any other Oracles that Project Delphi manufactured. Unfortunately, this meant that Tertia largely ignored Octavia's existence, but without any other family to latch onto, Octavia loved Tertia anyway.

TL;DR: Even though Tertia is clearly set up to be an antagonist for Octavia, the real monsters are the uncaring organization that set their relationship up for failure right from the start.

(I hope this was a coherent paragraph--I'll have to proofread this later!)