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Yeah, uhh-
I was kind of afraid of making a topic for my OCs FIRST. (B; Before anyone else. It's so awkward for me.

...I don't even know how to go at this.

OKAY, let's start by describing Lyssa, since she's the spinal cord for these three characters.
I'll set this up in sections, so it's not so confusing or difficult to read. I'm mostly being true to Greek Mythology up to section 3 . That's when it starts getting to be entirely made-up.


:1
Lyssa, otherwise known as Mania, was the Greek Goddess of rage, fury, madness, in other words... INSANITY. Her powers are within her name: she could break a person's mind quite easily, tap into their weak points, strangle their insight.
She was a common figure of Athenian tragedy, as she was very often summoned by other Gods or Witches and Sorcerers to do their bidding, using her powers through her name to inflict insanity on their foes.
Her powers were summoned so often that she grew weary of the many Gods using her, and she often saw a lack of justice in summoning her to do these innocents so much ill.

The last being to ever summon Lyssa was Artemis, the virgin Goddess of hunting.

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She [Artemis] was bathing in the lake Parthenius on the hunting grounds of Gargaphia, whereupon the youthful hunter Actaeon stumbled upon the area and saw her fully naked. Enraptured by her beauty, Actaeon failed to avert his eyes, and she threatened him to keep silent or else she would inflict her wrath upon him.
When Actaeon heard his cohorts call out to him, he called back out of fear, hoping they might come to rescue him. Artemis, angered, summoned the powers of Lyssa to drive Actaeon's own dogs insane, and they tore him apart and devoured him.

:3
Lyssa then descended on the scene, and she addressed Artemis, and she called upon the attention of all the other Gods, and she said,
"You who summon me, desiring destruction...
It is YOU who shall be destroyed by my power."
And so became a pillar of absolute chaos, inflicting madness upon the world, to create a nightmare world, a result of the Gods' collective arrogance. The Dead grew fond living flesh, and all mortal things became crazed.

:4
During this time, the drifting soul of Actaeon saw Lyssa's intent, and understood her pain, and knew how to quell it.
Actaeon fought through the Underworld to approach Hades and request to go back to the world of the living where he could relieve the world of Mania. Hades consented to his wishes, but on the condition that Actaeon shall never truly pass on.

:5
Actaeon accepted these terms, and Hades created a pendant out of the young man's soul. He personally carried the pendant to the world of the living and placed it around the throat of a stag whose mind and soul had gone [as a result of Lyssa's wrath]. Actaeon became the stag, bringing its mind to life again.

:6
It was through much turmoil and with the help of many Gods [especially Hermes and Chiron] that Actaeon found he could not fully succeed in his ambitions at that time. Instead, he was forced to learn the ways of sorcery, casting a forbidden spell to seal Lyssa away into the realm of nothingness, where she would remain nothing.

In casting this spell, Actaeon had drained the body of the stag so that it died. But he still moved, and he approached the Gods to make a request as his body rotted.

:7
He [Actaeon] told the Gods that Lyssa would not remain in the realm of nothingness forever, that some day she would return to the world, much angrier than before, and her wrath would be less encompassing, more calculated. She would use any means necessary to make the Gods suffer.

He said that he would be the one to stop Lyssa when she returned, but the Gods saw that Actaeon was too tired to go on. So, they decided to put Actaeon's soul in a state of rest until Mania arose again.

MORE ON ACTAEON... (Spoiler'd to make this post look a LITTLE shorter)

Spoiler

Hermes was assigned the job of keeping the pendant (Actaeon's soul, that is) and transferring information to him since he knew the guy so well after that whole event with Lyssa. After a bit he got this INGENIOUS plan to stuff the pendant into the head of a cute little teddy bear so that Actaeon could have something to control the MOMENT he starts moving again, but promptly forgot where he put the darn thing. (The pendant/Actaeon, that is.)

Then one night (I like to believe it was very shortly after Theresa's little...power-kick in Phantom Rising) Herry gets attacked in his sleep (I still haven't decided what by, probably something possessed by Lyssa or whatever) and his teddy bear is destroyed in the process. Well, this leaves Herry in a VERY bad mood for quite a while, unable to sleep and all, until Hermes remembers he has a teddy bear (but not remembering WHY) and gives it to him as a replacement teddy...and Herry names the teddy bear "Lil Buddy #2".

Shortly after that, Actaeon's sleeping spell is lifted thanks to Lyssa's reappearance and he instantly runs off to fight off the lady, leaving Herry without a teddy bear. Again.
Until they finally find the amulet-possessed living-teddy fighting some kind of monster with MAGIC and... the rest is up to you. xD
Though I'm definitely sticking to the story that somehow, some way, the teens and Actaeon make an agreement that he can help them with Cronus and they will help him with Lyssa.
And Herry can keep his new teddy bear, as much as Actaeon hates being slept on.

NOW FOR LYSSA/DELILAH (Had to be de-spoilerized because it's being evil at me)
SO, Lyssa was trapped in a state of non-existence in the anti-realm of semi-material nonexistence (aka the body of Khaos), only to reform her body in the material world, but her body is incomplete and she needs to use a mortal's body ... I know, it makes little to no sense. Don't think too hard on it.

I like to believe that she tried taking over Theresa's sanity and body first-thing, hoping to incorporate her body (during Phantom Rising) which would be a good reason as to why the girl jumped the gun and her powers got so intense like that. But Theresa's will is a little too powerful for her possession, so it doesn't work out quite as she wished it to.

SO a little after that, she flounders partially between immaterial nonexistence and material existence until she finally finds the perfect host: Delilah, a very short and physically underdeveloped 16-year old girl whose will is very weak. And when I say her will is WEAK, I mean it's so freaking weak that she once tweaked out and nearly killed her best friend in Elementary School. Lyssa's completion in the process of becoming material again finally triggers Actaeon's awakening, and she instantly starts causing well-planned trouble.

Now, Delilah... I already said that she nearly killed her best friend and got kicked out of Elementary School. Because of this, Delilah was forced to undergo mental treatment for a straight 13 years with homeschooling and was only just released from this state of isolation in the time-period during the last few episodes of CotT.

She acts perfectly sane, is fun to be around, has an awesome sense of humor, and is quite the artist...But every weekend she becomes Lyssa, without even knowing it. (B

WHEW.
Okay.
I think that's it. xD
That took me a while.
I'm sure you lot have TONS of questions. SO. Ask away. xD

-- Edited by Bandkanon on Monday 22nd of February 2010 12:24:12 AM

-- Edited by Bandkanon on Friday 18th of June 2010 11:20:53 PM