#Burning Bloodline. // HCs/About; Empress Terasu //

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Anyways, here's Ember's mother, Empress Terasu.

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This came with such worrisome ease.

Ra's al Ghul (DC Comics).

Firelord Ozai (Avatar the Last Airbender).

Vergil (Devil May Cry).

Dracula (Netflix's Castlevania).

Demon King Piccolo/Piccolo Jr. (Dragon Ball).

Lady Maria (Bloodborne).

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Gonna quickly run down the lore I've built up-

Empress Terasu (named after "Amaterasu"), as her title implies, is the reigning God-Empress of Ember's Sol Dimension, who has been ruling over their world since before Ember was even born. She's still the formal ruler, but Ember has taken over most of her duties by now, leaving her mostly as a figurehead (don't tell her that).

Was the herald of the flame prior to Ember, and did quite a bit of her own protecting of the realm against the plots of who they'd eventually come to know as Eggman Nega before she ascended to the throne. And in that time, by all rights, she was beloved.

Her downward spiral began shortly after she'd learned she was bearing her lover's child, during what should've been the peak of her life... Eggman Nega made another bid for the Sol Emeralds, and in the chaos of the surprise attack, her lover was killed. Leaving her as a grieving widow with child, her warrior's heart boiling with a need for vengeance from there onward.

She became cold and calculating, lording harshly over her world and doing everything in her power to ensure Nega would never hurt anyone else the way he'd hurt her... this attitude, inevitably, being targeted upon her child once she was of "proper age to begin training" (read: like twelve years old). From which point, Ember would experience harsher training than any child should get from their only parent in this world, Terasu not holding back at all. I joke about her pulling a Piccolo and throwing child-Ember into a mountain, but that is genuinely the type of thing you can imagine.

Terasu is the reason Ember was as cold, calculating, and sheltered as she was when she first arrived in Sonic Rush- everything Ember learned about fighting, ruling, and living in general came through the lens of this murderous widow's grudge.

Unlike Ember who got character development to grow out of that, however, Terasu is still just as frigid- even with Eggman Nega's most violent defeat in Rush Adventure that, from Ember's perspective killed him, she is still unsatisfied. She does not believe for a moment that he's actually dead, and continues to hold Ember to the same standards she did when she was a child.

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@fstbmp replied: Do it.

"Well, if you're just so desperate to meet me..."