#You're not talking... like. deviant art levels right..?

[l0st-s1lv3r]

But what if.. you were fatter?

[littlweirdostuffwritesworld]

The power of a true god

Summary: Is just black girl magic working at the fullest

Prologue

There was another member of the Eternals, Apollonia daughter of Arishem, in Greece they called her Apollo the god of the sun, in different parts of the world she had different named. She had learned so many things from mortals, such as partying, love of music and the great arts but she had learned how to love and that is why she was against the destruction of the planet. For centuries she tried to convince the other Eternals to be patient, Ikaris thought her judgment was tainted.

"I bet you're sleeping with a mortal" he tried to tease her but she ignored him, she had fade that there was still a percentage of humans and that is why she gave them the gift of science and medicine.

"You cannot give your knowledge to these mortals"

" Why not?

"They'll use it to hurt each other" obviously Sprite would defend Ikaris

"Am I at least doing something?"

"Yeah sure." Druig chuckled

"At least I don't oblige the oppressed to love the oppressor and have children"

"At least they are at peace"

"Of course peace, without the right to judge and think with the same brain"

The group separated normally, but Apollonia separated completely no one knew, where she was if she was on earth, if she was alive or dead with the disappearance of the deviants.

Ikaris had become praranoic about the disappearance of the Eternal then decided to go to the extreme, Ikaris accused Apollonia of betrayal, told the group and Arishem that the woman was gathering sorcerers and aliens to attack the Prime Celestial. And so the woman was summoned she was banished by Olimpya and she was branded on her back with the sun sign.

Subsequently she disappeared and did not show up until the new millennium, during the great lapse of time she went to Wakanda where she helped the kingdom to expand technologically more, she was not at the level she was not Phaustus but still had rather advanced scientific knowledge, there she met the love of her life Anzi Mammdu one of the most powerful sorcerer of the Kindom.

They didn't get along very well the man came from the border tribe they were rather skeptical to let a stranger who was very powerful enter the kingdom

Even if Anzi didn't trust her, she tried to help the community by ignoring the little insults that the border tribe gave her, but she was grateful to the people for accepting her, she was a science teacher at Birnin Zana and sometimes trained the Dora Milaje.

"Look who's there, Sunny, are you taking a stroll around the royal palace?" In fact she said hello, Sunny was the little nickname he had given her to annoy her but she found it quite adorable.

"I'm helping the Doras but I know they don't need me, I know you'll say Wakanda doesn't need me either"

"What makes you think I would have said that?" he asked seriously

"You come from the border tribe, you hate me," she said as she walked down the hall and the man followed beside her.

"You are an almost omnipotent person, we do not even know which part of the universe you come from"

"And I know this I understand the fear of the unknown, I practically sneaked in here, but I have no malicious intention" the man was silent to hear the celestial talk about how much he loved Wakanda and that he would also have sacrificed his life.

"Would you sacrifice your immortality for a kingdom that not even the world knows about its existence?" he laughed, he was shocked he thought the woman was haughty and overconfident because of her existence.

"Yes, it's the most human thing I would do, to sacrifice myself for the people and the place I love"

"Would you also protect the people who wronged you and who insulted you?" they both knew the question was aimed at him.

"I would also protect people who have wronged me and who have insulted me"

"Well you sound just like a real Wakandian" the woman burst out laughing.

"Thank you, I'm really honored that a true Wakandian thinks I'm a true Wakandian"

Time passed and Apollonia was fully integrated into the kingdom, even the border tribe accepted her after Anzi spoke to them. A friendship had grown between them and there was also attraction, but neither part took the first step.

The Clestial had finished her lessons it was lunch break, she was walking through the gardens of the palace.

"Here you are I was looking for you" Anzi he reached her

"Hey, is there a problem?" she asked while eating an apple, he sat down next to her.

"No I just wanted to see you," he confessed

"Oh ok" she tried to hide her reaction.

"Anyway I wanted to apologize for all the things my tribe and I have said about you"

"You've already apologized like a million times, number one I'm not angry and two I understand how it feels not to be accepted"

"When were you with the Eternals?"

"Yes, some of them say that the Earth must be destroyed and others are confused in silence I am the only one who wants to defend this planet, that is, let's look around us, there are innocent children running and playing. We don't know what they will bring to Wakanda or to the rest of the world just take a leap of faith "she realized that the man was looking at her smiling.

"What did I talk too much? I got carried away" she was embarrassed she tried to hide her face with her afro.

"Truly I agree with you, we must all try to take a leap of faith and the most human thing that can be done," he said as he leaned forward and brushed her hair away from her face.

"But do you know what the most human thing I do is?" he said, stroking the woman's lips.

"Loving you" he confessed, at that point they were face to face, silently looking at each other.

"So are we going to kiss or keep looking at each other?" he asked, Apollonia was not used to having romantic relationships.

"Yes," she whispered, their lips touching for a small moment

"For someone who has lived for millennia doesn't know how to kiss," he joked

"Hey, I have to go back to school anyway, let's meet later, okay?"

"Okay" she got up and started walking, stopped and walked back and gave the man another kiss that lasted longer.

" See you later"

"See you later Sunny" the woman ran to the building leaving him groggy with a toothy smile.

Here I am with the prologue of the series, I thought u the god of the sun must be a melanated person so tadah, please to all the greeks who are reading this, I'm not trying to erase your culture or "blackwash" anything I thought it would be cool. If you have questions ask me whenever you want, please have patience with grammatical error and tell me. I forgot what's is your opinion of Druig obbligating Aztec to be with Conquistadors (because in the next chapter I kanda want to throw shade at him), I really want to know your opinion.

Enjoy

[nothing-but-dreamy]

TRUE COLORS ~ Ch. 3

You want to start the series? Chapter 1

Pairing: DBH!Connor x OC!Maya

Words: 2325

Warnings: none; Connor is adorable

After another long day at the Chicken Feed truck, Maya was glad to be back home. The neverending rain got replaced by soft falling snow, how it got announced. As she entered her apartment, Maya shook off the snow from her cost and got greeted by the soft female voice of her intercom. A nice warmth and her favorite ambient music were flooding her own four walls. That was home.

The tall skyline of Detroit rose behind the windows, its lights sparkling like million candles in the distance. One by one, Maya switched on small lamps for more indirect light and atmosphere. It was just past eight but already dark. From the right, she heard a low plop.

"Hey, Trevor. You're awake. Good morning, little one.", Maya said and greeted her small, nocturnal gecko in its terrarium. The small creature croaked happily as it saw its owner. Maya sprayed water for more humidity and removed an old leaf.

"It's freezing cold outside. You can be happy to be in there where it is so warm.", she said low, closed the glass door of the terrarium and decided to take a bath. A long, hot bath would be the right thing to end this long work day and to start her evening.

*

"You have a visitor.", the intercom announced. Maya lowered her pencil and looked confused at the digital clock of her stove.

"Now? Who would visit me now?", she asked into the empty apartment. Trevor had no answer. It was past 2 AM and there was no one who would visit her to such an hour except Gary, who would have some kind of trouble. Maya sighed, stood up and answered the door. Surprise wouldn't be even the right choice of word to describe how Maya felt as she opened the door.

"C-Connor? What...what are you doing here?", she asked, still with the handle holding in her hand to close the door whenever necessary.

"Lieutenant Anderson suggested that I shall visit you.", Connor said and looked kinda lost. He had followed Hank’s instructions and yet, it seemed to be wrong again.

"Visit me? Why?", Maya asked puzzled. She watched how Connor, whose hair and shoulders were covered in snow, looked at a point in the distance. His LED flashing yellow.

"To talk about emotions.", Connor answered and looked back at Maya. She knew that she still looked at him with confusion.

"Okay, help me a bit here. I'm confused and have no idea how I could help you. Is it because of your case? Happened something there?", Maya asked directly and noticed how Connor relaxed a bit. That was a field he could control. Suddenly, she felt the coldness of the hallway on her naked feet, so she stepped aside.

"Come in. It's getting cold.", Maya said softly and let the android in, “What happened?”, she asked, closed the door and followed Connor.

"We were chasing two deviants and I...I had trained my gun at them. They were right in front of me but...", Connor started his explanation while he stepped into her living room.

"But you haven’t shot them?", Maya asked as he didn’t end his sentence. She tried to keep the nervousness out of her voice but held her breath.

"N-no... I... I couldn't.", Connor answered and looked at the ground while his LED was spinning yellow. Maya released her breath and relaxed. But she was also concerned about the state of the android.

"So, you didn't shoot them and that troubles you?", Maya asked softly. Connor nodded and this time, she gave him the time to speak when he was ready. He stopped at the wall and looked at her paintings.

"I got sent by CyberLife to investigate the spreading deviancy. The phenomenon that androids seem to start to feel. I got programmed to hunt and to stop deviants before it’s too late. To prevent something bad from happening.", he said automatically as if he was just repeating something he had said hundreds of times or what was an essential part of his code.

"But you couldn't shoot the two androids even if they were right in front of you? You acted against your program?", Maya asked, slowly understanding what the android's problem was. Connor was shifting between fulfilling his mission and obviously developing emotions on his own. For him it was problematic to process everything properly. Maya was sure that there was nothing in this world that would be more difficult for him right now.

"I... I don't know how that could happen.", Connor said and looked back at Maya who leant against her couch with her hands shoved into her front pockets.

"Can you tell me more about the androids? Or the case?", Maya asked calmly.

"It were two girls from the Eden Club. One of them killed a guy... accidentally.", Connor answered, remembering the early evening.

"Why did she kill the guy?", Maya asked, now, truly interested. Until now, she had just heard a few rumors about androids developing emotions. But murder was a whole new level.

"She said she was just defending herself as the victim started to hit her. She feared that she would die and so she... She...", Connor said and stopped.

"She defended herself to run away with another android?", Maya asked and connected the dots.

"Yeah... Lieutenant Anderson said the two girls seem to be in ... love.", Connor said and drew his brows together as he processed the said. Since he had started to talk about the case, now, it was the first time where his LED circled rapidly in a blinking yellow and a hint of red. For Maya the indicator that this was his main problem.

"They were in love? And as the one told you why she did it you couldn't shoot her?", Maya asked and Connor nodded. Once again, the android looked through her apartment to distract himself.

Connor scanned the area out of habit. The gecko croaked as it watched, very interested, how the android walked through the apartment. Next to the terrarium was a desk with sketches scattered over it. A bigger pad laid in the middle of the desk. A sketch of a person was drawn but it wasn't finished, just the outlines, so Connor had no idea what it would be later. Next to the desk was a canvas stand with a painting in the making. Several shades of green were smeared across the canvas and created an illusion of depth.

On the wall behind the stand, Connor saw finished, colorful paintings. They were paintings of geckos and plants like copies of the plants that were spread in the apartment. Connor scanned the plants. All of them were real and healthy with the right hydration. Another painting of her gecko hung at the other wall and Connor was looking at it for a few minutes. Maya walked over to him. His LED had calmed down back to blue. She was glad to see the android to be more relaxed again.

"You're very talented. Are you a painter?", Connor asked, looking at Maya with curiosity.

"Yeah... I'm currently studying art to get my bachelor's degree.", Maya said and looked at the painting one last time before she walked over to the couch. She signaled Connor to follow her. Maya sat with crossed legs in one corner of her couch and Connor sat next to her, well-behaved like a kid with his hands folded in his lap and with a straight back.

"So, how I see it, you have troubles processing the fact that you couldn't shoot the deviants how you should have.", Maya said cautiously. Connor nodded but stayed silent.

"Was it a conscious decision you made?", she asked further. Minutes were ticking by before Connor looked up at her. His brown eyes looked soft but sad. His face held a confused expression. Maya laid her hand reassuring on his arm and she noticed how his LED circled yellow. Maybe processing her question or her touch.

"Take your time to answer. We have all the time in the world.", Maya said low and softly with a smile.

"It was a decision I made. I decided not to shoot because...", Connor admitted finally.

"Because?", Maya asked softly. Connor looked from her hand into her eyes.

"I saw no reason. I knew I had to shoot them because my program, my mission, demanded it but I... I didn't want to.", Connor admitted low and blinked several times as he realized what he had said. Maya smiled softly at him.

"You made a decision on your own, Connor. It was your own decision to spare these girls because their death wasn't helpful for your mission."

"But I.. that must not be! I have to fulfill my mission to stop the deviants.", Connor said troubled.

"I'm convinced you will be able to find a way to solve this case without killing someone. There is always an alternative. To spare someone's life is always better.", Maya said and watched how Connor calmed down. His LED turned from yellow back to blue and slowed down.

"You said something about love earlier.", Maya asked and tried to guide the conversation to the next important topic. The reason why Hank had sent this android to her in the middle of the night.

"Y-yeah... Hank said the androids, the two girls, would be in love.", Connor explained and looked confused again. For Maya, he looked totally cute like this but she had to focus back on the current situation to keep a clear mind.

"You now, love is a good thing. There is no need to stop it. Love is the biggest power in this world.", Maya tried to explain a complex emotion.

"But they're androids. They don't really feel something. Their emotions are just errors in their software. They're emulating them.", Connor said, what sounded more like instructions in a manual.

"Do you really think that?", Maya asked, interested in his answer. There was something in his eyes that betrayed him.

"I.. yes.", Connor said but Maya saw the insecurity in his eyes. It had been a mechanical, programmed answer which would come automatically.

"What is love?", Connor asked suddenly.

"Oh, uhm... you can't explain that easily but I will try it. Love connects people in a powerful way. There is the bond between parents and their kids. Between siblings and of course, between two people in a relationship. When you love someone, they are the first thought in the morning when you wake up and the last before you fall asleep. You are willing to do anything for the one you love. Sometimes you fear to lose them because without them you wouldn't feel complete. There are people who would die to save the one they love. Or kill each other because they can't be together like Romeo and Juliet.", Maya tried to explain as best as possible. Love was a complex structure which wasn't easy to explain within a few minutes.

"That's a dramatic reaction.", Connor said serious as he processed the information.

"Love can be magnificent...or even disastrous. But if you love, you know that because the other person is everything you can think of. They matter more than your own life and you just want to be with them. Suddenly, there is someone in your life who seemed to be more important than yourself.", Maya closed her explanation. Connor inclined his head to one side.

"Have you ever been in love?", he asked interested. Maya was friendly and calm and the complete difference to all the humans he had met so far. He watched her bright eyes sparkling in the half dark and her hair falling over her shoulders like soft waves. For the first time, he noticed such things on someone else.

‘Software instability…’, the note popped up in front of his eyes.

"Oh… uhm…not really...not how I have explained it but in some way...yeah-", Maya explained stammering.

"But you're alone, aren't you? Or do you have a partner at the moment?", Connor asked further. Now, more interested in her than before.

‘Software instability…’, once again the note was showing up.

"No, I.. I'm single, at the moment. I had a few relationships but nothing too serious.", Maya answered, shifting uncomfortably.

"Haven't you loved them enough that they left?", Connor asked and Maya felt more uncomfortable under his intense glance which was innocent at the same time. She understood that Connor was like a child at this point. If he wanted to understand, he had to ask questions that came to his mind.

"Unfortunately, it's not that simple. There are different factors for people to stay together and sometimes... it's not enough to love each other. Sometimes even loving someone isn't enough that a relationship works out.", Maya tried to explain but she saw that Connor had difficulties to follow.

"Okay, look, I will try to explain it to you.", Maya changed her sitting position closer to Connor. He followed her lead and it seemed that he made himself more comfortable.

***

As she awoke, Maya realized that she must have fallen asleep on the couch. Slowly, she remembered how she had tried to explain love to an android the whole night. As she sat up, Maya noticed the blanket covering her.

"Connor?", she asked sleepy into the apartment but there was no response. She wasn't surprised but she smiled softly about the memories of how they had talked until she had fallen asleep against Connor's shoulder in the early morning hours.

Feeling wonderful, Maya pulled the blanket closer to her chest to keep the warmth a moment longer. That was it that a small piece of paper fell to the ground. Maya leant forward to collect it. It was just a small note but the words let her smile:

I had to leave and I didn't want to wake you. Thank you for … everything!