#he abd Hearth are really relevant but I never draw them smh...

[spotaus]

i love how Balance is all about symmetry and stuff when his halo is slanted

HAH not balanced you nub

(basing this off of the design i saw on those sticky notes from before)

Fr!! It's totally slanted! (He's such a hypocrite and hates when folks point it out-)

Canon reasoning tho: The more the world is "balanced" then the more equal his halo becomes! Once upon a time in the early days, it was a perfect circle, solid and hovering vertically behind his head (kinda like images of saints I think w/ their fun logic-defying circle halos) but the longer that mortals came around, the more gods that spawned, the more frayed and lopsided the halo ended up looking.

It took a huge shift in two seperate occasions:

Once when Hearth (also known as Chance because he has 2 domains- (Grillby)) was born. Hearth really threw a wrench into things for Balance, because while he's *currently* a God of Chance and Luck and can control it, he was the first instance of a mortal being able to defy Fate and Balance's perfect plans for the mortals. Hearth, just by existing and making choices of his own without knowing it, threw off the Balance immensely. (Balance wanted to smite him, but Judgement insisted that Hearth join the pantheon after his death instead.)

The second was when mortals figured out how to craft the chains that could hold the gods. The gods newly restricted powers made them weak, and their influence was redirected to natural magic outside of Balance's control. Then when gods were killed? That frayed his halo, making it lose chunks at a time and wobble and tilt. He knew exactly when and how each God died because he could *feel* their magic slip away from his grand scheme. He was just too prideful to do anything about it.