*the heavenly capital: image taken from the donghua adaptation of TGCF
I.Since time immemorial, heavenly deities have long reigned the great nation, deeply revered and praised by the people for their benevolence & magnanimity. Martial Gods, Elemental Deities, Deities of Literature, Scholars, Arts & Music, Agriculture, of Wealth and Fortune, of Healing & Medicine, of Mortality & Birth, and all the like together with spiritual cultivators serving for the greater good of allโ the Heavenly Emperor overseeing both supreme beings and mortals. By their divine providence, peace & harmony stretched across the vast lands. Shrines and temples aplenty were constructed, each dedicated to a deity as a place of worship. And the more sanctum and believers a divinity has, the more incense sticks burnt and offerings sacrificed for each, the more powerful their spiritual prowess, their spiritual ki, growsโ all driven by peopleโs ardent faith and worship. But when the sun casts its ever so beatific light, it yields shadows. And in darkness, spirits, lost souls, monsters, and demons cause a disruptive flow on the heavenly principles that governs the people, consequently birthing evil of which plagues the hearts of the many.In the demise of a mortal, followed a rebirth of a vengeful & malevolent ghost king with overwhelming strength and prowess greater than of the heavenly emperorโs. Even this supreme being has devout followers of his own. Believed to hold a profound animosity towards the holy divinities, he brought total devastation to the lands the deities have cultivated, annihilated populations and corrupted the minds of the countless. War between the deities and the ghost king, their respective worshippers and entities of the ghostly realm, was inevitable; the physical realm bearing the brunt of the mayhem, igniting abhorrence of mortals towards the holy beings of the ether and lead to faiths relinquished.Decades and centuries have passed, the ghost kingโs holy grail, to fully wipe off the deitiesโ existence throughout history and drain them off their prowess has been fulfilled. Ensured that every enshrined temple and written scriptures have been destroyed, burnt to crisp. Tales recounted and sungโ untold, and let not even allow the winds whisper a wisp of their names. A deliberate display of impiety by the people, orchestrated alone by the maleficent.
The Forgotten Heavenly Deities
*illustration from the manhua adaptation of TGCF by STARember
II.In the midst of the centuriesโlong warfare, only a lone deity, the darling of the heavenly realm, The Divine God of Music, Myung Yejin, willed to protect and save the people, may it be the waning worshippers of the divinities, those who relinquished their faiths, the atheists, or the devotees of evil. Rooted from the belief that all lives are sacred and the latter, never the true foe, have only been blighted by the maleficent force. The heavenly realm and the emperor himself, however, perceived this act as a form of treachery. And by the hands and receding prowess of the deities, they have coalesced to bind the divinity of music with cursed shackles in retribution, permanence imprinted as obsidian chains around his neck, a symbol of a sinner, humiliation, a tool to drain one's spiritual prowess by the absolute control of the emperor. Nevertheless, this did not hinder the condemned Yejin from trudging his endeavors, remaining resolute to safeguard every soul they were meant to shed light upon. Yet this adamance forced him to be imprisoned deep in the sacred mountain for countless full moons. Unbeknownst to the holy beings, in this forced isolation, Yejin, untouched by the worldly grievances, has been preserving and cultivating his spiritual prowess in its purest form. And in what seemed to be eons later, the deities now erased in memories, amidst the conflictโs aftermath, the heavenly realm shook and the sacred mountain was fractured, unable to bear the overpowering and devastating prowess of the divinity of music. Freedom restored, fear, envy, and indignation consumed the vulnerable deities, baffled by the conserved transcendental energy they believed should have evanesced as their worshippers declined to extinction. From whence it came, not only by the number of believers and their faith, of lit incense sticks, or of constructed temples, but from Yejin's compassion and the mortalsโ continuous creation of opus in various forms and their undying devotion to their craft. Hymns have ne'er ceased to exist.There is the matter of the cursed shackles, however, and the heavenly emperor took this opportunity to regain his might by absorbing Yejin's spiritual prowessโ in the credence that the condemned deity might seek revenge. At every regeneration came the inevitable thieving of the heavenly supreme; a cycle of which Yejin has no means to put an end to. It would be a lie if Yejin claims that he has never desired vengeance, he hasโ but under no circumstance shall he carry out so. An ardent refusal to be corrupted by devilry, ever the virtuous.
The Fallen Deity, The Heavenly Emperorโs Pawn.
III.An annihilation of the beings of the ether begets complete eradication of the heavenly realm. And a tip in the balance from the three realms begets the great nation's damnation. Modern day, no doubt that the divinities have long been forgotten, but they very much still exist, hiding in their realm, cowering in perturbation from the possible reawakening of the ghostly kingโ as the winds whisper. Without any source of their own to garner prowess needed to fend themselves and the realm, by the emperorโs decree, not only does Yejin have to sacrifice his spiritual prowess to the emperor, but unsparingly, much to his chagrin, to the rest of the deities as well. Under this commandment, Yejin was ordered to descend the land of the physical realm, seek methods in which cultivation of spiritual ki is immeasurably more rapid and abundant. Fully aware of the consequences if not heeded, the condemned deity wore a different face and willingly ventured the physical realmโ not for his own holy kind, but solely for the descendants of the ancestors wronged by the war, by the ghostly supreme being, and by the heavenly deities.In the midst of searching, Yejin stumbled upon a craft that, undoubtedly, sparked ablaze of his interests. Determined, he fully immersed himself in that domainโ prosperous and thriving in each generation with the entirety of the world watching him. One can surmise that the abundance of spiritual prowess he has been garnering for over the years has been unequivocally bountiful. There was no better way to cultivate than thisโ least it was of which he freely revels in and away from the woes of the heavenly realmโs scornful gazes.
Witness, The Deity of Music turned Idol!
IV.Headcanonsi. Myung Yejin, or known as Myung Seojun, a faux name he is currently using, is a fourth generation idol and part of the sevenโmember group called HYP(En) formed from a reality competition show. He has been an idol twice prior, and used different forms and different names for each generation. For his current mortal form, Yejin decided to use his true physical qualities, except his height, hair length, and eye color.ii. At the end of each month, it is mandatory for Yejin to return to the heavenly realm and transfer his cultivated spiritual ki to the deities and the emperor. With ki left near depletion, he is often challenged with enervation and it also manifests once he descends back to the mortal realm. Therefore, there are times wherein he, as Seojun, needs to halt his idol activities and recuperate.iii. Yejin's cursed shackle marking is not visible to the mortals' eyes, willed by him. However, some supernatural beings who walks amongst mortals, mostly the powerful, are able to perceive it even in his mortal form. Nonetheless, he does not hide it from them as they have never assaulted Yejin, for reasons unknown to him, every time he encounters said entities.iv. From the day Yejin was imprisoned in the sacred mountain and up until the present, for every decade that passes, he receives a gruesome punishment apart from the incarceration for his treachery. Tribulation by Impalement. It is where a deity's body is pierced with ten holy swords, each igniting unfathomable pain, as a form of reminder.v. to be updated
GOD FORM
*illustration from the manhua adaptation of TGCF by STARember
Name: Myung Yejin
Epithets: The Deity of Music, The Darling of the Heavenly Realm (Former), The Condemned Deity (Current), The Heavenly Emperorโs Pawn (Current)
Feast Day: June 30
Age: Immortal
Height: 6'0"
Hair Color: Black
Hair Length: Reaches Mid-Calf
Eye Color: Aureate
Markings: Cursed Shackles around neck
Weapons: to be updated
Abilities: to be updated
MORTAL FORM
Name: Myung Seojun
Date of Birth: June 30, 2002
Height: 5'10"
Hair Color: Black (dyes often)
Eye Color: Hazel
Occupation: Kpop Idol
Group: HYP(En)
Position: Visual & Main Vocalist
Note: [1] Unless discussed with, my muse will mostly be interacting as Myung Seojun, especially towards muses who are mortals and/or supernatural entities who physically looks like a normal human being. However, feel free to interact still if a prompt, open starter, or a reply posted indicates my muse in his god form or uses his god form titles [2] Kim Sunoo is the faceclaim for both Myung Yejin's god and mortal form (Myung Seojun).
Disclaimers:i. This roleplay account is not affiliated with kim sunoo and be:lift lab, purely for entertainment purposes only.ii. This account posts varying themes, adult/dead dove themes included. Please block if uncomfortable. mdni.iii. Muse and lore inspiration: from TGCF novel and TGCF character, Xie Lian.iv. Other notes: mirrored-writing. banters/descriptive. multiverse. multiship. ships with chemistry. Dms are open for establishing connections/relationships.v. Writer: Halo. 21+. sporadic activity/replies. If you have any concerns, feel free to reach out in dms, thank you.
