In Our Hands

"If only you knew that your fate rests in our hands."

A NaturexMachine thing I did while being bored with . These are the three major characters and most important gods of the story.
The grey one is Aari, the god of Balance. Ironically he is the most imbalanced character with up to five alter egos that are triggered by specific things. It is to display the fragility of Balance and teach the other two characters how to restore it without help.
In life, Aari was a fatherless young man who lost his little brother while playing in the river. The loss drove his mother mad and into a stupor, which left him having to raise her and feed her like a child. One day he discovers a feverish boy named Eli passed out on the side of the road and takes him home to heal him. Eli brought back memories of his own little brother to his mother, who became delirious and tried to keep him for herself. Aari locked her away in her bedroom as she became violent and stabbed her real son in her despair, so Aari had to knock her, accidentally killing her. As Eli's older brother Leto came to retrieve him he fell ill as well and had to be taken care of for a few days. Eli told Leto about the loud noises he'd heard in the other room and snuck into the room one night to see what was in there. Alarmed, he told Leto and accused Aari, who, too upset with himself to deny it, pleaded guilty on the spot. Leto refused to turn him in because it was an accident, while Eli demanded that justice be served. Murder was murder, accident or not, and turning Aari in would earn them a good reward. Aari admitted the same, and, having been told the poor brothers' situation, claimed that whatever he could do to help him would make him happy. He turned himself in later that day and was hung the following morning.

The green one is Jiveh, the god of Life. He bears a cold countenance but has a caring, though shy heart. Everything that lives and breathes takes energy from him to do so, and when something dies it is his job to reincarnate the energy into another body. Basically Jiveh lives by the Law of Conservation of Energy.
In life he was a young child named Eli, born by his mother and a man she had an affair with. Shortly after, she ran away with him and left the newborn in an eight year old's hands, his brother Leto. After his father had discovered Eli was not his, he at first wanted to leave him for dead but Leto wouldn't allow that. His father still refused to ever acknowledge him again, and instead forced him to live in a shack out back behind the house, never to come out. Eli had a cheerful childhood, thanks to Leto taking all of the abuse from their father for him. He learned to be a healer from treating Leto's wounds almost daily, and secretly became a student under an old wiccan who lived nearby. After the night of Aari's execution Eli and Leto returned home and fought over his innocence. It was the night that Leto's father stabbed him and left him for dead out in the forest. Eli, unable to save him, fell asleep next to his older brother's cold body and returned home in the morning. Since then Eli took the place of his brother and became the slave of the house. He grew quiet, emotionless and cold-hearted, but most of all he grew independent. Still he could never forget his brother, and five years later on Leto's birthday he prayed to God that he'd never ask for anything else if only his brother could live again. He had no idea the blessing would be a double-edged sword. As a god he took up a new name as he started his new life.

And finally, the red one is Oncoras, the god of Death. Oncoras is cruel and finds entertainment in the subject of death. He enjoys scaring others, and especially killing them. It is his job to end lives when their time runs out, and as the years have passed he's slowly lost his mind because of it. He is the biological older brother of Jiveh, though he has long lost that feeling of attachment and urge to protect him.
In life his name was Leto. He was the biological son of both his mother and his father, who at the time loved him more than anything in the world. He lived a great life until his little brother Eli was born, which tore away his mother and shattered all of his father's affection for him after he stood up for the small child's life. After the shack was built he moved out of his bedroom and into it with Eli to raise him. Leto spent the rest of his young life as his father's literal slave and protecting Eli from any kind of harm, which, as Eli grew older, he began to find annoying. Nearly everyday his father was triggered to abuse his son, many times to extreme measures.
One day when Eli was very sick, he disappeared, and Leto spent days searching for him. His father found out and threatened Leto, telling him to give up and leave the boy to die if he hadn't already. But Leto's persistence caused him to retaliate and continue to search until finally he was found at Aari's house. After a week with no food and constant searching for his little brother, Leto's body gave in and he was forced to stay a few days to recover. After Aari was found guilty and executed for the murder of his mother Leto angrily fought with Eli about his selfishness. Leto's father, upset that he was proven wrong about Eli being dead, stabbed his son in the shoulder and, believing him dead, brought him out into the woods and left him. As Eli tried to save him Leto knew it was no use but didn't have the heart to tell the kid, and died against a giant oak tree in the middle of the forest. His guilty father returned and buried him there, a place Jiveh has now marked sacred.

If you read all of this you're a very good person.