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“ᴵ’ˡˡ ᵐᵃᵏᵉ ᵐʸ ᵒʷⁿ ˡⁱᵍʰᵗ” Name: Heliotrope Gender: intersex. Goes by she/her for this century. Age: unknown. Presumably at least 5 billion years. Hobbies: Watching things explode, throwing things into black holes, reading, creating things, stargazing, watching civilizations rise and fall Likes: the essence of time, animals (including humans) books, earth, oxygen, stars, nebulae, neutron stars, black holes, explosions. Dislikes: Personality: “Mysterious, powerful. Go find out for yourself if you really want to know.” - Heliotrope Backstory: Heliotrope claims to have started the whole solar system by herself. According to her: “Okay, so billions of years ago I was wandering around the universe when I found an attractive, milky-looking galaxy. So like any sane mythical being, I decided to check it out. It was nice and warm, with stars shining brightly everywhere I looked and a playful supermassive black hole right in the center of the barred spiral galaxy. I decided to name it the Milky Way, because why not? Aight, enough talk about my bonding with something your tiny brains would never even dream of comprehending more than a microscopic fraction of. No offense intended. So, anyway, it was all fun and games and I even met some other mythical beings who were very friendly. Only problem was, this young galaxy was exploding with popularity, and all the good solar systems cost waaay to much. I mean, how am I supposed to get that much dark matter before the Milky Way lost most of its main stars due to catastrophic explosions or collided with a neighbor galaxy (which, by the way, is still hurtling towards the Milky Way at this very moment)? So I decided to use some of the stardust from my very ancient and powerful tail. I found a quiet, dark corner of the galaxy where the stars seemed too scared to shine and little light reached. And I created my own light. And then, through some fascinating scientific stuff that I’m sure you humans are just barely smart enough to know about, I created the sun, and the remains created the rocky planets closer to the sun and the gas planets further away. And then I let time take its course, hung out with good ol’ Jupiter (who, despite his size and intimidating appearance is quite gullible and friendly, although you don’t want to anger him) and boom, life as humans know it poofed into existence. With my help, of course.”