Bullet point version of this story in case you're confused or don't want to read all of it. Chaos and Force are ancient spirits that balance each other out. Their power must always be even or else things start to go bad. Nerif kills Chaos at some point and ends time. Nerif sends Chaos's spirit, including Fragment, back in time to his former self. Fragment now exists, making an imbalance in power. Force makes Core exist to balance out Fragment so problems don't start happening. Fragment and Core hang out in the world for very long time. Yay.
EDIT: I just added a new picture I wanted to draw bc why not Thanks to @ShadeSwirl for the great DTA and design! Pink dragon/snake spirit: Chaos Silver dragon/snake spirit: Force Pink fox spirit: Fragment Silver cat spirit: Core Mk So This is gonna be Complicated I'll try to give you the simplest version I already told Shade what all this is about Also considering this story it's not gonna be as chronological as my other ones, more just, trying to explain what's going on. Edit: Nvm it still ended up like a story, I'll just also give an incredibly brief version in the instructions. So let's start with Chaos and Fragment cause they already had a place in the OC world. Chaos is this ancient spirit of pure magic and energy. Their presence alone keeps the universe in motion and magic present. Unlike, say, Mimos, the spirit guardian of one of the hidden forests, Chaos isn't really a creature per se. They're more just the personified form of raw energy. Far, far in the distant future, Nerif (Oracle guy, can see possible futures, also very powerful) ends up killing Chaos, ending time itself as all energy and magic and life fades into nothing. Before this happened, however, Nerif sent the remnants of Chaos's spirit and power back in time, to his former self - allowing him to gain enough power to do all the things he did in his life over again in the past. But one of those pieces of Chaos's spirit was their consciousness. The tiny little fragment that made Chaos alive, although it was usually drowned out by the raw power that Chaos was. This fragment escaped to roam the past world, having memories of every single thing that happened in the universe but without a strong enough mind to keep them ordered. Now having the ability to learn and be more alive, like the lesser spirits such as Mimos could, but remembering the eons they spent as Chaos. Now this was Chaos and Fragment's story. Now, Chaos has a counterpart. A second ancient spirit lived alongside Chaos, this one by the name of Force. Instead of embodying energy and magic and all the chaotic parts of the universe, Force embodied the stability and structure and physical aspects of the universe. Force and Chaos balanced each other out constantly, keeping the other in check to sustain a harmonious, balanced, functioning world. But Fragment being pulled back in time changed things. Force and Chaos could still keep each other's energies balanced, but without something to balance out Fragment's presence, unstable threads of magic would have started to form, damaging the universe. To return this to balance, Force created a new spirit - a creature formed from their own conciousness, like Fragment was of Chaos's. This is how Core was born. Core, like Fragment, wandered the world, exploring, but also searching for their counterpart. So they could keep each other company in their immortality, keep each other safe, keep each other balanced, like the ancient spirits they used to be. Until Fragment was forced to vanish, lost to another world... But I'm not telling you any more than that cause that's a different story :) Also no do not ship They're consciousnesses of ancient spirits, they can't feel romantic love, and also I kinda view them as siblings, so no.
