Fun fact about this story: The pronouns of the Vessels are the reason this story is in English instead of Spanish.

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He has been called many things during the time he has existed.

He was been called a tyrant, a Higher Being that one time tried to destroy everything and everyone that existed in the world, a crazy god that just stopped when finally see the wrong in his actions.

(He hid away in the bottom of the Abyss).

He was called a monster, an abomination, a creature that only existed to scare the little bugs from go too down in the dirt.

(He began to sleep, hoping never awake again).

He has been called a god, a deity, the God of Gods, the most powerful of the Higher Beings that have ever walk over the world.

(He awakes just to find that parts of him were taken away from him).

He never imagines that one day someone could see him and called him 'dad'.

(He loved his children in the second he saw them).

Oh, the reason of that happening still making his void boil, he loves his children, but the reason behind their existence... wasn't the best.

He could understand the reasons behind the plan of the Pale Being, the Void was one of the few things that could have an opportunity to kill or retain the Light Goddess beside Nightmares, maybe he doesn't really understand in that moment what is having someone depending on you to defend them, but still see his point in his actions.

But the Pale Being still called them failures when resulting not being "pure", he created children with his void and tried to turn one into a weapon.

His children could talk, even without a voice.

His children could think, even when the Pale Being didn't notice.

His children had a will, and he would made sure that they never loss it.

When he stood in front of the Pale Being, his void ready to torn him apart, his child came between them, preventing him from tearing his other parent apart begging, who at that time was only a powerful enemy, to not to kill his father.

(And at that moment the Pale King realized that his Pure Vessel was not pure at all).

A long, tense moment passed before Shade Lord reduced his form and demanded an explanation, what, in the name of every existing deity made the king believe that experimenting and snatching the void was a good idea?

He... wasn't sure what he was expecting, but the Goddess of Dreams and Light going berserker and using the corpses of Pale's subjects was not what he expected to hear.

The Old Light, Radiance, his old enemy, the one who tried to kill him in the past and he to her...

And apparently, she had decided that building her 'kingdom' on top of his resting place was the best idea?

His anger with Pale Being hadn't disappeared... but the very idea that his old enemy was so close to him and his children took on more importance in that moment.

The Pale King wanted to get rid of the threat that the Old Light was to his kingdom and Shade Lord wanted his children to be safe with him (they had already hurt them enough in their short existence).

So, they made a deal.

Shade Lord was going to take care of ending the dying Goddess once and for all, and in exchange the Pale King was going to return every piece of void, alive or not, that he had in his possession.

The Not-So-Pure Vessel would be the only one of his children he would come into contact with, and just because his son seemed to believe that he owed the slightest loyalty to the King, a belief that he could already see stagger just by giving him the slightest basic affection.

And he believed that his opinion about the Pale Being could not get any lower...

(So, what if after that later makes a deal with the White Lady to let the now-named Hallow still be able to come see her and she to him and the other kids whenever she wishes?

For him, even if she was an accomplice, he had heard her show up every week to apologize to the children who did not manage to ascend, his anger was towards the one who did not even look back when Hallow's twin fell and just begin to care when Hallow end up being not being "pure").

And when every last of his children were finally in the Abyss and he made sure they couldn't get out of there until the Moth Goddess problem has been solved, he went hunting.

Enter in her Dream Realm was easy than he though. She basically let him in.

Because Radiance was weak, barely staying alive in the absence of believers, her own mind seemed to have been lost along with his moths, clinging to the minds of anyone who fell into her influence, but had become cruel beyond what he remembers that she ever was.

She looked the same since the last time he faced her and it still took a second for him to recognize the goddess in front of him.

Because he remembers a goddess who never hesitated to try to kill him, but that in the few times that he got to see her with a lower guard, she was someone fair and even loving with her creations, with her moths, they were still a hive mind and they still had autonomy.

Where was that goddess gone, who was this creature full of hatred and resentment that without hesitation had killed almost all her tribe?

In the end, killing her was almost a mercy to the goddess, heck, he even tried to reason with her at first, futilely trying to bring back even a part of the powerful enemy that she once was.

Killing her did not give him the satisfaction that years, for the gods, hours ago it would have given him, there was no glory in defeating an enemy that had already fallen, for him that false goddess was not Radiance, she was a rotten shell of someone who had died a long time ago.

And once all was said and done, when Radiance's body was consumed by his void, he retreated to the Abyss with his children.

And as the time pass after that, everything just... falls in place.

He stills mad with the Pale King, but his little Hallow hasn't adapted really well to not have a "purpose" anymore, but their twin, Ghost, were more than willing to help them to find another one for they.

Shade Lord was happy to see them get along so well.

The White Lady was an unexpected addition to his 'little' family, at first, he believed that he could only tolerate her for the sake of his children, but he ended up discovering that the monarch was really nice, the Vessels adored her and she adored them.

She talked to him too, keeping him up to date with what was going on at Hallownest, sometimes just talking about their day or about her garden.

Actually, they had started working on the idea of a garden in the Abyss, she was intrigued to know what plants could survive down there and he wanted his children to have more than just rocks and Lifeblood cocoons there.

He still didn't like the Pale King, but he couldn't deny that the Wyrm was really trying to correct his mistakes and trying to be a good father to Hallow (and Ghost, because the other Vessel didn't trust too much in their other parent alone with their sibling).

Shade was happy with his life, things in Hallownest had reached a relative peace in which he could let his children explore outside the caves of the Abyss, although they rarely went beyond the Ancient Basin or the White Palace unless that they were with Ghost, Hallow or Kin.

So of course, not even a year after everything calmed down, he woke up feeling 6 pieces of void, 6 of his children, far form him.

His confusion and anger for it was soon feel by the rest of his children and soon he encounters himself trying to calm them down, apologizing for wake them up.

Netless to say that they were all worried when he told them the cause of his concerned, after all, all the Vessels and void creations were in the Abyss.

Which meant that someone had stolen parts of his void from him again.

Someone had stolen his children again.

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Once upon a time, there was a universe surrounded by void.

But this universe wasn't created by the Void God and Fate wasn't there to mess with the multiverse.

This Universe was ruled by Destiny.

For years, Destiny has watched over that universe, let it grow and joyfully watches how minor and major decisions created variants of the Original Universe.

Because unlike her sister, Destiny was patient, she never forced the Multiverse to have more universes than it could handle, she was comfortable with just see and not interfere.

That's the reason she hated so much the actions of her sister in the multiverse of Void,

That's why she hated her sister's actions in the Void multiverse so much, Fate had her own multiverse to take care of, but she was so strict about meeting the end goal that no matter how many variables her Original had, it always ended the same.

So, when she noticed that the multiverse next to her, even stuck in a time loop, always found ways to have a different ending, well, take advantage her power and basically snatched it away from Void, just letting her have control of the Original and the few who had approached her void in one way or another.

Her chosen child being one of them.

Before he was Error, before he even was Geno, when he was only a Sans and his soul was complete and white, since the moment he decided to deny his fate and tried to stop the Genocides that his universe was condemned to go through just because it existed.

When Void took him under his protection it was perfect for her, the Deity of the Void was powerful, it was her power that held the multiverse together even though Ink created much more than it was destined to maintain.

Even when Geno's broken soul turned into and darkish and whole soul again, even when Fate took him away, it was still hers, her son, hers to protect, and that was why she went to the other deity with her proposal to protect, not only him, but also the rest of the so-called 'Dark Sanses'.

What if the place she proposed was under her mandate? Well, that was just an added benefit, Fate couldn't enter her multiverse, and if she did, there was no way her threads could affect anything that happened there, she could scream and demand whatever she wanted, but there was no way that she could get her hands on her son again.

Especially not after the Void Deity of this multiverse, the 'Lord of Shades', found out that Error and his brothers had void in them.

And as she watched these land in the variation she had chosen, he almost felt sorry for his sister or whoever that wanted to take them back to their old lives.

This variation was special to her, if had been left alone this variation would have experienced the closest these worlds had to a 'happy ending'.

And as she watched the variation split apart to allow the change in history, as new options unfolded before her eyes, she was eager to see her chosen child and his family change this world.

As soon as they got used to the changes she and Void had made to their bodies, of course.

In a multiverse inhabited by insects, they couldn't exactly have six skeletons just walking around, could they?

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I swear I wanted to let Radiance live, but I couldn't find a logical way that Shade Lord would let his worst enemy live when his newly acquired children were at risk of being destroyed by her in her wrath.

But we still having Moths so not everything is lost.

Finally, the next chapter the reason for me to write this begins...