User blog:SiRenfield/Meta Moonlit

"These warm, tender fruits, I want to keep them no matter what."

- Meta Moonlit

The following is a fanmade articleMeta Moonlit, born Meta Salmhofer, is a witch from Merigod and the wife of Adam Moonlit. She was selected as the first test subject for Project 'Ma' under her lover's direction. Her actions led to the creation of the Original Sin, the source of the Seven Deadly Sins.

Project 'Ma'
Meta, a witch who lived in the village of Merigod, was chosen as the candidate for Project 'Ma' after falling in love with its lead scientist, Adam Moonlit. Kissing her, Adam told Meta that she would be the mother of the gods, the Mem Aleph. Meta, unsure about why she was there, was embraced by her lover and told that it was okay. At some point, she told Adam she wanted to get married with him in Held's Forest afterwards. After being implanted with the divine seed, Meta carried and later gave birth to her children, Cain and Abel. However, they were born dead.

Original Sin
With the project a failure, the witch and her lover, Adam, fled from the Magic Kingdom Levianta to Held's Forest in Elphegort. At some point on their journey, Meta became covered in blood and, hysterical, screamed that she could not find her children. Eventually they arrived in the forest, living in a small home as woodcutters. Soon after, the two married in the woods, telling each other that they loved one another. However, Meta, in her despair, became envious of those who had children, wanting to have what she lost. In EC 001, she discovered two fruits on the ground. In her hunger, she took them, certain they were god's gifts to her and that Adam would cry from joy if he saw what she found.

While heading back home, Meta found herself chased by the looming shadow of a bear and began running with her fruits in hand away from it. Unwilling to give up her "happiness", Meta hurried on despite knowing the fruits were the bear's "treasures". Meta cried as she ran and stumbled through the forest before finally reaching her home, fleeing from the bear close behind her. Just outside her home, Meta looked back to see the bear lurching at her and, with her eyes turning red, killed it as it barely clawed off her cloak.

Exasperated, Meta entered her home with the fruits still in hand and was greeted by Adam. Seeing the fruits, Meta saw his smiling face descend into horror. As Adam explained to her how their children were already dead and that she needed to return "these children" to their mother, Meta's delusions broke and she recognized the "fruits" she stole were actually twins: a boy and a girl. Mortified, Meta screamed at the revelation, realizing her crime but refusing to give up her stolen children. After Adam told her she could still fix it if she did it now, she retorted that she couldn't because she had already killed a woman, not a bear, outside their home who was carrying a small milk bottle: the mother.

As a result, the two woodcutters kept the children and raised them as their own. In EC 014, a year after the Levianta Catastrophe, the effects of the catastrophe spread to Elphegort, causing famines and pestilence. With a gloomy expression, Meta and her husband led their foster children deep into the forest before abandoning them and returning home. Later on, the twins managed to returned to their house and, hallucinating that she was a witch and Adam was her henchman, entered their home and killed them, Meta's foster daughter pushing her into an oven and burning her alive.

Legacy
After her death, Meta's body became the embodiment of her Original Sin. The twins recovered their false mother's Original Sin from her scorched remains and split it into seven pieces. Forming the Seven Deadly Sins, they unleashed evil upon the world, praying that someone would "cleanse the filth created by our pretentious mother". The vessels corrupted by the sins wreaked havoc on numerous occasions, corrupting their holders and causing catastrophes for nearly 1000 years in the region of Evillious. A murder case was opened regarding their deaths.

Personality and Traits
Due to the Venom drug used on her, Meta became deeply enamored with Adam and submitted completely to his will. She held a great amount of faith in his decisions during her time in the project, despite being unaware of what she had become a part of. Because of this, she felt deeply connected to the twins she conceived for the project and considered them her and Adam's children. Her favorite place was Held's Forest and wanted to be married there with her husband alone after they completed the project.

With the project's failure, Meta was greatly affected by Cain and Abel's deaths and suffered flashbacks when covered in blood, frantically searching and crying out for her missing children. With their loss, Meta became distraught and grew embittered by the event; she envied those that found happiness in their lives and became angry as a result. This emptiness and anger turned into a desire to regain what she had lost and Meta eventually began developing a delusional mental state. When stealing Hänsel and Gretel, Meta perceived the twins as fruits and, hungry, gladly took them. Obsessed with having them, Meta regarded the "fruits" as something that would surely make her and her husband happy. Despite this, she had understood that her prizes were taken from the "bear" chasing her and, although treating them like the children she sought after, continued to maintain the belief they were fruit. Because of this, she had been largely unbothered to steal them or kill the "bear" when it caught up to her, to the point where witnesses perceived her to have gone mad with malice. However, she indicated some understanding of what the reality had been, having recognized that she had actually killed the children's mother despite not yet checking after coming to her senses.

Due to Adam's words, Meta's delusions of the time had been broken and her shock was large enough to make her scream. Despite having acted out of wicked intentions, Meta was horrified by her actions, although still desiring to keep her "tender fruits" no matter what happened. While taking care of the children, both Meta and her husband did all they could to hide their existence. Meta was also a capable and loving mother to them, earning her children's affection and trust in the years since taking them in. Despite her obsession to have children, Meta willingly abandoned them in the forest and left them to die after a famine had swept through Elphegort, albeit deeply saddened by the decision.

Skills and Abilities
As a sorceress, Meta was exceptionally skilled in magic and was arguably the best witch in the Magic Kingdom Levianta at the time; due to her abilities, she became the first candidate for Project 'Ma' after passing the tests, and was expected to successfully birth the twin gods. As the years progressed, Meta remained rather powerful, capable of killing Eve Zvezda, another powerful witch, swiftly during the full moon.

Character Connections

 * Adam Moonlit: Meta's partner and later husband. She fell deeply in love with him over the course of Project 'Ma', accepting his marriage proposal and running away with him after the projects were a failure. Her marriage with him was a happy one and she hoped for his approval in bringing home her two fruits. She would continue to live with him until their death, and took comfort from him when conflicted.


 * Hänsel: Meta's foster son. Meta initially perceived Hänsel as a fruit and took him in hunger, believing he was crucial to her happiness. Though she later felt remorse for the theft, when she realized Hänsel was a baby boy, she raised him as her son. While later becoming desperate enough to abandon the boy during the famine in Elphegort, Meta felt great regret for doing so and was shocked when he returned.


 * Gretel: Meta's foster daughter. Meta initially perceived Gretel as a fruit and took her in hunger, believing she was crucial to her happiness. Though she later felt remorse for the theft, when she realized Gretel was a baby girl, she raised her as her daughter. While later becoming desperate enough to abandon the girl during the famine in Elphegort, Meta felt great regret for doing so and was shocked when she returned.


 * Eve Zvezda: A woman Meta murdered. Despite meeting Eve before, Meta thought little of her except as an obstacle to obtaining the fruits. For a time Meta perceived her as a bear and, though guilty for the theft, desperately wanted to escape from her. After learning the truth, Meta was appalled by her murder of Eve and showed remorse for it afterwards.


 * Cain: Meta's stillborn child. Meta had looked forward to Cain's birth with great anticipation, as both her own child and the reincarnation of one of the Dragon Gods. Meta was unable to accept Cain's stillbirth and became desperate to replace the loss that resulted from it.


 * Abel: Meta's stillborn child. Eve had looked forward to Abel's birth with great anticipation, as both her own child and the reincarnation of one of the Dragon Gods. Meta was unable to accept Abel's stillbirth and became desperate to replace the loss that resulted from it.

Conceptualization and Origin

 * Meta's name comes from the Latin word meta, which means "goal", which seems to make reference to her intended role as a successful experiment.
 * Meta's name is partially inspired by the name of her representative Vocaloid, MEIKO, both names sharing their first two letters.
 * The decision to have Meta switch places with Eve is based on a pet peeve I have with hardcore KaiMei shippers (which I also happen to ship; it's that annoying!) that everything would have changed if Adam fell for Meta.