My Entry to Red’s DTA | Halo Horse Thing

I am back from the dead and with a vengeance- not really- I was just brought over by Winter because she is apparently competing for a moth boi and guess what... I don’t want to fight for the moth boi. I want to fight for..

The floating halo horsie.

Onto the bio- cause this post is long enough. Without me going into the details of my art anyways.

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Name: Katoglaxia

Pronunciation: Cat-oh-glax-ia

Nickname(s): Kato, Galaxy (Galaxia; Gala), Kat (?)

Gender: Technically Genderless but is referred to as Female

Personality: Calm and serene most of the time, they prefer to roam and explore the cosmos. In their extensive memory, they tend to record and know a lot of things making them more philosophical and know-it-all; most questions you’ll ask them, they’ll have an answer to… that is if you manage to befriend them since they are as skittish as they are smart. They are hard of trusting, especially of mortals as they’ve had years to observe their manipulative and underhanded ways even if not all mortals are this way. Kato always holds themselves up with elegance and grace… and they are able to keep up such a look as they can’t really stumble, trip, or fall. She is really tenacious and determined, always dead set on accomplishing or reaching her goal; the concept of giving up is very odd to her as is most human concepts. They may have literal eternity to accomplish their goals but as an explorer and roamer of the stars, Kato doesn’t take well to being held up in a single spot mentally or physically very well without constant stimuli around to observe. Despite how intelligent Kato is, she is still very much confounded with human concepts like genders, races, and even different gods; she sees no point in their separation since in the big scheme of things they are all just humans. Though she is always willing to learn and understand these concepts from a trustworthy third party. Kato is pretty emotionally stunted unfortunately since they rarely have social interactions with others and are the only of their kind; unlike her, few other creatures are able to traverse the cosmos and even if they can, it is rare they’ll ever cross paths due to how large the universe is. So their words and speech can come off as apathetic and uncaring even when there’s genuine curiosity and wonder behind them. On top of that, many emotions are foreign to Kato like sadness, and anger and has a hard time trying to cope with them as they are so far from her usual contentment and amusement with general existence and calmness. Katoglaxia can even come off as naive to some people with her lack of understanding of human things like emotions though she is able to improve upon her understanding at times.

Abilities/Powers:

•Levitation(could also be Zero Gravity):

Kato is able to activate or deactivate this ability at will and hover over the surface as high or as low as she wishes; they are able to use this ability on external sources and basically erase that source’s gravity thus allowing it to float and or easily be held as though it were a feather; this allows Kato to be able to reduce her own weight and speed through the stars at an impossible speed

•Eidetic Memory:

Katoglaxia is able to record and absurd amounts of knowledge in her mind; anything she’s seen done once, she can recreate; any place she’s gone to, she can find her way back; any person or single being she’s observed, she can with startling clarity; this ability of hers was ingrained into her from the beginning of her creation

•Cloak:

They are able to make themselves “transparent” in any given environment; they don’t use this ability when on planets really but more use it when traveling space since it’s easier for them to change the coloration of their pale body than their mane and star-spangled fur; if they were to coil themselves around someone, they’d also be able to cloak them

•Nova:

Kato is able draw heat into their body from external sources and shoot out either beams or shots of plasma; they are able to draw this heat from fires, warm-blooded beings, and their own glowing light rings and halo though their go-to source is stars (alive or dead) as they have the largest accumulation of photons and heat; this power can be used ively as well as aggressively as she can inverse the process and add photons to her halos, increasing their glow and how much light they radiate thus making exploring in caves on planets easier; theoretically, Kato could infuse these shots and beams of plasma into her maw so when she bit it would be like being bitten by burning hot plasma

•Immortality and Abnormal Strength:

Katoglaxia is technically able to age but she’ll never die of old age as she has an immortal life span like that of her primordial creators; her body is incredibly strong physically since it has to be able to the pressures outer space, other higher gravity planets, and anything in general; she also gets the nice side effect from her adapted form of being strong in comparison to humans and sort of on par with gods if she so wished

Theme Song:

The FatRat - Monody (feat. Laura Brehm)

Backstory:

Katoglaxia was there around the beginnings; the first face they was that of the primordial being Tartarus… followed by the faces of the goddess Nyx, the personification of night, and the god Erebus, absolute darkness. They sent them into the dark empty void of the external world to roam as new creatures came to life around her. Everything after was a blur, Kato could only truly seeing Nyx… nothing else of the event that mortals would call “The Theogony”. It was then that the haloed equine creature started zooming across the stars and looking at every little thing that their creators manifested in the heavens that was out of humanity’s reach. Although the primordial beings told them to return to the main creation, earth, Kato still stayed determined and remained on their voyage of space.

Learning everything they could until a god by the name of Apollo saw them traversing the starry voids and tried to summon them back to earth… eventually their creator Nyx got fed up and just took them and set them on Mount Olympus. From there, they just started conversing and observing all the gods and learning more and more. Eventually, they turned their curious mind to the humanity a titan had created (they knew it was Prometheus) and started watching them to learn of their behaviors. It was then that they started hitting a roadblock, humans were so odd; their actions were fueled by motives but also something else that she didn’t understand, it wasn’t logical. Eventually, Apollo just told her; “humans can be driven by their emotions, you know what that is right?” At some point, the gods started just calling them a ‘she’ and it stuck.

Anyways, from there, Katoglaxia started finding herself more and more bewildered by humanity; they didn’t understand these emotions they used to fuel them… the gods called them sadness, wrath, grief, insanity, and even hatred (Hera was full of that though). Eventually she started getting more annoyed with their pointless concepts, even if some were concepts the gods accepted and used (but they knew she was a creation of Tartarus, the literal abyss, so they bared it). After some centuries ed by, she finally decided to just explore the surface rather than watch it from above; Katoglaxia desired to understand these weird backwards creatures more than anything.

Days into this endeavor, she came across a villager girl that was wandering a bit too far into the forestlands for it to be considered safe for her. It was a matter of hours before this innocent child managed to get her to trust them enough to give them her name. The small girl wasn’t quite able to say her name correctly so she resigned herself and told them to called her whatever they wanted. “Really! Ummm, ummm… Galaxia!” “Galaxy? Really?” “Yeah! Galaxy! Your pretty hair reminds me of the night sky and Mom calls it the galaxy! Were you made by Poseidon by the way? You’re a really weird horsie.” Kato just shook her head in amusement of this small female child. Humans… so odd, at least maybe now she’d understand them by spending time with one. Albeit, a young one.

From that day forward, the bond between this celestial being and human child grew. The human’s name was Anastasha… they’d told her it meant something about resurrection and new life.. Katoglaxia had told in exchange that she name meant that she was a dweller of the cosmos and whatnot. Ana had a good laugh that day. “Galaxy, that’s silly! If you really are supposed to be up in the skies, then why are you here?” She’d never stopped to consider that, the gods had basically given up on keeping her grounded and here on their world so she was free to fly away from here and resume her original purpose of exploration.

But she didn’t want to… she didn’t really think she’d find anything out there among the stars that intrigued her more than this human child right here with her. At some point, Ana’s home village found out about her but just started being wary; apparently giant monsters weren’t uncommon to this young world (humans didn’t consider it young though, centuries upon centuries had ed since the Theogony). As years went by, Katoglaxia kept returning to the human girl who was more and more becoming a human woman; she started learning of the human concept of aging. Time kept ing by, and from Anastasha, Kato learned more and more about of such things as emotions. The celestial being saw life, saw births, witnessed matrimony and love, even saw some deaths… but never experienced personal loss. Not until nearly decades since her meeting of the human child.

Ana fell ill, deathly ill. Her spouse begged her to do anything; “you’re a creature of the gods and you care about her don’t you?! Why can’t you do something?! Anything! Please… why are you just letting her die?” That day Kato communicated words she didn’t think she could understand, “I can’t”, “it doesn’t work that way”. Nearly a year after she uttered those unintelligible words, her human died in her sleep. “Will I… ever see you again… Gala..” ‘No’ “Perhaps.” It was then that she learned a new emotion, finally understood it, grief and loss. Apparently, gods weren’t supposed to grieve, no immortal creature should be able to grieve. And yet here they were. Kato had been at Ana’s side when she drew her last breath… she couldn’t believe it really. It seemed like days ago this middle-aged, sickly corpse of a woman had been a bright, bouncing little girl.

Returning to Mount Olympus, Kato learned that to her kind, decades ed by in the blink of an eye. Human lifetimes felt like nothing to them; her relationship with the human girl had never been meant to last, it was impossible. It took nearly a full century for the pale floating equine to accept her human’s death; apparently along the line a new kingdom was brought forth from a village, their insignia? A coiled, floating pale horse with a snake’s lower body that donned a mane that resembled outer space. Katoglaxia didn’t really care.

A couple decades later, she finally left the earth for the cosmos. Looking pretty much anywhere left her a stinging feeling; forests brought back memories of long-lost and hidden conversations (“But.. it's just an apple.” “A crabapple!” “How's it different from this apple?!” “...that’s an orange.” “...”), oceans reminded her of quiet moments of peace (Ana and Kato sat beside each other looking at the moon rising over the seas), and everywhere she looked… she saw her human.

At some point in time (centuries later), Katoglaxia finally bright herself back to earth and returned to the gods. She still dearly missed her human, someone that thanks to her Eidetic Memory she’d never be able to forget, but learned that this was just another thing humans suffered through and sucked it up. Years ed and she started to mistrust mankind, a conniving king attempted to chain her down to make her his mount that he’d charge into battle with; she came out with a few scuffs and one of her golden halos mildly damaged, but the king had half of his face burnt off and his arm snapped in half so it was evident who won the battle. Katoglaxia didn’t return to the mortal realm again and stayed on Mount Olympus watching the world from afar again.

She does sometimes leave for decades and maybe even centuries at a time when she goes back to exploring space but will always return. Earth became her home in a way, it held the most value to her. Though Mount Olympus collapsed centuries ago, Kato found a new home; the moon. From there, she sits watching the world she shared with her human. Though the ancient world died long ago, she remains. The gods may have chosen to hide among the humans, but she chose to hide among the stars; she was finally where Anastasha told her she should be if her name was truly correct. Perhaps one day, Kato will find a star she’ll deem worthy enough to call ‘Anastasha’... a star that’ll never die. A star that resurrects itself and bring itself new life time and time again.

Fun Fact(s):

-Katoglaxia’s favorite Greek gods to hang around in the ancient times were Athena, and Apollo.

-Her creator is Tartarus technically; but the Abyss gave her away to Night and Darkness to give a purpose

-Kato likes quite a few songs, but mostly piano based ones. She was also a fan of the harpsichord and lyre.

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Now for the art-

Lemme say this... it was a lot of fun to draw this... space hippocampus... I’ll just call them that for now. Especially their mane even though it disappears into the background. :’>

#RedsDTA2

Well.. this took a while and that’s all I had. Don’t hope for an art dump later on- I am flakier than a croissant.

That is all, Auroris out!~