The God of Light is one of the overarching antagonists of the RWBY fanfiction White Sheep (written by Coeur Al'Aran) alongside his brother the God of Darkness, and he alone is the final antagonist.
He is one of the two cosmic and nigh-omnipotent deities called the Brother Gods, who created Remnant, and the God of Light embodies order, creation and light where his brother the God of Darkness embodies chaos, destruction and darkness. That having been said, the God of Light, on top of sharing responsibility with his brother for much of the destruction, death and suffering that's afflicted Remnant's inhabitants over thousands of years; is extremely controlling, obsessed with order, hypocritical, and unable to accept fault in himself. Upon being summoned back to Remnant with the four Relics after thousands of years, as he originally instructed Ozpin to do, he wants to recreate Remnant on his own terms and maintain his sole hegemony as the strongest God at any cost.
Actions and Characteristics[]
- He, as one of the two Brother Gods, is one of the two most powerful known entities of all in the White Sheep universe, having worked with the God of Darkness to create the world of Remnant and fill it with living things, and having the capacity and intent to remake present day Remnant in his own image. He also single-handedly created the four Relics including the nigh-omniscient Relic of Knowledge, as well as the Grimm-destroying Silver Eyes, and Ozpin and Salem's curses of complete immortality. He single-handedly fights the combined magical powers of Salem and Ozpin, whom are the second-most powerful pair of beings in the setting as the last two magic-infused precursor humans (and the original Grimm hybrid in Salem's case), to a stalemate which leaves Salem and Ozpin winded before the God of Light is distracted. Like the God of Darkness, the God of Light can't truly die in any sense, he can only be injured and weakened to the point where he loses his corporeal form and ability to influence the world for a thousand years until he recovers, and only his brother is capable of truly matching him.
- The Brother Gods grow stronger or weaker relative to each-other based on how much worship one of them receives. This is part of why the God of Light made sure to deceptively shaft the God of Darkness throughout their original truce and co-habitation of Remnant with the precursor humans, ensuring that the precursor humans only worshipped Light, sought him out for favors and saw him alone as a benevolent god, while the God of Darkness was stranded on Remnant's hostile and inhospitable Grimmlands where no humans besides Salem ever managed to reach him. As a result, the God of Light is stronger than the God of Darkness for the majority of the fic, until the rest of the cast choose to worship Darkness over Light to empower the God of Darkness against his brother.
- Whereas the God of Darkness is relatively indifferent to Remnant's inhabitants, having no real interest in harming or even interfering with them in the present, the God of Light remains fixated on making their old creations his "ideal" image of what Remnant is supposed to be and obsessively upholding his own self-favoring standards of perfect order and balance. Even if that means killing a pacified Salem, Ozpin, and all of Salem's innocent half-Grimm children as well as the Grimm-armed Yang because of what they are. When the gathered forces of WJRP, RYBN, Salem, Ozpin, Atlas and the White Fang deem these stated conditions of the God of Light's return and of him sparing the rest of their species unacceptable, the God of Light extensively refuses to back down, and he eventually decides in personal disappointment and anger that he's going to wipe all of the current human race off the face of Remnant and start again.
- The heinousness standard in White Sheep, as a comedy AU where the canon big bad Salem and her followers have become an extremely eccentric but happy family unit, is fairly low, but the Brother Gods committed indiscriminate mass genocide against the precursor human race in a childish fit over the actions of a few against them before leaving. The Brothers are also framed as being indirectly to blame for all the extensive death, destruction and suffering that Salem caused on Remnant for thousands of years, before her falling in love again and having her children mellowed her enough for her to settle down; with the God of Light having turned the God of Darkness against Salem and cursed both Salem and Ozma with complete immortality in the first place, not because he was truly concerned about the balance of life and death being disrupted (as he himself went on to hypocritically disrupt that balance by turning Ozma into an immortal soul-parasite and sending the Light-infused Relics and Silver Eyes into Remnant), but because of his overt controlling nature. The God of Darkness, having been alienated by the God of Light's controlling machinations to keep him second in power, is convinced to eventually defend and ultimately spare Remnant's inhabitants, but the God of Light absolutely refuses to compromise or admit fault to the bitter end in his intentions to remake Remnant on his own terms, despite being given ample opportunities to do so.
- Despite the fic being mostly a comedy, the threat of species-wide annihilation posed by the God of Light and the God of Darkness is played deadly-seriously in the last two acts.
- The God of Light's overbearing relationship with the God of Darkness is contrasted against major characters Ruby Rose and Yang Xiao-Long's sibling relationship. Like the Gods, Ruby and Yang each have Light magic and Darkness magic in either of them (Ruby's Silver Eyes and Yang's sentient Grimm arm respectively). However, Ruby and Yang were raised by their family to have everything equally to each-other so that there would be no resentment bred between them, and they've come out of that with a close and stable relationship; whereas the God of Light, in the stated absence of any parental figure since he and his brother first formed, has always sought to be above or without the God of Darkness, breeding mutual resentment and a failure to co-exist equally.
- The God of Light also contrasts against Salem herself and the God of Darkness, as a powerful being with a potentially global threat level who has been complicit in terrible crimes against Remnant's inhabitants in the past, but unlike both Salem and Darkness, the God of Light won't change his ways and he hasn't budged from his original stance in the slightest after thousands of years.
- Unlike the original version of the God Of Light, who was far more neutral and is morally grey, this version of the God of Light is far more evil and power-hungry, and shows no regard in providing the order of balance and is only concerned with his own goals rather than anything positively important or beneficial.
Statistics[]
| Intelligence | 4 / 5 | |
|---|---|---|
| Skills | 4 / 5 | |
| Speed | 2 / 5 | |
| Stamina | 5 / 5 | |
| Strength | 5 / 5 |
For information on stats, review the stats page.
External links[]
- God of Light on the Villains Fanon Wiki