In the great scheme of things, life is less a question of good verses evil and more along the lines of bad verses... less bad. Order vs. Chaos.
The entities that most people refer to as The Powers that Be are like most people in that some look out more for themselves and only look out for number one. Others are fascinated in the Earthly goings on the way that
soulvamp likes to watch Passions. Still, others genuinely care and decide to get involved in their own way.
To the point where I try to incarnate and bring about a glorious period of world peace. Which then fails horribly when people get upset that I have taken away their free will.
WELL DUH!
You can't have everything, people! How many times do I hear small children praying to whichever God that they hold dear how they wish and hope and pray for World Peace? And when I take pity on their poor, tortured souls and give them what they want, they seemed surprised that there's a cost? (Okay. I can understand being surprised about the whole people-eating price, but the mind control? The people in this dimension are DUMB.)
Here's a basic fact of life: Every person is different.
How many wars were fought because one group of people hated another group of people because they failed to share what they believed to be an important opinion? How many wars fought over religious intollerance? Over the basic fact that no two people could find ONE cause to unite themselves over? One cause so important that those two people could put their OTHER differences behind them for the sake of the greater good? The Crusades. American slavery. The Spanish Inquisition. Etc.
Well, I gave them their uniting factor. Me. Don't doubt it when I said that I loved each and every one of you. I do love you all. I love you all with all that I am. And in my love, everyone was united. Greed didn't matter. Nothing mattered except my love and wanting my love and in wanting my love, people lived the way I wanted them to. No violence. No hatred.
Just unity.
World peace.
Yes,
Wesley,
Gunn,
Lorne,
Fred, and
Angel. You guys really DID end World Peace. You don't like hearing things that way, do you? You don't like thinking about it in those terms. That doesn't make it any less true.
Well, congratulations. You all won. I'm not dead. I only ceased to exist in your dimension when my Earthly body was destroyed and was sent to the dimension that I've called home for millenia. But I won't be coming back. You've ruined everything for everyone. You get to watch as the world around you dissolves into chaos.
And so, I'm back in my heavenly dimension. Cthulhu is laughing his... er... he doesn't have an ass... tentacles off at me. "Told you it wouldn't work with the humans" the others tell me.
And they were right.
That doesn't mean that I don't care. I still love you. All of you. Those of you that turned against me. Those of you that are lost without my love. I still love you.
And I hear that my
most loyal of devotees has found themselves a new
patron goddess. Well, I still love them, too. And I really hope that they can find their way back to loving me. Isn't a Heavengoddess much better than a Hellgoddess any day of the week?