The Supernatural World

"Every time you stepped upon the grounds of the Underworld, or even the grounds of Heaven, I felt such bliss. But whenever you left, it only made me yearn more for you. You always leave, my little visitor. You never stay."

- The Supernatural World, revealing its true identity to Issei Hyoudou

The Supernatural World — nicknamed "Suu" by Issei Hyoudou — is a vast and ancient primordial force whose existence predates that of time itself. It is both the location and the residence of where the mythological beings, including, but not limited to, Gods and Buddhas, Devils, Fallen Angels, Angels, Dragons, Souls, and various otherworldly creatures dwell upon.

In the later chapters of the fanfiction story High School DxD: Rise of the Solar God, the world becomes sentient, and its consciousness is fully unleashed after so many eons of being unaware.

It is visually based on actresses Michelle Gomez or Mia Kirshner in its first incarnation, and by Aubrey Plaza while in its "Suu" incarnation.

History
After Izanagi-no-Mikoto abandoned and sealed his sister/wife Izanami-no-Mikoto in Yomi, the latter melded her consciousness with the ambiance of the Supernatural World, allowing her to manipulate the nature of the world and its surroundings.

Several millennia later, the Shinto Goddess of the Sun; Amaterasu conceived a child from her power and the energies of the Sun. Fully aware of Izanami's entrapment; as well as her dark nature, Amaterasu sent her child to the planet Earth. The child would eventually be named Issei Hyoudou. Upon discovering the child and his whereabouts; and wanting to obtain her revenge against Izanagi for abandoning her, Izanami-no-Mikoto manipulated the power of the Supernatural World to bring troubling hardships to Issei.

When Issei finally encountered Izanami in the realm of Yomi, the two were drawn into a battle that ended with Issei freeing the Goddess from her prison. Because of this, not only was Izanami finally free from Yomi; but her mind-link with the Supernatural World was destroyed.

Unbeknownst to Issei, as a result of separating Izanami's mind from the ambiance of the Supernatural World, the world itself gained sentience, but with a broken 'mind' and an obsession towards Issei for setting its consciousness free.

Developing a deep love and an excessive limerence for Issei, the Supernatural World manifests itself in the form of a mature human woman, and desires nothing more than to trap Issei forever within herself.

True Form
The Supernatural World's true form is represented by the entire landmass of the realms of the multiple Heavens, the various realms of the Underworld, and the Dimensional Gap. When its consciousness travels to Issei's inner world, it is described as a multi-colored gigantic pillar of smoke-like energy.

In its "Suu" incarnation, it refers to the Dimensional Gap (the gap between the Earth, Heaven, and the Underworld) as the deepest core of its 'heart'.

First Incarnation
In its first incarnation, it has the appearance of a mature fair-skinned woman with pronounced cheek bones, light blue eyes, and crimson-red lipstick.

This incarnation dressed in a starched collared blouse with a black brooch under her throat, a high waisted ankle-lengthed skirt, and a croak lengthened jacket with puffed shoulders and dark lapels. She also wore black ankle boots with a sharp toe and tapered heels.

"Suu"
After it transports Issei out of the realm of its consciousness, the Supernatural World manifests into another female incarnation.

As "Suu", it resembles a woman with light brown skin, short curly black hair, round cheekbones, almond-shaped brown-black eyes (which coincidentally, is a darker shade than Issei's light brown eyes), and blood-red lipstick.

This incarnation of the Supernatural World wore a black ribbed turtleneck sweater, black pants and shoes, and occasionally substituted the pants for garter-belted fishnet tights. Very rarely, this incarnation changes her hairstyle, and wears a black tank top under brown overalls.

This form becomes the primary manifestation of the Supernatural World for the rest of its interactions with Issei. Issei muses that the voice of this incarnation sounds sweet; like poison dipped in honey.

Personality
When Issei Hyoudou ejected Izanami-no-Mikoto out of the Shinto realm Yomi, the mind-link between the Goddess and the Supernatural World was destroyed. As a result, Izanami no longer had any control over the power of the Supernatural World, which allowed the latter to develop its own sentience.

Although certain aspects of its behavior derives from Izanami, the Supernatural World possesses a separate and distinct mind, and is a completely independent entity from the Shinto Goddess.

Believing that Issei freeing Izanami from Yomi was meant to save only  it  from the Shinto Goddess' manipulations, the Supernatural World developed an obsession with Issei and became enamored with him.

One such trait it inherited from Izanami, was the facet of a Yandere (ヤンデレ), a Japanese term that refers to an obsessive character who is madly in love with someone, often literally and violently so. This particular trait is present in both incarnations of the Supernatural World, with the first incarnation expressing the yanderu (病んでる) side, and "Suu" exhibiting more of the deredere (デレデレ) side.

The Supernatural World also inherited remnants of the insanity that plagued Izanami while she was trapped in Yomi. As such, it has a rather unstable 'mind', often concealing its instablility behind an aloof, if not polite nature around others, and adopting a sweet and overly affectionate persona towards Issei. However, it has also shown extreme vulnerability and loneliness, and depends on Issei for emotional comfort. The Supernatural World is very much aware of its insanity, and is often prone to having feelings of extreme melancholy when unable to maintain its limited bouts of sanity.

The Supernatural World's most defining characteristic is its intense and irrevocable mania for Issei, with the trait being more pronounced in its primary manifestation, "Suu". It also exhibited a few symptoms and characteristics of obsessive love disorder:


 * Obsessively talking about their loved object
 * Unwanted intensive attention to the love object
 * Attempts to monitor or otherwise control their love object's life and activities
 * Excessive joy, to the point of relief, when able to get in touch with or be with their love object.

In Female Form
In both of its female incarnations, the Supernatural World displayed an eerily human-like feminine personality and openly doted on Issei. She affectionately referred to Issei as her Visitor, and became driven by a desire to smother and devour him, until his light permanently dimmed within the boundaries of her primordial form. Despite maintaining the mindset of its true nature, the Supernatural World absolutely delighted in identifying as female.

In addition to harboring an unrestrained amount of affection for Issei, the embodiment displayed a possessive nature; repeatedly telling him that he was hers and hers alone, and that there was absolutely no one in the entire Universe and beyond that loved him more than she did. She also told Issei that no matter what realm he went to; she would always be near him.



Despite her coquettish and 'lovey-dovey' nature, the female incarnation of the Supernatural World initially exhibited a blatant disregard for Issei's own feelings and well-being, and repeatedly dismissed his pleas for her to let him go after she trapped him in the inescapable realm of her consciousness. She also stated that despite being the home of the mythological entities for so long, she held no emotions towards her dwellers. On the other hand, the embodiment also exhibited loneliness and a genuine desire for Issei to acknowledge her as his home.

The Supernatural World's desire to keep Issei all to itself was so strong that she tearfully pleaded with him to stay within her and not to return to the Earth. She told Issei that she was unable to travel anywhere outside of her true form's boundaries, meaning that she cannot manifest on Earth or Space. This detriment only strengthened her determination to prevent Issei from leaving her. Despite her controlling and forceful nature, the Supernatural World harbored a great amount of devotion to Issei, and was extremely grateful to him for releasing her consciousness.

When Issei willingly acknowledged both the planet Earth and the Supernatural World as his home, the latter's obsession and affection for him deepened to an even greater level of intensity (though she later claimed to Issei that she was his true home; hinting at an irrational jealousy towards the Earth). Later on, its consciousness drifts away into the depths of its true form, with Issei's genuine acceptance finally giving his relationship with the Supernatural World closure.

First Incarnation
This incarnation of the Supernatural World exhibited a devouring, consuming type of love towards Issei; often referring to him as something so small and fragile that she could devour him whole.

She often made threatening allusions to wanting to 'cover' him entirely, and to hold him and smother him until he was down to his last breath.

This incarnation was also shown to be psychologically and emotionally unstable; and reacted to Issei's gentle attempts to get her to let him go, by suffocating him with the force of her ambiance. However, once she was stopped, she quickly became remorseful and genuinely wept with tears; apologizing to him and insisting that she didn't mean to do what she did to him.

"Suu"
The "Suu" incarnation, while retaining her love towards Issei, displayed a more ebullient and cheerful personality, with her obsession with Issei more pronounced than her previous incarnation. Unlike her predecessor, this incarnation was shown to be flirtatious and teasing, and far more affectionate with Issei. She had also developed a habit of gleefully invading his personal space, and kissing him whenever his guard was down.

Despite her obsessive and intrusive nature, "Suu" expressed a degree of self-consciousness, and was open about her feelings; telling Issei that despite her desire of wanting to keep him all to herself, she felt that if she had done so, Issei would hate her. When Issei revealed to her that he had never hated her and never would, "Suu" became overjoyed, relieved that Issei harbored no negative feelings towards her.

Powers and Abilities
Although the Supernatural World has not been shown to possess any fighting capabilities, it is an ancient and immense force that has remained for billions of years, if not eons, as it predates the God from the Bible, Ophis, Great Red, and the many other mythological beings proceeding them.

The world's atmosphere is the source of all the energies of Heaven and all its seven regions, the many sections of the Underworld, and the realms of the various mythological beings. As such, all of the inhabitants of the Supernatural World draw their powers and abilities from its ambiance.

The Supernatural World has the ability to suppress and negate a being's powers, as it dampened Issei's powers in order to prevent him from blocking its advances. It also has the ability to alter the nature of an entity, and was responsible for changing Issei's body structure to the physiology of a star.

Weaknesses
Despite maintaining its existence for eons, it is possible for the Supernatural World to be damaged severely. However, the world reveals that neither its female body, or its consciousness would be destroyed in the process.

The Supernatural World also possesses an mentally unbalanced 'mind', due to its consciousness being merged with Izanami-no-Mikoto for over millennia. Even after its 'mind' is separated from Izanami, the world was left with remnants of the Goddess' insanity, with Issei stating that the Supernatural World's consciousness was still fragile.

Quotes

 * (As "Suu") "You have such a cute and adorable face, Issei. So sweet enough to devour."


 * (As "Suu") "I just wanted to keep you. You're different than the dwellers that reside upon me. A-and you saved me, Issei. You freed me. I love you. I love you so much, that I want to keep you. Forever. You understand, don't you, Visitor? Please say yes."


 * (In First Incarnation) "Issei, please. I am the Supernatural World. I am unable to leave outside of my own boundaries."


 * (In First Incarnation) "The Earth. I-it's not your true home. It's not your home. I'm the one who's supposed to be."


 * (In First Incarnation) "My dear visitor. My hearts beat for you only. And your fragile heart belongs to me. Mine to pull out and mine to devour, just so you'll remember that you're mine."


 * (As "Suu") "I wanted...no still want to keep you. All to myself. But having a Visitor who is angry with me would make me sad. I don't want you to hate me, Issei."


 * (As "Suu") "Such a sweet little Visitor. You'll protect the Earth, you say? And me, your very own walking...talking...true...home."


 * (As "Suu") "That's not fair, Visitor-dear. You don't like it when I kiss you? It's not like my kisses are intrusive. And even if they were, you wouldn't stop me from kissing you anyway, now would you? I think I'd cry if you did, and wouldn't that be awful? Will you make me cry, Issei-dearest? I'll be so sad if you do."


 * (As "Suu") "Issei. My Issei. I did plan on keeping and devouring this sweet little soul of yours once you invited me into your head, but since you did promise to save me and that...other world you call a home, I suppooooose I should heal your soul as well."


 * (As "Suu") "Visitor-dear...you care for me. You really don't hate me."

Trivia

 * It is one of the oldest entities to exist, as it predates the God from the Bible, Angels, Devils, Gods and Buddhas, Ophis, Great Red, and the Trihexa.


 * Though the Supernatural World is shown to have three actresses visually portraying its female forms, it actually has only two incarnations. Michelle Gomez and Mia Kirshner are used as the visual base for the first incarnation, and thus can be used interchangeably, while Aubrey Plaza is used as the visual base for its "Suu" incarnation.


 * Suu, the incarnation who becomes the primary manifestation of the Supernatural World, comes from the Japanese verb suu (吸う). When conjugated, it means to inhale or breathe in, which coincidentally matches the Supernatural World's desire to trap and devour Issei within itself.


 * The Supernatural World is the second entity to kiss Issei, with Ophis being the first.


 * The Supernatural World's theme is Ready Or Not by Mischa Book Chillak Ft Esthero.