Uzume

Uzume (天魔 うずめ) is the Protagonist and Deuteragonist of Project Wasp

She and her sister are orphans and live through the money that Uzume is earning ever since she dropped out of school.

She lives together with her younger sister Annaisha.

### Personality

Uzume is an eccentric and energetic girl who dropped out of school to be able to afford to live under the same roof with her sister. Though she's not satisfied with her life, she gives it her all in her jobs to make sure that Annaisha succeeds at school and college so that they'd both end up with a better life.

### Death

Uzume and Annaisha died when Ether spikes suddenly rose from beneath them, impaling them including millions of other people all over the world.

#### Transformation into Goddess

Uzume and Annaisha reappear in the Ether-Realm as formless beings, gathered by the God Of Earth.

The god makes an attempt to reconstruct all humans that were killed by the spikes within the Ether Realm hoping to give them back life and find a new sucessor but unfortunately could only fully reconstruct Uzume and Annaisha, with the rest being either incomplete or straight up vanishing.

The spikes were caused by the God Of Earth slowly losing his power due to his age, meaning that he hands over control to Uzume and Annaisha, his only possible successors. All it took them was to stay present around Earth and pay attention to any Ether leaks that might cause another spike accident.

**Discovery of Ether**

After another World War has left the surface of Earth uninhabitable, humanity retreted into the underground where they'd construct large-scale shelters that simulated the outside world. As the population grew, humans dug deeper to make more space and expand.

After a few years humans have gotten closer and closer to the Core, where Earths Ether originates from and keeps the planet alive. They discover the Ether and use it as a new powerful energy source. This worried Uzume and Annaisha but since they couldnt prevent it and the Ether didn't seem to be harmful to them, they saw no issue with its usage.

As technology and medicine rapidly progressed with the help of Ether, it's been also discovered that it helps remove the radiation of the surface, allowing humans to return to the surface and rebuild their old civilization.

To contribute to the restoration, Uzume and Annaisha would carefully release small amounts of Ether and dispersed it around Earth. It took them several years to make the surface fully safe again.

**World Reset**

Ether became the very essence of the new modern civilization. From it simply powering things all the way to having entire machines built around it and it also getting involved in medicine as a life-lengthening and healing drug, it's gotten imbedded into pretty much every single human. But as use and demand increased, they haven't realized that Ether was a finite source and would eventually drain the very life out of Earth leading to what's known as The Great Reset.

During the Reset anything that contained Ether would be vurnurable to being dragged into the core, dismantled, mutated or corrupted. This has led to several Nations being dragged and sunken, machinery getting destroyed and being unusable and the mutation of any lifeform that contains Ether, which to that point was pretty much every human on the surface) so that Earths Core can regain it's energy.

This went as far as the Core reaching for the Goddessess Ether, leading to it tearing apart a huge chunk of Annaisha, leaving only her body while her soul is being dragged arround across the earth in the chaotic mess with a smaller chunk of Uzume that's been torn apart too.

**Creation of the System**

To prevent another reset and further destruction Uzume creates a system that stabilizes and keeps the Core on a lifeline.

Each Human that contains Ether (which also works as a soul) since birth would be given more Ether borrowed from the core which would accumilate and grow more over time. Towards their death the "Soul" would be recycled in the core along with the borrowed Ether as the "Soul" returns to another person with newly borrowed Ether, turning it into an endless cycle that barely keeps the Core stable and slowly recovers its Energy.

This also prevents that any souls such as Annaishas would be eternally lost but be recycled, giving Uzume a bigger chance to find her again.

**Splitting apart**

Ever since the Reset and the creation of the System, Uzumes mental state has greately detiriorated to the point of her physically breaking apart into several shards over time. These shards, similarly to Annaishas lost shard, contain the memories and personality of Uzume.

These would end up either falling into the System or roaming around the world finding new hosts and having them inherit her memories.

Some of these shards would cause the host to be able to communicate with Uzume, see her memories or would completely be taken over by her.

The last and largest piece that broke apart ended up in the latest Uzume, who is the protagonist of Project Wasp.