Chromatober 2024

Day 13: Creation

Origin & his kids!

RQ Headcannons & slight deviation from cannon events

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A flash of light, and Genesis was brought into existence.

He blinked, and looked around at the forest, the nearby desert, and the deep ocean.

His gaze eventually settled on Origin.

"It worked! I'll name you Genesis, because you're my first creation!"

The young creator looked up at his creation, eyes shining, as he bounced on his feet.

"I like that name! What's your name..." Genesis thought of what word to use. "Father?"

"I'm Origin! I think because I'm the First Steve. That's what Judger said when he created me from this." He pulled out the Star of Origin.

"Well, I'm glad I'm here now!"

***

"Dad! Can I create like you can?" Genesis asked after Origin finished talking to the newest batch of steves, mostly green steves.

Origin looked excited, "Of course! I gave you the ability to do so."

Genesis smiled, but then the grin fell.

"Am I going to have any siblings?"

"Yeah! I'm planning on it!"

The joy on his son's tanned face encouraged him to do it immediately.

As Genesis rushed off to create, Origin went up to a mountain and focused.

Out of the snow and ice came a being of Dreams.

***

"Dream, Dream, Dream!" Genesis rushed up to his brother with an egg.

"Oh! Is that an egg?"

Genesis nodded excitedly, "It's my first creation! I watched some lizards and chickens, and I wanted to make a flying lizard!"

"Flying lizard...?"

"Yeah! It's gonna be a firey boy like the Red Steves!"

"...huh... I can't wait to see what it looks like when it hatches though!"

Genesis beamed.

***

Dream closed his eyes and focused, Origin and his brother nearby.

The snow swirled, and a giant emerged.

"Dream you did it!" Genesis rushed up to his brother, then worriedly caught him as he fell over, "Are you okay?!"

"Just a bit tired..."

"You're really tall." Origin greeted the giant. "My name is Origin. Your creator is Dream, and the one holding him is his brother, Genesis."

The giant crouched down to see Dream better, and Dream waved, giving a shy smile.

"Creator is very small and tired." He gently patted Dream's snowy hair with a finger.

"Yeah... can I name you Brimir?"

"Hmm... Yes. I like that name little creator."

Dream laughed, a sound like gentle snow.

***

"Okay, okay, what did you bring us out to the desert little garden?" Origin chuckled.

Genesis had bothered them both until they agreed to meet with him here.

"He's over here, come on!" Said botherer bolted off, his father and brother struggling to keep up.

They eventually saw a pyramid in the distance, with a steve made of sandstone working on it.

"Heyyyyy mannnnn. Are these your family? Sweet." It said once it noticed them, jumping from the top of the building, not quite making it to the bottom, and tumbling down the rest of the way. "I'm good mannnn."

"Is he okay-? He doesn't seem so smart..." Dream worried.

"Yeah... He's durable though!" Genesis pointed at the steve running back up the pyramid, seemingly unbothered by the fall a minute ago.

"He seems to be creative..."

"I based him a little bit off your Oranges..." 

Origin smiled, then noticed the symbol on the steve's back, then looked at Genesis's back.

"Hey, he has the same symbol as the one on your back."

Genesis laughed. "Yeah, it just kinda appeared after he was finished. Seems to be made of red sandstone instead of normal sandstone."

Dream watched the steve run around with shining eyes. "I'm gonna make steves too!"

***

Dream carefully molded the ice, adding a face, hands, and a heart made of soft snow.

"Bases should help me not almost faint... Though the Giants were really big, so that's probably why it took so much energy..." 

He stepped back from the four ice sculptures, making sure they were perfect.

He broke off an icicle from the roof of the cave and took a deep breath of the frozen air.

"Just focus on giving them life..." He told himself as light filled the cave.

The icy steves blinked and looked around the cave.

"It worked! You guys are Winter Steves! And I'm Dream! Your creator!"

"Oh- Nice to meet you!"

"You mean... ICE to meet you." The Winter Steve laughed.

Dream facepalmed. Why did one of them have to be punny...

***

Genesis looked tired, especially with the excited little fire dragon on his shoulder. He had made himself a shoulder pad of sandstone that it could rest on while he worked on the Forests and Oceans.

Not that it had ever stopped the little gremlin from causing chaos.

He currently was holding down the whelp onto the pad, apologizing to Dream for it melting the new ice sculptures the Winters had worked on.

Luckily, no one got hurt.

"You look like you haven't slept in years! I swear- let me or Origin take care of it for a week, or a couple hundred years- So you can get at least Some rest!"

"If you take care of it, it might melt one of your creations..."

"Then let dad take care of it! He's not that busy now that 'All the Chromatics are finished'. For snow's sake, get some rest."

"..."

"Genesis..."

"Fine..."