The Guardian
The ancient land of Korea has long been sandwiched between it's larger neighbors of China and Japan, for much of it's history it has been bullied or outright conquered by these two countries. But ancient legend speaks of a great defender of the nation, a being of great might and kindness, Imasura, the great crimson dragoon.
Whether this being is simply a very large moth with unexplained powers or is truly a supernatural entity is unknown. What is known is that during the Japanese occupation of korea, Imasura launched devastating attacks on the Japanese soldiers there, seeking to drive the invaders away from the land the creature had claimed guardianship over.
She has appeared at least once in every great crisis that threatened Korea, from the invasions by many dynasties of China, great onslaughts of Onis, battles with the Black Hand, the first Japanese invasion of Korea, and many more, and it seems that while she mainly operated in Korea, she did not limit herself there, legends of a great butterfly appearing in mythologies all around the world.
Indeed, so ancient and prevalent is she that some claim that she and Ryuujin, the first Dragon God Emperor of Japan, fathered all the deities, though many others scoff at the idea. What isn't deniable though, is that she is a great deal more ancient than most gods, who only appeared at about the same time as mankind itself, while she herself has watched entire species come and go. And indeed, even the Olympians and Asgardians recognize that she is older than they are and refer to her respectfully as an elder, though the Gods of the East and West seem to be content to steer clear of one another if they can help it.
Freedom Force, the Allies alliance of metahumans, aliens, gods, robots, and monsters who all shared the goal of defeating the Axis, sought to contact Imasura after hearing of it's great power and seeming immunity to conventional weapons. They came expecting that Imasura would be just a metaphor for the Korean resistance or would simply be a large bug, but what they found surprised them.
Imasura was not only fully sapient, but Telepathic. It claimed to have guarded the korean peninsula for millions of years, since "before the time of the great scaled beasts" it said, claiming that all butterflies and moths were descended from it. It was remarkably nebulous regarding questions of it's nature, never confirming whether it came from space, was truly the spirit god it claimed to be, or was simply an large and unusually intelligent bug.
Imasura agreed to help the allies as long as they would help to free the nation it had placed under it's guardianship. Going from simply raiding Japanese bases within Korea, Imasura would attack Japan itself. Imasura attacked Japan like a force of nature, punishing it's military for assaulting other nations with such rapacity.
Despite being such a large beast, Imasura rarely caused an overly great amount of collateral damage. Her feud was with the Japanese military, not it's people. She was considered one of Freedom Force Pacific's heaviest hitters, a powerful monster who could level entire Japanese military formations without seeming to suffer any real harm in return.
Even against the Japanese Divine Wind, an organization of Japanese and Siamese metahumans who supported the Pacific Axis' military efforts, Imasura proved to be more than a match. Only working in large groups could the Divine Wind typically repel Imasura. For many long years, Imasura fought the Japanese to protect her cherished people, but when the Atomic Bomb was dropped, she was aghast.
Man had unlocked a power that she feared would destroy the fragile system of nature, and she soon fled to her homeland in time to see the Soviets rampage through Japan's continental holdings, and the eventual heartbreaking division of Korea into North and South. Imasura was heartrboken over this seeming betrayal, the promise to free korea was torn apart in the name of geopolitics.
Imasura disowned both sides of the Cold War and retreated deep into the Changbai mountains, returning to the monks who worshipped her as a Guardian Angel and Spirit Goddess. For many long years she remained in those mountains, only occasionally being spotted by North Koreans or the Chinese, or the occasional passing plane, usually either a Soviet jet on patrol or an American spy plane.
Despite her vast size, it was rather easy for her to hide away from the eyes of mortals. And so she sat out the cold war, for a time, she briefly forrayed out when she heard of the collapse of the soviet union, hoping it would bring an end to the division of her beloved people, but she found nothing but disappointment, Korea had remained divided, and so her brief forray into the outside ended.
She only ever emerged from hiding to deal with invaders such as Kang or the Joining, and given the brevity of those invasions she was rarely seen by more than a few thousand north korean peasants. But with the coming of the Rikti in two thousand and three, she emerged with a fury, blasting the aliens apart wherever she encountered them, flying across Korea and unleashing a rage against the invaders she had not shown since the second world war.
However, the Rikti soon pummeled her with warships, blasting her from the sky and forcing her to retreat. Broken and bleeding, Imasura had to watch as her people suffered, but within a day, she seemed to arise like a phoenix, once again attacking the aliens until they left almost as mysteriously as they appeared. She proceeded to admonish the governments of both Koreas to allow their division along political lines to interfere in their cooperation, which created a fiasco in both governments, most of the people believing more in their guardian spirit than their governments.
But again she retreated to her sanctum in the Changbai mountains, remaining there for three more years until she felt an unnatural tremor...North Korea had developed the Nuclear Bomb...saddened by this news, she took off into space to meditate, thinking on what to do as she traversed the stars and explored new planets, doing what she could to help in her brief stays on each world.
But when the alien invasions started again, she was always quick to return to the earth fighting the Rikti, the Chitauri, the Skrulls, the Fel Imperium, the Orks, Dathron, the Ninjans, and the forces of Chaos. With the conclusion of the ninjan all out assault, she has returned to active guardianship of korea, deciding to put her intense distaste for Korea's division behind her to protect her chosen people.
She has become something of an Icon of Korean culture and is very much beloved by the people of Both Koreas, with Both Governments deciding to use her as a national symbol. Both governments try to avoid contradicting Imasura in public, for such is her support from the people. Imasura is a strong voice for environmentalist causes, though she recognizes that nuclear weapons have proven to be a useful defence against alien invaders. Additionally, she strongly supports unity among the peoples of east asia, and has recently been seen at peace talks.
While she recognizes that the united nations is both impotent and laughably ineffective, she does champion it's cause, hoping that people will give it enough trust and money to be something other than the colossal waste of time and money that it currently is. She also supports the causes of other heroes, though she rarely directly intervenes.
The first six (under construction)
When the Earth was young, before man, animal or plant, the Earth was a roiling, poisonous storm without a breath of oxygen in the atmosphere. From this primordial soup life arose, as self replicating bits and pieces of genetic structure. And with this first formation came the first six gods, Ra, lord of the sun, Apep, god of darkness, Tartarus, master of fire, Gaea mistress of earth, Ryujin, king of water, and Imasura, queen of the skies.
These were the six ancient gods, from which all other earthly gods are descended from. The first six were all but alone save for one another for the longest time, billions of years passed and the Earth's primitive life evolved ever so painfully slowly, from self replicating strands of DNA to other forms of free floating cellular material, to bacteria, to archea, to protist, until finally animal life developed.
Statistics
Body length: Thirty meters, the antennae add about another fifteen meters, and the stingers roughly five meters.
Wingspan: One hundred fifty meters.
Mass: Fifteen thousand tons
Eye colour: Iridescent blue
Carapace colour: Primarily white, but the most prominent colour patterns on her wings are a startling red, thus earning her the name "The Crimson dragoon"
Sex: Female
Origin: Goddess
Age: Claims to have guarded the earth for millions if not billions of years.
Relatives: Unknown, worshipped by a Confucian sect who act as her caretakers.
Aliases: She who supports the heavens, The blessed caretaker of the earth, The Empress of all butterflies, Korea's great guardian, She who loves, The nurturing goddess.
Powers
Colossal strength: Not only is Imasura tremendously strong simply due to sheer size, she is actually capable of lifting dozens of times her own body weight. She has even been seen carrying a helicarrier whose engines were disabled to safety back to America, not seeming to be strained despite the fact that the helicarrier weighed ten times as much as she did, nor was she bothered by carrying it across the pacific ocean. This also testifies to her limitless endurance.
Durability: Conventional weapons are virtually useless against Imasura, even battleship cannons do little but annoy her. She has the durability to take on other gods.
Magic: Imasura is a powerful sorceress, though many claim that she is merely psionic. Whatever the case, Imasura displays a level of energy control associated with Gods on the level of Thor or as high as those of the upper level celestials.
Size manipulation: Imasura is capable of changing it's size, typically sizing herself down if she does not wish to intimidate.
Master of moths: Moths, Butterflies, and their relatives all answer to Imasura.
Energy blasts: Imasura's eyes, wings, and antennae can all fire powerful bolts of energy, when she unleashed the full breadth of her power, she is virtually a one bug lightning storm. This is made by her ability to manipulate and generate energy in vast amounts even without her skills as a user of magic, and when angered, she can use this power to truly devastating effect. How much of her energy control is used varies, she can go from a thor level opponent to something capable of taking on an entire celestial host even without the imasura force.
Stingers: Imasura's abdomen is tipped with a series of stingers with highly virulent venom, stingers that she is capable of firing and replacing fast enough to shoot them at machine gun like rates
Healing factor: Imasura has been able to repair herself through unknown means from death's door to full vibrancy within a day. More minor wounds heal even more quickly.
Telepathy: While Imasura cannot speak in human languages due to a difference in mouth parts, she is capable of telepathic contact. In addition, she is capable of reading a person's mind, extracting even their deepest thoughts and can smash through most mortal methods of defending against mind reading. She is capable of outright mind control, but considers the act abhorrent and reserves it as punishment for evil souls. Combined with her wisdom, she is almost impossible to manipulate directly.
Shapechanging: Imasura is capable of altering her shape, often appearing as a small girl, a young woman, a mighty warrioress, or a feeble old crone to test the virtue of visitors.
Speed: Imasura is capable of flying at hypersonic speeds within an atmosphere and at hyperluminal velocities when in space. Obviously, she is capable of breathing in space. She is also capable of swimming in the water at several hundred miles per hour, flying through the liquid as if it were air. She additionally possesses insect like reaction times, capable of processing events a hundred times faster than a human and moving in response to those vents.
Reincarnation: If Imasura is to ever die, another butterfly will take it's place, growing into her size over the course of a day and adopting all of her powers and memories.
Wisdom of the heavens: Imasaru has incredibly keen senses and has a mind that functions at a level that is simply above humans. In addition, she is considered one of the wisest beings in the universe due to her sheer age and wealth of experiences. This experience allows her to see through all but the most clandestine of plots.
Imasura force: Though she typically keeps this power stored away somewhere unknown and safe, she is capable of calling this power to herself. The Imasura force is a vast reality warping power that is as far above things such as the zeus and odin force as they are above the powers of minor gods. If someone of an evil heart were to steal it, the results would be apocalyptic for the universe as a whole. With it, she can erase and recreate a hundred billion galaxies with but a thought.
For all of those who want to know what I look like
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