Dios: The Savior

Tarot Card: The Magician
Duel Rose: White
Quote: "Don't ever lose your noble heart."
Name Meaning: "Dios" is Spanish for God.

-- "But the Princess still languishes under the curse of the Witch Poisonbreath, the thunder of the evil hour still reverberates in the rubble-filled Opal Palace, and my King, shackled in leaden dream-chains, still lies in the devastated hall." -- "Lulu", Hermann Hesse.

He could change anything in the world with his power. Yet he remains secluded, hidden, unwilling to act save through an agent, one who devoted her life and soul to him all unknowingly. What he wishes or hopes for, no one can know clearly- he wills Utena to win, and so she conquers those who are his enemies. Yet, he dooms her by his actions, even as he makes her stronger...

His Story

Once there was a Prince on a white horse. His self-assigned duty was to save all the young women of the world, who were princesses, through the tenderness of his heart. He was the light of the world, tirelessly battling every evil when a maiden cried out for his help. No one ever knew why he did this; whether he was atoning for some past long forgotten sin, or simply because he enjoyed it. No one ever knew the reasons; they only knew that he was there, always there when they needed him.

Even though he realized that there were some people he was not meant to save, still, he worked himself so hard that he exhausted his strength and fell severely ill. His sister tried desperately to help him as he collapsed into a straw bed in his country home. Outside, the people gathered, panicked, screaming need of the Prince's help to save their daughters. He tried to rise and go to them, but his little sister refused to let him go, for his own protection, and because she loved him so. Why couldn't those people go save their own daughters for once and let her take care of her brother so that he wouldn't die?

She stood outside the cottage door and blocked the way of the people, told them that the Prince was not available to them any more, that he was too ill to help them and that he belonged only to her. The outraged mob called her a witch and said that she had placed a spell on him. They pierced the girl- Anshi- with a million hateful swords.

The good Prince known as Dios died on that day.

From that moment, he retreated to the Castle of Illusion, and rested upon a silver sphere deep inside its magic halls, waiting for the release of the power of revolution. Unable to die, unwilling to live, he surrendered his noble heart to the Devil... But sometimes, he still came down, for those in misery. And one such girl was a weary child named Ten'jou Utena, alone and suffering... buried in her smothering coffin of roses.

But why did the Prince choose Utena, of all the millions of sorrowful people- to what purpose? Can it not be said that her wish of becoming like Dios fates her to destruction before she even begins her battle? Can it not be said that any Prince destroys those whom he means to save? For those who rely on Princes to fight for them soon lose the strength of their own sword arms, and become complacent...