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I just re-read this and I left you guys on such a terrible cliffhanger, I'm never going to finish it so I think I'll just do a plot yap here:
Zodiak is the voice in Lizzie's head and has been corrupted by a curse placed by Exor, he is the god of the stars, he is also Lizzie and Jimmy's older brother. After he went crazy Aeor was forced to lock him up in Lizzie's soul, the reason he chose Lizzie is because of the cure: Zodiak is the middle prong of the trident, and Jimmy and Lizzie is the side prongs, basically the curse could only be broken by the person or people whom the cursed person loved the most, which for Zodiak were his unborn siblings who's eggs he protected, (their parents had left to the afterlife of the gods basically) but neither Joel nor Lizzie had been born yet, so he never got cured.
The next chapter was actually going to be Lizzie and the real Zodiak meeting inside of her head and them trying to break out, however without Jimmy it doesn't work, it was going to be really angsty with Lizzie hesitant to trust him.
In the real world, Xornoth and evil Lizzie were going to kidnap more people and a little bit of torture, the kingdoms would be destroyed, and gods which had long remained dormant would begin intervening out of fear of a repeat of Zodiak's last world domination. Aeor is just going through heartbreak 2.0. And Io, a goddess I barely mentioned would have had a large role, being Exor's girlfriend before her crash out and having been hiding from her ever since was going to get kidnapped and talk some sense in her ex. I remember I was planning for them to get together again but i lowkey don't agree with that plot line anymore so i'd write it as Exor being shocked out of her stupidity by realising that she had lost Io's love for good, but Io being well and truly moved on and probably married to someone else. all while this is going would be cuts to Lizzie's head, where she and Zodiak are just getting to know each other at this point. At some point Aeor would have stopped scott from trying to kill Lizzie to uphold his promise(he's trying to stop a lot of people from killing her.
then they would have kidnapped Joel and Jimmy, which was evil Lizzie/Zodiak's mistake, as they were the final key to break the curse, there's a bit of happy reunions but ultimately the world is in shambles, but everyone is dedicated to fixing things, and furthermore Exor has given up her divinity in an act of self hatred, retreating to an unknown location to do some self reflection - I hadn't planned it but I also would have written a second fic which explores her grappling with her new mortality and discovering the beauty in humanity, falling in love, starting a family and starting to feel like she has a place in the world and that she is doing something decent for the first time in the life through helping her small village.
however this unfortunately was never written because I lost all my motivation, however I was lowkey cooking with the lore. I should have made this final post years ago but I was in denial about having given up, then forgot about it for a year. I have been writing again and am devoted to actually finish things now before starting new fics, I don't write in this fandom anymore but thought it would be worth it to tie up the loose ends on this fic since it's so lore heavy and took up so much of my life(a whole year!). i'm leaving this fic marked unfinished because there's nothing worse then thinking you're reading a finished fic and the last chapter being a sorry note haha.
sorry for anyone who wanted to read the end of this, I hope that at least you can be satisfied knowing what it was supposed to be.