Backstory
Reynaru has always been the type to watch change unfold before them, yet not challenge it greatly. There is comfort in an unchanging life, but there is no comfort in the boredom that eventually brings. When they were set free from the original Pandora’s box, they simply hid and watched the world around them, analyzing their opportunities.
“I can harvest power like the other Miseries, but won’t I have a greater bounty on my head if I am formidable?” They thought. It’s nice to have power, comfortable, but if nothing challenges you that gets boring, right? Reynaru could change the image of a wolf to a rabbit at will, but the danger was still there beyond the mask. They decided to scare a couple humans here and there, for countless decades, but one target lured them in to capture them.
“This would have happened eventually, but... I’d have liked a more memorable capture.”
Sealed into a lilypad shaped clock, Reynaru was sealed and watched over for more countless decades. It was odd, for a prisoner of humans, that they were taken out sometimes. They watched generations of a lineage grow stronger, naturally, talking with each “Pandora” appointed to survey them, but within that comfort they could be sent into the watch again.
It seems they can roam the home of Saros’ family, but never outside. Saros is the current Pandora to guard the watch, but she’s still too young to have the sorts of deep discussions of life that Reynaru had with the previous Pandoras. Even so, she’s strong enough to have a hold of Reynaru’s location, which they often complain about. In the end their relationship is something like a wise grandparent and a grandchild, considering Reynaru often tells tales of Saros’ lineage, but who knows how much is just fiction. Reynaru is a convincing liar after all. This sort of life that they have, it’s as comfortable as it is repetitive, but the difference in each Pandora they’d met made it pretty interesting.
When Eden comes by to Saros’ Estate, bargaining to use Reynaru as an ally, Reynaru naturally objects if it’s for the sake of humans. It isn’t so much that it’s their job to inflict them with unpleasant things, or that they were captured by them, they simply did not care about helping them without a benefit. Saros was as much of a caged bird as they were though, trained to stay at the tower holding Reynaru and avoid a social life for the sake of humanity, so she was curious about Eden’s offer.
They could see the world, even if it was brief, with Reynaru. Unable to refuse her wish, Reynaru figured they would assist in helping Eden “save the world”, but that they be granted more leniency in wandering afterwards. No one could figure out why, but Reynaru was tired of themself and Saros telling stories of places the other had never seen, wanting to see places together instead of leaving it to imagination.