Welcome To (Depression) Death's Door

Before I Begin
My name is Depression Death. Yes, you read that right, my last name is Death. Well, actually, I'm not entirely sure it is. I am not Death's daughter, despite what some people want to think. No my story is actually way more complicated and sadder than that, if you can imagine.

My parents were both average villagers. They were just destined to be backgrounders, they weren't big and important. But they were nice, from what Death has told me. They had no enemies, and everyone in the village was over the moon when they heard my mom was expecting. When I was born, there was a party.

Someone my family didn't know to well, they had moved to the village a month before I was born, came to the party. They only invited him because they knew he would feel left out if they didn't. He brought his pipe and was smoking. My father told him to go upstairs with it, as smoke was bad for me to breathe. He did so. But he set it down and forgot all about it.

The party ended soon after that, and my parents didn't hassle him about that pipe, they were too kind. But after everyone had left, the pipe smoldered and caught fire.

At first they were unaware of it, until my mother went to put me to bed. My room had been the one he put the pipe down in and she screamed as the flames engulfed both of us. My father came running up to help, but the fire was to wild at that time, and they died.

What about me? Well, if you want to get technical, I did too, I died in that fire.

And here is where it gets a little more complicated. Death, who plays the role of Godfather Death in the story of the same name, needed a successor. He could not father one, he couldn't bring life into the world, he was Death! So when a baby died, he saw his chance. He made me like him, a sort of spirit, and named me Depression. But most people call me Essi. He raised me as his daughter, though made sure I was aware of what happened to me. I am still not sure if it would have been kinder for him to just let me die and pick another baby.