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truesight) wrote in asgardeventide2014-01-23 11:48 pm
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[ so! Alfheim. that happened. Rachel's still pretty tired from it all, mostly because she had to flex her power's abilities more than she ever had to since she got here. so she'd gone comatose for a little bit, figuratively speaking, landing face-first on Stiles' bed ( ... not like that! which is the point of this anon transmission, but we'll get to that ) and not getting up until she was sure she couldn't physically sleep anymore.
which just left her spending a lot of time with Stiles.
which is such a- it's really, really great. it's the greatest. Stiles is pretty much the greatest! and considering everything the city just went through, she almost feels bad making a whole post about this. but she's torn, okay. her best friend from home isn't here, and Stiles is her best friend here, so she can't really ask him, so.
here's this- ]
Hello, fellow Travellers!
I hope everyone is doing well.
I have a question! Well, a request for advice, more accurately.
Let's say, back home, you were in a position of power. Minor, minor power. More like you were gifted with an ability that nobody else had. It made you valuable! But that power, and those abilities, were a gift, one that you had to make a promise to a very powerful person before being presented with said gifts, even if you were the only person qualified to receive them. A willing sacrifice! To prove that you were worthy of the gifts. And if you broke that promise, the gifts would be taken away. And you would probably be cursed, somehow, but you haven't put much thought into it because that's seriously scary. Anyway.
Part of that promise was that you swore you would never- [ have sex. lose your virginity. do anything that could possibly spoil your 'maidenhood' ] -eat chocolate covered strawberries. Ever. Now, at the time, you never actually ate a chocolate covered strawberry before. So making the promise seemed pretty simple. You could handle resisting that temptation, of all things. No big deal!
But then you show up here, and you're stripped of your powers and responsibility, and all of a sudden you're presented with, you guessed it, chocolate covered strawberries. And not just the cheap, over-processed fake kind you see on the shelves around Valentine's Day, I mean freshly grown, freshly dipped, homemade chocolate covered strawberries. They're the real deal. [ "They are being offered to you by a really, really cute guy" ..backspacebackspacebackspace let's not be TOO OBVIOUS, Dare ] Juicy and sweet and perfect. Someone is here and they're offering you strawberries and you find yourself, for the first time, seriously considering taking a bite of that forbidden fruit.
My question is - do you break your promise here, knowing that the person you made the promise to might never find out? Do you take the risk of them finding out, somehow, once you return back home, even though you don't even technically have those abilities here so the promise might not count? Or do you hold true to your promise and resist all things chocolatey and strawberry-y, because you gave your word and that's all that matters?
Help!
[ ooc: all replies from Rachel will be anon unless stated otherwiiiise ]
which just left her spending a lot of time with Stiles.
which is such a- it's really, really great. it's the greatest. Stiles is pretty much the greatest! and considering everything the city just went through, she almost feels bad making a whole post about this. but she's torn, okay. her best friend from home isn't here, and Stiles is her best friend here, so she can't really ask him, so.
here's this- ]
Hello, fellow Travellers!
I hope everyone is doing well.
I have a question! Well, a request for advice, more accurately.
Let's say, back home, you were in a position of power. Minor, minor power. More like you were gifted with an ability that nobody else had. It made you valuable! But that power, and those abilities, were a gift, one that you had to make a promise to a very powerful person before being presented with said gifts, even if you were the only person qualified to receive them. A willing sacrifice! To prove that you were worthy of the gifts. And if you broke that promise, the gifts would be taken away. And you would probably be cursed, somehow, but you haven't put much thought into it because that's seriously scary. Anyway.
Part of that promise was that you swore you would never- [ have sex. lose your virginity. do anything that could possibly spoil your 'maidenhood' ] -eat chocolate covered strawberries. Ever. Now, at the time, you never actually ate a chocolate covered strawberry before. So making the promise seemed pretty simple. You could handle resisting that temptation, of all things. No big deal!
But then you show up here, and you're stripped of your powers and responsibility, and all of a sudden you're presented with, you guessed it, chocolate covered strawberries. And not just the cheap, over-processed fake kind you see on the shelves around Valentine's Day, I mean freshly grown, freshly dipped, homemade chocolate covered strawberries. They're the real deal. [ "They are being offered to you by a really, really cute guy" ..backspacebackspacebackspace let's not be TOO OBVIOUS, Dare ] Juicy and sweet and perfect. Someone is here and they're offering you strawberries and you find yourself, for the first time, seriously considering taking a bite of that forbidden fruit.
My question is - do you break your promise here, knowing that the person you made the promise to might never find out? Do you take the risk of them finding out, somehow, once you return back home, even though you don't even technically have those abilities here so the promise might not count? Or do you hold true to your promise and resist all things chocolatey and strawberry-y, because you gave your word and that's all that matters?
Help!
[ ooc: all replies from Rachel will be anon unless stated otherwiiiise ]
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And humans don't have that great a track record for co-existing. They couldn't even do it with one another before we came along.
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In my world, it's monsters vs. gods and demigods, who are fighting to keep the mortal world safe. Well, it's mostly just demigods, the gods don't do much of their own fighting.
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So gods don't change much across worlds, huh. When you say monsters, what are we talking.
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That's what the gods are afraid ( not that they would use that word ) of, so the whole world is covered by something called the Mist. It literally shields mythological and magical things from the mortal eye so they don't know it's there. If a demi-god pulls his sword on a hellhound in the middle of the road, it'll look like he's defending himself with a baseball bat against a rabid dog, that kind of thing. It's to prevent... well, pretty much exactly what's going on in your world.
Only yours ( if I'm understanding it right ) was just natural evolution? While demi-gods are, yeah, children of one mortal parent and one godly parent. Lots of magic involved in my world.
And by monsters I mean pretty much any magical creature you've read about, if you're into mythology. Gorgons, Empousa, giants. Anything you can imagine you'd find down in the pit of Tartarus.
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Wait. Do gods really bang so many humans that it's that big a problem? I mean, the X-Gene is recessive, so there's not a lot of us and it's mostly mutant kids popping up in human families and fucking up the whole thing. But there's enough god-human sex happening to need the whole world shielded from their kids? Or are there just a shitload of gods?
VIDEO! yay. also, locked.
Hi. Okay. This is easier.
And yeah, the gods and demigods do hide, in a way. It's really more like blending in, though. The Mist hides the monsters, and the demigods blend in as best as they can. The thing though is that they are constantly being targeted by monsters, so it's not really just about hiding so much as it's trying to keep mortals safe from that mess. The gods rarely come down to Earth, but when they do, they look just like anyone else. Which is how they end up making babies with mortals before the ditch off to Olympus again. They aren't the best parents in the world.
That said, there are twenty gods and minor gods represented at the camp where I live, which takes in demigods and trains them to fight and use their god-given talents to help fight the good fight. [ sound familiar? ] But that means, yeah, there are twenty gods and goddesses running around making babies with whoever they want, and not being held accountable for said babies until they show up at camp and are "claimed", and placed in the appropriate house.
achievement unlocked, thread locked (yea)
Can't be much worse than humans. We've got our own place, Xavier's School for "Gifted Youngsters," where the strays end up - well, some of 'em keep up the lie with their parents, but they mostly either ran away or got kicked out. [He doesn't place himself on that spectrum, rather pointedly.] But same deal, learn your mutation and keep out of the way. Keep your nose clean too and you might end up on the X-Men, the team on the pacifist side.
[Twenty gods. That's better than Asgard, anyway. And why was thinking of the gods here banging so much like picturing parentsex, anyway?]
Y'know, this is actually new. There are lots of fucked up worlds out there, but this one's fucked up way too much like mine and still so weird.
(yea)!!
I have a feeling if we could find similarities in all of our worlds, if we took the time to really sort it all out. There has to be a reason why the gods chose each of us, right? Some sort of connection.
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[Oddly enough, although he's coming out on the Brotherhood's side pretty blatantly with his words, he doesn't realize that he hasn't verbally counted himself as part of them. It's the first time since he arrived here. He's not denying it, either, but the shift in his brain to free agent is becoming more pronounced than he can keep up with.]
Depends on who you ask, the last part. Some people say we've all got "qualities" that fit our god houses, and some say we just fall in and out randomly. Even some of the gods change their story depending on what makes them look better.