ϡ - Appointments Post

[folklorist]

This post here is for personal conversations which should happen but one or both of us doesn't want to put up a new post/log and thus we will just thread it out here. This can be used to thread with Helios anytime and anywhere. This can either be in person (with action), or via the journal's call feature (voice and/or written).

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[screwthegods]

Good. [Although Helios might come to regret that decision, given Homura's particular brand of questioning. Still, that is secondary, and he considers just where to begin for a moment.]

The Heavens have laws they deem unbreakable, though few know the reason for those laws. One rule states that gods are not to bear children with beings of the Lower World--humans or demons. These children are deemed heretical beings, and deemed the cause of misfortune by legend. Heretical beings are sometimes created by the Earth itself as well, or through other means. But all are ultimately taken to the Heavens, and bound in chains, or placed in prison cells--guilty of no other crime beyond their existence. And should they be "free" to wander the Heavens, the gods still know them by their bonds, and the unique gold color of their eyes.

[Homura lifts a hand to his face; certainly Helios has noticed the chains he wears even in Luceti, and now the very color he spoke of in Homura's right eye.]

[folklorist]

[ Helios listens nodding and remembering all that the other says. ] Heretical beings. Sons of God and daughters of man...there are beings in my world just like that. Nephilim.

I don't understand why they would bind you and imprison you there. [ He does notice. And it honestly shocks him that the beings in Homura's Heavens would do such a thing. ] It would make more sense to accept you, you could be envoys between the Heavens and humans.

[screwthegods]

You're assuming the gods are interested in such a thing when they aren't. [Homura grins wryly as he drops his hand down.] The gods take much less interest in the course of mortal affairs than mortals themselves would care to believe. So long as there is no threat to the Heavens, nor disruption to the balance of the world, the gods remain separate.

What makes sense to them is to contain what they fear, and cannot control. Heretical beings are born with great power, you see, and are typically far stronger than the average god. Our existence threatens their ambitions, and so we must be contained, at a minimum. But the laws of the Heavens forbid killing, so the gods cannot destroy us directly.

Instead they attack our wills. In my case, I was placed in a prison cell immediately after birth. My existence was particularly troublesome, because my mother was kin to the Jade Emperor, who rules the Heavens.

[folklorist]

I suppose that's the difference in our gods. The ones in mine need people to care so they can continue living. But I can see where that...disjointedness would make them act as they do. Unfortunately it's not easy to remedy.

[ Helios frowns. ] I wish it weren't true but even Gods can fear those stronger than them. I-I'm sorry about what happened to you. No one should be made to live a life of imprisonment and solitude like that.

[screwthegods]

Perhaps if the gods of my world also feared death, they might have acted differently. But the gods don't age, nor die of disease. And they certainly have no need to rely on mortals.

[Homura nods at Helios' sympathy.] They shouldn't. But that's not the end of the story. If I had remained down in that prison, I'd hardly be who I am now after all.

The gods are devious, and their methods purposeful. They couldn't kill me outright, but living a meaningless existence in that dark prison made me hope for my eventual death. As a half-mortal, I would die one day, and that was my only source of relief from the emptiness.

But it didn't happen quickly enough for the gods, so they let me out of the darkness, with a question: "How long do you intend to live?"

[folklorist]

It doesn't seem right that they did that to you. None of it is really...behavior I've ever encountered with the gods of my world. I-I mean they are known to be devious and fickle however. I suppose with such power comes the personality of acting in such a way.

So they keep you down there and then release you mocking you for your mortality, is that it? [ It leaves a bad taste in his mouth. And Helios understands now why Homura had responded the way he did. ]

[screwthegods]

It isn't right, but such things are hardly of concern to those with the power to define what qualifies as "good" and "evil."

Not mocking. The question was asked in sincere frustration. I already told you that the gods cannot directly kill. Releasing me into an unchanging, meaningless Heaven was their attempt at destroying me more quickly. Ridding themselves of a nuisance is probably the simplest way to put it.

The method is an effective one. It nearly worked.

[folklorist]

But it didn't. Nearly...but you proved to be stronger than they expected, hm?

Yet they probably still didn't consider you an equal or anyone to regard as a person to respect. [ Helios' gaze will be fixed on the table in front of them staring at the book cover from time to time. ]