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).

When replying to this post please mark in the subject line when and how it is taking place EX:
[Action, March 11th]
[Voice, September 8th]
[Written, June 10th]

Comments

[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. ]