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[inlaid]

[ooc: warning for stick figure drawings of a dead/partially eaten goat and horses with too many legs??

Context: thread 01, thread 02, & thread 03]

How. Why. Someone please explain.

The goats of Norse gods are apparently milked for mead, not milk? Does this make them walking, fermenting kegs on legs?



Is this why a certain god will eat the goats that pull his chariot and then resurrect them?



Do the goats remember they were killed and eaten? For eternity? I mean this sounds kind of horrifying to me. The goats pull the chariot. They are killed. They're eaten. They are brought back from the dead and then pull the chariot more or get milked for mead until someone gets the munchies again?

But more than that, I just...okay. People/Gods have two legs. Horses have four.



Simple, right? So if people or gods have babies with other people and the babies have two legs, and the horses have colts and fillies with other horses and they have four legs, how is it that a god in horse form somehow mates with a stallion and then gives birth to an eight-legged horse? How?



Why are there so many legs??



Is this also why they have the goats pulling the chariots instead of horses? The goats provide meals on wheels whereas the horses are for weird spider-horse procreation?

[If goats are for food and horses are for banging what happens to the chickens??]

Comments

text; un: ghostking

[deathkid]

this is why greek > norse
at least my dad never mated with animals
he leaves that for zeus

lmk if this is okay

[dothelokimotion]

Yes. Kidnapping young nubile women were more his style.

At least no one complained about me.

it's a++++

[deathkid]

my step-mom ran away.
and if you've ever met demeter
you'd understand why

[dothelokimotion]

I doubt running into the god of the underworld did her or you any favors.

[deathkid]

Father isn't so bad.
a little gruff, but not bad
he's just got a bad rep because of zeus.

[ and he can say that here without having to look skyward and expect being vaporized. it's such a freeing feeling. ]

[dothelokimotion]

You can't always blame it on the patriarchal god.

[ Says the guy who blames Odin for everything. ]

[deathkid]

[ nico is over here shrugging. ]

zeus is a jerk.
people also tend to be afraid of death.

[dothelokimotion]

It is almost as if they have self-preservation skills.

[deathkid]

even gods can die.
it happens to everyone at some point.
frankly, i don't think it's so bad.
love is a lot scarier

[dothelokimotion]

Certainly. But not everyone's self-preservation skills extend that far. It does not help that your culture glorifies it with hallmark cards.

[deathkid]

my culture?
i'm not american, you know.

[dothelokimotion]

Human culture. Some strands are common across all platforms, even if the message may change.

[deathkid]

have you met every single human
on planet earth?
what qualifies you to say that anyway

[inlaid]

I'm not from Earth or any version of it so can you please explain...all of that?

Greeks I assume are a people like the Norse but who is your father and who is Zeus?

[deathkid]

there are a variety of godly pantheons
the norse is just one of them
but dating before the norse was the greek pantheon
of which my family is from
(half of it, anyway)
there are three major gods of this pantheon
zeus is the king of the gods
he controls lightning and the sky
poseidon controls the sea
and the oldest, hades, controls the underworld
earth, sea, and sky.

there are numerous other gods and goddesses of course
like aphrodite, goddess of love
and apollo, god of music, medicine, poetry, and the arts

most don't really "get it on" with animals
my uncle, zeus, tends to be the one that shifts
to become a bull or one time a swan
to seduce women.
don't ask me the details because even i don't know
and frankly, i don't want to.

[inlaid]

[That is incredibly informative and extremely helpful, which Bryn appreciates a great deal, and no, of course she's not going to ask the details about Zeus' sordid sex life because as open and accepting as Askoupurans are, animals are not among the things they're chill with.

What catches her attention more is the use of the words "family" and "uncle" in his explanation.]

Were you adopted into their family?

[Because, see, deities may have sex with humans in her world but they do not reproduce. Ever. By all accounts, Askoupurans believe it to be impossible, the genetics of magics involved being too incompatible to result in offspring.]

[deathkid]

[ whereas, for nico, it's an every day reality back home. the gods have many kids with mortals and nico happens to be one of them. ]

i'm a demigod.
my father is hades
and my mother was a mortal

[inlaid]

The deities of your world can reproduce with mortals?

[Yes, that's what he just said and normally she doesn't ask questions like that when it's been explained already but she needs a straightforward answer because that's probably a bigger revelation to her than all the goats and spider-horses put together.]

How does that work? I mean, do you have any of your father's power? Immortality? What role do you have in a world where you stand between?

[deathkid]

i'm not immortal
but i do have some of my father's powers
as for where i stand...
most mortals don't notice people like me
the mist makes mortals see what they want to see
while we protect them from danger and destruction

[inlaid]

May I ask what kinds of powers?

Is it actual mist or more of the name for some sort of divine illusion that prevents mortals from seeing the reality? Is it also present here?

[deathkid]

my father is hades
so my powers are related to death and darkness.
"underworld-y" you could call them.

as for the mist, it's both.
and as far as i can tell, it's not.
mortals see my sword instead of a baseball bat
they can see monsters instead of something else
it's weird.

[inlaid]

What is the Underworld?

How strange, though...the mist must be specific to your particular dimension as opposed to something that hovers around you.

Do you mind mortals being able to see you so clearly?

[deathkid]

where people go when they die
it's split into different sections
the fields of elysium for the heroic/good
asphodel for those who did nothing with their lives
and the fields of punishment for the wicked.
there's also tartarus, but only monsters come and go from there.

[ not exactly true. he knows three demigods who traversed through tatarus and he's one of them. it's an experience he wishes he could forget. ]

i don't mind being seen
it's more when i'm fighting
and mortals think i'm beating up someone
who's actually a monster
but they can't tell the monster part.

[inlaid]

Oh, I see. Our dead go to the Higher Planes where our deities were formed. Even in death they're only a step away from us, with our deities bridging the gap. I don't know that they separate it out that way, however. They're remarkably tight-lipped about the whole thing.

[And have been for centuries. It's simply one of those things everyone from her country has come to accept as it is, something they will never budge on.]

I can see how that would complicate things immensely. Does it happen that often for you that you're having to protect people from monsters in your world?

[deathkid]

i see.
that's pretty complicated.
i think i like my father's domain better

as for fighting... a war recently ended in my world
one that would've destroyed it if we demigods hadn't fought
and it started just six months after another war
that threatened to wipe people off the map