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- dragon age: dorian pavus,
- marvel (616): loki laufeyson,
- ✖ animorphs: marco,
- ✖ chb chronicles: nico di angelo,
- ✖ dctv (flash): cisco ramon,
- ✖ drakengard 3: one,
- ✖ fate/grand order: ramesses ii,
- ✖ ffvii: yuffie kisaragi,
- ✖ marvel (616): angela,
- ✖ persona 5: yuuto kurohane,
- ✖ shadowhunter chronicles: max lightwood
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[ someone's currently sitting atop the residential housing building, on the roof, tapping his sword against the side. it makes a clunk-clunk noise as a small, skeletal mouse with fairy wings burrows its way into his shaggy hair.
nico looks a bit worse for wear. the constant dark circles under his eyes are worse than before and he looks like he hasn't slept in days... ]
So now that the god issue has been taken care of, I got a question. Mostly for magic users. How many of us are there? And is there anyone who can get access to Nectar or Ambrosia, or who could make some? It's kinda important.
[ clunk-clunk, he taps his sword again and then sets it aside to continue talking. as he does, his hands move and gesture, as one would expect from an italian. ]
Anyway, that's not the main reason behind this post. I noticed more new people showing up again. Makes me wonder what kind of myths exists in other people's world.
In mine, the myths are actually real, but most mortals aren't aware of that fact. Is there anything similar in other places?
nico looks a bit worse for wear. the constant dark circles under his eyes are worse than before and he looks like he hasn't slept in days... ]
So now that the god issue has been taken care of, I got a question. Mostly for magic users. How many of us are there? And is there anyone who can get access to Nectar or Ambrosia, or who could make some? It's kinda important.
[ clunk-clunk, he taps his sword again and then sets it aside to continue talking. as he does, his hands move and gesture, as one would expect from an italian. ]
Anyway, that's not the main reason behind this post. I noticed more new people showing up again. Makes me wonder what kind of myths exists in other people's world.
In mine, the myths are actually real, but most mortals aren't aware of that fact. Is there anything similar in other places?
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[ Cisco's brain is still reeling from the whole Greek-myth-demigod thing to think too much about the idea of Cerberus as a lonely pet guard dog who just wants a little bit of patience and a rubber ball to fetch. Of course, he knows that multiverse theory means that there must be a universe where those ancient stories had some kind of truth but... just randomly talking to someone whose parent is a mythical figure is a bit of a trip. ]
So what are your powers? I mean... you said it's death stuff but that's kind of vague.
[ And then, because he doesn't want this to be totally one-sided, and he thinks Nico might be more inclined to answer questions if he provides some answers of his own, Cisco says: ]
Where I'm from, powers aren't genetic. At least... not hereditary. Everybody who has them got them at the same time, from an accident. Most folks don't actually know a lot about how that happened, or why, so it's the kind of thing I could see becoming a myth someday.
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[ as he speaks, he moves his hands a lot. much like a stereotypical italian would. ]
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[ Okay, all the stuff Nico had listed is kind of a Halloween freakshow of things that should be impossible but. SUMMON ZOMBIES. That's just... that's a whole other level of nope that Cisco hadn't even realized existed before now. Just when he thinks he's heard it all. ]
So what made you decide to not keep it a secret?
[ Is that a rude question to ask? Maybe a little. But Cisco is curious, and Nico is offering this information without Cisco really needing to twist his arm, so he figures maybe something about the situation has changed. He knows that he's open about a lot of things here that he never was back home. There he wouldn't have dreamed of telling random strangers he works with the Flash. Here, well. Doesn't matter so much. ]
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[ and as he speaks, the skeletal mouse peeks its way out of his hair. it flaps its fairy wings and settles on nico's shoulder, nuzzling against him as if it does so regularly ( it does ). ]
This is one of the creatures I've summoned. Of course, the wings are thanks to Loki, but you get the picture.
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He watches then in fascination at the little skeletal flying mouse thing moves, sits on Nico's shoulder and cuddles up to him, like it's a pet. A really bony, slightly creepy pet. But it's not only creepy. ]
Oh, it's actually kind of cute.
[ Still doesn't change the fact that Nico can SUMMON ZOMBIES and that probably means horrible shambling rotting humans and not just cute dainty flying mouse skeletons. ]
Is it like a familiar? Does it talk? Does it know it's dead?
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[ nico pauses to run his fingers down the mouse's spine, which makes it shudder a little. it's bones rattle softly, as if the mouse were trying to nudge into the petting, but obviously it can't feel it much. ]
It's not really. It knows it's dead, but beyond that, it kinda just is. I have two others that stay with me. They're more like pets, which is the only kind I can really have since most animals don't like the smell of me.
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[ Interesting, that animals would be able to sense somehow that Nico was tied to death, that they could smell it on him. Animals tended to have a much better sense of that kind of thing than humans did. Cisco probably never would have had a clue, if Nico hadn't just up and told him. ]
So are you, um. Wow, there really is no non-weird way to ask this, but does that mean you're immortal?
[ It's been way too long since Cisco was in elementary school getting lessons on ancient mythology, and he definitely can't remember how it was supposed to work with demigods. Hercules was one of those, right? Or was that only in the Disney version... ]
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[ because it's a dead creature and all. and if the second question surprises him, it doesn't show. he's used to that kind of thing when people realize he's half-god. ]
No, demigods can still be killed. We're harder to kill, but most of us are lucky if we live until our 20s.
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Never too late to do it. Names are important.
[ Cisco can't imagine having a pet - even an undead one - and not giving it a name. He even gives his plants names. ]
Wait, really? That's horrible, why?
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[ because he knows how important names are. not acknowledging yourself or others is a step towards asphodel. ]
Monsters like to eat us, the gods like to send us on dangerous and deadly quests. There's a lot of reasons. Most of us don't even make it to safe havens where we can be protected. It's a dangerous world for demigods, so...
[ gestures with one hand, as though what he's said leads to a logical conclusion. ]
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Jesus, that's so awful.
[ Cisco might not know Nico, but he really does look horrified at even that brief description of such a dangerous and violent existence, just because of their powers, and who their parents are. ]
Do you have a choice? About the quests, I mean.
[ Not much to be done about monsters, probably. ]
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[ Well, that is a complicated situation. Because obviously, evil attempts to destroy the world need to be foiled. Cisco can't exactly argue against the importance of that. But at the same time, demigods who are just kids (Nico said most of them don't make it to 20) being forced to be the ones saving the world... that's not a great situation either. ]
Why don't the gods do it themselves? I mean, they're gods.
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[ Maybe he just doesn't understand the situation - Nico's bound to know more about it, since he's actually lived it - but the whole "whoops sorry we can't get involved, you're on your own" excuse sounds like grade-A bullshit, to Cisco's ears. Then again, he knows he is somewhat inclined to distrust parental and authority figures, so maybe he's just projecting a little right now. ]
Are there a lot of wars, then?
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They do and they don't. Gods are only as powerful as the stories that are told about them. They survive if civilization survives and their stories are continued. But they're not perfect and they can't fight against fate itself. They're bound in that way. That's why demigods have to do most of the fighting for them.
And yeah, there are. Most wars are caused by demigods fighting each other, but sometimes they're caused by evil gods. The last war I fought it was caused by the Earth itself. Gaea wanted to destroy mankind and start the world from scratch. It was tough, but most of us managed to survive.
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[ Which, from the sound of it, these gods are not. Not if fate is something separate from their will, and all that. Now that Nico's said that, he seems to recall that the gods in Greek myth were much more fallible and vulnerable than he would've thought. He needs to stop applying his raised-Catholic logic, in other words, and think of the gods as just very very very very strong people.
Cisco almost cracks a joke about "well can you blame her", but he thinks better at the last moment. He figures that in the best case scenario, Nico's heard that joke a dozen times before, and in the worst case, it might be actively hurtful. He had said "most of us managed to survive," which means that it was a close call, and that some people - who might have been his friends even - didn't make it. Not really a joking matter. ]
Soooooooooo.... that's super terrifying.
[ Not really anything more to say than that. Nico's life is sounding pretty damn shitty right now. ]
Is there anyone from your world here? Like, any other demigods, or are you all on your own?
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It's just me and I'm used to being alone.
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[ Probably shouldn't have brought it up. He'd been half-worried about demigods starting wars with one another, but it seems like he's just made a kid feel lonely, without really meaning to. ]
Y'know... just because you're used to something... doesn't mean it doesn't suck.
[ That's a bit of a twisty double negative, but he thinks Nico will understand. There was a time in Cisco's life when he had been used to being alone, and it had been horrible. He hadn't realized how horrible, until he was un-alone. ]