Week Two

[letsplayamod]

Okay, maybe it hasn't been so easy. You've been enjoying a relatively pleasant time here with your fellow gods and Athena, only for a disgruntled Titan to seemingly pull the rug out from under that.

Despite the immediate threat from a hidden foe, you've managed to stave off their first attack. However, even if the grass may seem greener this week, or the sky a bit clearer, Athena can barely hide her troubled feelings. If this experiment is to be a success, what has to happen to make it that way?

You're all alive, though. That's worth celebrating, isn't it?

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[tailoredfate]

Spite, to those who stole their power? A warning? Even after so long, I can't be sure. But all of us have them.

[She sounds... unbothered, honestly. Not dismissive, but. After a thousand years of having a cryptic message of how she would die in the back of her mind, the fear and paranoia has long since faded. Just like many of her other emotions have.]

"You shall have your final bath in warm and radiant gold."

[She huffs out what sounds like it might be a laugh.]

Cryptic, isn't it?

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[rockymountaindie]

[ He has been, largely, rather...not relaxed tonight. But not actively hunting for signs and omens. But just like that, Alex's brain starts to work. His eyes narrow with thought, darting about. ]

Warm, radiant gold... Like, actual gold? Next to some kinda...mountain of it? Or just the light, like the sun, like the...

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[rockymountaindie]

[ Alex clams up, very suddenly. ]

Sorry. Shit. I start thinkin' about that stuff, and...

[ He bites his lip. ]

How can you not...be furious? Not wanna punch the- the smug asshole in the face?

[ She looked into the eyes of the person who cursed her with that. And yet, still. ]

[Star Rail 3.3 Spoilers]

[tailoredfate]

[She takes his panic in stride, watching but not trying to stop him immediately. She understands a lot more where all this is coming from now. He has to be able to process things to avoid danger.

It's... a tragic way to live. She wishes it wasn't on the burden of someone who could still be called a child. But she also doesn't want to try to force him to go against every instinct he's had to craft since he began seeing his own visions. That would just make things worse. So she watches, ready to step in if needed, but then he stops himself.]

It was a prophecy passed from Mnestia, who I bested to take their Coreflame. They've been gone for a thousand years, so I have no target for anger now.

[Even when she was younger, still more connected to her emotions... she'd found a dark sort of humor in her prophecy. Of course one who enjoyed indulging in the serenity of the bathhouses would be the one foretold to die in a bath.]

... Besides, I told you before, didn't I? My prophecy came to pass. I've no reason to be angry now, even if I was able to.

[Star Rail 3.3 Spoilers]

[rockymountaindie]

[ Yeah. She did tell him. Dead, and knowing how for so long. That's what Wendy's future foretold too, didn't it? That's why those photos freaked her out so much. Was it easier, for it to still be a surprise in the end?

Alex still searches her face for some hint of...something. Any hint of the frustration that's been coursing through him. ]

What do you mean...able to?

[tailoredfate]

[It's hard to really see anything in her face. It's not that it's the face of a doll, or someone so detached from life that they might as well be a walking corpse. But it's just sort of... blank.]

Let's just say... a thousand years can do many things to a soul. Feelings change, and sometimes they fade. It simply a price that comes with a life this long.

[Which might be hard to believe, with how she's clearly showed compassion to Alex and Mutsumi and some of the others. With how, in her own way, she's shown some kind of understanding and empathy with Athena. She's clearly, at the very least, able to still express emotion.]

[rockymountaindie]

[ It is. Quite hard to believe. He frowns. Gods aren't afraid to die. Gods don't die. ]

Is that what's supposed to happen with all of us? In Athena's whole...gods plan. [ If, you know, Typhon doesn't take matters into his own hands. ] You said you were...basically kind of a god before. Is that what being a god really is?

[ He asked her a similar question before. But it's with less fire, much less. It's just kind of sad. ]

I don't...know if I want that.

[tailoredfate]

I can't say. We're supposedly already gods now, but we faced no trial to fully obtain these powers. That isn't how it worked for the Chrysos Heirs, so perhaps being a god is different here.

[It's not empty reassurance. She's really not sure what exactly is going on with them.]

I don't blame you at all. It is... a very heavy burden.

[rockymountaindie]

[ Alex sits there quietly. He... ]

...I don't want it. I never wanted any of it. I just... I just wanted to...

[tailoredfate]

[Her head tilts to one side.]

Then why accept Athena's offer?

[rockymountaindie]

[ His shoulders hunch a little. Like he wants to become as small as possible. ]

'Cause...she was the first thing I could- could feel or hear in...in I don't know. I don't...remember how long.

Before I...

Before it got me.