#and decideed to be stolen from you.

[spiritofpassionfruit]

Need ONE adaptation of the genesis story to have the furbidden fruit hold the taste of the sweetest yet most vile thing anyone has ever tasted, but because its so good Eve can not stop eating it and reaching out for it until Adam finds her eating from the fruit and suddenly human and beast don't look all that different from each other.

Bonus points if Adam and Eve had never felt the taste of any other food at all, or if the reason why people feel so empty when they loose their ignorance of childhood is tied in with the eating of the fruit.

Bonus bonus points is if the fruit is the one to that consumes you instead of being consumed (and why the tree of life exists to contradict it in the first place)

[honey-minded-hivemind]

I would like to hear on how Reader was found to be the diety of Love. Please?

Okay! Because you didn't specify if you meant in the past or in the present, we're doing... the past!

The Origins of Reader, Deity of Love...

There was once a powerful kingdom that worshipped the gods and goddesses, back in the times of yore... there were great kings and countries, powerful monsters and beautiful temples, and many cities and palaces scattered throughout this ancient world...

But on the outskirts of one small country was a ridged hill, which sloped into the sea, and on the top of this cliff was a small home, one belonging to a mortal... This mortal was alone, tending to their small home and the few animals and plants that surrounded it, and did not pray to the gods. They were young, not yet of age, who had left their home to avoid being married off or sent to a temple, or even used as a sacrifice, as so many young mortals were fated to...

One day, a stranger, wrapped in a fur cloak, stumbled upon their home. The man appeared wounded, and had nothing to pay the mortal to acquire their aid. But this mortal took pity on the man, bringing him inside and setting him by the fire, giving him the bigger portions of the meal they had prepared, and tended to his wounds. They let him stay the night, and by the time morning came around he had gone. This the mortal went back to their work...

But this man had not been a mere mortal... No, he had been a god, one of the great Genoshan Pantheon, the feared Wolverine, who had been wounded by a monster he had slain... He had gone back to his home upon the mountain of the gods, and contemplated how he could repay the kindness done to him... Yet no matter how long he thought, he could not think of what they might want or request. So, going back to his mortal disguise, he visited them...

But when he talked with the young mortal, he could not find a thing they wanted. When he asked if they had ever wanted for anything, they laughed. Had they ever wanted treasure, he asked. No, they'd said, their treasure is the shells on the beach and the fossils in the rocks. Did they wish for more food, he inquired. No, they'd said, they had fish from the sea and vegetables from the garden, the birds of the trees and the berries of the bushes for their food. What about power, he tried. They shook their head, no, they said, they do not know what they'd do with power, and would not want it. So he could only sigh to himself. This mortal did not want any treasure of the gods or kingdoms, they did not want great beasts or succulent fruits of the world nor even the ambrosia of the gods,and they did not want a drop of power, not even one. So he decidee, he shall visit them, and keep doing so, to make sure they are well, and to see if he can puzzle out what he can do to return the favor they'd done him...

As three years passed, the god had grown fond of the lonely mortal, viewing them not as a stranger, nor even a comrade, it as one of his own. This startled him, enough that he left, going off to try and be rid of this feeling, for gods were not to care for mortals, were not to be warm, and were not to keep them close...

But alas... the mortal, who had been so very kind, even with what little they'd had, was soon visited by strangers... But these were not kind strangers... After the mortal had gifted them food and drink, and had started a warm fire, the strangers attacked them. They left, taking the mortal's few gifts, some even small tokens from their godly friend, and left the poor mortal to die...

The god soon made a visit, hoping to finally find his answer... only to discover his friend, someone he saw as his child, wounded, their home ransacked, and any possessions possessions had stolen. He was furious! He was enraged! He was... scared. Quick as the Autumn winds, he took his friend to the home of the gods, and begged them to heal them, to make sure it did not happen again. But the gods were in confusion. Why care for a mortal? Why not choose another? But he pressed on... One of the gods, the wise scholar and doctor, Beast, decides to inspect the mortal and see what he could do...

Yet what he found was strange, for it seemed this mortal held a small power, a small drop of divinity... This was a shock to the gods, for none had had children in years... and their creator, Apocalypse the Titan-God, had been sealed for millenia... But whatever the case was, this mortal held some form of divine power, and seeing as they they'd done their fellow god a kindness and held the same power they did, healed them...

The mortal eventually awoke, and soon they were back to their home by the sea and the forest, on their house atop the hill... It would take years for them to notice they did not age, that others saw them not as a mortal, but as a deity now, amd for them to realize they now had the power of a god... and had known one all along...

Thus is the creation of the Deity of Love, Reader...

(I slept a lot the past day, then had an errand to run, but I took the time I could to daydream and plot out this au! Hahaha, you're gonna love it!!! But, yes, basically Reader was a mortal-born deity, who helped Logan, fed him, and then Logan got attached and adopted them, then forced/begged the others to make it so Reader didn't die... then they found out Reader had a divine power, but it was muted/hidden due to them being born mortal...) (And some of the gods agreed because they also had some mortal-with-divine-power kids... it was only a handful, though, some being Sabretooth, who had unknowingly adopted Remy; Xavier, who was teaching Scott and was fond of him as a student/son; and Storm, who had helped Evan's mom have him, and was like an aunt/teacher to him...) (Imagine it like this: mortal kids with divine power are like catnip to the gods; they eventually find them or know about them, but certain gods like certain kids)

So... yeah! What do y'all think? ( @sugar-soda @vivid-bun @thewickedweiner)