#coeus does a thing

[ceyx-lethess]

No woman is required to have children! Personally I think the world would be a much better place if my mother hadn't had Hippodamia-

>:O

Reblog if you think a woman can be complete without children

Y’ALL HAVE TIME TO REBLOG THIS. IT TAKES LESS THAN FIVE SECONDS.

[ceyx-lethess]

omg bro has rizz 🤩

you're like a mcdonalds mcflurry machine, beautiful, yet broken 😌

-🪻

I... do not believe I know what this McDonald's is. However, I must ask what you mean by broken. I am perfectly functioning.

O.o .....?

Oh hush you, I am fine.

[sigmasoyboy]

could you maybe talk a little about Gage? like he's so interesting to me, I'd kill to know more stuff about him and like the process of him being turned into a mindless pet project

Of course ! I can throw a few facts together (old and new):

he was conscious most of the time during the experiment, except if Coeus really needed him to be still and even then, he would only sedate him, mostly because 1) he's got a stunted sense of empathy and 2) there was little incentive to be particularly nice with a little brat who was eager to throw insults before the experiment started

he didn't see and had no idea what the experiment entailed the whole time it was going on, wether this is a good or bad thing is up to you…

what was done to him is a mix of DNA splicing, forced mutation and stem cell culture using a dog's embryo. It's not meant to be hard science (I'm not smart enough for that), cell research in their universe is just way ahead of ours (in part thanks to Coeus' previous breakthroughs). Tbh by it's standards he was pretty much hacked together with a bit of painful trial and error.

he progressively lost sapience as the experiment went on, which was something Coeus was curious about before starting. By the time he moved onto other experiments, Gage was only able to occasionally speak garbled words outside of his bursts of lucidity. Coeus hypothesizes that it's not really him remembering language but just him associating sounds with things and parroting it back/muscle memory of how to form the sounds (and it's very simple things like "food", "bath", "walk", perhaps at most a creepy "what doing"). Most of the time all he does is laugh, grunt, growl, and make other emotional vocalizations.

"Funnily" enough, he doesn't bark or anything of the sort. He'll let out a happy yell when excited but nowhere close to what a dog sounds like.

he does not seem to really understand more than a dog anymore: even if you spoke at him he would only react to your tone and very few key words. The most glaring thing about this is that he does not answer to "Gage" more than being called mutt, freak, etc… It's really just the tone that let's him know that he's being called.

getting called Christer or Chris does throw his brain for a loop though. He just stares dumbly, not sapient enough to understand the emotions welling inside. It sometimes triggers those lucidity episodes. Of course, since he was allowed to roam outside the lab and Hunter started calling him other things, it has happened less.

[waddleonmywaywardducks]

HEKATE MASTER POST

(This is one big info post on Hekate, all sources are linked (hekates name) as well as upg post. I will mark which one is which dw. More will be added to the upg and info list and if you have any other suggestions on what I can put there feel free to dm me)

I started to worship Hekate immediately once I moved out of my mother house. I wasn't really allowed to practice at her house so with me finally being free I wanted to get all into it, Hekate showed me where to go. I've been under hekates wing for about a year now and I've learned so much from her and she's opened so many doors! I really hope this post does the same for future Hekate worshippers!!

WHO IS HEKATE?

Hekate is a goddess of Greek mythology. She is the goddess of witchcraft, necromancy, liminal spaces, doorways, crossroads, good and evil. She is associated with the moon, liminal spaces, crossroads, keys, doorways, creatures of the night, dogs, bloodhounds, the night, darkness.

She is the daughter of Perses and Asteria, making her the granddaughter of the Titans Phoebe and Coeus. Euripides, on the other hand, mentions her mother is Leto. Other writers claim her as the daughter of Zeus and Demeter, Aristaion or Night. The goddess was frequently associated with Demeter and even assimilated to her in some cults. It is known that Zeus favored Hekate and gifted her land, sea, and sky, making her the goddess of boundaries.

HEKATES ROLE

Hekate became a household and protective goddess in the 5th century BC. She had cults closely tied to Persephone and Demeter. Rituals done for specificly her were the supper of Hekate: offerings given at crossroads as a sort of libation. The offerer would give offerings of illuminated cakes, meat, sacrifices of puppies, garlic, eggs, water, and frankincense. After the offering was given the offerer will walk away from the crossroads and not look back, as it was said if you looked back spirits would follow you home.

As a house hold goddess, she was given shrines or altars in doorways, it was said that this kept unwanted guest and spirits away. She was also given altars near the hearth of the home as protection.

UPG

Hekate shows herself as a tall hooded figure with chains around her body. She takes her work very seriously and expects her followers to as well.

Some workings that she's helped me with are:

- road opener spells

- spell workings in general

- baneful wards

- lunar magic

Some offerings that I like to give:

- black things (nail polish, necklaces)

- eggs

- wine

- olive oil

- frankincense

- water

UPG/INFO POSTS

- Hekate fact list (info post)

- subtle offerings to Hekate (UPG post)

-hekate reading list (info post)

- Hekate info post (info post)

- grounding with Hekate (UPG post??)

[ceyx-lethess]

(=^ω^=)

*｡٩(ˊωˋ*)و✧*｡

OwO ...?

:D !!!

-@ceyx-lethess (Coeus)

:0!

[the-chattering-tower]

Speaking of the Totally-Not-Just-Decorative Palace Guard, here's all the members who actually exist in my lair

Istur is the Head of the Guard and her no1 hobby And problem is that she's having a doomed romance thing going on with the throne heir, Veritas. Opinion behind her back is that the only reason she ended up in such a shiny but safe position is because of said romance, but she's actually been here way longer than the feelings have. She fully understands that her (and her entire division's) role is more decoration than combat power, she just doesn't make a habit of saying it out loud, and nonetheless takes her job very seriously (and can and will kick your ass if needed)

(Accent: iiiii. architeuthis by willowlight)

Candela, Mana, and Crescent I honestly don't have anything on. I've had Candela and Crescent hanging out together since I got them (they were both Twosday hatches) and designated guards, and then the look I settled on for Mana fit in with them so well I couldn't resist adding them to the roster (Mana isn't actually gened yet, I'm just using inspect element to cheat for screenshots)

And then Coeus, the oldest member of the Palace Guard. He's a proper Old Man, but very much still in good physical health and fit for the job. He's generally considered good-looking, and he generally does not care. He's served his time in the Royal Army but never fought any great battles or otherwise had any Great Achievements, thus also failing to gather Great Wealths and Fame to go retire with. This is his retirement. It's more an acknowledgement of his good looks and military mediocrity than any sort of Great Reward

[godsofhumanity]

May I humbly ask for some wheat (Themis and/or Rhea headcanons), mi'lord?

okie so i've already done a lot of Themis and Rhea hc's, but not too many of the two of them together, so here we go:

of Gaia's daughters, first came Theia, then Rhea, then Themis, Mnemosyne, Phoebe, and Tethys.

as the first-born daughter, i think Theia would always act a lot older than she really was, and she's a bit bossy too, so when Rhea was born, i think she was a little mischievous, and quite a trouble-maker (this ties into why she got along with Kronos so well hee hee but i'm not here to talk about him so we'll move on) to counter Theia's goody-two-shoesness.

Themis, the third-born, is the titan of justice which is pretty interesting because that suggests she's quite moral and law-abiding, so that could suggest a little friction between Themis and Rhea as kids.

i can imagine Rhea and Themis butting heads a lot-- Rhea flicking food at Themis, Themis being stubborn and unwilling to let things go, so she flicks food back at Rhea, and Rhea flicks it back but misses Themis and hits Hyperion instead, who throws bread at Coeus who cries, and then Crius is shouting and Theia is rolling her eyes and Iapetus is gleefully throwing plates at the wall, and Oceanus is yelling at everybody to shut up and behave, there's food everywhere and it's a mess.

BUT. Rhea's not evil, and Themis isn't always a spoilsport. i think the thing that Rhea and Themis truly have in common is their fighting prowess.

i like the idea of Theia, being the titan of 'brilliance' (i.e., light), and Mnemosyne being the titan of the Arts (effectively), Phoebe with her prophecies, and Tethys with the rivers, etc., i think Themis and Rhea are the only two titanides with that fiery spirit that makes them actively want to fight. idk if i'm phrasing that in a way that makes sense, but i mean, they don't back down from a fight.

in terms of fight or flight instinct, theirs is to fight.

so, i think Themis and Rhea get along best when they're sparring, or hunting.

especially in the lead-up to their attack against Ouranos, i hc that Themis and Rhea stay up late hours, sometimes never even going to bed because they're out in the fields, clashing their swords and spears.

i consider the titans as having become 'full adults' at the point when they've defeated Ouranos. in a sense, when Kronos becomes King, that is the end of their childhood. their innocence. they are fully mature then; physically and mentally.

and i think, as adults, Themis and Rhea become much closer than they were in childhood. the trauma of war and Ouranos' terror unites them.

Themis also becoming an advisor in Kronos' palace means that Rhea and Themis see each other a lot more compared to Hyperion, Theia, Phoebe, Coeus, Oceanus, and Tethys who live the furthest away from Kronos' palace (Kronos' brothers become kings in the corners of the world... so does Iapetus, but Iapetus and Kronos are close, so Iapetus appears more often the other brothers).

of course, Themis and Rhea could not have been too close since no one really knows what Rhea suffers at Kronos' hands until the titanomachy is literally on their doorstep, but i still think Themis and Rhea do get along well in that immediate post-war peace period.

[vex-machina]

on state of narrative in D2

okay listen usually I do not post opinions here and when posting on twitter I try to remain brief and calm, but right now I’m delusional and a little enraged and I’ve been pondering these emotions long enough to put them into perspective and form some words. 

Lightfall seems to be unnecessary. Neomuna seems to be unnecessary. there are leakers, however unreliable they are, on twitter and reddit claiming that LF is a filler DLC shoved in-between narrative bits of the Witch Queen and the Final Shape. from where I stand their theories are solid, their claims are checking out: Strand looks like something that belongs with the Queen of Lies, the Lucent Brood and the whole TWQ aesthetic; new destination is lacking, both map and new characters feel empty and underdeveloped; new armor and armaments are the old ones actually, just reskinned. a whole expansion being shoehorned into the schedule for whatever reasons — to give studio a bit more time to work on an Actual тм finale or because of profits — just serves a proof that subscription model kills the coherent narrative, that constant updates scheduling fresh content at a certain date, promising people new deep insights and fun, previously unexplored gameplay are incompatible with healthy work environment and high quality of the content being released. there is just not enough time.

on the second hand, lots of people are praising TWQ for its plot and character development, for the subtle ways the story engages with the gameplay, for the finally well structured and solid basics of the lore being introduced clearly for once. though I do have a bone to pick with those who consider the only good narrative the one that states itself in simple terms (because oversimplification tends to kill nuance and convert otherwise good plot points into bland “marvel-esque” tales), I do not consider this the main issue. for me the main issue with TWQ is actually the one that is present in LF, the one TWQ establishes for LF — it is the main antagonist. the Witness in his current iteration is somewhat unnecessary. 

Destiny’s core writing is heavily influenced by the man behind it. Seth Dickinson wrote the backbone of the world we know as Destiny universe, his ideas permeate the worldbuilding and some of them are easy to spot in his other works. Sekhmet Hunts The Dying Gnosis: A Computation is one of such works, and it deals mostly with the same existential concepts Destiny does: with life and death and the war between them. 

there are three main characters in “Sekhmet”: Sekhmet, the primordial essence of death and instinct and simplicity (you can call her the Winnower); her brother Seth, who is a being of conscience and curiosity and also complexity and life (yes, he thoroughly remind me of the Gardener); finally, there is Coeus — a transhuman entity that pleads Sekhmet to end her war on all things because zir people are so close to discovering a secret, third option of existing (“a way between [Sekhmet and Seth], a melding of [their] strengths”). Coeus is described as “a slender sinuous person, black as carbon fiber” with “eyes of jet, with gleaming cuttlefish pupils that promise some acuity nearly divine”, ze also tells Sekhmet that “[ze] was made in hate of [her] <…> [ze] was made to spite [her] blindness. at the end of history, the end of gods, when [zir people] tried to go forward” — so it’s only natural to see some inspiration Bungie drew for the Witness from that character. 

the story of “Sekhmet” is heavily based on the mythos of Ancient Egypt, therefore is quite straightforward: in a space before times Sekhmet hunts her brother Seth, she wants to kill him because he is weak, because it is the nature of Sekhmet to wage war of the stronger against weaker one. Seth only wants to live and explore Thought and Creation and Mind, but because the two of them share an intricate bond of existing within each other, Seth’s creation is always doomed with Sekhmet’s viral rule of strength. Sekhmet traverses the timeline and meets shadows of people, planted there by Seth to instill a curiosity in her, to challenge the simplicity of her nature with nuance — such is the battle between them. at some point Sekhmet meets Coeus who tells her about a civilization ze came from and zir struggle to forge a path between gods. after a short fight Sekhmet devours Coeus (for ze was weak) and continues on her path, finally reaching her brother at the end of times. there Seth berates her for ruthlessness and blindness, but he already lost and so he has to go — Sekhmet kills him and in devouring his flesh learns all the things he used to know, thus realizing they are two parts of the same process (Coeus calls them “algorithms”) and cannot be separated. in the epilogue Sekhmet diminishes into a weaker version of herself, giving way to the rule of her brother, but she also talks to Coeus and asks ze if zir people have found the way to exist beyond the algorithms of divine war, weakness and strength. Coeus tells her that such way has not yet been found, thus leaving the main question of possibility of “a secret, third option” open.

it is obviously unwise to consider Dickinson’s short story a summary to 10 years of carefully crafted sci-fi saga written by dozens of authors, but it is also evident that core concepts were introduced and then developed in touch with particular author’s mindset — the one that previously borned “Sekhmet” and drew heavily upon it. and because of the different scale of media to which those concepts were introduced, Destiny suffers with continuity. it is one thing to read an intimate story about personifications of existential constants and a whole other thing to introduce roughly the same story in an interactive universe scheduled for 10 years of uptime and bound by industrial standards. industry demands that there should be a villain — something physical, manifested — to fight it face to face, to simplify the narrative into clearly understandable fractions, some friendly, some hostile, and here the beauty of Dickinson’s metaphor fades away, shaping philosophical concepts into enemy races.  

and while this is sad, this is also understandable. a conscious choice to divulge from already established worldbuilding on the other hand is not. a few days passed since the LF release and I still cannot understand what brought Bungie to a genius idea of introducing Neptune as a whole new destination, previously unmentioned but holding an insane significance for the core narrative. there is already a destination in Destiny that’s well established, well mentioned and is of utmost importance for the characters leading the story: I’m talking about Distributary, the world within a black hole where the stronghold of Awoken civilization remains. let’s check out the boxes: 

Distributary is encased within a singularity which allows for time skipping that is necessary to introduce high tech society hidden from the devastation that permeated Sol for eons;

Distributary is a place of birth for one of the playable races, the one that has been under siege since Forsaken but apparently remained a peaceful haven, thus making the stakes familiar, clear and high;

Distributary already operates on concepts that Neomuna tries to introduce as fresh: Exodus Indigo is basically Exodus Green, huge Cloud Striders are the same as Sjur Eido and other genetically altered folk that came from the Yang Liwei, the CloudArk (while being somewhat derivative from SOMA ending) is also suspiciously well described as an Awoken decision to let the civilians on Exodus Green remain dormant until the civilization is well established and can provide — the only difference between the two is that Distributary is already there, with its stories well written and introduced, waiting to be explored, while Neomuna is an empty space that strives to fill itself in record timing, and fails at it;

most importantly, players already fought for Distributary during Forsaken, making the recent Darkness offensive on it a personal deal of seeing your own hard work demolished — once again, clear stakes, personal interest, direct ties between characters players already know and a new setting, that had been teased, but never shown. hell, even the novelty can be explained and expressed through characters of Mara or Crow, struggling with their memory (or loss of it) and the way time changed the place they used to know. 

it is also worth noting that when dealing with complex narratives over a long period of time you have to utilize already established characters, concepts and destinations rather than introduce new ones with every other bit of the story. obviously you have to include and establish some fresh plot points over the time being, but it’s a general rule of thumb NOT to start anew with every few pages. and this is where previously mentioned seasonal model tends to work against the writers: the model dictates to start anew and industry demands a villain.

[ceyx-lethess]

oh no... 😭

on skibidi bruh, i have no rizz,

but aight, *coughs and leans on rich car*

*pulls up rizz song on phone*

are you an oppositely charged molecule? cause i'm attracted to you-

(chemistry rizz)

i enjoy chemistry im sorry Ceyx 😭

tell ur brother i'm sorry he's a witness to my L rizz

-🪻

I am quite the fan of studies like Chemistry as well! After careful research, it has come to my attention that my response has to be, Are you made of Copper and Tellurium? Because you're CuTe.

... D:

[jelliclekay]

Could you answer 7 13 and/or 25 for Artemis? ^_^

7. What flaws does your character have? Do they give anyone any reason to dislike them? Artemis has a bad habit of saying what they are thinking out loud without realizing, which leads to them abruptly saying things to others that could be misconstrued as them being purposefully rude. Most of the Jellicles know this about them, but younger cats or newer members of the tribe are often caught off guard by their (unintentional) brutal honesty.  

They also hate other cats worrying about them, and they especially do not like worrying the cats closest to them when it comes to issues regarding themselves. Because of this, they will insist until they are blue in the face that they are fine with the cats closest to them despite something clearly being wrong with them. 

13. What was their childhood like? Their childhood was fairly uneventful, and honestly they do not remember much from their time as a kitten. Artemis spent their free time out in the clearing quietly reading or being around their father when he would visit with the older cats.  They are the only kitten to their father Coeus, who was already much older than most Jellicles are when they have kittens, and most of their childhood was spent under his wing to prepare for when they would take over his position as the tribe historian and archiver. A position they took over as an older kitten when Coeus was picked as the Jellicle Choice one faithful Jellicle Ball. Their lack of having any sort of kitten fun during their own childhood is why they are so adamant that their own kittens get out and make friends and play as kittens should. 

25. What is their ‘outlet’? How do they express themselves? Artemis’ outlet is writing, specifically creative writing. Their role in the tribe requires them to write and read a lot, but taking time to write stories of their own creation and fiction rather than documenting the real life of the tribe is how they keep themselves motivated to continue working every day. They love writing stories to read to their own kittens as well as the other kittens in the tribe, and are quite versed in coming up with stories that amaze and wonder kittens. They have a stash of works that are more catered toward an older audience as well, but they keep these stories hidden away as they are much more private. 

[vitalphenomena]

BECK DOES NOT CONSIDER HIS SIMPLICITY A DESIGN FLAW. He does not consider his design much at all. When you are what you are, there's little else to consider being.

Beck nods, as if knowing. "The acid." He was briefed on many things, an onslaught of information. However, he counters: "My home, Coeus, is the desert. The suns here and everywhere give me power; I will not become weaker while I am here. I have something important to do."

However however, when given water to drink, he does so graciously and needily. When droplets trickle down his chin, he licks them up instead of delicately wiping at his face.

He is not expecting the princess to explain how solar and nuclear power are different from the chemical compound of hyaluronic acid. Someone should probably make that clear to him soon, though, if it does not become apparent on its own.

"You do not have to take care of me." I'll take care of you.

The expected wall between her and Minder is given a drop. She's forced to confront an aspect deeper than her surface wary. She feels bad for the lack in him — the design for lack in him.

She is silent for a stretch.

❛  Belarilia requires an uptake in hydration intake. ❜

This planet is hyaluronic acid. If you do not give its fill of water, it'll leech it elsewhere. And elsewhere is the beds of his hands, the under of his eyes... the pull, the dull, the lackluster. Instead of waiting for him to decide something for himself, she grabs a water pitcher and pours him a glass. The bulb shape of it fits nicely in a palm. She fits it there now.

❛ This is a good start. Perhaps a tea later. ❜

She'll get him a proper canteen within the next twenty-four hours.

[sigmasoyboy]

Does Coeus feel some degree of satisfaction in Gage's state? Also, does the puppy hump things around the house??🥰

He's pretty happy with the experiment ( ˘ᴗ˘ ) it was a pretty "hey what happens if I do that" kind of endeavor/fucking around to test his skills so the fact that Christer/Gage survived at all is satisfactory, though it did kind of bore him after a while so he just moved on to other experiments.

As for the second question, short answer is not really ? Long answer I touched on in an old retrospring question:

"Gage has pretty much had his sex drive nullified by the experiments done to him (it probably also rendered him possibly infertile tbh) […] Now, when it comes to his thirst for blood and domination over the weaker than him, it could reignite some old sex drive (after all, before he was experimented on, sex, violence and death were intimately linked for him), so I guess you could say him craving to sink his teeth into Valeriy's neck means in some way he is attracted to him, though he is… More likely to kill him first and foremost."

So, if anything is getting humped in the house, it's gonna be poor Valeriy

[abookishdreamer]

Character Intro: Leto (Kingdom of Ichor)

Nicknames- Momma by Artemis & Apollo   

Lil' by Poseidon

Modest Dearest by Aphrodite

Age- 30 (immortal)

Location- Delos, Olympius

Personality- Leto is warm, kind, and caring- bursting with maternal energy. Above all else, family comes first. Fierce and determined, she's quite fond of her children. She’s currently single.

As the Titaness of demurity & motherhood, her powers/abilities include having an innate sense of people's emotional auras, limited mystiokinesis (not to the extent of Asteria), inducing a calming effect in others, shapeshifting into/communicating with her sacred animals, vitakinesis (healing), fertility manipulation, and inducing phantom pregnancy in her opponents.

She lives in a large colonial style home in Delos. Leto is an official foster parent- she has fostered several hundred children. She's also a licensed midwife! She's currently fostering an eleven year old cyclops- a boy named Elias.

Leto has a great foundation of family- a close relationship with her parents Phoebe (Titaness of prophecy, the moon, radiant intellect, & mystery) and Coeus (Titan god of foresight, intellect, & knowledge).

As a mom, she doesn't play favorites with her children. She loves Artemis (goddess of the hunt & moon) and Apollo (god of the sun, music, poetry, healing, medicine, archery, plague, light, & knowledge) equally and wholeheartedly. Leto sometimes joins them on hunting expeditions and working with them on their archery, poetry, & songwriting. She loves cooking for them- baked mac n' cheese (with bacon added) and smothered pork chops for her daughter and garlic mashed potatoes & lemon chicken orzo soup for her son.

Leto does have an older brother Lelantos (Lantos) (Titan god of air, the unseen, & hunting); though the two of them haven't been close in centuries as well as a niece named Aura (goddess of the breeze) who she tries to be there for & has been in contact with.

She has a few tattoos- her children's symbols (a sun & crescent moon) on the back of each shoulder blade) and a lily flower on her lower waist.

Even though she doesn't regret her children, Leto does regret her affair with Zeus (god of the sky, thunder, & lightning), their father & king of the Gods. He was a few hundred years into his marriage with Hera (goddess of women & marriage) when they got together. They had a meaningful connection, but she broke things off once Hera became aware. Now, they've discovered a newfound friendship (with no strings attached) in addition to being co-parents.

Leto is pretty fond of Zeus' brother Poseidon (god of the sea & earthquakes), who helped her while she went through a long painful labor, trying to find a place to give birth after Hera cursed her.

Leto's tried on many occasions to make amends with Hera, to no avail. She knows it's highly unlikely that they'll be friends, but she's still hopeful that they can one day peacefully coexist, as mothers with children who are also siblings.

Her go-to drink is apricot infused lemonade. She also enjoys orange juice, coconut water, white wine, martinis, bellinis mimosas, iced tea, and champagne. Her usual at The Roasted Bean is a medium chai latte.

Her go-to desserts to make are peach cobbler & bougatsa. She also likes the banana cream pie from Hollyhock’s Bakery.

Her all-time favorite meal is baked mac n' cheese, grilled chicken, fried green tomatoes, along with mediterranean tuna salad.

Leto is really good friends with Asteria (Titaness of falling stars, astrology, magic, necromancy, & nocturnal oracles and prophecies), Elpis (goddess of hope), Hestia (goddess of the hearth), Demeter (goddess of the harvest & agriculture), Theia (Titaness of sight & heavenly light), Pathos (god of emotion), Záchari (god of confectionery), Epione (goddess of soothing pain), Zeuxo (goddess of marriage), Aethra (an oceanic nymph), Mnemosyne (Titaness of memory & language), Hesychia (goddess of quiet, stillness, rest, & silence), Sophrosyne (goddess of moderation, temperance, & restraint), Eudaimonia (goddess of happiness), Hesperis (goddess of the evening & sunset), Peitharchia (goddess of obedience & discipline), Philotes (goddess of sex, friendship, & affection), Apheleia (goddess of simplicity), Eunostos (goddess of the flour mill), Soteria (goddess of safety), Themis (Titaness of justice), Pistis (goddess of trust, reliability, & good faith), Argía (goddess of holidays), Lyrikós (Titan goddess of voice & song), Promylaia, Thilasmós (goddess of nursing), and Dione. She also has a great rapport with the island's namesake goddess Delos (one of The Nesoi).

Leto used to be real good friends with Niobe of Thebes before they had a falling out.

Leto still believes in love and hopes to find a great guy. With her son's help, she has made an online dating profile.

She has several businesses- in addition to being a licensed midwife! In Delos, she operates a day care center, has a few boutiques of maternity clothes (Pea & Pod), a clothing line for babies and children (solis et. luna), as well as a line of baby products called Koiogenês. She also does interior design for children’s rooms & nurseries.

Leto also models for/endorses Euryphaessa as well as Glory's Crown (she swears by the vanilla almond leave-in spray & the green tea hair mask). Leto is also a frequent writer of Hearthside magazine. She’s also a photographer- mainly doing portraits of women, family, and children. 

In her free time, she enjoys having a girl's night out with her best girlfriends, cooking, sunbathing, reading, gardening, cloud surfing, pilates, baking, knitting, and sewing (she has been a part of The Moirai's sewing circle). She's even taken on learning the art of magic & spells through Asteria!

"A mother's arms are more comforting than anyone else's."

[godsofhumanity]

@lukewasrightaboutthegods​ hiii i know u said this ages ago,, i just didn’t have time to answer but i’ve been thinking about this a lot!! tbh i didn’t even realise that Lelantos existed. he’s not mentioned in Hesiod’s Theogony so i assume that he might be a later addition to the Titan family tree? either way, i’ve got some hc’s for you if you want them :D

Lelantos doesn’t really seem to be too popular (not as in he was disliked, but rather, he just seems kinda unknown), so that makes me picture him to be the youngest of Phoebe and Coeus’ children.. 

now, i don’t believe that Lelantos ended up in Tartarus after the Titanomachy, so i think that he was probably too young to fight.

in any case, i think that Lelantos lives freely during the reign of Zeus :)

Lelantos’ wife is Periboia, a daughter of Oceanus and Tethys, and they have a daughter called Aura..

i like the idea that Periboia is just a little bit taller than Lelantos. Lelantos is a short guy for a god, i think!

now, let’s talk about the sad and depressing tale of Aura.

Aura is described by Nonnus in Dionysiaca as “a manlike maid... who knew nothing of Aphrodite”.

i take this to mean that she wasn’t very feminine at all.. i picture her as having very chiselled features, tall, and a little bit more than athletic build..

i also don’t think that Aura ever cared about romance and flings.. i think she was dedicated to hunting and the wilderness.

Lelantos’ name means “to move unseen” or “go unobserved”, and because of this, he was associated with the wind, and also, a hunter’s skill in stalking his prey unseen.

as such, i love the idea of Lelantos being very skilled at hunting, and i think he would take Aura often to go hunting. her love for being in the wilderness was definitely nurtured by Lelantos.

there are lots of different parts to the tale of Aura: the first part is that Aura boasts that Artemis is too feminine to be a virgin huntress, and that Aura is far more suited to the role... in anger, Artemis asks Nemesis to take revenge, and so Nemesis takes revenge by promising Artemis that Aura will lose the thing she values the most; her chasteness.

also, it should be noted, that Artemis originally asks Nemesis to turn Aura into stone, but Nemesis says no because she’s worried that Lelantos will get angry with her.. so it makes me think that although Lelantos wasn’t too much involved with the other gods, i think he must have been fairly strong in his own right, and he wouldn’t have stood up for people hurting his family.

anyways, Eros enters the scene (as he always inevitably does), and enchants Dionysus to be overcome with an unrequited love for Aura. i’m not sure, but i think some people say that Dionysus already loved Aura, and asked Aphrodite to enchant her so that she would return his love (not sure about this part though!).

in any case, the story ends with Aura unwittingly falling asleep, being defiled by Dionysus, and then becoming pregnant with twins, and Artemis then mocking her for it.

but.. perhaps the saddest part of the story is that, when Aura gives birth, she doesn’t call out for Artemis’ aid in childbirth (obviously), but she doesn’t dare call for Eileithyia either, fearing that, since Eileithyia is Dionysus’ half-sister, she will sympathise with Dionysus and curse Aura to have even worse childbirth pangs than otherwise... so she just suffers by herself... >:(((

ultimately, Aura is forced into a relationship that she truly does not want.. and when her children by Dionysus are born (twins!), she tears one up and then throws herself into the sea.

in Nonnus’ Dionysiaca, Zeus actually turns Aura into water once she kills herself, but i like the idea that, as Aura’s mother is an Oceanid herself, the sea, under the command of Oceanus and Tethys, rather than Zeus, lovingly sweeps up her body, and it dissolves into foam, returning to the sea once again...

as for Dionysus... i think that Lelantos would truly hate Dionysus.. as would be expected.. but there’s not really anything he can do against him for fear of inviting punishment from Zeus... 

i’m also not sure that Lelantos would have any relationship at all with Aura’s children sired by Dionysus.

all in all, the whole story is just so awful from start to finish. it was wrong of Aura to boast, but the punishment absolutely did not fit the crime....

anyways.. it’s very sad that Lelantos’ only myth is so awful and disgusting.. i really feel bad for him.

i don’t think that Lelantos gets involved a lot in Olympian politics. also, the myth of Aura makes me feel like Lelantos’ relationship with his sister Leto must have taken quite the hit. i mean, how could it not?

[vitalphenomena]

SPIRIT AND LADY RUIN MAKE QUITE THE STRANGE PAIR INDEED. This is not lost on the judgmental eyes of King Daniel's court; the nobility gossip and chatter about the two women. Lady Ruin is known to some for her hand in vanquishing Kieran Glass, but ultimately, her presence is a mystery. She should go back to Thalassinus, back to her husband. What is she doing here, with some sort of orphaned thing?

In the presence of King Daniel, Spirit is uncharacteristically meek and quiet. She keeps her head ducked, as if in reverence—only raises it to speak when spoken to. It is humiliating, to explain her origins in Coeus, her friendship with Queen Juniper—and her fall out of the queen's graces. It is humiliating, to rely so much on Lady Ruin for—well—for just about everything, at this point.

Despite this dependency, the king gestures for Lady Ruin to exit, and Lady Ruin only. Spirit's neck jerks; her eyes go wide.

"Wait—"

There is no waiting. King Daniel has made his intentions clear. Josephine is escorted away—to eat, to rest, to ultimately sleep through the brutal Silisco night. She may not be offered the bed she shares with her husband, but it'll surely be better slumber than she experienced with Spirit on their journey.

Do you like it?

Her eyes are still wide, eyebrows inadvertently raised. She looks as if his simple, surprisingly earnest question has startled her. And he has caused her to stutter, to stumble—simply by looking at her like that, like he wants to pierce through her many ladylike layers into her heart and soul.

"I—"

She does not step back, does not lean away from his domineering presence. She wouldn't dream of insulting or denying him in that way. He is the fucking king; she's as good as a bastard.

Also? He is undeniably very hot. If he perceives while he looks this closely, he'll see a flush rise to her face, down her neck.

"I very much enjoy it here, your grace, yes. You have—done well." As if he is responsible for the natural landscape itself—molding mountains and pastures.

"I have never been in a—fortress like this before. Coeus, you see, it is—it is very different. But I have no home, now, Coeus or otherwise. I could not—I cannot burden anyone else, especially not—I couldn't possibly—you're the king. Your grace."

@vitalphenomena

A page whispers in his ear, barely audible over the sounds of lute and laughter, and informs him of the news; tells him a knight has come to beg refuge for some poor creature who'd had her world turned upside down. An amused smirk splits his face as the page slips away, back into the service tunnels he'd sprung from.

King Romano is not known for his selfless kindnesses. So for a knight to come here, seeking such compassion and generosity without have earned his prior favor, he imagines there must be quite the story involved. And he does love a rousing tale; could use one on such a dull evening.

Not long after he's given the news of what's to come, a woman enters his line of sight, small and frail and all the more so when juxtaposed against another woman with the practiced posturing and enduring athleticism of knighthood; of strength and determination and power, even if her underlying frame is much the same as the damsel.

His eyes do not linger long on the knight. Instead, they're drawn, pulled toward the maiden. Her harvest moon hair is striking in the brazier light, and it seems to shine against the backdrop of the dull, dark stone that much of his underground fortress is carved from.

The king does not rise from his seat as he holds court with the odd pair of women. He sits sprawled upon his throne, taking up space with a leisurely air about him, but he listens with sharp ears, prompting one or the other every now and again as they speak of their misadventures.

And finally, he dismisses the knight with the wave of his hand. Though, notably, not before he offers her a place to rest her head, sharpen her blades, and fill her belly and knapsack, nor before assuring her that her charge is safe within his hollowed walls. He may have use of her again later, but Spirit has not earned respite from his curiosity just yet.

"Do you like it?" he asks her, leaning forward into her space as his dark eyes bore into her with much more unbridled intensity than he'd displayed prior. "What you've seen so far of the Siliscan lands? Perhaps you might make this place your home."

[mikiib]

The Magnus Archives: ALIEN AU (Part 1)

     So in short I had come up with an AU where the cast of TMA characters are set in the universe of ALIEN. They’re both my FAVORITE pieces of horror media I’ve consumed and so my brain figured- WHY NOT? So I have 13 pages and scenes in my brain that would take place in this AU. If this or the following posts that I’ll make inspire anyone I would LOVE to see what you come up with! In short this story has a mostly good ending.    

 Here’s a list of the things that ARE and AREN’T in this universe. 

- 14 Fears aren’t in this world. It’s fully immersed in the universe of the movie ALIEN/ALIENS. - The xenomorphs however have more powers- they can shape shift into anyone they ‘kill’. So if the alien hatches from the host but somehow the host survives then that creature can pretend to be that person. If they kill someone they can pretend to be them.  They still however take the main biological forms of the hosts they came from in regular form. - Queens are born when there is no other queen in near vicinity detected by the unhatched egg.  - The hatching of an egg takes a lot longer after implantation rather than a few hours like the original movie.  - The aliens acidic blood is still STRONG but not nearly as much. I nerfed that to a slower burn- if left on the surface for more than a few minutes it can still be JUST AS BAD as the movies version. - Cyborgs are a thing in this world- who is and isn’t a cyborg is up in the air- however you’ll find out if you follow the posts. - The aliens are weak to extreme heat and extreme cold. The younger they are the more vulnerable to both. Fire extinguishers and flamethrowers will be a big weapon in both firepower and as a melee weapons. - The technology is slightly more up to date compared to ALIEN’s 80′s tech, as there are in short video calls that can be held. -Mother (MU-TH-UR 4900) is the ships computer mainframe, and can connect directly to Elias with his acceptance of the transmission. Mother also monitors the crew and their vitals when they are under cyosleep. - They can quit. No bindings to ‘The Eye’ here. 

ARTIFACT RETRIEVAL VEHICLE: THE COEUS CREW: SEVEN

Captain and Scrivener (Archivist): Jonathan Sims (Age: 31)

  Executive Officer: Sasha James (Age: 35)

  Warrant Officer: Georgie Barker  (Age: 29)

  Navigator: Melanie King (Age: 27)

  Engineers: Tim Stocker (Age 33) & Martin Blackwood (Age: 27)

  Science Officer: Nikola Orsinov (Age: 30)

CARGO: OTHER WORLDLY ARTIFACTS UNDER STUDY COURSE: SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY MOON BASE: THE MAGNUS ARCHIVES 

-Everyone shares the role of being a Scribal (Archival) Assistants to Jon- no exceptions.  -The Magnus Archives is a space station on the Moon orbiting Earth.  -The cargo they carry is found from the ships that collect samples from uninhabited planets as well as statements from those who report to them their findings to investigate.  -The Admiral is the ships designated therapy cat to help the crew cope with isolation brought on by Georgie. -Elias Bouchard is the head of The Magnus Archives.

STORYLINE: 

     The story starts after they’ve collected the last of the artifacts required on the list to retrieve. They’ve been in cryosleep for over 6 months and only need 3 more months of it till they’d arrive to their destination. Everyone wakes up on their own time, Georgie first, along with Melanie and Martin. Followed by Tim, Sasha, Jon, and Nikola, they gather at the dining table of the living quarters. Martin makes everyone their preferred meals, seemingly the most nervous. This has been Martins first time aboard THE COEUS, and his banter with Sasha and Tim prove while not the best at his job there, he makes a mean meal out of the ‘rubbish space food’ provided. Melanie comes back after taking a look at their current location frowning, letting the others know they aren’t even close to Earth yet- not even in their solar system anymore. In surprise they turn to Jon, who himself has only been Captain on ship for only just before this crew was assigned to him. He gets up to check out whats going on, many of the others follow him, much to his disgruntlement as they basically fill the small room. Mother has intercepted a transmission of unknown origins and under contract of their jobs they must check it out. Curious to know more about their new course Jon calls Elias, who informs them it will be a 2 week set back on their schedules course. Jons not exactly excited about this but Tim’s quite happy to be informed it does give them quite a large bonus since it does seem confirmed of unknown (non-human) origins. 

     Once they arrive to their destination, Melanie sets the ship into motion for landing. She reads off all planet signs to the crew on. It’s a nearly isolated dwarf planet of 600 kilometers in diameter (372.823 miles). The surface on landing will be 23 degrees celsius- much warmer than expected but it does seem to be orbiting a sun fairly closely. They prepare for landing and Martin and Tim are set to get the ship in position. Martin and Tim talk together as they prep and make sure the landing legs will be fine against the surface of the planet. While they do so Sasha pops in announcing she gets to go with Jon and Melanie to investigate the source of the spooky transmission on foot. Meaning also she gets a bigger cut in the bonus than them. Tim and Sasha razz at each other but stop when sparks are spat in Martins face for wiring something wrong. He curses and Sasha comes over to help see what's wrong, pulling on gloves. She laughs a bit and gently teases him to choose a different degree to lie about next time he wants a new job as she fixes the wiring for him. Martin shushes her, claiming he didn’t expect them not to do background checks, nor did he expect to be given a position on one of the biggest damned cargo retrieval ships known. While he worked originally as a simple warehouse organizer at The Magnus Archives sister base on earth he had needed cash to help support himself after his Mother had moved out. Tim wraps an arm around Martin, claiming he’ll shield Martin from Jons prying eyes if anything goes wrong on this detour. They laugh a bit before the radio goes off from Jons office room. He’s complaining about the lights not turning on in there and would be thrilled if someone did their job correctly when fixing it before he gets back on the ship. Tim radios him that they’re on it before they tease Martin more on his obvious crush on Jon before Sasha is then called up to suit up. 

     Georgie is helping the 3 suit up properly, making sure their heart monitors are secure and attached to their neck to get an accurate pulse. Jon seems to be struggling most with the suit up, this unlike the other two, being his first time in a suit outside of the initial training. Sasha after having her camera feed double checked helps Jon out. And while Jon doesn’t say anything about it, it’s obvious Sasha should’ve gotten the job as Captain. Melanie the entire time rattling on about how excited she is to document her findings of a foreign transmission. 

     They land with ease, nothing going wrong as the planet, while rocky with a constant rain, is also somewhat flat. They make their way to the source of the transmission. Tim and the others are now watching from the ship- cameras live feed and audio coming to them as Georgie talks with Melanie about all the kind of things they could find on the ship to study. Nikola reminds everyone that without the items and everyone following the procedures for quarantine, no one is touching the items that may be brought back. The conversation dies out into aww when they see the space ship the signal is coming from appear on camera. Melanie is excited as Sasha and Jon start to look for a way in. Jon reminds them to stay close to him at all times as they enter the ship- its obvious he’d rather none of them go in here due to how degraded the place looks. Everything seems to have been heavily melted in random patches, but the ship itself seems to be made of a biological element of some sort- comparing it to a ribcage almost as they walk through it.

     As they traverse the ship they stumble across multiple dead alien bodies. They aren’t fresh but they also don’t look years old. Melanie goes to take a closer look at them but Jon quickly pulls her back from them, yelling about how obviously unsafe it is as well as the fact that she just broke formation rushing off into a different room. They both get into an argument about what should be done with the bodies, and how far their investigations should go. At this point the feed is hardly coming through via camera, but the audio makes it back to the the ship roughly. Sasha goes on without them as she’s getting closer to decode the transmission. it’s a warning of sorts is what she can gather. Looking at the bodies it may have been an illness of some type, each of them dead from some type of acid but she finds one with an open chest- like an explosion. she gets closer to one, that seems to shift out of the corner of her eye. She tries to let the others know but she realizes that they can’t hear her over their arguing, and she’s almost certain she’s lost on the foreign ship. So instead she brings herself closer to the alien body before something crashes behind her and she stumbles back, tripping over something, and screams as she bashes her head on the back of her helmet. She gets up and looks around and sees the shadow of the creature run off and she chases after it.

     That got the attention of the others as not only with the scream but Tim tells them her heart rate is spiking drastically. Jon and Melanie cry out for Sasha and she stops after meeting a dead end. She sighs and tells them she’s fine, she just fell and admittedly was just chasing after shadows. She turns around however and suddenly her heart monitor on the ship starts to read dead.  PART 2