#coeus does a thing

[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.

[vitalphenomena]

@petitsdieu asked for: 18. a  kiss  that  draws  blood.

HE HAS TASTED JOHNS'S BLOOD AS IT SPLATTERED ONTO HIS FACE AND HE HAS TASTED HIS OWN BLOOD AS IT POOLED, TANGY, IN HIS MOUTH. Tasting Johns made him feel powerful but not lucid. He was not himself. He became who he needed to be to help the real Beck heal; nobody else was going to do it. He enacted brutality against a wrongdoer in order to show Homelander he was capable of the hard, necessary things.

When he tasted his own blood, years prior, he was weak and small and contained by his makers. Tricked into submission out of necessity, then beaten into it for the sake of treating him like all of the others. Consistency. Coeus protocol.

He is not thinking about these things. He does not think about these things. Having Angel Lung like this, now, when he thought she was too upset and disappointed to ever hear words from him again—he is so deliriously grateful that he paws, over-eager and a little rough. He pants as he kisses her, whole body shuddering from the raw gratefulness and relief, for one thing—the anticipation for another.

He doesn't mean to get so mouthy, so Super-passionate, that he busts Angel Lung's lower lip.

She reacts—a princess's version of a distraught, shocked curse. (Is she already wondering how Beck managed to make a Supe bleed, too? This feels more sacredly intimate and revealing than nudity.) Then, he tastes her. He tastes her irrefutably. The blood is eager to bead up and spill against his mouth, no matter how quickly he jerks his head back.

He thinks of Johns. He thinks of himself as a little boy: the Beck he tried to save.

He thinks about how many times he's told her he doesn't want to hurt her, would never hurt her.

Solar Flare reaches up to cup the sides of her face, then decides he doesn't deserve it—and knows that he couldn't live with himself if he recoiled.

Looking down at her, shuddering, he feels like a monster. He feels wretchedly, wholly bad.

What will Angel Lung say to him now?

[sigmasoyboy]

Hello ˗ˏˋ 𓅰 ˎˊ˗ first of all I love ur art so much, so fucking gorgeous. Also, I would love to know more about the domestic life of Hunter, Gage, and the others. Any good stuff u could share with us ?

I've shared some tidbits that would fit this question on retrospring waaay early when I was developing these characters, seems like it's time to rephrase and update some of it !

Supplies run are done by other people who also work for the same employer as Hunter, so one of his tasks is to have basically a grocery list ready every two weeks. This entails both food, other essentials like hygiene products/toilet paper/etc… AND whatever Coeus asks for his experiments, so the list literally looks like "eggs x12, bodywash, live subject (no junkie), culture tubes x5, …"

(At the beginning Coeus would ask for Ketamine pretending it was to use as anaesthetic/sedation, except he got caught using it for himself instead of working lol so now Hunter won't put it on the list anymore.)

This does mean they are all stuck together all the time in this weird captive mundanity, so of course the lines begin to blur after a while. At first Hunter was very guard-like, not interested in having conversations with or taking care of Coeus beyond what he was being paid for, but as you can clearly see his attitude did eventually soften (more his actions than his words tho lol). Despite his rough exterior, he is by no mean a loner so it was bound to happen.

The first thing that breached the rigid work relationship was the fact that Coeus doesn't cook at all. All he asked for in terms of grocery was plain porridge, vitamin supplements, coffee and energy bars (+ an electric kettle so he wouldn't even have to bother boiling water on the stove, and half the time he would still rather just eat an energy bar and a mouthful of supplements). Truly vile shit for someone like Hunter who loves hearty, home cooked meals. He could only witness and ignore it for so long before he started putting scrambled eggs* and bacon into a plate and pushing Coeus to fucking eat "something real for once". Coeus doesn't care about food but he doesn't mind the attention either, it's always a good subject to rib Hunter on, but he does eat like a bird so more often than not he barely touches the plate. Everything Hunter knows (and likes) how to cook is too rich for a stomach that has been used to nothing but porridge for years lol

(*Hunter's scrambled eggs are killer btw. It's the silky, creamy, buttery kind that's seasoned just right. Yeah his cooking would make anyone's cholesterol skyrocket but what he does know how to cook he does it pretty well.)

What Coeus doesn't eat usually ends up given to Gage with his canned dog food. At first Hunter wasn't really sure what he should be feeding him but Coeus assured him that according to his analysis, his gut microbiome was more similar to one of a dog than a human, so dog food it was. He still grills extra bacon strips for him from time to time though (and of course, the delicious spoonful of motherfucking peanut butter treat)

He doesn't say it, but it does make him happy that once Valeriy is thrust into this weird place, there is SOMEONE who is grateful for the food and is able to voice it. Though after a while Valeriy does ask if he can have "some fruit or juice, if that's ok", kind of outlining that no, the occasional tomato sauce is not really enough vegetables for a balanced diet… he does gets his fruit/orange juice don't worry

Seen in this tweet (because tumblr hates even domestic nudity) but sometimes Coeus has to be forced to bath because he has so little care for his own body, which does involve Hunter having to wash his hair because else he'll just… Dissociate in the water for a bit and then get out without bothering. It also falls on Hunter to do the laundry but tbh he procrastinate that shit a lot… They're all smelly. At least Valeriy helps once he's there.

Coeus often takes naps. He most of the time oversleeps and even then he still feels tired all the time (another check mark for the depression checklist). Hunter has to drag him out of bed most mornings because else he would sleep well after 3PM. He also takes a long time to wake up, until he does he is pretty much a zombie.

Hunter has a bed but prefers to sleep either on the couch or in an armchair. His sleep schedule is much more strict than Coeus' because of the nature of his work, but as time goes he will sometimes catch a nap (after locking all exits still, of course). His sleep is very light at first because he's supposed to be hyper-aware, but as time goes it and he drops hi guard it becomes deeper. Sometimes he is only resting his eyes though, so he might jumpscare Coeus leaving the lab to procrastinate elsewhere by telling him to get back down there before he gets up and makes him.

Gage likes to sleep either at the foot of wherever Hunter is sleeping or on his laps/on him. He will also sometimes curl up at his feet when he's keeping watch and sleep, especially after he's had his zoomies.

Valeriy slept a lot at first after Coeus' vivisectomized him, but after that he has grown wary and will often wake up multiple times during the night. He only sleeps well when Coeus gives him his laudanum spiked tea.

extra: little sick tidbits also from retrospring to close on !

I think Hunter first move if Gage was clearly sick would be to put him to bed with maybe an ice pack and some water close and go to his business, but once Gage would realize through the fever that he is alone he would crawl out of bed and go look for him. Hunter would probably grumble and complain about it to make it clear that it annoys him while still wrapping him into a blanket and helping him blow his nose while letting him rest his head on his lap. He would openly care for him but he'd make sure that everyone else knows how annoying it is for him (〃￣ω￣〃ゞ what a big tsundere, making broth with pasta just for Gage while complaining that he can't do his damn job with this stupid mutt rubbing his snot all over his pants (don't pay attention to the relief in his sigh once Gage's temperature finally starts dropping shhh sshhhh)

Since Coeus likes to take kind of any opportunity to avoid the work he is supposed to do, if he woke up feeling a little under the weather he would stay buried under his sheets until Hunter came to drag him out forcefully thinking he's just being lazy. It would probably take Coeus burning up/nearly fainting/vomiting for Hunter to believe he is truly sick (to be fair the guy looks ill at his 'healthiest' so it's hard to tell when he actually isn't well + he isn't good at asking for help (though there's little he desire more than being cared for)). By then he would probably get put back to bed (and have a snarky remark to say about it) and Hunter would pretty much put on the same grumbling and complaining he does with Gage, except with more groaning about how he's not being paid to be a damn fucking nurse, but he would do what he can for Coeus to not feel like shit/die/get better as soon as possible :'-) I think the degree of letting down his walls would vary depending on how sick/out of it Coeus is, so say if he had a pretty bad fever and was barely conscious Hunter wouldn't bitch that much and might actually do things like gently get his hair out of his face, run his fingers through his hair, sit on the bed next to him… Hunter has a real nurturing streak under his gruff façade and it's only getting worse with age.

Valeriy would be easiest to care for because he's used to being given only medecine and water and left all alone. He might actually cry a little if Hunter didn't just send him back to bed but like, cooked him food that is easy to digest and came to change his ice pack once in a while (poor little guy…). Coeus would want to know how his body reacts to illnesses but Hunter would drag him out of Valeriy's room and back into the lab before he can bother him.

If Hunter was to get sick he would lock everyone in a room so he could fucking rest lol

[ceyx-lethess]

(=^ω^=)

*｡٩(ˊωˋ*)و✧*｡

OwO ...?

:D !!!

-@ceyx-lethess (Coeus)

:0!

[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??)

[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.

[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:

[vitalphenomena]

beck is the anti-burns not for any really complicated idealogical or abilities-based reasons or by function of how they were designed by dr hayes and dr miller — but because burns is short and uses contractions/slang, and beck is tall and does not use those things

this comparison becomes even messier with the homelanderification of beck and development of solar flare. all the same, beck bodies burns (alliteration always amazes) 100% of the time because burns is fireproof, not nukeproof. also, even though burns very informally trains in hand-to-hand combat (mostly mma type bullshit) with harris, burns is a gamer loser. he's really good at twiddling his thumbs around! and he's super strong/resilient bc of coeus experiments! but he is so laughably weak compared to beck; it is kind of hilarious they were designed and built/created around the same time.

[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.

[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. 

[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]

Pomefiore Dorm- Coeus Lethess

My brother wished to fill one out as well, so I will do it for him.

Height- 5'2

Dominant Hand- Right

Homeland- Kingdom of Heroes

Club- Film Studies, Anime

Best Subject- Defense Magic

Hobbies- Making Origami!

Pet Peeves- Being bugged to speak

Favorite Food- Snowcones!

Least Favorite Food- Brazil Nuts

Talent- Using his cuteness for evil

[abookishdreamer]

Character Intro: Aura (Kingdom of Ichor)

Nicknames- Swifty by Lantos

Age- 18 (immortal)

Location- Phrygia, Olympius

Personality- Much like her father, she's stubborn and stoic with a quick wit & an even quicker tongue, never afraid to speak what's on her mind. Aura is very vocal about the discrimination and injustices she feels that generally falls on the minor deities. She's single.

Being the goddess of the breeze (as it pertains to the cool air of the early morning), her abilities include limited aerokinesis (shifting wind currents to keep her scent undetectable/stilling the air so she can hear better when hunting), enhanced speed (though not to the extent of Hermes) & being a skilled hunter and archer (not to the level of her cousins).

She lives with her parents in the state of Phrygia. Aura has a good relationship with them and she doesn't mind the near quiet atmosphere of her surroundings. She helps her mom with their farm, tending to the animals & working alongside her in the garden. She often goes out training and hunting with her father Lelantos (Lantos) (Titan god of the unseen, air, & hunting).

Aura usually starts the day early, nearing dawn. She jogs, works out, does ballet & yoga as a start off.

Her go-to drink is a pineapple guava white tea. Her mother makes it for her. Aura also likes iced tea, ginger ale, cola, and blueberry juice. She also likes the medium vanilla frappucino from The Roasted Bean.

A favorite thing of hers to snack on is bison jerky.

A favorite sweet treat for her is s’mores ice cream cake! Her & her mom will get it every other week at the supermarket.

Aside from the summers she would spend in Delos as a child, Aura has never really left Phrygia, not even to go underwater to the freshwater territories to visit her maternal grandparents Oceanus (Titan god of the sea) and Tethys (Titaness of freshwater & clouds). Her grandparents have instead come by to visit her. Aura does have a good relationship with her many aunts and uncles (nearly 3,000 of them!) & cousins on her mother's side.

She doesn't have a close relationship with her father's side of the family, except with her aunt Leto (Titaness of demurity & motherhood). Aside from seeing photos of them at her aunt's & looking them up online, Aura hasn't met her other grandparents Coeus (Titan god of foresight, intellect, & knowledge) and Phoebe (Titaness of prophecy, the moon, radiant intellect, & mystery). Aura despises her cousins Apollo (god of the sun, music, poetry, healing, medicine, archery, plague, light, & knowledge) and Artemis (goddess of the hunt & moon). With the three of them, the spirits of competition, envy, and jealousy would overtake them. They would constantly compete against each other, 2-to-1. They would also pull pranks. After an especially mean spirited prank was pulled on Aura by Artemis, Aura decided to never come back to Delos.

She doesn't have a high opinion about the rest of the pantheon in general, especially towards her "oh-so perfect" cousins' father- the King. Aura does happen to follow Pasithea (goddess of hallucinations & relaxation), Nike (goddess of victory), Astraeus (Titan god of dusk), Hestia (goddess of the hearth), Eos (Titaness of dawn), & Boreas (god of the north wind) on Fatestagram. She does admire Ichnaea (goddess of tracking).

Online, Aura also runs her own blog which is dedicated to the plights of minor deities. She does respect the MGM movement, but feels that Pasithea lacks the "fire" intended to push forward the movement in a big way.

She has been exchanging flirty messages on Fatestagram with a fellow hunter, Actaeon. Nothing further has happened. No numbers exchanged or talks about meeting in person.

Aura is a personal fan of Momentum, the sneaker brand of Nike.

She doesn't cook. Aura likes her Aunt Leto's rice & gravy, her dad's venison steak (with a nice helping of tzatziki sauce), her mom's potato salad, and her Nana Tethys' fried frog legs.

In her free time, Aura enjoys hunting, archery, reading, cliff diving, basketball, kayaking, swimming, skateboarding, playing video games, ollerblading, ballet & doing yoga.

"With a whisper of the wind, you won't even know when I'll have you in my trap."

[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?

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