#so learning to miss someone and heal from missingthem is a very long and messy process for her

[omegamoo]

king i used up all my question making skills on the one question i asked tgm :( but uh. ....................how does iota deal with grief. first thing that came to mind so uh. sure.

oh god. OH GOD. poorly. iota's used to the idea of death: she's the goddess of the wild, she's used to it as a part of the life cycle, but she doesn't ever really interact with mortals for most of her time in the original world, and the wolf pack she travels with are conditionally immortal (meaning loss of a pack member was pretty rare) and her closest friends are immortal so she doesn't ever experience loss in any meaningful way until palaemon dies. and then the catalyst lol. all of that to say that i think she gets very quickly emotionally overwhelmed and like. shuts down. and then lashes out. like she's numb, in shock, can't understand or process, and then she's screaming. i think her grief doesn't have a place to go because it's often paired with fear so she kinda just mourns endlessly with a massive hole in her heart that just Doesn't Fill. does that make sense.