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thefarshore2017-06-27 04:31 am
eternalshield) wrote in thefarshore2017-06-27 04:31 am
video; what's an ulterior motive?
[Zeno takes a bite of a juicy golden-yellow apple.]
Gods are so high-maintenance, right? Anyone who got some of the alcohol from Zeno at the firefly picnic, please accept this apology! Zeno was only trying to bear cups and properly embody Hebe, but it didn't work out so well!
[Another, smaller bite. He has to wipe some fruit juice off his face with his sleeve.]
Hebe should be serving nectar, though. Or ambrosia? Some things Zeno reads say nectar is the drink of the gods that makes them immortal, and some say ambrosia is the food, and others say the opposite. Zeno has been looking for ambrosia and nectar for a while now!
Moreso lately. Given some recent events, immortality might be a useful thing to have for shinki as well as gods.
[He quickly takes another, bigger bite of his apple, in order to disguise his distaste for that sentiment. Immortality isn't something to play around with-- just like mortality isn't something to take advantage of.]
Who'd think being dead can't stop you from being killed? [That, that he allows himself to visibly react to. Mostly in a look of disgust and a tone of utter disdain for the murderer.]
The way to obtain immortality is by ingesting something, it seems. Ambrosia and nectar, the elixir of life, amrit, dragon blood, golden apples... so very high-maintenance!
[A bigger, more involved bite of his delicious yellow apple.]
What does everyone think? Is searching for the source of immortality worth it while we try to stop this person? [His voice sounds a little more serious, now.] If the gods who used them exist, surely they must, too-- but is immortality worth the trouble? Is it even the right thing to do?
Gods are so high-maintenance, right? Anyone who got some of the alcohol from Zeno at the firefly picnic, please accept this apology! Zeno was only trying to bear cups and properly embody Hebe, but it didn't work out so well!
[Another, smaller bite. He has to wipe some fruit juice off his face with his sleeve.]
Hebe should be serving nectar, though. Or ambrosia? Some things Zeno reads say nectar is the drink of the gods that makes them immortal, and some say ambrosia is the food, and others say the opposite. Zeno has been looking for ambrosia and nectar for a while now!
Moreso lately. Given some recent events, immortality might be a useful thing to have for shinki as well as gods.
[He quickly takes another, bigger bite of his apple, in order to disguise his distaste for that sentiment. Immortality isn't something to play around with-- just like mortality isn't something to take advantage of.]
Who'd think being dead can't stop you from being killed? [That, that he allows himself to visibly react to. Mostly in a look of disgust and a tone of utter disdain for the murderer.]
The way to obtain immortality is by ingesting something, it seems. Ambrosia and nectar, the elixir of life, amrit, dragon blood, golden apples... so very high-maintenance!
[A bigger, more involved bite of his delicious yellow apple.]
What does everyone think? Is searching for the source of immortality worth it while we try to stop this person? [His voice sounds a little more serious, now.] If the gods who used them exist, surely they must, too-- but is immortality worth the trouble? Is it even the right thing to do?
From: Hermes
I was a god of the Norse before coming here, an Asgardian. The immortality by those means for us is just about stopping old age at any point you desire. Everyone can die, and we often did! Going to the afterlife and everything! Being reborn again if it suits fate.
Honestly, I find it pointless. A long life means a less flexible role, which makes it harder for you to change. And that's bad! Also, again, bad guys that are also immortal.
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Though if the murderer wants immortality, he's in the minority here...
[Truly, it's almost like Hermes has read and typed up for him a part of his soul. He'd changed quite a bit over what would have been his natural human lifespan and with Kaya, but for the vast majority of the last two millennia, he'd been static. Unable to do anything but wait for his duty to the king to resume...]
...died often? Zeno knows of people being reincarnated, but... often?
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It's more like rebooted, I suppose. Start their story again anew with the basics? It's not the local idea of a soul inserted in a newborn baby's body, not like that. In any case, it's hard to think of death the same way than mortals if you can just step into Hel or Valhalla or whatever fresh limbo realm and see your loved ones sitting there?
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Few things make Zeno really pause and consider the implications anymore -- he's had enough time to consider most of them at least seven times already, and some of them eight -- but that's an upending of everything he understands about life and death that he almost doesn't want to think about it too hard.]
Mortal humans are amazing things, it's true. It's only because the concept of impossible exists for them that they can do impossible things!
Zeno is afraid to ask what happens to the body.