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[pummelgranite]

"Persephone. Speak."

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[fehus]

i dunno. the gods are trainwrecks too. and the thanes that run valhalla. and every giant i've ever met. and almost all of my friends' parents if they're still alive.

[pummelgranite]

ALL gods are trainwrecks

is someone messing w you?

[fehus]

nobody's messing w/ me. i just feel like i've had to be weirdly responsible for a bunch of adults even without the crushing responsibility of ragnarok. i'm 17. what do regular 17 year olds do instead of be responsible? do you know?

[being the resident Boydad To All, as Archie's put it, has been wearing on him, a bit]

[pummelgranite]

I snuck out to shows mostly.

So who are all these manchildren?

[fehus]

oh. which shows?

i'm not gossiping, i'm talking about being i guess lowkey anxious about almost everyone i know.

[pummelgranite]

Recurrence stuff. Other gods.

You know you're not responsible for everyone around you. Everyone's going to make their own choices.

[fehus]

i wish i could hear the others. was luci's always your favourite show?

i know. and i don't want to control anybody's choices. i guess i just wish they wouldn't get hurt so often from them. or didn't have all this insane baggage constantly weighing on them, at least? it just sort of sucks.

[pummelgranite]

Not even top three. Amaterasu was.

yeah, it does suck.

[fehus]

[...]

wait you're older than 17 now. i mean, you look older. do gods age in your world?

[pummelgranite]

Uh huh. We reincarnate. "Just because you're immortal doesn't mean you live forever."

[fehus]

do you remember your past lives?

[pummelgranite]

a little bit.
not much

[fehus]

any good stuff?

[pummelgranite]

[ She spends a long time writing and re-writing. It takes a while. ]

Not really. I mostly just remember dying disappointed.

[fehus]

my dad says that's sort of the seasonal god gig. spring and summer can't stop fall, blah blah. except he doesn't get disappointed anymore about like literally anything i think?

which i think is kind of bullshit but i also kind of get. being disappointed by death all the time gets sort of old.

[pummelgranite]

Oh.

[ Is that why? Not Ananke? Or her own imagination? ]

What's his deal? Does he have to go to hell every year too?

[fehus]

i don't really know, we haven't talked that much. he doesn't stick around in asgard or vanaheim. but it sounded like something bad happens to him until yule. and he's doomed to die at ragnarok for love. cue winter forever, etc.

[pummelgranite]

Bummer.
So is he one of the train wrecks?

[fehus]

i don't know. maybe. he's kind to me, even though he doesn't really owe me anything. and he was kind to my mom when they were together. and i guess i think there's worse things to die for than love.

[pummelgranite]

but . . .

[fehus]

but it sucks that i have to be responsible about ragnarok so my dad that i just met doesn't meet the doomed fate he's totally chill with?

this isn't normal teen stuff anymore sorry.

[pummelgranite]

normal demi-teen. it's fine.

[fehus]

how's it work with your mom? demeter, right?

[pummelgranite]

I don't think we've even met since the Recurrence started.

[fehus]

oh. is that a bummer?