to all; post-event

[demigoth]

[ The handwriting is scratchy and angular, like a mix of '00s emo fonts and ancient Greek carvings. ]

Are YOU used to angels being real? Please think Yes/No/Biblically/what's an angel responses directly to me so cranky people don't threaten other people's livelihoods again.

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[unwings]

For the same reason humans aren't called featherless bipeds. Because they're called humans.

We're not gods.

[ he is just so lost in this conversation. ]

I don't know anyone named Hazel.

[demigoth]

I'm fine. He gave me a sword, and I left. I know he's not Eros. It's fine.

[sonofacesius]

I'm on my way. Where are you?

I know you're fine. It doesn't matter. I'm still coming.

[demigoth]

Didn’t Lucifer fall because he variated? I know that’s not a word. If they have to do God’s will and follow his plan and nobody can date or do anything because they want to, how do they ever get a personality at all?

[demigoth]

I don’t know. I left. I’m still in the city? There’s a pub.

[cryptsleeper]

Well now this walks into the territory of theology and frankly, that was never a particular area of interest for me growing up, nor something my father collected books in.

[sonofacesius]

It's okay. I'll find you.

[demigoth]

Nobody says "bipeds."

You said my relative told you. I missed a word, I thought you meant Hazel. Annabeth's not really related to me.

[northerndragon]

I don't know much about it, but I thought the lady Diana here had something to do with something Greek. Might be she does not.

Can you tell me more of Joan of Arc?

[demigoth]

OK.

[demigoth]

I'm not an encyclopaedia of all things Greek.

I don't remember much. She said God spoke to her and gave her advice for the French army, so they let her lead. She was good at it. Then something happened, and everyone decided it was evil that she wore pants, so they executed her.

[northerndragon]

I don't know what an encyclopaedia is, either. Like a maester, a learned man? The world I come from is nothing like most of what I see in the Horizon. It's more like this place, though there is less magic and less call to believe that magic is real.

They killed a girl for wearing pants? Sounds mad. Less mad that they'd want to kill someone who led an army. Did the French army falter after that? It would not surprise me if they did, if they had no one to follow who they believed in. You cannot expect your men to bleed for you if you will not bleed for them.

[ordinar]

I mean there are like three of them here, so...

If they were real back home, I never saw one.

private, as requested

[tedandroses]

Not in a "yeah they live here" (as opposed to "cool plot device in my former religion's backstory") way. I'm sure a few people in the church I grew up in would swear to you they've been visited by one, though.

But then I'm not used to the kids of gods being real in a "'they live here' and not 'cool plot device in my former religion's backstory' way", to be blunt. Or a lot of other things I'm wrestling with at the moment, no angel pun intended.

So what do I know. You know?

[demigoth]

I know they say they're real here.

I never saw any before either.

[ordinar]

Any reason why you're asking about them?

[demigoth]

I saw an old guy with wings. He said his boyfriend was an angel.

[ordinar]

The crazy thing is that you could be referring to several different people.

Sorry - twas on vacation

[demigoth]

Here is different. Here they treat all of the Summoned like something else, so it does matter. But back home? Demigods don't go around telling people that they're demigods. No one would believe you. They'd think you were telling tall tales. THAT I know.

But the rest of it? What do I know either.

[demigoth]

How many pairs of winged boyfriends are there??

[ordinar]

[...Well, you got him there. On second thought, Lucifer and Istredd don't quite fit the bill, and honestly he doesn't know that much about either of Lucifer's brothers.]

Actually...idk.

But the Greek gods are real where you're from, right? It's weird that you wouldn't have angels and stuff too.

Sorry - twas on vacation

[demigoth]

It's a set of books that go together, with information on all sorts of things. It's what a maester would write for you if you told him to write 4 paragraphs on everything in the world. What kind of world doesn't matter for that. You probably call them something else.

Humans are kinda mad all the time. It's the only way to explain all the wars and fighting. I think they won a few decades later. It was during the Hundred Years War, so the whole thing was slow.

[demigoth]

Yeah. They are. That's not going to be a problem, is it?

And wouldn't that mean that they were the only ones? The earth is Gaea. The other creation stories can't also be true.

[ordinar]

No, no problem.

I'm friends with Will. Wilhelm.

Oh. I guess that makes sense. Does that mean there's a different version of the world where each different creation story is true?

[demigoth]

Anybody who's good with Solace is good with me.

I don't know. Maybe? That's why I was asking. I'm trying not to judge. I know it SOUNDS like I'm judging, but I thought it was Eros in a weird old man disguise.