#fictional deity

[the-dragons-gem]

There is belief in three deities in Velik. Earth, the deity of the physical world, of life and death, nature and all that´s tangible . Sense, the deity of thought, emotions, wisdom and the mind. Reign, the deity of movement, action, power and activity.

#worldbuilding art #worldbuilding #fictional myth #fictional deity #fictional gods

[ghcstcd]

Big request for this one of Sleep and Vessel

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#sleep token #Sleep token Sleep #Sleep Token Vessel #fanart #fiction #monsters #demons #deities #sketch #wip #ghcstcd #blue #beasts #sea monsters #sea god

[villiedoom]

✨Albus, the Cosmic Spirit✨

This drawing is old (from 2018), but I still love it ~

According to the original legend, he is the spirit of infinity, a plus and a minus at the same time. In one of my old ideas, he is an ancient cosmic spirit who fell from space, and all the Vaeraf souls are pieces of him.

(This drawing is personal and related to my world and its lore)

#art #digital drawing #fantasy art #fantasy #alien #alien creature #spirit #deity #space #cosmos #fictional world #fictional species #personal art #original character #original art #vaeraf #vaerafes #Villiedoom

[echo-stimmingrose]

Actually fuck you. Ares and Hephaestus are amazing. Also you're just gonna forget Hebe like that?

#I will not stand for Ares or Hephaestus slander #also seriously how did Rick forget about Hebe????? TF? #Yes i know very well that pjo is just a fictional childrens series (i loved greek myths and knew a lot about them before i even knew pjo- #(- Was a thing) But why did we forget about Hebe? #is there some myths where she is not Hera's child? Ive only ever read her as being Hera's daughter. #but to be fair i dont know Hebe as welll as the other myths and deity's #hera #ares #hephaestus #hebe #incorrect greek mythology #incorrect greek gods #percy jackson and the olympians #heros of olympus #pjo hoo toa #the lost hero

[daily-kobold-facts]

Hello. The kobolds have created a piece of interactive fiction in twine that you can play right now. It's very stupid, yet has nearly 700 passages. It's about being a kobold and getting a dragon a birthday present. They made the game because they can and nobody stopped them. Thank you for your time.

#kobold #interactive fiction #things which kobolds made for some inexplicable reason #if you're wondering what kind of story this is #it's the kind of story where you can play sports too hard eat candles and be smote by a fish deity #and none of those things have any relevance to the main goal of the game at all

[mangotalkies]

currently reading (at snail’s pace)

i’ve never juggled between such vastly different, yet equally heavy genres before. one boggles my mind with yet another unexplored aspect of indian history, another makes me realise how little i know about the world, and the last one could’ve just been a twitter thread.

“we said goodbye to our mothers. they’d been around all our lives, but we’d never properly seen them. they’d been bent over washing tubs or cooking pots, their faces red and swollen from heat and steam, holding everything together while our fathers were away at sea, and nodding off every night on the kitchen chair, with a darning needle in hand. it was their endurance and exhaustion we knew, rather than them."

- we, the drowned by carsten jensen

#booklr #studyinspo #studyblr #light academia #book blog #books #dark academia #indian history #designblr #flight of deities and rebirth of temples #meenakshi jain #we the drowned #carsten jensen #ruined by design #design ethics #non fiction #study inspiration #studying #indian literature #self study

[arijensineink]

The Problem With Writing Ancient Deities and Characters

We all love a good solid scary ancient deity right?

In my main WIP, there are creatures known as the Deis who influence the course of the story. Throughout history the Deis have been worshipped on/off as deities but in reality they're not gods, but rather a primordial species of semi-corporeal inter-dimensional sapient creatures, but even so.

Their ancient-ness makes them a great challenge to write (in my opinion.)

I have two in particular, both antagonists, one who features quite a bit in the story, the other who shows up more at the beginning and end.

Basically, I'm really struggling with this aspect of getting into their headspace and actually making them feel this old and believable, as well as pinning their motives down.

So, anyone else have something similar? What are the ways you've made these characters feel more impactful? How do you make them feel old, ancient, and on a different level of consciousness than your human characters?

Please share your experiences and thoughts!

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#writerblr #writing community #writers of tumblr #creative writing #fiction #fiction writing #fiction stories #novel writing #fantasy novels #characters #character development #original characters #ocs #oc #ancient deities #writing gods #worldbuilding #fantasy worldbuilding #modern fantasy #fantasy writing #fantasy writer

[journeytothewestresearch]

Buddhist Deities Exiled From the Western Heaven

My new article examines the reasons why three Buddhist deities from Ming-Qing vernacular Chinese literature are exiled from the Western Heaven.

Master Golden Cicada (Jinchan zi, 金蟬子) (a.k.a. Tripitaka, Tang Sanzang, 唐三藏) from Journey to the West (Xiyouji, 西遊記, 1592) - a Buddha disciple who is caught sleeping during the Tathagata's sermon.

Miao Jixiang (妙吉祥) from Journey to the South (Nanyouji, 南遊記, c. 1570s-1580s) - A Buddha disciple who kills a belligerent sage on the grounds of the Thunderclap Monastery.

 Great Peng, the Golden-Winged King of Illumination (Dapeng jinchi mingwang, 大鵬金翅明王) from The Complete Vernacular Biography of Yue Fei (Shuo Yue quanzhuan, 說岳全傳, 1684) - An avian dharma protector who kills a stellar-spirit for farting during the Tathagata's lecture.

The article analyzes them together and notes parallels, even with concepts from Greek philosophy.

The motif might serve as a good idea for writers wanting to create an OC with an interesting backstory. I have, for example, previously used it to suggest a fictional origin for Sun Wukong as a hot-tempered Bodhisattva (see the 06-16-23 update here).

#Buddhist deities #Chinese fiction #Master Golden Cicada #Golden Cicada Elder #Journey to the West #JTTW #Miao Jixiang #Journey to the South #JTTS #Great Peng #Great Roc #Yue Fei #story idea #story motif

[danceofthefallen-if]

DEMO (ETA December) | FAQ

The Dance of the Fallen Deities is a character-driven 18+ work of fiction written using CScript.

Content warnings include: explicit language, depictions of violence and blood, (optional) explicit sexual content, threat of war, potential unhealthy relationships, threats of violence, attempted abduction, mentions of past abuse, instances of classism (including towards mc) and xenophobia (not towards mc). Will be added to as needed.

Everyone has heard the whispers.

Of how the Fallen have come together with the council of Yanha to plot and scheme against the realm of Celea. How their armies are howling the songs of war as their leaders command that divine ichor be spilt.

Everyone except you it seems.

As a minor deity working tirelessly for your Goddess, you don’t have time to listen to baseless gossip.

However, when you come face to face with the four self-proclaimed leaders of the Fallen, you’ll wish you had. Especially when, in their own unique ways, they all seem to have a strange special interest in you.

You have no idea what’s going on, but what you do know is that you really don’t have time for this.

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-> Customise your deities appearance. The Deities personality is semi-set.

-> Choose to play as male, female, nonbinary, agender, or genderfluid with cis and trans options included. Choose your pronouns separately from your gender/sex. Ace and Aro options are also available.

-> Choose the type of Goddess you follow and your abilities: Fate (Precognition), Love (Empath), Animals (Beast Tamer), or Justice (Truth Inducement).

-> Five potential romances to pursue with poly routes included.

-> Help avert a war, save your home, and get your life back. Or join the Fallen and watch Celea crumble.

-> Commiserate with your Blessed Hound.

Aeryn [F]

-> profile

Your goddess diligently follows and upholds Celea’s beliefs, she’s beautiful, hard-working, generous, and goes about her duties in a serene manner. She is seen as the definition of Celeatan perfection and everyone either wants to be her or be bonded to her, with rumours circulating that even the Supreme himself wishes to ask for her hand. Unfortunately for all of them, Aeryn couldn’t be less interested in all of that. Her greatest interest seems to lie with you, her most trusted deity and closest confidant. When she learns of her brother’s intent to take you from her, it’s enough to have her nearly declaring war on Yanha herself.

I know that your life is your own and I have no right to ask this of you, but please…don’t leave me.

Kyan [M]

-> profile

With an affable charm, genial smile, and warm eyes, it’s little wonder that all have been fooled into believing Kyan to still be a kind man, despite his falling. All except you that is. Even when he was a respected member of the Council, you could always see right through his perfected façade to the twisted darkness of his true nature beneath, and yet still stood up to him and sometimes for him, worked with him, and even showed him understanding. You saw him, ugliness and all, and didn’t shun him. Perhaps that’s why he’s so intent on tearing you from his sister’s side and claiming you as his.

Celea. The title of Supreme. You. I’ll take it all.

Niran [Agender]

-> profile

Known by most as a ruthless warrior, Niran has spent a lifetime cultivating a reputation as someone that will cut you down with little to no provocation if you so much as look at them or Kyan wrong. However, you’ve never seen them like that. Before they fell, Niran’s quiet, and usually unnoticed, kindness and protectiveness towards others was something you witnessed on many occasions, and even experienced firsthand once or twice. You were one of the very few to look at them without fear, and that’s something that they’ve never forgotten. It’s something that makes them want to protect you, even from themself.

I can’t protect you if I don’t know where you are, so don’t ever stray from my side.

Elex [Gender Selectable]

-> profile

It was easy for the residents of Celea to underestimate Elex, to only see nem as lazy, overly flirtatious, and too easily distracted and remain blind to how nir eyes missed nothing. Ne is, in fact, a highly intelligent individual who can talk nir way in and out of any situation and is now regarded as the highest priority target due to nir strategies alone. Yet, you knew the kind of danger ne presented long ago, and it left Elex reeling when you went to nem for strategic advice. From that moment, you were, and still are, thoroughly under nir skin.

You, starlight, are the definition of a hot mess. Lucky for me, that’s exactly how I like my deities.

Hayle [Gender Selectable]

-> profile

Out of all who fell, Hayle was the most shocking. Xe was sweet, outgoing, and always ready to lend an ear and a healing hand to those who were in need, so it was widely suspected that xe had been abducted rather than gone willingly. However, Hayle proved that rumour to be spectacularly false by personally sending the members of xyr rescue party back in several pieces. A move that even you didn’t see coming. You had been just as drawn in by xem as everyone else and even considered xem a close friend. It makes you no different to anyone else, so xyr interest in you is a mystery to everyone but xem.

You have such pretty eyes. I want them to always be looking at me.

Poly routes: Kyan/Niran/Elex/Hayle | Niran/Hayle | Kyan/Elex

#the dance of the fallen deities if #interactive fiction #interactive novel #if wip #wip if #cog wip

[seventh-fantasy]

galaxy-brained mlc take of the day: mlc is wuxia, yes and maybeee not exactly? it very much is a wuxia aesthetically, but it's actually - conceptually - xianxia story in the core. (this is different from suggesting that it is a xianxia show.) however xianxia can (or should) be considered a subgenre of wuxia, not its own separate distinct genre despite the idea of 仙 xian being fundamentally at odds with the idea of 侠 xia, because they both stem from the same belief. (as seen in mlc, it works with the conventions of traditional wuxia aka li xiangyi the sigu sect leader, to get to the real bits of xianxia concept aka li lianhua's story.) so, mlc is wuxia through and through, inside out. send tweet 🫡👍

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ok wait I can explain

so, this must be premised on the understanding that any discussion of "仙 xian/deities" in this context is only as its abstract idea of living a life distanced, detached from worldly, human woes instead of the possibility of immortality existing in mlcverse. (if you think about the deities in xianxia stories being basically human beings who have cultivated themselves into immortality.)

this is the explanation of xianxia as a wuxia subgenre (古仙武侠) in the baidu article of wuxia genre:

武侠中的侠，是脱胎于墨家“以天下为己任”的使命感；而仙侠的侠，通常是传达着“能力越大，责任也就越大”的朴素精神。侠乃入世，仙为出世，道教阴阳的无情大道（无情指寻求自我的不断体悟，以达精神的成仙，非没有感情之意）与武侠江湖的有情众生，即是矛盾也是循环，象征着太极之道，这也就是为何古仙武侠也属于正统仙侠流派的原因。

rough tl:

the xia of wuxia is born from the mohist ideal of bearing a sense of responsibility for the world

while the xia in xianxia focuses on the idea of "with great power comes great responsibility"

the idea of 侠 xia is secular. the idea of 仙 xian is beyond the secular - it is to pursue a life of suppressing/taming your own emotions (it does not mean to be completely removed of the ability to feel. it's a pursuit of self-realisation that makes one attain the status of a "deity" spiritually.) 仙 xian is then inherently at odds with wuxia jianghu's deep empathy and connection with the secular world, but it's also connected back to it. this is why 古仙武侠 is considered to be a part of the wuxia genre.

the relationship between xian and xia is conflicting because the former is all about distancing yourself from worldly issues while the latter necessitates an active effort to do something about them.

but it also means that both wuxia and xianxia acknowledge this weight of human emotions and connection to the world. it's just their respective responses and the outcomes they want that they differ in. what is the ideal person? wuxia says it's to be someone who can propagate and execute the ideal of doing something about this weight of your connection to the world, while xianxia says it's to learn to be at peace with that connection, and it's ok to not do anything about it actually - which might even be harder than trying to do something. (and focusing on your own cultivation can be a good thing for the world, in fact.)

with this, I hope it sounds less absurd that I'm connecting mlc's story to the concept of xianxia. lxy's life was a traditional wuxia archetype. (I've already harped on enough about how he fits into the quintessential mohist model of a xia leader.) what happens after, aka his journey as li lianhua, is the real story of mlc. it's a breakdown of that quintessential wuxia hero. it is a story in which the main conflict faced by the protagonist is to struggle with all the worldly woes including his own past and the cases' victims, in defense of the serenity he has found in the past 9 years. it is a natural battle to fight for someone such as llh because as long as you're still human, you will face the implications of human connections and the innate feeling of compassion and urge to do something about it (part of this, I guess, manifests physically in bicha breaking him down and the resistance to cure).

and relating that to an excerpt from an article discussing xianxia in relation to wuxia:

武侠剧的精神内核也是仙侠剧的精神内核，而“仙”实际上是实现新形式的“侠”的手段，由此扩展了“侠”的深度和其实施的时空范围。武侠之中的侠义精神，可以强调其自在，更强调其是自为的，前者是需要逐渐成长和觉醒的。然而对于高于人的仙而言，作为上位者的“侠”之精神，则应该是内在自觉且自为的。

rough tl:

the spirit of wuxia dramas should also be the spirit of xianxia dramas. xian should in fact be another way to bring out and explore the idea of xia.

the spirit of xia in wuxia can be an emphasis on the spirit of freedom, and even more so, the idea of agency and autonomy. the former is gained through growth and awareness. but for xian aka people who occupy a realm above the people on the ground, the xia spirit they embody should manifest in their inner awakening and agency.

it goes without saying that nobody is a deity in this show, and never will be. only in ep 40.5 it came so close to possessing that otherworldly, surreal edge, but that's all to it. deities do not exist in the mlcverse.

but but. it's interesting to point out in the ep 3 flashback when lxy walked through town in the aftermath of the sigu sect vs jym battle, commoners were heard describing it as 神仙打架 百姓遭殃 when immortals fight, commoners suffer. of course they didn't mean it literally but figuratively, that those people of wulin jianghu are high above, detached from the people on the ground. which is. contradictory to the idea of 侠 xia to begin with. so... it could even be interpreted that li lianhua living the spiritually "immortal" life embodied the xia spirit even more deeply than he did as li xiangyi the sigu sect leader, the "immortal" in the eyes of the commoners. actual immortals do not have any real attachment to the people, but a cultivated "immortal" does and is destined to feel and learn to deal with it over and over like llh did. it all comes back in a circle indeed.

#莲花楼 #mysterious lotus casebook #lhl #lhlmeta #my posts #dear diary it's (only) day 45 since completion and the symptoms are getting worse #i can imagine at this moment someone putting a hand to my forehead and ask me if i'm ok #not sure if this conversation about wuxia/xianxia genres is welcomed at all but ANYWAY. i just have a lot of feelings about cn stories #i'm discussing the genres in what i think are its barest forms rather than referencing to the ways they've manifested in popular fiction #esp since i'm not as familiar with many of the classic works on a personal level #AND there are so many other elements in play in these genres!! #personally not a fan of that definition of xianxia being 'stories about mythological figures like deities monsters demons etc' #just having deities monsters etc does NOT make it xianxia. that's just 玄幻/神话 fantasy/mythology(!!!) #an interesting distinction i learnt is that mythologies like 后羿射日 and 沉香救母 could be considered as proto-xianxia #simply based on the idea of xianxia being about deities + a sense of heroism #but they would still very much be classified as mythologies instead of xianxia. there's just a lot of overlaps i guess? #went down this rabbit hole a little and just word vomitting as I go. i may not be 100% right or accurate in my interpretations so.

[bizlybebo]

gillion + 😇 ?

RAHHH

sighs i love gillion tidestrider and his religious trauma.

i think that lunadeyis (is that how you spell it?) never spoke to him directly much whenever he tried to pray. it put a lot of strain on his belief + made him feel very doubtful in himself because of it. every time a prayer went unanswered, he’d try harder in training sessions and push himself closer to his breaking point in hopes that it would catch her eye.

however i also think the idea of a very communicative goddess is fun to play with. what if she regularly still sends him signs, etc?

#AUGGHHH I LOVE FICTIONAL RELIGION #ESPECIALLY WHEN THE DEITIES ARE UNDENIBALY REAL IN THAT WORLD #AND ESPECIALLYYYY WHEN THE DEITIES ARE SCARY. #WHEN THEY TRULY ARE GOD OVER MAN AUUGGHH #vixen rambles #vixen answers #jrwi #jrwi riptide #gillion tidestrider

[lunarartemisia]

Here is my Deity of Eternity from the game “Uroboros” by @uroboros-if !

It’s such a well made and pretty game, and not only that, but the characters are intriguing, the story is fascinating and the writing is just lovely!

I really wanted to just sit down and make my Deity, and then I saw the template and it was fate! Please excuse any grammatical errors, English is not my first language!

Also, I’ve used he/him pronouns for the other deities, and she/her pronouns for my own deity because those are the pronouns I use in game :) I hope it makes sense and looks okay, It was a lil bit of a struggle to make it admittedly.

More fun facts about Melantha:

She is heavily inspired by Greek mythology and Greek goddesses.

She’s quite a dark looking goddess, going as far as to wear black veils.

She carries around a black and gold dagger. It’s inspired by the Cretan Dagger. A dagger like this was often a wedding present from the groom to the bride.

The real life goddess closest to her would be Persephone.

#deity of eternity #uroboros #uroboros if #main character #aestethic #my characters #character info #interactive fiction #uroboros mc

[anxietytwist]

𝐍𝐢𝐭𝐲𝐚, 𝐴𝑙𝑙 𝑊ℎ𝑜 𝐿𝑎𝑠𝑡𝑠 𝐹𝑜𝑟𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟

“𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑈𝑛𝑖𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑎𝑙 𝐸𝑦𝑒/𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝐸𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑙𝑎𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔”

[ ∞ | 𝟻'𝟻" | Agender | Queer | 💝ꜰ!𝐂𝐢𝐨𝐜𝐚𝐧𝐚 ]

⧼Personality⧽

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⧼Fashion⧽

ꜱᴛʏʟᴇ➺ Rococo inspired

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⧼Notes⧽

ᴘʀᴏɴᴏᴜɴꜱ➺ They/Them ʙᴜɪʟᴅ➺ 𝐴𝑚𝑝𝑙𝑒 ꜱᴋɪʟʟꜱ➺ Mysticism & knowledge ꜰᴀᴠᴇ ꜰʟᴏᴡᴇʀ➺ “𝐾𝑖𝑟𝑜 𝑓𝑖𝑟𝑜𝑠𝑎𝑓𝑎”

Despite enjoying their role in 𝑳𝒖𝒄𝒊𝒅𝒐, they do wish they had more time to simply relax

They're touch-averse with strangers & only ENJOY contact with those they implicitly trust/care for 🙅‍♀️

𝐍𝐢𝐭𝐲𝐚 gets overwhelmed if there's too much stimulus around them

Even though they don't get much time to hang out, 𝐒𝐚𝐥𝐯𝐚𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐞 & they are still friends (though it is different from when they were “younger”)

Though they prefer to be femme-presenting most of the time, 𝐍𝐢𝐭𝐲𝐚 ONLY wants to be referred to with gender-neutral language

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☼ 𝐍𝐢𝐭𝐲𝐚 means “𝑎𝑙𝑤𝑎𝑦𝑠, 𝑒𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑛𝑎𝑙” (Sanskrit) ☼

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𝐼𝐹: @uroboros-if

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W/ their dads™

Picrew used:

#Uroboros #Uroboros IF #if: Uroboros #Uroboros-if #Uroboros game #CYOA #choice game #IF #interactive fiction game #interactive fiction #Twine #Twine game #Twine IF #Uroboros MC #Uroboros OC #Uroboros PC #Deity of Eternity #IF OCs #character profile #[will update as demo progresses]

[fiction-quotes]

Have faith that the gods know what they are doing with your life, Pounce said, following me down the stairs.

I don't want the gods meddling with my life, I told him silently as we walked out into the street again. I want to do it myself. Gods are trouble.

You don't have a choice, Pounce said.

I don't like the sound of that. I don't like it at all. I can manage on my own, tell them that! I said, glaring at him. And you never mentioned anything like that before!

I thought it would cheer you up, Pounce said.

I began to trot, not to escape Pounce so much as to get away from what he was hinting at. I've accepted for five year gone that Pounce is magic. Kora was the one who first told me he was a constellation, as close to a god as makes no difference. But he's never spoken of the gods in my life before, and I wish he hadn't. Look at all the folk who have had the gods muck with their lives, folk like Jehane the Warrior, that was burned alive, or Tomore the Righteous, beggared and beheaded, or Badika of the Blazing Axe, who drove off the Carthakis, only to be torn apart in one of their arenas! It never goes well for the god-chosen! Pounce can just tell the gods to leave me be.

  —  Bloodhound (Tamora Pierce)

#book quotes #fantasy fiction #ya fiction #tamora pierce #tortall universe #provost's dog #bloodhound #beka cooper #the cat (tortall) #religion #deities #gods #magic #independence

[devil-in-the-details-ay]

16

Yara touched a nerve insinuating that Astaroth would look for a loophole to get out of their marriage, will that finally get her talking or will it get worse?

“Asti, please, don’t....I...I don’t know how to handle this…I’m scared..” Finally she admitted it, a bit muffled since his finger hadn't moved. One tear making a slow trek down her cheek.  She’d been afraid of losing him before, but now it was utter terror.  She was messing up and now she’d gone and made him mad.

From shushing her, as he saw that his words had finally broken through the wall she’d put up and getting her to say what was wrong, to cupping her cheek and wiping her tear with his thumb, Astaroth’s expression and voice instantly softened.  “Of?”  He thanked whatever deity had helped  him this time silently, and also the Fates. 

“These women are confident and seductive, goddesses and succubi. I'm a mess, in all ways.  The woman you were talking to today annoyed you, but what about next time?  What if your mind changes about wanting this to work? What if you no longer want me?” her voice dropped in volume and was strained for her next words, “just like everyone else has in my life?”  Her voice trembled and cracked, her whole body began to tremble, and more tears escaped the confines of her eyes where she'd been trying to hold them in making small rivers as they traversed her cheeks.

Now it was Astaroth’s turn to sit mute and consider his response, consider it very carefully.   He wished for something stronger than the demon's brew he had, which he finished in one swallow now, to give him a moment to think of something to say.  Some day he was going to kill Lucifer, but he was going to do it excruciatingly slowly and painfully. There was no reason his wife should suffer like this, doubt what he’d said, what he’d vowed.

“Darling, this is not the place for this conversation.” In an instant they were back in the cabin on the beach, on the couch. Yara’s flowers from earlier were in a vase on the table.  “Now, this is better.” He sighed and tightened his hold on her hand slightly.  “Yara, I don't know how many ways I can say the same thing till you understand. I thought we had agreed, that you understood.”  He now knew what the problem was but he had no idea how to fix it. “Together.  We’re going to do this, TOGETHER.  Always. No other way.  No one else.  You and me.  What happened in the past with anyone else is irrelevant. I can’t undo who I have been with.  From now on, there is only you.  We are TOGETHER.  I vow it to the Primus Sator.”  He knew what he’d just done, and hoped she would not make him regret it.

Now her tears flowed and she tried to pull away, to flee like she always did. She wanted to hide till the hurt in her chest was gone.  The problem was, he wouldn't let her.  His grip on her hand was tight, and he was holding her face with his other hand. She was trapped.  Trapped with someone who just like her father, her brothers, her mother, any friends, and every lover, would throw her away when he no longer had a use for her. Trapped with someone that she didn't want to lose.  Trapped with someone who was starting to mean something to her.  Trapped with someone who...had just made a vow that hadn’t sunk in yet.

“Everyone leaves!” Her voice shook almost as much as her body, and her eyes dropped to the middle of his chest. “Before tonight I was able to delude myself that..” She took a stuttered breath and tried to continue, “that we could do this and you would want it to work.  That somehow we could figure it out and you’d be happy with whatever we came up with. Seeing women I could never compete with in any way, ready to take my place…it made me feel all unsure and unsteady again.  I always end up alone, Astaroth.”  Her eyes slowly rose to look at his. “I realized how easy it would be to lose you. How you had options that were far superior to me.  I can't compete or compare.  You know I'm an emotional mess.  Why would you choose that?” Her voice broke, she licked her lips, then bit down on the bottom one.

 “Did you hear what I just said?” His voice was quiet.  He now understood she was battling demons he couldn’t fight for her.  He’d given her a weapon, but she hadn’t picked it up.  Astaroth wasn’t sure that she’d even noticed it.  He had to get her to pay attention to what he’d said, not what she’d expected him to. 

“You said that we were going to do this together.  I know.  I know that’s what you said, but your mind could change. Women who are gorgeous and easier to deal with could offer you a different life.  You could find someone that you have a connection with that is stronger.”  Yara was fighting hysteria.  At the moment she was winning, but she wasn’t sure how much longer that she could hold out.

“What exactly  did I say?  Repeat it?”  Astaroth tried to will her to remember.  To have heard the words.  The vow he made was unbreakable.  He’d made it full well knowing that.  He also knew there was a fuck ton more going on than either of them knew, and he trusted the Fates a lot more than he trusted Lucifer’s machinations.  If they allowed the wedding, then there was a reason.  

“You said we’re going to do it together.  You and me. No one else. Just us.  We can’t change the past, so we’re going to ignore it.  Just you and me, together.”  Yara was reciting it, her head alternating back and forth with her sing-song voice, changing the words a little as she went.  Astaroth nodded along as she did, waiting for her to get to the part that he hoped she would realize how much this all meant to him.  When she paused after the last part he wasn’t sure if she hadn’t heard, hadn’t realized, or was thinking on it.  Then her eyes went wide as she looked at his, and he knew.  “You...you..Asti..you swear… to the Primus Sator…the Creator?” Her brows started coming together, a mixture of shock and incredulity coming to her face.  “Really?  For me?  For us?  You’re sure?”  Her eyes searched his face.  Was she understanding him correctly?  Had he thought about this?  “You can’t take that back...Asti! You can’t!”  Her eyes searched his.  What was he doing?

“Yes, really.  For US.  I know exactly what I have done, my Papilio, and I damn well meant it.   I do not know what it is that truly brought us together in this, but I intend to find out.  You can work with me or against me, but you are now stuck with me.  Sorry!” Astaroth smirked amused, looking into her beautiful green eyes, and realizing that he was falling in love for the very first time.

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My mom: we have Sappho at home

Sanpha at home: 🥸

The way I spat coffee all over myself anon I hope you are happy 💀

The way I scrambled yesterday to add a sapphic goddess to the ancient pantheon and I COULDN'T COME UP WITH A NAME and I grabbed Sappho like

"YOU. HELP ME."

#ouroboros-if #interactive fiction #anon you are so fucking funny #why wasn't there a sapphic goddess already you may ask? there are NO gods apart from the nature deities hsjsjdhdjdndhcjfb #some on the fly world building was necessary 💀 #though there *is* a god for mended clothes so akshshdbdhd. IT'S COMPLICATED #and the celestials but they are in a league of their own #anyway where was I 💀 #thanks for the ask it made me chuckle 😂💖