mercy meme

[magnitudes]

forced truth meme

1. Post your character(s)
2. People respond to your character with a question

3. Your character must reply, and they must reply honestly
4. ????
5. Have fun. Fun is obligatory. Lack of fun will result in severe repercussions.

Comments

Persephone | The Wicked + The Divine

[pummelgranite]

[ SHE WILL NOT HAVE FUN AND YOU CAN'T MAKE HER ]

Re: Persephone | The Wicked + The Divine

[khajidont]

So, this whole singing thing! I know it's, like, your holy duty and all but -- what does it mean to you? D'you enjoy it?

[pummelgranite]

Do I enjoy being a rock star? Sure. I guess. Thought I'd enjoy it more, but... Anyway, when a god performs we get the same high the audience does. My song's- . . . look, I'd rather be listening to pretty much anyone else's but mine. Sometimes it hurts to sing as much as it hurts to hear. But yeah, I still enjoy it.

What it means to me is- I dunno. It doesn't matter what it means to me. It really doesn't. I keep saying that, but people don't get it. I don't get to know how it changes the world. I just hope it does. We . . . put ourselves and our message out there. Hope the audience finds something there worth keeping around when we're gone. Don't you know? The author's already dead.

[khajidont]

Do you hope it changes the world a certain way, then? Even if you can't control it?

BIG OL SPOILERS 1/?

[pummelgranite]

I-

[ Her mouth twists with the effort not to say something, but hey, truth meme. ]


I did hope. So fucking much. I had hoped for this. I wanted to make people braver, and more hopeful, and- I dunno, kinder maybe?

[pummelgranite]

But it turns out I'm the fucking antichrist. The Destroyer. I don't make the world better. Maybe I fucking doomed it. I'm not even sure.

[pummelgranite]

And I should hope that I didn't do that. I should care about that. But I don't. Not like I should. I don't . . . care about anything the way I should, anymore. Like the part of me that could really give a shit just got all burnt up. Busted. And I didn't care that I didn't care.

[pummelgranite]

But now, Inanna's here, and Luci, and I keep thinking-

done

[pummelgranite]

Fuck! I don't even know what I keep thinking! Christ! Can we talk about something not my fucking feelings?

[khajidont]

You're not even where you were supposed to be, yeah? That means that you can change it. I think you can always change something, even if that's what you were meant for.

[Take it from this kid right now, the guy who was supposed to end the world and enslave all humanity and just sorta... wound up playing a lot of video games instead.]

Sometimes it's good to talk about stuff, even when you don't wanna. Helps clear it all up.

[pummelgranite]

Doesn't feel very clear. Doesn't really feel like I can change all that much either.


[ Video games would have been a much better choice, it's true. ]

[slightlyoffchilt]

If Hades were ever to come here -- what then?

[pummelgranite]

I dunno.


It'd be awkward, probably.



I guess . . . well, which Hades are we talking about? Keats would be OK, I guess. If it's Nico's old man I'm probably going to kick his ass.


Also, how trustworthy would you call yourself? Just for curiosity's sake.

[slightlyoffchilt]

Keats as Hades? Hm. [He rather likes that idea.] I was speaking on any Hades, in fact. The manifestations are theoretically infinite, though I have noticed that like attracts like.

... Depends with whom. I have manipulated patients who had already murdered or brutalized people for my own gain, but I haven't done such to innocent people. I have never hurt someone who did not deserve it already.

Can you sympathize with that?