HOMERIC EPITHET / Delighting in thunder.
You are Rider, delighting in thunder. Homer used this epithet to refer to Zeus, basically the god of everything because he was big on killing people with storms. Example: “Zeus, delighting in thunder, instilled fear into my companions.” Definitely change your e-mail signature to reflect this.
FATAL FLAW / You’re too clever by half.
Your intelligence is unmatched, but your smart mouth is going to get you into trouble one of these days. Everyone says so. Odds are you’ll make one witty remark too many and meet a tragic, easily preventable end that surprises no one in the least. You’ll be mourned, of course, but we all saw it coming, and you kind of deserved it.
GREEK MYTHOLOGY DEATH / Killed by your own reflection.
You spurned the romantic advances of a mountain nymph, so the revenge god has decided to punish you. One day you enter a cave and see your reflection in a pool, and you’re so transfixed by your own beauty that you decide to just stare at yourself forever. This continues until you either a) starve or b) drown or c) fall upon your own sword out of grief, depending on which poet is telling this story.
LITERARY SETTING / On the road!
You got “On the road!” Like so many literary characters (Huck Finn, Odysseus, Gulliver, etc.), you’re an adventurer and explorer at heart, and the literary setting that most closely matches your personality is, quite frankly…all the settings! You’re not meant to settle down in one spot—you’re the kind of person who hits up multiple parties in one night, and your insta is probably filled with pics of all the cool places you’ve travelled to. So embrace it! Take to the open road with your friends, run through a field of wildflowers in the middle of nowhere, and please get a pic next to the world’s largest Ketchup bottle.
Tagged by: @coriignis
Tagging: I was a month late when I first drafted this.