❝ come back to me when one of your parents
flings you off olympus. then we’ll talk. ❜❜
hephaestus smiles as his son plays with his
so-called ‘cat-dragon mashup,’ happy that
he had oiled it that morning. sheesh.
❝ well, it makes sense that he likes you,
considering how he gets no attention from
me. and you should consider yourself lucky,
i was not at all involved with your naming.
that was entirely your mother. how about
γάτα? not exactly the most creative, but
probably the best that i can do. ❜❜
sure, hephaestus wasn’t the best godly parent,
but he did enjoy the company of his demi-god
children. he wasn’t exactly a w a r m father
(although he was literally), but he felt like he
had a real connection with his children.
❝ you can just have him, if you’d like. i don’t
pay enough attention to him. i’m sure that
your little friends would like him, too. ❜❜
He repeats the name to himself quietly, the Ancient
Greek rolling off his tongue as comfortably as the
Spanish he'd grown up speaking, and Leo finds it
sort of funny that even though he doesn't know how
to talk to his father, he can understand him perfectly--
and not just because of the language. He wonders
if his mother understood the God, too, and maybe
that's why she loved her son so much; they had the
same brain, hardwired for machinery, but not people.
“ I'll be sure not to include "giving me an
awesome name" in my offering prayer when
I give you a slice of my quesadilla tonight, then. ”
As he often does when he visits the God of the Forge,
Leo takes to tinkering with some of Hephaestus's
tools and creations, marveling at the way even the
simplest invention has the most intricate system
involved to give it life. He'd hate to crack open his new
companion to see how he worked. Leo's brain
probably would have melted----or something like that.
“ ... Dad, why do you make living inventions if
you don't even pay attention to them? ”
It just doesn't make any sense to Leo. Why create them
only to let them be lonely? He figures the pair of them
understand loneliness all too well, so why inflict it
on something that had been created as a companion?
--At least make the poor thing a friend to play with.
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