#2014 ananke

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CONCEPT: a disgruntled old Ananke watching Hannah Montanna on Disney Channel.

Spoilers for issue #38, mothering invention arc! Stuff under the cut.

I was talking to my co-blogger Osiris about Ananke and Minerva and I realised something: Minerva manifests in 2013, with the memories of Ananke (she references past events, shows an awareness of modern technology and modern geography). She’s also managed to act like a perfectly normal teenager around the other gods, and none of them have sniffed out anything odd about her.

Baal ascends to godhood a month after Minerva’s manifestation and, as the  @thecrowstars​ points out, Minerva likely appears publicly around September that year. She thus had to interact with Baal a few months after his ascension and pull off her act.

A few months doesn’t feel like enough time to catch up with all of pop culture and put together a convincing persona. Especially given Minerva’s seeming immaturity compared to Ananke (crying and needing comfort during the Faust Act’s events).

As such, I propose that 2014′s Ananke fastidiously did research on what Minerva needed to know and made up for her 13 year gap in media consumption.

I rest my case.

(this post made with thanks to @thecrowstars​ for her timeline of wicdiv events: http://thecrowstars.tumblr.com/post/174015516252/wicdiv-timeline-of-events )