characters + mythological deities (pt 1/???). ft. oc’s from @morningstar1399 @artless-whimsy
Prince Phillip Anders as Glanis, a local Gaulish god associated with a healing spring at the town of Glanum (which is in the Alpilles mountains of Provence in southern France).
Princess Genevieve Anders as Persephone, the formidable, venerable, majestic queen of the underworld, who carries into effect the curses of men upon the souls of the dead. She is also associated with spring as well as the fertility of vegetation.
Princess Dafni Kokinos as Artemis, the Greek goddess of the hunt, the wilderness, wild animals, the Moon, and chastity.
Prince Elias Kokinos as Athena, an ancient Greek goddess associated with wisdom, handicraft, and warfare. Her functions as a goddess of intelligence include military strategy and generalship.
Prince Anastasiy Romanova as Hades, the Greek god of death and the king of the underworld. Despite modern connotations of death as evil, Hades was actually more altruistically inclined in mythology. Hades was often portrayed as passive rather than evil; his role was often maintaining relative balance.
Princess Isabella Cotilla del Reyes as Santa Muerte, a female deity/folk saint in Mexican folk Catholicism. A personification of death, she is associated with healing, protection, and safe delivery to the afterlife by her devotees.
Princess Shannon Anders as Ceridwen, a Celtic shape-shifting goddess of poetic inspiration. She keeps a cauldron of wisdom.
Princess Lea Lynton as a Gan-da-yah,who protect and advise the fruits and grains in Iroquois mythology. Their special gift is the strawberry plant; in the spring they loosen the earth so that the plant can grow.
Chrissy Li as Iris, the Greek personification and goddess of the rainbow and messenger of the gods. As a goddess, Iris is associated with communication, messages, the rainbow and new endeavors.
Prince Arseniy Romanova as Loki, the Norse trickster god. Loki is "pleasing and handsome" in appearance, malicious in character, "very capricious in behaviour", and as possessing "to a greater degree than others" learned cunning, and "tricks for every purpose".
Prince Alejandro Aguíla de Agustín as Bacchus, the Roman god of wine, agriculture, and fertility. He wandered the earth, showing people how to grow vines and process the grapes for wine.
Princess Mai Mei as Xi Wang Mu, the Chinese West Queen Mother/Queen Mother of the West. Xi Wang Mu is both creation and destruction, terrifying and benign all at the same time. She is a dark goddess, pure yin, associated with death and immortality as well as tigers and weaving.
a few of our wrc chars + favorite card games + lil blurb about said card game. s/o to @artless-whimsy and @morningstar1399 for indulging meeeeeee
textual version of lil blurbs + reasoning for why i chose those specific parts of the respective wiki pages under the cut :)
Lea - Egyption Ratscrew
In addition to the basic progression of play, players should agree beforehand on certain card combinations that, when played, entitle the fastest player to slap the pile and subsequently claim it.
chosen because lea is definitely hyper-active enough to have the reflexes for this game. holyyyyyyy fuck
Shannon - Poker
Poker is a family of card games that combines gambling, strategy, and skill. All poker variants involve betting as an intrinsic part of play.
chosen because shannon, as @artless-whimsy put it, Shannon did not come here to make friends; she came to win (and possibly take their money)
Phillip - Go Fish
Unlike many card games, go fish depends on the honor system; lying about the contents of one's hand is difficult to prevent.
just.......read the blurb. and u shall know why it was chosen. prince charming does not lie, people
Mai - Gong Zhu (Chinese Hearts)
Players must follow suit. If they are not able to do so, they can play any card (an action known as "Sloughing" or "Discarding"), including a penalty heart or Q♠, thereby ridding themselves penalty points.
listen, the way u win this game is by finessing your way out of ending up with shit cards. this game allows u to dump all ur bad cards on someone else, & that’s the most mai thing ever tbh
Elias - Gin Rummy
To knock, the knocking player discards as usual, announces knocking (generally by simply placing a discard face down), and the hand is laid out with the melds clearly indicated and deadwood separated.
chosen b/c it involves announcing your intention. which reminds me of elias, a lot; this mans does not beat around the bush
Alejandro - Cheat (Bullshit, BS)
Cheat (also known as bullshit, bs, bluff) is a game of deception, with cards being played face-down and players being permitted to lie about the cards they have played.
are u fucking kidding me??? this mans alejandro lies thru his teeth. everything he does is a disguise or a diversion. he shady AF and so is anyone who is consistently good at BS, tbh
Arseniy - Uno
Progressive uno: if a draw card is played, and the following player has the same card, they can play that card and "Stack" the penalty, which adds to the current penalty and passes it to the following player.
i feel like this rule is just. so arseniy. “u wanted to make me draw 4? roflmao sike, imma make the man next to me draw 4 instead”. need i say more?
Genevieve - Rummy
Rummy is a group of matching-card games notable for similar gameplay based on matching cards of the same rank or sequence and same suit.
idk yall, rummy seems like a very organized game from what i can tell. and gen does seem like the type who likes to associate with people who are compatible with her
Dafni - Spit (Slam, Speed)
The goal of the game is to get rid of all your cards as quickly as possible. The players do not take turns; physical speed and alertness are required to play faster than your opponent.
like ERS for lea, spit is all about being speedy. dafni is good at being speedy
