#meritates

[rad-roche]

meri hitting the club while All That is happening

[rad-roche]

very very charmed by the fact that meri's Night Out At The Clerb was so so awful that her willingness to completely explode random servants to death and her killing dozens of small pets because it's funny isn't enough to tip the 'do i like her' scale. you have to understand. it was such a bad night at the clerb

[shiningbean]

For @rad-roche: a scene inspired by her story Imbrium, in which Chronos raises Melinoë as his own daughter. Content warnings: a lot of violence, some foul language, and a lot of father daughter bonding activities. Go read!

[rad-roche]

i'm still on my infuriating authorial grindset of not wanting to say too much but i do think it's very charming and interesting that commenter discussion/thoughts have turned from 'does chronos really love this tiny child he has kidnapped or is it all an act' to 'oh wow he adores her and that makes everything that's happening so much worse actually'

[rad-roche]

Loved how Chronos just decided to stick to the moon theme with his chotonic grandchildren nicknames

Also it's just occured to me that Chronos giving Meritates full information on her bio parents is like, the opposite of what Hades did with Zag ( hiding the fact that Persephone is his mom) and it's such a clever thing

( and of course call back to a couple of other myths and plays but i just thought that parallels with Hades is more important)

i thought the moon thing was a fun inclusion! one of those persistent little things that 'should' be there exerting itself. chronos is such a treat to write, too! he's one of the most cunning, calculating characters in the setting. he's hugely intelligent, observant, and very, very patient and figured, (accurately), that if he left too much wiggle room meri would likely grow up to despise him. he's able to discern, pretty accurately, a lot of zagreus' situation despite his refusal to tell him and is able to extrapolate, to a point, what hecate actually is in relation to him. he just has to keep his temper in check. which. uh

i love including little nods to the myths :} especially the weird and contradictory ones. thanks for reading!

[rad-roche]

Hi! This might be a dumb question, so I apologize in advance! You wrote in chapter 6 of Imbrium a scene where Mel mentioned remembering seeing Chronos weep after a house servant told him something. It was the scene that emotionally affected me the most, but I also felt a bit confused. Was this incident already alluded to in the previous chapters?? Or is it meant to be foreshadowing to a future scene you're planning to write?? English is not my first language, so it might have completely gone over my head, lol.

hello hello! no need to apologise at all. here's the passage

Whole flowers drifted by. She pushed them with her finger, as Poseidon pushed boats from the dock. Some sank beneath the water. Some floated, bobbing along fragrant, artificial currents. “I was three, I think. We were playing a game of some kind, and the door opened. One of the house servants rushed in to tell you something. The door opened very loudly, with a bang, and you wept. It was as if you couldn’t breathe."

the servant didn't have anything particularly important to tell him, but the sudden slam of the door drove him into one of his, quote, 'reactive terrors'. i make sure not to use modern parlance in the fic, because i just don't think it fits or would be interesting to read, but in plain terms the loud, sudden noise launches him into a panic attack. he didn't take being vivisected well. hope this clears things up!

[rad-roche]

will meri get other choices of weapons later down the line? (And if so would they be called the Eternal Arms?) I can't tell if she's more like her Father in that she would have a singular defining set of weapons or if he'd insist she become a master of many

eternal arms is a sick ass name i wish i'd thought of first! but no, autika and epeimi are her weapons moving forward, given how sentimental they are to the both of them. though you're right on both counts! though she'll only use those two, she's still highly trained in a variety of weapons (save for the bow). another symptom of chronos' crushing perfectionism, and now her own