actually… i was kidding when i offhandedly mentioned socrates!reader getting sentenced to drink hemlock, but… i honestly think it could be a pretty funny idea? not as in ‘haha, sentencing people to death’ funny but more so how everybody would react to it.
like, the reader would be totally chill and accepting of it. like, ‘oh. ok. i guess i’ll just chill in this jail cell until that time comes, then.’
meanwhile anaxa and the reader’s followers are furiously scheming like ‘ok so we have to figure out where they are being held and here’s this super complex plan to get them out and save them and prove that the death sentence is ungrounded and an abuse of state power and—’
and then they break into the cell all dramatic and stuff — like, ‘do not fear! we’re gonna get you out of here!’ and they find the reader just… talking to this spider they befriended in their cell, or something. completely calm. if anything, they seem mildly disappointed that their conversation has been interrupted.
and then cue anaxa dragging them out by the collar like a wet rat and lecturing them about why they should be more careful because he swears to the fucking titans (which is a big swear for anaxa) if you do something stupid and get yourself fucking killed he will tear amphoreus apart by the seams and upheave the laws of this fucking world and stop at nothing until he has dragged you back from the river of souls with his own two bare fucking hands—
(safe to say, nobody has ever heard anaxa cuss like that before. perhaps nobody ever will again. but hey, he’s already lost one person, okay? more than one, actually. he wants to prevent that from happening again.)
((+ i know i made a similar post with aglaea kind of locking them up for a bit but i think it’s even better if they are literally on death row. in fact, it could work well as a sequel. first they get locked up by aglaea, and then sentenced to death by the council of elders. next up it’s going to be talanton condemning reader to the fires of tartarus and they’re like ‘ok ig. if you must’ and anaxa is like NO!))















