how did the gods feel about baby Titan? and how would the gods react to someone casting a spell on the Titan turning them into a baby?
calls back to this post, i believe
descennie: i mean. the titan is Always a baby to her. now they're just... babier. people are probably side eyeing her to see if she had anything to do with it, but she didn't bc that would be messing with the Natural Order. she is, however, the first to offer to babysit
ane: they think it's Hilarious and won't stop cackling for about a full ten minutes. technically babies aren't as fun because you can't talk with them, but it's still really funny and watching everyone else freak out is Comedy Gold
fexalys: jesus god in the morning do they have to deal with this a g a i n ? they're going to take a nap; wake them when it's over
cian: he's one of the ones who's side eyeing des, but he's wise enough not to say anything about it. he's worried about the repercussions if they can't change the titan back. like. they've kinda got.... a timeline here.............
wiyct: why. why do they have to share their existence with such idiots. they're so tired. someone come fix this garbage
fehro: .........aight
vose: babies aren't any fun to mess with. they never do anything more than cry and leak, and then her sister and des lecture her, and it's all just very tedious. she's gonna go chill in her dungeons and give her rats weird nicknames. later, losers
chie: hey does anyone mind if she borrows the baby to - (mise decisively stomps on her sister's foot and hands the baby to descennie)
mise: she'll like. volunteer to babysit, but everyone knows she'll spend half the time fending off chie who wants to use the baby for Sick Stunts™ and the other half trying to teach the titan not to pull her cats' tails
ane would still be fuckin nosy and charming as hell. they'd be one of those people that everyone knows and who can't go fucking anywhere without like three people recognizing them and stopping them to chat. i honestly can't picture them with a job. i feel like they'd be a professional moocher
descennie would probably be a healer. or someone's cool old grandma, living out in the countryside with a dope ass garden... probably both, actually. she'd probably change the least out of all the gods tbh. she'd still be v calm and motherly and patient and wise. probably a bit less wise bc she wouldn't get to live as long, but still
fexalys would be so much more chill as a human. like, they'd be super awkward and uncomfortable, but so much less of an asshole. good ol fexy would be your standard strong silent type who absolutely Melts for their wife. kids would Love them and they'd have No Idea how to handle it
cian lends himself too well to "crotchety grandpa" to change all that much. i can see him in some sort of village elder role where he harps on about experience and whatever 😂
wiyct is just So Well suited to being a grumpy academic. they'd be like, the world's meanest librarian, or else they'd find something Really Obscure to study and they'd disappear out into The Wilds to study it in seclusion. they'd still be a huge fuckin misanthrope tbh, and v arrogant, but i think being human would give them a bit more empathy. it'd just be..... buried Real Deep
fehro would be thriving tbh. he might be a little bit like sybille actually. he'd be a merchant maybe, and he'd love to travel. i could see him as some sort of toymaker. he'd be more down to earth and also less burdened bc being a human would free him from the demands of his domain
mise/chie/vose... i wonder if they'd be one person if they were human tbh. but no, it's more fun if they're triplets. they'd probably all be criminals lmao, but with varying degrees of morality about it. vose would be a gr8 hitman, or possibly even a blood hunter -- though if she went that route her sisters would probably fuckin disown her. mise could be a forger or smth, and chie would be a straight up thief ofc. they probably wouldn't change all that much either tbh. they already spend a lot of time with mortals, often pretending to be mortals
Casis Not amused at how many jokes I've made about Marepose but is too polite to say anything to my face
Clem thinks I look tired and tries to queer eye my life into some semblance of order
Mels ...asks way too many questions that I probably don't know the answer too
Penelopethinks i'm an asshole and won't speak to me
Sybillefinds the concept of the game amusing and also asks a bunch of questions that I probably don't know the answers to
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Regarding the gods, I think they'd all be a little Confused at the concept of being made? Like. They're gods; THEY do the making
Descennie, Ane, and Mise would like me
Fexalys would think I'm a little shit
Fehro would be annoyed but mask it with amusement
Wiyct never really likes anybody and the fact that I can't answer all their history questions will NOT endear me to them
Cian is busy having an existential crisis that he never saw this coming. He’s just goin hog wild with an abacus trying to figure out the odds of it all and he's losing his whole diddly dang mind
if it were up to every individual god to make a world, what would it look like?
so ane and fehro would actually look pretty similar. they like the chaos and innovation of just… regular human society. sometimes shit gets Fucky, but things work themselves out in time and they like to watch how it all Goes Down. fehro and ane think humans are Neat™, so their preference is always just to sort of,,,, set them free and watch what happens, maybe get their hands dirty with the common masses from time to time, but without actually affecting events
descennie is…. well, a bit of a mom. she loves humanity, but she views them more as her own children than as an independent species. she’s kinda like a mom that knows her kids are Grown and Independent Adults but she can’t help worrying and wanting to help. so she’d be similarish to ane and fehro, but she’d want to Gently Nudge from time to time to make sure everything stays Nice and Peaceful which she kind of already does with the twin continents. but if she were on her own without the interference of other gods it’d be more pronounced
cian doesn’t….. like… being bothered.. but a lot of his power is more tied up in Life than one might think. he’d probably focus more on animals or underwater plant life than humans if he was given his first choice, but some things are best tested with humans. despite anything else, he thinks humanity is capable of great ingenuity. he’d just,,, want to keep the population small and he’d be pretty hands off. buuuuut i imagine he’d lose control pretty quickly and then he’d just be back to his grumpy grandpa habits
fexalys would prefer to stick with just animals. they like making des happy and they like Not interacting with sentient mortals. they’d just have a bunch of like, dragons and griffons and shit chillin. then they could relax with their Wofe and not have to worry about what dumb bullshit people are getting up to This Time. their Ideal World is just zoo tycoon except they trap all the visitors in cages and ignore them
wiyct wouldn’t create SHIT. well, not on a world scale anyway. they’d have isolated little test environments from the comfort of their own personal plane and they’d live in stuffy academic solitude like the grouchy professor they are
mise, chie, and vose aren’t too far off from ane and fehro i suppose. they ofc love the chaos brought about by intelligent creatures with free will. they’d just be Out There every damn day makin shit even more chaotic and messy and Glorious (in their opinion). HOW chaotic and what KIND of chaotic would depend on which triplet. vose would functionally,, be like every cia conspiracy theory you’ve ever heard. they’d destabilize governments, assassinate leaders, etc. dangerous and bloody and exactly the kind of paranoid mess that they live for. mise prefers creative chaos. she loves watching what results when people aren’t afraid of being Weird and Different and Breaking The Mold. she wants to encourage the uniqueness of the individual and discourage the uniformity of the group. she’s,,, sort of a manic pixie dream girl <.< chie is all over the place, i suppose. it depends on her mood. i’m not even sure what kind of world that’d look like. honestly, she might not do anything. she might just watch and see what people come up on their own and then maybe Enhance a little. just muddy the waters a little more, u kno?
which of the gods would play dnd (cian being the dm)
All Of Them because they’re nerds at heart, and because now I’m thinking about it:
Ane, surprising no one, would be a bard in the college of glamour. Probably a half-elf or a genasi. They’d pick bagpipes as their musical focus and describe how badly they’re playing to piss off Wiyct
Mise, Chie, and Vose are contractually obligated to all be rogues. Vose specializes as an assassin, Chie as a thief, and Mise... Actually, I think Mise would be a ranger. Vose would probably be moments away from choosing Drow and then one of her sisters would tease her about how cliche it is to roll an evil drow so she’d switch to gnome just to be difficult. Chie would want tiefling and Mise would roll a half-orc who loves cats
Wiyct would grumble about not being DM and then predictably play as a lawful neutral paladin. Human, probably
Descennie would be a dragonborn druid and she’d spam the fuck out of wild shape. I think she’d like bear best. I imagine she’d also take a few levels in cleric
Fexalys would grouch about not really wanting to play but then end up Super Invested in their aarakocra paladin. They’d have the hermit background and between them and Wiyct the rest of their party members can’t get away with fucking a n y t h i n g unless they roll real high on stealth
Fehro would be a human fighter with levels in bard. Folk hero background, and he’d choose the woodcarver’s tools that come with it
And Cian, as DM, is the sort to attempt to cling to his carefully planned out campaign until he reaches the end of his patience and then giving up as dramatically as possible. He starts out attempting to railroad everyone, but the group is so good at ignoring him/finding loopholes that he says ‘fuck it’ and starts telling Mise she shot her arrow so bad that it twists around and impales her own foot when she rolls a nat one and letting Ane seduce the gelatinous slime
@bibi mintsona if an mc is given to handing out nicknames INCLUDING THE GODS, what nicknames would the gods encourage them towards? they have no choice and gets a nickname whether they like the idea or not
copied from the original answer:
wellcertain gods don't mind nicknames at all; might even be flattered
ane and descennie, to No One's surprise, fall under that categorydescennie will answer to des from just about anyone, and would be Utterly Delighted if the titan called her aunt/auntie/godmother/etc. ane's name is a little harder to nicknameify but they'll cheerfully accept just about anything
the others are tougher
wiyct will do everything in their power to Avoid a nickname, but they could be worn down. they'll draw the line at any familial related titles though
fehro doesn't care for it much but he also refuses to give it power by acknowledging it, so he'd probably answer to anything as though it was his real name
cian would sigh and just Accept it for the most part. anything too silly would cause him Pain but... i think he'd actually be a little pleased if the titan called him grandpa tbh. he would Never admit it, but like. u know he's a grandfather at heart
the triplets are the Weirdest about it. mise reacts pretty favorably to most nicknames, even familial titles but sometimes she'll just ignore you until you call her by her name. then again, much like the cats she favors, sometimes she won't even come if her real name is called. chie doesn't care for the familial titles and vacillates wildly as to her opinion on anything else. sometimes she'll accept it, sometimes she'll snap at the titan, sometimes she won't acknowledge it at all. sometimes her sisters call her chi-chi tho and that's the one most likely to get a response. vose is also mercurial about it. sometimes she gets this darkly pleased grin and other times she gets Real pissy about it. doesn't seem to favor (or disfavor) any one type of nickname over any other. like chie, she'll usually respond to the nickname her sisters use, which is vee
fexalys is Against most nicknames and gets actively irritated unless it's descennie (who is a literal Angel and hardly ever abuses her privileges). idk if u remember that short i posted a while backbut ane calls fexalys fexy. and fexalys is ready to Throw TF Down. they especially hate it if the titan gives them a nickname, especially if it's a familial title. they just straight up won't respond most of the time. Call Them Fexalys or Ser Fexalys Or Don't Talk To Them At Allbut if you're Real Persistent you could wear them down to accepting smth like fex
A look into how the gods interact in private to celebrate :D
Fexalys is the last to arrive. Probably because they didn’t want to come. Even knowing this - especially because they know this - Ane pokes fun at them for it.
“Fexy, I’m surprised! Des was the one to deliver the child, and yet you’re the one who arrives late.” They pout from where they lounge in the center of the room, swirling wine in their glass.
“Don’t call me that.”
“What?” they ask innocently. “Fexy?”
A quiet hiss and the tapping of gloved fingers against wood tells them they’ve managed to annoy both Fexalys and Wiyct in one well executed move. They take a sip of their drink and lean back in their chair, done for now.
The chairs in Descennie’s sitting room are remarkably comfortable. So are Ane’s, but Descennie insisted on meeting in her domain. Perhaps she thought to keep arguments to a minimum by subtly constraining them with the norms of mortal hospitality. After all, it would be rude to cause a scene in your host’s house, wouldn’t it? It was a clever trick, but not one that was likely to hold up under pressure.
By the time their dear host finally bustles out of the kitchen and invites her guests to the dining room, Fehro is pacing and the triplets are examining the glass animal figurines lining the mantle, clearly itching to break them.
Ane pauses on their way past Descennie to kiss her cheek. “You truly are the best among us.”
“I’m sure I don’t know what you mean,” she says primly.
And she probably doesn’t, exactly, but she should have an idea at least. She’s asking for trouble tonight. If she hasn’t figured that out then she’s more naive than Ane has been giving her credit for.
“What’s for supper?” Chie asks, perhaps redundantly because she’s already peeking under the lid of the closest platter.
“Yes,” Vose says. “You kept us waiting so long, it must be extravagant.”
“Today is important,” Descennie replies. “Everything has to be just right.”
Fexalys has always been a hard read, but the tightness to their shoulders and the long look they level Descennie with reads as worry to Ane. From their position at Descennie’s right, Fexalys carefully lays a hand atop hers.
“Do not overexert yourself.”
Descennie smiles beatifically. “I feel quite all right, dear. In fact, I feel better than I have in a long time. I have a good feeling about this one.”
“What is it you always say?” Fehro says. “Don’t count your eggs before they hatch?”
“I would say that the child has already… hatched,” Mise comments.
Descennie sighs, vanishing the lids concealing the food with a wave of her hand.
Unfortunately, if she was hoping to derail the conversation with food, she doesn’t succeed. Even as he’s passing a platter of baked eggplant covered in cheese, spices that Ane can’t identify from where they’re sitting, and breadcrumbs, Cian clears his throat. It’s an awkward sound, and it has Vose cackling preemptively.
“I apologize if this stymies the celebration,” he says, pointedly not looking at Vose, “but there is the matter of -”
“No,” Descennie says.
It comes out so sharp that everyone freezes momentarily. Yes, even Fexalys. Would you look at that. She puts a serving spoon back into its bowl so gently that no clink of metal against ceramic can be heard, which is impressive when the room’s current dead silence is taken into consideration.
“They are a child,” she continues, softer. “For now, there is no grand fate. There is no threat. And tonight we will dine in celebration of a mortal who will grow to be strong in all our domains, nothing more.”
Ane glances around the table, taking in the varying responses. Wiyct’s facelessness does little to hide how tightly they hold their glass as the triplets wrestle their expressions into neutrality with a shocking lack of synchronicity. Fehro appears torn between exhilaration and shame, the brewing argument clearly waking the parts of himself he prefers to ignore.
“Well,” Ane says finally, breaking the silence. They raise their glass and lock eyes with Descennie, who raises hers in return. “To our young friend, then. May their path lead them to… better places.”
With another clearing of his throat, Cian joins the toast. “To less troubling times. I have taken steps to ensure it is so.”
“What have you done, old man?” Fehro asks, eyes narrowing.
“Inadvisable,” Wiyct says.
“Nothing more than a nudge,” Cian says. He looks into the depths of his wine. “Nothing more than what was already promised.”
“I do so love a tragedy,” Vose declares, grin wide and foreboding.
“A mystery,” Chie adds.
“...An adventure,” Mise finishes, looking uncertain.
Fexalys, silent for the past few minutes, speaks up, voice mild. “The food will cool.”
“Just so,” Descennie says. “Please, save this talk for another night. There will be plenty of time in the years to come.”
“On all our heads be it,” Wiyct says darkly, and that ominous statement is the last thing said for the remainder of the meal.
