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[sos_pilot]

[ della has a slightly serious look on her face... but for those who know her, there's definite playfulness in her eyes. ]

This is one of those "I can't believe I have to say this" kind of deals, so buckle up, folks.

Guys? I know I'm really amazing, very cool, and all around unbelievable. I'm so many things, it's hard to list them all. But one thing I'm not?

A deity. Yes, I am in fact, 100%, absolutely and truly not a goddess. And no, I'm not a demi-goddess either. Not a single trace of divinity in me. I won't name names, but this has happened about three or four times now. Just thought I'd mention it in case there's anyone else out there with this assumption.

... Y'know what? It's a new month, and that means we're getting newbies. Maybe now's a good time for everyone to sweep any other misunderstandings under the rug. So, if there's anything you wanna clear up about yourself, your world, your species, whatever, go for it.

((ooc: feel free to use the above as an excuse to tag others in this post!))

Comments

[mustknow]

... I believe ghosts are very much like shades, if the word is what I think it is. In this instance, a ghost is the soul of a dead person, that either can't or won't move onto some afterlife, and lingers. Sometimes they can speak, other times they've lost so much of themselves in the dying they can only cause trouble or wail sadly and the like.

[Can't.. ever die? That's an alarming thought. Xehanort didn't want to live forever, but he intended to live for quite a while.. but not being ABLE to stop?]

Vampires are ... ah, undead that keep themselves moving and functional by drinking the blood of the living. Ghouls do similar things but with the flesh instead of blood, and are generally intelligent. Zombies are unintelligent undead, merely animated corpses with a ravenous hunger for the living. I'm not sure they truly exist, Zombies .. but there's stories, so..

[dyingpro]

Then we have both ghosts and shades. But hopefully they don't exist as ghosts for long, and transition to shades once their body has been interred in some way, based on the funeral rites of their city-state. Sparta buries the dead, Athens burns the dead and then buries the ashes, and so forth. If nobody does that for them, they can't move on to their afterlife in the Underworld, much like these ghosts you mentioned. We can't take them, and even the Olympians can't do anything about it, other than go to bury the bodies themselves, but they rarely have time for mortals in that way.

[Sometimes his family is full of jerks. Sometimes his family causes a lot of dead bodies also!]

... that sounds terrible. All of it does. I feel sorry for whoever has to keep going like that. It can't really be called living.