Llama Day 20- Video

[acapriciousthing]

For those of you who were busy during Della's get to know you session, I'm Death. Not a god thereof, just... Death.

Apparently it's not always common but life also falls under my domain. And Entrapta tells me there are a surprising number of people with soul location issues.

I might be able to help, if you're willing to talk to me about it. I'll be in the rock garden if you want to talk about it.

[Feel free to action on over to the gardens to discuss the matter in a less public venue]

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[controlsthedie]

[ Thanatos... will just avoid talking about the whole death also has life as a domain topic because... yeah.... ]

I can confirm that there are a number of them with their souls in an item or merged with another's.

[acapriciousthing]

That's an oddly specific pattern. It's not that common.

[controlsthedie]

It's not common where I'm from either, but neither is so many dying multiple times.

[acapriciousthing]

Superheroes seem to make that one less common. But usually souls end up in the usual places throughout the process.

[controlsthedie]

Heroes come in "super" now? How bad does that make their hubris?

[acapriciousthing]

[She can't help laughing at that]

Also super, but they mean well.

[controlsthedie]

Which is also super, I presume.

[ It sounds like a nightmare. Heroes tend to literally fight Death (Incarnate) while he's just trying to do his job. Thus, he prefers them to stay away. ]

[acapriciousthing]

They don't do anything halfway.

[She's terribly fond of them, just like she is of anyone else]

[controlsthedie]

[ Except maybe keeping their oaths, but if they did, Megaera would be out of a job. ]

That doesn't explain how so many of them have lived multiple lives. How much of a mess must their Underworlds be...

[acapriciousthing]

I do suspect they've installed a revolving door.

It's not as bad as the time Lucifer shut down Hell.

[controlsthedie]

Who's Lucifer?

[ And should Thanatos be watching out for them? ]

[acapriciousthing]

A fallen angel. Used to be the ruler of another afterlife, until he decided he wasn't going to do that any more.

[controlsthedie]

All right.

[ ... ]

What's an angel?

[acapriciousthing]

Servants of a very particular deity who has managed to acquire a great deal of influence.

[controlsthedie]

A servant ruled the afterlife and then stopped doing his job. Tsch, no wonder he caused a mess.

[acapriciousthing]

And then everyone was fighting over the real estate and no one thought about the fact that that Hell was empty.

[controlsthedie]

The dead all escaped.

[ Oh... that is very bad not to mention a records nightmare after. ]

Lucifer would be locked up in Tartarus for eternity for causing that.

[acapriciousthing]

I shouldn't even be capable of getting a headache.

[AND YET]

He wound up with Hell in the first place for rebelling.

[controlsthedie]

... He rebelled and was given a leadership role in the place he was sent to for punishment.

[ How does that make sense in any sort of managerial system? Just what? ]

[acapriciousthing]

No one said deities had to be logical.

[The administration of afterlives only becomes her circus if someone happens to set all their monkeys loose and remind her that technically all monkeys are hers]

[controlsthedie]

I can't argue against that.

[ Just look at what his world is going through. If they were logical, maybe there wouldn't have been an eternal winter. ]

[acapriciousthing]

I think a lot of it's just time to develop all sorts of quirks. THose build up just as much as the experience.

[controlsthedie]

Do you speak from experience?

[ She's not a god, according to her, but she knows gods... and maybe more like her. ]

[acapriciousthing]

It's probably for the best that my entire family doesn't. Mortals can only aspire to that level of family complication.

[Dysfunctional is the word many might use, but they're still her family]

[controlsthedie]

It gets more complicated when mortals become part of the family.

[ He's thinking about how many children some of the gods on Olympus have. Never miss a moment to drag Zeus. ]