We are literally one soul, that’s why if you die he dies . Also @Rohie as a Spanish I am very disappointed about How you portrayed Santangelo ( Italian, name not Spanish by the way)It is like you put a guy With a Bavarian traditional clothing carring sausages and beer everyday. Too stereotypical so I would kill him soon as be able to. Also Something my best friend pointed out when I make him try the game. WHY is a Hispano and latino race ? In Spanish and many Hispanoamerican called Hispano race or Latino race is a MORTAL INSULT. THERE IS NO HISPANIC RACE I AM CAUCASIAN and others are African etc. Same is not USA race. We are a culture not a race.
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I thought Rohie said you could flirt with them (and Aphrodite), but not romance them (though their kids will apparently react to it). Aren’t the only official romances Aeson, Adonis, Santiaglo, Avery, Calypso and Sage?
Edit: Here it is!
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Huhu. Same. I can sort of draw but I feel doodle is a more appropriate term? Oh well papel. I honestly feel more comfortable making fanfic 
As for RO’s, @Okami-Nora has the correct list (at least to the best of my knowledge)
Yea, they won’t be full-fledged romances. I got the “hook-up” wording from an older post, so I took it to mean a little more than just flirting, but nothing serious. I am curious how intimate we’re gonna be able to get with them though, and whether we’ll be able to do so with more than one. I find the idea of the Bearer sleeping with a quarter of the council while they are deciding her fate amusing. 
Well yea, but the one soul is split into two bodies. The way I see it essentially the two parts of the soul are physically separated in their individual bodies, but are connected together through quantum entanglement, so that anything that alters the state of one of them simultaneously alter the state of the other.
No it can’t be a quantum entanglement because if where that way if we were hurts he were hurt by sympathy at exactly same time. Quantum entanglements stuff changes status together exactly same time even if they are separated . I Aeson was hurt you should be hurt exactly same places same time
I wouldn’t say one soul, but two souls that are supposed to be one and that’s the reason for the connection as even the history section describes it as two souls:
Cronus turned the Essence into two sources (now known as souls). Both sources would hold the power of the Essence, but only one of them could be used as a wielder of the Essence. These two sources would be known by the Olympians as the Bestower and the Bearer. Cronus hid the two sources in a place known only to him.
Though…how it really is seems to be treated somewhat inconsistent…
I think it’s that the Essence is a whole but was seperated in two souls, so while those souls together build the Essence, one whole, it still are two souls, what also explains why we can’t access the memories of the Bestower’s other lifes only the ones that the soul of the Bearer lived through.
Could also be that the connection between Bearer and Bestower was left over/enforced by Cronus to avoid creating a too powerful being.
Edit: Here is what Rohie says about the Essence, also talking about two souls:
But the Gods consider us one single person or soul. I don’t know but is tricky because Aeson would lost all or almost all his powers probably he would only maintain his demigod ones. Still he has to be maintain alive so it is like we are a same soul to me. if we were separate souls when he lost the essence I should being able to live even if he don’t However we still needed him alive. It is weird for me
As the aim of the trial is to decide someone to become a hero and immortal and it theoretically doesn’t matter if it is the Bearer or the Bestower who wins the immortality, it’s easier to just treat them as the same contender. It’s just easier to treat it that way, as they anyway can’t fight against each other.
As far as I understand he doesn’t lose the Essence, but rather gives the controll over it’s power to the MC. The Essence itself is the souls, he can’t lose it.
The whole construction screams fail-safe system for me, supposed to keep the most powerful Being(s) of the universe in check.
I find the idea of those three Gods jokingly hitting on the Bearer and their respective child’s “NOT HAPPENING” reaction (if they happen to have a crush or be in a relationship with the Bearer), a far more amusing image personally 
(I can almost hear Sage tell Hermes “Everyone already loves you! Go find someone else! 
”).
Also @squarelyblue, @bellamyb, and anyone else interested the arts:
As a Graphic Design student, the first lesson my instructors empathize is that the most important thing is we communicate the message effectively, not just that it looks pretty 
. Knowing your tools and understanding the technical aspects are vital as well, but it has to provoke the right response for what you’re trying to get across or else, it’s back to the drawing board to try another method (kinda like tweaking a paragraph to help a story flow better or changing a instrument to make the mood of a song stronger). Evander may look nicely drawn, but whether the drawing communicates to the viewers what kind of person he is well enough is another matter entirely.
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I don’t know how it works but sounds to me he lost his power. Maybe he is just a battery I could use like power amplifier? But the reaction of people and Gods like “He is not the one who will have the power to destroy the world” So I will have all power and he will have none.
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Like I said, it sounds like a fail safe system. The Essence, which in itself is merely an energy source and -as far as we know- no entity with an conscious mind was turned into two souls. But those souls aren’t fully seperated but linked together, we don’t know if that is what just naturally happened as the source was splitted into two - hell, I already doubt that the Essence anyway is supposed to be stored in human vessel - or if it’s the way Cronus intended it. I would guess it was how Cronus intended it.
Both souls together are the Essence but their access to that power is limited until their 18th birthday. From that moment onwards it’s only the Bearer that can take hold of the energy - all of it - and utilize it, most likely through the connection to the Bestower.
This arrangement only makes sense if someone wants to store the Essence and may wants to utilize it, but not without a way to take it out of the picture if needed. Taking the Bearer out is easy through the Bestower when the latter is blocked from the pure power of Essences. And I guess that is what actually happens: The Bestower gets blocked from the power of their soul and this diverts the power to the Bearer.
It is a fail safe system and - like putting the Essence into a human body which is not build to carry that much power - not something that would occure in a natural way.
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But we would be immortal so then we could handle it… That’s really complex lol!! I only know Chipmunk is dead!!
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Yup, that’s the great thing about MC life this time. And the great gamble for the gods. But the alternative seems to be worse.
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As I see it, our bodies are not connected but our souls are. We aren’t affected when something happens to the other’s body, only when something happens to their soul. So if Aeson gets stabbed for instance, his body is damaged, but it doesn’t affect his soul, so nothing happens to us. If the stab kills him however, his soul changes state from alive to dead and so ours changes as well. Similarly if one soul changes from mortal to immortal, the other changes with it.
They don’t really consider us one person, they are just having us compete in the trial as if we were one person because we can’t really compete against each other considering if one dies or becomes immortal, the other has to as well. The one person thing is only within the trials.
That’s kinda how I see it. The essence is too powerful to be contained in a single human body. Both the bearer and the bestower are batteries containing half the essence each, but only the bearer can actually use the power.
Have we ever gotten a clarification on whether Aeson actually loses his powers when we unlock our full ones or not? Some people seem to think so, but I don’t recall ever seeing a quote to that effect.
History section of the game is your friend (though again I notice the inconsistence in the way Essence and souls are described):
On that night, at the peak of the solstice, their powers would come alive and the Bestower would transfer the Essence into the Bearer. The Bestowers were not created to be able to withstand the Essence, so the transfer would occur willingly or not. The Bearers would then be overcome with the power of the Essence and use it to their own accord.
and:
The Essence can only be used by the Bearer, and can only be given to the Bearer by the Bestower. Once in possession of all the Essence, the Bearer can use it any way they see fit. There is no limit to their power; it is both magical and physical.
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I know only the bearer can use the essence and only after the bestower has transfered it on their 18th birthday. Nevertheless though, they are both at the moment able to use a tiny shred of it to perform magic. This is the only power Aeson has currently, aside from his innate demigod powers. What I am wondering is if he is going to be losing this power when the transfer occurs. After all, the essence is still his soul, he kinda needs it to live.
Considering he can use those powers because of the Essence and it sounds like he will lose that control over the Essence once the Bestower/Bearer turned 18 I would say: Probably?
My read is that once 18 the power the Bestower can actively draw from the Essence will be blocked and thus only the Bearer can use it. Transfer seems like the wrong word tbh, considering that the Essence is the soul and that their life is still intertwined. I think it’s morre likely that it works by blocking the access of the Bestower to that power so that through whatever metaphysical connection they have with the Bearer it overcomes the latter (a little bit like a canal system when one way gets blocked?). What also dooms both to die as the human body is not fitted to handle that much power.
And certainly It shows the short-term minded that Zeus is. If He was cunning He would try to gather us just before Capturing Aunt Alice. And training us here with Uncle in the Olympus trying to indoctrinate us like Aeson. However they don’t until the last minute and then treated us like shit. To certainly convinced my character to never go helping them. Of course, it has to be a trap in Aeson to dominate or just killing us even being immortal. In my playthrough they are doomed since they put Chipmunk in my character live. die Chipmunk!! 
Edit: look that emote so innocent looking but still having so muh evil inside…
I have something for your MC to hang at their room door:
But I think they had originally planned to give MC around to parent them to avoid them having too strong bounds to only one god. They don’t wanted MC to build an alliance with one of the twelve. (Because they expect from each other a stab in the back when given the oppertunity and power)
Unfortenately Athena pretty much nixed that plan (which I bet was also her idea). Not sure why they weren’t able to track down MC earlier, I think it could be because of the blocker on their powers. But it actually makes sense that as soon as they got Athena tracked down, they first wanted make sure to have her out of the picture. At that time she was the more dangerous one, not MC.
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She was still their best asset to bring the mc in alive however, rather than those packs of little killers.
I also still think it’s weird that “daddy” Hades never once thought to accompany one of the seeker teams to look for his long lost “son”.
Seems likely it also means that Aeson is far more powerful than we are right now, so why risk our death in those silly trials when he seems sure to win them?
In any case if they want my mc to have a chance in those things they better get him a better sponsor (maybe “auntie”) than “daddy” Hades cause he will never accept his “help” even if it does kill him.
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