Question is if that wouldn’t just kill MC considering, the Essence is their soul. Maybe they can block the power coming with it?
Oh and I just noticed: The MC is born on June 14, 1998, right?
But the first chapter starts with:
Uh, math is not my strenght but shouldn’t it be 2015? Because otherwise the MC would already be 18…(and at that date the summer solstice is also already over)
I was thinking something along the lines of locking most of it away. Lavei doesn’t have the Essence right now and their alive, so they can clearly function just fine with out all of it (the Essence).
Make a sort of divine vault (a different dimension?) that can only be accessed by someone who has all of the Essence. Put most of it there for safekeeping (clearly you should be able to manipulate it since Cronos somehow did and he has an insignificant part of the Essence. Lavei should be able to since they’ll be omnipotent at some point.) without killing B&B. Lock it up and presto, the Essence is now inaccessible, B&B are now normal demigods.
They can’t access the power of the Essence but the Essence still is their soul. That’s a difference. So I don’t think locking it away works, but the at most possible will be to block the powers provided by it.
Of course it’s possible that most/all of the things we know about the Essence are wrong, but I feel that any way to get rid of the Essence power will have some catch.
I guess my problem is that I’m trying to quantify and divide the Essence when it really can’t be. But Lavei should be able to since there’s nothing they can’t do once they turn 18. A way to manipulate it similar to how Cronos did…
The Essence didn’t need a…vessel until Cronos gathered it up and split it. It just…existed? Perhaps there’s a way to make that a thing again?
That would be nice, provided it wouldn’t revert any changes to mc makes using it (like an altered appearance again) first.
I mean that thing has ruined enough of my mc’s life already for him to know that it’s a curse and he doesn’t want it.
Then again he also really doesn’t want to be a son of Hades, so giving himself a new mortal, human body and identity with its own soul would be one of his first priorities.
Okay, the Essence may be the strongest energy force in the universe, but even when it should have rules it follows to work, so I don’t think that “there’s nothing they can’t do” is really true.
And you are right up until Cronus turned the Essence in two souls (even when those souls seem to have different access to the sheer power of their soul) it didn’t need a vessel. But that was before the thousands of lifes MC lived. The status quo is right now that the Essence is split in two souls. And splitting your soul sounds…hurtful?
The gods can give some of their source to their children, maybe the Essence could do something similar, but in that case: Why didn’t anyone before try to rip the Bearer’s/Bestower’s power from them?
So why not combine what was divided? Undo what was done? I can understand why the MC shouldn’t be able to split their own soul (even though Voldemort was able to do it 7 times and he wasn’t even a god) but I feel like B&B should have the option to…do the fusion dance or something! 
It would have to be a decision both halves of the Essence willingly choose to do.
Well I would say that would be something like a balance ending: Let the Essence again roam as a free energy source, restoring the natural order, but I would guess that would kill MC and Aeson at least as induviduals. (It’s honestly one of the endings I speculate for)
Exactly. Somewhere along this topic I realized that I didn’t care as much for the MC’s individuality as I did for ending the cycle. Besides, no one should have that much power.
It would be a sacrifice type of ending, I guess (there it is again. Just like Control-ending Shepard)
It’s bittersweet.
I would take a happy ending, but I don’t feel that a really happy happy ending is what matches my MC and also not what seems by now possible? So in the end it will be bittersweet.
No Stop. 
It’s not. If we make a comparison to Mass Effect it would be more likely the destruction ending, the MC doesn’t take control. The Essence is no entity with awareness, it’s pure energy. It would mean the destruction of MC’s soul to release that power again.
MC using the power of the essence to take controll of the world and slowely losing their humanity as an immortal being, that would be Control.
So willing to sacrifice yourselves you two are.
I wonder If we cannot simply use the essence to give the mc’s consciousness a new body and soul before getting rid of the essence.
Maybe the mc can just hibernate until it’s time to do his duty again and create everything anew when heat death is upon this universe.
Disgust. I felt disgust at that moment because it seemed to me, perhaps with experiences from other stories as well, that Hera is extremely manipulative, self-centered, and quite simply gratuitously evil.
Defiance was something I felt too. The need to defy them, that is. She was plain fearful of us, and I wanted to throw that in her face.
There is also a saying about how those with the most power are even more a slave to it themselves…
Well in this case you aren’t in power YOU ARE THE POWER . It is your soul, the essence of what you are. It’s part of our character same as your eyes or lungs. You could use or not. But is there
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There’s a video game actually based on that type of thought process: Dragon’s Dogma (it’s expanded version called Dragon’s Dogma: Dark Arisen). I won’t spoil what happens or any other story events, but I will say that it certainly paints some interesting points when the topics of immortality and power comes up.
Not the strongest story at times, but it’s combat gameplay is amazingly fun; I’d recommend it to anyone with a PS3 or Xbox 360.
Meh, absolute power is very, very boring or at least it will become so after a couple of (hundred) years anyway… If it’s coupled with immortality too, I suppose the only real thing to do is hibernate until the heat death of the universe, then create a new one, hibernate again and repeat that cycle ad nauseam.
There’s a good reason that immortality is one the very few powers the Bearer isn’t supposed to have.
Yep, it seems to be our curse that we will be unable to get rid of, ever.
I don’t think it would be boring because I could decide that the emotion boredom doesn’t apply to me. Also I will be happy in my second reality role-playing other characters and have fun with other players who log in . Or in single mode… And see what different species in universe are and I always could starting a new bearer bestower cuycle decide forget and reborn in another cycle.
And that might be “fun” for a little while but eventually it will all become dreadfully boring.
Sigh, I suppose my character can make sure both Star Trek and Firefly somehow spring from the same history in Earth’s future somehow.
Still the Q role is quite boring, I mean everything Q does seems to be driven by boredom.
It also means I can hopefully change my character’s appearance to De Lancie’s depiction of Q.
There are no real advantages, but it’s more an emotional advantage than anything else.
With ultimate power, nothing you do would really matter, would it? Of course it would in the traditional sense of things mattering, but it wouldn’t matter to you because it could be done easily.
Managing to do something great with limited power and a limited lifespan would probably be a lot more fulfilling than doing the same thing with ultimate power and immortality.
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An impact doesn’t need to effect the whole world; it just needs to effect one person at a time. And while their life may not be any longer than yours, it doesn’t make the impact any less powerful.
I remember in Avalon Code, an Elf name Slyphy at first thinks of her own race as above everyone else, mainly because of their near immortal lifespans, and tends to look down on the main character (who is always human themselves). However, not only does she later learn that she herself isn’t fully Elf to begin with, she lets go a bit of her pride and bias views as she becomes friends with the main character. If she happens to start dating them, there’s actually a event where she reflects on the fact that the short lifespan humans have makes them more passionate about life and tends to fuel why they work hard to make an impact despite the seemingly short lives they have. Elves, she comes to realize, may have a lot of time on their hands to do almost anything they wanted, but they easily become lethargic and don’t even what to do with all that time.