Will we be able to initiate romances later in the game? Like what if your MC isn’t interested in kissing anyone at the dance, but you’d still like to have a romance with a particular character later?
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True and like I said there have been teenage runaways who manage to survive without selling themselves or selling drugs. Prostitution is however by far the most lucrative option for someone who is constantly hounded, considering you can “earn” money by doing one-off “tricks” who are very much not inclined to ask questions.
However, the next most lucrative thing, burglary would not be suitable for someone on the run like the mc. Doing it successfully requires prep work and contacts/connections with fences and the local underworld. That’s time our constantly on the run mc does not have.
Pick-pocketing could work but modern people carry less and less cash (though if he did only that it could explain why my mc is malnourished) and stealing smartphones, watches and jewelry of off them also requires a fence. Making stolen atm and credit cards work for you requires some computer skills and some time as well as equipment our mc may not be easily able to carry with them.
Selling drugs likewise requires underworld connections, though multiple one-off smuggling missions are a possibility. Though work as a drug mule is highly dangerous and also doesn’t pay that much. The most popular method also takes a toll on your stomach and digestive system (another possible explanation for the mc’s haggard appearance).
Successful shoplifting anything worth it either requires some inside knowledge or some way to bypass security and usually cannot be done when one looks like a homeless teenager, or even a teenager at all. The most frightening shoplifter I’ve ever encountered was a seemingly sweet old lady.
Assaulting people is potentially a combination of pick-pocketing and burglary all in one, but with exponentially greater risk, since in many cases law-enforcement, at least around here, tends to prioritize violent cases, whereas they are much more likely to not (thoroughly) follow up on pick-pocketing or even burglary cases where no one got hurt.
Not to mention that your intended “mark” may turn out to have hidden skills /a gun/pepper-spray and the knowledge and opportunity to use them.
Yes, for many reasons prostitution would be the “easiest” and most “lucrative” way to “earn” money for a teenage runaway who is constantly being chased and hounded by people wanting to kill them.
Why do you think my mc is starting to think the frigging essence is a curse, it hasn’t really “helped” him before and if anything since getting to Olympus it’s made his life even worse.
Yep, this is not a happy unicorns and rainbows story. 
And @Sherlock221B don’t give me the line about how the essence is going to start making everything better, if we just survive till our mc’s rotten birthday, cause for my mc it really isn’t, by that time the essence may in fact be the one thing he hates more than his supposed “father”. 
So you say now, but I’ve read testimony to that effect many times now. Still I suppose the/your mc could be one of the few who don’t succumb to doing it, just keep in mind that people’s wallets are now a lot lighter on cash than they used to be even a decade ago.
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Well, in that case, being kidnapped by a pack of “psychotic little killers”, dragged unconscious back to Olympus, stuck with a spy for his roommate, never told anything, and forced to become the gods’ pawn against his will is probably the best thing to happen to him since Auntie disappeared. That’s how I’ll play him. 
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What drugs is your mc high on @ParrotWatcher?
Considering how hounded he is and the fact that he needs to stay mentally sharp the mc may be one of the few people illegally selling themselves on the street who are not even in a position to use drugs to dull the experience.
Even if they were, that body horror coma potion and our subsequent treatment would have flushed any of them out of the mc’s system and we haven’t got the money for Olympus local, friendly neighbourhood drug dealer, assuming there even is one of those around.
You know, the vehemence with which your MC stays positive makes me chuckle. In a good way! Too much pessimism makes me depressive, so your MC is a breath of fresh air. 
(even when I can’t stop myself from making some jokes how your character will most likely end up telling his murderer how to hold the knife in the best way to not get exhausted too soon)
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A Psycho-style overarm stab? Are you serious? No, no, no. You want an underarm stab. Aim for my belly. No ribs in the way there.
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raises hand My MC is pretty ok too. I mean, low in trauma and angst. Aaand is super hot/healthy looking. Her future mother-in-law aka Aphrodite approves. 
Personally I like to match my headcanon to the overall tune of the game. While the world of CoTG is definetly not the Sugar Bowl-type, it doesn’t check enough boxes to be considered the dramatic Crapsack World trope for me.
For my MC’s “survival” bg I was heavily inspired by the real-life story of my neighbors (a boy and his grandpa). The parents died in a car crash so his grandpa was raising him. They never had much but aparently it all went to hell when the grandpa’s health worsened. The boy was/is a total child prodigy. And long story-short, he did a lot of illegal stuff and was earning ungodly amounts of money for a pre-teen.
(But there was no prostitution,abuses or drugs involved in the case.)
Since my MC is a high Wit-Allure mage I thought it was suitable to have something similar as backgroud. Dramatic enough but not too depressing.
I like to reserve my most angsty and traumatized MC for other WiPs with more dejecting ambients (such as Choice of Rebels, Blood for Poppies or Freakhouse).
Anyways, my MC might be quite less traumatized than others but still the Gods must pay for the unnecessary stress, troubles, lies, mind-games and overall treatment of me and Aeson like disposable tools for their own gain.
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In a happy land of rainbows and unicorns, where nothing bad ever happens and all people are your friends.
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out of curiosity, since you seem to be romancing Adonis, do you think he might have an SO? Judging by the girl he had in his room earlier in the game, and his reaction if you choose to kiss him, I’ve been a little suspicious :~)
Right… that girl… probably isn’t who you think she is…
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If you asking her about that girl is obvious he even doesn’t know her name. He almost burst in laughing when you ask him is she is a friend No lol. He is Aphrodite FAVOURITE BECAUSE HE BANGS HALF OF OLYMPUS The fact of the kiss could be 1- He has feelings for first time or 2- If people thinking I am with the bearer my banging sessions would end because no-one would dare to go against the essence. Poor Adonis without sex practice probably he will lost mom favours
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That was his 11:45 appointment. He’s also rather anxious to get the Scoobie meeting over quickly, as he’s got a pair of twins booked in for 12:15.
Which is why I’m not really keen on romancing him… (The Bearer would be an awesome name to add to his list of “conquests”.)
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Ah, that’s interesting. I don’t think I even considered that they could have been doing something else in his room. Does he really laugh? I seem to remember him leaning in really close to you, and asking whether she was a friend like Saint or a friend like you. I did choose to say I found him enticing when Calypso asks us what we think of him, so maybe the dialogue’s different if you’re not interested. If it’s true that he’s involved with half of Olympus, it’s likely the after kiss dialogue is because he has feelings for you, seeing as if your stat with him is high enough, after the kiss the little note beside it reads ‘His heart beats faster when he thinks of you. It’s a scary feeling for him.’
I’m yelling, this is wild. I’m keener to romance him if anything, because now I’m curious.
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You and me both… well, sort of.
I’m a little intrigued by Sage now…
Weird people, unite!
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Yeah; dialogue is different if you are no interested. If you aren’t in him he just say Hey my mom is Aphrodite WHAT do you thinking i was doing? I was making my mom proud. However, i think the fact they having sex was bluntly presented to EVERYONE . Yeah an Aphrodite 17 teenager with a girl he doesn’t know her name in a room at night alone… Yeah they were praying to Hera to be virgin until the sacred vows of marriage came. 
He is as virgin as Zeus
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He was that blunt about it? And with someone he’d only known for less than a day, too. YIKES. My MC would have been shocked by his forthcoming-ness, had she not been romancing him. It didn’t occur to me @ all, to be honest. I wonder why he doesn’t wanna tell you if you’re interested in him. How come he doesn’t want you to know then? On a side-note, how come Aphrodite knows if you kiss/dance with him? Do all gods have like demigod trackers or something, or was she just particularly interested in what the bearer was up to, and especially with her son? That’s something that I’ve been wondering abt.
About Adonis, I myself, not Mara, feel piety for him. He was just tailored for mom Aphrodite to be a a good pet for her and just banged people to gain something or just because is how mom thinking a good demigod of her should be. If you want romantce him and he feels something for they partner for first time stuff should be conflicting for him. Aphrodite always has been portrayed as a maniacal egocentric control bitch directly. And ruthless. She knows perfectly whatever you or Adonis doing. She would try to control the relationship in a way or another
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subtly points to the Helen and Paris incident.
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Are we still talking about my MC or rl? Either way you could scam people, rob them, pickpocket, sell drugs, go to a homeless shelter etc. There’s many options than doing sexual favors for strangers for a fucking burger or $20.
So basically I’d take those other options you said rather than sell my body.