Thank you.
Also, I was recently reminded that Dropbox won’t host HTML anymore after October Somethingth, so the game will most likely be inaccessible for some time, since I don’t have any means to transfer it to dashingdon or webs.com, but I’ll brainstorm.
Just wanted to give a heads up.
Well as it is now, I wouldn’t say the choice of father really seems random. If you killed the seeker, it is ultimately just based on your highest stat. If you didn’t, it will always be the same. The impact of that decision might work as an obfuscating factor (if we didn’t have access to the source code 
) but the actual perception of moral players is that they’ll always get Poseidon, while the perception of amoral players is that it’ll be based on their stat.
Personally, I’m not really a fan of true randomness in these kinds of games. What it sounds like @Rohie wants to do though, is for your father not to be random necessarily, but to be hard to predict and have an element of uncertainty. Personally, I like the idea that your stats and choices affect the result (making it seem your MC takes on traits from their father), but not in an obvious and predictable way.
If it were me, I might have set up a complex series of if test checking for a multitude of stat and variable combinations, and assigning a father for each one, but I realize that’s not a particularly simple or elegant solution. A simpler alternative could be to have 3 hidden stats, one for each father, that are increased or deducted at various points throughout the game, by seemingly unimportant choices, then checking which is higher when the MC meets their father.
Of course, this is assuming you’d actually want the MC’s personality to influence who they end up with. If that’s not what the author wants, then obviously ignore everything I’ve said. 
I’m probably really late to the discussion but I just wanted to say that I think it all really depends on what choice your MC is able to live with. Morality plays a huge role on your choice but I also think that your feelings at that precise moment can cause you to make a rash choice. I do think that there will be a chance for redemption if your MC feels guilty over their choice. At least, that’s what it seems like! Ultimately, your choice doesn’t define you as good or evil.
Disagree if you’ve watched Clash of the Titans you know Zeus is Liam Neeson. He has a special set of skills and excels in rescuing kidnapped offspring. This is an excellent trait in a parent.
Seeing that people got back into sharing photos of their headcanons a hundred or so posts ago, I’m encouraged to share my own dearly-held mental image of Adonis. <3
As far as we know, Priscilla was quite the character. I wonder if Aeson’s mother was like that as well. Was there anything special about her? Why was she chosen to be the Bestower’s mother??
Maybe the mother isn’t chosen but predetermined by destiny? So, the only thing the gods could influence was the father?
I thought that was the case, but I played through the prologue again and it states “After deciding which Gods and which mortals would conceive the child…”. Of course the decision could apply to the father only, but with the way the sentence is structured, it sounds to me that this decision applied to the mortals as well.
He is also a part time Air Marshal and has even saved a plane already, but also he shouldn’t allow his offspring to be kidnapped in the first place
This just crossed my mind:
In many cultures, Water tends to symbolize and is linked to Life. And Poseidon is the God of the Seas, which can be seen as an embodiment of the chaotic aspect of life (since an ocean can be calm one minute and then thrashing the next). And if the Bearer is fathered by Poseidon, they end up harboring a source that is often connected to life (water) while Aeson’s source comes from the Underworld (in other words, Death).
So the Poseidon Bearer embodies the unpredictability of Life while Aeson embodies the inevitability of Death. 
This is something I’ve been thinking about! Moreso because as @Rohie stated that the Bearer and the Bestower meet in every life without exception, that the likelihood of them never having had a romantic relationship is nil. That got me thinking, have the Bearer and Bestower ever had a child together? If so, what was the child like? I know it’s been mentioned that there have been children in the past, and it really intrigues me.
No. Rohie already said that’s not how it works:
NO!
NonononononononononononononononononoNO!
We are NOT delving into that topic!
I WILL find the fountain of youth, and i WILL live forever! Either that or I’ll become a VAMPiRE.
On topic of the Underworld, Hades was also a god of wealth – literally underworld was the ground below, so imagine gold and other precious metals/stones…sometimes a good harvest was attributed to Hades to due his relationship with the ground :))
Throwing in the idea of Aeson being notoriously frugal/treasurer/overall bargainer for supplies :))
[As much as I like the idea of Aeson spending a lot, I find the idea of penny pinching Aeson pretty funny]
Or do the obvious and win the tourney. Plus there are stories of the dead coming back to life, they all just end horribly because no one listens to Hades and or tries to cheat someone. And you reincarnate anyway.
As @Sammysam has brought up, @Rohie had said before that the descendants of the Bearer or Bestower (should they live long enough to have children) don’t inherit the Essence. They are full-blown humans who just happened to have had parents who are the embodiment of life. Though whether that tune changes due to them being Demigods could potentially be another story (don’t know how Demigod DNA transfers though).
…Can you imagine how awkward things could potentially get if the Bearer and Bestower end up reliving a moment were they were a couple while the Bearer may be in a relationship with another character or sees him like a brother in this particular lifetime 
? And how awkward it may be for the Bearer’s love interest (if it’s not the Bestower) if they end up learning that the Bearer had possibly been in a relationship with Aeson a number of times in the past. I can imagine some of them may end up feeling a little insecure in their current relationship with the Bearer once it occurs to them that it’s possibly not the first time the Bearer had fallen in love before. But a few may be quicker to acknowledged that about the Bearer and will be content enough with the knowledge that, while the Bearer may have had relationships in each of their past lifetimes, the Bearer who stands before them now is The RO’s alone.
B-But it’s fun to delve into topics about how two characters compliment and contrast each other in a story (half of the Bearers I have planned are intended to play a similar dynamic with certain characters themselves)! 
…Also, part of the reasons for being Trials is the chance to get that immortality that neither the Bestower or the Bearer has had for a while now. And if it comes down to it, use your powers to make up your own immortal monster race to become; Vampires have been overdone centuries ago. 
I live for this kind of angst :> the need is very strong :))
I see Adonis arguably being the most insecure one amongst the RO’s (as of now) and probably very passive aggressive about it until MC and him have a talk addressing the issue
Ah, this could go in so many directions depending on your Bearer’s personality! + Consider a Bearer that has feelings for Aeson and someone else 
A Bearer that sees Aeson as a brother finding out that they’ve dated innumerable times before sounds like a great way to further complicate an already weird relationship, imo. ‘Oh.’ Where’s the ‘Bearer Gone Rogue’ option where MC can flee Olympus for a remote location to wait out the war while completely disregarding any mention of a prophecy, LMFAO.
I love talk of Adonis as the most jealous of the ROs, especially since it already seems tht way if you take his reaction if you choose to dance with someone else @ the dance while having romantic interest in him into account. It’s a little strange too, though, that he’d be made jealous by that when he doesn’t know the Bearer that well at all + has a reputation as something of a Casanova on Olympus and could readily pursue whomever else he wanted. Not tht jealousy is rooted in rationale, I guess.
MC: Is there a problem?
Adonis: Why do you ask? I don’t have a problem.
Adonis definitely the first one that comes to my mind the most when I think about insecure love interests (though each of ROs may show a sense of insecurity in some way). He is certainly the one who would probably benefit the most from having a strongly emotionally mature Bearer who can understand that there are going to be a lot of new concepts that he’ll need time to get comfortable with yet also trying to curb him into becoming more secure about their relationship and discouraging him from acting too jealous or childish.
It’s funny; I wonder if he’ll get a little passive-aggressive during Artemis’ Trial if the Bearer indicates interest in him, yet ended up dancing with someone else or if Calypso herself beings it up if the Bearer indicates interest in her but ended up asking someone else to dance? I can’t imagine that the RO didn’t notice if the Bearer dancing with someone else, even if they went with the ambiguous route and asked everyone to dance (if the Bearer was dancing with Aeson; I bet everyone was paying attention to the two, especially if they were dancing closely). I can almost see Adonis and Psyche noticing the Bearer dancing with someone else and her commenting on the expression Adonis is making or Saint making a remark when he catches sight of the Bearer dancing with someone else, but actually STOPS saying too much since he notices Calypso making some type of expression. Or if the Bearer does dance with the RO they indicate interest in but chooses not to make a move, they end up being a little disappointed but not too discourage, saying or doing something before they go that can pretty much be seen as “I guess this is fine for now. Wouldn’t mind if you made a move the next time though 
”.
Maybe it’s has to do with it being a natural natural trait of the Bearer 
. Like even in their past lives, the Bearer tends to harbor a sort of subtle charisma that slowly yet surely draws people in and creates a natural relationship in which a person wants to genuinely bond and get to know them. Even now, with some who appear fearful toward the Bearer, they may also feel inexplicably drawn to them at the same time, which could be considered another contrast to Aeson, who may have needed more time or to do more to have people drawn to him (and even then, it may not often be from a natural desire to know him).
As for why Adonis seems more reactive to Bearer in particular despite possibly being able to charm anyone he wanted, the Bearer is potentially the first person who he is drawn to both romantically and platonic-ally at the same time. And something about that may feel much more powerful than any feelings he’s gotten from previous conquests he has successfully done in the past. It’s not too strange then for Adonis to genuinely want to be with someone that he feels more real with and who possibly may be more accepting of a him that hides behind the Cassanova mask. So he feels great uneasy and jealousy when the Bearer is interacting with anouther person due to the amount of intensity he’s experiencing them in (which even he may know is somewhat immature to a degree on intellectual level, though he doesn’t know how to really handle it on the emotional level).
It’s part of the reason I wouldn’t mind seeing the Bearer having the choice to do ambiguously caring actions that can potentially come off as highly intimate; it would be interesting to see how some of the ROs (especially the ones most new to a potentially serious relationship) struggle with what to do when not completely sure if the Bearer is acting this way because they see them as a friend or if the Bearer may like them as something more deep down.
