Which, is that were the case, would totally go well with the rest of the citizens of Olympus. Enough that they live with the likes of Zeus, and that Cronus is on target to start a war. Now the gods are actually small-g gods compared to something (possibly?) bigger?
Preston Preparatory Academy is in Phoenix, AZ last time I remember reading. It’s a little complicated, but it’s more right wing than Tucson yet has definite pockets of liberalism. Tempe, being where Arizona State University is located, isn’t exactly the most Republican of cities, along with the fact that we’re talking about a pretty huge area–someone like the MC or Aunt Alice wouldn’t be too out of the ordinary there given a decent cover story. Now, I’m not sure whether @Rohie meant Phoenix proper or the metro area when she wrote that, and Preston Prep is completely fictional as far as Google tells me…For all we know, the head of the school could be anything.
There is a small part in me that is secretly hoping that my character will get an opportunity to fight Ares once he gets the immortality. Calypso probably wouldn’t like it but… I just wanna fight the god of war, ya know, to make him humble and take back all what he said. Good ol’ Uncle Henry probably would love to see the fight while both Calypso and Athena might be horrified to see it.
Always be wary of the ones how hide their hostility with honeyed words and vague smiles.
An angry warrior may be a daunting foe to go against, but at least you can see their weapon and hostility more obviously than those who make every conversation a battle of cunning and double-meaning words.
Calypso would very likely be not even remotely keen about the Bearer actively trying to antagonize her father and that will likely not win you many points with her. Though how she’ll react to her father trying to start something with the Bearer is something I’m most curious to see. She’s quite close to her father and highly values her words and he in turn thinks so highly of her that he’s officially named her his Century Favorite, so it’s possible that the Bearer may cause a bit of friction in that relationship. Though I’m still not completely sure what it is about the Bearer that makes Ares so hostile, I doubt that he’ll be all too happy if learns about the Bearer taking a interest in his daughter and Calypso herself may be uncertain about what to do for a while about the Bearer and Ares’ far from good interactions.
Athena though? Not sure about being horrified (well somewhat worried for the Bearer’s safety). More like displeased that the Bearer would purposefully start something with one of the Gods while being in a very delicate position.
That sound so perfect.
I’m more curious to see how the Bearer’s first few days in Olympus is going to be handled and doing some brotherly bonding with Saint (if he’s up for it).
Well so far my MC has been very distrustful and hostile towards the gods aside from Hades and Athena (seeing how they basically raised him throughout his childhood) and he certainly doesn’t appreciate Ares threating Hades so obviously he stepped in between them and dared Ares to hit him instead of Hades. He’s also pretty angry about the Hunters stalking, trying to kidnap him and killing his girlfriend so when he met Saint for the first time, he just straight up attacked Saint and completely refused to believe his story that they have the same mother. He might be tempted to join up with Cronus regardless of what the others may say about him simply because he had enough of their antics towards him. He’s also reckless and never cared enough of the consequences that may occur from whatever he does, and he never asked to be a god at all, he feels as if it was all forced on him so naturally he’ll lash out against those he views to be responsible, especially the gods and as I mentioned earlier, the biggest beef he has so far is with Ares even it may risk his blooming relationship with Calypso. In the end, he just might go full out Kratos (the protagonist from the God of War series). The only people that probably could stop him from going down that path will be Hades, Athena and Calypso even if they may disagree with his actions so far.
Yeah, you do know that immortality doesn’t imply invulnerability, it doesn’t even imply eternal youth. I also think the Bearer would need to train an awful long time to have a chance of outright defeating a god, provided the mc can overcome the constant agony of the essence trying to consume them from the inside out.
So while my mc would relish the chance of a good bout of nude mud-wrestling with Ares, he’d be surprised if he somehow manages to even last 30 seconds, and that would be post-birthday assuming the constant pain and discomfort of bearing the essence isn’t too much.
Oh please, everyone knows Ares is the coward god who fled due to a single wound and has lost to mortals in combat, I’m sure the average demigod’d be fine.
Although now that he might permanently be our god brother, I’m going to be a purposely bratty sibling.
Oh yeah, Saints replacing Aeson for me… Though that’s just me theorizing that we’ll be able to use the big three’s powers later on as a wizard anyway, otherwise I’d be fine with Poseidon’s earthquakes. I miss Hades
Although I’m curious if we’ll see a Poseidon kid later on, since he has the least involvement so far, I mean, I can’t be an only child when he’s competing with Zeus for child support debt.
The mc isn’t a god though, nor will the essence make them into one, except maybe in thousands or even millions of years, assuming the mc can ever learn to deal with the sheer agony of the essence trying to corrode and consume them from the inside out.
All the essence will be(come) is a bunch of potential the mc has only the barest inklings as to how to even begin to handle it, at best.
Yeah, full brother Saint is even worse then half-brother Saint.
No. She’s mortal. She’s an apprentice to Hygeia though
Source text this would be true but remember that brother/sister are loose translations to describe what the gods are in Rohie-verse so :))
And that gods don’t have DNA exactly so you’re only commiting it if you have the same non-god parent. Though that might not erase the squick if you were raised as siblings in Olympus tbf or how you might perceive a child with the same god-parent
(it’s a whole can of worms I’m not sure how to deal with myself)
I don’t think she’s in the actively trying to kill us phase like Ares but more on the ‘if you were to meet a terrible end I would smile the one time and then promptly forget you ever existed’ phase.
Couldn’t have said better myself. Ares, for all his size and strength, doesn’t scare me half as much as Aphrodite.
I mean, my Bearer is pretty much ready to fight him since their first meeting even tho that would probably mean suicide. But then again, the guy’s such a knucklehead that a clever Bearer might be able to get him with a trapdoor or something
Is like Hera. She wants so bad to appear menacing and dangerous but all I see in her is a woman scorned trying her hardest to stay in her husband’s wandering sight. She’s so insecure I would feel sorry if she wasn’t such a harpy to our Bearers.
But dangerous? Nah. I reckon she’ll be quite easy to deal with. But good old Aphrodite? She’s the real snake imo.
I used a series of apps and photo editors on my phone and tablet. Unlike a lot of people who have shared pictures they’ve drawn of their bearer, I don’t have an ounce of artistic talent. lol
Though that’s just me theorizing that we’ll be able to use the big three’s powers later on as a wizard anyway, otherwise I’d be fine with Poseidon’s earthquakes. 
lol