sheep_game | Counting Stars

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Counting Stars

WHO: Sheeps
WHERE: All over
WHEN: Night Post Game 77 / Morning Day 78

[DID YOU GUYS HAVE A FUN GAME? ARE YOU FUCKED UP? WELL GET IT TOGETHER

or not, maybe you just need to sleep. have some sweet dreams. This can be a dream mingle or a reality mingle, I'm not the boss of yall]

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Okay, I do wanna fight him too, but I dunno if I can actually deal with two gods at once.

One at a time is more than pleny, yeah.

Speaking from experience?

Actually? Yeah. I battled Ares when I was twelve, and it's never really slowed down.

The war guy?! I'd ask why he was beefing with a kid, but none of them ever have good reasons.

It was a whole thing.

[ shrugs ]

Zeus's and Hades's majorly important power symbols got stolen. I got the blame. Ares was in on it, so he wasn't too thrilled when I figured out what was going on and didn't stick to the script.

What did he expect to happen? A war god's gotta have better strategic planning than that.

You're thinking of Athena. Ares isn't too bright. Besides, it wasn't really his plan.

Then whose plan was it?

[ mouth tugs into a frown ]

The Titan lord Kronos. It was his first move in a very, very long time. Try to start a war between the gods in a way that'd put me on the board and force Poseidon to publicly claim me. It wasn't a bad plan, either. I wasn't actually supposed to be born, so my claiming was almost enough to spark a war by itself.

It's still a shitty plan to try using a kid to start a war. It didn't work out in the end though, did it?

Nah. Annabeth, my best friend Grover, and I set everything straight before it could get that far. That was the first shot of the Titan War, but open hostilities didn't start till a couple of years after that.

Trying to frame a demigod didn't count as open?

Uh. I was thinking on a scale of one to full-scale battles, but you might have a point.

The smaller stuff has to count too, especially when it's stuff that got done to you.

[ ffffrowns thoughtfully ]

That would mean we've pretty much always been at war since I was twelve. Which — wow, depressing. But probably true.

... Do you ever get a break?

Um.

[ smiles lopsidedly, shrugs ]

Hasn't happened yet.

[ frowns, more confused than anything ]

That doesn't bother you?

[ raises his eyebrows ]

I mean, sure. I'd love to catch a break. But...that's just what our lives are like.

[ hesitates ]

And I've seen what happens when a half-blood lets bitterness get the better of him. It isn't pretty. That's never going to me.

No, I mean... I get it. Being a superhero doesn't exactly come with vacation days either. I've just only been doing this a year, so I was wondering...y'know. If it stays like that.

[ glances at him ]

How do you keep the bitterness from getting to you?

...oh. Yeah. Sorry for the bad news, I guess.

[ and boy! breathes out so slowly as he thinks that one over ]

I don't know if I'm the best person to ask about that. But I just try to hold onto what matters? The good. I love my friends. I love my girlfriend. I love my mom and stepdad. I've been really, really lucky with a lot of the people in my life.

[ glances over at ananke. half-amused, half-sweet ]

Here, that's Lily. You guys have no idea how much you hold me together. I'd pretty much be a wreck without you.

Edited 2024-05-20 03:36 (UTC)

Sounds like the same stuff I've been holding onto. I was hoping you had some secret trick I hadn't figured out yet.

[ laughs weakly ]

I believe you about Lily though. I think I'd have lost my mind after my second week if I didn't have them around.

I wish. Sorry, no bonus tricks here.

Right? I... [stops to think about it ] ...am in my second week here? I think? And that's exactly where I'm at.

Really, it's been that long already? It feels like you and Kevin just got here.

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