Counting Stars

[wooliefrand]

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]

Comments

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[spinebuddyandme]

Speaking from experience?

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[audacity]

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

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[spinebuddyandme]

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

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[audacity]

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.

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[spinebuddyandme]

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

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[audacity]

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

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[spinebuddyandme]

Then whose plan was it?

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[audacity]

[ 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.

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[spinebuddyandme]

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?

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[audacity]

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.

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[spinebuddyandme]

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

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[audacity]

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

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[spinebuddyandme]

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

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[audacity]

[ ffffrowns thoughtfully ]

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

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[spinebuddyandme]

... Do you ever get a break?

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[audacity]

Um.

[ smiles lopsidedly, shrugs ]

Hasn't happened yet.

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[spinebuddyandme]

[ frowns, more confused than anything ]

That doesn't bother you?

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[audacity]

[ 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.

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[spinebuddyandme]

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?

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[audacity]

...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.

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[spinebuddyandme]

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.

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[audacity]

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.

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[spinebuddyandme]

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

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[audacity]

To you, maybe. And don't get me wrong, I get why. But on my end...definitely feels like it's been some time.

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[spinebuddyandme]

I dunno, I thought my first two weeks went way too fast. I guess there has been less stuff happening since you both arrived... It was pretty quiet for your first few days, so it makes sense for that to feel like it dragged on.