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[abandon_hope]

WHO: Lily + vistors!!
WHERE: it's the Lily barn!
WHEN: Postgame, morning of 75

[ WHEW LILY it sure has been a busy week! We have a lot of things to talk about!!

which is to say, we probably have assorted pillows and blankets piled into our new basement living room, with breakfast happening in the kitchen and jellyfish hangin' around elsewhere. and our assorted? fish related prizes??? ]

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[spinebuddyandme]

Oh yeah? It's not a bad place for a quick stop. The Rio Grande's always nice to see.

[abandon_hope]

I - uh - didn't see a whole lot, admittedly. I kind of landed in the basement of the Union Depot and passed out for a couple hours.

[spinebuddyandme]

Oh, yeah...that'd make touring hard. Were you okay?

[abandon_hope]

Fine, yeah. I don't get shadow traveling sickness like most mortals do, but it still takes a ton out of me. And I was going back and forth between California and New York twice a day for like six months.

[ fuckin roman shenanigans, smh ]

[spinebuddyandme]

Seriously? That's a hell of a commute. Were you not staying at the camp then?

[abandon_hope]

[ A small headshake. ]

I was an ambassador, and not exactly a trusted one at that. I always left before sundown, and that usually meant passing out at Camp Half Blood on Long Island.

[spinebuddyandme]

[ frowns ]

What were you an ambassador for?

[abandon_hope]

Ambassador of Pluto. Roman camp, so ... I had to lay low to keep an eye on my sister. And Cepheus.

[spinebuddyandme]

Wait, I thought the Roman and Greek gods were basically the same thing? Do you have gods from both pantheons around?

[abandon_hope]

They are, but they also aren't at the same time? The Romans like to say they perfected --

[ MAKES A FACE ]

-- the Greek gods, but mostly they just gave them different aspects. Like - Pluto's still a god of the Underworld, and he's still my dad, but he's more about wealth than death.

[spinebuddyandme]

[ hang on he is trying. so hard to visualize this family tree ]

...so you have two dads but they're both the same guy?

[abandon_hope]

... Yeah. Sort of? More or less. Except I really can't talk to Pluto at all, just Hades.

1/2

[spinebuddyandme]

[ Opens his mouth to say something

stops and looks down at Scarab ]

Say it out loud, dude.

[spinebuddyandme]

[ WING FLICK :/ ]

[SELF] WANTS TO ANALYZE [HADES:PLUTO] DUAL NATURE. IT [SOUNDS] INTRIGUING.

[abandon_hope]

[ oh NO it's cute. Kevin's mouth twitches in a smile. ]

Yeah? It's kind of weird, right? I had some late night discussions with my sister about it.

[spinebuddyandme]

QUERY: WERE THESE DISCUSSIONS ENLIGHTENING?

[abandon_hope]

As close as we could get. It was kind of like ... discussing the same dad after a divorce, I think? Except with mythological domains.

1/2

[spinebuddyandme]

[ this analogy requires levels of understanding human relationships years beyond Scarab's ability ]

[spinebuddyandme]

Weird... He doesn't have any other, uh..."sides", does he?

[abandon_hope]

[ sorry Scarab. Kevin shakes his head instinctively. ]

Just those two. Mine is all about the Underworld and death - shadows, darkness, that sort of thing. Hazel is even more focused on the earth and wealth part of it.

Basically - she can summon diamonds out of the ground, but I summon skeletons.

[spinebuddyandme]

[ lets out a low whistle ]

I really wanna say the skeletons are cooler, but it's hard to beat diamonds. Is Hazel your other sister?

[abandon_hope]

[ Another lil nod. ]

On the divine side. Yeah. She's amazing, honestly - she's why I was over at Camp Jupiter so often.

[spinebuddyandme]

Oh. They didn't send you guys to the same camp?

[abandon_hope]

Camp Jupiter is its own thing, yeah. The gods keep us separated.

[spinebuddyandme]

...Do you know why?