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[hardpity]

WHO: Peony and UNSUSPECTING LILIES
WHERE: Peony's EVIL LAIR
WHEN: EEEVIL night 76


[ the hot anime lord of the underworld has lured innocent lilies into his LAIR for a sleepover ]

Comments

[abandon_hope]

[ look, it's not untrue about Kevin's underworld either, but it doesn't have to be so SAD about it ]

Erebos sort of has its own light where I'm from. There's farmland, and gardens, and more people than you'd think. My dad has both the living and the dead working for him.

[hardpity]

[ the difference having a god around makes.... ]

Y-yeah, it doesn't sound... bad...

[abandon_hope]

... What's yours like?

[hardpity]

It's, um, worse than that. And also worse than the movie.

[abandon_hope]

[ looks at the screen. looks back at Aides. ]

How?

[hardpity]

Explaining in-depth would take a pretty long time...

[abandon_hope]

... We could pause the movie?

[hardpity]

[ but movie fun and interesting with bright colors and underworld depressing and full of anguished misery ghosts ]

[abandon_hope]

...

We could talk after the movie.

[hardpity]

Y-yeah, it's better not to interrupt the flow.

[abandon_hope]

Right. Uh -

[ he starts it back up again. goofy and inaccurate as it is, this is a soothing thing for Kevin. ]

[hardpity]

[ WEATHERING THE COGNITOHAZARD OKAY... HE DOES NOT UNDERSTAND EARTH-SPECIFIC JOKES BUT... ]

[abandon_hope]

[ it's not bad right? Kevin just settles into it, forgetting about the cognitohazard part. ]

How was it?

[hardpity]

Well, I'm pretty sure the Lord of the Underworld never did any of that stuff. But other than that...

[abandon_hope]

It's kinda fun. Yeah. Dad thinks it's hilarious.

[hardpity]

I don't really know what was supposed to break my brain about it though. It's just dramatizing an old legend, right? Inaccurately dramatizing... borderline propaganda...

[abandon_hope]

You don't think it's weird that all these details match you?

[hardpity]

Not all of the details match me!

[abandon_hope]

[ ... he rewinds to a still screen of hades. looks at Aides. Looks back at it. ]

Nothing at all?

[hardpity]

This kinda hair is typical of any mammal affected by a strong enough curse.

[abandon_hope]

Is it, though.

[hardpity]

Yeah??

[abandon_hope]

Seems kind of uncommon to me.

[hardpity]

Well, we're from different worlds, so... it'd be pretty weird if you had intimate familiarity with how magic works in mine...

[abandon_hope]

Well - yeah but - why is your super specific curse logic in a children's cartoon in mine?