GODLY AUDIENCES - TAKAOMI SHISHIMARU

[divus]

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[divus]

[A derisive snort.] Thanks, but I fucked everything up pretty bad the last couple of years of my life. [...] I always said that I had to be the dad for the three of us, because all three of us had shitty families and shitty lives and powers none of us knew how to really use and had to figure out on the way. I was going to be a good dad and protect them.

I want to win to be a better god than my own dad, and to make up for everything I did back then. I'm not sorry, it still needed to be the wake-up call Olympus got, but there was maybe a better way to do it.

If I don't win...what do I have left?

[bakaomi]

I mean... just because you won't be the leader doesn't mean you still can't do shit.

[ he's still not entirely sure what the logistics to running a whole ass pantheon is like. ]

Your dad wasn't the ruler, right? That was Zeus. So if you end up in a similar position that he was, you can still be better. You could still try to shape things the way you want them to be, it just wouldn't be in the huge grand gesture that this competition was going to hand you.

[divus]

Depends on who's ruling. If it's somebody like Love or Beauty I'm definitely out of the running. Piety and I at least have an agreement going, but...well. You've seen his numbers, too.

I get what you're saying. I think this place is starting to drive me crazy. Do you know how boring it gets around here? All you end up doing is thinking if you're not careful.

[bakaomi]

Well... what do you have to do here when you get bored, then? As a god?

[ taka just makes out with his boyfriend ]

[divus]

...steal stuff from your god. [:)

And maybe making out with his girlfriend but like. Whatever.]

[bakaomi]

...

Be nice to him, he's an old man.

[divus]

He knows where my room is, he could take it back if he wanted. I'm gonna tell him you called him old though.

[bakaomi]

What? No. I'll tell him you made it up.

[divus]

Okay that's not fair because he'd believe you over me. [Duh?]

[bakaomi]

Yeah. I know.

[ he looks pleased about that ]

[divus]

Yeah, well…he's got a bias about you. If he was really bothered I was taking his stuff he'd stop replenishing it whenever it disappeared.

[bakaomi]

Maybe he thinks it's fun?

[divus]

Possibly. He's hard to get a read on because he doesn't sit still long enough to talk to. [...] But that's what it is day in and day out. Checking out the wings when you guys aren't looking, looking for Disorder, training, stealing stuff from Merriment...it gets old after a while. I'm ready for the new world already.

[bakaomi]

... I'm guessing you all aren't going to live together.

[divus]

Not in a space like this, nah. In the new world...I'm guessing we're going to have areas a lot like our wings. I think. I don't know if we ever got that far in our discussions.

[bakaomi]

...

You should probably figure that out.

[divus]

You'd think that'd be a priority. Instead we're still busy pulling pranks and arguing with each other.

Working with people can be a huge drag.

[bakaomi]

It's nice to know that you guys are still as good at this as we are.

[ as in, not good at all ]

[divus]

I'm just saying, whoever thought to make a bunch of teenagers and twenty-somethings gods probably didn't think this one through.

But we're working on it. Or whatever.

[bakaomi]

You guys will figure it out. You have like... your entire immortal lives to do it?

[divus]

A little longer than I'd like, but...better than the alternative. Even with everything, I can at least say this is way better than home.

[bakaomi]

... mm. Maybe it could become a home.

[divus]

...let me ask you something. Do you ever think it's too late for somebody to change?

[bakaomi]

... not really. It might depend on the person, since some people absolutely refuse to no matter what.

[ ... ]

But in general? no.

[divus]

Is it possible to change in five minutes? [He's maybe just seeing what kind of answers Taka's going to give.]