[Loki sticks their tongue out in a cute little etto bleh expression.]
Guilty as charged!
[But after that, they might as well be a different person, the shift is so drastic.]
From what you’ve described… that is godhood functioning as intended. Think of all the stories you’ve heard. So many of us view human lives as our playthings, myself included from time to time. We do not use it as a crutch, to support us. We simply are.
I’ve known men who’ve chased godhood. One I helped to obtain it. He tried to kill the gods, as recompense for how they had treated him. Like a doll thrown away when the game was over. He lived in a make believe world, an idealistic life we had granted him in favor of the alternative. And it drove him insane.
As you said, we thought we knew better.
Unlike the man in your story, I did not force this existence onto him once more after he had broken free. No, I gave him a different tale.
For a human consumed by a false reality, what title would be better fitting than the God of Lies?
Thing is, godhood has its caveats too. The fate of the God of Lies is to be shackled in his son’s entrails as venom drips ever so slowly into his eyes, forced open to bear the pain eternally.
The gods are cruel, Sumire Yoshizawa. Sounds like your villain was merely playing his part.
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Guilty as charged!
[But after that, they might as well be a different person, the shift is so drastic.]
From what you’ve described… that is godhood functioning as intended. Think of all the stories you’ve heard. So many of us view human lives as our playthings, myself included from time to time. We do not use it as a crutch, to support us. We simply are.
I’ve known men who’ve chased godhood. One I helped to obtain it. He tried to kill the gods, as recompense for how they had treated him. Like a doll thrown away when the game was over. He lived in a make believe world, an idealistic life we had granted him in favor of the alternative. And it drove him insane.
As you said, we thought we knew better.
Unlike the man in your story, I did not force this existence onto him once more after he had broken free. No, I gave him a different tale.
For a human consumed by a false reality, what title would be better fitting than the God of Lies?
Thing is, godhood has its caveats too. The fate of the God of Lies is to be shackled in his son’s entrails as venom drips ever so slowly into his eyes, forced open to bear the pain eternally.
The gods are cruel, Sumire Yoshizawa. Sounds like your villain was merely playing his part.