i don't even know

[rottenjudgement]

Save your breath, junior. I've been there, done that with the whole someone-owning-my-soul shebang, and I'm not about to get mixed up in that again.

You can forget it.

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[dinglehoppers]

Oh, they won't listen. ( But she seems perfectly chipper. ) If she likes you, she might even be nice!

[rottenjudgement]

[what in hades just got dragged in here

is this for real]

I don't know what world you're living in, sister. But that has about as much of a chance of happening as Narcissus putting down a mirror.

[dinglehoppers]

What's a Narcissus?

[rottenjudgement]

Most self-absorbed, pigheaded man you can think of, only so much worse. Can't miss him.

[dinglehoppers]

Oh! Is he human? They do seem to have a lot of mirrors, to look at themselves.

[rottenjudgement]

Close enough.

[dinglehoppers]

Well! I'm Ariel. And it really isn't so bad around here, once you get to know people!

[chryselephantine]

Let me know how that works out for you.

[rottenjudgement]

[excuse u daughter of athena get ur sass out of here]

This is nothing I can't handle. Trust me.

[chryselephantine]

[no.]

Hate to break it to you, but these people make the gods look tame.

[SHE CAN'T BELIEVE SHE JUST SAID THAT ugh]

[rottenjudgement]

[ugh yourself]

Listen, chump, I've tangled with Hades. And I don't know about you, but I'm pretty sure that's about as not tame as you can get.

[chryselephantine]

[her chin comes up in a way that would make percy go uh oh.]

Been there, got the T-shirt. Hades is a jerk, but I'd take him over Gaea or her children any day.

[or fucking tartarus fuck her life]

Or muns.

[olympic_lion]

...If you knew the gods better, you'd likely not think so.

[HIS FAMILY ugh]

[chryselephantine]

My mom's Athena. I'd say I know them pretty well.

[okay annabeth TONE DOWN THE HUBRIS A LITTLE]

[pennatus]

What an unfortunate circumstance you've found yourself in... ( MWAHAHAHA she just laughs because MalAUGHicent, lbr. ) I trust you aren't assuming that you can actually talk your way into freedom.

[rottenjudgement]

What, you have any better ideas? Share with the class.

[pennatus]

Destroy them.

[olympic_lion]

As options go, I'd hardly call it appealing.

But then, at least in this case they do it because they care.

[rottenjudgement]

If I had a drachma for every time I heard that, I'd be the richest woman in Greece.

[olympic_lion]

I can think of a queen or two that might dispute that...

Yet even so, the difference between someone who desires to own a slave and someone who simply wishes to see what you'll do is a goodly-sized gap indeed. These tetchy Mundanes at least don't see you as property.

[rottenjudgement]

Dress it up however you like, but in the end, you still end up on a leash. A girl doesn't even have to be around the block that many times to figure that one out.

[olympic_lion]

A leash goes both ways, mind. If you're tied to them, then they're tied to you.

[Or, as HIS mundane found out, if they've got a Herc living inside their head then everything around him is a target. Worked for Athena, right?]

[rottenjudgement]

[......]

I'm listening.

[olympic_lion]

It's nothing too difficult, really; they might be able to move you, but you can hurt them. I've yet to find it of any value for escape, but if you can work on being cross-grained and contradictory enough, then when they try to push you in a way you don't wish to go, you can end up turning their own thoughts against them.

[It's a notion he picked up after watching a fellow named Deadpool; remarkable how well that one could punish a mun for thinking of him.]

[mephistophilus]

Who owned your soul, my lady?

[zorro]

Probably a good idea.