v-voice-testing; homeless and maybe considering route_29 in the future

[shadowedhero]

...A kids game? Is that all you can come up with? [He frowns. Just because he's twelve doesn't mean anything.]

I don't even play Mythomagic anymore, so why would I want to play this one?

[He grumbles under his breath a little, partially because of the kids games, and partially because if he goes, his mun wants to make him a part of Team Rocket.]

I don't like this. If you want to play me, send me somewhere with my friends. Somewhere with Bianca.

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[tinfoil_angel]

You could be in a much worse sort of place you know.

[shadowedhero]

Anyplace would be better. [He's a demigod and a son of Hades. He can take care of himself, no problem.]

[tinfoil_angel]

I think you could at least appreciate the fact your problems will be less extreme than say someone in one of these "Survival horror" games or are in games where their universe is destroyed.

[Ok he has to pause a moment, he has taken a habit of reading minds. Base-level surface thoughts only of course so he wouldn't be detected but something about this kid had him shocked.]

Wow, I know you're a demigod but I'm still surprised I'm talking to you.

[Now he has a weird question.]

Is there any way to tell if you're, say a god or something? I just have this weird feeling that none of my friends or I are really human.

[shadowedhero]

"Survival horror" sounds better than a stupid kids game.

[Nico pauses, raising an eyebrow in return.] How did you...?

[Another pause, then a shrug.] You can usually tell when someone's really a god. Demigods are a little harder, but satyr's can smell them out.

[tinfoil_angel]

Sorry, I sort of read everyone's mind at surface thoughts so your father's face and named happened to be at the surface of your mind.

[He had to contemplate this.]

Really I just don't know. My mother and father were human as far as I know. Except all twelves of us, my friends and I were born in too weird of a happenstance and our place just seems like we're something else. Gods, aliens, something bloody else I don't know.

[shadowedhero]

Ah, okay...

[A little wary, but he's seen weirder. It just almost feels like an invasion of privacy.]

Your world is probably different than mine, so there's no telling.

[tinfoil_angel]

Sorry, I'll stop. I just do it now to get an idea of who and what I'm talking to.

[He shrugs.]

I assumed that would be the case but I assume we have to be something other than human considering all the things we can do.

[shadowedhero]

[He gives a little nod.]

What can you all do? [Obviously this guy could read minds. What about the others he spoke of?]

[tinfoil_angel]

Well I guess the first one I should mention is that I'm never paying your dad a visit.

[shadowedhero]

That's not natural. [Don't mind him, he is the son of Hades after all. Even though he wanted to fight death and bring back his sister, he was learning to accept the Fates. People were supposed to die.]

[tinfoil_angel]

[Karl didn't mind.]

I know, it's bloody insane. Then again you have to consider we're not all completely sure that we're human.

[cassie_of_troy]

Aren't you a little young to be worldwalking?

[shadowedhero]

I'm not that young. [Frowning. And all things considered, not a lot of demigods even made it to twelve.]

[cassie_of_troy]

You're young.

[shadowedhero]

Maybe, but I've been through more than most demigods ever have. [Being a son of Hades is suffering.]

[cassie_of_troy]

Demigods have an advantage over humans. They fight monsters. There can be no remorse for that. It's when men fight men that the real trouble starts.

[shadowedhero]

[He nods. He would know. He's been to the Underworld plenty enough times to see what wars have done. But even so...]

Try being at war with your fellow demigods.

[cassie_of_troy]

The gods were plenty involved in the war at Troy, I assure you.

[shadowedhero]

Troy? You mean... [Surprised look is a go. She sounded like if she had been there, but that would mean she's way before his time. He almost questions how she's alive, but then he remembers the nature of this place.]

The war I'm talking about was the second Titan War. It's long after your time.

[cassie_of_troy]

I see.

Or saw.

[shadowedhero]

[He's definitely curious now, his mind running over the different names associated with Troy.]

Who are you?

[cassie_of_troy]

My name is Cassandra.

And who are you?

[shadowedhero]

[And the name clicks. He gives a little nod.] Princess of Troy. One of Apollo's prophetess'.

Nico. [A beat.] Son of Hades.

[cassie_of_troy]

[She looks a little annoyed.]

I am many things, Son of Hades. "Apollo's" is not one of them.

[shadowedhero]

[Oops. Didn't mean to make her mad.]

Sorry. My mistake. [Pausing as he mulls over the stories again.] You were cursed because you refused him, right?

[cassie_of_troy]

Yes. But that is only a small part of the story.

[shadowedhero]

[Funny how he's so willing to listen to the dead, even if the Cassandra he was talking to was alive and from her time.]

Stories get altered over time. What I've heard may not even be the complete truth.

[cassie_of_troy]

Such is the nature of history.

[shadowedhero]

What really happened? [He would say that he met Apollo and he didn't seem so bad, but he just had this feeling that would be a really bad idea.]

[cassie_of_troy]

Do you know the stories? How Apollo is the god of truth and, therefore, no lies shall pass his lips?

Those stories are a lie.

[shadowedhero]

[He gives a little nod, thinking over what she was saying.]

He lied? [He was unsure of how that was so. He was the god of truth, so lies should be out of his nature.]

[cassie_of_troy]

He lies all the time. It's quite common.

Anything to slip into a woman's bed.

[shadowedhero]

How do you know they're lies?

[Honestly, all the gods, or most of them, anyways, were, er...rather busy.

But he had been around several of the gods, and saw how they acted. They may have had to separated themselves from their children and lovers, and had quite a few of them, but...they did seems to care.]

[cassie_of_troy]

I have visions, boy. I see the truth.