on being asked to a threesome and general captivity woes. canon is VIKINGS.

[athelstan]

I do not understand your fascination with this.

( athelstan pauses, fidgets with the cloth of his robe, firm in his belief and yet unsure in his manner. he dos not make eye contact. he clasps his hands together and swallows down the dryness in his throat. )

I am a monk. I have taken a vow -- they are for life, our vows. You know this, and yet you still wish and hope for a sudden reversal, for me to denounce God, to join them in their savage ways. I owe them my life and my gratitude for that fact, but not my faith. That belongs to God alone. I will never touch a woman. I will never renounce Him.

Please, I don't wish to talk about this any more.

( ooc | Y U P. I honestly just thought this scene, and athelstan's discomfort, was hilarious. warning: nsfw. )

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[13thfloorking]

Oh, the ultimate test and the ultimate temptation.

[ sighs ]

Flesh or faith? Vow or gratitude? Such choices are futile if the decision has been made.

[ smiles ]

This could be amusing.

[athelstan]

I've made my decision already, and my decision is no.

( firmer, this time. he nods, having long since convinced himself. )

There's hardly anything amusing about it.

[13thfloorking]

Oh, it would be very amusing. At least, at my perspective. It's like the battle between the light and the darkness replayed on my eyes.

[gives a light laugh]

I'll give cheers to your stance. I pray you'll keep your vow, but heed my advice...

[ gives out a light chuckle out of amusement ]

...sometimes, resistance is futile when you are battling with your dearest mundane. You are at your mundane's mercy. [ laughs ]

[wisdom_of_hounds]

I've said it before and I'll say it again. Vows of celibacy are only for people who hate themselves.

[How the hell did Christianity get so big again? Especially when this is the crap that they pull.]

Why would you do that to yourself?

[athelstan]

God demands it of us. To remove distractions, and clear our minds from anything that might entice us from the right path.

I chose this path for myself.

[wisdom_of_hounds]

Yeah see, that's the part I don't get. Where did you guys come up with this idea that your God cares what you do with your dick?

[He waves a hand dismissively.] You know what? Never mind. Anything to make you feel like you're above such animal things right?

[Siiiigh Christians, man. Weirdos the whole lot of them. It's like they want to be miserable. Except Jesus, he's a cool guy. Of course the last time Atticus had a beer with the jerk he almost died... that's what he gets for being stubborn and not listening though.]

[athelstan]

...God cares about everything we do.

( now he's just confused. because the idea that someone might doubt god's involvement in their lives is startling. even the vikings believed in such things, but with the wrong gods and their foreign names. loki, was one, he remembers. it rolls off the tongue in strange ways. he does not say it out loud. )

[wisdom_of_hounds]

That's not... I mean you guys have all these ridiculous rules you have to follow to be in god's good graces and at the same time... your god is one of the furthest removed from the world.

[It's not like people run into the Christian God on a regular basis. There aren't stories about him coming down from the heavens like there are with the older Gods. Greek, Norse, Celtic, Native and MesoAmerican, Japanese... they're all involved in a tangible physical way. "God" just sends Jesus but like hell he wants to come down to earth when people always picture him on the cross and all... that's just uncomfortable... and kinda pointless, really. How's he supposed to do anything helpful like that?]

[fotlenke]

The Vikings are not savages. [ Says a goddess of the vikings. ]

[athelstan]

They attacked a monastery of the lord. They -- they slaughtered my brothers. Unarmed monks who lived in peace before their coming. If that is not savagery, then what is it?

( he doesn't forget. ragnar has spared his life, he knows. but ragnar is also a murderer, and his brother was the one who cut down a cross in front of him. athelstan doesn't think he'll forget that to his dying day. )

[fotlenke]

That is survival. Unfortunate, but what choice do they have, when your brethren will have committed the same crimes. They know not your peace, or your lord -- perhaps only that those of your lord have done them wrong once before.

[lagertha]

[ lagertha frowns. ]

"Savage ways"? [ way too offend the scary, badass shieldmaiden, priest. ] Is that really what you think of us?

[teenagebadboy]

I should have stayed away from stuff like that too. If I had I wouldn't have been in this situation. [Bitterly. He'll never get over Jackson, ever. He doesn't deserve anything nice after all he has done.]

I'd apologize but since we're canon mates YOU KNOW WHAT YOU'RE GETTING INTO

[boatwhisperer]

So you can't touch a woman. But a man? [ Hey, remember the guy that laughed when they tossed your bro off of the boat? Yup. ] You are fuðflogi, then. No wonder Ragnar took you for his only possession~