[IS IT???? Mahito's just going ooooh as Sloth explains. HE KNEW IT WAS SOME STYX SHIT.]
Huh! Wow. So he just keeps dying over and over trying to get outta there? I guess you gotta give someone like that a good grade for determination. Hey, do people not reincarnate where you're from, then?
Oh, like Shi Qingxuan? Nope! Everyone comes to us in the Underworld! If you've been bad, you go to Tartarus for punishment on Master's orders. If you're a legendary hero, or the gods liked you, then you go to Elysium! Otherwise, you go to Asphodel.
Um--it use to be a meadow--my brother, the prince, and I went there sometimes when we were kids--but Phlegethon overflowed, so now it's all lava! Haha!
Don't worry, don't worry! None of that happens to curses! We just disappear when we're exorcised. The weak ones, anyway! The strong ones reform after a century.
[HE'S COMING FOR YOU IN 100 YEARS GOJOU SATORU, YOU BINCH.]
So if it was me, since my source won't ever go away, I'd just come back eventually! And then I'd find a way to come say hi!
[YEAAAH wow Sloth will never escape him now. Incredible. Also incredible, this eternally burning meadow that will just be on fire for fuckin ever. RIP to the mortal souls there.]
That's too bad, though. I guess they'll just have to be hot forever, haha.
Aww... You'd really... find a way to visit me? I... don't know what to say! Thanks, I guess!
[please stop saying I'LL FIND YOU to sloth. I REGRET PLAYING TWO BEINGS WHO HAVE SIMILAR ENERGIES TO CURSES why didnt i just play humans or something. immense blool regret.]
Well, they're Shades, so it'll be fine! [WILL IT?] It's at least not Tartarus punishment!
[Nah this is how it goes! You choose to play nonhumans and the nonhuman will FIND THEM!!! Speaking of being nonhuman, he just very casually nods at the idea of Shades being fine in an eternal field of lava.]
That's the fire-and-brimstone kinda thing, yeah? Eternal damnation, boiling away in vats of pig fat, getting your insides eaten by tiny bugs, whatever? True, it's not as bad as that! They'll be fine.
[WILL THEY BE... Anyway, he'll shift back to their first topic again with a smile because this is terrible and just going to get worse.]
Anyway, yeah! You're a lot of fun and I like you; why wouldn't I want to find a way to visit? We can make a vow on it, so you'll know I'd keep my word!
Um, you know. Rolling a boulder [a small one the size of a large one] to the top of a mountain, but it just rolls back down again! Standing in a pool with a fruit tree over your head, but you can't reach either! Being strapped to a flaming wheel!
[his face looks surprised, and the bobbing float pauses briefly.]
You like me...? I... I...! Well, um, sure! I'd really like that! It's almost like... we're friends!
[HE LAUGHS ABOUT THESE PUNISHMENTS??? why the fuck did it take someone 6 weeks to kill this man.]
That's about what I'd expect. Really creative stuff, huh? It's not bad!
[Terrible. BUT WOW. MORE IMPORTANTLY, THIS. Whatever the fuck this is. He's still just hanging out here, vibing and smiling as Sloth makes a new awful flea friend.]
I do, yeah. We don't have to be like friends - we can just be friends, you know? I'd love to be your friend! Ah, I can't really make a binding vow in the way I would back home, either, but that's fine! We can just do it this way.
[LOOK. Sometimes?? You're just Sisyphus, and that's okay.
Wow this is terrible though. Can't believe Mahito is killing one of Sloth's crew and then gifting him a best friend only to snatch that gift away accidentally. He looks perfectly content as he hooks his pinky with Sloth's, though! The contract is sealed.]
Oh! I guess we are, huh? I've never had a best friend before. [HOW EXCITING.] I promise I'll treat you really nicely! And come find you again, when this is all over.
[not in this zagreus run anyway. yay, first times for both! the cursed contract is sealed. he'll see mahito later when mahito inevitable (redacteds) out of (redacted).]
Wow... All of that for just me...! I don't know what to say except, um, thanks! And if it's not too weird... I can't wait to see you again when you come find me!
BUT YAY, BESTIES. Mahito will move to unhook his pinky, but he just shifts to hold Sloth's hand instead. A terrible, tactile flea.]
It's not weird! I think that's a normal friend thing. I miss my other friends all the time and I can't wait to see them again, either! [Y...yaaay flea friends.] And for best friends, that's probably even truer.
[He has just so easily accepted that he is now best friends with this man whose name he doesn't even know. God bless.]
Hey, maybe I can even bring some bubble juice and a hula hoop with me and we can get those really big bubbles!
[OH! hand holding! he is fine with this (unfortunately), so he just holds mahito's hand like it isn't a big deal and there is no fear of having his soul warped by a flea curse.
mahito starts floating a little, though.]
You're right. I think! [he don't know a thing.] Oh, nice! I can show my brother! Even if he'll probably scold me about messing around instead of working.
Yeah! Well... hopefully I'm not fired by the time I get back. That would be something, huh! I spent so much time here that I'm as replaced as my brother said I'd be when I get back home!
[He would absolutely try to fight the shit outta Hades. Wow. Hate that so much.]
Oh! A boat ride like that would be so much fun! [HE LOVES THE IDEA OF IT. Of course he would the fuckin maniac. He'd clap his hands together if they weren't both currently occupied.]
Okay, you'll have to do your best to not get in trouble, then. We'll work harder on getting you guys outta here faster!
[HE WANTS HIS BOAT RIDE. Time to go stab Sloth's teammates and then die for it.]
It's a lot of fun! Well, until Charon hits you over the head with his oar, but the boat ride is still fun.
[he does not say anything about the creepy, smelly styx, or the weird ghostly hands, or the fact when you ride with charon you're fucking dead and going into the underworld because those things are nothing to him. f.]
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Of course, it's really not that easy to walk out. So he dies, and then comes back through the Styx pool!
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Huh! Wow. So he just keeps dying over and over trying to get outta there? I guess you gotta give someone like that a good grade for determination. Hey, do people not reincarnate where you're from, then?
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Um--it use to be a meadow--my brother, the prince, and I went there sometimes when we were kids--but Phlegethon overflowed, so now it's all lava! Haha!
[IT ISNT HAHA]
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Yeah, that's about what I remember. [Remember from what he's read in philosophy and history. It's fine. ANYWAY--]
Isn't that kinda sad? It'd be much better to spend forever in a meadow than in lava. That's just basically Hell 2.
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[STOP HAHA-ING]
The meadow was nice, yeah, but... we can't help the river overflowed! I guess it just wanted to reunite with the Styx!
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[HE SAYS RIGHT BEFORE HE DIES, ALSO STOP HAHAING, ALSO HE'S ALREADY A FUCKING SPIRIT STOP.]
Is the lava still burning? Maybe you can find a way to cool it off! Then new things can grow out of what's left.
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[haha]
Well, I guess you wouldn't if you were one of their ghosts! You'd still be in the mortal world! I'd never see you!
It's still burning. It'll probably burn forever! Only the Styx could cool it... Hm. Good luck moving the Styx!
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[HE'S COMING FOR YOU IN 100 YEARS GOJOU SATORU, YOU BINCH.]
So if it was me, since my source won't ever go away, I'd just come back eventually! And then I'd find a way to come say hi!
[YEAAAH wow Sloth will never escape him now. Incredible. Also incredible, this eternally burning meadow that will just be on fire for fuckin ever. RIP to the mortal souls there.]
That's too bad, though. I guess they'll just have to be hot forever, haha.
[HAHA!!]
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[please stop saying I'LL FIND YOU to sloth. I REGRET PLAYING TWO BEINGS WHO HAVE SIMILAR ENERGIES TO CURSES why didnt i just play humans or something. immense blool regret.]
Well, they're Shades, so it'll be fine! [WILL IT?] It's at least not Tartarus punishment!
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That's the fire-and-brimstone kinda thing, yeah? Eternal damnation, boiling away in vats of pig fat, getting your insides eaten by tiny bugs, whatever? True, it's not as bad as that! They'll be fine.
[WILL THEY BE... Anyway, he'll shift back to their first topic again with a smile because this is terrible and just going to get worse.]
Anyway, yeah! You're a lot of fun and I like you; why wouldn't I want to find a way to visit? We can make a vow on it, so you'll know I'd keep my word!
[BINDING VOW! BINDING VOW!]
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[his face looks surprised, and the bobbing float pauses briefly.]
You like me...? I... I...! Well, um, sure! I'd really like that! It's almost like... we're friends!
[i hated typing this]
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That's about what I'd expect. Really creative stuff, huh? It's not bad!
[Terrible. BUT WOW. MORE IMPORTANTLY, THIS. Whatever the fuck this is. He's still just hanging out here, vibing and smiling as Sloth makes a new awful flea friend.]
I do, yeah. We don't have to be like friends - we can just be friends, you know? I'd love to be your friend! Ah, I can't really make a binding vow in the way I would back home, either, but that's fine! We can just do it this way.
[Lifting his free hand, pinky extended!]
You know about pinky promises?
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Wow, you're right! We're... friends! I guess if we make a binding vow, it's best friends!
[i hate this, too, but he's reaching out to loop his pinky around mahito's own. he knows what this is, haha! thanks, wrath and lust!]
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Wow this is terrible though. Can't believe Mahito is killing one of Sloth's crew and then gifting him a best friend only to snatch that gift away accidentally. He looks perfectly content as he hooks his pinky with Sloth's, though! The contract is sealed.]
Oh! I guess we are, huh? I've never had a best friend before. [HOW EXCITING.] I promise I'll treat you really nicely! And come find you again, when this is all over.
[I'll find you.]
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[not in this zagreus run anyway. yay, first times for both! the cursed contract is sealed. he'll see mahito later when mahito inevitable (redacteds) out of (redacted).]
Wow... All of that for just me...! I don't know what to say except, um, thanks! And if it's not too weird... I can't wait to see you again when you come find me!
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BUT YAY, BESTIES. Mahito will move to unhook his pinky, but he just shifts to hold Sloth's hand instead. A terrible, tactile flea.]
It's not weird! I think that's a normal friend thing. I miss my other friends all the time and I can't wait to see them again, either! [Y...yaaay flea friends.] And for best friends, that's probably even truer.
[He has just so easily accepted that he is now best friends with this man whose name he doesn't even know. God bless.]
Hey, maybe I can even bring some bubble juice and a hula hoop with me and we can get those really big bubbles!
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mahito starts floating a little, though.]
You're right. I think! [he don't know a thing.] Oh, nice! I can show my brother! Even if he'll probably scold me about messing around instead of working.
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As always, he is perfectly happy floating like a little bubble himself.]
It's fine! I'd be a friend visiting you, right? Like a house guest! But also a best friend! So it's okay to take a break from work.
[don't just decide these things]
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Yeah! Well... hopefully I'm not fired by the time I get back. That would be something, huh! I spent so much time here that I'm as replaced as my brother said I'd be when I get back home!
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What happens if you get fired, anyway? Do you just get to go hang out at some other place and do a different job?
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Maybe I'll get sent to Tartarus for being a bad employee! Who knows!
[don't just say this cheerfully]
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Oooh... Wow! That'd really suck. [YOU THINK???] Well! Let's hope that didn't happen, then. Having to visit you in Tartarus would be a pain.
[He'd still do it, though. He's a curse of his binding vow.]
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[mahito would fight hades which is extremely fucking funny to consider.]
It should be fine! I'll have to get my brother Charon to bring you over on his boat.
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Oh! A boat ride like that would be so much fun! [HE LOVES THE IDEA OF IT. Of course he would the fuckin maniac. He'd clap his hands together if they weren't both currently occupied.]
Okay, you'll have to do your best to not get in trouble, then. We'll work harder on getting you guys outta here faster!
[HE WANTS HIS BOAT RIDE. Time to go stab Sloth's teammates and then die for it.]
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It's a lot of fun! Well, until Charon hits you over the head with his oar, but the boat ride is still fun.
[he does not say anything about the creepy, smelly styx, or the weird ghostly hands, or the fact when you ride with charon you're fucking dead and going into the underworld because those things are nothing to him. f.]
Aww, thanks.
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