[7rings] catchall for steven

[shiftingwinds]

i'll make this post pretty when i'm less canonblind to steven

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[shiftingwinds]

What kind of gods would...

[ohhhh, that makes her angry! what the fuck! that's exactly the sort of god who should be banished from the heavens, she thinks. she hasn't even lost her impulse control; she just has little patience for heavenly corruption and gods acting in their own self-interest to begin with.

but, ah. "nevermind," huh?]

...I apologize. I can't help but be a little curious to hear about the gods from the lands everyone else comes from, but perhaps this isn't the best time to be asking.

[kokytos]

[ It's just unfortunate, the gods and deities roaming around in Steven's world can't be banished from the heavens anyway. After all, they're not from the heavens, but just some Otherworld, the Beyond... an unknown.

Steven shrugs it off! ] To be fair, the first two I mentioned at the least weren't pre-existing gods in my world. There was a Collapse three years ago that opened up a rift in the city I was in, and now the whole place is some weird bridge between the mortal world and something we call the Beyond.

There's always a barrier over the city now, to keep all of that chaos in. Don't get to see the stars much there. [ Not that they were very visible to begin with, it was New York. Light pollution abound. ]

[shiftingwinds]

The Beyond..?

[hmm. sounds almost like the heavenly realm to her, but - maybe it's different. the mortals in her world know that the heavenly realm exists, even if most of them couldn't even begin to dream of reaching it.]

It sounds like it must be... dangerous, to live in such a chaotic city. It keeps the chaos in, but are those who lived there before the Collapse trapped there as well?

[kokytos]

Yeah. Also known as the Otherworld. Just another dimension separate from the mortal human world, where all odd and supernatural things reign. Monsters, vampires, things that go bump in the night, all that. [ COULD include heaven to some degree, but definitely is not the other way around. ]

Some of them are, at least. Myself included, though I wouldn't call it "trapped". We can leave if we wanted to.

[shiftingwinds]

I see...

[..."if we wanted to". it sounds like he doesn't want to? she's curious about it, but she's starting to pick up on the fact that he seems to be sharing more than he really wants to.]

I'd be interested in hearing more about that - ah, later, if that would be preferable to you?

[kokytos]

[ Huh. So many people end up curious about his world... he supposes that's fair. He can't even rightfully call it "disinteresting" or try to stave off interest in it; his world, as it is, is genuinely so wacky and full of rapid-fire nonsense one after another.

He just nods at her. ]

Sure... in exchange for you telling me more about your stars?
I kind of like the peaceful topic.

[ REST CAN BE HANDWAVED OR NOT ]

[shiftingwinds]

Oh, certainly!

[i'M GOING TO HANDWAVE THE EXPLANATION BECAUSE IT'S SO MUCH AND I, BRITT, AM STUPID. just pretend there's an explanation given in such a way that it sounds like something that someone who's actually familiar with this would say.]