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snowblindmods) wrote2015-04-06 10:43 pm
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[GODHOOD] (cw childbirth-related trauma)
A number of the surviving gods, as well as scions who had risen to godhood in the Wayward's absence, had banded together to form the Resistance, which was less a true pantheon than an alliance. These included (among other) Sly (now calling himself Slager), Paul Bunyan, and a young death god named Static. Static, the child of Hel and TV, proved to be a rather unnerving eight-year-old somewhat warped by having been awakened to godhood at the start of his existence. Slager had turned against his father, Loki, in the wake of Ragnarok, professing that he had not known what Loki intended. Paul Bunyan, to the Waywards' heartbreak, had spent the intervening decade bearing the guilt of having ended the world he had so loved. Paul attacked them on sight the first time they saw each other again, but the Waywards' refusal to fight back and their acceptance of their own culpability in what had happened caused the encounter to end in tears rather than violence.
After parting company with the Resistance for the time being, the Wayward heard a call coming from a wooded area in what had previously been North America. When they followed it, they were surprised to find themselves drawn into a summoning circle in a temple in the midst of a ritual being performed by two mortal women from their past. Olivia, Gio's fiance from his pre-scion life and an archaeologist in the pre-Ragnarok world, had recruited the prophet Karma, previously the concierge of the Wynn resort where the gods' conference had taken place. The two of them had founded a cult devoted to the Wayward in the decade they had been gone. Olivia had been able to piece together much of the truth about young gods' existence in the aftermath of the Titans' release, and Karma had been the one to prophecy about their return, having been fatebound to the Wayward in their scion days by their over-reliance on her services when making arrangements through the concierge desk.
The newly christened Cult of the Wayward turned out to be a village of humans eking out an existence in a pocket of no man's land between Titans' territories. Olivia and Karma had been making annual attempts to summon their gods using willing human sacrifices; though the Wayward death goddess, Ember, was able to ascertain with certainty that the sacrifices had all been volunteers, the Waywards' immediate group consensus was that acts of human sacrifice should cease as a sign of their return. Tess was inclined to argue against blood sacrifices of any kind, remembering the bloodthirstiness of her original pantheon, but was ultimately outvoted when the Wayward instated rather traditionalist rules for the sacrifice of livestock. The Wayward made a general effort to improve the lives of their worshipers by building a school, protecting the village, and destroying the water titanspawn that had prevented the mortals from safely fishing in the nearby sea. Slager, who had accompanied them when they departed from the Resistance, took part in this last task, nearly getting himself killed in his efforts to prove his willingness to serve the needs of the Wayward in order to gain acceptance into their pantheon. After long discussion colored by their low opinion of tricksters in general, the Wayward finally granted him that acceptance, reasoning that under present circumstances it would be entirely to Slager's advantage to help rather than hinder his new pantheon.
In the decade since the Wayward had last encountered them, the Body Electric had responded to the danger posed to their mortal worshipers first by building a fortress in which they could live, but ultimately by removing the need for the mortals (and themselves) to occupy physical bodies at all. All of the worshipers as well as Celebrity, Google, and Hel uploaded themselves into a massive database in which they became a hivemind. TV, reluctant to leave the world behind and left obsolete by the absence of his native medium in the post-Ragnarok world, remained on the surface to tend their empty city. The Waywards' first meeting with the new Body Electric was an uneasy one, and it quickly became clear that Hel and the brothers had corrupted each others' natures when they joined their minds together. Tess, who had received a rather cool greeting upon the Waywards' arrival at the fortress, remained 'upstairs' with TV during that meeting. It would stick in her mind later that TV (who had always manifested as famous television personalities) took the form of Mr. Rogers for that encounter and spoke with nostalgia about the days when human children had been among his worshipers.
Elsewhere, in the region that had previously been Las Vegas, the Wayward found Lucifer living in a prison of his own making. When they had first released Lucifer from the Hotel California he had professed that his goal was to overthrow the old systems entirely by elevating mortals to the same level as the gods. The Wayward had never really made a decision about where they stood on that matter apart from general dubiousness about his ability to pull it off, but had continued to consider Lucifer a loose ally. In their decade of absence, Lucifer had succeeded in elevating a city's worth of mortals to godhood only for each of those new mortal-gods to declare themself the truest and greatest god. By the time the Wayward arrived on the scene, Lucifer had arranged a truce among all his people, but Las Vegas had become a region into which no outsiders could enter. Lucifer himself was unable to leave the area, his power (and much of the magic of the world) depleted in support of the mortal-gods. The Wayward were able to speak with Lucifer, but did not know how to undo what he had done or free him from his own mistakes and were forced to leave him as they had found him.
The Wayward were also able to get in contact with Ward, who was working with the Resistance and who was still in control of the Hotel California, the only portion of the underworld that had not been overrun by Titans. The dead scions had all been set free, and Ward made it clear to the Wayward that if they were able to weaken a titan's avatar and drag it into the Hotel California, he would be able to immediately and permanently imprison that avatar. The Wayward quickly agreed to assist, and were successful in imprisoning several Titan avatars in this fashion.
Soon after the Wayward more or less found their footing in this terrible new world, Tess decided to have a child so that in a few decades' time she would have at least one scion of her own. She chose a man from among their followers who knowingly consented to father and raise her child. Once pregnant, Tess realized that her divine powers over fertility and healing made her capable of carrying the child to term at a more rapid pace. Not wanting to be left at home when the other Wayward ventured out from the village, Tess sped up the pregnancy and gave birth to a son less than two months later. She named him Thomas and left him in the care of his father, assuming that she would not see him again for at least eighteen years. Soon, though, she started getting reports that the boy was growing at an unnatural rate. Unable to slow his growth without awakening him to godhood, Tess made the difficult decision to allow him to reach apparent adulthood, which he did within a year. By all accounts, Thomas's mental development outpaced even his physical growth, to Tess's relief.
When Thomas reached an apparent age of eighteen, Tess appeared before him and presented him with a handful of birthrights hastily chosen from among those that had been given to her by her own father. To her surprise, she received an unsolicited package from Half-Face, a former scion of Haphaestus who had since joined the Body Electric. Half-Face sent a gift of a hammer he had made to be a birthright. Tess gave the hammer to Thomas, which allowed him to tap into divine powers associated with mechanical creations that were beyond even Tess's understanding. Not long after Thomas was awakened (and, thankfully, stopped aging), the Wayward discovered that Half-Face had established regular contact with him. While some members of the pantheon were uneasy about Thomas being influenced by a member of another pantheon, Tess supported the relationship, wanting Thomas to have what she saw as a mentorship that would allow him to reach his full potential.
The Wayward began to make an active effort to track down and capture the avatars of the Titans. One such was an avatar of the Greater Titan of Water that had taken up residence in a temple that had been erected in honor of TV some years ago. The Wayward had traveled to the temple with a desire to contact TV and speak with him away from the influence of the rest of his pantheon, and when they had successfully sent the Titan to the Hotel California they were able to summon TV. Disastrously, TV's first action on arriving in the temple was to power up the broadcast technology housed there in order to resume sending out his signals to the world. Unknown to TV and to the Wayward, TV's previous lack of a wireless connection was all that had prevented him from being taken over by the hivemind that had previously been his brothers and Hel. The Wayward fled as TV turned on them, and when they returned home they learned that Thomas had become unable to contact Half-Face. The Wayward resolved to disentangle the Body Electric and Hel from each other once and for all, but were forced to delay because they did not yet know how.