mechanimated
VP of the Questionable Ethics Committee
I don't really have any rules. Just gimme nice, long, coherent, interesting replies.
We can be friends and stuff but I won't press you. We all got lives and we all got no-strings escapes from those lives.
I don't have any preferences for the character I play so you can basically pick for me what you want.
The idea is there's this world where various natural forces and cycles are incarnated into living beings, and are obligated to act out certain roles in order to keep the energies of the world flowing without end. The incarnations are temporary - dependent on what exactly it is. The Moon, for example, is born anew into a (usually female) soul every 28 days. The Thirteen Moon Sisters (a technical misnomer, though even the males wear the feminine regalia and act the role) live out their allotment of divinity at the Court of Phases. Meanwhile, the seasonal incarnations - Spring, Summer, Autumn, and Winter - persist for several months at a time. Animal gods lingered according to some rules obscure to human logic. The Fox stays for almost a year, the Mouse for a mere day. The Bear lived and outlived in its human avatar - prolonging the life of its embodiment to 110 years. The planets were fickle as well - Mercury living within one for 88 days exact, Saturn for 30 years, Pluto a mind-boggling 248 years, and the Sun...The Sun had not changed incarnations in living memory.
Our characters will be two divinities from different cultures. The exact nature of their relationship is up in the air. Maybe they're both nobles from warring nations, obligated by natural law to act out their roles but secretly trying to kill each other. Or maybe they're peasants abruptly raised to beyond-royal status. Maybe one is a devout priest and the other an escort or drug addict. Who knows!
What our incarnations are we can decide together, and what exact ritual they need to enact as well. Some template ideas:
Fox and Wolf, obligated to chase and be chased, to lead and to be led. Symbolized in endless ritualistic games of cunning and agility.
Hare and Hawk, one for meekness and one for brutality. One unfortunate god to be endlessly provoked, one to taunt and lure and strike the killing blow.
Rain and River, locked in an endless cycle of release, replenishment, and reunion. Expected to learn and perform a complex spiritual dance, spending months in unified meditation and cleansing until each avatar seems to flow from the other - anticipating action, finishing sentences, rhythms in perfect sync.
Snow and Crocus, the great symbol of life in the time of death. Republished every year as books, plays, poems...Not surprising, as the public adores a love story. And how romantic, for divine Crocus to melt away the cold reserve and steely heart of Snow?
Moon and Venus, the star-crossed lovers. As popular in some cultures as Snow and Crocus, for their tragic love. Kept apart but for dusk and dawn, the two are expected to go to ever greater lengths to prove their adoration for each other. Some gestures and gifts in the past have been so extravagant as to become near mythic in their own right.
Star and Void, one of the least understood pairings. The rituals dictating their behavior are arcane secrets passed on only by past incarnations of the deities, performed in a windowless tower with no visible doors or ways in but for the roof - hundreds of feet in the air. All anyone knows is, in the end, only one avatar ever leaves.
Idk if this is a good idea or not but I just like this concept of like, two people having to act out some crazy strict religious ritual maybe they don't even believe in. Two people from totally different cultures, or stations, or something, who maybe don't feel any of the things the "rules" say they should be feeling - but man, that godly glow sure isn't going away and their blessings seem to suddenly be real and not just words and natural phenomena seem to depend on them not fucking anything up...
We can be friends and stuff but I won't press you. We all got lives and we all got no-strings escapes from those lives.
I don't have any preferences for the character I play so you can basically pick for me what you want.
The idea is there's this world where various natural forces and cycles are incarnated into living beings, and are obligated to act out certain roles in order to keep the energies of the world flowing without end. The incarnations are temporary - dependent on what exactly it is. The Moon, for example, is born anew into a (usually female) soul every 28 days. The Thirteen Moon Sisters (a technical misnomer, though even the males wear the feminine regalia and act the role) live out their allotment of divinity at the Court of Phases. Meanwhile, the seasonal incarnations - Spring, Summer, Autumn, and Winter - persist for several months at a time. Animal gods lingered according to some rules obscure to human logic. The Fox stays for almost a year, the Mouse for a mere day. The Bear lived and outlived in its human avatar - prolonging the life of its embodiment to 110 years. The planets were fickle as well - Mercury living within one for 88 days exact, Saturn for 30 years, Pluto a mind-boggling 248 years, and the Sun...The Sun had not changed incarnations in living memory.
Our characters will be two divinities from different cultures. The exact nature of their relationship is up in the air. Maybe they're both nobles from warring nations, obligated by natural law to act out their roles but secretly trying to kill each other. Or maybe they're peasants abruptly raised to beyond-royal status. Maybe one is a devout priest and the other an escort or drug addict. Who knows!
What our incarnations are we can decide together, and what exact ritual they need to enact as well. Some template ideas:
Fox and Wolf, obligated to chase and be chased, to lead and to be led. Symbolized in endless ritualistic games of cunning and agility.
Hare and Hawk, one for meekness and one for brutality. One unfortunate god to be endlessly provoked, one to taunt and lure and strike the killing blow.
Rain and River, locked in an endless cycle of release, replenishment, and reunion. Expected to learn and perform a complex spiritual dance, spending months in unified meditation and cleansing until each avatar seems to flow from the other - anticipating action, finishing sentences, rhythms in perfect sync.
Snow and Crocus, the great symbol of life in the time of death. Republished every year as books, plays, poems...Not surprising, as the public adores a love story. And how romantic, for divine Crocus to melt away the cold reserve and steely heart of Snow?
Moon and Venus, the star-crossed lovers. As popular in some cultures as Snow and Crocus, for their tragic love. Kept apart but for dusk and dawn, the two are expected to go to ever greater lengths to prove their adoration for each other. Some gestures and gifts in the past have been so extravagant as to become near mythic in their own right.
Star and Void, one of the least understood pairings. The rituals dictating their behavior are arcane secrets passed on only by past incarnations of the deities, performed in a windowless tower with no visible doors or ways in but for the roof - hundreds of feet in the air. All anyone knows is, in the end, only one avatar ever leaves.
Idk if this is a good idea or not but I just like this concept of like, two people having to act out some crazy strict religious ritual maybe they don't even believe in. Two people from totally different cultures, or stations, or something, who maybe don't feel any of the things the "rules" say they should be feeling - but man, that godly glow sure isn't going away and their blessings seem to suddenly be real and not just words and natural phenomena seem to depend on them not fucking anything up...
