#demether

[cienie-isengardu]

Blood of Zeus season 2

I was waiting for the premiere of the second season of Blood of Zeus mainly for Hades and in general I like how the show presented him and his relationship with Persephone but there is some stuff related to other gods that I don’t like.

Spoilers undercut.

First and foremost, the show really did make Demether dirty. I’m disappointed with her role in the story and how she treated both Hades and Persephona, the beloved daughter. I guess I would feel much better if she supported Hades for Persephona’s sake first and foremost and not for getting power. I would totally root for Demether wanting to be part of their family and have a chance to see how her grandkids grew up in better circumstances than being forced to be far away from their mother for 6 months each year (something she herself experiences when Persephona is going to Hades). Especially if that would demand from her and Hades to put aside their differences or work through them to find a sensible common ground and not go for manipulation. Like her lie that Hades abducted Persephona. I don’t mind ruthless Demether but there is a difference between a grieving mother willing to starve the whole world just to get her beloved daughter back and a power-hungry goddess willing to kill mortals and make her whole family sick just because she wants to rule now. Nope. This version of Demether is not for me.

My second big NOPE is for Ares. I’m not surprised they picked him for the asshole brother for Heron to confront, because let’s face it, Ares is always the first choice for a jerkass god. And look, if this was our first introduction to his character, then sure, I would not think much about it, because Ares is Ares, whatever, while enjoying his good look. But the thing that doesn’t sit well with me is the discrepancy between this jerkass and his first season persona, who was much calmer, serious and grim - he was dangerous, but he didn’t feel that much arrogant or into women or entitled the way he was in the newest season. And I admit, it feels to me like watching a totally different person that just happened to have the same handsome face as the previous incarnation. Which is what kinda ruined my joy of watching the show, because Ares was the other reason I bothered to watch Blood of Zeus in the first place. 

Hera too is different but her change makes a sense given what happened in the previous season and what she lost. Ares feels like the case of switching personality for no reason beside the fact that plot demanded it. But at lest he is still the mama's boy. Ares and Hera have this protective side toward each other, and I appreciate those moments.

A minor reason for disliking Ares’ role is the feeling how Ares and Hades visually share a lot similarities (short hair, dark colors, similar helmets) that made me joking Hades was Ares’ favorite uncle to the point he imitated his dark style (pissing off Zeus along the way most likely). I knew the chance BoZ would go with that route was very slim but still what a shame! Though fine, I will admit it: Hades beating Ares was funny to watch.

On second thought, my main complaint about Hades is that though I love how he is presented as a god with a strong sense of justice, it feels he wasn’t feared enough by other gods. Show the man some respect!

Oh! The nice thing worth mentioning is that BoZ remembered about and actually used Hestia in the show. Good for her! She deserves all the attention.

[hyperfashionist]

A Spoiltastic Journey

through the Entire Space: 1999 Canon

up to “Odysseus Wept”

Story 1: Eternity Unleashed

Chapter 2 of 12

Hello, imaginary reader! I'm back, with a chapter-by-chapter commentary on Eternity Unleashed. I can shout into this concrete bucket forever.

Spoily Chapter 2 commentary follows, under the cut. You have been warned.

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Chapter Two of Eternity Unleashed: A Spoiler-Filled Commentary

Talian is grown up and has become Milsa’s full-time carer after Bexan’s death.

Balor (now famous) shows up and says he’s quit the ezir (scandal! shock!) and become a medic.

Also, he’s found a cure for Milsa’s illness. Actually, he’s found a cure for death. 

Golly.

Technology

Transformation of Matter

A noteworthy feature of the technology of the planet Progron is that its buildings have dynamic architecture. These are introduced in the form of staircases, which reconfigure themselves as Balor traverses them, in response to his thoughts.

A full paragraph of poetic nonsense is dedicated to describing the scientific basis of this transformation of matter, and it is an exemplary piece of writing.

Transformation of matter at will is the key innovation within the last generation or so. Talian remembers visiting his grandad’s cabin in the woods on vacation and being confused when a window doesn’t appear on command.

Wearable Technology

By the time all the kids have grown up and Bexan has passed on, Milsa is wearing clothing made of the latest fashion, “expressan”, a fabric that changes colour with the wearer’s moods. It would have been nice to see what colours appeared during the scene Milsa was wearing it, since she admits to Balor in that same scene that she puts a brave face on it. There is mention of a “glow” of genuine positive feeling from her at the end of the scene, and I infer that that glow is coming from the expressan.

The nearest thing we have in present reality would be thermochromic paints and dyes, which, like ye olde-fashioned "mood rings", only react to temperature. It's imaginable that body-worn sensors might be able to detect mood with ballpark accuracy within the foreseeable future, and that this could be represented by colour changes in a wearable object.

Information Representation

They have books with pages, an interesting example of decentralized, distributed knowledge representation in a format which will already be familiar to some Earth readers. They write by hand on paper.

Transportation

They have “vehicles” which might as well be cars. Only these private "vehicles" are ever mentioned. No transportation infrastructure or networks are ever mentioned, except for a passing mention of the existence of streets.

Housing

People live in houses.

Communication

No communications networks are in evidence, and all messages seem to be delivered in person. News travels by word of mouth. Only a hundred pages in is there any mention of “listening devices” and then of a “signal stream”.

Arts and Culture

Ezir are not encouraged to read fiction, except in advanced classes for analytical purposes. They sometimes do read fiction recreationally, but only on the quiet.

I infer that fiction is frowned upon because it breaks the principle of alienation that seems to be the reasoning behind the strict separation of ezir (policy/thought) from ezariat (practice/implementation).

I further infer that emotional investment, or belief, or some combination thereof, is considered to be the root cause of the problems that resulted in the rise of the cult of Demeth. At least that is how it looks from the perspective of page 140.

Gender Balance

Not Specified

No new characters.

NB running total = 2

Female

No new characters.

F running total = 8

Male

Talian's grandad

M running total = 12

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[incorrect-lore-olympus-au]

What does Hades and Persephone think about how they're portrayed in Hades, Hadestown, God Of War, Underworld Love Story, Punderworld, Clash Of The Titans, Percy Jackson books, Marvel, DC and so on since I have always loved that kind of meta

Hades:

On one half: offended. On the other half: flattered.

Seriously, i don't know why would anyone think of me as an enemy for Olympus OR my brother. Sure, he's not exactly easy to deal with, but in the end trying not to involve with him too much is always the better option...

It's not that i don't ACTUALLY like being portrayed as a villain of some short, that's a role i'm used to be seen as and kinda enjoy for a laught. But as much as death is seen as an unpleasant thing, does it really need to be portrayed as evil?

I enjoy the depictions of me as a loving husband tho. I'm glad i can still get credit for that.

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Persephone:

Most of the time i'm only seen just as either Hades' wife or Demether's daughter, which... it's a part of who i am yes... but i kinda like it more when they explore a bit more of my personality aswell...

I mean, I like to think i have plenty of sides, and when they get to show them it's when i can actually enjoy how i'm getting depicted.

Specially when they make me look villainous. Most people forget about that and i WANT them to know ;)

[olinpuz]

𝗣𝗝𝗢 𝗕𝗢𝗬𝗦 𝗢𝗡 𝗔 𝗖𝗛𝗜𝗟𝗟 𝗦𝗨𝗡𝗗𝗔𝗬

𝐏𝐞𝐫𝐜𝐲

He decides to chill alone in the beach not too far away from his cabin, it seems odd to him to have all this peace, but eventually he gets used to it and starts enjoying the moment. He tries to make this day as normal as possible, but he can’t forget about you, so he’s collecting seashelsl from deep down the ocean, just for you<3 . As he gets dark he decide to get home to cook something, probably a recipe that his mother thought him, he’s quite a mess at cooking and end up with undesired results. At the end of the day he asks the Demether cabin to give him an hand, eventually he gets his dinner and a good sleep.

𝐉𝐚𝐬𝐨𝐧

He wakes up at 7:30 am instead of 5:00 am, he takes his time so he can make a nourishing breakfast, he probably...wuold’ve invited his old camp jupiter friends over if they weren’t busy with training... at this point he decides to go for a walk in the forests.He get’s so affascinated by the nature, He stops under an olive tree to draw the view he's so captured that he can’t realise it’s almost dinner time, sadly he didn’t take with him the camping set. He rushes at home to make dinner, even though it was a simple day he fall on the matress, good night Jason Grace.

𝐅𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐤

Frank's ideal Sunday is going out for a hunt, he’s favorite place to do so it’s really far from Camp Jupiter. Fully immersed in nature with landmark twin waterfalls. He’s starting first with fishing, for them haiming for bigger think, this time a bear. As he gets darker he decides to camp under the stars, pne shooting star, two shooting stars, a meteor shower starts, reflecting on his dark eyes, reminiscing of the past. All the animals of the wood are hypnotized by this rare event, and so Frank, who’s slowly falling deep down in his own starry darkness.

𝐋𝐞𝐨

Man if he loves his cabin, but he also needs to get out and enjoy life! That’s why during sundays Leo always decide to take his painting set and go to a hill and potrait what he sees, nobody knows about this. Last time he capture the sun going down, a pod of dolphins joyfully playing and a kid of the Ares cabing getting chased by swarm of bees that was fun. When the sun goes down it's time for Leo to go back to his cabin and start planning many new projects.

[winns-stuff]

read your post about rachel maybe having planed something because she soundsself aware sometimes and yea i get the same feeling like i cant read some dialogues wihout rolling my eyes (especially from minthe, demether or the workmates calling out the flaws in the main pairing and hades antics) maybe she knows whats wrong with her hxp but likes to keep it this way

hello hello, sorry for taking such an extremely long time to answer you by the way I didn’t want to ignore you but it’s been a lot of stuff happening lately (good things don’t worry) and it’s been making me a little busy. but anyways, yeah I agree with you completely there’s way too many chapters in LO that make me wanna pull out my leg hairs and blend it in a blender because it just annoys me so much (sorry for that disgusting image btw) nothing makes complete sense and the plot is so oblivious that I had to come up with that conspiracy theory to keep myself together.

I just don’t understand why she added the “mean lonely monster ceo (with a surprisingly “good heart”) falls for big booby innocent naive young sweet girl” trope if there wasn’t going to be any character development. that’s the whole point of the trope, once the evil guy meets the girl and spends time with her he stops being so mean because all he needed was love or whatever, but with LO it seems like the more time they spend together the more shitty they get as characters. this made me feel like Rachel made it that way on purpose to disprove the trope in a way, like to show the audience the bad side of it you know? or it would be smart if she actually did it like that.

second thing is the whole “persephone is 19 and all the gods think that hades going after persephone is weird” thing. like I’m so glad you’re acknowledging how fucking weird and disturbing it is but at the same time it seems like Rachel likes shit like that. I saw on of her older sketches of LO that she wrote about Hades going to Persephone’s baby shower and she made it a joke like someone was actually going to laugh at that shit. that’s disgusting that this man literally went to her own baby shower before she was even created by Demeter and pursued her when she was barely legal and away from her mom. I just don’t understand why Rachel jokes about stuff like that at her age, why are you (an adult with a fully functional brain) making fun of and even encouraging the sexual exploitation of minors being in relationships with adults as well? does anyone not even think that’s not the slightest bit disgusting? I stopped supporting Rachel a really long time ago but this just adds onto why I feel such discomfort with her work really, she brings these worrying topics knowing that they’re not good at all and she romanticizes them. no one is asking or begging her to she’s doing this on her own..

I’ve got some more to but i’m so tired, in a good way. but that’s all for today, thanks for submitting this!

[cyberxennial]

Now I'm also sick and can't focus on anything today. But I'm enjoying the spicy posts you're reblogging.

Do you have examples of greek/roman cults you're interested in?

Hope you're feeling better today

My favorite ones are the Eleusinian Mysteries of ancient Greek about goddess Demether and her daugther Persephone. Its something repeated in other mediterranean grecolatin religions. Orpheus, Dionysus, the Romanized version of Isis, Mithra... all are secret cults with something in common: a figure who comes back from the realm of the dead and can give some intel to mortals about how to cheat dead, if they do some secret ritual not for everyone. Even Jesus does that, but he breaks the mistery, the exclusivity of the cults, and saves all souls when he comes back, since then, mortals dont need to be part of Mysteric cult to be saved, Christianism works better because it gives that gift to everyone, universal and not exclusive, like pop music vs expensive opera concerts 😉

[thattrashgod]

... every gentil wight I preye, For Goddes love, demeth nat that I seye Of yvel entente, but for I moot reherce Hir tales alle, be they bettre or werse, Or elles falsen som of my matere. And therfore, whoso list it nat yhere, Turne over the leef and chese another tale; For he shal fynde ynowe, grete and smale, Of storial thyng that toucheth gentillesse, And eek moralitee and hoolynesse. Blameth me nat me if that ye chese amys.

— Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales

[macchinablue-archive]

What genre(s) does Christopher default to, and are there any he's drawn to or would like to dabble with? Are there any genres he dislikes, and if so why? What sources of ideas or inspiration does he draw from when he composes?

@harmsdealer

While Christopher was made for pop music, he likes all sorts of genres of music; Even rock and metal. He's not exactly sure what he wants to default to yet as he's experimenting with music, but he has grown a little bit attached to symphonic metal.

He's not particularly fond of religious music (specifically the kind you'd hear in church) or music that depicts violence toward women or depicts women as being objects. His reasoning for the religious is just that he doesn't believe in things like that (he also doesn't believe in "rA9" and thinks there's something more to it than 'android god'. Chris 100% believes Kamski made 'deviation' possible on purpose despite the fact he's never actually met him).

His dislike of other music mentioned is that he is 100% a feminist and absolutely detests music of that nature. It makes him extremely uncomfortable for women to hear it.

His inspiration for music tends to vary; His mood can absolutely help him to see different sources of inspiration especially because of his liking so many different types of music. If he's sad, he puts those feelings into the music he writes; If he's angry, he puts those feelings into the music he writes; And so on. Sometimes movies he watches and other music he listens to can inspire him to write something.

Christopher's Favourite Musicians/Bands:

Steam Powered Giraffe

The GazettE

D

katra

CHANMINA

Marina

Garbage

Yuki Kajiura

Dorothy

Demether

kent

[nathalia-f-alves]

#art #arte #tradicionalart #draw #drawing #drawings #paint #painting #illustration #schetchdrawing #schetch #schetchbook #schetching #mangastyle #animestyle #originalcharactere #originalart #goddess #demether #demeter #politeismogrego https://www.instagram.com/p/B5IlCdCA-OX/?igshid=1gqd0lvn4i2m3

[lich-slap]

Tired: Modern!Persephone eating the pomegranate seeds to trick her obsessive mother

Wired: Modern!Persephone being stuck between her husband and her mother, between the Kingdom she has grown to love and the very nature she is the goddess of, and instead of choosing one of this sides, making her own; Modern!Persephone eating the pomegranate seeds because Hades won't forgive her for leaving and Demether won't forgive her for staying – because she knew that in this way Zeus would have to split her time in order to please both Demether and Hades. Persephone almost driving the Gods to war because she wants to be both the Queen of the Underworld and the Goddess of Spring, and doing it consciously, for love and power in equal measures.

Persephone being just as proud and cuning and smart as the rest of the family.

[leoalvarez-clowncarcommittee]

I gave the Clint a quick coat of color. Also experimenting on ways to paint stuff again 

Source - Nopann@Yesntpan

[thamonwantc]

21-5-20 คือว่าวันนี้เป็นวันแรกในรอบ 69 วันที่เราออกจากบ้านหลังจากกักตัวอ่ะเนอะ ก็คือเรารส.ว่าโชคดีมากตรงที่เราบริจาคเลือดไปเมื่อวันวาเลนไทน์ แล้วมันก็จะครบกำหนดตอนวันที่ 14-5-20 พอดี ซึ่งแบบมันโชคดีที่อยู๋ในช่วงที่โควิดเริ่มจางแล้ว เราเลยแบบสามารถบริจาคอย่างต่อเนื่องได้อ่ะเนอะ แบบดีจัง ๆๆ เนี่ย วันนี้เลยออกมาเริ่มด้วยการบริจาคเลือดก่อนเลย จริง ๆ เราออกจากบ้านมา แล้วนั่ง 514 ด้วยคาดว่าจะลงรพ.ฬ แต่ว่าก็นั่นแหละมือถือกล้องแล้วเดินลงเซ็นทรัลเวิล โอเค เราเลยเดินจากเซ็นเงิลมาที่ตรงคณะเภสัชอ่ะเนอะ จะมีร้านอาหารคลีนอยู่ เราก็ไปทานขนมปังเป็นอาหารเช้าพอกรุบกริบ จากนั้นเดินไปที่สภากาชาดเลยจ้า เพราะจะบริจาคเลือดเนอะ ก็นั่นแหละ แล้วก็บริจาคเลือดเสร็จก็ไปทำแลปต่อเลย จริง ๆ เราแอบสงสัยในเงื่อนไขของการขึ้นตึกทำแลปนิดนึงแหละว่าแบบมันสามารถขึ้นได้กี่โมง คือเราเข้าใจว่า 9 am แต่พอขึ้นไปแล้วทุกคนขึ้นมาก่อนหน้าหมดเลย เลยงง ๆ นิดนึง จากนั้นเราก็เช็คสารเนอะว่ามันยังอยู่ดีไหม แปลงร่าง กลายสภาพหรือพังไปบ้างไหมด้วย TLC เนอะ ละผลก็ดีนะ ไม่ได้พังมาก เพราะเราปิดฝาไว้ดีด้วยมั้ง เราก็เลยสามารถตั้งรีแอคชันต่อได้เลย ก็เป็นปฏิกิริยาการเอาหมู่เมทิลออกอะเนอะ มันก็จะต้องใช้ HBr/AcOH reflux เนอะประมาณนี้ แล้วที่เคยทำไว้ก่อนแล้วเป็น TC-A24 มันจะแบบใช้ 104 -9.5h, 120 -8h ประมาณนั้น แต่คราวนี้เรากะใช้ 120 เลย ก็เลยตั้งไว้ 120 แล้วก็ไปกินข้าวเที่ยงกับเพื่อนเนอะ ก็นั่นแหละ นานประมาณนึงเลย กลับมาแล้วแบบมันขึ้นไป 130 ปลาย ๆ ได้อยู่ แบบเรากลัวมันพังมาก ๆๆๆ แง ๆๆ ก็ทำอะไรไม่ได้อ่ะเนอะ คงจะต้องรอดูพน.ต่อไปว่าจะเป็นยังไง เราแอบกลัวนิดนึง 5555 จริง ๆ สำหรับพน.คือกลัวสารพัง กลัวว่าจะไม่ทันในกรณีที่มันไม่พัง เพราะว่าขั้น workup rxn ก็ไม่ใช่ง่ายขนาดนั้นอ่ะเนอะ ก็แลปก็จะประมาณนี้สำหรับวันนี้ เอ้อ เราแปะรูปร้านข้าวนิด ๆ ไว้แหละ จริง ๆ ติดแค่เก้าอี้ 55555 ก็คือร้านโอ้กระจู๋ คือเรากินเมนูประจำอ่ะเนอะ ก็คือ ลาบอีสานผักคอสเจ อร่อย ๆ วันนี้ตลก เผลอกินมินท์เข้าไปแล้วแบบเย็นพุงไปหมด 555555 ประมาณนั้น ตัดจบแลป จบการทานอาหารต่าง ๆ จริง ๆ เรามีแพลนจะไปจัดการเรื่องธุรกรรมทางการเงินต่าง ๆ ���ต่ว่าแบบไม่ทัน แล้วเราก็เหนื่อยมากแล้ว เลยเลือกกลับบ้าน คิดว่ามาจัดการพน.ดีกว่า มะไหวแน้ว ๆๆ นั่นแหละ เราเลือกเดินไปทางสีลมนะ แล้วค่อยขึ้น mrt ก็เลยได้ภาพมาแปะ ๆ ไว้ด้วย อื้อ ชีวิตวันนี้ก็ประมาณนี้ ถ้าสรุปสิ่งที่ทำก็คือ

1. บริจาคเลือด

2. ตั้งรีแอคชันdemeth

3. กินโอ้กระจู๋เวอร์วัง

4. พัก rxn

5. กลับบ้านนนนน เย่ ๆๆๆ

โอเค วันนี้เป็นวันที่ดีนะ แต่จะทำพน.ให้ดีขึ้น ๆ จะตั้งใจงับๆๆ

thamonwantc

[hyperfashionist]

A Spoiltastic Journey

through the Entire Space: 1999 Canon

up to “Odysseus Wept”

Story 1: Eternity Unleashed

Chapter 1 of 12

I managed to get hold of a copy of Eternity Unbound!

Oh yes, I said I'd be posting to this series daily, didn't I? Work kicked my ass, to the extent I wasn't even able to look at this book for three months after I received it.

Anyway, better late than never. I'm back, with a chapter-by-chapter commentary on Eternity Unleashed.

As described earlier, Eternity Unleashed is chronologically the first story in the Powysverse. We can assume, until otherwise indicated, that it's an origin story for the Powysverse itself, not just for its central character.

The story takes up pp. 1-140 of Eternity Unbound, a book in three parts.

The book cover features artwork originally shown in the TV episode, which will be instantly recognizable to most readers.

Chapter One begins by effectively establishing a mood concolorous with those pictures, evoking a stark and flinty aesthetic in greys and browns. 

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Chapter One of Eternity Unleashed: A Spoiler-Filled Commentary

A group of men in uniform have come to take a boy from his mother and raise him apart from her, in what the reader infers to be a state-mandated education system. The boy's name is not mentioned until several pages in, but the reader will already know the central character is Balor, who will appear later in a single episode of the TV series.

The mother, Parese, a sculptor, does not want to give up the boy, and tries to strangle him, but the agents bop her on the head and she recognizes she is overmatched by state power. She entreats the boy always to remember her and her values, then uses the tools of her trade to immolate herself in front of him, searing an indelible final image into his mind.

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Balor's memory of his mother is dominated by the last image of her painful death. His mother told him his father was trained as an "ezir", but Balor never knew him. Some of Balor’s acumen is a result of his mother’s training; he isn’t sure he actually misses her.

The current political system is still cleansing itself from its history of a long-past totalitarian regime known as the cult of Demeth, which imposed a planetary monoculture without resistance until after the death of its eponymous leader. This belief system remains "latent" within some of the population, many of whom hold it unconsciously, unaware of its destructive potential. (Back here in reality, a stable third or so of the population is authoritarian, and I infer that’s the phenomenon described in the storyworld.) It never becomes quite clear how the cult of Demeth differs from the present regime, nor how specifically the reaction to it affects daily life, as this belief system is never mentioned again after it is introduced - at least not in this story, but the book has two more sections after this first one.

Balor is a boarder at ezir school, though it's still not clear what an ezir is. (By Chapter 2 it unfolds that ezir are pure theoreticians and ezariat are dedicated to purely applied work.) All we know in the first chapter is that the "ezir and ezariat disciplines" are the embodiment and practice of the "Principles of Belief" articulated by the anti-Demeth thought leader Xmonolor; they are enumerated in the first chapter, but are couched in obfuscated language, in an apparent effort to make them seem more alienesque. Rhetoric is referred to as "spirit-music". The Principles seem to boil down to a recommendation to clamp down on would-be demagogues. The Principles seem to be anti-religious too, but this is not stated directly, and by the end of Eternity Unleashed it is not clear whether Progron even has a concept of religion.

We infer that Balor’s mother must have been one of the “latent”, or not-so-latent, believers in the cult of Demeth. 

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At school, Balor is solitary, unemotional, and suspicious of adults' efforts to gain his trust with talk of forming families; he appears to be the sole orphan in his class, and as such his needs are provided for by the "Council of Families", a branch of the "Education Authority". 

The teacher takes the kids to the riverside, and the colours of the story change from grey and brown to a lush green, in a scene which is relatively vividly evoked. The other kids are basic and brief in their answers; Balor is extensive and analytical, and displays a level of ability and emotional intensity that risks challenging his teacher's authority. He calls the river a place of "otherness". The way Balor is portrayed in this scene is reminiscent of teen Christ teaching his teachers, except, y’know, scary and diabolical. Balor has an eidetic memory and superior pattern recognition. The master of the “Council of Teachers” takes a special interest in Balor.

On his first vacation, Balor is hosted by a guy called Bexan who has long white hair, is a widower, and has a son Talian (a year or so older than Balor) and an invalid daughter Milsa two or three “cycles” (so as not to mix them up with Earth years, I guess) younger. Bexan’s family home is in the desert.

Bexan’s conversational pleasantries read like normal politeness, but Balor takes them literally and refutes them as attempts at manipulation, which shows his paranoia.

Balor falls in love with Milsa at first sight. She has a genetic disorder due to incompatibility of her parents’ genes.

Milsa explains to Balor how she copes with pain. She is homeschooled. Keeping a chronically ill person at home is stigmatized, which is why Bexan’s family home is in the desert; in the cities Milsa would be expected to undergo euthanasia. Balor admires the family’s attitude and choices in this matter. 

Despite himself, Balor begins to feel at home with Bexan’s family. He perceives that the main difference between himself and them is his refusal to accept. He declares to Bexan a willingness to break the rules.

Gender Balance

I got curious partway through and decided to start counting the mentions of male vs. female characters (or groups of characters where mentioned collectively). This isn't criticism, just observation.

Not specified (NB):

"Enforcers", only men explicitly mentioned

ezir classmate

NB running total = 2

Female (F):

Parese, Balor's mother

Nebin the educational tester

Xmonolor, anti-Demeth leader

Gavin, teacher of the ezir class

two ezir classmates

Bexan's late wife

Milsa, Bexan's daughter

F running total = 8

Male (M):

Lead enforcer, male

Balor

"The master" (of the Council of Teachers)

Demeth, historical cultist

Nebin's father, owns one of Parese's sculptures

ezir classmate

Bexan, Balor’s foster father

Balor's unidentified father, an ezir

Mente, historical ezir who "proposed that a force in the universe told physical matter what shape to assume" (sounds rather pre-scientific if you ask me). The capital city is named after him.

Talian, Bexan's son

A physician

M running total = 11

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[incorrect-lore-olympus-au]

To Demeter: this might sound off putting or accusatory but do you resent chthonic gods in general or just specific ones for far more personal reasons which has nothing to do with that god being a chthonic god. I thought of this question majorly due to your friendship with Hecate who... you know, is into really dark stuff most agricultural gods like you and she is a close friend to hades which, I know. I mean death IS a natural part of life which someone like you would know considering your work experience

Demether: i DON'T have anything about chthonic gods really... i mean, as you mentioned, i'm in great terms with Hecate. But... Hades and i never were on the right side and... that kinda made me reluctant to visit the underworld... i've only been there a few times, but just to visit Hecate really... not my kind of place with no source of sunlight really...

Demeter: aaand yes, i know the importance of death as a natural circle of life, bla bla bla, yada yada... still, something i reach to AVOID in my line of work, so... yeah, let's just say chthonic stuff and me don't mix...

[metalby]

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[krsademether]

Dia dos namorados, ta ai uma data que para Demether não tinha diferença alguma em sua vida e muito menos fazia alguma diferença dentro de si como podia acontecer com as outras pessoas. Talvez fosse pelo fato de que a americana nunca havia se apaixonado então não tinha problemas em ficar naqueles lugares e tudo o que queria era alguém conhecido para poder aproveitar o baile consigo, desse modo os olhos castanhos estavam vagando pelos presentes até o momento que avistou a figura conhecida e tratou de se aproximar já que mesmo de máscara era possível saber que era Demether, os cabelos azuis eram sua marca registrada. - Olá! Está bem bonitx hoje. - elogiou prontamente, o sorriso tomando conta do rosto de forma gentil.