Lightning, water, and fire! Like forever before the plot starts. By the time the plot starts, the lightning and fire deities have been subjected to punishment by the two gods that picked them.
Oh (the fire deity) is first to be punished. They basically decide that since they're going to live for a long time, gotta set some long time goals! And they opt to be the wrath of the gods since most of the other deities are too 'soft' in their opinion. So Oh just. Smites humans. This isn't really a /good/ thing and in their defense mentally, they do it to help Ymber since he's the softest of them all. So their punishment by the gods is to be split in two, effectively halving the power of one into two. (Now they are in a male and a female body and use both male and female pronouns apart since they together make they but apart it feels weird to be they. But prior to the split they use they/them. Also the split bodies go by the names Ohiwe and Ohime.)
Fulj is the second to be punished. She falls in love with a mortal woman and that is a crime according to the gods. Mortals and immortals are not to be together and it will only bring suffering to both sides. So her punishment is her memories of the woman are stripped and her body basically broken to the point she can't remain physical all the time.
Ymber, unfortunately, is the one who blames himself for the discoveries and punishments. If he had only tried to restrain Oh more then maybe they would have chilled out and stopped before being punished. If he had only tried to persuade Fulj to not continue seeing the mortal woman so often perhaps she wouldn't have been punished. So he's just increasing the guilt on his shoulders every day that he remains unpunished since the elder gods have both laid down to rest. They can't enforce their laws anymore and none of the deities are keen on harming one another at this point. They just want to continue existing in peace.
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[ in response to this, and this, and this ; @ask-the-royal-absol, @ask-the-shiny-pokemons, @book-of-legends ]
Lief was silent for some moments, save a weak hiccup or two. He looked between them all with a funny glance, his eyes somewhat narrowed. His ears stood a little more upright than before, and his antennae twitched here and there, perking up before drooping back again.
He still wasn't sure he understood it, and he became lost in thought trying to understand this.
Destino's apparent interest in him caught his attention more than what they had to say; for someone that hated Fairy-type Pokemon, the Absol clearly had no issue trying to rouse a reaction out of one.
Rimi's story felt more to him like she indirectly called him a bully; but her suggesting that it didn't have to be so took some edge off her otherwise expressing her dislike towards him.
That's to say nothing about Sirius still being here, and him having came over to apologize? To him?
But for once, ever since the start of the spiral, he somewhat looked like he was actually listening.
Lief: "And I'm supposed to believe you're all suddenly interested in my well-being…?"
Which meant he had words to say about it.
Lief: "B-because. I really don't believe any of you… but my head hurts. A-and this floor is cold."
He eyed Sirius' extended paw, and merely stared at it at first.
Under such circumstances, he really would've just moved away. Or make them leave, or otherwise decline their help. He couldn't just do the former, unsurprisingly; and he didn't feel like going through with the latter.
He'd reluctantly complied, after a long and awkward pause, saying:
Lief: "Lying here in the filth is probably the only reason I haven't threw up yet... but whatever. Here goes."
Before raising a paw to take hold of it.
If "take hold of it" actually meant "struggle to lift his arm from the floor and proceed to miss his every attempt to grab it".
His stomach loudly gurgled, and he cringed. His expression looked more pained as he gulped down what nearly came back up, but he still reached for Sirius.
Lief: "Creator of gods..."
chip-dip6 asked:
@mezuni-and-willow
Fay and Ark @ leif
You hear a distant conversation
'...this guy looks like he is having a rough time of it, heck they even reminded me of you when you are down! anyway can i get your help so that he doesnt bog down the rest of the party?'
'How would you do that then?'
'you know when you have your nightmares and all that? something like that'
'if you say so'
The two of them reach leif, looking down at the depressed pokemon; and the state he was in;
'you, uh, want some help there buddy?'
[ @mezuni-and-willow ]
Lief: "Ugh. If it would make you all go away-"
HIC... urrrp.
Lief: "G-get on with it already. Help me up. And watch as you laugh at me when I tell you all about how I managed to shoo away a beautiful woman that fell out of the sky..."
He was thinking about Pikavee again. Despite everything.
Of course he was.
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anyway Sebastian holds some disdain for romance, until he has a S/O and a long-term relationship
it's not because he doesn't feel it at all
it's because he doesn't understand it
even the romantic feelings he feels himself, he doesn't really understand them
he either mistakes them for lust or just dismisses them as something silly and fleeting
and, often, they ARE fleeting for him; people don't stick around long enough for him to separate what's what and figure out if his feelings are genuine
the hell that he knows doesn't have soft, sappy, gentle LOVE. he doesn't understand romance because it isn't how most demons operate. lust? sure. a physical, selfish pleasure, or yet another means to an end to get what you want.
but romance? genuine care for another person, treating them with tenderness, and largely selfless when it's sincere?
he doesn't get it, because he's never been exposed to it in the demon world. even platonic love usually escapes him. his own mother didn't LOVE him, she just saw him as a little thing to control and have power over. none of his many sexual partners have LOVED him, it was strictly sex that he and they engaged it for nothing but a selfish release.
he wants to learn, or else he wouldn't have entered into an actual relationship in the first place.
he can see why someone would want him in a sexual context. he's attractive, he's charming, and he's good in bed. he knows very well that someone wants satisfaction from sex, and he knows how to satisfy another person.
he can't see why someone would want him in a romantic context. he can fake romantic gestures, but when he tries to make his own without mimicking someone else's, he feels like he fumbles it. why would anyone want to kiss his forehead softly, or hold his hand, or lie in bed cuddling instead of wanting him to fuck them into the mattress? WHY?
he doesn't understand it. he wants to, but he doesn't. he can't look at himself, in all his monstrous truth and jagged edges, and see what someone else sees that makes them want to treat him like some precious thing.
and, really, maybe it's BECAUSE he doesn't see anything worthy of actual love in himself that he desperately, desperately needs it.
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