#i love him he's suchan asshole

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happy blorbo blursday!! i would like to hear more about prometheus!!!! he sounds like a silly guy from what you said in the villain ask game heheheeh

happy happy blorbo blursday to you!!! :> yessss prometheus!!! stinky stinky man! i would love to talk more about him <3

so, prometheus is the founder and head of one of the major religions in magic apocalyptica, though it's less known than the others. specifically, he's the founder of vastationism! i've thought about changing the name of that one, but at this point i'm pretty attached to the name so </3

the basic premise of vastationism as a religion is that it's all about celebrating the use and cultivation of magic. vastationists believe that magic is not to be feared and should instead be sought out at any cost--and prometheus positioned himself as the one for his followers to come to if they wanted magic of their own. essentially, prometheus told a bunch of people that he could guarantee access to magic and power, as long as they did whatever he said and never turned against him. y'know, completely normal things to do.

yeah vastationism is a cult- it started with good intentions, but prometheus very much is someone who's very easily corrupted by power and so things went downhill pretty fast.

anyway i won't go into all the details of how things turned out, but vastationism was actually disbanded after about ten years of existence and operation! not to say there are no believers left, but the organization itself is gone and prometheus is presumed dead. he isn't dead, he just got his ass beat BIG time and his magic was stripped away from him by the being who gave it to him in the first place. the lil asshole was humiliated in front of his magical benefactor and decided to fake his death and never come back to that town again, leaving his followers floundering

(also yeah it is very possible that someone else could've swooped in and taken power over vastationism, but prometheus specifically set himself up as The One True God for them to follow, so it'd take quite a bit of finagling to make that work)

where is prometheus now? good question! i have a couple of ideas for where he went after the whole cult thing blew up in his face, and the one i'm leaning towards right now is that he ended up joining a bandit group. however, i can't see prometheus ever being content letting someone else have power over him and order him around now that he's had a taste of being revered as a literal god, so if he did do that, he's probably spent most of his time scheming to get to the top.

anyway uhh misc. prometheus facts:

surprisingly, he's a bit of a hopeless romantic when it comes down to it, and on the rare occasions he trusts someone enough to take them as a romantic partner, he's the type to go all out with romancing them.

he and van, another character in magic apocalyptica and someone he was very close with for many years, actually met while attending college together! i don't know what he majored in, but i think it'd be really funny if i just said he's a business major and never elaborated.

the best way i can think of to describe prometheus is that he's the embodiment of a dude who took one philosophy class and thinks that makes him smarter than everyone else.

prometheus isn't actually his name and is more of a title he gave himself when he created vastationism. i'm still deciding what his name is, but it's not prometheus.

he's a bit of a flirt and uses that to get what he wants, but he's actually really good at respecting boundaries and always respects "no" when it's given. he'll kill and torture people to appease an ancient fire being so he can get its magic, but he'd never harass anyone. king!

i don't really do voiceclaims that often b/c i usually have a hard time finding voices that sound like how i imagine my ocs, but i do have one in mind for prometheus, and that's the actor who played JD in the original cast recording of the heathers musical. take that how you will.