#the hearth god uses they/them pronouns btw

[tombstone-pisa]

king please go off about about your favorite aspects of your stolen divinity au. Is it your fav au? Why/why not? Also 👀👀 what’s up with the hearth god? If youre willing to drop spoilers

The stolen divinity au is my favorite AU!!! And it's so very special to me for a looooot of reasons. It's one of the only AUs that i've made with @unovanhunny that I'm like... in for the long haul with, it has a set story and one that is personally very meaningful to me in a lot of ways! It deals with healing and growth and living with disability and the bad things that have been done to you and that you have done to others.

I feel like people often expect the roleplay to be much darker then it is because of the backstory. I mean, a god going mad with grief and eating other gods is pretty serious shit. But ultimately the focus is on Ingo's recovery from his imprisonment and how Emmet heals both from having Ingo back and from finally getting to be a person again after spending so long seeking vengeance against the people that took his brother from him. They've spent most of the roleplay cuddling and being disgustingly sappy.

It also involves them uncovering a lot of horrible things that happened to them, sometimes without their knowledge and done by those that they trusted almost as much as they trust each other. Ultimately, it's an AU about unearthing (literally) trauma and healing from it.

As for the Hearth God... I want to keep their role in the current story underwraps for the grand reveal but! They're a childhood friend of Emmet (and to a lesser extent Ingo who was more of a friendly rival) and his best friend outside of Elesa and Ingo. When Ingo died and Elesa was forced to flee the pantheon, they were the only one to remain with Emmet and take care of him between blood baths. If you think of Emmet as Sweeney Todd during the war against the gods then the Hearth God is his Mrs. Lovett!