So... It's Fake, Then? - long, long ago [tag: Eros] Note: Reference point, pre-marriage for Harmonia. Pre-pubery, actually. So I'm going to say we're probably looking 12-13ish for her, age wise.
Harmonia had been studying things carefully, in which by things where other girls. Most of them were mortal and she had no idea how old they really were, but her best guess was maybe around her age. Maybe. But, things were wrong, somehow. She wasn't sure how, but they were. The mortal girls had extra plumpness in parts they were supposed to -the same places most of her relatives did. But her relatives were all older. Shouldn't she have this by now, too?
She wasn't that young. Well, okay, she wasn't old either. But some of these mortal girls were getting married off already. Harmonia had been watching them. Some of them even had boys coming calling after them and there was love involved. It sounded and looked very romantic. Harmonia wanted that. She wanted to be curved and beautiful and have some boy come calling after her and have her father be happy for them and then she could get married and have a lot of babies and live happy forever.
Except now she sat on a rock, with a mostly flat chest and lanky limbs, looking out at a poor, somewhat plumper mortal girl who was gazing longingly at a boy working on moving some things off a cart. Balance understood that look of longing. She felt that way too. She sometimes sneaked glances at Apollo when she thought no one was looking, and hoped no one was looking -she'd die of embarrassment if anyone knew, because he was so good looking she would absolutely melt into a puddle of goo if he even smiled in her direction or said her name.
Apollo probably didn't even know her name. She was a nobody compared to him.
So Harmonia completely understood this poor mortal's feelings right now. That mortal boy was the object of that girl's desire and it would be so nice if he would just look up at her and they would fall in love and... Strangely, he did look up. Stranger still, he looked in the girl's direction and their eyes met. Balance was so confused by the order of events that happened next -the way the mortal boy suddenly seemed to really want that girl (in a way that Harmonia both did and did not want Apollo to -it was a little terrifying), that she stood up and started to back away. Rapidly.
This. This was not right. Something was very, very wrong. That seemed almost... sudden and aggressive. Didn't it?
In her rush to back away, she tripped over something solid and fell. “Ow!”