brother banger. (inflagrante) wrote in forgotten_ooc, @ 2010-07-21 02:14:00 |
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question tiiiime
I've been wondering for the last little while which question I should pose for the players here, because I'm naturally a nosy curious person. So here's the question I've been wondering about since I came in a few months ago: how did you become interested in mythology?
You can explain when, why, through which sort of media. I suppose, to be more specific, it's how did you get interested in it enough to want to app and play a character of myth.
As for myself, I can't pinpoint when I decided real religion was silly and that the gods and goddesses of Greece were far more fascinating. It always seems to start with Greeks, doesn't it? Go figure -- they're our largest cast. Generally I find myself drawn to fantasy and myth, not because I hate reality, but because I like being awed by mystery.
Sometime in high school, I picked up a novel series by K.A. Applegate (yes, you read right, she wrote Animorphs, stfu) called Everworld, and while I often find myself not a fan of juvenile fiction, I love this series. This is the Wiki page, because I'm too lazy to explain. They're POV books, rotating between the four main characters, and I would be lying if I said it wasn't what made me first want to play a mythological character. Of all the characters, I think Hel and Ganymede drew me in the most -- but you'd never be able to guess from this snippet:
She was dead. She was death itself.
Her flesh was the color of raw concrete. Gray. Ash. But with spots of color like bruises: yellow and green and purple.
Her eye was an empty socket, dark as she cave she'd come from. The left side of her nose was eaten away, gnawed down to the cartilage. There was a rip in her cheek, revealing the rotting, gumless teeth in her mouth. Her tongue writhed with worms that lived within flesh itself.
I'm sure this is getting too long, but basically, Everworld? Amazing series. Funny, too. (Also, random gay subtext? Is excellent.) And rereading it made me want to app Percival, whose app I am going to tend to in just a few. I'm a geek for myth, so I think Forgotten Gods was a perfect outlet for my crazy, crazy love of myth and writing that I partly owe to Everworld.