Zeus: King of the Gods (theos_hypsistos) wrote in history_dot_com, @ 2012-03-12 17:06:00 |
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Entry tags: | ~bia, ~kratos, ~nike, ~zelos, ~zeus |
Duty - post Titanomachy [tag: Kratos, Bia, Zelos and Nike]
It was over.
The Titan War had been exhausting -mentally and physically, but persistence paid off and the Olympians were victorious. A bittersweet victory, as so many had perished, but a victory none-the-less. Then the three Olympian brothers were left with the task of divvying up the spoils of war. There was no easy agreement, so lots were drawn. Poseidon had the seas to claim his rule over. Hades had the Underworld and Zeus... Zeus got the heavens. Which he far considered the best of the three.
Fate, it seemed, was on his side.
He leaned back in his newly acquired throne and tapped his fingers on the arm. Things were mostly as they should be, there was just one item left to be sorted out. Styx's children. Zeus wasn't entirely sure what to make of them being foisted off onto him, nor was he entirely sure what to do with them.
Their father was dead in the Titanomachy, so there was the possibility of some bitterness toward the Olympian stock. At the same time, Styx was, at least thus far, loyal to Zeus. But what she was hoping to accomplish by sending her children to him, he didn't know. Something had to be done with them and soon. Idle hands created nothing but trouble.
Besides, they couldn't be left to just wander his halls and eat his food. They needed jobs that kept them loyal and engaged. He had a theory that happy subjects were loyal subjects. It was a theory he would put into practice as soon as he met with the four young gods.
Zeus had already summoned them from the apartments they had been occupying and was now just waiting their arrival. He didn't particularly like to be kept waiting, but it would benefit no one if he was obnoxious about it. So the fingers rapped on the arm of his throne and he waited. Then he would being to engage them in a discourse about what skills they had that they felt could be incorporated properly into duties.