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Nico di Angelo ([info]nico_di_angelo) wrote in [info]marinanova,
@ 2014-10-28 22:01:00

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Entry tags:kanji tatsumi, nico di angelo, sarah williams, zatanna zatara

295 | Video | Action | Open Lecture Mingle
[ morning ]

[Why couldn’t they give him letter writing? Or cleaning the toilets? It was something public last time too. He gets that it’s a punishment, but being up in front of people, presenting, it was humiliating. At least this wasn’t an all-day thing, or broadcast to the entire dome, like last time.]

So apparently my punishment this time is to give some kind of “respectable” lecture. I’ll try to have something thrown together this afternoon. You don’t have to come. [Please don’t come.] But it’ll be at the Education Center.

[He spends the morning cleaning up his store and working on his lecture.]

[ afternoon – lecture ]

[So, he really has so very little prepared. He has no idea what he’s doing. Even if he came with tons of notes and worksheets and materials, he would be lost, because this is just not something he can do. At least he has a topic. It’s dumb. The more he thinks about it, the more dumb it seems, and he should just not do it, but then he’ll catch hell for not doing it, and that’s even worse.

He winds up writing and drawing on the board.]






[This is going to be the dumbest lecture ever.]



Hades is the God of the Underworld. He is also known as the Lord of Death, and the God of Wealth. He rules over the Underworld, from Elysium to the Fields of Punishment. He oversees judgment, for the just and guilty.

He is one of the six children of the Titans Kronos and Rhea. He and his brothers, Zeus and Poseidon, are the three most powerful gods. He is married to Persephone, who will turn you into flowers if you annoy her. [He scribbles her stick figure out. She sucks.] He possesses a powerful Helm of Darkness and a Sword of Hades that can raise the dead from the depths of Tartarus itself. After World War II the three gods made an Oath to never have any more children. Hades was the only one to keep that oath. Up until recently he was barred from Olympus.



Thanatos is the God of Peaceful Death. He is the son of Nyx, the Goddess of Night, and Erebos, the primordial God of Darkness, and the twin of Hypnos, the God of Sleep. He is loyal to Hades, and has control over the Doors of Death. For a time, he was captured, and the dead were able to come back from the Underworld without him there to prevent their escape. He is frequently mistaken for Cupid. Love and Death are similar, but sometimes Death is kinder.



Keres aren’t gods. They’re spirits that feed on violent death. Disease, bloodshed, famine. They are also daughters of Nyx. They’re pretty awful. They’re like, part human, part bat, and poison. Death gives them power. They are the antithesis of Thanatos.

[That’s it. That’s all he has.]

Um...if you have any question you can ask them now...



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[info]nico_di_angelo
2014-11-02 03:34 am UTC (link)
[Did he look like someone who studied, or majored in anything?]

Son of the god of the Underworld.

[Optimism? She's going the wrong direction.]

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[info]notbabymagic
2014-11-02 03:37 am UTC (link)
[Actually? Could've been. You never know.]

...okay, I'll admit, I didn't see that one coming.

Seriously? That's not just some sort of euphemistic insult or something, is it?

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[info]nico_di_angelo
2014-11-02 03:47 am UTC (link)
If you're going to put it that way, I suppose so. May as well be. [His lips twist wryly and he shrugs.] But it's also what I really am.

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[info]notbabymagic
2014-11-02 03:52 am UTC (link)
Your father's son?

[Despite the...unusual nature of the discussion, she actually almost smiled; if Nico actually was following in his father's footsteps in his own way, she could relate.]

[She always had been something of a daddy's girl, herself.]


Are you two close?

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[info]nico_di_angelo
2014-11-02 04:35 am UTC (link)
[He frowns as he tosses the question around in his head. Even after a minute - the longest he'll make her wait - he can't come up with a direct answer.]

I don't know. We have a relationship, I guess. That's more than most kids can say about their godly parents.

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[info]notbabymagic
2014-11-02 04:36 am UTC (link)
[Stop. Please. She thought she would melt from the sentimentality of it all.]

Do you want to be close?

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[info]nico_di_angelo
2014-11-02 04:59 am UTC (link)
[A small shrug.]

He's my dad. [Was that enough? Lord of Dead Things and wearer of clothes woven from the finest of tortured souls aside.] I don't have a whole lot of family left.

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[info]notbabymagic
2014-11-02 05:12 am UTC (link)
That's not really an answer.

[She didn't mean to sound indelicate. In fact, for her, she was being strangely gentle. Empathetic, even.]

Trust me. I kind of get it. I think. The part about it being just me and my dad, at least.

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[info]nico_di_angelo
2014-11-02 05:46 am UTC (link)
Sorry. It's just, I don't really have an answer. Sometimes I'm not sure if he even likes me, and then he gives me a French zombie. [Another, bigger shrug.]

Are you close?

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[info]notbabymagic
2014-11-02 05:49 am UTC (link)
[She opened her mouth to reply back, when his words caught up to her. A french zombie? What even? Was that--]

[No, wait, she wasn't entirely sure she wanted to know.]


Well, the only thing French he's ever given me was this one jacket be bought in Paris that one Christmas...but, yeah, we were close.

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[info]nico_di_angelo
2014-11-03 08:09 pm UTC (link)
[He didn't miss the past tense there.] That's good. That you had that. No siblings?

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[info]notbabymagic
2014-11-04 01:58 am UTC (link)
No.

I was his first...and we lost my mom soon after.

[She wished she could say she missed Sindella Zatara...but the truth was, Zatanna never had the chance to know her.]

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[info]nico_di_angelo
2014-11-04 05:47 am UTC (link)
Oh. Sorry. [Crap. He's on a roll. Maybe he can remind her of a beloved dead pet while he's at it.]

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[info]notbabymagic
2014-11-04 12:39 pm UTC (link)
[None of those. That she knows of, at least; her "pets" had always been the animals backstage at her father's shows. And they had been well taken care of.]

Don't be. It's not like you had anything to do with it.

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[info]nico_di_angelo
2014-11-06 09:45 pm UTC (link)
No, I know. Um, I lost my mom, too. And one of my sisters.

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[info]notbabymagic
2014-11-08 12:56 am UTC (link)
[It would have been hypocritical of her to express her condolences, even if she had to bite her tongue to keep the instinctive response at bay.]

Kind of a sucky thing to have in common, huh?

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[info]nico_di_angelo
2014-11-08 06:44 am UTC (link)
Yeah. It is. [He shifts, uncertain where to proceed.] Anyway, thanks for coming...

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[info]notbabymagic
2014-11-08 06:46 am UTC (link)
...this is the part where I would usually say anytime, but I think this once, I'm willing to make an exception.

[No offense, Nico. The lecture was a decent idea, given the circumstances, but the subject? She wouldn't mind if he chose to switch it up next time.]

Still. I can imagine it's better to have people to talk to than to talk to an empty room, right?

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[info]nico_di_angelo
2014-11-08 06:53 am UTC (link)
I ... don't know how to feel about that.

[If he can help it, there will never be a "next time".]

I would have preferred the empty room. Less judgement.

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[info]notbabymagic
2014-11-08 06:55 am UTC (link)
Really?

I don't know. I'd think the judgement would kind of be worth the lack of total isolation. But that's just me.

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[info]nico_di_angelo
2014-11-08 06:59 am UTC (link)
[He shrugs, looking a little uncomfortable.] I'm okay with isolation. [Not okay with, used to.]

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