Meet Your Maker
Hello all. For those I knew before, this is Ken. For those I don't know yet, this is Ken.
I had a creeping craving I just couldn't resist. A craving for DDC. I don't have a lot of time to write, but I hope to carve out a little, so I decided to take on a quieter character, one that I could poke in and out of things as time allows, but one that has a lot of good stuff on his plate.
So meet Hephaestus. He's kind of the oddball of the Greek pantheon. Everybody else is dashing and suave, and not a little cruel or arrogant. Hephaestus is ugly, crippled, stoic, kind, generous and humble. It's like he was born in the wrong pantheon! Oh about that, being born. Hera decided she could have a kid all by her lonesome, no Zeus required. This is what she got. So she threw Hephaestus off of the mountain, you know, like you do. He's never quite gotten over that, but is dysfunctionally dedicated to his mother despite the fact. He did manage to get a bit of revenge by trapping her on a throne of his own making and forcing the gods to give him a place on Olympus, and marrying Aphrodite to him. Win/win, you might say, except that now he's stuck for all eternity in a rather unhappy marriage, catches the god of war in his bed, still is the gimp everyone sniggers at. Oh well.
What Hephaestus does love is creating. If you ask him to make you something, even if maybe it's not the best idea, he'll probably do it. And he'll probably do it way better than you expected, and add some extra features. He's like the Q of the mythical age. He has always loved craftmanship,a nd lucky for him enjoys invention just as much, so he is quite at home in this technological modern age. He'll push the DIY maker side of it, heck the guy makes all his own tools. But he doesn't scoff at devices that do your work for you. Heck, this guy had automatic bellows and robotic servants back when humanity was working on the wheel. You have twisted gnarled legs and you don't mind so much having devices that help you out. He basically has made everything that the Greeks use, from arrows to thunderbolts to jewelry, so there's always that connection among the Greeks.
I'm going to keep my threads and plots rather contained to start so I don't bite off too much, and I would like to start off with some of his myth-related drama: Aphrodite, Hera, Harmonia. But that doesn't mean I'm stuck to just that. Of course as usual, if you've interacted with a past Hephaestus, let me know. Or if there's something in myth, or you sick little mind, that you think should be in our backstory, let me know. And then if you have future story you want to dream about, let's do it. I can particularly see other pantheon people approaching Heph if for instance they need something made, or unmade. He even understands bitterness and the quest for revenge, so he may find some unlikely friends there.
And that's that. Hi everyone!
Ken -Hephaestus
P.S. If any of you love making icons, I would love some help. If you're that person, and yes I've met you, who just loves an excuse to churn them out and want to supply me with some, it would be a great help, and it would prevent me from driving everyone crazy with the six icons I'll probably find time to throw together. But if you're not that person who loves chu-rning out icons, please don't churn out any icons.