You Know What I Hate....
I OMG HATE it so much that my husband of nearly nine years knows me better than I do. Do you have any idea how frustrating it is to be mourning the loss of a character that you've played and cherished for like seven years, sitting on your couch and munching on cookie dough like your puppy just died, to then have said husband come up to you and say, "You need someone new. You'll feel better when you have a new character to tinker with." And with being married for as long as I have, do you have any idea how much I HATE it when he's right?
Because you know husbands, they aren't right very often but when they are you will never hear the end of it. Ugh.
God I HATE that.
I did find someone new, at Scott's suggestion, and kind of fell in love with her. Because I'm pretty sure this app was the longest app I've written in the history of my apps at DDC, dwarfing Zeus' by two pages, I think it's fairly obvious that I put a great deal of love and thought into getting her just so.
So, in case you haven't noticed a theme here, and the above did happen btw, this is Styx. Hate Incarnate. Or... Goddess of Hate and Detestation, if you prefer. She's also the Goddess of or Keeper of the Solemn/Binding/Unbreakable Oath, depending which verbiage you prefer. She's also one of the chief rivers in the Underworld. Seriously guys, they say she like loops the underworld like nine times. That's a long-ass river. Read all about her here.
She is not the river Charon ferries across, I know that is a common misconception. Her waters, as you'll read, are EXTREMELY toxic and corrosive. His boat would not survive the journey. In traditional myth (and even in Dante's Inferno, yo), he ferries across Akheron, so, I'm going with that.
I want to plot with everyone. But, I am going to say one thing up front, binding divine oath among the Greeks involved swearing said oath over her waters. Like, Iris had to fetch her water in a specially made pitcher so it wouldn't fall apart, the oath was then sworn as the water was poured out. Please, guys, do not do this lightly. Zeus, in myth, dared not to break the oath because the consequences were so dire. This was the true reason Semele died... which is a complicated story, but he swore an oath over Styx to give her anything she desired and when she requested to see him in true form, he had to oblige even though he knew it would kill her.
Read all about the consequences in my bio or on theoi, but the consequences for breaking the oath would probably render the character completely unplayable for an extremely long span of time. I'm not talking just exile or a slap on the wrist. I'm talking a divine vegetative-state type coma, then exile. Complete and utter exile. No talking to other gods, seeing other gods.. nothing. And you were struck mute the whole time. And this wasn't for a few weeks. This was somewhere between 10 and 80 years depending on your definition of a great/eternal year. So, if you want to use her waters for a divine oath, please talk to me about it or the mods, or both. It is not a trivial thing. At all.
So, go... read... and give me all the things. She's not nasty, but she's not gonna cuddle you either. Unless you are one of her bebes. Then all bets are off. And Zelos, your room had best be clean. She doesn't care that her son is living with Zeus, there is no excuse for underpants on the floor when there is a perfectly good hamper three feet away. :P That goes for you other three, too. And if you move something in her house, and you aren't close family, you will probably be made to regret it. Just sayin'