barbara says karma's a bitch (Νέμεσις) (rhamnousia) wrote in stoa, @ 2010-12-15 11:48:00
o helo thar people, new and old. i'm maddie, also known as magrathea, and as of right this very second, i have two characters nemesis and charon!
NEMESIS, or barbara thurston, is the goddess of indignation against, and retribution for, evil deeds and undeserved good fortune. she's also personification of the resentment aroused in men by those who committed crimes with apparent impunity, or who had inordinate good fortune. basically she's "what goes around comes around" and/or "karma's a bitch" in a walking, talking form. in particular she punishes hubris, which is pride before the gods. while she's not actually evil, she's cynical and the past few years have pushed her over the edge in terms of her temper.
she thinks they're in the worst time yet for hubris, and now that her powers are weaker, she's going absolutely batty as she has to keep her humiliating retribution down to a minimum. she caused the financial ruin of vanilla ice, mc hammer, donald trump (whom she also cursed with that hair) and michael jackson, but when she tried to fuck over the assholes at goldman sachs, she messed up a little.
now, she's resigned herself to becoming a scathing freelance gossip columnist and has had a hand on any of the major breaking scandals in the last couple of years. kardashian sex tape, brett farve's penis pics, the david letterman thing, she played a part in all of it. my guess is she's worked with thanatos and the fates in the past, and she's probably been petitioning them to kill/take a number of celebrities (and people in general) for the past few decades.
CHARON, or christopher "chris" mckinley (riverman, is the ferryman of the underworld. despite taking his job seriously, charon is actually a surprisingly nice, if gruff, god and usually talks to everyone he ferries across styx. being in the upperworld is still extremely new and novel to him and he's enjoying himself. he didn't "grow up" with most of the other gods, so to speak, so they're still new to him, and he will treat everyone with dignity and respect.
charon, or chris, now works as a captain on a staten island ferry, and spends as much time on the water as he can: underneath it all, he's a sailor first. chthonic gods, such as hades and persephone, are treated with great respect by him, though ladies, watch out: he's making up for lost time with getting his mack on. also hades, he's been petitioning you to put coins into the mouths of all the deceased so their souls can be transported right away: all souls without a coin for charon upon death have to wander 100 years on the banks of styx before being ferried into the underworld proper.