008 | OVERFLOW

[godsoffortune]

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[eternalshield]

Well, Zeno supposes that is indeed very godly. Zeno couldn't teleport before.

[And he's pretty sure his usual powers are working. He'll have to injure himself later to be sure, but...]

It's silly to think that becoming a god would confer even more power than that. A god giving the gift of power usually limits it somehow...

[cyberfly]

[ Nagi perks up a little at that. He figured this was a newish god, but maybe Zeno knows more than Nagi thought. ]

Usually? You know something about gods and powers?

[eternalshield]

Doesn't everyone?

[He points to a patch of dandelions.]

Bet you somewhere around here, there's a story about a god explaining those.

[cyberfly]

[ He furrows his brow with some confusion. What does that have to do with anything? Or maybe he's just being vaguely philosophical. Hard to tell. ]

Maybe, but that's not very useful, is it?

[eternalshield]

If you're looking for useful, maybe don't look to gods. That's what they have mortals for.

[cyberfly]

You think mortals are more useful?

[ He doesn't ask in a sarcastic way at all. He's genuinely curious. He's pretty sure than humans are full of errors and weaknesses. Nevermind he used to be one. He's probably a little abnormal for a human anyway. Or used to be. ]

[eternalshield]

Of course. Why would gods need shinki if they weren't? Mortals and normal humans have all kinds of things gods don't, or else gods wouldn't get involved with them so much.

[He knows. He's seen.]

[cyberfly]

....

[ This is not something he's really thought about. It's not that he sees shinki or humans are somehow lesser. But he didn't really think of them as especially useful either. ]

Like what kind of things?

[eternalshield]

[Well, just drawing upon his own experience in the lack of mortality:]

A concept of time, for one thing. Gods don't always understand the effect it has or what can be wrought by it.

[cyberfly]

...because they don't die.

[ He supposes that makes some sense. Shinki all used to be living, and then they died. Does that mean they understand the concept of time better? But how can you, if you don't even remember living? ]

[eternalshield]

Mm, nor age! So they don't understand things like urgency, because it has never affected them.

[That second question he can't answer-- how do they have personalities if they can't remember living, either?]

[cyberfly]

... I guess not.

[ He seems to know a lot about gods, this one. Or is it about immortality? ]

Does that mean you'd rather be a mortal, then?

[eternalshield]

Mm, Zeno thinks so. People wouldn't want to be immortal if they weren't mortal to begin with. What's that they about the grass on the other side? People want what they can't have.