[Nov Catchall] ✵ Resilience is all about being able to overcome the unexpected.

[cantgetanyworse]

🧙 WHO: Jane Porter (cantgetanyworse), Thanatos (inevitablerest), Poison (writtendestiny), Red Wine (judgementor), & Mogget (themogget)... and perhaps you.
⚔️️ WHAT: TDM things, quests, general prompts, closed prompts for November. Drop me a prompt to answer if you like!
🕒 WHEN: Through November
🗺️ WHERE: Noted in prompts.
⚠️ WARNINGS: Warned where required.


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✵ Jane Porter
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✵ Thanatos
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✵ Poison
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✵ Red Wine
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✵ Mogget
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Comments

[suetekh]

[Thanatos brings up points that make sense. If Horus truly believes that Set did not murder Osiris then what would vengeance against Set really accomplish? Although he doesn't understand why Horus doesn't believe he killed Osiris when everybody does. What happened when Horus was raised in that oasis?

But Set can't think about that right now and he doesn't even know where he'd begin. What he can focus on is how comforting Thanatos is right now, holding his hands, and listening. Nobody's ever done this for him before and Set realizes how much he likes having somebody like this to help him. Even if it's just to listen.]

I...thank you for saying that. And for listening. I think you have points but I guess...I just don't know. I don't really know what to think. Or to do. When I asked my lord sister to raise Horus, for him to come back and kill me, I was ready. I was confident. But I guess I thought I had more time.

[inevitablerest]

[And this, really, is what confuses him. If Set did not kill his brother, and he knows he didn't, why would he be so determined to have his nephew kill him? Even as a god, Thanatos could easily acknowledge that gods could be terribly perplexing sometimes.]

I think that Horus is perhaps not such a child as you might think.

[Thanatos does not know Horus and he has promised not to speak of this conversation to anyone, but perhaps he will go out of his way to seek out the young god and get the measure of him in his own way.]

Do you really want him to kill you? Do you think that Osiris would want you to be killed to support a lie?

[suetekh]

[The last time he had seen Horus before coming to this world, he had been only five and crying for his father that had died. In the second timeline, he hadn't even been born yet. But now, here he is. A man. A man with experiences that Set can not understand. Perhaps Thanatos does have a point.

But in considering what he says about Osiris, he admits:] He had given me his wife and Horus. For me to care for them. But it simply did not work out that way. If I wanted to keep my brother's murderer from causing any more havoc then I had to be the bad guy. If I had raised Horus, as Osiris wished, then his lineage would have been questioned.

And without my lord brother...there just isn't much else left for me.

[inevitablerest]

[Thanatos is quiet for a moment, then he lets out a soft huff of air and shakes his head.]

It's a complicated situation... I expect with details I haven't fully grasped. [He isn't going to invalidated what the other god is saying, but he isn't going to pretend that he entirely understands either. The Chthonic gods tend to be far less complicated than the Olympians, and this sounds like something that perhaps they would understand better.

But Set is his friend, and he can understand that at least.]

If you want comfort, I can offer it... but I'm not sure what I can say.

[suetekh]

[Really, there are more details but Set isn't entirely sure where he should start. What more does there need to be said?

So he nods.]

Thank you. I...think I just wanted to talk? I can't say for certain. There's still this anxiety inside of me but it feels better to talk now.

[He's never really had the chance to be able to talk to someone about his problems before. This is the first time.]

[inevitablerest]

[Thanatos nods. Though he had never really done much of it himself, he can understand the value that can be placed in simply talking through a problem. And he is... honoured that Set would feel he can place his trust in him like this.

But this is what friendship is, isn't it?]

If you feel better, then I'm glad.

[And he smiles then - a small, soft thing, but still a smile.]

Do you want to stay here for a while longer?

[suetekh]

Could I? I did wake you up and I know that being woken is...not pleasant. [Set, as a god, did sleep mostly for the enjoyment of it. Like eating. It wasn't exactly a need but something the gods did for no sake other than it was something they liked.

And he's found that being woken before he wakes up on his own leaves him grouchy. He'd never considered this for Thanatos when he'd asked to come over but it is something that he considering now.]

If you want to sleep then I understand.

[inevitablerest]

[Thanatos only shakes his head. He's awake now, and despite his body needing it he has never taken to sleep in the way that his brother so easily does. His nights are often unsettled and he wakes up often, and besides... he does enjoy having Set around.]

No, not at all.

[Getting woken up by stones hitting his window is a new experience for him and had it been anyone else he might have been grouchier about it, but he finds he doesn't mind it this time.]

I'll get us something to drink, and we can sit a while.

[suetekh]

...Thank you.

[The words always feel foreign on his lips. They are not words that he is used to. But ones that he knows Thanatos should hear.]

[inevitablerest]

You're welcome.

[Not used to being thanked, responding to gratitude feels strange to Thanatos as well. He wraps his fingers gently around Set's wrist and stands, lightly pulling him along.]

Come with me, I don't want to leave you sitting here alone.