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I play Asterion, an original character based on a fanciful reconstruction of the Greek god Dionysos, in
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tragedy tomorrow--
Gods of the theater, smile on us.
♦ Enter here for lots of mythic symbolism bullshit.
♦ Game ends at 8pm PST on Thursday, August 18th.
♦ There will be sexual imagery and possibly some discussion of violence and gore, but it's mostly weird puzzles.
♦ Contact me on Slack as Eastling or at
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MYTH & BACKSTORY
♦ This character is from an original project based on Greek mythology (and specifically ancient Greek mystery religion, which focused on Dionysos, Demeter, and Persephone along with various foreign gods), with a dash of Egyptian mythology as well.
♦ The premise is this: "What if we could reconstruct Minoan mythology based partly on evidence from Crete and partly on blending Greek and Egyptian mythology?"
♦ Of course that's nonsense but here you go.
♦ In comments here, along with commentary, are the bits and pieces of this character's mythos.
♦ The premise is this: "What if we could reconstruct Minoan mythology based partly on evidence from Crete and partly on blending Greek and Egyptian mythology?"
♦ Of course that's nonsense but here you go.
♦ In comments here, along with commentary, are the bits and pieces of this character's mythos.
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tanagura :: how's my driving?
What it says on the tin. Comments and concerns about my portrayal of this character in tanagura go here. I'll pretty this up later.
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name⇒ in descending order of how likely he is to give them to you: Nionios Lenaios, Dee Lysius, Eleutherios, Dionysos Kresios, Asterion
species⇒ he's a god and will probably mention it soon enough
hair color⇒ black
apparent age⇒ twenty
actual age⇒ somewhere around three and a half millennia, give or take a few decades
physical sex⇒ apparently male, technically intersex, he doesn't talk about it willingly
gender⇒ male
orientation⇒ pansexual
IC PERMISSIONS
Physical affection is totally fine; physical violence will get a bad reaction ICly but is fine by me OOCly. Mind-reading, telepathy, and sensing emotions will all work, but he won't be happy if he finds out about it.
OOC PERMISSIONS
Threadjacking and backtagging are fine.
Technically you can't fourth-wall him because he's an original character but any character is ICly free to pick up on all his stupid mythology references.
MISCELLANEOUS
Nio is an original character based on a Greek god; I will obviously treat this material with exactly as much respect as it deserves.
Characters who can sense divinity or power in general will definitely get a read off him as a god of life, sex, wine, and growing things in general.
He usually has huge golden bull horns on his head, unless he's specifically disguising himself as human (which he normally won't bother with here). He also has a magical, clearly inhuman penis when he's not disguising himself, so enjoy that if you're into xenokink.
name⇒ in descending order of how likely he is to give them to you: Nionios Lenaios, Dee Lysius, Eleutherios, Dionysos Kresios, Asterion
species⇒ he's a god and will probably mention it soon enough
hair color⇒ black
apparent age⇒ twenty
actual age⇒ somewhere around three and a half millennia, give or take a few decades
physical sex⇒ apparently male, technically intersex, he doesn't talk about it willingly
gender⇒ male
orientation⇒ pansexual
IC PERMISSIONS
Physical affection is totally fine; physical violence will get a bad reaction ICly but is fine by me OOCly. Mind-reading, telepathy, and sensing emotions will all work, but he won't be happy if he finds out about it.
OOC PERMISSIONS
Threadjacking and backtagging are fine.
Technically you can't fourth-wall him because he's an original character but any character is ICly free to pick up on all his stupid mythology references.
MISCELLANEOUS
Nio is an original character based on a Greek god; I will obviously treat this material with exactly as much respect as it deserves.
Characters who can sense divinity or power in general will definitely get a read off him as a god of life, sex, wine, and growing things in general.
He usually has huge golden bull horns on his head, unless he's specifically disguising himself as human (which he normally won't bother with here). He also has a magical, clearly inhuman penis when he's not disguising himself, so enjoy that if you're into xenokink.
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resources
ON DIONYSOS
Dionysos: Archetypal Image of Indestructible Life, by Karoly Kerényi. Amazon link. Published in 1973 by an elderly scholar and therefore kind of dated in its language and philosophy, this is still the main source of the ideas used for this character. The author traces not just the character but the entire religion of Dionysos through its history, starting with speculated origins in Minoan Crete. Kerényi was a contemporary and colleague of Jung and it shows in his approach to mythology.
THEOI.COM: titles of Dionysos; general Dionysos page. Theoi.com is a huge collection of primary sources surrounding ancient Greek religion. It's extremely useful for research.
ON GREEK MYTHOLOGY
The Gods of the Greeks, by Karoly Kerényi. Amazon link. As usual for this guy, somewhat dated language and perspective, but also a lot of good info in general.
Classical Myth, by Barry B. Powell. Amazon link. This is a pretty solid textbook and it's how I got started on the subject recently.
See above on Theoi.com.
ON EGYPTIAN MYTHOLOGY
More here later.
ON MINOAN CRETE
ACADEMIA.EDU: Minoan religion. This is kind of tricky because a lot of the actual serious scholars here are deeply invested in refuting the idea that Homeric material can be used to extrapolate anything about Crete, which means never talking about the minotaur and the labyrinth. Which is fair because from an academic standpoint they're probably correct, but it does make my fantasy research a bit harder.
OTHER SUBJECTS
Temple of the Cosmos, by Jeremy Naydler. A highly esoteric book about ancient Egyptian cosmology and magic that gave me some ideas for this setting's worldbuild.
Eleusis: Archetypal Image of Mother and Daughter, by Karoly Kerényi. More self-indulgent and awkward than his Dionysos book (mostly because it's an elderly male mid-twentieth century scholar trying to talk about Demeter and Persephone), this still had some useful research for fleshing out the other characters in this setting.
Dionysos: Archetypal Image of Indestructible Life, by Karoly Kerényi. Amazon link. Published in 1973 by an elderly scholar and therefore kind of dated in its language and philosophy, this is still the main source of the ideas used for this character. The author traces not just the character but the entire religion of Dionysos through its history, starting with speculated origins in Minoan Crete. Kerényi was a contemporary and colleague of Jung and it shows in his approach to mythology.
THEOI.COM: titles of Dionysos; general Dionysos page. Theoi.com is a huge collection of primary sources surrounding ancient Greek religion. It's extremely useful for research.
ON GREEK MYTHOLOGY
The Gods of the Greeks, by Karoly Kerényi. Amazon link. As usual for this guy, somewhat dated language and perspective, but also a lot of good info in general.
Classical Myth, by Barry B. Powell. Amazon link. This is a pretty solid textbook and it's how I got started on the subject recently.
See above on Theoi.com.
ON EGYPTIAN MYTHOLOGY
More here later.
ON MINOAN CRETE
ACADEMIA.EDU: Minoan religion. This is kind of tricky because a lot of the actual serious scholars here are deeply invested in refuting the idea that Homeric material can be used to extrapolate anything about Crete, which means never talking about the minotaur and the labyrinth. Which is fair because from an academic standpoint they're probably correct, but it does make my fantasy research a bit harder.
OTHER SUBJECTS
Temple of the Cosmos, by Jeremy Naydler. A highly esoteric book about ancient Egyptian cosmology and magic that gave me some ideas for this setting's worldbuild.
Eleusis: Archetypal Image of Mother and Daughter, by Karoly Kerényi. More self-indulgent and awkward than his Dionysos book (mostly because it's an elderly male mid-twentieth century scholar trying to talk about Demeter and Persephone), this still had some useful research for fleshing out the other characters in this setting.
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aforestdark_rp :: statistics
ABOUT Appearance Headshot. About six foot; in his very early twenties by looks. Basically slender, youthful build, but with decent muscle too. He has huge golden bull horns on his head but otherwise appears physically human. Chin-length black hair in loose ringlets, dark red-brown eyes, medium-light olive-brown-toned complexion. He is in general extremely attractive if you're at all into that sort of thing and also persistently, ineffably foreign-looking--he even has an unidentifiable foreign accent to fit. (I mean, if you pay attention he looks and sounds mostly Mediterranean or Middle Eastern, but he has an aura of Otherness.) He usually wears a loose skirt, sandals, and a lot of shiny jewelry; he always wears a nose-ring through his septum. He will totally wear eyeliner and mascara and dark lipstick if he finds any here. Abilities Spontaneously generating plant life around him (mostly ivy here in the forest, for reasons); creating fruit- or honey-based alcoholic drinks (and optionally adding a mild aphrodisiac effect to them); infinite regeneration from wounds caused by anything other than blessed, holy, or consecrated weapons. In theory he can also cause earthquakes, grow and control massive amounts of plants, and alter others' mental states towards ecstasy or madness, but he has no idea how to do any of that consciously yet. About Asterion is a god of life and ecstatic celebration, and he pings as such to anyone with spiritual sensitivity. His canon is a thinly-veiled reinterpretation of the legend of the Minotaur based on Greek mythology and self-indulgent speculation about Minoan mythology. He is essentially based on an early prototypical version of Dionysos; his character centers around a timeless existence of partying and being brutally sacrificed. He's here because eventually the cycle got broken and he wrecked everything, including himself, in revenge. PERMISSIONS
Asterion is a god of sex and dismemberment. I'm up for lots of things. Talk to me on Slack or Plurk if you have any questions. |
voicetesting
[ It's a nice warm night and there's a handsome young man with huge golden horns on his head standing in the courtyard, holding a cheap old CD player in one hand and a CD itself in the other. He looks bewildered. ]
This won't do! How do I get the music to happen?
[ blah blah no icons, appearance/pings/etc here ]
This won't do! How do I get the music to happen?
[ blah blah no icons, appearance/pings/etc here ]
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Name Asterion (phallicsymbull, original)
Rank Pawn LIVING who knows yet SILVER ##### PHYSICAL APPEARANCE NOTES Headshot. About six foot; in his very early twenties by looks. Basically slender, youthful build, but with decent muscle too. He has huge golden bull horns on his head but otherwise appears physically human. Chin-length black hair in loose ringlets, dark red-brown eyes, medium-light olive-brown-toned complexion. He is in general extremely attractive if you're at all into that sort of thing and also persistently, ineffably foreign-looking--he even has an unidentifiable foreign accent to fit. (I mean, if you pay attention he looks and sounds mostly Mediterranean or Middle Eastern, but he has an aura of Otherness.) He usually wears a loose skirt, sandals, and a lot of shiny jewelry; he always wears a nose-ring through his septum. He will totally wear eyeliner and mascara and dark lipstick once he finds some. NSFW STUFF! He has a magic penis. See here for info. |
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UNKNOWN OBJECTIVES
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★ Being praised ♥
★ Mutual flirting $$ ★ ??? ★ ??? ★ ??? ★ ??? ★ ??? ★ ??? |
☆ Helping someone else reach an objective $♥
☆ Giving oral sex ♥ ☆ Being worshipped $♥♥ ☆ Expressing pain or distress $$ ☆ Talking about his feelings $♥ ☆ Talking about his feelings during sex $$♥♥ ☆ Regenerating wounds (rewards scale with severity) ☆ Crossdressing in public $♥ ☆ Crossdressing during sex $$♥♥ |
Asterion is a god of life and ecstatic celebration, and he pings as such to anyone with spiritual sensitivity. His canon is a reinterpretation of the legend of the Minotaur drawing from Greek mythology, some Egyptian mythology, and self-indulgent speculation about Minoan mythology. He is essentially based on an early prototypical version of Dionysos; his character centers around a timeless existence of partying and being brutally sacrificed. He's here because eventually the cycle got broken and he wrecked everything, including himself, in revenge. Now he wants to save his girlfriends from the fall of Atlantis. More info in comments.
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