The Big Show: Wedding Bells
If you absolutely, positively HAD to marry someone, today, who would it be, and why?
That’s a very interesting question for me to contemplate. After all, I have never taken a consort and have never experienced the sort of love that inspires marriage. In this case I do not think love is what I would use in my decision any way. I am marrying in haste after all. I would look for someone with my own interests so we would at least get along and have things to discuss. Though I am not as vain as some of the others in my family, I would prefer someone who was at least handsome. I have no concerns about age, considering technically every mortal on the planet is younger than I am, much younger.
And yes, I would prefer to marry a mortal than another God. Marriages between divine beings rarely seem to work out well for either party. Of course, marriages to mortals do not have better outcomes either. That is part of the reason why I have avoided this whole foolish love game in the past. I have no interested in the tangles and complications it brings into a person’s life. I would have no time for my studies or my hobbies if I was in love. Yet, none of this enters into this question. I have to marry, no matter what my personal preferences are.
I do not have a specific man in mind, sadly. I do not know many men who I think are worthy of marrying, though I respect a great deal of them. The man I marry would have to be like myself, a warrior but an intellect as well. One who finds as much excitement in intellectual debates as they find in the battlefield. They would also have to tolerate my rather… eccentric family. That is asking a lot of many men. My family is quite… tiring at times. And as I said, I would prefer someone who is at least handsome, though I could easily forget this criteria if a man was intelligent enough. It is a shame Odysseus is dead. He was one of my greatest warriors. I would marry him if I was forced. I guess I must find myself a modern day Odysseus if I ever want to wed.
That’s a very interesting question for me to contemplate. After all, I have never taken a consort and have never experienced the sort of love that inspires marriage. In this case I do not think love is what I would use in my decision any way. I am marrying in haste after all. I would look for someone with my own interests so we would at least get along and have things to discuss. Though I am not as vain as some of the others in my family, I would prefer someone who was at least handsome. I have no concerns about age, considering technically every mortal on the planet is younger than I am, much younger.
And yes, I would prefer to marry a mortal than another God. Marriages between divine beings rarely seem to work out well for either party. Of course, marriages to mortals do not have better outcomes either. That is part of the reason why I have avoided this whole foolish love game in the past. I have no interested in the tangles and complications it brings into a person’s life. I would have no time for my studies or my hobbies if I was in love. Yet, none of this enters into this question. I have to marry, no matter what my personal preferences are.
I do not have a specific man in mind, sadly. I do not know many men who I think are worthy of marrying, though I respect a great deal of them. The man I marry would have to be like myself, a warrior but an intellect as well. One who finds as much excitement in intellectual debates as they find in the battlefield. They would also have to tolerate my rather… eccentric family. That is asking a lot of many men. My family is quite… tiring at times. And as I said, I would prefer someone who is at least handsome, though I could easily forget this criteria if a man was intelligent enough. It is a shame Odysseus is dead. He was one of my greatest warriors. I would marry him if I was forced. I guess I must find myself a modern day Odysseus if I ever want to wed.