Post Examination: Ilsa
It's been quite a time. I've lost most of my interested in roleplaying Hermes - shift of interests, gravitation towards easier characters, the like. I haven't quite put him away yet, but to move on, Hermes had a dream. A dream of being pulled into paintings and breathing the blood of his children. In one of the calmer moments, there was a camp. A little camp in the dark.
With Ilsa (ooeeooahah):
The campfire burned bright, and a woman sat near it, sipping wine from a glass that became a petunia. And when Ilsa asked who she was, Hermes misled her. The woman wasn't Maia. She's Herse. And, her sister, weaving in the window of a cave. It's stone, of course. What he turned Aglauros into after she told him, "I'll never move (from Herse's door) until you are forced away!" And the lanterns she saw by? In Rise of the Argonauts, lanterns mean someone died. There's a little more to be read into about the petunia, but I want to give a bit of background on the myth so this makes more sense.
Basically, Hermes is flying over this Athenian festival and sees Herse and is like "Holy shit she's pretty." So he flies down and doesn't even bother disguising himself. And he gussies himself up in the following manner:
"Yet though his trust was sound, he spared no pains; he smoothed
His hair, arranged his robe to hang aright, to show the whole long
Golden hem, saw that his wand, the wand he wields to bring or
Banish sleep, shone with a polish, and his ankle-wings were
Lustrous and his sandals brushed and clean."
He prepares that much to ask Aglauros if she'd "consent to be aunt to my child. For Herse's sake I'm here; favor a lover's hope!"
And Aglauros is like, "Hmm. If you pay me."
And Hermes is like augh fine. And leaves. He comes back later, gives her the money, and Aglauros is like "NOPE! Not gonna move!" So Hermes turns her to stone and flies away all angry and upset.
So there's the story, Cliff Noted.
With Ilsa (ooeeooahah):
The campfire burned bright, and a woman sat near it, sipping wine from a glass that became a petunia. And when Ilsa asked who she was, Hermes misled her. The woman wasn't Maia. She's Herse. And, her sister, weaving in the window of a cave. It's stone, of course. What he turned Aglauros into after she told him, "I'll never move (from Herse's door) until you are forced away!" And the lanterns she saw by? In Rise of the Argonauts, lanterns mean someone died. There's a little more to be read into about the petunia, but I want to give a bit of background on the myth so this makes more sense.
Basically, Hermes is flying over this Athenian festival and sees Herse and is like "Holy shit she's pretty." So he flies down and doesn't even bother disguising himself. And he gussies himself up in the following manner:
"Yet though his trust was sound, he spared no pains; he smoothed
His hair, arranged his robe to hang aright, to show the whole long
Golden hem, saw that his wand, the wand he wields to bring or
Banish sleep, shone with a polish, and his ankle-wings were
Lustrous and his sandals brushed and clean."
He prepares that much to ask Aglauros if she'd "consent to be aunt to my child. For Herse's sake I'm here; favor a lover's hope!"
And Aglauros is like, "Hmm. If you pay me."
And Hermes is like augh fine. And leaves. He comes back later, gives her the money, and Aglauros is like "NOPE! Not gonna move!" So Hermes turns her to stone and flies away all angry and upset.
So there's the story, Cliff Noted.