Of course not. It's like... I mean, everyone has a place in Heaven's Net. It's like, they can change how the world works? Or they could, before they lost their ability.
Ooookay. But I mean - anyone who thinks they've got the weight of the world on their shoulders for whatever reason is like that, you know?
Take my homeboy Jason - praetor of the Roman legions, son of the Lord of the Universe. That guy has a huge chip on his shoulder and would try to do everything on his own because he thinks it's the responsible thing to do or whatever. It's stupid! We can't be a team if we don't work together, right? And what's responsible about pushing on until you drop, anyways?
[ can you believe all it took to help him relax a little was talking about jason ]
That's right! And like, they think they're protecting you or whatever, but what about how you feel!? You want to help just the same as they do! No one wants to sit around being useless and in the dark like some idiot little kid!
[ STOP HE DIDN'T EVEN SAY ANYTHING ABOUT HOW HOT JASON IS ]
Exactly! He isn't even the only person I know that's like that, either. Gods, for all that they say they're trying to help, you'd think they'd stop to think about everyone else, too. But nooooo, you just have to force them to chill and accept a hand now and then.
[ this is not how i expected their bonding to go but i'll take it ]
Ha! I wish. Any of them that might have helped went and locked themselves away on Mt. Olympus - my dad can't even talk to me with his bootleg radio dreams anymore. And any gods that haven't are almost all on Gaea's side, which means they're trying to kill us. One of them blasted me off my ship right before I woke up here, actually.
Yeah. My dad is Hephaestus, the god of fire and blacksmiths. But Kon said you guys have a different pantheon, so you probably don't know the Greek gods, right?
I don't, but that's... cool I guess. [This does not change his assumption that Leo's a regular boy because you don't have to be related to your dad by blood??]
Well... Here, let me write it down for you first, and then we can go through the sounds. Might be easier to have the visual.
[ he'll just keep talking as he pulls out a pen and notebook and starts writing the alphabet. besidw each letter is a series of dots or dashes. you know how morse works I don't need to explain it ]
Morse code is all long or short sounds, and each letter has a set that belongs to it. See?
[ we don't think about the language barrier they would encounter here it's fine ]
To do that, you just leave a longer gap when the letter ends. So, kind of like this.
[ he writes his name in morse code! three letters are easy enough to take in, and sure enough - there is a slightly longer gap between where each letter should end. ]
It's a little hard to portray on paper, but yeah. That's why I said you have to know what to listen for.
...Huh. You know, I never would have thought about it that way, but yeah, you're right. It's the same when you're on the run. So you'll probably be pretty good at it, actually.
[ probably a good thing that leo isn't in the mood to call him out on that ]
I ran away from foster homes six times when I was a kid and the government hated me for it. Now I'm a demigod with a goddess who wants me and my friends dead, so - yeah. On the run.
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Change heaven's net? That some special fishing thing where you guys are from?
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Of course not. It's like... I mean, everyone has a place in Heaven's Net. It's like, they can change how the world works? Or they could, before they lost their ability.
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Ooookay. But I mean - anyone who thinks they've got the weight of the world on their shoulders for whatever reason is like that, you know?
Take my homeboy Jason - praetor of the Roman legions, son of the Lord of the Universe. That guy has a huge chip on his shoulder and would try to do everything on his own because he thinks it's the responsible thing to do or whatever. It's stupid! We can't be a team if we don't work together, right? And what's responsible about pushing on until you drop, anyways?
[ can you believe all it took to help him relax a little was talking about jason ]
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That's right! And like, they think they're protecting you or whatever, but what about how you feel!? You want to help just the same as they do! No one wants to sit around being useless and in the dark like some idiot little kid!
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Exactly! He isn't even the only person I know that's like that, either. Gods, for all that they say they're trying to help, you'd think they'd stop to think about everyone else, too. But nooooo, you just have to force them to chill and accept a hand now and then.
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Anyway I can't believe they're actually bonding.]
Your gods are helpful?
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Ha! I wish. Any of them that might have helped went and locked themselves away on Mt. Olympus - my dad can't even talk to me with his bootleg radio dreams anymore. And any gods that haven't are almost all on Gaea's side, which means they're trying to kill us. One of them blasted me off my ship right before I woke up here, actually.
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Your dad is a god?
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I don't, but that's... cool I guess. [This does not change his assumption that Leo's a regular boy because you don't have to be related to your dad by blood??]
What else did he tell you?
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Not a whole lot about where you guys are from? Mostly just about some of the monsters. Apparently there's a lot of overlap between yours and ours?
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Yeah, like the dryads you mentioned.
[They sound cool!!]
So what was with that tapping?
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[ ...ah, that. why is everyone so interested in it, anyway? ]
It's called Morse code. Call it a nervous habit? I didn't realize anyone else would know it.
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Yeah I guess he's some sort of big weirdo who knows a lot of stuff?
[He has only a vague understanding of it.]
It's not like he's my friend or anything. We're just both Toki's friends.
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He does know a lot of random stuff, huh? Gotta wonder where he fits it all.
So... what? Did you want to learn how to use it yourself or something?
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Sure. Something like that can't be that hard to learn!
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So how do I learn?
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[ he'll just keep talking as he pulls out a pen and notebook and starts writing the alphabet. besidw each letter is a series of dots or dashes. you know how morse works I don't need to explain it ]
Morse code is all long or short sounds, and each letter has a set that belongs to it. See?
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Also me trying not to think about how the universal translator handles this.]
So if it's just a series of taps how do you know when one letter ends and the next begins?
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To do that, you just leave a longer gap when the letter ends. So, kind of like this.
[ he writes his name in morse code! three letters are easy enough to take in, and sure enough - there is a slightly longer gap between where each letter should end. ]
It's a little hard to portray on paper, but yeah. That's why I said you have to know what to listen for.
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Sometimes people trust their eyes too much. In the woods, a lot of times you'll hear things before you can see them. So you learn to listen carefully.
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Obviously.
[Wait hold on a second.]
On the run?
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I ran away from foster homes six times when I was a kid and the government hated me for it. Now I'm a demigod with a goddess who wants me and my friends dead, so - yeah. On the run.
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