Except such things are usually myths that can't truly sustain themselves. Conflict is inevitable. Something will always happen, even if by an ugly play of fate.
If you are inclined to share them, then yes. You have quite the curious pantheon.
[tell him more about how fucking weird they all are, chiron...
he pauses once more, though, shifts slightly-- huffs out an annoyed sigh.]
Unrelatedly-- I take it you have had the same problem that we all seem to be afflicted with. I am growing quite weary of it.
[just going to get that over with. this is possibly the most annoyed someone has ever been in offering out a hand, because it's getting to be very distracting and he will suffer the contact so that he can actually listen.]
[Me who fuckin forgot this was affection week: sir buy him a drink first.
Thankfully Chiron isn't as stupid as the person playing him, though that won't stop his minor pause of surprise as he glances at that hand. Frankly, he was prepared to suffer in silence, but if Emet-Selch is losing patience:]
Right, of course.
[Promptly reaching back out and taking the hand. Though...]
Alternatively, if you would prefer to just lean against me...
[-- Listen, he is used to people wanting to treat him like a piece of furniture, especially children. So he makes the offer in case this is beneath the other's dignity]
[It's part losing patience, and part that after this conversation, Chiron is tolerable enough that he will allow it. Guess which part he's not going to mention.]
I would prefer to maintain at least some distance.
[is this ridiculous? yes. does he want to be close enough for that? not really.]
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Except such things are usually myths that can't truly sustain themselves. Conflict is inevitable. Something will always happen, even if by an ugly play of fate.
After a beat:]
You are using past tense for a reason?
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[a slight pause of his own, then a lazy wave of one hand.]
But a subject for another time, I think.
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Ha... very well.
[Settling himself in place, allowing his body to relax.]
Let us turn to other topics. Would you like to hear more stories of my mythology?
[Them just spending an hour or so talking about how stupid Greek mythology is, this is fine]
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[tell him more about how fucking weird they all are, chiron...
he pauses once more, though, shifts slightly-- huffs out an annoyed sigh.]
Unrelatedly-- I take it you have had the same problem that we all seem to be afflicted with. I am growing quite weary of it.
[just going to get that over with. this is possibly the most annoyed someone has ever been in offering out a hand, because it's getting to be very distracting and he will suffer the contact so that he can actually listen.]
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Thankfully Chiron isn't as stupid as the person playing him, though that won't stop his minor pause of surprise as he glances at that hand. Frankly, he was prepared to suffer in silence, but if Emet-Selch is losing patience:]
Right, of course.
[Promptly reaching back out and taking the hand. Though...]
Alternatively, if you would prefer to just lean against me...
[-- Listen, he is used to people wanting to treat him like a piece of furniture, especially children. So he makes the offer in case this is beneath the other's dignity]
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I would prefer to maintain at least some distance.
[is this ridiculous? yes. does he want to be close enough for that? not really.]
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He has the grace (and common sense) not to laugh at how silly this looks.]
Very well.
[He'll just leave it at holding hands while he details some of the ways in which Zeus tried to deflower an entire generation of Greece]