we are bulletproof

The bonus links animatic I’ve been wanting to do ever since I read part 2 of Bonding Exercise from Moments Between by ezdot!

wordle in 2: misleading. you may think that this is the highest achievement, but it suffers from the same disappointment of a lucky guess that wordle in 1 causes. your second guess is a strategic choice, but ending the game this early just isn't interesting

wordle in 3: the peak. your starting word gave you some information and then your second guess contextualized that information into a solvable position. your sharp intuition and restraint is what truly separates you as above average.

wordle in 4: statistically average, par for the course, the baseline against which all other wordles are compared.

wordle in 5: you're sweating. you made a mistake at some point, or your starting word was effectively useless, and it took an extra guess above average to close things out. wordle in 5 comes as a relief.

wordle in 6: crushing humiliation. you have technically succeeded but at what cost. your thirty square grid will stare back at you like barrels of a firing squad. a failure in all but name.

North West basement 3

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Thanatos has always felt Zagreus's warmth.

Flames lick at his feet, he lives his life as if walking across coals, but it's more than that. Zagreus bleeds like a mortal, hot red blood in his veins, and it gives him a physical warmth that other gods lack. Hestia and Apollo burn and Hephaestus's skin absorbs the heat of his forge but it's only Zagreus who has that gentle, constant warmth.

The only time he's cold to the touch is when he's dead.

"What are you thinking about?" Zagreus asks, appearing out of nowhere and flinging an arm across his shoulders. The House of Hades always has a lingering chill in the air but Thanatos can't feel it while Zagreus is pressed into his side.

He looks Zagreus over, but he seems unharmed. Of course he does. Death heals all wounds. But Zagreus doesn't die that often these days, moving between the levels of the underworld and his Court and the mortal plane as easily as moving from one room to the next.

There was a time when he thought the power hanging over Zagreus was borrowed. It seems foolish now when he knows how Zagreus's protection blankets the mortal world, when he knows of the temples and sacrifices the people make to the deity they simply call Prince.

Zagreus frowns, pulling him even closer. It's not comfortable. Thanatos has no desire to move. "Than?"

"Nothing, my prince," he answers and Zagreus rolls his eyes.

agamemnon, he just can’t get a break! *canned laughter*

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