#kleon

loooove them sm i need to make more art of the silly friend group ive made up of them in my head as well. erichthonios is there to balance out all the goofy elpis shenanigans but also enable it slightly

Spiderbunny (Amphinomus x Malachi) fan kid:

Oc x oc (Thaleia x Kleon):

(Thaleia is another etm oc of mine, she's working with Malachi. Kleon is her husband, he's a cook in Sparta by the way.)

Gift for @freshinkonskateboard , aka oc x cannon: Melanthius x Lamia (oc) I haven't named the kid yet. However feel free to name them.

they're also known as Kleon from Ryusoulger it's the same character

pericles:

When EW first dropped, and mutuals began to get to Elpis and its sidequests, I received a few messages where I was told that I had to do them, for a particular one important to PunchyCat.

Now, in my own WoL's canon, Aeryn's the only one who goes to the First and Elpis...but in an AU where an energetic lil catgirl is the WoL instead, the true stable time loop has occurred, and her best friend's existence assured!

Kleon's love for his concepts, his desire for their success, isn't new among the people we meet in Elpis, either, between visitors or staff. There are quite a few people we bail out of trouble who were simply reluctant to harm any of the observed concepts, even.

The Maira and Alkaios quests are a bit more interesting now, at the end of the raids and patches. Not only do they manage to say certain lines almost word for word as their divine counterparts millennia later, but we learn in this quest that Alkaios was always a master of time magics, and often called upon when multiple creations needed returned to the land.

There's a solemn but lovely little ceremony, and WoL's contributions lead to Maira's creation and addition of lilies to the short memorial service given to the fallen okyupetes (the side quest intersecting with the MSQ quest about the feral lykaones).

Hermes was so alone in his head and dark thoughts, he seemed to think no one else cared about the lives so casually taken, that everyone was cavalier with the concepts. But there are traditions and ceremonies and sincere apology to and hope for the creatures' souls by the researchers. They grieve, but also recognize the cycle of life and aether, and that the okyupetes' loss can renew the land and give forth new creation, too.

If only Hermes could have understood, but he was a poor fit for his role in many ways, and it only made him shut into himself further, until disaster. He's very much a case of "your brain lies to you" when it comes to depression.

If only, if only. But then, there'd be no story, if not for his tragedy.