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[belheir]

From: Kazuya Minegishi
To: Everyone
Subject: Birthday Boy

Two months ago, my cousin Naoya decided to announce to the world at large that it was my birthday. Today I get to return the favour.

Please send him your best birthday regards. He's older than dirt and will need them before inevitably expires due to being a literal fossil.

I know you saw this coming, Naoya.

Comments

[refantasma]

the key to happiness is low expectations.

[belheir]

Wow, rude.

[refantasma]

hey. I grew up as a gay kid in fascist Italy before being shunted about eighty years in the future. Im speaking from experience.

[belheir]

At that point I'd say being shunted eighty years into the future is the better experience.

Also would be a pretty high expectation to happen in the first place.

[refantasma]

you'd be surprised how long it took me to be convinced of that. Despite everyone saying so, it's still not exactly a picnic for people like me in the tens either.

and pretty much everything sucked for the first few years outside of that single issue. so.

keep your expectations low kid. that way anything remotely good is a surprise.

[He's only slightly bullshitting.]

[belheir]

Pass. I have high expectations, and people have high expectations of me and I'm not about to let them down.

Also don't call me kid. That's also pretty rude. And it makes you sound like a grouchy old man too. I only need one of those in my life, and that includes my dream-life.

[refantasma]

then dont be surprised if your disappointed a lot.

Im 15. Im allowed to be grouchy.

Anyway. If you really want to meet a grouchy old man you should meet my father. Hes older than Naoya is nowhere nears as cool and twice as grouchy.

and yeah, I mean older than him in every cents.

[belheir]

I won't be.

I would hope your dad is older than Naoya if you're 15. It'd be pretty awkward if he wasn't.

[refantasma]

uh-huh.

No. I mean.
Hes older than the Bible.

suddenly private;

[belheir]

[he is suddenly SO MAD]

Alright, fess up. What did that asshole tell you?

[refantasma]

broad strokes mostly. I met him in a dream where he was being tortured within this shared dream and we talked, he introduced himself as Cain and made some mentions about things I recognized right off and put it together. we have a similar background in being hated for what we are so we bonded over that. I also asked him why he killed Able. When else am I gonna get ask someone outside of my pantheon? So he told me everything about that.

if you didnt want people to know maybe you shouldnt be saying his a literal fossil and older than dirt.

[belheir]

First of all, I called him that as a joke. He's an albino and looks like an old man and acts like one too. It's called being his sibling.

[And wow. Naoya just told him that? A stranger? Why.]

And what pantheon would that be?

[refantasma]

he doesnt look that old! Even with the albino ness.

Greek. Im the son of Hades.

[belheir]

Yes he does.

Also: Gross. Disgusting.

[refantasma]

[Nico's going to take that last statement as Kazuya thinking he's gross and disgusting for being Hades' son because he already has self esteem issues.]

yeah that attitude right there is why he and I get along.

[belheir]

[oops.]

While I'm sure that his hate for Him is pretty much all encompassing, I wouldn't be surprised if he disliked other pantheon gods like me, honestly. All of them are assholes.

[refantasma]

didn't seem like it. but Im not from your world so my gods arent the same ones you met.

but Zeus is still a jerk.

[belheir]

That's true enough, but it won't stop the fact that I think every last one of them should be destroyed.

[refantasma]

eh. death comes to everyone. even gods.

[belheir]

That's not really true, though you're right that gods aren't immune.

[refantasma]

and you know that how?

just wait. itll come. sooner or later you will be taken into his embrace.

[belheir]

Because curses exist.

I don't know how much you know about Naoya's situation, or how much he told you about our situation in general, so I won't go into too much detail because I don't care to, but there are some things that are just immune to dying. Maybe not gods or God, but there are.

[refantasma]

hmm

I doubt that.

[belheir]

Different worlds. Things might work differently between them. Don't sound so sure.

[refantasma]

could they survive the end of the world?