[OPEN] BAD CHILDREN AND GOOD DOGGOS

[pummelgranite]

WHO: Nico, Persephone, and anyone else who tags along or trails them or is attracted to the scent of fresh meat and brimstone
WHERE: Maurtia Falls State Park
WHEN: Early April, before the Cold War Confessional plot
WHAT: Running the dogs!
WARNINGS: the dogs sometimes eat people but other than that this is a wholesome post full of wholesome hell children and their wholesome hell dogs

[ They left early in the morning, as had been promised to and enforced by one enthusiastic demi-god. That was for the best, really. Only those well connected with the Underworld would be able to see the three horse-sized black beasts that galloped behind her motorcycle, but it never hurt to be careful.

When they reach a suitable bit of meadow, she pulls over the bike and goes to unlock the refrigerated trailer they've been hauling. One hellhound immediately plops itself into a nearby pond. The water hisses and roils and darkens; fish begin floating to the surface. The hound rolls its enormous bulk belly-up, flailing happily and snapping at the dead fish. ]


Awe, good girl Bell!

Comments

[beautiful_monster]

[This entire situation is still completely bizarre, but he's a little more relaxed now that Nico's here.]

So, a hell thing. ...what kind of hell thing?

[abandon_hope]

[ If Nico ain't alarmed, they're probably safe. Ish. ]

Hellhounds. They're nicer than they look.

[beautiful_monster]

[Yuri squints at the shapeless form that Persephone is feeding a cow's head to now.]

...They don't really look like anything to me.

[abandon_hope]

[ Oh, right. Nico had almost forgotten. ]

That's because you're not chthonic, I think.

[beautiful_monster]

So I just can't see them at all?

[He looks pretty disappointed by that.]

[abandon_hope]

Sorry. I don't make the rules.

[beautiful_monster]

Lame. You should at least have a power to let people see them.

[abandon_hope]

They're not really mine, though. They belonged to Lucifer.

[beautiful_monster]

Sure, but isn't Lucifer basically your dad in a different mythos?

[abandon_hope]

Not really, no. The Underworld isn't hell. That's Tartarus.

[beautiful_monster]

Oh. ...I guess I don't know that much about Greek myth.

[abandon_hope]

I can teach you if you want.

[beautiful_monster]

Really? I'd like to know more if you really don't mind.

[abandon_hope]

Sure. I dunno where to start, but ...

[beautiful_monster]

Well...do you have a favorite story?

[abandon_hope]

They're all depressing.

[beautiful_monster]

Oh... [He doesn't want to make Nico teach him about something that'll only upset him...]

Are you sure you don't want to do something else instead? You don't have to teach me a bunch of depressing stuff.

[abandon_hope]

[ He's not depressed, he's trying not to depress Yuri here. ]

Well, I can try to find a cheerful story.

[beautiful_monster]

You just said they were all depressing.

[abandon_hope]

All my favorite ones are, yeah.

[beautiful_monster]

Oh...

Why do you like the sad ones best?

[abandon_hope]

Because they're more real. I can't quite believe a happy ending, you know?

[beautiful_monster]

...But happy endings do happen.

[abandon_hope]

No they don't. At best you're together for the rest of your life, and then you die.

[beautiful_monster]

Don't the things that happen in your life matter?