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[encoreinthedeep]

Type: Text
Sender ID: encoreinthedeep (Ulpianus)
To: Public
Subject: Query
Warnings: a very stupid situation; some Biological Discussion Of Reproduction in Nico's thread idk how this happened

Requesting definition and usage examples of the phrase "pissing contest".

Comments

[encoreinthedeep]

Your friend is a sea-dweller?

[ That's curious. This is only the second time he learned about someone who lives in the sea, and Wriothesley doesn't exactly count, given that he just lives in an undersea facility. ]

The 'gods' of my world require no worship to exist. They are but creatures that humanity, in its folly, dubs divine.

[ ... but the idea of being born from belief is interesting. He'll need to think about the possibility of the Seaborn sustaining their own 'gods' in a similar way. ]

[refantasma]

eh, half and half. his father's the god of the sea. he spends more time on land 'cause his girlfriend can't breath underwater.

he's besotted. its kinda gross.

[As if he has room to judge because he was head over heels for Percy even if tried his hardest to hide it.]

that's weird.

[encoreinthedeep]

[ Romance is gross, he totally gets you, Nico. Ulpianus still hasn't quite recovered from the mental damage he took from Kaveh's infatuation with Alhaitham. ]

I want to clarify. Is your definition of "father" biological or social?

[ He knows land cultures usually use it to mean a biological father, but... ]

[refantasma]

biological. Poseidon didn't really do much when it came to raising Percy. Percy and me are demigods.

[encoreinthedeep]

[ And you think his gods are weird? ]

Unless your gods are actually the same species as your other biological parent, reproduction should not be possible.

[refantasma]

[Yes.]

there's no biology to it really. its magic. gods dont have blood they have ichor.

[encoreinthedeep]

[ Look his gods are perfectly normal... giant self-replicating plant-fish-hybrid hivemind things?.. And creatures like (checks hand) a living mountain and a giant whale skeleton that swims through time. Normal things. ]

Magic is merely that which has not yet been explained by science.

Blood is not directly relevant to reproduction.

[ Is this what they call "having The Talk". ]

[refantasma]

I can command the dead, how's that science?

[encoreinthedeep]

You should be asking the scientists of your world.