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As Maci and Tory nearly panic-incinerated Nyx's entire home, she went on to elaborate that somehow, against all odds, this child was not an infant - he'd brought his son to her home to gloat, revealing that despite being born mere months ago, they'd supernaturally aged him up to be about 11 years old. For the first time, Nyx had seen Thanatos for the maniac he was - this visit had been so off the rails, Thanatos' usual disguise of charm fizzled fully away even before his mother - and when they left, she had instinctively called for Maci to report this news. The child's name was [[Chalasmos]], and though Chal's appearance was ashen and bloodshot, he seemed to be every bit as evil as his father. Chal had the power of a triggerable basilisk-like stare, able to "freeze" a person in helpless place with a mere glare. |
As Maci and Tory nearly panic-incinerated Nyx's entire home, she went on to elaborate that somehow, against all odds, this child was not an infant - he'd brought his son to her home to gloat, revealing that despite being born mere months ago, they'd supernaturally aged him up to be about 11 years old. For the first time, Nyx had seen Thanatos for the maniac he was - this visit had been so off the rails, Thanatos' usual disguise of charm fizzled fully away even before his mother - and when they left, she had instinctively called for Maci to report this news. The child's name was [[Chalasmos]], and though Chal's appearance was ashen and bloodshot, he seemed to be every bit as evil as his father. Chal had the power of a triggerable basilisk-like stare, able to "freeze" a person in helpless place with a mere glare. |
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The character development and main story arc of Chalasmos specifically (Chal for short) would take place many years later, most of which |
The character development and main story arc of Chalasmos specifically (Chal for short) would take place many years later, most of which involving Maci as well, and can actually be read by jumping slightly ahead to [[Macaria#Chal|Chal's section in Maci's headings]] or visiting Chal’s page directly (linked again [[Chalasmos|here]]) - including Chal realizing she was actually a girl and coming out as transgender. But back then, and here at the time, Chal existed merely as a mysterious and ominous new weapon Thanatos was crowing about, sending Maci, Tory, new baby Neo, and their friends of the palace on high alert lockdown. By the time this new development was unfolding, baby fever had continued its rampage throughout the Elysium gang, and Jesse and Epi were both currently pregnant. Ushering Epi and his family from his Tartarus home and into the palace for the first time while his abilities were weakened by his and Eury's baby, Maci and Tory hunkered down, anticipating that Thanatos would try make a move to attack one of them any day now. |
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Instead, Thanatos caught Maci and company off guard by striking out |
Instead, Thanatos caught Maci and company off guard - by striking out ''not'' at any of them in the palace, but at the goddess [[Lethe]], seemingly out of the blue. During the many gaps of time Maci'd lost to unconsciousness during her pregnancy with Neo, Tory had undertaken a project of his own and worked with Lethe to locate the three goddesses Thanatos had terrorized and vanished away before he'd dated Maci. [[Sophie]], [[Hess]], and [[Amey]]. When he had found them, injured and traumatized, Lethe had assisted in helping them voluntarily erase the worst of their memories of what Thanatos had done, allowing them to start anew. With Tory and Maci safely in Elysium, and the Styx oath he'd sworn to leave the palace untouched, he had lashed out in (what Maci assumed was) his revenge and come after non-palace resident Lethe with his scythe. As they sought medical attention for her, they rationalized that Thanatos must have assumed that Lethe was a "safe" person to attack; that since she didn't live within the palace, she didn't fall under the umbrella of his Styx oath. Tory and Maci summoned [[the Furies]] nevertheless. Lethe was an ''ally'' of the palace, and surely this counted as a violation. The Furies agreed. |
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The Furies set after Thanatos with the assurance that he would quickly be found - and he was, arrested safely away in Tartarus for breaking his oath. Once they had dropped him off and left, Maci and Tory arrived in Tartarus to process and interrogate the Underworld's newest prisoner - information about any pending evil plans, the whereabouts of the child he'd just created, et cetera. They had left Neo (now about three months old) in the care of her newly immortal uncle Jesse to babysit. But speaking to the imprisoned Thanatos... something was not right, as his demeanor seemed different than what they had come to expect from him. The reason for the dissonance became quickly apparent - for the deity that the Furies had arrested was ''not Thanatos.'' [[Eris]], pseudo-Olympian Goddess of Chaos, known shapeshifter, and a longtime friend of Thanatos himself, had disguised herself into his form to throw the Furies off his tracks. Confused and furious, Maci and Tory summoned the Furies back to the jail. The Furies were enraged at being tricked and took over this new interrogation - had she been the one to stab Lethe, coincidentally her own daughter, as a boon for Thanatos, too? More urgently, ''Thanatos was still on the loose,'' and in this chaotic mess, the reason for all of this confusion and deception became quickly apparent when Maci and Tory felt themselves being beseeched by an unfamiliar patron. Vanishing to answer the call, they found themselves teleported to Jesse's side. |
The Furies set after Thanatos with the assurance that he would quickly be found - and he was, arrested safely away in Tartarus for breaking his oath. Once they had dropped him off and left, Maci and Tory arrived in Tartarus to process and interrogate the Underworld's newest prisoner - information about any pending evil plans, the whereabouts of the child he'd just created, et cetera. They had left Neo (now about three months old) in the care of her newly immortal uncle Jesse to babysit. But speaking to the imprisoned Thanatos... something was not right, as his demeanor seemed different than what they had come to expect from him. The reason for the dissonance became quickly apparent - for the deity that the Furies had arrested was ''not Thanatos.'' [[Eris]], pseudo-Olympian Goddess of Chaos, known shapeshifter, and a longtime friend of Thanatos himself, had disguised herself into his form to throw the Furies off his tracks. Confused and furious, Maci and Tory summoned the Furies back to the jail. The Furies were enraged at being tricked and took over this new interrogation - had she been the one to stab Lethe, coincidentally her own daughter, as a boon for Thanatos, too? More urgently, ''Thanatos was still on the loose,'' and in this chaotic mess, the reason for all of this confusion and deception became quickly apparent when Maci and Tory felt themselves being beseeched by an unfamiliar patron. Vanishing to answer the call, they found themselves teleported to Jesse's side. |
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