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So Neo got older and Maci, to her credit, did ''not'' helicopter her despite the brief urge at first to continue to clutch and cling in Neo's early toddlerhood. Tory as the voice of reason at her side helped. Neo was so independent and fearless even as a baby that soon, clearly, it was impossible to even want to smother her down and confine her. Toddler Neo was a bubbly joy, though she liked to stare at people - through people, more like, a piercing gaze that only intensified as she got older. Still, even the looming knowledge of the realm Neo was Fated to inherit did not dampen or alarm Neo's spirits or Maci's spirits... during these early years. With Thanatos now actually gone, Maci and Tory knew that the Fates' plan all along ''would'' come to fruition, and Neo certainly wielded the power they'd known she would, capable of instantly killing ''anything'' remotely mortal - plants, pets, and yes, one day, mortal humans. Sure, the Death Gods preceding her had all turned bad, and Maci didn't ''like'' that Neo's destiny aligned with theirs, but when Maci looked at her sunny little baby, there was no scythe to cower from: just a pair of twinkly violet eyes that matched her own. Maci - ''still having never properly dealt with anything to do with hers and Thanatos' history'' - had already stifled back another layer of trauma that had stacked up from Neo's kidnapping and had "moved on," in her opinion. Knowing that Neo would ''actually'' walk in Thanatos' footsteps would not affect her relationship with her daughter, said Maci firmly to herself. |
So Neo got older and Maci, to her credit, did ''not'' helicopter her despite the brief urge at first to continue to clutch and cling in Neo's early toddlerhood. Tory as the voice of reason at her side helped. Neo was so independent and fearless even as a baby that soon, clearly, it was impossible to even want to smother her down and confine her. Toddler Neo was a bubbly joy, though she liked to stare at people - through people, more like, a piercing gaze that only intensified as she got older. Still, even the looming knowledge of the realm Neo was Fated to inherit did not dampen or alarm Neo's spirits or Maci's spirits... during these early years. With Thanatos now actually gone, Maci and Tory knew that the Fates' plan all along ''would'' come to fruition, and Neo certainly wielded the power they'd known she would, capable of instantly killing ''anything'' remotely mortal - plants, pets, and yes, one day, mortal humans. Sure, the Death Gods preceding her had all turned bad, and Maci didn't ''like'' that Neo's destiny aligned with theirs, but when Maci looked at her sunny little baby, there was no scythe to cower from: just a pair of twinkly violet eyes that matched her own. Maci - ''still having never properly dealt with anything to do with hers and Thanatos' history'' - had already stifled back another layer of trauma that had stacked up from Neo's kidnapping and had "moved on," in her opinion. Knowing that Neo would ''actually'' walk in Thanatos' footsteps would not affect her relationship with her daughter, said Maci firmly to herself. |
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====Neo's scythe==== |
====Neo's scythe==== |
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Neo continued to grow up. By the time Neo was ten, many things had changed in their family - for one, the palace residents had expanded, now including many other children, many other adults, and even new siblings of Neo's: her little brother [[Rasmus]], and half-siblings [[Eisa]] and [[Einmyria]] <small>(all of which are discussed, as they pertain to Maci, in the following sections)</small>. Chal had also, by this time, resurfaced and been captured by the palace in an off-site Elysium location in an unfolding project to turn Chal to the "good" side. Maci's emotions surrounding Neo's future realm had already started to bubble thanks to her annoyance and disapproval about what was going on with Chal. Then, the day after Neo's 10th birthday, Maci and Tory were approached by Nyx, who requested that they come to her home urgently. Violent Death Ker - the now officially singular Death, as one of the things that had changed in a decade included the actual real ''death'' of Thanatos at [[Loki]]'s hands - was demanding to meet Neona now that she had come of age. Retorting that she had absolutely ''not'' come of age, and that Neo's training would begin at the age of 15 and not ''10'', Maci and Tory insisted on a compromise, allowing Ker to meet and speak with Neo just briefly, under supervision. Maci and Tory brought her there. For a short moment in the form of an out-of-body psychic link, Ker did speak to her, and then promptly vanished by dissolving into a puddle of blood. |
Neo continued to grow up. By the time Neo was ten, many things had changed in their family - for one, the palace residents had expanded, now including many other children, many other adults, and even new siblings of Neo's: her little brother [[Rasmus]], and half-siblings [[Eisa]] and [[Einmyria]] <small>(all of which are discussed, as they pertain to Maci, in the following sections)</small>. Chal had also, by this time, resurfaced and been captured by the palace in an off-site Elysium location in an unfolding project to turn Chal to the "good" side. Maci's emotions surrounding Neo's future realm had already started to bubble thanks to her annoyance and disapproval about what was going on with Chal, a sore spot given her histor with Chal's father. Then, the day after Neo's 10th birthday, Maci and Tory were approached by Nyx, who requested that they come to her home urgently. Violent Death Ker - the now officially singular Death, as one of the things that had changed in a decade included the actual real ''death'' of Thanatos at [[Loki]]'s hands - was demanding to meet Neona now that she had come of age. Retorting that she had absolutely ''not'' come of age, and that Neo's training would begin at the age of 15 and not ''10'', Maci and Tory insisted on a compromise, allowing Ker to meet and speak with Neo just briefly, under supervision. Maci and Tory brought her there. For a short moment in the form of an out-of-body psychic link, Ker did speak to her, and then promptly vanished by dissolving into a puddle of blood. |
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Before Maci's horrified eyes, Neo proceeded to kneel to this puddle, and pull from its depths a black-handled scythe of her very own. It was a twin to that which Thanatos had famously carried. |
Before Maci's horrified eyes, Neo proceeded to kneel to this puddle, and pull from its depths a black-handled scythe of her very own. It was a twin to that which Thanatos had famously carried. |
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This was the beginning in canon of Maci's carefully teetering tower of stifled, buried, compartmentalized trauma stretching back from many hundreds of years in the past, finally beginning to disintegrate. Neo was elated to have her scythe, something that she recognized intrinsically as a birthright - even as Maci visibly shrank back from it, and visibly pulled away from Neo herself. Logically, Maci knew that a simple symbolic weapon, the daughter she loved and cherished, and the specter of the villain who had tormented her, were three entirely separate things that had little to do with each other. But Maci was not thinking rationally. She was so distressed ''anyway'' by |
This was the beginning in canon of Maci's carefully teetering tower of stifled, buried, compartmentalized trauma stretching back from many hundreds of years in the past, finally beginning to disintegrate. Neo was elated to have her scythe, something that she recognized intrinsically as a birthright - even as Maci visibly shrank back from it, and visibly pulled away from Neo herself. Logically, Maci knew that a simple symbolic weapon, the daughter she loved and cherished, and the specter of the villain who had tormented her, were three entirely separate things that had little to do with each other. But Maci was not thinking rationally. She was so distressed ''anyway'' by Chal's rehabilitation project that the presence of Neo's scythe was too much for her to bear. During this time, Maci's psyche crumbled. The collapse had been coming for ''millennia.'' |
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====Maci gets therapy==== |
====Maci gets therapy==== |
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