The problem here is that she chose to live in Orario, the richest and most powerful city. I mean sure she could make a business outside it, but that would require some ambition.
There's also the odd chance that performing jobs/roles that depend on their godly natures would be seen as "inauthentic": the gods came to the mortal realm in order to live mortal lives, and escape their godly responsibilities. Why would they find being judges and arbiters more satisfying than hawking fried potatoes?
Indeed, regarding spoilers and following the story. As to enbies and healing powers... That's so ridiculously unrelated to the Babylonian/Mesopotamian/Sumerian mythology I don't even know where to start. There's just no part of her lore that supports a shamanistic tradition.
I've seen "nonbinary folk with healing powers out of Sumerian/however myth" come up from an entirely different source, so...No, I'm pretty sure there's a myth about it. One of those 'going to the underworld to rescue a dead person' myths, IIRC.
That's pretty much all that I can reliably recall at the moment, though, and I cannot be arsed to look it up again.
I've seen "nonbinary folk with healing powers out of Sumerian/however myth" come up from an entirely different source, so...No, I'm pretty sure there's a myth about it. One of those 'going to the underworld to rescue a dead person' myths, IIRC.
That's fine, it's just that it has nothing to do with Innana-Ishtar. ( Inanna - Wikipedia ) She's many things, but none of them are shamanistic or psychopompic. (The latter being the term that covers stuff like voyages to the underworld).
There is a myth about her trying to conquer the underworld and getting her shit wrecked for once (which considering how often she would just up and gank anything/anyone she wanted whenever she wanted, is saying something), though, and that does include her being rescued by "sexless beings" -- but they aren't hers, aren't under her control, and she winds up losing her husband to the underworld in exchange for getting free herself.
She didn't wind up changing her ways as a result of this by the way; the myth of her demanding Gilgamesh become her consort came AFTER this -- and when he refused her she literally threw a giant bull at him. (The Bull of Heaven). Point being: you don't go to Ishtar for kindness, compassion, understanding, or healing. You go to Ishtar for fucking, fertile fields, and murderhoboing for justice.
Isis, on the other hand? She's all over the psychopomp. What with recovering her brother from Duat. Well, most of Osiris anyhow. She didn't get his penis. True story.
That's fine, it's just that it has nothing to do with Innana-Ishtar. ( Inanna - Wikipedia ) She's many things, but none of them are shamanistic or psychopompic. (The latter being the term that covers stuff like voyages to the underworld).
There is a myth about her trying to conquer the underworld and getting her shit wrecked for once (which considering how often she would just up and gank anything/anyone she wanted whenever she wanted, is saying something), though, and that does include her being rescued by "sexless beings" -- but they aren't hers, aren't under her control, and she winds up losing her husband to the underworld in exchange for getting free herself.
She didn't wind up changing her ways as a result of this by the way; the myth of her demanding Gilgamesh become her consort came AFTER this -- and when he refused her she literally threw a giant bull at him. (The Bull of Heaven). Point being: you don't go to Ishtar for kindness, compassion, understanding, or healing. You go to Ishtar for fucking, fertile fields, and murderhoboing for justice.
Isis, on the other hand? She's all over the psychopomp. What with recovering her brother from Duat. Well, most of Osiris anyhow. She didn't get his penis. True story.
It's not like Danmachi!Ishtar being a stereotypical "slutty evil bitch" is really all that... much of a problem, when you get down to it, considering how well certain other deities are mapped to their mythology. Loki gets a pass for all the monsters he gave birth to in the Eddas. Yes I said gave birth. The one that really gets to me though is Hephaestus. Genderbent Hephaestus is not even on my radar. But no limp and she's socially competent? This is not okay.
I kinda wanna see Dreamer!Taylor start complaining about deities that just do not match their mythos this way. Like, muttering "some iron limper" at Hephaestus when she finally meets her properly. There's no way a child raised by a Literature professor wouldn't know at least the Greek gods.
She didn't wind up changing her ways as a result of this by the way; the myth of her demanding Gilgamesh become her consort came AFTER this -- and when he refused her she literally threw a giant bull at him. (The Bull of Heaven). Point being: you don't go to Ishtar for kindness, compassion, understanding, or healing. You go to Ishtar for fucking, fertile fields, and murderhoboing for justice.
Not even for justice, just murderhoboing in general is fine by her.
And you absolutely do not want her to be romantically interested in you, as Gilgamesh pointed out when he turned her down; she treated literally every single one of her romantic partners like absolute shit and made them suffer horribly, seemingly for no reason other than her own personal amusement.
Oh, and that giant bull she threw at Gilgamesh? It wasn't even her bull, it was her dad's (Anu, sky god and supreme god king of everything). She got it by going to her dad and demanding that he give her his bull so that she can throw it at Gilgamesh, her dad tells her to fuck off, it's his bull, she can go find her own bull to throw at Gilgamesh. So she says that if he won't give her his bull she will break the doors of hell and smash the bolts, causing all the souls of the dead to mix together from the upper and lower depths and confusing the hell out of everyone as no-one is in their carefully mandated proper place anymore, and then she will bring the souls of the dead out of hell and up to the world to eat the food of the living so that the hosts of the dead will outnumber the living and cause even more chaos and confusion. Anu then apparently decides that he will negotiate with terrorists rather than deal with that shit and gives her the bull, which she throws at Gilgamesh, who kills it and eats it with his buddy Enkidu. Enkidu then tears off the bull's right thigh and throws it at her face when she stands on the walls to curse at Gilgamesh for not being trampled by the bull, and says that if he could he would do the same to her. (It is this impiety that later causes Ishtar to kill Enkidu, which is why Gilgamesh hates Ishtar.)
It's not like Danmachi!Ishtar being a stereotypical "slutty evil bitch" is really all that... much of a problem, when you get down to it, considering how well certain other deities are mapped to their mythology. Loki gets a pass for all the monsters he gave birth to in the Eddas. Yes I said gave birth. The one that really gets to me though is Hephaestus. Genderbent Hephaestus is not even on my radar. But no limp and she's socially competent? This is not okay.
I kinda wanna see Dreamer!Taylor start complaining about deities that just do not match their mythos this way. Like, muttering "some iron limper" at Hephaestus when she finally meets her properly. There's no way a child raised by a Literature professor wouldn't know at least the Greek gods.
Many of the gods in Danmachi are somewhat questionable in their depictions. Like Ouranos (Uranus) being a responsible and serious bsns head of the guild who spends all his time and power keeping the Dungeon sealed and actually cares about the Xenos, when in mythology he was a spiteful bastard who hated all his children for no reason and imprisoned them in Tartarus where they caused pain to his wife (Gaia), which apparently didn't bother him at all. In fact this hurt her so much that Gaia forged a flint sickle and recruited her children to castrate Uranus so as to protect her from him (which Cronus did.)
Not even for justice, just murderhoboing in general is fine by her.
And you absolutely do not want her to be romantically interested in you, as Gilgamesh pointed out when he turned her down; she treated literally every single one of her romantic partners like absolute shit and made them suffer horribly, seemingly for no reason other than her own personal amusement.
Oh, and that giant bull she threw at Gilgamesh? It wasn't even her bull, it was her dad's (Anu, sky god and supreme god king of everything). She got it by going to her dad and demanding that he give her his bull so that she can throw it at Gilgamesh, her dad tells her to fuck off, it's his bull, she can go find her own bull to throw at Gilgamesh. So she says that if he won't give her his bull she will break the doors of hell and smash the bolts, causing all the souls of the dead to mix together from the upper and lower depths and confusing the hell out of everyone as no-one is in their carefully mandated proper place anymore, and then she will bring the souls of the dead out of hell and up to the world to eat the food of the living so that the hosts of the dead will outnumber the living and cause even more chaos and confusion. Anu then apparently decides that he will negotiate with terrorists rather than deal with that shit and gives her the bull, which she throws at Gilgamesh, who kills it and eats it with his buddy Enkidu. Enkidu then tears off the bull's right thigh and throws it at her face when she stands on the walls to curse at Gilgamesh for not being trampled by the bull, and says that if he could he would do the same to her. (It is this impiety that later causes Ishtar to kill Enkidu, which is why Gilgamesh hates Ishtar.)
So yeah, Ishtar? Colossal bitch.
Many of the gods in Danmachi are somewhat questionable in their depictions. Like Ouranos (Uranus) being a responsible and serious bsns head of the guild who spends all his time and power keeping the Dungeon sealed and actually cares about the Xenos, when in mythology he was a spiteful bastard who hated all his children for no reason and imprisoned them in Tartarus where they caused pain to his wife (Gaia), which apparently didn't bother him at all. In fact this hurt her so much that Gaia forged a flint sickle and recruited her children to castrate Uranus so as to protect her from him (which Cronus did.)
I can forgive confusing Uranos with Hades, though. Hades was actually a decent guy.
But yeah, that was kinda my point. It would be amusing to see Administrator vocalizing Dreamer's opinions about how the gods are "all wrong". Like by asking Hephaestus why she doesn't stutter or when her leg healed. That sort of thing. Could lead to all manner of confusing shenanigans.
Hades; the one decent, sane man in the entire Greek Pantheon. Basically every other god was horrible in some way or another, but Hades? Hades was alright. Not great or anything, but alright.
The fact that 'alright' makes him pretty much hands down the best god out of the entire pantheon says a lot about the gods of the ancient Greeks.
Hades; the one decent, sane man in the entire Greek Pantheon. Basically every other god was horrible in some way or another, but Hades? Hades was alright. Not great or anything, but alright.
The fact that 'alright' makes him pretty much hands down the best god out of the entire pantheon says a lot about the gods of the ancient Greeks.
Hephaestus was alright too. Not great, but alright.
The lesser beings like Psyche and Tekne were actually good folks. But then again -- who's even heard of Tekne? Which straight up summarizes this whole conversation.
I would argue that Hades at least tried to do right in general, though. It's just that since he was the only one of the three brothers that actually did his friggin' job that he didn't really have the bandwidth to be more personable. (People always get the Persephone story wrong, largely due to not knowing what marriage was at the time and how it happened. There's no way she wasn't a willing participant. But her mother had to be a psycho bitch about it because her PRECIOUS ANGEL.)
Point here being, Hades could 100% decide that being an accountant qualified as a restful vacation.
Hephaestus was alright too. Not great, but alright.
The lesser beings like Psyche and Tekne were actually good folks. But then again -- who's even heard of Tekne? Which straight up summarizes this whole conversation.
And yeah, Hephaestus was alright when he wasn't being super bitter about the whole duff leg and Aphrodite slutting it up with Ares (and basically anything else that moved, along with quite a few things that did not) issue.
I would argue that Hades at least tried to do right in general, though. It's just that since he was the only one of the three brothers that actually did his friggin' job that he didn't really have the bandwidth to be more personable. (People always get the Persephone story wrong, largely due to not knowing what marriage was at the time and how it happened. There's no way she wasn't a willing participant. But her mother had to be a psycho bitch about it because her PRECIOUS ANGEL.)
Yeah, if you take the attitudes of the ancient Greeks of the time into account and read between the lines the whole thing with Persephone heavily implies that she eloped, not that she was kidnapped, and that Demeter just couldn't handle that and basically held the entire world hostage because helicopter mum.
And yeah, Hephaestus was alright when he wasn't being super bitter about the whole duff leg and Aphrodite slutting it up with Ares (and basically anything else that moved, along with quite a few things that did not) issue.
Techne was the ancient Greek personified spirit (daimona) of art, craft and technical skill. She was associated with Hephaestus and the Muses.
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Also spelled Techne.
The thing with Hephaestus and Hera doesn't even register with the rest of the Pantheon.
EDIT: Ironic note about Aphrodite slutting it up with Ares: that's the Athenians running a smear campaign against the Spartans. Because Sparta's Aphrodite? She's literally Ishtar without the megabitchery. Not even joking.
I misread, it was him trying to protect Hera from Zeus's unwanted advances, for which Zeus basically bitch slapped him right off Olympus before going back to molesting Hera.
I find this account hilarious in respect to how much effort Zeus typically puts into not having sex with Hera in other parts of the mythology, like, seriously Zeus? The man is the patron god of adultery and seems to devote the vast majority of his time and effort towards coming up with increasingly elaborate and implausible ways to cheat on Hera, but the one time he actually decides to bone his wife turns out to be the one time that she doesn't want the attention, so he forces himself on her anyway?
EDIT: Ironic note about Aphrodite slitting it up with Ares: that's the Athenians running a smear campaign against the Spartans. Because Sparta's Aphrodite? She's literally Ishtar without the megabitchery. Not even joking.
Ah yes, there's a lot of that in Greek mythology, the city-states each had their own patron gods and goddesses and they held uniquely complicated hatreds for each other, so they slandered the shit out of each other's deities as a means of proving how their city-state was the bestest.
I misread, it was him trying to protect Hera from Zeus's unwanted advances, for which Zeus basically bitch slapped him right off Olympus before going back to molesting Hera.
I find this account hilarious in respect to how much effort Zeus typically puts into not having sex with Hera in other parts of the mythology, like, seriously Zeus? The man is the patron god of adultery and seems to devote the vast majority of his time and effort towards coming up with increasingly elaborate and implausible ways to cheat on Hera, but the one time he actually decides to bone his wife turns out to be the one time that she doesn't want the attention, so he forces himself on her anyway?
Well... Bell was raised by his grandfather, who just so happens to be Danmachi's Zeus, which is why he is obsessed with harems and picking up girls in the dungeon... So actually kind of less of a derail than it might appear to be on the surface?
Yeah. Some of the Danmachi gods are a bit questionable in their depiction.
Others? Others are pretty much spot on.
I can only imagine the look on Loki's face when she first descended and realized she had forgotten to give herself boobs, and because of sealed powers couldn't shapeshift to fix the error.
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"Why is my future magic specialization so problematic?" Queen Administrator asked from atop Lady Sable's back.
Loki's Familia had insisted on having Host don her armor and lead them to Hestia's stall as soon as possible, halting their ongoing shopping trip in the process. Unfortunately, 'as soon as possible' apparently only meant 'at a relatively slow jogging pace.' They wouldn't even let QA take her Friends across the rooftops despite Aiz using them for her own travels. Queen Administrator supposed that keeping Lady Sable and Sir Kara off the roofs might've been for the best; QA didn't know the maximum force resistance of Orario's buildings and jumping across roofs may damage or destroy them.
"It's more what you know than what you will be," Aki explained. "The Guild finished their investigation yesterday and determined that the Monster Mansion you stumbled into was planted via Monster Cores in the walls and most likely done by the Magic Stone thieves. They still don't have any answers for how those thieves could've gotten in undetected or hit so many places at once. Magic to link two places together is unheard of outside a deity's Arcanum — which they aren't allowed to use down here — or the twin Silver Gates across the eastern sea, which are huge. The size of a small house, easily, and they're only linked to each other. The Guild assumed you were a target of convenience, but if you know about how those thefts could be achieved…"
"They could be trying to kill the only hint the Guild could get," Tiona finished unhappily grimly.
I found the right term, Host! Once you get some practice with brain and memory modifications, could you try to re-index your pre-connection memories? They haven't gotten much easier to navigate.
"Then why are we collecting Hestia first?" Queen Administrator asked. "She is not along our route to the Pantheon."
"She's your goddess," Tiona explained. "Adventurers aren't the only ones to deal with stress. If you have a goddess who cares and can personally tell her about something important, you should. That way, they don't spend as much time worrying about what could be happening without their knowledge."
The group slowed to a stop before Hestia's fried potato stall just as Tiona finished her explanation. The uncertain goddess behind the market stall examined each of Host's companions in turn before lowering her head and sighing.
"You're not here for snacks, are you," Hestia... asked?
Despite being phrased as a question, it was missing the lifted ending note indicating one. Queen Administrator found herself oddly pleased by the unhappy expressions worn by Loki's Familia members and their general refusal to look straight at Hestia. Apparently, they didn't like the idea of a goddess doing actual work. However, Host's memories of why this would be the case only made things more confusing.
Host? What are the 'bourgeoisie,' and what do they have do to with Loki's Familia?
<They're all capitalist pigs,>Host explained sleepily. Or more accurately, failed to explain.
I still don't understand the relevance, Host. Capitalism-produced pigs are yummy.
"Sorry, but we gotta go," Tiona said bluntly. "Turns out your kid knows some stuff and is a target 'til she passes it along."
"Of course she is," Hestia muttered. "Why wouldn't she be? It wasn't as though a shopping trip with three of Orario's strongest adventurers should've been safe. Ah—" The goddess quickly looked up. "Not that I'm unhappy about being told! Thank you for that. It's nice to hear about something before it all goes wrong."
Tiona directed an oddly happy smile toward Host. Queen Administrator decided she strongly disliked not knowing what they meant and would ask socialization-related questions despite the possible reputation loss.
"What was that for?" Queen Administrator asked.
The happiness vanished and was replaced by mild unhappiness.
"She means that question literally," Hestia said quickly. "She's needing to relearn expressions, gestures, and sayings all over again. Taylor, that was a smug smirk, usually used to silently say someone was right about something and often add that the other person was wrong. 'What was that for' is usually—"
"Please explain on the way," Aki interrupted. "Taylor, could you help Hestia onto your other Friend?"
"Sir Kara, mount," Queen Administrator ordered.
Hestia glanced at her stall before sighing and climbing atop the offered Friend.
"Follow the others," Hestia muttered, clearly unhappy.
The Friend didn't move, not recognizing the order; 'others' specified no entities or factions. Hestia had the relevant permissions, not that she seemed to realize it.
"It's 'Sir Kara, follow Taylor,'" Queen Administrator corrected. "'The others' specifies no entities or groups and is not recognized as a result. I'll try to make you a list of commands later."
Hestia straightened and expressed happiness.
"Really?"
"Yes. Now, what does 'what was that for' mean?"
Hestia and Host had been brought to a secure room with alacrity once Aiz had mentioned Host knew something about the recent thefts. It was further secured by Aiz and Tiona standing outside. Unfortunately, Queen Administrator's debriefing wasn't going nearly as well. They hadn't even managed to get past the first question.
"How can your name be both a truth and a lie?" a Guild-aligned pseudo-host demanded. "It's a name. As long as it's yours, that should be truthful no matter what. Even translations of a name don't feel this odd."
Host's Friends growled at the pseudo-host. He simply rotated his eyes and ignored them. Queen Administrator almost told them to attack on sheer principle; her Friends were adorable murder machines and should be treated with the respect due to them.
"It's also not relevant right now, is it?" Hestia tried. "Her knowledge of strange foreign magic is the important part."
"With all due respect, Lady Hestia, it is very relevant. If she's giving unprecedented results for something so simple, how can we trust anything else she says?"
"Because her goddess is right here and is saying it's not important?"
"Just give us her actual name so we can move on," the Guild questioner demanded. "This is a dumb hill to die on."
"There is at least one notorious gossip standing right outside the door!" Hestia said through gritted teeth.
"I can move!" Tiona called through the closed door. "Gotta admit I'm curious now, though."
"I'd rather you stayed," Hestia called back. "The Guild's investigators gossip too, don't worry! You were just a good example!"
Queen Administrator sighed to express exasperation and sent a quick message to her sister current partner: Host, please modify any future spacial manipulation powers granted so that everything I say will be the truth.
"I refuse to explain this more than once, so take notes if needed. You need to have personally seen the target location before; remote viewing is insufficient. One half of the two linked locations need to be formed within your current line of sight, and preferably close to your body. Rooms can be secured via a repeating line of runes I will share later. The runes can be drawn either on the inside of a wall or the outside; they will secure those within either way. You cannot secure the outdoors."
"That's nice and all, but I still need a name," the other pseudo-host pointed out, clearly exasperated. "How bad could it be?"
Queen Administrator expressed displeasure at his apparent dismissal and leaned back. He wasn't entirely wrong.
Host? Can I give them my own name for calibration purposes?
Queen Administrator expected Host to need time to think about it. The immediate rush of relief and assent was surprising, incorrect format or not. Apparently, Host wasn't particularly happy about having a place carefully kept open for her? Unlike on her homeworld, she'd never had a place here to begin with. With that in mind, Host apparently felt that continuing to imitate her was a little odd. Queen Administrator didn't agree, although she would still comply.
"My name is Queen Administrator. Can we transition to the next subject, please?"
They did not transition to the next subject.
In accordance with what QA's companions told her, the Guild had released their report the night before and invented a wonderfully plausible explanation for the attack on Host: Magic Stone wall-mines planted by the Monster Drop thieves. Initially, they'd concluded that Host had simply been 'in the wrong place at the wrong time.' That conclusion was thrown into doubt with the revelation that Queen Administrator knew of a magic capable of allowing mass theft on such a scale, and then overwritten once more with the reveal of the 'Queen' part of her name. Now they were convinced she was the target of an assassination attempt by political opponents who wished to keep the mysterious magics of QA's homeland a secret.
Pick one possible subset at a time, please. This fusion hypothesis is ridiculous.
By logical extension, Anzo had rushed Host into the Dungeon because he wanted to kill her. Queen Administrator's protestations of his innocence were pointedly ignored after she admitted she didn't really know him and that he could've been involved in criminal elements after all.
All I did was send an identity request, Host! Why did your species have to complicate it so much?
At least they'd seemed momentarily mollified by the fact that Anzo had protected her. That just made them think he wanted to earn her trust for a future kidnapping, though. Pointing out his subsequent reassignment had saved Hephaestus from suspicion, but reinforced Anzo's position on the list. It didn't help that he was out visiting out-of-town relatives right then and was thus unavailable to answer questions.
Further complicating matters was the fact that Queen Administrator refused to give them a satisfactory answer as to her origin. Apparently, elaborating on royal history was a soft requirement no matter how much the member of royalty insisted it wasn't relevant to their investigation. That left Hestia, Queen Administrator, and Host's Friends in their current position: in a an (admittedly comfortable) lounge while everyone 'took some time to cool off.' This was apparently intended to signal a relaxation period, not a euphemism for murder and cooling corpses. Still, Queen Administrator expected the argument to resume as soon as they returned to the interrogation room.
"I can explain for you, if you want?" Hestia offered, clearly as irritated as Queen Administrator. "I should know enough to make them leave you alone. I can even phrase your people as 'scholars' instead of the other S-word."
And I cant spill secrets I don't have, went the implied offer.
"I would greatly appreciate that," Queen Administrator immediately accepted. The image Hestia had formed was probably wrong anyway. "Thank you, Hestia."
Now she just had to sit in the Guild's comfortable seats, read some of their books on the Dungeon, cuddle with her Friends, and wait. Not a bad way to spend the afternoon, really.
Over two hours and one relaxingly detailed 'Monster Manual' later, Queen Administrator was feeling much less comfortable with the arrangement and outright enraged in general. She wasn't mad at Hestia, not at all. She was sure the pseudo-Host had done an excellent job of explaining. No, it was this damned Guild that were to blame. Queen Administrator felt that she needed to ask Hestia for help refining her rage; as the local non-hosts weren't scurrying to do her bidding, it was clear she wasn't doing an adequate job of expressing it.
"It's Queen Administrator! Queen! I earned that title and I'll not have it stolen over a, a technicality!"
"So you're the highest authority among your people, then?" an infuriating human Guild representative, Alexander, asked.
"...There are two higher," Queen Administrator admitted. "My—" Queen Administrator concentrated on saying the word in human-speech. "—Parents."
Assuming you count :MOTHER: and :FATHER: as always excluding me, at least. A gross oversimplification, but currently truthful enough.
"Well then, there you have it. Those are either your Emperor and Empress, or King and Queen. Translation errors happen, Princess Administrator; I wouldn't get too worked up about it."
<Say certain words slightly louder,> Host suggested. <It focuses on them.>
Understood.
"I am not a princess! We don't even have princesses!"
Important Author's Note (Story Direction)
In my arrogance, I assumed that I could tell this story unimpeded without spoiling the original. Turns out that doing so would require more changes than I've made so far, to the point of properly qualifying as AU instead of mere expansion and creative reinterpretation. It's apparently an unfortunate consequence of covering things in enough detail for non-Danmachi readers to enjoy it.
Taylor can more easily ignore the suffering of individuals now, but systematic issues dark enough for her to say "Wrong genre, GTFO" will still draw her ire should she notice. Meanwhile, Queen Administrator considers people in terms of good potential hosts, I.E. creative people likely to have a bad enough day to trigger. That generally means people in the kinds of situations that Danmachi's harem protagonist rescues people from on a regular basis.
Ishtar's systematic forced prostitution. Relatively soon, the Soma Familia's situation will also come up.
I don't want to change the setting so that the Dungeon is the only major source of conflict; the consequences of QAylor's bumbling are fun. That leaves me with roughly three choices, and there's a link below to a strawpoll featuring them. Additional feedback would not be unwelcome, either.
1: Change the names and put up an "AU" tag; utilize gods that Danmachi canon didn't and twist the setting to place them in antagonistic roles instead.
2: Stick with the original names, but put a {spoilers} tag on this story's thread.
3: Remove the spoiler around this author's note to act as a warning and be arguably mildly irresponsible by not otherwise tagging this thread.
In every case, prior knowledge of Danmachi will not be required for this story. Options 2 and 3 (which don't necessarily correspond to listed Strawpoll order for some reason) might spoil some stuff for you, though.
Wonder how Aiz is taking her new friend being Royalty?
Considering her own state in terms of public perception would this make her feels closer to or more distant...
Ah, I also really hope at some point Hestia discovers the truth about QA and the Entities, or some of it. Figuring out only Taylor was a human and QA is a parasite/symbiote would be great too.
I don't know about this. That last bit with the Guild being obstinate about not calling her Queen felt kinda forced and annoying. It felt like one of those 'But thou must choices' in VNs and video games.
I don't know about this. That last bit with the Guild being obstinate about not calling her Queen felt kinda forced and annoying. It felt like one of those 'But thou must choices' in VNs and video games.
The Guild feels like that right now as well, don't worry. We'll get to that next chapter (which is actually mostly written already); ending on that last line has its downsides. Thank you for the feedback, though!
Guild. Guild, why? It's clear her culture has specific titles with specific meanings, let her be called by her correct title! Don't just assume you can translate her title better than her!
