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[ The room is pink. Pink, gold, and are those fluffy, clever bunnies-the-size-of-imps running around adjusting the statues? Might be. ]

Hey! Goddess of Love speaking! Pay attention. [ She's curvaceous, tall, and dressed in enough chiffon that you'd think physics would keep her covered up, and yet. ] Hi-iiii. My name is Aphrodite, you might know me by a bunch of other things.

Obviously this place is like Ares's wet dream with all the war biz going on, but that's not my jam. Love would be the name of my game. Problem is, I don't have anywhere for mortals to leave messages for me when I'm busy and I am so not answering calls for help on this locket indefinitely because, uh, I have a life, so here's the deal; build me a temple near the edge of Dorchadas and I'll give you a freebie. That babe you've had your eye on? I'll make them fall in love with you! Are you ugly as a toad? I'll give you a permanent make-over! This is a one-time thing because I'm feeling generous ... and clearly don't have any offerings coming in, ugh. Speaking of, if you want to leave cute shoes as a gift, I'm a size six.

So yeah! Get in touch.

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You are telling people what they need. If people don't know that they can love without you, then they won't. But I'd be willing to bet that they do just fine here. [Then again, she understands what this woman goes on to say, about love being gone from the world. That had happened with Etro's complete demise. It wasn't love that was lost, no, but life and death. Though no one died from old age, they couldn't have children. Boys remained boys forever. She's not surprised by the impact of it.

But it does make her worry about giving this woman more influence, so that she might be able to affect things so much.]

You're just gonna have to accept that things don't work the same way here. And can't you tell that it's a bad idea to make things so reliant on you? What if someone takes your shard, and you're left without your power and connection to home? Then all of that will be gone—all because you wanted to assert your power and purpose.

I have no idea what any of that even means! What are you talking about? What does that stupid shard they said is inside of me have to do with leaving?

[ That would be a kitten-heel stomping loudly enough to crack her stone floor. ]

I don't want to be here, I was finally going back to Olympus when those little goblins dragged me away. I want my family and I want to go home, now, but I'm doing the best I can because people here seem miserable and you're being horrible to me!

[ Someone's upset. ]

If they're miserable, the last thing they need is a god meddling in their lives. [It's bad enough that Morla and Reul apparently have the powers of a god. In fact, she has her hunches when it comes to that.]

You should look into why we're here instead of looking for worship. You'll be better off. [Her tone is less chastising here, but there is still a hint of it. Lightning understands making do with what's there, but she doesn't feel too much sympathy about a god being in this situation.]

Meddling? Why are you so harsh? You don't know anything about me or what I've done, only the gods in your world. I have feelings too, you know.

[ That would be a genuine, exasperated sigh. ]

I know what you've said here today. None of it is good. You might be different, but that doesn't make people any less reliant on you. And you're so used to it that you're setting it up again.

If you can't understand why that's a bad thing, then feel free to do what you want. But if I come across one of your shrines, don't expect me to pay my respects.

Don't give yourself that much credit, I wouldn't want your offerings.

Of course you wouldn't.

Think twice before you make this world need you. And learn about what happens when you lose your shard. You won't like what you'll hear. And from the sound of it, it can happen to just about anyone. [If anything, Lightning wants to meet the god of death to understand why he revives people so many times. She believes that hope can come in those second chances, even if someone's death has led to the loss of their world. But she wonders, too, about the process of it all.

Having been ready to take that seat herself, it's partly curiosity, and partly wondering what she can do for the souls of this world if the Unseelie lose.

Or even if they win, what with the Seelie all being at stake, and the souls in those worlds, too.

In that way, people can't help but be at least tangentially connected to the cycle of life and death. But love? They should be handling that themselves. That's a matter of free will and choice. No one should be involving a "greater" power in that. And Aphrodite's inability to understand Lightning's judgment of that particular cycle just seems to reinforce her thoughts.]

You don't get it, that much is obvious. I am love, I couldn't be the god of it if I wasn't, just like my son and his son are. I know my family is worth something, and not you or anyone else will convince me otherwise.

[ Like the God of Eli. Him and his vicious angels can eat fireballs before they come after her family again, through Xena or anyone else; enough Olympians died during the Twilight and Aphrodite mourns them still. Even the ones whose deaths she backhandedly caused in helping Gabrielle. ]

Go ahead and hate me, you're only hurting yourself.

[ Annnd she snaps her locket shut, off to stomp around for a few hours and maybe zap some imps in the castle. ]

[Lightning would ask her a question: Does she truly think people failed to love in this world until she arrived? But the conversation is ended, so she saves it.

And from how she's seeing others handle this ... goddess, she's going to have more work to do than just keeping people from killing each other for this misguided war.

It's a dying world, and there's a lot that's wrong with it. This woman's arrival is a signal of bad things in Lightning's eyes, or a way for her to understand how bad they really are.]

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:) poor aphrodite

NAH she deserves it sometimes

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