@loki.odinson

[selfimage]

Since the vast majority of you aren't used to being worshiped- you know, being erected shrines, answering prayers etc. etc.- I'd like to pose a philosophical quandary.

To those of you consider yourselves human: Are you still human? Or has time here, our arrival here, made us something else?

To those of us that aren't human, I'd like your thoughts as well. I'm in that bucket of course, and my perspective may not entirely align to the mortal crowd.
True or not, it's something to think about in the way that we conduct ourselves.

Comments

@lance.sweets

[lifetothefullest]

Considering there are several worlds in which humans have some sort of magic or supernatural abilities, I don't think arriving here would be enough reason to consider oneself something other than human if that's what they were originally.

As far as being worshiped goes, this isn't just exclusive to gods or people believed to be gods. It's classic stalker behavior as well, though usually on a smaller scale.

[selfimage]

Those are both different circumstances.
Do you believe that either of those apply?

@wade.wilson

[ishotyouuu]

lol bc anyone who knows u knows that u could give a masterclass on conducting urself well

troll harder plz

[selfimage]

Actually, it's your opinion I was curious about.

@clarke.griffin

[strove]

Given the whole mix up with "conducting ourselves," you should have outright said that whatever's been put inside of us could have changed our standard identity to make us into something we're not. It might have helped make things easier.

[selfimage]

It's what I get, I suppose.

@torvan.garak

[plainsimple]

Not that I've been here long, but my time away from my home makes me no less Cardassian.

I also don't think worship should change our behavior - if someone is fool enough to build a shrine to us it's because of who we are.

[selfimage]

There's certainly a reason why they're doing it. You don't think that should be considered? It is, after all, their world and not ours.

@john.murphy

[reproached]

i'm supposed to think i'm something else just because i glow now?

[selfimage]

You don't, I take it.

@clarke.griffin

[strove]

Murphy, I know why this bothers you. But this isn't a lie that we told. This is a story that they came up with themselves based on evidence that they had, and now we have. It's not Sanctum. We don't know the truth of what's happened to us, but we're not spinning a con in any way.

@thor.odinson

[ofmyth]

i have wondered something similar

those worshipers may not be completely wrong. if the god or gods have given us the new abilities we have, what is to say that we are not supposed to be their representatives?

[selfimage]

If there are gods in this world, they've certainly remained silent. Not a completely good look for them- though it does make me wonder if whatever's considered a god may be something else entirely.
A bit rocky, really. The definition of divinity is loose at best.
It's certainly different from your more hands on approach.

@bellamy.blake

[jettisons]

we're still human

[The finality there is totally intentional. Stop doing this to him!!]

[selfimage]

I'm not.

@kyna.medina

[evocation]

powers don't make us not human no matter how crazy they are
back home people were constantly saying that anyone who used magic was blessed or demon spawn or whatever
everyone just likes fitting stuff they don't understand into neat little boxes

[selfimage]

Yet it's not just the powers, is it? You could hinge on that, of course, but there's more to consider about our glowy blue chest thingy than just the ability that it grants.

@diana.prince

[monomachy]

Being blessed by a god, if that's what happened, doesn't automatically make one a god as well.

[selfimage]

I specifically did not say "god" in this sense.
Though it doesn't exactly make someone human either, does it?

@thor.odinson

[ofmyth]

[ hey babe hey ]

blessed is not the word i'd use

@quentin.coldwater

[filloryfanatic]

I guess what I'm thinking is a few things.

1. What makes someone human?
2. What makes a god a god?
3. Also since we're from all different worlds aren't all of our definitions different anyway?
3. Does it matter?

So if what makes someone human or a god means what they're born as, like a race or a species, you wouldn't really be able to change that. At the least we're all superhuman now due to our powers but that doesn't make us not human, just advanced humans. Or does it? Is there an in-between species that is advanced human that's part human part something else like magic, demigod, alien, etc.?

In my world there are born gods and then there are humans who can be given the power of a god and become gods. They're both considered gods then, even if they were born human. They can stop being gods by giving up their divine powers and being human again. So it's a little spotty.

And then generally I'm not sure, at least personally, it matters to me whether I'm human still or not human or something else. It's about as much of a modifier as hair and eye color. I considered myself a magician before I'd go to human. We are who/what we are, it doesn't have to all be defined by that word.

[selfimage]

[ this is all very ... mortal, Quentin. ]

Yes, of course it matters.
I'm a god yet I'm still an Asgardian. Olympians are still Olympians, even if they are divine. Different pantheons may have different explanations, but how gods interact with reality remains the same. It's not about species, it's about resonance. That's how a god is defined and the difference between someone with very powerful abilities and divinity.
A god is a myth. Reality responds. We aren't real, we're narratives sketched on the fabric of reality in blood and ink. We are creatures of magic and story, always influenced by the flux of the multiverses' vast network of believers. Even my memories come as a testament to what has been said about me, and what may have truly happened- for me, it's all real.
Of course, omnipotence is a different story, but we don't need to get into that yet.

How we're defined shapes our response. Humans worshiping humans is rather creepy, but humans worshiping something else? Well.....

@jon.snow

[northerndragon]

What do you think would make a man more than a man?

[selfimage]

Is this like the "how many roads" question?

@margo.hanson

[gossipkinesis]

I'm sure there's at least a couple of shrines in my honor back home and I'm a very human magician.

[selfimage]

Pull a rabbit out of a hat and you're worshiped.
Any other prerequisites that come with it?

@ziggy.stardust

[stagethreeclinger]

i now identify as featherless biped glowstick

[selfimage]

I suppose it's better than nothing.

@cal.amari

[kinkprofessor]

I'm no god, but might as well be for how my family is revered back home.

I'm not human. Even less so these days. Being here wasn't what changed that though.
I am interested, however, in learning more about how 'The Displaced' that have been here a while might view themselves now.

[selfimage]

While I was among the first, I'm probably not the best to ask.
I'm not one of the folk, after all. It's the mortals themselves that seem to have difficulty wrapping their heads around the change.

Er- do you by chance carry the name of a very famous appetizer?