[PRP] Deliberate Shift (Kefanaan & Limerence)

[Princess_Feylin]

Kefa couldn't remember who it was he'd been talking to, but someone had suggested that he ought to work on controlling and developing his divine powers since, for the most part, his powers worked passively. After realizing that there were other gods who could deliberately cause their powers to manifest in specific, intentional ways, Kefa had decided he probably had some sort of power like that, too, if he could just discover it and train himself in its use.

He'd decided that it made sense for him to be able to deliberately make something older, since aging could be construed as a form of impermanence. The thought had come to him in the early hours of the morning, and since then the generally blue and black swirled god had been slapping fish out of a pond in the gods' haven and trying to force them to age. So far all he'd accomplished was generating a pile of suffocated fish, none of which seemed noticeably older than before they'd suffered his attentions.

It had been several hours though, and Kefa was beginning to suspect he could not age things. Or else that he should be practicing on something that aged more noticeably than fish. In the meantime, he had this nice pile of fish he could eat. He began to examine the fish to decide which would make the best breakfast.  

[Princess_Feylin]

Kefa started when he heard another god's voice. Immersed as he was in the scent of fish, he wouldn't have noticed anyone approaching even if the wind had been blowing the correct direction and even if he had been paying any kind of attention, neither of which were the case. Honestly, Kefa just wasn't that observant anyway, so he was constantly being startled like this. Most of his conversations seemed to begin this way. He'd feel sheepish about it, except he couldn't see why he should. He was a god.

"Good morning," Kefa said, relieved that he hadn't quite taken a bite of his chosen fish yet. As he spoke he made an effort to still whatever shape-shifting his body was doing. It wouldn't be perfect, but it should be slow enough not to cause alarm or nausea.

"I'm Kefanaan. Kefa," he went on. "Help yourself if you're hungry."

There were always more fish, after all. Plus, Kefa enjoyed company most of the time. He also enjoyed learning about other gods, and this one didn't match the description of any gods he'd met or heard of before.

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[Princess_Feylin]

Mouth full of fish, Kefa's reply was somewhat indistinct as he repeated Limerence's name back to him: "Nlmmrrnce."

He swallowed with an audible gulp and tried again. "Limerence. Good to meet you. About the fish..."

The god's eyes turned toward the pile of corpses and an expression of guilt crossed his face. "They were mostly an accident. I was trying something with my powers and thought it would be more considerate of me to practice on fish rather than, say, something important like the mortals that worship us."

Kefa had never met the god of fish, and had no way of knowing that his little speech would have been deeply offensive. He didn't even know there was a god of fish.

"So , anyway. The fish are many failed experiments, but I'm certain they're safe to eat." Probably, Kefa decided upon a moment's reflection, he needn't have added the part about the fish being safe to eat. That sort of thing tended to make people feel rather less reassured. To make his point and offer more assurance, Kefa took another big bite from the fish he'd begun on shortly before.

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[Princess_Feylin]

Kefa swallowed while Limerence spoke and ran his rough tongue between his teeth to the best of his ability to dislodge a thin fish bone that was jabbing the soft flesh inside his cheek. It was not a particularly subtle act, and resulted in several comic facial expressions, which he pretended he wasn't making.

"My domain is impermanence," he prefaced. "Mostly it manifests as change over time, and mostly it does so unconsciously. I was trying to see if I could consciously cause something to change."

That made what he was doing sound a lot more carefully planned out than it actually had been, and didn't really explain the fish, so Kefa continued, "I was trying to get the fish to change to an older state. I thought it'd be easier, since that's a change they were going to make anyway, at some point, and it was the direction the change was already going to happen in. I wasn't trying anything hard like trying to make them younger."

He shrugged. "Anyway, I don't think it worked. The fish died because they suffocated in the air after I got them out of the water, not because they got old. I think. I don't really know how to tell an old fish from a young one. I think they just get bigger? These didn't, though, so I'm fairly certain they didn't age any."

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[Princess_Feylin]

In fact, Kefa had not given any thought to plants. He'd gone with fish because that had been what was on his mind when he had the idea to try this experiment and because he'd been near a pond.

"Plants sound like a good idea," he agreed. "Probably a lot less work to catch, too, though I'm more than happy to have fish for breakfast."

He snagged another fish from the diminishing pile and slit its stomach almost contemplatively. With a careful shake to get rid of the guts he didn't much want to eat this time (although he usually didn't care one way or the other about eating fish entrails) he returned his attention to Limerence.

"What's your domain?" he asked. It was not readily apparent to him at all from the other god's appearance like it was with some gods, especially the gods of certain animals, who took on a lot of their domain's physical characteristics.

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[Princess_Feylin]

Infatuation? That sounded like it might overlap a bit with Kefa's domain. That was interesting. Not that Kefa was in any way territorial about his domain. In the long view (which, being a god, he could generally afford to take) most things tended to fall into his domain. Nothing was truly permanent, after all. Even the gods themselves sometimes changed. Really, he was just intrigued to learn that there was a god of infatuation, and curious about how that worked.

"That sounds like a great idea," Kefa agreed, pleased to have met someone who might - maybe? - become a friend. Kefa didn't have a great many of those, and his domain made it difficult for him to maintain relationship, but he very much did not want to be alone all the time, either.

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Finished, I think! I'd definitely be up for more RPs with them. Maybe they can spend some time wandering around and having adventures or something.