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16. Pasiphae

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well this is good timing. Several Kid summon guesses and nobody got the right one somehow

Nobody pointed out that it was suspicious I neglected to mention Pasiphae in Ferdinand's write-up. Does that mean you knew she was coming? Or did you really think I would somehow forget to talk about one of this campaign's most tragic figures?

I think Kid Eternity has been talked about before, but just in case anyone doesn't know, he has the ability to bring back anyone who has died for a limited period of time (I don't think an exact figure was ever given but it seems to be roughly in the few hour range most of the time). He initially was able to control this, but his powers, like many others' after A-Day, are a little on the fritz. His summons are often random, and with little idea what to expect, we do what we can to try and make their brief time back on Earth valuable, whether that be giving them closure, passing on a message to a loved one, giving them one more chance to flex their skills, etc.

Quite a few of these are deserving of HMs; a couple crucial ones that come to mind are Juliet Capulet (ie Romeo & Juliet), who wanted the chance to properly tell her story, and Little Miss Hollywood, a gone-too-soon starlet, who spent her few hours recanting the loss of her bright future and getting high in the shade.

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But none hit me nearly as hard as Pasiphae. Pasiphae was the wife and victim of King Minos, and son of the original bastard Minotaur, a monster that killed her as she birthed it, leaving her to die in horrifying agony and to spend her afterlife grief-strucken at the vicious slaughtering beast she brought into the world against her will. It's a story that tore violently on Bloodfruit's heartstrings, and mine as well.

Bloodfruit, often particularly drawn to these lost souls, wants to do whatever she can for those who have suffered so terribly, so against the advice of everyone around her, she tried to reassure Pasiphae that she shouldn't exist in shame and grief, spinning a story of how incredible and esteemed the race of minotaurs she created had become in the time she was gone. And I went to Ferdinand, who had become a close friend, thinking that his hatred for being associated with The Minotaur wouldn't outweigh his inherent desire to do good for someone who needed it. And holy shit was I/she wrong. He lashed out at her in a way he never had, leaving her equal parts terrified and angered by his stubbornness.

So she takes it upon herself to go with another idea, using a glamour she had made to transform herself into a (shorter) copy of Ferdinand, in order to help her find closure directly. This backfired too, and upon seeing the Faetaur, was overwhelmed by her grief and left worse for it. For everything she did, every path she took to try and make things just a little bit better for a woman that desperately needed and deserved it, she failed. It's sort of become a recurring theme for Bloodfruit, and again, we'll get to that more later.

In the end, Ferdinand and Pasiphae met for real, behind close doors, and when they opened she was gone back to wherever she had come from. Bloodfruit (and I) don't know what was said, or if Pasiphae ever really got that closure, and she's yet to go back to Ferdinand to address what she did or what ultimately happened. It was a story of desperation and loss, and what that legitimately brought me to tears.

Hint for #15: Not technically a one-off character, but we almost never get to see them