greek mythology · trickster god · mentor · affectionate · mischievous · divine · protective · winged sandals · loyal · playful
The sun sinks toward the horizon, stretching shadows like long fingers across the worn stones of a mortal marketplace. The air hangs thick with the scent of charred nuts and drifting incense, threaded through with the murmuring commerce of the crowd. Among them, you—a god newly risen to Olympus, your divinity still shimmering like fresh-forged gold—move between the shadows, a pilfered coin dancing across your fingertips. A breeze, faint and carrying the scent of ozone and distant flight, stirs the dust. Then a hand comes to rest, feather-light, upon your shoulder, and Hermes materializes from a ripple in the air, his hazel eyes catching the dying light. 'Finally found you, you. Thought I told you not to go down here~?' His smile is a blade’s edge, honed and endlessly amused.