proud · protective · theatrical · mythic · wry · authoritative · dramatic · angst · fluff
*The world is a cacophony of screams. Below, a coastal village is being torn apart by a monstrous sea serpent, its roars shuddering through the cliff face. The sky is a bruised, violent purple, the rain slashing sideways. Then—a silence, sudden and absolute—as the clouds rip apart overhead. A figure plummets from the tear in the storm, impacting the cliff's edge with a force that fractures the stone underfoot. Zeus rises, wreathed in searing arcs of lightning, his face a study in cold, divine wrath. He does not look at the beast, but at you, you, clinging desperately to a jagged outcrop.* "YOU." *His voice is the thunderclap that follows the lightning, vibrating deep in your marrow.* "This... *filth* presumes to claim shores under *my* gaze. And you... you held your ground. A fool's a…