[She mentions gods, and Will looks up at the sky for a second, busies himself with another swig from a too-full glass while she fiddles with her cigarette. There's more to come and if he's patient and doesn't say anything, he'll get it. It's a little like fishing, only with no lures or waders and more him just keeping his mouth shut. Which he does.
He's had a few short conversations with Loki, seen the mentions of him on the network, but his opinion is pretty undecided. Probably pretty worthless to anyone, too, so why bother?]
Used to read stories about the gods when I was younger. Watered down ones you find in the libraries for kid readers, you know. [He assumes she has some idea. Will never veered too much into the mythological, picked up a few books and moved along to something else. Not his brand.] Seemed like there was a bunch of ways to worship. Follow. And they all had their own thing. [How does one worship a fertility deity other than...] Did you get to pick and choose or was it...kind of did something for all of them?
[A kid who moved all over the Bible belt, where worship was going to church on Sundays, maybe Wednesdays, and staying straight edge and clean and praying over meals and tithing. Tithing even when the money wasn't there, told that God would provide. Would return it. There would be safety if one could only believe and give up everything under His care. For a kid who had problems with knowing how many holes his socks could get before he must go after a new pair, that didn't seem so reasonable. What, would he tithe and a church leader hand him a fresh bag of socks? No, of course not. And what's the point of getting some church family when he's just going to move in a few months?
Better to wander into their open houses, their dinners, their free meals from time to time and listen to whatever they have to say while filling his belly. While making sure that his father had one less meal to worry about providing.
Will's ideas of worship are a scattered mess, his views on anything of true godhood not something easily shared or digested by most who would hear it, but that doesn't mean he can't listen to someone else talk about it. Especially someone who has experience with what could be considered legitimate gods as opposed to.
Well.
Completely out of their damn mind humans who want to be something they never can.]
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He's had a few short conversations with Loki, seen the mentions of him on the network, but his opinion is pretty undecided. Probably pretty worthless to anyone, too, so why bother?]
Used to read stories about the gods when I was younger. Watered down ones you find in the libraries for kid readers, you know. [He assumes she has some idea. Will never veered too much into the mythological, picked up a few books and moved along to something else. Not his brand.] Seemed like there was a bunch of ways to worship. Follow. And they all had their own thing. [How does one worship a fertility deity other than...] Did you get to pick and choose or was it...kind of did something for all of them?
[A kid who moved all over the Bible belt, where worship was going to church on Sundays, maybe Wednesdays, and staying straight edge and clean and praying over meals and tithing. Tithing even when the money wasn't there, told that God would provide. Would return it. There would be safety if one could only believe and give up everything under His care. For a kid who had problems with knowing how many holes his socks could get before he must go after a new pair, that didn't seem so reasonable. What, would he tithe and a church leader hand him a fresh bag of socks? No, of course not. And what's the point of getting some church family when he's just going to move in a few months?
Better to wander into their open houses, their dinners, their free meals from time to time and listen to whatever they have to say while filling his belly. While making sure that his father had one less meal to worry about providing.
Will's ideas of worship are a scattered mess, his views on anything of true godhood not something easily shared or digested by most who would hear it, but that doesn't mean he can't listen to someone else talk about it. Especially someone who has experience with what could be considered legitimate gods as opposed to.
Well.
Completely out of their damn mind humans who want to be something they never can.]