oi_theoi | Dellen

Dellen [de-len]
Water, Glass, Human Protection, Human Creation

❧ Played by Aviy

Appearance: Female and human, roughly in her 40's and too thin. She has pale skin and hair, but the coloring is just a little inhuman. The main color to her is a pair of incredibly deep blue eyes. She wears loose, off-white, Grecian-style clothing that makes her look both paler and smaller than she is. Her hair is often in disarray, and her overall appearance often appears untended.
Despite looking small, underfed, and wafty, when Dellen isn't having an episode, she has a very commanding and warm presence. There is, at all times, a surprising 'weight' about her that marks her unmistakably as divine.

Characteristics: Nurturing, monogamous, lesbian, obsessive, demanding, needy, devoted, nonfatal self sacrifice, yandere.

Likes: Faithful loving monogamous relationships, being understanding of her, sacrifice for the betterment of others, expressions of love (even twisted ones).

Dislikes: Death (human only), poly/orgies/unfaithfulness, material selfishness, rejection, lack of understanding, talking badly about humans, nature.

Shrine: Pale sandstone slab at ground level, behind it is a stack of precarious sandstone making a narrow pillar. On top of the pillar is a large bowl (but with cracks instead of bubbles) filled with crystal clear water.

Ritual: Stand on the slab and place your (CLEAN) hands in the bowl to get her attention. Once the agreement is made, place your sacrifice on the slab and sprinkle some water from the bowl onto it.

❧ Will Take

❧ Will Give

Animal parts: hearts, lungs, rib cages
Whole animals: Maneaters
Roots of a whole dead tree
Tears (love or grief)
Nurturing another (human only)
Accepting bindings/binding another (for their own good! not maliciously)
Personal sacrifice for a human (giving them your food, etc)
Murder in revenge for a human
Thoughtful personal gifts (letters of love, hearts made out of macaroni, etc)
Understanding
Desperation (by a human)

Creation (human only)
Protection (detrimental)
Chains/Shackles/serious binding tools
Glass/glass related objects (but not mirrors)
Modern, cotton clothing in light colors.
Cotton towels (any size).
Healing (from injury or sickness, but human only)
Toilets, sinks, showers
Hot and cold running water
Water based magic
Flooding prevention/water displacement
Water purification
...just about anything that associates with water only (not ice, not steam, not water based animals)

❧ Exchange Rate

Items to Units
Worth	Offering
1 Unit	1 Heart OR Lungs OR Ribcage 1 Act of Kindness
4 Units	1 Whole Maneater
7 Units	1 Revenge Murder
Units to Items
Cost	Reward
1 Unit	1 Large Towel 4 Hand Towels 1 Set of Clothing 2 Small Glass Items (bowls, glasses, jewelry, etc) 1 Minor Healing 10 feet of moderate chain
3 Units	1 Sink/Shower/Bath/Toilet 1 Major Healing
5 Units	Displace the water for an entire apartment (or effective area)

❧ Dellen's Children

Expectations and Powers of Dellen's Children

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Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

I have some spare lizard parts. May I offer them for rags suitable for cleaning?

You may, if you have lungs, ribcages, or hearts I will take those.

Are you well, Kohaku?

[separating those parts from the others]

[...decides not to lie] No, I'm not.

[sits down on the slab of her alter]

How would you say you are?

I don't know. I don't like thinking, especially about myself.

I think you must.

Why do you wish that of me?

It's important, to consider yourself, this life you now have. I believe I said it was fine to forget the past, but you still have a future to face.

I can't forget...

Then it must be faced as well.

...

Do you know of what my former life was?

I do not, beyond what you have told me.

I see. I thought as a goddess you would already know.

I could seek it out, if I wished. But it would be a waste of my power in a time like this. Your past means little to me, and if you wish to speak of it, you will.

Yes.

[...says nothing]

You cannot run from your humanity forever. When you wish to seek it, I will be here.

... [and offers the sorted organs?]

[they disappear and a stack of small towels appears]

Thank you.

Come back any time.

Dellen

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