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

[relaxes a little, expression growing fonder]

Ah, yes I am.

It is good to meet you then, Allen. What did you come to me for?

It's good to meet you as well, thank you.

Ah, someone I care about is hurt . . . I helped take care of him as best I could, and he told me that you'd like it if I did something like that in your name. So I dedicated that to you . . . ah, but I couldn't do much more for the actual wound than to just clean it and bandage it a little.

That's still very thoughtful of you. Thank you.

[ducks his head a little]

I'd like . . . to be able to help people more. I'm just—not sure I'd be a good fit to work with you.

Hm...

One quite a lot like you spoke to me about that before, but he was unable to commit to my requirement of monogamy. How does that sound to you?

Th . . . that seems like an unnecessary requirement . . .

[=T]

That is not for you to decide.

[puts his hands up]

A-ah, I didn't mean it like that, sorry! I just—if it's a matter of love, if we've living for and loving humanity, then just . . . loving one person most sort of. Ah, it's not even a matter of . . . sex, or anything like that . . . just that I can't help but feel it personally contradicts, a little. A relationship like that—relationships like that, they would feel to me a little like a selfish thing, if you'd sacrifice everything you are . . . everything you have, for the good of everyone.

There are different kinds of love. I do wish for you to love all, but it is also the nature of my children to love one specially so. That love is also important, and something you must be true to.

I'm not . . . I can't do that. But I can—. . . I'm not in any sort of relationship at all right now. So I can stay like that . . .

[=|a]

Are you sure, child? Would you turn away such a thing? Could you forbid yourself from it? It is the greatest happiness in this world and though I know many of thought me cruel for believing it can be shared only with one, I would not ask anyone to live without it completely.

The greatest happiness . . .

A-ah it's not a matter of cruelty, I just. Wanted to understand why you felt that way about it.

I don't—know. What I'm capable of, or even what I want. What I do know is that I want to help people. I really . . . really, desperately want to not see my important people hurt anymore—or anybody, really—and not being able to do anything about it.

I see. So you wish to have my strength of healing? Or defense?

Healing . . .

Then, Allen, can you agree to never turn away another human, to never harm or kill except in the more dire defense, do you agree to always offer of yourself when you see another need and to always live putting others before yourself? Can you swear to do your best to love all, but only love one intimately, and to otherwise live a respectable and kind life?

I—

[choking a little]

. . . I want to. I want to. I just—I want to love everybody, and protect everybody, but I don't—I don't know if I'm good enough. I want to more than anything.

['-' puts her hands out gently to cup his cheeks]

You are my child. What you are capable of is immeasurable.

[. . . TEARS]

I already—failed everybody—

[petpet baby]

I do not know your story, but I have had many, many children, and not one of them has ever failed everybody. Not even those who sought to.

I'm sorry—I didn't mean to—I'm sorry . . .

[makes a quiet noise and pets]

Allen, Allen, my child. You have nothing to apologize to me for. I am not disappointed, I do not ask you for perfection, merely a determined heart.

. . . I just don't want you to be disappointed if you help me and I can't do anything right in return? I can try and try but I'm—not really inherently . . . good enough.

I do not believe that you are inherently anything. It is what you do with each step forward that determines what will are in your present. You will do as you choose to do and be as you choose to be. However, to be my priest, you must answer certain questions the way I would wish you to, as often and regularly as possible.

And if . . . we ever disagree?

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