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

Hmm, how about long enough to get in and kill whatever's left behind?

All of it at once?

[nods]

That would be the easiest way to clean it out, it may even make it passible for a while. What's more, there would be a lot of bodies to be sacrificed to you gods.

And what would you do when I had to release the water? It would again flood, and creatures would return.

Isn't there any way to make it permanently passible? We can, currently, so if that's where people are being taken . . .

There is, but I think the best would be a bit at a time, rather than all at once. For seven smaller sacrifices: hearts, lungs, and so on, I can clear space permanently. You can kill and clear whatever is there, and bring me the spoils so that I can push it back more. It will take time, but small steps might have the best footing as well.

What about a bigger group effort? Maybe a day, where we all worked on it together. If sacrifice enough for a starting area were provided to you preemptively.

Something to get a foothold? That's more feasible, I think.

[nods]

I'll talk to more people here. Hopefully they're interested in working together.

As do I. For more reasons than simply the floor below.

Mm. [nods again]

Thank you, for thinking about this. They are all still uncertain, I think, but someone must.

[shakes her head]

It's me who should be thanking you.

You are pleased to be here?

. . . pleased? That doesn't really cover it.

...oh?

There's . . . some people here. I haven't seen them in a while. I'm . . . very grateful for the chance.

So, your war, or rebuilding or whatever it is you need. That's fine. I'm grateful.

['-']

Oh, ...that's wonderful.

[small smile and nods]

It is. Don't you get that often?

No, not often. At best, most don't mind, few seem pleased for the chance to be alive again, some outright hate us.

. . . some, huh?

I suppose that is to be expected.

Yes. It is not exactly a surprise. Though perhaps... the amount is surprising.

Dellen

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