/lit/ - Literature

My guilty pleasure project:


She arrived on campus with none of the splendor her station once entitled her to. Heaven’s favorite daughter might once have begrudged the mortals around her their heretical insolence, but nearly two and a half millennia of exile had changed her. The once Goddess of Wisdom and War had spent those millennia cycling through feelings of anger, betrayal, sorrow, mania, and most recently a cynicism to rival that of Sisyphus himself. Would that she had a tenth of her Godhood back she might level the city in a display of titanic destruction just to assert her own prowess once again, but she didn’t and would not ever she reminded herself.

She breathed deeply of the warm, August air: humid, like her beloved Attica. There was a wind, gentle like the caress of the sea on her feet, insistent like the beat of Hermes’ winged sandals. She could smell the tang of freshly paved asphalt like the odor of a sun-beaten slab of charred ox. These sensuous memories made her despise her current predicament even more.

Her brooding must have been mistaken for confusion because a student attendant approached her and asked, “Are you looking for your dorm? I can help you find your way and carry your things. You are a freshman, aren’t you?”

She started from her angry reverie and said, “Thank you, no. I’m quite capable of finding my own way,” a touch more acidly than she meant to.

The student attendant was taken aback and said, “OK, but this area is just for unloading your stuff. Cars have to be moved to the middle and back of the lot after 15 minutes.”

“15 minutes will be sufficient, thank you,” she replied, her voice softening in remorse for her outburst.

Athena, Daughter of Zeus and Metis, former Goddess of Wisdom and War, Patroness of Athens, former Wielder of the Aegis, and Outcast of Olympus picked up her duffel with the all the grace of her years and began her walk to the dorms.

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I'm pretty drunk so I'm just gonna pick one. Cool? Cool.

>Knowledge
The accumulation of subjective experiences filtered through a matrix of even more subjective logic in an attempt to form objective truth-statements

Athena, one of the Olympian Gods pisses Zeus off and is stripped of her power. She is left only with immortality, cursed to wander among the rest of humanity for all time. She watches civilizations rise and fall, never really fitting in anywhere.

The first few chapters will be her recounting major events from ~300 BC to the present, giving her perspective on how man has grown and yet stayed the same. and remember, Athena famously spurns men.

2014: Athena has assumed yet another new name as she has been doing for thousands of years now. This time, she's starting over as a college freshman, since her youthful looks can pass for anywhere from 17-25

the story revolves around her meeting a guy who curiously still believes in the Greek pantheon of Gods, and might just have some useful information for her about regaining her Godhood. The conflict in the romance will stem from her desire to restore her powers and her budding feelings for this strange human

will probably have appearances from other Greek deities as well as secondary and tertiary characters.

not trying to write YA, but that's probably the best market for a smart female protag. ah well

>pic semi related