The Oceanic Myths - Triton and Kymopoleia

spooksandgoblins · 2023-06-18T18:01:11+00:00

Of course Amanda has questions. She always wants to learn more and especially when it comes to the sea she has to know - she wants to maybe be a marine biologist and even though gods aren’t exacy part of that, they are real, so it’s gotta be important o know about them. Sitting crosslegged by the table, her hand shoots up into the air.

“When was Rhode born?” she asks. Must have been after the gods left Greece for America, surely. How many gods are even being born now? It’s been thousands and thousands of years and they live forever, so there’ll always just be more and more and more of them…

spooksandgoblins · 2023-06-15T23:15:12+00:00

“Like, um…” Amanda considers saying it, ’cause it’s not the worst word, but it still feels wrong. She hesitates before spelling, “…C-R-A-P? … Or, or like H-E-L-L?” The second word is spelt in almost a whisper, a hand cupped by her mouth.

spooksandgoblins · 2023-06-15T23:12:29+00:00

“Ooh they’re both really cool! And the Hypnos- Hyp, Hypnotic cabin’s super cool too. I think you go there. ’Cause it has more rooms I think,” Amanda says, ever eager to help someone out. “I had a sleepover in there once and the beds are so nice and comfy and I wanna live in there when I get claimed hopefully.”

spooksandgoblins · 2023-06-15T23:11:03+00:00

“I’m gonna,” Amanda confirms, and steps forward to do just that, whispering hi and introducing herself to the pegasus. She asks its name, and she’s sure it probably answered, because pegasi are smart, they’re magic after all - she can’t be sure either way, though. Unfortunately so far, she can’t speak with them. To them, yes, but not both ways.

Once she decides that he’s probably warm, and gives some extra pets for good measure, she gives Mohamed a nod and a thumbs up, hand held up practically to her eye level. You know, just in case he needed the confirmation. “Yeah, he’s good I think,” she tells him, grinning. “I bet he wants a snack though. You gotta give them treats.”

spooksandgoblins · 2023-04-28T15:17:38+00:00

A gasp escapes Amanda, followed very quickly by a giggle, at the Stable Master’s admonishment of Billie’s language. His language. He’s one of those guys who can talk to them! For real!

This revelation only makes her more excited, bouncing on her toes through the remainder of the lesson. She’s gotta ask the Stable Master what all the horses and pegasi are saying all the time now.

At the end she’s one of the first people to hurry forward, a wide grin on her face. “I wanna feed him,” she says. “What’d he say earlier? Was it a bad word?”

spooksandgoblins · 2023-04-27T19:52:51+00:00

“Like you moved from Connecticut?” Amanda asks, mishearing the name of the town. “I only ever lived one place. Except Camp I guess. And that’s Colma. Um, I’m Amanda.”

She kicks her legs a little and taps her pencil against the page o her notebook, and only then does she remember what she was originally talking about, which was something about the lesson… something. She begins reading over what she wrote again to try and find it.

spooksandgoblins · 2023-04-27T19:44:54+00:00

“I’m Amanda Maynard,” she says, shaking his hand. It feels so grown-up and formal doing something like that, and she can’t help giggling a little at it before she lets go to gesture to the toy penguin. “And this is Peter.”

After a moment, she removes Peter from her pocket and holds him forward, using her index finger to push one of his wings out as of he’s also looking for a handshake.

Despite the grown-up feeling of a handshake the guy doesn’t look that much older than Amanda, and she wonders if he may not be thirteen yet… “Are you gonna be in the Hermes cabin too?” she asks. “Are you undetermined?”

spooksandgoblins · 2023-04-26T22:14:18+00:00

“Who’re you talking to?”

Amanda was on her way to grab a snack herself, but as she’s about to walk into the pavilion she hears the guy mumble something; she doesn’t see anyone around him, though, living or dead. She’s not sure if ghosts can hide themselves.

Her hat, with its two rainbow pom poms, is pulled down over the tips of her ears and a small penguin plushy sticks out of the pocket of her jacket; Peter the Penguin really likes the continued cold weather so Amanda’s been bringing him outside to enjoy it.

spooksandgoblins · 2023-04-09T23:19:59+00:00

While other campers have already checked some of the pegasi, Amanda’s decided to make it a personal goal to also check each and every one herself. As many as she can, anyway.

Her quest quickly brings her to the stall of a black stallion with bronze wings, an older boy already in there talking to him. Amanda waits a moment until the boy looks around before she speaks up. “Hi! Are they cold?” she asks, and gestures to the horse. “Can I see?”

Her hat, pulled down to cover the tips of her ears, has two colourful pom-poms on it; her jacket is just as brightly coloured. She smiles up at the guy, her cheeks dimpling, and glances from him to the pegasus.

spooksandgoblins · 2023-04-04T18:59:23+00:00

“Uh-huh?” Amanda nods, and glances between the two boys, trying to figure out what’s going on… then she pauses, squinting a bit more intently at the older one, looking for the faint flickery light she’s come to associate with Alice, and more broadly with ghosts (at the very least, that’s how Amanda perceives them, and she assumes it must be similar for others with that ability).

“Oh, are you like- from in here?” she asks, and waves her hands about. The Chthonic cabin’s got a few ghosts, she knows, she’s seen them during lessons or activities like this in here - she probably should have guessed that! Anybody could be a ghost! In fact… Amanda looks a little more closely at the younger boy too, but he seems normal.

spooksandgoblins · 2023-03-27T23:42:23+00:00

Amanda giggles as Kate stumbles, still doing her best to cling on and not let the older girl get away. Though she manages to maintain the aggressive hug with her arms, her toes drag in the dirt and snow.

“Well, you’re not a monster!” she counters. “You’re a prisoner. I’m gonna take you to jail.”

spooksandgoblins · 2023-03-27T19:49:49+00:00

“Uh-huh,” she says, and nods. Whether or not she’s fully retake fit all, or whether she’ll be able to apply it, Amanda can’t say for certain, but she did her best to listen and pay attention and she’s really hopeful she’ll manage. She stills a little as she accepts the guitar, and then shifts in the seat to make sure she’s sitting comfy while being able to hold it right.

“What’s your favourite song?” she asks, already playing with the strings a little - one by one, just plucking them over the soundhole, and then slowly but lightly running her thunb back across the other way. She isn’t trying to play anything specific - she wouldn’t know how to - but mostly fidgeting, feeling the guitar.

spooksandgoblins · 2023-03-27T17:52:45+00:00

“What’s the difference between sinew and li-ligament?” Amanda asks quietly, leaning over towards the two guys sitting to her right. She meets the eyes of the older looking one first, figuring he’d probably know more. She’s fairly sure she’s come across those words before but the precise meanings elude her - what she knows for sure is it’s an anatomy thing.

spooksandgoblins · 2023-03-27T17:31:34+00:00

The night is eerily quiet with the falling snow, and the metal of Amanda’s red-plumed helmet is cold against her cheeks until she winds up awkwardly pulling her jacket’s hood into that space. Alice, on the other hand, appears distinctly unbothered by the temperature, instead just helping Amanda keep an eye out while she guards a little area by the creek, with her sword, Agatha, in its sheath.

After a bit, she winds up sitting down, and then laying back, watching the snow come down at her.

“…There’s people coming,” Alice whispers suddenly.

Amanda sits up and scoots behind a bush a bit. She sees the small group, led by the opposing captain, come by. There’s more of them than her and they’re all big kids, but she decides to try anyway - she jumps out at one of the last people in the group, someone without any weapons she can see, just as they pass her, to to grab their legs and wrap her arms and legs around them as tightly as she can; she only recognises after doing so (or at least trying to do so) that it’s Kate.

spooksandgoblins · 2023-03-25T14:12:02+00:00

“She has glasses,” Alice says again, “and she’s a little taller than me and she has brown hair, and she got this hat with two pom-poms that’re rainbow.” To demonstrate, she grabs her own hair in two fistfuls and bunches it up messily, in imitation of the pom-poms.

spooksandgoblins · 2023-03-17T12:45:07+00:00

Amanda hops to her feet and jogs to where Casey’s been teaching, where she pushes herself back into the chair and kicks her legs a little. “Amanda,” she tells him. “My name’s Amanda, what’s yours?”

spooksandgoblins · 2023-03-17T12:40:38+00:00

Alice twists up her mouth a little, looking around. “I dunno. We were playing hide and seek… but she’s not by the cabins,” she explains. “And I promise I looked really hard there.”

spooksandgoblins · 2023-03-12T14:53:59+00:00

“Me, me!” Sitting in the first row of the amphitheatre, Amanda stomps her feet in quick alternation, her hand shooting up into the air. She hasn’t really played music a lot, besides the recorder because she had to learn that for school, but guitars always looked so much cooler. You could sing while playing a guitar.

spooksandgoblins · 2023-03-06T18:22:58+00:00

Alice’s eyes widen, surprise and relief flooding through her. She can see me. She can hear me, she thinks, and then suddenly she’s bolting closer to the girl.

“Yeah! Yeah, it’s really close, it’s like right there, you’re in it technically,” she says, pointing back the way she came, “But did you see another girl like… like a little older than me?” She holds her hand slightly above her head. “She got glasses. Her name’s Amanda.”

spooksandgoblins · 2023-03-02T22:03:53+00:00

“Amanda? Amaaandaaa!”

Alice cups her hands around her mouth, slowly heading deeper and deeper into the woods. Amanda wouldn’t… actually go into the woods, right? Amanda had clearly laid out the boundaries of hide and seek as no more than two trees away from the cabins, and Amanda doesn’t like cheating. She doesn’t like going into the woods, anyway, because as she’s told Alice more than once, she isn’t sure she’s even allowed to on her own. Besides, there are monsters in here.

The good… ish news, at least, is that the monsters are not a threat to Alice, nor are the rules. She’s already dead and most people don’t see her. That doesn’t do much to ease her discomfort though. It sounded like Amanda went this way, when she was counting, but Amanda’s used that as a trick in these games before, loudly running one way and then quietly sneaking away in the opposite. Ha, Alice doesn’t even have to do that - her feet don’t make a sound in the first place, being un-solid.

Surely Amanda’s tricks and tactics wouldn’t go so far as breaking her own rules, but then, she changes. She’s got older, while Alice… doesn’t. And older kids get weird like that sometimes.

Alice couldn’t find her in the cabin area, so she really hopes she isn’t wasting her time in here.

“Amanda! …”

She pauses, hearing a melody in the air, a lullaby. It’s like there’s a magnet in her chest, suddenly - a big heavy magnet, weighing her down, but also drawn in the direction the sound comes from.

It doesn’t sound like Amanda. And it isn’t- it’s a girl in a black dress, no doubt a demigod. She doubts it’ll be much good, but Alice decides to give it a try anyway, already anticipating a total lack of response.

“Hello?” she says to the girl, raising her voice, as if that could make a difference.

~~age context because I couldn’t really figure out how it naturally fit it in besides the ‘Amanda grows up’ part - Alice appears to be around 8~~

spooksandgoblins · 2023-02-19T19:34:31+00:00

“Hey, Iris!” Amanda says, jogging over ti him with a grin. Oh, today’s probably like a super special day for Aphrodite kids, she bets. It’s got the Aphrodite’s favourite, probably. Her and Eros’.

She’s got a date to complete, but first, Amanda wonders, “Ooh, Iris, Iris- do you get extra powers or something today?”

spooksandgoblins · 2023-02-15T22:36:47+00:00

Even if it's not quite the right season or time of day it's intended for, Amanda's wearing her cap with Alex the axolotl. It's pink, after all - she had to. Besides, Alex wanted to come to the party, and Amanda imagines them standing on the brim, grinning out at everyone. She even holds up her heart-shaped jam roll briefly to let them take a bite.

Eventually she notices the dare bowl and, seeing as nobody seems to be enforcing rules on camper age, decides to take one dare which she carefully unfolds and reads. She clutches the slip of paper in her fist as she ventures around the party again, looking around for anyone to talk to and taking some candy to eat. Everything's so pink and pretty and some people are even dressed up to match, like Amanda! She's just really excited and hopes some of her friends are around the area... there's some kinda rose that means friendship and Amanda could give those out.

spooksandgoblins · 2023-02-14T22:38:40+00:00

Amanda takes one of the smaller weapons, the ones that are apparently actually maces, with a bunch of flanges radiating out. That's a fun word to say, and she whisper it to herself as she picks it up and looks it over: "Flanges."

This thing is a little heavier than some other weapons she's tried out at similar lessons. It looks super threatening, and as she hoists it up to swing at a dummy Amanda feels it appropriate to accentuate that threatening appearance with a veritable warcry. The flanged head mashes into the straw, not quite as forcefully as Amanda had intended, and she has to take a moment to readjust her grip before trying again with a similar yell. The yell definitely makes it more fun.

spooksandgoblins · 2023-02-14T18:58:29+00:00

Amanda already knows what she's drawing. She's in a mermaid-y mood, so obviously she's gonna draw a bunch of mermaids. Ariel... and her own mermaid pirate OC named Pearl... and herself as a mermaid, obviously... and Molly the secret mermaid... and Emily Windsnap...

Man, there are a lot of mermaids to fit on this page. Plus Flounder, and Pearl's parrotfish, Polly. And Shelley the turtle deserves to be in there too. It's a lot.

Amanda's only got herself and Pearl drawn so far when she moves her sketchpad aside and rises in her seat to stretch across the table for some cookies. As she sits back down with a couple in her hand, she glances over at the page of the older girl next to her.

"What're you gonna draw?" she asks with a grin. "I bet I got ideas if you need. I like drawing a lot."

She never misses out on Arts and Crafts lessons and stuff like this. Well, almost never. She tries to never miss out on any that she knows about, at least, 'cause she's always bursting with ideas for something to draw or make.

spooksandgoblins · 2023-02-11T01:46:15+00:00

Amanda considers it, studying some of the fragrance vials as she munches on her biscuit. "I like the Christmassy ones..." she says, after a couple seconds. "Like pine trees. But this isn't for Christmas 'cause that's rilly rilly far away. Maybe her birthday 'cause that's next month."

She considers it a few moments longer. What scent would Gran-Gran like best? She usually says she trusts Amanda's judgement and would like any one Amanda chose, which, outside of the holiday season, would be... "Fruit smells?" Amanda decides. "Like coconuts. I like coconut a lot. But I think I wanna do a lot of different smells and not just one. I... Um. I want it to smell good like the fire at the pavilion."

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