It’s easy to be down on deities in general, but the Demiurge is actually a surprisingly decent person if you know him privately, when he isn’t on the job.
He probably just gets a bit too much into that ‘projecting divine authority’ groove when he’s working. Which is almost understandable, I guess, if you consider that he’s both an actual deity as well as a boomer – and both of these groups are very prone to try and invoke their divine authority in discussions.
But, yeah…when he’s not in that particular groove, he’s actually quite nice. And I mean, it kinda makes sense? Why would he have created the material world if he didn’t want people to have nice things? So, yeah, he tried his best to help out here, and he actually succeeded – even overcoming his own hubris on the way. Not an easy task for a deity…or a boom…ok, enough of the boomer bashing…for the time being.
Overcoming his hubris allowed him to call on support by other, more popular deities, and that opened up the way to a compromise solution for the motivation of the team. Everyone but Mopey was willing to dedicate their life to the Holy Grail on behalf of Lord Eros, since they all like him to a greater or lesser degree. Mopey, of course, would have preferred Lord Thanos, but even in his absence she’s quite sure he’d approve of her going on a crusade – given what a crusade usually involves.
So rise the Crusaders of Eros, and that’ll hopefully provide enough fanaticism to make it through a freaking cricket tournament.
More on Thursday.