Horns that Announce Calamity
"'Why do I hate sheep?', eh? Well, let's just say that Apollo and I have a ... complicated relationship, that's all.
What? You're not convinced? ...Hmf. Sharp as ever, I see. You're right, there
is more to the story than meets the eye.
You will remember that I originally took on the name of "Robin Hood" to distance myself from my divinity.
It also had the side-effect of distancing me conceptually from Old Hiney, what with him being the embodiment of royal authority,
and the current me being the embodiment of manly men going off into the woods to get into compromising situations.
In other words, our cripplingly-low supply of scarabs and comet shards is partly my fault.
Ahaha, don't get your skivvies in a twist! I just wanted to see how serious you were about me, is all.
--Anyway, Saint Graph Readvent is a good starting point for this discussion.
You see, Ascension works on me in a manner similar to that pink-haired fox.
We're both just retrieving powers we cast off in order to become Servants.
In my case, those powers are the fragments of Old Hiney's that were sloughed off when he was murdered.
By conceptually distancing my Saint Graph from that of Osiris, the retrieval process becomes exponentially more difficult.
There's one fragment in particular that I sought to distance myself from.
Banebdjed. 'Soul of the Lord of the Unifying Pillar'.
He's the aspect of Osiris most involved in Horus' birth, and most often takes the form of a ram.
The
ba of a god is the aspect that represents that god's powers, and is the one that's most involved in mortal affairs.
Put two and two together, and it's not much of a stretch to say that Banebdjed is the
of Osiris.
If I were to acquire his powers, then...
Combining my love for y-- I mean, my love for humans with that much power would result in nothing but catastrophe.
My libido would shoot through the roof, and I'd become impossible to satisfy until I'd received the love of the entire human race.
Put succintly--
What lies at the end of the road that is Banebdjed is an Evil of Man: the Demon Lord
Mara-Priapus.
...Sorry. I didn't mean to unload all that on you, Master. That must've been the furthest thing in your mind when you asked that question.
To make it up to you, why don't we talk about lighter things over dinner?
It'll be my treat."
Author's Notes
This is 50% effortpost, 50% shitpost, and 100% a doozy to write.
- This is my first time writing a Servant sheet that uses the collapse function to hide stuff, so hopefully the hidden sections make sense as they are (and hopefully aren't too difficult to find).
- The sheet was originally two ideas I had: "Itto's Priapus going undercover as Robin Hood" and "a male Beast III/L" that gelled together as I did my research. The link between Mara and Priapus in particular was a recent find which I think greatly helped glue those concepts together in my mind.
- My main sources for this sheet were Wikipedia, as well as Priapus' appearances in Itto-sensei's doujin series (it's bara fyi) and in GYEE.
- In this sheet alone there're Celtic, Greco-Roman, Egyptian, and Buddhist concepts sprinkled throughout. Hopefully the syncretism isn't too overwhelming!
- The personality section also posed a challenge, but I think I did a satisfactory job transferring Priapus' aloof but ultimately good-hearted personality from the doujins to the Fate setting, as well as dropping hints as to how exactly he could become Beast III/L. I actually like how he's sort of a male Tamamo lol
- Priapus' complicated relationship with Apollo is also from the doujin series, while his love for Korean-style barbecue references his love for barbecue in GYEE, but with an added tidbit: Korean barbecue is usually eaten with lettuce, which the ancient Egyptians considered to be an aphrodisiac, a tiny but clear hint towards Priapus' origins and domain.
- Priapus refers to Osiris several times as "Old Hiney". It's actually a bit of a #deepestlore moment, because shiri (as in "Oshirisu") means "buttocks" in Japanese. In Japanese, it'd probably read something like "Oshiri-sama".
- I also recently found out that Daisuke Namikawa did the voicework for Priapus over at GYEE, so feel free to read the above monologue in Waver's voice.
That's about all the comments I have for this sheet. See you😊