Open: All that you are is a face in the mirror

[vineleaves]

That was certainly a weird dream. If he hadn't experienced everyone else being ...weird alternate versions, he wouldn't think anything of it, but considering the fact that he had, he is now wondering if it happened to him, as well.

First order of business though is of course checking on Mercutio, to make sure he is back. Once that particular fear is gone, he decides breakfast is in order, then he should check up on the garden. Hopefully today will be normal and uneventful.



If anyone would like to speak with regular Dionysus now that he is no longer an AU, feel free! Or honestly if you just want to talk to him anyway, that's fine too.

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[vineleaves]

"Well," more kisses. "What all ones do you know about?"

[futaille]

"Wine, obviously, theater, also obviously. Small garden nooks for kissing. What else?"

[vineleaves]

"Oh," he says, grinning. "Didn't read the story about Prosymnus, huh."

[futaille]

"I have not. Now I'm intrigued."

[vineleaves]

Dionysus grins. "Well -- actually the usual myth is a little bit off, for one thing, so maybe it's best you're hearing it from me? This was a long time ago, but -- well, there used to be this giant lake. It doesn't exist anymore, it dried up, now, that'll make you feel old. Lakes drying up. Anyway, there was a party I was supposed to go to, but I was running late. Needed to get across the lake. There was this very nice -- very hot guy named Prosymnus who offered to take me across the lake in his cute little boat. Étienne, you should have seen his arms. Anyway. He said he would take me across if when I came back I let him top me. A win-win, y'know?"

[futaille]

He laughs. "Truly no downside."

[vineleaves]

"That's what I thought! So I go to my party and come back a week later -- a week! This isn't even one of those stories where the magic eternal old man forgets to show back up for 60 years, or something, it was a week. And do you know what the poor guy had the audacity to go and do in that time? He died! He had some accident, I don't remember exactly what, but he died and the funeral had already even passed." He pauses. "But, you know, I do like to keep my word. So I did what any normal person would do in this situation."

[futaille]

He blinks. "... What would any normal person do in this situation?"

[vineleaves]

"...I invented a dildo and had ritualistic sex with him at his grave that he, from what I hear, really enjoyed in Hades." Obviously.

[futaille]

"Oh, of course," he says, laughter threading his voice. "Why didn't I think of that immediately? Well-invented."

[vineleaves]

"I didn't want him to think I wasn't excited about the promise I'd made!"

[futaille]

"Clearly no danger of that."

[vineleaves]

"So -- anyway, that's another thing I invented."

[futaille]

"Truly, all of your inventions are marvels."

[vineleaves]

Dionysus laughs, and boops Grantaire's nose. "You're just biased."

[futaille]

"Couldn't be. I liked them before I knew you."

[vineleaves]

“Hmm. Maybe it’s the other way around, then. You like me just because I made neat stuff.” He’s clearly fishing for compliments.

[futaille]

He laughs and gives Dionysus another kiss. "That must be it. Couldn't possibly be that you're enthusiastic and utterly delightful in your own right. It's completely the dildos."

[vineleaves]

"Imagine how differently Dark would've gone if that was the thing I could make appear out of thin air instead of wine."

[futaille]

He laughs brightly. "Would have been helpful in a very different way."

[vineleaves]

Dionysus laughs, then catches Grantaire in another kiss.

[futaille]

He returns it, of course. "I was very partial to the wine, though."

[vineleaves]

"Good news is you get to have as much wine as you want, for the rest of your life."

[futaille]

He grins. "Oh, so it is heaven."

[vineleaves]

Dionysus laughs. "I think you've been sleeping with the wrong god if that's the afterlife you're trying to get to, love." But his hand is back playing with Grantaire's curls, smoothing them back away from the side of his face. "But there's unlimited... well, I guess everything, in Hades, from what I saw. ...Don't go visiting any time soon though."