SO. IF YOU WANT TO ASK/TELL/ETC. ME SOMETHING DO SO HERE. DA QUIRM HAS ONE ALREADY BUT I THOUGHT I'D PUT ONE HERE TOO.

...I keep doing these compulsively.

( two others. )

I THINK MY STYLE HAS CHANGED APPRECIABLY SINCE I FIRST SKETCHED THE ORIGINAL SEVEN which is weird because I... didn't really notice much. IDK, man. ANYWAY, I am posting this because I'm thinking of doing more of these and gradually phasing out most of the PB'd icons, mostly because I never found a PB that quite matched what I wanted, whereas with drawing I can make him as awkward and naked and curly and crazyfaced as I like.

HOWEVER.

1. His hawk icons are all pictures. I'm not changing this, since I can't draw hawks and also I love his current hawk set. so. IS THAT GOING TO BE WEIRD?
2. I'm kind of afraid I'll look at these in a year and hate them.
3. If I get rid of the old icons I'm probably going to be getting rid of a lot of the old keywords, too, because they. kind of sucked. but. :( threadbreakingggggg


...also, I'd say I have no time, but this is clearly a displacement activity for stress so. Uh. ... yyyyeahhhh.

ALSO ALSO

I WAS ALMOST POOPED ON BY A HAWK ON THE WAY HOME FROM CLASS TODAY I think it was a red-tailed hawk. It was fluffled up from the cold and it let me get astonishingly close without even doing that shifty staring thing wild raptors tend to do if you get within a certain radius of them. Its poo was really splashy and big. I am really glad it didn't actually hit me.

I need to do more pooing on people ICly. Clearly it is a sign from destiny.

Have colored the sketchy icons finally! The hair was a little bit frustrating lololo

( lololololo )

ON THE ONE HAND: NICER ICONS; ON THE OTHER: TOTAL LIFE FAILURE aaaagghhhhh

I feel like I should delete the old ones, only I am kind of reluctant, for some reason :(

Okay so I figure I've done enough of randomly dumping unsolicited animated icons on people's heads. But I'm addicted to making animated icons. So the obvious solution, of course, is to do the icon-making meme. Except all with animated icons.

SO. LINK ME TO A YOUTUBE OR DIRECT DOWNLOAD VID (anything else I can't guarantee I'll be able to actually, you know, get at it), IDENTIFY WHAT YOU WANT ME TO ANIMATE (e.g. "ZIDANE'S WIGGLY BUTT"), and GIVE ME AN APPROXIMATE TIME IN THE VIDEO AT WHICH THE ACTION APPEARS. Request as many as you want; I'll be cherry-picking my way through whatever requests I get. I'll try to do one per requester first, and then maybe go through and do others.

Not going to be doing hand-drawn animations for this one, sorry, as those take too long >:

o/

This post has two purposes: self-reference, obviously, but also for permission for the people involved.

So Horus can be a bit of a stalker! And it's gotten to the point where I need to keep a list. Asterisked people I have gotten permission from; the others I'll work on talking to as I see them in IRC or something; if you see your characters listed here and I haven't gotten permission from you yet, though, c-can I get permission?

So. Roughly in order of most-stalked to least-stalked.

( stalkees )

Also, he will, if it seems necessary, seek out people for help if any of the above seem to really really need it--and I do mean it when I say really; Horus is pretty good at leaving be and letting people sort out their own problems usually. But usually doesn't mean always. So, a list of people Horus would ping. Most of the people on the previous list are on this list. Again, asterisks mean permission has been obtained, and also again, if you're on this list and not asterisked--may I have permission?

...in no particular order, except for copypasta:

( halp )

Additionally--people who are close to those he's stalking, but whom Horus himself does not necessarily know (or know all that well). Uh. I can deal with those on a case-by-case basis, though, since I don't necessarily know about all of them xD

At any rate! If you're on either of these lists and not asterisked--may I have your permission? Or, if you're not on these lists and think you should be. Um. Tell me? :D;;;;

People on either list--if you feel like you need an IC reason for an intervention on behalf of the people on the first list, feel free to ping me! I can throw Horus in to be awkward and 8DDDD about it.

( Horus-mun's cracked-out theories on her character and his canon. FULL OF SPOILERS. )

At any rate, this is all basically just a sketch of the relevant issues, but I think, in light of all this, Horus' actions seem a bit less random and inconsistent, no?

L-lol I thought I'd just. Make a collective like this. There's going to be a lot of backlog; for the Colin stuff, links to the situations in which he "took" the photographs, if he took them ICly, are the strikeout links in this post and I was going to list all the original posts, but I got lazy. So. You get some of them, for the time being. I'll add the rest later... maybe?

( Backlog! )

( MORE CURRENT STUFF 8) )

'Kay, so. Gods have certain powers in AGverse, and this will affect how Horus plays with other characters. The last paragraph of this post describes the abilities in question, but I'll summarize them here:

For other gods/mythical creatures/folk heroes/etc: AG gods are able to pick out others of their kind and, arguably, certain things about their powers/aspects/etc. without having to ask. HOW MUCH SHOULD HORUS BE ABLE TO AUTOMATICALLY KNOW ABOUT YOU? Specifically, in regards to being in/from mythology, legends, beliefs, etc. Or. May he be able to do this to your character in camp? If he can't, we can just blame alternate world incompatibility, so it's no big if you're not comfortable with it |D

For characters who aren't myffic: AG gods can pick your brain and also make you do/think/want things you normally wouldn't WITHOUT NOTICING. As you can probably tell, this is a bit of a (aha) godmode-y ability. THEREFORE. The make-you-do-stuff I will ask directly if there ever comes a situation where Horus would want to use it, and I will try to avoid letting those come up. And I will try to adhere to the note-to-psychics stuff in the permissions meme when it comes to brainpicking. BUT IF YOU WANT TO TELL ME HERE ANYWAY, IT'D BE NICE 'cause then it'd all be in one place |D


ETA: FOR THE GODNESS POLL it's more about what's believed than about specific powers. So, if a character is SUPAR MAGICAL but in a way that has nothing to do with any mythologies at all, then they won't ping as anything but a normal human. If your character has no supernatural powers WHATSOEVER but is still based on some dude from a legend or folk myth, then they're likely still gonna ping. It's uh yeah XD

A BIT OF BACKGROUND, in the form of a long ramble because I can't write these things in an organized fashion to save my life:

The gods of American Gods are of the sort where they come from the dreams of humanity--in other words, human belief is what brings gods into being. So long as they are believed in, the gods survive; but they must also be true to what is believed about them. It seems that when gods find themselves totally without believers, their nature starts to deteriorate; after this, it is easy for them to die for good by forsaking the core of what was once believed about them. There are at least two or three canonical examples of this.

Gods can be killed in more conventional manners as well; they can revive totally unscathed, but this is a lot less likely if they don't have believers. All of a god's power comes from belief. So, in AGverse, Jesus could revive himself without batting an eye in America; Horus, on the other hand, would have a lot more trouble.

All gods have a few abilities in common:

All gods are connected to and able to, at any time, enter "backstage". Backstage is basically the mythical undercurrent in any given place. In the human world, gods tend to be bound to the laws of reality to some degree most of the time, although they can do things that humans believe or believed that they are able to do. Backstage, on the other hand, they are fully what humans believe them to be, no matter how few believers they have left. (For an example, in the real world, Selene would just be some chick with weird powers that have something to do with the moon, but backstage, she is the moon--and so is every moon goddesses that was ever believed in, but there is no real interference from this apparent contradiction.) This often means that they'll appear as many, many different things all at once. In Horus' case, he'd appear a falcon-headed man, a pharaoh, a full bird, and a small boy sitting on a lotus, to name a few. (This isn't shown in canon, but it can be inferred from what was actually believed about Horus in ancient Egypt.)

Gods can affect people and events in a very low-key sort of way that's more akin to a very intense charisma than any kind of actual conscious power. If a god stays in a small area for a very long time, that place starts to bend to their nature, whether or not they're putting an effort into it (though if they do put an effort into it, then the effect is much more pronounced and controlled than otherwise). On a smaller scale, gods can cause humans to want to do, think, or say things they otherwise would not, without said humans knowing why or even questioning it. They can also draw information from humans, but not in the "reading minds" sort of way. To my recollection, they're never shown to actually know what someone is thinking at a specific moment, but they can find out little things, like names and such, if they are willing to put in a bit of effort. Gods' ability to read other gods is a bit more inherent: if two gods bump into each other, randomly, on a street, then they will each be able to know who the other one is without even asking.

Age: Looks like a teen or a young man, but is actually REALLY OLD. This particular self of Horus has been in America for three thousand years.
Height: not that tall.
Weight: not that heavy.
Eyes: NOT CANONLY STATED! Probably dark. AG gods tend to look like, you know. Normal humans.
Hair: Dark and very very curly~

Physical traits: Usually naked! Also, looks exactly as crazy as he actually is. I cannot stress this enough. AT A GLANCE, HE LOOKS TOTALLY INSANE. YOU WOULD NOT EXPECT HIM TO BE WITH THE SENSE-MAKING, HAVING JUST MET HIM.

As a bird of prey, he has canonically ambiguous species--something generic looking, probably the size of a small hawk or a large falcon, and likely some drab, generic-looking markings--one character in canon thinks he's a redtail, for an example.

Medical Info: Uh, probably not all that healthy. He eats roadkill, come on. Also, he canonly has dark urine! (lol.)

What's Okay To Mention Around Him/Her: ANYTHING AT ALL \o/

Notes for the Psychics: IS A GOD and feel free to pick up on this in as much detail as you wish but that actually doesn't make him THAT much different from normal humans in AGverse. Is utterly bugfuck crazy, though.

ETA 2/20/08 for detail: due to the crazy his mental activity is rather chaotic at best--instincts, impulses, and broken fragments of thoughts spiking off in conflicting directions, usually. It's probably very headache-inducing if you try to analyze it in any detail. His actions are dictated primarily by the general trend: typically, this means that it's instincts that win out--instincts are simpler, and thus easier to maintain, harder to fight, hence his tendency to trend towards a more animalistic mode of behavior. Sometimes a single coherent thought becomes strong enough that it overrides this general trend, however--but it's a struggle for him to maintain that thought, because it has to fight with habit as well as instinct. Because of this, he often appears even more instable when he is in fact closer to sanity.

ALSO. In bird form, when he talks to you, his "speech" is in action tags--this is because that is what he's saying, but not in so many words. It's a lot closer to body language or pure meaning than it is to any form of syntactical language. If that makes any sense at all uh. He can talk normally in bird-form, it's just he usually doesn't remember that he can.

Abilities: UH the most relevant one is that he can transform into some kind of bird of prey \o/ The specific species of the raptor is canonically ambiguous. He's been taken for a red-tailed hawk, though, which is... sort of a generic-looking hawk \o/ Other than that, he has sun-related powers! Canon doesn't explore this very thoroughly, but we do know that he can affect the weather. Also, he has the standard god-abilities from AG (which may be found here).

Shapeshift/bodyswap/grievous injury/death etc.: ask first ♥

Cooking: PROBABLY NOT ♥

Character: Horus
Series: American Gods
Character age: N/A (appears mid- to late teens)
( Etc. )

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