call for aid!

[fahye]

AHEM.

Because Ji was exceedingly helpful until we got derailed by election crack, and because I know you lot have huge piles of mythological knowledge/imagination/boredom and because you know you want to help me get published and earn $125 for a 10,000 word story:

So say someone kidnapped Hope, in the form of a small blind child. Who the hell did it, and why?

Mythological characters from any culture would be preferred. If someone can work out a possible motive for the archangel Gabriel and/or Heaven to be the perpetrators or at least play a part, that would be awesome. I also liked the twistiness of the 'villain' being someone normally portrayed as or considered 'good'.

The following characters already have roles: Pandora, Kassandra, Loki, Bast, the devil.

Any ideas at all would be welcome. Frankly? The crazier, the better :) Er. Though I do sort of need to have a coherent plot.

Thank you.

Comments

[trumpeter-lady.livejournal.com]

An angel/Heaven as a whole might decide it's kinder for people not to be able to hope. I don't know how to explain it precisely (probably because I don't buy into the theory myself), but it's like that scene in Sandman 4, where Morpheus asks 'what power would Hell have if those who lived there could not dream of Heaven'. Um... the idea that everything needs contrast to have meaning, that despair and misery &c lose their force if their isn't hope for anything better. (This particular Gabriel would have the idiot who suggested it drawn and quartered and served at Lucifer's table, but I'm pretty sure you didn't mean her.)

Alternately, kidnapping Hope and denying it (him? her?) to their enemies would be a great strategic move for anyone. (And the angels wouldn't have to be insane. Just ruthless.) It'd be like the granddaddy of all demoralization campaigns!

[fahye.livejournal.com]

o.O

We must share a brain or something.

That quote of Morpheus' was what made me decide to bring the devil into it - he's trying to help Pandora get it back, because it's what gives him his power.

I was wondering if the angels would use it to try and get something out of the devil, but you're right - it could just be an attempt to make him powerless once and for all.

My Lucifer and your Gabriel have surprisingly similar mindsets, I think :) Is she still a little girl?

[trumpeter-lady.livejournal.com]

Aieee! We'll have to work out a schedule for who gets to use it when.

I actually agree with that quote, but not, I think, quite in the sense that Morpheus meant it; more that Lucifer's power rests on the hope that one day he'll defeat God.

At the expense of everyone else, but hey, that's not important. [gags] They could probably justify it by saying that once Lucifer was dead they'd set Hope free.

Well, they are sort-of related. ;) And no, that was just a fit of whimsy.