Hi! Hadley here!
So I know in my first post I promised to add updates to my blog every week, and I know I haven’t been doing that. Things have been rather hectic and I’ve not had a lot of free time. In between coming to terms with a bona-fide demigod (Yes, he’s real. Believe you me, sometimes I wish I’d been dreaming. More on that later) appearing out of thin air, reigning him in, classes, my part-time job and family visits, I’ve been feeling fairly tired and low on energy.
But! My New Years resolution was to post more often on my blog, as to not let the few of you who actually took the time to read my first blogpost down. I’ll do my best to keep you update regularly from now on out! No promises this time, just in case RL decides to wallop me again. If I miss a week, I’ll try to make the next post extra long to try and make up for it.
Anyway, all updates out of the way, let’s get to what you’re here for, yeah?
Djas –or Oberan, which he says is his ‘mortal’ name—has been staying with me for some time now. I thought someone was pranking me at first. You know, some sort of elaborate setup with a realistic-looking projection on the ceiling and a paid actor. My family should have been in on it then, but they didn’t know what I was talking about. I also didn’t discover any of my friends hiding around my place, nor did I find any hidden cameras. Oberan did seem as confused as I was. As an actor I would expect him to pretend to be unaware of what’s going on though. Still, it’s weird to be pranked and there not being anyone nearby to watch my reaction, nor there being any cameras around to record it.
In the end, I simply decided I was hallucinating from a lack of sleep and went to bed. The portal thingy had already vanished, but the strange dude hadn’t, but I figured he’d be gone in the morning. Spoiler alert: he wasn’t. I did sleep very well though, better than I had in a looooong time. I woke up refreshed and not tired at all. I didn’t even look like a sleepwalking zombie! Very unusual.
I did nearly shit my pants when I saw Oberan lazing around in my living room though. I mean, can you blame me? An unknown man in strange clothing I wasn’t expecting to be real, in an apartment that’s usually not occupied by anyone other than me shouldn’t suddenly say ‘Oh, you’re awake’ while I’m going to the kitchen to make breakfast. It’s not polite!
Once I recovered from the shock and put down the knife I tried to defend myself with (my hands trembled way too much for me to look threatening, I’m pretty sure he raised his hands out of pity rather than fear), we chatted a bit. Turns out he used some of his magic-Bercy Yackson-demigod powers to put me to sleep. Apparently the summoning created some kind of psychic link between us, which sends my primary emotion and desire and such through.
That link also allows him to understand and speak our languages –that is to say, any of them that I know. It helps him adapt to our world quicker as well. At least, that’s what he told me. I don’t know how or why he knew that, and neither did he. Needless to say, I didn’t believe him. It could still be some elaborate prank, with a tiny camera embedded in a button on his clothes or something.
I changed my mind rather quickly. What? You would too if someone snapped their fingers and you suddenly grow a tail! Hell, everyone in and around my apartment building grew one, Oberan said. Which explains why my neighbors refused to come open the door when I knocked to ask if they had some eggs to spare. Anyway, I was lucky I grew a fluffy rabbit tail that I could easily hide, but I still refused to leave the building for three days, unless I absolutely had to. If not for Oberan reassuring me it’d disappear on its own, I might have gone crazy with worry and panic. I can’t imagine what the other people caught in his range went through… While this event was completely out of my control, I feel really guilty about it still.
So yeah, he’s not bullshitting me. That tail was real, the sudden blast of … something (power?)... he expelled when he made everyone around grow said tail was also real. The place he claims to be from, Idalos (I tried goobling it, but I didn’t find any mention of such a place on the first twelve pages) is probably real as well.
Oberan is a bona fide demigod from another world.
And he’s my roommate.
So I know in my first post I promised to add updates to my blog every week, and I know I haven’t been doing that. Things have been rather hectic and I’ve not had a lot of free time. In between coming to terms with a bona-fide demigod (Yes, he’s real. Believe you me, sometimes I wish I’d been dreaming. More on that later) appearing out of thin air, reigning him in, classes, my part-time job and family visits, I’ve been feeling fairly tired and low on energy.
But! My New Years resolution was to post more often on my blog, as to not let the few of you who actually took the time to read my first blogpost down. I’ll do my best to keep you update regularly from now on out! No promises this time, just in case RL decides to wallop me again. If I miss a week, I’ll try to make the next post extra long to try and make up for it.
Anyway, all updates out of the way, let’s get to what you’re here for, yeah?
Djas –or Oberan, which he says is his ‘mortal’ name—has been staying with me for some time now. I thought someone was pranking me at first. You know, some sort of elaborate setup with a realistic-looking projection on the ceiling and a paid actor. My family should have been in on it then, but they didn’t know what I was talking about. I also didn’t discover any of my friends hiding around my place, nor did I find any hidden cameras. Oberan did seem as confused as I was. As an actor I would expect him to pretend to be unaware of what’s going on though. Still, it’s weird to be pranked and there not being anyone nearby to watch my reaction, nor there being any cameras around to record it.
In the end, I simply decided I was hallucinating from a lack of sleep and went to bed. The portal thingy had already vanished, but the strange dude hadn’t, but I figured he’d be gone in the morning. Spoiler alert: he wasn’t. I did sleep very well though, better than I had in a looooong time. I woke up refreshed and not tired at all. I didn’t even look like a sleepwalking zombie! Very unusual.
I did nearly shit my pants when I saw Oberan lazing around in my living room though. I mean, can you blame me? An unknown man in strange clothing I wasn’t expecting to be real, in an apartment that’s usually not occupied by anyone other than me shouldn’t suddenly say ‘Oh, you’re awake’ while I’m going to the kitchen to make breakfast. It’s not polite!
Once I recovered from the shock and put down the knife I tried to defend myself with (my hands trembled way too much for me to look threatening, I’m pretty sure he raised his hands out of pity rather than fear), we chatted a bit. Turns out he used some of his magic-Bercy Yackson-demigod powers to put me to sleep. Apparently the summoning created some kind of psychic link between us, which sends my primary emotion and desire and such through.
That link also allows him to understand and speak our languages –that is to say, any of them that I know. It helps him adapt to our world quicker as well. At least, that’s what he told me. I don’t know how or why he knew that, and neither did he. Needless to say, I didn’t believe him. It could still be some elaborate prank, with a tiny camera embedded in a button on his clothes or something.
I changed my mind rather quickly. What? You would too if someone snapped their fingers and you suddenly grow a tail! Hell, everyone in and around my apartment building grew one, Oberan said. Which explains why my neighbors refused to come open the door when I knocked to ask if they had some eggs to spare. Anyway, I was lucky I grew a fluffy rabbit tail that I could easily hide, but I still refused to leave the building for three days, unless I absolutely had to. If not for Oberan reassuring me it’d disappear on its own, I might have gone crazy with worry and panic. I can’t imagine what the other people caught in his range went through… While this event was completely out of my control, I feel really guilty about it still.
So yeah, he’s not bullshitting me. That tail was real, the sudden blast of … something (power?)... he expelled when he made everyone around grow said tail was also real. The place he claims to be from, Idalos (I tried goobling it, but I didn’t find any mention of such a place on the first twelve pages) is probably real as well.
Oberan is a bona fide demigod from another world.
And he’s my roommate.
--Davidtsen, Hadley (2020) ‘My Roommate Is A Demigod?!’, Blogspot.com. https://my-roommate-is-a-demigod-hadley ... ogspot.com
