Author: Fair Warning—Kinda an Info dump chapter, sorry.
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"Mmm… nngh... thé fuegh(the f*ck)?"
I was deep asleep... I mean really deep, like it was the best sleep I have ever taken before, but I quickly awoke as I felt the light rays of the sun directly hit my face, thus I groaning as I wake up.
When opening up my eyes, my vision went temporarily dark before colors started appearing as my eyes adjusted themselves while I winced.
Immediately I took note of my surroundings, first was the room itself. A very simple room that held a unique charming appeal, having a terracotta tiled floor, white stone walls, carved stoned columns, and many small trees olive trees connected to the room–sprouting from the floor or in clay pots–giving it a surprisingly fresh smell.
Second, a body mirror just in corner of the room where I saw a reflection of myself, a young athletic man with childish features no bigger than... 5'3ft? Black hair with red tips, blue eyes, and olive-skin tones, but then an incredibly painful headache assaulted my head.
"Augh!?... mph!... $%@$#%!... d-damn that f*cking that hurt, *huff!"
" ...Ah! These are memories."
Soon images, foreign knowledge, history, and memories had poured into my mind like water release from a broken damn, from birth to childhood, and from childhood to now in my 15th year.
"Holy sh*t, I'm a male Amazonian—I mean a Doryan??—in the DC universe?!?"
"I thought the Amazons had a death penalty for males, what the heck happened?"
Fortunately enough with perfect timing, history knowledge of Doryans had just flown into my head, giving the details exactly how th–we came to be.
You see long ago, long after the the Olympian Goddesses created the Amazons to oppose the chaos and cruelty spread by Ares, a problem slowly emerged.
Though the Amazons of Themyscira were immortal, they were not endlessly self-sustaining. Apparently in this universe the mystical rebirth, a process of using soul of women who were unjustly murdered by men and having them reborn through clay like in the comics never came to be. Meaning they were required to continue through natural births.
Yet, Hippolyta the Queen of Amazons, thought sending Amazons into the outside world to find men would only endanger their sanctuary, or may unnecessarily kill Amazons trying to produce offsprings, for 'men's world' is an unpredictabily dangrous place.
She also knew that forcibly capturing men and killing them after spending a night with them wouldn't be a feasible long-term solution, in fact it may even draw the attention of the entire 'men's world' if they were to choose this route.
So through daily, constnat, desperate prayers from the amazons and the queen herself, would go on for over a decade.
Then finally the Olympian goddesses who favored the amazons gathered; Athena, Aphrodite, Demeter, Artemis, and Hera.
They debated over many things, even the creation of new Amazons through mystical rebirth as I mentioned earlier, but here the idea was dismissed. For such an act would trespass upon the domain of Hades, who surprisingly resented their earlier intervention in mortal souls during the creation of the first generations of the Amazons.
Then Aphrodite proposed a different solution, "If the Amazons required men to continue their lineage, why not create men worthy of them."
Not ordinary men, but a new race, a subspecies of man shaped by divine design to embody the virtues the Amazons valued.
Thus, the goddesses created the Doryans.
Each goddess contributed sacred materials to shape these ideal companions.
Athena granted wisdom and loyalty, infusing the bodies with olive wood and evergreen ivy, sacred symbols of loyalty and enduring bonds in Greek culture.
These materials ensured the Doryans would be steadfast allies to the Amazons and be devoted to their society.
Hera offered fidelity as she embedded lapis lazuli within their spiritual essence.
This stone symbolized, honesty, open communication, and unwavering fidelity.
Making sure Doryans would never betray their partners or the Amazons, ever.
Demeter offered fertility and vitality, knowing the Amazons possessed very low fertility.
Thus Demeter contributed, pig flesh — a sacred fertility symbol in ancient Greek rites, and the essence of the cornucopia — granting health and vitality
Through this, the Doryans would ensure the continuation of Amazonian bloodlines.
Artemis, however was slightly cautious, insisted that since Themyscira is ruled by the Amazons, it will remain ruled by Amazons.
Therefore the Doryans could not be immortal, so she added white marble for purity, strength, and mortality. She also added cypress wood, a sacred symbol to life cycles and death.
From this, the Doryans had lost the immortality the Amazons had, though their lifespans are still massive, being able to live in the thousands of years. They possess a far lessor form of regeneration compared to the Amazons, and most importantly these materials Artemis have infuse into their beings had made it difficult for them to produce male offsprings, making it so a male will only be born after every 10 female births on average.
Their population would remain small so Amazon society would never be overshadowed.
Aphrodite offered love and beauty, to ensure harmony between the two peoples.
Aphrodite added, seashells, pearls, and rose quartz, and with these gifts granted the Doryans extraordinary charisma, beauty, and emotional depth, ensuring they could bring warmth, romance, and companionship to the otherwise austere Amazons.
Once they've completed the body, they required an ingredient that is more sacred than matter, souls.
Demeter asked her daughter, Persephone, Queen of the Underworld, for assistance in regards to souls, for without them the creation of this new race could not come to being.
Persephone wanting to help her mother, but also not wishing to overstep her husband domain, cleverly thought an idea. Rather than disturbing the souls of the dead, she would gathered the spiritual remnants left behind by men whose lives embodied honor, loyalty, and chivalry.
With these remnants, echoes drifting through the underworld, she had woven them together to form entirely new souls with some help from Hecate magic.
Lastly Hestia, who upon seeing her sisters and nieces working together, something that had not happened in long ages, decided to offer a gift of her own.
From the eternal hearth of Olympus, she gave a tiny ember speck of sacred flame.
Now within the hearts of the Doryans, this tiny ember would forever burn softly, granting them an instinctive love of home, family, and a small quiet sense of peace.
Thus before the Amazons of Themyscira, the goddesses had shaped living forms from their sacred materials. Divine light filled the figures, and when it faded, the first generation of Doryans stood before the Amazons.
"...huh, at least it's good I won't have my neck slit for having a penis."
Gently getting up from my bed I walked towards the mirror and decided to take a more detail self-inspection, besides tbe features I noticed earlier. I had a complete symmetrical and lean body shape with some musclar definitions.
There's also a distinctive and beautifully flame tattoo design where my heart is, now I'm not gay, but I can still recognize that my overall appearance would be on par with movie actors despite my childish-like features.
"Although my body is quite short, this fella is certainly not... maybe around 11inches?"
"Sheesh, look's like I can completely forgot about having a normal girlfriend in the future, because realistically, this would only be extremely painful for her."
Then I went to the closet and opened it to find a few caskets. From on of the casket with clean clothes I pulled out a simple modernized white toga that I put on great familiarity, grabbed a pair of leather tsarouchi to wear, all while I ruminate the memories I have from in this world.
"Let's see... my name's is Leandros, at birth I was taken in a Doryan communal home where sons of said communal husbands go to be raised by an elder Doryan with greater experiences with raising young Doryans."
"I know who my parents are, an Amazonian guard by the name Otrera, and a communal Doryan husband that works as a farmer by the name of Alexios, both of whom I can visit anytime when they're not on duty."
"As I've just became 15 about... yesterday? Besides the duties I already had, which were no different than being a house wife, or in this case a house husband. Aside from cleaning, doing laundry, and cooking for young Amazons that are part of a communal home, I would also need to participate in self-defense combat training for at least the next few years, until I become 20, in which I will be considered an adult by then."
"At 20 I'll be given extra duties since at this age, I'll officially be recognized as a communal husband by Queen Hippolyta ruling. As a new communal husband, I won't need to worry about raising young Doryans, or partially raising young Amazons—unless the mother wishes to help raise the child, or decides to take them away for training once reaching a certain age—until I'm way older."
"During this time I will be having to do to my best to satisfy unvowed Amazons, until if they or I decide to become a vowed protected, which by the way is a whole different ball park..."
"As for what Unvowed and Vowed Protected is, well my parents who are close enough to share a bed and made me in the process, but not close enough to become vowed protected... like very close sex friends who can have children and not worry about raising kids, sorta."
"While a vowed protected is when a Doryan and an Amazon, or Amazons get married under a ritual rite under Hera's statue, but I'm pretty sure I won't have to worry about that for awhile."
"Mmmmm... there's still a LOT more information to mull over, but I should stop for now. Let's get something to eat first, thankfully my "house husband duties" are switch to the evening... though training is being held in the morning to early afternoon, which not the greatest thing to hear."
Before that..... haha! Here we go!
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–Active (0/1)–
–None
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Elite–Dragon Projection
Elite–Oddyseus Draw
Great! So all I need to do is think about my abilities and then a panel of the...Chaos Gacha? I'll it Chaos Gacha—will appear.
But, um... I can only use a single ability right now? I really hope that changes in the future...
Anyways if that's the case, I chose dragon projection since unlike odyseus draw, it should have some defensive capabilities.
.....There's a 5 minute cooldown just to change the ability? Again, I hope this changes when I keep using the Gacha frequently.
Speaking of Gacha, I should probably use that bronze ticket I got from removing that torment curse.
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Rolling Random Bronze Ticket...
Paper Trail
|Common Trait|
For some reason you are always carrying the relevant paper or information with you. And so do your familiars apparently. Just reach into your pocket and you can find whatever legal identification you need.
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Oho~ that's pretty handy when I need to get into America or in other countries.
Still, I need to get more tickets... how exactly do I—
Ticket Information:
To gain tickets you must complete achievements that will corresponds to the Ticket value.
Example; Beating 10 men in a bar fight would be considered a bronze ticket value. While having rough sex with death would give you a value of a legendary or mythical ticket(depends how rough—for you specifically).
Right... weird examples, but I get the gist of it.
"Alright, time to meet the others again."
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~Leandros POV~
After getting out of the room and down a two floor stairway, I made my way to a large dining room, big enough to accommodate at least 50 people, a bit exesive when there weren't many young Doryans in this communal home currently.
Right now there's only about 20 of them, half were about my age and the rest haven't reach ten yet. At this moment all of them gathered around the largest table, as I made my way towards them, I notice the table covered with a variety of fruits, vegetables, and a few meat dishes. Now normally from what my current memories tells me, the tables always have plenty of food everytime we gathered around to eat, today however it held WAY more than usual.
The reason for the increase is probably as a celebration for the ones that will be starting their training.
*GRRRRRR~~
Welp, it seems my stomach doesn't want to wait any longer, so let's eat.
While I sat down I grabbed several plates of food and began to stuff myself, eating as much as I can until the hunger went away.
"*Phew~, that hit the spot," After about 20 minutes when my hunger finally disappeared, I left a stack of 25 plates besides me, thankfully the food portions are normally big, and since today it way bigger, I didn't have to worry if the others had eaten.
As I stretched, I watched the others eat, play around, and talk with each other while having fun, yet non of whom notice I had arrived earlier and still haven't registered my appearance despite my... scene just now.
"Hey, guys, have you seen Leandros yet, he's supposed to be up by now~." Then a guy with pinkish white hair, golden beige skin, and blue eyes, softly spoke, his name is Tyrian.
"Yeah, where is the guy? He knows today's were supposed to start training." A guy with bright red hair, ebony skin, dark gold eyes, replied with concern, his name's Ariston.
"Relax guys, you know how he usually is, he's probably here right now listening on us." This time a guy with dark green hair, olive skin, and red eyes answered Ariston question nonchalantly, Drakonis is his name.
"Honestly, with his... lack of presence, it had always been kinda hard to "sense him", I mean remember when we were kids? We always forgotten him no matter the occasion, even now it's difficult to recall his face exactly, unless of course when he spoke directly infront of us—we wouldn't recognize if he was here right now." Drakonis calmly commented as he ate a watermelon.
"True, but that doesn't mean I don't feel like a jerk about it—I mean, come on the four of us are all childhood friends, yet we keep forgetting about him? I can't help but feel as if I'm a bad friend... or bad brother." Ariston responsed back with some guilt in his voice.
"I'm sure you're overthinking it, at the very least now the three of us can normally remember Leandros. Heck, theres's a good chance his name hasn't appeared in the others heads yet." Drakonis continued as he pointed his thumb towards the other Doryans.
That's another thing, apparently when I was reincarnated in this world I had both my curses and my traits upon birth, so you can most likely tell having the trait 'Nothing Strange' and the curse 'loner' didn't exactly help this life childhood.
Though for some reason this life didn't my previous life memories, abilities, skills, and items at birth, only when I "awakened" earlier did I receive them.
And these guys, Ariston, Drakonis, and Tyrian are my childhood friends that I first met when transferring to this home.
"Like Drakonis said you don't need to worry about me, I also finished eating already." Hearing them talk about, I couldn't but pipe up.
"Leandros!"
"Told ya."
"Morning Leandros~!"
Seeing me chilling as I lean back against my chair cooly, Ariston, Drakonis, and Tyrian had responded back cheerfully exactly how my memories show's.
"Ah Leandros!"
"Good morning Leandros!"
"Morn'n!"
Soon, everyone else gave me a good morning before they gradually went back doing whatever they were doing, slowly ignoring me.
Although I know it's only because of the Loner Curse, I couldn't help but find it just a tad bit rude with how fast they ignored me, well, at least got friends who won't forget me easily.
Speaking of which...
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Author:
Decided to drop this a lil' early since I got a very good grade of my first C.N.A exam.
Unfortunately, there is quite a lot of homework, which is another reason why I decided to upload this chapter early for this week.
Also I made this chapter with little to no Chatgbt influence, is it good or should I change something?