History Fanfic / Theogony

** [[spoiler: Lung]] is a god, while Narwhal is a demi-god.

* BroughtDownToNormal: Freya gave up her divine powers to strengthen her daughter. As a result, she was mortal when Taylor was born and susceptible to anything that could kill a human, such as the car crash that led to her death.

* EmotionBomb: Victoria's aura causes awe that either makes people love or fear her. However, when it tried effecting Taylor she instinctively saw it as an attack.
* EveryoneHasStandards: Kratos in the past was ThePornomancer who [[ReallyGetsAround got around quite a bit]], not being very picky about the women he bedded. Medea was such an insane lunatic that he outright states that he would never sleep with her.

** And, in the meantime, he's running the resistance against Moord Nag and her warlords - and is so effective that all of North Africa has banded together and named him as their joint army's general.

* TattooedCrook: Averted. Taylor's tattoos are actually an extensive series of runes made to bestow nigh absolute protection as well as the powers of various deceased gods on her. However, everybody else who doesn't know better believes this trope is played straight since the only people in town with full-body ink like hers are the resident neo-nazi gang.

* MixedAncestry: On a mundane level Taylor is half Greek and half Scandanavian. On a divine level, Taylor is Half Greek God and Half Vanir. Though with domains from as many dead gods across the world that she could find it might be too narrow to restrict her to just those two. She acknowledges her ancestry but identifies herself as an American God.

** Taylor was a parahuman in ''Worm'', but here she's a goddess due to being the daughter of Kratos and Freya.

* DomainHolder: Taylor turns her house and yard into her personal godly domain [[BiggerOnTheInside that contains it's own forests and mountains]]. Not only is it her home, but it's also her growing religion's own personal Heaven. Any of her faithful who die will end up going to her yard after death.

* MistakenForRacist: Taylor turning back up in Brockton Bay covered in Nordic runes, including a symbol of Thor that looks like a swastika on her neck at the same time the E88 debuts a member called Rune could not have been worse timing. [[spoiler: Though the whole thing was engineered by Coil.]] It's sadly a TruthInTelevision thing, as the Nazis did coopt a lot of Nordic ideology and symbolism, and thus a lot of it (including the Swastika) are now associated with ThoseWackyNazis.

* YourSoulIsMine: Said word for word by Taylor right before she rips [[spoiler: Coil's]] soul out.

** And, in the meantime, he's running the resistance against Moord Nag and his warlords - and is so effective that all of North Africa has banded together and named him as their joint army's general.

* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: What's Kratos doing while the story focuses on Taylor? Fighting Moord Nag and the Endbringers in Africa to buy her the time she needs to get strong enough to face the Destroyer of Worlds. When we say "fighting the Endbringers", we mean '''all of them.'''

** It's implied that her presence causes Coil's power to malfunction - at least twice people talking to Coil about Taylor to suddenly find themselves in a situation where they have not spoken with him, leaving them disoriented.

* Really700YearsOld: Kratos. He's been alive for about 3,000 years at this point. He was later able to piece together that he was born somewhere around 700 B.C.. This means that by the time the story starts, he'd have to be, at most, 2,711 years old.

* BaldOfAwesome: Kratos, as usual. Even in his form as Danial Hebert, he's still bald and extremely intimidating.

* TheChainOfHarm: Marie Herren doesn't hate but is afraid of black people after the cape, Baron Kriminel attacked an E88 barbeque and killed a child there, as payback for them sheltering Hookwolf after he killed Kriminels family.

* MistakenForRacist: Taylor turning back up in Brockton Bay covered in Nordic runes, including a symbol of Thor that looks like a swastika on her neck at the same time the E88 debuts a member called Rune could not have been worse timing. [[spoiler: Though the whole thing was engineered by Coil.]] It's sadly a TruthInTelevision thing, as the Nazis did coopt a lot of Nordic Ideology and Symbolism, and thus a lot of it (including the Swastika) are now associated with ThoseWackyNazis.
* NeverMessWithGranny: Sunny is a barely four foot one old Inuit woman with a face like a bad of wrinkles who dresses like she's going to a rock concert, who just so happens to be Narwhal's grandmother and Ataksak, the Inuit Goddess of the sky and at her whim can turn the sun on and off at her will.
* NighInvulnerability: Taylor has the same sort of protection on her that her half-brother Baldur did that made him impossible to kill, only perfected so she can still feel, and unlike her brother whose lone weakness was mistletoe Taylor is still vulnerable to attacks that can bypass her skin. When Shadowstalker shoots her with a phased arrow it goes past her skin and solidifies inside her again.

* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: What's Kratos doing while the story focuses on Taylor? Fighting the Endbringers in Africa to buy her the time she needs to get strong enough to face the Destroyer of Worlds. When we say "fighting the Endbringers", we mean '''all of them.'''

* PersonOfMassDestruction: Taylor is the daughter of the God who slew his entire pantheon and the Norse Goddess of magic with all the power such a heritage implies along with the power and domains of as many deceased gods as her mother could graft onto her. One particularly bad emotional freak-out caused a good chunk of the country to be buried under several feet of snow and caused a national park to be reduced to splinters.

* DomainHolder: Taylor turns her house and yard into her personal godly domain [[BiggerOnTheInside that contains it's own forests and mountains]]. Not only is it her home, but it's also her growing religion's own personal Heaven. Any of her faithful who die will end up going to her yard when they die.

* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: What's Kratos doing while the story focuses on Taylor? Fighting the Endbringers in Africa to buy her the time she needs to get strong enough to face the Destroyer of Worlds. When we say "Endbringers", we mean '''all of them.'''

-->Summary of ''Theogony''

* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Medical authority that it. Amy is able to accept pretty quickly that Taylor is a god rather than a parahuman, since her power lets her understand someone's biology she knows Taylor doesn't have either organ needed to be a parahuman.

* StrongAsTheyNeedToBe: Kratos lampshades that his strength is practically whatever is needed to solve the situation at hand.

* TheDreaded: The Endbringers, as per usual, but here even gods fear them. The Endbringers systematically hunt down the gods one-by-one, which gets mortals caught in the crossfire. It turns out that Leviathan ''specifically'' targeted Newfoundland in order to destroy a place sacred to Freya, and a god travelling by plane was attacked by the Simurgh.

* FlingALightIntoTheFuture: [[spoiler: One of Taylor's visions of Freya implies that Freya did this with Taylor, without Kratos knowing. She implies that she knows she will die while mortal, and that she and Kratos know that Taylor is the one who will destroy Zion and save the world.]]

* TheDreaded: The Endbringers, as per usual, but here even gods fear them. The Endbringers systematically hunt down the gods one-by-one, which gets mortals caught in the crossfire.

* MistakenForRacist: Taylor turning back up in Brockton Bay covered in Nordic runes, including a symbol of Thor that looks like a swastika on her neck at the same time the E88 debuts a member called Rune could not have been worse timing. [[spoiler: Though the whole thing was engineered by Coil.]]

* SuperiorSuccessor: Taylor's invulnerability when compared to Baldur's is this. She has the same enchantment to make her invincible, but it's been perfected so she can still feel sensations like pain and touch, ensuring that she doesn't go mad from sensory deprivation. Also while it still has the same problem of her having a single weakness[[note]] The enchantment isn't able to grant ''100%'' invulnerability and her weakness is much rarer than Baldur's (Baldur's lone weakness was mistletoe, while Taylor's lone weakness is attacks that can phase through her skin[[/note]], her weakness is much, much rarer even with capes. Not to mention that unlike with Baldur, using her weakness against her doesn't cause the enchantment to break and render her vulnerable to everything else.

* SuperiorSuccessor: Taylor's invulnerability when compared to Baldur's is this. She has the same enchantment to make her invincible, but it's been perfected so she can still feel sensations like pain and touch, ensuring that she doesn't go mad from sensory deprivation. Also while it still has the same problem of her having a single weakness[[note]] The enchantment isn't able to grant ''100%'' invulnerability[[/]], her weakness is much rarer than Baldur's [[note]] Baldur's lone weakness was mistletoe, Taylor's lone weakness are attacks that can phase through her skin[[/note]], her weakness is much, much rarer even with capes, and unlike with Baldur using her weakness against her doesn't cause the enchantment to break and render her vulnerable to everything else.

* SuperiorSuccessor: Taylor's invulnerability when compared to Baldur's is this. She has the same enchantment to make her invincible, but it's been perfected so she can still feel sensations like pain and touch, ensuring that she doesn't go mad from sensory deprivation. Also while it still has the same problem of her having a single weakness [[note]] The enchantment isn't able to grant ''100%'' invunerability[[/]], her weakness is much rarer than Baldurs [[note]] Baldur's lone weakness was mistletoe, Taylor's lone weakness are attacks that can phase through her skin[[/note]], her weakness is much, much rarer even with capes, and unlike with Baldur using her weakness against her doesn't cause the enchantment to break and render her vulnerable to everything else.

* OnlyAFleshWound: It's noted that Taylor takes having arrows suddenly phased into her back much better than she really should, showing that even without her mother's protections shes not that easy to kill.

* SuperiorSuccessor: Taylor's invulnerability when compared to Baldur's is this. She has the same enchantment to make her invincible, but it's been perfected so she can still feel sensations like pain and touch, ensuring that she doesn't go mad from sensory deprivation.

* GoMadFromTheIsolation: Mimir brings up in a conversation with Taylor that isolation tends to drive others mad, and it's worse with gods due to their immortality. Her parents were able to avert this by always finding people to care for and care for them in kind.