Bramble Thorn
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"Already done. I also spoke to a demon who was trying to make himself into something… Big, my merging with an newly emergent titan."
"That-." He frowns, his eyes growing distant. "Titan of what?"
"Technology."
He regards me impassively for a moment. I regard him right back for a moment, then raise my eyebrows. He looks down and shakes his head.
"Is this that… God of Technology you were talking about? Because-."
"Merging would risk you losing your personality. We're talking about drawing power into your current framework."
"If that could work… I could… Hoh-hoh-hoo, you… You know how to tempt a man." He considers it for a moment, then shakes his head. "It wouldn't be enough."
"Wouldn't it?"
"To beat Zeus. I don't have anywhere that could store a titan. I don't have the knowledge-."
"Hecate does."
"You went there first. Of course you did. I didn't like Simpson's plan because I would stop being me. Just drawing power…" He shakes his head. "But it still wouldn't give me enough power. Not one versus a dozen."
"Not using Hecate's leaching method. But like I said, the demon was planning on binding it to him fully."
Also, fucked up. He uses 'the ones who walk away from Omelas' reference last chapter as what is being done to the Titans is not a good thing, and how the people who want them released have a point. Then goes from that to talking about doing the same thing to a new Titan. Who he knows for sure is innocent of whatever (possibly trumped up charges for many of them) officially landed the other Titans in Tartarus, on account of being a new born.
Where apparently the Titan has enough personality that merging with the Titan instead is 'bad' but binding it in what I guess is the same way the Titans in Tartarus are is alright? ("I don't have anywhere that could store a titan" doesn't sound like he is going to be left free-range except for the binding)
...you know, it'd be hilarious if one day Zatanna ends up coming after him, for the same reasons they went after Nabu. Trying to turn people into parts. OL may have tunnel vision and only care about that stuff when it involves someone they care about, but many people who encounter stuff personally end up having a large problem with it in general. Having you dad get Nabu'd doesn't mean you are ambivalent to some stranger getting Starro'd, because it doesn't involve you; it means you draw parallels between their situation and your personal situation, and become even more pissed off then you would have been otherwise. They have no room for that sort of stuff in their ideal vision of how the universe should work. Something OL should be familiar with, seeing how he uses that example of how to manage high-concept desire as a talking point.
Honestly, this situation feels like Zoat-the-author being a big numpty here. OL has a forgone stuff like ring-construct minions because it made him uncomfortable.