@kara_dreamer I see it almost like knitting. It's just something she likes doing, throwing spears everywhere, suplexing boulders just because she can. Having a moving target to practice against just makes it pleasantly challenging.

Am I fully out of "reading the original material" and into "self-indulgent projection?" ...Yeah, probably. And I don't regret a damn thing.

@Dauntless hah! I see it as building a personal mythology rather. Of course these figures have become much larger than their originals, for they are _that_ powerful--almost archetypal in their force, they accumulate meaning with time rather than fading. Undyne is as real and vital a figure to me as Artemis or Inanna--more vital, even, for she is real to me in a way that those distant entities are not.

@Dauntless (hope I don't catch too much hell for that last, Artemis and I have a chancy relationship)

@kara_dreamer I wish I could put words to the feelings this gives me, but for lack of that, imagine me enthusiastically but very confusedly waving my arms around as if trying to fold smoke.

@Dauntless haha! :D Artemis was an early goddess of interest to me but later on I got kind of allergic to the Greek pantheon in general. She's a difficult one to like, as it turns out. I think she tends to inspire unpleasant fanaticism (cf. the _Hippolytus_ of Euripides). But occasionally I've gotten a prickle of warning to at least respect her.