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[kouros]

All illnesses come from my arrows. Influenza, the pox, the Black Death, the plague, all of it was my creation. However, once I hit that first person with the disease, it is out of my control. It...it evolves, it changes, it becomes a disease that is entirely different from what it was at first. The Black Death was a simple fever, yet...well, I am certain you know your history. That was a rare moment when I stepped in to remove the illness completely. Humanity has, as a rule, been able to adapt and end many of my creations and I rarely need to take control of a disease back.

[fliesonfour]

[Well, all right, don't get ahead of yourself. Now he's looking well startled, and if his axis tilts away from you a bit... can he be blamed? You invented the pox. He really hopes you didn't give the name to 'the Black Death', at the very least, in order to be redeeming.]

...But why do it?

[Really, it's unfathomable to him; to create that much suffering. If you should know they fall out of control, why continue making them? He'd consign himself to being quite destitute, if it meant doctors were no longer needed by way of lack of fevers and rashes.]

And why should you not remove them, if it's in your power?

[Okay, sorry. He looks mildly horrified now.]

[kouros]

[Apollo supposes he should be mad for the questions but...well, he's never been asked those before. It can't hurt.]

Do you ask a dog why it barks, or a bird why it flies? We do it because we were born to do it. It is as much a part of who I am and my role in the universe, making diseases and releasing them, as healing them is as much a part of who you are. I cannot help that they so rapidly change in ways not even I can predict. That is what comes of dealing with humans, however. They change everything they touch and that touches them and no god, Christian or otherwise, can stop that.

[He runs his hand through his hair]

As to your other question, it usually isn't. I create illness and then myself or my son will grant doctors the abilities to cure them if they can indeed be cured. I'm afraid that blindness and spasms and the like are largely not illnesses but are directly related to the muscles, even if it was a fever that made the person blind. But once the illness is released, I can only curse a city with a plague or remove that curse. I can heal an individual or a household. I cannot remove the illness entirely unless failing to do so would result in mass extinction. When Pandora opened that box, she took the total control over disease from the gods and gave it to the humans. It is up to humanity to rid the world of disease, if they so desire.

[fliesonfour]

Dogs and birds do not speak French quite in the usual manner to be asked, but that would be a trick.

[Metaphor; why agree to it when you could instead take things literally and have a dog that speaks French? Really, by his description, it seemed Man has a bit of a leg up over Gods. Just as he'd suspected, then; the universe meant well, but had its mix-ups, and men had their chances at creating their own destiny by fixing them.

He nodded to the explanation, which was sensible enough to suit him; if not a bit flowery!; but still looked distinctly uncomfortable in the presence of the Creator of All Things Quite Awful.]

Well! We do desire it, I daresay. It can be done then, there's hope yet. [He eyed the God, a little wary, cringing a bit and brows furrowed worriedly, but not with any real malice or fright.] Except for allergies! No one is perfect, eh?

[Look, a joke!]

[kouros]

[He laughs a bit. He can tell that Joly is still wary but...god. He's used to it]

Or the common cold. Even I am not certain where that one came from and not even the gods are immune to it. But everything else is, yes, curable or will be in the future.

[fliesonfour]

If not from the Gods, then from the devils. More difficult, that, but what doesn't kill us--

[Makes us stronger?]

...weakens our immune systems irreparably. So that's quite serious.

[What are joking about the common cold; that's a topic that's never funny, okok.]

[kouros]

Actually, certain illnesses aside, most diseases that do not kill you the first time likely won't should you catch them a second time. There is a reason for that, in here-- [He taps Joly's chest] --but humans are not to discover that particularly interesting part of their humanity for some time and I am not allowed to tell you beforehand.

[fliesonfour]

Well, perhaps not the same, no; but taking to others becomes a bit easier, doesn't it?

[He'd had a particularly distressing case where a flu was recovered from, but the cough stuck by and eventually became a whopping cough.

He is going to try not to flinch when he'd prodded in the chest by the God of Everything He Is Afraid Of. Really. He gave it his best effort. Don't want to be rude.]

You see into the future then, too? Now I know why you're so awfully bored! Most of us cannot even remember what we're doing next Tuesday.

[kouros]

Gods, do they really not teach what you call the classics? I'm the god of prophecy. For example, you, young kýrie, have a young man waiting for you at your apartment.

[The tone says Apollo knows exactly why he's waiting, too]

Without the young mademoiselle.

[fliesonfour]

There's enough to learn as medical college already without also taking on the burden of the poet and the philosopher, and Grantaire goes on so well and long and enthusiastically, that all the Gods and maidens and half-Gods and heroes all become quite a blur, and--

[Wait, what.

A pause, and he stares, before clearing his throat and going to pat some of the muggy moisture from his face agan.]

...Well, the French men are not so terrible either, decidedly. Though the title still goes to its women.

[He can't really bring himself to be overly-embarrassed about their eagle, after all. He was quite proud of their happy trio, in all its parts and breakdowns.]

[kouros]

I do not see why both cannot share it.

[Seriously, he really doesn't care]

Except for the...well, royal families stopped being a good idea centuries ago, if you ask me. At least with all that inbreeding. It may be harmless for gods but for humans?.

[He shudders]

[fliesonfour]

We would share it, my good man-- ...god-- if only we had quite so much hair on our heads as they. Between my boy and my girl, she has twice mine and he less than half. Therefore, the title is theirs.

[It's the gentlemanly thing to do, anyway.]

Royal families are an unfortunate side-effect of the old world! But soon to be gone, I dare hope. There was a good deal of hemophilia passed on among those sorts of families, admittedly.

[kouros]

And insanity and that chin and ugh.

[He shudders]

[fliesonfour]

The royal chins? It's more the royal heads and what goes on inside of them, possibly even the royal hearts, that really are a wonder-- to lawyers and doctors alike.

I, personally, have never had any personal quarrel with an Imperial Chin before.

[kouros]

Hapsburgs, sir, Hapsburgs. I may be pre-dating that just a tad, but watch the Hapsburgs.

[fliesonfour]

Sounds rather Germanic? German chins, as weapons; good news for the Burschenschaft, who stalk about thinking they need gunpowder!

[Student Revolutions, man. They're trendy.]

[kouros]

...Must be pre-dating myself again. The perils of foresight. Are you a revolutionary?

[fliesonfour]

Awful lot of time in your head, it must happen easily.

[He gave, waving a hand to show it was no matter.

And now, casually conversing with a God. If he was Grantaire, he might have more existential questions, if he was Prouvaire, he might be beside himself with joy, if he was Combeferre, he might be dubious.

But, as he was himself. Now that he was apparently divinely cured (for the moment), well-dressed, and knew Bossuet was waiting on him...

Casual conversation. Yes.]

Perhaps I ought to ask you that? I think to be, maybe! It really depends on the weather.

[Which was to say, he absolutely was one.]

[kouros]

I am a god. The only revolutionary ideas I have pertain to music, health, and occasionally sports.

[He snorts at Joly's answer]

Mm, so when aren't you one?

[fliesonfour]

No reason to sell yourself quite so short. I'm sure you might be able to fit art in, as well.

[Gods always had rather too many self-portraits done of themselves, he'd thought; for immortals who were unchanging, they'd certainly remember what they looked like without having to jot it down.

But the styles did change in how to paint them over time, that they did. There, then.]

I am decidedly not one when it is too moist out. Rain wets gunpowder, and worse; gives you a chill. If a man must struggle for his ideals, then please, not by influenza's hand.

[kouros]

Influenza is just another oppressor, though.

[He might be poking on purpose. He hasn't had a good poke-the-human session in a while, and Joly's a fun one.

Pretty, too]

[fliesonfour]

Quite! I battle that by paying tuition.

[Still, at even the thought of influenza's oppression, he's pursing his lips a little and clearing his throat.]

A revolutionary in many ways, I am; but only in the sun.

[And this is Paris, so really, that's about 30% of the year.]

[kouros]

[Apollo pulls a crystal from thin air]

While it will not keep you completely free of illness, this will do better than any tea, tincture, or magnet will. Would you like it?

[fliesonfour]

[Joly almost flinches a little at the trick, just a bit flighty, given the subject matter.

Raising a brow slightly afterwards, he wonders briefly how that could all be a question.]

Unless it is cursed somehow, I don't see how anyone would say no...?

[kouros]

It's the price that scares most away. Not your soul or anything, do not worry. Interested?