thekidfrombrooklyn | OOM: Orpheus

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OOM: Orpheus

Steve has had a busy day--busier than he anticipated, in fact, and he'd rather go back to base fresh than worn out.

And he has the key Orpheus gave him.

So it's one supersoldier, one sleepy shower and a solid eight hours later, who's asleep in Orpheus's bed.

[ooc: Adult content warning.]

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"Saints are holy people. They intercede on behalf of the rest of us.

"For instance, when I applied to Cooper Union, I prayed to the patron saint of artists that I'd get in. Cooper Union only accepts five percent of the people who apply there, at least in the art school. Obviously I got in."

"But they're not gods. They have a domain and they...I mean, what does it mean to be the patron saint of something?"

"Well," Steve says, frowning in thought, "it is kind of like being a god of something. When you need something specific, you go to that saint.

"Or, I was named for St. Stephen. I think because my mother hoped I'd be as strong as he was."

"But you don't...worship them?"

"No. You ask them to appeal to God for you."

"Why does it matter what they're patron of, then?"

Steve is not the first person to try to explain this to him. He still doesn't get it.

"Because they have specialties, I suppose. I don't really know--it's just how it's done."

"Doesn't it seem needlessly complicated?"

Steve laughs. "That's why the Protestants came about. To protest what they saw as corruption."

"I thought that was about priests having too much money."

"Well, that, too. And making money off of repentance. There were a lot of reasons."

"It's a dangerous thing when religion runs the world," Orpheus says. "No matter whose it is."

Though secretly he thinks the Buddhists might do a decent job of it.

"I know. I took world history."

He pauses. "It's not going to interfere with us, if you're worried about that. I'm not going to try and baptize you. I don't even go to mass that often, like I said. I haven't taken communion or gone to confession for a long time, and I probably won't for a while."