"Nope, you need to be famous around regular people. ... There's a reason that there aren't a lot of new gods. It's not like the gods have children often, and the ones that do tend to stay hidden until a crisis happens. And among those there are very few who make it to demigod, and fewer still to godhood."

He shrugs. "Look, I know of people who write novel-length fanfiction of characters having sex. Writing is writing, at least you're being creative." But as he goes on... oh gods that sounds like a nightmare. And he kind of figured it was his book. "If he hated it so much why did he read it? That sounds like a waste of time."

Eheh. "I know the whole 'disappointing to family' thing. I was going to go to university and get my funeral director's license but even if I did that I don't know if my dad would have ever let me take over the family business. And then I find out he's an extremely long-lived mage so it's not like the business was going to get handed over soon anyway." Wait. Uh. "... Fuck it, it doesn't matter anyway. Magic isn't a secret here. But he never told me and I had to find out in a... really unpleasant way."