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half mortal, half divine, fully resentful of dad's part-time custody arrangement
means A being who is part human and part god, often the offspring of a deity and a mortal, possessing some but not all of a god's power.
from From Latin roots: 'demi-' meaning 'half' (via Old French, from Latin 'dimidius,' 'divided in two') stitched onto 'god,' an old Germanic word. The compound entered English in the 16th century as a calque — a translation borrowing — of Latin 'semideus,' itself coined to render the Greek 'hēmitheos' (hēmi- 'half' + theos 'god'), the term ancient poets used for heroes like Heracles who straddled the line between Olympus and earth.
- job title
- divine intern with no benefits
- hercules
- earned godhood only after dying horribly
- common origin
- a god's affair with a mortal
- expiration
- most still die like everyone else
- perk
- superhuman strength, garbage life expectancy
heracles — son of zeus and alcmene in greek mythology, performed twelve labors
achilles — son of thetis and peleus, central figure of homer's iliad
percy jackson — fictional son of poseidon, protagonist of rick riordan's book series