Parental Divorce

Question: You recently mentioned that some of the PCs have been tempted to switch pantheons. Which PC seems most serious about this, and what pantheon is s/he considering? How do you think this would affect his/her relationships with the band and with his/her current pantheon?

Our players loudly declaim that they're quitting their pantheon a lot of the time, actually, usually whenever the Legend 12 gods do something they think is particularly asinine or screw them over particularly effectively. Sowiljr quits the Aesir like once a week, Jioni threatens to abandon the ass-backwards Loa men to their own devices, and the Dodekatheon Scions are pretty vocally disgruntled with their pantheon, but despite all their mutterings they're usually not serious. Loyalty and Piety make it hard to bow out, and anyway most of the players chose that pantheon because they wanted to play inside it.

I'd say that the only one who's sort of seriously considered it is probably Terminus; his home life is kind of terrible, with Hermes continually denigrating him for being a fuck-up, Apollo and half the Greek Titans trying to murder him all the time, the entire Roman complement of the pantheon pranking the shit out of him for taking one of their names, gods constantly making unreasonable demands of him and then punishing or mocking him when he fails to deliver, no room to really do a lot of his godly activities because scores of other little gods are already doing them, and a lot of people whose Vengeance keeps conflicting with his hyperactive Valor. He's half-jokingly threatened more than once to defect to the Aztlanti; not that they wouldn't piss his Valor off just as much, but some of them (especially Tezcatlipoca, who has point-blank told Terminus that he's the son he always wished he'd had) are pretty fond of him, he has a solid function there as the designated psychopomp who brings the gods to the mortal world to help them, and he has a general feeling that they dick their children over less.

I doubt he'd ever actually make the switch, though, unless some trigger event with the Dodekatheon sent him over the edge. If he did, there'd probably be equal numbers of Dodekatheon gods swearing eternal revenge and those who barely noticed him in the first place and couldn't care less (he might get off the hook with the Romans, though!). But the Aztlanti would also expect him to start murdering people, Aiona would probably try to set him on fire for being a traitor, and he'd have Eztli constantly riding herd on him to try to turn him into a productive member of society, so I'm not sure it would be more of a fun time for him.

Pantheon-hopping is just such a big, irrevocable deal that most people don't really want to do it, even if they whine about it in moments of extreme upset or anger. And, sadly, a pantheon that doesn't ruin its childrens' lives doesn't really exist; they just all do it in their own unique ways.