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aspoonofsugar · 2 years

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Hola, me gustan mucho tus objetivos, son muy interesantes. Especialmente cuando trabajas sobre RWBY. Mi pregunta es: ¿cuáles son sus alusiones y referencias favoritas de cuentos de hadas que RWBY ha usado y desarrollado? En concreto, la forma en la que han trabajado esa ilusión dentro del programa.

Hello!

Thank you for the very nice words and I am so so sorry it took so much time to answer you! You see, I was writing this super long Weiss's meta on her Snowhite allusion and I have a meta (hopefully shorter LOL) on Cinder's allusion planned. In my ideal world I wanted to finish them both before answering, so that I had more material and thoughts to share :''')

However, the Weiss's analysis took A LOT, so I decided to actually answer you before writing the Cinder one!

In short, I love RWBY's allusions! They go right to the heart of the source material and reference it in original and complex ways. The writers usually choose 1 or 2 thematic elements and repeat it multiple times throughout the story. At the same time, this repetition ends up alluding to the original pretty closely both in terms of structure and theme. Add some inversion, some subversion and some deconstruction/reconstruction and you get RWBY allusions :)

I'll share some of my favourites right away, but before that, I would like to quickly highlight how rich RWBY's motifs are.

TEAM ALLUSIONS

Many teams share a specific way their allusions are used. This usually reflects some thematic concept explored by the group of characters.

RWBY are fairy tales, but they are also built on duality. Ruby is both the Red Riding Hood and the Hunter. Weiss is both Snowhite and the Knight. Blake is both the Beauty and the Beast. Yang is both Goldilock and the Baby Bear (hence why she has so much brown in her outfits :P). This shows our heroines' complexity and richness. They embody both the feminine (Little Red Riding Hood, Snowhite, Beauty and Goldilock) and the masculine (the Hunter, the Knight, the Beast and the Baby Bear). Not only that, but their concepts all explore the idea of the shadow or the inner beast. Blake and Yang do so directly since they both have a "beast" inside them (the Beast and the Baby Bear). Ruby and Weiss do so through their allusions. Ruby faces the Big Bad Wolf, while Weiss the Evil Queen.

JNPR are legends, but their allusions also have a genderbender motif. They allude to people of the opposite sex, who all had to genderbend at one point. This fits their arcs, which are all strongly intertwined with the idea of anima (and interestingly all 4 characters are from anima or have family there). Jaune's arc is about aquiring the positive feminine traits Pyrrha embodies. Nora and Ren instead must integrate with each other and their story is focused on their relationship and complementarity.

Ace Ops are Aesops, aka stories with a black and white morality (most of the time) just like the Atlas Ace Operatives, who are unable to think with their own heads once the world is revealed more complex than just "good" and "bad".

WTCH are what ifs... they are bad endings for positive characters.... What if Watson worked for Moriarty (but also what if Watson were jealous of Sherlock)? What if the Scorpion killed the Frog, but survived? What if Hansel lost Gretel? What if Cinderella were not saved? Interestingly, Cinder fits both WTCH and RWBY's motifs, in the sense that the answer to... "what if Cinderella were never saved" is "she would become an evil stepmother as well". Hence Cinder is both Cinderella (victim) and the Stepmother (abuser). Obviously Salem too fits both the "what if" and "duality" rule. What if the princess from fairy tales could not stay with her prince forever? She would turn into an Evil Witch.

SERIES ALLUSIONS

Each character plays multiple parts within RWBY. Many of them have their own allusions, but they also play important characters in others' stories. For example, Jaune is Joanne D'Arc, but he also plays Snowhite's Prince and Achilles's Patroclus. Moreover, there are some allusions that are so important that they kind of permeate the whole story. The Wizard of Oz allusion is exactly this.

Oz and Salem allude to the Wizard of Oz and the Evil Witch of the West. Qrow, Glynda, Lionheart, Ironwood and Theodore all play into this same allusion. That is not all, though. RWBY themselves can be seen as a new generation of Oz's characters.

Ruby is Dorothy with her personal silver slippers ("You have silver eyes")

Weiss is the Tin Man who has secretly more heart than anyone else

Blake is the Cowardly Lion (or the scaredy cat?) who is the bravest of all

Yang is the Scarecrow, who acts himbo-ish, but is really smart and subtle

In general, the whole plot builds on the Wizard of Oz one. The party goes around the world meeting their previous generation version only to finally go back home (probably the finale will be at Beacon). Not only that, but after the Wizard of Oz disappears (Ozpin's death), Ozma and Tip pop up (Oscar and Ozma).

So, meta-narratively, RWBY, Oscar and JNR are moving in an endless version of the Wizard of Oz. This is also why Ruby's character short in volume 4 has her going from wolves (aka Little Red Riding Hood's enemy) to this:

A very intelligent monkey Grimm (Wizard of Oz's allusion) with only one eye (like the Hound... or Cinder) :P If that is not foreshadowing, I don't know what is.

Anyway, this is precisely why the heroes stepping away from the yellow brick road is interesting:

They fall and leave the Wizard of Oz setting to enter Wonderland (Alyx's land). I am expecting next volume to reference the Alice novels and to be meta-narratively different from others.

FAVOURITE ALLUSIONS

So, now we arrive at some of my favourite allusions so far! Obviously this list may change as the character arcs progress, but also as I discover new things through analyses and metas.

Penny as Pinocchio

Pinocchio is the story of a selfish and lazy puppet, who slowly learns to prioritize others and to work earnestly to obtain what he wants. At the end of the book, he is tested by the Blue Fairy, who asks for his help. Pinocchio immediatley gives her 40 pennies he had worked hard to gain. As a reward for his hard work and generosity, he finally becomes a true boy and the 40 pennies come back to him as 40 golden coins.

Penny takes Pinocchio's premise and inverts it by also combining it with some alchemy metal symbolism. She is a true girl since the beginning, but the world around her refuses to aknowledge this. Ironwood, Salem, Cinder and Watts all think of her as someone with no will nor humanity, that can be easily controlled or manipulated. Meanwhile some of her loved ones, like Pietro, tend to be overprotective and to treat her as a child. Penny's arc is then about affirming her own humanity and independence despite the world being hell-bent on getting in her way. Because of this, Penny's own story becomes a complex and beautiful exploration of what being human (and growing up) means. It is about confronting your feelings, thinking with your own head and making your own choices. However, even if you do all of this perfectly, things may still turn out wrong because having feelings means you can experience friendship and love, but also pain and loss.

When it comes to how Penny's allusion is used in the story, the thematic element she is asked to face over and over is that of the Blue Fairy. She meets her 3 times throughout the Atlas Arc. She appears as Fria (1st), Ambrosius (2nd) and Winter (3rd).

Fria and Ambrosius's roles is to aknowledge Penny's humanity through the worldbuilding. Fria can give Penny the Maiden power because she is a true girl. Ambrosius gives Penny a body that mirrors her interiority. She appears as a human because she is human and has been human all along. At the same time, Penny's experiences with Fria and Ambrosius teach her things about humanity itself. Being human in soul means you have to balance duties and wishes. Having a human body means you can feel pain and are left more vulnerable. In other words, being human is awesome because you have friends and wishes and feelings! But it is also painful and heartbreaking... So is humanity worth it? In the final moments of her arc, when she is already dying, Penny answers that yes, it is... So, she herself chooses humanity, creation and love by making Winter the third and final Blue Fairy (just look at the blue fairy dust ice surrounding Winter's Maiden form).

In the end, RWBY's Pinocchio creates the Blue Fairy and completes her arc from creation (passive/child) to creator (active/adult). This crowning (and tragic as hell) moment is highlighted by Penny disappearing into a golden cloud. No idea if there are going to be plot related reasons for this. Still, symbolically this choice hits 2 sweet boxes.

Shedding the green to reveal the gold underneath it conveys that Penny is leaving behind Pietro's aura color to embrace her own. She is not just her father's daughter/creation anymore, but her own person.

Going from green to yellow is symbolic of Penny going from copper to gold, just like Pinocchio's coins in the novel. It is also a nod to alchemy and to the metal motifs shared by many characters. Gold is the most refined of metals, so Penny becoming gold indicates she has reached perfection.

Apart from all of this, Penny's allusion is full of references or easter eggs. She fights with Lampwick (Torchwick), meets the Cat and the Fox (Em and Merc) and is almost eaten by Monstra. Finally, her song directly references Disney Pinocchio's Wishing Upon a Star.

1) Cinder as Cinderella

I am planning a meta on Cinder's allusion, so I won't write much here. That said, I think it is clear why hers is among my favourites. It is a great exploration of Cinderella's story through the what if lens. What if Cinderella were not saved? What if she were not a good victim?

This question leads to a neat exploration of abuse, its consequences and how it is a cycle that perpetuates itself. Fitting to such a thematic core, Cinder's allusion plays on repetition in the sense that she keeps living it over and over again. It starts with Madam and Rhodes playing respectively the Evil Stepmother and the Prince/Fairy Godmother. It goes on with Salem playing both the Fairy Godmother/the Evil Stepmom and Ruby playing the Prince. Similarly, Cinder keeps going through dances, midnights and collecting slippers (the twin swords, the maiden power, Em and Merc). It is a cycle that needs and will be broken. Once this happens, the person Cinder really wants to be will emerge from the ashes and affirm herself.

3) Blake as the Beauty and the Beast

The Beauty and the Beast is at its core a story about love, romantic relationships and the integration between opposites. So, Blake's arc explores these ideas in several ways. It is a reflection on love that starts with toxic love (Adam), goes through one-sided/immature love (Sun) and arrives to mature love (Yang). At the same time, it is also a story about integrating with those different from you (Faunus and Human) and how this co-habitation can be difficult.

Structurally, it works because Blake goes through the basic plot of her fairy tale twice, but in opposite ways. In the first scenario, Adam is the beast and it is an inversion of the original story. In the second scenario, Yang is the beast and the allusion is played straight. As a matter of fact, the Beauty and the Beast is about a young girl separating from the Father and finding a new love and family in the Beast. To be more precise, Beauty leaves her Father to go live in the Beast's castle, but after a while she begs the Beast to let her go visit her dad, who is sick. The Beast lets her, but asks her to be back in a week or he will die. Beauty meets her Father and loses track of time, so when she goes back to meet the Beast, she finds him already dying. By this point, she realizes her love for the Beast, heals him and so they marry and live happily together.

In the inversion storyline, Blake starts as a member of Ghira's group, but leaves it and her parents by choosing to be Adam's partner. After a while, though, Blake chooses to leave the Beast and goes back to Menagerie. Only by reconnecting with Ghira and his ideals, she grows strong enough to go back to Adam and fight him off.

Similarly, Blake leaves both Adam and Menagerie and meets Yang. They grow together, but at one point she chooses to leave her partner, which highly upsets Yang. After reconciling with her family and growing stronger, Blake goes back to Yang and is forgiven by her.

Finally, I find it neat that her allusion makes use of all the members of team RWBY. Ruby is Blake's new Rose that introduces her to Yang and reconnects her with Ghira's ideals. Weiss is Blake's Beauty when it comes to the Faunus plotline. She starts off as prejudiced against Blake and her people, but mellows with time and is now ready to help. Yang is Blake's Beauty when it comes to her romantic plotline. Blake symbolically becomes able to love again and to be herself again through their relationship.

3) Weiss as Snowhite

Snowhite is the story of a child growing up and becoming a different person from their parent. When one is a child, they identify almost completely with their parent. However, once they start growing up, they discover they are their own person. This is what Snowhite appearing in the Evil Queen's mirror represents. In other words:

There's a part of me that's desperate for changes, Tired of being treated like a pawn But there's a part of me that stares back from inside the mirror Part of me that's scared I might be wrong That I can't be strong.

In the original fairy tale, Snowhite is the part who wants to change, while the Evil Queen is the part who refuses to evolve. The fairy tale can be seen as a metaphor for this inner process within an individual. This is also Weiss's story in a nutshell. It is a struggle between the Heiress (The Evil Queen) and the Huntress (Snowhite). They are just 2 sides of Weiss, who go through metaphorical parallel journeys and reconcile in the end.

On the one hand the Heiress has to face herself in the mirror. She has to struggle with her reflection and her undesirable parts until she grows strong enough to destroy the mirror instead of letting herself be controlled by it (so by Jacques).

On the other hand the Huntress has to tame the wild animals through her Glyphs. By doing so, she goes through Snowhite's iconic deaths and resurrections. The Heiress dies, but is reborn as a Knight (Arma Gigas). The Huntress is murdered, but comes back as a Queen (Queen Lancer).

In short, Weiss's journey through the Vale and Mistral arcs has her fo from a Little Spoilt Princess to a Wise Queen. Of course, then there are all the easter eggs and other references. Like The Finest of Them All Schnee Dust Company commercial, Klein as the dwarves and Jacques as the Evil Queen.

5) Ruby as Little Red Riding Hood

I am sure Ruby's allusion will be at the top of my list once it gets more focus and development. As for now, the setup is excellent. Ruby is both the Hood and the Hunter and her journey is bound to be about meeting many Big Bad Wolves. It starts with simple Grimms, it goes on with the Hound and it will probably reach its climax with Summer and Cinder.

In short, Ruby's arc promises to be a story about grief and loss, but also empathy and complexity and I can't wait to have more.

6) Pyrrha as Achilles

Pyrrha's story beautifully re-tells and re-interprets Achilles's journey in the Trojan War. Achilles is asked to choose between eternal glory and a normal life. Similarly, Pyrrha too is asked to decide if she prefers to be a normal girl or a maiden. Her answer is that she is both. She chooses to die a hero not to try and be more than what she is, but because that is who she is. Pyrrha Nikos is a Huntress and Huntresses do the right thing, even if it is hard.

Apart from that, her story is full of little details. Jaune being her Patroclus, but working in reverse, for example. Patroclus's death is what leads Achilles to fight, while in RWBY Pyrrha's death becomes Jaune's main motivation. Then there is the arrow hitting her heel obviously. Finally, the whole fight between Pyrrha and Penny can be seen as a nod to Achilles and Hector's battle. Achilles and Hector were the 2 strongest warriors of easch army, just like Pyrrha and Penny are for respectively Beacon and Atlas. Pyrrha shredding Penny apart can be seen as a reference to Achilles ripping Hector's limbs away, as well.

Honorable mentions

Yang as Goldilock: I have several ideas on Yang's allusion, but somehow I still miss that element which is gonna make it all click together and I wonder if it will be given to us in the next volumes.

In short, Goldilock is the story of a child lacking balance and not being able to fit in. This is the basic idea of Yang's arc. She is unbalanced initially and must learn that asymmetry and uniqueness are not the same as being extreme (hence Tai calling her out on her semblance).

Symbolically, she is initially too hot and needs to cool off (which interestingly she does thanks to Weiss aka the ice to her fire). At the same time, she also tries to be "too big" (hence people asking her both in the yellow trailer and in volume 4 if she isn't too young to drink). I wonder if the too hard/too soft dychotomy will play a part as well. Interestingly, everything seems to be going back to 3 key relationships: Ruby (too hot and too small), Raven (too cold and too big) and Blake (just right, but it would be interesting if they had a final conflict about too soft and too hard, but this is just a headcanon).

At the same time, differently from other allusions, Yang's seems to be cyclical and repeating itself over and over. It starts with her flashback in Burning the Candle, it goes on with the Yellow Trailer and it happens once again in volume 4 when she goes to meet Raven.

Hazel as Hansel: Hazel's arc was simple, but well done and so it's his allusion. Him getting a prisoner to the Witch without Gretchen, but finally being able to burn her up, like her sister does in their fairy tale is cathartic.

The Gods: Sorry, but them alluding to the Grimms Brothers is hilarious and well thought up :''')

Allusions for which I have headcanons I like very very much: Right now, I have theories and thoughts for Jaune, Mercury and Emerald. However, they are not canon as for now.

Allusions I am not sure that are there, but I still love: Emerald and Mercury as the Cat and the Fox, Winter as the Snow Queen (and so Weiss as Gerda), Emerald as Aladdin (I don't think she is meant to be Aladdin, but it is possible the popularity of this theory in the fandom made them consider integrating some bits of this allusion... I mean... only happy if it happens- as for now, it surely leads to some interesting thoughts about who the genies are in Em's arc >>> they are her abusers). I also like the theory of Oscar and the Little Prince, but I need more and tbh... I am fairly sure his allusion to Ozma and Tip too is a great one. It is just I don't know very well the source material tbh. Another one I don't dislike, but there is little evidence is Willow as the Swan Lake.

This is all as for now. I hope this answer brought some interesting thoughts even if it comes late and it is maybe not so well organized!

#rwby #rwby meta #asksfullofsugar #once upon an allusion #hello-crazynoahshipps-rg

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metalindex-hu · 9 months

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Annisokay: modern metalcore hármas élén, új dalokkal tér vissza a német csapat

Annisokay: modern metalcore hármas élén, új dalokkal tér vissza a német csapat - https://metalindex.hu/2023/09/18/annisokay-modern-metalcore-harmas-elen-uj-dalokkal-ter-vissza-a-nemet-csapat/ -

A napokban megjelenő új EP-jét mutatja be élőben október 20-án az Annisokay. A német post-hardcore zenekar a Barba Negra Blue Stage-en játszik majd, két másik metalcore csapat, a norvég Fixation és a skót To Kill Achilles mellett.

A német modern metal színtér egyik neves képviselője az Annisokay: erőteljes, dinamikus és mégis érzésekkel teli dalaikat ma már rengetegen ismerik és kedvelik. A 2007-ben alakult csapatra egyaránt jellemző a lehengerlő hangzású ritmusszekció, a súlyos és sodró gitárfutamok, valamint az agresszív betétekkel nyugtalanított dallamos énekek, kórusok. A dalokban egyaránt megjelennek progresszív metal, pop és EDM hatások is, de a (post-)hardcore jelleg ellentmondást nem tűrően dominál.

Lemezein az Annisokay társadalmi problémákat, emberi érzelmeket és a párkapcsolatok nehézségeit dolgozza fel, komor hangulatú megközelítéssel. A tiszta vokálokért az alakulás óta Christoph Wieczorek a felelős, védjegyszerű hangzást és érzelemgazdag előadásmódot biztosítva. Ötödik nagylemezük, a 2021-es Aurora volt az aktuális hörgős-kiabálós énekes, Rudi Schwarzer első közös munkája a csapattal. Az erőteljes és átütő orgánummal bíró Rudi csatlakozása új fejezetet nyitott a zenekar életében: a lemez a német lemezeladási lista 18. helyén nyitott megjelenésekor, 2022-ben pedig nagy sikerű európai turnén mutatták be, Budapesten is.

Idén csatlakozott Peter Leukhardt új basszusgitárosként, és végre új zenével is jelentkezik a zenekar: tavasszal a Human című dalhoz készítettek egy klipet, majd nyáron a Calamity-hez is. Mindkettő szerepel az Abyss Pt I című, 6 tracket tartalmazó EP-n, ami szeptember 22-én jelenik meg az Arising Empire kiadónál. A második dal klipjét itt nézhetjük meg:

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„A Calamity egy különleges, metalcore verziója Leony (egy német popénekes) Remedy című dalának; arról a küzdelemről szól, amikor olyasmitól akarunk szabadulni, ami nem enged el. A dalszöveg bemutatja azt az intenzív, belső rágódást, amit az ijesztő helyzetből való kitörés érdekében csinálunk végig. Igazán élveztük azt a munkát, amivel az eredetileg lendületes nótából egy komor, súlyos metalcore tételt formáltunk.” – áll a zenekar közleményében.

Az Abyss turnén ott lesz a skót post-hardcore szcéna egyik ismert képviselője, a To Kill Achilles is, akik szintén az Arising Empire-nél adták ki harmadik nagylemezüket augusztusban. „A Recovery albumon a traumákról, tragédiákról és veszteségekről esik szó. Sok szó esett már a negatívumokról, és senki sem élhet örökké ilyen hangulatban, így most fókuszt váltunk, és a gyógyulásra, felépülésre, és az életünk feletti kontroll visszaszerzésére koncentrálunk a lemezen. Köszönjük mindazoknak, akik kitartottak mellettünk az elmúlt években, segítsük egymást az elkövetkező nehéz időkben is, és ünnepeljük együtt a jó dolgokat.” A Cave klipje itt látható:

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Október 20-án elsőnek egy norvég csapat, a 2020 óta működő Fixation mutatkozik be a Barba Negra Blue Stage-en. A csapat még csak idén adta ki More Subtle Than Death című első nagylemezét, de a korábbi kislemezeknek köszönhetően már szolid ismertségnek örvendenek, és nemrég a kontinenst is körbejárták Devin Townsend és az Imminence oldalán. A Flat Earth videóját itt nézhetjük meg:

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A Concerto Music bemutatja: Abyss Tour 2023 2023. október 20., péntek 19 óra Budapest, Barba Negra Blue Stage Annisokay, Fixation, To Kill Achilles koncertek Belépő: elővételben és a koncert napján 6900 Ft. Jegyek kaphatók a https://jegy.rock1.hu oldalon.

Kapcsolódó weboldalak: https://concerto.hu/ https://www.annisokay.com/ https://www.fixationband.com/ https://tokillachilles.shop/

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#Hírek

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jedistranger · 5 years

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[Seeks you out on the battlefield of Troy bc you are a fierce woman warrior killing many Greek soldiers] [slays you] no aha don't die ur so sexy and I'm falling in love with you (:

#catch me vagueing achilles #penthesilea deserved better than to be killed by him #it just brought unwanted attention to her body after her death #penthesilea: I want to Die. I will battle and die honourably while avenging Hector's death. I will kill Achilles #achilles: hmm that lady is killing my men. I will kill her.#achilles: a-KILL-es amirite haha #achilles: *kills penthesilea* oh no wait she's hot #achilles: no wait stop dying I love you

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luxken · 3 years

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pa-tro-clus

okay correct me if im wrong, but im pretty sure in tsoa, the only times we see miller enunciate a character’s name is when achilles pronounces patroclus�� name (pa-tro-clus) and when the crowd as the two arrive back in pythia from pelion says achilles’ (ach-ill-es).

which, I mean, is just the biggest parallel ever, bc the crown chanting achilles’ name saw him as their saviour and their hero. to have achilles say patroclus’ name like that, clearly and with intent, means achilles views him in the exact same way - patroclus is achilles’ hero, he’s the best of him KAJSDHFGHSJASDHJSHD KILL ME

#I finished tsoa yesterday and ive not shut up about it since #nor will I ever #achilles #patroclus #patrochilles #tsoa #the song of achilles #my posts

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littlesparklight · 2 years

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As deeply annoying as "oh Apollo feels so SAD over Achilles losing Patroklos so he's sympathetic and helps them" or other similar "he likes them because they are tragic and a gay couple" or whatever the hell I've seen around, there's also something deeply funny about the whole thing.

Oh, Apollo feels sad over Achilles' loss?

A loss he helped engineer?

The grief of which he calls too excessive, when he wants the gods to make Achilles give back Hektor's corpse?

A loss he helps compound by later helping in killing Achilles, TOO?

Like, completely aside from the fact that Apollo has lost two sons to Achilles, one of them a child sacrilegiously and brutally murdered and mutilated* and has literally not a single, minuscule reason to feel sorry or sad at all for any grief Achilles feels at his loss, you have the plain fact of his involvement in both Patroklos' and Achilles' deaths.

Again, completely aside from his avenging two slaughtered sons, one an unarmed child, he's defending his city, so why would he feel the least bit sympathetic, or care, in regards to their/Achilles' loss?

Achilles isn't the only mortal who has a male lover, during the Trojan war or any time earlier; Achilles and Patroklos isn't that special just by virtue of being two men involved together, so why should Apollo necessarily feel any sort of sympathetic kinship? He has a city to defend, and two sons to avenge.

Probable he felt pretty damn pleased making Achilles suffer in return for the loss(es) he had to suffer.

*I can understand if a lot of people don't know about either Tenes or Troilus depending on what material they have consumed, since you have to at least read that part of Achilles' Wikipedia page to find out about Troilus if you aren't reading Epic Cycle related material otherwise.

#greek myth thoughts #apollo #achilles #patroclus #and like #do not misunderstand me #Apollo can be as smug and unsympathetic as he likes #HE HAS THE RIGHT TO

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raedas · 2 years

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collecting mini playlists from all my mutuals who rb that post like :3 anyway hope my double es dont kill u but eesha !! <3

everyone - mitski

ease my mind - hayley kiyoko

state of grace - taylor swift

happy - mitski

achilles come down - gang of youths

#I COULDNT NOTTT DO HAPPY FOR H...#also sooo true of u beloved #asks #eesha

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esperwatchesfilms · 3 years

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Summer of ‘84 (2018)

Eats: If I find a used condom in there, I’m gonna be so jealous.

Okay. Before I go ahead and give it the 120/100 I think it deserves, I’m going to let everyone know... I almost deducted all 100 points. I liked the movie. I liked the 80s summer adventure with friends, the nostalgia. I liked the actors. I thought it was fun and interesting. For about half the movie. Then I became bored. I got annoyed that this horror movie didn’t have anything horrifying going on. I was annoyed that it appeared to set itself up as “kid and his whacky friends save the day”.

But then he left the station, and I saw how much movie was still left... so I knew something interesting had to happen at the end.

They, of course, end up killing my favorite character, which I’m upset about, but I can forgive because of what killing this character ended up doing for the ending.

The unexpected ending and what I think will be under a spoiler, in case you’re looking at this and haven’t seen it, along with my ESE score.

Woody being murdered is the most genius thing this film did. Having Mackey kidnap Woody and Davey is just such a strong move. He makes them play a real-life game of Manhunt, their favorite neighborhood game, where he gives them a minor head-start and then chases them around this island that has only one bridge that leads to the mainland, though they have no clue what side they’re on or where they’re at on the island, and they have to get past him.

Davey tries to draw attention away so Woody can get away, but Mackey takes off after Woody and ultimately kills him. He slices Davey’s achilles tendon and Davey finds his best friend’s body. When Mackey catches up to him, he lets him know that he WANTS to kill him. But he’s not going to. He says that Davey spent that whole summer thinking about Mackey, and he’s not going to let him stop thinking about him. He tells him that he’s going to get him. That he’ll never be able to stop wondering when or how. If it’ll be in months, if it’ll be in years.

Now, a lesser movie would’ve had him found before the movie ended. Escaping in some asinine way that leaves it up to imagination.

This movie? Gave us the best ending. Mackey disappears into the night, leaving Davey to hobble back toward civilization, losing blood and emotionally distraught all the way.

When he leaves the hospital and gets back to his normal paper route, he has a voiceover that is cool and all, but ultimately has no bearing on how I feel about what happens in the end. On his paper route, he sees his other two friends, Eats and Faraday. Eats and Faraday give him a death glare... a sign that the friendship has ended and that they blame him for Woody’s death and the escape of the murderer.

So, he leave this kid with the everlasting fear that he’s out there and he is going to wait until Davey feels safe, and that’s when he’ll get him. And added to that, is the death glares from his former friends, the girl he likes leaving town, his best friend is dead... All of this? Leads him isolated on top of the constant terror that this dude could be lurking around any corner.

The layers of the psychological horror ending make up for any annoyance that it took so long for me to see anything “horror” about this horror movie. It makes up for killing my favorite character. I loved this ending. BRILLIANT ending.

ESE: 120/100

50 +5 for alien sticker +5 for alien shirt +10 for manhunt making me nostalgic +10 for Judah Lewis +5 for Cory Gruter-Andrew +5 for “peek-a-boobs” -10 for R-slur +5 for Nikki in his bedroom +10 for 80s pop culture references +5 for Nikki talking Davey up to make him look cooler amongst his friends -10 for getting caught +10 for finding the body and saving another kid +20 for such a genius ending

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eden-dum · 3 years

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Mort: I bet Achilles also dies.

Me: Yeah, he does.

Mort: Yeah, cus he's called A-KILL-es, so he gets killed.

#sunnyyyy you promised to take her #now is the time

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frayderike · 3 years

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Books 2021

♥ fav // ♫ audiobook // 🖌 graphic novel, manga // ∞ re-read

my goodreads profile

His Majesty's Dragon (Tremaire #1)

Throne of Jade (Tremaire #2)

The Black Witch (The Black Witch Chronicles #1)

The Iron Flower (The Black Witch Chronicles #2)

The Shadow Wand (The Black Witch Chronicles #3)

An Ember in the Ashes (An Ember in the Ashes #1)

Clockwork Angel (The Infernal Devices #1)

Clockwork Prince (The Infernal Devices #2)

Blackout: Morgen ist es zu spät

Six of Crows (Six of Crows #1) ♥♥♥

Crooked Kingdom (Six of Crows #2) ♥♥♥

A Deadly Education (The Scholomance #1)

Shadow and Bone (The Shadow and Bone Trilogy #1) ♫

The Inheritance Games (The Inheritance Games #1)

The Library of Fates

Clockwork Princess (The Infernal Devices #3)

Legendborn (The Legendborn Cycle #1) ♥

In the Middle of the Night

A Torch Against the Night (An Ember in the Ashes #2) ♫

Siege and Storm (The Shadow and Bone Trilogy #2)

Crown of Feathers (Crown of Feathers #1) ♥

Know My Name ♥♥♥

Ruin and Rising (The Shadow and Bone Trilogy #3)

Sweet Bean Paste

The Language of Thorns: Midnight Tales and Dangerous Magic

Six of Crows (Six of Crows #1) ♥♥♥ ∞

When Breath Becomes Air

Crooked Kingdom (Six of Crows #2) ♥♥♥ ∞

わんわん探偵団2 🖌

King of Scars (King of Scars #1)

Fable (Fable #1) ♫

The Midnight Library

Exhalation ♥

Namesake (Fable #2) ♫

Die Hölle ist die Abwesenheit Gottes

The House in the Cerulean Sea ♥

The Emrpess of Salt and Fortune (The Singing Hills Cycle #1) ♫

When a Tiger Came Down the Mountain (The Singing Hills Cycle #2) ♫

The Beast Player (The Beast Player #1-2)

Stardust ♫

Love Simon ♫

The Upside of Unrequited ♫

Leah on the Offbeat ♫

They Both Die at the End ♫

Clap When You Land ♫

A Reaper at the Gates (An Ember in the Ashes #3)

My Sister, the Serial Killer

Upright Women Wanted ♥ ♫

The Memory Police

A Sky Beyond the Storm (An Ember in the Ashes #4)

Ace of Spades

The Voting Booth ♥

Rule of Wolves (King of Scars #2)

Hood Feminism

The Bad Seed 🖌

The Handmaid's Tale

Howl's Moving Castle (Howl's Moving Castle #1)

The Song of Achilles ♫

Finna (LitenVerse #1)

An Enchantment of Ravens ♫

Number the Stars

Dial A for Aunties

Castle in the Air (Howl's Moving Castle #2)

White Tears/Brown Scars ♥♥♥ ♫

Spoiler Alert

We Hunt the Flame (Sands of Arawiya #1) ♥

To Kill a Kingdom ♫

House of Leaves

Kate in Waiting ♫

The Magic Fish 🖌

The Keeper of Lost Things ♫

Pan's Labyrinth

We Free the Stars (Sands of Arawiya #2) ♥

Scorcery of Thorns ♫

Sky in the Deep ♥ ♫

Hosue of Many Ways (Howl's Moving Castle #3)

The Cruel Prince (The Folk of the Air #1) ♥

The Wicked King (The Folk of the Air #2)

The Queen of Nothing (The Folk of the Air #3)

Binti (Binti #1) ♥

A Monster Calls

A Court of Thorns and Roses (A Court of Thorns and Roses #1)

The Princess Bride ♫

The Historian

Heart of Flames (Crown of Feathers #2)

American Indian Stories

Black Sun (Between Earth and Sky #1)

Tender is the Flesh ♥

The Beautiful Ones ♫

Wings of Shadow (Crown of Feathers #3)

Under the Whispering Door

A Dead Djinn in Cairo (Dead Djinn Universe #0.1)

Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex ♥♥♥

Defekt (LitenVerse #2) ♥♥♥

The Night Watchman ♫

The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper

In meinem Herzen steckt ein Speer: Das Jahr, das alles veränderte

Heart Berries

Crying in H Mart ♫

A Christmas Carol ♫

The Angel of Khan ek-Khalili (Dead Djinn Universe #0.2)

Nicholas St. North and the Battle of the Nightmare King (The Guardians #1)

Depart, Depart!

People We Meet on Vacation ♫

May the Best Man Win ♫

The Haunting of Tram Car 015 (Dead Djinn Universe #0.3)

The Hidden Oracle (The Trials of Apollo #1) ♫

The Unbroken (Magic of the Lost #1)

The Darkest Part of the Forest ♫

Ninth House (Alex Stern #1) ♥

The Last Graduate (Scholomance #2) ♥

Deutscher Humor: Eine Sammlung der besten Beiträge ♥

Winter's Orbit ♥

Krampus

A Psalm for the Wild-Built (Monk & Robot #1)

Certain Dark Things ♫

exit RACISM. rassismuskritisch denken lernen ♫

A Master of Djinn (Dead Djinn Universe #1)

Saga Vol. 1 🖌

Saga Vol. 2 🖌

The Bear and the Nightingale (The Winternight Trilogy #1) ♫

Dropped / DNFed:

Everything I Never Told You

Atomic Habits

Wuthering Heights

And Then There Were None

A Touch of Darkness

The Wolf and the Woodsman

A Court of Mist and Fury

#books #books 2021 #uni ruined my love for books #and then I started working #but now I'm back to reading a lot like I did before uni #I have to catch up to all the hyped fantasy series of the last years lmao #and I have to say that the six of crows series really got me back into reading #the series really was a turning point for me

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caffernnn · 3 years

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Yeah hi again! More tsoa au snippets anyone?

Now that i think about it, albert could be apollo in tsoa, so imagine him taking a look at makoto climbing the walls of troy, disdainfully raises his nose, spits "puny little mortal" and flicks him off the wall with godly telekinetic powers to be killed by our hector, which is hiyori; i mean albert is already symbolized as a god in canon.

Kinjou could be the dickwad pyrrhus since people refer to pyrrhus as achilles without his patroclus, and kinjou is hinted to have given up personal relationships in order to be a stronger swimmer, and fans theorize him to be creating a rift between haru and mako, so yea...there's that. He could be our proud, arrogant, homophobic lil shit pyrrhus who thinks everybody should be like him- friendless and glory-hungry.

AJHSAKDJSK I WANT TO SEE THE CONFRONTATION BETWEEN BRISEIS AND PATROCLUS AS KISUMI AND HARU!!! Imagine haru being mad at kisumi for daring to touch makoto even after his death, when all kisumi wanted to do was clean him since he doesn't deserve to lie in filth, and haru goes apeshit that nobody should touch his makoto and kisumi goes "you're not the only one who ever loved him!!". Kisumi goes on to rant that haru only cares about chasing his honor and that makoto only died to save his reputation, which i got from a prompt under the #kisumako tag where kisumi confronts haru about how makoto chose him instead of kisumi even though he only takes makoto for granted, then jabs haru with "i wish hiyori kills you tomorrow" and haru goes "do you not think i wish the same?" Omg I'm just quoting from the book at this point I'm so sorry 🤭🤭😅😅✌✌✌

I have an idea on how to include the fireworks scen to the scene where patroclus convinces achilles to fight and save the greeks where haru goes "not you too! Do you not see how they don't care for me?!?!" Or like how they are only nice when they need him smth like that and makoto drops the bomb "then let me fight in your stead" and haru goes on an an Achilles-like tantrum "ask me of anything, but not this!!!" Anw that's not the whole dialogue but haru relents in the end.

Imahine hharu arriving in the underworld expecting to find makoto waiting for him only to be unable to find him even after an eternity of searching, so finally breaks, like the fireworks aftermath where he looked like he just got dumped by his bf, and ge curls into himself, realizing he may have lost makoto forever (again)

I just can't stop thinking how the gay panic nao gave makoto is very similar to odysseus' "sharing beds is gay" comment, so imagine makoto, who followed haru everywhere and shared everything with him, suddenly distancing himself and sleeping outside their tent because he feels that he cannot let the entire army they are gay, especially haru, the best of the greeks, so haru confronts him "what's wrong?" And then they resolve by saying "let them think what they want" or "i will not let them hinder us" or "we don't have to change" smth like that and proceeds to do their nightly cuddle, kinda like the dolphin courtship ritual they performed at the pool.

Aaahhh i just want to expand on phoinix's (that would be mikhail???) story about the king who supposedly was forced to choose between his pride or people he rules, and he chose his pride, even with the king's wife (best friend, in this context??? The king in the story would be ryuuji) and did not help his people win the war so his people turned against him. The wife's name sounds like patroclus, and so phoinix was hinting that only makoto could talk haru into fighting. Makoto had to fight, which results to angst, since haru chose his pride, much like the king (pls let this not be what happens in the movie kyoani we beg you)

So that's it. I'll send more when the ideas come. I swear i will try to turn this into a fic if i ever get out of my slump. IF 😫😫😫

Patrochilles AU fans, come get y’all’s juice 💕

It’s always so interesting to see people explore Haru’s relationship with his own pride because it’s definitely multidimensional. There are so many characters who fall victim to their own hubris or struggle with it more externally (the people who appear as antagonists or rivals to Haru both in canon and in different AUs), but it feels more complicated with Haru, at least to me. His pride doesn’t manifest through Haru boasting about his talents or trying to control/lead people, especially early on in his story - the moment(s) his self-esteem shifts into a double-edged pride is when his belief in his current successes and happiness stops him and the people around him from growing and changing. That’s his downfall. My thoughts from my own Free! x Hadestown AU are sporadic at best, but this verse always makes me think about Haru, especially his descent into hopelessness during ES:

Haru falls apart when he clings to his vision of comfort and happiness and forgets the ever-changing life involved in that scene. He holds onto the life he has with Makoto, the life he has with his friends, the life he has swimming however or whenever he wants to… and he blinds himself from the reality that everything evolves and continues to change. His pride comes out in his desperate delusion that he can stop the hands of time through willpower and refusing to watch time go by. He’s definitely not the only one going through this sort of internal battle (I’d argue many of the “antagonist” characters go through similar struggles) but it’s the one we arguably get the most insight on.

ALSO: I love Haru dearly but I also love seeing characters pull himself out of his own head for a bit. That Kisumi interaction to remind Haru that Makoto was loved by a lot of people? Knowing Makoto often holds himself back when it comes to Haru because he’s almost too aware of Haru being watched by the world around them?? There’s so much there to explore I just !!!!

I’m rambling, but thanks for sharing as always!

#tsoa spoilers #free! au #long post #makoharu #kisumako #head full many thoughts #ready to watch Haru fight with his pride again in the movies #thanks for sending!#anonymous

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bilgisticallykosher · 2 years

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Fast Timmy!

Oh yeah, the werebear. Man, still love this opening, still sick. No, I think Terrance is right. Part two recap. Rofl! Can I respond to this. I fully expected him to say "I volunteer Roman to go first." Oooh creative fighting.

AJ, yes!!!! We all want to see Roman launch himself. Gotta figure out new math. WOW, Youngblood with the bad rolls. JAW??? Roman's bad rolls are contagious. Just enough to hit. OH??? Oh I had no idea what a dirty twenty was, but I figured it out, nice. Wow what a time for a nat twenty. Aaaand there go his rolls. Oh, items, right, they grabbed candy.

Vicious mockery. "Na na na boo boo. You furry." Oh, no, his is funnier. Omfg. Also that scene they acted out. Haha "Youngblood at the well" Insulting a child.

BITCH! I'm crying, that's amazing. AHAHA I should not be laughing so hard at "Henderson's dead" he's not, right??? "Shouldn't have dangled me over a well, asshole" 😂

Didn't have a plan past the bear. "Take you out" awwww. This interaction is amazing. I love. Oooh, person? That's. A lot of detail about the plaid. Took my pants! I love Fast Timmy. Especially the accent.

Feet. :)

They stole hard candies from Patty, that's it??? Rofl built the fortress. Mel doing the neck thing. Aww, I hope they can work together. So he doesn't get up to three days of punishment. WORKING TOGETHER!!!!

Oh that's large. Sorry about your head. Oh my! Chicken Dino. He's just. Talking without knowing. Quite literally. Oh, nets, nice. Damn, Youngblood with the spells, nice! Mating call oh my gosh. That's a great plan, Roman! Daaaamn, magic. "Lighting my thing afire." Burning damage nice. Achilles, more like a-kill-es, am I right?

AJ dying. Took a man's pants. Oh my gosh the acting when they're arguing. Oh hey, they're fast, after all. Net! Oh my gosh, Youngblood!!!! So much magic stuff! I love it, I want that ability. Rofl, before I hit it on the head. Haha, that was easy. I don't want to be seen. Little late for that, dude.

I love the kids! "Well, they didn't do shit" Immediately takes all the credit. Love Fast Timmy and gang. Oh! Aunt Patty! Aww, she's been nervous. But supportive! Hello, friend! "Apprentice to me-" ">:|"

He says wink out loud yes that is my humor. Patty is just everybody's aunt. Riker not as fast. I'm snorting at Riker. Ooooh? "Well, I'm gonna always stay for the night" Terrance dying. A place, yes, good. Bard college in the sky. Oooh Riker has A Thing. OH! WAIT! Is that why Roman doesn't know singing!

Ohh! Youngblood's home! Why, why does she have that. Family tradition hahaha. Ohhh, she's giving her blessing that he can leave. Aha, Reston. With an o. Aunt Patty spelling it out. Oh they're so friends by now! Rofl is this a paid position. I joke! I love Terrance, omg. Roman fangirling over adventure.

She's just going to heft the hook horror over her shoulder isn't she. They bond over insulting Fast Timmy. Epic music! Ahhh so cool! Got in a bunch of fights with bards. I made the "We can dance if we want to" joke with him. Triple peace out!!

#roleslaying with roman #rswr #new video reaction #cursing

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rogaire-a · 3 years

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Also full offense but humans are allowed to react the way they fucking want to their trauma. Some people might turn angry, some people might chose to ‘ hide ‘ their emotions, but that doesn’t make them any different than any human being.

Shay is angry, Shay is so fucking angry, what he went through at Lisbon left him with huge emotional scars. He had every right to react the way he did with Achilles. He wouldn’t have just sat there and ‘ explained it calmly ‘ to his mentor , the mentor who knew this was something who could most likely happen but instead chose to IGNORE IT ( there’s actually a conversation that Achilles has with Adewale at the homestead where Ade tells him that those sites are dangerous, but you see Achilles being more interested at finding the artefacts rather than being worried of the consequences that he might cause with messing with those precursors sites. The mission doesn’t exactly tells you that you have to go there to listen to them, it’s up to you if you want to go to overhear what they’re saying..which I think that’s extremely fucked up because that’s a very important thing to actually miss, tbh. )

After the catastrophe, it would have took him months to arrive to the homestead, so many things could have went through Shay’s head during that time. He had just witnessed a whole city crumble before him, he had just escaped a fucking tsunami ( there’s a hidden rogue audio about this), which he all accidentally caused. He saw all these people die, and he knew it was his fault. We don’t really see Shay’s state after Lisbon, tho there also hidden audios where some sailors discute about the Captain ( Shay ) being nowhere to be seen and him hiding in his own cabin for all the journey to the colonies, so we can only imagine his state. Anyway, he finally arrives to homestead, absolutely furious towards Achilles, but instead to actually listen to him, the assassins dismiss what he says, and Shay is brought outside so he can ‘cool down ‘

They show no sign that they intend to stop looking for the temples, instead, they just tell Shay that ‘ maybe he just wasn’t fit for the work ‘. Shay probably takes this as a sign that the assassins want to find another temple to confirm what Shay said so they can be sure that they’re really dangerous. ( Es Achilles in the North Atlantic temple at the end of rogue : “ Shay was right.” / Liam: “ What would he know?” / Achilles: “ More than me, apparently. “)

This is the last straw.

Shay decides to steal the manuscript and run away with it. He cannot let this happen again, he might as well sacrifice himself with the manuscript before anyone alse can get their hands on it, and that’s what he decides to do that night at the homestead.

This is the proof that Shay would do anything to protect the life of the innocents, even if this means sacrificing himself in the process.

Shay didn’t join the Templars because he wanted revenge against the assassins, hell, joining the Templars wasn’t even on his mind when he left the assassins, it’s been the colonel George Monro that showed him that he can still do good, no matter what side he’s on and what past lies behind his shoulders. Every man needs a purpose.It’s not his past that defines him, it’s what he’s willing to do in the future.

Shay wants to protect the innocents, and he would be willing to do anything in his power to keep them safe. Even if that means going against his former brothers. He knows that what he’s doing is wrong , he knows that it’s unforgivable, but there’s just no way. The moment the assassins found out he was alive, they immediately started hunting him. Shay never wanted to kill anyone, killing was his last option, but he’s just been given no choice.

The colonial assassins go against everything the creed stood for, they even broke their own code to pursue their goals ( STAY MY BLADE FROM THE FLESH OF THE INNOCENT ) , so yeah, I believe this pretty much shows that no matter what side your on, you’re capable of doing good or bad.

Shay is a fighter in his own way, he follows his own morals , he doesn’t need any ‘ redemption arc ‘ , he’s doesn’t want any kind of revenge, he just wants to do the right thing. Even if that means being seen as a monster in the process.

Shay is a beautifully complicated character and I absolutely love him for it. Because he’s human.

#DOWN THE ANCHOR // OOC #and that’s the tea 🍵#I could have kept going on but no more brain cells for today #jfhfjf #anyway I love SHAY P. CORMAC SO MUCH #tw: ptsd #tw: suicide mention #tw: trauma #ask to tag /#long post /

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Of Hades, Of Achilles (Of Apollo)

Style: One Shot Word Count: 1202 CW: Ranboo hallucinates Dream again!

Summary: You look at the door you watched Techno walk out of and you wonder how many of the stories are true, and how many are made up from fear. // ... Picturing Dream in his armor and shield, the river Styx flowing behind him. // Apollo, who walks next to you in a green hoodie and white mask, humming the anthem of a home he destroyed.

The snow stung as you work on building your little shack. Dream (No, no not Dream. Just your imagination again, you’re safe you’re safe youresafeyou resafeyoursafe) sits on one of the ledges, feet dangling off the edge. In the back of your mind, you wonder when you started seeing him with a halo made of sunlight with a crown made of black and white feathers on his head. You place another spruce plank on the roof, careful to make it secure but easily removable just in case. (“Just in case of what? You get kicked out?” Dream asks you, resting his chin on the palm of his hand as he leans down to watch you work, “Betray them like you betrayed Theseus and Echo, like you betrayed-” You tune him out quickly, hands tightening around the pieces of the wood as you try and remember how to breathe.)

The army of dogs bark in the background as you tie the planks down with some rope, “Cerberus…es,” You mutter to yourself, making a tight knot as you think of flames amidst the snow.

“For me?” You quietly ask, gently taking the old book Techno holds out to you. He doesn’t verbally respond- looking a bit bashful- rather he just nods and once you have the book, he heads out on one of his journeys. Looking at the book, you run your fingers over the cover. ‘Myths of Old for beginners’ is written in golden cursive against a darker red. Quietly, you sit next to Edward with your back against the chests, giving a small chitter as a greeting to him before you open the book up to read what you land on- Hades.

“Being given the Underworld after his father, Cronus was defeated, Hades is the God of the dead. While he does supervise the trial and punishment of the dead, he normally isn’t one of the judges nor did he personally torture the guilty. More often than not, his personality is stern and aloof, unmoved by prayer or sacrifice.

Spotting Persephone in a garden, Hades had fallen in love. In some stories, Zeus gave consent to Hades abducting Persephone- even lying as to where Hades had taken Persephone, saying it was either Sicily or Asia. More commonly, however, is Hades just kidnapping and bringing Persephone down to the Underworld.

Demeter, Persephones mother, and goddess of the harvest, began to search the Overworld for her. Eventually, Demeter arrived in Eleusis and disguised herself as an old woman, and began taking care of Demophon, the prince of Eleusis. In exchange for the kindness the family had given her, she began making Demophon immortal by placing him in fire each night. When Metaneira, his mother, saw this, she raised alarm. This is when Demeter revealed her true identity and demanded the kingdom make a temple be built in her honor. When it was completed, Demeter left the Overworld to live in the temple, bringing a great drought to the land to force the other gods to make Hades release Persephone.

As the drought claimed more victims, Zeus had no choice but to send Hermes to try and persuade Hades to release Persephone. It gets murky here, however, regardless of how it happened, Persephone had eaten at least a single pomegranate seed which trapped her in the underworld. A compromise was made, however, that for half a year Persephone would spend in the overworld- the other half in the underworld.

In some myths, Persephone and Hades genuinely loved one another, in others, it was one sided. Myths and stories get muddled when people speak them.”

You blink, fingers tracing over the letters of the page. Hm… You look at the image of Hades on the last page, Cerberus behind him. Tall, dark, brooding- terrifying with a crown on his head- but you look at his myth and you wonder what part you’re supposed to be scared of. Hades is the god of the dead, he isn’t the god of death. You wonder if there is more to his story you’ll never learn, his title and appearance leading people to presume things that are untrue.

You look at the door you watched Techno walk out of and you wonder how many of the stories are true, and how many are made up from fear.

“I’m surprised you chose Hades,” Apollo- No, Dream - tells you, floating next to you as you finish up the shack, “People tend to point out that Hades is the God of The Dead, not The God of death .”

“Shut up,” You mumble, shaking your head to try and get him to leave (He’s not real, but… it’s less lonely with him here at least) “Hades is often mistaken as the god of death and people tend to assume things about him and- You’re not even real! Why am I arguing this?!”

He laughs for a moment, it sounds more human than anyone you heard in L’manberg, but then he’s suddenly next to you and you are vividly aware of how fake he is, “So, Hades Techno. What about me, hm?”

You hesitate, “Dream is Achilles,” You tell him, trying to make that separation more visible in your brain, “Appearing invincible, though very mortal- unless you believe the myths were he is immortal everywhere except his heel- with very powerful armor and a powerful shield, Achilles is a powerhouse in the Greek army. Achilles is petty, believing in taking two eyes for every one eye you take. Of course, he has his reasons for it but he didn’t need to humiliate Hector even in death. He does relent, however it takes a while. The original Iliad ends there, however, in later stories Paris, Hectors' brother, kills Achilles with an arrow guided by Apollo right to his heel- his one weakness.”

You pause for a moment, trying to collect your thoughts as you jump off the roof of the shack, wincing a little when you land, “Dream is powerful, appearing invincible but… but I want to believe he has a weakness. Sisyphus reminds us that no one can escape death.”

You walk in the snow quietly on your way back to Techno and Phils cottage to get the rest of your things, picturing Dream in his armor and shield, the river Styx flowing behind him.

You walk quietly in the snow next to Halo Dream, thinking of Apollo. Apollo isn’t a perfect fit for Dream, not like Achilles, but you can’t help but think of Apollo interfering with mortals in so many myths. Apollo, being the one to guide the arrow that kills Achilles. Apollo, who speaks of prophecies that lead to people's end (Is Apollo any better than you? Who are you trying to prove yourself to?). Apollo, who can’t let people have happy endings. Apollo, blessing Cassandra at first but cursing her as soon as he couldn't get what he wanted from her.

Apollo, who walks next to you in a green hoodie and white mask, humming the anthem of a home he destroyed.

#Ranboo #Dream #Dream SMP #oneshot #Cassandraboo #(Just for tagging- though ive decided that is offically what this is called)

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