#Celestial Symbolism

[obsessedwithao3]

My opinion on the celestial symbolism for the life series winners(I made 2 versions)(I might make one with the tarot card symbolism too)

Grian:the sun(Grian is Irish for sun)

Scott:the stars

Pearl:the moon

Martyn:comet.Comets have been associated with doom and death from the olden days.Comets are also kind of the messengers of the gods which I think goes very well with Martyn since closest thing we have to gods in the life series are the watchers and not only was he the only one with a direct association with them but he also conveyed their message.Death and don't trust anybody

Scar:Uranus.Uranus is different from all the other planets. He's The only one named after a greek deity instead of a Roman one.Scar is also different from all the other winners.He is the only one who didn't die at the end of the series he was the winner of.

Cleo:Pluto.Pluto is a dwarf planet who was once considered a planet,taken out of the planetary group and now is being debated.pluto also represents transformation and the life games transformed from normal mc to VR mc.They transformed from bloody to lighthearted

I also have an alternative version

Grian:the moon.Thw moon shines from other ppls light.It has a dark and a light side Wich could either mean the much popular watcher theory OR the fact that he almost always starts the series normal and then goes crazy

Scott: Jupiter.Jupiter is the Roman name for Zeus someone known for being unloyal but respected

Pearl:the stars.The stars accompany the moon

[pebblegalaxy]

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[nyxierqse]

Carmet. Thats what it is. Car + comet.

Dude we gotta do @prest0allay 's idea

JUST LOOK AT IT

We got cool celestial symbolism with the comet, and it ain't that hard to draw for the fanartists and animators

AND we also got the rhyme going again with Stars, Mars and now...CARS

In other words...

Comet for fanartists, lore folk and to match

But upon closer look..

It was the car the whole time.

[ghosted-jazz]

Soldier, Poet, Kings

Bonus wallpaper version with just Joel:

[lu-dlc]

An argument against the car symbol is that drawing cars is harder than circles (planets)

[solarockk]

it's your turn now

[666candies]

Portal of Perception, oil on canvas.

— Freydoon Rassouli (Iranian, b.1943)

[mummyscarian]

i feel like joel is very interesting as a winner. obviously, he has the skills to win it, no doubt, and he was heavily predicted to win because of his and gem's alliance this season, but he's one of the ones that feels unexpected, because, arguably, he's one of the ones more detached from the direct, established fan-lore.

if it had been gem who won, it'd be easy to slot her in with the rest---her plot is often very tied to pearl, another previous winner and lore-heavy character, plus, she's even created her own lore too already (lost her eye to the end portal in secret life)

if cleo had won, then it was merely her right---she won real life, of course she would win the next real season. she was martyn's soulmate too, and the soulmate pairs always win.

if impulse had won, then it makes sense. he's been "second place" for so long, he's been desperate for a win since the beginning, and this time, he had pearl on his side, guiding and protecting him towards it.

if grian had won again, well, of course the Watcher would be the first two-time winner, right?

if it had been anyone else, they would feel easy to integrate into the lore, to give them a place and a purpose. but joel?

hm. much to think about.

[bowenoke]

no more celestial body symbolism. embrace fast and furious casting headcanons. take my hand. let's watch all 10 films together so we can accurately assign characters to previous life series winners. I believe Fast X: Part 2 (releasing 2025) can become a crane wives situation if we do our best

[illustratus]

The Burning of Darkness by Nicholas Roerich

[justarestlessspirit]

A cover design I've made for college a while back.

[mjrtaurus]

So something that caught my attention with the Dragon symbolism stuff with the world nobles vs how it’a used in the RA led me down a rabbit hole that I found interesting enough to share.

So the whole thing stems from two instances of dragon claws being depicted in One Piece.

So! First we have the Celestial Dragon Claw, four clawed, used as branding to mark word noble “property”. Then we have the Dragon Claw Fist, three clawed, a fighting style that we can assume was developed by the RA using the Finger Pistol of the Six Powers as a base.

The difference here is the number of claws, which is what lead me down the rabbit hole in the first place.

The consensus is that the claw number of a depicted dragon is actually a class indicator. Bear in mind that these observations stem from Chinese folklore and its place in Imperial Chinese law, so it might not hold water. And as always do correct me if I’m off in any of these points.

The number of claws and the colorations of dragons in Imperial China was an extremely important thing, and misrepresentations of these could quite literally get you and others executed for acts of treason.

Five clawed yellow or gold (or red during the Ming Dynasty) dragons are a symbol of imperial power for the emperor alone to use. It was illegal for nobles and civilians to wear anything depicting a five-clawed yellow or gold dragon in Imperial China. It was considered- as stated above- an act of treason, and offenders (and their families) could be imprisoned or executed for the crime.

Four clawed dragons are a symbol of nobility. Lesser in the hierarchy than the imperial dragon, but still a mark of high status. It was illegal for civilians to wear depictions of four-clawed dragons. Again, a treasonous act punishable by death or imprisonment under Imperial law.

Civilians could depict dragons with three claws. This was allowed.

So, we can make an assumption here that through these observations, the RA use the three clawed dragon as symbolic of the class warfare that is happening in the One Piece world. But there is another thing!!!

There are these things called Dragon Dance Competitions, where a nine-segmented dragon puppet is manipulated by a team of dancers and musicians to have the dragon chase a pearl- a symbol of wisdom- across the allocated space. These are very interesting to watch, and I highly recommend giving one a watch, since there are plenty of them to see on YouTube. Do take care if you are photosensitive or sound sensitive, as they are bright and loud.

A tradition for these competitions and others (such as lion dances and dragon boat races) is called an “eye dotting ceremony”, which happens at the beginning of the competition. An authorized party comes by to paint the pupils on a dragon to symbolically awaken or- relevant to this post- empower it.

The Celestial Dragon’s Claw is a symbol nobility, and likely has high amounts of regulation on how it can and cannot be used, with infractions on those regulations met with imprisonment at best, and cipher pol or a buster call at worst. It would be highly guarded, and was used to brand people to mark them as property, as we know.

The dragon depicted in the introduction to the Dragon Claw Fist that Sabo utilizes? Three claws, no pupils. It is an unempowered civilian dragon- a weakling by dragon standards- and it is beating the shit out of a World Government official.

Class warfare symbolism. Revolutionary symbolism.

[raayllum]

but yeah rayllum strolling into the starscraper like "yeah we want this super secret powerful weapon so we can kill an imprisoned elf. yeah he's totally evil we promise. we have his prison in your bag. also can you give us your equally rare gem stones to free these three other elves + human who looks like a dark mage, who we promise are totally not evil. we also have their prisons in our bag. yeah the same bag. you're 100% gonna give us the stuff, right?" is funnier to me than it should be

[rosieandthemoon]

by Simon Quaglio in 1818

[hkpika07]

The Moon, The Sun, and The Stars

[eldest-of-katts]

Joel's celestial body symbolism...

It's been in front of us all along...

HE'S THE

ALL ⭐ STAR

by smash mouth