#Epithet infection

[amanicfanaticsfanartac]

Very minor blood warning here:

EPITHET INFECTION!

I was commised and let me tell ya i was quite expensive! (0 USD,I did it for fun)

Oh and Molly's like half dead in this au,ya like half of her brain just kinda died and so did half her body and so ya that explains the picture.

[paradoxcase]

Harrow the Ninth audiobook, Act 3

Harrow's memory of Crux giving her advice about her hallucinations just does not hit the same with the Moira Quirk Crux voice. When I was reading, at this point I was like, hmm, maybe I should reevaluate Crux slightly, but with the audiobook, the voice just sounds very incongruous

When Harrow talks to Ianthe about seeing G1deon with Cytherea's corpse, no precise description is in the text of the book, but it sounds like Ianthe expected something a lot worse than Harrow described, and then later Harrow tells John that she saw him "kissing" the corpse. Did Harrow actually just get all morally outraged about just a kiss?

I can't remember if I commented on it before, but Harrow says about G1deon that it was "as if he'd carried the name of a dead family pet" and I can't tell if this is some reaction that has something to do with Gideon or if she actually just thinks of Ortus as a "dead family pet"

John talks about G1deon killing Wake as if he were actually there when it happened, but he can't possibly have been, could he? If he wasn't there when Wake died, and had no idea that G1deon was having an affair with her, what does he actually know about how G1deon felt about killing her? He's not exactly a talkative guy. Mercy and Augustine knew that talking about Wake would get him to leave later on, too, but I don't think they were sharing a lot of info on her - he didn't know why Wake had a baby with her, for example

At some point a biscuit that was given to Harrow is described as a "repeatedly uneaten biscuit" which is definitely something

I can't remember if I noticed this the first time, but Harrow intentionally put all of G1deon's least favorite vegetables in the Trojan Soup so that he would eat more of the broth, haha

"The First Reborn" is used as an epithet for John at one point. Is John meant to have resurrected himself in the mythology?

After the Soup Incident, Augustine is looking "as if he had seen the ghost of someone he did not particularly like" which make me wonder what kind of stuff Anastasia got up to at Canaan House

Mayonnaise Uncle is in Harrow's River bubble, and he's acting just like himself, which I realize now must mean that his soul did not actually get consumed or corrupted by a devil thing after Colum's death. If they can really just infect anyone they injure, as is implied at the end of Nona, I wonder how he avoided that, since devil!Colum very much did fatally injure him

I pointed out before that later on in the River bubble they wind up congregating in the Second Lyctor lab, which seems to be relatively safe from Wake possibly because it belonged to G1deon and Pyrrha, but in this earlier part of the book they are also taking refuge in the quarters given to Judith and Marta as being the least leaky, and now I sort of wonder if they were given those rooms because they also had something to do with G1deon and Pyrrha and that's also why they're the least leaky in Harrow's bubble

Magnus, on the bad weather in the bubble: "It'll be a damned sight worse in the River." You know he's just extremely disappointed that Harrow is not able to see the joke, since I'm pretty sure both he and Abigail know what's up by this point

On Corona's "death" Abigail says "If she's gone, then perhaps that means--" and never finishes. I wonder if this is Abigail figuring out that Corona may still be alive

Ianthe says, "I wish killing [Naberius] had given me his needlepoint, too." I am actually kind of curious why it didn't, unless she means like, the actual physical pieces of clothing he embroidered or whatever and not the skill?

Harrow thinks she looks like her mother in the dress Ianthe makes for her, and then immediately says "I look like am imbecile." I know most people don't usually have positive thoughts about their mothers' senses of fashion, but even so this seems a little harsh

Augustine claims to be helping Harrow kill G1deon "for reasons of my own" and says that "he has caused me more pain over this past scant 40 years than I care to admit." When I read this originally, I just figured, of course Augustine dislikes G1deon, all my homies hate G1deon, because he'd said like three total words of dialog the whole book and done nothing but try to kill Harrow, but now I'm actually curious about this. Since they've known each other for 10,000 years and it's only the past 40 that have been a problem, this can't just be Augustine and G1deon not getting along for personality reasons the way that Augustine and Mercy don't get along (and also, Augustine never actually conspires to kill Mercy) so now I'm curious about what sort of falling-out happened between Augustine and G1deon in the last 40 years. I don't think it's just that Augustine was plotting with Mercy to kill John and G1deon was loyal to John, because I think Augustine and Mercy have been plotting to kill John for a lot more than 40 years. Was 40 years ago maybe when Wake first started to become relevant? Maybe Augustine and Mercy secretly conspiring with Wake to kill John at the same time that G1deon and Pyrrha were secretly fucking Wake caused some encounters between them that Augustine misinterpreted, honestly there could probably have been some hilarious Shakespeare-level dramatic irony here

Augustine says that Cristabel was a fanatic, which seems accurate to the account in Nona, but what was the object of her fanaticism after John resurrected everyone with no memory of Christianity? Although... Cristabel did help found the Eighth House, which honestly might sort of explain some things

John thinks BOE finding out about resurrection beasts must have been "an intelligence effort" since the resurrection beasts are classified information within the Nine Houses, which is hilarious as a concept after reading Nona, and G1deon does in fact correct him here that the only piece of actual intelligence they would have had to learn was where the fuck they came from

Ianthe goes on while drunk about being Harrow's sister, and it seems clear that she really wants Harrow to be like a replacement Corona

Harrow is mystified about why there is an incinerator on the Mithraeum and this question is ultimately never answered, although I guess it's possible that there will be an answer in the fourth book

When Pyrrha says "ba--" when talking to Harrow, it is not pronounced like the first syllable of "baby", which is kind of odd, since that's definitely what she was going to say. And she does definitely say she can feel Wake near or in Harrow, even though Wake is clearly in Cytherea's body at this point, furthering my suspicions that part of Wake's soul may still be in Gideon's sword even after Cytherea's body was shot at the end of the book. The voice also isn't different yet, but she is pretending to be G1deon here

[crypticcloudz]

[You time jump into a Used-To-Be Dalek controlled planet, after wondering how someone that wasn't you, or another iteration of you, could have removed the infection.

The moment you step out you see a Sevcon Operative with the nameplate 'Katie Clone C-23-Kepler-Kepler' shoot a Dalek.

The moment the bullet that comes out of the interesting looking gun touches the Dalek, it is thrown back, hitting a wall.

But something weird happens.

The moment it hits the wall, it falls into pieces.

Sevcon made an AI-Controlled NanoBot Gun that disintegrates the bolts that hold things together.

It disassembled the Dalek while it was flying through the air.

The clone then grabs HUNDREDS of other disassembled Daleks with telekinetically controlled NanoBots, putting the pieces together into three VERY large rings.

The rings begin spinning and flying, stabilizing themselves around the clone.

They're the first design of the Sevcon WarpJump Ring System.

You NEED to stop this clone.

And you only have ten seconds until the warp is completed.

And then she notices you.]

WHO THE FUCK ARE YOU?

(The Doctor): I’m a man of many epithets, The Oncoming Storm, The Traveler From Beyond Time, but you can call me, The Doctor.

[sharkchunks]

Selections from “Blade Runner: A Movie” by William S. Burroughs.

Though the film took its name from this booklet, it is otherwise unrelated to this story of the year 2014 when pandemics run rampant though a health-care crisis America and scalpel smugglers (blade runners) are our only hope. I couldn’t find the passage about terrorism with herds of leprosy-infected armadillos and can’t include some of the most on-topic parts due to the author’s unfathomably crass approach to racial and lgbt matters and epithets, but when it comes to predicting the future, sadly this deals with stuff so close to home it’s disturbing he wrote it in the 1970s.

I do not recommend this book for people new to Burroughs and how his mind works. I’d have to spend an hour writing content warnings. But if you want to read some fucked up horrid shit from one of the most spectacularly diseased minds of all time…

[brotherslayer]

If athy main flower is roses then wich one is jennette's?

Officially? I believe it's marguerite daisies. They are in her name, on her dresses, all around her.

In the language of flowers, daisies symbolize new beginnings and rebirth, in addition to love, cheerfulness, beauty, purity, innocence, hope, fun, and affection. They’re also commonly given to new mothers as a symbol of childbirth and motherhood. In spirituality, daisies represent faith and eternal life. One of the earliest associations of daisies with childbirth comes from the ancient Celtic people. Although it’s darker than the symbolism of motherhood and childbirth attributed to daisies today, the ancient Celts believed that when a child or infant died – especially in childbirth – the gods would cover their graves with daisies in an attempt to console those who were grieving the loss. Another early association of daisies with childbirth comes from Norse mythology. The daisy flower is associated with the goddess Freya who is a goddess of fertility, love, and beauty.

If you ask me I find Athy's association with roses a bit boring and cliche. Roses are beautiful but nearly every female lead has roses drawn around her. If it was ever special it's not anymore. Regarding Jennette and daisies I feel a similar way. It fits 50/50 I guess but the meaning is so universal it could also be applied to Athy. I like to associate Jennette with Angel trumpets and lp Athy with Bleeding Hearts.

Angel's Trumpet

Brugmansia suaveolens, Brazil's white angel trumpet, also known as angel's tears and snowy angel's trumpet. The Latin specific epithet suaveolens means “with a sweet fragrance”. Every part of Brugmansia suaveolens is poisonous, with the seeds and leaves being especially dangerous. Ingestion of the plants can cause disturbing hallucinations, seizures, paralysis, coma, memory loss, and death. Angel's trumpets are so lethal that they have been used throughout history and literature as a means of killing a person or committing suicide. Supposedly, it was even used as an execution drug for criminals. Traditional external uses have included the treating of aches and pains, headaches, infections, and as an anti-inflammatory. They have been used internally much more rarely due to the inherent dangers of ingestion. Brugmansia is a symbol of danger, but it also represents vivacity. It is thought to be heralding a time of transformation and rebirth.

Devil's Trumpet

Datura is a genus of poisonous flowering plants belonging to the family Solanaceae. Throughout history, there have been stories about this plant being used to make poisons, witches' brews or love potions. Due to its toxicity and the shape of the flowers, they were granted the common name of Devil’s Trumpet. In some religions and cultures, Datura symbolizes a powerful and dangerous plant. Pictured above is the Purple Queen Devil's Trumpet.

Bleeding Hearts

[pixellangel]

new epithet erased/anime campaign oc based on the epithet "consumption!!" info on them under the cut <3

Mori Terabye (they/he) is an Epithet user whose Epithet is "Consumption." They've been somewhat sickly since they were a child, but it's gotten worse for them over time. They had their Epiphany after learning that they could create mysterious voids that "consume" objects - the realization that they'd been coughing up blood all their life help them mentally connect consuming things and "The Consumption", also known as Tuberculosis.

He doesn't have TB, technically; it's a weird Epithet magic situation. His Epithet happens to affect the inside of his body in a way that presents itself like the notorious infection. When making his little voids, he also has the ability to "eat" them before they disappear entirely. It helps him feel significantly better, but he doesn't exactly know how that works. Epithet magic is weird, man.

They enjoy fencing and do it on the professional level. Their lithe body makes it easy to dodge the swipes and slashes typical of swordfights, even if they do need a minute to catch their breath after a match.

so that's it!! my little guy!!!! i started making a character sheet for them but i don't have anyone that i know could gm a session of anime campaign so i have to refrain from finishing it. i don't know how to properly balance a ttrpg moveset :(

i gotta get more people into epithet tbh. ive been assigning them to some of my friends and im super attached to this idea of a campaign with my besties but its kinda unachievable without a gm </3

anyway. hope you enjoyed the art and loredump :D

[twinsandselfships]

selfshiptober day 7 | rain / infection

ship: 🐚 best ocean friends (Rick Shades & Amica Nemona)

summary: Rick and Amica experience their first rain on the surface.

warnings: mild spoilers for "Epithet Erased: Prison of Plastic"

author's notes: We're late, but who cares!

Despite the fact that Sweet Jazz City was located in Taiga Country, which was known to have cold winters, the summers here were pretty hot too. At least, for an ex-ocean dweller like Amica. But now it was autumn, and the summer heat simmered down, only spiking up on some days before it goes away completely until next year. Amica picked one of the cooler days do go to the beach to collect new supplies for her magic: salt water, seaweed and sea glass (believe it or not, it was an ingredient for some of the spells in her book).

It was cloudy, so the sand didn't scorch her feet like she hated. She took off her shoes and left them on a logical distance, so that no wave could wash them away by accident. She walked down the shoreline and, after a minute, found a piece of beautiful purple sea glass. As she was about to bend down to it, she heard a voice calling out to her.

"AMICA!!!" the voice screamed in panic.

When the girl turned towards the voice, she saw a very tiny Rick Shades in the distance, running towards her surprisingly fast with an expression of shock. Huh. So he was in panic after all. He quickly went from tiny to normal-sized as he got close and panted. Rick spoke before she could ask him what was wrong.

"What are you doing near the ocean?! You're not leaving, are you?!" He was loud, afraid, but Amica was able to catch a tinge of sadness in his voice as well.

"What? Never!" She took one of his hands, then puffed up her cheeks. "I'll only come back down there to take down the ruler. No, right now I'm just collecting some ingredients. Like this!" Amica showed him the sea glass she was holding in her other hand.

After hearing his friend's explanation, Rick got much less tense and gave an admiring "Ooo!" at the sight of the purple object. "Can I help?" He smiled excitedly, and Amica imagined that Rick would've wagged his tail if he had one. She giggled.

"Sure. I'd like to hang out with you more." After all, she still had to get to know this "Rick Shades" guy, who was both new and familiar to her.

They walked along the shore, collecting different things most surface people would consider garbage. Well, Amica walked, and Rick was running around like a crazy bloodhound, sniffing out any pieces of sea glass, as well as just pretty rocks and seashells. She didn't need these for spells, but she took them anyway simply because she liked them. They were Rick's gifts in a way.

They didn't notice the sea getting darker, the sky getting greyer. But then the wind blew stronger than before, the waves crashed louder onto the sandy shore. Wind wasn't something they got under the ocean. Without exchanging a word, both of them looked at the sea, which was getting stormier by the minute. In a way, it was a beautiful display. Something they've never seen before.

"Is this what storms look like from the surface?" Amica asked, as if Rick could give her an answer. But he couldn't.

So they stood there, quietly. And then something weird happened: both of them felt water fall on them. The two simultaneously looked to the sky. Tiny droplets of water were falling on them and on the sand around them. At first they thought that it was the wind bringing these droplets from the sea, but before they could think about it any further, the few droplets turned into many, and it poured.

"I... don't know." She hesitated, then stepped out from under Rick's covering arm. Rick flinched when she did that, but she let the water droplets run across her face. And she was unharmed. It was like... a shower, but from the sky. Something clicked. "I think that's what our ancestors meant by 'rain'. I've read about it in my book."

"W-what is this?" Rick questioned, trying to cover himself and his friend from the unknown phenomenon with his arms. He didn't know what it was, so he assumed it might be dangerous. It pained Amica to think why he reacted like this. Then again, she was as confused as he is.

"Rain..." Rick pronounced this word slowly, as if trying to taste it. Seeing Amica being so brave, he slowly lowered his arms and faced the rain. It felt... surprisingly nice. Something from home, but much more distant. Much safer.

A loud crackle and a booming noise caught up to Rick and Amica from the sea. Some people compared Rick's powers to a thunder, and now he heard it live, from the surface, and not through a thick layer of water. It really does sound like that, he thought. It sounded like his power. It felt like power. It was familiar to Rick. But to Amica, the sound coming from the endless horizon felt ominous. Like a threat... or a warning. Like the ocean swore to swallow the two runaways back into its abyss. She took Rick's hand.

"Let's go hide under a roof," she asked.

He flinched again, surprised by the gesture. But her hand felt warm in his. He rubbed it slightly with his thumb.

"Is something wrong?" He could sense Amica's tension. Call it a friend's intuition. Rick didn't know if this came from his Epithet or not.

Amica smiled, warmed by how considerate and caring he was despite this wild and confusing façade.

"We're gonna be as wet as when we came here if we don't." She laughed. "Wait, we need to get my shoes first."

[wisteriasymphony]

Do you think people would start to form superstitions around akumas?

Maybe people start using epithets in conversation—butterflies, sprites, fairies—in fear that speaking the true name of the creature will cause one to appear. It's not called akumatization, it's called "catching", or "getting bitten", almost like a sickness or infection.

People start to form habits that they think will decrease their chances of "catching", waiting until odd hours to go outside or avoiding districts where "catching" is most common.

The rumor spreads that akumas infect through skin? People start covering themselves head to toe in whatever they can find, or simply staying home on hotter days.

Or maybe the "catching" needs a sentimental object? People stop accessorizing or carrying things of value, and what they have to have with them is kept safe in zipped-up pockets or beneath jackets.

In the windowsills of shops and doorways of houses, ceramic ladybugs or bug-themed kitsch start to crop up like an infection all their own. People like to think that maybe the presence of a ladybug is enough to scare an akuma off. They start sharing how to make DIY dreamcatchers or windchimes to hang by every window in your house. Good luck charms will be made and distributed in their own secret little market, small polka-dotted rosary beads traded as both gifts and a sign of compassion.

[epithetemporium]

Welcome to the epithet emporium

Are you infected with the epithet brainrot? Are all your thoughts rotating around this fandom? You need someone to share your silly ideas with but don't know with whom? Then you're at the right place!

With the rebranding of this blog all epithet related things are welcome. Literally EVERYTHING (as long as you're not a creep or sum)

A lot of this will be about requests and the inbox is always open

What can you request:

art, scribbles and doodles

fanfiction

sprite edits

random thoughts and headcanons

opinions (ee related)

au ideas

any thoughts you have about ee are allowed to be send into the inbox, don't be shy

ramble about your ocs

pretty much everything else that has something to do with epithet erased and I can't come up with right now

dms are open if you don't feel comfy with the ask box

if you want to request some bigger or more detailed project, I'm open to having talks in dms as well

interaction rules under cut:

please don't be creepy towards mod

this is a safe place, asks that may be triggering are allowed but please add trigger warnings

it might take a bit for me to get to your ask because school keeps me busy, please don't be mad

mod has big health issues. I'm fine with people asking if their ask got overlooked but please don't pressure me into hurrying up with a request or anything

I'll try to prioritise which ask has been in the inbox the longest but might do a more recent one if I feel more inspired

mod isn't a native english speaker, please don't be mean about any mistakes

I'm not mad if you accidentally break a rule don't worry! We all make mistakes (especially me)

[therealslimscreamer]

Yo it's ya boi again

So I saw the Dreamers are actually alive still in this au and I was wondering how that affects Hornet and Quirrel? I mean, watching your mother / mentor figure die only to find out they're not only not dead but also God now has gotta be a little bit wild right

Also, what are the Dreamers like as deities? Like, what / where do they rule over, what do they do, ect

OOOO really good question!!!

okay, so, starting with quirrel. i’ve thought abt him wayyy more to be totally transparent, and that’s partially because i feel like there’s a lot more nuance to him than with hornet purely because of his amnesia. i’ve always viewed it as something monomon did to protect him, so he wouldn’t come back to hallownest in like the height of the infection and not only get himself killed but also eliminate a layer of protection on her seal. but i don’t think she would have considered how he would feel if… you know… she lived and he remembered it all.

like, pretend with me for a moment, you’re quirrel. you’re an academic and an explorer and you’re full of whimsy, and you decide for mysterious reasons to go to this kingsom that you realize you’ve never been to before. how odd! you go check it out, and wow is it beautiful even in ruins, and even despite of the dark caverns and freaky infected zombie-bugs, and you meet your little vessel friend and help them fight this odd jellyfish creature and even though you’ve never seen it somehow you know what to do, and you go to this place and-

you remember.

and maybe it’s just me, but wouldn’t that be sort of terrifying? to learn that you already lived your life once, but you didn’t remember any of it, and now that you do you just feel like… a witness? to remember laughing and smiling and talking with this person but it’s through a lens- because you don’t remember, not really, and to know they did this to you? you devoted your life to them, and they did this to you, because they thought it wouldn’t matter because they would be gone- would you not think of them as selfish? as cruel?

i think quirrel would struggle a lot with that- his current self, as he is, feeling raw and betrayed while simultaneously having to deal with his past self who cared so deeply for monomon. understanding this was the wisest course of action doesn’t make it feel any better.

hornet, conversely, never forgets her mother or anything that comes with her, and thus i feel she may be less guarded. of course, there is still overcoming the grief- of mourning someone you thought dead- and the oddness of that while herrah isnt physically here she is still alive, but would not have nearly as many grudges to hold as quirrel. plus, i think she would want to bond with her mother, and i don’t think hornet would take a second chance like this for granted.

as for what they are deities of!! fortunately i am incredibly obsessed with both hollow knight and mythology and made some rough charts a while ago:

Lurien

Epithets:

The Watcher

Three-Eyed

All-Seeing

Symbols:

Butterflies

Eyes (usually in form of charms or brooches)

Mask w/ one eye

Telescopes

Willow Tree

Patron of: Researchers, Musicians, Astronomers, Lawyers (+ City residents)

God of: Lucid Dreaming, Creativity, Arts, Law/Justice, Foresight

Herrah

Epithets:

The Beast

Noble Queen

Strong-Armed

Motherly

Symbols:

Spiders

Swords/Needles/Spears(?)

Mask w/ six eyes

Oak tree

Webs/Webbing

Patron of: warriors, rulers/monarchs, mothers (+ Deepnest residents)

Goddess of: War, Strategy, Leadership, Motherhood, Reason 

Monomon

Epithets:

The Teacher

Ever-Curious

Ambidexter

Symbols:

Jellyfish (technically Ouma ig)

Books/Papers

Mask w/ four eyes

Acid

Patron of: Scientists, Engineers, Historians, Archivists, Doctors (+ Archives)

Goddess of: Science, Architecture, Logic, Innovation

if you see parallels to greek gods. yeah its because i wrote these while studying for my mythology exam. (parallels are lurien to apollo, athena to herrah, hephaestus to monomon) i may go back and workshop these a bit but for now i’m pretty satisfied with them i think

[epithetrequestithets]

So i heard you do drawings? could you make me one for my au?

Its an epithet erased infection, and right now if you don’t mind, i would love to have a cover for it, could you add EVERYBODY in it? including a few of my oc’s? (Ie; Percy, molly lorelai, percy, and my oc’s atardecer and silver? Maybe giovanni. zora and ramsey?)

I completely understand if you don’t/ won’t

This is not related to your ask, but to your blog.

Hey, so frankly I don’t agree with the usage of ai art, no matter if you believe you can’t portray the characters right, you don’t have the time, the energy, etc. To any followers or lurkers who participate in or condone the use of generative ai, respectfully, block me now. I don’t want people who use generative ai to have any access to my drawings.

On a different topic, and this is no shade to the asker bc I don’t think I’ve mentioned this before, but really detailed requests like this are just getting deleted, sorry. If you want something like that, go commission someone!! If you’re considering using ai because you don’t have the money to commission someone, please just use picrew.

[global-broadcast-network]

NOT CANNON TO GBN

So Riv and I (Blu) have been running a DND group for an AU of GBN where the rot is acting like a zombie apocalypse. One of the players managed to befriend Epithet and they had a conversation that reminded me of this audio. For context: Both of them are infected. Neurone colours show emotion, Epithet is currently feeling empathy (blue = sad, white = neutral) mixed with fear (purple)

[fishsinsareacknowledged]

Any chance you can share some of your intrests and fandoms you're in? Theres obviously COD but is there anything else you'd like to ramble about?

I used to got that Hollow knight infection, I got the valorant addiction, I got that FNAF fan from 2016 card, I too have that cotl 50% finished achievement, and I like to make game reviews for private. Also like a lot of Roblox horror Games I play with my friends. If it exists, I probably know of it or gimme a few hours. Also SCP. Me. Old fan.

Also got that afraid of underwater exploration cause of Subnautica, finished inscryption but yk not the Kaycee part, I have r6s in my steam but I don't really play that much outside of getting grabbed by my friends, portal one portal 2 don't ask I'm still a robot fucker, and I just bought the gunk and I have no clue what it's about.

I was in MHA fandom but let's not talk about that, I was in the demon slayer fandom but let's not talk about that, I watched hotarubi no mori e when it came out and it still haunts me, go watch it btw great movie. Jjk, My daemon, I'm in the middle of only mothers in the building, great show too btw there's lesbians kissing but also I found it out of place. Read and watched BSD but uhhhhhhhhhhhhhh we don't talk about that. Also epithet erased is good.

Watched Dr stone, that time I got reincarnated as a slime, dungeon meshi (finished the manga), Jobless reincarnation, we don't talk about that.

Yeah I might write for Valo, but the rest you can yap to me about. :3

I fucked ultrakill into the ground

[mmmmalo]

would it be wrong to read the core thrust of And It Don't Stop as "white rappers* naturally debase the revolutionary potential of rap by participating." like the ice cream man is technically skilled but his rhymes lack deeper meaning and he goes right back to his life at the end as if it didn't matter, when their cyberpunkish robot world might have changed.** and would it then transform the meaning of "white people acting black" in homestuck from an act of self-degradation to an act of violation. like equius would be mad at gamzee for being declasee but that's not what's ""really"" wrong.*** *except hussie, i guess. who is a weeaboo but his bushido code is the four pillars of hip hop. ** or would it maybe be more reasonable to read it as "dre shouldnt have wasted his time on eminem who sucks" ***sorry there's no question marks tumblr won't allow them.

Stelth seems to agree with you, but I don't know... the story bolsters the sense that Ice is an infiltrator by lamp-shading his design's resemblance to Solid Snake (he stops a giant robot, no less), and the way "And It Don't Stop" condenses to "AIDS" adds an uneasy edge to Stelth calling Ice "an epidemic", but both of those seem to escape the bounds of hip-hop gatekeeping and tap into a broader sense of racial paranoia (the disproportionate impact of AIDS on black communities led to widespread suspicion that it was a government-instigated genocide)

I disagree with your sense of Ice's rhymes being less meaningful. Both Stelth and Ice engage in attitudinal yin-yangs akin to those that Hussie would carry forward into Problem Sleuth and Homestuck:

On Level 1, Stelth denigrates a rhetorical woman as "overfed" but in the next line talks about how his presence makes women "feel their oats" (a term for happiness derived from well-fed horses). He lampshades his attitude shift into the appreciation of fat women with the inverted phrase "whatever boats your floats". A later stanza ends with the consonant inversion "Oxsar" instead of Oscar, another with "anti-Setimic" instead of Semitic, to similar effect. IOn Level 3, Stelth paints a portrait of his opponent as an intoxicated clown and follows with a stanza depicting himself in the same terms. Constant inversion.

On Level 1, Ice vacillates between gay thoughts and homophobia, first by establishing milk as woman (his happy spoon is his dick), then by saying he's undaunted by "non-dairy" ("God marryin' fairies"), only to declare himself "soy-intolerant" a few lines later. (There's a very Slurquest line calling soy "udder destruction", as though gayness entails the destruction of the true feminine.) The groove changes and Stelth weaves between mocking his opponent's pathetic gay sex (putting a "pawn" up a jester) and glorifying his own gay sex (inviting his opponent to wrap around his kingly pole like a womanly car crash). Rather than Ice's rhymes being comparatively meaningless, it seems like their rhymes are more or less equal stages for Hussie's juxtaposition games, alongside their rap's medium-standard assertions of sexual potency.

There are hints of racialized animosity between the two in the middle rounds: Ice describes his opponent's rhymes as "constipated", "toilet splatter", "fecal matter", etc, and positions himself as the cleaner. Stelth replies on Level 5 by first telling a rhetorical woman (implicitly Ice) not to "confer on what don't involve her", i.e. to step off, then by reasserting the power of brown that Ice disparaged: he makes the rhetorical woman (Ice) step in a bucket of shit. Stelth's retort retroactively colors Ice's lines as racial epithets -- and, like the "epidemic" accusation, it recolors Ice's claims of cleanliness with genocidal overtones.

So it seems to me that the central concern is not so much the "revolutionary potential of rap" and its despoiling so much as black fears of being targeted for extermination by bigots (ironically enough, Ice has several bars lamenting the hatred that seems to infect his peers) -- maybe those things are comorbid, idk, but I see more outright reference to the latter

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Bite-Sized! Lore Drop

The Dissected One

This is a malicious entity that is feared worldwide. People use epithets instead of his true name lest you wish to draw his attention to you. He was the first created by one of the demigods. He proceeded to devour the other first created. In doing so he assimilated their forms into his own allowing him to shapeshift. Nobody knows what his true form looks like as he is known to lie. Among his powers, he also developed a forbidden set of magic. Using this knowledge he gave multiple beasts the gift of consciousness and even granted them immortality.

He soon amassed a cult following of people who worship him and want to be blessed by him. Using his followers he tricked the goddess Hinomynia to be infected with the Myalcide fungus. The Blood Mother awoke to bring down her wrath upon him. It is said he now lies with his chest cavity opened in an unknown location. His cult following still exists to this day. However, they are much smaller in number. They still wish to free him from his prison to finish what he started.

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⠀⠀*⠀⠀SPY MASTER OF THE DAY COURT, REZEF KATZ.

❪ LEE JAE—WOOK. cis—male. he / him. ❫ ┊ 28, 280. high fae. ＊ cauldron save you. it seems REZEF KATZ … RYEO KANG has finally made it to the capital, the SPY MASTER from THE DAY COURT is said to be PERCEPTIVE, and is said to describe themselves with: REJECTION BY DEATH, ╱ INFECTION WITH LIFE. A PRAYER TO NEVER REST IN PEACE. HALF A CORPSE ╱ HALF A GOD. AN EMPTY VOID WAITING TO BE FILLED. and with all of this in mind, their RUTHLESS nature always seems to get them into trouble. may the mother hold them as they navigate this unthinkable time.

⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ✱⠀⠀⋯⠀⠀MINUTIAE.

TRUE NAME, ryeo ❪ 려 ❫ kang ❪ 강 ❫. FALSE NAME, rezef katz. EPITHETS, the tyrant of the day court. DATE OF BIRTH, the first day of the fourth month. AGE, 28 physically — 280 psychologically. PLACE OF BIRTH, the day court of prythian. GENDER, cis male ❪ he / him ❫. STAR—SIGN, aries. ORIENTATION, bisexual. SPECIES, high fae. LOYALTY, the day court ❪ assumed ❫.

⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ✱⠀⠀⋯⠀⠀REFLECTION.

FACE—CLAIM, lee jae—wook. HAIR, black — short. VISAGE, sharply defined. dead—lit eyes. pale, chapped lips. calloused hands. EYES, brown. HEIGHT, 190 cm. STYLE, consistent of a dark palette of blacks and grays. DOMINANT HAND, right. SIGNATURE SCENT, metallic — mint.

⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ✱⠀⠀⋯⠀⠀TEMPERAMENT.

LABEL, the lost star. CHARMS, independent. perspective. intelligent. steadfast. adaptable. suave. FLAWS, arrogant. ruthless. impulsive. disloyal. selfish. manipulative. deceitful. MORAL ALIGNMENT, lawful neutral. TEMPERAMENT, melancholic.

⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ✱⠀⠀⋯⠀⠀BACKSTORY.

⠀⠀i.⠀⠀rezef katz was born as ryeo kang. he wasn’t born as the man he is as of current. he was a rebel, a trouble—maker who’d often use his mood to depend on whether to sabotage his father’s plans at trying to do his job as the day court’s spy master, or help him. simply put, ryeo was not the typical son that was wanted, much less loved.

⠀⠀ii.⠀⠀parents find one thing in common to talk about: court feuds. seasonal and solar courts do not get along — ryeo is warned. but at the age of sixteen, he finds love in the form of a girl from the winter court; frost in her veins and so, so, cold that she burned ryeo with every glance like the sun would. nothing comes in the way of this girl and boy of polar opposites in spite of the bad—blood. after all, she’d fallen for ryeo without effort and he, the same. the star to her skies — she’d call him.

⠀⠀iii.⠀⠀it’s funny how the world works, how everything can fall apart in a second. at the age of eighteen, ryeo loses everything dear to him — his heart, his lover, his light, his family, but gains one thing in return: the title of spy master. they’ve found a purpose for him, discovered his skill for fitting into spaces and gauging information out of others easily, a talent for obtaining trust that most struggle to do so. the day court had made a weapon out of a boy whose hands hold nothing, their trump card.

⠀⠀iv.⠀⠀with his succession, ryeo kang becomes rezef katz to those outside of the day court. an empty shell, who will use violence if he feels the need. rumors run around about his loyalty to the day court — and his past relationship with one of the seasonal court is no secret. (devotion to the solar courts wavers constantly, he’d fit more into night / winter court with how he hardly dwells within light, or uses his powers.)

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