#It's all about death and rebirth and love

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A Spectral Mother

For week 2 of Wyllvember [Monster Manual].

I decided to mirror my choice of Ulder and Wyll for week one with Francesca and Wyll for week two. My initial post for Francesca is here.

As we know there are inconsistencies in wyll's lore (specifically his mom telling him about the wilden oak tree but dying during childbirth) which is due to the less than stellar treatment our favorite warlock has gotten from his writer. However I decided to use that to hc that his mom became a ghost because she wanted to see him all grown up.

So my references for this piece:

Top left hand panel is Mother and child in an orange grove by Virginie Demont. The pose I used for Francesca in the upper right panel is Mother and child by Adolphe Jourdan, while the pose Ulder is in is Father feeding his baby by Arthur Sarnoff (who did the famous dogs playing poker painting known as Jack the ripper). The middle one is based on two paintings by Eugene de Blaas, one I had to track down because the original picture I used was based on something else. The first painting is a woman with a basket of fruit and the second is boy eating an apple. The bottom left is based on Two girls smiling by Carl Bloch (who did the famous and meme-d on paintings 'The Sermon on the Mount' and 'In a Roman Osteria') The bottom right is based of three different paintings: Der Brief (The Letter) by Berthold Woltze; Lost in thought by Ernest Anders; The discovered love letters by Carl Rudolph Sohn. So that's nine refs. Jfc.

Also I put flower symbolism because yes. I thought about adding flowers to each of these but thought against it because as you can see nine paintings I referenced. Anyway last panel in the vase on the window you can see the following: Adonis flower (Painful recollection, sorrowful remembrances); Browallia ( Can you bear poverty); Nasturtium (Patriotism, conquest, victory in battle; heroism); Red spider Lily (abandonment, loss, separation, death and the cycle of rebirth. It's commonly referred to as the Flower of Death); Pink Carnation (A woman's love, a mother's love; I'll never forget you)

(the fic might be late for this one - I'm being kidnapped unexpectedly flown to the other side of the country to babysit my cousin)

[glitter-stained]

Took inspiration from you guys' very cool suggestions (could not take them as they were because of plot-specific reasons but they were all super cool)! It made me think of Chrysaor, the warrior with the golden sword who burst out of Medusa's head along with Pegasus when Perseus split it open. We have themes of death and rebirth, Medusa's themes (the story is about csa trauma recovery), a warrior who is strong, powerful but not a god, and a parallel with Athena's birth that's interesting since Jason is a strategist, and no tragic end (homeboy is a little too vulnerable to self-fullfilling prophecies)

Anybody has ideas for a hero name for Jason in an AU I which he 1. Were trying to distance himself from his trauma and characterization as a villain, 2. wanted something that could be a symbol of hope for both himself and the people he helps and 3. didn't want something too associated with images of godhood or perfection (because of plot). Bonus point if there's a literature reference in there!

[windsweptinred]

Hear me out, here me out…

“And that it was from Chaos that the first three primordial gods sprang forth: Gaea (Earth), Tartarus (the Underworld), and Eros (Love) - Hesiod's Theogony

Gaea/Earth: Ariadne 

Tartarus/The Underworld: Eurydice

Eros/Love: Caeneus

Purely me headcanoning my heart little away. But I love how in a sense they all represent the three eternal beings ‘of chaos’ that make up creation incarnate. 

Ariadne: Who is now the ‘Mother of her people and her land’ as president. A representation of feminine power. Life

Eurydice: The first person to return from the Underworld and essentially, conquer/master death. Death 

Caeneus: Sweet, sweet Caeneus who embodies love, the driving force of creation. Love

They don't embody the return to Chaos per say, rather the power that sprang from it. The necessary cycle of death and rebirth, destruction and creation that Zeus has selfishly stalled. That they, as a trio will restart.

[poisonousquinzel]

thinking about just how likely it is that Batman was the only person Harley told about having suicidal thoughts whilst in Arkham in Detective Comics #831

"I was seriously considering hanging sheets from the light in my cell and doing the maximum checkout when I heard this voice..."

Detective Comics #831

and how he knew when she strapped that bomb to herself in Batman (2016) #100 that he had to go after her because she was going let herself die in an attempt to end Joker's rampage for good but that she refused to physically do it because he didn't want to her Kill him and he told her that so she's found a middle ground

"We don't need to end it this way. He needs to be locked back up."

that she'd rather die than keep living with his presence in the world haunting her, haunting Them.

That if he did choose Joker, she wasn't going to disarm the bomb herself.

"Honey. You're talking to the wrong girl if you think he's not dangerous locked up in Arkham. It's like I said. That's not good enough for me. Not anymore."

the way he yells for her as she leaves.

"You're only going to get to one of us in time, Bats. Who's it going to be?"

"Harley!"

the way the two men stare at each other in the way they have so many times before, in those moments when Joker stayed or prioritized their fight over her. the way he knew Joker loved the thrill of it all and thought it was funny, thought there was No way Batman would leave him and that this game had to end as according to the rules. And that Batman would do so, he would follow the rules and save him. The way he immediately assumed Batman would choose him, choose his life and choose to stay and disarm the bomb.

And how Batman didn't do that. How Batman walked away from him, leaving him to die or escape or whatever, because He was choosing Harley and her safety and prioritizing her life over him.

The way he stared him in the eyes before choosing the woman Joker had always left to die over him. The way that it was always Him, it was never a question if he would choose Batman over her, but when faced with that type of scenario, Joker is the one that gets left behind to die.

The way she literally woke up in the hospital instead of them having a scene just outside after he removed it. because she didn't intend to live in one of the two options. the way the bomb probably did go off to some capacity because you don't just end up in the hospital knocked out for a week.

Him saying that he's glad she's okay, after everything they've been through, this war and Everything else. and the way he didn't brush off her concern

"I'm glad you're okay."

"Are you?"

"I had to bury my father again today. I did it with my family."

i just, i can't,,,,, i cant

[ksawiy]

Okay, I upgraded the flowers for him, otherwise it looked strange.

I decided to add a little symbolism, but dunno how these flowers suit him; I took the information from a random site. I don 't understand the language of flowers 😩 (used translator)

───── ⋆⋅☆⋅⋆ ─────

(Pink flower) Dahlia is a whim, impermanence, a fleeting infatuation. The giver of dahlias says: "I really like you, but I don't promise anything", "I'm not ready for a serious relationship", "Why complicate everything?"

(Blue flower) Forget-me-not : it is noteworthy that in almost all languages the name of the flower can be translated as "Don't forget me". There is a legend that during the creation of the world, when God gave names to all the flora, a tiny forget-me-not whispered: "Don't forget about me." That's why it got its name and symbolic meaning — the memory of loved ones.

(White flower) Chamomile: In the rest of Europe, the chamomile is a symbol of rebirth. This meaning originated in the ancient Roman myth, where the god Vertumnus fell in love with a nymph. But the girl did not reciprocate the feelings of God and let the emu know about it, turning into a chamomile field.

(Red in the background) Mac: it means a very unfriendly symbol, you can not give it to friends in any case, the meaning of the gift is: may you die. Or you will be there soon - which I sincerely wish you. It is the flower of eternity - the flower of oblivion and death.

[mettywiththenotes]

I know people talk about Shirakumo/Kurogiri being Aizawa’s villain and stuff, but I keep thinking; why exactly is it always Mic waking Shirakumo/Kurogiri up?

I mean, he’s the last one to yell his name before the mist reveals the body underneath in Tartarus, and just this last chapter, Mic is the only one of the two (between himself and Aizawa) who yet again woke Shirakumo/Kurogiri up

( ^ wakes up directly after Mic says his name)

( ^ wakes up as Spinner AND Mic speak to him)

Not only that, but we also have Aizawa saying IN CANON that he was unable to wake Shirakumo/Kurogiri up (right after he asked Monoma to copy the warp quirk)

I’m thinking - what is the connection? Why was it Mic both times?

Is there something we’re missing here? Who exactly was Mic to Shirakumo? Also, who was Shirakumo to Mic?

It occurs to me that we’ve only got the side of the trio’s story from Aizawa’s perspective. That’s not to say it ALL focuses on Aizawa specifically (we do see Mic’s reactions after all), but just that, Aizawa has been shown to be the most torn up about Shirakumo, and he’s the one who has such a bold reaction to Shirakumo/Kurogiri in Tartarus (showing him the goggles, declaring they’ll be Heroes again, etc)

So what about Mic’s feelings? What about Shirakumo himself?

I wonder if there’s going to be more to it all, or if we’ll get more on Mic and Shirakumo’s relationship specifically at some point, their connection and such

It’s just a little suspicious

[ballpitbee]

I absolutely love your streetlamp city stuff and how you can just look at all your toontown characters and make a whole new world for them. It's like that one post with how au art of mlp characters eventually evolved into their own characters with separate lore and names. It's so cool

THANK YOU!! I realised that aphter a while I was having more phun doing my own thing with my own rules and world building - so I yoinked those phellas away and put them in my new place!

(Course, I still LOOOOVE toontown- but nothing theres nothing I love better than going wild with ideas and whatnot X3)

[july-19th-club]

love season 2. i'm concussions! and i'm psychic visions! the headache brothers

[bericas]

cuts and bruises, baby

[thirdtimed]

unfortunately if i ever developed the lifeseries orv au in my head in earnest i would in no capacity whatsoever manage to be normal about it at all and like. i mean it

[saints-who-never-existed]

“Death has an opposite, but the opposite is not mere living. 

It is not courage or faith or human will. 

The opposite of death is love. 

How had I missed that? How does anyone miss that? 

Love is our only weapon. 

Only love can turn mere life into a miracle, and draw precious meaning from suffering and fear. 

For a brief, magical moment, all my fears lifted, and I knew that I would not let death control me. I would walk through the godforsaken country that separated me from my home with love and hope in my heart. 

I would walk until I had walked all the life out of me, and when I fell I would die that much closer to my father.”

- Nando Parrado, Miracle in the Andes, 2006. 

[triglycercule]

god i wish it wasn't only killer that could come back from the dead so that both horror and dust could die and it would be fine(ish) so they can all just kill eachother over and over. a little peek into my dark twisted mind ahh post but i seriously wish,,,,, time to make killer!versions of them so they'll both have human souls and then be able to respawn and then this idea will be real!

[impossible-rat-babies]

1.0 making Direct Eye Contact and breathing heavily while [redacted] makes a giant mess of her house like

[lesenbyan]

Give me the director's commentary on the fic about Falon'Din's temple beatdown - what compelled you to write it, what you wanted it to accomplish, etc.!

Fanfic Writer Director's Cut

oh man hon it's been years and my memory is terrible, let me see what I can slot together with the pieces it gives me.

First off, though you know this, I would be remiss if I didn't mention that I'm a Falon'Din kinnie with Opinions and Headcanons (read: projection).

But I think what compelled me ti write it is the same thing I wanted to accomplish, which is. basically the same thing any sympathetic retelling of a villain's story does. Like. I'm not gonna argue with the very little lore we've got that says he was fucking terrible bc like yeah. yeah. They all were, they had to be. He was a fucking monster. And the temple beat down was very much him getting a bit of what he deserved (but. not from anyone who deserved to dish it out) but like.

You know how when you take a character canon gives you nothing on and you build them from the ground up everything you made shapes how you see canon events? Like the only telling we have of it is that it happened really, and not a whole lot more. But when you add in the many flavors of mentally unwell and otherwise traumatized my hcs make Falon'Din it gives the whole thing a different tint. From the outside it's an arrogant asshole refusing to back down. From the inside it's a scared boy bluffing a fake it til you make it as so many of his actions actually are and the moment the bluff starts the fracture internally where his worries go.

Like, I've always been fascinated in what makes people break, where that line is for each person and whether or not they can recover. But, of course, it is far more ethical to explore this in fiction which is why I can't even really write fluff past a certain word count without a vein of bittersweet or crack to keep it light. And when the mighty and arrogant fall they fall hard. But my Falon'Din, while he's bought into his own act, it's doesn't run very deep. My Falon'Din is conscious of how much of him was shaped by Dirthamen and how much of his power he owes to his twin. Could he have done it alone given the same knowledge? sure, probably. But no one was going to give him that. Literally and figuratively Falon'Din knows he owes everything he has to Dirthamen and would give it up in a moment if Dirthamen asked (love as a corrupting force, y'see) but Dirthamen wouldn't ask bc like. He doesn't want it. that's so much work. he only worked for the goal bc Falon'Din wanted it.

So he honestly thinks he can't die, that he's in the right, but he also knows this shit is real which is why he doesn't let Dirthamen stay. Bc he's cocky and arrogant but he knows that this isn't just gonna be some reprimand, he knows this is gonna be bloody, and he's a damn good fighter, he fights among his own front lines, but Dirthamen isn't here to shield him and he's against everyone else. And that moment is compelling.

But to balance it, to show him in his entirety, his recovery needed to be seen too- his recovery and his past. Bc there is where we see Dirthamen's hand molding the clay, shaping him. I wanted to convey that Falon'Din (excuse me, Athim) is a blank slate and not once, but twice Dirthamen (Renan, bc what is he to the world here if not his voice?) took him and molded him into this. That Falon'Din's a monster and knows it and loves it, but he knows it's because Dirthamen made him so.

[reinemichele]

Translation here

Like gathering stardust in a decaying world, I'll compose this song until I scatter to dust. Even beautiful flowers in full bloom Will turn to grains of sand in the passage of time, Silently trickling into their final resting place: The glittering starry sky filling the silver hourglass. Surrendering myself to suffering, With unwavering faith in the cycle of death and rebirth I'll wear a smile as I go...  Because "I have lived."

[With disgust conflicting with heartbreak] Isn't that stupid? Isn't that so stupid...?

Actually I realized I can post this and not worry about proprietary so much

Does that, um, convey...