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drifting-pieces-blog-blog · 7 days ago

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Here we go, something I've been thinking about for some time now!

Thoughts on Moon Knight from the comics and his story:

G-d said to Abraham, "Go forth from your native land and from your father's house to the land that I will show you." -Genesis 12:1

Marc Spector fled from his father’s house. Depending on which time line you go off of, Zelenetz or Lemire, you get different reasons for him leaving.

In Lemire, you can see Khonshu infiltrating Marc’s life little by little from childhood until he is an overbearing image. The main aspect being that you see Khonshu calling to him “Come to me.”

Eventually, at his father’s funeral, Marc leaves his father’s house for a new land.

There was a famine in the land --Aside from the previous famine that had occurred in the days of Abraham--And Isaac went to Abimelech, King of the Philistins, in Gerar. - Genesis 26:1

And Abimelech said to Isaac, "Go away from us, for you have become far too big for us." So Isaac departed from there and encamped in the wadi of Gerar, where he settled. - Genesis 26:16-17

Marc found war with the marines. He learned to fight and kill and he was good at it. Again, depending on if you follow a number of different versions of what happened: Attacked his commanding officer and was discharged, had a mental breakdown and was discharged, ran off on his own, or finished his term and left…. It really varies from run to run.

Either way, Marc left the life of the marines and wandered off into the desert where he settled and found his way into the Mercenary life.

"Your brother Esau is consoling himself by planning to kill you. Now, my son, listen to me. Flee at once to Haran, to my brother Laban." - Genesis 27:42-43

Marc Spector had a big brother, Randall Spector. Introduced in 1979 by Moench, he was the estranged brother of Marc who had followed him into the Marines and eventually became a killer. He held a bitter grudge against Marc that eventually came to a big battle that ended with Marc killing him.

Again, depending on which run you follow, this has been re-written a few times and Randall meets different ends multiple times. Randall was later re-written to be Marc’s little brother, but this was probably just sloppy writing with a lack of editorial fact checking.

Later on, Randall is depicted as being incredibly Jealous of Marc. He becomes Night Shadow, and later, Shadowknight as he attempts to become Khonshu's true avatar. He repeatedly tries to become stronger than Marc and to take position as head of the Khonshu cult and avatar.

If we follow the storyline of Marc leaving the Mercenary business after he dies in the desert, he left Randall behind here. Possibly even before that when he joined up with Bushman’s group that eventually left him fleeing the desert to start a new life as Moon Knight.

When Midianite traders passed by, they pulled Joseph up out of the pit. They sold Joseph for twenty pieces of silver to Ishmaelites, who brought Joseph to Egypt. - Genesis 37:28

Marc Spector died in the desert and donned his white cape and cowl to become Moon Knight. Marc was revived by Khonshu and became his Avatar. Metaphorically, he had entered Egypt and would soon become the slave to Khonshu, who would then rule over his life and often make his life a living hell.

When he left the desert for America. Here, he did his best to not be Marc, but to let Jake and Steven run the life when he wasn’t Moon Knight.

When Pharaoh learned of the matter, he sought to kill Moses; but Moses fled from Pharaoh. He arrived in the land of Midian, and sat down beside a well. - Exodus 2:15

Moses went back to his father-in-law Jethro and said to him, "Let me go back to my kinsfolk in Egypt and see how they are fairing." And Jethro said to Moses, "Go in peace." -Exodus 4:18

There was great unrest between Marc, Jake, Steven, and Moon Knight. Especially on the Khonshu issue. Many times, Marc tried to disappear. In various runs by various authors, you see him fake his death a few times… even actually die a few times, only to be revived many times.

In Lemire, we find the trio coming together and rising up against Khonshu to become a working system. Khonshu demands that they continue to serve him and the three of them at last leave Egypt.

But your carcasses shall drop in this wilderness, while your children roam the wilderness for fourty years, suffering for your faithlessness, until the last of your carcasses is down in the wilderness. You shall bear your punishment for fourty years, corresponding to the number of days-fourty days- that you scouted the land: a year for each day. Thus you shall know what it means to thwart Me. - Numbers 14:32-34

Despite the system coming together and the silencing of Khonshu, there was no peace in the system. Rather than work as one, they drifted and became more Mr. Knight than their own individual lives as they had once known. They fell again and again to Khonshu’s will, despite Marc’s intense bitterness towards the old bird.

Eventually, when Khonshu was locked away in Asgard jail, we find Marc learning what it means to be not only himself, but to accept community. He forms a family and makes friends. He starts to let go of his past traumas that kept him away from people.

It is this acceptance of community that re-awakens Steven and Jake and invites them (by force) to become a part of life again. They force Marc to start to take care of himself and they learn how to function as a united nation.

The last name “Spector” is an Ashkenazi Jewish name taken from the original name of “Szpektor”, meaning “Teacher’s Assistant”.

Now, the story goes that Moench met someone in the office with that name and he thought “Well that’s a pretty cool name!”. After he had created the character, he learned the Jewish origins and rather than ignore it, he let it play out. In my books, this put Marc up there with The Thing (Ben Grimm) on the list of very few original cannon Jews in the Marvel universe.

What continues to amaze me is just how utterly Jewish the story of Moon Knight continues to be. Even without trying.

Steven, who embodies Tikkun Olam (the act of giving in an effort to better the world). Jake, who has always been the heart of the system and the G-d Wrestler. Then we have Marc. The one who wanders the desert, rejects and questions everything, and who always returns. The one who carries the Trauma of whatever happened to him and the Trauma of his people deep in his veins. Not to mention, Moon Knight, who is a Golem in the truest sense.

Don’t ever let anyone tell you that Moon Knight is not Jewish and that his comic is not one of a Jewish story.

#Moon Knight #Moon Knight comics #Marc Spector #Steven Grant #Jake Lockley #Moon Knight is Jewish #Jewish comics #Yeah yeah I'm back #I've been away for a year and I'm sorry #Had to take a year off to get my shit together #The shit is together #What a year

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eclipian · 2 months ago

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Fuck AI Headmate #14

pt: fuck ai headmate #14

reminder beings will almost definitely not turn out exactly as described, and these can be edited and changed as needed.

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Name: Leo , Lynx , Levi , Luca , Landon , Leon , Luke , Logan , Laban , Lachlan , Louis , Legend , Lennon , Lester , Liam , Leland , Lawson

Age: 41

Pronouns: He/Him , Hy/Hym , Hu/Hum , Hx/Hxm , Xe/Xem , Cae/Caer , Dae/Daer , King/Kings , Crown/Crowns , Gold/Golds , Jewel/Jewels , Noble/Nobles , Grand/Grands , Throne/Thrones , Thou/Thee , 👑/👑s , ⚜️/⚜️s ,

Gender: Male , Lionmasc , Lionmasc , Kosmimal , Regalmmin , Royalgold , Kinglover , Roquillic , Royalcatic , Ridranthine , Sirelexic , Royalcoric , Unucrownic , Kingpresentic + Kingcoripresentic + Kinggenpresentic , Phantaking , Royalsysralic , Regogender , Kinggender , Noblerosclath , Feliendelic , Soleodeic , Liongender , Nohinfeatheric + Nohinfuric , Veriange

Attraction: Veldian , Headmate 4 Headmate

Other IDs: Crowned , Dissoking , Alderfeathwinged

Species: Mix of a Big Cat and a Bird of Paradise

Origin/Modifiers: Magiangenic , Fenigenic

Role: Leader , Judge , Guardian , Protector

Aesthetics: Golden Hour , Summer , Desert , Heatwave , Adventurecore

Misc Info: A proud standing wild cat, staring down those who dare to harm the system and the headspace. Those who dare challange them will feel the wrath of this large cat. This big cat is a talker who will speak it's mind to whoever dares listen.

pt: name , age , pronouns , gender , attraction , other ids , species , origins/modifiers , role , aesthetics , misc info

Disclaimer: Middle image is made with the use of AI. This blog does not condone or promote putting AI over real artist. This post is using it as a way to middle finger those who try to claim AI creations as actual pieces of art. I mod music am not making prompts for the images.

tags: @bahtive

#build a headmate #build an alter #alter creation #headmate creation #build a system #BAH #BAHtive #✦ member #🎼 mod 🎹#ANTI RQ #ANTI RQ headmate pack

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nerdygaymormon · 9 months ago

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The Book of Genesis teaches wealth is destructive

In the Book of Genesis, the stories of the great patriarchs of the Israeli people shows that wealth resulted in families being split up. It happened again and again and again.

Let's start with Abraham. He doesn't have any children of his own, however his nephew lives with him and presumably Lot (the nephew) would be heir to Abraham. Each of them grow so wealthy that the land of Canaan couldn't support both of them. They separate and never see each other again (Genesis 13:6-9). Because of their wealth, Abraham loses his heir and someone he is close to.

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Losing Lot creates a problem for Abraham, he needs a son to inherit his fortune. Sarah, his wife, has not been able to get pregnant, and her solution is for Abraham to have a child with Sarah's female slave named Hagar. A son is born and is named Ishmael. Sarah later becomes pregnant and has a son named Isaac. Sarah wants her son Isaac to inherit everything and so Hagar & Ishmael are abandoned in the wilderness knowing this will likely result in their death. Wealth causes this unjust action.

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Isaac inherits his father's wealth. He has two sons named Esau and Jacob. They are fraternal twins, but because Esau was birthed first he is the beneficiary of the primogeniture system which rewards the first-born son with a larger inheritance. Jacob & his mom each connive to take Esau's birthright away and give it to Jacob. Esau is furious and vows to murder Jacob, causing Jacob to flee. The fight over an inheritance leads to the splitting up of this family.

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Jacob flees to his uncle's home where he falls in love with his cousin Rachel and agrees to work for his uncle for 7 years in exchange for getting to marry her. I'm guessing since Jacob fled his home without much, this 7 years of labor is in lieu of a dowry, which was a sum of money offered to the father of his bride by the groom in order to receive the daughter as his bride. After 7 years, during which the uncle's flocks and fortunes increased under Jacob's skilled care, Jacob gets married but he is tricked, he didn't marry Rachel but Leah, who is Rachel's older sister Leah. Jacob is angry, but he and his uncle agree that Jacob can also marry Rachel now in exchange for another 7 years of labor. That was a shady way to keep Jacob working to the uncle's benefit.

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Once the second 7-year agreement is completed, Jacob wants to take his family & possessions and head back to Canaan, but he comes to an agreement with the uncle to stay and work in exchange for payment, which is that Jacob could have all of the spotted, speckled, and brown goats and sheep of Laban's flock. Jacob employs tactics to increase the number of animals which would be born with these markings. After 6 years he leaves and his cousins claim he robbed his uncle of his wealth because he took most of the animals with him. The uncle gathers a team and pursues Jacob for 7 days. Jacob and his uncle meet and agree to setup a pillar, it would serve as a boundary, Jacob would go one way and the uncle the other way and they would never cross the pillar again as a way to ensure in the future neither would seek to harm the other. The uncle never again sees his daughters or grandchildren again.

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Jacob is returning to Canaan with the great wealth he accumulated, but even 20 years after fleeing, Jacob is worried what his brother Esau may do to him. Fortunately, Jacob and Esau reconcile. Esau also has done well for himself. Unfortunately, just like Abraham and Lot, their combined wealth in the form of animals, possessions and servants is so great that the land can't support both of them. They have to split up. Their combined wealth causes them to be separated again. The descendants of Esau (the Edomites) become the enemies of the Israelites because they continue to tell their descendants the story of Esau being tricked out of his birthright. King Solomon enslaves the Edomites and forces them to build the temple. When Babylon attacks Israel, the Edomites celebrate rather than join with Israel to resist the Babylonian captivity. The prophet Obadiah writes about the violence done by Esau against Jacob, and how terrible the Edomites are for helping the Babylonians loot the city of Jerusalem and that they're cursed. This history of separation and hatred happened because of wealth.

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Jacob has many children. Joseph, the 11th son of Jacob, is favored above all his other sons. Jacob had loved Leah and wanted to marry her, but was tricked into marrying her sister Rebekkah. He had children from 3 women before finally the baby Joseph was born by Leah, the love of his life, and he therefore favored Joseph. The implication is that Joseph is going to get the birthright as the oldest son of the wife Jacob loves. Joseph reinforces this idea by sharing dreams of him being powerful over his brothers and they bow down to him.

Joseph's half-brothers decide to kill him because he is a threat to their power and inheritance. They change their mind and rather than kill him, they sold Joseph into bondage and he was taken to Egypt. Interestingly, they sold Joseph to some Ishmaelites, who they may have known given they're probably 1st or 2nd cousins as the also were descended from Abraham.

Remarkably, Joseph survives and becomes free, but rather than go home to his family, he pursues power and wealth in Egypt. Eventually his brothers come to Egypt in search of food but Joseph tests them to see if he can trust them. They pass the test and Joseph moves the family to Egypt. While the reunion is joyous, it can't undo the many years of separation

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Thus the book of Genesis gives us warning that being wealthy is destructive to the more important things like family relationships

#the bible is anti-rich #queer faith #scriptures for queer people

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todaysjewishholiday · 5 months ago

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15 Sivan 5784 (20-21 June 2024)

The fifteenth of Sivan is the traditional birthday and yahrzeit of Yehudah bar Yisroel. The original one. The one Judaism is named after.

Why him? In the Torah, Yehudah is one of the twelve sons (and thirteen children, let’s not forget Dinah) of Yaakov who becomes Yisroel. Yaakov, remember, had fallen in love with Rachel but her father Laban had swapped brides on the wedding day because he thought Leah should be married first, and then the two sisters committed to an infant arms race to try and win their husband’s affection (a bad time for all). Yehudah was the fourth of Leah’s seven children, so he had neither the legal rights of the firstborn or the narrative significance of the youngest son, who the family narratives in Bereshit persistently preference. But despite his middle-of-the-pack position, Yehudah appears in the Torah’s story of the family as a clever and decisive character, unlike the eldest brother Reuven, and is persistently placed as the foil of Yosef, the second-to-last child (and firstborn of favored Rachel) who gets all the advantages the Torah offers to younger brothers.

This prominence may be a matter of historical accuracy (or at least communal memory) or Yehudah’s role in events may have been burnished retroactively to account for the success of his most famous descendants, the house of David, who became kings. Of course, according to Tanakh, the northern ten tribes went and established their own monarchy after two generations of almost-unity.

It’s that split, into the northern kingdom of Samaria and southern kingdom of Judah, that produced the Jewish people (or at least our name). Many of the nobles of the northern kingdom were taken into captivity by the Assyrians, who turned back before conquering Judah. Then a little over a hundred years later, the nobility of Judah was taken into exile by the Babylonians. It was the returnees from that captivity, and their conflict with the remaining population of Samaria, who they felt had mixed too much with other people’s and adopted too many foreign practices, that made the people of Judah a distinct religious community.

The fifteenth of the month is aligned with the full moon in the Hebrew calendar and is frequently a festival day, as with the start of Pesach on 15 Nisan and Pesach Sheni on 15 Iyyar, Sukkot on 15 Tishrei, or the minor holidays of Tu B’Av and Tu B’Shvat. Ancient sources may have felt that Sivan, whose major holiday falls at the start of the month, needed something more when designating the 15th as Yehudah’s birthday and yahrzeit.

Today is also Erev Shabbos, the last of the six days of labor this week. We will welcome Shabbat HaMalka with the Kabbalat Shabbat service and the lighting of Shabbat candles at least 18 minutes before sunset.

#jewish holidays #jewish calendar #hebrew calendar #judaism #jewish #jumblr #Yehudah #Judah #children of israel #yahrzeit #birthday #midrash #erev shabbos #🌝

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astarab1aze · 6 months ago

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Nations & Their Cities - 2

Scarburn

Capital: Margrove

Cities: Braemare, Montrose, Arborden, Hagscroft, Rumfort, Rockhill, Grennock, Kildarling, High Gate, Bloodswell, Netherly, Wounshire

Sights: Highgarden, Cicatrician Hills, Mad Hag's Lesion, Loch Lettie, Pseudocilium Forest, the Feyrie Graves, Margrovian Viaduct, Par'Sylfie, Cain Fort, Carnival Rock, Bledsoe Creek, Kobold's Split

Vitale

Capital: Ru Gravis

Cities: Lupatera, Praetoria, Venefica, Venavera, Infernum, Imperratore, Melmalum, Cornix, Melmanus, Lupa Stella, Sicaria, Fortuna, Pallens, Cat's Cradle, Impetua

Sights: The Pale Watch, the Hellmouth, the Descent, the Devil's Pit, Umbral Sepulchre, Tenibresian Steppes, Simulacral Towers, Domine Lupus, Blackthorn Brush, Hellhound's Brace (prison), Lake of Fire, Port Angelus, Lux-en-Tenebris

Nouxfret

Capital: Colline-de-Ven

Cities: Occitienne, Touxlon, Ysère, Paliseux, Pon Cleux, Vonveille, Pommefore, Clementina, Beaunaire, Grainerie, Ville Aimante

Sights: Wind Collector's Ridge, Port Lumineux, Palais Corveaux, Ossus Promenade, Canal de Lumineux, Mon Claire, Caldeira Ver, Grotte du Dragonne, Blue Roseraie, Salle des Mort, Veines du Monde, (part of the) Cicatrician Hills

The Barrowfells

Capital: Knottly

Cities: Deepfall, Drath, Dresden, Nurada, Wellburrow, Fellhammer, Baelfrost, Pangold, Irontown, Soot, Knothung, Denthelm, Donar, Southport, New Grand Eyrie, Steelfold, Armora

Sights: Southern Pass, Iceflow, Khuthd's Burn, Splitpeak, Vulka's Forge, Barrowborn Mines, Simmerflow Mine, the Forge-King's Monument, Tor's Hammerstone, Vale of Fire, Knife Ridge, Run-Off Caves, Surfacer's Tradepost, Balroga, Goblin & Myhala Tunnels, Helforge Bastion, Knocker's Trove

Seralta

Capital: Argesh

Cities: Marakeem, Khadisha, Cyrus, Tereeza, Myr, Efirit, Gisul, Khesi, Taissyr, Eleeza, Fherah, Sahari'el, T'shari, Jada, Urzza, Sahti, Qamar

Sights: The Eternal Desert, Imperial Highway of Argesha, Tomb of the Maleficar, Odesza's Spout, Fountain of Manah, Uzzani River System, Lakes Eashal and Laban, Ahmari Steppe, Temple of Holy Mother Sahari'el de Sunjat, Alfil Bato (pirate city), Alqarnus' Cove, Qamari'el's Labyrinthe, Sabaari Forest, the Taniyn Ashlands, Port of Dukhat

#☿ || Headcanons.#♞ // Verse: Of Endless Suffering.#/ just some places #/ i love seralta because they outlawed blood magic and necromancy #/ but pretty much greenlight piracy #/ out here living their best lives

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georgegraphys · 17 days ago

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George Russell with Andres Laban, Sports Marketing Director of Adidas Mexico and Miguel Layun, President of Kings League Americas and former football player.

#george russell #gr63

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alwayschaotictraveler · 2 years ago

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#exmormon #exmo #exmo tag #polls #poll

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upismediacenter · 5 months ago

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OPINION: Boycott: Para rin sa Ating mga Manggagawa

Patuloy pa rin ang genocide sa Palestine dahil sa walang-tigil na atake ng Israel. Bilang mga mamamayang Pilipino na hindi kayang direktang tulungan ang mga Palestino, patuloy tayong naghahanap ng mga paraan upang magparating ng suporta. Ilan sa mga halimbawa ng mga paraang ito ay ang paglalagda ng mga petisyon, pagbibigay ng donasyon, at ang pinag-uusapan ngayon ay ang pagbo-boycott sa mga kumpanyang sumusuporta sa Israel.

Ang boycott ay isang paraan ng pagprotesta na nangangailangan ng mainam na pagpaplano at kooperasyon ng mga mamamayan. Sa gawaing ito, tumitigil ang mga tao sa pagbili ng mga produkto mula sa mga mapang-abusong kompanya. Sa mundo na pinamumunuan ng kapitalismo, isa itong napakaimportanteng hakbang patungo sa ikabubuti ng ating mga manggagawa at maging ng mga Palestino dahil nagdudulot ito ng matinding pressure sa mga may-ari ng kompanya. Ang pagtigil ng pagtangkilik sa mga produkto ng mga naturang kompanya ay magreresulta ng pagbaba ng kanilang kita, kung ‘di man tuluyang pagkalugi. Inaalagaan ng mga kompanya ang kanilang reputasyon dahil isa ito sa mga dahilan ng pagtaas ng pagtangkilik sa kanilang produkto. Kung mababahiran ng kasiraan ang kanilang imahen, magiging kwestyonable sila sa mga mamimili na magdudulot ng mas mahinang benta.

Sa kabila ng potensyal na kapangyarihan ng boycott, ginagawang pananggalang ng mga kapitalista ang argumento na ang boycott ay nagdudulot ng pagkawala ng trabaho at pagbaba ng sahod ng mga apektadong kompanya.

Ngunit kung tatanggapin natin ang argumento ng mga kompanya, nagmimistulang hostage ang mga manggagawa dahil sila ang nagiging kapalit ng anomang nais gawin ng mga kapitalista. Upang mapanatili ang kanilang trabaho, kinakailangan bang tanggapin na lang ang anomang kilos ng mga kapitalista, lalo na kung kitang-kita ang masamang epekto ng mga kilos na ito? Gaya halimbawa sa sitwasyon ngayon ng pagsuporta ng ilang multinasyonal na kompanya sa Israel habang ginigyera nito ang Palestine. Habang patuloy na kumikita ang mga kompanyang ito, patuloy rin ang nagiging suporta para sa digmaan.

Ang Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement at ang Boycott-Israel.org ay nagbigay ng listahan ng mga kumpanya na kailangan i-boycott dahil sa kanilang aktibong pagsuporta sa Israel. Kasama sa listahan ang McDonald’s dahil sila’y nagbigay ng higit sa isang daang libong pakete ng libreng pagkain sa Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) at sa kanilang rescue forces; ang Burger King dahil din sa kanilang pagbibigay ng libreng pagkain sa militar ng Israel; at Starbucks dahil ang pinakamalaking private owner ng kanilang shares, na si Howard Schultz, ay isang Zionist— mga sumusuporta sa Zionism, isang nationalist movement kung saan ang mga Jews ay naglalayong magtaguyod ng kanilang sariling estado lalo na sa Palestine, at siya’y namumuhunan sa ekonomiya ng Israel. Mahalagang mabanggit ang mga kompanyang ito dahil ito ang kadalasang pinagbibilhan ng mga estudyante ng kanilang mga pagkain.

Bukod sa pagsuporta sa Israel ng mga kompanyang nabanggit, hindi rin maganda ang reputasyon ng mga ito sa pakikitungo sa mga manggagawang Pilipino. Tulad ng kompanya ng McDonald’s kung saan ang mga trabahador nito ay nagsagawa ng pagkilos noong 2014 laban sa dinaranas nilang pang-aabuso tulad ng ‘wage theft’ o pagdaragdag ng trabaho nang walang karagdagang sweldo, pagbibigay ng mababang sahod, at hindi pagtupad sa kanilang union rights—mga karapatan nila bilang isang manggagawa tulad ng makatarungang sahod at iba’t iba pang benepisyo.

Ayon naman sa Labor Code of the Philippines Presidential Decree No. 442, labag sa batas ang pagbaba ng sweldo ng mga employer sa kanilang mga trabahador para sa kanilang pakinabang. Makatutulong sa ating mga manggagawa ang boycott dahil matutulak ang mga kompanyang tugunan ang mga karapatan ng manggagawa upang hindi tuluyang malugi.

Mayroon din tayong mga boycotts noon para sa ikabubuti ng ating mga trabahador tulad ng Philippine Airlines at AirPhil boycott na pinamumunuan ng The Philippine Airlines Employees Association (PALEA). Nangyari ito noong Setyembre 27, 2011 dahil sa pagtanggal sa trabaho ng kanilang mga empleyado. Humina ang kanilang operasyon dahil sa kakulangan ng mga empleyado. Nanawagan din ng boycott sa lahat ng branches ng SM Supermalls noong 2017 sa tapat ng SM North Edsa dahil sa contractualization sa kanilang mga trabahador. At nagkaroon rin ng boycott laban sa NutriAsia na nangyari noong Hunyo 2, 2018 dahil sa pang-aabuso at paglabag sa karapatan ng kanilang mga trabahador. Kasabay ng panawagan sa boycott ang pagkakaroon ng strike sa pabrika ng NutriAsia kung saan ito’y napilitang tumigil sa produksyon.

Bilang mga mamamayan, mahalaga ang papel ng pag-boycott sa ating lipunan pero mas importanteng malaman ang dahilan kung bakit ba tayo nagsasagawa ng boycott. Ang pag-unawa ng dahilan ang nagbibigay sa atin ng malinaw na layunin, partikular upang makatulong sa mga apektado ng genocide. Sa pamamagitan ng paglalantad sa mga propaganda na ikinakalat ng Israel sa social media tulad ng ‘X’ at sa mga news agencies tulad ng BBC at CNN, patuloy na pagbibigay-kaalaman ukol sa kahalagahan ng pag-boycott, at pag-post sa social media ukol sa ating mga kaalaman upang mas malawak ang sakop, nagsisilbi tayong mga boses sa ating mga manggagawang naghihirap dahil sa patuloy na pang-aabuso ng mga tiwaling kompanya at para sa mga Palestino na naghihirap dahil sa opresyon mula sa Israel.

#FreePalestine!

//ni Mayen Bartolabac

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Zaman, T. (2023, December 22). The Power of Boycotts. Linkedin. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/power-boycotts-tanim-zaman-2lwie#:~:text=Super%20successful%20boycotts%20can%20causethe%20most%20%2D%20in%20their%20pocketS.

#MC2025 #Opinion #Filipino #Mayden Bartolabac

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mybeautifulchristianjourney · 1 year ago

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The Birth of Esau and Jacob

19 These are the generations of Isaac, Abraham's son: Abraham fathered Isaac, 20 and Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Aramean of Paddan-aram, the sister of Laban the Aramean, to be his wife. 21 And Isaac prayed to the Lord for his wife, because she was barren. And the Lord granted his prayer, and Rebekah his wife conceived. 22 The children struggled together within her, and she said, “If it is thus, why is this happening to me?” So she went to inquire of the Lord. 23 And the Lord said to her,

“Two nations are in your womb, and two peoples from within you shall be divided; the one shall be stronger than the other, the older shall serve the younger.”

24 When her days to give birth were completed, behold, there were twins in her womb. 25 The first came out red, all his body like a hairy cloak, so they called his name Esau. 26 Afterward his brother came out with his hand holding Esau's heel, so his name was called Jacob. Isaac was sixty years old when she bore them.

27 When the boys grew up, Esau was a skillful hunter, a man of the field, while Jacob was a quiet man, dwelling in tents. 28 Isaac loved Esau because he ate of his game, but Rebekah loved Jacob.

Esau Sells His Birthright

29 Once when Jacob was cooking stew, Esau came in from the field, and he was exhausted. 30 And Esau said to Jacob, “Let me eat some of that red stew, for I am exhausted!” (Therefore his name was called Edom.) 31 Jacob said, “Sell me your birthright now.” 32 Esau said, “I am about to die; of what use is a birthright to me?” 33 Jacob said, “Swear to me now.” So he swore to him and sold his birthright to Jacob. 34 Then Jacob gave Esau bread and lentil stew, and he ate and drank and rose and went his way. Thus Esau despised his birthright. — Genesis 25:19-34 | English Standard Version (ESV) The Holy Bible, English Standard Version. ESV® Text Edition: 2016. Copyright © 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. Cross References: Genesis 10:9; Genesis 17:4; Genesis 22:23; Genesis 24:15; Genesis 27:1; Genesis 27:3; Genesis 27:11; Genesis 27:32; Genesis 27:36; Genesis 32:3; Genesis 36:1; Genesis 38:27; Deuteronomy 21:16-17; Deuteronomy 23:7; 1 Samuel 1:17; 1 Samuel 9:9; 1 Samuel 10:22; 2 Kings 4:38-39; Matthew 1:2; Acts 7:8; Romans 9:10; Romans 9:12; Hebrews 11:9; Hebrews 12:16

#birth #Jacob #Esau #Esau sells his birthright #bowl of soup #Genesis 25:19-34 #Book of Genesis #Old Testament #ESV #English Standard Version #Holy Bible #Good News Publishers #Crossway Bibles

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conostra · 7 months ago

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Griffith's Relationships (3)

The White Hawk. The White Phoenix. The King of Falconia. The Savior. Femto. The Blessed King of Longing. Once, the greatest mortal to ever wield a sword. The bane of the Black Swordsman. The most beautiful man alive. Him with a stature nothing short of pure magnificence. You know him. You love to hate him. I’m talking about one of the greatest characters not just in manga, but in all of fiction: Griffith.

Griffith is one of many examples of how masterful Kentaro Miura was with a pen, be it pressing against a notebook or a panel. An incredibly written character, as complex as they can come, with some of the most complicated, deep, and tragic relationships I’ve ever seen put to any form of media.

Today, I’ll be discussing what is inarguably a core tenet of Berserk: Griffith’s relationships. With two exceptions, there is no dispute that Griffith’s relationships are not the singular most important part of the media he resides in, there is no debate over whether or not they are still crucial parts of understanding both Guts’ disposition, and the world of Berserk itself. Griffith’s different approaches to interacting with those in his vicinity warps the very world itself, and his whims shape the very nature of the conflicts the protagonist engages in.

Here, we will be discussing Griffith’s most important relationships through Berserk, how they shaped him, and what they explain about who he is and how he got to where he is now.

Part 1: The Boy, and The Hawks

Part 2: The Governor.

Part 3: The King.

Part 4: Charlotte.

Part 5: The Wings of the Hawk (1)

Part 6: The Wings of the Hawk (2)

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Part 3: The King

The man who lords over Midland is many things, but he is nothing if not faithful in Griffith’s ability to succeed. In the war council deciding what was to be done about Doldrey, what was once Midland’s greatest bastion against Chuder, and now was the home of the Holy Purple Rhino Knights and the base of operations of their assault on the very nation which originally owned the fort, Griffith alone is completely confident in the fact that the fort can be captured. Not only so, but he remains adamant through the meeting that he and his forces alone could best General Boscogn and his men. There is but one single voice to support The Band of the Hawk, a noble named Sir Laban. Laban puts their situation quite simply: a small force like the Hawks being bested in combat should do no damage to the entirety of Midland’s otherwise massive force of arms. Besides, the Hawks have shown prodigious ability, being undefeated until this point. There is no further harm in allowing them to attempt, even with their paltry 5,000 men, against the occupying force of 30,000 strong.

The king looks on at this circus amongst his advisors, lower lords, and generals, and has but a single statement to utter.

“Sir Griffith.

Was that sincere?”

And upon Griffith’s affirmation, he orders the Hawks to take Doldrey.

And upon Griffith’s orders, they do.

There is a celebration held when the Hawks return home. An armistice agreement is sent, signed from Chuder, and the war is over. The king is gracious, generous, putting Griffith as the White Phoenix General, and promoting all of the Hawk, now White Phoenix, division leaders to peerage. But this same night, tragedy strikes.

Griffith falls ill, nearly dying. Then, later on, as Griffith recovers, Charlotte is kidnapped, and returned, and the Queen dies, along with countless other nobles, in a fire that collapses a building. So much bloodshed, between moments of endless revelry. The King is stricken with grief and tragedy. An endless river of crimson flows, despite Midland finally being able to erect a dam to stop it. But as the King says later, “The monster named War is always seeking new blood, starting to brew itself anew”. And the King is still at war. Not with Chuder, not even the war with Kushan. But he is at war with that which soars on beams of light, whose wings flap with the strength of hurricanes but the delicateness of a gentle night’s breeze. He is at war with the very concept of Griffith. He is at war with the very sky that supports the White Hawk. But he does not yet know it.

Griffith, too, is stricken with tragedy. But it is not crimson that flows from Griffith, but azure.The tragedy of loss, loss beyond any tragedy he had experienced to this point. Every difficulty Griffith has encountered has since only served to strengthen his resolve, no matter how much it may be to his detriment. But this? This breaks him. And “this” is the abandonment of the Hawks, of himself, by Guts. Guts defeated Griffith in a single stroke in combat, earning back his life and his freedom. And Griffith, a man who has only known control and power as his substitutes for affection, is broken. And so, he goes out, in search of some meager amount of solace that something in the world can provide. And ultimately, he reaches the window of a certain someone, quite important to Midland, and even more so to the King himself. He reaches the window to the chambers of Princess Charlotte, daughter of the King of Midland.

But Griffith finds no solace here. Even inside the Princess, his thoughts, his eyes, wander to Guts. It haunts his vision, in every stroke, with every blink, every shudder, only makes him wish he had won that fight. Charlotte’s body is not a shrine to Griffith, nor even just another body to use. It is a tool to vent his frustration, to pour into the dissolving, unraveling of his very psyche. And this meltdown is witnessed by a rogue maid, peering through the keyhole in Charlotte’s doors to her chamber. And he is arrested as he flees the very next morning, sword not in hand.

And so, the two men meet. Face to face, but not as equals. Griffith, bound and chained, strung up on a board. The King, staring up at him as he hangs from his wrists attached to a rope on the ceiling, whip in hand. And the king confirms, as he tears Griffith’s skin apart, crack by crack, slit by slit, with each sewing of the whip, that Griffith’s dream was a mere moment away. That, despite his disgusting blood, if he had merely retained patience, he could have, perhaps, attained his dream. But instead, Griffith merely proved the rumors around the court correct. He was not a Hawk, but a vulture, waiting to pick at the scraps of opportunity left behind by the war. The King rants to Griffith, starting about the weight he holds on his shoulders, but slowly, steadily and horrifically veering towards his daughter. Towards her ignorance, at first, and then, her naivete. Then, her innocence. Then, finally, her impurity. How Griffith soiled her. How Griffith plucked from him the one flower he so desperately wanted. And that it was soiled, now that she had given herself up to him.

And something, in that moment, clicks for Griffith. Despite his wounds, despite the blood loss, his mind connects threads that weave together the full picture:

“That you…

Rather…

To have been with Princess Charlotte…

Would have had her yourself?

Don’t you want her to have you?”

And this breaks the King. To be exposed, even in the lowest levels of Midland’s deepest, darkest dungeon. Here, even in the pits of his shame, does a spotlight flash on him. In the darkness, beacons point directly at him, blinding him, searing him in his squalor, all aimed by the Hawk’s burning truth. His protection of Charlotte is, at least not in its entirety, not based in his love for her as his daughter. At least partially, if not more… he is motivated by his desire. He desires her, his own seed. And more, he knows this, and does nothing. He does not push himself because of it, or in spite of it. He merely sequesters her away from the world, putting it on her shyness, and tried not to be a better king, but to reach a place where he can enjoy her. His only motivation is his daughter, but it is not love; not the kind of love that makes one a good king, or a good man. The kind of love, of longing, of lusting that tears a man’s soul apart. And this has led the king to become a hollowed version of himself after the passing of his first wife.

And Griffith sees this. And he sees right through the King.

And the King does not enjoy this. He tears into Griffith, before leaving him to rot with the torturer. And then, he does exactly as Griffith claimed. He goes, observing his daughter in her doctor-enabled sleep. He obsesses over her, over her body. Over Griffith’s claim over her body. He lusts over her, over how she has grown so much into the shape of her mother before her. He obsesses over how Griffith lay claim to the very features that once belonged to his wife. And then, in her sleep, the King begins to molest her. And when she attempts to fight him off, eventually succeeding, it is Griffith’s name that Charlotte calls out. Even in the depths of his defeat, Griffith succeeds in towering over the king with the mere shadow of his presence.

They needed each other, from the start. The King needed someone able to truly fight, who could wield every ounce of conviction in their soul, and the souls around them, in order to turn around what had been raging for a century. And Griffith? Griffith needed a way into his dream. A way to have his kingdom. But through this, they both made terrible decisions. And ultimately, the king’s own lust betrayed him. If the King had even been able to come to terms with how he truly felt about his daughter, much less deal with it properly, things would not have turned out the way they had. Instead, ironically enough, the King’s wish that Griffith suffer in that following year, and his overprotective, obsessive lust for his daughter, turned Griffith into the very White Phoenix that he so desperately wished to eradicate the possibility of.

The King, in a very tangible way, caused the Eclipse. Caused his own downfall. And Griffith, cemented in a way by the life experience he had earlier on with the Governor, saw the King and Charlotte both as nothing but a stepping stone on the journey to his dream. And when he lost that? When he knew, beyond the shadow of a doubt, that there was no possibility for the King to be able to assist him any further in his pursuit of his dream? He cast him aside like a stone on the road, and nothing more. And he spoke the truth to the King. And ironically enough, this very betrayal between the both of them is what awarded him with the blood-soaked version of the dream he aspired to, but blood-soaked or not, he treats it as though it were his dream all the same.

Ultimately, I take Griffith’s relationship with the king as one of simple mutual benefit. And when the mutual benefit is lost, it reveals the two’s truer natures- The King as a coward, and a disgusting pig, and Griffith, as an almost supernatural studier of all around him. Griffith is corrupted by corruption, is truly turned evil by evil. Guts’ disappearance may have broken him, but The King’s betrayal is what put him in a state enough to ever perform the things he eventually does. But this is far from shocking or surprising. Broken men breed broken men, turn them into broken soldiers, and are caught off guard when they break. In this case, the only issue was that his breaking broke everything.

If the King did not long for his daughter with such powerful carnality, if he accepted what he assumed was to occur- as he says to Griffith, his eventual succession to the throne through Charlotte- then all of this tragedy could have been avoided. But the King destroyed Griffith, and his sins ultimately destroyed him. In this way, the two are almost parallels- both traitors to themselves. The only difference between the two of them is we see how it started for them both, and how they both suffer from it- we just have not seen how it ends for one.

#Griffith #Guts #Casca #Berserk #Midland #King of Midland #The way they both kind of break is interesting #specifically in relation to charlotte #and that the king's bitterness is #directly responsible for Griffith's reprehensibility #in a way

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hiswordsarekisses · 4 months ago

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Jacob was left with a limp. A limp that was not a curse, but a blessing. It was like a badge of honor ~ and a life long reminder of not only when he wrestled God, but also of his desperate need for Him.

And it a picture of the struggle that defined his very existence ~ and begging for God’s blessing ended up transforming him into a new man. Jacob was no longer the kind of man who would lie, cheat, and steal his brother’s birthright - he was now a very humble “Israel.”

God changed Jacob’s name, (which means deceiver and follower) to “Israel” “because he struggled with God and prevailed.” He did not give up - which made another wording of the name-meaning that I found very special to me - which is “he retained God.”

😭🙌🏻🩷

Jacob was now ready to face Essau with humility and hope for reconciliation instead of fear because of his past and what he had done to Essau. His whole mindset had been changed.

Our struggles, no matter how painful, can be turned by God into a change at our core character. When God changes us He does not just “improve us” - He makes us into a completely new person.

In all of our struggles we can either run from God, be angry and rebel, or we can receive blessing and transformation through it from God.

Im not a brave person, but I pray to be brave enough to wrestle God for that.

We all have some sort of a limp that God allows in order to keep us in mind of our need for Him. Can you imagine if He just fixed everything perfect?

Surely we would forget how much we need Him and nothing good would come of that.

I am so grateful to have very tangible reasons ~ Physically, spiritually, mentally, emotionally, and in my human nature to never forget my desperate need for Him.

Ryan Cook really blessed me with a question in a recent post so much and I had to share…

“Have you ever been so focused on one problem that you didn't even realize your actual “real” problem?”

This is a very good question, because we pray to God for the specifics of our issues and problems, but God is after the roots of those problems.

I find it most comforting to pray “Lord, may Your will be done.”

Jacob wrestled with people ever since he deceived his brother and stole his birthright… After he had struggled with Essau, he then struggled with his uncle Laban for 20 years. God was pressing him. Then there was the situation with Leah and Rachel when Rachel was barren.

I feel like I can relate to Jacob - the way my sins follow me til I repent and wrestle with God about it.

And I have been given the blessing of a limp like Jacob was, and it will always remind us of my dependence on God and and my desperate need for His often severe mercy and discipline. I totally understand that kind of blessing and I am so grateful for it.

Then there’s the story of Mephibosheth, which Jerry Bridges mentioned in his devotion for today - which kind of reminds me of Jacob’s limp a little!!

Mephibosheth was crippled and never healed. He never was able to leave the king and make it on his own. And neither will we, but would you rather be healed or changed?

I have learned that when God doesn’t heal - or doesn’t heal right away - it means He is working on something FAR more important, and that if we knew all that God knows we would thank Him on our face that He did not ~ and praise Him for our limp.

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snowboyclarkov · 1 year ago

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Beyblade -> Date A Live

Here is another of my random rambles from the cold darkness that is my spirit. The last word of that sentence is apt, this Beyblade Burst and Beyblade: Metal Saga recast is based on Date A Live. Once again, the main OC of mine will be included, this time on both sides, as I have a Beyblade variant and a Date A Live variant of said OC. There's also a small list of what their abilities would be, if the intersex thing were to become a Spirit. Because all the positions of the Sefirot and Qliphoth are filled in by canon people, I had to look through the many Abrahamic angels to locate those that fit with Sahaidachny's character that were not in said respective structures of the Kabbalah. Though supposedly Uriel was the guardian of the Sefirot of Kabbalah as well as the Gatekeeper of Eden. I also looked to the Book of Revelations and the Book of Genesis and stumbled upon something called Demonolatry which seems interesting.

I thought I'd combine two of my favourite series into a post. It seems ridiculous, but I couldn't care less.

Once again, not all people from each series is included. Closest match based on MBTI and Enneagram used. A list of Spirits in each AU is supplied, in which the Angel is instead based on the person's Beyblade.

Beyblade: Metal Saga -> Date A Live

Gingka Hagane -> Mana Takamiya

Kyoya Tategami -> Tohka Yatogami (Alter Ego)

Kenta Yumiya -> Yoshino Himekawa

Ryuga -> Kotori Itsuka

Yu Tendo -> Munechika Nakatsugawa

Madoka Amano -> Tamae Okamine

Masamune Kadoya -> Tohka Yatogami

Hyoma -> Rinne Sonogami

Pluto -> Ellen Mathers

Ryutaro Fukami -> Ryouko Kusakabe

Jack -> Natsumi Kyouno

Hikaru Hasama -> Artemisia Ashcroft

Dashan Wang -> Elliot Woodman

Chi-yun Lee -> Mizuha Banouin

Tetsuya Watarigani -> Rinemu Kirari

Mei-Mei -> Sawa Yamauchi

Toby -> Shido Itsuka

Johannes -> Yoshinon

Tithi -> Kaguya Yamai

Sophie -> Mii Fujibakama

Bao -> Tsuan

Klaus -> Mayuri

Clarkov Sahaidachny (OC) -> Yuzuru Yamai

Benkei Hanawa -> Higomoro Hibiki

Julian Konzern -> Test 1

Damian Hart -> White Queen

Faust -> Origami Tobiichi

King -> Ai Yamabaki

Chris -> Miku Izayoi

Yuki Mizusawa -> Reine Murasame

Dynamis -> Mio Takamiya

Moses -> Karen Mathers

Mei-Mei -> Kyouhei Kannazuki

Ryuto -> Mai Hazakura

Ryo Hagane -> Kurumi Tokisaki

Enzo Garcia -> Rinemu Kirari

Demure -> Origami Tobiichi (Alternate Timeline)

Ziggurat -> Isaac Westcott

Sora Akatsuki -> Ririko

Helios -> Maria Arusu

Argo Garcia -> Jessica Bailey

Lera -> Hinako Shiizaki

Nowaguma -> Mukuro Hoshimiya

Spirits (Beyblade: Metal Saga Version [including OC]):

Masamune Kadoya (Angel: Unicorno, Codename: Blitz)

Kenta Yumiya (Angel: Sagittario, Codename: Flash)

Ryo Hagane (Angel: Phoenix, Codename: Burn)

Ryuga (Angel: Drago, Codename: Destructor)

Tithi + Clarkov Sahaidachny (Angel: Quetzalcoatl, Codename: Death)

Chris (Angel: Orion, Codename: Phantom)

Jack (Angel: Beafowl, Codename: Killer)

Faust (Angel: Horogium, Codename: Basalt)

Yu Tendo (Angel: Libra, Codename: Flame)

Nowaguma (Angel: Orso, Codename: Rock)

Yuki Mizusawa [Clone of Origin Spirit Dynamis]

Dynamis (Angel: Jupiter, Codename: Jade)

Ziggurat (Demon King: Doctor, Codename: Spiral)

EXTRA = Klaus (Angel: Capricorn, Codename: Grand)

EXTRA = Hyoma (Angel: Aries, Codename: Clay)

Beyblade Burst -> Date A Live

Lain Valhalla -> Kotori Itsuka

Fubuki Sumiye -> Origami Tobiichi

Silas Karlisle -> Tohka Yatogami (Alter Ego)

Blindt DeVoy -> Yoshinon

Toko Aoi -> Yoshino Himekawa

Evel Oxford -> Reine Murasame

Honey Guten -> Kaguya Yamai

Ranjiro Kiyama -> Mana Takamiya

Hoji Konda -> Mii Fujibakama

Ryota Kurogami -> Kyouhei Kannazuki

Kana Akabane -> Tamae Okamine

Hyuga Hizashi -> Tohka Yatogami

Kristina Kuroda -> Origami Tobiichi (Alternate Timeline)

Rashad Goodman -> Kurumi Tokisaki

Arthur Lawrence -> Elliot Woodman

Taiga Akabane -> Hiroto Tonomachi

Ken Midori -> Sawa Yamauchi

Gumita -> Mukuro Hoshimiya

Boa Alcazaba -> Ryouko Kusakabe

Akira Yamatoga -> Natsumi Kyouno

Laban Vanot -> Higomoro Hibiki

Valt Aoi -> Ririko

Dante Koryu -> Rinemu Kirari

Clio Delon -> Nia Honjou

Hyde -> Munechika Nakatsugawa

Daigo Kurogami -> Maria Arusu

Phelix Payne -> Hinako Shiizaki

Bashara Suiro -> Rinne Sonogami

Free de la Hoya -> Mio Takamiya

Zachary Kaneguro -> Mayuri

Tango Koryu -> Karen Mathers

Shu Kurenai -> Isaac Westcott

Gwyn Reynolds -> Clarkov Sahaidachny (OC)

Delta Zakuro -> Ellen Mathers

Ranzo Kiyama -> Miku Izayoi

Kit Lopez -> Ai Yamabaki

Ichika Kindo -> Shido Itsuka

Naoki Minamo -> Yuzuru Yamai

Norman Tarver -> Artemisia Ashcroft

Ren Wu Sun -> Mizuha Banouin

Theodore Glass -> White Queen

Arthur Peregrine -> Test 1

Jin Aizawa -> Mai Hazakura

Lodin Haijima -> Tsuan

Spirits (Beyblade Burst Version [Including OC equivalent]:

Hyuga Hizashi (Angel: Hyperion, Codename: Solar)

Toko Aoi (Angel: Trident, Codename: Screw)

Rashad Goodman (Angel: Raphael, Codename: Greatest)

Lain Valhalla (Angel: Lucifer, Codename: Starfall)

Honey Guten + Naoki Minamo (Angel: Neptune, Codename: Nova)

Ranzo Kiyama (Angel: Ragnaruk, Codename: Cyclone)

Akira Yamatoga (Angel: Anubis, Codename: Acid)

Fubuki Sumiye (Angel: Forneus, Codename: Emperor)

Clio Delon (Angel: Chaos, Codename: Deep)

Gumita (Angel: Nemesis, Codename: Twin)

Gwyn Reynolds (Angel: Genesis, Codename: Big Bang)

Evel Oxford [Clone of Origin Spirit Free]

Free de la Hoya (Angel: Fafnir, Codename: Vanish)

Shu Kurenai (Demon King: Spriggan, Codename: Astral)

EXTRA = Zachary Kaneguro (Angel: Zeus, Codename: Galaxy)

EXTRA = Bashara Suiro (Angel: Bahamut, Codename: Roar)

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C.J.S. is intersex, and the closest thing humans can get to being a biological hermaphrodite. In their hypothetical arc, Furutani Youkai -> Furutani Imperfect, their Angel would only be revealed near the end, and they would mostly be seen with their Demon King.

The concepts of subconscious loneliness, self-worth, getting them to open their heart again, wanting someone to understand them, finding the truth of one's self and being able to be one's self are the core tenets of their story. After realising that last part, they spontaneously broke into silent sobbing for the first time in their life. Being mentally and emotionally bullied for 10-11 years of your life purely for personality and conditions/disabilities does that (They have Autism, Epilepsy, Todd's Paralysis, Psoriasis, Narcolepsy, Hypersensitivity, a genetic fault that results in a lack of body temperature regulation).

They often wear a lavender purple yuki-onna-esque kimono as their casual outfit, and otherwise will wear an ice-blue shirt with a snowstorm-esque pattern alongside loose ice-white trousers and a thin but large lavender/soft dark purple jacket resembling a lab coat or dressing gown. There are other clothing options, including a lavender/royal purple shrine maiden outfit with same-coloured mob cap or lavender/ice-white bow, an ice-white cross between a dressing gown and artist's apron with a lavender blanket tied around their waist, and whatever other loose clothing options they have in their shrine of a house. When attending Raizen, they wear the school uniform. Both variants, due to being intersex.

They are naturally lacking in emotional expression. To them, a small smile means they are extremely happy and a minuscule frown means they are incredibly unhappy. They are seemingly cold/emotionless on the surface and acted cold-hearted/emotionless to the point where they were convinced its who they were, but a slowly re-emerging emotion both confused and plagued them until they freaked out and finally revealed - shoddily at first until they suddenly shouted in confusion and despair "I don't know anymore... I have no idea what's wrong with me!" - what they thought of themselves to a group that always thought they didn't care about the group before the final battle. Furu has gone suicidal and was at a mental point where the slightest thing could tip them one way or the other. They had turned out to be someone who saw themselves as some worthless cripple who had lost all use to themselves or Shido and couldn't break or change themselves for their art or for his sake. Needless to say he wasn't impressed with this revelation (I don't regret the reference). Most noticeably, they had an unexplainable intellectual and emotional obsession (read: romantic love - only fully realised in the middle of the final battle of their arc when they were told by Itsuka that they're allowed to be themselves. Cue subsequent curling up and denial with the sealed Spirits helping them realise the truth of their subconscious, which finally made them admit their inner feelings and how they came to be. Come the transition from Inverse to Normal including Uriel appearing for the first time and their subsequent defeat finally able to move on from their past, they thank Itsuka for everything and say they're ready to find out what a date is. Weirdly, they use El Elyon as a makeshift outfit for the date, because the only Spirit with less shame than Furutani is Tobiichi. It's the autism. After said date involving utilising Michael to go to an art museum and an Italian restaurant, they willingly allow themselves to be sealed.) with the one that seals Spirits who had successfully befriended them despite previous life experiences within their subconscious. In reality, their true personality is apathetic to everyone except those they bond with, with whom they like merely being in the presence of, which their lack of expression fails to show to others. They can't even start a conversation on their own without confusing everyone around them. Also slightly creepy due to a natural talent for appearing out of nowhere and for casual stalking of person/people they become really romantically close to. Their emotional intelligence is absurdly low and they do not understand exactly what bonds are, only that they enjoy them. An individual with almost absurd levels of typical intelligence through prodigal talent/hard effort who had gone emotionally despondent and isolated themselves completely due to events in their life. Couple that with having been betrayed by so-called friends who turned into bullies and you have someone who simply is desperate to be understood. Prior to sealing, they saw themselves as beyond worthless and had a history of being used purely for their talents particularly in art - being an artist is their hobby and one of their passions - and intellectually. Since being sealed and joining the main group, they have become much happier upon accepting that it's alright to be themselves. They are also asexual, and biromantic.

The theme of C. Sahaidachny is searching for the truth (after 10-11 years of mental & emotional torment & bullying for who they were desensitized them to almost everything/wrecked their emotional capacity/made them inwardly terrified of opening up to anyone) about who they are, and ultimately realizing they're allowed to be themselves and learning that they are not less than worthless. Learning not to be over-defensive around everyone and being able to trust others again are also key facets in the development towards that.

The Angel takes the form of a Shimenawa inspired by the same structure on Regnar** with a much smoother shape somewhat similar to the shimenawa held by Kanako Yasaka (see: Moriya Shrine) though not made of really thick rope. There's also colour alterations - Red -> Lavender Purple, Light Gold -> Dark Purple, White -> Black. It is engraved with what appears to be a painting of cold air and dandelions. The Shimenawa can also be wielded as a weapon in its own right, due to the outer part resembling Twisted Tempo, specifically the Twisted fusion wheel. Besides the Angel, Furu also has their own weapon that is essentially a combination of an absurdly long gohei and a comically large paintbrush, at either end respectively. It's slightly smaller than Reimu's gohei (see: Hakurei Shrine).

The Demon King takes the form of an ethereal compass sigil**** coloured in ice-blue and ice-white. The Roman Numerals inscribed on the compass are a purposeful falsehood linking back to the motif of truth and the destruction of the barriers that stand in the way of discovering the truth, the answer so to speak.

The Astral Dress is based on Regnar** of Beyblade Burst, besides the head and the Shimenawa-esque structure which is what the Angel is based on, with the following colour alterations - White -> Ice-White, Red -> Lavender Purple, Light Gold -> Royal Purple, Blue -> Ice-Blue, Dark Grey -> Black. A halo that somewhat resembles the accretion disk of a black hole (or the hypothetical gravastar) forms above the head. The concepts of the celestial canvas - and art - itself are the motif of that which essentially combines the scientific and the occult into one collection of abilities. El Elyon possesses a high durability bested only by Adonai Melek. However it is also one of the slowest, which is its one weakness, and Furutani can easily be caught in sensory overload rendering them vulnerable, particularly against multiple opponents.

In the Inverse form, the Astral Dress is more based on Genesis rather ironically, minus the head part and the lower half which is based on the image that isn't Genesis. The colour scheme is altered from the basis as the following - White -> Ice-White, Light Pink -> Ice-Blue, Gold -> Black, Red -> Dark Gold, Dark Grey -> White, Purple -> Lavender Purple. A spiked halo of black ice forms above the head.

The Astral Dress is vastly different to the general norm of these clothing items in style. The Inverse Form is no more powerful than the main form, the difference is fighting style. Except for one technique in which the Angel version is weirdly more powerful than the Demon King version if only by slightly.

Clarkov's/Furu's Angel is known as Uriel - based on the being known as the Archangel of Salvation among other titles - representing the angel of wisdom and truth who guides people to answers they seek. Uriel is said to be the gatekeeper of Eden, the one who acts as bodyguard to the Kabbalah and by extension the Sefirot, the one who warned Noah of the biblical flood and one of the four angels - alongside Raphael, Michael and Gabriel - who protected the four corners of Earth.

Furu's Demon King is known as Abaddon - otherwise known as The Destroyer - representing the fallen angel of destruction and the abyss. Abaddon is said to be the embodiment of God's wrath who keeps existence in balance, unleashing their power on anything that may greatly disturb it. Essentially the enforcer of the angels. They are also regarded as playing a vital role in the Apocalypse itself, casting divine judgement on those who do not believe as well as those who fake their belief with their locust-derived plagues born from the depths of Hell.

As mentioned earlier, in the Book of Enoch, Uriel is described as the guardian of the Tree of Life (the Kabbalah, which bares the Sefirot that the main 10 Spirits are based on). As such, Furutani's Uriel would be the complete all-rounder. Their battle capabilities are roughly on par with Metatron, it has similar divination powers to Rasiel though it can't make stuff reality, and its strongest move Regalia is pretty much a better version of Eden and would override Paradise Lost if activated inside it. Which, they would do, because Furu utterly despises the entire concept of Eden as a whole. Uriel would effectively be a Story-Breaker Power like Rasiel, Michael, Eden and Ain Soph Aur.

The database would rank Furutani as an SS-Class Spirit, on the same level as Rinne and then above her too. The only reason Furutani wouldn't class as an SSS-Class Spirit is because that spot is reserved purely for Mio who is just far ahead of absolutely every other Spirit, naturally as the Spirit of Origin. Besides Mio who could still curb-stomp them despite all this, Furutani would almost certainly be the most powerful Spirit of all unless Mukuro had anything to say about it. However due to their inexperience in battle and disabilities, they would also likely be defeated by fused Yamai while being level both with Origami and Tohka due to their Fecto Elfilis-esque fighting style. Since their personality partially resembles (and their powers are based on) Faust and Gwyn Reynolds who is at or near the top and both beyond overpowered in their respective series/verses, this absurd level of overpowered-ness would fit. Though frankly, Furu's personality resembles Rin Tezuka's more than anything. It also resembles to various extents the personalities of Mizore Shirayuki and Naho Saenoki. Furu seems confusing, but they aren't. Furu will tell you that.

In this version of the verse, the Main Spirit power ranking would go like this, along with their assigned classes for my version (equivalent to canon, except for alterations based on grading that goes from SSS to A with anything from A to C and below utilised for AST or others*):

Mio Takamiya - SSS-Class (Ain/Ain Soph/Ain Soph Aur)

Isaac Westcott - SSS-Class (Qemetiel/Belial/Athiel)

Shido Itsuka - SSS-Class (All main Angels + Uriel)

Mukuro Hoshimiya - SS-Class (Michael)

Yamai Kazamachi - SS-Class (Raphael [Fused])

Tohka Yatogami - SS-Class (Sandalphon)

Clarkov Furutani - SS-Class (Uriel)

Origami Tobiichi - SS-Class (Metatron)

Kurumi Tokisaki - SS-Class (Zaphkiel)

Nia Honjou - SS-Class (Rasiel)

Rinne Sonogami - SS-Class (Eden)

Miku Izayoi - S-Class (Gabriel)

Kotori Itsuka - S-Class (Camael)

Kaguya/Yuzuru Yamai - S-Class (Raphael)

Mayuri - S-Class (Kerubiel)

Ren - AAA-Class (Samael)

Marina Arusu - AAA-Class (???)

Rio Sonogami - AA-Class (Eden [Incomplete])

Yoshino Himekawa - AA-Class (Zadkiel)

Natsumi Kyouno - AA-Class (Haniel)

Maria Arusu - A-Class (???)

*And an extra upgrade to Miku based on the biblical idea of Michael, Uriel, Gabriel and Raphael protecting the four corners of the globe. Nia gets the extra upgrade too as I see Rasiel as better than it gets credit for, along with a slight downgrade to Rinne when scaling is taken into account. Ren and Mayuri are given a class too. The Inverse variants are the same class as the normal variants in this version, but are still generally better in combat.

Weirdly, the many yandere Spirits would include Rinne, Mukuro, Furutani and Mio, potentially even Origami and Kurumi. In essence, Furutani would be equivalent to Rin Tezuka or even Mizore Shirayuki.

The attacks are partially based on those used by Gwyn Ronny and extra info about their power is also based on Gwyn and his canon battles. They are also partially inspired by Faust and Twisted Tempo. Their main arc and recovery is also inspired by the story of Gwyn Ronny in Beyblade Burst as is the case for all variants of the OC - who was created originally as a coping method for someone who was isolated and lonely due to constant bullying due to being disabled and no one attempting to try and understand them, with lack of self-worth and lack of self-acceptance as standard. Yes, that person is me. I regret nothing.

Hebrew translations done online, expect wrongness.

Name: Clarkov Sahaidachny/Furutani

Qlipha Crystal: Apocalypse

Sephira Crystal: Genesis

Astral Dress: El Elyon

Angel: Uriel

Demon King: Abaddon

Codename: Sage

Angel Title: Imperfect Palette

Demon King Title: Truth In Abyss

Spirit Rank: SS-class

Inverse Rank: SS-class

Attacks of Uriel/Abaddon:

Onbashira [טוריי (Turre) -> Torii] -> A vaguely lavender purple band traces itself and expands into an ethereal barrier that looks like a celestial paintbrush stroke. It contracts upon contact and then pushes out to deflect incoming attacks. It is capable to deflecting Lahathelev (Kerubiel) and Shemesh (Metatron) at once with great effort. It is also capable of withstanding a meteor summoned by Lataib (Michael) when working together with other defensive techniques. A blast from Megiddo (Camael) or the effects of Solo (Gabriel) are enough to break Onbashira.

Palette [אשת שלג (Esht Shelag) -> Yuki-Onna] -> The user gestures as if they were placing (watercolour) pencil or paintbrush to canvas, and a constantly-fluctuating-in-colour pocket draws surrounding residue mana into the arm which forms a large ethereal blade which then back-slashes against the opponent. This move is able to defeat Zadkiel. It can also severely damage Zaphkiel. When enhanced by March (Gabriel), Palette (Uriel) can take down Zadkiel and Haniel in one go after being momentarily pushed back. The move is sent packing by Symphony (Gabriel) if the latter is amplified by enough soundwaves.

Spectrum [מארח שמימי (Mareh Shamimi) -> Heavenly Host] -> A celestial fog that looks a bit like intergalactic space and is absurdly cold like intergalactic space appears and slowly spreads around the area surrounding Furutani, who then slowly brings their hand which is glowing lavender purple through the fog. Once fully outstretched in front of them, they then close their hand while at the same time bringing their arm still straightened from in front of them to as far behind them as it will reasonably go, causing the celestial fog to disperse. At the fog's sudden fading, the Shimenawa fades and transfers its energy in the form of the full spectrum of colour - even black and white - to the user giving them a boost in power. In the Inverse Form, the wings fade instead. This move allows Uriel to hold its own against a fused Yamai's Raphael, and can be used to sustain El Elyon after Jerez (Michael) initially dismantles it. The hair turns lavender, dull red or grey-silver in this state depending on their mood.

Eclipse [רוח רפאים (Roah Refaim) -> Youkai] -> {Demon King Version} -> The corrupted form of the ultimate move of Uriel/Abaddon, used by Abaddon. The compass glows violently in an ice-blue colouring with the needles rotating counter-clockwise at breakneck speed, and the wings shift to where their end points are separated by a small gap in front of the user and emit a colossal shockwave which retracts in on itself and then gather residue mana in that gap before the energy is grabbed and thrown into the sky where it expands outwards in a bright ball of lavender purple light. Within it is a dense ice-cold fog within which the user forms a scissor-esque weapon***** in one hand and their Gohei/paintbrush thing in the other hand and charges towards the opponent. Eclipse (Abaddon) is capable of matching Artelif (Metatron).

Parity [סופת שלגים (Sufat Shlagim) -> Snowstorm] -> {Angel Version} -> The true nature of the ultimate move of Uriel/Abaddon, used by Uriel and unlocked after Clarkov finally realises they're allowed to be themselves, stops being Inverse and uses their Angel Uriel for the first time near the end of the hypothetical final battle between Clarkov and Shido in the fan-made arc Furutani Beginning. The Shimenawa emits a colossal shockwave and the user holds their hands to their heart and releases them. The user then holds both hands around the ball of energy and gently releases it as if they were reaching out to hug someone, upon which it forms an ice-white aura on El Elyon that gathers mana from the surrounding area and draws it towards below where the user is standing in the form of black-ish jagged streaks of light. Upon contact with an opposing force, the ball spreads out in a small space containing a scene resembling something out of Otherworld (see: Miitopia) with a lavender tint. The origin point explodes within the space and forms into a shape resembling the shockwave of a frozen star going hypernova of the same colour erupting from the centre where Uriel's user and the opponent have collided. There's also a lot of dandelions present. The Angel equivalent is more powerful than the Demon King equivalent, a rarity for Uriel and in general. Parity (Uriel) can match and even surpass Artelif (Metatron) in direct combat.

Revelation [אמן (Amen) -> Artist] -> The natural ability of Uriel to quantify and produce a solution for any subjective problem that comes to the user's mind, no matter how difficult. It manifests in the form of equations and formulae flowing from the Shimenawa into the head. However it is ineffective when confronted with objective problems. The Inverse Form does not have this ability as it is clouded by vast negative emotions. Think of it like this, Rasiel excels at objective information while Uriel excels at subjective information.

Regalia [עיוות/מושלם (Katawa/Amants) -> Imperfect] -> Uriel's final and most powerful ability after having it's hidden power hypothetically unlocked by Shifuru (Michael). The Shimenawa moves from behind the user to the front and emits a shockwave even greater than that from Parity, powerful enough to shake the entire vicinity for miles around and partially shred Astral Dresses caught within the blast. From the focal point of the shockwave, a barrier similar to that of Parity expands outward that contains its own reality which Uriel has total control of via a shrine complete with a torii and onbashira in the epicentre of a field covered in ice and dandelions. It is extremely similar to Paradise Lost (Eden) and is effectively a superior version of Eden in terms of power and capabilities but is vastly outclassed by Ain Soph because of course it is. It can also act as a defensive barrier capable of withstanding attacks from both Halvanhelev (Sandalphon) and El Kanaph (Raphael) at the same time.

The Limited form, after being sealed, has access to vastly weakened variants of its abilities. Shifuru (Michael) is capable of awakening Uriel's hidden power. With the fading of Genesis alongside the other Sephira Crystals, El Elyon and Uriel disappeared with them.

Uriel is virtually powerless against Ain Soph Aur, Ain Soph and Ain. The likes of Henet and Anaph crush Onbashira, Palette, Spectrum and Parity into fine dust. However Revelation can help hold back the effects of Ain Soph briefly. Even Regalia is completely rended by Ain Soph and Ain, mainly because while Regalia is superior to Eden, Ain Soph is vastly superior to Regalia. The barrier form of Regalia is also overpowered.

**Images of Regnar. Try and imagine it as an Astral Dress called El Elyon and omit the parts that wouldn't work in one.

***Images of Genesis. Try imagine it as an Inverse form of an Astral Dress called El Elyon and omit the parts that wouldn't work in one. Also another image. The lower section of their clothing is what the lower section of Inverse El Elyon looks like.

****This sigil is based on the one seen in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABKIOP8C97w

*****Like the one used here: Soldier Beetle - MGE Wiki (miraheze.org)

Uriel information: Who Is the Archangel Uriel? (christianity.com)

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