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The Tribe

Season One Masterlist

Unfinished Business

A Real Rain

Summary: When a group of college students are brutally tortured and murdered and one is kidnapped, the BAU is led to believe that their UnSub has an extensive knowledge but impractical understanding of Native American ritual which leads them to consult with the reservation policeman who is also an activist, then they start to suspect that a cult is involved.

Warning: Blood, Mention of torture, Mention of Main Character's Torture, Mention of Acid, Cult, Mention of Native American Culture being used against them; Hate on Christopher Columbus (he was not a hero. It's a fact. Look it up. Many historical figures were not as noble as they seem.)

Notes: I am a very white, very pale Caucasian from Irish descent and (possibly) Italian descent (my granddad was adopted but we think his parent(s) were Italian, but honestly I think he spoke to me once in my life while my mom all but had to get a restraining order against his wife with me), however if memory serves me right I am descent of a Native American tribe very distantly across many generations but last I heard of this I was 13, however I feel that doesn't really mean much in terms of... whatever, I can't think of the right word nor do I really want to talk much about it, while the OC is half American/Scottish, Half Mexican and from Aztec descent which was a Native American tribe, this is just because the Aztecs were in central Mexico and it's surrounding areas. I "canonically" (if you can refer that to fanfic) made Zoe a descent of the Aztecs because the Aztec culture is still a significant part of the Day of the Dead celebration. The tradition is a blend of Aztec beliefs about honoring the dead with Catholic practices introduced by Spanish conquistadors, in fact the Aztecs celebrated a similar holiday focused on the Goddess of Death in their culture, Mictecacihuatl. I did some research on this, and I think what the Aztecs were known for fit Zoe quite well but please correct me if I'm wrong because I did short-ish Google searches.

The Aztecs were known for their fearless warriors and pragmatic builders. They had a powerful military which includes elite warrior units like the Jaguar Warriors (who were full-time soldiers considered to be the knights of the Aztec kingdom known for their ferocity in battle and serving as peacekeepers and law enforcement when not at war) and the Eagle Warriors (but I'm not sure what they did as oppose to the Jaguar warriors but from what I've read they protected and policed the city, served as leaders, captured enemies to sacrifice to the Aztec gods which they seemed to actually be known for and I'm ignoring what I read about cannibalism but they were awarded the titles for acts of exceptional bravery in combat)

They are lesser known for their doctors or "ticitl" (If that's spelled wrong let me know) but still known for it, they were skilled in herbal medicine and surgery, even having their own kind of anesthetic using narcotic plants, they used obsidian knives to remove tumors, drain wounds, and agave thorns for eye surgeries.

The Aztecs were known for human sacrifice, especially during troubling times (like pandemics or other crises) and they were performed to honor the gods. The most common was heart extraction, they believed that the heard was both the seat of the individual and a fragment of the Sun's heat (not sure what that means though)

I think these unintentionally lead to Zoe quite well with the fearless warrior and doctor part and even the specification of the heart, I didn't actually know that, I just knew that the modern Day of the Dead culture had roots in Aztec traditions so that works quite well. Let me know if I'm missing anything and let me point out, I have great respect for other cultures, I have great interest in the beliefs that they have and find it fascinating. Just as I have great interest in Mexican culture of the Day of the Dead.

Note 2: I did change most use of the word "Indian" to "Native American" except when used by Blackwolf (because he is Native American and he can use that word while it's distasteful if others do but still don't feel good about it!) or any explicitly racist characters. Zoe's reservations towards Blackwolf are more for his attitude towards the FBI and violence and it's more annoyance for what she feels Blackwolf and Hotch are being rather... well, I can't quite think of the word other can "testosterone" and I think that feels like an exaggeration of what it is. Arrogance, maybe.

“There is a battle of two wolves inside each of us. One wolf is evil, representing anger, jealousy, greed, resentment, lies, inferiority, and ego. The other wolf is good, representing joy, peace, love, hope humility, kindness, empathy, and truth. The wolf that wins is the one you feed.” — Native American Proverb

March 6, 2006

Penelope Garcia was heading back to her batcave with cleaning supplies when she spotted Sean Hotchner enter the BAU. She stopped and handed the cleaning supplies to a random person and followed him.

"What are you doing out of your bunker?" Elle asked, coming up to Garcia, Zoe looked over, shaking her head. She honestly didn't see it.

"I was on my way to file the things that I... file." Garcia said, staring at Sean.

Sean spotted them and went to ask them where he wanted to go.

"Excuse me."

"Hey." Elle said, playing cooler than Garcia.

"I'm looking..."

Zoe stood up, "Hey, Sean."

Sean looked over to see Zoe who he had known from his brother working at the BAU. "Hey, Zoe. I heard you were working here."

"Yeah, your brother finally cracked from his workaholism and was briefly crazy enough to hire me. Follow me." She said and nodded before walking off and Sean followed.

Elle looked at Garcia and asked, "'Brother' as in... That's Hotch's brother?"

"Maybe Hotch is adopted."

"So, gonna tell him now. That'll be fun for us." Zoe snarked as she walked

"How'd you know already?" Sean asked her.

"I know everything Sean." Zoe said, "You're not the lawyer type. Top of the stairs. Good luck."

Zoe went back to her desk where Garcia had gone to badger her with questions and didn't get answers.

About five minutes later, there was a muffled shout from Hotch's office and Sean stormed out.

"Here he comes." Garcia said.

"That's Hotch's brother?" JJ asked.

"Uh-huh."

"I don't see it." JJ said.

"Eh." Zoe shrugged.

Hotch went after his younger brother, "Sean, listen to me. All I'm saying is you're twenty-five years old and it's..."

"You know what? Don't profile me, Aaron!" Sean shouted, pointing at him and then he stormed off.

"Now I see it." JJ said.

"See ya, Sean." Zoe called after him. "Be careful not to crash!"

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They gathered in the briefing room where JJ presented the next case, handing them the files, "Terra Mesa, New Mexico. Five dead. All from Mesa University. No signs of sexual assault and no sign of theft."

"Five nineteen-year-olds. Minimal defensive wounds? One of them was impaled on a six-foot wooden pole." Morgan read from the file.

"Who'd want to torture five college freshmen?" Elle asked.

"They weren't tied up and no one escaped?" Morgan asked.

"No single UnSub could have exerted this much control over so many people." Spencer noted.

"So, you think there was more than two?" Elle asked and Spencer nodded.

"I think we're looking at a pack." Gideon said

"A pack?"

"Three or more that kill in unison. As in nature, the group dynamic dictates that the pack's survival is dependent on their ability to hunt successfully." Spencer explained.

"And, as in nature, a pack will keep on killing until it runs out of prey or is stopped." Hotch added.

"Stopped by what?" Elle asked.

"A stronger pack." Zoe said.

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Nietzsche wrote, "The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe."

Hotch, Gideon, and Spencer met Zoe at the crime scene who drove on her motorcycle and waited for them.

"Sheriff, I'm Special Agent Hotchner. These are Agents Reid and Gideon."

"I thoughtany Doctor Noble-Valdez said there were more of you." Sheriff Jimmy Rhodes said.

"The other agents went straight to the station house to look at the victims' files." Hotch asked. "Has forensics had any luck?"

"The county CSU went through for prints and trace evidence. They said with all the workmen tramping through here, looking at footprints would be a waste." Rhodes said, "Come on." He lifted the police tape.

"The bodies were almost completely skinned. Yet, there's so little blood." Hotch said.

"Well, this explains why." Zoe said, looking through the photos, "The UnSub avoided areas of skin on the wrist and throat, areas where the veins and arteries are closest to the surface."

"Why would they do that?" Rhodes asked.

Zoe hesitated to tell him but Gideon did it for him. "They didn't want them to bleed out."

"These kids were skinned alive." Spencer explained.

They entered another room, "Two cases of beer. Two sleeping bags." Gideon stated.

"There's a third sleeping bag upstairs." Rhodes said.

"Everything you need for a night of teenage romance."

"It's unlikely that two couples brought a fifth wheel to take notes." Gideon said.

"Sheriff, it's possible there was a third girl here. A sixth victim." Zoe explained.

"I'll get my deputies to canvass the area. See if anybody saw a girl." Rhodes said.

"You said there was another one outside?" Zoe asked, referring to before the team arrived.

Rhodes showed them where the other victim was killed, a bloody wooden pole was stuck in the ground.

"He was like the others. Coroner said from the amount of blood he was alive when they impaled him."

"I know this is going to sound strange, but the way the victims were flayed alive, mutilated, and now the impalement display of this last victim..." Spencer listed but trailed off.

"What?" Gideon asked.

"These were all war rituals of the Native American Plains Indians." Spencer explained.

"Does that mean something to you, Sheriff?" Hotch asked.

"I'll say it does. Everything you see around us is Apache land. This whole basin is a sacred burial ground and was the site of a number of massacres as I understand." Rhodes explained.

"So, this development is on their land?" Hotch asked.

"It was their land, but they didn't have the money or the inclination to build on it. So the town seized half of it."

"Yeah, last year the Supreme Court ruled that cities can use eminent domain authority to seize and repossess undeveloped private land for private development." Spencer explained.

"And now the town is looking for investors to build on the other half. The Apache are fighting it, of course, in court." Rhodes said.

"There been any violence until now?" Gideon asked.

"Nothing like this."

"You know anybody on the reservation capable of this?

"I don't know. Reservation's federal jurisdiction." Rhodes said.

"Sounds like where we need to go."

We'll call Garcia. See what she can find." Hotch said.

"If she's done drooling over your brother." Zoe muttered.

"What?" Hotch asked, haven't heard what she said.

"What?" She asked in faux obliviousness.

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When Hotch got off the phone with Garcia, he turned to Rhodes and said, "Blackwolf?"

"John Blackwolf?" Rhodes asked.

"You know him?" Gideon asked.

"Native American activist. He's been in a little trouble related to his activism, but nothing violent. And not around here."

"Should we call the reservation police and alert them?" Hotch asked.

"I don't think that's a good idea." Rhodes said.

"Why not?" Zoe asked.

"Blackwolf is the reservation police." Rhodes said.

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Zoe was forced to ride in the car until they got to the reservation school.

"Jane Bear, these are FBI agents. Gideon, Hotchner, Reid, and Noble-Valdez."

She shook hands with Gideon and Hotch. Spencer just waved and Zoe shook her hand. "Just call me Zoe." Zoe insisted.

"Miss Bear is the president of the tribal council and principal of the reservation school."

"A president and a principal? Must be a busy woman." Gideon said.

"We're out here on our own, Agent Gideon. We all do our part." Jane Bear said.

"Is, uh, John inside?" Rhodes asked.

"This about the Terra Mesa killings?" She asked.

"They just want to talk to him." Rhodes said.

"John Blackwolf has done more to help his tribe than anyone. Hell, Jim, how many times have you called him in to find lost hikers? How many drunken campers has he tracked down for the park service? John is a peaceful man..." She defended,

"Who would not hesitate to defend this tribe with force if attacked." Rhodes added.

"What does this have to do with Terra Mesa?" She asked.

"Well, a lot, if John considers the building of the Terra Mesa development on Apache land to be an attack." Hotch said.

She sighed and turned to lead them towards and inside the school, "The developers have paid a lot of families to leave the reservation. So many families have gone now that we can barely fill a single class."

They entered the class as Blackwolf taught the class, "Forcing the Dene, the Apache nation, to abandon their homes and live in government controlled internment camps. Does anybody know the last tribe to surrender to the American government?

"Chiricahua." Spencer whispered

"It was the Chiricahua Apache." And does anybody know the name of the last leader of the Apaches?"

Some kids raised their hands as Spencer whispered, "Geronimo."

Blackwolf pointed to a boy and he said, "Geronimo."

"That's right. He was caught by the US army five times. But the Ga'he had given him so much strength he escaped each time." Blackwolf said, "Samuel.

"Yes?" The boy from before asked.

"Tell the men and woman from the FBI who the Ga'he are."

Spencer spoke instead, eager to share his knowledge. "The Ga'he are mighty spirits who dwell in desert caves."

"Reid, is your name Samuel?" Hotch scolded and the children and Zoe giggled.

"Sorry." He apologized.

"Are the Ga'he good spirits or bad spirits?" Gideon asked.

"They're both." Blackwolf said, "Like men."

"I'll take over for you, John." Jane said.

They met Blackwolf outside as he put on a coat, holding a giant dagger in a sheath.

"Mister Blackwolf, I'm Agent Gideon. These are agents Hotchner, Reid, and Noble-Valdez."

"You look like a college professor." Blackwolf said to Gideon and then looked at Spencer, "You look like his student." Then he looked at Hotch." You, you look like FBI." Then he looked at Zoe, "You look like a misbehaving student." Zoe shrugged.

"We're with the Behavioral Analysis Unit." Zoe said.

"Profilers should know better."

"How's that?"

"We don't do massacres. You do." Blackwolf said.

"Me, personally?" Hotch asked.

"Your government."

"We don't want massacres. Not any more than you do." Zoe said. "It's not fair to base us off our government." Then she thought for a moment and said, "Though to be fair, 'national hero' Christopher Columbus committed mass rape and genocide, among other things."

Blackwolf looked at her, narrowing her eyes as if trying to get a sense of her vibe. She just stared back, unwaveringly.

"Mister Blackwolf, we'd like for you to take a look at these photos and help us figure out how these kids were killed.

"You're not asking because I'm a cop." Blackwolf said.

"No, we're asking because you're an expert on Native American culture, particularly Apache Culture." Zoe deadpanned and handed him the photos, still never breaking eye contact.

"I don't base my opinion on pictures, Mister Hotchner. I have to walk the ground."

"Makes sense." Zoe said.

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They approached the crime scene.

"We should start inside. Forensics says the outside's been contaminated from all the construction traffic."

"Of all the Native American tribes, the Apache were most renowned for their tracking ability." Spencer said, "It was said they could track a man or animal through any condition by simply noticing the slightest disturbance in the environment."

"It's profiling the dirt." Hotch said.

"It's more than that, Hotch." Zoe said.

"I notice you don't carry a gun." Spencer said.

"Twenty-one feet." Blackwolf said.

"What?" Spencer asked.

"Ask Agent Hotchner and Agent Noble, there. They're the real gun hands."

"Why do you say that?" Hotch asked.

"You carry two guns and I don't know how many you have but it's more than two."

"I like to be prepared." Zoe said. "And it's Doctor Noble-Valdez."

"Any relation to the Valdezes?"

"Yes. The maximum distance an attacker with a knife can close in the time it takes to react, draw your side arm and fire is twenty-one feet.

"Inside twenty-one feet, I win. Outside 21, I have other options besides shooting a man."

"Like negotiating." Spencer said.

"Like running."

"I have more than just guns. It's not just one or the other. I only use them to protect myself and others. I've had more guns held to my head than you'd think. I was trained by Maze Valdez. She taught me to always be prepared. Always have a plan to kill everyone you meet in case they're planning on killing you first. And in my case, they usually are. I taught myself to be a weapon so the odds are usually in my favor." Zoe said. She wasn't following Blackwolf, she was walking with him, tracking with her own skills.

"You have other options."

"Of course, I do. Just because I have a plan to kill if I need it doesn't mean I'm going to. I'm a doctor. I try to save as many lives as I can. Some people just don't give you that choice." Zoe said. "And they're usually men."

"Why do you say I carry two guns?" Hotch asked.

"Your right instep print's heavier than your left. And since you don't appear to have a club right foot..." Blackwolf said.

"You can't tell that from my footprints." Hotch said. "There's no perceptible difference between them."

"Your problem isn't with your prints. It's with your perception." Blackwolf said.

"Hey, can we get back to tracking or am I going to have to do it all myself?" Zoe asked. "Am I going to have to solve the crime myself too?"

They went to the blood-soaked in the ground. Zoe was obviously annoyed with being with this company as Blackwolf observed the ground.

"What do you see?"

"There's a saying, 'Once too much blood has been spilled on the same ground, that ground develops a thirst for it'. This is all consistent with Native American warfare rituals. But it's not Apache." Blackwolf said and he stood up and handed Zoe the photos back, "Whoever did this carried out the most brutal practices of the Apache—Navajo, Comanche, Pueblo, and Sioux."

"No one tribe ever did them all. Not like this." Zoe said, her knowledge wasn't as extensive but she did know that.

"Real Indians would know that. This wasn't Indians." They started walking again, "And if you want to figure out who did this, it might help to know there was a sixth person in the house.

"Why do you say that?

"What did Maze Valdez teach you?"

"How to survive." Zoe said and then she spotted something and started walking forwards with intention.

"Female. Ninety, 95 pounds. Size six shoe. Fallen arches. She was walking alone when she was ambushed by two men." Blackwolf said as Zoe walked a good distance around the footprints.

"We also believe there were at least three suspects." Hotch said.

"Three? Yeah." Blackwolf scoffed. "Two over here plus at least six over there." He pointed behind them. "Because while these two carried this girl struggling to their vehicle to the east, at least six others ran single file to hide their numbers, from the west."

"So, you're saying that there were eight?" Hotch asked.

"At least."

"And one hostage."

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They walked through the police station and Blackwolf spoke to Hotch, "Doctor Noble-Valdez trusted my ability, you didn't. You wanted to see how I'd behave at the scene of the crime. You can at least tell me how I did."

"Your lack of an emotional reaction at seeing the carnage leads me to believe you're innocent." Hotch said.

"A guilty man would have feigned disgust?"

"Exactly."

"You know what counting coup is?"

"No."

"The Apache knew they could easily prove their superiority by killing many of the enemy tribe. But they also knew killings would start a fierce blood feud which would result in the waste of lives and resources." Blackwolf explained.

"Makes sense." Hotch replied.

"So the Apache proved their superiority by counting coup, stealthily stealing property, usually horses, from right under the nose of their enemy. To the Apache, killing, unless absolutely necessary, was a sign of stupidity and weakness."

"If this is your way of saying you're not the killer, we already know that." Hotch said.

"So why am I still talking to you?" Blackwolf asked.

"Hotch." JJ approached, "So, if there was another girl out there, no one's reported her missing. None of the papers have received any claims of responsibility or ransom demands."

"We'd like for you to stay and help with the profile briefing." Hotch said.

"If it'll keep the FBI off the reservation, I'll stay."

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They gave the profile with Spencer starting first, "Each torture ritual had specific religious significance, but only to the tribe that practiced it. It's highly unlikely that any one tribe would mix them all together like this."

"Meaning?" An officer asked.

"Whoever did this obviously had knowledge of Native American culture, but they had absolutely no practical understanding of it." Zoe explained.

"What we know is this pack shares a singular vision. Whether they share a religious faith, racist ideology, or political manifesto each member of this unit has surrendered its individual identity to the group." Morgan explained.

"It's the act of kidnapping that reveals the nature of this pack." Hotch said.

"From the German Red Brigade, to the Munich Olympics, to Iraqi insurgents, the act of kidnapping is a characteristic of political terrorist groups." Elle said.

"We could be looking for a domestic terrorist organization like the Symbionese Liberation Army that kidnapped Patty Hearst." Alexander said.

"But these are Native Americans, right?" The officer from before asked.

"I seriously doubt it. The torture and mutilation you see here are very confused imitations of warfare practiced by Native American tribes."

"You trying to tell us that Indians wouldn't be so brutal?

No. Zoe was descent from Aztecs who were known for having fearless warriors known for their ferocity and bravery in battle and they were known to sacrifice animals, but mostly humans, including children to their gods, most typically by slicing the heart out of the sacrificed and spilling their blood on the temple alter.

"No." Blackwolf said. "I'm saying that Indians wouldn't be so confused."

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The team went into Rhodes' office with him.

"Can we really be sure he's right?" Rhodes asked.

"Well, I'm fairly certain Blackwolf wasn't in on it. But you don't need to be Einstein to realize these people were Native Americans, or they were people who made it look like Native Americans." Gideon said.

"Why would anyone want to frame these Native Americans?"

"Possibly to turn public opinion against them." Zoe said, "Jane Bear said that the developers had paid so many families to leave the reservation that they could barely fill a single class. Sheriff, you mentioned the Apache were fighting the land grab in court. Public opinion would be a significant factor."

"Is there anyone besides the developers who might be vehemently opposed to the Native Americans getting the land back?" Hotch asked.

"The ADU." Rhodes said.

"Who's that?"

"The American Defence Union. Founded by a local businessman named Roy Minton. They're like the Minutemen who patrol the borders. Only these guys blame everything on the Native American."

So like a certain politician [(and unfortunately future president-slash-future candidate for presidency for some reason) on everyone who isn't Caucasian or male.

"Who are the members?" Elle asked.

"Minton's people are mostly white, construction workers, building supply vendors, working class people that believe Native Americans are standing in the way of progress and commerce." Rhodes said.

"Well, that makes sense." Zoe deadpanned. Unfortunately the most common thing about Americans is that a White person that blames other races is usually not too far away.

"Whether they feel the Native Americans are standing in the way of progress, or profit or they're just genuine racists." JJ said, "I think Minton and the ADU are strong suspects.

"Let's bring Minton in." Hotch decided.

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Hotch decided Zoe being from Aztec descent should come with them to interview Minton, though she didn't seem too enthusiastic about it as she met Hotch's usual deadpan gaze with her own deadpan gaze.

"Mister Minton, any idea who might be behind these killings?" Hotch asked Minton.

"The Indians have a history of violent behavior, especially the Apaches." Minton said as if it was a modern fact.

Native Americans. Zoe mentally corrected, hiding her distaste with her usual stoic (semi-)professionalism.

"Did you know that they used to kill white settlers? Decapitate the bodies. Put their victim's heads on wooden pikes outside their houses?"

“Yeah, and Christopher Columbus actually killed so many Native Americans that historians have stated it’s difficult to pinpoint but due to the combination of violence, enslavement, and disease following Colmbus’ arrival, it can be estimated that up to ninety percent of the native population died. Doesn’t make every Caucasian responsible for that.” Zoe said in her usual deadpan voice but there was a noticeable coldness to her tone. “It was a long time ago. You still seem pretty upset about it.”

Minton ignored the info about "national hero" Christopher Colmbus.

"That was the other night. My family has been dealing with the Apache for one hundred and fifty years." Minton said.

"You know, your rhetoric sounds just hateful enough to justify violence." Morgan said.

"We don't need to stoop to their level. We're fighting the Indians in court." Minton said.

"Is that right? Then why all the guns, Roy?" Morgan asked. "Our records show that your two hundred members carry over four-hundred-and-fifty firearms."

"We're simply exercising our constitutional right under the Second Amendment. We have the right to defend ourselves."

Zoe refrained from scrunching her nose as she had said something similar earlier. Only she had reason to carry firearms. She had been attacked so many times. So many people wanted her dead. Actively and in the past. She had been hurt by men who took advantage of owning guns and weapons that she

"Four-hundred-and-fifty guns, Roy. I don't think so." Morgan scoffed, "That's not self-defence. That's plain paranoid."

"Not anymore."

When they were done, they regrouped with the team at the police station.

"If Minton's as fanatical as he pretends to be, he wouldn't file lawsuits." Morgan stated.

"Or organize labor unions." Elle said.

"The Native Americans are keeping Minton and the members of the ADU from making a lot of money on the development and construction of the Apache land."

"I agree. He's using racist ideology to cover simple greed." Gideon said and turned to Rhodes, "Sheriff, I'd like you to put Minton under surveillance.

"You think he's guilty?" Rhodes asked.

"Not likely, but we've just given Minton reason to believe that some faction of the ADU may have taken matters into their own hands and Minton may lead us to them." Hotch explained.

Morgan's cell phone rang. "It's Garcia." He unclipped the phone from his belt and picked up, "Hey. What do you got? Okay. Nice job." He hung up, "Think we might have found our sixth victim."

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Alexander, Zoe, Hotch, JJ, Morgan, and Elle went to Ingrid's father's house and he let them in. There was something off about him that Zoe just couldn't shake. Morgan went to look through Ingrid's old room.

"How old was Ingrid when your wife passed away?" Zoe asked Peter Greisen.

"Fourteen." He said.

"And then you raised her on your own?" Elle asked and he nodded.

"Why didn't you report your daughter as missing, Mister Greisen?" Alexander asked with a slight edge to his tone.

"I didn't know she was missing. She has her own place. She has her own life at school. Her own friends." Greisen explained.

"When was the last time you spoke?" Elle asked.

Griesen thought about for a second and said, "A couple weeks ago." And then he explained, "She's been going through a phase the past couple months. Distancing herself."

"Has anyone threatened Ingrid?" Elle asked.

"Not that I know of." He said.

"Have you received any menacing phone calls or seen anyone in the neighborhood? I mean, anything that's been unusual at all?" Zoe asked.

"No. Nothing like that."

"We have reason to believe the people who kidnapped your daughter may be politically motivated." Hotch said, "They killed those kids and they kidnapped Ingrid in the name of their cause."

"We think the first thing, or, the best thing, you can do to help your daughter is for you to go on the news."

"How will that help Ingrid?" He asked.

"If we can personalize Ingrid to the public, the public will take any harm that comes to her at the hands of the kidnappers personally." JJ explained. "Hurting her would hurt their cause."

"It will stop them from killing her?" He asked.

"It might."

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They met up with Morgan in Ingrid's room.

"Hey."

"So?" Morgan asked.

"Fathers' blame themselves when their child is kidnapped. As irrational as it is, it's typical." Hotch said and Alexander and Zoe looked at him. "This guy didn't do that. Why not?"

"Well, in these situations, innocent parents, they don't hide their feelings of guilt, while guilty parents do." Alexander said.

"So we're thinking this guy's guilty?" Morgan asked.

"Of something." Hotch said.

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While Greisen went on air, they continued to look through Ingrid's room for clues when Elle came in saying, "We've got a caller on the line."

"Has Greisen been prepped?" Hotch asked.

"The caller doesn't want to speak to Greisen. In fact, he doesn't want Greisen to know that he's even calling."

Hotch took the phone, "This is Special Agent Aaron Hotchner."

"Yeah. We have Ingrid Greisen. We'll turn ourselves and the girl in under one condition." The man on the other end of the phone said.

"I'm listening."

"You don't tell Greisen about it."

"What does it matter to you what I tell Greisen?" Hotch asked.

"Because he paid us to kidnap her."

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Alexander, Hotch, Elle, and Morgan brought the kidnappers in and got the girl to the hospital. Zoe heard she was nonresponsive. Morgan, Spencer, and Zoe went to the hospital while the rest of the team interviewed the kidnappers and the father.

As the three approached Ingrid's room, Morgan's phone rang. "It's Garcia."

"We got this." Spencer said.

"You sure?"

"Yeah. Yeah." Spencer nodded.

"Yeah, believe it or not, I have some experience with kidnapping trauma." Zoe said.

"Okay." Morgan said and answered his phone, "Yeah. Talk to me." He walked off and Zoe and Spencer went to Ingrid's room.

Zoe looked through the window on the door to see the young blonde woman in the bed. She was awake, just staring in front of her.

Zoe mentally flashed back to the following days at the hospital after she escaped those eight months. It was a blur to her but she could remember seeing the pictures of her, she didn't look at the camera but past them, just into space.

Spencer opened the door and held it open for Zoe. She approached Ingrid, muttering a thank you to Spencer.

"Hello Ingrid. I'm Doctor Spencer Reid, this is Doctor Zoe Noble-Valdez. We're with the FBI and we were wondering if you could..."

"Griesen, Ingrid. nine-four-three-two-three-nine-four-eight-seven."

Spencer and Zoe looked at each other to confirm that they both heard this insanity that sounded like it came from a computer.

"Excuse me?" Spencer asked.

She looked at them and spoke more slowly, if it wasn't for the utterly blank look in her eyes and tone in her voice, she almost would've sounded annoyed that she had to repeat it, "Griesen, Ingrid. nine-four-three-two-three-nine-four-eight-seven."

"Can I see your hands?" Zoe asked, she didn't wait for a response and took Ingrid's hand, examining her hand. Zoe stroked her hands over Ingrid's palm and then her fingertips, feeling the grooves of Ingrid's fingerprints under her own fingertips. She didn't find what she had been fearing to find... to both her relief and disappointment.

She gently placed Ingrid's hand back on the bed and looked at Spencer, gesturing for the door.

Spencer still confused nodded and they left without another word.

"What's up?" Morgan asked, approaching, confused as to why they were out so soon.

"She's brainwashed." Zoe said at once. "Cult, most likely."

"Why'd you ask to see her hands?" Spencer asked.

"It's not the same cult as the one they built around me." Zoe said.

"How do you know?" Morgan asked.

Zoe hesitated, her jaw clenching, then she sighed and held up her hand, “She still has her fingerprints.” She held up her hand, “one of the first things they did once the cult was built was that they burned off my fingerprints with acid. It was a long shot, anyways."

Spencer gently took Zoe's hand and saw she had no fingerprints.

"I..."

"Don't." She pulled her hand back, on guard, "Just call Hotch." They didn't move. "Call Hotch!" She snapped.

Morgan took his phone out and turned away from them as Spencer gave Zoe puppy-dog eyes.

"Ingrid isn't catatonic anymore, but she's answering every question with only her name and Social Security number." Morgan told Hotch through the phone. There's more. Garcia did some checking. Ingrid hasn't been enrolled in school for over a year. She had good grades. Just suddenly dropped out and vacated her campus apartment. She left no forwarding, Hotch. We have no idea where or how she's been living."

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Ingrid had been in a cult and the Greinsen intended on bringing Ingrid to a deprogrammer and he feared that the cult had been responsible for the killings but didn't want his daughter to go to jail. During the night Minton and his family was attacked and the police officer patrolling them was killed.

They went back to the police station to update the profile now that they knew a cult was involved.

"We're looking for the cult leader. Typically men between the age twenty-five and thirty-five with a high level of intelligence." Zoe said as cults were her specialty. "A sociopathic underachiever with an extremely abusive childhood. And obviously someone with an interest in, and an affinity for Apache culture and rituals."

"Look for males with criminal records for lesser type crimes." Morgan said as Zoe crossed her arms, she had put her motorcycle gloves on now because Spencer kept looking at her hands in sympathy. "Drug possession, petty theft."

"What about school records?" JJ asked, "The victims from the first crime scene went to Terra Mesa University? Maybe the leader was there, too."

"That's great." Elle said, standing up, "Look for students who studied Native American cultures extensively."

"We need to do it all." Morgan said, "With this second strike it could be a spree."

Zoe had to excuse herself now that her part of the profile was done, she had to meet up with Blackwolf, Hotch, and Ingrid at the house where the family was killed.

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Zoe got off her motorcycle, glancing at the house. She went to take off her gloves before stopping and changing her mind. She approached Rhodes, Blackwolf, and Hotch who had just arrived too.

"Sorry about your man, Jim." Blackwolf said.

"I appreciate that." Rhodes said.

"That her?"

"She won't give us anything, but her name and her Social.

"Thanks." Blackwolf said."

Okay. They're ready. Everybody out." he called to the officers and went to the car and yanked Ingrid out, "Come with me! My friend wants to show you something." He pulled Ingrid to Hotch, Zoe, and Blackwolf

"Ingrid, my name is John Blackwolf.

"I know who you are." Ingrid said, the first words other than her name and social. "You are the son of Benjamin Blackwolf of the Chiricahua Apache.

"Come with me." Blackwolf said and turned to head into the house.

They walked through the hall of the house, next to a cluster of pictures of the kids was smeared with blood as the family had tried to escape. They walked past it and into one of the daughter's room.

"What do think happened here, Ingrid?"

Ingrid looked around, the books and trophies had lines of blood on them when the girl had been stabbed, blood was splattered on the white curtains, lots of blood was stained onto the bed, on the girl's paintings. Her name had been Nicole.

Ingrid looked back at Blackwolf and said, "I think three little trespassers met the vengeful blade of the tribe."

"What tribe would that be?" Hotch asked.

"There are only two people. The Apache, and those who trespass against us." Ingrid said.

"You're not Apache, Ingrid." Blackwolf said.

"No. You are not Apache." She argued, "Not anymore. Grandfather tested me. He sent me to the desert mountains to be blessed by the Ga'he. The Gahe have brought Grandfather back to us, build his new tribe to reclaim the sacred land for the Apache."

"Where is Grandfather?" Hotch asked.

"Did Grandfather ever tell you where the name 'Apache' comes from? It comes from the Zuni word 'apachu,' it means 'enemy'. And if Grandfather knew the first thing about the real Apache he would have taught you to refer to us as the 'diné'. It means, 'the people'."

"Grandfather said that you and all the living Apache are like the Jews of old, lost and wandering the desert in search of their Messiah. And he has come..." She argued but Blackwolf cut her off by speaking over her.

"The diné don't believe in a Messiah."

"You were lied to, Ingrid." Zoe said.

"The Ga'he..." Ingrid started.

"Don't use a word you don't understand. The Ga'he are not magic fairies. They are not gods as you understand them." Blackwolf said and he grabbed one of Nicole's shirts covered in her blood and held it up to Ingrid and he grabbed her harshly with her other hand, having her squeak in fear. Zoe refrained herself from jumping in as Blackwolf shouted, "This is not the blood of an enemy! This is the blood of a little girl just like you are. You've been fed bits and pieces of a culture you don't understand."

"You don't know." She said when Blackwolf let her go."

"What we do know is that you've been manipulated and exploited by a very disturbed individual." Hotch said.

"You are a liar!" She cried and she turned back to Blackwolf, "You have disavowed your ancestors. Only those who dwell in the dead lands deserve to live!"

Blackwolf looked at Hotch and Zoe.

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Zoe was helping Garcia find potential cult leaders while Spencer looked through the paper files while the others figured out where the cult may be.

"Stop looking at my hands." She said, without looking up.

"Sorry. It's just... they should've grown back."

"Minor burns or injuries usually don't permanently change them. They didn't understand that. Within a few weeks, they were growing back and they burned them again and again. Until I stop screaming. I finally explained it to them. It would take a third-degree burn or other serious injury that affect all the layers of skin that the fingerprint is encoded into. At least five. Three months in and they had burned nine layers and, they're gone." Zoe explained.

"I'm sorry."

"I know you are, Spencer. I don't need your pity. I don't want your pity. It's been five years. I've accepted it. I just..."

"How were you never converted?"

"I wasn't a victim of the cult. I... I was the inspiration for it. Because I refused to break. If I was ever innocent, they took it from me but I still refused to break and I continued to fight, when they would've broken. They were broken and my fight confused them and so the cult formed. Even if they tried, I knew the truth." Zoe said, "Here's someone. Jackson Cally."

Spencer moved his chair to look at her screen.

"He was expelled from TMU six months before the others for drug possession and there was a string of colleges before. Every single one, he studied religion and Native American culture and he was in a seminar on Native American culture with Ingrid Greisen and look, John Blackwolf guest lectured." He read.

"Send it to Garcia. "

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Zoe went with Hotch, Elle, Morgan, Blackwolf, Rhodes, and other officers to an abandoned motel off of Route 29 that Blackwolf speculated might have be where the cult was.

They kicked the door down and went through the darkened motel until Hotch found someone. A man with his back to them his arms behind him

"FBI! Don't move! Put your hands out to the side and turn around very slowly." Hotch said and Cally held his arms out. "Jackson Cally?" Zoe, Morgan, and Elle entered the room behind him. "Grandfather?"

Cally finally turned around.

"There's no one else here, Hotch." Morgan said.

"Where are the others?" Zoe asked.

"Hunting." Cally said.

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Zoe was on the phone with Spencer as he read the paper file that he printed of what Garcia had pulled up. "Jackson Gordon Cally, thirty-two years old. Spent most of his childhood moving from foster home to foster home."

"Hang on a second. I'm going to put you on speaker." She said and pushed the button, "Go ahead, Spence."

"Simply another sad, but unremarkable statistic aside from the fact that he had an IQ of 189." Spencer said. Zoe was unimpressed.

"Any criminal record?"

"At eighteen, he spent twenty-two months in prison for auto theft. I just spoke to the warden at the prison. Said when he was there he found religion and began preaching to his fellow inmates. And that he once convinced a mass murderer he was doing time with to beat to death an inmate that was threatening Cally."

Zoe was still unimpressed. That wasn't surprising. Cult leaders were known to be rather persuasive.

"Ever since he was a child, this guy just survived on cunning, force of personality." Gideon said.

"He spent twenty-two months in the clink. Was released and then bounced from university to university studying, you guessed it, Native American cultures." Spencer said.

"Okay, thanks, Spence." Zoe said and hung up.

Cally reminded her of an unremarkable version of her ex-boyfriend. High IQ. Highly persuasive. Abusive childhood. Underachiever. Criminal record.

"What's his connection to the Apache?" Blackwolf asked.

"Aside from taking your class? Nothing that they could find." Zoe said. "With sociopaths like Cally, there is no connection."

"If it hadn't been Apache he would've found some other culture to attract and manipulate his followers." Hotch said

"Like Manson, Cally's been forced to become an expert profiler of sorts. He reads the people around him. He finds a way in, and then he brainwashes them to serve his needs." Zoe explained.

"And the only way to figure out his game is to play it." Hotch said, "I'm going to give him exactly what he wants."

"What's that?" Elle asked.

"An audience. Zoe, you have experience with cult leaders?" Hotch asked.

Zoe stared at him, unamused at Hotch-levels.

"Alright, but I have a suspicion. Give me a moment."

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Zoe sat in a chair in front of Cally, the moment she sat down, his eyes flickered to her necklace, a Day of the Dead necklace, she didn't have her leather jacket on and had her shirt sleeves rolled up slightly, revealing her alebrije wolf tattoo on one shoulder and her tattoo of Santa Meurta on the other.

"Hello Mister Cally, I'm Special Agent Doctor Zoe Noble-Valdez with the FBI." She said.

"You know, I've spent my whole life talking to cops and doctors. There's something different about you. You're not just a cop or a doctor. Are you?" He said.

"You're very perceptive." She said, only barely meaning it.

"So what are you?"

"I'm a profiler."

"So am I."

"You're not the leader, are you?"

"No. That'd be the suit back there, Special Agent Aaron Hotchner."

"But your colleagues still respect you a great deal. They think you're very smart but you also scare them a little. You worry them. You're a mystery to them that they can't quite profile."

Zoe raised her eyebrows.

Cally looked at Hotch, "And they look at you to find all the answers. Leadership is a grave responsibility."

"Well, they don't call me Grandfather." Hotch remarked.

"Well, in my tribe, Grandfather is simply another word for 'teacher'."

"Did you teach your tribe to murder?" Zoe asked.

"No, I don't teach murder. I teach love. Love of land. Love of ancestors. Love of the tribe. These trespassers poison the land. You know the Day of the Dead stems from Aztec beliefs."

"I did know that. I'm from Aztec descent from my mother's side." Zoe said.

"Not many do. The remaining Aztecs have forgotten who they are. But the Apache will soon remember who they are and they will hunt these trespassers off their land until no one but the Apache remain."

Blackwolf stepped up, "You think you speak for the Apache, but you're nothing, but a coward and a killer."

"I haven't killed anyone." Cally chuckled.

"Your tribe killed a family last night. A mother, a father, and three little girls. Ages, five, eight, and eleven." Zoe said, "Do you think that your little tribe is going to wage a war with all the white people in this state?"

"Pretty soon, we won't have to." Cally said

"Why's that?" Hotch asked.

He turned to Blackwolf. "What's going to happen when the angry white men come to the doors of your children blaming you for the killing of their people? What are you going to do? Call the cops? No. You're going to string them up. You're going to put their heads on poles and rape their women just like the savage animal you really are. Like the savage animal your father was before they shot him down."

Blackwolf grabbed Cally by the front and slammed him against the wall. Zoe only looked mildly interested in what was happening while Morgan shouted, "No, Blackwolf."

Morgan pulled him off as Zoe got up and stepped up to Cally.

"And you! You're just like your ancestors. Who sacrificed children by cutting out their hearts while they were still alive. By eating their flesh!"

"I'm a vegetarian." She remarked and walked past him with Hotch outside to Blackwolf.

"Let me in with him, alone." Blackwolf said, "I'll get him talking."

"You've done more than we could have hoped for." Zoe reassured him.

Hotch turned to Morgan and Elle, "You guys take Cally down to the Sheriff's Office."

"You tell that man he's welcome on my reservation any time." Blackwolf growled, pointing.

"Cally's a racist. That's why I took my jacket off. To show my tattoos. Not all Mexicans are from Aztec descent but I just happen to be and he could make that assumption if he studied Native American cultures. You just tipped him over the edge." Zoe explained. "It was never about the Apache. It's just about power and control."

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It turns out a bunch of guns were missing from Minton's house. The cult was going to stage an ADU attack against Native Americans since the ADU didn't actually attack anyone.

"The school's our most vulnerable target." Blackwolf said.

"Cally likes killing kids." Zoe scoffed.

They got out and walked through a dark room of the school. Blackwolf heard Hotch taking out his gun.

"Put that away."

"What?" Hotch asked.

"You don't need it." Blackwolf turned to them. "Use your baton. There are many paths to the same place. Trust me."

"Just so you know, you sound like a fortune cookie." Hotch deadpanned.

"You asked what Maze Valdez taught me. It was how to be the ultimate weapon. I don't need a gun. The Aztecs have fearless warriors known from their ferocity and bravery but they did it to protect their tribe. Our best bet is stealth. Pick them off one by one. My cousin is a modern ninja. Stealth is my specialty." Zoe said.

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When the cult members arrived, the one classroom was empty. Zoe slammed a door shut, bringing one closer and she punched him in the carotid sinus, a pressure point in the front of the neck. When pressure is applied it can trigger carotid sinus syncope, a response that causes fainting, it can happen even if someone were to wear a tight collar. If this pressure point is struck, the body’s receptors are confused into thinking the body’s blood pressure is too high and the body attempts to correct this by suddenly dropping blood pressure which can lead to insufficient blood supply to the brain and then fainting.

Zoe led a few away while Hotch took out one and then pulled another into a classroom. Blackwolf pulled the rifle from another and the cult member took out his knife, Blackwolf took out hers.

Zoe had three following her, not sure if they had someone. She circled around a shelf and grabbed one, pulling behind it and hitting their head against the wall.

"Who's there?" A member shouted but Zoe was gone.

She grabbed another's rifle, kneeing them in the groin and kicking them away. He and the other member watched as without looking she pulled the ammo and threw the gun aside.

Then there was a gunshot. Hopefully, by Hotch, Zoe looked away and the last member holding their gunshot at her but she rolled out of the way and she spun when she shot again, dodging the bullets until the gun went click, click, click.

The first member she had disarmed lunged at her but Zoe simply grabbed his hand, twisting it to just to the point of intense pain, making him shout in pain but the most terrifying part was the intense look of hatred in Zoe's eyes, that they would attempt to come and kill children. The other member ran at her and Zoe pushed the first member into them, making sure to hit their heads together.

Hotch and Blackwolf showed up, having heard the shots and had become concerned but Zoe was still standing unhurt.

"You took out three at once?"

Zoe just shrugged.

Zoe tied up all the members, tightly so they would have no chance of escape and applied pressure on the woman's wound that Hotch had shot to keep her from shooting Blackwolf

The rest of the team arrived as the three were sitting in front of the school.

"The children?" Gideon asked.

"They're fine." Hotch said.

"Did you actually think I'd let any of them get hurt?" Zoe asked.

"We got them out before they got here. We took down these six." Hotch said.

"Without firing a shot?" Spencer asked.

"Captain America here shot number five." Blackwolf said, looking at Hotch.

"You're welcome."

"And one of them shot all their bullets at Zoe and missed." Blackwolf said.

"They're not exactly a sniper with a gun." Zoe dismissed.

"Number six is cut up pretty bad. I don't think he's going to make it." Hotch said.

"At least I didn't shoot him." Blackwolf muttered.

"I think I'd rather be shot." Morgan remarked.

"One of them has a broken wrist and a concussion, two of them have just a concussion, and one of them has an injured caroid sinus." Zoe said.

"There's an old Apache saying, 'You can take many paths to get to the same place'." Hotch said.

*Edited October 23, 2024*

#the eccedentiast #david tennant #selena gomez #criminal minds #spencer reid #valentía #zoe noble-valdez #aaron “hotch” hotchner #derek morgan #Alexander Noble #March 2006 #Apache Culture #Aztec Culture #Cults #Ingrid Greisen #John Blackwolf #Sean Hotchner #Jackson Cally #New Mexico

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tag game: 3 books, 3 movies, and 3 songs

that changed your life or you just love.

thanks for the tag @lumochiart! I appreciate how you never forget about me when it comes to these tag games (and I will do the previous ones too!!)

About the books 📚:

Isabel Allende is my favorite author. I read "The city of beasts" when I was 13 and fell in love with her writing. It is part of a trilogy (Memories of the Eagle and the Jaguar) which I absolutely reccomend if you enjoy magical realism, the literary genre that she has mastered to perfection. Her first novel, "The House of the Spirits", it's a great example of that. It's very reminiscent of "100 years of Solitude" by Gabriel García Márquez. They both follow the story of a Latin-American family across generations, and they are so whimsical but at the same time incredibly raw when depicting reality. Although it is not considered a trilogy, "Daughter of Fortune" and "Portrait in Sepia" both include characters from "The House of the Spirits", and to this day they are my favorite books from her.

José Saramago won a Nobel Prize for a reason. "Death at Intervals" (pictured aboved), "Blindness" (which has a great film adaptation) and the sequel "Essay on Lucidity" are all amazing philosophical exercises that start with a very simple premise, respectively "what if people stopped dying?", "what if everyone turned blind?" and "what if everyone casted blank votes?". And the results are absolutely astounding. He never names his characters, nor he specifies in which country the action takes place (although we can tell it's Portugal), so that we can focus solely on the actions of the characters when faced with these dillemas. I couldn't reccomend them enough. I've read his books in Portuguese, but I'm confident the English translation does them justice.

Patrick Süskind isn't an author I know well, but "Perfume" is certainly one of the most memorable books I've ever read. The descriptions of the visuals and smells of 18th century Paris are so vivid that you feel like you're really there. You get inside the mind of the murderer, and you can understand, in a twisted way, how he can turn death into something so beautiful. And the ending of the book, my God! I couldn't forget it even if I tried. It's the culmination of his character, and it shows you what he considers to be the true meaning of love. It also has a film adaptation.

About the movies ��️:

"The Little Mermaid" and "Barbie in the Princess and the Pauper" are self-explanatory, absolute animated classics from my childhood.

"The Secret Garden" (In Portuguese, "O Jardim Secreto", picture I took of my VHS) is based on the novel with the same name by Frances Hodgson Burnett. I watched this movie compulsively when I was little. The songs were amazing, and it was actually scary in some parts. The ending is slightly different than the novel, and surprisingly I enjoyed the movie a lot more! Which literally never happens. So yeah, if you somehow find this specific version of the movie on the internet I definitely reccomend a watch. It holds up very well even as an adult (also much better than the live-action).

About the songs 🎶:

I don't know if you could tell, but Florence + the Machine is my favorite singer, since I was 11. She had one album that I listened on repeat. They were the only songs on my old MP3 player. To this day, I have her entire discography saved on my phone, so I can listen to it even without internet.

"Between Two Lungs" is from the first album, "Lungs", and it makes me want to run into the woods and scream my lungs out. "Shake It Out" is from the second album, "Ceremonials" (my favorite), and it is very dear to my heart, since I've sang it in two school competitions already (with 9 years in between the two).

"King" is from the fifth album, "Dance Fever", and it did things to me. "I am no mother, I am no bride, I am King." My aroace heart loved the song. Even though I know the original interpretation was an argument between two lovers, I also read it as an act of defiance to your parents, your loved ones and to the society in general that wants to shove into the role of what a woman has to be. But I don't want to be a mother or a bride. I want to take control of my own life. I want to be King. On YouTube, there's also a poem version that is equally beautiful.

I'm tagging @portgas-d-ani @lorillee @alwayshasacold @caseyd1a @tinycurlyfry @vgprincess @tevali @zhabk4 and anyone who wants to participate!

I've spent more time answering this than I thought I would, but you don't actually have to explain your choices, I did it of my own volition! You can just post the pictures >.<

#thank you again for the tag lumochiart!#this one so much fun to do #tag game

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Meso-American Culture and Art Comes Alive at 2nd Annual “Milagros and Memories” Exhibition in Sausalito

Among the nine artists participating in the upcoming “Milagros & Memories” exhibit at the Sausalito Center for the Arts are Juan Fuentes and Calixto Robles.

Both artists use their art to promote awareness and social change for Meso-American people. They are of Mexican heritage and ancestry, yet their art is varied in expression and reaches out to a wider audience.

While each of the two are different and unique, as artists of vision and dedication, they both embrace the rich cultural tapestry of the Americas which goes beyond Mexico.

They both understand the reality that indigenous peoples throughout the Americas are and have always been imbedded in so many ways in the land and its biodiverse, ecological topography.

Long before Europeans and other settlers arrived in the Americas, indigenous people thrived and built communities, cities and civilizations. Despite the colonial conflicts and efforts to eradicate indigenous people and their existence from the land, they endured.

It is this struggle and endurance that both artists in their own way want to highlight.

Robles is from Oaxaca Mexico and moved to San Francisco in 1983. As a painter, printmaker, and ceramic sculptor, the inspiration he gets from Meso-American and indigenous or what he prefers to refer to as ‘First Nation people’s culture’ is essential.

Robles likes to incorporate sacred imagery of ancient Eastern as well as Western cultures into his art pieces. Robles uses natural and supernatural figures such as angels, eagles, jaguars, horses, hearts and moons.

“I have had shows at the De Young Museum, San Francisco, The Oakland Museum, The Mexican Cultural Center in Paris France, the Museo de la Estampa, in Mexico City, and Biblioteca de La Habana, in Habana, Cuba,” he said.

Like Robles, Fuentes has used printmaking techniques in his art. Born in Artesia, New Mexico, Fuentes was inspired by the Chicano Movement.

“This will be my first time to exhibit at the Sausalito Center for the Arts,” said Fuentes. “And, it's an honor to be able to share my work with a new audience and community.”

His mentors were Rupert Garcia and Malaquias Montoya. Over the years, Fuentes has dedicated his art as a cultural activist to support and be part of a global movement for social change.

Fuentes’ silkscreen posters and relief prints have addressed many issues as they relate to communities of color, social justice, racism, and international struggles for liberation.

Both artists have received accolades and are well-established and respected.

Fuentes has taught at the Mission Campus/City College of SF, the California College of the Arts, Oakland CA and he was visiting faculty at the San Francisco Art Institute’s print department.

Fuentes was also director of Mission Grafica at the Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts. Since 2005, he has received several prestigious awards and honors.

Like Robles’ work, Fuentes’ prints and posters reside in various institutions and museums including, the Mexican Museum of San Francisco, the National Museum of American Art at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington D.C., the San Francisco Fine Arts Museum, the Library of Congress, and the Center for the Study of Political Graphics in Los Angeles.

Fuentes’ studio ‘Pajaro Editions’ is part of Consejo Grafico Nacional, a collective (coalition) of Chicano/Latino print studios, headquartered in New York City.

Fuentes’ work is also featured at CEMA, the California Ethnic and Multicultural Archives, University of Santa Barbara. Because of the impact of his work, CEMA has also set up a personal archive for his works.

Needless to say, both artists have had their art exhibited locally, nationally and internationally at various times in many places.

What many people don’t realize is that Mexican art has a long and rich history. Since its earliest days in the 1300s, Mexico City has been a major center.

And, while often people think of Mayan, Aztec and Olmec art as central to its artistic expression, Mexico City for example, has been a center for contemporary art, Freda Khalo and muralist Diego Rivera are among many. There are many, many more. This is why Mexican art is flourishing like at the Zona Maco Festival for more than two decades.

One of the most prolific opportunities for contemporary Mexican art to be expressed is during the “Day of the Dead” celebrations. This is something that Fuentes understands as he said.

“I have participated in ‘Day of The Dead’ celebrations throughout the years, mainly in the Mission Community of San Francisco.”

“It is a beautiful celebration,” he continued. “And, it gives us a chance to reflect on those loved one's that have passed.”

“It is also a reminder of our own mortality, said Fuentes and the need to celebrate each day with the rising of the sun.”

Making the most of the opportunity, this coming Oct 5, the Sausalito Center for the Arts (SCA) will be celebrating “the Day of The Dead,” with a 2nd annual “Milagros & Memories” month-long exhibit and benefit fundraiser.

“This exhibit promises to bring a new appreciation for the modern and edgy images created by the highly celebrated artists in this unique exhibition,” said SCA executive director, Shiva Pakdel.

“The gripping and highly symbolic art represents a complex and dynamic culture, said Pakdel, that pulls elements from its historical Mexican, Latin, and indigenous roots, all presented with a modern twist.”

The participants in the exhibit are:

Juan Fuentes

Calixto Robles

Alexandra Blum

Guillermo Kelly

Alejandra Chaves

Andrea Gonzales

Sol Navarrete

Isidoro Angeles

Licita Fernandez

A collection of artist Michael Roman will also be featured. Known as “The Latino Wild-Style” artist, Roman was prolific in using many different techniques. He died in 2016, but his work lives on.

“Each artist’s work is highly stylistic, rich with symbols and colors creating images that are visually stunning and contemporary,” added Pakdel.

MILAGROS & MEMORIES: Celebrating the work of iconic Latin American artists of the San Francisco Bay Area Opens on October 5 and continues until November 10. For more information visit the SCA website.

#sausalito #SCA Sausalito Center for the Arts #Milagros & Memories #Calixto Robles #Juan Fuentes #day of the dead

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jcmarchi · 4 months ago

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Diablo IV: Vessel of Hatred Preview - Hands-On With The New Spiritborn Class - Game Informer

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Diablo IV: Vessel of Hatred Preview - Hands-On With The New Spiritborn Class - Game Informer

Vessel of Hatred ushers in a wave of change for Diablo IV. The game’s first expansion takes players to the new jungle region of Nahantu and, most importantly, introduces the new Spiritborn class. I went hands-on with the Spiritborn at a recent preview event and spoke to Blizzard about how it created a class unlike any other in the Diablo series. After spending a couple of hours playing, the Spiritborn may already be my new favorite class in the game.

Unlike other Diablo classes, the Spiritborn is not based on a traditional fantasy archetype like the Rogue or Mage. Rather, it’s a martial arts-inspired class hailing from the dense jungle region of Nahantu. Described as the apex predator of this region, a Spiritborn arises from a brutal ritual tasking them to survive the wilds of Nahantu. A Spiritborn character’s narration in a cinematic reveal trailer describes it best:

“Only a few among my people can become Spiritborn. As children, the most promising face judgment in the nest. Our trial begins and ends with pain. Those who are not called are culled. For the weak, all paths end here. For the worthy, that path leads to power beyond compare and a sacred charge to wield it well.”

Succeeding in this ritual allows a Spiritborn to commune with the Spirit Realm to bond with and harness the power of four animal Spirit Guardians: jaguar, eagle, gorilla, and centipede. The Spirit Realm is described as a “byproduct of humanity” and a “ghostly reflection of Sanctuary” by associate narrative designer Eleni Rivera-Colon during a presentation. “The way that we like to see it is that the angels have the High Heavens, demons have the Burning Hells, and humans have the Spirit Realm.”

The four Spirit Guardians serve as manifestations of human beliefs. The Jaguar represents hunting and providing, while the Centipede represents the cycle of death, decay, and the resulting new life. The Eagle represents the precision and vision needed to navigate the jungle, and the Gorilla is a beacon of strength and protection.

“You can imagine that if you’re a native of Nahantu if you needed one of these values, you would call upon those gods to embody that value,” game director Brent Gibson explains. “And one of the cool things about the Spiritborn is that they believe that if they devote themselves to this so much that one day when they cross over into the veil, they’ll become Spirit Guardians themselves.”

The Spiritborns sound pretty powerful, so where have these warriors been all this time? Gibson explains that Nahantu is intimately familiar with the Eternal Conflict; it housed Mephisto’s original soulstone during Diablo II. The terrible memories and traumas from that era remain fresh in their minds, so much so that they chose to sit on the sidelines during the various world-threatening events of previous Diablo games to avoid repeating history. But Lilith’s return has finally forced their hands to rejoin the fight.

According to Gibson, Blizzard began conceptualizing the Spiritborn before Diablo IV launched. Blizzard examined unique combat and power fantasies the existing classes didn’t provide, in addition to player feedback for each. This helped the team create the goal of making a class that sits at the core of its first expansion, as by doing so, it could tie its background and fighting style to a specific new location.

At first glance, Spiritborn draws inspiration from Central and South American civilizations, which Gibson confirms among other broad touchstones. Rivera-Colon adds that the team didn’t focus on a singular source but on the theme of humanity and what it means to be human. The answer was that humans possess spirits, which snowballed into discussions of how that would manifest.

“The interesting thing is when you think of the concept of a spirit realm, in our research, many cultures have some version of that,” Gibson explains. “So we knew it would be very relatable to more than just the region we know. So one of the things we always take great care of is making sure that we’re inspired by and don’t lift from […] It’s like we’re taking a look at the culture that’s already established in the Diablo fiction, and then we’re being inspired by Central American cultures, Asian cultures, and taking a look at the world as a whole and how we can make it as global as possible.”

Each Spirit Guardian offers a specific playstyle. The jaguar emphasizes relentless fire-based offense and ever-increasing attack speed. The eagle provides lightning and maneuverability with abilities that let players move quickly while electrifying targets. The gorilla boasts defense, letting players absorb and reduce punishment, then retaliating by pummeling foes with mighty physical blows. The centipede deals with debilitating poison attacks, debuffs, and abilities designed to disrupt enemy mobs.

Additionally, you can further gear your Spiritborn towards a chosen animal using the Spirit Hall. This menu tab lets players gain bonuses based on the Spirit Guardians equipped in two slots. The first slot grants a themed mechanic based on the chosen animal; for example, the eagle lets players fire Storm Feathers when evading. When you kill an enemy, the second slot bestows a themed bonus, such as the jaguar gaining +1 Ferocity (a new mechanic representing attack speed). Purists can also put the same animal in both slots. A new skill type called Incarnate Skills allows the Spiritborn to equip and gain a passive trait based on one of the four spirit animals.

The Spiritborn doesn’t only rely on their animal companions. The class is a hyper-agile, demon-slaying machine on its own, thanks to its martial-arts-inspired playstyle. Blizzard developed the Spiritborn’s combat style by examining multiple disciplines, including muay thai, taekwondo, karate, kung fu, and jiu-jitsu. Art director Nick Chilano tells me the character hits home with several animators who practice some form of martial arts – Chilano himself trains in jiu-jitsu. By drawing from these real-life influences, the team created and animated a hybrid style molded around the setting and history of Nahantu. Chilano also says each Spirt Guardian’s playstyle helped narrow down the martial arts style associated with them.

“So if you think about the gorilla, we’re looking at strong poses, strong attacks, blunt force,” says Chilano. “If you’re thinking about the centipede, it’s earthy, connecting to the ground. So we’re looking at moves that represent that. The Jaguar is aggression: fast, multi-attacks, combo hits. So we start really trying to figure out what martial arts styles fit there. And the eagle is really about precision, repositioning, so we’re looking at a lot of combat that can kind of make sense there.”

I spent over two hours playing with different pre-made specialized builds of the Spiritborn, and the class was thrilling. Having four animals to work with feels like having four smaller classes in one, and you can mix and match their abilities to form hybrid playstyles or create a “pure” build based solely on one animal. I rocked a jaguar build and incinerated foes with its litany of fire-based attacks. However, I also liked combining the gorilla and centipede skills, which turned me into a self-healing tank that poisoned everything in sight. There’s a ton of potential for experimentation, and I regularly respec’d the skill tree to tinker with various Spirit Guardian combinations.

The flashy abilities complement the Spiritborn’s base offensive prowess, creating a class boasting fast-paced, hand-to-hand butt-kicking that can quickly warp around a skirmish to take out surrounding mobs. Unleashing a Spirit Guardian’s ultimate attack summons them as a giant ethereal beast to eradicate adversaries, whether it’s the eagle dive-bombing the field or the centipede emerging from underground to spew poison projectiles and streams. This spectacle makes watching the Spiritborn in action almost as fun as playing it. Almost.

Blizzard has designed weapons and armor to accommodate either approach, with the latter coming as themed armor sets. The Spiritborn are more concerned with function over protection, hence why their armor exposes so much of themselves, and they wear armor that represents the Spirit Guardian they’re devoted to. Weapons-wise, the class favors polearms, glaives, and quarterstaffs to complement its acrobatic playstyle. Blizzard is also cooking up new Legendaries, Aspects, and Uniques for the class.

The Spiritborn is a blast, and, best of all, newcomers won’t have to wait to start the expansion story to play it. Owners of Vessel of Hatred can choose the Spiritborn at the start of the base campaign so that you can battle Lilith as this ferocious new hero. We can’t wait to play more when Diablo IV: Vessel of Hatred launches on October 8.

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Ek' Balam Expedition: Dive into Mayan History

Dive into Mayan Wonders: The Exclusive Ek' Balam Private Tour

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Top 10 Largest NFL Stadiums in the USA by Seating Capacity

In the realm of American football, a sport deeply ingrained in the nation's culture, the colossal stadiums stand as enduring symbols of its grandeur. These architectural wonders, pulsating with the energy of passionate fans, echo the stories of legendary clashes and unforgettable moments. Let's embark on a journey to explore the 10 largest NFL stadiums in the USA, measured by their permanent seating capacity.

1. MetLife Stadium (East Rutherford, New Jersey)

Capacity: 82,500

A behemoth in both size and reputation, MetLife Stadium stands as the undisputed king of NFL coliseums. Home to the New York Giants and the New York Jets, this architectural marvel, opened in 2010, transforms into a sea of passionate fans, hosting iconic events such as Super Bowl XLVIII.

2. Lambeau Field (Green Bay, Wisconsin)

Capacity: 81,441

Nestled in the frozen tundra of Green Bay, Wisconsin, Lambeau Field is more than a stadium; it's a pilgrimage site for Packers fans. With a modest permanent capacity of 81,441, the atmosphere in the "Frozen Tundra" turns every game into a thunderous spectacle.

3. AT&T Stadium (Arlington, Texas)

Capacity: 80,000 (expandable to 105,000)

Nicknamed "Jerry's World," AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, is an engineering marvel that pushes the boundaries of stadium design. Home to the Dallas Cowboys, it can expand its capacity to a staggering 105,000, making it the second-largest NFL stadium in the world.

4. SoFi Stadium (Inglewood, California)

Capacity: 70,240 (expandable to 100,240)

SoFi Stadium, a glistening testament to modern stadium architecture, is a relatively new entry but has already captured the hearts of football fans in Los Angeles. With a sleek design and a capacity that can expand to 100,240, it promises to be a contender for the title of the biggest NFL stadium in the future.

5. Lincoln Financial Field (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)

Capacity: 69,176

Affectionately nicknamed "The Linc," Lincoln Financial Field, the home of the Philadelphia Eagles, pulsates with energy on game days. With a seating capacity of 69,176, it stands as the 5th largest NFL stadium in the USA.

6. Levi’s Stadium (Santa Clara, California)

Capacity: 68,500

Levi’s Stadium, located in Silicon Valley, is a haven for tech-savvy football fans. Home to the San Francisco 49ers, it blends innovation with tradition, boasting a permanent capacity of 68,500.

7. CenturyLink Field (Seattle, Washington)

Capacity: 68,039

The home of the Seattle Seahawks, CenturyLink Field is known for its electrifying atmosphere fueled by the legendary "12th Man." With a capacity of 68,039, it transforms into a sea of blue and green on game days.

8. TIAA Bank Field (Jacksonville, Florida)

Capacity: 67,819

Formerly known as EverBank Field, TIAA Bank Field offers a unique stadium experience as the 8th largest NFL stadium in the USA. Home to the Jacksonville Jaguars, its distinct feature is the two giant scoreboards in the end zones.

9. Soldier Field (Chicago, Illinois)

Capacity: 66,000

Standing proudly along the shores of Lake Michigan, Soldier Field is a Chicago landmark. Home to the Chicago Bears, it boasts a permanent capacity of 66,000 and a rich history dating back to 1924.

10. Raymond James Stadium (Tampa Bay, Florida)

Capacity: 65,618

Nicknamed "The Ray J," Raymond James Stadium is home to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, offering a comfortable and intimate setting for fans. With a permanent capacity of 65,618, it continues to be a vibrant stage for NFL action in the sunshine state.

In conclusion, while size and capacity are impressive, the essence of these stadiums lies in their atmosphere, history, and the memories they create. Each NFL arena holds a unique story, fostering a deep connection between fans and their teams, making them more than just structures but the beating heart of American football.

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The Curious Case of Josh Allen

Josh Allen, face of the Buffalo Bills, franchise savior, the guy that is supposed to deliver a championship to a city that is starving for one. Josh Allen was vaulted to super stardom in the 2021 AFC Divisional round game against Kansas City that has been dubbed “the 13 second game”. In that game Allen went 27-37 329 yards and 4TD’s. He was sublime. If it wasn’t for his head coach’s decision making at the end of that game (which is another discussion for another day) then we might be having a different conversation today. I truly believe in my heart of hearts that the Bills would’ve beat the LA Rams in the Super Bowl that year. Instead, we sit here today talking about how Josh Allen is just one of the most scrutinized players for his turnovers in recent memory.

Josh Allen’s name alone seems to strike a chord with national media members. Every time it is uttered the first thing out of a pundit’s mouth is “turns the ball over”. That may be true. Allen does through interceptions on occasion but to be labeled like he’s a turnover machine is absolutely asinine. Josh Allen is a gunslinger, gunslingers throw picks. Ask Brett Favre. Josh Allen does throw the bad INT from time to time no one is arguing that. But the national narrative that he throws way too many picks is a little much for my liking so this is my defense of Josh Allen. Based on the 2022 and 2023 seasons using some advanced stats Josh Allen is doing A LOT for this Bills team.

2023

2022

Passes Dropped

Poor Throws

Poor Throw %

13.6

16.6

On Target Throws

397

404

On Target %

72.2

73.7

Sacks

Times Blitzed

166

144

Hurries

Hit (While Passing)

Pressures

117

114

Josh Allen had 7 less drops from his intended receivers, threw 16 less “poor throws”, was sacked 9 less times all while being blitzed, hurried, hit, and pressured more. The man is a national treasure. If you are wondering what about the RPO’s and Play Action Passes? Well do I have a chart for you!

RPO

Pass Attempts Pass Yards Rush Attempts Rush Yards

2022

62 471 5 22

2023

69 591 9 38

Play Action

Pass Attempts Pass Yards

2022

145 1235

2023

91 929

What’s wild about this passing chart is that Allen was a play action master in 2022 with Devin Singletary as the lead back and he wasn’t used like Houston used him this season. But this season it was more even in the RPO and Play Action games. So, Allen while doing much less in play action got a little more out of an RPO passing game. I feel the emergence of James Cook in 2023 might have attributed to the drop in numbers but Josh Allen in the passing game is doing what elite QB’s do, throw the ball, and win games.

Josh Allen as starter is 63-30. His 2018 rookie season is the only season he’s been under .500 (5-6). He’s guided the Bills to 13 wins twice. Yet somehow it keeps coming back to “costly turnovers”. In Buffalo’s 6 losses this season by my estimation: Josh Allen had 3 INT’s vs Jets week 1, the third came at 9 minutes left in the 4th quarter. Bills lost by a punt return in overtime. Allen had 1 INT vs Jaguars in week 5, his only pick came early in the 4th quarter. Bills lost on a Stefon Diggs fumble with 22 seconds left. In week 7 vs Patriots there was a first quarter INT, Bills lost by giving up the go-ahead touchdown with 22 seconds left and a Josh Allen fumble with 5 seconds left. Week 9 vs Bengals, a 2nd quarter INT, Bills lost 24-18, game wasn’t all that close. The following week vs Broncos a first quarter INT and another late in the 2nd quarter with a 3rd quarter fumble. Bills lost on a do over field goal from having 12 men on the field. Then lastly vs Eagles week 12 a 4th quarter INT with under 13 minutes to play. Bills lost in overtime by a Jalen Hurts rushing touchdown. Please tell me in any of these losses where it was a “costly” interception that ended the game. A fumble I view differently in terms of trying to make something happen, but if you want to put fumbles in this example fine, the Jaguars game is the only game where the game ended on a Josh Allen turnover. 1 out of 17 is not bad.

As much as we hate when interceptions are thrown, there is not a measurement for when interceptions are thrown just stat tracking how many. But as I stated before, gunslingers throw picks. In the chart below you can see a lot of interceptions have been thrown but when you put the touchdowns next to it, is it really all that bad?

Passing TD Interceptions Fumbles Rushing TD

2018

10 12 2 8

2019

20 9 4 9

2020

37 10 6 8

2021

36 15 3 6

2022

35 14 5 7

2023

29 18 4 15

TOTALS

167 78 24 53

As we can see, double digit interceptions thrown since 2020. In 2018 Allen only played in 12 games, starting 11 which was his rookie season. If we go back to 2018 until the present, the interceptions leaders were: Ben Roethlisberger (16 in 2018), Jameis Winston (30 in 2019), Drew Lock & Carson Wentz (15 in 2020), Matt Stafford & Trevor Lawrence (17 in 2021), Dak Prescott & Davis Mills (15 in 2022), Sam Howell (21 in 2023). Josh Allen in that time frame from 2018-2023 ranked: tied for 5th, 10th, 5th, tied for 2nd, tied for 2nd, 2nd in interceptions in those years respectively. Would you like to know why he’s been in the top two in INT’s for the last 3 seasons and thrown double digit picks since 2020? He’s attempted over 500 passes since 2020. Logic would tell you, if you throw the ball more, you’re likely to throw more interceptions. In 2021 he attempted 646 passes! Arguably the best the Bills offense has looked in the Josh Allen era. He’s had over 4000 yards passing a season since 2020. In 2019 the offense was clunky at best, also, no Stefon Diggs (which had a lot to do with it), but the offensive weapons got better and the philosophy was more pass-centric. Josh Allen has a big arm. With great arm comes great responsibility, it also comes with arm arrogance. He thinks he can fit the ball in tight spaces…because he can. You win some you lose some.

For comparison’s sake, Tom Brady from 2018-2022 threw 11, 8, 12, 12, and 9 interceptions in those years respectively for a total of 52. Josh Allen in that time frame threw 60 interceptions. Albeit only 8 more but again, Tom Brady wasn’t necessarily bombing it down the field as much. Smarter passes and a weaker arm compared to Josh Allen.

Now I get you won’t be swayed by this. You will look at my charts and think “78 interceptions are still a lot”. I would say “yeah, on the surface”.

INT’s Thrown in First 6 Seasons of Career

Peyton Manning

110

Jameis Winston

Eli Manning

Jay Cutler

Joey Harrington

Matt Stafford

Aaron Brooks

Mark Sanchez

Andrew Luck

Ben Roethlisberger

Andy Dalton

Carson Palmer

Josh Allen

Joe Flacco

Cam Newton

Matt Ryan

Baker Mayfield

Now, this list is a bit of a mixed bag but I think we can all agree, Peyton Manning threw a ton of interceptions to start his career yet, he’s considered one of the best if not the best passer in NFL history. But I don’t hear anyone calling Peyton Manning a turnover machine. Or Eli Manning, or Matt Stafford, or Big Ben, or Andrew Luck. 4 of the aforementioned 5 QB’s have bought themselves the benefit of the doubt with Super Bowls to their names. Andrew Luck was just held up to be the best QB prospect since John Elway but injuries cut his career short.

So why does Josh Allen have to be dragged through the mud for his turnovers from August to January EVERY SEASON!? I don’t know, I don’t think we’ll ever know. It doesn’t help Patrick Mahomes is in his 4th Super Bowl, and been in an AFC Championship game every season for the last 6 seasons. So even in his own conference Josh Allen is being held to the fire for not doing what Mahomes is. I’m sorry Sean McDermott isn’t Andy Reid. God, I wish he was. Maybe my heart wouldn’t hurt so much in mid-January for the last 4 years.

Ironically enough, for all the detractors about Allen’s interceptions, he gets a tremendous amount of credit for using his legs. Josh Allen was tied for 2nd in rushing touchdowns in 2023 with Jalen Hurts with 15. Miami’s Raheem Mostert had 18 which led the NFL. If anything, Allen was criticized for not using his legs enough. That also is a product of the head coach wanting it or not (again, another discussion for another day). Josh Allen is prolific with his legs. Check this out:

Michael Vick

6,109, 36TD

Cam Newton

5,628, 75TD

Russell Wilson

5,307, 29TD

Lamar Jackson

5,258, 29TD

Randall Cunningham

4,928, 35TD

Steve Young

4,239, 43TD

Fran Tarkenton

3,674, 32TD

Josh Allen

3,611, 53TD

Steve McNair

3,590, 37TD

Aaron Rodgers

3,466, 35TD

Donovan McNabb

3,459, 29TD

John Elway

3,407, 33TD

This is the top 12 rushing QB’s in NFL history. 4 of these 12 names are still active players, and 2 of them aren’t running around like they used to. Lamar Jackson is going to jump from 4th on the list to number 1 in probably two seasons. Lamar Jackson has an MVP to his name, with a second one potentially on the way. Josh Allen finished 2nd in MVP voting in 2020 and 3rd in 2022. Josh Allen cannot catch a break. This isn’t turning into a debate on whether or not the MVP award is truly awarded to the player most valuable to his team. If that were the case Mahomes would win it every season. Would Kansas City really be this good without Mahomes, no, the answer is no.

When you add it all up, Josh Allen is responsible for 102 turnovers. A lot when said, but he’s also responsible for 220 touchdowns. That’s a PLUS 118 turnover differential. Allen scores more than he gives it away. That is never said, at least I never hear it. The two most prominent hot take factories in Fox Sports and ESPN will convince you the interceptions cost this team wins and Josh Allen is a problem. As I laid out for you earlier, Allen had a fumble that cost the team a win. Just one. The rest of the games the team still had a chance at the end to win. Even Vegas has prop bets on his interceptions! There are Josh Allen defenders like Dan Orlovsky and Mel Kiper Jr., both men should be protected at all costs, they lay out Josh Allen is doing everything he can and more because HE HAS TO. Gabe Davis disappears at times. He’s had FIVE games this season of ZERO catches. Since his 6 rec 105 yards TD performance in the loss to Philadelphia Gabe Davis during the 5-game win streak to end the season had 3 games of zero catches. He had 4 rec 130-yard TD blowup against the Chargers and a 2 rec 21-yard dud against New England. He’s too boom or bust. He may do the blocking in the run game but this offense needs more from its number 2 receiver. Kahlil Shakir is coming on and proving to be a nice slot receiver and Dalton Kincaid needs to time to really evolve.

Stefon Diggs is the most reliable receiver on the team but he had his own curious season as well. Diggs hasn’t gone over 100 yards receiving since week 6 vs the Giants. He had over 80 yards twice. I like to think it is a combination of Allen target sharing more which obviously affects Diggs and not his age (30), but who’s to say. The constant distraction of Diggs’ temperament is played out for me. His brother Trayvon Diggs is cryptically posting to social media trying to get him to Dallas. We’re all waiting for the other shoe to drop and Diggs pulls what he did in Minnesota and demands out. It’s impossible based on his contract. Which is another hurdle that the Bills will need to overcome. Currently the Bills are $52 million over the salary cap next season. Von Miller, Diggs, Allen, and Tre White are all apart of that. Not Allen’s fault but the team didn’t capitalize on a rookie QB deal when it needed to now, tough personnel decisions must be made.

As far as on the field play, Josh Allen is every bit the player we as fans want him to be. He’s every bit the player the Bills need him to be. He’s averaging 2:1 ratio of touchdowns to turnovers. He’s a big part of the rushing offense, and he can distribute the ball under pressure and lead drives for points. I believe Sean McDermott out smarts himself in crucial moments and relies too much on his morals as a football coach. We’ve had five seasons of peak Josh Allen with devasting losses in the playoffs to show for it. The narrative will eventually be written to lead you to believe Josh Allen will turn the ball over in a crucial moment to cost this team a game in the playoffs. When the real narrative should be, can Josh Allen do everything and more to overcome the rest of the teams’ and the coaching staffs’ limitations. We have a large enough sample size to say, it isn’t the turnovers from the quarterback that cost the team wins, its everything else around him that does.

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#El reino del dragón de oro #Kingdom of the Golden Dragon #Isabel Allende #Memorias del águila y del jaguar #Memories of the Eagle and the Jaguar #fantasy #books #poll #l: Spanish #result: no

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Elemental Kwamis: Swaar the Dinosaur of Gravity Longg the Dragon of Storm Tonna the Feathered Serpent of Earth Zeffyr the Griffin of Air Duskk the Grim of Darkness Nokk the Kelpie of Water Emburr the Phoenix of Fire Matto the Pterosaur of Aether Kirrin the Qilin of Light Kiikaa the Thunderbird of Electricity Uunice the Unicorn of Magic Ziima the Yeti of Glaciation

Timekeeper Kwamis: Antiqq the Aurochs of Reversion Shaash the Bear of Preservation Sass the Cobra of Opportunity Zipp the Dragonfly of Progression Allta the Frog of Change Keena the Lynx of Intuition Frostt the Penguin of Stagnation Fluff the Rabbit of Evolution Apple the Red Panda of Lineage Passtel the Snail of Patience Faae the Spider of Destiny Mataara the Tuatara of History

Delta Kwamis: Harmonee the Ant of Cooperation Sannar the Axolotl of Restoration Fangg the Bat of Fatigue Chaapa the Beaver of Innovation Pollen the Bee of Subjection Maggi the Binturong of Magnetism Yanna the Bison of Victory Blancca the Blackbuck of Inversion Nooroo the Butterfly of Generosity Duune the Camel of Perspective Milli the Chameleon of Emotion Purr the Cheetah of Agility Reef the Coral of Sensitivity Dess the Cougar of Apathy Remmi the Coyote of Despair Snapp the Crab of Adaptation Llucie the Crocodile of Clarity Fawnna the Deer of Wilderness Barkk the Dog of Detection Clikk the Dolphin of Sound Olivv the Dove of Peace Liiri the Eagle of Freedom Tuskk the Elephant of Memories Florra the Elk of Growth Sorren the Falcon of Observation Trixx the Fox of Deception Elle the Gecko of Equality Parra the Giraffe of Confusion Ziggy the Goat of Imagination Karrma the Goose of Justice Verr the Gorilla of Sacrifice Spikke the Hedgehog of Precision Taamus the Hippopotamus of Density Kaalki the Horse of Migration Ravenna the Hyena of Scarcity Gloss the Ibex of Friction Izzy the Isopod of Instinct Niisha the Jackal of Connections Belaa the Jaguar of Imperception Jellos the Jellyfish of Hatred Kicc the Kangaroo of Avarice Vexx the Komodo Dragon of Corrosion Valoree the Lion of Courage Donna the Llama of Attention Vollee the Locust of Invasion Xuppu the Monkey of Derision Allces the Moose of Evocation Duux the Moth of Hope Baash the Mouflon of Strength Mullo the Mouse of Abundance Currio the Narwhal of Wonder Attlantis the Octopus of Choice Jiicho the Okapi of Dimension Fleet the Ostrich of Guidance Ziibi the Otter of Transformation Tyyto the Owl of Secrets Stompp the Ox of Determination Lynn the Pangolin of Boundary Ecco the Parrot of Communication Duusu the Peacock of Psyche Daizzi the Pig of Love Glaace the Polar Bear of Endurance Anjjel the Quail of Mercy Habuu the Rattlesnake of Beauty Ommen the Raven of Probability Mannta the Ray of Immersion Kaanda the Rhinoceros of Augmentation Orikko the Rooster of Vitality Finn the Salmon of Navigation Aynna the Scarab of Reflection Verriti the Scorpion of Truth Daante the Seahorse of Fear Selkee the Seal of Elusion Flairr the Secretarybird of Passion Poppy the Shark of Joy Yuume the Sheep of Dreams Frijj the Snow Leopard of Silence Tinni the Squirrel of Diminution Noodle the Stoat of Elasticity Prrince the Swan of Loyalty Acce the Thylacine of Isolation Roaar the Tiger of Force Scuut the Tortoise of Knowledge Wayzz the Turtle of Protection Teer the Vulture of Sorrow Sotaa the Wolverine of Conflict Drill the Woodpecker of Expansion Divvi the Zebra of Duality

#20 canon plus 100 ocs #kwamis #kwami oc #kwami #oc kwami #updated list of everyone #hopefully its the last xD #plot twist it wasn't the last one #there will only be links for my OCs since tumblr only allows 100 links per post

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Asian pasifika/Afro latine native demigod metahuman and alien hybrid superhuman superhero Bio 2

Occupation:

He/she/they are a zoologist, anthropologist, biologist, paleontologist, & archeologist.

He/she/they are a life scientist who studies on alien worlds as a scientist who has credentials in xeno zoology, xeno biology, xeno anthropology, xeno paleontology, & xeno archeology.

He/she/they are also a scientist who studies on magical worlds as a scientist with credentials in magi zoology, magi biology, magi anthropology, magi paleontology, & magi archeology.

He/she/they study life across the planets, star systems, & galaxies across the universe, multiverse, & omniverse.

High King/High Queen of the Principality of Federation of Kingdoms of Ethanxiia of an alien planet Ethanxiia

Paramount Chieftain and Warchief of the Confederacy of Nations of Iuyumania on the planet of Iuyamania

High King/High Queen of Mu or Hawaiki. Imagine a Mount Olympus, Asgard, or Themyscira but for Indigenous Pasifika demigod metahumans and Indigenous Pasifika alien hybrid superhumans. Underwater federation of kingdoms similar to its rival the technologically advanced Atlantean empire. Throne room defended by sea elves riding dolphins, palace defended by merfolk and tritons riding sea unicorn, capital defended by weresharks riding (tiger, mako, & great white) sharks, & kingdoms are defended by Atlanteans riding whales (beluga, narwhals, & orcas). Their throne room is decorated with the skeletons of a megalodon, a mosasaurus, a plesiosaurus, a basilosaurus, & a livyatan.

Chairman of Smith Industries.

Aliases:

He/she/they are currently known as the Cardinal Changeling, Cambion Chimera, or Scarlet Shapeshifter of the intergalactic superhero conglomerate the Paragons

He/she/they were formally known as the Blue Basilisk, Emerald Eagle, Firebrick Firefox, Golden Griffin, Harlequin Hippogriff, Kobi Kitsune, Jade Jaguar, Silver Shark, & the White Werewolf of the intergalactic superhero conglomerates the Elites.

He/she/they were known as Nomad, Wanderer, & Drifter of the superhero teams the Outcasts, the Renegades, the Fugitives, & the Exiles.

He/she/they were formally known as Morph, Shifter, Changeling, & Chimera of the Primals, Alpha, & Apex.

Alignment: Neutral Good.

Base of Operations:

Mobile. Soar City. Shades of Color County. Neo New York City. Earth. Sol System. Milky Way Galaxy.

Titles:

Champion of Terra, Savior of the Sol System, Warlord of the Vega System, Liberator of the Milky Way Galaxy, Conqueror of the Andromeda Galaxy, Destroyer of the Polaris System, the Devil of the Romulus Nebula, the Fallen God of the Zephyr Nebula, & the Hero of the Alpha Centurion War.

Kalani the Fakaleiti Demigod and Mahu Deity, Warbringer of the Valkyries of Asgard, Titan Killer of the Greco Roman Mount Olympus, Yunos the Celestial and Stellar Entity and the Titan of War, Crel the Divine and Heavenly Being.

Powers:

Superhuman and supernatural: strength, agility, dexterity, reflexes, speed, durability, instincts, accuracy, perception, metabolism, senses, endurance, intelligence, memory, healing, flexibility, & stamina, life span, longevity, self sustenance, & condition.

Flight.

Capable of flight in the air when growing wings. Capable of flying in space as an alien hybrid.

Underwater:

Capable of living underwater as a hydrokinetic demigod

Capable of deep sea diving when growing tail, fins, & gills when transformed as a wereshark, merfolk, or Atlantean.

Artificial Intelligence:

Aurora. She is an intelligent human and alien advanced smart artificial intelligence. She/they can communicate through communication systems. She/they can project a holographic image of herself from appropriate holographic projectors. Her chosen avatar appears to be a female human. She looks to be roughly in her early twenties. She has blue skin, purple hair cut in a long ponytail, & green eyes. She has green, blue, & purple alien symbols and human characters scrolling down her body. She is wearing cyberpunk clothing. She has a realistic human feminine figure. She was designed to infiltrate computer systems and she is excellent at the task. She has become so intelligent that she understands human, alien, & magical technology. She has never encountered an alien or human security measure that she wasn't able to hack or bypass. In addition, she is proficient with Earth and the Milky Way, Andromeda, & Xeno Galaxy Federation military hardware and can run military spaceships, space stations, & even fleets by herself. She connects with his/her/their bionic enhancements, cyberware, & cybernetic implants. She is inserted into his/her/their power armor or mech suit. She/they have no physical body. She can act independently when she hacks an android/synthetic/robot body. She is sentient and self aware.

Weapons:

Hard light, energy, laser, ballistic, & plasma weaponry. Armament of pistols, submachine guns, assault rifles, combat shotgun, sniper rifles, medium machine gun, grenade launcher, rocket launcher, missile launcher, & minigun.

Hard light and plasma melee weapons. Weapons of nunchucks, tonfas, escrima sticks, bo staff, knives, spears, sledge hammers, battle axes, war clubs, & swords.

Magical wood composite bow. Was made out of the finest divine and magical wood. Its string was made from magical plant fiber and animal hide. The limbs were decorated with gilded details of alien origin and end in points ornamented with intricate divine carvings. The handle is wrapped in rare magical creature hide and decorated with magical gemstones. They also carry a hunting quiver with 20 arrows strapped to their waist. The wide quiver is made out of leather and hide made from magical monsters and decorated with magical and divine runes and is supposed to be worn around the archer’s back.

Hard light, aluminum, carbon fiber, & alien metal fusion metal compound bow. Comes with three sheaves or quivers full of arrows of up to 70 metal arrows in each quiver strapped to their back. A legendary rarity weapon. Comes with scope and red dot laser sight. Shoots advanced diamond tipped armor piercing, anti tank, anti materiel, & anti personnel metal arrows. Shoots ballistic arrows, energy arrows, hard light arrows, plasma arrows, magical arcane arrows, scorching fire arrows, cryogenic frost arrows, electroshock lightning arrows, corroding acid arrows, radioactive irradiated arrows, anti gravity arrows, toxic poison arrows, drenching water arrow, flare arrow, tear gas grenade arrows, nonlethal blunt arrow, splitting arrow (arrow that splits into five smaller arrows mid flight to target), capture net arrow (spring loaded net inside arrow captures target upon impact), anti magic arrow, necrotic death arrows, stalker tracker arrow (tracks enemies), flashbang grenade arrow, flashlight arrow (a ray of light to light a dark area), smoke grenade arrow, harpoon arrow, WP Grenade arrow, grappling hook arrow, sleeping gas grenade arrow, concussive blast arrow, banshee’s scream arrow (releases a powerful sonic scream that rivals a banshee scream), EMP arrow, & explosive incineration arrows. Can triple notch three arrows in one attack. In the hands of a skilled archer this bow is capable of firing advanced metal arrows at targets up to 260 meters while still retaining lethal power.

Hard light plasma gun. Its quirk is it sometimes randomly changes the materials it is made of. Its main effect is it can transform into any kind of ranged weapon. Can turn into a pistol, submachine gun, assault rifle, shotgun, sniper rifle, medium machine gun, & rocket launcher. Highly customizable and upgradable. Comes with red dot sight, scope, electromagnetic vision optic enhancer, red laser sight, flashlight, hard light underbarrel 40 mm grenade launcher, tripod, extended drum magazine, plasma knife bayonet, buttstock, barrel, foregrip, muzzle or compensator, and silencer mods with rail system attachments. It fires hard light, ballistic, plasma, energy, & laser rounds. It can fire armor piercing, anti tank, anti personnel, anti materiel bullets. It can use burning fire, explosive incineration, irradiated radioactive, corrosive acid, cryogenic frost, & electroshock electric enhanced rounds.

Kana'i Makoa Latu/Ataahua Kamalani Latu weapons as Kalani a Polynesian Indigenous Pasifika demigod of mist and fog

A hard light two handed longsword. Its look is faintly glowing. It is made out of alien tech. Its alignment is chaotic good. It is wielded by rulers. Its fame and reputation has been kept secret. Its main effect is it increases its wielder's physical strength. Its secondary effect is it can heal its wielder's wounds. Its restriction is that it requires time to recharge after use. It draws its power from its wielder's fighting spirit. It was created to protect. Its quirk is it seems to gravitate toward those with royal blood.

As an Oceanic demigod great grandchild of a sky god and water goddess their main weapon is a five pronged quident of power made out of celestial steel that commands the ocean. It is a polearm weapon. It is a sentient weapon with an alignment of neutral good that chooses lawful good, true good, and neutral good alignments. It chooses the virtuous and respected. Its fame is the stuff of ballads sung by bards. It was created to protect and defend. It is wielded by the righteous. It is the weapon of choice of past demigod heroes. The weapon's main effect is encasing its enemies in ice. Its secondary effect is it summons storms to destroy enemies and creates a blanket of fog to trick enemies. It draws its power from feelings of love. Its look is covered in faintly glowing symbols. It was created on a moonless night.

Polynesian Hawaiian Indigenous Pasifika style leiomano war club made out of divine wood, heavenly iron, and serrated with great white shark teeth. It burst into flames on the wielders command. It was created to slay a demon lord. It is a weapon of choice for gods and goddesses of war. Its restriction is it occasionally turns the wielder into a berserker. It draws its power from its wielder's passion.

Hard light Polynesian Hawaiian style pololu spear. It is wielded by a specific bloodline. It has no alignment and is neutral. It draws its power from kinetic energy. It has a crystal blade. Its fame is well known. It draws its power from its wielder's fighting spirit. Its look is covered in engravings. Its fame is somewhat famous. Its quirk is it was once used to overthrow an empire. It was created to conquer. The weapon’s main effect is it allows the wielder to read minds. The weapon’s secondary effect is it protects the wielder from mind control. The diamond-shaped, razor-sharp hard light spear head is bound to the shaft with an alien metal sleeve. The 6ft/1.8m shaft is made of the rarest divine alien metals. It is decorated with golden bands.

Polynesian Hawaiian Indigenous Pasifika ohe mae pua fist weapon. It is made out of heavenly bronze and divine iron. Its fame is considered mythical. It draws power from its wielder's karma. Its secondary effect is it increases its wielder's magical powers. Its quirk is it was once wielded by a deity. It was created to slay a monster.

Sidearm of a Polynesian Hawaiian Pōkā dagger serrated with tiger shark teeth. It was created through enchantment. It looks stylized but practical. Its main effect is it inflicts mental damage on opponents through psionic attacks. Its secondary effect is it reduces pain felt by the wielder. It is wielded by wizards. Its alignment is lawful good. It draws power from magical rituals. Its fame is epic.

Hawaiian oval type shield made out of divine bronze and heavenly iron

Divine weapons:

Polynesian Tongan apa’apai made out of divine iron

Polynesian Tongan pakipai made out of heavenly bronze

Polynesian Tongan uatongi made out of divine iron

Taiaha quarterstaff made out of heavenly bronze

Pololu spear made out of divine iron

Polynesian Samoan Lapalapa made out of heavenly bronze

Melanesian Fijian gata made out of divine iron gifted to them by their Indo Fijian love interest

Melanesian Fijian sali made out of heavenly bronze gifted to them by their Indo Fijian love interest

As a grandchild of a Japanese sky god:

Japanese yari made out of celestial steel

Japanese bo staff made out of divine iron

Japanese tachi made out of celestial steel

Japanese wakizashi made out of celestial steel

Japanese nodachi sword made out of celestial steel

Japanese odachi sword made out of celestial steel

Costume:

First costume: Letterman jacket, hoodie, fingerless gloves, black jeans, black and red wide width high top sneakers with white laces

Domino mask, face mask, & bandana

Second costume: Spandex and kevlar costume that comes with a utility belt and gadgets

Stretchy and made of mesh to be extra flexible

Has a cape that allows user to glide for a short period of time

Bio mask with eye lenses that comes with built in headset

Warps light and sound to make wearer temporarily invisible

Current costume:

Red and black tactical costume with nanites and nanomachines that allow the suit to appear and disappear into a metal neck choker for easy access and storage.

Black domino mask, red bandana, a black facemask, red breath mask, & red bio mask

Comes with built in headset for communication with lenses that boosts their ability to sense throughout the electromagnetic spectrum

Vibranium and adamantium like reinforced titanium combat armor

Titanium reinforced nanocomposite Kevlar and ceramic bodysuit

Enhances strength, speed, senses, flexibility, durability, reflexes, intelligence, perception, endurance, agility, etc.

Never gets dirty

Repairs, customizes, and upgrades itself thanks to nanites and cybernetic and bionic technology

Comes with wrist computer for hacking

Celestial steel metal plated fingerless (for clawed hands with opposable thumbs) combat gloves

Stellar titanium metal plated steel toed (can transfigure open for clawed feet with opposable toes) combat boots.

Divine iron and heavenly bronze like metal claw gauntlets that are attachable to gloves and boots.

Divine costume: Asian and European inspired red and black full plate armor. It is made of divine metals forged by god smiths of divine pantheons. It was forged with divine elements that acts as a conduit to supercharge any elemental and divine magic used by the wearer. It is also a modernized helmet that protects them and hides identity but also allows them to see than a typical knight or spartan like helmet. It has a red and gold cape.

Armor:

East Asian, Southeast Asian, & European inspired full plate armor made out of celestial steel

Leather hunting armor as clan hunter/huntress and clan hunting captain. Adorned to the armor to the chest, back, arms, and leg area of the leather armor was the reptilian, amphibian, mammalian, avian, & fish pelts of alien humanoids they hunted for warmth and camouflage. Adorned to the hunting armor as a necklace were the teeth, claws, talons, fangs, tusks, horns, & saber teeth of the humanoids, animals, creatures, & beasts they killed as proof of their hunting prowess. The armor was also decorated with the mammalian fur, reptilian scales, & avian feathers of the game they found while hunting.

Ivory and scarlet combat armor

Charcoal and cherry power armor. The Mark 10 Mars/Ares Combat Armor is a technologically advanced combat exoskeleton system designed to vastly improve the strength, perception, endurance, intelligence, agility, reflexes, speed, & durability of a metahuman or superhuman super soldier in the field of combat. The armor is streamlined than its bulkier and heavier predecessors. The power armor is the most advanced piece of tactical military hardware in alien or human hands. The powered armor is commonly personalized by suit art on the power armor and visor art on the power armor helmet. It is an attempt to create a powered exoskeleton capable of taking full advantage of the physical, mental, & emotional capabilities of a demigod or alien hybrid. The armor requires training to enter, use, & take off. Spanning over centuries of development it encompassed more than just a powered suit of armor. It is a pioneering effort intended to shatter current technological barriers. With constant drills metahuman and superhuman super soldiers can enter and exit the armor in minutes. The powered armor is a highly advanced suit capable of further enhancing the metahuman’s or superhumans' physical, mental, & emotional performance while also doubling as a platform capable of handling an advanced human or alien artificial intelligence network. Some suits allowed the helmet and surrounding segments to be removed and replaced allowing a user to simply climb in through the opening in the chest or back cavity. A more involved method consisted of the suit being constructed from prefabricated parts around the user, seemingly sealing the user inside. Unlike the powered exoskeletons that preceded it, the power armor was designed from the ground up as a suit of armor. It requires a team of trained engineers, inventors, & technicians to fully take off the suit of power armor from power armor. Its design philosophy would serve as a basis for all future powered armor system designs. However you can remove parts of the armor in emergencies to repair the armor or to customize or upgrade the power armor. Each generation of the power armor is composed of major fundamental components. The power armor has built in 7. 76 mm ballistic, plasma, & energy machine guns and 40 mm grenade launchers in the shoulder of the power armor. The construction of the suit is done in overlapping layers. An interactive holographic computer has also been integrated into the helmet with an intuitive HUD. The armor's shell is composed of a multilayer alloy of remarkable strength and has been augmented with a refractive and absorbing coating capable of dispersing and absorbing a near unlimited amount of ballistic, laser, energy, plasma, & magical weapon strikes. The power armor absorbs and reflects the kinetic energy of incoming ballistic, energy, laser, & plasma projectiles. It can also absorb other damaging forces such as hazardous levels of heat, radiation and microwaves. Effectively making the user temporarily invulnerable. The suit contains a gel filled layer underneath a thick black and white armored bodysuit. The gel layer regulates temperature. The inner skinsuit is made of a moisture absorbing synthetic material linked to an environment control computer and the occupant's neural mental and emotional interface. The user is healed by nanites and the power armor is repaired by nanomachines. The battle suit is a sealed system, capable of extra vehicular activity for a near unlimited amount of time or operations in dangerous situations such as underwater, in the vacuum of space, in radioactive areas, in deserts or jungles with extreme heat, or arctic tundra with extreme cold. The suit can reflect or absorb the electromagnetic spectrum including radio waves, gamma waves, & microwaves to make the user invisible for a short time to enemies. It is hardened against EMPs, radiation, & microwaves. It has filters that are completely effective at removing toxins, germs, radiation, bacteria, poison, & viruses. The power armor is a powerful and extremely versatile set of tactical power armor. The visor of the power armor allows the super soldier to sense the entire electromagnetic spectrum. The battle suit's greatest advantage, however, is a super dense optical computer memory. This revolutionary solid-based crystalline layer forms a network within the suit's frame of proper size and capability of housing the types of smart alien and human artificial intelligences. Artificial Intelligence can be delivered to the suit via a data crystal chip storage device no bigger than a smartphone. Reverse engineered from alien and human technology leading to drastically enhanced combat and physical, intellectual, & emotional performance. Allowing the operator to execute superhuman feats. The functionality of the battle armor system is unprecedented. The power armor suit suppresses the user’s noise allowing them to sneak past enemies when crouched or crawling. Rather than being a traditional suit of body armor the battle suit works on a biomechanical level. Allowing for direct user-controlled movement. Each human being has a molecular fiber network called the nervous system within their brain. All alien superhuman and human metahuman super soldiers are given a neural interface. The suit also possesses other features that enhance its wearer's already superhuman or supernatural abilities. It has numerous clips, belts, and holsters for the attachment of additional weapons and ammunition. It has an advanced HUD or heads up display. It has active camouflage. It has plasma shields and energy shields. It allows for customization and upgrading. It lets users connect the power armor with their cyberware implants and bionic enhancements. It has a jetpack on the back of the armor and the armor’s power armor boots for hovering or flight. It has room for storage of extra supplies of food and water. It has an oxygen tank to breathe in space or underwater. It is powered by gas, electricity, steam, or nuclear power. It has a built-in battery that can be recharged. It has plating on the face, neck, chest, back, arms, & legs.

He/she/they wore charcoal and ruby military class heavy assault Iuyamian combat armor and power armor that were both made out of alien metal materials stronger than Wakandan vibranium the metal that made up the suit of the Black Panther (T’challa), adamantium the metal that made the metal claws of Wolverine (James Howlett Logan) and Sabertooth (Victor Creed), & nth metal. The Iuyamian armor tempered with celestial steel and stellar titanium had a gorget (that protects the chest), a bevor (protecting the lower face, neck, chin, & throat) a breastplate or chestplate (that protects the chest), backplate, pauldrons (that protect the shoulders), plackart (that protected the lower half of the torso), cuirass (that protected the front of the torso), culet (that protects the small of back and the buttocks), couters (that protects the elbows), poleyns (that protected the knees), faulds (to protect the waist and hips), gauntlets (that protect the forearms to the hands), gardbraces (to protect the armpits), vambraces (that protect the elbow to the forearm), sabatons (that protect the feet), cuisses (to protect the thighs), tassat (that protect the groin, upper thighs, & pelvis), & greaves (that covered from the shin to the knee). The power armor helmet was designed with a sharper temple, with a metallic shine, a full curved ridge, a definite brow, a prominent muzzle, & a solitary dark cambion glowing visor with two eye holes. The power armor helmet was also designed with a dark umber and dark scarlet color, a faintly more skeletal look, & it had distinct cheeks. The power armor helmet had claw marks going above its left eye to the bottom of its left cheek. The claw marks were from a female were-human who is someone who is powerful as King Shark, Wolverine, Beast, Sabertooth, Juggernaut, Orca, Killer Croc, The Shark, Gorilla Grodd, Copperhead, Monsieur Mallah, Manbat, Bane, & Cheetah combined. This dangerous were-human was armed with gauntlets with serrated diamond tipped metal claws made of a metal stronger than nth metal coated in element x. Cardinal Changeling barely defeated her in their Hybrid/Chimera or Beast/Feral/Primal form. Instead of repairing it, Scarlet Shapeshifer kept the claw marks as proof of their battle out of respect. The power armor helmet was designed with numerous Iuyamian marks on the face, the power armor helmet had lines of Iuyamian characters on both cheeks and temple, the power armor helmet was decorated with countless Iuyamian symbols, the power armor helmet had unique Iuyamian writing on both brows and the muzzle, the power armor helmet had organic cybernetic and natural bionic elements (these organic cybernetic and natural bionic elements were on its temple, on its snout, & and on both cheeks), the power armor helmet had two shining cardinal lines going down the two right and left eye holes of his/her/their dark fire brick glowing visor, & finally the power armor helmet had bizarre sophisticated patterns around the jaw area making it distantly look like a face. All of this gave his/her/their power armor helmet a menacing and remarkable look that motivated allies and petrified enemies. Fastened to the helmet was the skull of a humanoid alien they hunted as hunting captain and clan hunter/huntress of their tribe and clan. After the humanoids, animals, beasts, & creatures were killed they took their corpses. Their bodies were burned leaving only their bones to be gathered to steal their mana or power. Mana is a life force which gives influence, power, and authority. Mana can be gained or lost. It is stored in the bones. After someone’s death, small bones would be turned into jewelry.

Cardinal mech suit

Transportation:

Transformable hover bike capable of transforming into a hover sportbike or hover motorcycle

Transformable hover car. It can go from 0-60 in 10 seconds and has a top speed of 290 mph. It has a luxurious interior, a dash computer and a sunroof. It has heated seats, extra-large anti gravity thrusters, & improved safety features. It has leather seats and a navigation system. It handles very well. It runs fine at most speeds. It has racing stripes. It has an upgraded diesel engine. It has automatic everything. The styling features asymmetry. It runs like it just got out of the shop. It practically purrs when it runs. The styling features sleek lines.

Hover Toyota GT86, Scion FRS, & Scion Tc mix tuner car.

Hover Dodge Challenger, Chevy Camaro, & Shelby Cobra GT 500 mix muscle car.

Spaceship

Mount in the air is a winged alicorn.

Mount in the ocean is a resurrected Megalodon prehistoric giant shark mount

Abilities:

He/she/they were enhanced and augmented on a cellular, microscopic, nanoscopic, & subatomic level during an unethical intergalactic compartmentalized deep black project on a giant black site planet when captured by the Earth government to create metahuman and superhuman child soldiers.

He/she/they were experimented on as a child giving them the ability to grow teeth, canines, saber teeth, fangs, claws, talons, horns, & tusks that can rip apart the strongest materials.

Electromagnetic Spectrum Vision: He/she/they were given the ability to see the entire electromagnetic spectrum such as x-ray vision, thermal vision, night vision, & ultraviolet vision, including the ability to sense gamma radiation, the ability to see microscopic vision, binocular vision, & nanoscopic vision.

He/she/they were experimented on and had his/her/their body implanted with bionic and cybernetic implants as a young adult to become an adult super soldier for the Terran Confederacy.

Telepathy and empathy (ability to summon and command terrestrial, avian, aquatic, angelic, demonic, magical, divine, mystical, & extraterrestrial animals, monsters, creatures, & humanoids).

Telepathic and empathic resistance: Ability to resist mind control and resist empaths and telepaths

Demigod physiology:

Child of an Asian Pasifika who is an Asian Indigenous Pasifika demigod. Child of Akio Kato.

He/she/they have several powers such as:

Transcendent demigod physiology, Demigod physiology, Lesser divinity, Decelerated aging, Semi immorality, Mythic physiology, Nature spirit physiology, Transcendent physiology, Authority, Guardianship

Water embodiment, Water Manipulation, Water empowerment, Water energy manipulation

Elemental artillery, Elemental weapons, Elemental constructs, Elemental bow construction

Ocean deity physiology, Oceanic deity physiology, Ocean communication, Ocean ruler, Ocean embodiment, Ocean manipulation, Ocean Magic, Ocean Lordship

Surfing intuition, Swimming intuition, Swimming manipulation, Swimming negation

Weather attacks, Weather embodiment, Weather immunity, Weather manipulation, Weather mode, Weather weaponry, Weatherly presence,

Whirlpool generation, Hurricane generation, Disaster manipulation, Sea Destruction

Storm deity physiology

Rain manipulation, Cloud generation, Sub zero rain, Rain manipulation, Storm manipulation, Climate manipulation, Flood manipulation, Drought creation, Air manipulation, Tidal wave generation

Amphibian physiology, Amphibian adaptation, Sea monster physiology, Were shark physiology, Tail manifestation, Swimming tail, Webbed Appendages, Gill Manifestation, Fin Manifestation, Shark physiology, Fish physiology, Scale manifestation, Marine biology manipulation, Sea monster manipulation, Shark manipulation

Merfolk physiology, Merfolk lord physiology, Merfolk magic, Merfolk manipulation, Merfolk sorcerer physiology

Mystic atlantean physiology, Mana Manipulation, Magic weaponry, Trident proficiency, Atlantean physiology, Triton physiology, Nymph physiology

Submerged attacks, Aquatic breathing, Speed swimming, Underwater senses, Enhanced swimming, Water maneuverability, Underwater invulnerability, Trident proficiency

Arctic mode, Arctic creation, Arctic magic, Arctic manipulation

Hydrokinesis, Aquatic adaptation, Hydromancy, Hydromancer, Water augmentation

Water aura, Water cutting, Water defense, Water boundary, Water exoskeleton, Water shield construction, Water body creation, Water augmentation, Water hair, Water generation, Water flotation, Water immunity, Water infusion, Water imprisonment, Water limb generation, Water mimicry, Water mode, Water negation, Water pillar projection, Water platform creation, Water portal creation, Water purification, Water sealing, Water separation, Water solidification, Water spike projection, Water soul, Water symbiosis, Water teleportation, Watercraft manipulation, Water transformation, Water transmutation, Water vortex creation, Water walking, Water wall generation, Water wave emission, Water weaponry, Water attacks

Hydrokinetic combat, Hydrokinetic polearm spear construction, Hydrokinetic blade construction, Hydrokinetic claws, Hydrokinetic whip generation, Hydrokinetic cloning, Hydrokinetic constructs, Hydrokinetic creature creation, Hydrokinetic shapeshifting, Hydrokinetic regeneration, Hydrokinetic intangibility, Hydrokinetic invisibility, Hydrokinetic flight, Hydrokinetic wing manifestation, Hydrokinetic surfing

Healing water

Aquatic breathing, Aquatic empathy, Aquatic telepathy, Aquatic mode, Aquatic life embodiment, Aquatic life lordship

Blood absorption, Blood magic, Blood manipulation

Cryomancer, Snow manipulation, Snow magic, Snow generation, Snow shield construction, Blizzard creation, Ice magic, Ice manipulation, Ice exoskeleton, Ice absorption, Ice generation, Ice aura, Ice Weaponry, Ice attacks, Ice wall generation, Ice mimicry, Ice mode, ice age manipulation, Unmeltable Ice, Winter embodiment, Winter magic, Winter manipulation

Fog generation

Air Deity Physiology

Celestial manipulation, Cosmic manipulation, Stellar manipulation, Solar manipulation

Heaven lordship

Sky embodiment, Sky lordship, Sky manipulation, Sky mimicry

Weather empowerment, Weather manipulation, Weather Soul, Esoteric weather manipulation, Divine weather manipulation, Omni weather manipulation

Atmospheric adaptation

Lightning manipulation

Fire Manipulation

Absolute Burning, Self Combustion, Combustion Inducement, Energetic Combustion, Personal heat, Pyro Kinetic Flight, Pyro Kinetic Surfing, Flammable Blood, Flammable Body Fluids, Nova Flame, Pyro Science, Omni Combustion, Thermal Resistance, Pyro Kinetic human Physiology, Healing Fire, Flame Shield, Pyrotic Communication

Fire Augmentation, Fire Absorption, Fire Armor, Fire Attacks, Fire Artillery, Fire Aura, fire boundary, fire defense, Fire Detection, fire embodiment, fire empowerment, Fire Generation, fire hair, Fire Immunity, fire infusion, fir magic, fire mimicry, Fire Negation, fire portal creation, fire sealing, Fire Soul, Fire teleportation, Fire Transformation, Fire Transmutation, Fire Weaponry

Bio-Fire Manipulation, Conceptual Fire Manipulation, Cosmic Fire Manipulation, Dark Fire Manipulation, Esoteric Flame Manipulation, Eternal Flame Manipulation, Explosive Fire Manipulation, Grand Flame Manipulation, Holy Fire Manipulation, Invisible Flame Manipulation, Liquid Fire Manipulation, Nuclear Fire Manipulation, Omni Fire Manipulation, Pure Fire Manipulation, Rainbow Fire Manipulation, Solid Fire Manipulation, Underwater-Fire Manipulation

Acid-Fire Manipulation, Electric-Fire Manipulation, Fire-Plant Manipulation, Ice-Fire Manipulation, Magma Fire Manipulation, Plasma Fire Manipulation, Poison-Fire Manipulation

Pyro kinetic cloning, pyro kinetic combat, pyro kinetic enhanced condition, pyro kinetic invisibility, pyro kinetic regeneration, pyro kinetic tears

Ash Manipulation, Chaos Manipulation, Elemental Manipulation, Energy Manipulation, Electricity Manipulation, Fuel Manipulation, Heat Manipulation, Ionic Manipulation, Light Manipulation, Magma Manipulation, Methane Manipulation, Molecular Manipulation, Nuclear Manipulation, Oxygen Manipulation, Radiation Manipulation, Smoke manipulation, Spark Manipulation, Soot Manipulation, Solar Manipulation, Summer Manipulation, Thermal Chemistry Manipulation

Later given full immortality when made a full god after they died and were rewarded as a hero and champion of Asian and Pasifika gods

Divine Resurrection Death Transformation, Death Transcendence, Almighty Ascension, Ethereal Body, Higher Consciousness, Ethereal manipulation, Supernatural condition, Energy perception, Extra Sensory Perception, Divine magic, Conjuration, Transmutation, Divine Aura, Deity Soul, Divine Form, Divine Powers, Divine Presence, Domain Warping, Divine Force manipulation, Divine Energy manipulation, Dimensional manipulation, Elemental manipulation, Energy manipulation, Healing, Telekinesis, Essence reading, Astral Projection, Telepathy, Empathy, Teleportation, Omni Psionics, Cosmic Awareness, Clairvoyance, Precognition, Omniscience

Alien hybrid physiology:

Child of a Latine Native alien hybrid who is a South American Latinx Colombian, South American Baniwa and Embera Indigenous Ameridian of Colombia, and an Iuyamian alien extraterrestrial hybrid.

Energy Projection: As an alien hybrid he/she/they can fire optic blasts from their eyes, breath blasts from mouth, and energy blasts from the palms of hands, palms of feet.

Energy Absorption, Optic Blasts, Breath attacks, Beam Emission, Energy Beam Emission, Hand Blasts, Ball Projection, Bolt Projection, Bullet Projection, Cutting Wave, Omnidirectional Beams, Omnidirectional Blasts, Omnidirectional waves, Wave Emission, Wave motion Blast

Unique Physiology:

He/she/they were born with teeth that can rip through orichalcum, canines and saber teeth that can rip through adamantium and vibranium, claws that can rip through mithril and adamant, & a prehensile chimera tail (with a mouth that has fangs) that can rip through diamonds.

Metamorph:

Changeling, metamorph, or shapeshifter with unlimited forms (potential limitless).

He/she/they were born with his/her/their superhuman and supernatural control over transfiguration and shapeshifting.

Mimicry:

He/she/they can psionically modify the configuration of his/her/their organic cells at will on a cellular, microscopic, atomic, subatomic level, & nanoscopic level. So, he/she/they can cause himself/herself/themselves to sound, act, & appear as a precise carbon copy of any of any human or humanoid. That is regular, divine, mythical, mythological, magical, discovered, undiscovered, extinct, living, aquatic, avian, terrestrial, extraterrestrial, demonic, imaginary, mythical, fictional, magical, futuristic, mystical, science fiction, & fantasy. So, he/she/they can shapeshift into any human, humanoid, semi-humanoid, beast, creature, monster, & animal regardless of any sex, any gender, any race, height, weight, body type, hair style, hair color, eye color, skin tone. He/she/they gained this ability as a teenager.

He/she/they can transfigure into anything whether or not they are super powered or unpowered, any species, wearing or not wearing clothes, wearing armor or not wearing armor, & or whether they have or don’t have cybernetic or bionic enhancements. He/she/they can shapeshift into anything whether or not they have: scales, fur, feathers, horns, and wings. He/she/they can precisely imitate someone’s retinal pattern, finger prints, vocal patterns and copy their memories, mental thought patterns, finger palm patterns, skin pore patterns, skin, smell, vocal cords, emotional patterns, & repeating behaviors to fool anyone including the most powerful empaths and the most powerful telepaths. He/she/they gained this capability as a young adult.

With the Prime the primordial force of the cosmos that he/she/they are avatar, champion, & embodiment of he/she/they are the defender and protector of all sentient life. He/she/they were gifted with dragon lord physiology, dragon god physiology, transcendent dragon physiology, werebeast lord physiology, transcendent werebeast physiology, true vampire physiology, vampire lord physiology, transcendent vampire physiology, vaewolf physiology, werepire physiology, werepire lord physiology, transcendent werepire physiology, vaewolf lord physiology, & alpha vaewolf physiology (fusion of a werebeast lord physiology and a vampire lord physiology)

He/she/they with their absolute adaptation he/she/they can transform into any being living or dead, organic or inorganic, real or fictional. He/she/they reach the zenith of his/her/their shapeshifting in the 40th to the 60th century. This gave them so many shapeshifting abilities. This includes plants with the power of plant morphing, natural weaponry (where they can shapeshift or transfigure parts of their body into weaponry), desire form (where they can take the form of someone’s greatest desire), perfect doppelganger morphing (where they can take the appearance, powers, capabilities, memories, life-force, & personality on such a level that they replicate even fingerprints), disguise mastery, empathic shapeshifting (where they can shapeshift based on their emotions), environmental shapeshifting (where they can transform based on the environment), dimensional transformation (where they can transform based on dimensions or realities), temporal transformation (where they can transform based on points in history), evolution or enhancing themselves via accelerated evolution, gender transformation (or the ability of altering their own gender based on their current gender and gender identity), god morphing (or the ability to morph into a deity which is how he/she/they became the Celestial and Stellar Entity and Divine and Heavenly Being in the 60th century), inorganic mimicry (or the ability transform physically into an inorganic life form), inorganic shape shifting (or the ability to manipulate their own inorganic body which is how they manipulate their bionic and cybernetic implants), malleable anatomy (or the ability rearrange the physiological features of themselves), mimicry form (or the ability mimic look and powers of other beings), mythic physiology (or the ability transform into mythical beings), organic mimicry (or the ability to transform physically into an organic form), organic shape shifting (or the ability manipulate their own organic body), post mortem shapeshifting (where they can shapeshift into anyone they just killed), reactive adaptation (where they develop adaptation to combat threats or combat changes), regenerative healing factor (where they can shape their own body and cells to their optimal state healing rapidly from injuries and even maintain eternal youth if they choose to), self-particle manipulation where they can manipulate their own particle structure on a cellular, molecular, microscopic, atomic, subatomic, & nanoscopic level), size manipulation (where they can shapeshift their own size or just select parts of their body), soul shapeshifting (where they can shapeshift their own soul to another person's), & species shifting (where they can shapeshift into other humanoid species). He/she/they are the strongest metamorph, changeling, & shapeshifter throughout the universe, multiverse, & omniverse.

Life manipulation, Absolute adaptation, Ultimate shapeshifting, Multi shapeshifting, Empathetic shapeshifting, Environmental transformation, Reactive adaptation, Dimensional transformation, Temporal transformation, Biomorphing, Omnifarious, Evolution, Metamorphosis, Overclocking, Self particle manipulation, Self subatomic manipulation, Self molecular manipulation, Gender transformation, Essence manipulation, Form manipulation, Form creation, Age shifting, Organic constructs, Power shifting, Self Supremacy, Mind Shifting, Body Supremacy, All Out Mode, Almighty Ascension, Body transference, Legendary Form, Meta Transcendence, Omni mode, Origin Transcendence, Self Transcendence, Transformation mastery, Energy Resistance, Immortality, Intangibility, Invisibility, Invulnerability, Reality anchoring, Body recreation, Mind anchoring, Omni motion, Pain Suppression, Precondition Bypassing, Reality Condition, Reforming Scattering, Superpower manipulation, Self sustenance, Omni Replication, Avatar Creation, Energy manipulation, Transcendent hybrid physiology, Omni Genetic Archiving, Remaking, Selective unity, Mind Shifting, Power Replication, Total mimicry, Soul morph, Soul Conversion, Mental manipulation, Interior mimicry, Meta Ability Creation, Human morphing, God morphing, Demon morphing, Mythic morphing, Mythic physiology, Plant morphing, Battle shifting, Shapeshifting Combat, Elemental shapeshifting, Species Shifting, Soul shapeshifting, Body manipulation, Appendage Generation, Auxiliary Organs, Transformation, Partial transformation, Natural Weaponry, Shapeshifting Weaponry, Shapeshifting Combat, Shapeshifting negation, Shapeshifting Awareness, Shapeshifting inducement, Swarm Form, Base Form, Desire Form, Nemesis Form, Digestive Shapeshifting, Doppelgänger morphing, Perfect Doppelgänger, Disguise mastery, Size manipulation, Elasticity, Limb extension, Limb expansion, Adaptive Appearance, Clothing Generation, Wing manifestation, Tentacle manifestation, Voice manipulation, Organic Shapeshifting, Inorganic mimicry, Inorganic Shapeshifting, Possessive transformation, Post mortem shapeshifting, Mimicry Form, Mixed shapeshifting, Bilocation morphing

Animal kingdom embodiment, Animal manipulation, Animal companionship, Animal morphing, Animal emerging, Animal empathy, Animal telepathy, Animal morphing, Animal magic, Animal intuition, Animal Attacks, Animal Combat, Animalistic Combat, Animal exoskeleton, Animal mode, Animal Scrying, Animal Augmentation, Animal Weaponry

Transformation, Fauna Energy manipulation, Human manipulation, Zoolingualism

Beast creation, Beast morphing, Beast Transmutation, Beast master, Monster Lordship, Beast Lord Physiology, Alpha monster Physiology, Beast Lordship, Monster Empowerment, Mythical beast manipulation, Giant monster manipulation

Natural Weaponry, Tusk Protrusion, Spike Protrusion, Horn Protrusion, Sharp Body, Natural Weaponry Projection, Weaponized Body, Skin hardening, Bone Spike Projection, Needle Projection, Spike Projection

Organic combat, Organic weaponry, Organic constructs

Claw retraction, Clawed hands With Opposable Thumbs, Enhanced mauling, Enhanced clawmanship, Ergokinetic claws, Elemental claws,Venomous Claws

Sharp Tongue, Barbed Tongue, Elastic jaws, Enhanced Bite, Prehensile Tongue, Venomous Tongue, Unbreakable Teeth, Fang Retraction, Venomous fangs Elemental fangs, Saber teeth, Elemental saber teeth, Venomous saber teeth, Prehensility, Prehensile arm parts, Prehensile Feet, Clawed Feet with Opposable Toes, Prehensile legs, Prehensile toes, Prehensile tail

Tail extension, Multiple tails, Weaponized tail, Clubbed tail, Sharp tail, Strong tail,

Stinger tail, Stinger protrusion, Retractable Stinger, Venom Secretion,

Mind Link, Taming, Mind Control

Enhanced roar, Ballistic Scream, Concussive Roar, Supernatural roar, Ultra Roar, Fearful scream, Sonic scream, Deafness Inducement, Paralysis Inducement, Fear Inducement, Dimensional distortion, Sound manipulation, Wave manipulation, Vibration manipulation

They are a Cosmic Titan of Love/War.

Bestowed upon them by Greco Roman gods and goddesses Mars, Bellona, Ares, Athena, & Enyo.

Titan killer slayer of Greco Roman titans Cronus and Saturn

God inheritance, Dark divinity, War deity, Destroyer deity, War deity physiology

Omega physiology, Alpha physiology, Absolute existence, Cosmic entity physiology, Self transcendence, Prime being, Prime source, Meta transcendence, Singularity, World manipulation, Cosmic manipulation, Hyper cosmic awareness, Power manifestation, Creation, Destruction, Ability creation, Leadership intuition, Empathic conversion, Absolute command, Endless development, Limitation transcendence, Transcendent connection, Omni competence, Self adaptation, Zenith

Predator instinct, Feral mind, Berserker, Berserker combat, Human manipulation, Rage manipulation, Anger empowerment, Anger manipulation, Violence aura, Destroyer deity physiology, Violence embodiment, Absolute violence, Violence manipulation, Killing intuition, Bloodlust aura, Inhibition release, Opportunity sense

War god

Conquest empowerment

Counter strategy intuition

Countering intuition

Close quarters combat intuition

War embodiment

War and peace manipulation

War manipulation

Summoning

Personal army

Meta army manipulation

Biotic artillery

Biotic weaponry

War cry

Battle cry

War magic

Battlefield magic

Forge manipulation

Customization

Divine technology manipulation

Blade shifting, Blade storm generation, Blade construction

Bow construction,

Bow manipulation, Armor manipulation, Weapon manipulation

Protection embodiment

Calvary combat

Blocking intuition

Damage amplification, Damage reduction, Damaging aura, Damaging field projection

Deflection, Defense break, Defensive damage, Defense ignoring, Defense prediction, Defense replication

Evading intuition, Evasion manipulation,

Hyper fleeing, Hyper evasion, Hyper sense, Hyper interception

Homing effect

Internal reinforcement

Combat adaptation, Combat augmentation, Combat creation, Combat embodiment, Combat empowerment, Combat inducement, Combat magic, Combat specialist, Combat manipulation, Combat merging, Combat modification, Combat opposition, Combat perception, Combative evolution, Combative transcendence

Kinetic energy combat, Kinetic strike

Fighting instinct

Limit break, Limitation defiance, Maximum bodily capacity

After image creation, After image manipulation

Hyper combos, Synchronization, Hyper connection, Combined artillery, Combined attacks, Combined ball projection, Combined blade construction, Combined breath, Combined combat, Combined infusion, Combined weaponry, Combo empowerment,

Complete body strike, Extra sensory combat, Heavy strike

Strength accumulation, Strength concentration, Strength defiance

Concealed weapons proficiency, Sheathed blade proficiency, Flexible weapon proficiency

Compressed weaponry, Compressed artillery,

Concussive blast,

Consecutive attacks, Consecutive moves,

Controlled combat, Assassin intuition, Combat empowerment, One man army, Fighting instinct

Enhanced combat, Enhanced unarmed combat, Enhanced violence, Enhanced weaponry, Enhanced muscle usage, Enhanced reach, Enhanced bodily capacity,

Endless attack

Absolute combat, Absolute unarmed combat, Absolute attack, Absolute weapon proficiency

Rifle proficiency, Pistol proficiency, Omni gun proficiency, Supernatural gunmanship, Lock on tracking, Multi targeting, Enhanced quick draw, Bullet hell, Bullet redirection,

Enhanced archery, Supernatural archery, Super speed combat archery, Bow manipulation,

Blunt weapon proficiency, Melee weapon proficiency, Sword proficiency, Club proficiency, Spear Proficiency, Axe proficiency, Knife proficiency, Martial arts intuition

Absolute counter, Absolute evasion, Absolute explosion, Absolute invincibility, Absolute slicing, Absolute Violence, Absolute Weapon Proficiency, Absolute swordsmanship, Absolute Weaponry,

Multi weapon wielding, Dual wielding, Dual sword proficiency, Multi sword proficiency, Supernatural swordsmanship,

Giant weapon proficiency, Giant sword proficiency, Giant gun proficiency,

Accelerated Perception, Action Adaptation, Automatic Attack, Auto reflexes, Selective Limb Empowerment, Selective Damage, Autopilot, Rapid fire moves, Reflective attacks, Autonomous combat, Auxiliary condition

Alien artillery, Alien blade construction, Alien Bow Construction, Alien combat, Alien weaponry

Ammunition generation, Ammunition manipulation, Adaptive Artillery, Sword Proficiency, Shield Proficiency, Absolute Swordsmanship, Ranged Weapon Proficiency, Enhanced Ammunition, Enhanced Accuracy, Weapon proficiency, Weapon manipulation, Weapon Transformation, Weapon Creation,

Absolute Artillery, Projectile Enhancement, Tactical analysis, Tactical genius, Enhanced Combat, War manipulation, War Inducement, Military manipulation, Military Intuition, Army manipulation, Army annihilation, Summoning arts, Summon Weaponry, Summoning Combat, Summoning Defense, Summoning Attacks, Team manipulation, Team Wipe, Combat manipulation, Battlefield manipulation, Battlefield magic, Strategy manipulation, Defeat manipulation, Transcendent Warrior Physiology, Victory Deity Physiology, Victory manipulation

Dimensional destruction, Dimensional constructs, Dimensional slicing

Divine Alien Physiology, Alien Divinity, Alien Lord Physiology, Divine Technology manipulation, Mythic technology, Transcendental Element manipulation, Transcendental Energy manipulation

God/Goddess of Love and Sexuality

Desire Embodiment, Desire Manipulation, Supernatural beauty, Absolute beauty, Seductive magnetism, Attraction manipulation, Beauty manipulation, Desire manipulation, Emotion manipulation, Passion Manipulation, Love manipulation, Love inducement, Relationship manipulation, Indomitable sexuality, Passion manipulation, Romance embodiment, Passion Embodiment, Pheromone Generation, Lust Negation, Lust Inducement, Lust manipulation, Pleasure manipulation, Relationship manipulation, Sex specialist, Sex Intuition, Sexuality manipulation, Indomitable love

Warning: SSSS rank superhero

Expert combatant. Master martial artist. Weapons master.

Expert marksman.

Master interrogator trained in torture and interrogation

Expert driver in all forms of transportation of vehicles including spaceships and hovercraft

Master spy. Expert in stealth, infiltration, disguise, espionage, & sabotage thanks to a past as an intelligence officer trained in paramilitary operations for the Sol System military.

Crime fighting mastery

Hacking

Lockpicking

Extremely athletic and extremely acrobatic.

Multi Languages: Ability to speak most if not all Earth, alien, divine, demonic, mystical, mythical, magical, & fantasy languages because of superhuman memory and intelligence.

Skillset of a A class private soldier, mercenary, & bounty hunter

Skillset of a highly skilled S rank contract killer, hitman, & kunoichi or shinobi assassin

Weaknesses:

Before being given divinity and transcending to a titan their weakness being born a demigod and alien hybrid. Their weaknesses as a metahuman and superhuman were:

Being injured by weapons that negates superhuman or supernatural healing.

Being wounded by a material stronger than adamantine, celestial steel, divine iron, etherium, heavenly bronze, mithril, nth metal, orichalcum, stellar titanium, uru, vibranium.

Being killed by a substance more dangerous than aether, chronoton, dark metal, element zero, inertron, nether, tachyon, timonium, & xirang.

Regular Forms:

Beast/Primal/Feral: 2.5 Meters. Basic form. But strong enough to go toe to toe with Gorilla Grodd, King Shark, Giganta, Killer Croc, Orca, Bane, Wolverine, Sabertooth, & Monsieur Mallah.

Hybrid/Chimera: 3 Meters

Fallen Angel/Archdemon/Archangel Form: Has a pair of white archangel wings, a pair of red archdemon wings, & a pair of black fallen angel wings. Has horns and a halo. Has a prehensile demonic tail.

Berserker Juggernaut: 5 Meters

Prime: 6 Meters

Dragon Monster: 200 meters long. 300 meter wingspan. 100 Meters tall

Behemoth: Is avian and mammalian in nature. Has clawed hands with opposable thumbs and clawed feet with opposable toes and a prehensile tail. Has three heads each with its own separate brain. Has five rows of giant dorsal plates made out of alien crystals protruding from its head to its tail that glow silver, gold, & obsidian when firing breath blasts from its mouth, optic blasts from its eyes, & energy blasts from its hands. Is bipedal. It is empowered by natural energy and spiritual energy. Its entire body is covered in metal plate armor made from alien elements. 400 meters long. 600 meter wingspan. 200 Meters tall. 150,000 tons.

Leviathan: Is amphibian and reptilian in nature. Has clawed hands with opposable thumbs and clawed feet with opposable toes and a prehensile tail. Has five heads each with its own separate brain. Has five rows of giant dorsal plates made out of alien crystals protruding from its head to its tail that glow sapphire, amethyst, & emerald when firing breath blasts from its mouth, optic blasts from its eyes, & energy blasts from its hands. It is both bipedal and quadrupedal. Is empowered by solar radiation, magic, & lunar rays. Its entire body is covered in metal plates made from alien metals. 1000 meters long. 1200 meter wingspan. 500 Meters tall. 200,000 tons

Zenith Forms:

Titan of War: Has a pair of gold divine wings, a pair of obsidian devil wings, and a pair of cardinal fallen god wings.

Divine or Heavenly Being: Summons a clone that has ethereal armor and is armed with ethereal weaponry. Has four arms wielding an ethereal shortsword, a longsword, a broadsword, & a great sword. This clone has a pair of divine eyes and a third inner devil eye. These three eyes have the powers of absolute vision. These eyes are armed with accelerated eyesight, astral vision, atomic vision, aura reading, augmented reality vision, binocular vision, blindness immunity, blood flow vision, burning vision, cartomancy, catoptromancy, causality perception, chaotic vision, chemo vision, chi vision, chrono vision, clairvoyance, clear sight, color vision, compound eyes, computer perception, dark vision, depowering vision, destructive vision, divine sight, DNA vision, dragon vision, raining vision, dream observation, ectoplasmic vision, electromagnetic vision, electronic eyes, elemental scrying, empathic retrocognition, empowering vision, enhanced reading, enhanced synesthesia, energy perception, esoteric vision, evil eye, explosion vision, explosive glare, eye attacks, eye color manipulation, eye color shifting, eye magic, eye manifestation, eye manipulation, eyewear manipulation, field perception, fire vision, fog vision, freeze vision, freezing gaze, gamma vision, gaze powers, glowing eyes, graphic vision, genesis tears, heads up display, healing vision, heat vision, hypnotic sight, hypnotic vision, identity concealment, illusory vision, ionic vision, killing iyes, kinetic vision, laser vision, life vision, light vision, lightning lunar vision, magic vision, mind’s eye, magical tears, merging vision, microscopic vision, microwave vision, movement vision, nanoscopic vision, nature perception, negation vision, negative vision, neon vision, night vision, ocular technigques, orbital optic array, radio vision, radioactive vision, recognition inhibition, retrocognition, scanner vision, scent sight, sense augmentation, sensory inducement, shared vision, slime vision, solar vision, soul staring, soundwave perception, spatial perception, supercolor vision, syn cognition, syn science, supernatural eye, supernatural vision, telekinetic vision, telescopic vision, thermal vision, transformation vision, timeline vision sharing, ultimate vision, ultraviolet perception, underground vision, unhindered vision, vacuum vision, and x- ray vision. These eyes can fire ballistic heat vision, ballistic optic blasts, and ultraviolet optic blasts with transitional phasing beams that can disintegrate anything on a cellular, molecular, atomic, and subatomic level.

Celestial or Stellar Entity: Giant ethereal being made out of spiritual and natural energy. It radiates cardinal, gold, silver, emerald, cobalt, amethyst or obsidian divine light. It appears behind them and acts as an avatar and fights on their behalf with their thoughts and emotions as an extension of their will. They are nigh invulnerable against all attacks in this form. It has giant ethereal weapons such as giant swords, spears, axes, or sledge hammers and is protected by ethereal armor. It has three faces and six arms similar to Asura of Buddhist mythology. It is surrounded by giant balls of the elements of fire, ice, water, acid, poison, earth, stone, metal, nature, lava, air, lightning, etc that fire at the enemy.

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