#Mycene

[galusandmalus]

Argus, hero and monster, my boy

Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 2. 4 ff (trans. Aldrich) (Greek mythographer C2nd A.D.) :

"The son of Ekbasos (Ecbasus) [son of Argos, son of Zeus and Niobe,] was Agenor, and his son was Argos surnamed Panoptes. This man had eyes all over his body. He was extremely powerful, and killed the bull that raged through Arkadia (Arcadia) whose hide he used as a cloak. He also ambushed and slew and Satyros who was hurting the Arkadians by stealing their herds. It is also said that he waited until Ekhidna (Echidna) fell asleep, and then killed her. She was a daughter of Tartaros and Ge (Gaea, Earth), who would kidnap travellers passing by. Argos also avenged the murder of Apis by slaying the guilty pair, Thelxion and Telkhis (Telchis)”

i love argus (giant with a bunch of eyes) so much. he fills a rare role of both champion hero of a god (hera) and also being a big monster that gets killed in someone elses tales (that bitch Hermes) if someone has any extra fun info on him where maybe he lives i would like that also hes the son of mycene (sometimes) who could be interpreted as a related family member of Perseus if hes the guy who midwifed her possibly (not all giants are evil)

[sarafangirlart]

Wait… just found out about this Mycene… so if Perseus was the one to dig up her fountain and basically “create” her… does that mean he’s like a midwife? Y’know like how Pegasus and Chrysaor were born after he cut off Medusa’s head and here he digs up a mushroom and a nymph was created?

Not only did Perseus name his daughter Gorgophone (Gorgon slayer) he named his city after a fucking mushroom

[aroejumping]

Valentia

[fefuckability]

ROUND 1: Will young blood prevail, or is gramps gonna school him?

Feel free to rb/comment with your reasons!

[pythons-bow]

I’m sorry this is my last Python x Mycen piece for now. I will be returning to my normal RBG content after this & asking for forgiveness from the universe

[skyprowler]

The answer is most likely a combination of the fate of Akrotiri and the downfall of the Minoan culture joined up with the the Great Late Bronze Age collapse. 

Plato makes up Atlantis as an allegory and over 2,000 years later people are still looking for it. You might as well be looking for Narnia.

[smashorpassgilf]

Mycen (Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows of Valentia)

[teryyo]

Sidereal OC Birthdays, January 1st- Mycen Harpe

In 2025 I plan on drawing quick birthday art for all the major (and some minor) characters from my OC universe, Sidereal. The first is Mycen, a young man from a mountain mining town that overlooks the desert. It is his dream to become the very best Star Hunter and change the future that Fate has designed for him.

[emblemxeno]

Peepaw with disheveled hair is kinda 🥴🥴🥴

[nichefireemblem]

Let's Go! Fire Emblem Cipher — Issue 13: Clash of Starter Decks (Second Half)

The thirteenth issue of Let's Go! Fire Emblem Cipher, which debuted in the 12/2017 issue of Dengeki Nintendo.

[naoreco]

And what of my adaptational bitterness?!

Not long ago, I decided to look at some of my favorite FE15 scenes with Japanese voice acting, given how fantastic the English dub is-- and something I picked up in the process is that the scene between Alm and Mycen in Rigel Castle has a couple of interesting changes that I wanted to lay out! Particularly with its most... iconic lines. Major spoilers ahead!

(Note: I'm not a native Japanese speaker, and I'm not entirely fluent, but I took two years of college classes and damn if I'm not putting that all to use here!!)

While I put together a document going through the whole conversation in Japanese and loosely translating it, most of it is generally the same, aside from two bits. You're also not going to get the whole picture just by reading the lines, as the voice acting does a great deal for both sides of this conversation, so I highly recommend you pull up the scene in video form as well.

Now, the first change is pretty brief! Specifically, when Mycen brings up Alm's birth during his whole spiel about how the gods are deteriorating.

Mycen: しかし、そこにアルム。お前が生まれた。(Shikashi, soko ni Arumu. Omae ga umareta.) But then there's you, Alm. You were born. But then you were born, Alm.

Alm: ！！ (*gasp*) ...! What does that have to do with any of this?

The second, more important one, is Alm's reaction to being Rudolf's mercy, and how Mycen responds to that. The exchange goes like this:

Mycen: それが愛するわが子であればこれ以上の喜びはない…… (Sore ga aisuru waga ko de areba koreijou no yorokobi wa nai…) So for it to be his beloved child, he could feel no greater joy… So for that death to come at the hand of his beloved son was… a mercy.

Mycen: ルドルフは、そう言っておった。(Rudorufu wa, sou itte otta.) Rudolf told me so himself. He told me himself that he could imagine no more peaceful end.

Alm: そんな…… 父さん、父さんっ……！！(Sonna… Tou-san, Tou-san…!!) That's... Father, father...!! And what of my peace?!

"Sonna..." on its own is a pain to translate, but the specific meaning isn't as relevant as how Natsuki Hanae says this line. Rather than reacting with even more bitterness because Rudolf's convoluted plan made no room for Alm's own say on the matter - him yelling at Mycen earlier for sending him to kill his own father is about the same already - JP Alm just... breaks down and cries for his father, essentially. And it's this difference in reaction that makes Mycen respond in turn!

Mycen: 泣くな、アルムよ。(Naku na, Arumu yo.) Don't cry, Alm. This is not the time for mourning or self-pity, boy.

Compared to something like "nakanaide" (please don't cry), "naku na" is more direct in just. You know. Telling someone not to cry instead of asking them. So perhaps there's a weight behind those words that I'm missing, but with his quieter and more even tone of voice, and the way he addresses Alm by name, it comes off as a lot gentler than how he scolds Alm in the localization.

Now, why were these changes made? Are they better or worse? I don't know! Sure, I'd like Mycen not to be kind of a dick to his grandson while he's feeling so vulnerable, but I can tolerate it because that's how I first experienced the scene, and their supports say a great deal more about how they feel about each other than a scene where they're both freshly grieving. More than that, though, I think Alm breaking down and sobbing and Alm sticking it to the man both get to something very important about his position here, something that Natsuki Hanae and Kyle McCarley also portray amazingly:

He's way too young for this shit.

[ojisanmansion]

[wanderingmind867]

I own Shadows of Valentina, but I never finished it. Still, I was bored. So I decided to use the character sorter, just to see how the rankings for this game turned out. And honestly? I think these turned out pretty accurately. I'll discuss more down below, but yeah. This is pretty accurate.

Kliff being my favourite was always a given. That bookish young mage type really appealed to me. So yeah, it makes sense he scored the top spot. And having Berkut and Fernand near the top also makes sense. That game had shockingly compelling antagonists. Or at least some very well designed antagonists. And finally, Mycen and Nomah being in my top however many makes sense too. An old warrior and an old wizard? I'm a sucker for old mentor characters; it was only a given that i'd love those two. So yeah. Everything on these lists just kinda makes sense.

[randomnameless]

Is Supreme Leader the worst-written example of the “Evil King/Emperor” archetype in FE?

I'd say the worst written might be Marquis Laus -

But only because FE7 isn't concerned with the Evil King/Emperor Archetype, instead, the main villain is Gharnef !

Bar that, worst written example can only be, imo, Rudy from SoV.

I legit can't find anything positive to say about the guy, who apparently was very worried about the blue people so he sent his only son away in the rival country/state (and sent said son's mom in a monastery/thing?), with the purpose of having his son topple that other country so he can lead an army, in the intercontinental war he will have started, to kill him, become a "hewo" and then kill the lizard turning into goo - something he cannot do himself, despite having killed the lizard with her lesbian harem a few days earlier.

Complete with letting his edgy nephew in the dark, creating a marianna trench rift between his nephew and his son that ends in his nephew losing his remaining sanity by torching his wife - on top of making every Rigelian with half a brain despise his son -

And that was his plan to save the world??

What the actual fuck???

[duthea]

Another one for this AU, where Trip adopted Gold! They're trying out clothes in a store. This was meant to be a quick doodle but I got carried away...

[fefuckability]

Qualifier 2: Shadows of Valentia

Feel free to comment and reblog with your reasoning!