#THE ANTICHRIST IS HERE?????

[folkloricstranger]

Me, @velcrooooo, @oogaboogaandy and some other friends just saw the 4 horsemen I THOUGHT THAT WAS JUST A FUCKING TERM????? NOT LITERAL HORSEMEN-

[preqvelle]

🍿 R†TE HERE R⸸TE NOW ×

[puppmeo]

Okay so im watching Hazbin to have something to talk to my little brother about: Why is all the content im seeing NOT about Charlie and Vaggie. They're so neat

[stillchuunya]

listen, I want Copia to turn out to be the Antichrist and I want him to be the most inept antichrist Satan could ever fear to get. I want to see him in diabolical situations in which his awkward autistic ass is just so out of place it confuses even the emissaries from hell/heaven/whoever he's trying to impress. let him try to fistbump god when he's supposed to fight him and go 'he he he' at his own jokes before solving a problem in the least antichrist way possible, creating more problems for the ministry and making everyone question their life choices.

[antichrists-plus1]

I'm coming back from the dead and I'll take you home with me

I'm taking back the life you stole

We never got that far

This helps me to think all through the night

Bright lights that won't kill me now, or tell me how

Just you and I, your starless eyes remain

-Its not a fashion statement, its a deathwish

[copia]

THIRTY-ONE DAYS OF GHOST ⛧ DAY FOUR

favourite song from Infestissumam — Year Zero

Hell—an archaic Swedish translation of hail. Archangelo, the Italian name for an Archangel, for whom we will bow in praise; hail Satan, and welcome, with the birth of the Antichrist, an age with which humanity's calendar will begin again.

[kabukiaku]

The Resurrection of Papa Emeritus IV.

I've been itching to draw Antichrist Copia for a long time now.

bonus happy ending:

also close up of seestor and rain:

[zeroducks-2]

I'm completely serious when I say that yall need to calm down about the whole "if you dislike x it means that you're y", because you sound just like antis and it's not helping anyone.

So quick PSA for who needs to hear it: Not liking Taylor Swift doesn't make you a misogynist. Hating JKR doesn't make you sexist. Not liking Twilight or anything else with a female protag doesn't make you anti-women. Not having wlw ships doesn't make you lesbophobic. Disliking a female character is actually totally fine, and you don't need to fill any moral quota by having a favorite character belonging to every single marginalized category of people.

Sometimes people just do not like stuff, and sometimes they even have extremely good reasons to dislike stuff. Stop being a fucking cop about it.

[rawkghoulsupreme]

Ghovie Theory

OKAY SO even if Copia does die... he would absolutely come back in some manner if he's going to end up being the antichrist.

In an interview with RHRN co-director, he mentioned that Tobias is two years ahead of everyone in terms of his ideas. That's probably just something he threw out there but it made me realize what's in two years... 2026.

Ghost has to do something for 6/6/26 or 6/16/26 - and Imma hedge my bets on it being Copia/antichrist related until the movie comes out and totally blows this theory to smithereens.

[v4guelyv4mpiric]

happy season 3

[vaguely-concerned]

so sad that we didn't get a follow up game for andromeda if for no other reason then because I never got to play out the full arc of my ryder looking hauntedly at himself in the mirror realizing he very much is his father's son in more ways than he's strictly comfortable with

(by default sara always seems to me to be the twin who's the most obviously like alec -- with small variances based on how you play her if she's the PC twin, she's always presented as more driven, competetive and academically minded than scott, who's framed in the family dynamic more as the underachiever/slacker fuckup twin. as an example, see: the conversation you have with alec about the sibling who's in coma at the beginning of the game. when you're scott they bond over joking that sara would be so pissed to be out of commission because she's been planning to be the first to scale every mountain, and when you're sara it's that scott never liked to get up in the morning anyway, how typical of him. (even in jest I feel like this indicates a slightly unpleasant dynamic where one of the few reliable tactics that work for sara to get connection with her dad is for both of them to turn on scott to mock him. which like. very real type of interpersonal dynamic that exists, and one of the character aspects I like the most in andromeda for all that it's uncomfortable, it feels quite subtle and well observed.) you can make sara a bit more neurotic/nervous and awkward and/or charmingly dorky when playing as her and you can make scott a bit more serious, but these aspects of the characters hold true no matter what. which for the record I absolutely love! it's the thing the hawke family also provides in da2, being able to see the dynamics that lead to your character being the way they are alllll the way back and building on it.

hOWEVER with my scott. this apparent disconnect between himself and his dad in terms of character traits (and the lack of communication in that relationship that stood in the way of letting him see that his father was a lot of other things behind the fragile hard outer shell of him than he wanted to show) means that as time goes on scott is fucking blindsided by all the common traits that start popping up under pressure. which you can actually start to introduce in the game itself, too -- if you choose mostly the logical and casual options, it's almost freaky how much ryder starts to sound like a younger and more irreverent version of their dad. (the most interesting version of liam's loyalty quest for me is actually the one where you go full professional and chew him out afterwards, and as liam storms off you can practically SEE ryder arrive at the thought 'oh my god I have become my father' in real time fhdsakj. in general some of the most interesting moments in me:a to me happen when you manage to break away from video game people pleaser mode.)

especially the things alec was willing to do to not lose his wife, to not be alone, he'd rather she be alive and pissed with him than gone forever because that's how desperately he needed her to exist... I think one day scott will look up and go '...oh fuck' at realizing the lengths he would go for someone he loves, and that he has the means to do it too and would make his father's (very bad to be clear) choice all over again if push came to shove. keeping horrible secrets is just the family tradition what does it matter if the weight of them grows heavier and heavier to bear over the years these are family heirlooms you know. I mean, my guy romanced reyes, so you already know he's got something deeply deeply wrong with him lol but this horrors of love side of him only adds to it. scott ryder got his fundamental lack of inner peace from his father and his social skills and abysmal taste in men from his mother

[st7arlight]

they are so in love

[normalbrothers]

some say it's female empowerment, others say it's fetish content

[alphacrone]

so many conspiracy theorists just need to get really into jigsaw puzzles or literary analysis. they clearly have a lot of fun with pattern recognition, parallels, symbolism, and dissecting language. join a book club.

[cherubchoirs]

You seem to know a lot about Christian mythology/ or atleast are quite passionate about it have you ever thought about discussing it in general? If yes i'd like to ask about the Antichrist and its many interpretations, i see like a billion of them in a lot of Media so i'm really confused on what it is

i don't mind discussing it in general at all! i will say i'm absolutely not an expert in any capacity, christian mythology has just been a big interest of mine since i was a kid (i was that guy....) and i have actually read the bible (only once all the way through and my memory is. well. bad). and while i haven't looked much into the history of the antichrist in general, i can tell you about its appearance in original text! the antichrist is really interesting from a mythology perspective because this is a case where culture and many, many sources outside of scripture have highly impacted the figure into something not much like their appearance in the bible itself. the actual word "antichrist" appears only in john's epistles, and this was in reference to the splintering of christianity at the time - basically the author was warning christians against "false" christians (early gnostics in this case) as they didn't believe in the second coming of christ in the flesh. they are even referred to in the plural here as basically this author used "antichrist" as a term for anyone claiming to believe in christianity but rejecting certain (core) doctrines, and therefore able to lead people into what he believed to be a "false" faith considering christianity's then lack of central leadership (and so people not being sure on what all the teachings really even are). the term "pseudochrist" is used similarly elsewhere to warn against false believers, but essentially the anxiety is still the same.

revelation is the book that introduces the singular figure often associated with the antichrist but not named as such - the thirteenth chapter describes the "second beast", which is a creature that looks like a lamb but speaks with a dragon's voice, causes many terrifying signs to happen, and famously marks its followers with the number 666. it wields the power of the first beast, which represents the general evil attacking the church and is ultimately satan's presence on earth made manifest. honestly, there's nothing inherently wrong with labeling this figure as "the antichrist", as it is a metaphorical being representing all false prophets in the latter days, but this is purely meant to condense down what would be a massive movement - it is not truly just going to be one guy, but a whole flood of fake messiahs that will come claiming to be christ or to be sent by god.

for what all this means/is, i'm definitely of the opinion that revelation was never meant to be taken literally and is a book written entirely about the roman empire of the time. 666 is nero's number and great harlot is rome (as places in the bible were always depicted as women when personified), with revelation meant to give the christians living through a terrible time of oppression and persecution hope for the future. in this way, the antichrist is representative of the people christians will encounter who will attempt to tear down their faith, who will attempt to make them worship rome or a false, romanized version of christianity (and thereby make them heretics) and are meant to represent a more tangible, real world threat than satan would be to the average person. there are many, many calls to faith in the bible, both in the old and new testaments, and i believe revelation to simply be a very big, very wild refrain of the same sentiment: we know it's bad, we know it's scary, but one day we will be saved and safe forever. i will say as an aside gabriel also reveals an antichrist adjacent figure to daniel, telling the prophet about one who gains power and wealth through deceit to take over the throne and rule in infamy. his defeat by michael brings about the end days, but again this was largely a projection of history and based on the current tensions at the time. IN ANY CASE it's interesting how the figure has become the actual child of the devil, something introduced by later theologians but still usually not literal. i think a lot of it comes from the nebulous nature of the antichrist in general but also because the name just evokes that idea - christ is the child of god, so the antichrist is the child of satan. i can't speak too in depth about the history outside of that, but i hope this answered your question ok!!

[cheerycherrycandy-resurrected]

crackpot copia theory prediction post: (written 17.06.24, before the RHRH release)

so. the title of dance macabre (ghost) is a clear reference to the symphonic poem danse macabre (saint-saëns). but I can see more connections than the name, and think I can take it a step further. (and this might have been said before, in which case oops!)

maybe spoilers?? idk yet! below the cut:

the story of danse macabre goes that at midnight on halloween, skeletons come out of their graves and dance for Death, represented in the piece by a solo, interestingly-tuned violin. having played a shortened version of this when I was younger can confirm it's really fun and evil-sounding lol. then at dawn when the cock crows, they return to their graves for another year. not going into a deeper musical analysis rant about it, but the skeletons bones are also represented by xylophones and that's really great.

after the LA rituals we heard that skeleton dancers dance with/around Copia during dance macabre, lifting him up etc.

skeletons dancing for Death in a dance macabre? wait that sounds familiar...

COPIA IS DEATH CONFIRMED?!

idk, this is a scheduled post for after the movie's release, let's see if this gets any more evidence!!