#Which is to say

[batwynn]

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[opbackgrounds]

Sir, what happened to your chin?

[vonbabbitt]

Claiming to be a feminist while you're being awful rep for women (constantly rude)

i think if you were a fart youd be the kind that goes prrt and if you were a butt you would be the kind that farts

[literallys-illiteracy]

So i've been playing through Hades 2 recently and, unless i'm just going insane, I'm fairly sure that in the later game (or in Hades 3) that we're going to fight against the gods in some capacity?

We have Nemesis, saying that the gods might deserve all of this happening to them, and that Prometheus didn't deserve his punishment; We have Moros talking about how he has ended the lives of mortals in interesting ways for entertainment; We have Heracles, who freed Prometheus, and who has been very screwed over by the gods in the past; In the previous game we had Sisyphus, happy; We have Arachne, whose story (and the amount she deserved her punishment) varies but still got fucked over; (Pan)Dora, where the last remaining item in her jar (box) was hope, sometimes seen too as a curse, the gods giving meaningless mortals hope in their lives; We have Athena talking about how compromise is failure and will only start more conflict; other olympians talking about flooding the earth or punishing mortals for siding with Chronos;

and finally, we have Prometheus, who is the most interesting character in the entire game;

Prometheus, the titan, is best known for three things:

He created the first humans out of clay (sometimes Hephaestus is credited with this)

He stole fire from the gods and gave it to mankind (which is why he is often considered the god of fire)

Liver. Bird. Liver. Bird. Liver. Bird [...]

Prometheus in Hades 2 is the god (titans and gods are virtually the same don't worry about it) of Foresight (due to his name being typically understood as to mean "Foresight" in contrast to his brother's meaning "Hindsight" or "Afterthought"), freed from the mountain by someone and who now fights against Olympus. Note that it was Heracles who freed him in the legends, and Heracles is a character who appears in game.

Prometheus clearly cares for humanity over all else, being their creator, and thus the source of their suffering.

The most interesting lines from Prometheus in the game are those regarding the future, after all he is the titan of foresight, specifically to do with mortals and the gods. Most notably, the recurring line:

Agent of Change.

Come then, Agent of Change, and show me what I know you can do!"

If you could see what i've forseen, you'd not believe it anyhow

(on death):

All... according... to plan...

Prometheus :  "I could only... do my part..." [Melinoë : "Silence. Save your troubles for your master Chronos."] "It's not my troubles that I mean to save... Agent of Change..."

If suffering today brings a better tomorrow, so be it

and the most important line, the one that explains his persistence (in my eyes):

Gods could learn something from mortals, you know. For all their many failings, they have an admirable tendency to cling to hope; a certain quality we deathless often lack [Melinoë: Hope can be the salve for the naive. So many mortals hope they'll never die; a feeling born of delusion and fear] Yes! Mortals live short, painful lives. And even still they strive for something greater than they mostly can achieve. I fight for them! You gods only fight for yourselves

While there is all likelihood that my own foresight is flawed in this regard; all of this being simply a reference to the last curse of hope that remains in Pandora's Jar, I choose to see it that this is what Prometheus has learned through his years:

He fights for mortals, he suffers and dies as they do time and time again to strive for what is greater than himself, he clings to the hope that Melinoë will finally break this cycle and free humanity.

[blanketwonders]

63 days

[sketchy-tour]

Perhaps the minatour was in the friends we made along the way.

[kusnechik]

Goodness this is Old with a capital O but I still like to contribute lol

And also I did this in a haze of anxiety and poorly restrained enthusiasm at like 2 in the morning

[broareweabouttoviberightnow]

when I finally lock tf in n get off this shift it is OVER for yall

[zhoushuyis]

are we ready for how clingy bison is gonna be with kant??? cz im not?????

[careful-fear]

in desperate need of relationships that blur the line between romantic and platonic and are fundamentally neither. they don't conform, they have no label, they are whatever they deem themselves to be, and that's important.

[kinaaaard]

i had a glass of wine so now im speaking quite loosely but. it is both a little inspiring and makes me achingly sad that people can believe in a current world where TWO main male leads of an immensely popular network drama can have a coming out arc. especially within one season of another.

in a perfect world yes that would happen. but i am so sorry the coiffed fat cat execs know the importance of a straight bachelor main. they just do. people need to focus less on what makes “narrative sense” and more about “we are functioning within a very precise and mass appeal-based industry that only cares about money”

[saucerfulofsins]

I love that the Buck SUCKS(!!!!) at dating narrative and isnt just (un)intentionally inattentive but also (un)intentionally offensive now runs concurrently to Buck being confirmed the best partner possible to his (reads notes) heterosexual best friend whose house he sublets (heterosexually!) with whom he is definitely NOT in love nor coparenting.

And then Eddie says "appreciate you" in the straightest way he can.

[thetruearchmagos]

The thing about coming up with metaphors is that they sound just unimaginably pretentious when you're trying to think of them, but when you actually see them in someone else's work it's like 'holy shit this is incredible what the fuck'

[solarsyrup]

I know we've all been Going Through It for a while now but it feels like the last few weeks have been even more of a shitshow for everyone

[tosahobi-if]

Yeri, how much angst the Ros route have?

How much angst Mc arc/storyline havez?

hmm, i think it depends on what you consider angst and how much you can take! i cried my way through writing before but i'm also the type to cry over songs so i'm not trustworthy when it comes to opinions on angst HDSFJSDJF

but to answer your question, i think it's a lot! the mc is going to go through it with everyone else. there's a lot the mc has to contend with and when it comes to intersecting storylines there's a looooot of heavy emotions (even if the relationships aren't romantic!)

[pocketramblr]

sorry just thinking about clark's little 'cloning has a lot of ethical problems but i do trust cadmus to do it right' like. buddy. FIVE MINUTES AGO guardian told you 'eh cadmus might order me to kidnap and hold the boy prisoner and i would do it'. you know. the boy. modeled after your dead body. that cadmus stole. the boy who was rescued by other clone children. before he could be brainwashed. by cadmus.

and yet i must admit. on the other hand. technically. they made a clone of someone who fully consented to it (paul). they just made the kid look like superman. they could have done that without the dead body. theres enough pictures of him out there, after all. like. i guess. i guess he's right that's technically the least unethical way to do it. he's just a guy's designer baby. and technically cadmus didn't try to kill him, and are very put out by the idea that they would, that was just paul. (you know. the guy in charge. of cadmus.) the trouble is what they did after they made the clone. you know. the aging stuff and planning to brainwash him and. you know. only living as a weapon. and everything else.