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howwelldoyouknowyourmoon · 6 years ago

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Moon neglected and beat his own children. How did it affect them?

Hyo Jin Moon: “I know my Father. He made me, so we are just like each other. We can kill one another.”

At Pledge Service, November 1994 at Belvedere (video link below)

Shamanism in the Unification Church While church members generally consider themselves to be Christian, the church’s rituals and practices share much with Korean shamanism. Practices such as ancestor veneration / liberation from evil spirits, spiritual channeling, sacrifices, songs, drumming, rhythmic movements and beatings are all common in Korean shamanism and culture.

The Master Speaks These questions and answers have been transcribed from tapes made during our Leader’s sessions with members and guests at Centers throughout the United States during his trip in March and April 1965.

Question: Should we keep our physical children with us?

Sun Myung Moon: Yes, of course. You cannot leave them on the street. You must protect them. If they do not obey you, you can even strike them. In the satanic world, if you beat children it is from your temper and is sin. But now you know the absolute good, and if they do not obey you can bring them by force. It will be good for them after all. In our group, some people have neglected their children and devoted themselves completely to witnessing. This has happened because, if you are not restored, your children will perish automatically. If you don’t find three spiritual children, how can your physical children benefit? In that sense, your problem is more urgent. For this reason, some parents have neglected their children. After they are blessed they ... and take them back.

Sun Myung Moon: “From today on, if you meet anybody around you who criticizes or judges True Family because of what is happening right now, you can hit them in the mouth. If anyone writes a wrong letter to True Family you can break their arm.” February 24, 1996, Sao Paolo, Brazil

Sun Myung Moon: “Your mission is only the territory of your relatives. How much easier it is for you compared to True Father’s course. You have absolutely no excuse. Those who have the confidence to fulfill your mission of accomplishing 3.6 [million] couples Blessing this year, show your hands. (Applause) Father wants Reverend Kwak to keep a baseball bat in his hand all the time and if he sees anyone neglecting their mission in this regard then he can freely use it. Particularly those who are sleeping and hiding, Reverend Kwak’s baseball bat will fall upon you at any time.” February 13, 1997, New Yorker Hotel, New York

Hyun Jin Preston Moon interviewed in September 2010

Question: Do you have any episodes you remember while fishing with your father? Preston: “When I was a teenager, I remember fishing with my father one day on the cold Alaskan sea. I was in an accident. While my father was focused on fishing with other people at the stern of a small boat, I was fishing at the front of the boat and fell into the sea. The water temperature of the Alaskan sea is so cold that most people die from a heart attack after about 15 minutes in the water. But nobody noticed that I had fallen overboard! I tied the thick fishing line used for catching King Salmons around my arm and desperately moved toward the boat, barely surviving. At that time, my father continued fishing without batting an eye. I was shivering with cold but he kept me with him for the rest of the fishing trip and then we returned back to the harbor.”

Question: He was very strict in how he raised you. Preston: “(Laughter) Such training from my father made me who I am today. My father wanted his children to become better than him and wanted them to grow through challenges.”Trained during his youth on the rough sea, today when Hyun Jin Moon goes to the Alaska mountains to hunt, he will stay there for one or two weeks. Sometimes the guide becomes exhausted and goes back early. In the deep mountains, after hitting the target, he skins the animal himself, carves the meat and puts it all into his backpack. Then with a heavy load, he gladly completes the tough journey back that could cover several miles.”

Hyung Jin Sean Moon: “You know Father, he would slap me. Not only slap, he would smack me every day. Punch me. You know, he would smack these guys all the time. You know, and these guys took it every day… These guys have to be like ironman, they have to be superhuman, iron butt training. So don’t criticize them so quickly and easily. That’s not a sign of maturity… I saw them get smacked so many times… We got the most beatings.” September 23, 2012, New York

In Jin Tatiana Moon (extract from Nansook Hong’s book, In The Shadow Of The Moons: My Life In The Reverend Sun Myung Moon’s Family, page 101) “In Jin disapproved of my friendship with her sister [Un Jin] but she could be nice to me herself when it suited her purpose. She came to me once, asking to borrow some clothes so she could sneak out that night. Her own room was next to her parents’ suite in the mansion and she did not want to risk running into Father. Why not? I asked. She told me that recently she had come into her room on tiptoe about 4:00 A.M. It was still dark. She thought she was in the clear, when she saw Father’s shadow in a chair across the room.

As Sun Myung Moon struck her over and over again, his daughter told me, he insisted he was hitting her out of love. It was not her first beating at Father’s hands. She said she wished she had the courage to go to the police and have Sun Myung Moon arrested for child abuse. I lent her my best blue jeans and a white angora sweater and tried to hide how shocked I was by her story.

As much as anything about my new life in the True Family, the antipathy between the Moon children and their parents stunned me. Early on, I was disabused of the idea that this was a warm and loving family.”

In Jin Tatiana Moon spoke in 2014: 5:15 “So …as angry as my father was for the first ten years that I lived up in Boston. He would scream at me for 3 or 4 hours every time I came back home to wish him happy birthday, or to wish him happy God’s Day. You know, Father was extremely angry. In a way I am hoping that my marriage, and the dissolution of my marriage thereafter, can be a good example of what not to do to our kids, and what not to do to the future blessed couples that aren’t …

“Forcing people into marriage is not right. Political marriages is not right, you know. What I’ve been pushed to do which is really simply nothing other than institutional rape is not right. With two people standing outside your door because they’re afraid you’re going to run away. That is not right. And not wanting to deal with the consequences of your actions of forcing two people into marriage is not right. And not having support and not being nurturing while your child is trying to deal with what you crammed down their throat is not right either…

7:00 “Shocking as it was for my mother to hear my story, the last 30 years of marriage which I have never spoken to her about. You know, she had to learn too. A lot of people think that, well In Jin was just acting on her own behalf and she is just doing whatever she wants. No, I am not doing whatever I want…” LINK

In the early 1980’s there was a gym at East Garden where a martial arts expert came to teach karate to the older sons. One day Hak Ja Han came there when Heung Jin, Kook Jin and Hyun Jin were training. She said “Let two of them fight until they are bloody.” The martial arts teacher was not happy about this and resigned shortly afterwards.

Nansook Hong and Un Jin Moon were both beaten by their husbands: VIDEO of them being interviewed on ‘60 Minutes’ Mike Wallace: “Whenever she told Rev. and Mrs Moon about the beatings, Nansook says, they blamed her.” Nansook Hong: “I was not ideal wife for Hyo Jin that is why he would behave in a certain way towards me, and I was not a good member of their family… so also it was my fate…” MW: “Who told you that? Mrs Moon or …” NSH: “Both, both of them, yes. And it was my fate that I have to endure these things.” Un Jin Moon: “Sounds familiar” MW: “Nansook is getting support from a surprising source, one of Rev. Moon’s daughters, Un Jin Moon. She told me her parents blamed her too when she was abused by her husband [Jin-hun Park, son of ‘Tiger’ Park]. MW: Did he beat you?” UJM: “Yes” MW: “And you would tell your folks?” UJM: “Yes” MW: “And they would say…” UJM: “I deserved it” MW: “Un Jin Moon is estranged from her parents, but she has never criticized them in public before. …” [Apparently Jin-hun Park used to drink.]

Nansook Hong: “Sun Myung Moon seemed to take pleasure in the reports that filtered back to East Garden of the beatings being administered by the Black Heung Jin. He would laugh raucously if someone out of favor had been dealt an especially hard blow.” (pages 150-153)

MLP: “Having grown up around them, I can confirm that when the Moons wanted something, it was there. Thus, they learned to take and only to take. They learned to brow beat, insult, demean and ultimately to physically intimidate those around them. But they never learned to give and never learned basic empathy for those that provided them all their untold wealth.”

Sam Park: “My mother’s involvement with Rev. Moon started in 1953 when, at the age of 17 years old, he forced himself upon her and took her virginity. At the time [pause] my father said that because my mother was destined to be his eternal bride or the “True Mother” in UC parlance, he had to have sexual relations with her to reverse what the … Forgive me because I am going to bring up UC / Moonie terms. Some of you might know it if you follow the church, but a lot of you won’t – just indulge me because there are a lot of Unificationists out there who may see this and it will probably help them. My father said to my mother that – he basically raped her – that he had to have sexual relations with her to reverse what the Archangel Lucifer did to the young Eve. Rev. Moon taught that the biblical Eve was seduced by the Archangel Lucifer when she was 17 years old which was the real reason for the Fall of Man as described in the Bible. That is how Moonies think about the Fall of Man.” LINK

It has been rumored that Won-pil Kim was beaten up by Sun Myung Moon and hospitalized… Moon was rumored to have used a baseball bat at leader’s meetings at East Garden and in Korea. There are rumors of Moon violence at meetings in Alaska. There are many witnesses, but they are keeping quiet. Perhaps that explains some of Moon’s power over his minions.

Young-oon Kim: Washington, D.C. After dinner Miss Kim began to speak: “Our Leader might be coming… If our preparation is not adequate it will take many years to clear from his mind our laxity. Our preparation must be thorough. Some of us remember his last visit when some were not completely prepared. We remember his anger at that time. If he comes and sees lack of preparation this time, his anger will be much greater and much longer-lasting.” New Age Frontiers June 1967 pages 14 and 15 LINK

Nansook Hong: In 1992 she went on a fundraising trip to Japan with the True Mother. Before the return journey, she says: “I was given $20,000 in two packs of crisp new bills. I hid them beneath the tray in my make-up case. I knew that smuggling was illegal, but I believed that the followers of Sun Myung Moon answered to higher laws.” Much of the Moon money was given to Hyo Jin to fuel his cocaine and alcohol binges. pages 171-175

Hyo Jin, she says, would frequently beat her. “I once tried to flush his cocaine down the toilet. He beat me so severely I thought he would kill the baby in my womb. He made me sweep up the spilled white powder from the bathroom floor even as he continued to beat me. Later Hyo Jin would offer a religious justification for beating half-senseless a woman seven months pregnant. He was teaching me to be humble in the presence of the son of the Messiah.” Her children, she says, were her only reason to live. “My main goal was to raise them decently.” Her children would ask her: “Why do we have a bad dad?”” pages 180, 184 and elsewhere

Here is another description of Hyo Jin Moon: “Most of what I’ve been told comes from people who were around him earlier, like Floyd Christofferson at the Manhattan Center studios, Leon Harris who used to watch his back when he went into the bad parts of town to buy cocaine, and others. He injured a friend of mine with a karate kick to the ribs in the New Yorker in the late 80s, he beat up another student at UTS, he smacked Ben Lorentzen around when he first went to work with him in the studio, he beat up second gens who I could name because I know their parents, he held a loaded handgun to Peter Kim’s head at East Garden and threatened to pull the trigger, he shot up a passing freight train with an automatic weapon, and he threatened to kill numerous other people including Nansook (and her unborn child)…

At a meeting in Kodiak in 1986 Hyo Jin assaulted Joachim Becker who was in his 40s. Hyo Jin got up from his seat, flung the older church brother on to the ground and hit him in the ribs. You could literally hear his ribs crack. The bewildered brother lay on the ground wheezing and clutching the side of his rib cage. Needless to say the meeting ended abruptly. Later Joachim went to the hospital and had a wrap around beige bandage wrapped around his chest to mend a few of his fractured ribs.

Those are just some examples of his out-of-control behaviour. I have good friends who worked on the ground staff at Belvedere and East Garden who used to hide when he was in the vicinity, in case he was coked up and in a bad mood. Security staff were on duty to keep an eye on Nansook when he went into one of his periodic rages. It was True Father himself who said that Satan walked in and out of Hyo Jin freely. Yet there was no direct intervention to get him into rehab when all the indicators were there, and he wasn’t taken out of position until the damage was done. Nor did he get sent to Cheongpyeong to have his evil spirits removed like ordinary mortals.

These were all eye-witness reports from people who were around him daily. And this pattern of misbehaviour persisted from his teens, when he was expelled from Hackley High for shooting at other students with a BB gun, until Nansook called time on their marriage because she realised she might end up dead, or one of their kids might die in an accident while handling one of the sixty or more guns that he kept unsecured about the old house at East Garden, which included a cache under the bed in the master bedroom, some loaded and some of those with the safety off.” LINK

Hak Ja Han wants followers to venerate Hyo Jin Moon who had many serious and well-known problems. Here his photo is seen on the altar in the main prayer hall at Cheongpyeong. Hak Ja Han also holds an annual music festival in honor of Hyo Jin.

It was 1989. The BCs used to gather every Sunday in Tarrytown. We loved being together. If Hyo Jin hyungnim was around we would follow him around and do whatever he wanted to do. He had a volatile temper and was often abusive but we were told that it was because we didn’t understand his and God’s heart. He was teaching us God’s heart. One day he had us lined up and he started raving and ranting waving his gun. Suddenly he stopped. We had our heads bowed but I looked up. He had his gun pointed at Jin Seung Eu’s head and pulled the trigger. The bullet went into the wall behind Jin Seung Eu, 2 inches from his head. LINK

Hyo Jin was allowed to get away with his abusive behavior because there was no oversight and nobody but Reverend Moon himself had the authority to stop him. This was the type of dysfunctional and nepotistic system that Moon himself had set up. LINK

VIDEO Sunday November 1994 at 5am at Belvedere 0:05 Let’s welcome Hyo Jin Hyo Jin, the oldest son, is taking the place of his father this Sunday 0:40 Do you respect me? Fuck you!!! You don’t know me. … Don’t stop because I will kill you. I … Father and Mother and they know that …. miserable and I’m miserable. 1:44 “I know my Father. He made me, so we are just like each other. We can kill one another.” 3:26 “I don’t like this place, you know. I am standing here being judged by you motherfuckers. What the fuck do you judge me by?”

Hyo Jin Moon is rumored to have held a loaded handgun to Peter Kim’s head at East Garden and threatened to pull the trigger. Why?

Donna Orme Collins: “As I grew older, I witnessed frightening pre-marriage ceremonies in which the bride and groom-to-be beat each other with bats to rid themselves of evil. I had also learned that the lives of Moon’s followers were utterly controlled by him – and that he was the parent I was supposed to rely on.” LINK

Sun Myung Moon bullied Second Gen teenagers in New York

Testimony of a participant at Moon’s July 18, 2011 event in Nigeria: “I saw something I shouldn’t have seen during Hoondokhoe on the 18th July. Maybe Father sensed that the spiritual standard was not good enough, or for whatever reason it may have been, True Father slapped Hyung Jin Nim in his face in front of all the members. And after that he slapped Yeon Ah Nim, Hyung Jin Nim’s wife, in the face too. A very sudden unexpected situation. After that Father continued talking for 2 hours, but the African members were shocked to the core by what they had just witnessed. Some thought that Hyung Jin Nim’s couple paid indemnity for the failure of the members to properly attend True Parents.”

Mariah Blake: “Speaking on the Senate floor in July 1993, Sen. Trent Lott (R-Miss.) urged fellow lawmakers to celebrate True Parents Day—a holiday honoring the Moons—in the name of family values. “It is in the interest of society and government to adopt policies strengthening and sustaining fathers and mothers,” he said. The following year, Congress passed a bill designating Parents Day a national holiday.

While lawmakers were lauding Moon’s family values message, his own family was unraveling. In 1998, his ex-daughter-in-law, Nansook Hong, published a devastating expose of Moon family life, which claimed that her husband, Steve, blew huge sums of church money on cocaine and beat her during her pregnancy. Hong and Moon’s estranged daughter, Un Jin, went on 60 Minutes, where they presented a litany of allegations about drugs, sex, and corruption inside Moon’s church. They also disclosed that Moon had an illegitimate son named ‘Sammy.’” from Mother Jones (November 2013) LINK

Extra-Sacramental Rituals of the Family Federation for World Peace After the Blessing ceremony, for the First Generation there is an “Indemnity Stick ceremony” where the couples all have to beat their spouse’s buttocks as hard as they can with a baseball bat or a heavy stick. The purpose of this is to pay a price for the sin of Adam and Eve by hitting the sexual area. It is also meant as the one time a couple is allowed to physically assault one another, after which all disputes should be settled verbally. This ceremony is public, and is not a private experience. Members have been hospitalized with spinal injuries because of this ceremony. LINK

An open letter to In Jin Moon and the Unification Church By Thomas Cromwell September 13, 2012

The Incident at the New Yorker Hotel: Hyun Jin stopped talking – there was a familiar uncomfortable silence…

Hyun Jin Moon’s assault on Tim Folzenlogen

Kook Jin Moon – an elder American second generation: “Later on, there was the fight club. It was [Kook Jin] Justin’s idea and he held sessions at his parents’ compound in Seoul. “There were five or six of us, and we’d fight without gloves until we were bloody,” Porter says. Justin officiated and fought, but he didn’t always play by the rules. As one fight was starting, he unleashed a head kick. “This guy Isaac was just waiting for the fight to begin, and Justin leaped up and did this crazy swinging kick,” Porter remembers. “It landed in the guy’s face, and it looked like the guy was airborne forever, like he was levitating, until he finally dropped to the floor. It was cool. But it wasn’t an emotional thing with [Justin]. He was very calculated about his violence. He had to be the best.” Portfolio magazine LINK

Hyung Jin Moon (August 7, 2016) 1:20:50 [Probably late 2012 or early 2013] “Literally when she screamed at us, and we have shared it now, when she screamed, when we were having that conversation in the TV room of the Palace, in the inner chambers of the Palace, and when Kook Jin said: “You have to be like the Queen Mother and honor the decision of True Father.” She blew up and said: “I have absolute power” with her eyes bugging out and her face red. Both of us looked like … and we looked at each other [thinking] “Are you seeing this?, Are you seeing this?”” “Han Mother did an occult ritual … She has become a pagan.”

Sun Myung Moon (May 17, 1973, USA)

“Good morning! Sit down! I am going to speak about the significance of a training session like this….

In your own way, you can organize your lecture. In order for you to be a dynamic lecturer, you must know the knack of holding and possessing the listeners’ hearts. If there appears a crack in the man’s personality, you wedge in a chisel, and split the person apart. For the first few lectures, you will just memorize. But after that, you will study the character of your audience, and adapt your lecture. If he is a scientist, you will approach him differently than a commercial man, artist, etc. The audience as a whole will have a nature, and you must be flexible.” LINK

The ‘True Father’ who could not forgive: “I haven’t been able to release my grudge towards Japanese people yet.” November 2011

Compare life in the Moon family with the teachings of Jesus: Six Surprising Ways Jesus Changed The World

The seven deadly sins of narcissism

Sun Myung Moon was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002

The Unification Church and Shamanism

How “God’s Day” was established in 1968

The FFWPU is unequivocally not Christian

#UC violence #Sun Myung Moon #Preston Moon #Hyo Jin Moon #Kook Jin Moon #Hyung Jin Moon #Hyun Jin Moon #In Jin Moon #In Jin Lorentzen #Heung Jin Moon #Nansook Hong

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m3atl0afman · 7 years ago

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My Thoughts Regarding Raven VS Twilight...

So at the end of the Season 5 premiere of ScrewAttack’s DEATH BATTLE, it was revealed that the following match was going to be featuring Raven, of DC Comics’ Teen Titans, facing off against My Little Pony’s Twilight Sparkle.

As a fan of both characters and the idea of the match, many have actually approached me wondering what my thoughts are on this upcoming episode. I grew up watching Teen Titans and people know me for being a brony, so one can imagine I would be excited.

Unfortunately, and perhaps to the surprise of some, I am actually... honestly not happy. For a number of reasons.

Now just a disclaimer, I am a fan of DEATH BATTLE, and this column is in no way meant to come off as negative or disrespectful towards the showrunners, RoosterTeeth, and others involved with the show. However, I do feel the need to express my extended thoughts on this matter, as unknown to many, the announcement of this episode... kinda unintentionally threw a wrench in the works. Also, please be aware that I’m not writing this article with the intent of seeking sympathy; I would like to think of this more so as an informative “what could have been” type of entry. You’ll see why momentarily.

So... I’m going to drop one heck of a bomb. This is something I wouldn’t normally do, but I figured because of how rather... coincidental this ended up being, I may as well be open about it, especially as some of you are probably going to want to know more reasons as to why I wouldn’t be happy about this episode being produced. For those of you who follow what I do, I think you guys will understand instantaneously when I post this one image:

...Yeah. This was... originally going to be a future episode of Crossover X’s Battle Royale. Not a bonus episode, not a Patron-Punch Out or anything; a full-on researched episode planned for our first season. ...How awkward. Heh. (Side note, yes I did get permission from my partner and higher-up to openly discuss this.)

Now just to clarify before a particular group of people jump to conclusions: first of all, yes, this is something we had planned months before DEATH BATTLE announced it. And no, DEATH BATTLE did not "steal" our idea. They couldn't have, as no one outside the team has access to our private documents and no one afaik has really talked about this match outside our team. In fact I’ve been told that apparently this was actually a popular suggestion among fans, and it’s possible DB may have even began developing this long before us. Really, this is all one big coincidence. A pretty shocking and surprising one at that. And so with the episode becoming a DEATH BATTLE, it seems like it’s no longer on the road to being a BR.

That said, I did want to do something interesting to commemorate both the cancellation and announcement of this match: the behind-the-scenes development process!

Firstly, just to show the proof that we did have this planned long before DB announced the episode, here are a couple of screenshots that date how far back we're talking:

This here is the project folder where most of the assets were kept. Sprites, character renders, etc. Kept this on a handy flash drive.

This is the research document put together in anticipation for the BR episode.(For some reason, someone switched around their positions in the thumbnail and title, even though properly it would have been known as Raven VS Twilight.) Because I spent a number of years looking into Twilight through the show, as well as various threads on different websites, I was able to contribute a wealth of information to her side of things. Additionally, I had acquired every episode of the Teen Titan animated series, as well as access to the tie-in comics made for the show, and was looking through the first season for Raven.

Research and assets weren't the only thing I was contributing to the episode however. I was also in the process of creating unique sprite edits for Twilight.

To explain, Twilight Sparkle was originally a unicorn before Season 4 of the Friendship is Magic cartoon. After the Season 3 finale, she had become an alicorn and acquired a pair of wings, granting her flight (and making her slightly taller). Unfortunately, there aren't really many (if any at all) sprite sheets specifically of alicorn Twilight. At least from what I was able to find. Sheets do exist of unicorn Twilight however, but her new wings would have to be manually added.

These are sprites from urimas, who was originally making these for a now cancelled MLP RPG fangame. Since the cancellation, the sprites were apparently made available for public use as long as credit was given, so I selected these sprites for the battle. (The art style may seem familiar to those who have seen Starscream VS Rainbow Dash: this is the same sprite artist who had made those sprites for Rainbow.)

On top of that, there were additional assets released that allowed others to add wings, a horn or more to custom made pony sprites. Using those wing assets, I recolored them and applied them to Twilight, though my job was not finished here.

For those who haven't noticed (at least if you’re an enthusiast of the show), the style of wings are actually that of a standard pegasus, but they don't match that of Twilight's wings: they take on a unique style all their own. And I did not want to do the character injustice by just lazily leaving the sprites as is.

So I began work on redesigning her wings and applying them to each individual sprite. Thankfully, while there are no sheets of alicorn Twi, there were plenty of other pixel art and renders of her for me to study and recreate her wings from.

Overall this is something I've been working on for almost 3 years. These were originally meant for use in Timmy vs Twilight, a researched fight I'm writing for DeviantArt, and were also used in Spike vs Bowser Jr as Twilight makes an appearance in the fight's story. When I learned that my desired fight for Crossover X's Battle Royale was greenlit, I immediately got to work to revamp the sprites' wings for the animation.

Raven was actually the third opponent I had in mind for Twilight. Originally I thought to Hermoine Granger from Harry Potter, but then realized it wouldn’t really be a fair contest. A popular suggestion I’ve seen from fans was Robin, the avatar from Fire Emblem: Awakening vs Twilight, which ended up being my replacement idea for a good while; but then I learned my friends and co-workers on the team had other ideas for Robin, and it also didn’t seem likely he/she would have been able to easily counter Twilight’s power either. At least from what I gathered. So I settled with Raven, but only her animated counterpart like how Fatal Fiction approached Starfire. Which made the match all the more closer and interesting in my opinion.

I had a lot planned for the fight itself, including the plot, character interactions, ideas for how the battle would've ended for either character winning, etc. I even had something special planned in regards to who I wanted to bring on for voices, and hypothetically, a particular real-world location this episode could have premiered at.

Buuut sadly, from the looks of things, it seems like we probably won't be handling this episode anymore. Welp.

[throws all of that work and plans in the garbage and sets it ablaze]

...Nah, I kid I kid. But still, it is pretty shocking and also disappointing to me because I had such high hopes for making it one of Battle Royale's best episodes despite how one would have viewed the announcement of such a match.

Now I know some of you guys are probably going to go "So what? Why not just go forth with the episode anyway?"

Well honestly, I don't know how we can. I imagine some are going to see it as a sort-of "response or disagreement" to ScrewAttack's version of the episode. Some are gonna call it unoriginal. It's weird too because when I pitched the episode, I DID NOT THINK this was a match-up the folks at SA had any interest in doing, given that at least from what I've seen, it hasn't really popped up in many areas as a popular suggestion. The match-up obviously has its close, tight connections. I guess I just underestimated the power of fans in this case.

At the same time, I can't say that I don't have my concerns for the episode. I won't cite who, but I've been told that the research being utilized for Raven will be that of a composite, and not specifically the Teen Titans animated series, an incarnation of her which is arguably more closely related to Twilight than the others. This raises concerns as the mainline DC Raven, at least from what I’ve been informed (I could always be wrong as reports are conflicting) is pretty powerful, quite possibly way too much for her opponent to handle, which kind of ruins the idea of the match for me. Not even because Twilight may potentially get stomped, but for the fact that it’ll feel like another “David vs Goliath” match where David sadly loses and faces a horrible fate for the enjoyment of others.

This was my worst fear of the match going in, which is why I wanted to limit Raven to just her animated counterpart, who is already impressive enough on her own and actually makes the match more closer. I'm not sure why different versions of her are being involved, but it is what it is. (And yes, I know DEATH BATTLE often involves multiple continuities in research, but there have been instances in the past where a character was limited to a single continuity and its tie-in media, especially due to differences in interpretation and for fairness on both ends.)

I'm surprised that Raven wasn't pitted up against other popular opponent ideas for her, such as Marvel's Scarlet Witch (whose movie counterpart will be reappearing in Infinity War this May), or Jean Grey (who is the focus of the upcoming X-Men: Dark Phoenix film releasing in November). Opponents such as them probably would have justified the decision to use mainstream Raven, but I guess they wanted to take things in a different direction, and I guess doing another Marvel vs DC fight after Black Panther VS Batman could have been jarring to some viewers looking for variety. I'm additionally surprised that we're getting another MLP character so soon. Twilight is someone I have wanted to see (and also use) in vs matches, but I didn't expect to see her in the second episode of Season 5.

I will be pleasantly surprised if Twilight SOMEHOW pulls this off (the only way I see how is through hax abilities, but even then I do believe Raven holds the speed advantage). I also imagine DEATH BATTLE may not be including the x4 alicorn boost, Rainbow Power, or anything else that could help Twilight. But honestly, at this time, it's really hard for me to believe Twilight stands a chance. Which is kinda disappointing.

Then again, I don't know what the plan for the episode is beyond that. I'm currently unsure if I should even watch the episode, but I will come to a decision before it comes out.

Still, to those in charge of the project from a research, animation, production, performance and direction-standpoint, I wish thee well with the episode. I'm personally uneasy with the initial direction the episode is heading towards (which could be my bias talking honestly), but I'd rather not let that blind the creative freedom of others. Even if said freedom could potentially lead to the undeserving, gruesome (but at least non-canon) death of one of these characters.

...Now I just need to find out what to replace that BR episode with. Months of planning and preparation are now down the drain and I need a new idea and strategy. I've been given suggestions on what to replace it with from my team (who have been supportive of me upon learning the bad news; love you guys & thanks again ❤), but I'm not sure yet. I guess until then, stay tuned?

[Shout-out to DJ for proofreading this post and Strunton for the DB thumbnail.]

#Death Battle #Crossover X #teen titans #raven #twilight sparkle #my little pony

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zeldacourage · 8 years ago

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I was tagged by @mew-poo . I don’t usually do these kinda things cause they make me anxious, but I’m feeling bored and brave lol

Rules: Answer the questions in a new post and tag 20 blogs you would like to get to know better.

Name: Megan, but my username is always ZeldaCourage and I love it when people refer to me as Zelda lol

Family Name: Nah

Gender: Female

Star Sign: Libra

Height: 5′2

Age: 22

Hogwarts House: Gryffindor

Favorite Color: Red probably

Time rn: 10:05 PM

Hours of Sleep: idk like 10 or something. I sleep a lot.

Lucky Number(s): 59

Last Thing I Googled: “List of Steven Universe episodes.”

Favorite Fictional Character: This one’s pretty difficult. Probably Ganondorf?

Blankets I Sleep With: One.

Favorite Artists: The Living Tombstone is my favorite music artist. My favorite drawing artist (uhh... visual artist I think it’s called?) is @toonimated . I can’t get enough of that style my dudes.

Dream Trip: I don’t really want to go anywhere. Leaving makes me anxious lol.

Dream Job: Editing.

What I’m Wearing rn: My “Feel the Bern” shirt. Yeah, I still wear it.

Follower Count: 306

Posts: 20,725

What Do I Post About: Zelda, DBZ, Pokemon, Steven Universe, Overwatch, a lot of different stuff. Mostly video games.

Most Active Followers: I’m really bad at paying attention to this kinda stuff lol. Looking at my activity, these guys tend to show up a lot I guess: @captainesc @emeiandstuff @earthy-artist @vason-silversword

When Did Your Blog Reach Its Peak: If “its peak” means when I got a lot of activity, it was probably when I used to make a lot of MLP shipping fanart.

Why Did You Make Your Blog: My sister wanted me to post my MLP fanart. Was originally a blog strictly for my art, but then I stopped making art and there was a lot of cool art and stuff made by other people that I just couldn’t resist not reblogging anymore.

Do You Get Asks on a Daily Basis: No, thank God. I have such bad anxiety, I tend to panic whenever I have any notifications.

Why Did You Choose Your URL: So I would have the same username I have everywhere else. First time I used the name “ZeldaCourage” was when I was a kid making my first, and current, e-mail account. Everything I wanted to put in was already taken, so I used that instead. It’s nice to have a name easy to remember and with no numbers or weird-spellings.

Countries You’ve Lived In: Only the US of A.

Favorite Fandom: I have no idea tbh. I don’t really participate in fandom, I mostly just watch things from the outside. Most fandoms for my favorite things have annoying shit like headcanon and ship wars. The Pokemon fandom seems really chill, though. So, that, I guess.

Languages You Speak: Only English.

Favorite Film: Wreck-it-Ralph!

Last Article You Read: Can’t remember. It was probably something about Breath of the Wild.

Last Thing I Bought Online: Does DLC for Mass Effect 2 count? Just started playing it on PC cause I got it for free, and I don’t have ME1 to upload my save with. But I didn’t wanna deal with the default decisions, so I bought the Genesis interactive comic DLC so I could make my own decisions.

Last Person I Dreamt Of: I don’t remember my dreams very often, but the last one I had was about Breath of the Wild. You could choose what you wanted Link to look like with a character creation thing. It was funny, cause Nintendo would NEVER do that, although I personally think it would be cool.

A Recurring Dream: Don’t really have one.

Phobias/Fears: Spiders. Social interaction. Embarrassment.

How Would My Friends Describe Me: Quiet. Sarcastic. Maybe funny? I really don’t know.

If I Had $$$ to Spend, What Would I Buy First: A Nintendo Switch and the Breath of the Wild Master Edition. I’m really looking forward to that game in case you couldn’t tell lol.

I don’t really wanna tag a bunch of people. I’m gonna steal Danny’s idea and say if you got tagged in this, you can do it if you want. Or, don’t. You know, whatever you feel like. @minazukii , I choose you. If you didn’t get tagged, you can still do it. If you want. You know, no pressure.

#meme #I think that's my tag for this #it took me almost an hour to do this #while watching tv #thanks for tagging me danny #god I shouldnt be this anxious about doing a stupid meme lol

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quonit37 · 8 years ago

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For the oc asks thing, 13.

:stands here shocked that I got an ask, wrote the reply and accidentally deleted it: Okay I guess I’ll answer it for the second time...

I’ve made so many OC’s over time, I can’t choose just one to answer this with! Guess I’ll just do them all again :3

13. What is your OC’s Gender, sexuality, species, ect...

1. Emma the Hedgehog

Back when I was like... 8 years old I was really into Sonic the hedgehog. I watched this guy who had this series having to do with sonic and there was this one other character named “Hannah” that I really liked the design of, and so I used it to create my own character

I’ll explain the pony next to it later.

Basically it was just a recolor with MS paint.

Emma is female

So here is a story. Back when I was in school all of these stereotypical white girls all pretended like they had crushes and it was so grown up of them and it totally isn’t weird for literally all of the 3rd grader girls to want to be in a sexual relationship. I didn’t wanna be part of that crowed because I thought it was stupid (good for 3rd grader me!), but everybody kept on saying I had a crush on this kid that sat in front of me in class named “Ethan” because I kept on staring at him.

he was sitting in front of me should I just turn me head whenever I stare into space? is that seriously worth it???

Anyways so eventually I wanted to stop asking me because I was just so pissed at them for asking every single time I went outside for recess and so eventually I just said I had a crush on Shadow because he was my favorite Sonic character so that they would all shut up.

2. Emma (MLP)

Still 8 and still into Sonic. I was also really into MLP!

Pegasus because wings

Female because I’m female

Literally hasn’t even thought about dating

Cutie mark is Color Pallet because at the time I was making the character I was just starting art. Nobody would play with me at recess because all of the boys were stereotypical jerks who joked about boogers and chicken and (I already explained the girls). I just didn’t hang out with anybody and recess and they knew I was different and hated me too. Never talked to anybody so I just sat and drew for recess.

The next for are going to be the more recent ones because I legit didn’t make any for the next few years.

3. Sora

Late 2015, I hear about this game called Undertale that came out in September. I play it, and I fall in love with it.

Now, when I really got the hang of Undertale I really shipped Undyne and Alphys, though one thing that I wondered is if they have had a kid. They look so different so I always wondered how the kid would look like (somehow I made a really good design!)

I sadly don’t have any pictures of her right now, so I am just going to make a quick doodle... with a mouse...

You probably won’t see most of it at first glance, and I didn’t even add any of the detail, so I guess I’ll just describe her.

Imagine Alphys, take away the spikes at the back of her head, then put red and blue fins going from her head to the end of her tail (all connected through the back).

For her name I just looked up “Top Ten girl anime names”.

I have no idea what she is. She is a monster, there.

She is female, becuase I am so used to having if a girl x girl had a kid it would be a boy so it isn’t all girls, and I just wanted to a girl so :T

She is a kid. No dating, just no.

4. Ali and Ella

Again having to do with Undertale.

They are both goat people, like Asriel and Asgore.

Ella is married to Asriel. I got really into what would happen to Asriel in the future if there was one for him/anyone. I imagine Ella being kind alike punk toriel ( oh wait you didn’t see that comic)

art by @zarla-s

And Alli is their kid.

Alli is actually older (in age) than all of the other Undertale Oc’s and she is lesbian. She doesn’t know if her parents will accept that so she visits Undyne and Alphys often.

5. Quo

This:

is Zar. Zarla’s OC that she made when she was a kid or something. She still uses it to this day! If you have been following me or paying attention to me at all, you should know I am a HUGE fangirl of Zarla. I draw pictures of Zar all the time, and at one point I wanted to add myself into the picture. Sadly, I do not have any pics of this oc so I will just do a quick drawing of her with the mouse.

nvm that was a fail. Just shave Zar, give her a much smaller tail, take away the bandanna, change her fur tone to something much lighter, give Zar brown hair but only on the top of the head, give her a scarf, and a long sleeved shirt and your done!

ye nvm you didn’t understand that.

Quo is my current oc that represents me.

Quo is me. Quo is female, Quo is fox person, Quo does not want to date. Quo follows Zar everywhere.

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Daring Do, being a pegasus, really had little magic. It was all small and strictly practical. Truth testing, safe grip that allowed the picking up of cracked or damaged things without losing any parts or causing further damage, fast read (handy but you had to know the language fairly well first) and a few other spells of that sort. They were all Non Equine Magic learned from the Non Equine University.

Truth testing was simple and unobtrusive. First, it showed her that what they saw was real. She could have sworn it was staged for effect!

“I am Captain Getsthere, of the Sea Sage. Ship’s a bit obsolete, mixed sail and steam paddle wheeler. She is sound, though, and will get you there. I hear that you want to get to the Chineignese Empire. Main port at Singapone and then up the Dunn See river to Cantrot.”

The Guardian said quietly, “Not to cast a doubt on your honorable self but all the docks are occupied by ships with Lading Deposits. None are loading, however.”

Captain Getsthere smiled, showing yellowed teeth, some with gold or silver crowns. “Legal trick there, Honorable One. If we have cargo to load and a paid Lading Deposit, the Harbor Master HAS to move a vessel that is not loading out to the roadstead and let us have the dock space.”

Daring Do invited Captain Getsthere to sit and said, “Order what you wish. We have the Lading Deposit in Gold and the cargo is in Dock Warehouse #4. So, you can get us to Singapone? What about river barge connections to Cantrot?”

The Captain was briefly busy with the waiter and then replied, “Sea Sage is shallow enough draft that we’ve been up to Cantrot six times. At low water, too. Make that whole run for you without transshipping once.”

Truth testing passed him completely, to Daring Do’s amazement. She saw Cy nodding approval. She reached into her saddlebag and pulled out the bag of gold that was the deposit for the previous vessel.

Captain Getsthere carefully counted it out. He shoved back a substantial sum. “Sea Sage’s Lading Deposit is well known. Won’t overcharge you first thing.”

Daring Do considered carefully. “Make us a proper receipt. Make us another for any refits that you think good. We want the ship under us to be as sound as possible.”

At that he nodded acceptance. “I can do that. Got a list, in fact. Was going to use the deposit money to get it.”

He left to make arrangements with the Harbor Master and order his refitting supplies from the chandlers.

The group of them were sitting outside, watching the gulls fly and the coming and going of smaller boats. The docks were full of idle ships. Most of them had the wisp of smoke at the stack that indicated operational steam up. That was required by the Royal Maritime Commission. It let docks be cleared quickly for emergencies, a precaution that had paid off handsomely in the past.

“Look!” Cy exclaimed. “They are bringing up a tug to Dock and Warehouse 4!”

The Guardian said softly, “The Rising Whale does not have steam up as required. They are pulling her out. Her captain is protesting. From the looks of the longshore ponies with axes to cut the hawser lines it will be a useless protest.”

He was right. The captain had to get a gig to catch up to his idle ship, being towed out to the roadstead.

The Sea Sage was in place and ready to load in only a half hour or so. Maneuvering a ship, even a smaller one, near a dock is tricky business and has to be done with care.

Their supplies were being loaded and the Sea Sage was taking on coal while they watched. Daring Do called on her Magic Net mirror. Looking up, she explained, “We will have three others from the Royal University joining us in a short time. I sent them ahead and told them where to wait. They are all experts in conservation and collection of delicate artifacts.”

Sure enough the three came trotting up in a little while. One, a pale mauve pony, introduced himself, “I am Senior Graduate Student Horace. These others are Jeremy, the orange guy there, and the big white mare is Soree Bea Shann. She is a Saddle Arabian exchange student.

“I don’t know why they are along. Jeremy barely made the cut for the program and HER? Her folks back in the desert are RICH. Her only qualification.”

The two were about to protest when Daring Do cut in, “THEY are along because I personally sent for them. YOU muscled your way onto the team without my consent. I am most curious as to WHY?”

Cy simply pounced. She used a right foreleg thrust to the side of Horace’s neck. He was not only knocked down, he was driven over a meter from where he had been standing a fraction of a second ago. Cy was sitting on his neck to keep him down while she explained, “Horace, here, is in ROT’s pay. He was smart enough to demand gold up front and no written contract.

“His job is to report your expedition’s progress and the exact location of the tomb. ROT will then swoop in and steal anything of value. If a few ponies have to die, including you, Doctor Do, no big deal, as he sees it. He will have money and perhaps fame.”

Daring Do considered for a moment. “How can you know these things? I have noticed other times that you knew what you really had no way of knowing.”

Going perfectly serious, Cy replied, “That is a matter of ERIS Supreme security, Doctor. The Guardian knows. In a private setting, he may tell you what he deems fit.”

With a pluck of her sleeve, the Guardian led her inside the Rusty Barnacle. Looking about to be sure of not being overheard, he told her, “You have seen her eye and mane. More was changed in her inheritance after the Mage Weapon Blast of two generations past than only her body. The Watcher of the Most Exalted One can read minds. More it is unwise to say.”

Daring Do, thinking back saw answers to many things. “Her precise combat moves. She knows were the enemy is without looking. The trick with the sewers and fire fighting mains. She was near enough to somepony who knew it! I am glad that she is a Watcher for Eris. So many try to harm her.”

They went back out where Cy was passing time by lightly popping Horace’s head against the ground. She looked up brightly as Daring Do approached. “Can I? Please? We know everything that he is aware of about the plot. I would love to kill him!”

The eager puppy look to her single eye left no doubt about Cy’s sincerity. Daring Do hated to disappoint her. “I am afraid not, Cy. I do believe you. One test, though. How was he to communicate with ROT?”

“Empty his left saddle bag. There is a hidden flap on the inside. Lifting it will reveal the pocket holding a World Wide Magic Net mirror. A small one but with plenty of reach. We at ERIS cracked that algorithm about two years ago. That type of mirror was still in development when we got it.”

Horace sort of gave up. “Those are supposed to be totally private. You heard my signals when I called them to say we were going to the ship.”

Cy looked down at him. “Something of that sort. I waited to be sure that I had what you knew before I moved, that is all.”

Slumped even flatter, Horace asked, “Since I am not going along, can’t you just let me go? I can’t hurt you now.”

Serenely digging out the mirror, Cy poked some codes. “Hello, are you Mister Robber or Mister Overthrow? Oh, you are Mister Tyrrany! I am Cyrene Clopes. I work for ERIS, Inc. I just wanted you to know that we have taken your spy for Doctor Do’s expedition.

“What? No. We are letting him go for now. The Royal Road Police will be handling the charge of Criminal Taking of Royal Funds. We thought that since you are a law firm and have him on retainer, that you would likely want to defend him in the courts.

“This was purely a courtesy call, you understand. Good bye.” She closed the mirror and handed it back to Horace.

“Do be so good as to pack your things and leave, young pony. We really don’t want you along.”

As Daring Do watched Horace go, she had a pang of conscience. She turned to Cy and said softly, “They will kill him, won’t they?”

Cy smiled calmly, watching gulls wheel overhead. “Almost certainly, Doctor Do. I might have handled things differently if this was the only bad thing that he has done. It is not. He has cheated and trampled others for most of his life.”

Soon they were all picking staterooms aboard the Sea Sage. They all rushed up to the deck to wave good bye to Cy, staying behind on the dock as the ship was towed free and the huge, nearly antique paddles began to churn the harbor’s water. Her big whistle let loose a piercing scream and crewponies worked to unfurl the sails.

Heeling gracefully, the Sea Sage rounded the breakwater and swept out onto the swells of the open sea.

Soree, the Saddle Arabian, who had never been to sea before, was happily trotting all over, looking at all of the wonderful new sights! She drew in deep breaths of the amazing salt air, the scent of smoke and lubricants from the massive two cylinder walking beam engine and the pitch on the rigging ropes.

Poor orange Jeremy was hanging his head over the rail and wishing that his heaving tummy would stop. It was emptied long ago!

Daring Do and the Guardian had a low table set up on the poop deck and were happily playing Mah Jongg, to the rattle of dice and the clacking of tiles.

Daring Do felt a deep contentment. She was on the way; another expedition to find the unknown and learn the secrets of the ancient past.

The weather, which at sea, was native and wild, untamed by Cloudsdale or any other such authority, held fine. Jeremy got over his sea-sickness. Both he and Soree began to learn the ins and outs of Mah Jongg. It is an excellent four hoof game.

The weather did not prove to be a problem. The pirates, on the other hoof …

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