#an arius original

[bornofgoodlyparentsandalsotrans]

Found in The Compass Gallery in Provo, Utah

[novasolstarr]

FINALLY HES REAL

HERES MY MENTAL ILLNESS

MY SON ARIUS

IM GONNA PASS OUT NOW

Oh and

Zoom in on the text and this little sketch collection cause it's a bit difficult to see

[moonlitvesper]

[wormwoof]

the irresistible allure of soft kitty tummy

[orion-overdrive]

a bard, an angel of death, a dream spirit, and a harvest god

(the dudes from here given their own post)

[sourangry]

୨୧:

Escrevo aqui como memórias em meu túmulo, e sou mais um alguém incompleto. Eu encontrei conforto em escrever todos os meus sentimentos para o homem que nunca irá me confortar de verdade, pois ele só existe no subconsciente de minha mente.

Darius possui 41 anos, é um velho um tanto mal humorado e ouvinte, odeia ser contrariado e interrompido, ele é o espectador de todas as minhas frustrações, está além de um OC, ele é a pura motivação de eu ainda não desistir.

Espero que vocês não se identifiquem muito com meu atual estado mórbido, eu sou alguém negligente com meu próprio tratamento, mas espero que apreciem os sonetos e poemas para aquele que eu amo mais do que amarei a mim mesma um dia.

[deschainartnerd]

They’re all doomed by the narrative in one way or another 😔

[flagellant]

What would you say is the earliest church heresy? Like, the original big no-no

Oh see now you've hit an interesting little rabbit hole without realizing it, because we know both a whole lot and also not much about the early days of the Christian church as we understand it.

So this faith leader guy gets executed or whatever, right? And now you have a bunch of his post-postmortem followers running around spreading his branch of weird Judaism which gets twisted into the first beginnings of Messianic Christianity. But this is back in ye olde days, and also the Romans are gonna be killing any Christians they can find, so the earliest days of the church are mystery cults sporadically popping up like mushrooms. (Is the Holy Spirit like a mycelial network? Who can say)

One of these early Christians was a very popular guy named Arius. Arius told his followers that Jesus WAS born of God, but that he was NOT God himself (the word you're looking for vis a vis that relationship is that Jesus is consubstantial with God, as in, made of the same simultaneous divinity.) and therefore should not be worshipped as one would God.

Then some time passes and all the big bishops of this hot new gig called Christianity realize, wait, hold on, we need to get shit straightened out. We can't ALL be calling ourselves Christian when people are saying Jesus was a hologram, or that he was born of God but isnt God, or that he was just some guy that God really liked. We need to all sit down and decide what we as a unified and universal group believe about our religion. So they all go down to this little place called Nicaea where everyone hashes out exactly what they believe in as Christians, and the end result is that Arius was shot down, which is why in the Nicene Creed there's that one specific line that goes something like this:

Et in unum Dominum Iesum Christum, Filium Dei unigenitum, ex Patre natum ante omnia saecula. Deum de Deo, Lumen de Lumine, Deum verum de Deo vero, genitum non factum, consubstantialem Patri; per quem omnia facta sunt.

Sharp eyes may have spotted that special little word consubstantialem in there. The earliest founders of the early church basically made certain that in their formalized dogma, Arianism would always be called heretical, because Jesus' position in the trinity requires him to be equal to but distinct from the Father. All of trinitarian Christianity agrees that Arianism is a no go.

Personally I do think we should have more Judasian heresies though. Like I guess I get why so many early heresies are centered around the nature of the trinity and specifically J Dog but it does begin to grate.

[nekoprankster218]

for fanfic reasons I was googling the meaning and origin of Zeref's reincarnation name "Arius", since it seemed obvious why Mavis' reincarnation was "Mio" but Zeref's didn't start with a Z

and apparently Arius is a Greek / Latin boy name meaning stuff like "warlike spirit", "devoted to Ares" (the war god), and my favorite of the list "bane". but also it was specifically the name of an ascetic and priest that was exiled for blasphemy and (allegedly) founded his own theology called Arianism.

and if that ain't perfect for the guy cursed by the god of magic, formed his own empire, caused basically all evil wizards to worship him specifically, and led the final war of the main series-

[put-me-out-of-my-destiny]

I'm having thoughts about a plot starring Trish, Lucia, and Lady. Posting them here:

The enemy faction is an organization devoted to fighting demons, similar to the Order of the Sword, but with more of a modern military aesthetic. They were a bit of a fringe group up until the Qliphoth incident, after which they received a massive influx of enlistees and funding.

By some means, they learn about the original Nightmare, a demon created by Mundus from his own blood, that had the power to destroy the Underworld by itself. They also learn of Trish and her origins, and seek to secure a sample of her blood to create their own Nightmare, perhaps even multiple Nightmares (this is based on another old idea of mine).

Much of their intel was fed to them by Machiavelli, who I've pitched as a villain for a plot starring Vergil and Dante in the past. However, I actually think he'd be more of a begrudging ally to our heroines. Machiavelli is a war profiteer, but this organization wants a weapon to end all weapons, to start a war to end all wars, and that would render him obsolete.

Trish and Lady would both be highly distrustful of Machiavelli. Trish and Dante parted ways because she felt responsible for Enzo Ferino losing his hand to one of Machiavelli's creations in the Drama CD. Lady herself spent a whole month possessed by one of them in DMC5. Come to think of it, Trish is the one who brought Artemis to the Qliphoth in the first place, you'd think she'd feel terrible about what happened to Lady based on her reaction to what happened to Enzo.

They might try to sway Lady to their side, she's an ordinary human who relies on human-made weaponry, they think she's like them. However, she doesn't find humans inherently more trustworthy than demons. Her father was born human, after all, and most of her friends are at least part demon, especially the very demon these people are trying to exploit.

The organization has a contract with the Ouroboros Corporation. It's new CEO is actually a clone of Arius created by the same means as mannequin/secretary demons like Lucia. There's an element of tragedy to this character, he's pretty evil, but he was never given the choice to be anything else. Trish would relate to him, maybe she'd try to reach out to him the way Dante reached out to her. I don't imagine he's entirely aware of what this organization is planning, he wants to use demonic power to rule the world, not to destroy the demon world. If he found out, perhaps he too would become a begrudging ally. But I don't think he'd choose to abandon his evil ways if given the chance.

A leader in this organization is a surviving family member of Eva's, perhaps a parent or a sibling, who blames Sparda for her death, and wants a piece of this mysterious demon wearing her face. Trish might try to explain her real origins, and this character is just appalled to learn that their sister gave birth to two half-demons, assuming they'd even believe Trish.

While Lucia loves Matier very much, and is grateful for the love she's been given, there's tension between them due to how long Matier hid the truth about Lucia's origins, which comes up again after the reemergence of the Ouroboros Corporation and Arius.

One mechanic from Dante's DMC2 moveset that should transfer to Lucia is the Desperate Devil Trigger, also called the Majin Devil Trigger. A major source of internal conflict for Lucia is a fear of completely giving in to her demonic nature, of losing control of herself and becoming a threat to others. While this fear is mostly irrational, suddenly gaining a more powerful devil form, one that manifests in dire circumstances where Lucia is fighting to survive, would validate that fear.

A piece of lore I've speculated about before is Anima Mercury, described in DMC4 as an 'artificial soul'. I could see this organization messing with that, essentially utilizing robots. Perhaps this includes a return of Infested Tank and Infested Chopper.

I've talked before about how a female-led DMC game should focus on the notion of given v.s. chosen family, and I think the ideas given so far could serve as a vehicle for that. Trish is being targeted because of something her maker did. Lady's motives are heavily informed by her experiences with her human father and with the demons she calls friends. One antagonist is a mannequin demon like Lucia, made in the likeness of the man who created and disposed of her. Another antagonist is Eva's next of kin, who disapproves of the family that she started with Sparda. Lucia is reconciling her love for Matier, who chose to love Lucia when she was discarded by her maker, with the fact that Matier lied to her about it for her whole life.

Also, what if Gloria was a real character who moved to this organization after Trish stole her identity, infiltrated the Order of the Sword, and helped bring it down?

[meduseld]

Anyway I went ahead and named my loser Templar Wolves.

Captain True Believer is now Paris DeNoël (his last name is kind of a joke, he was rescued by the order as a child during the Christmas season as the sole survivor of an attack, raised by the Order until he took the Bite and his vows at about 18. They gave him the name both as a nod to the Season but also as a bit of a joke. He had his firstname already though, just he was a peasant who didn't need and wasn't given a surname)

My Anakin, is now Anaximander of Ambois, the seventh son (bc werewolf lore) of an important Count or Duke, who was like tossed to the side since he was so low on the inheritance radar, so he ended up being sent to train at the order. Paris was like. Fascinated by him talking about family dynamics and luxuries and being a rich brat without realizing the incipient going mad with power happening.

Mr. I Don't Wanna Be Here and his Brother, named for key members of the Egyptian Coptic Church bc their family fled Egypt after the Islamic Conquest (Meduseld when and where is this happening? It's fantasy land with whatever real life medieval/historic elements I wanna steal who cares) so they are a minority despite nominally being aligned with these people religiously. Arius, the elder, and Nestorious, the younger. Both of Alexandria, as surname needs and use goes.

Records Guy is John Mark, after the Evangelists. Probs not his original given name, or whatever passed as his surname, it's his monk name, but hey he likes it. Also passed into Order care as a child, way less angst over that. Didn't tip over into believing he was Chosen like Paris, he's just happy to be here!

The Weird one is Karol. For Pope John Paul II but also I just dig it for him vibes wise. Mom always does and Arius eventually calls him Karo, he only likes that from Arius. Paris refuses to, since he is afraid of getting close after Anaximander. He's technically Karol Młynarz but that just means miller, he was a miller's son. Really good at numbers/supplies at Daddy's job which is how he became a regular soldier focused on that end until he got wrapped up in this. Happiest balancing ledgers/supply manifests.

Scottish mom friend is MacNair. He just goes by MacNair. He *has* a given name, but he doesn't like to give it. (It's Uilleim aka William. Maybe Paris knows it, and their like superiors in the Order do, but there is no one still living who was close enough to call him that)

The Orders have longer formal names and subsections with particular names, but they are generally refered to as the Order of the Wolf for the militant werewolf brotherhood which actively combats vampires/ghouls/demons etc, and the Order of the Moon for their sister non-werewolved academic branch (i.e. things seen and understood by the light of the moon, the occult or supernatural). IF like someone is afflicted by a witch curse, you generally see a Wolf Brother and a Moon Brother dispatched: one to kill the witch, one to lift the curse and treat the victims. The Moon has both monks and nuns in separate branches, but women are not allowed within the Order of the Wolf proper at all.

(There are technical and buried by them as much as possible cases of female survivors of attacks that could be rehabilitated and hidden at their Moon nunneries, but it is extremely rare since A) they have a kill them all approach to lycanthropy infectees found outside the order even if they could theoretically take, you're bit you're gone, B) they have no formal aim or concept of rehabilitation, once you're feral/biting people it is curtains for you and stepping out of line as an Order Member in some form to that is also an execution order. They also have a NO KIDS policy for reasons that should be obvious and consider that a mercy kill if children are infected and C) it's lowkey heresy to okay/condone non Order and thus Church sanctioned lycanthropy and the transmission thereof. Every once in a while they will find someone who survived a moon night, did not give into a mental breakdown or dissociation of that and actively asked for help and "repented" asked for God's mercy that they chose to take a chance on/were able to get to a point they could keep, and given statistics they were only women 50% of the time.)

That's why it's a huge no no and a get you both executed if you give someone the Bite without the nod (i.e. your sick mom when you are an Orderite, or your gf since you took a vow of chastity and they don't let female werewolves be around) but battlefield and emergency transformations have happened and are generally okayed afterward like what happened with Karol. They've also had to like. Bite Nobles and shit who had the pull to ask for it even when they were 99% sure it was gonna end in a screaming agony death of gnarly supernatural infection. Or axe crazy eating people wolf they need to put down. So Anaximander wasn't just militarily and politically in revolt/rebellion, he was doing blasphemy and heresy, as well as threatening his family's noble position and making the Order look back for not controlling him. They went brutal scorched earth on him, and given how he was biting minions and also happily eating people as he was like Well I Am a Werewolf, it is I who is made in God's Image, Humans are Here to Serve me as Cattle: God set Adam above the Animals, and Werewolves over Adam, the death toll was HIGH.

Hence it being a Big Deal that Paris did allow some of them to surrender and join the fold, it was a true act of mercy and goodness (and his own attempt to salvage something from a betrayal so personal to him), so there is a lot of added pressure to Arius and Nestorius.

[bornofgoodlyparentsandalsotrans]

I saw this piece by Hannah Olive, titled “After The Manner Which I Shall Show Thee,” at the Gather conference last weekend. It touched me deeply, especially with the printed description in front of it, which I would like to share with all of you.

“People may not understand why you are trying to build a ship. They might be angry with you for trying to build a ship. They might tell you that you're stupid for trying and that you should just go back to Jerusalem. You may not know how to build a ship, or even know anyone else in your life who does. But the Lord can show you, personally, how you can build a life with who you are and what you have available to you. He can lead you to where you're meant to be.”

(Bonus: my sister’s response)

[bellmo15-blog]

The OTHER Plugsuited Demon Beauty.

Oh boy, this is going to be an interesting one to talk about.

It's hardly a secret at this point but Devil May Cry 2 is widely agreed upon, when people aren't busy ragging on the 2013 reboot that is, to be the worst game in the series. And there's plenty of good and valid reasons for that. Aside from the obvious stuff that people love to meme on anyway like how over powered the guns are or that one of the bosses is literally a tank there's stuff like how the games story isn't explained very well, Dante had all the personality and charisma that made him so likable sucked out of him, the game's world looking bland and lifeless compared to the first games setting which still looks wonderful even today, the only other melee weapons you can get are just reskins of your starting one with only very minor differences and how pretty much every problem this game has could of been avoided if Capcom didn't force a completely different team who had never worked on an action game before to make it in only 2 years. And people act like publishers treating there devs like shit is a new thing this generation...

Even with all the shit DMC 2 does wrong and rightfully get's crap for there is one aspect from it I actually really do like and it might surprise you to hear what it is. Lucia. I actually kind of really like her. Not so much her gameplay because it has the same issues as Dante's gameplay and I'd argue is even worse because she has several awful underwater sections, but more just everything else about her.

Her design for one thing I really like especially since her Devil Trigger makes her look like a Mega Absol but also her story two a little. She learns during her campaign that she's actually a defective demon created by the games main villain Arius and the rest of her story she's having one big existential crisis due to a fear she's going to lose control of herself and become a monster killing everyone which for as wired as this sounds is actually kind of relatable. Because let's be completely honest here, how many of you people have learnt something about yourself that you have no idea how to react to or how to process and spend a good while worrying about it? Hell, I didn't even know I was autistic or what the concept of Autism even was until I was 14 years old and you bet I spent several days not knowing how to even process that at first. Not to mention the several years I was worried I'd grow up to be an angry and bitter man because of how my own farther had anger issues himself. I mean sure, maybe Lucia's story could of been handled a lot better in game and fleshed out a lot more but it is because of the likely un-intended relatability that does actually make me like her a bit.

Which brings me to the whole reason I decided to get her in Rei's White Plugsuit in the first place. Aside for the colour matching Lucia's original design I mean. I mentioned in the Trish Plugsuit pic ChaosCroc did for me that the whole reason I was motivated to get that was because of how Trish being a demon created in the image of Dante's mother Eve was very similar to how Rei in Evangelion was created as a clone of Shinji's mother. Only there are multiple Rei's in Evangelion in the event that one happens to die. Just like how there are technically multiple Lucia's and the one we follow in Dee Em Cee Too is a defect. And that justification pretty much speaks for itself! Lucia had some similarities to Rei and it inspired me. And I'm happy to have gotten this pic. Especially since over the years I've actually wanted Lucia to show up again in new game a little because it sucks that she's stuck in the worst game in the series and anything past that she DOES show up in is in supplementary material we might never get outside of Japan.

Artist is AmeerAshourDraws. Also fun fact, the design of his Ashour Drones was slightly inspired by Plugsuits which is peak!

[dragonfelling]

Happy STS! Did your OC ever have a favorite lullaby or bedtime story when they were a kid?

Happy STS! I've written about a character telling another a story to help them calm down before, actually! I dont remember if I posted it before, but when Mavros and Amara were small, Amara would go to her older brother when the storms got scary and crawl into his bed. There, he'd tell her the same story about the storms each time.

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When she was young and scared of when the Anemoian lightning storms got bad, she would find herself in Mavros’ room. Mavros never seemed scared of such things. He was never scared. He’d get up to light the lantern on his bedside and invite her to share the covers.

He held up a thin blanket so they could use it like a tent, and tell her the origin of the storms. The lightning was Lord Pinnas' love for his long gone wife and children, the thunder his battlecry, and the rain was his tears because he lost them; but it's okay because now he brings the rain to keep us fed, the thunder to sing us to sleep, and the lightning is sent through the heavens to guide us in the darkest nights.

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On a related topic, Iasis, (Mavros and Amara's uncle) often plays his mandolin and sang lullabies to all his kids. First to his late son, Arius, and then later he'd sing these poems to Deidre and Arias. He had all sorts, but most of them would have to do with themes of Iasis protecting them, safety, and about their Lord Pinna. Before his own children, he would sing to his youngest brother, Fluvius and his younger sister Janu. He made a lot of these songs, but some of them came from books and the stories are from his tutors and books. Iasis loves to write poems, but he has a lot of shame around it so he usually only recites these songs in privacy or to the young he cares for.

[wormwoof]

(click for the full image!) pining and lonesome

[orion-overdrive]

white haired men???? white haired men?????? have any white haired men?????? *holds out cup*

sorry for the wait anon you just gave me an excuse to update these dudes' designs

anyways i have at least four! from left to right:

sylvian ambrose is a traveling bard with bad luck in love and an uncanny ability to control plants. he has very little memory from before he started traveling, and his earliest recollection is waking up in an enchanted forest.

arius augurine is an angel of death turned human who is employed by the local adventurer's guild as a bookkeeper. he has a daughter that's part of the same guild and took the job to keep a closer eye on her

valerian lumince is a dream archon, tasked with keeping his portion of the dream realm stable. he has a very hands-off way of ruling over his territory and only shows his face when there's an emergency, so dream denizens consider his public appearances bad luck.

and revaire récolte is a disgraced harvest god in hiding just a normal denizen of his quaint little town — no divinity shenanigans happening here! he ends up being the social media manager for a local magical girl group.

(required attributions: the flowery part on sylvian's vest, the pattern on arius' shirt)