#and the whole prophecy thing and all that

[shanastoryteller]

Yey merry Christmas! Can I get some more time traveler Percy, I SAW Luke checking him out lets get into that 👀

a continuation of 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

When Persephone promised him her protection even though time, this really wasn't what Percy had in mind.

"Um," he says, mouth hanging open as he looks up at the glowing pomegranate. "I can explain?"

"What's there to explain?" Chiron asks, shaking off his shock. "You are the son of Persephone."

He's really not. But it's not like he can say that, because that would mean revealing he's the son of Poseidon. And ignoring the whole time traveling aspect of it all, he's obviously older than sixteen. The last thing he needs is to be assigned the role of the child of prophecy again.

It's supposed to be Thalia. The whole point of going back in time and getting Thalia safely to Camp Half Blood is so that it'll be her.

"Damn," Luke says, grinning at him with none of the anger or betrayal that Percy had expected. He hadn't lied about being unclaimed, but he hadn't told them who his godly parent was either. He hadn't thought he'd live long enough for it to matter. "No wonder you kept kicking my ass. Could you do that the entire time?"

"Um." He turns around to look at the crevice he's opened up in the earth. It hasn't closed completely, a faint red light flickering on the edges that's more than a little concerning. "I have no idea."

Son of the Earthshaker or not, he should not be able to open up a gateway to Hades's domain, he doesn't think. Except he's been claimed by the queen of the underworld, so maybe that is something he can do now.

What a mess.

It really would have been much simpler for everyone if he'd just died.

[axikitksauce]

Okay so-

>There is a large population of anthromorphic animals who don't have any special powers. Sometimes they're mostly just implied, and sometimes we see them. Most of the main characters have weird abilities, but that's kinda just the plot making the important people more important. I think most of them are weird mutants.

>Sonic is just fast, and the chaos emeralds dont seem to have anything to do it. Unless there's some weird obscure prequel I don't know about, his speed is just something he has and we never find out how he got it, so the implication is that he's born with it. However, Sonic ALSO seems to be talented at using the Chaos Emeralds in a way that nobody else is. In sonic 1, he's able to use them by ACCIDENT. In sonic 2 and 3K, he can use all seven to go super, and tails acts as a contrast: he can't go super with the regular chaos emeralds, and needs the extra power of the "super emeralds." Knuckles can, but he comes from a clan whose whole deal is guarding the emeralds. Sonic just seems to be a natural. In SonicAdventure 2, he uses Chaos Control with a counterfeit emerald. That fake chaos emerald was built to give off exactly enough energy to pass as a real one for like five seconds before breaking, and sonic used it to perform one of the longest-distance chaos-control teleports we've seen, having never used chaos control before and basically only seeing shadow use it like twice. SO THERE'S THAT

>Knuckle's clan had prophesies about sonic. There's an ancient mural in one of their temples depicting the final boss fight of Sonic Adventure 2. SO there's also THAT. The same thing happens in Sonic Adventure, with the final boss, Perfect Chaos, being forshadowed by an echidna mural. In this case, though, it's a little less mind blowing - in story, it makes chronological sense for the echidnas to have met chaos, made a mural of it, and then have that mural be ancient by the time chaos meets sonic.

What's interesting is that chaos is ALSO naturally talented at transforming using the Chaos Emeralds. We've technically seen the emeralds used without all seven present just once in sonic 1, but Chaos is the first character we've ever seen get any amount of power out of just one emerald - it's even more impressive that that power is a transformation. I just realised that perfect chaos is ANOTHER Dragon Ball Z Reference. God Dammit.

Chaos' final form is absurdly large and powerful. In terms of size, it's a far more drastic transformation than sonic's ever come close to, but in terms of power, Super Sonic is equal to it. Years later, (but also at the exact same time. it's a time travel thing) Sonic will defeat Perfect Chaos without using any Chaos Emeralds at all. I don't know if there was ever a canon explaination for this power boost. He can just do it now.

Considering that the echidna tribe's purpose was to guard the master emerald, (which not only had Chaos sealed in it for years, but ALSO has the power to give or take energy to and from the other emeralds, while being a giant chaos emerald ITSELF) *GASP FOR BREATH* It seems likely that the purpose of these murals, depicting extremely powerful users of the Chaos Emeralds, would be to remind the Echidnas of why they're doing what they do.

And SHADOW...

...is heavily implied to be based off of the prophecies about sonic.

Doctor Gerald Robotnik wanted to create an "ultimate lifeform," and seems to have come to the conclusion that that meant recreating one of the prophecies from the Echidna's murals.

For a start, we KNOW that we was trying to recreate chaos, because his attempts are enemies in Sonic Adventure 2 and Shadow The Hedgehog. This might also explain why draft 1 of his "ultimate life form" was a big fucking lizard that can kind of use Chaos Control. It's weird to leap from a big lizard to an anthro hedgehog, but it would make sense if he was basing the projects off of the creatures he saw in the echidna's murals.

(Ironically, as eggman's grandfather, he also indirectly "created" one of the other people depicted in those murals. good for him.)

We know that he developed technology to use the Chaos Emeralds as a power source, and the Ultimate Life Form project was basically just the process of converting that technology into an organism. He genetically engineered organs that could allow a living thing to harness the emeralds' power.

(There's even a page from gerald's journal basically reading "man, would a living creature capable of directly controlling chaos emeralds be fucked up or what?" It's funny, but it also implies once again that sonic's ability to use their power IS NOT NORMAL.)

The technology was perfected when he created shadow. Shadow shows up using chaos emeralds in a way nobody else seemingly can. He can use "chaos control" to stop time and/or teleport, and can do it with just one emerald.

At first, it seems like he's much more talented at using the emeralds than sonic is, but as SA2 goes on, it turns out that the only thing really holding sonic back was that he just didn't know that he COULD do anything with the emeralds except for using all seven to transform. Like I mentioned... he just tries chaos control with a FAKE EMERALD and it works. Shadow doesn't even pretend that he isn't impressed by this.

When Sonic and Shadow go Super and team up for the true final boss, Shadow tells sonic during the fight: "I think I've discovered what the Ultimate Life Form is. It might be you!"

This is a... weird line. But it's commonly taken as confirmation that the concept of the ultimate life form was based on the Echidna's prophecies, with Shadow realising that Sonic is the creature from those prophecies, making him the truest realisation of the concept of the "Ultimate Life Form."

He also says that in space. Just sayin words. in space. Making noise. In space. That's odd. There's a possible ending in Shadow The Hedgehog where shadow gets gaslit into thinking he's a robot.

So basically... Sonic is inexplicably fast, but he's ALSO inexplicably the prophecised chosen one who can use the chaos emeralds like nobody else can, and I don't know why! I think nobody does! Shadow was (IMPLICITLY) an imitiation of sonic as he appeared in the prophecies, and was genetically engineered to have comparable skill with the emeralds.

I think I got everything right....

I don't know if shadow has super speed or if they're just roller blades though, sorry.

A lot of this is popular fan speculation and I dont know everything, but this is what i got. When it came to fan theories, I tried my best to present the evidence first and explain how people drew conclusions from it, rather than just say "shadow is an attempt to copy sonic" like it's a straightup fact. But maybe I did that. I dont' know. im eepy. Keep in mind that this is canon to the games, and the comics and cartoons make up their own shit with nobody stopping them. Also, not all the games are canon to each other, and I have no idea where shadow came from in the sonic boom universe. And some games are fully canon but have been retconned through time travel. god help us all.

Can someone with sonic autism explain some lore to me, please?

[valenrepetto]

so whats the gift of prophecy like

I still can't believe that I got all I wanted from the movie and even more, I was in cloud 9 during the whole thing

[hugemilkshake]

Okay so I’ve been playing the Cookie Run games for a while and I’m realizing how in most games Gingerbrave should be dead-

Like that sounds bad but in the games, he’s just been born and somehow finds himself fighting god or something

And most of the time, Gingerbrave has a shit ton of bravery, friends. main character privileges and nothing else

Now that’s not a bad thing, Gingerbrave is a very fun and enjoyable character but let me just tell you what I think the differences between each Gingerbrave is and the tom foolery he experiences in each game (summed up since I don’t feel like going in depth)

And if you want to discuss this then feel free! I’m open to theory’s and other ideas :3

This will have spoilers so be warned!

Ovenbreak

Gingerbrave has been born and escapes the oven with some friends, they find a compass which eventually leads him to battling a primordial dragon (with friends ofc)

In Ovenbreak, Gingerbrave seems like a more head on guy, trying to reach his goal while also aiding others along the way

Kingdom

He escapes the witches house, creates a whole ass kingdom and then chases a dog with a crown which leads him to having to stop Dark Enchantress from destroying cookie kind but now there’s these beast cookies who are also going to destroy cookie kind (and there might be something worse coming) so now he has to help prevent that

Gingerbrave seems like more of a support character in kingdom since he’s usually there for moral support (like at the moment, the ancients are facing most of the challenges-)

Witches Castle

Gingerbraves been born and now had to worry about a witch eating you, but before you escape Ginger Dozer aka your little brother figure gets kidnapped so you save him but now have you are going to find all the cookies from the first batch to save a baby and help First Cream Cookie fitful her destiny

Gingerbrave seems to go with the flow in this one, like “you need help? Well I was going to go and escape but I’ll help”

The Darkest Night (the vr game)

Not many people acknowledg this version and I still want to play it but basically Gingerbrave is born and becomes cookie kinda last hope against the dark lord

Gingerbrave in this one I’m not sure but maybe he’s determined?

And now you might be wondering why haven’t I mentioned Tower of Adventures yet? Well thats because ToA Gingerbrave has one little quirk that makes him not seem like he’d die without main character privilege

He’s the Cookie with a Shinning Heart, the cookie of prophecy. He’s able to reverse darkness/ undo damage the oven has caused. While he’s not sure how he can do this, he was able to vanquish darkness.

He literally has a power besides unlimited bravery.

In ToA Gingerbrave is basically hope and is over all hopeful that everything will turn out just fine

Now I love Gingerbrave, he’s a fun character but ToA Gingerbrave is not only my favorite, but built different.

Because, this is just me but Gingerbrave is very much motivated by his friends, ToA brave is no exception, but if his Sugar Star wasn’t kidnapped and his friends lives weren’t at risk from the oven, he would probably just go and vibe on one of the floors. While the other braves seem like they’ll actively go out of their way to aid someone else.

I will also mention Witches Castle brave because he kinda just wants to escape but he literally didn’t have to help out, he could have dipped, and come to think of it, all of the braves except maybe Darkest Night and ToA could have dipped.

But now I’m will say that Darkest Night Gingerbrave could have just hidden away instead of fighting the dark lord.

So basically ToA Gingerbrave is the only one who 100% had to do something and somehow seems the most chill? Like yes, the position he’s in is probably stressful but in dialogue in the levels, you can see that he’s having fun with his friends while he’s on his adventure!

So in summary if I was Gingerbrave I would have become a villain by now-

[therysss]

(Sketch) Rhaego Targaryen, Heir of The Iron Throne Dragon's Bay WIP Redesign of a redesign of my "main" ASoIaF AU: Age of Iron and Steam. You can find the other (few) arts from this project in the tag "The Age of Iron and Steam AU". Martin may hate me for fanficting, but it's kind of his fault for killing off this character who- oh my god, could have been great… Or terrible for, you know, stone houses and stuff. The whole conflict behind this doubt/prophecy is exactly what I want to explore in this AU beyond the New Age that has begun in Meereen. I'm not sure yet if I'm going to turn it into a fanfic, or just a series of drawings with scenes I have in mind since University prevents me from spending much time on either of those things. Well, this is Rhaego, the Stallion Who Mounts the World, or Who Will Mounts… He's only 14, GIVE HIM A BREAK! Anyway, design explanation: I wanted to reflect not only his Dothraki heritage, in a way that still honors his Valyrian heritage, but also shows a touch of his personality: Even when casual, the prince dresses richly. Over his bare chest, Rhaego wears a traditional hand-painted leather jacket, a gift from his sister, who painted the jacket in the colors of their house, featuring several embroidery of the three-headed dragon from the Targaryen sigil; the black and red scarves at his waist are held by two belts, one of bronze medallions holding Valyrian glyphs that means "Blood", "Power" and "Fire", respectively, and the other made of Valyrian Steel with rubies set into each of the "coins"; His braids are held back at the nape of his neck by a hair pendant whose end is shaped in the image of three dragon heads, with silver and gold rings, bells, black and red ribbons and other hair accessories along the length of the three braids that have never been cut. He also wears accessories all over his body, a scarf with rings on his arm, riding gloves that cover part of his forearm, several rings on both hands, silver earrings with rubies and most notably a Valyrian Steel necklace with a pendant in the shape of another Valyrian Glyph, "Raqagon" which means "Love".

[rubys-domain]

so... i finished act 2. now what

[asha-mage]

MDZS AU where Jiang Cheng realizes that Lan Sizhui is the Wen orphan that Wei Wuxian took care off during the Burial Mounds arc, decides that's close enough to qualify him as Nephew, declares that no Nephew of His (much less a surrogate son of Wei Wuxian's) is going to be raised in the Cloud Recedes, and immediately launches into a custody battle with Lan Wangji.

But since neither Jiang Cheng or Lan Wangji can acknowledge that Sizuhi has any connection to Wei Wuxian, both begin steadfastly and stubbornly insisting that he is a Cultivator of peerless potential and skill and he belongs in their sect thank you very much, and would clearly be very unhappy in the other's. This confuses the hell out of the already mystified Cultivation world, who had barely adjusted yet to gossiping about Sizhui being Wangji's illegitimate child by mysterious love affair.

(Eventually the common consensus in the rumor mills is that both JC and LW where in love with Sizhui's mother and both believe themselves to be Sizhui's real father.)

(LW couldn't care less what gossips say, but JC has to bite his tongue till it bleeds to avoid telling anyone the truth in a fit of anger.)

(It was Nie Huaisang who put that rumor out in the first place, partly to troll JC, partly because, in a way, it's a little true.)

[thewingedwolf]

the arryn line has died out so many times they always have a backup line ready to be the next arryn, these bitches are just sooooo bad at living. everyone’s always picking on the starks for getting nearly wiped out but damn ned & cat really hunkered down and repopulated the hell out of the family tree, like the starklings aren’t doing that bad, meanwhile you just like, sneeze too hard in the direction of the eyrie and the whole arryn line is on the brink of extinction, but it’s okay, they follow strict osha guidelines in the vale and they have a protocol for this very common scenario

[luck-of-the-drawings]

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saw alot of comments on prev pages; saying 'i HATE that mean teacher! im gonna FIGHT HIM!!' & i LOVE the energy!! it WOULD be nice. to have that catharsis. but the story of young tidestrider is Not one of catharsis. it is a story of being so small and so special and sucking so bad.

[kuroko99]

did absolutely no one else but me think KDJ's loophole for the dark castle arc was "incarnation Kim Dokja will be killed by the one he loves most" when he was already a constellation.

like.

[sesamenom]

maglor's first time getting to go to a concert / his favorite singer attending maglor's first big concert

[dragonloanshark]

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[unionizedwizard]

poisoned book investigation update: i reached the part of queen margot that deals with the poisoned book and this only made me more convinced that this is indeed. what happened. back in 2010. because 1) i know my mother well and therefore know she would kin catherine de' medici (yes yes i know. i know. what can i say. she's insane. it's a family tradition) 2) in the novel, the book was poisoned by catherine herself (she conceived and carried out both the scheme and the execution herself), and meant to kill her political enemy and son-in-law (but ended up poisoning (and killing) her own son). the exact method of course would be unsuitable for my own mother to imitate as it is the exact same method used in the name of the rose (possibly where umberto eco got the inspiration from, actually?), therefore as i mentioned earlier impossible to recreate with the kind of paper my copy of the three musketeers was printed on. but. yeah. not that i had many doubts at this point anymore but this is really. convincing evidence. psychologically speaking.

like for the. catherine de' medici kin part:

my mother always loved her as a historical figure. we did visit a lot of historical castles and museums and all when i was a kid and she always had a marked preference for 1) the renaissance era and history 2) the medici family 3) catherine de' medici specifically. she admired her cunning and force of spirit and ambition and influence. #1 girlboss supporter (she did not support the. you know. religious massacres tho. she didn't think catherine was a great figure to emulate or whatever. but she admired her nonetheless)

as i've mentioned before, my mother has always been a wannabe italian. she's especially fond of the italian renaissance and in particular florence and its history. in the novel the fact catherine de' medici is florentine is a key part of her characterization

physically there seems to be a similarity? dumas doesn't actually describe his characters' appearance much, but from the few elements we get, it seems to fit (= pale, grey(?) eyes with a cold and cunning look, short and stout but pretty, white hands (that she takes great care of), short and stout (fat?) stature in general, blonde hair, small lips, imposing presence that makes other people immediately fall in line & scares them (she was very proud of that)). it's not much but knowing her she would jump to conclusions and want to really. Be Like Her

sorry i know how this sounds i KNOW you don't have to believe me but i swear this is all true. inherited insanity and all that. the true Drow Ass Family

[kateis-cakeis]

Okay okay thinking about it, really thinking about it. My post from the other day (here) I said "you see him slip into this version of himself that is hardly recognisable, even when you compare him to his characterisation in S4" talking about S5 Merlin.

And then I really thought about, okay but what if say S1 Merlin was put into S5 Merlin's shoes, would he do any different? Would he?

Honestly, think about it.

Let's take him at the end of S1, where he was ready to give up his life for Arthur completely to save him. I mean sure he did that in S1Ep4, and tried to do it in S1Ep11, but Ep13 is where it really hits. He said goodbye after all.

This is a Merlin that was ready to tell Arthur about his magic, but was locked out of the possibility after Will lied as he died to protect him.

This is a Merlin who already tried to kill Mordred. Or well, let him die really. Not so much kill.

So let's look at lines from S1EP8 about Mordred dying vs Arthur dying, shall we? ...

"Would you let something terrible happen if it meant you'd stop something even worse happening in the future?"

"One of them's bad, really bad. And the other, it's...unthinkable."

"For once, you don't have to worry. I'm going to do nothing."

I cut out Gaius's replies because Merlin's lines are more important here. The 'something terrible' and the one that's 'bad, really bad' refer to letting Mordred be executed.

Meanwhile the 'something even worse' and 'it's unthinkable' refer to Arthur's death in the future.

He decides to do nothing as we know, he decides to let Mordred die, right up until Mordred pleads with him through telepathy.

That's the S1 Merlin we're dealing with.

Maybe if you took him from Ep1 or pre-S1 yeah he'd act differently, but S1 Merlin is as much defined by Arthur's impending death as S5 Merlin is.

The only difference is between them, S1 Merlin has destiny propelling him forward just a little more than S5 Merlin does. Whether by love or sheer dedication, S5 Merlin is even prepared to push aside his own freedom to save Arthur's life, just to condemn Mordred to death.

Would S1 Merlin do any different?

No, no I don't think he would. Not if he saw the vision, not if he saw Arthur fall.

S5 Merlin is defined by what he saw in the pool, he's defined by seeing what he believes is Arthur's death (not yet knowing he would survive for days after acquiring that wound)

If S1 Merlin, or even S2, 3, or 4 saw that same vision? I don't think they would do any differently.

Maybe he had more hope earlier on, sure, but that would be missing the way that S5 Merlin hopes. He tells both Mordred and Finna that it "won't always be like this". He hopes for freedom as much as S1 Merlin does, he's just more prepared to prioritise Arthur.

But isn't that what he's always done? S2, when he struggles to lie, but still does lie to Arthur about Morgause and his mother - He's thanked for reminding Arthur that sorcerers are evil.

The way he acts just before telling the lie is so similar to his expressions when he's about say "There can be no place for magic in Camelot" in S5Ep5.

That's the thing. I know I bang on about how S5 Merlin is so much darker and he is, he grew up after all. But I truly think if S1 Merlin saw that vision, nothing would have changed.

Nothing. Not even his actions with the Disir. Why would he, if there's a chance to try and kill Mordred Merlin always took it. Or tried to as much as he could.

S2 Merlin, put in S5 Merlin's shoes, might even edge closer to murder, that man tripped that kid up in the hope that two guards would kill him, and instead watched as Mordred killed the guards instead.

What, Merlin was innocent back in earlier seasons? That boy, that man, he was never innocent, man was down to murder from his very first day in Camelot.

So yes, S5 Merlin has ten years give or take of saving Arthur and setting aside his freedom, and that did indeed darken him and change him and mould him, but S1 Merlin already had enough experience that nothing would change.

Merlin was always going to condemn Mordred, he barely knew him early on after all, and later, he already had the knowledge of the vision.

Let's not forget that in S5, Merlin says he likes Mordred, but that he can't ignore what he saw. That he can't save the life of a man destined to kill Arthur, that he can't ignore what the dragon said. That Finna was right, he cannot trust Mordred, not after all he's been told.

I don't think any Merlin could do any differently if he was told all that, and shown Camlann.

There's no such thing as an innocent Merlin, not when it comes to Arthur's life. We can say he became too blinded, but in S4 he killed Agravaine, used dark magic to lock away Morgana's magic for a time, and took away Arthur's free will. S3 is a little harder, but he did command Kilgharrah against his will. S2 Merlin is easy, he tried to kill Mordred, and morbidly held Morgana as she was dying to the water he poisoned. S1 Merls is just people dying left and bloody right. Nimueh, god should we ever forget about the way he killed Nimueh. She fucking exploded.

All this to say, S5 Merlin didn't abandon his values because he already did that when they all first met Mordred. He just became more and more set, darker and darker over time. But if any version of himself was given that vision by the Vates, it's over, it's so over, because that's all it took.

To see Arthur fall, that's all it took. It's all it would ever take.

[non-un-topo]

Kind of obsessed with this nickname actually

[inocennt]

it deeply agonizes me that the speak now elements of the manuscript are never discussed in favor of the atw of it all..... like i just. "in the age of him she wished she was 30 and made coffee every morning in a french press" vs "someday when we're older, this is something we'll laugh about over coffee every morning while you're watching the news," "now and then she rereads the manuscript of the entire torrid affair" vs "i used to think one day i'd tell the story of us," "afterwards she only ate kids cereal and couldn't sleep unless it was in her mother's bed" vs never grow up exploring the idea of moving out for the first time & how she couldn't be sleeping in her mother's bed if she was already moved out (also robin being the last song before the manuscript already creating this mental connection)..... please im insane