#cu chulainn smt

[miel128]

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[doodlesdreaming]

Been watching Sobata92's Chat Run of Shin Megami Tensei V Vengeance lately, and it's been so much fun so far!

Absolutely loving the shy young man and his protective family of demons.

The vids in question can be found over on his channel

[kirinfishace]

Shin Megami Tensei/Persona/Megaten fans, put some of your fav demons in the tags

[pandorastower]

Art from PLASTIC  PROTEIN

[jacksonthereaper]

How i would like to be held by my future gf/wife

[sorenblr]

So here’s the Morrighan Raid event. In order to prevent the apocalypse, Morrighan gathers an army of birds with the goal of sacrificing all 10 million Tokyo citizens in order to summon Celtic Heroes in order to lead humanity. During her armies hunt of sacrifices she encounters the Liberators, and offers they join her in hopes of preventing it, refusing they clash due to their unwillingness to face the fact they will have to make sacrifices to save the world. Cu Chulainn from the Spring Event-

-Spring event where he was training under Scathach with some of the Liberators sees it all unfolding as crows fly to Tokyo by the millions and heads to Tokyo to meet up with his former training partners. Morrighan continues to clash over different ideals until Cu Chulainn steps in, and says he will stand with them. This causes her to back down, and accept his willigness to keep an eye on them, but promises to get involved if they fail. Shion(the not popular Idol) knows their myths so she-

-realized Morrighan is motivated by her love of Chulainn, believing he could steer humanity away from the apocalypse. She admits after everything is resolved to herself perhaps he was the hero she wanted to return most of all, and never realized he returned on his own ages ago. But she still makes clear they need to not be so soft when the disaster comes because they’ll make it easy for the apocalypse to happen(which does come to pass in the main story after beating Marduk).

At some point you have to admit that 10 million Tokyoites probably stand a better chance of fending off the apocalypse than some Irish guys who can throw rocks with great skill. It's time for Morrigan to sit down and watch Moneyball.

[lostbizkits]

pixie sings all the vocals for smt nocturne

[eirikrjs]

A Missed Mystery: Who is Hanoun?

All credit for this discovery to @veskscans

The name of Daleth's fairy lover in smt2 (JP: アヌーン)has almost always been assumed to be correctly translated as "Hanoun", but what the heck is a Hanoun? This identity doesn't fit the scenario nor does it bring up anything but smt with a search. The culprit is probably old smt books that provide romanizations like these:

They make some sense considering アヌーン itself is pronounced "ah-noon", but we all know Cu Chulainn isn't really pronounced "koo koo lane ." So what gives?

The truth is they may just be romanization guesstimates for yet another being of Celtic provenance (specifically Welsh, as it turns out).

Vesk tracked down the following entry in Katharine Briggs' ever-relevant-to-smt Encyclopedia of Fairies (a confirmed atlus source):

GWRAGEDD ANNWN.

The entry gives the English phonetic pronunciation gwrageth anoon, which just so happens to be the same as the Japanese. The background of her being a lake maiden who falls in love with a mortal gives more depth to the smt2 scenario than we ever realized.

So, judging by her name in katakana, she should just be romanized as Annwn.

So far, her name has only ever appeared once in an English localized game: as a demon trader in Soul Hackers. Now that the real intention behind her is known, by the time we get to an smt2 remake or port, there will be no excuse for more "Hanoun."

[dailydemonspotlight]

Fionn Mac Cumhaill - Day 56

Race: Genma

Alignment: Light-Neutral

June 17th, 2024

Can you believe it guys? SMT V: Vengeance, just a... wait, it already came out? Damn, this joke doesn't work. Still, today we delve deeper into the hallowed hallows of Irish stories, examining a certain hero that has only one rival in terms of his popularity, which says a lot, given that rival is none other than Cu Chulainn; a legendary hunter-warrior who led the powerful army of warriors known as the Fianna, Fionn Mac Cumhaill. Infamous within the series for having one of the toughest boss fights in SMT V, Fionn actually is one of the most popular (and prominent) legendary figures in Irish folklore, and I'm frankly surprised it took this long for him to show up in the series.

Most of these Irish stories come in the forms of appearing in books called cycles- for one, the Ulster Cycle covers the exploits of Cú Chullain and Queen Medb, but in the case of Fionn Mac Cumhaill, one need not look further than another one of these books, that being the Fenian Cycle. The reasoning for this common naming scheme has actually been lost to time, so that's fun, but at least some people try to offer explanations. One that I enjoy actually comes from a Reddit post that purports that it may be because these tales 'cycle' around a certain character, like how the Fenian cycles around Fionn, or the Ulster cycles around Cú. That aside, though, these tales are notable from place to place for both providing context on Irish history itself as well as being great stand-alone stories in-and-of themselves.

One of these stories in the Fenian Cycle is entitled "The Boyhood Deeds of Fionn," originating as a fractured manuscript called Laud 610: folio 118Rb-121Va, though translations and added-on segments from other stories likely connected have led to the commonly accepted translation. Originally, Laud 610 was the only thing we had to work off of for Fionn Mac Cumhaill, a 14th century manuscript written in I believe Gaelic? The most recent translation we have to work off of, made up of translations, transliterations, and added-on segments, appears in a book written by Joseph Falaky Nagy called "The Wisdom of the Outlaw: Boyhood Deeds of Finn in Gaelic Narrative Tradition." In the story, it goes over the, well, exploits of Fionn Mac Cumhaill, starting with what else but his birth.

In the tale, it begins with the death of Fionn's father, Cumhall, who was the leader of the Fianna, a word used to effectively mean a band of hunter-warriors. Killed by his mortal enemy, Goll mac Morna, his unborn son and his wife Muirne were waiting for him, but upon Muirne learning of his death, she sent her son away as soon as he was born, fearing for his safety. This son's name was Demne, and whom he ended up with, a druiddess named Bodhmall, gave him the surname of Máel, his name effectively meaning "Stalwart shorthair druid." Bodhmall and her gal-pal Liath Luachra end up raising Demne to be a strong warrior, accompanying him on his myriad adventures, within one of which he gains his name, Fionn. After eating a salmon. We'll get to that. Given that he was just a kid, he had no real reason to be much of a fantastic warrior as of yet. However, the fates had different plans.

One day, while out hunting with a band of the Fianna, he'd come across a nice place to go fishing. While still known as Denme, aka being very young, he'd come across what was effectively a video game sidequest- a poet named Finnegas had spent years fishing in a nearby river to catch the mythical Salmon of Wisdom, as he had gotten a prophecy years back that he would eventually eat the salmon and gain all the world's wisdom. However, he had very poor luck. Denme, recognizing the frustration of the struggle, offered to help in going fishing. After a little while, the poet finally caught it! Recognizing the metaphorical good luck charm in Denme now by his side, he'd let the kid cook it.

While cooking the salmon, however, Fionn accidentally burned his thumb, to which he instinctively stuck it in his mouth... incidentally blessing himself with all the world's knowledge. Likely astonished by how dumb this kid was, Finnegas would give up, letting him have the entire rest of the salmon, now meaning that he could have access to the entire world's repository of knowledge... as long as he sucked his thumb. Yeahhh. Hilariously, this ability went on to be known as the "Thumb of Knowledge." I gotta wonder how Fionn felt when he got older and still had to do such an embarrassing ritual to access his strength.

As Fionn began to grow older, he grew accustomed to working under the services of many kingdoms, but when he'd mention his father's name- Cumhall- they'd send him away out of fear that they couldn't fight off his enemies. As it'd turn out, Cumhall was a massive fan of making foes, and was also a piece of work, to say the least, having abducted his wife and forced her to marry. Yikes. Thankfully, Fionn was far from his father in spirit, as shown when in future myths he ended up forgiving and even teaming up with Goll mac Morna. This story also ties into the Fomorians, but I'll leave you to look into that further yourself.

Several more myths surround Fionn, but this DDS is growing long, so I'll let you read them yourself. Trust me, they're a blast. A personal favorite of mine is that he never truly died- instead, he sealed himself into a cave to return when Ireland was at it's most dire moment. Given Irish history, I dread to think about what could happen next for Fionn to return (joke shamefully stolen from OSP's fantastic video on Fionn mac Cumhaill.) It's speculated that the reasoning for Fionn's biting of his thumb to access his pool of knowledge is actually connected to a belief in Fionn possibly being based on a real figure as well, though who this historical figure is is unknown- as the theory goes, he might've had a habit of biting his thumb while deep in thought. While this hypothesis has been offered time and time again, it's hard to pin down who exactly Fionn might have been.

In SMT, Fionn's design is honestly one of my favorite in the series, combining so many aspects of his character- his badass hunter-warrior look, druidic influences, his great blade, all the way down to one of his thumbs being covered in salmon-colored scales. I haven't played SMT V, unfortunately, but he appears as a rather infamous boss in the game with an utterly bumping theme, almost feeling like an anime character's theme track, which is very fitting, given Fionn's exploits. I can't wait to see this guy when I finally get my hands on Vengeance.

[p3answer]

i gotta say replaying smt iv after having been fatepilled staynightmaxxed is a bit funny its like ok. cu chulainn is here i know him. its like when i knew only cu chulainn smt and met cu chulainn fate all over. but reverse this time

[01a057]

i wish i know more about the smt iv au!! in specific, who are the law/neutral/chaos representatives? and do sara and sou have a favorite demon?

okay um. im not sure about who would represent chaos but joe is def neutral and kai is law (?maybe?). im not exactly sure about that so im willing to hear other ideas!

as for a favorite demon... i always imagined that sara would be fond of jack frost and all adjacent demons lol (i mean how can you not be) but aside from them i think her favorites would be cu chulainn, hua po, nekomata and futotama. sou doesnt really get attached to his demons but ixtab, cernunnos, ippon-datara and alice never leave his party. (also i think its fair to mention that they both use neutral aligned demons but sara's are mostly light-neutral and sou's are dark-neutral)

[bladeunlock]

every time i feel like im losing my mind over something i need to just remember my cu chulainn smt era and realise it can't ever be as bad as that like what was this. how am i meant to react to this

[purseowner4thequalityanimation]

Reposting because Morrigan is being added to the SMT gacha, the most attention she's gotten since NINE:

See also; her death animation, her negotiation animations, her role in NINE's main plot (oops didn't record it, sorry), her unique negotiation with Cu Chulainn and even her being mentioned in NINE negotiation dialogue with other demons. Below is taken from NINE's dialogue files, Google translated and then edited by me. Lady Personality Type Demon: Many men have told me that they like me, but few are charming enough to satisfy my fancy, and I wonder what kind of man would suit me in your eyes. Response (four are picked randomly to choose from): [the macho Tajikarao], [the sturdy Cu Chulainn], [the mischievous old dwarf], [the demon king Lucifer], [the fiery Hinokagutsuchi], [How about me?], [Odin, the Deity], [the jovial Gandharva] LPTD: But he has a wife, that's the only drawback. I know him too, he's a very nice person, but he's preoccupied with fighting. And Morrigan… no, it's nothing…

In myth Morrigan was spurned by Cu Chulainn and tried to kill him in return, which plays into their NINE appearances. In NINE Cu Chulainn's wife is depicted as a regular Elf, funnily enough.

[shonocondo]

[katribou]

it's funny to me that smt makes cú chulainn seem really cool and suave when he's much less so in the legends so my only thought (aside from him being at the mercy of human observation) is he thinks he used to be cringe as a human so as an entity pretends he never was

[sorenblr]

Which demons would play what positions in your hypothetical Megaten NFL team?

Now you're speaking my language... fuck...!!! Unfortunately, I am not a 'football guy' and wouldn't even be able to identify enough positions to fill out half a roster, which is why we've confined our drafts thus far to the NBA (informally across the final Raidou VOD) and MLB:

But if there's demand for an NFL draft then we might have to prepare something for next time. All I can say for certain is that, though they may have excelled in those other leagues, Tenaga and Ashinaga would probably get their spindly bird-bones shattered in the first quarter of a regulation game. Much to consider.