#daidalos cepheus

[landofanimes]

Saint Seiya: Knights of the Zodiac Battle for Sanctuary Part 2

Pictures from episodes 7 and 8

[melosfantasos]

Below are the controversial changes in recent chapters, but the most problematic one is discussed at length in last place.

Camus is the one sent to assassinate Old Master.

The Cepheus Saint is Albiore rather than Daidalos, one of the uncommon occasions where I picked anime filler. Reda appears, but Spica doesn't exist. Reda gets the Cassiopeia Cloth, as I have plans for Piscis Austrinus. Cassiopeia is Bronze.

Deathmask is different. He has a name that isn't the “Mephisto” from the English dub (but is still called Deathmask), and has a master. There is no more confusion on whether he is evil or not — he is good, just Machiavellian and judgmental. This should make his clash with Shiryu's idealism more nuanced.

Milo is an amazon. I understand this will disappoint people, so I will go into my reasoning below.

People disliked Shun being turned into a girl in the Netflix show for obvious reasons. I have seen fans say they should've turned Aphrodite into a girl instead, but the fact is that, sure, we should have more female characters, but when it came to the main cast, we already had good candidates that went underused by Kurumada (Saori, Marin, Shaina). This was the major complaint people had with the writers calling the main cast a sausage party and turning Shun into a woman. I tried to rectify that by giving them the attention they deserve.

I also added a female main character from the get-go in the form of June, because she is the only canonical Bronze Saint. This was just to slight the Netflix writers by proving canon already had good material for female mains — I admit it was childish, but I love my June now.

I am also in the process of adding new female Bronze Saints by taking clues from noncanon (Delphinus/Dolphin Mii/Alicia), and by creating my own. Besides that, as some know, my Seika will be a very different character from the original too.

Clearly there is more than enough space for female characters, and we don't need to turn Aphrodite into a girl, let alone Shun. Then why do it to Milo?

Answer is simple: I want a female Gold Saint. Let's look at available solutions.

Solution 1 — Take a clue from Next Dimension and make an Ophiuchus Gold Saint. I can't do that because 1) I have set rules to how the world works that make this impossible. My Sanctuary's Ecliptic Houses are based on the Ancient Greek house system: the ecliptic is subdivided into spaces called “houses” that are immutable since the time of the Babylonians, i.e. even if Ophiuchus enters the ecliptic, it's never going to get a temple of its own, because although the houses refer to the constellations, they are not the constellations themselves. Think of how the Tropic of Cancer has little to do with Cancer nowadays, yet we still call it that; it's similar to what I'm doing. 2) Shaina. Enough said. This is a Seiya x Shaina fanfic too, and she is forever sacred.

Solution 2 — Make Aphrodite into a woman. I mean, he's called Aphrodite after all! My answer is obviously a no.

Solution 3 — Make a female Sagittarius join the roster later on. There will be changes in the Gold Saint roster over time, but no female Sagittarius (someone asked me if I was making Seika into the new Sagittarius, and although that sounds fascinating, it's not happening). My June is already peak fanfic, I have to balance things out somehow.

Solution 4 — Genderbend someone else and endure people exiling the fanfic. That was my choice because I'm a masochist.

Why Milo? There is precedence for Milo being a woman in the Toei 2014 film, and there is Scorpio Sonia; both are noncanon, but still highlight the possibility of a female Scorpio.

Other reason is that Milo is a distinctively masculine name, while Aphrodite is a distinctively feminine name. I enjoy that contrast, a femboy with a woman's name and a tomboy with a man's name.

All of the major scenes will still be there. The fight in Sanctuary will be even more intense, I'd say. The encounter with Kanon should be on par with the original in weight.

I hope this is at least tolerable to readers. Feel free to rip me apart in the comments anyway, I know Milo is in many people's ships.

[thegoldencosmo]

Silver Saints - 1st Part (ST SEIYA TENCENT GAME)

[saintseiya-zone]

Chameleon June and Cepheus Daidalos (KOTZ)

These screenshots are from the opening of s02, and not related to the content of Episodes 1-2

Note: I will be using the tag “#kotz spoilers” in case you want to blacklist it

[hermes-psychopomp]

Trama - Star Hill // Saint Seiya Knight of the Zodiac (2022)

✧  Te lo resumo así nomás, versión Hermes   ✧  

Parte 1

Parte 2

Parte 3

Parte 4

[thebladeblaster]

Saint Seiya Awakening highlights 1

The future is now old man😂

I’m glad he survived too though Seiya you know this means your getting a sword through the chest right?

The creators of this game just roasted the golds so hard with this 😂

Best Shun imitation : NII-SAN!

Ichi you know Shun could kill you with his eyes closed right?

Weren’t you just trying to kill him Hyoga? Like seriously 5 seconds ago 😂 Also, think it is really interesting that we had Shun vs Hyoga in this. Especially, the part when Shun put Ichi in his place rather than Hyoga.

No, he just doesn’t want to hurt his Nii-san

MY FEELS!!!!😭

Shun being Shun😂

[oopsbirdficced]

@andperseo asked: Because not everything is about romantic love, let's say best friends as soulmates, Juné/Shun feat. Ikki and “being next to your soulmate heals injuries”.

Ssso, I'm not quite sure if you meant you wanted Juné & Shun as platonics- I think you did? But then my brain latched onto the idea of a big old pile of platonic kid soulmates, and here we are? It does have all three characters you requested! But I'll be the first to admit that this got away from me a little bit.

TW for canonical child abuse

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When Shun comes to Andromeda Island he's quiet. It worries Daidalos, how quiet and obedient Shun is. He's had Juné a year longer and she's… well, obnoxious, in that way that kids are. Her curiosity knows no bounds. Shun’s timidity doesn't seem like

At their first practice, Juné scrapes her leg, and, when Daidalos wipes the blood and dirt away to apply ointment and a bandage- the scrape is gone. Juné gasps, and looks up at Shun.

“You fixed it! That means you're my soulmate, right?” she asks, and Daidalos smiles, a congratulations on his lips, when Shun bursts into tears and runs away. Juné stares after him, lost, tears beginning to roll down her own cheeks. “Why'd he do that?” She sniffles, and Daidalos doesn't have an answer.

“I don't know, sweetheart. Maybe you should ask him, after you give him some time to calm down?” He suggests. She nods, wiping her tears away, and they call it a day. Later, in the middle of the day, when they're all supposed to be sleeping off Andromeda Island’s deadly heat, Juné wakes him up, clearly upset.

“Juné?” he mumbles, wiping the sleep from his eyes. Her chin trembles dangerously. “What is it, kiddo?”

“Shun told me why he started crying,” she says, and the whole sordid story pours out of her- Shun’s brother’s sacrifice, the abysmal conditions they had suffered when they were together- everything. “And Ikki was Shun’s first soulmate! We gotta go save him! You always say something’s wrong with Sanctuary anyway, can't we just go steal him and the Cloth and keep them here?” She asks stubbornly. The idea has merit. Andromeda Island is awful, but there are ways to make it bearable and habitable. Death Queen Island, however, is home to an extremely active volcano, in addition to being all but a barren wasteland. If he rigs up a bunk bed in Shun’s room of their underground house, there will be room for him.

“Go to Shun,” he tells her kindly, and gets dressed after she leaves, stubborn hope shining through her little face.

Daidalos goes to Death Queen Island, and in about three hours he's killed a fellow Saint and kidnapped two children and the Phoenix Cloth without quite knowing how. The conditions had been even more deplorable than he'd thought, and he couldn't bear to leave Ikki or Esmeralda in the hands of Guilty- he was the worst kind of abuser.

He hopes Juné is going to be okay sharing her room. He's going to need two bunk beds, apparently.

When Daidalos arrives back at his underground house, Juné and Shun are over the moon with joy. Ikki and Esmeralda are a bit more cautious, but Ikki is clearly happy to see Shun. Ikki and Esmeralda’s bruises seem to be healing even faster- which is usually a sign there's more than one soulmate present. He'd expected it with Ikki, as Ikki and Esmeralda are soulmates too, but Esmeralda is healing faster as well.

Daidalos isn't quite sure how he's going to train four children to be Saints without help, but he's here, they're here, and it's all he can do. Better him be at wits’ end than children get abused and exploited in the worst place on earth.

[tenkuuhajachimimoryo-blog]

[Character Sheet] Saint Seiya (Tencent) 聖鬥士星矢（騰訊）3D Renders Gamerip by jorgegeminiss New Characters Cepheus Daidalos - Cerberus Dante

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[elencelebrindal]

Give us an update list of your awakening saints?

Sure! I got quite a lot of them these past months, so my collection finally increased. Following the codex:

Bronze Saints

Chameleon June ✓ lvl 70 Unicorn Jabu ✓ lvl 60 Cassiopea Erda ✓ lvl 60 Northern Crown Katya ✓ lvl 70 Phoenix Ikki ✓ lvl 60 Hydra Ichi ✓ lvl 60 Adromeda Shun ✓ lvl 60 Cygnus Hyoga ✓ lvl 60 Dragon Shiryu ✓ lvl 60 Ursa Minor Xiaoling ✓ lvl 60 Wolf Nachi ✓ lvl 60 Sextans Luna ✓ lvl 70 Bear Geki ✓ never upgraded Lionet Ban ✓ lvl 40 Delphinus Mii ✓ never upgraded Pegasus Seiya ✓ lvl 60

Silver Saints

Lyra Orphée ✓ lvl 70 Pavo Mayura ✓ lvl 70 Perseus Algol ✓ lvl 60 Crane Yuzuriha ✓ lvl 60 Cepheus Daidalos ✓ lvl 40 Crow Jamian ✓ lvl 70 Eagle Marin ✓ lvl 80 Lizard Misty ✓ never upgraded Ophiuchus Shaina ✓ lvl 60 Whale Moses ✓ never upgraded Sagitta Ptolemy ✓ never upgraded Cerberus Dante ✓ never upgraded Hound Asterion ✓ never upgraded Centaurus Babel ✓ never upgraded

Gold Saints

Scorpio Milo ✓ RC lvl 80 Leo Aiolia ✓ lvl 70 Gemini Saga ✓ RC lvl 80 Sagittarius Aiolos ✓ lvl 70 Gemini Kanon ✓ lvl 80 Libra Dohko ✓ lvl 70 Virgo Shijima ✗ Cancer Deathmask ✓ RC lvl 80 Pisces Aphrodite ✓ RC lvl 80 Virgo Shaka ✓lvl 70 Taurus Aldebaran ✓ lvl 60 Aquarius Camus ✓RC lvl 80 Capricorn Shura ✓ lvl 70 Aries Mu ✓ lvl 70 Cancer Deathtoll ✗

Legendary

Hypnos ✓ lvl 70 Hades ✓ RC lvl 80 Goddess Athena ✓ lvl 70 Poseidon ✓ lvl 70 Artemis ✗ Thanatos ✓ lvl 70 Ophiuchus Odysseus ✓ lvl 80 Evil Saga ✓ lvl 70 Divine Cloth Hyoga ✓ lvl 70 Divine Cloth Shiryu ✓ lvl 70 Pandora ✓ lvl 70 Divine Cloth Aiolia ✓ lvl 70 Divine Cloth Shun ✓ lvl 70 Pandora Commander ✗ Underworld Shun ✓ lvl 70 Divine Cloth Seiya ✓ lvl 80 Arayashiki Shaka ✓ lvl 70 Surplice Shion ✓ lvl 70 Golden Arrow Seiya ✓ lvl 60 Grand Pope ✓ lvl 60 Aries Shion ✓ lvl 70 Divine Cloth Ikki ✓ lvl 80 Divine Cloth Milo ✓ lvl 80 almost maxed out completely Nebula Shun ✓ lvl 70 Gold Hyoga ✓ lvl 70 Saori Kido ✓ lvl 60 Firebird Ikki ✓ lvl 40 Outrage Shiryu ✓ lvl 60

Marina

Sea Dragon Kanon ✓ lvl 60 Siren Sorrento ✓ lvl 60 Krishna Chrysaor ✓ lvl 60 Lymnades Kayza ✓ never upgraded Scylla Io ✓ lvl 60 Seahorse Baian ✓ lvl 40 Kraken Isaac ✓ lvl 70 Mermaid Thetis ✓ never upgraded

Specter

Sphinx Pharaoh ✓ lvl 70 Balrog Lune ✗ Garuda Aiacos ✓ lvl 70 Griffon Minos ✓ lvl 70 Papillon Myu ✓ lvl 70 Wyvern Rhadamanthys ✓ lvl 70 Alraune Queen ✗ Cyclops Giganto ✓ lvl 40 Harpy Valentine ✗ :( Frog Zelos ✓ never upgraded Worm Raimi ✓ never upgraded Deep Niobe ✓ lvl 40

Other

These are small secondary characters, so I'm only mentioning the ones I'm missing: Young Shiryu (upsetting, because I have all the other ones) Seika (I could have gotten her, but I had to take a break and lost her shards)

[ao3feed-saintseiya]

Il dolore di un maestro

AO3: https://ift.tt/3CEEQ1Q

by perseoeandromeda

Albion è fiero di Shun, ma anche tanto triste: sa che quel ragazzino dal cuore puro, ha appena cominciato il percorso che lo porterà ad un dolore sempre più grande

Words: 537, Chapters: 1/1, Language: Italiano

Fandoms: 聖闘士星矢 | Saint Seiya (Manga & Anime 1986)

Rating: General Audiences

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: Gen

Characters: Andromeda Shun, Cepheus Albiore, Cepheus Daidalos

Additional Tags: Introspection, Melancholy, Missing Scene, Drama, Sentimental, Angst, War, Bishounen

AO3: https://ift.tt/3CEEQ1Q

[landofanimes]

Saint Seiya: Knights of the Zodiac

[princesandromeda]

So, yesterday, @andperseo pointed out something really important with the Phoenix Shun/Andromeda Ikki AU: WE’D HAVE IKKI/JUNE. So I’m going to post a few snippets for these two dorks and also more Nachi/Shun because I’m trash. (and tagging @nita-ss while I’m at it)

Arriving at Andromeda Island

Tatsumi had told him, one last thing to spite him for trying to outwit him while they had been drawing lots, that even if Ikki had gotten his way and gone to Death Queen Island, Shun would have suffered a different inferno on Andromeda Island anyways. Dead-hot temperatures during the day, below-cero degrees, frostbite-inducing temperatures during the night. The boy had a rotten luck, he had said, and yet, Ikki was gritting his teeth when the ship finally reached shore.

“Welcome to Andromeda Island,” a man with dark hair and tough features had announced to the newcomers in broken Japanese, “I’m Cepheus Daidalos, Silver Saint in charge of the apprentices in here.” He gave them all an appraising look, and with a no-nonsense kind of attitude, strenghtened his face. “We are currently in Ethiopia, and most of the people here are natives, which means you’ll need to learn Amharic and quick, because I have neither the drive nor the patiente to play translator. Am I understood?”

The kids replied with a bored “understood.”

Ikki kept his mouth shut tightly, and his muscles tensed when he saw Daidalos focus his gaze on him, considering him. He raised an eyebrow before going back to poker face. Ikki relaxed just a little.

Adapting is important

Despite having a rough idea of what the place would be like, it still wasn’t worth shit when he had sweat trailing down his face, his eyes unfocused from dehydration and his muscles burning under his training clothing.

“Ikki, dodge,” June, a fellow apprentice, remarked with a mix of worry and annoyance. Today was a day to practice defensive movements, and he even got to practice a little with chains similar to the ones Andromeda’s Cloth had. But it was too hot, and they weren’t allowed many breaks, and just... “Ikki!”

He cursed his weak, mortal body as his mind hit darkness.

June was still there when he woke up, and if his feeling wasn’t off, pressing damp cloths to his forehead. He idly realized he was shaking, and the room was too cold. Abnormally cold.

“I can’t believe you’ve been here for a total of three years and you just came down with a cold,” she said, almost frustrated as she wiped the sweat on his cheeks, “you Japanese really do have a shit immunological system, huh?”

“Not- not words for a lady...” he teased between tremors, knowing how much June hated to be reminded to ‘act like a lady’. As he expected, June scoffed, and even dared to pinch him, covalescent as he was.

“Who cares about being a lady, I earned my place here by being strong, not by being a lady,” she dipped the cloth again and wringed it, placing it again on Ikki’s forehead. “You need to overcome this if you really want to become the Andromeda Saint and meet again with your brother, if what you said about doing anything for him is true, beating a little cold in these conditions should be nothing compared to what you have already endured.

Ikki continued to tremble, not really listening to her because of his fever haze. June sighed and continued to tend to him.

For years to come, Ikki still thanked the support his only friend showed him. If it hadn’t been for her, he probably would have given up on this whole Saint bussiness a while ago.

“Rest.”

Stargazing is fun with friends

On nights when he felt specially lonely, Ikki would get out of his cabin, not minding the biting cold nor the night sounds.

“I used to sit on the roof with Shun, and show him pictures of the universe from atlas books I stole from the old man’s library,” he told June when he felt her presence, a couple of steps behind him. “He was always awed, and so very hopeful. He used to look at the Earth and say: look, from here you can’t see the boundaries between countries, I want to fight so future children don’t become orphans like us.” June sat down, and laid her hear on his shoulder, listening attentive at him pointing out constellations from both emispheres.

This nebula is actually a galaxy

June wouldn’t admit it, but the day Ikki received his cloth she was incredibly nervous. After five or so years of intense training, Ikki not only had become proficient, but also experienced. His training having been guided by Daidalos, Ikki’s fighthing style had become very no-nonsense. His main tactic was turning his opponents offensive against them, and when that failed, use attacks that weren’t too energy-consuming but effective. His fighting wasn’t what worried June.

The sacrifice trial was.

Even if she had little to no doubt that Ikki had enough of Andromeda’s self-sacrifice spirit, there was still a big chance that he would drown when the waves because too savage, or that he would be suffocated against the rocks, or that the cloth could not accept him. After all, even if the lengths he was willing to go for his brother were admirable, there was also some fighter in him, something that refused to be tamed.

So when Ikki had passed the test after a whole day and a whole night of being tied to a huge boulder, June felt light-headed with relief to see him still standing, and proud to be called a Saint.

With a spirit just as strong as his guardian galaxy.

“Excited to see your brother?” Ikki had the certainty that Shun would also get his cloth, and if Ikki had, what was to stop his brother from doing so too?

Ikki smirked, gripping his Pandora box to balance it better on his back. “More excited to show you the shrines in Tokio, don’t think I haven’t seen the pictures in your room.” June slapped him in indignation, but Ikki knew she was glad he had made it out alive, and was finally going to reunite with his brother.

Life is just a mean to a death

Shun had known cruelty since his very early, and very tender infancy. Being an orphan came with its set of harships, and add that to the fact that Ikki always seemed to on edge, it made for living on the streets, running from orphanages like the plague. Until they had been picked off the streets by some men who worked for one Mitsumasa Kido. Ikki had also tried running away, which resulted in near-deat by electrification.

And even through all of this, Shun had had hope for people. Even when he was taunted for being sensitive, even when his brother had been scolding him for not being strong enough. He could count on the fact that the children were like that because they didn’t know better, and adults were burdened with troubles that his childish mind had yet to understand.

“Niisan...”

So Shun had had hope, even on Death Queen Island. Even on that barren piece of hell in Earth.

But his hope had shattered that day, like a fragile flower being stepped on.

Esmeralda had been his best friend, the only hope that he would get out of this godforsaken place and meet his brother again, his almost-twin (not only because of their physical similarities, but because of their similar mild temper and pacifism). She was a slave. Sold by her family for three sacks of rice. And yet she was the gentlest person he could remember meeting.

And now she was gone, just like that.

Shun had known cruelty since early in his life, and just as he had learned to be kind in the face of unjustness, he learned to be angry, hateful. The world had never been kind to him, why should he? (”Do you think you could take me with you once you obtain the Cloth?”)

We’re all insignificants in the big scheme of things, a Monkey King dancing in Budha’s palm

He stared, dispassionately as Jango was lost to the nightmarish visions in his head, his mind broken.

He felt the power in his cloth bristling, along with all the things his master had said before he died.

At least fifty of us, Mitsumasa’s kids, and the bastard sent us to hell anyway...

Unfortunately the old man had died five years ago, so his only choice was to step on his legacy.

“Niisan...” You are his blood too.

“I was sent to take care of the Black Saints because they were becoming a nuisance, but I see you already did that.”

Surprise flashed through his green eyes, a small feel of dread at the thought that someone so powerful had gone completely under his radar. Then he narrowed his eyes, anger flaring out and ready to attack this pretentious man.

“And who are you? Also want to take me on? Phoenix Genma Ken!” Cold sweat dripped down his back when the stranger stopped his technique, the one he had used on some of the Black Saints and Jango, with his bare hands. And then being returned tenfold.

The man gloated, saying how him thinking he was invincible was like the Monkey King who was dancing on Budha’s palm the whole time. Then, when he was at his mercy, Shun asked, “are you going to deliver the final blow?”

If he was to die, he wanted it to be now. It would be an honorable death, defeated by a worthy opponend. A Gold Saint, he had said.

“No,” Shaka had replied. “If I had seen darkness-true darkness-within your heart, I would have no doubt killed you like I had intended the Black Saints. But underneath your hatred, unexpectedly, lays dormant a gentleness and a capacity for forgiveness I have only seen once in all my lifetime.” He seemed to consider something. “No, I won’t kill you. Instead, I’ll wipe any memories you have of me. If we meet again, you’ll remember this encounter.”

What it takes to come alive is purpose

“I want to become a doctor,” Shun said out of the blue. They were chilling in the roof of the Kido mansion, the soft spring air running through his green locks. His face was devoid of emotions, as usual, but there was a unique shining in his eyes that meant, Nachi hoped, a renewed spark of his spirit.

“Yeah?” He asked dumbly. It had been months since Shun was starting to become closer to him. A lot of walking on eggshells, and then wondering is stargazing with him like Shun had told him he used to do with his brother when they were kids was ok, and then wondering if Shun would be completely comfortable with him.

(”It’s okay, stargazing with someone reminds me of better times. Ever since June came to Japan Niisan has become virtually a no-show, so you can come.”)

“I want to help people, and even after my time on Death Queen, I still feel like violence is not the way,” Nachi doesn’t mention that it was this pureness that led him to become Hades’ chosen body, because he envies it. The power he has to forgive, even if not forget. “I also can’t do it here.”

Nachi frowns. “Why not?”

“I already told you the other day at the orphanage,” Shun answered, now facing Nachi. “I need to solve some stuff, get over past shit. Move on.” His gaze was back on the horizon, and Nachi hummed non-comitically before doing the same.

It was Shun’s voice again that broke the silence.

“Seiya told me how you felt.” Nachi’s head snapped to him.

“He-?!”

“Well, hinted it, more like.” Shun shrugged, “I- I need to figure that out, too. I have been too occupied fighting, I never gave thought to that. I haven’t given thought to that with a guy. I need to figure out what it means to me.”

Nachi hummed again, remembering his own epiphany and all the support he had gotten from his friends.

“I also don’t know if you might be my brother.”

A frown settled itself on Nachi’s face. “What? I thought Ikki was your brother...”

“As is Seiya, and Hyoga, and Shiryu... half-brothers, really. Mitsumasa had lots of them kids, and reunited them plus some random orphans to train them into becoming Saints.” “How did you-?”

“Before he died, Guilty told me. To ‘solidify my hate’ or some such thing.” Shun turned to Nachi again, an almost hopeful shine to his eyes. “Will you wait until I figure it out?”

“I- I, yeah.”

Shun smiled. “Thanks.”

They remained in silence, watching the Geminids seemingly fall from the sky.

[landofanimes]

The sacrifice is the greatest trial on Andromeda Island. Originated when Andromeda was chained up as an offering to a sea monster. Thus, these chains are no ordinary chains. They come from the Armor of Andromeda and are unbreakable. The only way to escape is to burn one's Cosmo to their limit.

Only one who can escape the chains earns the right to wear the Bronze Andromeda Armor.

[landofanimes]

Andromeda fam, then and now

[landofanimes]

Saint Seiya: Knights of the Zodiac

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[landofanimes]

Saint Seiya: Knights of the Zodiac

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