#eidolon

[toffee32]

Fulgrim has boob armor

[notalittleatall]

God Eidolon is really just a victim of the most ridiculous moral consequences ever. Like “Aha, you thought it was a good idea to neglect your own mental health in order to achieve a greater good and save other people’s lives? Well think again, because just maybe giant hell demons will emerge and destroy Japan.” Poor guy never had a chance. The guy got his brain connected directly to the “summon monsters that kill people” button with absolutely no warning that the button existed or that he could press it. Oh also if you reach a certain threshold of stress the button presses itself. Consequences of drinking alien brain goo i guess

[illustrious-ia]

𝐌𝐎𝐙𝐄 𝐄𝐈𝐃𝐎𝐋𝐎𝐍𝐒! via Seele Leaks~

transparent vers in reblog section

[estavionpira]

Hello, PHO user. Before you is a PHO post asking you to name a female cape. You have unlimited time to tag a female cape, NOT a male one.

Begin.

[bodegadulac]

I love the triumvirate + Scion because they all are different interpretations / parts of Superman as a character. Or at least i see them as that.

Legend is Superman as the big blue boyscout, the idealistic hero who is always there to save the day, Superman as the moral paragon. Also you could say his powers may be inspired a little bit by electric blue Superman.

But Legend is also Superman without that same outlandish level of power that makes that idealism posible.

Alexandria is Superman as the man of steel, the unstoppable force, the flying brick to end all flying bricks. She is Superman as an untiring untouchable being.

But she also is a more cynic Superman. Things are how they are and she can only try so much. She is a colder Superman.

Hero is Superman as the man of tomorrow, the golden age "science can do anything" feeling.

But he also is the death of superman, the death of golden age whimsy. If Vikare's death wasn't the start of Worm as the setting we know then Hero was.

Eidolon is Superman as the action ace, the hero that can do anything, the superman who could do any shit you can think of (like throwing smaller supermen from his hands), he is a hero who has whatever power the plot needs (And that to me is a little 'batman with his bat-belt esqur idk).

But Eidolon can't inspire for shit, he is the most bland guy ever and he is only held up by good PR and Cauldron.

And Scion is Superman as the last son, an alien fully disconnected from humanity, all the power but no real reason to use it because of his lose.

Every "superman" in worm is incomplete, if they have the power they don't have the moral compass or the ability to inspire, if they have the guts they don't have the power.

It's tragic but very well tought out.

[artbyblastweave]

Do you know how Steven Universe was a show about a seemingly-prototypical Saturday-morning cartoon kid hero who, under the prototypical conditions of his genre, eventually internalized a deeply unhealthy model of himself as a problem solver and utilitarian object, valuable only in terms of his ability to live up to the expectations of his role? And you know how that show had an entire wind-down season about how the mindset that carried Steven through the first five conventional seasons left him totally adrift and unprepared for “civilian life,” how he’d been inadvertently left without the most basic skill set for existing as his own person independent of a larger heroic goal? Because there was just never time to squeeze it in? Well, if you take away the part where his guardians did that on accident instead of on purpose, as a deliberate lever of control, and if you let that kid age out of his cute, photogenic adolescence into an upper-middle-age to which the audience is much less reflexively sympathetic, and if you take away the part where anything was ever okay again for anyone ever, well. You're sort of getting within swinging distance of the lens through which I view Eidolon

[goldenmotive]

Keep Your Hands Off Eidolon!

[dagda-the-doodler]

The Simurgh's Descent.

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Always love a good father/daughter reunion!

[crosslinked-art]

Please draw the cringiest worm oc or self insert you can come up with

Did you know that Eidolon’s original name was Mary Sue? And that he had a ‘love me’ aura?

[rainof5]

The rest of the series of old art I never posted, with bases by MagicalPouchOfMagic!

[rnoonsetter]

i don't think i've drawn an animal once in my entire life

[suzanna-polixena]

It's much easier with Lucius though - currently we mutually flip the bird whenever we see other.

Felt stuck in an art block and tried drawing one of the "bad guys". Someone I would not feel too bad for drawing them poorly.

Eidolon came to mind, his voice nagging me for giving too much attention to some no name losers whose desire for perfection is superficial at best 😤 And he gallantly fought his way to completion. Good job Eidolon, you can now brag about your feat...elsewhere.

[victoriadallonfan]

The Triumvirate: Past and Future

Ko-Fi Info: https://ko-fi.com/ridtom/commissions

[illustrious-ia]

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[cpericardium]

could you draw tgirl femdolon with a half untucked white button-up and slacks and a bit of stubble. for me. your bestest ever mutual.

[artbyblastweave]

I've never made any connections between Worm and the Captain America mythos before. Spill some ink?

Okay, so from a purely aesthetic perspective, the gimme is Miss Militia. She's the most obvious "Captain Patriotic" in the roster, she has the power of GUN, she's the only one who actively buys into the mythology of America specifically. She's a Kurdish woman occupying an aesthetic niche generally held by a rugged squinty white guy. She's an output of the melting pot narrative. She's sort of a rendering of what a grounded superhero who somehow became very aesthetically into America might look like. Not in the craven marketing-driven way of Homelander or Comedian, not in the jingoistic maniac way of USAgent or Peacemaker. She buys it in the broadly left-liberal (USamerican connotation of that term) safe, friendly, reclamative way. Why, what a great rehabilitation of the archetype!

She's also deeply, deeply afraid of rocking the boat. She's got a deepseated childhood trauma related to the bad things that happen when she puts herself in a leadership role. She goes along to get along. When she's proactive, it's usually to point a gun at Tattletale to stop her from upsetting the status quo. She sits through a lot of situations where Steve Rogers, as commonly modeled, would probably plant himself like a tree by the river of truth and go, "Hey, this is fucked up." She more or less capitulates to Undersider domination of the city, in a way that predisposes us to think of her as a voice of reason after all these total nuts that Skitter's been up against- but would Taylor "to relinquish control is a form of ego death" Hebert really be willing to leave someone in charge of the local Protectorate branch who she thought couldn't be corralled? She looks like a beacon, but doesn't- indeed, probably can't- ever truly behave like one. I mean, you can debate the on-the-spot morality of any given one of her judgement calls, that's actually one of the less exhausting Worm Morality Debates to have- but in aggregate, a person in American flag garb who actually meaningfully criticizes the paramilitary organization they're part of is not gonna survive long in that role!

So again, she's the gimme from an aesthetic standpoint. But what I don't really see a lot of discussion of is how Cauldron plays into the riff.

Captain America is institutional, but in a comically morally uncomplicated way. The serum was originally mana from heaven, granted to a living saint, conveniently divorced from any nitty-gritty sausage-making process and even-more conveniently divorced from the horrible consequences of giving the, uh, the U.S government a replicable super soldier process. And in fairness to Captain America, this is 100 percent something the overall mythos eventually patched to my satisfaction; the sausage-making process eventually revealed as prototypical government fuckery driven by human experimentation on black servicemen, the overall Marvel Setting littered with failed attempts by the U.S. Government to recreate that golden goose so they can have their fun new jackboots. (In Ultimate Marvel, this is how almost all contemporary superhumans were created, and this is a state of affairs with a body count in the millions or billions.)

Cauldron draws you in with the same noble rhetoric about greater goods, the same one-off proprietary irreplicable formula- but you don't get the luxury afterwards of representing nothing but the dream. You aren't partnering up with a plucky crank scientist with a heart of gold. You're selling your soul to an organization with an agenda. The narrative makes no bones about the fact that everything you do is fundamentally tainted by the fact you opted into an end product created through torture, kidnapping and human experimentation. You don't get to pull a Kamen Rider by going rogue or opting out or making good use of the fruit of the poisoned tree; you are owned, and everything you do has this Damocles sword hanging over your head- when are the people who bankrolled this going to come to collect?

So that's the question of "who would willingly dress like that" covered, and the question of who creates a serum like that. What about the question of who takes a serum like that? I'd argue that Eidolon is the examination of that. Pre-Cauldron David reads to me like pre-serum Steve Rogers viewed through a significantly bleaker lens. They're both sickly kids desperate to serve, rocketed to the pinnacle of human capability by an experimental procedure. But for Steve Rogers, the crisis was that he had a specific vision of the world and was frustrated by his inability to carry it out. Before the serum he picked fights over what was right and wrong and got his ass handed to him; afterwards he picked those same fights and just started winning instead. The serum neatly solved a problem he had, and to the extent that his mindset is influenced by his pre-serum experiences, it's generally constructive; a desire to protect the weak, help the helpless, an appreciation for people who stand up for what's right even when they're clearly gonna get pancaked for their trouble. So ultimately there's no dark side, downside, or underlying neurosis ascribed to his initial impulse to take that serum.

But with David, it's not a tragic case of the spirit being willing but the flesh being weak. He isn't a preternaturally-noble soul, out to represent the best elements of the American ideal- he kind of represents the inverse, a guy who's been failed at every level while utterly convinced that he's the problem. He's actively suicidal because he's a wheelchair-bound epileptic in an economically-depressed socially-backwards rural town in the 1980s, and he's spent his 18 years of life internalizing the idea that he's worse than useless unless he can somehow find a way provide value to something larger than himself. Doctor Mother finds him in the aftermath of a suicide attempt spurred by his rejection from the army- and he didn't even want to join the army specifically, necessarily, he just needed his situation to be literally anything else, and he took what he thought he could get. And then he finds himself in a position to become a superhero, so he does that, molds himself into that, subordinates himself to that, builds his entire sense of self and values around the value he can provide in that role. No grand design or sacred principles carried over through the metamorphosis. Just relief at finally, finally having something that looks like an answer to the question of what he's supposed to do.

And you know, you know that if Steve Rogers was facing down the barrel of being depowered, he'd smile and nod, he'd Cincinnatus that shit. It's happened before. But for David, the emotional trauma and self-worth issues that caused him to roll the dice on a Steve-Rogers treatment never really went away. When would it? He's been Providing Value as a ten-ton Hammer Against Evil for thirty years. No family, no social life. Certainly, no incentive on his handler's part to lance his Atlas complex. So he barrels towards atrocity in the name of remaining useful. Admittedly, this is where the comparison breaks down in a significant way; Captain America is much more of a symbol than he is an irreplicable powerhouse, so it's not catastrophic if he's taken off the board. Eidolon is so unbelievably powerful that his myopia and self-centeredness actually do align with a real problem everyone else is gonna have if he loses his powers. But in terms of the starting points- I think that Steve Rogers embodies the myth about why you'd want to join the army that badly. Eidolon is, I think, much more closely modelling why you'd actually want to join the army that badly.