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finally sat down to fill @gibbarts' wol symbolism template !! ( thank you for sharing it, i had a lot of fun filling it !! )
shout out to my friend erin who Explained Tarot to me + also to everyone who had to hear me ramble about exactly which big cat made more sense for her 😭🤡
#wol#d'andala onik#my art#ffxiv#ff#in another life i drew the judgement card with azem/helios having a trumpet jazz for your soul moment. it was not meant to be this time.#i wanted d'andy + the cheetah to be in the same position/angle but idk if it came across right AHH animals are so hard to draw#need 2 take a furry art course or something
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my phone turned "convocation" into "Cincinnati."
yeah, that's what i wanted to say. that my azem cut her hair short after leaving Cincinnati.
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9 Metageitniōn| Μεταγειτνιών (Attic Calendar) - 14th of August/ 20th-24th of August
Helios (Ἡλιος), The Muses (Μουσαι) and Rhea (Ρεια, Μητηρ Θεων)
The Muses are: Melpomene the Muse of tragedy held a tragic mask, Thaleia Muse of comedy a comedy mask, Terpiskhore Muse of dance a lyre, Kalliope the Muse of epic poetry a lyre, Kleio the Muse of history a stylus and scroll, Polymnia the Muse of hymns a veil and pensive pose, Ourania the Muse of astronomy a globe, Erato the Muse of erotic poetry a lyre, and Euterpe the Muse of lyric poetry a flute.
Hesiod, Theogony 1 ff (trans. Evelyn-White) (Greek epic C8th or 7th B.C.) :
"Of the Mousai Helikoniades (of Helikon) let us begin to sing, who hold the great and holy mount of Helikon, and dance on soft feet about the deep-blue spring and the altar of the almighty Kronion [Zeus], and, when they have washed their tender bodies in Permessos [stream of Helikon] or in the Hippokrene (Horse's Spring) or Olmeios [stream of Helikon], make their fair, lovely dances upon highest Helikon and move with vigorous feet"
Rhea, Mater Megala
Antoninus Liberalis, Metamorphoses 19 (trans. Celoria) (Greek mythographer C2nd A.D.) :
"In Krete there is said to be a sacred cave full of bees. In it, as storytellers say, Rhea gave birth to Zeus; it is a sacred place an no one is to go near it, whether god or mortal. At the appointed time each year a great blaze is seen to come out of the cave. Their story goes on to say that this happens whenever the blood from the birth of Zeus begins to boil up. The sacred bees that were the nurses of Zeus occupy this cave."
Ἡλιος
HELIOS (Helius) was the Titan god of the sun, a guardian of oaths, and the god of sight. He dwelt in a golden palace in the River Okeanos (Oceanus) at the far ends of the earth from which he emerged each dawn, crowned with the aureole of the sun, driving a chariot drawn by four winged steeds. When he reached the the land of the Hesperides in the far West he descended into a golden cup which bore him through the northern streams of Okeanos back to his rising place in the East.
Homeric Hymn 31 to Helius (trans. Evelyn-White) (Greek epic C7th - 4th B.C.) :
"Glowing Helios (Sun) whom mild-eyed Euryphaessa (Wide Shining), the far-shining one, bare to [Hyperion] the son of Gaia (Gaea, Earth) and starry Ouranos (Uranus, Heaven). For Hyperion wedded glorious Euryphaessa, his own sister, who bare him lovely children, rosy-armed Eos (the Dawn) and rich-tressed Selene (the Moon) and tireless Helios (Helius, the Sun) who is like the deathless gods."
#hellenistic#hellenic deities#hellenic pagan#hellenism#hellenic polytheism#hellenic worship#hellenic calendar#festivals#rhea#helios#the muses#deity#deity work#deity worship#pagan#paganism#paganblr#sources#greek#greek literature#greek deities#greek tumblr#greek mythology#greek gods#greek myth#greek myth art#greek posts#ancient greece#pagan witch#apollo
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Hi! I just want to clarify that actually Apollo was a sun god in Greece too... The most ancient author who refered Apollo as a solar deity was Aeschylus lived from 525 BCE - 456 BCE
“The unseen land [i.e. the underworld] where Apollon [here the sun] does not walk, the sunless (analion) land that receives all men.”
- Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes 858 ff
Apollo being a solar deity was definitely not something Romans invented. Yes, maybe in Roma Era he was syncreticed with Helios and was seeing as the sun itself, even replacing Helios in some myths (like Phaeton and Clytie stories). But he was a sun god in Ancient Greece, maybe not itself, but something more like Horus to the egyptian, a solar deity.
Hi hi!! Thank you so much for the clarification!!
I do have to apologise for my own super casual tone probably giving the wrong idea but if this is referring to the tags on a recent post making a (wonderful!!) case for dark-haired Apollo then I do have to say that I didn't state Apollo wasn't associated with the sun in Greek culture but that he was not primarily associated with the sun!
Like you do very correctly say he was more of a civic god with solar aspects like Egypt's Horus (and even that is a large simplification), mostly from a cosmic standpoint. I like saying that Apollo is the 'light' in 'enlightenment' to the Greeks vs being a physical light to the Romans ♡♡
Thank you so much for double-checking my work though! I'll make sure to be clearer with my tags so these kinds of things don't happen in the future 🥰🙇🏾
#ginger answers asks#I'm very sorry for the misunderstanding!!#Apollo and Horus were besties fr though#Just in term of roles and features#Both were even explicitly associated with distance#Extremely cool stuff I'm so glad you brought that up as a reference point!#I'm also really grateful when things like this happen because it lets me know#that people aren't just taking my words at face value and are really thinking about them!#like that's so cool!! I'm glad to have this exchange!! please keep double-checking my tags and work!!!#<333
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Play Report: Tacticians of Ahm #2
Tonight, I ran the second session of an ongoing playtest of an upcoming starter Tacticians of Ahm adventure I'm hoping to get out in the February update (the game is itchfunding now). So, here's a play report (and here's a link to the first play report)!
After the chaos of the griffin attack on the Academy's field day, everyone went back inside the Academy walls for safety. Both griffins, including the one carrying Von Lopesbane, flew off to the northeast, after getting hit by enough attacks from the professors and student tacticians below to be thoroughly annoyed.
Inside the walls, the party saw a number of scouts coming in from the north, west, and eastern roads, all with the same news: sightings and reports of imperial soldiers (even several skyriders - the empress's griffin rider legion) attacking Ahmian citizens - all while proclaiming to be fighting back against the corrupt1on!
Groups of Tacticians and their advisors began to form parties to go out and address these various reports - after all what's a better final exam than the real thing? Professor Dana Turr, an elderly naga woman and the Senior Term headmaster, gave the group an option (since their advisor, Von Lopesbane, was missing): Find Von Lopesbane on their own and it will earn them a guaranteed early graduation and exemption from the remaining weeks of exercises. The other Tacticians on site at the Academy are spread too thin with more violent reports nearby, but she can't abandon Von Lopesbane and if the imperial army is involved, this could be serious enough to actually mean he's in serious risk.
The group agreed and were sent off to Quartermaster Bormos to get field equipment before heading out: 5 rations, a healing potion, and a piece of equipment (under 25g) of their choice. Both Tacticians took Leather Armor. Quablin bought both of them backpacks for the road.
The group headed out, into the region northeast of the academy in search of Von Lopesbane.
The party was somewhat familiar with this region from their time at the Academy. To the north was Four Families, a collection of four family farms all housed very close to one another - the road eerily quiet. To the east, the village of Dodona - smoke rising up from that direction in the distance. To the far north, ruins of an old war watchtower, formally abandoned for centuries.
Helios pushed for the group to head to Four Families and then east towards Dodona. The road was strangely quiet on the way (no random encounters were rolled).
They arrived at the farmhouses and found it, again, strangely quiet. They approached the nearest house and a halfling farmer whispered at them out of the shrubs - There are soldiers in the house! They attacked the other houses and his family only just made it out in time.
Helios approached the house and tried to convince the soldiers inside that she was a higher ranking officer, but the soldiers were assured in their mission, claiming Helios to likely be an agent of the corrupti0n. Frustrated, Helios kicked down the door and rushed in!
Over a 4 round fight, the Tacticians faced 1 Lietenant (EL2) and 2 Spearman (EL1). Through a clever use of Stupor to stun two of the enemies followed by a perfect backstab from Helios the group took the fight but both were just a strike away from falling. The gained 1 XP, 1 RP for their combo and leveled their Relationship to Level 1.
They questioned the defeated troops, you seemed out of sorts, babbling about corrupt1on, being far from home, and the vile nature of the White Walled City - almost as if the concepts of D4RKW3LL and Ahm were swapped in their mind.
Next time, the party travels onward!
[Design notes: We were testing some changes/expansions here to overland travel as it is currently written in the published rulebook. It's more of a node-based pointcrawl than a traditional hexcrawl (like the FF Tactics overworld map). The other thing I'm focusing on going forward in playtests in holding myself better to the digital nature of the world and highlighting those aspects (and providing guidance in the rulebook for GMs to know how to do the same).](edited)
Tacticians of Ahm is itchfunding now and it currently at it's lowest price (just $15 USD) with monthly updates coming from February to September of this year (and hopefully beyond)!
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this is Helios :)
although i'm still kinda working on getting her to click right in my head, and i'm starting to suspect i need to give her long hair for it to happen 8'')
but i do know that they were a very good Azem. extroverted and excitable and strong-willed and magnanimous (similar to Ehryu). loved painting but was basically tone deaf (the opposite of Ehryu). childhood friend of and common-law married to Emet-Selch and Hythlodaeus.
To all of you who have an Azem/Ancient design for your WoL/FFXIV OC: I wish you a very can I see them and tell me their names/lore.
#would be smiling if that were a thing i could do in character creator#maybe i can make this an endgame post-zodiark haircut and that's also why they're not smiling :///#ff#ffxiv#ew#ehriyu#helios
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I’m sorry if this is a repeat, I have no clue if I sent this in before or not, but what is Aphrodite and Hephaestus’s relationship like, according to the myths and such?
It varies honestly. Like- from a lot of fragments we know he won Aphrodite as a wife by freeing Hera from the trap he made for her (and Aphrodite did agree to wed the one who did so, but supposedly she believed it would be Ares who succeeded).
There's some myths that show them as enjoying time together quite a bit
Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 1. 850 ff : "Kypris [Aphrodite], the goddess of desire, had done her sweet work in their hearts [and mated the visiting Argonauts with the widowed women of Lemnos]. She wished to please Hephaistos, the great Artificer, and save his isle of Lemnos from ever lacking men again . . . The whole city [of Lemnos] was alive with dance and banquet. The scent of burnt-offerings filled the air; and of all the immortals, it was Hera's glorious son Hephaistos and Kypris [Aphrodite] herself whom their songs and sacrifices were designed to please."
But in contrast she was definitely with Ares
Homer, Odyssey 8. 267 ff (trans. Shewring) (Greek epic C8th B.C.) : "Demodokos [the Phaiakian bard] struck his lyre and began a beguiling song about the loves of Ares and Aphrodite, how first the lay together secretly in the dwelling of Hephaistos. Ares had offered many gifts to the garlanded divinity and covered with shame the marriage bed of Lord Hephaistos. But Helios (the sun-god) had seen them in their dalliance and hastened away to tell Hephaistos; to him the news was bitter as gall, and he made his way towards his smithy, brooding revenge.
And they were shamed for it as "ill deeds never prosper"
I do find it interesting, as a side note, that Poseidon actually advocated strongly to Hephaistos to free Ares, and even offered to pay Ares' debt to Heaphaistos.
Continuing, though there are stories a plenty of their time, an awful lot of what we have actually comes from the Roman era. While these stories are undoubtedly at least partially based in older tellings, we seem to be missing a fair few...
However, in the Odyssey, they actually get divorced.
Homer, Odyssey 8. 267 ff (trans. Shewring) (Greek epic C8th B.C.) : Come, Father Zeus; come, all you blessed immortals with him; see what has happened here . . . You will see the pair of lovers now as they lie embracing in my bed; the sight of them makes me sick at heart. Yet I doubt their desire to rest there longer, fond as they are. They will soon unwish their posture there; but my cunning chains shall hold them both fast till her father Zeus has given me back all the betrothal gifts I bestowed on him for his wanton daughter; beauty she has, but no sense of shame.’"
This line is basically: give me back the betrothal gifts (so we're no longer together).
Notably, in the Iliad Hephaistos is married to Aglaia, rather than Aphrodite.
Pseudo-Apollodorus and Nonnus, Dionysiaca also mention that they divorced. They don't use the words divorce, but they are clearly separated and no longer considered together.
So, they had at least a period of time together, but as Aphrodite loved Ares (whom she'd wanted to marry) they had an affair which ended the marriage with Hephaistos.
Some mythos also mentions that he cursed Harmonia, daughter born of the Aphrodite and Ares affair, but I need to do more research on the origins of this mythos as the sources I've found are both Roman era.
Hope this answers your question!
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Herald Of The Dawn
Ovid, Metamorphoses 2. 112 ff (trans. Melville) (Roman epic C1st B.C. to C1st A.D.) :
"Aurora (the Dawn) [Eos], watchful in the reddening dawn, threw wide her crimson doors and rose-filled halls; the Stellae (Stars) took flight, in marshalled order set by Lucifer (the Morning Star) [Eosphoros ] who left his station last. Then, when Titan [Helios the Sun] perceived the Lucifer [Eosphoros] setting [he rose into the sky]." x
#lucifer#shin megami tensei lucifer#lucifer shin megami tensei#smt#pagan#paganism#wicca#wiccan#lucifer deity#luciferian#lord lucifer#theistic luciferianism#lucifer devotee#paganism and smt
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exploding them with my mind
#help the second one is from MAY 😭😭#original character#artists on tumblr#flight feathers#evff#selene ff#helios ff#oc tag#my art#ev.post
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im so sorry @anon i didnt know i had them off. theyre on now. and TYSM for being interested in my rewrite. the general idea is that it shifts the POV from the vault hunters to several of the bandit clans over the games. putting this under a read more because its. a lot.
the rewrite will be separated into chapters focused on specific points in or before the games. starting with mapping out the hierarchy in borderlands 1, where the bandits we encounter are united under baron flynt. and how that destabilizes the entire continent whenever the VHs go up the ladder and kill everyone in power. because as it turns out, executing leaders and destroying resource supplies does not actually make a piece of territory safer. BL1 POV characters planned: baron flynt, reaver, krom, sledge, ninetoes, bonehead, mad mel, possibly the kobb twins, one eyed jack is VERY interesting to me seeing as how hes not a real bandit, but an undercover weapons dealer. a few outsider POVS, steele, pierce, roland possibly. the knoxx dlc and the underdome dlc will also be rewritten, though probably not zombie island and claptrap revolution. those who survive the events of BL1 end up forming the bloodshots: a massive group of bandits with no apparent leader, who are starting to conquer more territory of their own. the flynts try to push back on the territory theyve lost to regain control over the planet, but now theyre also in competition with hyperion and the crimson raiders. its a war fought from all sides where everyone is hostile to each other and no real ground is kept, especially for the bloodshots who are displaced again and again and again. this war is all based on this map in captains ship btw. weird how sanctuary is marked in blue. at this point flynt is also still hunting down the people who killed his brother.
two is a little more segmented just from the sheer number of bandit clans we get introduced to, but all of them will get some sort of spotlight. lynchwood especially, as a bandit town run by a bandit that is now under corporate lockdown, similar to baron flynt's thor pre-borderlands 1. BL2 POV characters planned: captain flynt, deputy winger, ellie, flanksteak, sheriff nisha, possibly tiny tina and/or fleshstick. brick, maybe. salvador is a definite and krieg is a maybe bc i think a VH pov might be useful but only through the scope of a bandit VH. opposition POVs as well. handsome jack, crimson raiders. i am fighting every impulse within me to not make a religious connection between angel and the bloodshots. all of those bandit leaders are again killed by the vault hunters on their warpath to stopping handsome jack. collateral, in the games. id like it to be different in my rewrite! i want their deaths to have value, which is limited by the type of game that borderlands is. its a lootershooter, kill the bad guys and move on and never think about them again. i will not be doing that <3 then the transition to BL3 where all of the varied bandit clans we have just get put into the melting pot to fuel the cults need for bodies. before i get to this part of the rewrite i will have to replay the game because its the one im least confident on. Its also a bit more of a struggle because of how little we have in terms of named COV bandits. the twins ofc get a spotlight, and its the detail of bloodshot tattoos on shiv means he lived through barons rule, atlas, the crimson raiders flooding the bloodshots out of sanctuary, hyperion, the crimson raiders flooding the bloodshots out of the dam, AND hyperion. and then uhm. you kill him with like three bullets. im less interested in the maliwan side of the COV, so i wont touch very much on it for this rewrite or have a POV character within maliwan but im also not going to sidestep promethia and athenas in their entirety. there will be a focus specifically on the opposition research sidequest and whatever else i can pick through on the planets. and then theres eden-6, carnivora, and to be perfectly honest, though nekrotafeyo might get mentioned in passing, i have no intention of doing very much with it at all. maybe some tyreen POV chapters but thats all i got in me. im so sorry. i do not like typhon enough to dedicate more than that to him. and then the end of the game and all of the consequences that follow as the bandits once again lose their leadership, but also are freed of the constant threats they have been living through for decades.
im not entirely sure if i will cover TPS, or tales 1 and 2 but im considering it! at this point i already have a lot on my plate with the main title games, but maybe ill be able to get around to it eventually.
This is so silly but I have a cringe ass non-borderlands account that I don’t want to ask from and mohavegecko has anon asks off (I totally understand that) but can you ask him to spill more about the borderlands bandit-centric rewrite she’s been working on bc it sounds awesome.
Also love your art and your fantastic AU content (Angel my beloved…..) You have such a fresh take on the borderlands world and characters and it’s always great reading your stuff. Thank you for being a bastion of Wainlock content <3
@mohavegecko i was asked to forward this to thee
and thank you very much anon :)
#borderlands#bandit rewrite#also tyty nikolai for getting this 2 me#this is an angel and nisha lives au btw#if i do end up rewriting tales + FFS angel will have control over the fallen helios + more influence over vaughns clan#because i think shed feel responsible for a lot of what hyperion did to the planet.#and a country sized spaceship would hold a lot of resources that she would not want just kept to them#nisha lives because i like nisha. thats all i got. aurelia also lives because i like her too#and putting the hammerlock siblings against each other like they did in 3 was evil 2 me.#also feel free to send in more asks. i love talking. as u can tell 💀
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Rules: Pick a song for each letter of your URL and tag that many people.
You're a sweetheart, @ghouliar0berts. Thanks for the tag.
I've done a similar challenge before, but last time I really tried to pick songs I felt related to Astarion in some way. This time I'll branch out.
My URL has so many letters, which is part of the reason it took me so long to actually complete the challenge. Apologies in advance.
Edit: @lyzelky also tagged me for this! Hi, Lyzel! You're sweet!
A - "Astral Body," Michel Mondrain
M - "Monaco," Jude York
O - "One Thing Leads To Another," The Fixx
R - "Record Player," Daisy the Great and AJR
E - "Everybody Breaks," Ivan & Alyosha
M - "Moment," Yael Naim
A - "Ain't Misbehavin'," Fats Waller
G - "Get Back (ASAP)," Alexandra Stan
N - "Nothing," Bruno Major
I - "I'll Probably Never Be Somebody," Vlad Holiday
F - "Friends," Chase Atlantic
I - "In the Attic," J.M. Lyon
C - "Chamber of Reflection," Mac DeMarco
E - "Echoes," Austin and the Powers
N - "Nothing It Can," Helios
T - "The Mountain Song," Tophouse
B - "Born to Be Alive," Patrick Hernandez
A - "Água de Beber," Quarteto Jobim-Morelenbaum
S - "Sanctuary," Andrew Gialanella
T - "This Year," The Mountain Goats
A - "A House in Nebraska," Ethel Cain
R - "Rockaria! - Live at Wembley Stadium," Electric Light Orchestra
D - "Dance Again," Jennifer Lopez and Pitbull
Now I have to tag 23 people. Hoo boy. I'm trying so hard to avoid double tags, so please excuse me if you've already been tagged for this.
@pinkberrytea @brain-rot-central @astarionfreak @astarionancuntnin @bardic-inspo @locallegume @paulblartlolcop2 @florallychaotic @gilded-glitter @ghostfire @preciouslittle-bhaalbabe @caspercryptid @charmandabear @rainbowslinkyy @raccooncrimes @audacityinblack @nyx-knox @allymcfee @cinnamontails-ff @simon-says-nothing @the-neon-pineapple @brabblesblog @foccaccia
#amy rambles#ghouliar0berts#tag! you're it!#so much music..........#so many tags.............#woof#anyway i hope y'all find something you like on this little playlist#it's very eclectic
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this "your WoL vs azem" picrew meme was going around on twitter a while ago and i adore it so much i wanted to bring it over here
#i feel silly saying because i don't have much of a following but#reblog and add yours if you like???#ff#ffxiv#shb#azem#ehriyu#helios
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Masterlist 31
(******)= suggestive
general:
do they like being tied up**** (ds tpt)
SO LOVES wing cuddles (all birds and drakes)
they wake up as a new species (tpt dt dt os)
bath or showers (all)
he ends up preggers (horrors)
late or early? (all)
stranger is getting stalked (ff fs ft hf)
hes balllddddd (lf tpt gt)
favorite game of the gamers
What they put as SOs contact name (all)
libidos******
they meet thier evil twin (hs hf hfr sf dt)
someone drugs SOs drink (lsf lr lg lf)
SO says his **** is too big lol******
you know what that sounds like (edge sugar helios)**
the floor is lava (all)
who does and doesn't like being pinned (all)***
SO fell for him during an embarrassing moment of his (hf uf ht)
they catch their kid forging their signature
their kid got bit at school
pillow fight (all)
barbieland (mafias, lr. lsf)
SO nibbles to show affection (ul dt)
alien invasion (lsf ot)
fighting styles (of bf lsf df)
housewife or breadwinner? (all)
rule the country for a day (drakes)
aesthetes (drakes)
SO gets love potioned (st sf ff hfm)
Side Characters
sans the bat
rosemary's family history
snows siblings
Worldbuilding
three biggest covens of ebott
bloomsiles (monster subspecies)
monster blood
Unicorns! (Monster subspecies)
soulbonds
burial practices
how the lust serum came to be in each au
which aus follow lady magic the most
sunset surprise snails
skeleton beauty standards
ebotts sodas
after the horrors were discovered
what was the institution like?
how the horrors met their counterparts
tribes of drakefell
surrogates (and sir)
why sir isn't attracted to other skeletons
ebotts education system
foods banned in ebott
ebott fashion
UPDATED AGES LIFESPAN AND TIMELINE
Temmies
The mafias
would they reach out to their kid? (continuation)
butch with an anxious SO
Templetale
are they bilingual? (bonus saga)
Theatretale
tempos biggest enemy
farmswap
cider is secretly a supervillain
Farmfell
what pooch looks like
horrorfarm
the story behind moose's nickname
maple is a bean pole
outerswap
artemis' life goals book
dimming gene origins
Seafell
hook has a secret kid
Underfell
edges favorite restaurants
Lustfell
lush's favorite restaurants
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choosing violence: 8, 9, 10, 19
Oh boy, alright let's see...
I think I'm gonna have to roll 8 & 10 into the same response MOSTLY because I don't really know what to put on 8 exactly but I also feel like 10 kinda applies to it?
8. common fandom opinion that everyone is wrong about/10. worst part of fanon
BUT YEAH, it's the fandom's insistence that Sol is miserable/bored/apathetic and desperate to get out of the time loop (or whatever you call this not-loop arrangement). I swear, if I see another fic that has Sol feeling like shit because of the time loop thing I'm going to... not really do anything. Except maybe scream really loudly internally.
It's not like they're re-watching the same movie a thousand times and we only really see a small sample of the infinite possibilities they have on hand, but people are so fond of the despair over time loop thing and I kinda hate it.
9. worst part of canon
That we don't get a "I was a 20-something exocolonist" Continuation? No? That's cheating? Okay, let's see...
This is actually a tough one 'cause I've got several small annoyances but I think the big one is that no matter what you do, nobody will believe Sol about the visions or aliens (Like FFS even Dys can be the person who triggers Sol getting sent to be lobotomized). And special shoutout to that one event on the ridge where Utopia is more willing to believe that Dys has a secret older brother (SHE SPENT 20 YEARS ON THAT SAME SHIP! D8<) than that Sol is telling the truth about Sym being an alien. And then when you talk to the council at the end they go "Yeah no, lol we knew there was an alien presence out there". I get that Sol probably does a lot of faulty predictions too, but I just wish there was a golden route where people started trusting them if you somehow managed to mysteriously be in the right place at the right time to keep saving people's lives. Or something.
19. you're mad/ashamed/horrified you actually kind of like...
Vace would be the easy answer here but I'm actually not picking him for this. No, I'm gonna pick the other guy who I don't exactly like as as much as I kind of appreciate in terms of writing and find fascinating.
It's Lum.
It took me many months to actually start thinking about this guy more than writing him off as comically inept space dictator-wannabe. But when you take a step back he's actually kind of interesting. I think I'll put why under a readmore tho, 'cause while my earlier responses has some spoilers this goes into more important events.
Basically, I think Lum is interesting because he looks so dumb and inept and comically evil at first glance. But once you learn about the earth fleet, things start to look a bit differently.
Him being so rough with Utopia isn't just him being over the top evil for the sake of it. He's on a major time limit to get this planet into what the earth fleet considers shape, (with the "or else" option being them glassing the place) and Utopia confronts him in front of the entire colony, questioning his leadership and putting him on the spot. So he thinks and acts fast and brutally to force things back under his control 'cause he really can't risk losing that.
And when you think about it, a lot of his decisions are in the same line. Poorly thought out ways to handle the immense pressure he's under. He's not well suited for this, was probably never taught to handle these kind of decisions. The Helios supposedly got there in about 15 years and Lum is listed at 25 at the start of the game (30 on arrival), so he got onboard of that military ship when he was 15, grew up with a very limited worldview and was suddenly put in command of the entire operation. (he was like, second in command of communications before?) With the earth fleet threat breathing down his neck.
This isn't me excusing his behavior by the way. He did things that range from extremely shitty to horrifying. But part of me can't stop thinking about how much more chill he seems if he gets kicked from the leadership role, and that one Glow attack where he recklessly used himself as bait to lure the two faceless.
Basically, if Vace is the guy I want to put in a hamster ball and kick down the stairs. Lum is the guy I'd like to put by a pool and give a gym membership to in the peace ending, and then come back ten years later to see if he's turned into the himbo I suspect he could potentially be.
#Should I put this in the main tag?#Yeah why not we're choosing violence today#Exocolonist#Iwatex#What's the worst that could happen anyway#Inb4 I am excommunicated from the fandom
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