#heroisim

[im-not-buying-it-ether]

I think what makes Billy my favorite Superhero as of yet is that his ideals are more childish.

Y'know that quote? "What does the child have to teach?" Thats Billy for me as a hero. He believes the world should be fair, that people should be honest, that only good prevails and people should have what they want. That there be no pain or sadness. The world should be perfect, and like every child, Billy is right.

It's not as grand as other heroes in that way, Billy is a kid living by the sayings every adult he had drilled into him with a strong moral compass. Those classic lines of treating others how you want to be treated and not judging books by their cover are still fresh in Billy's mind, he is a kind and good child to a fault.

There's probably better and more profound ways to put it but Billy is a kid first and a hero second, and that's what makes him a good one.

[zynxsone]

BACK WITH MY THEORIES

Sup y'all its me and my shitty theories that is centered in tales of arcadia (TOA).

Claire and Wizard/Witches might not be a complete human.

Sounds Crazy? Why? Remember when Morgana stated that she and Claire are magical creatures? Yeah, that; Morgana seems to imply that Claire is no ordinary human like her. Wizards/Witches might be eldritch abominations or spiritual beings in a form of human flesh. (Including her, douxie, and merlin.) Hear me out, Wizards or witches are incarnations of every element, principle or something-something. Morgana is the incarnation and representation of Redemption (Her freeing herself from her own sins.), Claire being the incarnation and representation of Connection. Douxie being the incarnation and representation of Acception, Merlin being Realization (At this point I don't even know what I am even saying.) (ok you know what this is just a rant of mine)

Changelings are a disembody (opposite of mirror) of their Human Familiars

This one's not really a theory, probs canon. But still, Changelings and their characteristics are the opposite of their Human. Their changeling form is the true fake while the human form is the true nature.

Merlin/The amulet choosing Jim as the new trollhunter wasn't because of random reasons.

The amulet could feel jim's heroisim hiding deep in his soul. It could be also possible that Jim might be the vessel of daylight itself.

Nana Domzalski being a witch

I think y'all know the reason for this one

Bellroc might be from another dimension (this one is just me being delusional dw y'all)

Bellroc being from another dimension or timeline, desperately trying to restore balance (control) to their own world. This isn't really a theory of mine, just a random thought lol.

The amulet knows.

The amulet always knows. Even after Jim time-travelled and decided to let Toby become the hero, the amulet knows. This ending would just tell that whoever finds the amulet becomes the trollhunter, and that's stupid. From the start, the amulet knew that Jim IS the trollhunter, the one that would bring glory to all. I think that It was implied that jim not being the trollhunter would lead the world to doom (clearly explained in the episode unbecoming). SO, jim deciding toby's 'destiny' would just leave to another disaster to the world.

Gaylen is a type of fairy, somehow.

He literally looks like a fucked up fairy, look at the spike-thingy on his back, they resemble a fairy's wings. And also, also--He originated from earth.

[insert-the-4thwall-entity]

yesterday, upon knowing that some undertale aus take pace after a neutral route or a failed pacifist route, i asked myself a question :

what if in an au with different-ish lore, after a failed pacifist route that ended at Asgore's fight and after some years, a human fell with the intent of the deed and through out the story they still wanted to do it?

And that's how i came up with the new ut au - Damned to be the 8th. The idea started out as undertale only, but the need for crossover got into it, in a way -

In this timeline there's a medium sized town named Hillford next to the mountain. All 7 humans ( yes, Frisk too ) where damned and exiled by society and where either thrown into or chased to mt.Ebott due to some excuse made up by the town preachers of those times. This practice was discontinued in 2015 after a child's body was found near one of the cave entrances. It's 2024 and there hasn't been a case where someone diapered into mt.Ebott, yet.

Then there's Mira Fallow, a 15 year old girl, who is the this day and age's damned one. Her soul trait is impartiality(color coded as hot pink), which is the trait of seeing almost everyone as beings of equal rights and defending them from those who don't acknowledge said rights. Special soul ability is the Parry mechanic. She was accused by the current preacher, Seth Aragon(all of the towns preachers are in the same Aragon bloodline) of being a modern(stereotypical) witch, despite being one of the only living humans that can do magic. The hate towards her was ridiculous, topped with rumors, false accusations, bullying and so on. Despite almost everyone in the town, she still had some friends, them being Kris, Susie, Noelle, Benji(short for Benjamin and is this aus Berdly), a Japanese immigrant named Hikaru(I TOLD YOU THE CROSSOVER HAD MADE IT'S WAY, HELL THE SOUL OF BRAVERY(WHICH IS ALSO CALLED IN THIS AU THE SOUL OF HEROISIM) IS LITERALY ALMA) and another human with magic named Ralsei.

The hate has been getting to Mira and not even her friends could fully lift her spirits. She wants the pain, the agony, all of it to end. She wants everyone to realize what they've been doin. and as soon as she heard of the story of the damned 7, she wants be the 8th, to be dead. It's the night of the 9th anniversary of the disappearance of the 7th, Mira has packed everything she liked and every personal to her belongings. She had made her way to the hole of mt.Ebott. It was time. She closed her eyes and jumped into the abyss. She had made it to the bottom and waited for her demise.

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Only to wake up in the morning alive to the sight of the ghost of the first human that ever stepped foot in the underground, the one before the damned 7 - Caroline 'Chara' Dreemurr. And this is how Mira's story started...

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really went into THOSE territories, did i? anyways will soon post some concept doodles of this. who knows, maybe i'll even start a comic regarding this, but we'll see.

anyways that's all for now -

[minijenn]

Tbh my guess is that Amethyst probs took it and was fucking around with it somewhere for fun and then just dropped it somewhere and Gideon snagged it soon after, before the Gems could realize it was even missing.

Wow Gideon is such a cunning shit

Yuuuup lol imagine being 10 years old with a napoleon complex, wanting to destroy three magical guardians of humanity and the super nice kid who tags along with them just because their heroisim pisses you off on a personal level

[broomclosetbrew]

Smoking an Undercrown All Dekk'd Out 10 year anniversary cigar and drinking a Single Barrel Cask Strength Selection of Old Forrester while I listen to @beyondthebreakerspodcast episode on USCGC Blackthorn. Notes of cinnamon, baking spices, some leather, and light wood notes with lots of mouth tingle. .... Putting some smoke in the air tonight for the 23 crew of the USCGC Blackthorn, lost this night, January 28, 1980, while heading back to homeport from the yards in Tampa Bay. At 8:21 pm the 180-ft bouy tender collided with the 605-ft tank vessel SS Capricorn. A series of failures, including other marine traffic, lots of radio traffic, and failures in communication led to the bow to bow collision.The collision caused little initial damage but the Capricorn's anchor ripped into Blackthorn, through several spaces, and began towing the cutter backwards causing her to eventually capsize in less than 20 seconds. Several brand new crewmen were trapped during their escape when they ended up in the engine room. Seaman Apprentice William Flores, out of boot camp for a year managed to open the lifejacket locker as Blackthorn capsized. He tossed lifejackets to his fellow crewmen and tied open the locker with his own lifejacket to ensure the remaining lifejackets would float free as Blackthorn sank. Flores lost his life that night while trying to help his fellow Coasties survive, he was 18 years old. It took 20 years for Flores to be awarded the Coast Guard Medal for his heroisim. .... "Many of the survivors told the same story. They said they would not be alive if it were not for one of the new crewmembers." - MCPOCG (ret) Vince Patton. .... #thisdayinhistory #AToast #uscg #uscoastguard #USCGCBlackthorn #cigar #CigarLover #CigarAfficionado #cigarphoto #cigarsmoke #pssita #sailorandsticks #cigarsandwhiskey #TapThatAsh #whiskey #oldforrester #WhiskeyAfficionado #whiskeygram #whiskeyandhistory #whiskeyneat #quote #quotestagram (at Coastal San Pedro) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cn_MUx6uRAz/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[mesquitecandle]

Ok, that wasn't as terrible as I thought.

Long as you care for your 1-3 star servants and have at least 3 to 5 strong 4-5 stars, you should be good via solos.

Take good care of your low rarities, and they'll be your best MVPs for certain fights.

I can only imagine the exaggerations of heroisim Jason will tell. Or how Lancelot would describe being temporarily eaten by ORT.

Finally made it to giant spider boss:

Time to feed servants to the servant shredder (unwillingly)...

[comicweek]

I think they all have wonderful, different ideals, and for her it’s her belief system about the world in her own special way. She, besides Thor, is the only one who’s a god, and yet she has a very strong point of view. She believes in love, and she believes in truth. That’s a strong point of view. So Superman wants to save the world and all the superheroes want to save the world for a variety of reasons or they want revenge or they’re defending themselves. Whichever it is, she’s one of the only ones I can think of where she has a belief system that’s almost religious. “I believe in the betterment of you, and I believe in you, and I believe in truth. And I believe that you all can be better, and I will fight to protect you. But I also believe in better than that.” That’s wonderful to work with. And that is in this time. That’s something amazing to have. I believe in her. I believe that’s an important message right now. “I don’t want to fight. I don’t want to kill people. But if I’m in this situation, I’m going to fight for your right to be better people.” That’s a wonderful story to dig into. And have your own doubts about your struggles as the great superheroes have.

Patty Jenkins on how Wonder Woman stands apart from Batman and Superman

[myrskytuuli]

Anyway, I’ve been thinking about this for a long time, but it’s kind of fucked up how our popular entertainment pairs sexual activity with villainy and anti-heroisim. Like when you think about clear contrasts like Iron Man and Captain America, you get a pairing of “Is this your first kiss in 100 years, you lawfully good virgin, hohoho” and “he fucks anything he finds attractive and moves”.

And like, I ask you to name a charcater who is both lawfull good and fucks around. Because I genuinley cannot think of one. All the characters that have one night stands and loose sexual relationships are always also somehow morally grey.

And. You know. I’m kind of morally grey and slutty. it’s not a problem of representation for me. I feel Loki more than I feel Thor. but I still feel like there is psychic damage being done to us as species when all of our popular media insists that sexual activity has to come with grey morality. Like, there is nothing that says that in reality you cannot advocate for strict moral code, forgiveness, and non-agression, and be a total slut at the same time. (God knows I am).

 I don’t know. I guess I just wish that having a lot of one-night-stands was seen more as a sign of loving people around you and not as sign of repressed evil.

[popculturebuffet]

Legend of the Three Caballeros: Labyrinth and Repeat Review (Commissioned by WeirdKev27)

Saludos Amigos! We’re back on the Ride of the Three Cablleros as I intend to knock this wonderful series out at a steady cliip, and since I THOUGHT the premire was a two parter, it still ends on a cliffhanger but it’s too early to tell if this is just normal for this series like say Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts, where it’s really more one continuous story, or just the end of the pilot. For now with all the exposition out of the way from part 1, we can jump right into the thick of things where we picked off.  PREVIOUSLY ON LEGEND OF THE THREE CABLLEROS: Donald had an enormously shitty birthday, loosing his job, his house and his nightmarish harpy.. er his girlfriend, all in one day. Things went up a bit though when he inhereted a Cabana belonging to his ancestor Clinton Coot and met two new pals: Ladies Man Jose Caricoca and loveable weirdo like myself Pancito Romero A Lot of Other Names Gonzales. The three soon had a yard sale with the various treasures inside the cabana and got an offer for a million dollars for the cabana and all inside from local waiter’s nightmare Baron Von Sheldgoose, whose deal includes a jewel incrusted golden atlas. Upon finding it our boys were attacked by a human goddess who popped out of the book and that’s where we pick up. 

Good. Let’s begin. So Xandra, said goddess, is holding our heroes at arrow point with their attempts to defuse the situation falling flat and their attempt to understandably flee by claming to be the cabs failing pretty much immidatley. We do get some good gags including Jose accidently telling Xandra she smells like feta cheese in greek. But lucky for our boys before Xandra can do a murder on them Donald accidently shuts the book.. and finds out she disappears when he does that. Cue our loveable idiots opening and closing the book for a while, easily one of the best bits of the episode. I will say while the pilot was pretty good comedy wise this episode solidfies how funy the series is. The series is at times a barrage of wonderful jokes and set pieces and it is awesome to behold.  Also a breif thing before we get back to the plot... Xandra is indeed human, or at least looks like one. Normally i’m against this as honestly Ducks just mesh better with Dogfaces, other birds and other anthromorphic animals. It just works better and is more consitent to have a world that’s simply anthro animals and non-anthro animals. But.. it works for me here since so the human characters.. are all gods. While i’d of PREFFERED them to still be non humans, like Ducktales does, it works since she’s not really a human but a god and thus it comes off more as her being something inherently diffrent and otherworldly, but something that’s not so distracting it pulls focus away from the rest of the cast, just otherworldly to our heroes.

So while our boy screw with the goddess who you know, tried to murder them for flimsy reasons without stopping to ask why three strangers look exactly like her friends, we get to know the triplets better. I also get a better bead on what voices Jessica is using. May is using Jessica’s Lynn voice, just a touch higher since May isn’t a preteen, while April, the one in yellow, uses the voice she’d later use for candace. Junes is a BIT like Lucy, but with obviously way more energy and emotion. But it’s clear the three are smart confident and willing to run a scheme, and easily get a thousand bucks out of sheldgoose for the spooky purple ring he saw last episode in a really chortleriffic bit where May serves as an auctioneer while her sisters up the price by bidding thus tricking Sheldgoose into paying. They also get past him having a claim on it as he dosen’t have a receipt or anything else other than a verbal contract with Donald, one that wasn’t even complete since the boys hadn’t brought out the atlas, so they were within their rights to fleece him for the ring.. even if him getting it at all is going to backfire, they had no way of knowing that so it’s whatever.  Back in the house the boys have apparently done the  book thing on Xandra about a hundred times, and Xandra FINALLY grabs the book. At least our boys are bonding. But while threatening them again , she finds out they don’t know what happened.. and recongiing clinton int he painting realizess time has passed, these boys are her boys decendants, and perhaps some explination is in order since she’s lost in a strange world. 

So after unveling a bookmark that allows her to project out of the book without being trapped, Xandra gives us our backstory: long ago, in a distant land I Aku master of darkness unleashed an unspeakable evil... wait sorry wrong narration. Long ago Xandra was guardian of the Atlas, which is explained to be the key to various magical hot spots around the world where various myths come from. Things were fine.. until the evil Lord Felldrake decided to screw it all up, binding Xandra to the book and using it to cause chaos and try and take over the world. All was lost till the Cabs stopped him, freed Xandra best they could, and then journed the world with them till she tragically was shut inside the book and seemingly lost. For whatever reason Clinton never opened the book, we’ll presumibly find out later, and well.. here she is.  Xandra is voiced by, unsuprisingly given this project’s all-star cast, voice acting vetran and modern legend of the buisness Grey DeLisle, also credited as Grey Griffith for a time. And like tress she has a rather massive and awesome resume, which naturally i’ll be going into since usually I go into shows mid way and don’t get to do this: Grey’s notable rolls include Daphne Blake ever since What’s New, Scooby Doo?, Lor from Weekenders, still not on plus and I will not let that fact go till I get a valid reason why not, Crazy Cat Lady and Lizzie Divine, Mandy, Doctor Ghastly, Kimiko Tohomiko, Sam Manson, Frankie Foster, Azula, Riley Daring, Freida Suarez, Black Canary (Brave and the Bold), Fire, Dr. Holiday, Aya, Master Nadia, Magpie, Moon Butterfly, Jackie Lynn Thomas, Lola Loud, Lana Loud, Lily Loud, and Martin Prince following Russi Taylors tragic passing, just to give you an idea of how long, varied and wonderful her career and range is. And to give a certain person paying for this review an idea of some of the shows i’m familiar with. Moving on.  Despite learning of their family legacy of heroics, our heroes are planning to still sell the book given Donald and Jose are poor, and Panchito’s giving in to peer pressure. Seriously Camil is already the MVP of the series, easily the best part of it and it’s a shame he wasn’t brought back for Ducktales, especially since by season 2 frank was aware of legend and Jamie had been on the show before. But Xandra offers them a life of adventure and heroisim.. and when that fails points out theirs treasure and the boys agree to hear her out.  So after showing some off Xandra takes them to a Labyrinth to retreive three mystic amulets, and goads Donald into going in by challenging his Ego after he tries to refuse to go. Panchito is naturally fully on board with a dangerous adventure and Jose is talked into it after Xandra pulls an explination why she can’t go out of her firmly toned ass that theirs a mystic barrier which he buys. So while Xandra conjurs a chair and a coconut drink to relax and wait to see if they die or not, our boys head in.  They find a massive, beautiful labyrnith and a large house containing a minotaur. Sadly i’ts not Ferdinand aka the Minotaur who worked as Wonder Woman’s chef, cooking up damn good vegetarian goodies for her at the Thymsicarian Embasy. All of this is real things that happened and all are things that should be in the next fucking movie. Seriously as much of a mess as Wonder Woman 1984 is, i’d buy a ticket in a heartbeat caution to teh wind if it was announced he was being adapted for it. He’s also very smart, kind and loyal if you were wondering. Get yourself a man like feridnand if your into men. 

Anyways Jose once again tries to speak a languge, and thus we get about a minute of Eric Bauza saying the word moo... sometimes... most times really.. I REALLY, REALLY love my job. But with the bull pissed off and going super sayian god super sayian, there’s only one thing left for our heroes to do...

So they do and we get a great gag where Donald, when deciding wether to split up as to lower the possiblity of him getting hit, has TWO shoulder devils, because inside every man is a battle between good and evil that evil usually wins while dancing and singing a jaunty toon over good’s grave. 

But it naturally backfires and the two devils tell him he’s on his own. So we get a fun chase sequence with the three before Donald finally decides fuck it we can fight back. Noticing Panchito’s talent with a rope, he has him rope and ride the Minotaur which he does, then uses Jose’s hankerchief to lure the minotaur and beat him. It’s a gorgeous, fun action sequence that shows off the series is as cool as it is fricking hilaroius.  So our heroes find the amulets, a blue one for donald, a red for panchito and green for jose, and put em on, proudly telling Xandra. It’s then revealed the Minotaur.. is an old friend of hers and this was just a test to see if they could work together and you know.. not die. They can, and she’s proud and plesantly suprised by how good they are.  So our heroes return home, Xandra storring the atlas on her back, and all three suitably impressed. Their further impressed when they find a hidden lair with more treasure, and three sets of armor, their ancestors old armor which as it did in the teaser at the start of the series, looks REALLY fucking cool and comes from various civlizations. Just.. lovely to look at. Our heroes pose.. and the nieces find them, wonder what’s going on, and mention Sheldgoose at the door, apparnelty not phased to meet a god or that their surrogate uncle has a hlemet.  Sheldgoose has come to offer the money.. and it’s REALLY tempiting. Donald has lost EVERYTHING remember, this money could help win Daisy back, get him a fancy house still in new quackmore.. even a third of a million is still enough to set someone as humble and easy to please as donald for life. But.. it’s here where this episode succeds where the premire fell. By this point we’ve SEEN Donald’s weaknsses: he’s greedy, short sighted and selfish. So it makes it THAT MUCH more impactful when he does the right thing, tearing up the check and refusing to sell out his legacy. Sure this could make his life better.. but it’s not worth his soul, his new friends or the world’s safety. He may not be able to get Daisy back or a new house.. but he’d NEVER be able to repalce his new friends, his legacy, or his wonderful new home.  Sheldgoose naturally throws a fit and vows vengance and what have you... and just as naturally gets dragged away by his ring. Like the boys he’s brought to a mystic secret chamber by a family heirloom.. but unlike the boys we get a wonderful sequence of him being slammed into things while Wayne Knight makes delightful noises.

But Sheldgoose finds thanks to the ring he was drawn to a styigan well leading to a talking staff... Felldrake surivived, if trapped in the staff.. and  he’s Baron’s ancestor, himself a sheldgoose who urges his decsendant to take the staff, accept his destiny and thus Sheldgoose revels in his new power as he and feldrake summon Feldrake’s loyal minon.  

So we end on Donald happy. His day was crappy to start.. but while he lost his house, his shrew and his job.. he’s found a new purpose saving the world, an ew life of adventure.. and forever friends in his two new amigos and goddess mentor. He’s finally happy. OR he is for a a second before Feldrake’s minon emerges from it’s sarcophagus and runs off with donald. TO BE CONTINUED. Not doing the jojo gag this time. 

 Before we go on one last cast member; Kevin Micheal Richardson is Felldrake, and he is unsuprisingly awesome and like Grey has a long and storied career.. you know the drill by now: He’s voiced  the Narrator for Clerks the Animated Series, Robert Hawkins (Static’s Dad), Dark Laser, Numbah 5′s dad who was a VERY poorly aged refrence to Bill Cosby, Mammoth, Trigon, Armagedddroid (Something I never realized holy shit good on him), Captain Gantu, The Joker, Pandabubba, Principal Lewis, Schnitzel, Tombstone, Omega Supreme, Cleavland Junior (They drove a dump truck full of money up to his house he’s not made of stone), Mal Duncan, Doctor Fate, Man Ape, Kilowogg, Sheriff Blubs, William Viceroy , Mr. Gus, Rhombulous, Shredder (TMNT 2012), Rosie Rosevelt, Coach Mitchell (Seriously watch Milo Murphy’s Law, we need a season 3), and Dot’s Zit. As you can tell the guy is VERY good at villians so he was a natural choice. 

Final Thoughts: This was a huge improvment. With the miserable parts of the pilot long gone this episode is a fun, breezy adventure that sets up our heroes, the series tone, and our bad guy some more while giving us tons of great gags. I highly look forward to whatever comes next and cannot wait for the next episode. Until then, goodbye, goodbye, goodbye.

[the-lady-writes-what]

Uh.. well.. i have had this idea for a Fic but i need another Person to dole out the pills so to speak for me to see how to write for the fic idea. So. Hawks ends up meeting a amarican number one hero whos' named Gaurdian Angel. But they have four wings one on top on on the bottom half of their back. And they can also change their apperance to coax those into a sense of saftey and also add or subtract additional animal parts. And they apparently left a life a heroisim for their dream of being a famed singer and painter.

Not gonna lie, this is a cool idea. I don't see a lot of people using the more, shall we say, biblically correct descriptions of angels in their writing. Because angels by their depictions in the Bible are kind of frightening. A quirk that allows someone to look like a more accurate angel would be both amazing and terrifying.

Considering that pro-hero work is very taxing on body and mind, I can imagine a few people retiring early to pursue other dreams. Your OC could leave America to pursue a career either as a pop star or moving to Japan to become an idol. Japan has a long list of bands and musicians on the scene. Depending on what route you want to take your OC, I'd recommend doing a bit of research.

I'd also would start to think about the general plot of your story. Is it a romance? Hurt/comfort fic? Drama and action? Stories of different genres have different beats (plot points). If you're writing a romance, it's going to have a different set up than if you're writing an action. Unless your story is an action with romantic subplot, which a whole other can of worms. I'd be more than happy to help with any plot related questions.

Most importantly, don't stress about it. Writing should be fun and your idea is very interesting. Let me know if you have any more questions!

[ludioxxvi]

069. What about your character is heroic?

  He’s not a very heroic. In his opinion atleast. He’s pretty jaded by all the heckery that’s happened so , heroisim isn’t something he’s keen to lean towards. He’ll help if he can/wants to.

 If it will get him killed, he’s not gonna waste his time.

 if someone or something’s in the way of him or 18 living, he don’t care what it is,even if it’s the not happy choice, even if it’s a selfish choice, he don’t care. 

He’s looking out for himself.

[wearepaladin]

Is it possible to hear your thoughts on the new UA paladin: oath of heroism?

Well, I’ve been sharing some thoughts, but I’ll outline them all here.

The Oath of Heroism, as unveiled by the newest Unearthed Arcana, is a new official paladin oath. All Oaths unveiled thus far have a theme to them that touch upon overall core of what being a paladin means (Devotion For traditional paladin beliefs in honor and faith, Ancients for an intricate tie to goodness and light, Vengeance for relentless conviction and righteous fury, Redemption to find good in anyone, and the will to defend it), or to see that path subverted into a darker reflection (Conquest to represent tyranny/loss of faith in right makes might to might alone as moral authority, Oathbreaker to represent not only a severing of belief, but hate for it, and Treachery represent lies as power, fluid as poison.) 

The Heroisim Oath represents the power of, well, heroes. Heroes of legend, of folklore, of myth, the protagonist we all know even if we know them by different names. Hercules, Siegfried, Beowulf, Gilgamesh, etc. The one who goes on the Heroes Journey a million and one times and will continue to do so for so long as someone listens to the stories. Where a Devoted Paladin is divine by Faith, the Hero is divine by Feat and Fate. They are the Hero, empowered by the narrative to find their way. It doesn’t even need to be their choice, but like any protagonist that finds themselves in that role, the world still changes as a result of their actions. Why not become embrace that glory?

If Devotion represents Faith or Belief as their power, Then Heroism represents Glory, how their chosen path and actions are what empower them first. 

The tenets of the Oath of Heroism reflect a paladin’s commitment to fulfilling their calling as a hero worthy of legend. 

Actions over Words. Strive to be known by deeds not words.

 Challenges Are but Tests. Every hardship serves to challenge your abilities and harden your resolve. 

Embrace Destiny. You didn’t choose this path, but it’s yours to walk. And it will carry you into legend. 

Hone the Body. Like raw stone, your body must be worked so its potential can be realized.

Note that there is no moral pinpoint in this oath. The Quest for Glory can take darker routes, and many a hero of legend has darker interpretations, remembered more for their feats than why they accomplished them. 

Essentially, if you swear this Oath, you would find out what it really means to be the hero of your own story, and what kind of hero you really are. 

[project-rebirth]

“The time has come for us to take control of the Outerverse. We shall continue our campaign of slaughter and genocide of thousands of worlds, and enslave the remnants of those we purge. Many Earths will burn, many heathens will be enslaved and indoctrinated into our glorious empire, and those who oppose us, be it the Ministry of Science, The C.S.C, the false Gods that are the Vacosians, a certain unknown God Killer, and other fools who are drunk on obsolete things such as heroisim and hope, shall be purged from existence. We shall ensure of that, for we are DOMINION. We are eternal, we are strong, we are almighty!”

“HAIL DOMINION! HAIL DOMINION! HAIL DOMINION! HAIL DOMINION!!!”

“It is time to begin Project Exterminatus. The Cosmos will soon learn of our might, for we are superior in every way!”

In the reaches of space, an ice planet was refitted into a weapon of mass destruction on an immense scale. The round core began to power on with life, building up large amounts of energy, which was condensed into a massive beam that shot out from its cannon.

Hundreds of portals opened up where the beam had split itself into multiple beams, entering each portal where they made its way to the systems where many occupied planets, be it some version of Earth or other wise, were faced with a crimson beam that would spell the end for everyone on those planets.

None of them had a chance.

The beams entered their universe, at an incredible speed, and once such had been detected, the beam drilled into the planets’ crusts and incinerated all live that occupied them. The beams drilled deeper into the planets core until the celestial bodies cracked, and eventually, exploded in a blaze of fire.

Hundreds of worlds in hundreds of universes had been destroyed in less than 1 minute. The DOMINION Soldiers, priests and officials cheered as they celebrated the success of their latest project, EXTERMINATUS, and it was all thanks to the eccentric ideas that Zayane had implemented in the empire.

“Hahahaha! This is what I call success. Zarama lacked the spine and ingenuity to come up with a weapon like this, if it weren’t for me, this empire would have fallen. But we have the greatest. weapon we could ever ask for.”

[the-faultofdaedalus]

god. the Bartimaeus trilogy is so fuckin good tho. good worldbuilding. good plot. simon can go fuck himself. nath is a tiny idiot who’s too smart for his own good until he’s just an Asshole but he comes through in the end. Bart Doesn’t Want To Be Here, This Is Not His World To Save but he got summoned by the wrong 12-year-old and now he’s here, i guess :/ kitty is GOOD GIRL, HAS DONE NOTHING WRONG EVER, IN HER LIFE, AND I ADORE HER. 

read this series if u wanna watch a couple of assholes inadvertiently save the world (revenge plot turns into heroisim? who would’ve guessed?) and also existentially blackmail eachother. 

[syngigeim]

Cilantro: For a drabble about my muse trying to calm themselves after a bout of anxiety or anger.

He caused her to fail.

Howoften did the Warrior of Light fail? Orrather, lose? And yet, Syngigeim lost. No, failed to protect. Thatstung more than the wound did.

“Syngi?”she heard Mariko say at the front of the infirmary tent.

“Comein, Mariko,” she sullenly replied. She heard the rustle of the tentflap and soon her friend was right beside her, sittingright next to her.

“Howare you doing?”

“Ohyou know, I’ve had worse days. How’s Berold?” Syngigeim asked.

“DreamingSheep is tending to him day and night. Holding on but barely,”Mariko said. “I noticed you switched jobs mid fight. From Scholarover to uh, Red Mage, right?”

Syngigeimnodded. “I just…I saw Zenos slashat Beroldfrom afar and I was just so mad that I-” She halted. She knew thenext words to finish that sentence but she feared saying them. Butshe shouldn’t hide those feelings, at least from Mariko. “-Iwanted to kill him. From what I saw, he killed one of ours, andwas about to kill the rest. Thankfully, Arashi and Elly were of thesame mind as I.”

“AndI hung back, losing arrows from afar,” Mariko muttered. “Justlike before and just like always. Arashi and Elly rushing in wassomething I expected but you? You’re a mage. You’re supposed tobe safe with me, in the back…” He stopped and looked up at herwith a fear in his eyes Syngigeim sometimes saw.

“It’sweird. I haven’t felt this rolling boiling anger for awhile now.Like, the last time I got this mad, it was more calm and measured.This anger? This anger I haven’t felt since Livia. And Livia angerstuck with me until we killed her.” Syngigeim rubbed her eyes withher palms and then moved her hands up to grab at her bangs. “I amnot looking forward to having this feeling simmer for that long.”She sighed and leaned up against the pillow.

Marikoreached out for her arm and patted it.“Well…we’ll get him. We willget him,” he said, with that extra emphasis. “For now, would youmind a soothing song?”

Syngigeimsmiled. “I guess that’lldo.”

Beyondthe walls the children ran

Away from pryingeyes

To play in astream cool and cold

And make pretendthey did

Knights we be!Chivalrous and true

Defend thepeople as we travel the lands

To be heroes,pure-heated and valiant!

The dream theyshared in the shade

The dream ofheroisim, they nurtured

Even beyondchildhood days

And so they met,grown and strong

And set offbeyond the walls

“Sohow many of your songs do I frequent in?” Syngigeim smiled andsaid.

Marikoblushed and rubbed the back of his neck, “Hey now. This is aboutthe idealism of childhood dreams!”

“Iknow the context behind it and it’s about that time I stayed inUl’dah with your family!” Syngigeim said, throwing her pillow atMariko, who grabbed it. “I demand a cut of your performances!”

“Ohwhatever shall I do!” Mariko said in an overdramatic manner. Hethen smiled gently. “Feeling better?”

Syngigeimpulled him underneath her arm. “Yeah. I would do like a full hugbut I gotta be careful about my wound.”

Henodded and settled on giving a hug to her arm. “I was there for youbefore and you’re here for me. That won’t ever change.”

Shenodded and smiled. Where would she be if not for him, her dearest andbest friend in the whole of Hydaelyn? Much worse off, that was forsure.—-A bit after In Crimson it Began. SYNGIGEIM AND MARIKO’S RELATIONSHIP SUSTAINS ME.

[archer3-13]

since @agoddamn has been talkin bout star wars a lot recently, and cause i feel like sharing something i spend a weird amount of time one, heres some of my unedited thoughts on rewriting the prequel trilogy episode 1 below the read me

1

In a time of decline for the galactic republic, strife emerges on the planet of naboo. The nimean trade federation has enacted a blockade of the planet eager to strangle naboos resources and force unfair trade settlements upon the planet. Determined to bring a settlement to the matter and maintain peace and justice in the republic, the jedi council sends diplomats to arrange a peaceful resolution to the conflict. However, they arrive too late as the trade federation have escalated the matter into a full scale invasion of naboo itself.

We open on naboo in the midst of the invasion, the naboo security forces attempting to hold back the droid army but failing miserably in light of superior firepower. Quickly the droid army successfully capture queen Amidala with nute gunray threatening harsh punishments should Amidala not acquiesce to his demands. Amidala says ‘fuck you’ though not in those words, and nute decides to let her ‘cool her head’ well imprisoned [since privately he admits that said punishments would ruin the ‘economic potential’ of naboo since it would require more expenditure on their own part]. Meanwhile the jedi diplomats, quigon jinn and obi-wan Kenobi have arrived at the trade federation battle sphere under the assumption of peace talks.

When the TF attempts to kill them however, jinn had correctly guessed beforehand and that the TF would try to use poison gas in the attempt. Jinn and Kenobi successfully avoid the attempted murder and sneak down to naboo with a part of the invasion force. Kenobi is a brash padwan eager to get into the action to prove his worth, though with a sharp mind for tactics and negotiation as jinn points out. Well jinn is experienced but quirky, respected by the council but equally disliked for his unorthodox methods and tendency to disobey when it suits him. Jinn by nature is a ‘negotiator’ however, skilled as a duelist but most comfortable at the table and trying to encourage kenobis own skill as a negotiator instead of kenobis desire for martial heroisim.

On naboo they sneak into the capital, jinn discerning that if they can get queen Amidala away from naboo and to corecsant they can make a case for more punitive measures against the trade federation. Kenobi is eager for an opportunity to earn a name on the battlefield, convinced that some form of war is on the horizon and that he’ll finally earn his knighthood that way. Jinn however wishes to avoid an escalated conflict, hoping that if they get Amidala down to corescant and the senate then they can force the senate to act definitively and force the TF to back off through heavy diplomatic and especially economic pressures [economic pressures would hurt the TF the most since they value their bottom line over any particular ideology]. However in the process of escaping, queen Amidala ends up taking a fatal wound and dies in transit, additionally their escape flight gets damaged and forces them down to tantooine. [r2d2 shows up around this point as well, as a service droid that obi-wan vents to]

Jinn is at a bit of a loss. Without Amidala wars almost inevitable and they have a responsibility to the people of naboo to inform the republic about naboos plight. If they don’t war may still be put off but naboo will suffer, if they do then war will begin but naboo could be quickly saved. Kenobi well upset by the loss of queen Amidala, since he views it as a failure on his record in that padwan almost knight way, does find himself somewhat expectant for the coming conflict since it means a chance to prove himself and make up for the failure of protecting queen Amidala. Regardless, jinn ventures out to get a new hyperdrive for the ship along with Kenobi and one of the queens remaining ‘hand maidens’, in this case the young girl padme [14].

Padme is fierce and determined, unafraid of speaking her mind when it comes to it. But shes also equally uncertain in her opinions due to inexperience, a more well presented argument being capable of knocking her off balance so to speak even if the opposing argument is weaker overall. Thus well she has the makings of a masterful leader and politician shes untested and a skilled manipulator can easily lead her on. She also has difficulties accepting compromise, again in part due to her youth but more so as a general principle of character.

Padme is distraught over the queens death, but resolves to do whatever she can to not let it be in vain and so traverses moss eisely with them. During this time, jinn observes that padme is quite the thinker and powerful speaker in her own right, good at bartering and negotiating with others. Kenobi and padme strike up something of a retort at this time as well, padme holding a childish crush on the fledgling knight and Kenobi simply fascinated by the oddities in padmes behaviour [even teasing her occasionally about it, though he pushes her away seeing her both as too young, Kenobi being 24 and his age being part of his frustration in regards to promotion, and his duties as a jedi as being more important, which only increases padmes crush as Kenobi being ‘hard to get’ and a ‘cool jedi’].Browsing about for a hyperdrive compatible with their ship, they do eventually find one owned by watto and more importantly find slave Anakin working there [12].

Anakin is quite and mild mannered, shy and brash in equal measure as kids and preteens often are. He finds more joy in making machines and with his mother then in talking with others, and his innate talent with machines means he can be quite immersed in their little world and idiosyncrasies. Hes also an idealist at heart, looking up to jedi through the lens of colourful bedtime stories and swashbuckling tales. He also doesn’t get along with padme, not now anyways. Padme sees Anakin as an annoying kid distracting her from her crush and ‘adult work’ [even though shes only 2 years older then him]. Anakin, childishly, views her as a ‘smelly girl’ who gets freaked out by the smallest things [more so, padme is uncomfortable around machines then her being a scaredy cat]. They do both share something important in common, they both find it immensely difficult to compromise.

Anakin, drawn in by a trailing r2d2 and fascinated by the little droid, r2d2 being top of the line at the present time, overhears their troubles and starts trailing and peppering them with questions. Padme is annoyed, Kenobi is bemused but jinn, jinn seems drawn in. jinns tendency towards the unorthodox is usually derived from a powerful sense of intuition, something he believes is derived from the force and so he has a tendency to be better able to ‘sense’ things out and future events through the force. And Anakin, Anakin is going to be important. Not only is he incredibly powerful, but the force seems to coalesce around him in such a way as if to ‘whisper’ about the monumental destiny this child will have in shaping the future of the galaxy. Convinced that he has to protect this child and tutor him for his eventual destiny, jinn makes a gamble with the force immune watto. If Anakin wins the upcoming pod race, something Anakin had been bragging about doing soon, then jinn gets the hyperdrive and anakins freedom. If Anakin loses, then watto gets jinn as a slave. Watto ups the ante to include the naboo ship, despite padmes protest, since even if jinn is a jedi hes still an old one and a hyperdrive in mos eisly can fetch a lot of cash. Jinn reluctantly agrees to the new wager, assuaging padme and kenobis concerns with a ‘I know what im doing’ kind of nod and wink.

As they leave they notice that it will soon become dark, and traveling through the tantoinne desert at night is dangerous. Anakin offers to let them stay at his place, where they meet anakins mom. Anakins mother is the long suffering sort, a dutiful parent to her child who she sports an almost picturesque relation of mother and son with. Outside of that though shes harried by overwork and the difficulties of not only being a poor parent but a slave raising her own child. Anakin regals her mother with knowledge of Kenobi and jinn being jedi, and excitedly tells her about how when he wins the pod race tomorrow her and him will be freed from that nasty ol watto. Kenobi and padme don’t think too much on this, but jinn internally flinches, making a late night stop at wattos shop. Jinn tries to renegotiate, the mother, Anakin, and the hyperdrive if Anakin wins but watto is unwilling to budge. Either both of the slaves, or one of them and the hyperdrive is as far as watto is willing to go. Grimly jinn acquiesces and returns to anakins house.

Kenobis awake and waiting for jinn, burning with questions. How does jinn plan to ensure Anakin will win the race, why is he so interested in Anakin to begin with, is it even possible for Anakin to win? Padme, after having a brief comedy scene with Anakin whos quietly tucked away in bed now, follows up by asking why don’t they just arrest watto for slave trading and take the stuff? Slave trading is illegal in the republic after all. Jinn replies by emphasising that it isn’t that simple, tatoinne is in hutt space [padme having revealed a gap in her knowledge about outer rim affairs through her comments as a ‘core worlder’] so republic laws don’t apply here since it lays outside their jurisdiction. Tatoinne being hutt space is also why jinn wont be, or rather cant, help Anakin in the race as jabba the hutt will be attending in person so if jabba catches him using the force they can expect swift and brutal retaliation. Anakin will have to win on his own. Kenobi and padme both aghast ask how jinn can be so confident in this gamble when they have to rely on some slave kid, but jinn cryptically answers “because he can’t lose, the force would not allow it.” Much to Kenobi and padmes confusion.

Race day, and Anakin is off with some advice from jinn to trust his instincts “as they will never let you down”. The race goes as you expect, Anakin showcasing his prodigious skills in a pod racer as his rivals attempt to trip him up, the final burning out stretch, and finally Anakin does it crossing in a healthy first place to the euphoria of the crowd and the shock of Kenobi and padme. Anakin is ecstatic, until the bad news comes, shimi will not be joining them. Anakin is upset, that mean ol wattos up to his tricks and his faith in the jedi is already slightly shaken as jinn doesn’t just bust out his lightsaber. At first he refuses to go, but eventually shimi steps in. Shes scared of the prospect as well, sad at the parting, but she also emphasises that this is the best for anakins future. Jinn approached her the night before, apologizing for being unable to secure a deal with watto for her release and asking for her permission to train Anakin as a jedi. The prospect scared her even then, of not being with Anakin, but the better future it would allow for him was something she was determined to give him. Giving her blessings she has Anakin promise her to be strong, and to become the best jedi in the galaxy, something Anakin tearfully accepts going with jinn and the others at his mothers urging.

On the way back to the ship, darth maul attacks. He had been following them since naboo for some time now, and had finally managed to catch up on tatoinne. Kenobi takes the opportunity to almost immediately duel with darth maul, but quickly ends up on his butt as darth maul proves to be the superior duelist. Jinn is forced to intervene, urging Kenobi to get the others on the ship and get it going as he distracts the zabarak. They do, and in the nick of time as well jinn manages to hold his own with maul its clear that the ferocious zabarak has the upper hand in the duel, opening the hatch and giving jinn a smooth get away. Things have gotten even more dire, a sith lord has just been seen for the first time in over a thousand years.

Making their way to corouscent, Kenobi broods a bit over his falling short against the sith zabarak before being interrupted by padme and Anakin. Padme is there to console her crush, but Anakin interrupts with somewhat frantic questions about who that was, and if the zabarak was the near mythical sith that often get mentioned in jedi legends and tales. Kenobi confirms that yes it was a sith, and a powerful one at that affirming to Anakin for both of their sakes since Anakin is still shaken by parting from his mother and the siths sudden appearance that Kenobi will be the one to defeat the dastardly sith [even though on practical terms neither he or jinn can measure up to darth maul alone].

Jinn meanwhile takes time to inform the jedi council, now that they’re back in republic space and out of danger, as to whats happened on naboo and on tatoinne. The council is understandably shocked, dispersing to inform the senate of what has transpired and prepare the jedi order for whatever actions they may need to take in order to bring the conflict to a swift and decisive end. Jinn also takes the opportunity to inform yoda/mace about his decision to bring Anakin into the order for jedi training. Neither of them are thrilled about jinn once again dropping something like this on their laps, but they agree to atleast test anakins aptitude for the force once hes on corouscent.

Arriving on courescant senator palpatine, representative for naboo and a well loved senator by the populace though more so for the cult of personality hes built around himself then for his policy or voting record which is otherwise suspiciously light. Palpatine has of course been informed of the tragic death of queen Amidala, giving his condolences to padme Amidala the queens cousin which comes as a bit of a shock to Anakin and Kenobi though not to jinn who had already puzzled it out. Padme toddles off with palpatine to discuss ‘matters of state’ and get ready for their upcoming meeting with the senate well Kenobi, Anakin, and jinn head for the jedi temple.

At the temple, Anakin marvels at the temples architecture which has stood for thousands of years, but gets somewhat bored of it commenting on the temple being stuffier then he imagined. Kenobi admonishes Anakin for his disrespectful tone, but jinn laughs it off adding that yes the jedi temple has become rather stuffy these days. Though he takes care to tell Anakin to be on good behaviour for his meeting with masters mace and yoda as they will be measuring anakins talent for the force with what time they can spare. He also adds some encouragement however, reassuring Anakin that he’ll pass with flying colours. Passing through the temple they enter a private room with mace and yoda, who ask jinn to leave so that they can test Anakin.

We cut to padme and palpatine discussing the business of queen amidalas death and having padme relay the events of her struggles to palpatine directly. It’s a tragic blow to be certain for naboo, but palpatine stresses that to the republic senate such an incident will still not be enough to incite them to decisive action. Valerian, though how he does like the man personally he insists, is weak willed and mired in bureaucracy after all, he wont force the senates hand and he will move slowly in order to ensure everything is done correctly and to the letter of republic law. And if the senate does not care, which they will not even for a place as respected as naboo, for what they see as a local system matter, they wont force valerians hand. Padme is despondent at this, she knows naboo needs action now not later, and that time is already short as it is. What can be done to save the people her cousin died for? Palpatine smiles slyly, “fortunately my dear I have a plan already in the making. All you need to do is follow my lead.”

Back in the temple itself, Kenobi is practicing his saber play dueling with other jedi padwans and even upstaging a jedi knight. Regardless, he remains frustrated because of how easily maul toyed with him and is determined to turn the tables in their next encounter. Jinn talks with him to try and get a handle on these emotions, reminding Kenobi that such feelings of superiority and inferiority lead not just to unjedi like behaviour but poor actions in general. Pride is one thing, pride to the point of ignorance is another. Kenobi is not convinced however, annoyed by jinns interest in Anakin and frustrated over his own career, though he keeps such thoughts private and instead lies to his master in order to assuage jinns concerns. Jinn is also unconvinced by Kenobi, but before he can prod further is called away by master yoda. Jinn reluctantly leaves, but not before trying to reaffirm his words to Kenobi and reassure and steady his padwan. Kenobi, is ultimately distracted by his own thoughts however and once jinn leaves, returns to practice with intensity.

At the ‘testing chambers’ door, we see a restless Anakin pacing when jinn arrives. Anakins clearly nervous and frustrated, as master yoda won’t tell him the results of the test and windu left to attend to ‘matters regarding the republic senate’ awhile ago. Jinn helps to calm Anakin down, sharing an amusing anecdote about windu from jinns own past to help make the man less freightning in anakins eye and assuring Anakin that no matter what happens he will be there for him. Anakins touched, thanking jinn profusely but before they can talk more two things happen. First, master yoda calls for jinn to enter, and second a republic senate guard appears with orders to escort the young Anakin to senator palpatines office. Jinn is suspicious about the guard, feeling a sensation of dread in his stomach that makes him momentarily pause. Usually following his instincts on everything, jinn decides to ignore them this one time after a brief pause and watching a now cheerful but confused Anakin follow the guard. He can’t keep yoda waiting and logically he knows that palpatine is a friend of the jedi, one of the few senators who actually listens to them and has helped them out on so many occasions. Hes never been comfortable around the man personally, but logically there isn’t any reason he should be worrying right now so against his instincts, he simply says wishes Anakin to be safe, to return to the temple as soon as possible, and he sweeps into the testing chamber.

Inside, yoda offers jinn a seat to wish jinn graciously accepts with humble reverence. Jinn may be unorthodox, but he greatly respects master yoda and yoda has always personally liked jinn even if he thinks jinns behaviour is troublesome to deal with and borderline worrisome at times. Regardless, they are here to talk about Anakin, and yoda opens up with the good news as it were that Anakin is indeed immensely gifted with the force, perhaps unparalleled in raw talent as far back as yoda can remember. Not only that but Anakin is very bright despite his background, mechanically gifted and well not academically inclined perhaps possessing a sharp wit and creativity. So why so much hesitance jinn asks. Not only is it rolling off of yoda in the force, jinn can tell just by looking at the old master thanks to the years hes known the jedi grandmaster. So yoda spills that neither he nor windu are considering allowing the boy to become a jedi. The boy is unquestionably talented certainly, but such talent breeds arrogance and isolation. Hes sharp witted and creative but inflexible in his mindset and views. Jinn argues that that’s hardly any worse then many of the jedi in the temple, even if its to a more extreme degree. Certainly that’s what training is meant to help anakin to overcome in part. But the grandmaster is not finished, because well jinn is right in his assertions there is another thing that concerns both windu and yoda. Fear. There is a deep rooted fear in the boys mind, one that drives his faults to such extreme lengths. Such Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, and hate leads to the suffering of all. Combined with his age, it all makes for a dangerous combination that both yoda and windu worry will lead to dangerous consequences should Anakin fall to the darkside. Jinn is resolute though, he made a promise, he knows that Anakin will be a turning point in the destiny of the galaxy he can feel it. If training Anakin is a gamble, then it’s a gamble they have to take. Especially with the knowledge that the sith are possibly returning right under their noses, if they let Anakin back into the galaxy without guidance then the sith will simply take what the jedi passed up. Yoda retorts that they have no intention of simply letting Anakin out there with sith running around, instead windu and him both agree that at the next council meeting they will suggest that Anakin should be sent to the agricorps where he can be protected. Jinn angrily says that he made a promise to Anakin, to anakins mother that Anakin would become a jedi so if the council will not deem to train him then jinn will in their stead. Yoda sternly retorts that that is not jinns decision, before dismissing him with jinn angrily storming out.

Anakin meanwhile has arrived at palpatines office, still confused as to whats going on. The senate guard leaves Anakin and palpatine to a private conversation at palpatines request. And for the most part its rather innocuous, palpatine simply wanting luke to tell his own version of the events, or atleast what hes witnessed so far, and an opportunity for palpatine to learn more about this fascinating young boy from Tatooine. Annies initially hesitant but gets pulled in to trusting palpatine through the mans charisma and ‘fun grandpa’ demeanour joking along with Anakin and encouraging him. The conversation drifts towards the jedi and anakins excitement about becoming one, and palpatine replies with enthusiasm that some fresh blood like Anakin is exactly whats needed to shake things up in the order. Why, palpatine would know hes a dear friend of so many jedi, hes even friends with dear old master yoda, so he knows that for as good and diligent as they are they tend to be mired in their old traditions. Yes, palpatine assures Anakin, he will be watching anakins career with great interest as anakin transforms the very foundation of the jedi. Anakin is happy, palpatine feeding directly into anakins burgeoning ego and hero complex. Palpatine gets a call from senator serrano, its almost time for the plan to go underway. He thanks Anakin for his time and calls for a senate guard to escort Anakin back to the temple. Work is afoot after all. He bids Anakin goodbye for now as Anakin is escorted back to the jedi temple, smiling disarmingly friendly all the while, before turning to his desk and calling for an escort to the senate chambers.

Finally we turn to the senate chambers themselves. It’s a flurry of activity as senators angrily try and talk over each other, hurl petty insults, cling to rules and planetary identities and generally create chaos on the floor. It’s a discussion over matters of the naboo occupation, images compiled by the late queens guard detailing the horrors experienced. Its compelling evidence and a number of more humanitarian minded senators call for immediate action, those in the pocket of the trade federation or who otherwise dislike naboo or interfering in other plants want an investigation. The undecided are waffling for a compromise. Valrean is failing as a chancellor, trying to instill order but lacking the charisma to do so and getting caught up quoting republic law and procedures to the infuriation of all. The chancellors popularity had already been in sharp decline but this chaos is only serving to foul opinion even further and its been like this since the arrival of the queens attendants. Finally that’s when palpatine and naboos representatives finally take the stand as it were, alongside a dressed up padme. Palpatine though his strength of words and charisma is able to calm things down to a manageable level, before directing their attention towards padme Amidala for an important speech.

Padme is obviously nervous, fiddling with her attire and hesitant to begin. Palpatine reassures her however, reminding her of the people shes striving to save doing this which reaffirms padmes confidence. Padme begins her speech and it is impassioned, briefly detailing the hardships the late queen went through in order to save her people. Padme appeals to republic pride, to humanitarianism, and then she begins the important part of her speech included at palpatines insistence. She begins tearing into chancellor valrean. She drags him through the mud, reinforcing that such a failure of leadership and republic unity has happened on his watch, that his leniency against the trade federation has allowed them to act with impunity, it has fractured republic unity, and that people died because valrean failed. Her speech finished it is met with resounding applause and enthusiasm, much to her disbelief and happiness, and much bullying of valrean by the attending senators. Senator serrano stands, and proposes that a vote of no confidence be held immediately and that should it past, a senator of his peers choosing be given temporary executive power until a proper election can be held. Serrano in the same breath proposing palpatine as a potential candidate with other senators quickly throwing their hats and choices into the ring.

The votes go through simultaneously, a landslide majority to remove valrean and by a narrow margin propose senator palpatine as his replacement. Padme is relieved, palpatine is pleased. The plan went off without a hitch. With his new executive power palpatine approves immediate republic action in the form of a republic security fleet and a jedi strike team being sent to liberate the planet of naboo from an illegal occupation. Again to much applause. The senate breaks so that palpatine can legally enact these actions as the temporary chancellor, and as they leave the senate chambers he praises padme for her brilliance. Padme however is fired up, and she insists on being down there with the security team as they liberate naboo. Palpatine goes one step further, he’ll have her have immediate command of the security fleet on this mission as palpatines representative much to padmes shock. Grateful, padme tells palpatine that she wont let him down, palpatine smiles and says “I know you wont my dear.”

Cut to the courescant docks which is now in a commotion as a jedi strike team prepares to sortie with the republic security. The council isn’t happy about this, since they more so view the jedis role as mediators these days as opposed to the warriors, dare say the hitmen since their role is to capture the TF command on naboo, the senate seems to want them to be. Still, republic security is horribly outdated by this point lacking in both training and equipment so the assurance of having jedi on hand to help out is a comfort to the security forces. Plus with the reappearance of a sith its likely that he’ll be involved in naboo in some manner considering his hunt for jinns group on Tatooine. So, knock out two birds with one stone bringing peace to naboo and hopefully cutting off this sith menace before it gets out of hand.

Jinn will be in command of the strike force due to his familiarity with the situation and his seniority. Aside from him will be his padwan Kenobi and fifteen jedi knights. Republic security will be commanded by captain tarkin, a spoken critic of the jedi order and a military activist in republic politics but one who runs a tight ship and has experience as a commander. Jinn informs Anakin that anankin will not be coming on the assault despite anakins protests due to the danger it presents and that instead Anakin will be in the care of the temple for now. Jinn also informs anankin that a decision on anakins acceptance has not yet been made, but he lies that he feels confident in anakins chances. Anakin pouts and makes a reluctant goodbye and jinn prepares to leave with the strike team, though anankin quickly sneaks away and on board one of the republic security ships which takes off for naboo.

We cut to naboo at last, in a state of disrepair due to TF occupation and the once pristine landscape now being prepared for industrial work and TF factories in which the population will “work diligently to pay off their debts”. Naboo security forces have organized small resistance cells and have been trying to hit the TF wherever they can but they have yet to make a break through, and have been demoralized by rumors of queen amidalas death. They intercept messages however that the republic security forces along with jedi will be coming to naboo in short order to liberate it from TF control once again invigorating the nabooians to begin the fight for the republic. So when the republic does arrive, they arrive to open conflict in the naboo streets much to tarkins irritation. Not only do they have to retake naboo, they now have to do with naboo security forces getting in the way. Jinn proposes they alter the game plan, instead of a first strike to take the capital by surprise the security forces will draw out the bulk of the TF droid army well the jedi strike team will infiltrate and arrest nute gunray for his illegal occupation and shut off the droid army with the captured nutes help. Tarkin begrudgingly agrees despite his own desire to bomb key targets and sweep up as a matter of efficiency when padme agrees to jinns plan. Not to mention that nute gunray has managed to bring a TF battle sphere to the party which means the space battle is likely to be far more intense then anticipated. As such ten jedi will sortie to help in the space battle and the other seven including jinn and Kenobi will arrest gunray along with security soldiers [led by padme at her insistence, which tarkin allows since it makes his job easier not to have her hovering around his shoulder].

So the alarms start blarin and people rush to their battle stations. Anakin is caught having snuck aboard after accidently sneakin on board the shuttle padmes team are using to land in an effort to hide himself. With no time to spare as the space battle erupts into chaos he tags along with padmes team who get separated from the jedi team during the chaos. Each group will take a different route, padmes group making a stop near the prisons and the broadcast system to help rally the nabooian people and the jedi making a beeline for the TF command. Things generally go well, Anakin and padme develop more of a camaraderie and retort during this time as he proves surprisingly helpful both in his mechanical knowledge and his skills with a blaster, and Anakin comes to more so admire padme as she displays her own appreciation of his skills and shows off her own skills. Eventually the jedi and padmes group reconvene in the hanger bay, the jedi having chased nute gunray to here after discovering that the rest of the TF command has moved to the battlesphere in orbit. jinn is upset that Anakin tagged along but glad hes safe and Kenobi frazzled and on edge biting a bit. Before anything else can really happen however, darth maul makes his appearance.

Maul had been serving as something of an enforcer for nute gunray on sidiouses behalf, casually putting down groups of naboo security resistance and being the silent ‘muscle’ to gunrays brains. If only on mauls masters orders. Gunray retreats and gives maul the order to capture padme and eliminate the jedi, one which maul is more then happy to do. Jinn sets up to take on the sith lord with four of the knights and tasking Kenobi and another knight to protect padme much to kenobis irritation. Kenobi at first follows this order, but veers back to the fight shortly afterwards in a moment of ego to the knights panic. Anakin meanwhile sneaks onto a naboo fighter in order to help clear the way for padmes group to stabilize the situation but suddenly finds himself in an automated take off along with other newly activated fighters as they head off to support the space battle above naboo. Padme is panicking herself but remembering that palpatine said hes counting on her marshals her spirits to help direct the battle in the naboo streets as the current available highest ranking political officer.

Meanwhile the lightsaber duel is not going well. Despite being five on one maul is easily toying with his jedi attackers if still pressed on the defensive. Using clever tactics however maul is able to bait out two of the knights further from the others and quickly cuts them down with the opening to the horror of the others, causing a third knight to rush in out of a desire for vengeance but get cut down easily as well. Kenobi attacks maul at this point having witnessed the death of the other knights, forcing jinn from taking a more defensive strategy to an aggressive one despite jinn initially switching to that out of caution. three on one prove to be capable of handling maul for a little bit but maul manages to push Kenobi out of the way and kill the last of the knights before engaging jinn one on one. Jinns clearly getting pressed but hes able to hold his own fairly well against the superior duelist through clever force powers and flexibility as well as using the zabaraks anger against him.

Everything effectively climaxes at once during this point. Anakin panics at first in the space battle but is able to regain control and help land the decisive victory for the republic through his prodigious piloting skills. Padme helps to bring control to the battlefield of naboos capital and keep their forces holding out until the battle sphere is destroyed and the droids lose central command making them easy to mop up. Jinn and maul continue their duel and for a moment jinn is able to gain the upper hand, however Kenobi in a brash bullheaded desire to triumph over the sith rushes into the fight costing jinn the victory as jinn in the chaos of the fight sacrifices himself to push Kenobi out of the way of a lethal blow. Kenobi is devastated and at first tries to overwhelm maul in a rage. Maul being far superior to Kenobi as a duelist is easily able to overcome Kenobi even taking the time to mock and taunt Kenobi in a silent playful manner [the cat enjoying its catch as it were]. Maul has Kenobi on the ropes and is about to finish the job, but a dying jinn takes the time to try and interfere against mal with the force. Kenobi, coming to realize his own foolishness and touched by his masters care and desire to protect him “releases his anger into the force” and calms his mind, allowing him to reengage maul and catch him off guard wounding the sith across the chest and causing maul to limply fall down a reactor pipe thing. Its Kenobis victory effectively but its bitter sweet, as Kenobi grieves a dying jinn who insists that Kenobi take care of Anakin and train him as a jedi before bidding Kenobi a tearful farewell as a master to a student.

And so victory at naboo! Anakin lands his ship to a heroes welcome, padme involved in the celebration and giving an impassioned speech about naboos freedom from TF invasion, and Kenobi grieving over jinns dead body and the fallen jedi on this day. We cut to a quite and somber funeral for the fallen knights and jinn, a previously joyful Anakin and padme saddened by the loss of the man alongside a precision of jedi and a newly minted knight Kenobi. If one sith was capable of this, capable of besting one of the orders currently best duelists [despite jinns protests], then if any more of them exist then the jedi order is sorely unprepared. More stubborn members of the council and palpatine insist that the sith threat though brief has now passed once more and not to worry about it but yoda and windu aren’t convinced and Kenobi is inclined to agree with them, even working past the grief. It is here though, privately, that Kenobi makes lay to jinns last wish. Regardless of the councils feelings on the matter, Kenobi will see Anakin trained. In the future, Kenobi will adhere to the council as strictly as possible and never defy them again if they give him this one time to honour jinns memory, though the validity of that claim is not a certain truth. Windu and yoda still aren’t sure, but they relent as a matter to honour the late jinn and shelter the obvious talents of Anakin skywalker.

Cut again, this time to the celebrations of naboos liberation. It is an intensely joyous affair, fireworks music and banners everywhere. Anakin is clearly enamoured with it, him being one of the people directly honoured by the celebrations, but he is also still sad about jinns death. Palpatine comforts him a little in the grandfatherly way he had previously and expressing his interest in anakins future career as a jedi. Kenobi talks to Anakin about it, expressing similar grief and helping to cheer Anakin up promising to always be there for Anakin. Both as his master and as family though only privately espousing the family bit to himself. Anakin is now able to enjoy the celebrations in Ernest and he and Kenobi enjoy the day together and the promises of a brighter future. We end however with the reminder that this tale will end in tragedy, as the now official chancellor palpatine, thanks to “his victory on naboo”, watches on in bemusement before quietly slinking away into the shadows. “Great things are afoot. Great things indeed.” He book ends with a sinister tambour, and cut to credits.