#isle of faust

[mythpawlogy]

Silly AU, Faust from Guilty Gear in Amber Isle! I love combining my interests XD

He's a friendly Xinjiangtitan who likes to buy paper! The first drawing his him with a more regular neck length, then the second is the more accurate neck length. Xinjiangtitans are so silly looking I love them.

[owl-house-facts-i-just-made-up]

Any facts on Bump's wardrobe in general?

Whew. Bump fanbase came out in full swing lately. Splendid!

OWL HOUSE FACT #59: Bump hates ironing and often either uses a spell to iron his clothes for him or - when he’s rarely feeling especially lazy - he’ll use a concealment stone to look presentable. The last time he probably ironed something with his two hands was when he had his interview with Faust because he was afraid Faust could tell.

[electraslight]

Okay but Barbarian heritage being systemically oppressed down to the Schooling System does a LOT for the unexplained "Willow was in the Abomination Track at first" Good jump off point to ask about Bump, does he have a defined arc in your version of TOH? Since he goes from strict to being a rebellious, supportive icon. If you've already talked about this forgive me I forgor

Bump, to me, is a lot like Darius, in that he is a person who wants change and will work to enact it, but over the years has lost hope and turned to nihilism, thus becoming complicit with the system.

Unlike a lot of other characters in TOH, Bump is old enough to remember what life was like before Belos's reign. He's always been a revolutionary; he built Hexside off the back of a rival school as a child and when Faust was installed, he had to become complicit in the Emperor-backed teachings of his boss, because he would have lost his job otherwise. And once he regained his position as the principal, those ideas he'd spent years having to teach with no sign of change were subconsciously etched into his mindset around education, especially because it seems like Hexside has always been deemed the 'bad' school for rejects and kids with issues too big for other schools, and when funding is the biggest factor in your brain, you forget that those kids need help and don't need to be shafted into a 'respectable' mold.

Bump's mind shifted over time from giving overlooked kids the care they needed to the funding he needed for Hexside and pressure and respect from Emperor-allied families like the Blights, and all of that being everything he thought about over the course of his life led Bump to being obedient and the cog in the machine he'd never wanted to be, because he didn't see a way for him to enact change, and in his own hopelessness, he dragged the kids down with him.

Just like Darius, it didn't take a lot for Bump to change. He's always seemed to like shit stirrers and troublemakers, and Luz and Eda both shook him from the haze of hopelessness he lived in, but because discrimination is baked into the Isles school system at this point, Bump had to do a lot of work reconstructing a school where students didn't just grow up to be numbers on a graph, but thrived and made change themselves.

[demonic-ninja-cat]

Am i the only one who thinks that it doesn't make sense that the whole modern Boiling Isles society(with the Emperor and the Coven System and such) was only established 50 years prior to the events of the show?

Like, a societal change as massive as that should need more time to be as set up as it is, especially with the schools and such. And it's not even like they had to account for the human lifespan, because Belos was born in like the 1700s and did some fucked-up magic on himself to keep from dying, so there was time for it too. And yes i know that he canonically spent a long time subtly framing Wild Magic as dangerous in order to get people to eventually accept his new Empire, but it never went into detail with that and I still think that only 50 years ago is too recent for the Empire's founding.

Did schools like Hexide and St Epiderm and Glandus still exist pre-Coven System, just without the tracks/covens? And the types of magic studied in the Tracks/Covens? Did it exist too or did they not separate magic in that way until the Coven System?

And another, slightly-related but not the same issue: if it really was all just changed 50 years ago, then how come no-one knew that Belos was lying about how bad the 'Savage Ages' were? If it was only set up 50 years ago, then everyone from the generation right before Eda and the other Parents'(like Eda & Lilith's parents, Principal Faust, etc.) should know what life pre-Coven System was like(and thus that Belos is a lying piece-of-shit), right? And what about the Demons, some of whom are immortal/long-lived? Surely they'd know that Belos was lying about the 'Savage Ages', wouldn't they? Then how come everyone just believed him before it was revealed?

[catboymoments]

Some Niko hcs:

They are Azura's main bully,they will insult her at least twice a day

They are an equal opportunity bully. Age,race,species they bully everyone

They don't ever get physical with Hycanith or Azura because their bones still make noise,from the last, they try to hit the daughter of the saviors of the isles or the son of the most powerful plant witch

The reason Niko hates Azura so much is because Faust passed a grudge against the clawthrone family

I think Azura should punch Niko in the face

[docgold13]

The DC Animated Universe - Paper Cut-Out Portraits and Profiles

More Wonder Woman 

Diana’s decision to act as Wonder Woman and fight for justice in the world man was in direct opposition of the wishes of her mother, Queen Hippolyta.  Diana’s relationship with her mother became even more strained when she and the Justice League had saved all of Themyscira from the machinations of Felix Faust.  In so doing, Diana had allowed human men to set foot on Themyscira and for this Diana was banished from the isle.

Diana and her mother reconciled after Wonder Woman and Hawkgirl had saved Hippolyta from the rogue Amazonian, Aresia; yet their relationship remained somewhat strained and Diana spent nearly all of her time in the world of man fighting alongside the League.  

Many years later, Diana was summoned back to Themyscira to defeat Faust after the villain had succeeded in overthrowing Hades as the ruler of Tartarus.  Once more aided by Hawkgirl, Wonder Woman succeeded in the mission.  Herein, she discovered that Hades was in effect her father; that it was his magic that allowed Hippolyta to breath life into the infant form of Diana that she had sculpted from clay.  Having defeated Faust and restored order in Tartarus, Hippolyta decreed that her daughter was no longer exiled from Themyscira.

Actress Susan Eisenberg provided the voice for Wonder Woman with the Amazonian heroine first appearing in the second episode of the first season of Justice League, ‘Secret Origins Part II.’  

[pizzaboat]

Raine and Eda had a whole semester or maybe 2 semesters of pure chaos. Eda was good to pull whatever bart simpson/bill cipher shit she wanted

For Eda:

Turn the school inside out again? Going inside Fausts mind to get blackmail? Painting all over the walls? Replacing all the 2 ply toilet paper with 1 ply toilet paper in the staff bathrooms? Having watermellons follow poor Bump around until he needs to book in with a psychiatrist?

For Raine:

Using that blackmail Eda got to get better instruments for the music room. Replacing all classical sheet music with the Boiling Isles version of soft rock, pop, and emo music (they are 15)... turning all fountain water into their favourite flavour of juice.

Hexing all the trumpets, clarinets, recorders, etc, so that whoever uses them is stuck with a helium voice for a day. Adding sound effects to Fausts feet so it sounds like he's farting each time he takes a step. He is. Furious.

Raine's ideas are a welcome inclusion to Eda's daily life. They've spent so long behaving and thinking about all the things they'd do that now they have the chance to do this stuff with no repercussion they're as bad as Eda and equally creative

[mlp410nightcore]

Hi Everyone!! Here is another next gen for my Blossom Love AU. Opal's parents are Rarity and King Dice. After Cuphead and Mugman destroy all of the soul contracts, King Dice was able to finally have an independent life again. He apologized for all of his wrong doing and tried to reinvent himself afterwards. Cuphead and Mugman were able to convince Elder Kettle to let King Dice stay in their home intill he found a new place to call home. Once King Dice got back on his feet, he realized that he abandoned two passions that he used to care so dearly about, his passion for fashion and music. King Dice is musically gifted and enjoys singing and playing the piano. He's also very gifted in sewing and enjoys making new designs to the latest fashion trends. He started playing shows and making his own clothing line until he caught the attention of the famous fashion designer in Manhattan, Sassy Saddles. She asked King Dice to be her apprentice and to have him work alongside her most successful fashion designer, Rarity, which King Dice accepted the offer and moved from Inkwell Isle to Manehattan. After King Dice and Rarity met, they imminently hit it off and became instant friends. That friendship did turn into romance later on and on the anniversary of Cuphead and Mugman's success, King Dice asked Rarity to be his girlfriend and of course, Rarity said yes. After 3 and a half years of dating, King Dice moved in with Rarity in her Carousel Boutique and proposed to her a month later, of course, Rarity said yes. After being married for 2 years, Rarity and King Dice had their daughter, Opal. Opal is very polite, super agile and quite the sophisticated lady. She prides herself in the art of being polite and being fancy, but not to the point of being snobby and self-centered. She's very selfless and loves creating charity drives to help others. She's also very skilled in playing the piano and doing card tricks. Opal wants to be a musical artist and has even written and performed her very own songs, which were massive hits in Ponyville. Although she doesn't want to be in the family business, Opal does love to practice her sewing from time to time. Credit goes to Selenaede for the base I used and to Chad, Jared Moldenhauer, Studio MDHR, Lauren Faust and Hasbro for creating Cuphead and My Little Pony:Friendship Is Magic as well as creating the characters, King Dice, Cuphead, Mugman, Elder Kettle, Rarity and Sassy Saddles and for creating the locations, Inkwell Isle, Manehattan, Carousel Boutique and Ponyville as well. I only take credit for my next gens, art, ships, stories and the Blossom Love AU. I hope you guys like her!!!

[dazeddoodles]

Bump being 10 years older than raeda is just a headcanon! I imagined he was like, fresh out of college kind of guy when he was Vice Principal (like 26 years old in 1991) and the hags were around 16-18 years old back then!

I have an entire owl house timeline I’m working on so I got a lot of birthdays and dates down that are “educated guesses” abt the stuff we get in canon

Also Bump was born 4 years before Belos officially took over the Boiling Isles

I am completely normal abt this show/sar

- @darizu

Oh okay. Actually, that would make sense because I always wondered why Bump just has no grey hair at all. I assumed he, Terra, Faust, Gwen, and Dell were all roughly the same age.

[rpgsocialservices]

Complete List of RPGMaker + Adjacent Indie Games I've Played (in no real order)

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Ib

Misao

The Crooked Man; The Sandman; The Boogie Man

Mermaid Swamp

Paranoiac

AliceMare

At the Tale End

The Witch's House

Yume Nikki

Faust's Alptraum

Animal Village

Hello Charlotte

Forest of Drizzling Rain

Flesh, Blood, and Concrete

Project Kat: Paper Lily Prologue; Paper Lily Chap. 1

Tales of the Black Forest

Undertale; Deltarune

My Big Sister

Mad Father

The Witch's Isle

Pocket Mirror

Pedestal

OFF

Rakuen; Mr. Saitou

Blood Orange

Kokurase

Midnight Train

Underworld Capital Incident

Blank Dream

Escaped Chasm; Dweller's Empty Path

[marchwardenofmordor]

Get to know me a little better.

Favourite Genres of music: trad goth, classical (romantic), folk, and black/death/doom metal.

Favourite songs from the genres:

Trad goth: Love Like Blood (Killing Joke), She’s in Parties (Bauhaus), Bela Lugosi’s Dead (Bauhaus), Arabian Nights (Siouxsie), Lullaby (The Cure), Lucretia My Reflection (Sisters of Mercy), Temple of Love (Sisters of Mercy), Into the Sun (The March Violets), Snake Dance (The March Violets), Persephone (The Cocteau Twins), Black Milk (Massive Attack), Group Four (Massive Attack), Exeloume - Deliver Me (Diamanda Galas), The Ubiquitous Mr Lovegrove (Dead Can Dance).

Classical: The Warsaw Concerto (Richard Addinsell), Mars, Bringer of War (Gustav Holst), The Bells of Moscow (S. Rachmaninoff), Red Riding Hood (S. Rachmaninoff), Isle of the Dead Op.29 (Rachmaninoff), Concerto No2 in C Minor (Rachmaninoff), the Danse Macabre (C. Saint-Saëns), Totentanz (F.Liszt), Liebestraum (Liszt), Hungarian Rhapsody no.2 (Liszt), La Campanella (Liszt), Night on Bald Mountain (Mussorgsky), Dance of the Knights (Prokofiev), (and a bunch of Chopin pieces)

Black/Death/Doom Metal: Ov Fire and the Void (Behemoth), Messe Noire (Behemoth), The Satanist (Behemoth), Blow Your Trumpets Gabriel (Behemoth), Evisceration Plague (Cannibal Corpse), Hammer Smashed Face (Cannibal Corpse), Ratamahatta (Sepultura), Walk With Me In Hell (Lamb of God), Perennial (Jinjer), Wolf Moon (Type O Negative), To The Hellfire (Lorna Shore).

Folk: Matty Groves (The Fairport Convention), Cam Ye O’er Frae France (Steeleye Span), The Blacksmith (Steeleye Span), Long Lankin (Steeleye Span), Bouree (Jethro Tull), Alison Gross (Steeleye Span), Alba II (Faun), Mon A Menai (Pigyn Clust), Antvmnos (Eluveitie), Ogmios (Eluveitie), Pais Dinogad (Ffynnon), Catvrix (Eluveitie), Esvs (Eluveitie).

Favourite Books:

the Silmarillion, Frankenstein, Dracula, Wuthering Heights, Rebecca, Faust, the Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, Coriolanus, Titus Andronicus, Richard III, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Beowulf.

Favourite Poems:

Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal (Tennyson), Ozymandias (P.B.Shelley), To Autumn (J.Keats).

Favourite Food Dishes / Drinks:

Savoury: Stuffed mushrooms, Cassoulet, Macaroni Cheese, Spinach, Ricotta and Porcini Mushroom Pizza, anything with truffles, Gravadlax, Lohikeitto, Pickled Herring on rye bread, Laverbread and Cockles, Cawl, Dolmades, Babaganoush, Caviar, Salmon Roe, Black Pudding, Haggis and Gravy, Venison, Blue Steak. Oyster mushrooms. Fresh Oysters, rocket salads. Eggs benedict. Poached eggs. Steak and Kidney pie. Borscht. Saag aloo.

Sweet: Dark chocolate, hazelnut chocolate, hazelnuts, walnuts, dried cranberries, gingerbread/lebkuchen, camembert, black truffle honey, truffle gouda, cardamom cakes, baklava, blueberry muffins. Raw honeycomb - I go fucking feral for that shit

Drinks: anything elderflower flavoured, anything apple flavoured, whiskey (scotch), bold and smoky reds, dry and crisp whites, sickly sweet rosés, really malty dark or ruby ales. Rose tea, smoky tea. Strong coffees. Arabic coffee. Absinthe, the french way. Chartreuse (green). Blood Tonic. Tonic water in general. Sparkling water.

Fruits: plums, pomegranates, cherries, lychees, blueberries, strawberries, raspberries, bilberries.

Films:

Midsommar, The Lighthouse, Nosferatu (2024), Nosferatu (1922), Dracula (Bela Lugosi), Sherlock Holmes (Peter Cushing), Sherlock Holmes (Basil Rathbone), Dracula (BBC), Lord of the Rings trilogy (Peter Jackson). Horror Express, The Curse of Frankenstein (Peter Cushing), The Mummy (Brendan Fraser), Wicked Little Letters (with Olivia Colman)

TV Shows:

House of the Dragon, Hannibal, Game of Thrones (excluding s7 and 8), Benidorm, Gavin & Stacey, Gwaith/Cartref (S4C - I’m sorry ok it’s a guilty pleasure), Torchwood, D&D Cartoon (the one from the 80’s)

Games:

Skyrim, The Witcher III, Baldur’s Gate III, DA Veilguard, Vampyr, Shadow of Mordor.

Characters:

GOT: Tywin Lannister, The Hound, Jaqen H’Ghar, Oleanna Tyrell, Melisandre.

HOTD: Aemond Targaryen, Rhaenys Targaryen.

LOTR: Haldir, Sauron, Galadriel, Elrond, Witch King, Shelob.

the Hobbit: Thranduil, Bard the Bowman.

The Silmarillion: Fëanor, Fingolfin, Mairon/Sauron, Melkor, Thuringwethil, Ungoliant.

Special Interests:

- vampires and welsh folklore/history, mushrooms, crystals, elves/drow and spiders.

[owl-house-facts-i-just-made-up]

do you have any pricnipal faust facts?

OWL HOUSE FACT #105: As human culture occasionally seeped into the Isles a young Faust came across the Christopher Marlowe play about a man - named Faust - who sells his soul to the devil. Our Faust was not impressed, and (although he never showed it) worried it would lead to people making fun of him. This was squashed when he became the principal of Hexside, and the play was promptly banned despite it not being known to the general public.

[banbrotsu]

Thinking about how sorcerers work in the west, specifically the USA, and I think I'd probably use Hellboy, the BPRD and the Bureau of Control from the Remedy Studios games as a rough template. For one thing they're probably not called sorcerers but instead exorcists and vessels like Yuji would be called "sin eaters" going off an old tradition from the British Isles, mainly Wales, where a cake/biscuit would be made and placed upon the dead to soak up their sins and then a poor person was paid to eat the soul cake and absorb the dead person's sins so they can go to heaven. So the consumption of cursed objects is seen as an extension of that old tradition and vessels are treated both kinda like pariahs and also like they're doing a very selfless service to society.

The sorcerer community in America is probably one of the most diverse and disjointed since the country is so heavily populated by immigrants with no real incentive to seek each other out or tbh knowledge the others are even there half the time. But the two most organized factions would be the government's Department of Paranormal Investigation (name likely to change) and ofc, the Catholic Fucking Church. overall the Catholic Church has likely been the largest and most well organized group that employs sorcerers outside of Japan for like, centuries given their real world historical reach and power.

The set up in the USA doesn't really have anything like Jujutsu High and instead exorcists are usually just brought right under the wing of the government and removed from society to live at HQ/branch facilities or are being trained, managed and monitored by handlers as they live semi-normal lives. Generally whether they live on base or out in the world is decided by how inhuman they look (ex. panda or abe sapien ass lookin' guys) and how difficult they are to control (read: they were too strong to muscle into compliance so we had to let them stay in their own home). The Dept and Church have a fairly strained alliance since they have common goals but also a lot of differences and conflicting ones as well. This can get Very Interesting.

Financial compensation of exorcists is also very uh, iffy lol. The gov has very little interest in compensating exorcists, preferring to give them a small stipend and then cover their basic needs like room and board which makes the exorcists very dependent on them and unlikely to quit/defect. The dept is also very interested in experimentation. While the USA is pulling from many millennia old sorcerer traditions the Dept itself is actually very new and is thus very interested expanding their knowledge base and trying to increase the weaponization of cursed energy and curses. They've 100% tried to make like, cursed spirit super soldiers or whatever or like, cursed energy guns lol. These experiments have mixed success and have at times made things that will make life objectively worse for like, the whole world in the long run lol.

I'm still deciding on like, who are the "names to run away from" like Sukuna in the western sorcerer canon but I know one of them is definitely Faust who, while he was never known to be as powerful a fighter as Sukuna, was is regarded as one of the most knowledgeable jujutsu scholars to have ever lived, having made a deal with a cursed spirit and via this learned all kinds of mystical secrets. People will go to war to get their hands on the cursed artifacts he made but are even more covetous of his various tomes of arcane knowledge.

The Dept was only formally founded during WW2, mainly to combat Nazi use of the occult and curses but was a very scrappy and disorganized thing until they came into contact with the jujutsu sorcerers of Japan during the US occupation of the country after the war. A very tentative alliance was made between the two, mainly because Tengen was like "these guys are batshit and not in a good way" and wanted to keep an eye on them (this turned out to be a Very Wise Move later on).

In the same generation as Gojo and Co. the US gets their own special grade exorcist either like Ever or in Ages and are keen to try and make them stronger than Gojo because like... ofc that's how the US would handle this shit. Ofc they make it into an arms race lol. I'll get more into this when I write about that OC but this goes about as well as you'd think and hilariously eventually ends with that exorcist defecting to live in Japan.

RE: This shit and the whole thing to kidnap sorcerers in the manga — the reality is that even in real life the president is not 100% aware of all covert ops and what they do. The Dept is highly secretive and runs on a skeleton budget so they tend not to raise any alarms. They also likely gave up a few presidents ago about trying to get them to believe the whole "demons are real" thing and instead just pretend to be boring government agency #35348546583 to get all their shit thru. People like the president literally didn't know about curses until Kenjaku cropped up and the Dept didn't learn about Kenjaku's scheme until it was already getting underway. Bureaucracy at its finest.

[mask131]

A fantasy read-list: B-1

Part B: The First Classical Fantasy

1) On one side, the British Isles... 

We looked at the most ancient roots of the fantasy genre, which are... well, literaly antique roots - the texts of the Antiquity, the myths and mythologies of the world, the legends of the so-called “pagans” and the tales of long-gone societies, cultures and civilizations. Plus the true, literal “medieval fantasy” and some Arthuriana sprinkled at the top. Now I want to explore the Renaissance fantasy - or rather the first wave and apparition in literature of true “proto-fantasy”. These classical works that are still heavy influences and inspirations on modern fantasy pieces, but are younger than all the mythological and medieval stuff. 

Given this huge read-list promises to be very big, very long and span over several years, I will try to restrain myself here to two nation-tied phenomenon. And in this specific post I will look at a given wave of “classical proto-fantasy” in the British Isles... Beginning with none other than...

# Shakespeare. William Shakespeare, the Bard of Avalon, the greatest playwright of England and a man whose work shaped our common imagination and popular culture today. Of course, since this list is focused about the wide genre of fantasy, I must start by listing his more openly supernatural and fantastical plays. On one side you have a lighter, more colorful and whimsical world of wonders and magic, in the shape of supernatural comedies, be it A Midsummer Night’s Dream, with its now world-known depiction of the fairy court as the Titania-Oberon-Puck triangle, or The Tempest, which implanted archetypal figures such as Prospero the wizard, Ariel the aerial spirit or the monstrous Caliban. On the darker side of fantasy, you have the grim and nightmarish tragedies that are Hamlet, one of the most famous cases of royal hauntings and madness in the history of theater, or Macbeth, which changed forever the way people view witches throught its iconic trio of Weird Sisters. 

But the beautiful thing with Shakespeare is that even in his more “mundane” and “realistic” works, the magic never truly goes away. Thanks to his poetic writing and his love of symbolism and mysticism, Shakespeare maintains throughout his work a fantastical ambiance, an ambiguous tone that opens the door for many oniric sequences or supernatural readings. The description of Mab, queen of fairies, in Romeo and Juliet was just as influential on fairy folklore as A Midsummer Night’s Dream. The abnormal storm and pagan madness of King Lear leaves one wondering about the true cosmic powers at work here. And even in historical works witchcraft is never far away - such as with Richard III, where devilish forces and hellish characters are at play in an well-recorded historical event... 

# But beyond Shakespeare, or rather all around him, there was a constellation of other poets and playwrights who helped conceive, flesh out and develop this “wonder-wave” that swept across Elizabethan England. Take Shakespeare’s most famous rival for example, Christopher Marlowe, who wrote The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus, the first ever adaptation of the Faust legend for the stage. You have Edmund Spenser and his mystical fay epic, The Faerie Queene, which influenced not just Shakespeare but many more authors of knight adventures and fairy works. I can also mention Michael Drayton’s Nimphidia, The Court of Fairy (or Nymphidia depending on how you write it), a poem drawing from Shakespeare’s fairy characters to depict all the affairs, treacheries and secrets at the otherworld’s court ; or the various Elizabethan retellings of Ovid’s Metamorphosis written by John Lily (Endymion, Midas, Galathea...). 

# And of course, I have to point out here that beyond specific authors, Shakespeare’s fantastical works drew from a lot of various sources, all representing different fragments or aspects of the way people approached the supernatural, folklore and legends in their time. For example, the more Jacobean play The Witch by Thomas Middleton, which had elements reused for Macbeth ; or the Daemonologie of King James, which also influenced Shakespeare’s writing of demons and witches. I can also drop here names going from quite obscure today, such as The Spanish Tragedy of Thomas Kyd, to behemoths of culture, like Dante’s Divine Comedy. 

# Speaking of a man of the Isles who explored and influenced the fairy literature... I have to mention Robert Kirk, and his treatise on fairies and ghost known as The Secret Commonwealth. To this day, Kirk is still considered one of the greatest folklorists and collector of supernatural tale and fairy/ghost/witch beliefs of the 17th century, and The Secret Commonwealth stays one of the major “fairy books”. 

# Leaving a bit the topic of fairies, I will conclude this post with one name... Ossian. During the 18th century, James Macpherson discovered and translated ancient Gaelic texts of Scotland - a series of epic poems attributed to a legendary bard by the name of Ossian. He started by translating Fingal, An Epic Poem in Six Books, and then worked on Temora, An Ancient Epic Poem, before collecting it all as The Works of Ossian. This discovery and translated was a HUGE phenomenon, and a revolution in the world of culture. Up until that point, people had praised the Homeric epics and thought the “Homeric phenomenon” was a one-time thing that couldn’t have happened anywhere else but Ancient Greece... And yet here were these great, glorious, excellently done, epic poems of mythical heroes and ancient witchcraft and gods, attributed to a mythical god-inspired bard and poet, part of another form of Antiquity than the Greco-Roman one. People jubilated upon discovering the “Celtic Homer”, and praised these grea poems proving that the Greek epics could be challenged by Gaelic sagas... 

... But the thing is that James Macpherson probably never translated those works, and that maybe Ossian was a purely fictional invention. You see, James Macpherson was a poet himself with not much success before “discovering” the works of Ossian, and he was deeply passionate about ancient Scottish poetry and Celtic texts and the like, collecting them and imitating them. Despite their enormous importance and influence for literary movements, and painters across Europe, and poets for centuries to come, the poems of Ossian are clearly artificial in nature, written by Macpherson alone without any “translation” required. The poet purposefully created a “Celtic Homer”, as a way to sell his work - and selling it did! Mind you, the Ossian poems stay true to the texts and essence of ancient Celtic legends and myths. Macpherson knew his sources, as I said was passionate about ancient Gaelic poetry, and he took inspiration and influence from works such as the Ulster cycle, the Fenian cycle, the Book of the Dun Cow, the Book of Lismore or The Yellow Book of Lecan... The very fictional character of Ossian was actually shaped after the mythological character of Oisin. But Ossian and his poems stay an artificial creation of an 18th century poet, even though they fit perfectly alongside antique Celtic texts. It is similar to how nowadays Titania is an integral part of fairy folklore, and yet she was a literary inventon of Shakespeare for one of his plays. 

[pizzaboat]

Audhd Eda headcanons/old and young Eda headcanons no one asked for, but they also wouldn't turn down (they're mostly young Eda headcanons)

Eda struggled to make and keep friends growing up because she'd miss the vibe of the room and not adjust herself to the social rules within that situation. Like, at the nerd convention, she put herself out there, but she missed the mark trying to make an impression on people, so she only left a bad impression on them

She often had that really lonely feeling in school when everyone would be standing together, and yet she would be on her own. Even people who knew her and sorta talked to her, wouldn't approach her, so she'd stand there awkwardly and try not to feel embarrassed if Lilith wasn't there with her

Eda would prefer waterboarding to being made sit down, stay still and shut up for anything longer than 20 minutes. 20 minutes is pushing it. She could never do it. She has to say something

Eda collected shiny things as a kid. If someone had a shiny pen or sparkling marker and they left it down and didn't come back for it, it was her marker/pen now. The OB isn't the only one who likes sparkles

She was obsessed with her mom's jewelry collection for the same reason as a kid

Eda would fake being sick when Lilith was sick when they were growing up, so she wouldn't have to deal with going to school alone and dealing the all the RSD feelings for 2-3 days afterwards, that come from no one talking to her

She was actually a decent, if not loud, and mildly disruptive kid at first. But she was approached with bad faith by teachers and Faust specifically, and Eda became a target for teachers to pick on

Because of this, she grew up to distrust authority and teachers, and she made sure to get them before they could get her. If a teacher was a jerk or she didn't like them, they'd end up on the receiving end of one of her pranks

Because of her ADHD she has poor emotional regulation and feels things very deeply, so when someone was picking on her or Lilith, she'd get mad and punch them. To her, it was the best way to make sure people left her alone since the teachers wouldn't do anything about it (since they didn't like her)

A lot of Eda's "fights" got started because of this

Eda was shown being defensive/distressed when Faust told her one of her "pranks" was poorly received (the jello incident) "it was his birthday! He liked it!"

She often did big extreme things to try and make friends, and it often didn't amount to much and just made her look bad to everyone around her. She didn't know what was an appropriate behaviour was when making friends

Eda didn't get why when someone said they liked something (like magic, boiling Isles' version of cryptids, sports), they also didn't wanna talk about it 24/7. To her, her favourite things made her so happy she could talk all day about it

People labelled her as weird, nerdy, and rude because of it

Her special interests were and are magic, sports, and in the past, it was things like the cryptid shit before she outgrew it

Eda had a bunch of hyperfixations and it made her pick up and start a great number of hobbies and skills, and now she only remembers how to do 30-40% of those things as an adult

She stopped having energy for hyperfixations when the curse got really bad for her body, and her depression got even worse

For two whole years, she wasn't allowed to join the same grudgby team as Lilith because it was for older kids, and she was just "a baby," according to the coach at the time. To be fair, you had to be 13 to join that age bracket

Eda got fed up halfway through and forced her way onto the team because she loved playing grudgby and she had no one else to play with except for younger kids and she thought she was too good for that at this point

[mazamba]

So this implies three things.

One, the Doom Slayer knows that the Boiling Isles demons are nothing like the demons he's been wiping out.

Two, the Boiling Isles demons are still at least somewhat familiar with the Doom Slayer and/or his legends.

Three, Faust still did something that got him on his radar.