#king orpheus

[blazingstaro]

DotS: Knights of the Stars file #01 — King Orpheus Nightfall

Name: Knight King Orpheus Nightfall Age: 2,000 yrs (Adult Dream Puff) Rank: Knight King; 5-Star General Star Warrior; Former Puff Chief

Legendary, extraordinary, selfless and bold are but a few words that can hope to describe this pillar of modern society. His love for the Galaxy and her people was more vast than the stars she adorns, and it showed in his great sacrifices throughout his life.

King Orpheus was responsible for paving the foundation and building the very structures the Star Warriors now house themselves within— both figuratively and once literally—, nevertheless is the father of other aspects of current Galactic culture.

This small Puff was a bridge between several kingdoms in his era, and brought people and mystical creatures together in harmony. Born into a dark age, bleak, hopeless, and suffering, he was taught from an early age by his father, King Wulfric (a gen 1 Dream Puffball), to be a beacon of light in their struggling time. Orpheus took life by the reins and pushed against the grain to establish a greater peace among people across the Galaxy.

Orpheus was most renowned for his juxtaposition between ferocity and loving compassion. Stern, firm-fisted, yet led with a gentle heart. To his enemies, he was an unstoppable force; to his allies, a cherished friend and brother in arms. His name struck fear in his adversaries, and even the foul Warlock, Nightmare, had a level of healthy respect for this tiny, yet mighty warrior.

He was fun, charismatic, considerate; a proper gentleman and a true chivalrous knight. And, apparently somewhat of a flirt, but never got serious with anyone according to the few still-living friends of his.

King Orpheus was many things: a leader, a friend, a brother, a father, a healer. There's no question as to why King Orpheus is among the most beloved figures in history. He befriended those who society shunned or mocked. This Puff went out of his way to seek the meek so that he may give them the strength to rise up against their demons— both figuratively and literally.

Orpheus was also left handed, though trained himself to be ambidextrous for combat purposes exclusively.

His hair was a legend of its own too, for no comb nor brush could ever hope to tame it. Like that level of curly that doesn't quite curl enough, yet won't straighten either. Just pure wild, and he refused to cut it any shorter than it was. Arthur says he always intended to try some sort of wild Viking style braid, but never had the time to try due to how stubborn that mane was.

One could suppose the 'do matched the owner quite well. Orpheus' will was unbreakable, and his stubbornness was the key to his survival in many instances.

There's apparently a spectacular story behind his facial scar, but none can really recall it. What is sure, however, was how proud he was of it. Something about being his first glory trophy or rather? None could be too certain, as the story is different between sources.

About 800 years ago, a rogue and sinister monster slipped its way onto Homeworld. Orpheus, understanding the danger this posed for his entire species, challenged it on his lonesome. He stood his ground to buy both his people and his teenage son enough time to escape with their lives.

It was the greatest fight of his life, and a tremendous struggle for even he, at about 1,200 years of age and experience, had little match against. Had it not been for his tenacity and the sacred blade that was his proud companion, history would be immensely different.

According to old stories, he suffered severe injuries during the fight, and was seeping with the beast's signature paralyzing poison. He willed through it long enough to see the fight to its conclusion, though could not hold consciousness much long afterwards.

His final words to Arthur were for him to take on his crown and lead their people in his absence. The boy followed his father's wishes, and continues to do so this very day.

Much mystery remains to be fully investigated regarding this tragedy. Homeworld wasn't so easily breeched at that time, nevertheless such a monster would've been easily spotted approaching the planetoid. There are many things that don't add up. Nevertheless more mysteries on top of that, as many former residents say his memorial sanctuary on Homeworld closing to the public without reason some 500 years ago.

King Arthur has yet to make any statements pertaining to the exact event, and seems to be withholding details. He knows something we don't. It's incredibly difficult to get an audience with him these days too... More to follow as we dive deeper into the Knights of the Stars files...

[sunflowerius]

once again thinking about the parallels of Neil going into the Nest over Christmas break for Andrew and Orpheus going into the Underworld for Eurydice. hows your day going though.

[gispurple]

*meme blast*

Even more incorrect mech posts! If you guys have any requests for more maybe you could send them as an ask? (Please send both the image of the post and what mechs to put in. )

Also apologies if I’m neglecting certain mechs.

[dykeganseythethird]

to die in your lovers arms

bluesey as françois gérard’s orpheus tries to hold on to eurydice, ca. 1791

[windsweptinred]

Hear me out, here me out…

“And that it was from Chaos that the first three primordial gods sprang forth: Gaea (Earth), Tartarus (the Underworld), and Eros (Love) - Hesiod's Theogony

Gaea/Earth: Ariadne 

Tartarus/The Underworld: Eurydice

Eros/Love: Caeneus

Purely me headcanoning my heart little away. But I love how in a sense they all represent the three eternal beings ‘of chaos’ that make up creation incarnate. 

Ariadne: Who is now the ‘Mother of her people and her land’ as president. A representation of feminine power. Life

Eurydice: The first person to return from the Underworld and essentially, conquer/master death. Death 

Caeneus: Sweet, sweet Caeneus who embodies love, the driving force of creation. Love

They don't embody the return to Chaos per say, rather the power that sprang from it. The necessary cycle of death and rebirth, destruction and creation that Zeus has selfishly stalled. That they, as a trio will restart.

[dicklessthewonderclown]

theyre orpheus and eurydice theyre orpheus and eurydice he cant help but look knowing that looking back will be awful theyre orpheus and eurydice AND IM SUPPOSED TO BE NORMAL ABOUT IT???

[blocksgame]

THE QSMP + quiet improvement

Sources: Philza, QSMP Day 55 // N.I.N.H.O. // FitMC, QSMP Day 94 // FitMC, QSMP Day 67 // QSMP Day 114 // Ballad of Smallpox Gone - Leslie Fish // Etoiles' armor presentation, QSMP Day 96 // FitMC, QSMP Day 94 // The Milk Carton - Madilyn Mei (shoutout to UndeniablyREMI's animatic) // own work // Pomme's Diary, entry 16 (+ EN trans from QSMP Wiki)

[blazingstaro]

!! ANNOUNCEMENT !!

Experience the forging of a legend in the upcoming literature companion series to DotS, Nightfall, coming soon online!

(Periodic progress updates will be shared both on Tumblr & DeviantART)

Nightfall follows the life and adventures of Orpheus Nightfall as he discovers what it means to be a true leader, and searches for the truth behind his unusual abilities. We walk alongside and witness his greatest struggles, mightiest tests, greatest triumphs; nevertheless see the man behind the mask as he truly is.

This story is lore-packed, and is stuffed with pieces that tie into the modern day story of Dreams of the Stars! Orpheus is no mere historical figure, for he's strongly relevant even in today's age. There's much more to tell about this funny fuzzball!

Not all is as the history books scribes, after all... for fate tells a different tale. Perhaps you can solve the mysteries enshrouding the famous king's fate?

As per tradition with my birthday, here's a little something for you guys!!

That's right! There's plenty of story to tell with Orpheus, and I aim to share it with you all! oUo Exclusively for both here and on DeviantART, I'll post chapters every so often entailing the deeper side to Orpheus' tale, one that the history books never could have scribed. It'll be slow-going at first for me, since I haven't written a chapter-by-chapter basis literature in 7 years. Rebuilding the stamina and momentum to keep up with it will be a grind, but well worth the wait for sure!

Right now I'm focusing more strongly on getting these new comic pages underway, so it'll be a while until we'll get to see a rise in chapters. Following April, I should be more free to balance Nightfall and DotS!

Currently there's one chapter finished, the prologue chapter, and I'm whittling away at the following chapters little by little while I'm ploughing through bigger projects at the moment.

I hope you guys are excited to get some more intense story stuff!

Oh, and another thing I forgot to mention— each chapter will have an illustration (or more) accompanying it, so it's kinda like a web-style picture book! Art and words, yay! :D

Once I'm more freed up, I'll be sure to post lots of fun sketches and drawings showing my characters and such doing their usual things— which tend to be dumb because they lack supervision LOL

With all that said, enjoy this sweet sneak peek at Nightfall's first chapter!

[riseupriseupandcomealong]

sir orfeo is a breton lay retelling the story of orpheus and eurydice with some notable changes: orfeo’s wife is stolen by the fairies and he successfully wins her back. the story also exists in ballad fragments from the shetland islands

[skylessknights]

It was my life to be taken! Not this...never this! My brave knights, I have failed you. I neither took you off this island nor shared your fate.

KA20TH CELEBRATION | Day 6 - Loss Lancelot's Death

AN: Gosh Lancelot's death in this film just kills me because I wasn't expecting it at all. I knew Tristan would die when he decided to face Cerdic alone, but Lancelot's death just hit me right in the heart. He didn't even get to see Arthur one last time nor did he get to say goodbye. How cruel is that? Well you know how these ancient tragedies go...no-one gets a happy ending. (P.S. I'm really happy with how this turned out💙)

Tagging: @ka20th + in/sp

[krystinag11]

DPXDC prompt

Jason was a full ghost in the Infinite Realms before he got revived. The Batfam somehow ends up in the Infinite. Jason makes a deal that if he can protect the batfam and get them to the keep without being discovered or caught he gets to go back with them, Like the story of Orpheus.

When Jason finally gets a bats back to the keep, he gets shove back into his mortal body which has been wandering around Gotham catastrophic for a while, becoming a halfa.

[deconstructthesoup]

Okay, I had thoughts on forming a legit DBD Hadestown AU, and seeing as they kept me up literally all last night, it seemed only fitting that I actually write them down. So:

Charles and Edwin are, obviously, Orpheus and Eurydice respectively. However, rather than having just met and falling into a whirlwind romance, I decided that they're childhood friends who've met again and rediscovered feelings that they'd both been ignoring for a long time. Edwin is dedicated soley to figuring out why the world is dying and if he can help people while he can, and he hasn't really let himself rest, or even feel happy, in years---to the point where he feels that any good thing is too good to be true, even falling in love. Charles, on the other hand, has long since made the decision that someone has to be happy and keep spirits up in the trying times, and it might as well be him... even at the cost of his own health, as he works tirelessly on a song that he knows, despite all logic and understanding, will bring back spring again.

Crystal is Hermes, but she is also Hecate---she is the goddess of the in-between, magic, trickery, the crossroads, and restless souls... and that last part refers not only to the dead that she guides to Hadestown, but to anyone who chooses a life of wandering the road, from the honest messenger to the thieving highwayman. And yet, since the world has begun to die, she's been slowly slipping away from her role, choosing to spend her time among the mortals. This decision, of course, is helped by the fact that not only is Crystal one of the few gods who thinks there's more to the world dying than it just being "a reflection of mortal hubris," but that she's managed to make a friend in Charles. She's seen the way that music can change the world, after all, and knowing that there's at least one mortal who still has hope means that she can still believe.

Niko is a combination of Aphrodite and Dionysus---she's the goddess of love, revelries, happiness, and abundance, yes, but she's also the goddess of the mania that comes when all of those things are taken too far, and she's been dipping more and more into that side of herself as the world gets worse and worse. She wants to forget all the pain and suffering, and she gives herself and others the means to do so, even if it's all temporary. And while Niko does care for the mortals, and wishes that things could get better... deep down, she's lost a lot of her old hope, and even she can't disguise the fact that she's living with a broken heart.

Monty is Persephone, but he's also Apollo---he's the god of rebirth, prophecies, the stars and the earth, and new beginnings... and for what should be half of the year, he rules over the dead. He used to find just as much joy in watching over the souls as he did creating spring with Niko and charting the stars to bring prophecies to the mortals, but as Hadestown gets more punishing, more people die up above, and the world just gets worse, Monty grows even more bitter and closed off. He's unable to even properly enjoy his time on the surface, knowing full well that he won't stay for six months like he should... and the man he loves is wearing his patience thin.

The Cat King is Hades---and yes, somebody did make a very compelling argument for him being the Fates, but it works for the story, so just hang on. Once upon a time, he was happy just ruling over souls and managing the afterlife, and he cherished the time he spent with Monty as much as he could. But over time, wealth became added to his already vast domain, and his fascination for making and collecting things became an obsession... in no small part due to the fact that those six months spent away from Monty started to weigh incredibly heavy on him, and he eventually loses himself in his effort to replicate everything his husband loves about the upper world as it dies along with the way they used to feel about each other. Not to mention, his old empathy and compassion for the souls has hardened into cold indifference at best and a sick enjoyment of their suffering at worst. And all this change is making one person in particular very happy...

Esther is the Fates, but she's also a version of Demeter---the goddess of nature and all of its love and cruelties, and the one who spins everyone's path on her loom, punishing those who dare to stray from what she has determined for them. She's despised the Cat King for years, ever since he whisked Monty away to Hadestown, and she wholeheartedly believes that the reason the world is dying is only because he's been keeping Monty down there for too long, not because they've begun to fall out of love. So, when Esther spins a tale of a pair of lovers who are destined to end tragically, she sees it as an opportunity to finally push the Cat King and Monty to the breaking point---to save her son and the world, she tells herself, but mostly for revenge.

[pandemonium108]

Can we talk about the comparisons between Gansey & Blue and Orpheus & Eurydice?

I don’t have coherent thoughts yet, just ramblings.

Something something Blue is the daughter of a tree and Eurydice was a tree nymph.

Something something Gansey’s power to use his words to influence reality and Orpheus’s poetry as the son of a muse.

Something something the cyclical nature of both The Raven Cycle and the Greek Myth and the inherent retellings of both stories. You know how it’s going to end before you even start, but you start anyways and fall in love in spite of yourself.

Something something the desperation and love required to even attempt to bring someone back from death. A wild stab in the dark. The success or the failure both reflectent of human nature and the power of belief.

Definitely open to other people’s interpretations, I’m feral for both sets of characters and will talk at great length about them LOL

[hydefever]

mattpheus for a friend so he doesn’t starve

I love. king x commander

[eerna]

"why did Orpheus turn to check if Eurydice is there if he can just return to Hadestown if Hades really did lie about letting her go" that's the thing. he can't. the only reason he can enter Hadestown without taking Hades' deal/dying is because the lalalas open the way for him. Eurydice only gave him a chance after he showed her the power of the lalalas. and in Doubt Comes In, his lalalas no longer work - twice he tries to call on them, and twice he fails. he has lost the ability to wield their magic because he stopped believing their power can change the world. if he leaves Hadestown and Eurydice isn't behind him, she will well and truly be gone forever. of course he turns around. of course he can't take those final few steps out of the Underworld without making sure the lalalas worked.

[nualaofthefaerie]

Wow...would you look at that? Not only did she not abandon her fic for her now CANCELED show (when I get my hands on you, Netflix) BUT she's also providing you 17.1k words to soothe the pain. ✨️ Enjoy guys.

"The case of the missing cat" 🐱🔍

Chapter 6: Hadestown

Rating: Mature (no sexual acts)