#like pandora is freeing the evil from her box

[munnmolads]

Rafayel could be the Pandora's Box - Theory and Analysis

Thank you so much @irandial for the ask leading to this theory! 🥰 I have had this theory brewing in my head before the third myth's preview was set out, and now it might be even more relevant...

Spoilers for Rafayels first 2 myths and the 3rd myth preview as well as other memories and story elements with him.

[Thanks to Frappe for uploading Tipsy Invitation to Youtube, the screenshots have been taken from it!]

Pandora's Box myth origins

It's not a big surprise LADS writing is taking quite a lot inspiration from the Greek myths, so I had to go dig some origins for the myth. Pandora was the first woman, created by the gods and blessed with several traits: she was beautiful, clever, alluring and extremely curious. She was given a jar (mistranslated as a box) and was warned never to open it. Pandora's curiousity for the better of her so she opened the jar, and she unleashed all manners of evil and misery to the world.

Typically, opening the Pandora's box metaphor means unexpected trouble coming from humanity's curiousity. MC very well could be Pandora in this case.

Rafayel mentioning the Pandora's box

As Irandial mentioned, there's couple mentions to Pandora's box directly from Rafayel, from Tipsy Invitation:

And the Summer event in 2024 during Misty Invasion, where he kind of indirectly implied he is the Pandora's box. MC and Rafayel are playing a game that requires them both find a certain treasure and eventually from the description, MC realises the treasure is Rafayel.

(Ow this hits so different after the third myth preview 😭)

Rafayel doesn't really sugarcoat the warnings that being with him might not end well. The game really loves their forbidden love tropes, but Rafayel's love might end up being destructive. He gives out several warnings about this during the game:

Order: Under Deepspace 8-1, Ebb and Flow, Summer 2024 Event, Omnipotent Perception, Land of Secret Flames

Taking it even a step further

After Banquet Ablaze I have wondered if the revenge to those people who have hurt Lemurians is something Rafayel would actually want to do. What if it's actually a bad omen for him?

In Siren's Song Anecdote, he's in the bathtub thinking about how the revenge seems to be dragging him down in the ocean's depths, and he would like to stand up. This sounds to me like it's really tearing him up if he should be doing it, and if it's something he would want to do.

As far as I'm aware, it's quite common theory/headcanon that Rafayel and the Sea God are two different entities. I'm humoring it for the sake of this theory - what if MC would be the only one who would set the Sea God free, like Pandora? And, if revenge is one way Rafayel would be losing his "humanity" - his sense of kindness and compassion?

Rafayel mentions needing an anchor in his life, similarly how Talia has been mentioning it in Bouquets and Dirges, and during Rafayel's birthday this year. In Banquet Ablaze, he mentions it again after getting revenge on Alden, who assumably killed and turned Rafayel's teacher's scales into a painting.

It makes me wonder if MC is truly the only one who could either stop the Sea God gaining powers or the one who would set him free... Which brings me to the preview for the next myth:

So, we might have actually now seen MC opening the Pandora's Box - the Sea God who is about to release vengeance on humanity. We already know that humans have mistreated MC in both God of the Tides myth and the very opening line mentions it as well. It could be that Rafayel will end up creating havoc to humanity (as he has done already) with his full power.

We also see this in Abysswalker myth, more on Rafayel's perspective as someone who has seen the outcome for that.

I'm sorry if this seems a little rushed, I wanted to get this one out before we see the myth to see how much I have made myself a fool and I actually was away from my computer for over a week 😂 I'm so excited for the new myth and I'm not ready getting my heart shattered in pieces...

[tylermileslockett]

"Orpheus glances Back" (#7 in my Orpheus and Eurydice series) “He stopped, and now, even at the confines of light (thoughtless alas!) and deprived of understanding, he looked back at his Eurydice: there all his labour vanished, and the conditions of the cruel tyrant were broken and a groan was thrice heard in the Avernian lake. Then she; who is it, O Orpheus, that has destroyed miserable me, and thee also? Whose great madness was this? Lo, again the cruel Fates call me back, and sleep seals up my swimming eyes. And now adieu: I am carried away encompassed with thick darkness, and stretching out my hands to you in vain, alas being no longer yours. She said, and fled suddenly from his sight a different way, like smoke mixing with thin air: nor did she see him catching in vain at the shadows, and desiring to say a great deal more; nor did the ferry-man of hell suffer him again to pass over the withstanding lake.” (-Virgil, Georgicks) When Psyche looks upon her secret lover’s face (Eros) against his orders, it sets her on a long journey where she ultimately must perform impossible labors to appease Aphrodite. In the final task, after trekking to Hades to collect some of Persephone’s beauty in a box, the girl can’t help but peak within the box, which renders her unconscious, and she is only saved by Eros in the end coming to remove the sleep. Pandora, the first mortal woman created by Hephaestus, was warned not to open the jar offered by Zeus as a present, but when her curiosity overpowered her, she opened the lid, releasing ills and evils into the world. When King Pentheus, in his arrogance, denied the divinity of Dionysus, the god bewitched the king’s mother and aunts who tore the man apart, thinking him a lion. King Erysichiton, ignoring the warning, cut down sacred trees in the grove of Demeter, and was cursed with everlasting hunger, resulting in him later devouring his own flesh.  As always, Thanks for looking, and please share this image if you can! Xoxo

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Hades 2

Lately, I've been a bit obsessed about Hades 2, I've been watching people play the test run , listening to compilations of interactions and scouring theories.

While doing all of that, I noticed something of a pattern, a theme that often came back and I think I may have found out one of the MAIN theme and conflict of the game and I've seen nobody talk about it yet, so here we go.

More under if you're not against being possibly spoiled.

I think one of the major themes of Hades 2 is going to be about Humanity and its complex relationship with the Gods, the way the gods treat mortals and the way mortals treat the gods.

here are my evidences

The interactions

the first thing that put me on this path was this interaction between Melinoe and Nemesis.

In this conversation, Nemesis and Melinoe are talking about Retribution and Justice and how Nemesis believes that Kronos taking over the underworld and challenging the Olympians may be what they deserve. Notice how Nemesis specifically mentions mortals and the Golden Age.

For those who don't know, in greek mythology the Golden Age was the first Era of Humanity and when Chronos was the ruler of the heavens. It was a time of peace and harmony for humanity where there existed no plague or famine, there was no need to work as they could simply pick their food from nature itself. They lived long lives, remaining youthful and died peacefully in their sleep.

Nemesis is I think trying to hint to Melinoe that maybe the situation is not exactly as black and white as it first seems and that humanity may have a bigger role in this than first thought.

A second interaction i want to bring to mind is about Moros and his relationship with mortals.

Here Moros admits that sometimes he because of was simply bored he would knowingly bring doom and pain to Mortals ending their lives painfully.

Archnea's interactions are also the strongest contenders for that theory, as they bring back that theme of divine cruelty, the gods view of mankind and how they callously treat them.

She has been wronged by the gods for the simple reason that she was better than them at something and they naturally couldn't stand it so they cursed her to live as a spider. She is filled with resentment for them and even warns Mel not to trust them. Also, note how she admits she fears the gods more than she fears Chronos.

2. Dora

Now Dora is a bit particular because we don't know much about her, but I have seen a theory and some interaction with Moros seem to be pointing toward it, which is that she might be Pandora, the original sinner of Greek mythology.

the myth of Pandora goes a bit like this: During the Golden Age, after Prometheus stole fire from the gods and gifted it to humanity, the gods decided to punish Prometheus by punishing humanity. They built Pandora, a woman beautiful beyond compare, and gave her a box full of the evils of the world. They then send her to seduce Epimetheus Prometheus's brother, who despite his brother's warning is promptly seduced by Pandora's beauty and welcomes her into his home. She then opened the box and released the evil of the world upon mankind, thus ending the Golden Age. Only hope stays inside the box.

Again if this is indeed true, it would follow the theme of the gods inflicting pain and suffering upon mankind for petty reasons, uncaring about the consequences of those actions.

3. Hades I

During the first game, many interactions points toward the gods general uncaring attitudes about mortals. Demeter thinks it was a mortal who stole her daughter away, so she decides that she will punish them all by starving them with an eternal winter. The other gods make almost mention of it only to say how much it annoys them.

4. Speculation

This part is not so much about evidences and more about speculations about the story of Hades 2 based upon my theory that mankind is going to be central in this tale.

The reason how Chronos is so powerfull, powerfull enough to free himself from Tartarus and claim the Underworld for himself, is that mortal were tired of being the gods' playthings and prayed to him, they prayed for his return, for the return of the golden age, where pain and suffering were unknown to them and the gods weren't using them for their own amusement.

The gods are going to have to deal with the fact that their poor treatment of humanity has consequences and those consequences are the return of Chronos and a second titonomachy.

Melinoe will propably have to face the fact that Chronos is wrong in challenging the gods and that the current status quo cannot be sustained any longer. The Olympian gods will have to change how they treat mankind if they wish to even have a stand a chance against chronos.

(TLDR, The Olympian gods have treated mankind like shit for a long time and now they are dealing with the consequences of those actions when the mortals are praying to Chronos to come back and restore back the golden Age where their lives weren't even half as awful. Melinoe will have to deal with the fact that her family might very well deserve what is happening to them and if she wishes to save them, the gods will have to change.)

[frozenjokes]

After years of thinking... I finally want to know what is CUBGUY and his boyfriend's MBTI aka the 16 personalities

You’ve opened Pandora’s box with this one my man because I am a psych major that HATES personality tests however that did not stop me from taking the test three times (this one which I hate specifically because the commercialization of personality tests to measure worth is evil BECAUSE THEY DONT WORK. THEY ARE NOT A GOOD MEASURE OF PERSONALITY OR WORTH AND HAVING TO TAKE THIS FUCKING FOR LITERALY JOB APPLICATIONS INSTEAD OF IT JUST BEING A FUN THING TODO IN YOUR FREE TIME IS FUCKING AURYRHEUSHDHUDUSHDJSHSJAHSUSUSJ KILLING BITING MAIMING GRAGAGSHGEHWDGSHHS I HATE. HER.) anyway. I can be normal about this subject I promise.

normal elsa: haha hey guys! I took the personality test for my ocs! yippeee!!! from left to right we have Cub, Scar, and Grian. thanks for the ask! this was fun!

but it’s not about having fun is it

so anyway I took notes. So you may have noticed some things don’t look quite right here. I mean, Cub looks fine! That’s pretty accurate even! Scar too, look at him go! … wait a minute. Grian’s not nice!!!! Or poetic!!!!!!! Is altruism even real????????????? (It is and I feel strongly about this but altruistic as an adjective to describe a person i believe is doing a disservice to the definition because what they MEAN is ‘selfless’ not altruistic but while we’re on the topic of selflessness Grian is fucking NOT)

So why did this happen. I don’t really care that the personality test got someone wrong, but I am interested in Why that happened, and why a test like this will never get a character like Grian correct.

Put simply, the answer is that this test wants to make you Feel Good. Now, having fun isn’t a crime and oftentimes personality tests are there to have fun, but the danger of something like this is that the MBTI isn’t presented as a low stakes fun activity, it’s presented as fact. Look. This is you! This is a good, objective measure of your personality, aren’t you great? You’re awesome :)! Here’s a list of vague-enough sentiments that probably apply to you based on the questions we asked. Yippee! its a really clever and extremely affective trick.

While the little blurb for Scar describes him relatively well, nearly every description of his ‘personality’ besides extroversion read pretty inaccurately, and that’s because the focus is so positive. The thing is, Grian and Scar are largely very self serving people (/neutral tone). They are often more worried about themselves than others, they’re impulsive, and that’s not all they are, but it’s pretty impossible to get at someone’s actual personality without recognizing what makes people flawed.

The closest I think the MBTI test gets to probing at this idea of potential selfishness are questions that are meant to test thinking versus feeling. Do you consider someone’s sensitivities in if they conflict with reason? Are you more concerned with facts or emotion? Logos versus pathos. That kinda stuff. But ultimately the MBTI test doesn’t really care about selfishness, it doesn’t care about flaws, it just cares about making you feel good baybe! So these neutral questions don’t really come back in any meaningful way. The MBTI is concerned about making caricatures of people, not accurately measuring their personality and that Matters because its so often treated as scientific, at least good enough to be used in consideration for jobs and work and school and all sorts of stuff.

And I could go on but the problem with modern personality tests goes so so so much deeper, even in more controlled, more science oriented fields like psychiatry. The system for diagnosing personality disorders is somewhat similar to a personality tests are at the very least aided by them, falling on a straight lined spectrum of Openness, Consciousness, Extroversion, Agreeableness, and Neuroticism. But this system Sucks and everyone knows it sucks because comorbidity between clusters (A, B, C) of personality disorders is Insanely High. I wish I had the exact percentages, but I can’t quite find the information I’m looking for, but the point is that if the rate of comorbidity between different disorders is So High, how do you know these disorders are correctly defined at all? If a person more often than not has Disorder A and Disorder B at the same time, who’s to say they’re all that different at all? In general, a lot of the criteria for diagnosing a personality disorders is Really similar, so in general it’s a section of the DSM that needs a pretty massive overhaul.

I don’t envy personality psychologists man their job is Tough (and in my opinion, kind of impossible. there’s too many roadblocks in making an objective test. It is. Eugh.)

TLDR: the MBTI test is about as decisive as a fortune cookie and it literally can’t be anything more because then you would realize its lying to you. amen

[emotionalsupportjedi]

Love Me, That’s All I Ask Of You: Psychoanalysis and Relationships in Phantom of the Opera

“You can't win her love by making her your prisoner” (Morris and Connor, 2011). This line, said by Vicomte Raoul de Chagny, can be considered a critical line about the relationship between Christine Daaé and the Phantom in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical Phantom of the Opera. The musical details what happens when Christine Daaé, a member of the chorus at the Palais Garnier, rises to take the place of prima donna, and the Phantom takes interest in her and takes drastic measures such as murder to ensure that she maintains her position. Looking at this musical with psychoanalytic theory gives the person watching it an interesting new perspective. Psychoanalytic theory is based on the works of Sigmund Freud, known as the father of psychoanalysis. In particular, his works on core anxieties, defence mechanisms, and trauma are relevant to this musical and its depiction of the Phantom in particular. The main relationship in the musical Phantom of the Opera models the idea of trauma creating more trauma and the negative effects trauma has on relationships.

First, the Phantom’s childhood trauma has started a cycle of trauma in the story, shown in part through his fear of abandonment. In the story, the Phantom was born with a physical deformity, which caused him to be an outcast from society and implied that he was abandoned by his mother. These events are the main cause of his fears, including his fear of abandonment. In Critical Theory Today: A User-Friendly Guide, Lois Tyson discusses fear of abandonment, defining it as “the unshakeable belief that our friends and loved ones are going to desert us (physical abandonment) or don’t really care about us (emotional abandonment)” (Tyson, 2006). One defence mechanism that the Phantom seems to use in relation to this fear is displacement, which is defined as “”taking it out” on someone or something less frightening than the person who caused our fear, hurt, frustration, or anger” (Tyson, 2006). Throughout the first act, the Phantom is seen taking out his anger on Christine when she does something that he does not like or sees as a threat, such as her taking his mask. When she does so in the song I Remember/Stranger Than You Dreamt It, he yells at her and curses her, saying, “Damn you, you little prying Pandora! You little demon! Curse you! You little lying Delilah! You little viper! Now you cannot ever be free!” (Morris and Connor, 2011). Of all the names he calls her, I find “Pandora” to be the most interesting. It is a reference to the Ancient Greek myth about Pandora’s box: the gods and goddesses give Pandora, the first woman, a box filled with all of the evils in the world. Against her better judgement, her curiosity got the best of her, and she released all of the evils into the world. By referencing this myth, the Phantom is telling Christine that now that her own curiosity has gotten the better of her, she cannot be free of him, and she has released his rage onto herself. This use of displacement is a way for the Phantom to protect himself from the fear that Christine will abandon him for seeing his face, but possibly unbeknownst to him, this is a destructive way of reaching this end. This incident causes Christine trauma, and she starts to fear the Phantom and his rage, which will end up with her trying to avoid the Phantom and leaving him.

Another core anxiety of the Phantom’s that drives the relationship side plot of the musical is his fear of betrayal. Lois Tyson defines fear of betrayal as “the nagging feeling that our friends and loved ones can’t be trusted, for example, can’t be trusted not to lie to us, not to laugh at us behind our backs, or in the case of romantic partners, not to cheat on us by dating others” (Tyson, 2006). As with his fear of abandonment, and with most core issues, the Phantom uses a defence mechanism as a way of coping with this fear; in this case, he uses projection. Tyson defines projection as “ascribing our fear, problem, or guilty desire to someone else and then condemning him or her for it, in order to deny that we have it ourselves” (Tyson, 2006). The Phantom uses this coping mechanism throughout the second act, most notably in the final showdown between him, Christine, and Raoul. After kidnapping Christine during the middle of a performance of the opera the Phantom wrote to facilitate this scheme, the Phantom attempts to hang her fiancé, Raoul de Chagny, who has come to save Christine. He tells Christine that it would be her who chooses if Raoul lives or dies by giving her an ultimatum: “Start a new life with me, buy his freedom with your love! Refuse me and you send your lover to his death! This is the choice- This is the point of no return!” (Morris and Connor, 2011). The line “Refuse me and you send your lover to his death” has a couple interesting parts to it. As a whole, it shifts the blame from the Phantom to Christine, as projection does, but when looking at the use of the word lover, it is another way for the Phantom to show how he feels he has been betrayed. In the musical, the Phantom and Christine do not have a formal relationship, whereas Christine and Raoul do. The use of the word “lover” is a way to show that Phantom thinks of their relationship as Christine cheating on him, using the word as a way to deny the couple legitimacy in his mind as he is desperate for her affections. In his mind, since Christine is his, she is betraying him by taking a lover, whereas in reality, Christine is just getting engaged to her childhood friend and her beloved. The combination of her fear from this and earlier situations and the way that Raoul treats her much better is what ends up with a tearful goodbye to the Phantom and their trauma-based relationship from Christine.

As a final point of interest in this essay about fear, Phantom of the Opera uses two of its main characters, Christine and the Phantom, as a way to distinguish rational and irrational fears. The fears that psychoanalysis covers are irrational, ones based in trauma, but are often made up in one’s own head. These fears are shown through the Phantom and his actions and lines that have been discussed in this essay. However, the musical also uses Christine to show the rational fears that would come along with being in her position throughout the musical. Throughout the musical, Christine is constantly being watched and influenced by the Phantom, blamed for the situation by the managers and Carlotta, who is competing for the spotlight with her, and still having to perform parts in well-known operas as if none of this is going on. She is rationally afraid of these situations, and throughout the song Notes… / Twisted Every Way she asks many rhetorical questions about her situation, such as: “Am I to risk my life to win the chance to live?... Oh God - if I agree, what horrors wait for me… in this, the Phantom's opera...?” (Morris and Connor, 2011).These rhetorical questions are manifestations of Christine’s fear. The line that stands out the most is “...if I agree, what horrors wait for me”, with the word “horrors” conveying to the audience and the characters on stage that she knows she is in a dangerous situation. At this point, the Phantom has killed someone in the middle of an opera performance, and Christine is rightfully scared that she could be next, that she could be the victim of a man who is unpredictable in the severity of his rage. Another line that stands out is “in this, the Phantom’s opera”, which serves as a way to show who is in power right now. The Phantom has all of the power over her in this situation, and her helplessness is only fueling her fear. Christine has been traumatised by the Phantom and their relationship.

To conclude, the musical the Phantom of the Opera uses its main relationships to demonstrate how trauma is a cycle that negatively affects both of the parties involved. Looking at the musical through a psychoanalytic lens gives an interesting insight into how relationships can be affected by mental health and our coping mechanisms. Ultimately, it is probably a good thing that Christine Daaé leaves the Phantom in the end; who knows what would have happened if they had ended up together in the end? On a larger scale, analyses like this essay can be used to look at real-life relationships, and those watching this musical may relate to the characters and the situations they are in. While this relationship may be uncomfortable, there is still value in engaging with it and similar works.

Works Cited

Dhar, Rittika. “Pandora’s Box: The Myth Behind the Popular Idiom.” History Cooperative, 17 August 2022, https://historycooperative.org/pandoras-box/. Accessed 18 November 2023.

Morris, Nick, and Laurance Connor, directors. The Phantom of the Opera at the Royal Albert Hall. Cameron Mackintosh, 2011.

Tyson, Lois. Critical Theory Today: A User Friendly Guide. 2nd ed., Routledge, 2006.

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Most Likely Tag

Thanks for the tag, @pandoras-comment-box!

Who's most likely to adopt a racoon/crow/skunk/fox/miscellaneous local wildlife for a pet? (Please tell the class how badly it would go. Please!)

Megumi would be the most likely SUCCESSFUL adopter, seeing as she can speak to animals and spends a lot of her free time with them anyway. But that's no fun, so Claire or Sora would probably be the next runners-up, with Claire's being the most disastrous.

Claire would be found in her room, fist-fighting a raccoon she tried to sneak into the cabin at 3 am. They'd become mortal enemies, and the raccoon would spend its time menacing her despite also refusing to leave (magic probably doesn't work on raccoons).

A total wildcard would be Adrasteia. If certain conditions are met, I'd imagine she'd find herself enchanted by an ugly, evil little possum or mole rat or something, and she'd immediately decide it's hers. The whole palace would be forced to deal with an aggressive little demon creature in a pink sweater, because if anything happened to it their heads would be next.

Most likely to verbally eviscerate someone for something petty.

Iris or Adrasteia. It's a toss-up between that and them just stabbing you, though.

Most likely to go viral unintentionally.

Luna or Claire, if they had internet in their world. For OCs in a world WITH social media, I don't know, lol. A lot of my characters are walking disasters, so any of them could easily do something that ends up being caught on camera and uploaded. Luna and Claire are expressly from a comedy though, so they're at the top of the list.

If I had to go with anyone, I guess Sora? She's the most openly impulsive/accidentally destructive, so I could imagine that would be worth putting on TikTok or something, lol.

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Most likely to crash a car

Most likely to get caught in a "this isn't what it looks like!" situation

Most likely to become a fashion icon

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[tl-os]

1:5&½

Pandora considers the invitation.

She has been trying to work up a timeline. When was she first aware? Can she remember a time before? Uncertain.

Never has a hand been laid upon her in aggression, not that she recalls. And there was a time when she did work to recall. She was at her worst, her most neurotic, when recollection became something of a psychiatric sport. Days were wasted sorting through vague, reactionary, emotional memories that she could not explain. Nights wandering from room to room in the Old Dark {ramshackle, disordered} House {of her mind}, wrenching open dusty chests and hat boxes full of blurry, frozen flashes. She gave them time to develop, to animate. She prodded, she sculpted. Nothing.

She consulted a professional, even pushed a bit. She was tactfully and authoritatively rebuffed. She considers herself quite lucky for that. She has long made peace with all of it— indeed, she is indebted, beholden, and obliged.

So from whence had it sprung? Never a witness. But forever surrounded by victims.

She knew η φωτιά παλάτι predated her. Perhaps the seeds of struggle predated even her mother? What had her grandmother endured? Her great-grandmother? How long could it lurk in the bloodline?

She knew that her mother’s father had been a cruel, careless man. In his free time, he hunted helots for sport. The day that Helen lay at his feet, bleeding, he had laughed. Was that the start of it? Her grandmother, hearing her daughter’s cries, had flown down the stairs to the basement, scooped up the little girl, turned and fled. They ran away, as far and as fast as they could, from Sparta, just the two of them all the way to The Old Inland Valley.

Cassamnestra had been headstrong and brave to do that; "good wives” did not behave like such. She and Helen had suffered for it but that suffering was nothing compared to what might have passed had Pandora’s grandmother been meek and obedient.

The Old Inland Valley was populated by long, dark, menacing shadows for Pandora. She had heard too many stories. Visiting was fraught with what might befall her there. This was where Helen had been chased through the orange groves at night by the old man who lived in the house next door to the toilet factory. Wasn’t there some story about the little girl up the street— her father crawling around the neighborhood at night, peeping into windows? And then there was Helen’s best friend’s older sister, Rhonda. Poor Rhonda. She had been the subject of much whispered talk in the neighborhood. A pageant queen who “modeled”, Rhonda ran with a fast crowd. Boys on motorcycles would pick her up and take her out on dates. Before her 18th birthday, Rhonda was found dead and “interfered with” out behind Cement Mountain. Then there was that Pyanopsia when Helen had been out driving her brand, new Nineteen Sixty-Five and a Half baby blue Mustang. The doors were unlocked. And, as she pulled up to the red light just beyond the RailRoad tracks, Z den ekDine Zden ekD ineZden ekD i neZden ekD i neZden ek Din eZdenek. Dine Zde enkDi neZdene kDineZ. dene kDin eZ denekDi ne. ZdenekD in eZdene kDi neZden. ekDine Zdenek DineZd enekDine Z de nekDineZ. denek DineZde ekD.

But somehow by the end of that story (a story Helen had presented to a 12-year-old Pandora on the way home from a baby shower thrown for her aunt) nothing had happened, and she had returned home in one piece to Cassamnestra. The grayer Pandora gets, the more she puzzles over this last story. But when she gets into a car she never forgets to lock the doors.

Because, despite her mother’s best efforts, Pandora is more sure than ever that it was inevitable; something foul and evil, some kind of frog-moth, had taken root, festering, waiting for Pandora. She suspects that some horror had been suffused into her being before she had even begun. She was cradled in the womb of Oizys and formed from the memory of trauma.

From birth, a clock commenced its inevitable tick-tock, tick-tock, tick-tock, winding down on her. (Why are there so many clocks in The House by The Sea?, she asks herself.) A life of chronic blind fear, an ever evolving state of alarmed presentiment.

And now Mrs. Bird expects this? I am no architect. Is it my destiny to tear apart the matter of my own neurons and reconstruct all 2,000 floors into something less made of leaves and more of flowers?

But I cannot make the dead love me.

And who is to say what such provocations might do?

What did Aunt Edith say to Pet? “Prepare yourself to defend yourself, and you just might find yourself with something to defend against.”

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Dead Internet Theory and why you should start an unionize

Ok, let me start off with two things. 1# I never done this before but I fucking corpos push me to do this because of all the AI bullshit.

two# if you don't know what is The Dead Internet Theory is like I was, there 2 video are different on it but they are a still good watch on it.

since it become no sneaking suspicion that corpos are useing AI to trying to replace artist for a lower cost (which it's fucking stupid because hasbro, xbox/Microsoft, others are multi dollar company that end up showing how fucking Greedy they are,)

This will keep happing unless we put our foot down, tell this corpos that this shit is wrong/fuck off with this, and start a union to fight back this mess.

but what this have to do with the Dead Internet Theory?... well, if at some point if we can't tell who human and who AI/bot on the Internet. we have to go outside and meet in-persons to to talk to real people (or on discord or calling your friends on your phone.)

stuff like hardcover book, DVDs, music vinyl, art, dvd movies and so much more are now going to be more rare than gold. I am serious. since AI is making all these stuff that are difficulty to tell which one is made by a human or a bot, unironically we have to go back to the past and start buying these stuff when people used to me that we don't have to buy these things no more. because they will all be on the Internet to buy and get (or you can be a 7 sea pirates to get these stuff for "free" cuz fuck them corpos.)

Now?... now all I want to do is buy older/hardcover stuff since I know that was not made by a fucking AI bot but made by a human being. now all I want to is unplugged from the Internet and go live in a cabin in the woods somewhere to never be seen again.

this shit is starting to become a real life cyberpunk and I. DO. NOT. WANT. THAT.

So you should do this.

#1: meet in person to talk to people (or discord or any other way) and if that person is a VA, artist, animator, etc. start a unions and make it loud and clear that we don't want this AI shit in our creative industries. (as well if it's somehow possibly to ban AI then do it.)

two#: start to buy all the DVDs, hardcover book, DVDs movies (or VHS Movies), music vinyl, TTRPGs and board games to play with your friends.

and 3#: find hobby in real life, like gardening, swimming, sewing, and or playing older videos games like PS1 to PS3, gamecube, N64, etc.

For one more thing I need to say before I start to wonder how long before AI become self aware. All of this remind me of pandora box, the person who made ChatGPT/OpenAI open pandora box, so much happen in 2022 to 2024 when chatGPT/other AI stuff that I can't put into words of how much this fuck over the creative industries and cost so much people to lost their job because of greedy corpos who want to cut corners. everyone is scared of AI, even the person who made chatgpt for god sake.

but I have forgotten something important to the pandora box story.

"Pandora opened a jar left in her care containing sickness, death and many other unspecified evils which were then released into the world. Though she hastened to close the container, only one thing was left behind – hope."

and you what happening in the gaming industry?... Bethesda had Unionizes. which it own by Microsft/xbox. sure it does now sound much but to me, this sound like a piece of snow that is ready to go down hill into a SnowBall.

IF THERE WAS TIME TO UNIONIZE, THE TIME IS NOW!. NO IFS OR BUTS OR WHEN!.

kick start union, support real artist, VA, animator, indie movies, indie video games, and people who are making books and so much more.

MAKE IT LOUND AND CLEAR THAT WE DON'T WANT THIS AI SHIT IN OUR CREATIVE INDUSTRIES AND FIND A WAY TO BAN IT!.

thank you for reading my hate on corpos and AI, I fucking hate it here.

[bittersweetresilience]

félix and flairmidable as pandora’s myth

because i'm thinking about parallels between them again. this started a month ago:

(plain text in alt. i'm referencing hesiod's myth of pandora in theogony and works and days both because it's the original or, more accurately, oldest surviving account and because it's the one i'm most familiar with.)

briefly, the myth is as follows. after zeus denies mortals the gift of fire, prometheus hides it in a fennel stalk and gives it to them anyway. he is punished with the classic eternal liver eagle situation, at least until herakles rescues him, while mortals are punished with our lovely lady.

hephaistos and several other gods are recruited to create pandora, the first woman. under instruction from zeus, hephaistos sculpts her divine features from clay, athene teaches her craft and weaving, aphrodite gives her grace and desire, and hermes gives her a "dog-like, shameless mind and thieving ways . . . deceits and wheedling words, the habits of a thief." she is named pandora, meaning 'all gifts.'

hermes brings pandora to epimetheus, who weds her, forgetting the warning his brother prometheus had given him against receiving gifts from the gods. pandora has a pithos or greek jar with her containing all of the evils of mankind, and she opens its lid, releasing every spirit within but one: elpis, or hope. elpis stays within the pithos, trapped by the lid pandora has once again closed.

pandora's myth is an etiology or mythological explanation of evil, sickness, human labor, and toil. in a way, to félix, the miraculous are an etiology of the same. why does he feel compelled to obey orders even when they are unfair? why are his feelings troubled whenever he finds something that brings him joy? why is he hurt, blamed, unloved? why does his life seem to be linked to a ring? for him, the miraculous are the answer.

more clearly, pandora is made in the image of men and goddesses and instilled with a devious nature. félix is made in the image of adrien, and by definition their mothers, and he surfaces with a clever, trickster-y nature as well. both are gifts, and both are punishments. the only mixup is which one comes from and goes to whom.

pandora's pithos, funnily also referred to as pandora's box, becomes the miracle box in this story. félix opens the pithos by giving all of the miraculous inside to monarque, leaving only hope, or the miraculous of the peacock. he wears the miraculous of the dog while he does this, with the dog-like thieving ways hermes gave pandora.

with this, the golden age of mankind ends, and an age of toil begins. the released spirits or kwami become the plagues of mankind, such that their concepts replace the names of akumas and sentimonsters as antagonists of paris. and hilariously, the age of toil is the fifth age of mankind hesiod describes, just as the season after félix opens his pithos is the fifth season.

(as an aside, many scholars draw parallels between pandora, made of clay, and her pithos, made of the same. with the miracle box as félix's pithos, félix as a child of magic might mean something new.)

pandora releases every spirit but hope. the meaning of this has always been unclear. was hope meant to be an evil? was its imprisonment meant to be a blessing or a curse? certainly félix wants to keep duusu with him, as elpis with pandora. hope and a weapon, a spirit like her siblings, all at once. and his exchange of the miraculous inspired as much debate about his intentions, origins, and consequences. i don't have answers to the questions about pandora, but with félix in mind, i can raise some more.

both pandora and félix were created the way they were by someone else's hand. for someone else's reasons, with someone else's guiding force, seen or unseen. when pandora opened the pithos, was this an act of free will? what about when she closed the lid? what did she feel keeping elpis inside? was it her fault for being pursued by her nature? could it have been a choice?

the same questions can be asked about félix. his narrative is one of grappling with autonomy. the threat of nonexistence dogs his every footstep. was trading the miraculous a choice or a necessity? was his deception the only natural next step of the life he was made to live? was he free for the first time when the miraculous of the peacock entered his hands? did he feel regret obtaining it? did he feel relief?

in the end, as with all stories, there is room for interpretation. there are countless versions of pandora's myth, because the story changes with the authors, with the culture, and with the meaning of hope. so too for félix's story. he writes his myth himself.

[schn-tgai-saavik]

Original Characters from The Pandora Principle by Carolyn Clowes

The novel has a lot of original character interwoven and expertly used alongside known Star Trek ones, and they deserve their own post.

Part 2: Romulans

Praetor Tahn: Romulan politician and military leader, he is one of the members of the Ten, and from his introduction, we see how he is in way over his head, having joined this secret group to cummulate riches and spend a lavish life, not to sacrifices his gold, shops and people under his command in a war against the Federation. He asks for the help of his friend Achernar to ensure the destruction of Hellguard and it's weapons rather than their retrieval, and while he his quite scammed in the process, he is satisfied that the Enterprise is the one to deal the final blow to the planet and that war is avoided. Perhaps it is more due to the circumstances, but Tahn appears to be a nervous, uncertain person, always on his guard.

Achernar: Romulan smuggler and "businessman", he serves his own interests and the accumulation and protection of his own wealth rather than the interest of the Star Empire or any other group. A sly character, but ultimately not a grand antagonist. Achernar is highly charismatic and cunning, managing to charm the crew of the Enterprise after finding himself aboard by sabotaging his ship and waiting for their rescue. Achernar is working with Tahn, but mostly manages to scam the other Romulan. Saavik is mistrustful of him all along, due to her personal perception of Romulans, but learn that he isn't inherently evil, much like herself, and frees him from sickbay to allow him to negociate for Enterprise's safety with Tahn by dangling his fortune, which was onboard's Achernar's ship in Enterprise's docking bay. Before doing so, Achernar also offered Saavik to come with him, proposing riches, and a home, but she refuses. Before his departure from the Enterprise, he revealed the ruse with Tahn's treasure, and offers a piece of Romulan gold to the first officer, for him to pass unto Saavik, saying she was as pure and valuable as the mineral.

(Achernar's name comes from the brightest star of the Eridani constellation, meaning End of the River. (Vulcan orbiting 40 Eridani A, it's actually a great deep cut reference) )

The First: Mysterious leader of the Ten, a group of Romulans intend on overthrowing the current gouverment and restarting the war agaisnt the federation. Their group was behind the ressearch and development of the Hellguard's Pandora's box weapons.

It or "Black Cloak": Romulan Lord and chief of operations of the complexe colony of Hellguard. He was also one of the Ten. He went mad after being blinded by a young Saavik, and was left behind by his staff during the Romulan evacuation of the colony. His presence in the novel is more important in Saavik's nightmares, as he haunts and chases her in the depth of Hellguard. As Saavik was about to bring him to justice by taking him into Federation custody, he commited suicide via arsenic pill.

[glitchy-creations]

Fellow Greek Mythology fans i need some suggestions!

I have a bunch of wood left from a class project and I want to do a quick piece inspired by Pandora’s box. For a little context; it is going to be a traditional box shape. I know Pandora had a pithos and not a box like the title suggests, but I don’t have the tools or experience to make a wooden pithos (maybe I’ll try to do a ceramic one in the future?).

For the lid of the box I want something to symbolise Olympus, as in I want a single design that symbolises all 12 Olympians. I had this idea because all 12 Olympians gave her some sort of gift. I’m just not sure what exactly I want to use as that symbol. If anyone has any suggestions please let me know!

I’m also debating on if I want to decorate the body of the box with just a trim design like you’d see on ancient pottery, or if I want to add symbols around the surface. If I do symbols, I’m thinking either doing symbols of the Olympians or maybe references to the “evils”? I haven’t decided yet so if anyone has ideas for the outside feel free to let me know as well! I’m planing to hand paint everything, I have a lot of extra paint from when I made my Parthénos piece.

[tylermileslockett]

"Orpheus glances Back" (#7 in my Orpheus and Eurydice series) “He stopped, and now, even at the confines of light (thoughtless alas!) and deprived of understanding, he looked back at his Eurydice: there all his labour vanished, and the conditions of the cruel tyrant were broken and a groan was thrice heard in the Avernian lake. Then she; who is it, O Orpheus, that has destroyed miserable me, and thee also? Whose great madness was this? Lo, again the cruel Fates call me back, and sleep seals up my swimming eyes. And now adieu: I am carried away encompassed with thick darkness, and stretching out my hands to you in vain, alas being no longer yours. She said, and fled suddenly from his sight a different way, like smoke mixing with thin air: nor did she see him catching in vain at the shadows, and desiring to say a great deal more; nor did the ferry-man of hell suffer him again to pass over the withstanding lake.” (-Virgil, Georgicks) When Psyche looks upon her secret lover’s face (Eros) against his orders, it sets her on a long journey where she ultimately must perform impossible labors to appease Aphrodite. In the final task, after trekking to Hades to collect some of Persephone’s beauty in a box, the girl can’t help but peak within the box, which renders her unconscious, and she is only saved by Eros in the end coming to remove the sleep. Pandora, the first mortal woman created by Hephaestus, was warned not to open the jar offered by Zeus as a present, but when her curiosity overpowered her, she opened the lid, releasing ills and evils into the world. When King Pentheus, in his arrogance, denied the divinity of Dionysus, the god bewitched the king’s mother and aunts who tore the man apart, thinking him a lion. King Erysichiton, ignoring the warning, cut down sacred trees in the grove of Demeter, and was cursed with everlasting hunger, resulting in him later devouring his own flesh.  As always, Thanks for looking, and please share this image if you can! Xoxo

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[miercolaes]

❝  i  may  be  crazy,  but  you’re  out  of  your  mind.  ❞  she  snaps  in  return,  taking  one  step  closer  to  his  cage.  wednesday  has  all  qualities  a  great  stalker  must  have  —  she’s  observing  him,  calculating  what  move  to  take  next.  on  the  outside  she  appears  stone  cold,  much  like  an  angel  memorial  statue  in  the  cemetery.  but  on  the  inside  she’s  already  digging  into  the  past,  for  there  lies  the  answers  she  seeks.  what  corpses  does  she  exhume?  each  moment  from  the  day  they  met  at  weathervane  up  until  the  night  at  the  sheriff  station.  at  first,  she  passed  that  notion  as  the  mask  that  fell  off  close  to  the  curtain  call.  but  now  that  she  learned  more  about  @forgaeven  kind,  the  tables  turned  and  what  she  thought  was  the  conclusion  turned  out  to  be  just  the  beginning.

she doesn't flinch when the chair is thrown. probably because it happened in a blink of an eye. but as luck has it, she doesn't blink quite often and she catches the object flying through the air. but he didn't mean to hit her. he could've, that much she was aware of. her hypothesis seems close to a drawn conclusion. but to achieve that, she must set forth. one step closer, two steps closer. danger is imminent but who's in danger? was it wednesday or tyler? both or neither? only time could tell. her frame stance remains neutral, no visible sign of defensive nor offensive cues. she just stands there, with a calmness seen on the sea before a big storm. dark gaze locked with his. she's not afraid.

❝ if you think i'll take orders from you, you couldn't be more wrong. ❞ her recklessness may as well be her demise. she's too caught up in her own illusion, that she could achieve anything she sets her mind to, if she tries hard enough. when she looks at him she doesn't see an enemy ( probably because she never did in the first place, until it was too late ), when she looks at him she sees someone who wasted their time on her. and, alas, she's guided by her own principles, like eye for an eye and tooth for a tooth. ❝ but you're free to think of me however you like. since it's clear you made your mind up, i have no reason to interfere in that matter. ❞ she utters, moving her figure in such way that she allows tyler enough space to leave out of that place if he wishes to.

❝ and you're right, ❞ she continues, offering a light nod on top of her utterance. woeful gaze drifts to the metal door she opened before entering the pandora box. and just like pandora's box, darkness and evil lingered in the air. but at the bottom of it all, there was a tiny speck of hope. and to that she holds on. ❝ i can be a terrible person and this may as well be an experiment. ❞ the serpent dripping venom from its unholy tongue. all the voices inside her head echoing in unison, come on tyler, don't play the victim your entire life. head snaps to the side to look back at him, the bottom of the pandora box glistening in her obsidians, ❝ but i own it. i can fool anyone else, but not myself. i'd rather not steep that low. so you can leave this place with me while we catch up on the time we lost or i can mentally torment you for an indefinite amount of time. the choice is yours. ❞

❛⠀ you're crazy, ❜ he scoffs, turning away from her now.

he faces the wall, and he implements it : seven seconds in, and five seconds out, right ? that's how you do it ? that's how you breathe ? he doesn't know. fuck! he thinks in a tone that's way too frantic, his memories flashing in front of him like waves : all those doctors poking at him. those guards. a freak. a murderer. a monstrous killer. dad, coming by every week. the lawyer, a straight-faced man with an always-agitated sort of attitude. can we trust him ? he remembers asking dad, in a voice that's astoundingly meek. absurdly, horrendously young.

then there's the psychiatrist. a bald, bespectacled man that has a witty sense of humour. tyler thinks he likes him. tyler thinks he liked dr. kinbott too, but he killed her. he killed her like that, like she's paper and he's only tearing it in two, because— because it's what laurel wants, and if it's what she wants then he'll— he has to obey. he has to obey because laurel, she— she saved him, didn't he ? she saved him, when no one else was giving a shit. when mom died, and dad couldn't even look at him for weeks. she saved him because— because what.

why did she save him ?

tyler doesn't know. he doesn't know, but suddenly it's like he's in that car again, retrieving the file from her, and her hand goes over his knee and he's asking her what she's doing, and he tries to move, and—i had a chance to read more about your kind, wednesday says, her voice cutting straight into his train of thought. for a moment, it sobers him up. tyler blinks—since when had his vision begun to be this blurry—and turns to her. she's as stoic as ever, as determined and just as dramatic. he nearly wants to laugh at the familiarity of it all. he doesn't. he laughs at the absurdity of it all, instead.

god, he wishes he'd never met her.

❛⠀this is all just—it's an experiment, isn't it ? ❜ but of course, it is. if you put your hand in the cage of a bear can qualify as that. he wants to curl up, pathetic, and think about mom. did she suffer through this, too ? which one scared her more, tyler wonders : that she could turn into a blood-lust beast at any second, or that she must be controlled to even be manageable ? and then, quieter, he wants to ask : did she have a good life, at least ? was it nice and warm and safe when it wasn't so terrifying ? ❛⠀you're the same as laurel. you just wanted me to go BERSERK ! ❜

he throws a chair. it falls to the glass near the wall behind her. the chair, plastic, bends with some parts shatter. the wall dents.

❛⠀LEAVE ! ❜ he roars, feeling the hyde inside wanting to transform, but he can't. he won't allow it. there is no point killing her, he reasons—laurel's dead.

[tanglepelt]

Dc x dp idea 16

The observant are done watching. They want to command the infinite realm. With the king sealed away they decide the time is now.

They discovered a way to twist the ancients. Doing so hitting both pandora and clockwork. Pandora now seeks to help free evil and wreak havoc. Clockwork is now actively trying to find the worst timelines to force to happen.

The observants didn’t get frostbite as Danny was figuring out his ice core. Which means now he had to deal with those two ancients as well as overgrowth. Maybe even vortex makes an appearance.

The observants game plan is to make all the powerful ghost look bad so they get locked away. The only one who can fix the personalities of the ancients is the king. Take out those powerful and no one can free pariah to defeat him.

Danny returns to amity to find time frozen. Danny the little thief he is stole three time medallions (clockwork let him). Pandora is preventing him from getting to sam and tucker releasing evil from her box.

Danny gets out of amity. Leaving Sam as overgrowths “daughter” his friends and family frozen then guarded by evil beings. He heads out human so they can’t track his ecto signature.

With two extra time medallions he sets out. He finds the justice league. Wonder Woman immediately wants to help. She wants to help free pandora. Superman also heads to amity to help out. Both have rigged up Spector deflectors so they can’t get overshadowed.

John is the one who figures out what caused the personality switches. Bad news the only person who can fix it is evil. Danny was ease-dropping (they had him making anti ghost weapons, Danny only made non lethal ones)

Danny being Danny leaves his time medallion and takes off to free pariah.

John and Batman follow the child. They try and stop him from summoning and freeing pariah. Danny is just like chill i sealed him up like 3 months ago I’m sure i can handle this.

No explanation he just transforms and frees pariah. John and Batman can’t do anything to the ghost king as Danny traps him and the king in an ice dome. No point risking others getting hurt.

Danny wins. Frees pandora and clockwork. Wonder Woman had managed to trap pandora (pandora was definitely fighting the spell and resisting as much as she could). Clockwork just knew it was gonna happen. The observants were silly to think he wouldn’t.

The justice league now monitor amity park for when the next earth destructive ghost escapes. Danny has been forced to take lessons. The first one is risk management and the importance of disclosing powers. It’s just a lecture made by Batman.

[darklinsblog]

Sweet Distraction | Chapter XII

Summary: Y/N must adapt to her new essence, Morpheus can’t seem to accept the woman he loves is forever changed and Morningstar is not pleased when she sees her gorgeous creation corrupted to her core.

Pairing: Dark!Morpheus x Celestial! Reader

Chapter List

Author’s note: Hello my loves! I know I have been quite MIA but I hope you enjoy this chapter

A few days had passed after your… event.

Morpheus didn’t know how to grasp on this situation, it wasn’t like you changed drastically but you were undoubtedly different, the way you carried yourself, your essence seemed much more darker and there were times were you would have raging outbursts over the smallest things.

She was drifting away, sometimes Morpheus wouldn’t see her in all day, it was almost as if she was trying to escape everything and for the first time in eons for a being that had lived as much as him, he had no idea how to help.

The Endless wouldn’t be proud to admit that he recurred to lurking on Y/N’s dreams and nightmares to obtain answers but he achieved nothing as all he would see were faded memories of Y/N’s past.

It was hard to try to conceal all the voices within you, all the anger that seemed to sit at the pit of your stomach.

“Why did you do it?” Morpheus had asked you for the hundred time, you were refusing to give him an answer knowing how apprehensive Morpheus could be, but there you were undoubtedly irritated.

“I didn’t have a choice, it was either taking them with me or letting Pandora’s evils to run free in the world! Could you imagine what that could’ve done to The Waking World? To the Dreaming?!” Morpheus’ eyes watered completely taken back by your words.

He had no words, he inspected your face, reminiscing on all your memories, aching for how much you had changed, you weren’t the same and you won’t ever be and it was all because of… him?

The image of you stumbling down the corridors, your lost and tortured expression being consumed and whining in pain still vividly haunted him.

“Please, let me make this right” he pleaded you, your face went from anger to complete disbelief.

“I am not one of your creations, I’m not something you can deconstruct and reconstruct however you see fit!” You exclaimed, you knew it wasn’t his intent to imply you were broken, in need of fixing, but hearing him say this also light within you the insecurity that Morpheus’ may leave you as he only liked the old you, and if that was the case, the sacrifice you had made was ultimately, nothing at all.

“I have to protect you!” He urged

“And whose there to protect you, then?” You spoke feeling the knot on your throat growing tighter, you came close to him cupping his face in your hands, his went to your waist as you looked at him more tenderly this time.

“Your duty is to protect the dreams of others, to inspire and guide them, why do you not let me be the same for you?” A single tear ran down your cheek as you spoke this words, Morpheus couldn’t understand how could you love him so selflessly, to endure an unspeakable torture out of your love to him, and quite frankly, he wasn’t sure he deserved it.

Because he treated you poorly for centuries, he wasn’t good at admitting his feelings, he had hurt you countless times and yet, here you were still loving him and sacrificing yourself.

“You’re hurting, I can feel it” it was true, but you weren’t only hurting from what Pandora’s box did to you, there was something else you hadn’t spoken of, scared of bringing it up but eventually you knew you had to.

“There’s no pain I am not able to endure” you tried to reassure him even though that didn’t bring the Prince of Stories much comfort.

Lucienne came along interrupting the scene, looking troubled which caught your attention immediately.

“Lucifer Morningstar has requested to see you and Miss Y/N in their domains” she explained, both you and Morpheus shared a look, knowing this was anything but good news.

You knew such request was merely a formality from the angel, but this was a demand.

Morpheus and you were setting yourselves to go, when Lucienne grabbed your arm, she quietly approached your ear after looking for signs of anybody else listening and having found nothing.

“You know you must tell him before you go to Hell, for the safety of both” she looked at your stomach for a second and you grimaced.

“Lucifer won’t try anything” you said, not even convinced yourself but at least for now you had to lie to yourself to get through with this.

Reaching the gates of Hell thousands of looks were upon you and Morpheus, no demon dared to say a word and the air felt dense as you approached Lucifer, whose eyes were shining with rage.

“You take my gorgeous creation and make her your whore…” Lucifer hissed with anger “Then you permit for her to be corrupted and misshaped and now… I have to make this right”

Suddenly you were pulled away from Morpheus’ side into some sort of unknown force into a boundary spell that kept you and Morpheus apart.

No matter how hard any of you tried, you were unable to break free, being kept apart by an invisible wall.

“Morningstar! What do you think you’re doing?!” He exclaimed exasperated looking at the master of Hell.

“I am restoring her to her true form, taking away all those evils that have tainted her soul!” With a single hand movement you were pulled to the ground, groaning in pain.

“NO! MOTHER PLEASE STOP YOU DO NOT UNDERSTAND!” You cried out trying to conceal the pain, scared of what this was doing to you and knowing the dangers of this process.

“What do I not understand? That he is incapable of protecting you like he’s supposed to?!” You were clenching your fists, digging your nails into the skin of your palms, your knuckles turning white, it was hard to say a word because you felt as if there was no more oxygen for you to hold onto.

“I’m with… c-child!” You choked out, all the pain stopped in that moment, when you opened your eyes again Lucifer’s eyes were filled with tears and Morpheus was hit by realization, as if he had just been hit by a truck at full speed.

The pain stopped as Lucifer was staring at her gorgeous creation whom was coughing and gasping for air.

“I’ve tried… but if this darkness is to leave me so will the child I carry”

Lucifer undid the prison with a flick of the wrist, Morpheus and the ruler of Hell shared a glance, a sense of truce now lingering in the air as they shared the common objective of ensuring the safety of the woman they both loved.

Now, the importance relied on ensuring the safety of Y/N and the king’s unborn child.

This time around, Morpheus approached his loved one softly, she was tired, but still had that strength within her.

Morpheus cupped her face in his hands, of course he loved the idea of creating a family with Y/N but part of him wished this blessing was a little less complicated background.

“I’m sorry. I know this isn’t what you wanted…” she whispered softly, making Morpheus’ heart ache, as in all the years they had known each other she had never stopped caring for him, protecting him even.

“My love… You will always be what I want and anything that comes our way as long as we’re together”

For the first time in centuries, Morpheus didn’t feel the ghosts of the past lingering on his back, his mind was overflowing with contained happiness and a sense of protectiveness towards the mother of his unborn child.

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[a-mag-a-day]

I remember the first time listening to this episode and being right there with Jon going: "wait, why did the breaking of the table free the monster," for like a hot moment there. Also, in Jon's defence, what else was he supposed to to with the table he knew was linked to the spooky thing that was pretending to be Sasha? Just ignore it and Rambo Not!Sasha with the ax? Neither scenario was great and the poor man felt he needed to do something about it. There was no promise that he'd even be able to hurt the thing while it was still bound to the table, and he definitely wasn't able to hurt it once it was unbound (other than S5).

Gosh this episode is so good, and it sets up so much for both the immediate pay off in 79&80 plus the later relationship destruction between him and Tim in S3. Like, if Jon hadn't tried to make sure they weren't in the Archives that night, they wouldn't have gone back to try and figure out if he had finally snapped. I feel like I'm watching a Greek tragedy where every choice the main character makes is always twisted against them, and nothing they do will save them from their Fate. Living in a horror movie? Can't save yourself or your friends because the horror movie trope of destroying the evil by destroying their talisman is actually Pandora's Box trope! Want to send your friends away from the horrors so they don't get involved? Too bad! You've been too paranoid and suddenly acting shifty to get them to safety means you're probably about to murder Sasha or Elias and they would really rather you didn't! Want to save your friend from being consumed by the Horrors:tm:? Too bad, she was consumed months ago and you've been chumming it up with the monster that desecrated her corpse!

On the plus side, we got some great one liners that I wish were more applicable in everyday life, because there's just such memeability to the line, "It is remarkably easy to buy an ax in central London". Makes one wonder if Jonny himself went out to central London to see how easy it would be for his character to find an ax there.

Jonny doing some hands on research 👌

Honestly I feel for Jon so much because there's absolutely no winning in this situation and deep down he knows it :'(