#palutena's angel (pit)

[sunsetbridge555]

did u guys know i love kid icarus uprising

[pollyannawog]

Had a funny conversation w/ friends and had to turn it into this

[muses-of-the-memory]

New Muses

Everyone, I have now added new muses into my multimuse blog. These are the characters below.

Pit

Palutena

Phosphora

Treena

The Mystery Inc. Gang: Fred Jones, Daphne Blake, Velma Dinkley, Norville "Shaggy" Rogers and Scooby-Dooby Doo!

If you'd like a starter for either of these characters, leave a like or a reply to which you want to RP with.

[maburito]

Ooh spooky, nice.

[somethings-diner]

Oh my Palutena- Pit did you just purr?? Can Dark Pit do that too?

N-NO! I DIDN'T!

[sepublic]

Everyone jokes that Pit is the unpaid intern who depends on tips to survive, but in a way, Palutena is also that amidst the godly pantheon; So it's fitting her personal champion reflects those same frustrations. Because if you think about it, Palutena is the only god actually trying to do her job in maintaining the celestial balance and helping humanity, and without really asking for anything?

You have Medusa, Pandora, Thanatos, Hades, and Pyrrhon, whom are all self-explanatory. You have Dyntos, who is neutral and does lean towards the greater good every now and then; But his general inaction is still enabling, and Palutena is scared of him for a reason.

We have Poseidon, who actually DOES help Palutena, but also admitted to wiping out a bunch of humans casually, and otherwise doesn't do anything else to participate. And while Viridi does try to maintain the balance of nature, she also massacred countless humans and contributed to the chaos that attracted the Aurum. And humans are a part of nature themselves, too!!!

And it's interesting because Palutena doesn't seem to demand anything in return; It seems she really is doing this out of the goodness of her heart, more or less. She does have her issues and occasional petty condescension towards humans, but otherwise Palutena's the only member of the pantheon committed to keeping things together. And while humans do sometimes praise and worship Palutena, it seems that she'd help them anyway even if she didn't; She calls Magnus a jerk but that's really it.

That ties into how sometimes, Palutena does admit that she feels pressured and overwhelmed with her duty, and the way she thanks Pit for insisting she does a great job in Chapter 4 kinda feels like... Well, maybe she's fishing for compliments sometimes, because Palutena could genuinely use the validation and it's lonely. This is also why she admits she's honored that Hades knows who Palutena is, because Hades is presumably a big deal in the pantheon, and I think Palutena craves validation, as much as she wants to be pure and selfless about her work; She does genuinely care too, these two things aren't mutually exclusive.

There's the Chaos Kin arc, and while Palutena's possibly just saying she's sick of doing the dirty work for humanity because the Chaos Kin makes her... There could be a hint of truth, just how Dark Pit reflects the truth in Pit's heart; Again, parallels between Goddess and Angel. She admits she's tired of constantly having to protect and take care of the humans, which is like Pittoo being frustrated with doing Palutena's dirty work.

Which then gets me to another point; Pit being a reflection of Palutena's light, because I can kinda see her venting her frustration through him? If Palutena feels beleaguered as the only goddess protecting humanity and the world in general, then she might really appreciate having a devoted angel with infinite energy, who will jump to any task for her. Which makes Pit a way for Palutena to treat herself, let someone help her handle the load, etc.

But there is a darker side, with how Palutena will sometimes demean Pit, even appealing to Viridi and Hades in Chapter 15 this way; It kinda reminds me of people who are bullied, only to turn the bullying towards someone else and participating in that so they can be part of the in-group, not be laughed at themselves, etc. Plus her shutting down Pit's disagreement with "Are you the goddess here?" Especially since she might feel that she deserves more respect for her work, and isn't always given that by those 'below' her (AKA humans, usually). It feels good to at least take pride in what Palutena DOES have, right?

And that's Palutena dropping her filter around her own 'Palutena' because admittedly, Pit is in a subordinate position to her. And I guess it feels good, deep down, to be the one letting someone else handle the work, and exercising that power over them because Pit is someone Palutena can get away with being unpleasant around. Part of that is trust, because Palutena feels comfortable being herself, expressing her own insecurities and true feelings.

But the other part is expression frustration at someone who won't talk back, who Palutena doesn't have to worry about holding up an image towards; With other gods it's obvious, and to humans, she has to be their perfect, noble paragon of virtue. In the end, it reminds me of how some people tired with their jobs might take it out on their assistants, or others who are below them, to feel like they're the ones in control and who are being asked for recognition from.

That ironically leads to Pit's own latent frustrations with Palutena, which is furthered by him being unable to fly on his own. And that manifests as Dark Pit. And then Palutena's frustrations manifest through the Chaos Kin's manipulation of her. Imagine if Pseudo-Palutena returned in a sequel to genuinely be the Pittoo to Palutena's Pit, lol. Although her dialogue paints her as more of a mad religious fanatic than someone secretly tired of that work.

In the end, I wonder how much of this has to do with Medusa's betrayal; In the original NES manual, it's mentioned that Palutena and Medusa both ruled together, they're two sides of the same coin, Light and Darkness. But when Medusa neglected her own duties to attack humanity, that forced Palutena to exile her into the Underworld, which basically left her working double, perhaps. Again, like how Pit has to often do all of the work, despite there being centurions who can come back from the dead like he does.

In Pit's case, this comes from a fierce loyalty and protective attitude towards those he cares about; He's a good friend always there for others who wouldn't dare to ask anything of them, but that wears him out ragged. In the case of Palutena, she had to lose that option entirely when Medusa went on a rampage; But shortly afterwards, Pit rescued her and became Palutena's champion.

So Pit has a lot of work dumped on him, and maybe that's because he's essentially taking over Medusa's duties in being someone who works directly alongside Palutena to maintain balance. That could make him a fun parallel to Medusa in a way. And maybe Pit is aware of this, adding to his refusal to ever question or betray the Goddess of Light, because he knows she's already been hurt and is also doing more work than she's supposed to. His loyalty comes out of empathy and compassion towards someone he can tell really needs it.

But that selflessness can be self-destructive, because Pit will forget to consider what he's getting in return, and that gives us Pittoo, whose selfishness is framed as not inherently bad, and even good for him. But Palutena does care for Pit in return, in big and little ways, such as preparing a cold drink for him after Chapter 10. She cares a lot for Pit too, she'll cook a delicious vegetable stew for him!

You know if Medusa returns in a sequel, I'd like to know more about her and Palutena's falling-out, if there was actually anything more to it than just "Medusa looks down on humanity." After the Chaos arc, I could see her insinuating to Pit that Palutena will betray him for real, just as she did her... Only for Pit to redo that same speech about how Medusa is an unprompted murderer of helpless innocents, ya dingus.

TL;DR Palutena is the only goddess doing her job and it's exhausting and she takes it out on her secretary who is also in the exact same position, ironically.

[lorekeeper-backset]

Kid Icarus if you only play Smash: Haha, look at the funny angel guy. Man, Palutena sure is sexy. Dark Pit is so lame he's just a clone of Pit. I don't have Carpel Tunnel Syndrome.

Kid Icarus if you played Uprising: Philisophical and moral examination into gods who care only for themselves and don't care who they drag into their petty conflicts, questions on whether humanity is inherently cruel and warlike, questions on whether the violence you engage in is right, Pit, Dark Pit, and Palutena are all interesting characters with a lot of depth, Dark Pit is more than just an edgy evil doppleganger (he's not even evil and it really bothers me whenever people include him among the villains in fan comics), extremely clever writing and witty humor, gameplay that literally physically hurts but is totally worth it.

[lunardream908]

what are your thoughts on Pit and Dark Pit as characters? I love your blog!

Thank you for the ask! (And the compliment c:) I've always really liked Pit and Pittoo, their dynamic, and their designs.

Pit is just positively exploding with character. He's goofy and silly, determined, a bit dense on occasion, can be fairly sassy, and has some more hidden traits revealed through Dark Pit that I think are perfect.

Dark Pit, of course, is the manifestation of the feelings and thoughts that Pit has deep down and doesn't talk about. Through Dark Pit, we see that Pit also wishes to be more independent. He really enjoys fighting, even if it's odd for an angel. He thinks that some of the gods make some STUPID decisions and are greedy and selfish.

I also really like Pit as a representation of non visible disabilities. This, of course, is through his inability to fly on his own like most angels (and divine beings in general). While he is disabled, he doesn't let it stop him from pursuing his passions and being successful. He never lets it slow him down.

And while Pit has a disability aid in the power of flight, it isn't a perfect solution that never fails him. It's REALISTIC. Many characters in media with disabilities will get a device to help with their disability and suddenly, they never have issues again, which simply isn't true.

The power of flight is limited on how long he can use it. He can't activate it on his own, and it can be influenced by other gods who aren't even the ones who activated it. And, of course, if he pushes it, he will hurt himself.

The way that other characters act towards his disability is also fairly accurate. Such as with Lady Palutena, as his mother figure she does lightly tease him about it, which is accurate. ("His wings just don't work right." And brushing off his wish to fly by himself.) But overall, she still wishes the best for him, going to great lengths to keep him safe.

As someone with a non visible disability (I have a type of night blindness, making it significantly harder for me to see in dark areas), I really appreciate the representation that Pit brings. Especially since he remains super capable and isn't often thought of as inferior because of his disability. Of course, when he is thought of as less than, he quickly proves himself as a menace.

Anyways, this ended up longer than I thought, and a lot more about Pit than Dark Pit, so double oops 😓 thanks for reading if you did!

[pennysprospect]

Penny here. That one “song” by the Narcissist cookbook inspired this one tbh. more of the pit sniper au. the snipiter. idk.

I’m still trying to figure out how he’d save palutena from Medusa in the first game, but I’ll get to it somehow and sometime. I heart this idea so I’m hoping I don’t hop of off kid Icarus anytime soon LOLLL but I think in this version he’d just be a sniper for palutenas original guard and due to his position he had survived whatever happened to the other angels… so when he’s the only one left he has to try and get every enemy from a distance. think playing any shooter game as a sniper except you are in close combat and you just start going crazy. also this is before his hands burnt or whatever I have planned.

here’s a meme about how he’d beat the damn game

[hervygervy]

So Kid Icarus Uprising has been out for 10+ years and yet we're still reusing the same two jokes, huh... Well, recycling is a beautiful thing so why don't we talk about them today!

You guys know 'em, right? Of course you do! "Floor ice cream gives you health!" "I never learned how to read!" Ha! What knee-slappers. Now what if I told y'all that those lines were actually creative deviations from the localization team?

Let's go in order. First is the floor ice cream bit, which occurs in chapter 16 right after a hot spring:

That was probably the millionth time you had to listen to that conversation, so I hope you can forgive me. But hey, now you get to hear the Japanese version:

The punchline is entirely different. Here's how I'd translate it:

Palutena: There's a Float Ring.

Viridi: I wonder if this is also an Aurum copy.

Pit: Whether it's a hot spring or a vehicle, I'll use whatever I can! This is what it is to be an angel! This is the angel's way of life!!

Viridi: What are you getting all psyched for? Palutena, are you giving him enough pocket money?

Palutena: Ah, that's... I haven't thought about that.

Pit: I'm not crying or anything, I'm not!

Aww. Poor Pit doesn't get any allowance. That's to be expected, I think.

A couple notes: the "Float Ring" is just the Japanese name for the Aether Ring, although you probably figured that out. All the vehicles have different names, actually. The Exo Tank is called the Beetle, the Cherubot is called the Gigas, the Lightning Chariot is called the Chariot of Light, and the Great Sacred Treasure is called the True Three Sacred Treasures. So on and so forth.

Additionally, something I personally find interesting is Viridi's word choice in one of her lines. Japanese is a very grammatically complex language, and one of these complexities comes in the form of talking about giving and receiving. There are a bunch of words for "to give" that are used depending on the giver and receiver's social status. As an English speaker, it's a real headache. I guess this is what you call pragmatics. When talking about giving allowance to Pit, Viridi uses やっておる (yatteoru) which is a progressive form of やる (yaru). やる can mean a billion different things, but in this context, it means "to give." And this is the kind of "give" you say when talking about giving something to a dog or plant or the like. Make of that what you will!

Wow, I really got sidetracked. Anyway, I can't say I know the logic behind this change, because both versions evidently have the intention of being funny. But lately I've been coming to the conclusion that the English version tries to make an effort to be more blatantly funny for lack of a better word. Like, instances where there is no joke in the Japanese version will see a joke inserted in the English version, or in cases like these, they try to ham up the funny factor. The localizers pretty much had free reign over the English script per Sakurai's blessing, so I suppose such random changes are an inevitability. In future posts, I'll talk about plot changes and characterization differences so please stay tuned for those! Back to the topic at hand, personally I'd say I prefer the Japanese version of this conversation, it's funny and cute.

Moving on! Reading. You're doing it right now. Thank you for that, by the way. But poor Pit, he never learned how to read. We learn this near the end of the flight segment of chapter 17:

People seem to be really fixated on what was honestly meant to just be a totally unserious and funny line. Like there's a whole lotta fanart out there depicting Pit learning to read or whole essays on literacy headcanons. But who am I to talk, I'm also someone who would take all of this game's lines at face value.

And now, the Japanese:

And my translation:

Pit: M-my wings are getting hot!

Palutena: It's no good! We're already at the flight limit! I'll cut the miracle of flight!

Pit: Wahh!

Palutena: Pit! Pit!!

Pit: Mayday! Mayday!! All systems down! It's already come to this! Before I die, I wanted to eat until I was full!

Viridi: Is this the time to be saying such corny things? You should ride this!

Pit: N-Nachure!

Viridi: Carefully line yourself up with the floating island. If you land poorly, you understand what'll happen, right?!

Oh, right, Viridi is called Nachure in the Japanese version. As in "nature." Surprised that never came up until now. But yeah! As you can see, the Japanese version uses a more clichéd punchline. Something you'd expect in a shounen anime. Again, the localizers had free reign and they simply changed the line to be something funnier. I have to say, I think the English version wins. There is no better punchline than illiteracy. It's a terribly overdone joke at this point, but maybe for good reason. It got added into Super Smash Bros Ultimate, after all. Did you know Antony Del Rio had to rerecord that line just for that game? They didn't just reuse it!

...I can make this post longer, if you want. We can like, really dive into this literacy thing if you want. There are a couple more conversations to pick apart, in that case. Just take a gander below the cutoff if that's your fancy.

Alright, so there's this part in chapter 5 where you have to jump across a bunch of rotating floating platforms, right? One of these rings of platforms is fashioned into letters spelling "Pandora," if you remember.

A thoroughly enlightening spelling lesson. The way this conversation plays out implies that Pit couldn't read the platforms. It makes me wonder if the English script writers already had the "never learned how to read" joke locked in, thus making it a genuine piece of characterization the writers were going for, or if this is purely a coincidence and it just so happens to work out perfectly.

To be honest, this conversation is a little less interesting than I hoped it to be. I'll translate:

Palutena: Those yellow floors ahead look like letters, don't they?

Pit: Let's see...

Palutena: PA-N-DO-O-RA... is this place some kind of self-introduction?

Pit: How embarrassing.

Pandora: Hmph. What, can't manage it? This taste.

Palutena: Yeah. It's impossible. In every sense.

First of all, I like how the English version calls the platforms orange rather than yellow. Yeah girl... those are indeed orange. Second, when Palutena is spelling out the platforms, she spells it out as if it were written in Japanese. The game's subtitles use Roman letters to transcribe her spelling, but it has furigana above it for a Japanese reading. Here, I'll show you and hope Tumblr doesn't ruin the compression:

Quick Japanese lesson, writing is split into three scripts: hiragana, katakana, and kanji. Hiragana is like the foundation of it all and each character represents a single syllable of sound. Every hiragana has a katakana equivalent, and their purpose is just to transcribe foreign words into the Japanese sound system. Kanji are more logographic, considering they're derived from Chinese characters. They make up most of the "content" of the language while hiragana makes up the "function." Every kanji can be converted back to hiragana, since that's how all the sounds are written, but since there are no spaces in Japanese, it'd be a mighty pain to read if everything was hiragana. And Japanese is already hard to read. All of that word salad just to tell you that "furigana" are hiragana or katakana characters written above kanji or other characters to indicate how to read them.

Now, the Roman letters can actually be written out in katakana. Spelling "Pandora" would look like ピー・エー・エヌ・ディー・オー・アール・エー (pii, ee, enu, dii, oo, aaru, ee). But instead Palutena pronounces it and spells it out in a Japanese way, which seems odd to me. Am I making sense?

All in all, it's pretty obvious the Japanese version doesn't really contain any of the implications the English version potentially has.

There's one more conversation I want to take a look at. It's one of those elusive random conversations:

That's right, we're starting with Japanese first this time! This one's gonna be interesting to translate:

Pit: There are various gods around the world, huh?

Palutena: That's right.

Pit: Does each god come with their own respective angel, I wonder?

Palutena: No, that's not necessarily the case.

Viridi: "Angel" is written from "heaven uses," you know.

Pit: What? Isn't it "heavenly messenger?"

Viridi: I pity you. Don't you even understand that it means you're just being pushed around?

Pit: Lady Palutena, please say something!

Palutena: ...huh?

Pit: Hey, wait, Lady Palutena!

Mmm that probably didn't make much sense. Alright, so the Japanese word for "angel" is 天使 (tenshi) which is made up of 天, meaning "heaven," and 使, which means "use." So, literally "heaven's tool." I'm going to come to the conclusion that the Japanese seem to understand what an angel is better than the average westerner. Anyway, Viridi's making the argument that the word is derived from 天が使う (ten ga tsukau) which would mean "heaven uses." Pit protests that the word comes from 天の使い (ten no tsukai) which is also just... another way to say "angel." It literally means "heaven's messenger." A Japanese dictionary will define "angel" as "a messenger from God" so Pit's probably more correct here. As you probably gathered, 使 was read differently depending on how it was used. This is par for the course for kanji. Since kanji are derived from Chinese characters, and Chinese as a language has changed over time (as languages do) and different regions of China have different ways of saying things (dialects and all that), Japanese naturally picked up on all these different pronunciations. Thus, any one kanji could have a dozen different readings.

So what does this all mean? It means we've got a case for literacy, ladies and gents. You'd have to be able to read at least a little bit to understand that "shi" and "tsuka" are derived from the same morpheme.

The Japanese version of the Pandora convo doesn't really tell us anything, so to tally it up, we're at two points for illiteracy and one point for literacy. I have one more trick up my sleeve... but we're going to have to venture outside of Kid Icarus Uprising.

In Super Smash Bros for Wii U and Super Smash Bros Ultimate, if you play as Pit on the Palutena's Temple stage, mashing down taunt will trigger a special conversation between some of the Kid Icarus Uprising cast. It's like an evolution of Snake's codec calls from Brawl. Anyway, I want to direct your attention to this part of Villager's conversation. I don't have any audio so I hope some screenshots will do:

"By the way, that name has an interesting secret."

"Oh oh! What is it?"

"The truth is, this is the first name in Smash to use hiragana!"

"W-what! I didn't realize!"

I dunno, this has gotta indicate some literacy, right? Gotta have some conception of hiragana for this to mean anything, right? Can we get half a point for team literacy at least?

...I guess we really didn't get anywhere in the end. Is Pit literate? Up to you, I suppose. What a thrilling conclusion. Let's close this off with the English version of the above convo because I like it lots. It's got a stupidly rare random chance of occurring in like, chapter 11 exclusively so perhaps you haven't even heard it.

Probably one of my favorite interactions in the game. "Errand spirit." Chef's kiss. Perfect. Sublime. Perhaps westerners understand angels after all. Secretary Pit is also awesome.

The English version evidently takes the angle of playing with the definition of the word, rather than the etymology. This is fair enough because the average English speaker probably knows jack about the etymology of "angel." Oh, and the type of joke the Japanese version wishes to convey wouldn't really work in English. For fun, "angel" comes from Greek "angelos" which means "messenger." ...I guess we've come full circle.

This post has gone on for way too long. This cutoff part is probably longer than the main point of this post. Maybe I'm the one who needs a coffee.

[l4v3nd3rv01d]

☆ More of me talking in circles !!

I feel like I know why Dark Pit hates the name Palutena and Pit gave him. (Besides the fact it's just a stupid fucking name)

"Pittoo" or "Pit two" is the name Palutena gave Dark Pit as her and Pit were hunting him down shortly after he fled with Pandoras powers.

He's a copy of Pit so of course it makes sense to call him "Pit Two"

But that's just the thing, he doesn't want to be seen as just a copy of Pit. He's his own person, he has his own thoughts and feelings about the world around him and he is very vocal about them. He wastes no time pointing out the many differences between him and Pit.

Sure he calls himself "Dark Pit" which seems like it still acknowledges that he is just a copy of Pit but in reality it's what sets him apart from Pit.

"Dark Pit"

Yes, he is a reflection of the idiotic angel, but not a carbon copy. He isn't just a second Pit. He's got drastically different opinions and thoughts and a whole different personality. Hell, even when you look at the two for more than a second you can notice the differences in their appearances outside of just color.

But he is still a reflection so he will always be seen in some capacity as a copy of Pit. Adding "Dark" to his name is what sets him apart from Pit, what gives him a sense of his own identity.

"I'm not just a copy of you, I'm still my own person" type of feelings. So then when Pit and Palutena continue to call him "Pittoo" it's like they are erasing or ignoring what little bit of self identity he has. Even when they become allies they still don't acknowledge that he hates the stupid nickname and continue to call him by it despite his many attempts to get them to stop. They don't see him as his own person they just see him as what he was first introduced as. At the end of the day he is still just a dark copy of Pit to them.

I don't think Pit or Palutena do it to intentionally harm him but part of them will just forever think of him that way. He's a copy of Pit, a second Pit, it's fitting to call him as such, yk? They treat it like a joke. It's just a silly nickname to them. They legit cannot properly see how much it actually upsets Dark Pit besides "Oh hes just annoyed cuz it's a silly sounding nickname."

And that is part of what goes on to fuel Dark Pits distaste for the two. They don't take him seriously and won't acknowledge him as an actual person.

[canadianlucifer]

Tokyo Ghoul characters and who they main in Smash Bros.

Kaneki: the classic sword boy, Marth

Touka: kicks absolute ass with Kirby

Hide: Pirahna Plant ofc, and he destroys everyone

Nishiki: Sonic has what he wishes he had (speed)

Kimi: you just KNOW she's destroying people with Zero Suit Samus. STEM girlies ✨

Koma: he gives me Falco vibes tbh (and would probably do the "hands off my -kah!" taunt)

Irimi: she really likes Daisy's vibes

Hinami: she's played Toon Link ever since she played Phantom Hourglass

Yomo: R.O.B.

Yoshimura: Mario, the classic old man choice

Tsukiyama: Palutena because he likes how she looks purely from an aesthetic standpoint and is appalled by how the public treats her

Uta: there isn't a doubt in my mind Uta would play Ridley.

Ayato: Dark Pit. He looked through the roster to find the edgiest character he could find and settled on the dark angry fallen angel with red eyes.

Naki: Donkey Kong 100%

Tatara: he locked eyes with Lucario once and never changed it.

Eto: she feels like a Bowser main to me

Arima: Peach vibes

Amon: Wii Fit Trainer. He doesn't even really know how to play, but likes her vibes

Akira: Sheik, and you don't even realize you lost until the results screen

Takizawa: Snake for absolutely no reason in particular. (and yes, he was disappointed when ultimate changed his "no reason")

Houji: Ganondorf, and he pretends his sword is Chi Shi

Juuzou: Ice Climbers.

[zoey-withay]

I made a post a few days ago about how beautiful Viridi's solo menu music is in Kid Icarus Uprising and I got this reblog saying how important this change of pace in the music is to the story and I want to yap more about the music in this game (so forgive me I'm about to set the music student in me loose)

One of the things I absolutely love about Uprising's soundtrack is the fact that each character is represented by an instrument and musical motif (a motif is a musical idea/little melody played in a bigger piece of music, usually to represent or symbolise something)

For example, Pit is represented by these bright and happy pianos that play his little theme song from the NES game which symbolise his bright and happy nature but also his determination to save the world from the Underworld Army, Aurum, Chaos Kin, etc. Palutena is represented by these soft - almost angelic strings and flutes, which is pretty fitting for the goddess of light. Dark Pit famously has acoustic guitars that, in the words of Masahiro Sakurai himself, have a Spanish flavour to them that give an old western movie vibe to them, which perfectly fits with his character (pre-character development) of fighting Pit and wanting to have an identity outside of being his copy (like if they were cowboys, the joke would be "this Skyworld ain't big enough for the two of us Pits") And Hades has these big deep percussions mixed perfectly with a chorus of vocals, which symbolise the souls of the Underworld.

But it's Viridi that I mainly want to talk about. When you think of the goddess of nature, outside of the Kid Icarus lore, what do you think of? Probably a quite regal and tranquil person, with music to match. Not a psychotic eight-year-old looking goddess whose dropping nukes every twelve minutes. And her music perfectly matches that about her character.

When we're introduced to Viridi in Chapter 11 Viridi, Goddess of Nature, she is represented musically by a chorus of strings, playing long legato (smooth) notes that crescendo (gradually get louder) over time, along with soft percussion of what I believe is a snare drum and a glockenspiel (which is like a metal xylophone and can be heard around the 1:30 mark).

This music sounds like nature. It has this fairytale-like sound of a magical forest, which fits perfectly with the land battle being set in The Reset Bomb Forest. It perfectly fits with what we perceive nature to sound like. If nature had a theme song, it would be this. But that changes in the next chapter with Wrath of the Reset Bomb.

We still hear that same motif in the melody, but it is played a lot harsher and louder, with more staccato (detached notes) which gives it a more chaotic and angry sound, which reflects Viridi's character in this chapter. Though she was still dropping the reset bombs in the previous chapter, she explained to Pit and Palutena why she was doing it. She wasn't fully angry yet, and that is reflected in the music. But now she's annoyed at Pit and Palutena trying to stop her plan, so the music gets more angry, louder. The percussion now has an army-like march to it, since she's commanding her troops. And this more chaotic sound persists during the Forces of Nature arc, and especially in Chapter 18 The Ring of Chaos, when Viridi picks up Pit and explains what's going on. Fittingly, the theme gets even more chaotic now that we're in the Chaos arc, but this is one of the last times that we hear this angry and irrational motif.

After Pit sees the destroyed Skyworld, Viridi takes him back to her temple, where we hear her solo menu music. And though we never see a scene take place with this music (other than Viridi explaining that she's taking over the menu) this piece of music tells us so much about Pit, Viridi and the story thus far.

It is a gentle melody, played on soft strings, harp and piano - giving it a musicbox-like sound. It also has a significantly slower tempo (speed) than any of the other music in this game. And you may have to correct me, but I'm 90% sure it is one of the very very few songs to be played in a minor key. And anyone who isn't too familiar with musical terms, music is typically played in one of two tonalities; major and minor. Major keys typically have a brighter and fuller sound than minor keys, which have a more dull and somber sound. Now that's not to say that all happy songs are major and all sad ones are minor, but nine times out of ten, that is the case. Like with this.

At this point in the story, Pit has learned that for three years his body has been used to kill the people he swore to protect, and that his mother/older sister figure, Palutena, has seemingly changed her ways and become evil (remember that he doesn't know about the Chaos Kin yet) and now he has to mentally and emotionally prepare himself to kill her for the greater good, all the while he has to team up with Viridi, whom he has been fighting with.

This is the moment where everything comes crashing down on Pit. This is the moment where he sees Viridi through his own perspective - not Palutena's. Though he doesn't believe that what she does with the reset bombs is right, he respects her and knows that she's a good and caring person, otherwise she wouldn't help him or give him shelter when he needs it the most, and the music reflects that part of her nature (no pun intended). This is also the moment where he realises that this war between the heavens and hell is real and it's serious. And the music reflects that beautifully.

This is my favourite part of this piece of music. The notes get higher and higher, being held for a while, before the music drops back down to the original melody and key, and it repeats. Those notes that are held as they get higher symbolise that feeling when you cry and you feel like you can't breathe, gasping for breaths. Then as the music returns to the melody, it's like letting out a sob and just letting yourself audibly cry. And though we don't see it in game, I think that small motif beautifully reflects Pit's emotions surrounding everything that has happened. Because at the end of the day, Pit is a child. He is thirteen-years-old and he's coming to the realisation that not only is the weight of the world on his shoulders, but he also may have to kill Palutena - the person who arguably believes in him the most, the person who has given him everything to make him the person he is today - to save the world.

And thinking about that. Thinking about all those thoughts and emotions racing through Pit's head is what makes me cry everytime I hear this music.

Kid Icarus Uprising, for being infamous for it's comedic and 4th-wall-breaking dialogue, really knows how to make an emotional impact in its story. And I think the wonderful team of composers, Motoi Sakuraba, Yuzo Koshiro, Masafumi Takada, Noriyuki Iwadare, Yasunori Mitsuda, and Takahiro Nishi, deserve a lot of credit for bringing those emotional scenes to life and having them impact people forever, me included.

[muses-of-the-memory]

@thepersonaking56 continued from here Jordan, seeing the subspace bomb explosion, he knows something is wrong and uses the jetpack on his back to speed away from it in time. He keeps on the same path as before. "What is going on?"

Meanwhile, in Skyworld... The Temple of Palutena...

Pit watched in shock to see that the Midair Stadium has been engulfed by the Subspace void caused by the Subspace Bomb's explosion from the Reflecting Pool. Then, a voice called to him from behind. "Pit..."

It was Palutena, the Goddess of Light. "Lady Palutena..." Pit then runs over to her and kneels before her. "The Subspace Army's made its move. If we don't stop them, our world will be next... So, I give you this." Palutena said said giving her bow to Pit. "Your bow?" Pit asked.

"Yes, as a gift after the Medusa incident... You also have the Mirror Shield for defense. But don't forget, you can't fly..." Palutena said lowering Pit's spirit. "However! You have the Wings of Icarus that can allow you fly for a short while, as well as my Power of Flight... There's someone else that has entered Skyworld. Two somebodies actually. Now, hurry Pit. And save our world." Palutena said sending Pit to save their world, and he nods leavings as the door opens. Pit then falls backwards and descends and glides down to a lower level of clouds.

Happy 17th Anniversary, Super Smash Bros. Brawl (Open RP)

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[peach-s0up]

cant believe ive been a fan of kid icarus since i was 13 and i havent drawn a single pit or palutena

here are my lil redesigns of them, made palutena look more roman god she is so beautful to me i cant describe it

and pit my angel bby......my son......my beautfl child.........

[holograms-in-the-night]

When I started to draw the KI characters years ago I used to love to draw these patterns on Palutena and the angel boys clothes

But now?.... I just feel like this when drawing them:

Not only they are hard to replicate consistently but also I feel like in case of Palutena and Pit, the red kinda breaks the beautiful white color.

And it seems that Toshio Noguchi (artist of Uprising) thinks the same, since he doesn't add the patterns neither:

And it my opinion it looks much more better :)