#udad oedipus

[cryptile]

@thesteamhunk commissioned me to draw his lovely Oedipus design! And here he is: the guy💜

(my commissions are open btw, ill make a price sheet at some point lol)

[shitty-mechs-headcannons]

If we're bringing up old jokes can we bring back the villains+Galahad and Oedipus polycule? I still thing Cole/Galahad/Odin/Oedipus is a really fucking funny ship. Also why did we used to say villains and Galahad. Oedipus wasn't a villain in hnoc

oh huh that's true isn't it? A true villain polycule would be King Cole, Odin, Ashes, and.... The sun I guess, or the concept of racism? I don't think Gawain counts as the *villain* of hnoc. I don't think it has a real villain.

That aside. In the original thing. It would be funny for Galahad to just. Found Family these guys and then help them be better people and then they fall in love with him and he falls for them even tho his FAITH and it would be cute idk! Kinda silly! (Btw for new folks I think this was a joke like. In 2021? I think smooth mickey and one eyed jack were also involved tho)

-mod Wil

[jonsmissingribs]

It's like-

Oedipus started out trying to save and help the community he grew up in, only for the scandal orchestrated by the community he was born to turn the community he was raised in against him

Heracles wanted to help his family, his father and his children, only for his father to kill slaughter his children and blame it on him

Orpheus loved and was loved for his songs so much only for all of it to leave him when his true love and muse died and he couldnt handle it

Ariadne wanted to help herself and to escape the crimes of her parents only for it to further damn her when Theseus used her help and then rejected her

Ulysses was so worn down by the guilt of their crimes, of how they destroyed Illuim by turning all of them against each other and then Daedulus does the same thing to the Suits. They saw this and just killed everyone including themselves

[melted-mercury]

i am doing badly at memorising the lyrics to Loki because every time i tell my brain i need to hear it i just get Riddle Of The Sphinx instead

[reegis]

At least, that’s the word on the street from those what saw what went down at Calypso’s…

[aiiidoneus]

NO OEDIPUS WATCH OUT !! YOURE NOT AN ORPHAN AND YOU SHOULDNT MARRY THAT WOMAN OHHH MY GOD HE HAS AIRPODS IN HE CANT HEAR ME OHH MY GOD WATCH OUT OEDIPUS !!!!

[saym0-0]

oedipus. because i havent seen this picture before and its neat

[sinag789tala]

four of the meanest bastards of the meanest streets of the meanest parts of the city; all immaculately turned up in pinstripes.

we'll call them the suits.

[glitchervius]

Today I offer you:

Traditional udad sketches

Tomorrow? Who knows.

Look guys, Its him.

The favoured son.

And these creatures.

The soots

[rocksanddeadflowers]

so i've been listening to elysian fields way too much lately and thinking how fucked up that song is for the mechs to perform. like put death to the mechanisms out of your head (bc that basically didn't happen yet with udad) and listen.

they're immortal. they can't die. the song is all about the sweet release of death, and arguably a gentle one at that, cradled in the fields on a world were nature ceases, next to the grave of your deceased beloved. it's a beautiful song, and arguably, ulysses got their happy ending.

the mechanisms don't get that, though. most didn't even get the option of keeping mortality. they're stuck on the mortal plane, in flesh and metal, with no escape or release within reach.

their finale performance of this album is the bittersweet comfort of mortality and endings, something they're well aware they will never be granted.

[aroace-and-has-a-mace]

the “this barbie is ___” meme template but it’s one for each suit and they read:

this barbie will service to his family as the favored son

this barbie thought himself an orphan

this barbie’s family will rise again

this barbie never should have placed his trust in the city

[thelambthatkilledthewolf]

Oh my fucking god of course Tim would play the guy with the weird eyes

[shitty-mechs-headcannons]

Ashes set up Oedipus and his wife/mom after he solved the Sphinx disease thing. They knew who Oedipus was and who his mom was, they thought it was hilarious

yeah that sounds like something they'd do

- mod fen

[phoebastria-albatrus]

modern UDAD headcanons

•i feel like ulysses works retail and the olympians and suits are just the really weird customers. the vault tree is a shrub in a pot in the break room given to him by penelope

•orpheus performs at goth and punk clubs as a single artist. people give him money because they feel bad.

•bonus narcissus. sometimes he shows up and does interpretive dance to whatever he sings

•heracles does boxing. i dont have much more to say here. maybe he does part time as a renfaire guy because have you been to a renfaire? bro would love being apart of the fake fights

•oedipus is just a normal doctor. he’s probably that guy in fics characters come to when they have been injured. orpheus and heracles are weirdly enough the two most common for him to see. orpheus falls off stage a weird amount of times and heracles literally fights for a living. he absolutely hates everyone.

•ariadne is in school for computer science and programming. she regularly does cybercrime for random good causes (god forbid women do anything)

[jester-creates]

thinking about that Mechanisms persona 5 au again. The one where it's the mechs cast in p5. So I might as well put who I think should go where.

This is also a college au. I guess. It just fits better

The phantom thieves- the Mechanisms. This is obvious why. They choose the Mechanisms as their phantom thieves group name first, but after a certain someone kept basically saying to everyone that they were the Mechanisms in public, they made the band as a cover and now they have to manufacture beef between themselves as the band and themselves as phantom thieves and that the phantom thieves definitely stole their name.

wildcard- Jonny D'ville. He's the narrator of the Mechanisms and one of the first members of the Mechanisms. He's up there for most roles over all the albums, so wildcard. I'm half tempted to make his persona Prince Charming because one, it would tick him off to no end and two, it the role he as himself played in ouatis.

0 fool - I think Yog Sothoth or one of the elder gods would make the best fit for Yaldy. No idea who Igor would be though

1 magician - the Toy Soldier. It is the least organic of the Mechanisms which is in line with Morgana's origins. I'd say it was given instructions to find the wildcard and eventually found itself in the first Palace pretending to be a Shadow or something. Haven't decided on a persona for it yet though

2 high priestess - Ashes O'Reilly. They have mob connections (though a lot different from how Makoto's went). Ashes would slso manage to become the student president at their college. Their persona would probably be Hades

3 emperor - Raphaella la Cognizi. She and Yusuke are both eccentric weirdos (/pos) in their fields. She has probably neglected herself and her finances in her focus on science as well. Haven't decided on a persona for her yet

4 empress - Nastya Rasputina. A princess and an Heir to a food company are basically the same thing right? (I almost had her be the futaba of the group due to Out, but I figured that being the Haru of the group fit her better. Plus she deserves to be the most terrifying member of the group. And also a big weapon.) Haven't decided on a persona for her yet.

5 Hierophant- Dr. Carmilla (unless I find someone better). She is somewhat of a parental figure? I'm not too sure on this one.

6 the lovers - Gunpowder Tim. His whole thing with bertie parallels Ann's thing with Shiho pretty well.

7 chariot - Baron Marius von Raum. He seems like he would be the most like Ryuji. He does do the talking about the phantom thieves out loud thing which results in them having to make the band as a cover.

8 strength- the Aurora. As the most inhuman of the crew, she gets to be Jonny's attendant in the Velvet Room. They do figure out that something is up with the VR and rescue her much earlier than lavenza gets rescued in p5. (Aurora and Nastya are together in this au still)

9 hermit - Ivy Alexandra. She would definitely be a Navi type.

10 fortune - undecided maybe loki?

11 justice - drumbot Brian. He gets to be akechi due to the whole 2 modes thing, so two personas. To keep in line with his mostly robot thing I am going to make him a anti shadow weapon (think aigis from persona 3)

12 Hanged man- the pendragon trio (or at least arthur). the thing with mordred could be a good parallel between iwai and his kid

13 death- Oedipus. tae and oedipus are both doctors who do kinda have a similar storyline. plus the image of oedipus in tae's outfit kills me

14 temperance - undecided. maybe cinders?

15 devil - Ulysses. Ohya and them have a very similar starting point when we meet them. And Ulysses is a gumshoe (a detective) so that would take the place of ohya's investigative journalism.

16 Tower - undecided. Maybe Heracles?

17 star - undecided. Maybe rose red? Maybe Guinevere?

18 moon - undecided. Maybe pilchard? (Though he'd do better as a Palace ruler or the Shadow that leads them to the second palace)

19 sun - snow white. She and Yoshida both are politicians campaigning for peace and better stuff.

20 judgement- Lyfrassir Edda. They and Sae are both long-suffering people in kaw enforcement who have to deal with the Mechanisms/phantom thieves and all their shenanigans.

[reegis]

i need to see more of ur heracles design please,,,,,,

one day…. i will draw more serious art of the suits but until then 🤲🏻