#army of victors

[everythingwasalreadypicked]

I got a very disturbing Pjo idea after watching TBOSAS trailer and since nudging the people in the Ta server wasn't enough for me, I'm putting it out here.

(Very excited for that movie btw)

TW: Dehumanisation, murder, child death, general things you would see in THG

Okay so you know how THG was inspired by the Thesus and the Labyrinth myth?

And you know how the Games were started to punish the Districts for rebelling?

And, and what army was technically a rebellion? That’s right. The Titan army demigods.

So, what if instead of massacring the Ta kids; the gods put them thorough similar games. I mean Hephaestus TV is a thing, they canonically watch demigods as entertainment. Wouldn't be the first time they made them fight for entertainment either. Remember Bachus?

"After all, if they're so willing to raise up arms against their fellow demigodkind killing their friends and fellow comrades shouldn't be that hard, right?" — Zeus (and Kai thanks for the dialogue)

So those who didn’t immediately joined back the camps gets rounded up and imprisoned somewhere before they got thrown into the arena to fight monsters and eachother to death.

All the while the gods are watching their new family entertainment. Hey, it's free :D

Apollo takes it upon himself to do the interviews (like Ceasar) which half of it has to get censored before it reaches Zeus.

"Hecate, your son fucking bit me!"

"Good." — she's not happy about the situation at all.

Of course, they would group the kids and do more than one run: Prolongs their fun and the traitors's suffering.

Not that all of the kids are sent to fight. The Olympians who have children there are more likely to spare their favourite ones and hold it over their heads for the rest of their life. (And leave the ones they don't like to die)

Sponsorships still happen, it's an effective way to break the comradeship. You're more likely to receive one if 1) Your godly parent is an Olympian and/or 2) You’re more willing to put up with whatever the gods throw at you without a fuss.

The current run is broadcasted to the imprisoned demis as a further way to break their spirits, and so they can see their friends kill eachother, sometimes without hesitation.

The winners gets paraded around Mt. Olympus. They're free now that won the gods's bloody bullshit, right? Wrong. Sure they're being "celebrated" for killing their friends but they're nothing more than shiny trophies. Just props for entertainment :)

Of course, with the way things are broadcasted to the other members of army make it seem like one of their own being treated like a celebrity for turning on them, which further drives wedges between the victors and them.

The winners gets to watch their own run, too. They can't turn on Olympus if they're too busy self-loathing :)

The kids are prepped up before their interviews, a courtesy of Aphrodite (so what if some of her own children are there, they should've knew better than treason), but they’re sent to the arena with basic white chitons. The Olympians get nostalgic all right, they’re old. (And it does make the Ta demis feel even more degraded and patronised.)

The Arena itself is really pretty, too pretty for what's happening inside. I'm talking about polished marble Greek columns, giant statues of the gods, intricate carvings of silver and gold.

[It is of course designed by their newest architect. Not that Annabeth knows what it's going to be used for. They petition for "a shiny arena for godly games" and she does it. Not knowing it's going to be used for demigod bloodshed. She can't be imprisoned like her half-brother Daedalus however, they can't have either of the camps know about what's going on. (Those in Ta who knew her recognises her work, however causing them to think the Camp is on it) So, Hera kindly takes it upon herself to wipe the memory. She needed practice for her future exchange program anyway.]

"Why are you protesting that "we're forcing you to kill eachother" Torrington, we aren't the ones who are holding weapons."

[I will reblog with art later]

#someone asks Leo to be thrown in too #After the whole cheating death thing #Asclepius wasn’t supposed to give that cure to anyone #Hephaestus manages to change their minds tho #barely #but he does #This would cause problems for Lester #if they trusted the victors to be out of their sight #(they don't) #It *does* cause problems later tho #when someone suggests they throw Meg and the rest of Nero's stepchildren in for their treason too #Apollo is appalled #Wdym “throw them in” those are manipulated kids #literally kids #the other gods just give him a blank look #Like that stopped them before #[most of the hcs have been diligently yoinked from the server] #pjo #alabaster torrington #the titan army #titan army #titan army discord server #the hunger games #apollo pjo #zeus pjo #aphrodite pjo #hecate pjo #annabeth chase

[black-but-mildly-sunny]

Bro...idk how the current wolverine line is going.

All I see are posts of panels from the different comics BUT I swear if they kill Sabertooth off (like they did my boy Mikhail Rasputin)...I'm gonna be done with X-Men for awhile.

Victor Creed is now everything to me (since other events have transpired) and I would love to see like a genuine redemption arc, OR an arc where he tries to do good cause he has too because he doesn't want to be locked in a hole somewhere again.

Imagine Sabertooth, on a figurative and possibly literal leash, having to assist X-Force because it's that or death/a hole somewhere. He's useful and a great character. It'd drink up that storyline line like it was water!!

#victor creed #mikhail rasputin #wolverine #soft redemption arc #he's a good boy #ish-goodish boy #he made an effort once before #e #i think hes just lonely #why else would he spend so much time on making an army of himself #somebody hug him #sabertooth x men

[stormiebreaks]

Continuing the Friday the 13th goodies, I decided to try my hand at recreating one of my favorite indy comics, Freddy vs. Jason vs. Ash. The official sequel to Freddy vs. Jason sees the slashers going up against the wiseass from the Evil Dead series and doing an amazing job of it.

Using another of the Jason Voorhees minis from the Freddy vs. Jason Horrorclix set along with one of the Freddy Krueger figures and my custom Ash Williams, I managed to take what might be one of my best shots to date.

Someday soon, I’m going to have to start making more dioramas to shoot my minis of because this? This shot really made me happy!

#Jason Voorhees #Freddy Krueger #Ash Williams #Friday the 13th #A Nightmare on Elm Street #Evil Dead #Army of Darkness #Victor Miller #Sean S. Cunningham #Wes Craven #Sam Raimi #Bruce Campbell #horror #horror movies #horror games #miniature #tabletop rpg #fanart #TTRPG #tabletop #Horrorclix #Heroclix

[gotham-at-nightfall]

Sabretooth unleashes his vengeance, but Wolverine ain't dead yet!

Wolverine #42

#sabretooth war #wolverine #logan howlett #sabretooth #victor creed #sabretooth army #x-force #laura kinney #domino #sage #black tom cassidy #colossus #alpha flight #northstar #aurora #marvel comics #marvel spoilers #matt reads a thing #i posted this #tw gore

[dg3zero]

#video game #game aesthetic #horror game #devil summoner raidou kuzunoha #raidou kuzunoha vs the soulles army #raidou kuzunoha #japanese games #dr victor #megami tensei

[presleybutlervsp]

March 10, 1959

RCA Records releases Elvis Presley’s single “I Need Your Love Tonight”/”A Fool Such as I,” 1 million copies are pressed and sent out to stores. A gold record is sent to Presley, who is stationed in Germany.

I Need Your Love Tonight“reached number four on the Billboard pop singles chart in 1959. Released as a double A-side with “A Fool Such as I“, that song reached No. 1 in the UK Singles Chart and #2 in the USA pop and sixteen on the R&B charts.

#elvisaaronpresley #elvispresley #elvis #graceland #elvis history #elvishistory #tcb #elvis fans #elvis presley #elvis the pelvis #army elvis #elvis music #elvis the king #50s elvis #rca #rca records #rca victor

[blackswaneuroparedux]

Ney, éperdu, grand de toute la hauteur de la mort acceptée, s'offrait à tous les coups dans cette tourmente. Il eut son cinquième cheval tué sous lui. En sueur, la flamme aux yeux, l'écume aux lèvres, l'uniforme déboutonné, une de ses épaulettes à demi coupée par le coup de sabre d'un horse-guard, sa plaque de grand-aigle bosselée par une balle, sanglant, fangeux, magnifique, une épée cassée à la main, il disait : « Venez voir comment meurt un maréchal de France sur un champ de bataille ! » Mais en vain ; il ne mourut pas.**

Victor Hugo

I've always had a soft spot for Marshal Ney. Napoleon had said: "He is as weak as he is brave and his excessive ambition gives him a hold. Ney is the bravest of men." And so he was.

It was at the battle of Waterloo, roughly at 4pm, Marshal Ney noticed quite the sight. Ahead of him, Wellington's centre appeared to be folding and looked like the beginning of an organised retreat. Aware that the British were not decisively defeated, he rallied a cavalry force of roughly 9,000 and prepared a charge to cut down the fleeing British.

Why cavalry alone? After all, this was a Marshal who served under an Emperor who heavily advocated for cavalry to be used alongside infantry and artillery, and never alone. Wanting to take advantage of an opportunity, Ney needed to act quickly. The reality of the situation was most of Napoleon's infantry was already committed in other areas of the battle, and so Ney hoped to break Wellington's centre with cavalry alone.

British infantry were made quickly aware of the masses of cavalry forming along the French lines and retired behind the crest of the hill where they formed into square formations. So as not to repeat the failures of the French gunners, British gunners were ordered to take shelter in the squares and take their positions again once the charge faded away.

The square formation was deadly, though not impenetrable. A concentrated cavalry attack had the potential to break through the 'walls' of the square, but as one would expect such a feat is difficult. The British squares were thus arranged in such a fashion that neighboring squares could support one another, creating 'corridors of death' by forcing French cavalry down and around the sides of the square so as to retain their momentum.

Captain Rees Gronow of the British Foot Guards commented on the charge that it was 'n overwhelming, long moving line, which, ever advancing, glittered like a stormy wave of the sea when it catches the sunlight … one might suppose that nothing could have resisted the shock of this terrible moving mass.'

Without support, Ney's initial charges were unsuccessful. His attacks were repeatedly repelled both by the steadfastness of the British squares and the successful counter charges by British and Dutch cavalry, and what remained of the Household Cavalry.

Napoleon, witnessing the disaster, commented that the charge happened an hour too early.

Among the generals who covered themselves in glory during the Revolution and the First Empire, there is none whose male and heroic figure inspires more sympathy than that of Marshal Ney. But he didn’t achieve the glory he wanted that day at Waterloo. For that he did pay the ultimate price.

For Marshal Ney's life was intimately linked to the political and military events of France, from the end of the Ancien Régime to the Restoration. It was he the king sent to stop Napoleon when he escaped Elba and landed back on French soil. Loyal though he was to France itself he was was unable to cope with the political upheavals of the Hundred Days. Faced with the difficult choice between two loyalties, to the King and to the Emperor, he chose Napoleon.

At Waterloo where Marshal Ney charged five times at the head of his cavalry, vainly seeking death on the battlefield. Instead he died by firing squad by the restored Bourbon monarchy at the age of 46, judged by his peers in a hasty manner, even though he was destined for a glorious death on the battlefield, in the heat of the action, as he had always wanted.

Ney, distraught, tall with all the height of accepted death, offered himself to all the blows in this turmoil. His fifth horse was killed beneath him. Sweating, flame in his eyes, foam on his lips, his uniform unbuttoned, one of his epaulettes half-cut by a horse-guard's sabre stroke, his grand-aigle plate dented by a bullet, bloody, muddy, magnificent, with a broken sword in his hand, he said: "Come and see how a Marshal of France dies on a battlefield! But in vain; he did not die.**

#hugo #victor hugo #quote #french #marshal ney #waterloo #battle of waterloo #war #battle #napoleonic war #grand armée #france #wellington #napoleon #british army #cavalry #life #death #soldier #military history #history #europe

[texanmarcusdavenport]

no but really every single kid in Lab Rats was severely screwed over by their fathers. like if it weren’t for them they would NOT be in these situations. so really the entire show is about daddy issues.

#donald w the rats & leo. douglas w marcus (& the rats). krane's army & in particular sebastian. it's all about the sins of the father #lab rats #lab rats disney xd #lref #marcus davenport #douglas davenport #donald davenport #sebastian krane #victor krane

[sewingpatches]

Not to many photos today but I did see an icon, The Core.

Been very happy to gush about the tv show trailer with folks, cause this girl is HYPED

#cosplay #fallout #fallout new vegas #fnv #courier six #Mr house making Victor sing that peepo song 🎵 who is that wonderful girl 🎵 #when I deliver the chip him and beef up his robot army

[pnuk-r0ck]

I’m gonna have a substitute during my guitar lesson on Saturday. Scary.

#Whenever I have a sub I usually just show them everything I’ve learned which is so sad and so boring #But I’m learning 2 songs rn so I’ll probably only show I’m those plus like. Seven Nation Army. And maybe When I come Around or Good Riddanc #Victor Speaks

[bionicbore]

yo okay wait what if Krane invested stock, primarily in davenport industries and that's how he's rich. So in a really fucked up way Douglas is slaving away for money he probably thinks is rightfully his, but because he was dumped by his brother it isn't. Krane holds it over him like, "You could've funded yourself with this kind of money if you weren't so pathetic." or something evil like that idk I'm just riffing right now

Wait okay that's actually hilarious. It's a perfectly sensible explanation but also the idea of Krane just being some guy who invested in stock is genuinely funny

Douglas whining about how Krane didn't DO anything to earn that money and how it's ESSENTIALLY Douglas's money only for Krane to smugly shut him down every time with "And yet, here we are"

#Lab Rats #Douglas Davenport #Victor Krane #Yeah there's enough substance here for tags #I'm thinking of giving him a background related to his... weirdly underplayed intelligence #Like the dude had a strong enough grasp on biology to not only tamper with his bionics without killing himself #But also genetically engineer an entire army. Possibly even accelerated their development #Like even copying Douglas's research requires an understanding of it #BUT him just being a stock bro is both the funniest and most canon sounding thing I've ever heard #Like I can literally hear Douglas making some petty jab post redemption like #''Big whoop you got lucky on the stock market and copied my notes you're SOOO cool >:('' #*laugh track*

[postercollector1975]

KIϟϟ: Unmasked 1980

Poster Came with the album

Art by Victor Stabin

#poster collector 1975 #posters #kiss band #kiss army #victor stabin

[scarletwitchpanels]

Scarlet Witch & Dazzler in Marvel Zombies vs Army of Darkness #3 & 4

#love this concept for a team up! #wanda maximoff #scarlet witch #alison blaire #dazzler #ash williams #victor von doom #doctor doom #sw costume #earth 2149 #marvel zombies #marvel zombies vs army of darkness #fabiano neves #fernando blanco #sean phillips

[crayonverse]

S-3 (Sebastian): FATHER, S-2 pushed me into a puddle.

S-2 (Logan): In my defense Father, S-3 was being a bitch.

Krane: ... can you all stop talking to me.

#s-2 logan is real To Me #victor krane disgruntled sperm donor #krane is barely a man he is NOT a father #lab rats #lr #lr s-2 #lr s-3 #lr krane #Victor Krane #Sebastian Krane #Logan Krane #lr sebastian #lr logan #lrbi #lab rats bionic island #lab rats bionic army #lab rats bionic soliders

[romantic-army]

Anyone interested in a fic exchange to celebrate the anniversary of the Battle of Hernani (Feb 25)?

#romanticism #romantic army! #fanfiction #I cast summon Victor Hugo

[miraclemaya]

it is wild how narco-alchemy, cilomancy, mechanomancy are not in any offical 3rd ed stuff like come on. nacro-alchemy in particular would do sooo good with an update to better reflect the changes in public perception of drugs and what not

#narco-alchemy being an adept school that is split in two by my understanding #there are those that seek to use there own body to produce drugs with the end goal of creating a philospher stone type deal #the other being adepts that view drug use as being the way to enlightenment turning drugs into magic #not the most clear on those two as i havent read 2nd ed where they are from #cilomancy is history magic with the paradox being that history is what the victors say it is not what actually happened basically #they get charges from interacting with historical sites and their magic is very memory focused #and they are p damn important in the general setting #and mechanomancy is making steampunk creations by sacrificing your own memory #they dont have traditional spells but rather they create inventions at the cost of their identity #the idea being that such an old antiquated school of magic that is out of time makes you slowly lose your place in time or something #again not the super most sure on if i have these 100% right but i believe i mostly got it #unknown armies