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davids-cartoon-corkboard · 3 years

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Here’s the final part of the “Raph is a system” theory compilation post! It’s the last of what I can scrape up from canon; while I still have ideas on how it might loop back into character interactions and plot and so on, they’re much more speculative in nature. (Part 1 is here) (Part 2 is here) (You’re reading Part 3)

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"Red” is the alter with the least screen time, so it took a while for me to connect the dots on when and why he formed.

His shadowed face, the dramatic background music when he speaks, and his seriousness are reminiscent of the “brooding on rooftops in the rain while gloomily staring off into the distance” thing that Raphs throughout the franchise will do sometimes. That’s easy to poke fun at on a superficial level because most of us look back on our edgy phases with self-deprecation, but it’s a lot less funny in the context of the life he lives. Being a normal human teenager in normal human society is a fucking nightmare; being a mutant teenager who has no idea what to expect in terms of development or lifespan, only five people he can safely interact with ever, and a very limited future hiding from everyone else for as long as he lives has got to be just awful.

RR’s few lines in “Pizza Puffs” tell us a lot. “It’s the only way they’ll learn” and “this is for their own good” suggest that he formed when the turtles started exploring more of the sewers and going aboveground, and Being The Leader became more of a responsibility. A thousand new ways for them to get in trouble meant a thousand new ways Raph would have to bail them out, and that got old fast- especially since they didn’t have April’s knowledge to help them in the beginning. I doubt they met her the very first time they left the sewers. The wiki says April knew the boys for five years as of “Mystic Mayhem”, so they would have been nearly eight at the time, perhaps the mental equivalent of a ten- or eleven-year-old human.

A while back I sifted through all the eps with Raph in them in the vague hopes that “Pizza Puffs” wasn’t the only episode featuring RR... and lo and behold, I found something! The shadowed face and dramatic background music are also present in “Minotaur Maze”!

“I can’t do it. I got no mystic mojo. I’m useless.”

“Hey, that’s not true, brother. You just gotta believe in yourself, and know this: If I die in this maze, I will haunt you for the rest of your life.”

(I know that’s only two data points, but y’all canonically cannot scoff at me.) RR shows up when HR is no longer able to tolerate the bullshit at hand. “I’m not going to baby you Leo, get your shit together before your ego kills us all” was a reasonable response to nearly being shish-kebab’d.

“Pizza Puffs”, on the other hand... LDM pulled through in the end, but that RR got HR to stay behind added an unnecessary level of risk. Getting his brothers to learn a lesson should have waited until after the giant mutant cannibal had been dealt with and they were no longer poisoned.

This hands-off “figure it out on your own” approach probably came from Splinter. I swear to Pizza Supreme In The Sky I’m not trying to shit-talk him, but his lack of involvement with his sons was a major flaw. Before all that character development he was terrible at things like “emotional support” and “life lessons”, leaving Raph without the blueprints to deal with a lot of problems. HR would respond by rushing in and figuring things out as he went, but sometimes RR would have to say “No, we’re maxed out and can’t deal with this, we’ve gotta step back”. As we’ve seen in other iterations, when Raph is maxed out and doesn’t step back...

...he goes too far. Plenty of folks have commented on how rarely the Rise turtles smack each other around compared to other versions; it’s telling that RR spoke up just a moment after HR smacked Mikey in “Pizza Puffs”.

Raph is much bigger and stronger than his brothers this time around, meaning such an outburst would have a much higher risk of Genuine Grievous Injury. And while his size and strength also mean a measure of gentleness has been baked into him since day one, there would still be times HR would feel himself boiling over and RR would head off somewhere quiet for fear of the above situation; which was potentially alluded to in “Hot Soup: The Game”.

“You went out on your own when you were his age.”

The context of “Man vs. Sewer” suggests Raph isn’t going to go off on his own without very good reason- such as cooling down before he does something he regrets. That this detail shows up in Casey’s debut episode suggests it is how they will properly meet and bond, since befriending Casey and doing vigilante shit with him is what usually gives Raph a way to blow off steam while having someone nearby to keep him in check. But that probably won’t happen until partway through season 3, since I doubt we can cram the rest of Casey’s redemption arc into the movie alongside the invasion and time travel trauma shenanigans and leader drama. So in the meantime RR will continue to brood on rooftops in bad weather and listen to Ephemerality songs and monologue to himself because he knows nobody’s going to hear him over the incessant background noise that makes up the cities above and below.

I was a bit stumped about how that meeting would take place- the events of the finale (and possibly also the movie) would no doubt have both the human and yokai populations on high alert, making it dangerous for RR to slip away for some peace and quiet. But the events of the finale also gave us some insight on Raph’s powers; he has a way to leave without actually leaving!

Hardlight Clone Jutsu, baby!

So whenever HR finds himself in a particularly sour mood, a wisp of power winds its way up through the open-air portion of the lair and forms into a clone aboveground. HR doesn’t have to leave for a while to cool down before coming back and dealing with the situation calmly, because RR is already on a rooftop somewhere dissipating those bad feelings by listening to the rain and/or yeeting trash cans.

But mutants can’t freely walk the streets of New York, and the Hidden City Police probably still have it out for Raph. And someone, hero or villain, will eventually realize that Raph has a gloomy stray clone running around and ask questions that can’t be answered without cracking open the can of worms that is This Whole Situation. RR needs to get creative. That we’ve seen clones have both full color and the basic red/white palette suggests their color could be altered in other ways; and that the holo-form grew extra arms in the lair fight vs. the Shredder suggests their shape could also be changed further.

So what will he choose to look like, if not his body?

Obviously he’ll use a red and black color palette because it slaps, leaning more towards black since I compared him to Batman back in Part 1. A low-detail design makes it hard to identify him, giving onlookers the impression that they just couldn't see him well in the dark. Mentally filing down his spikes and decreasing the curve of his shell are easy enough, but it takes him a while to figure out five fingers instead of three, and there’s not much he can do about his voice other than lowering the pitch so he just opts to not talk much within earshot of others. A cape further disguises his silhouette and again, it slaps. The impression of a mask means he doesn’t need a face and it lets peoples’ assumptions work for him. Humans are more likely to think he’s human than a Very Human-Shaped Mutant, and yokai come in so many shapes as is that he could be anything from a witch to a dehydrated googlyschmootz.

(You know how it is with franchises. Old patterns repeating in new ways.)

New York City never sleeps, and I doubt the Hidden City does either. He’ll run into Casey eventually, but in the interim he stumbles across and intervenes in some attempted purse-snatchings and kidnappings and the like. Most of the would-be victims use his arrival as their chance to escape, but one of them is too frozen with fear to move until their attackers are chased off into the dark. He escorts them home, and it’s only once they’re at their doorstep that they work up the courage to ask him who he is.

It’s... a difficult question, in more ways than one. “Raph” is out of the question. “Red” isn’t quite right, and neither is “Angel”- they’re a tad too identifying still, and the R.A.P.H. thing was HR’s idea anyway. So he shrugs, and melts away into the shadows.

“Don’t worry about it. I’m Nobody.”

#rottmnt #rottmnt raph #red raph #rottmnt nobody #the 'raph is a system' theory #this will never be canon in a million years but it's canon compliant and that's what's important to me lol #ephemerality is a synonym for evanescence #i had to use a thesaurus for that one #anyway i am have always been and will always be an 03 hoe #long post #i have an inkling about how his meeting with casey would go so i might put that here sooner or later

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starry-skies-116 · 2 years

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“Moments are but fleeting seconds upon minutes- they come and go, fading easily. And although they linger in memory, human memory is easily distorted- eroded by the flow of time. When life is lost, it is buried beneath the dirt and then promptly forgot about- the deceased, with a life, with a soul and a name, is now a statistic. This greatly has angered me… must the world move on so cruelly, when they know that human lives that have been lost can never come back? I seek to change such atrocities of existence- my pursuit is the most supreme and noble- it is that of eternity, of unchanging immortality, longevity and sublimity. I wish to achieve such a feat no man has achieved before… to create life of the most perfect form- a flower that shall never wither, a fruit that shall never rot. I wish to do so, so that, perhaps if time shall finally stand still by my hand, will the flame within every heart never be extinguished.”

“Father chases an illusion he calls ‘eternity’. I know what eternity is. It’s a concept defined by dreams, ambitions and wishes of the thousands of past lives- human consciousness and the scattered fragments of souls drifting through space even after death. Even after the body has died, the person still exists. Even after the flesh has rotted down to nothing but bones, human emotion remains forever and is undying. While it’s true that life is transient, that people like us can only stay here for a hundred years or tragically less… the conscious shall never fade from the earth- the unresolved wishes of thousands of those that came before us… those reincarnated desires of our ancestors are now entrusted to us to fulfill after much-needed growth and change, and they are now our wants and needs as they are theirs. It’s impossible for things in this world to be unchanging- change and growth are a part of life, and cyclically, they are two ephemeral things forming something eternal- to find beauty in every moment. Transience is what eternally connects us to the rest of the world- we are the stars above as we are the earth below. We are eternity.”

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Explanation: Purple quote is William, Yellow quote is Evan. Evan has starkly contrasting beliefs with his father on his views of life- William's discovery of and experiments around remnant and souls were to aim for the preservation and artificial creation/stimulated reincarnation of life, hence Evan's/Gregory's recreation/rebirth being called Project Samsara in reference to the Buddhist/Hindu cycle of reincarnation, Samsara. William aims to achieve immortality- eternity, if you will, and he extends this control to Vanessa/Elizabeth who's soul and conscious is now connected to Vanessa's after conjoining spiritually with her.

Evan, meanwhile, despite fearing death, finds beauty in the transience of life, as well as growth and change. He usually thinks of death as something gory and horrific when it comes to mind, and the thought of dying of old age seems to be the only thing that does not unsettle him- he strongly believes in eternity as human consciousness, ambitions, dreams, love and souls persisting after death and being reincarnated into new forms and new entities, whether they be organically alive or not (with William unironically bringing this belief to life through the use of remnant). He treasures and eventually comes to symbolize the embodiment of evolution and change- the exact opposite of his father's beliefs in immortality, hence his spiritual connection to the butterfly, which symbolizes impermanence, growth, maturity, change, love and hope for the future. Even his name is present in the word 'evanescent', which is essentially a synonym for transient.

The soul is not fully immutable in his eyes- everything is subject to change. But despite everything... it will still and always be him inside- no matter what form he may take, no matter where he may be... it will always be him.

#top quote is from william #bottom quote is from evan #evan afton #William afton #fnaf #imagined quotes #purple font for William and yellow font for evan #their beliefs starkly contrast #Evan embodies transience (the butterfly)#William embodies eternity #android evan #android gregory #crying child #crying child fnaf #fnaf 4

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okierazorback · 2 years

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Word of the Day – Fugacious

Adjective: Fugacious lasting a short time Synonyms: brief ephemeral evanescent fleeting impermanent momentary passing short-lived temporary transient Usage: The Fed is still of the view that a lot of recent inflation is tr-tr-transit- … OK, we can’t use the T-word anymore, so maybe say that it’s fugacious?” Encountered: While Krugman’s newsletter in the NYTimes: Wonking Out: What Would a…

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#Fugacious #Krugman

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astoryofalove · 7 years

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Regarding Cloud’s Crush on Tifa

To keep this short, (feel free to skip this first paragraph) the above quote is from the 25th Anniversary Ultimania and it says Cloud’s crush on Tifa is “ 淡く (“fleeting”) and “幼い (“immature/childish”). Some people debated our translation and insisted that it just meant “childhood awakening of love “ (omitting at least one word, “awaku”). But instead of breaking down the Japanese again (I’ve honestly done it too much already) let’s look at the French translation for some clarity:

The French words we’re focusing on in this quote are “romance éphémère”. The word “ephemeral” means “lasting a very short time; short-lived; transitory“. Synonyms of “ephemeral” are “fleeting, evanescent, transient, momentary, brief. “.

The scene this quote goes to is the non-optional Lifestream scene. The reason this is so important is because regardless of how a player chooses to play the game or how people interpret either version of the Highwind scene, this quote says that when Cloud regains his true memories, his childhood crush on Tifa was “fleeting” or “short-lived”.

What does this mean for the LTD? Well, this makes it very very unlikely that Cloud and Tifa “admitted love” at any point during the game, let alone the compilation, or ever will for that matter (at least under current canon). And the reason I say this is because since the Japanese and French quotes say Cloud’s crush was “short-lived”, that means his feelings for her died at some point in his life.

This is further proven when Cloud’s crush was called “dim/slight” in the Crisis Core Ultimania (Pg. 24) and proven again when FFVIIUO (pg. 25) said Cloud “had once had feelings for her“ but doesn’t anymore, and suggested even more when the official FFGBike twitter account said Tifa’s feelings “never meet/agree” with Cloud’s fate (meaning Tifa lost her chance).

So why in the world would Square Enix describe Cloud’s feelings for Tifa as “ephemeral “ if Cloud still felt love for Tifa? After all, any current feelings he allegedly has would just be a continuation of his childhood crush, therefore meaning his crush was never ephemeral. Just stop and ask yourself... Do you think they’d describe Yuna’s love for Tidus as “ephemeral”, or Squall’s love for Rinoa? Or any Final Fantasy couple for that matter? Of course not. An “ephemeral love” isn’t true, it isn’t everlasting. It’s short and insignificant. It doesn’t make any sense to describe Cloud’s feelings for Tifa as “fleeting” if he’s supposed to confess his love to her a week or so later under the Highwind.

These quotes are why I’ve said for years that no matter what a person thinks about the optional Highwind scenes, Cloud -canonly- does not have romantic feelings for Tifa. If he did still love her, then at no point would Cloud’s childhood crush ever be described as “fleeting”.

It’s interesting that while Cloud’s feelings for Tifa were “fleeting”, Cloud’s love for Aerith is “undying”.

Nomura: “I believe, for those who formerly traveled with her as comrades and for the viewers, each carries their own feelings and love for Aerith. In this story, Cloud also carries his own undying feeling for Aerith even to this very day.” ~Nomura interview; Dengeki Playstation 2007

エアリスはかつてともに旅をした仲間で、受け手側の皆さんにも、それぞれの愛情や想いがあると思います。この物語のクラウドも、エアリスに対して、いまもなお死なぬ想いはあると・・・・。この教会の場面との関係は・・・・・うーん。このあたりは皆さんのご想像におまかせします（笑）。

Thanks for reading.

I’d like to thank @Tallulih for sharing this scan with me.

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somedevil · 7 years

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fleeting

fleet·ing /ˈflēdiNG/ adjective lasting for a very short time "ours was a fleeting romance" synonyms: brief, short, short-lived, quick, momentary, cursory, transient, ephemeral, passing, transitory, evanescent

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palm-top-tiger99 · 7 years

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New words I like (:

Sylvan (adj.) pertaining to or characteristic of forests; living or located in a forest; wooded, woody Synonyms: forested, arcadian

misanthrope (n.) a person who hates or despises people

pertinacious (adj.) very persistent; holding firmly to a course of action or a set of beliefs; hard to get rid of, refusing to be put off or denied

picayune (adj.) of little value or importance, paltry, measly; concerned with trifling matters, small-minded

Ephemeral fleeting, transient, evanescent, transitory

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paulveretts-blog · 7 years

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Are you looking for a list of beautiful words?

Well, perhaps the first step should be to look into your own mind. Have you ever heard the quotation “Beauty is in the eye of the beholder?” Most likely you have. Therefore, everyone could potentially have a different opinion on which words are beautiful and which words are not. Examining such a topic is difficult because of the subjectivity of the matter.

List of Beautiful Words

Synonyms for Beautiful

One way to approach this task is to list synonyms for beautiful. In other words, there are other ways of saying “beautiful” other than just saying the word “beautiful!” Let’s examine some of those words.

gorgeous

stunning

cute

hot

sexy

attractive

handsome

appealing

admirable

beauteous

charming

classy

dazzling

delightful

divine

elegant

enticing

alluring

exquisite

excellent

fair

fascinating

fine

foxy

good-looking

grand

lovely

magnificent

marvelous

ravishing

sightly

statuesque

well-formed

Words That Are Beautiful

Here is where this task gets tricky. What words do you think are beautiful? Maybe the sound of a certain word is especially attractive to you, or maybe a certain word makes you think of a beautiful time in your life. No one can really tell you what words you should think are beautiful, because the matter is one of personal opinion. However, here are some words that are frequently regarded as beautiful. These words come from Robert Beard, an expert on all sorts of words. He handpicked these words himself.

ailurophile

assemblage

becoming

beleaguer

brood

bucolic

bungalow

chatoyant

comely

conflate

cynosure

dalliance

demesne

demure

denouement

desuetude

desultory

diaphanous

dissemble

dulcet

ebullience

effervescent

efflorescence

elision

elixir

eloquence

embrocation

emollient

ephemeral

epiphany

erstwhile

ethereal

evanescent

evocative

fetching

felicity

forbearance

fugacious

furtive

gambol

glamour

gossamer

halcyon

harbinger

imbrication

imbroglio

imbue

incipient

ineffable

ingenue

inglenook

insouciance

inure

labyrinthine

lagniappe

lagoon

langour

lassitude

leisure

lilt

lissome

lithe

love

mellifluous

moiety

mondegreen

murmurous

nemesis

offing

onomatopeia

opulent

palimpsest

panacea

panoply

pastiche

penumbra

petrichor

plethora

propinquity

pyrrhic

quintessential

ratatouille

ravel

redolent

riparian

ripple

scintilla

sempiternal

seraglio

serendipity

summery

sumptuous

surrepititious

Susquehanna

susurrous

talisman

tintinnabulation

umbrella

untoward

vestigial

wafture

wherewithal

woebegone

Considerations

After reading the list of beautiful words, you should remember these important points.

You can decide which words are beautiful to you. Maybe some of the words that you consider beautiful are not even on this list, and that is perfectly OK!

Try using some of these beautiful words to dress up your writing. They can help draw readers into the pieces.

Do not overdose on beautiful words. No one wants to read a piece of writing that feels forced.

Make sure that you understand a word before you say it. Some of the synonyms are not exact synonyms. For example, “cute” and “foxy” have very different meanings. Be certain that you are using the correct ones!

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louisdallara · 4 years

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Feeling Black and White Mood

Winter landscape

Synonyms

ephemerality, evanescence, fleetingness, fugitiveness, impermanency, momentariness, temporariness, transience, transiency, transitoriness

Early Buddhism dealt with the problem of impermanence in a very rationale manner. This concept is known as anicca in Buddhism, according to which, impermanence is an undeniable and inescapable fact of human existence from which…

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#black and white #Pine Lands

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versatilepoetry · 4 years

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Violence

Horrendously weird was not the term to describe it; speak about it even an inconspicuous trifle, Satanically ghastly was not the image that befitted it; able to perceive it in the most faintest of its form, Barbarically Murderous was not the expletive adept for it; hardly able to portray an evanescent glimpse of its worthless virtue, Uncouthly indiscriminate was not the way it could be explicitly explained; discussed about even in the most ephemeral of perception prevailing and possible, Intolerably repulsive was not the adjective that highlighted it; miserably floundering to envelop it even in its most obscurest of its treacherous shadows, Diabolically stinking was not the odor that wafted from it; proving insurmountably miserly in front of its savage grace, Overwhelmingly corpse like was not the depth to assign it; proving more diminutive than a mosquito in front of its fathomless valley inundated with bloody sins, Repugnantly cacophonic was not the sound which diffused from it; got completely overshadowed when you witnessed its vindictively threatening caricature, Utterly penurious was not the acronym fit to depict its wealth; stumbled unrelentingly when compared with its abysmally hollow ocean of brittle pearls, Pathetically cowardly was not the attribute to christen it with; as its tales of merciless barbarism had gruesomely assassinated many a divinely smile, Feverishly distorted was not the synonym to address it; as it was the most hideously nefarious thing that could ever have existed on this Universe, Acrimoniously thorny was the shape to describe it; as it fell deafeningly down in it own eyes; every time it tried to hoist up from hard ground, Brutally ill willed was not the emotion to annotate it; as it lived the entire quota of its baseless life in realms of deplorably diminishing hell, Gloomily morbid was not the quality it harnessed; as it dug its own graveyard on every lane it transgressed, Hopelessly frustrated was not the idea it harbored; as it oozed more tears than the whole planet weeping at a single time together, Menacingly cruel was not the wave it spread; as it salaciously charred all who came in its swirl; into threadbare granules of black ash, Inexorably blood thirsty was not the accolade it deserved; as it spread rivers deluged with innocuous blood across every territory of this boundlessly colossal Universe, And the most 'Abhorrently hated of all' was a phrase still too less for it to be named with; as it was a jargon which every dictionary on this soil would gladly have liked to terminate, O! yes the devil I am talking about; has made us kill each other like animals in our very own homes; has made us an imprisoned slave in God's most sacred paradise; has made us breathe hostile fire from our nostrils instead of blissful breath, And even before I eventually tell you the word; I fervently wish from my heart that all of you forget it; for after all it's the worst word of all words; infact a small figment of your own stupid creation called VIOLENCE.

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