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ninhaoma-ya · 1 year

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Chapter 1080 — The legendary hero

Really enjoying the double meaning of the chapter title, but coming back to that later.

First off, Hachinosu looks like a horribly violent place, ruled by fear of Teach.

There is also some sort of code of honour, if the fact that Koby’s escape means he’s free range is something to go by. But once the border’s been crossed…

Interesting to learn a bit more about the marine bounty hunting!

And of course: what did Koby do to get such a high bounty from the Cross Guild?

And we get a better overview of the Blackbeard pirates’ whereabouts (and powers)!

Once again we have an upgraded version of an earlier Devil’s Fruit (mere stone vs whole island). But how does that work with the sea? Which is touching the island at all times? By the definition of ‘island’? Also, is he now tied to Hachinosu or can he just merge with whatever land he’s standing on, as long as it’s surrounded by water? How big is an island in the fruit’s definition of it? Is a continent an island — could he merge with the Red Line?

And what happened at Rocky Port?

So, at the moment we have the following constellation…

On Hachinosu:

Shiryu, Vasco Shot, Avalo Pizarro, Sanjuan Wolf

Fighting Law:

Teach, Doc Q, Van Augur, Jesus Burgess

???:

Catarina Devon, Lafitte, Kuzan

And speaking of Kuzan: more information about SWORD! (I’m guessing he’s a member as well and has been undercover like Drake, cementing his position by giving up information about the marines)

Also: Koby, darling. How do you still keep the marines and government in such high regard? The let in a country called, literally, ‘The EVIL Black Drum Kingdom’. They accepted Doflamingo as ruler of Dressrosa after a coup. Do you really think they’ll give two farts in the wind about Blackbeard if he pays their tribute?

(And has Blackbeard’s dream changed?)

I have.. no idea what’s going on with the marines or SWORD. They are given normal assignments (like protecting the royals during their trip to the Reverie) but are still somehow unaffiliated with the marines?

(Also, Blackbeard is such a great foil to Luffy! Luffy also doesn’t know what’s happening and doesn’t really care, while Kuzan fills in the Robin-role here for exposition.)

I’m guessing he prefers the ones who scurries away.

And going back to the beginning: Hachinosu isn’t a terribly nice place, showcased here by Blackbeard’s focus on violence as the end goal.

Perona!

Koby: your journey started with a pirate, it’ll end with one.

I just really like her. And Tsuru has children?

Some familiar faces!

And Garp is a force to be reconned with.

And, back to the start: did the title talk about him or Koby? Or both? Is this the end (of an era) for one and the start for the other’s story?

Of course, with Pizarro literally being the island, Shiryu having invisibility, Wolf just being big enough to swat them like flies and Vasco… doing his thing, they’ll be whipped.

But will it force Luffy to get there or is it something to hear about when they’re done in Egghead and possibly Elbaf?

So much is happening!

I give it a galaxy-sized high-five and the end of my rope.

#one piece #ch 1080 #nin reads one piece #opspoilers #one piece spoilers

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greenmeanqueen · 2 years

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on the basis of three episodes I’d rather have Otto (has kept the realm running for years) and Alicent (lots of empathy, a natural politician) run the country over Rhaenyra (sympathetic to her situation but she’s more than a bit petulant and entitled) and Daemon (an actual sociopath who’d go on a suicide mission because he’s too proud to accept help). the show is definitely giving the Targs the hero edit despite that though. I’m very glad at least that they’ve swerved hard away from the evil stepmother trope of the books. Alicent would’ve been perfectly legally and politically justified to push Aegon as heir from day 1 but a 21st century audience needed it beat over the head that she’s good and kind so she’ll stand by Rhaenyra’s claim for now even if it doesn’t really make sense to say it’s her birthright when by thousands of years of Westeros precedent it definitely isn’t. And yet people STILL think she’s a scheming bitch. Media literacy is in the gutter.

thank you for your ask!!

for all my gripes with otto, there is a political acumen about him that viserys lacks with his people-pleaser tendencies; he understands the system, which is why he can manipulate it when he wants to. he has the extra experience with managing someone who is not very good at their job, which is objectively true of viserys. whenever there's a tough decision to be made, viserys swerves hard to avoid it. i love how HOTD has been really showing his darker side when being confronted with very reasonable duties of a ruler and lashing out, while also refusing to fully try and rectify the messes that he himself has made. he just keeps digging himself deeper and deeper in the hole, committed to "everything's gonna turn out fine because i say so". and otto kind of has to work around it, not just for his own desires, but also so the realm doesn't fall apart.

alicent is similar with her developing soft power, she can carefully choose her words and is starting to get results (which are actually quite benevolent at this point, trying to bring rhaenyra and viserys back together, and to help rhaenyra keep her position). i think episode three was excellent in portraying the growing fundamental conflict of soft power vs. hard power, the latter being what rhaenyra and daemon exemplified. R & D are fire and blood; angry, entitled, merciless, a bit reckless. and they get to walk around like badasses covered in blood while the hightowers are shoved aside, the "inferior" westerosi to the "superior" targs. maybe that was the point, because the hightowers will have their day (and i'm lowkey here for it???).

it's really unfortunate to watch alicent just not be able to win among the audience; she could literally sneeze and someone would cuss at her and/or criticize that anyone would want to say bless you. and you're so right, she has a legitimate leg to stand on in the succession which is why we have this whole conflict in the first place! in alicent's own words, "what mother wouldn't?" but she's not pursuing it because she has a heart, despite popular belief. she and otto may both exercise soft power, but she is NOT her father.

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gorgeousgalatea · 2 years

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"#my tumblr avatar is a commission of that last one even lmao"

okay now I'm curious--you definitely don't have to answer if you don't want to, but if you do want to share, who's this character/what's this story? :O

<33333 I have no shame in sharing :D Partially because my work ethic is so shit it’s the easiest way to manifest ideas I never actually finish writing lmao

...I should maybe have some shame here as it is quite literally the ~fantasy epic~ story idea I’ve had since I was twelve and while some concepts have evolved in the many...many years since then, in many ways that is uh. Still really evident.

Princess Reinara Morgaine is the younger of twin siblings born to the king and queen of a land ruled by super evil gods, but as her older brother was born with the unprecedented ability to see the dead and did not come across as a super viable heir for spending the daily peering beyond the veil at unknowable horrors, he got the madwoman in the attic treatment and she was made heir to the throne. They were close in spite of this until everyone decided there was no practical reason to keep her brother around and tried to have him offed, but she was able to help him escape. The evil gods then decided it would be really funny to brainwash her and have her be the one to hunt him down.

So she’s a princess who moonlights as an assassin, and greatly prefers her night job not because she enjoys killing but simply because of her two careers it’s the one she’s very good at. Because having the kind of upbringing that allows you to moonlight as an assassin doesn’t do wonders for your social skills and getting brain whammied to murder the one family member she cared about didn’t help with that. She’s an incredibly talented illusionist, but rather than fall under the trickster archetype she’s neurotic and precise, using it for concealment and to separate her two identities from one another. She wears her true face as the assassin, but has spent years of meticulous effort building her royal face into one that is nowhere close to her true face but still resembles her parents, still feasibly looks like what she could’ve aged into from childhood, and is nowhere near as attractive as her actual face because she has no time for engagements and is not going to make matchmaking easy for them.

Basically her brother’s character arc is trying to break the brainwashing and get her also away from their evil god run country and eventually he succeeds, leaving the heroes with a prickly, antisocial woman who has tried killing them on multiple occasions because her brother refuses to do the whole get rid of the evil gods thing without her. You would assume that he’s the nicer of the two given that he’s more chill and outwardly friendly but in fact being treated as a pariah and nearly killed as a child just caused him to put more effort into projecting a sociable affect whereas she was able to rely on her station and illusions and they’re both about equally morally skewed. There is naturally a plot brewing to put him on the throne as the rightful ruler liberating the country from his evil father, but they both decided that was dumb and instead end up co-ruling as monarch and bodyguard, using her illusions to swap roles as necessary.

Aaaah thank you for asking, this is more long winded than I intended and less coherent and probably by extent compelling, it’s been a bit since I’ve thought about my OCs but they still hold a near and dear place to my heart. Aaand I should probably take another shot at actually finishing their story lmao

#don't mind me just nattering on about stuff #replies #seriously thank you I may have gone overboard with this but I was so excited to type it <3

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scorbleeo · 7 months

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Book Chat: Tower of Dawn

Throne of Glass (Book 6) by Sarah J. Maas

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Chaol Westfall has always defined himself by his unwavering loyalty, his strength, and his position as the Captain of the Guard. But all of that has changed since the glass castle shattered, since his men were slaughtered, since the King of Adarlan spared him from a killing blow, but left his body broken.

His only shot at recovery lies with the legendary healers of the Torre Cesme in Antica--the stronghold of the southern continent's mighty empire. And with war looming over Dorian and Aelin back home, their survival might lie with Chaol and Nesryn convincing its rulers to ally with them.

But what they discover in Antica will change them both--and be more vital to saving Erilea than they could have imagined.

ISBN: 9781681199221 (2018) | Source: Goodreads

Don't Skip This Book

Before I begin, Chaol ranks quite low in my list of heroes in the Throne of Glass series. For the longest time now, he annoys me. I don't actually hate him but I never understood why Maas liked him so much. You know what, I don't understand why anyone liked him as much as they did. Hated it when Celaena chose him over Dorian. Was extremely pissed off when Dorian pretty much sacrificed himself for him. And when Celaena made her return in I think Queen of Shadows(?), oh my god, Chaol's reaction to all that was so bullshit. This series went on and I found myself slowly loving all the heroes, then there's Chaol where he continued to piss me off as we went on. To say I was not looking forward to reading Tower of Dawn after seriously enjoying Empire of Storms is an understatement.

So, Tower of Dawn. I must admit, when I was into the first few chapters, I did not understand why couldn't this book be a novella as it was originally planned to be. Maas already did so much world building and reinforcing the foundations of this series, why did she suddenly in the second last book of this series, decide to bring in a whole new country, race, well...world? As I continued diving deeper into this book, I understood why this had to be a book itself. Should the world in Tower of Dawn be made aware earlier on in the series? Perhaps we could have done with more talks about Antica, the magical healers and definitely some sound on the Darghans or if not, the Rukhin???

Despite a bunch of new information being dumped onto me, Tower of Dawn was a pretty enjoyable read. The pacing was steadily fast, which I always appreciate. Though there was a whole lot of information dump, it was very easy to grasp what's new and what's going on with the new information. The newly added characters were hella easy to get acquainted with as well. You would think since we're already nearing the end of Throne of Glass, you wouldn't find a connection with a bunch with new characters but that would be inaccurate because Yrene or Sartaq? Hell, Hafiza, Hasar, Borte or even Falkan? I even found a connection with Shen and Kadja. Say what you like with Sarah J. Maas but she is extremely talented in creating some of the best side or minor characters that will leave you thinking about them despite their smaller roles.

I started this prefacing that Chaol's not a favourite but I find myself gravitating towards talking about his character development more than other characters in this book. As much as it was nice to finally understand just how broken Chaol is both mentally and physically, it does not justify him being an ass in the earlier books. However, I still very much appreciated seeing how guilty he was and how much shit he gave himself for everything that happened before. It helped me understand why he was the way he was although I will not let it slide that he annoys the hell out of me. The best thing Maas did for Chaol was make him Yrene's. Truly. And because this man literally survived two direct Valg attacks on his fragile human body, I will cut him some slack.

There. I think there is a group of readers out there that might consider skipping Tower of Dawn and heading straight to the final book. However, coming from someone who is not a Chaol fan, just read this book. It is, after all, not a novella or a companion novel. Tower of Dawn is an essential part of this series.

Rating: ★★★★☆

P.S.: This was such a small detail in Tower of Dawn but damn, I just love reading about Rowan from anyone's point of view except his freaking carranam. To everyone else, Rowan's this Fae that one should never pray on their worst enemies, like see, that Fae is one cool dude. Then in comes Aelin and he's just a simp, not that that's wrong but it's boring...

More on Sarah J. Maas's works here:

A Court of Frost and Starlight (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #3.5)

Empire of Storms (Throne of Glass, #5)

#book review #tower of dawn #throne of glass #sarah j maas #chaol westfall #yrene towers #nesryn faliq #sartaq

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yellowhearther0 · 3 years

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thinking abt my ocs again

#specifically thinking abt their original versions #im still not over how jasper really used to be a catboy lMAO #hero was literally ruler of a whole country #and aaron was an extremely op character #honestly his entire family used to be op as fuck #oc evolution bby #now they're all angy highschoolers who just vibe in a sandbox realm #its great tbh #hero and jasper used to major assholes lol #well #they're still assholes but in a good way #anyway catboy jasper nya nya lmAOOO #its so funny asdfghjhgfds #oc tag

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murasaki-cha · 2 years

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Cale Henituse is not just a contradict. He’s an ✨Extra Contradict. Let me elaborate.

We know that Cale Henituse contradicts himself as naturally as breathing. But he’s so extra when he does that.

Examples:

Cale: I better not get involved with Choi Han I don’t want to form a connection with him

Also Cale: *dresses, feeds, protects, makes him his most loyal subordinate, finds out he has a deeper bond that he thought , reveals secrets and is himself with Choi Han*

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Cale: Trouble will follow me if I adopt a dragon

Also Cale: *adopts said dragon and ends up with 6 more dragons*

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Cale: I’m not particularly fond of cats

Also Cale: *adopts two cat children, makes another cat ruler of a country, is the benefactor of the tiger tribe, his hyung got turned into a tiger monster, literally has the personality of a cat*

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Cale: I’m just going to get a couple of ancient powers so I can protect myself, I don’t wanna be that strong to attract attention

Also Cale: *has 8 ancient powers (9 if he still had Dominating water) and 3 abilities*

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Cale: I don’t want to get recognized if I want a peaceful slacker life.

Also Cale: *becomes the most recognizable hero in the history of the whole continent*

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Cale: I better act as trash so people don’t like me and not bother me.

Also Cale: *rescues people left and right, feeds and provides a safe home for them, adopts children and adults from who knows where, creates connections with every powerful and useful person he meets*

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Cale: I better not get involved with the crown prince

Also Cale: *becomes sworn brothers with the crown prince, makes him his personal ATM and is also one of the few people who he can be truly honest with*

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Cale: I better not get too involved with ARM

Also Cale: *slaps White Star*

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Cale: I want to be as far away from the war as possible.

Also Cale: *Is the leading most respected commander in the war, the person who got involved the most in the war, quite literally in the center of the war*

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Cale: Ron terrifies me, I wish he would go away sooner so I wouldn’t have to see him anymore

Also Cale: *blows up an island when Ron lost his arm*

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Cale: I hate pain and don’t wish to sacrifice myself

Also Cale: *the most self sacrificial bastard in that entire world*

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Cale: I don’t want to get recorded in history

Also Cale: *from the literal book: “In history, there had never been a record wherein dragons, dark elves, and humans have helped in protecting something. So Alberu looked at the person who made all this possible – Cale.” LIKE SIR ARE YOU KIDDING ME*

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Forgot to mention MANS LITERALLY HAS FANFICS WRITTEN ABOUT HIM AND A WHOLE ASS MUSEUM IN THE FUTURE!!

#tcf #lcf #trash of the count’s family #lout of the count’s family #tcf novel #cale henituse #tcf cale #slacker life #choi han #alberu crossman #tcf dragons

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aerkan · 2 years

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Am I the only one that is kinda weirded out by Bardugo not implementing any real conversations between the main characters and any of Aleksander's Grisha? Because except for the one time Alina heard Ivan's point of view, there is not a one instance where they talk to the opposing side without it just being Aleks. We as readers are never given the other side's reasons for following a ,,literal monster". And I fear that it might be, because we would be able to see them and by extension Aleksander as human, not just the enemy, but living, breathing, feeling humans. And my guess is that Leigh didn't want that. It's so much harder to hate humans than faceless minions standing before you on the battle field. Also, from what I gathered, for the most part the Grisha that followed Aleksander were the experienced ones, the ones that fought wars in the king's name and seen their friends die for that same reason.

I'm convinced that they trusted Aleks, because he promised something nobody else was capable of accomplishing - ending the wars, the persecution, the pointless dying and fighting. He was the only one that came out and said - okay, it's not gonna be pretty, it's gonna be wrong, full of death and innocent blood on our hands. It's gonna be desperate and monstrous and they may hate us just a little bit more, but it's gonna end the centuries of wars. It's gonna end with us in the seat of power. He promised them safety that neither of them ever really knew. Not even him.

I can't believe that he wanted to cover the whole world in darkness, because why would he? Why would he even need to, if his plan worked?

That's the whole problem here, at least for me. You cannot set up a military commander with centuries of experience and prejudice directed at him and his soldiers under his belt, that wants nothing more than safety for his kind (so what if he also wanted power? Would he be really such a bad ruler? Is wanting power really bad of someone that was powerless his whole life?), then create a geopolitical setting that even supports his way, and then mark him as nothing more than power hungry monster. Not when your heroes don't even try to fix the things the presumed villain was fighting against. It just doesn't work for me. Heroes acting stupidly in political situations and making decisions that don't even make sense are things that I can't get past.

The Darkling wasn't a good moral person, but the thing is - no general in the time of war is. They have to make decisions that will kill people and they know it, they are sometimes forced to sacrifice lives in order to keep an important harbor or even a street in a city. It's not a job a good person can do well. And when I apply this logic on the whole Fold situation I walk away with one question in my head: Is sacrificing one city worth the safety of a whole country and a whole species? My answer to that will always be yes. A good moral person would say no, that you can't trade lives for others. Maybe that makes me a bad person then, but I wouldn't hesitate to kill one thousand for countless more.

With this in my mind I also find that Alina was selfish. She cared so little for anything else except for the way she was hurt personally. It's absurd. I was screaming the whole time for her to stop thinking about herself and start acting in the name of the greater good, and she never did. She was obsessed with destroying the Fold and that was the only thing she did for the country. An act that put Grisha and Ravka in even worse position in the terms of power in the world.

So yeah... sorry, never gonna be able to see Aleks as the villain, maybe Alina's personal one, but never the ultimate one. He was not the evil here, Fjerda and Shuhan were.

#alina starkov #thoughts #aleksander morozova #grisha triology #let's rant shall we?#the Darkling anti's are killing me #apreciate the political master mind at least damn it #the darkling

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minty-mumbles · 2 years

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I really love your headcanon of what Flora and Wild do. If I may add , if they do anything its just a title. The kingdom of hyrule, but there is no real royalty there. Maybe a few people to be negotiators between the races if trouble ever crops up in trade routes. Mostly its just a set up so other kingdoms don't start stealing the land from the people who lived through hell to keep it.

Right? I mean Wild took care of the giant pig demon, no reason not to start taking slices of the pie. And by pie I mean Hyrule.

The first country that tries finds out the guerrilla warfar tactics, implemented by a people who have lived their whole life in the ruins of their ancestors’ civilization are very effective. Kind of like trying to invade Russia in winter. Bad idea all around

Especially when they’re lead by the Hero of the Wild, and armed with ancient Shiekah technologies provided by Flora and the Shiekah scientists.

They retreat, proclaiming that the kingdom of Hyrule and its rulers (Wild and Flora) are just unbeatable! They have so many troops, such great battle strategies, impenetrable fortresses!! This scares off other countries who were thinking of trying to invade.

Meanwhile, Wild and Flora are just sitting there like “Alright, you literally tripped around in the wood for a week, cried when we ruined your food supply, and ran home with your tails between your legs. No armies or impenetrable walls here, but whatever makes you feel better about yourselves.”

#asks open anon on #linked universe #lu wild #lu Flora

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akatsuki-no-yona · 2 years

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Why are people being so worried about a ship that will never be since chapter 1, yea yeah she had a childish crush with him whatever, but she's just being kind in a human way, she understands that he's a ruler of a WHOLE country, and flr god's sake the only thing that soowon can think is hak lmao??

Me too, anon. I ask myself this question all the time.

Her "crush" is long over. Suwon rejected her in the first chapter. For him, she is the sister he has hurt deeply and their best friend.

True, Yona shows only human kindness. But, you know, I've learned that it's enough to have the heroes standing there and "WEWWOO LOOK THEY'RE IN LOOOOOOVE" Literally everything is taken as romantic, it's annoying because not all scenes between the characters are romantic, in this case Suwon and Yona.

People don't understand that the scenes in shoujo in particular between the characters are unromantic, that the characters have different relationships. As if "Platonic love" didn't exist anymore. You can say to your friend "I love you" and this is the so-called "Friendly love" no longer exists, you can't love anyone platonically because it always has to be "romantic" and this is so bad. It pisses me!

The people who doubt HakYona as an endgame are starting to piss me off.

I agree that this arc is boring and it pisses me off too, but how can you say that one arc each is "Suwon and Yona can be endgame, or that Yona doesn't love Haku and doesn't think about him"

This is so annoying. HakYona love themselves! They believe in each other and trust each other!

Yona confessed her love to Haku before that arc, why? For what purpose did she do this? If she wanted to be with Suwon? It does not make sense??

It bothers me that HakYona shippers (not all of them), but the vast majority, need a panel from HakYona to confirm their ship.

Yona loves Haku so much that she screamed his name to Suwon. She loves him, not Suwon. She thinks about him all the time.

Just stans attitude - I'm disappointed - more faith in the ship.

Suwon is in conflict with himself now. The fact that he is thinking of Haku and Yona is proof that he is not exactly like his father, but is trying to be, but he can't.

I think something is starting to get through to him.

#akatsuki no yona #anon #princess yona #suwon #haku #hak

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some-dr-writings · 3 years

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Sonia, Hajime, and Nagito x Chronically sick S/O

Sonia Nevermind:

· Though your disease could be manageable, it was hard to keep going at times, but the thought of an entire country was working towards finding a cure was of great comfort.

· It happened gradually and suddenly at the same time. For a while you had noticed your heart began to race easily and how your breath was short, but you simply assumed you were getting sick, and when you became nauseous and started coughing you thought being sick was basically confirmed. But when it didn’t go away after a few days, your girlfriend insisted that you see a doctor just in case. Neither of you expected you’d have a heart disease. The moment Sonia received the news she had the entirety of Novoselic working to find a way to completely cure you. Nothing less than a cure would satisfy the princess, you were her partner and future ruler of Novoselic, you needed to be safe and healthy. She could not imagine anyone but you by her side.

· At first you were doing okay, just having to take treatments and visit the hospital regularly, but seemingly over night everything came crashing down. Many parts of your body weren’t getting enough blood and just failed. You would have died if it weren’t for Sonia shelling out all the money she could, making sure you had the best of everything, from doctors all the way down too your bed sheets. You were stuck in the hospital, unable to go anywhere. All you could do really was watch T.V. or read books.

· Sonia came to visit you every day, no matter what. She’d even sleep over whenever she could. She’d do whatever she could to make you happy. She needed you to be happy. A healthy mind helps to keep a healthy body. Even so, Sonia didn’t fake anything, she couldn’t keep that up for five years. Five years was the longest you could expect to survive. And so, those five years became Sonia’s deadline. Any time not dedicated to spending with you, she spent studying with Mikan to find some why to save you. She WILL save you; it was not a wish or an if, in her mind it was certain it was just a matter of time, and no matter what, she was not going to fail in this endeavor.

Hajime Hinata:

· You and Hajime had been best friends since you were children. Even back then you were very sickly, visiting the hospital often, even at times having to stay over night for weeks on end. Hajime visited you a lot when you stayed overnight. You didn’t have many friends other than him, everyone else were kids who were staying at the hospital left eventually never to return which hurt but also brought you some comfort. The hospital became a playground for the pair of you. Often you’d get into trouble for sneaking into places you weren’t supposed to or Hajime taking you outside when you were just frustrated at being forced to stay in bed all day. You’d play imaginary games where you were royalty being held hostage by an army of ghosts and Hajime was the hero trying to save you. He failed every time, but he kept trying!

· As you grew up though you took to finding things to do in your room like playing video games. You rarely if ever got to go to school so Hajime became your tutor of sorts, teaching you everything he had learned in school that day, even going as far as too recreating tests for you to take as well. It was also a form of studying so this helped him as well.

· Hajime, he was never particularly impassioned about anything, he liked stuff, but nothing ever just clicked with him and was something he loved. The closest thing he had to that was the idea of going to Hope’s Peak, but that wasn’t exactly a hobby or career path. He did wonder though… It’s said anyone who goes there is set for life. Maybe, if he went there, he could study to be a doctor. He tried studying and taking classes but everything just seemed to go over his head and he had failed every class, but maybe if he managed to get there and to study, maybe he could become a good doctor. Even if he couldn’t cure you, he could still find ways to make your life easier, make it so that you could go outside sometimes and just enjoy life. Even make it so that you could go out for a walk in the sunlight on your own was enough for him. He just wanted to make your life even a little better. He wanted you to be able to do things others could without a second thought. You would probably enjoy the simple, little things in life even he could not imagine. As guilty as he felt about it, and with your encouragement, he left for Hope’s Peak and promised to come back one day as a great doctor who could truly help you!

Nagito Komaeda:

· Nagito’s luck could truly be a double-edged sword. Usually it only directly affected him, but on rarer occasion it would rub off on others so to speak, usually in the form of collateral damage… but it seemed to be different for loved ones who were around him a lot. You had been a little sickly all your life, nothing extreme, you just had a weak immune system and got sick more easily than your peers or couldn’t last as long exercising.

· Then the double-edged sword stuck you, much to Nagito’s horror. It was one thing for him to be struck with it, he had gotten used to it, even though each slash and stab chipped away at his sanity, but you… you who had done literally nothing but love him and acted as the only stability in his whole damned life… You hadn’t been feeling as well as of late, and you just got worse, and worse, and worse till you finally keeled over and was sent to the emergency room. Nagito didn’t get to see you or learn anything of your condition for a week. The longest, most agonizing week of his life. When he finally got to see you he learned you were diagnosed with several chronic diseases and you’d be bed ridden for the rest of your life. But the news that broke Nagito, shattering his world, and sent him plummeting into the depths of despair, was learning that by improbable miracles and accidents you became rich, one of the richest people in the world in fact. That was when Nagito knew without a doubt, this was all his fault.

· He couldn’t stop laughing. That sword was plunged so deep into you, he couldn’t stop laughing, it hurt too much to do anything else! B-but it was going to be okay! Because HOPE exists! HOPE can trump any DESPAIR! The worse the DESPAIR the greater the HOPE! So everything was going to be okay! You were going to be okay! This was fine! Everything was fine! Even if you were only diagnosed to live for less than a year everything was okay! Because HOPE WOULD WIN OUT AND YOU’D SURVIVE, YOU’D BE OKAY! YOU’D GET BETTER AND LOSE ALL THE MONEY IN EXCHANGE SO IT DIDN’T MATTER! NOTHING WAS GOING TO CHANGE, YOU WEREN’T GOING TO CHANGE, YOU WEREN’T GOING TO BE RIPPED AWAY FROM HIM TOO! YOU WERE GOING TO BREAK UP WITH HIM AND LIVE YOU LIFE TILL OLD AGE BECAUSE YOU WERE GOING TO LIVE! YOU HAVE! DON’T GO, DON’T DIE PLEASE DON’T LEAVE ME!

· …

· Nagito wasn’t ever quite the same after hearing the news.

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young justice season 1 is so funny because the end of each episode the villains will get together and go "ah the young heroes have thwarted us... but little do they know that this is all according to keikaku" and reveal how the villains' loss was actually a victory all along in a roundabout way and it's always the funniest shit lbecause like seriously you went through that complex of a plan JUST for that?

like in the episode misplaced where like klarion splits up the world into two worlds one with just adults and the other with just children and he needs to summon like the world's most powerful sorcerers and at the end of the episode you find out that the purpose of this scheme was literally just so that they could use the chaos/the riotting to steal something from starr labs. like the plan worked but like i think there are easier ways to steal things from starr labs.

or like in the targets episode where lex luthor is negotiating peace between north and south """"rhelasia""", two countries at war, and the league of assassins sends cheshire to assassinate lex luthor and red arrow stops her, and then she uses sportmaster to break out, and then the two of them try to assassinate lex luthor again at the peace summit and they have a whole mini army and red arrow and aqualad mostly take them down only for lex luthor's henchwoman mercy to reveal she has like an arm made of a gun to "truly" take down the assassins and the rulers of north and south rhelesia and so they buy into peace to buy lex luthor's arm guns and at the end of the episode you find out that was the plan all along and lex luthor and the league of assassins had the whole assassination thing so that they could orchestrate like... the rhelasian leaders being impressed by mercy's arm gun? couldn't lex luthor just have showed it off in the beginning? like if you have to go with a fake assassination plan couldn't lex luthor have showed it off the second chesire came on the scnee in the first place? sportsmaster could've still broken her out

this isn't a compliant btw i think it's incredibly funny how complicated the light's plans are and i wouldn't have the first season any other way

#it was a masterpiece #not really #it was a masterpiece the same way yugioh was a masterpiece #oh and the fucking terrors episode #the one where connor and m'gann get together in the jail #and the cold villains who had this multi-month plan to orchestrate this prison break #it took in universe months for all of the specific villains to get into belle rave jail #and they did geniunely want to do this giant prison break but that was like a bonus the real objective was like... smuggling???#no wait their objective wasn't to smuggle things in it was just to have hugo strange replace amanda walker as warden #couldn't you just like do something else #assassinate her or smth? you have a whole league of those under your payroll guys #it's so funny #yj

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r/Edelgard seems to have completely turned against Claude now. But the weirdest part is that they keep calling him an imperialist, while at the same time denying Edelgard is one.

It was only a matter of time before they did honestly. While Dimitri and Edelgard more directly oppose each other ideologically, even if it’s merely stated as so by the game Claude and Edelgard are presented as being “closer aligned” in terms of ideals, and any character shown to be a potential ally to Edelgard is seen in a good light in their eyes and any character that is shown to be unable to be an ally is a villain/bad person, so he was given some leeway until recently.

Look at how they bend themselves trying to make AM the villain route, how they sometimes completely discard Rhea’s words in favor of Edelgard’s despite the former literally being present when history was happening and the latter having Imperial Telephone tell her the totes fer reel correct version that happens to paint humanity as pure good, at how Edelgard’s treatment of Seteth and Flayn is excused and sometimes justified, at how Dimitri defending his land against an invading force that has the explicit goal of conquering them is painted in the worst possible light. It’s a consistent tendency to put down every character that could even potentially make Edelgard look bad... so Claude was never going to escape this treatment forever, since he arguably makes Edelgard look the worst. Not because of what she did to him - that trophy is being valiantly fought by Dimitri and Rhea - but because of his actions and goals and accomplishments compared to hers.

Remember Edelgard’s supposed goals, according to her stans? Claude does them, with far more peaceful results.

“Reform the Church” - Edelgard gets rid of it entirely in the majority of her endings and has it state-sanctioned if she does allow it to stay all the while actively persecuting the faithful in the Empire during the war, Claude always has the Church around and it is stated to be going through more natural reforms under Byleth and Seteth’s guidance and like the rest of the non-CF routes gives refuge to the said persecuted faithful.

“Unify Fodlan” - Edelgard forcefully unites Leicester and Faerghus back under Adrestia’s banner and erases their cultures while doing so, Claude unites Leicester, Faerghus, and Adrestia under a new banner (the United Kingdom of Fodlan) with no explicit mention of the erasure of the former nations (unlike “the Holy Kingdom of Faerghus and the Church of Seiros both vanished from the people’s memories” like in CF’s ending narration).

“Reveal the truth of Fodlan’s history” - Edelgard only tells a “truth” that goes directly against everything established by the game’s foreshadowing and never looks farther into what she assumes to be true, Claude finds the actual truth and does so by asking Rhea, someone who would for sure know the truth of what happened (all while risking the chance of her blowing away his previous assumptions of what’s been happening)

“Reveal the truth of Fodlan part 2″ - Edelgard/CF has multiple instances that reveal that portions of history are being deliberately covered up (Dorothea/Edelgard endings revealing censorship, Ferdinand/Byleth endings revealing certain battles not being recorded “ History books extol Ferdinand's success as a lord of his territories, but they do not make mention of the hard-fought battles he endured alongside his wife. Thus, half of his life's work is lost to time”), no mention of such things happening in Claude/VW’s endings

“Better relations with Almyra” - this is a throwaway line in Edelgard’s story that is completely optional and easy to miss as well as never appearing in any of her endings whatsoever (as well as any mention of bettering foreign relations), this is Claude’s entire goal which he is stated and even somewhat shown to have accomplished in the course of his story

“Looking out for the weak” - Edelgard intentionally strips the weak of support by taking away most any semblance of a church and explicitly states that the weak will inevitably learn how to grow strong by themselves, Claude acknowledges the Church’s importance to the people even if he personally doesn’t like religion and explicitly believes that strength is found by relying on, opening up to, and believing in friends and close ones

“Looking out for the weak, part 2″ - Edelgard explicitly states that she is completely willing to sacrifice her men as well as the people of Fodlan as a whole in order to achieve a greater good and then goes on to endanger her people, Claude explicitly states that such methods are too bloody and goes on to go out of his way to protect the people through evacuation or by placing himself in front of them or keeping them out of the fighting entirely

“Achieving a peaceful Fodlan” - The majority of Hubert’s endings reveal the need to constantly spy on the populace and/or put down rebellions/assassination attempts, the only mention of something similar occurring in VW is putting down Imperial loyalists + TWS’ attempts to disrupt the peace

“Wanting help from others” - Edelgard never attempts to reach out a hand in friendship to anyone at any point of the game, Claude tries multiple times to do so with Dimitri and actually succeeds in doing so in AM (not to mention him giving his help to and asking for help from the Church in non-CF routes)

This is just what I can readily think of off the top of my head, but we see that Claude manages to accomplish much of what Edelstans say Edelgard wants to do with better results, and that’s not even getting into how Claude needs no “softening” from Byleth in order to be a more approachable person, how he never initiates fighting towards Faerghus (as in, not the Kingdom army but the nation itself, unlike Edelgard) and never tries to conquer it whatsoever (again, unlike Edelgard), how he keeps his word and assists in helping Rhea despite not liking or trusting her unlike how Edelgard claims to want to make peace with Rhea despite thinking that her and her kind need destruction, how Claude mourns the deaths of his friends and allies while Edelgard says nothing if any of her friends and allies die (even Hubert, someone she’s known for close to 20 years, one of the longest relationships of the academy students’ circle. she says nothing of his passing) save for Bernadetta whom she can set on fire, and, again, other things that aren’t coming to my right off the cuff. He makes her look horrible

And, well, ya know what that means. Claude’s actions can’t be actually good, because they make Edelgard, the hero of 3H, look bad, so there has to be some kind of catch everywhere.

Claude bringing in Almyran reinforcements, with the approval of the Alliance’s most renown general, to help secure Fort Merceus in a more secure way (and is actually shown to have possibly actually helped in pulling off the ruse, seeing how SS tried the same thing without them and failed)? Him doing the same in some of his endings, where he sends Almyran forces to help settle the Imperial revolts that are happening? This is actually him trying to invade Fodlan, sending Almyran forces as a show of force and establish Almyra’s superiority over Fodlan, not him showing that Almyra wishes to help Fodlan reform so that their centuries long feud can finally begin to be properly set aside and allow for positive change to occur between the two countries.

Claude keeping the Alliance out of the war? This is actually him biding his time to strike back against both countries so that he can win the war and he only succeeds if he manages to trick Byleth and the Church (and Dimitri, in AM) into helping him, not him recognizing that the Alliance is weak even if fully united (let alone in the divided state they’re in) and wanting to keep his people as far away from the war as possible.

Claude giving the leadership of Fodlan to Byleth? This is actually him giving an ambitionless puppet rulership so that he can control Fodlan through them (even though even pre ts he doesn’t believe Byleth has no ambitions and will full on deny the belief that they don’t) and not him putting his faith in Byleth that they will be able to rule Fodlan justly

Claude showing concern over his friends’ wellbeing? This is actually him only trying to make sure his “tools” are kept up nicely, not him genuinely caring about those around him.

Claude coming across as insensitive in his Jeralt’s diary scene? This is actually proof/a hint of Claude’s true persona as a manipulative sociopath, not a genuine fuck up on his end (or, if you want to be nicer, a look into how he himself deals with traumatic events, though that’s up for interpretation so not the main point)

Claude saying that he wants to be supreme ruler of the world to Edelgard? This is actually him outright revealing his plans and showing regret that Edelgard managed to thwart him.

Oh, and we can’t forget how Claude actually wanted to wage war himself and was only stopped by Edelgard, and how he stole all of the progress Edelgard was making in changing Fodlan’s society, and how he never would have been able to do anything without Edelgard, and how him not siding with Edelgard is proof that he never wanted the best for Fodlan, and how the warmongering Almyrans would never want to make peace with Fodlan with that being more proof of Claude’s “true” ill intentions since he’d totally know that’d be the case

The second to last point being, of course, the only time you should take Claude at face value. And again, these are just the points that readily come to my mind as of right now.

Like I said, there was no chance in hell Claude was going to stay in r/Edelgard’s good graces, given how so much of his character directly shits on Edelgard’s. Friendship ended with r/Edelgard, now Dimitri and Rhea are Claude’s best friends.

#ask #anti edelgard #Anti-edelgard #Edelgard discourse #edelgard critical #just to be safe #like yeah I'm surprised Claude went this long without being shat on

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Could you do a meta on the theme of freedom and what it means to different characters? (Sorry if this seems like a basic thing, but I'd love to hear your thoughts!)

hell yeah hell yeah. (this wound up being more an examination of luffy specifically, because the theme of freedom in one piece is very tied up with luffy as a character.)

first of all: freedom and its importance is the central theme of one piece. i’d go so far as to say the main dichotomy in one piece isn’t so much good vs bad as it is freedom vs order/oppression. the most obvious way this is expressed is through luffy- as the series protagonist, obviously the way he thinks and what he holds important is going to be very important in how the series presents itself and its themes. and, simply put, luffy prizes his freedom and that of his friends above all else.

one of my very favorite reveals in one piece is that luffy’s dream isn’t actually, necessarily, to be the pirate king. or at least, not the way everyone else perceives the title- as the conqueror and undisputed ruler of the seas and the pirates that sail them. luffy just wants to be permanently, unquestionably free, and he sees becoming pirate king as the way to do that.

it’s a very straightforward dream. if you ask me, i’d say it’s the dream of someone who, as a little kid, had a person he loved very much get killed for seeking the freedom that had been stolen from him.

many of the worst crimes of the series’ most despicable villains involve taking away the freedom of people and enslaving them (the world government, doflamingo, and arlong all come to mind). the celestial dragons enslave people on a whim. doflamingo literally turns people into puppets when he’s bored. and this is also what brings luffy into conflict with them. all of his direct attacks on the world government come because the freedom of someone he cares about is threatened- robin at enies lobby, camie and hachi at sabaody, ace at impel down and marineford.

all of the strawhats have something either metaphorical or literal holding them down when they’re first introduced, be it zoro imprisoned in the marine base at shells town or sanji held back by his debt to zeff or nami enslaved by arlong or brook trapped in eternal darkness in the florian triangle or even jinbe, who meets luffy through a literal prison break. and every time, it’s luffy who sets them free to pursue their dreams.

luffy is always setting people free, be it one person or a town or a prison or a whole fucking country. it’s how he winds up a hero time and time again despite proclaiming himself not to be one, and it’s also how he winds up with just so many devoted allies and admirers, starting right at the very start of his journey when he facilitates coby’s escape from alvida and continuing straight up to the most recent arc with the liberation of udon.

additionally, the primary opposing force against the world government and probably the closest thing to an overarching big good the series has is the revolutionary army, a group that singularly revolves around liberating oppressed people. outwardly luffy doesn’t have much in common with his dad besides a general penchant for raising hell, but they do both prize freedom above all else, which is the exact trait makes them both massive thorns in the world government’s side, since the world government’s oppressive nature is inherently antithetical to true freedom. you could even call them natural enemies (wink wink).

struggled for like fifteen minutes on how to end this, but for now i’ll just settle for saying that one piece as a series is all about freedom, and the wonder of being able to live and dream however you want, and the evil of taking that away. freedom and the drive to seek it out and defend it is the most fundamental aspect of luffy’s character, and the freedom he’s given his crew and thousands of others in turn is why they’ll be loyal to him to the end of the world.

#long post #opmeta #character meta #luffy #strawhats #one piece #not japanese #jonny answers #sorry this is so long dkfsd

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In Afghanistan the Lion of the Panjshir did more than Sun Myung Moon ever did to bring down the Soviet Union

In the past the Unification Church has claimed that Moon could take much credit for the fall of the Soviet Union. Not so.

Since his death in 2001, Ahmad Shah Massoud has become a national hero in Afghanistan. A fierce fighter, yet a moderate and thoughtful man, he was the only leader who never fled the country through all its ups and downs. He was awarded the title "Hero of the Afghan Nation" by President Hamid Karzai immediately after his death; today, many Afghans consider him to have almost saintly status.

In the west, too, Massoud is held in high esteem. Although he is not as widely remembered as he should be, those in the know consider him to be the single person most responsible for bringing down the Soviet Union and ending the Cold War – more so than Ronald Reagan or Mikhail Gorbachev. Today, the Panjshir region that Ahmad Shah Massoud controlled is one of the most peaceful, tolerant and stable areas in war-ravaged Afghanistan.

When Ahmad Shah Massoud was in the third grade, his father became the chief of police in Herat, northwest Afghanistan. The boy was a talented student, both in elementary school and in his religious studies. He eventually took to a moderate type of Sunni Islam, with strong Sufi overtones.

Ahmad Shah Massoud attended high school in Kabul after his father transferred to the police force there. A gifted linguist, the young man became fluent in Persian, French, Pashtu, Hindi and Urdu, and was conversant in English and Arabic.

As an engineering student at Kabul University, Massoud joined the Organization of Muslim Youth (Sazman-i Jawanan-i Musulman), which opposed the communist regime of Afghanistan and growing Soviet influence in the country. ...

On December 27, 1979, the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan. Ahmad Shah Massoud, The Lion of the Panjshir, immediately devised a strategy for guerrilla warfare against the Soviets (since a frontal attack on the Afghan communists earlier in the year had failed). Massoud's guerrillas blocked the Soviets' vital supply route at Salang Pass, and held it all through the 1980s.

Every year from 1980 to 1985, the Soviets would throw two massive offensives against Massoud's position, each attack larger than the last. Yet Massoud's 1,000-5,000 mujahadeen held out against 30,000 Soviet troops armed with tanks, field artillery and air support, repulsing each attack.

This heroic resistance earned Ahmad Shah Massoud the nickname "Lion of the Panshir" (in Persian, Shir-e-Panshir, literally "Lion of the Five Lions").

In August of 1986, Massoud began his drive to liberate northern Afghanistan from the Soviets. His forces captured the city of Farkhor, including a military airbase, in Soviet Tajikistan. Massoud's troops also defeated the Afghan national army's 20th division at Nahrin in north-central Afghanistan in November of 1986.

Ahmad Shah Massoud studied the military tactics of Che Guevara and Mao Zedong.

His guerrillas became consummate practitioners of hit-and-run strikes against a superior force and captured significant amounts of Soviet artillery and tanks.

On the 15th of February, 1989, the Soviet Union withdrew its last soldier from Afghanistan. This bloody and expensive war would contribute significantly to the collapse of the Soviet Union itself over the following two years – thanks in no small part to Ahmad Shah Massoud's mujahideen faction.

Outside observers expected the communist regime in Kabul to fall as soon as its Soviet sponsors withdrew, but in fact it held on for three more years. With the final fall of the Soviet Union in early 1992, however, the communists lost power. A new coalition of northern military commanders, the Northern Alliance, forced President Najibullah from power on April 17, 1992. ...

In April 1992, resistance leaders in Peshawar tried to negotiate a settlement. Massoud supported the Peshawar process of establishing a broad coalition government inclusive of all resistance parties, but Hekmatyar sought to become the sole ruler of Afghanistan, stating, “In our country coalition government is impossible because, this way or another, it is going to be weak and incapable of stabilizing the situation in Afghanistan.”

Massoud wrote: “All the parties had participated in the war, in jihad in Afghanistan, so they had to have their share in the [new] government, and in the formation of the government. Afghanistan is made up of different nationalities. We were worried about a national conflict between different tribes and different nationalities. In order to give everybody their own rights and also to avoid bloodshed in Kabul, we left the word to the parties so they should decide about the country as a whole. We talked about it for a temporary stage and then after that the ground should be prepared for a general election.”... LINK

in 2001 Massoud and his Northern Alliance, which controlled parts of the Afghan northeast, led the only remaining resistance to the Taliban, who earned international notoriety by hosting Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden.

Al-Qaeda intended to kill Massoud three weeks earlier, sending two bombers disguised as reporters to request an interview with him, but he made them wait for 22 days before granting the pair a 5-minute interview that proved deadly.

The extremist coalition of al-Qaeda and the Taliban wanted to remove Massoud and undermine the Northern Alliance before making their strike against the United States on September 11.

Had he been killed earlier as planned, experts predict the Northern Alliance would have fallen and put the US-led invasion of October 2001 in jeopardy without its crucial Afghan partners.

"The goal was to eliminate all types of resistance before the September 11 attacks," said Afghan analyst Haroon Mir.

Read the full story here: https://www.thoughtco.com/ahmad-shah-massoud-195106

Sources:

AFP, "Afghan Hero Massoud's Assassination a Prelude to 9/11"

Clark, Kate. "Profile: The Lion of Panjshir," BBC News online.

Grad, Marcela. Massoud: An Intimate Portrait of the Legendary Afghan Leader, St. Louis: Webster University Press, 2009.

Junger, Sebastian. "Sebastian Junger on Afghanistan's Slain Rebel Leader," National Geographic Adventure Magazine.

Miller, Frederic P. et al. Ahmad Shah Massoud, Saarbrucken, Germany: VDM Publishing House, 2009.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmad_Shah_Massoud

#Lion of the Panjshir #Ahmad Shah Massoud #Soviet Union #Afghanistan

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Medea

I recently reread the story of Medea and I don’t know why but she really resonated with me. I know she doesn’t count as a Greek hero, what with all the murdering she does, but you have to admit, Medea has a way of captivating people as made evident by the fact that centuries after her death we still know her name.

My husband bought me a new computer with Adobe Illustrator and while I haven’t used art software in over fifteen years, I gave it a go and I’m not too disappointed with my first try :D

So here is the unofficial cliffnote of Medea’s long and (in some instances savage) story:

For back story, Medea is the daughter of King Aeëtes, the ruler of Colchis (an ancient city located around present day Georgia) who coveted the Golden Fleece (literally golden sheep wool). Jason and the Argonauts were tasked to find the fleece for King Pelias of Iolcus (Jason’s asshole uncle who made him go get it in order to inherit the throne that was rightfully his).

So when Jason arrived to Colchis, he was given three tasks to conquer in order to win the golden fleece: tiling the land with two fire breathing bulls, plant seeds that would grow Spartanoids (inhumanly malicious soldiers spawned from Ares son who would fight to the death), and defeat the Spartanoids. He would then have to retrieve the fleece from a tree in the Grove of Ares that was guarded by a dragon.

Distraught over these seemingly impossible tasks, Jason prayed to the goddess Hera for help. She in turn sent word to Aphrodite who used Eros to shoot Medea, the king’s beautiful daughter and devoted worshiper (and sometimes also the daughter) of Hekate (Titaness goddess of witchcraft), so that she would fall helplessly in love with Jason and help him with his tasks.

You read that right, little cherub boy came and turned Medea into a lovesick puppy for the doofus Jason so that he could win the Golden Fleece because even the gods knew Medea was a badass.

She helped him with every one of his tasks, but once her father realized it, they had to get out of dodge. Medea used her powers to make the dragon (yes a MOTHER FUCKING DRAGON) fall asleep so Jason could get the fleece from a tree it hung on. (Some depictions have Medea soothing the dragon while Jason gets the fleece, some have her soothing it then having to help Jason get the damn thing out of the tree cause women have to do everything themselves. Honestly how she didn’t see he was useless at this point is beyond me)

They go on their merry way when Medea sees her father Aeëtes’ ship sailing after them. Jason can tell the ship was going to catch the Argos and was preparing to battle when Medea said there was no way they could win hand to hand with her father, so she did what any good lover would do: she sacrificed her prepubescent brother, chopped him into tiny bits, and dropped him into the ocean at intervals for her father to stop and pick up ( :,) I did mention she’s not a hero, right?)

So she has Jason sail up a river away from Colchis, long story short, they get to King Pelias of Iolcus with the Golden Fleece. He acts like he doesn’t even know they had a deal and, spoiler alert, apparently straight up murdered Jason’s parents and little brother (though some sources say he just told Jason’s father that he died and his father actually killed them all in grief but this makes for much better story telling, just assume Pelias is that big of a dick cause he is). So Medea, who has basically been brought to a whole new country just to chase dick, says don’t worry, I’ll get you some revenge and proceeded to go straight fucking Savage.

Medea befriends Pelias’s daughters and one day mentions “Oh, it sucks your dad is so old, he’ll probably die soon. My father is older than yours but looks our age.” The girls beg to know how this could be, and Medea, sharp, lovely, conniving as she was, showed the girls a spell. She took an old ram, slit it’s throat, chopped it up, then threw it in a giant pot with herbs. She chanted, waived her arms and boom, baby goat popped out of the pot.

The daughters excitedly go find Pelias, chop him into pieces and perform the ritual, only to find that their dad (surprise) was dead dead.

I’m talking Dead AF.

Pelias’s son tells his sisters they were fooled and Jason and Medea are chased out of Iolcus and landed in Corinth. They lived there for years, had three (sometimes two in different references) sons and lived happily ever after.

Except they didn’t because remember, this is Greek Mythology and gods are involved so no one can be happy XD

Turns out Jason gets the hots for the daughter of the king of Corinth and they are set to get married.

Yes, after all this shit Medea has done for Jason (cheated at her father’s orders, murdered her brother, abandoned her home, saved Jason and his Argonauts from certain death at least three times, reaped vengeance on his uncle, bared him children) and this mother fucker up and says, “Naw, you see, you’re just a tool by the gods for me to get what I needed to get in order to be a king. So I’m gonna merry ole faceless Corinth princess and now our sons will be kings, isn’t that rad?”

“Super rad,” Medea would have hissed behind a fake smile.

It was in fact not rad, as Medea then takes it upon herself to send poison laced garments to the happy bride-to-be and she died an especially excruciating death (as well as her dad cause he tried to save her, told y’all, my girl be ruthless).

So in a final fuck you to Jason, Medea then murders their children (which I admit, puts a big pin in all the badassery she does, but in the play Medea by Euripides she struggles with this because she says she loves her children and it will hurt her to kill them, but ultimately decides she is more angry at Jason and that she has to do it because if she doesn’t, someone down the line will.

“I know indeed what evil I intend to do, but stronger than all my afterthoughts is my fury, fury that brings upon mortals the greatest evils.”

Like, shit, okay, I get it. You’re pissed. Do as you please.

Again, Medea isn’t a hero, but I find it hard to completely condemn her actions. She gives her all to Jason, only to have him choose someone else who can give him the throne he always wanted while telling her that it was at a god’s behest that she help him. In some ways, I imagine that being used like that is what probably hurt the most. But it’s cool, she ends up ending the play by riding in a golden chariot pulled by MOTHER FUCKING DRAGONS that her grandfather Helios sent for her and her dead kids, so I mean? She also ends up becoming the queen of Athens, but shit goes wrong there, too, but that’s a whole other thing that makes her like the original shitty step mom (save for all of Zeus’s illegitimate kids Hera keeps trying to kill).

And Jason is crushed to death when a piece of wood falls off his ship, so good riddance.

It’s interesting that this story is originally Jason and the Argonauts, a tale that’s supposed to illustrate the bravery and resilience of our ‘hero’ Jason, but really as Euripedes makes evident, it is Medea who the most resilient and in the end, of all the characters, though she may not have an explicitly happy ending, she isn’t punished by the gods for any of her actions while Jason literally dies by the ship he sailed on these ‘heroic’ escapades.

About the artwork: It took me three days and a lot of cussing, I mean YouTube videos, to get this where I liked it. I feel like it uploaded a little blurry but overall I’m content :)

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creatorn1ghtmare · 3 years

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Yeah so it’s about time I introduced my OC properly. WARNING: Her backstory is quite the dark one. Backstory;

Nightmare Sharpfaith is an angel that was sent away by her parents when she was a baby to protect her from the Inter-dimensional war. She was going to be sent to her grandparents but an error happened and she was accidentally sent to Earth. Being in the mortal realm gave her a more humanoid look. The family who found her took her in and she became their one and only child. However this family had some…issues. The father, Roger William, had quite the gambling and drinking problem. When he was drunk he would usually beat up her mother, Eliza William, and Nightmare had witnessed multiple times. She swore that she’ll get revenge one day. For her mother. Fast forward it a couple years and Nightmare started developing a new obsession about how she wanted to go the military and save the country. Of course none of her comments were taken seriously. But when she was only 13 years old she was accepted in to the Military academy. She was at the top of her class and soon enough she was in the military. When she became 17 she was already ahead of all of the commanders and was ready to graduate. But a war occurred. A horrible war that happened between not 1, not 2, but 4 countries. She fought in the war with all of her strength. She…was the only one to survive…It costed her, her arm and her friends…She was deemed a hero. Even though she hated that title deeply. ““I’m no hero.” she would say to herself. Months past and she became 18. She was ready to move on with her life. When all of a sudden…

A car crash “ended” her life. After she “died” she was immediately sent back to her Real parents. They told her that they were so proud of her and after 4 days of explaining where she was and what was she supposed to do in the afterlife, she was sent down to this version of hell in order to protect it from the darkness that was swallowing Dimensions.That is how she ended up in hell.

Appearance;

Nightmare is about 7.8 ft tall. Towering over most of the demons in hell. She has hair that is made from Aerogel (a crystal that is made from 99% air) and inside of that, you can see glowing, fizzing clouds. She has an X in front of her right eye. No one knows what is underneath and maybe it is better that way. Citizens of hell usually mistake her as an Exterminator but she is not one of them. That’s why she was shocked when Fizzarolli showed up to talk to her. She mostly wears blue. Cause why not and she still looks humanoid judging by her skin.

Personality;

She is the nicest creature you can meet in hell. She is helpful and caring. But push her to her limits and she will turn in to something worse than Satan. No like literally, her full angelic form is really scary. She still has memories of her past life but chooses not to think nor talk about them. When she was hired to work for Mammon she was smart enough to not sign the contract and even call the Ruler out for it. The second day of her job went down hill after that. Mammon and her got in to a fight. She was defending one of the employees and started an argument. But little did Mammon know that their powers were matching and had to stop the fight before he got seriously injured. The rest of the days went smoother though. She started talking and laughing and making jokes with Mammon. She also became really good friends with Fizzarolli. To the point where Fizz would refuse to leave her side.

I can write a whole lot more but I think that is enough for the basic story. That is her story. Hope you guys like it and don’t be afraid to ask her questions.

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