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nadziejastar · 5 years
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Isa’s TRUE Personality: The Beautiful, Tortured, Selfless Moon Goddess of Love (Part 1)
Saix’s weapons are an absolute goldmine of esoteric symbolism. There’s no way I can cover it all in one post; there’s just too much. But I want to do a series analyzing everything, to show just how differently his character ended up in canon, compared to how it was originally conceived. I think the original idea for Isa’s character and his relationship with Lea is extremely unique and utterly fascinating. According to the symbolism, Isa’s TRUE personality is exactly as the title describes. A tortured, beautiful, selfless Moon Goddess of Love who was clearly intended as a love interest for Lea.
Part 1: The Tortured Moon Goddess
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Cool, collected, and mature beyond his age. He’s good friends with Lea.
— Jiminy’s Journal (Kingdom Hearts Union χ)
Saix’s title, Luna Diviner, is a reference to Selenomancy, named after the Goddess Selene. It is a specialized form of divination that examines the various aspects, phases, and appearances of the moon. According to diviners, moon phases are associated with certain personality types at the time of birth. There are several specific moon phases used as names for Saix’s weapons. Gibbous represents someone who is a healer and humanitarian. They care about other people; sometimes more than themselves. The pain and suffering of others is something that they are not only highly sensitive to, but also want to help transform.  
Balsamic Moon, is the waning crescent that is the trademark symbol on Isa’s jacket. It’s the final phase of the moon. This is a phase of decline and darkness—a rich opportunity for your soul to experience. It is considered the most Yin or Feminine phase. Balsamic means soothing or restorative. If you are born under this Moon, you will be aged and mature in some way. Balsamics are quiet, retiring and resilient; they are often seen as “old souls”. They are complex and wise beyond their years, as well as loners who usually only enjoy the company of a select group of people.  
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New Moon is also known as the Dark Moon. It is the phase where the Moon’s energy is weakest. Even though the New Moon is invisible in the sky, those born under it are cloaked in darkness. They tend to lack self-awareness. They may be known for being selfish, callous, or unable to see things from other people’s perspectives. This weapon has the same shape as Berserker and Werewolf.
Saix’s Pandora Gear is Dichotomy. This word has several definitions. It means “a division or contrast between two things that are entirely different.” Or, “the phase of the moon in which half its disk appears illuminated.” It represents the clear division between the past and the present, Isa and Saix.   
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Many of Saix’s weapons incorporate ♐︎ the astrological symbol of Sagittarius into them. I believe ♐︎ is meant to represent Lea. Sagittarius is a part of the Fire Trigon of the Zodiac. As an archer, he is said to never fail in hitting the mark. Sagittarius represents the centaur Chiron, an immortal centaur, who was renowned for his gentleness. After being accidentally shot by a poison arrow, he was in agony, but unable to find release in death. So he decided to offer himself as a substitute for Prometheus, who was punished by the gods for giving fire to man. Zeus saw the kindness of Chiron and immortalized him in the stars.
Axel’s weapon Prometheus is a combination of ♐︎ and the symbol of Mars ♂, and ALSO ♋ the Cancer symbol. Mars was known as the Roman god of war. He was said to love the violence and conflict. He carried a spear that was often depicted as covered in blood. He was the patron God of soldiers and was worshiped prior to battle. Soldiers in the Roman Army prayed to Mars before battle, hoping that he would protect them and lead them to victory.
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Selene is shaped like a torch combined with ♐︎ the symbol of Sagittarius. In ancient Greek mythology, Selene is the Titan goddess of the Moon and is said to drive her glowing chariot powered by beautiful white horses across the sky each night. Her symbols were the crescent moon, a chariot, and a torch. Selene was very well known mostly because of her beauty. She was a very peaceful goddess and did not approve of war. Her personality was said to be secluded and timid.
Most Ancient Greeks looked to her for healing. Selene also had many powers that you would not think a moon goddess would have. Mythology states that she had powers surrounding dreams, she could harness the ability to awaken intuition and she could also catalyze psychic visions. As the patron of femininity, she was known to have the power to ease childbirth, to inspire love, to mask reality, and to pierce illusion.
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Artemis has been commonly associated with Selene. She was the goddess of the Moon, the ruling planet of Cancer, and the daughter of Zeus. Her personality was individualistic and free-spirited, yet kind. She was a patron goddess of hunting and childbirth, and she was also the protectress of little children and baby animals. In Greek mythology, Artemis was usually portrayed as a very tall, beautiful young maiden with a hunting bow the shape of a crescent moon and golden arrows. She is often accompanied by either a stag or a dog. One of her special talents is calming animals, meaning that when she walks near them they come towards her and become calm.
Artemis is one of the ‘virgin’ androgynous goddesses, along with Athena and Vesta. Due to her well-integrated masculine energy and independence, she possesses an introverted temperament, preferring solitude. She was also known to be friends with mortals. Her assets were courage, confidence, and strength (both mental and physical). Her weaknesses were vengeance, impulsiveness, and being quite aloof. She was afraid of men, which is why she used to live in the woods and only went for walks at night. She rarely had any male companions; she only loved one person, Orion, but she ended up unintentionally killing him due to trickery. In her pain she appealed to Zeus to immortalize Orion in the stars so she could be with him.
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A quiet and cool-headed youth. Though he does come out of his shell when talking to his best friend Lea, toward others he is distant and untalkative. Often scolds Lea and his contrasting personality.
— description from KHBBS Light Novel 2 (Best Friends)
The design for the weapon Astrologia incorporates ♋, the sigil of Cancer into its design. Cancer is associated with Artemis, who is similar to people born under the sign of Cancer. They are very modest, shy, and extremely emotional individuals who love children and pets. Artemis exemplifies the caring, nurturing and protective qualities of the mother. Deeply intuitive and sentimental, Cancer can be one of the most challenging Zodiac signs to get to know, but they are sympathetic and very attached to the people they keep close.  
Being ruled by the Moon, they are mysterious— they can struggle with sharing their innermost feelings. Cancer was known as the “dark sign” because of the obscured visibility of its constellation in the night sky. They have a tendency to brood and can be very moody and pessimistic. They often don’t have enough coping and defensive mechanisms for the outer world, so they can be prone to introversion and slow to warm to strangers. Cancers are quick to retreat into their shells if it suits their mood. The crab is a perfect symbol for the Cancer sign, symbolizing how a sensitive soul hides beneath a tough exterior.
A Cancer is caring and vulnerable, however callous they may appear on the outside. They are introspective and serene folk, who love solitude yet care gently for the people surrounding them. This receptive nature, however, makes them easily hurt. Cancer is the most emotional sign of the zodiac but at times they might appear icy and separated. Empathy for others is likely to be strong, and they will have an intuitive ability to sense what others need. They have a tendency to be quite clingy. Cancer’s shyness comes from their insecurity and deep fear of rejection. They are a cautious and shrewd people. 
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Moon Rabbit is known as the Jade Rabbit in China. The Jade Emperor disguised himself into a poor, starving old man and begged for food from monkey, otter, jackal, and rabbit. Rabbit could only gather grass. Knowing well enough that grass can’t be offered as food to humans, rabbit decided to offer its own body, sacrificing itself in the fire the man had started. Somehow, though, rabbit wasn’t burned. The old man suddenly revealed himself to be the great Jade Emperor. Touched deeply by rabbit’s selfless sacrifice, he sent it to the moon to become the immortal Jade Rabbit.
More than just cute, fluffy, and white, the Jade Rabbit is a sign of selflessness, piety, and sacrifice. The Jade Rabbit is on the moon so that no matter where we are on Earth, we always have the ethics of righteousness and self-sacrifice to look up to. In East Asia, the Jade Rabbit is a widespread cultural symbol. When the bunny isn’t busy making immortality elixirs, it keeps the beautiful goddess Chang’e company in the Moon Palace.
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Saix’s weapon Crescent is based on the Phoenix’s wings. This weapon represents the albedo stage of magnum opus. Following the chaos of the nigredo stage, albedo involves the washing away of impurities. In this process, the subject is divided into two opposing principles to be later coagulated to form a unity of opposites during rubedo. The aura is light blue, meaning truthfulness and serenity.
Psychologist Carl Jung equated the albedo stage with “unconscious contrasexual soul images; the anima in men and animus in women”. Jung described the animus as the unconscious masculine side of a woman, and the anima as the unconscious feminine side of a man, with each transcending the personal psyche. This makes albedo a phase where insight into the shadow side of the self is gained, while inflated ego is removed from the psyche.
So, that makes it VERY interesting that the weapon has a similar shape to ⚸. Even if they never planned to actually show it explicitly, the writers seemed to be inspired by Black Moon Lilith. Which raises very disturbing (though very interesting) implications about what happened during the experiments on the “darkness of the heart”. It would certainly explain how Axel’s personality became so warped. It would also explain why he didn’t find Saix’s personality change that unexpected, either, and why Axel seemed to always give him the benefit of the doubt no matter how cold he was. 
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Astronomically, Lilith is considered an asteroid. Yet, some astrologers identify Lilith with the “Black Moon”. It’s the mathematical point that’s exactly in between the earth and the moon–essentially, empty space. Astrologically, it represents the cosmic void; the very energy Black Moon Lilith embodies. Psychologically, it is a point that represents how we react to emptiness and isolation. It brings up deep and primal issues like repressed feelings of rejection, rage, and the refusal to give in. This particular archetype is associated with sex, death, obsession, addiction, transformation, resurrection, magic, the occult and the taboo. These things are seen as the entry way between the spiritual dimension (or the underworld), and life on the physical plane.
Put simply, Lilith is the dark side of the moon. She represents animus, the feminine shadow side—What society rejects as appropriate for the feminine, Lilith takes up. The vilest manifestations of sexuality like pedophilia, rape, and satanic ritual abuse are all the domain of Lilith. She was actually said to be a hermaphrodite, so she could act as both a succubus and an incubus. Trauma based mind-control, through the use of sexual torture is another area connected with Black Moon Lilith. She symbolizes the transformation that occurs after going through a dark night of the soul. Usually, the trigger is great suffering, mourning, pain or torture. I can only imagine what poor Lea and Isa must have gone through.
Astrologically, Chiron (Sagittarius) stands in total opposition to Black Moon Lilith and all she represents. He is a symbol to remind us to look at the vulnerabilities we face in light of our connection to Divinity. Through the exploration of our wounds, we are called to heal all that creates a rift or disconnection with our Spirit.
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bi-apps · 4 years
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Not Accepted- Mary Macdonald
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APPLICATIONS
Regular Application
OOC Information:
Name/Age/Timezone-Mai/18/CET
Activity Level- 6.5
Ships/Anti-Ships- It really depends on the character and the player’s interpretation but in principle I’m fine with everything thrown my way.
Did you read the rules? Yes
IC Information:
Character Name- Mary Macdonald
Age/Birthdate- 20, 25/8/1957
Faceclaim- ,Emma Watson, Rachel Hurd Wood, Florence Pugh
Occupation- herbologist
Blood Status-muggleborn
Traits- +observant +kind-hearted +imaginative -shy -sensitive -inflexible
Patronus- the rabbit
Boggart - helplessness
Key Points
- Mary Vesta Macdonald was named by her grandmother in order for her no to hate her father. Her second name was the one her parents wanted to give to her. They were both brilliant, university professors - her mother in mathematics, her father was a hellenist. Mary grew up surrounded by books and her father read her the odyssey to sleep. Mary was impressed by them, but though she very much intended on having a brilliant career just like them, Mary did not want to be like her parents. She was shy, they were shameless and she would die if she acted like them. She was interested in everything, in everyone. They were proud. They were great the way they were, but Mary wasn’t good enough to get away with acting like them.
-When she got her letter from Hogwarts, her parents couldn’t believe it. They didn’t, in fact, and when the letters kept coming they ran away until a professor came in person to confirm : magic was real. Her parents had no intention of letting her go to Hogwarts. They fought. She insisted. Eventually, they backed down.
- When she got to the school, Mary was truly lost. She didn’t know anyone and apparently some people hated her just for who she was - she felt desperately alone. Her parents were right, and she wished she had listened to them. Then, she met Lily Evans - a muggleborn just like her, clever and funny and everything you could wish for in a friend. Lily Evans brought Marlene into her life, and they simply got along - she felt like they understood each other. She wanted to spend every hour of her day with them, and she would. She decided that Hogwarts would be worth it if she got to go through it with them.
In third year, Mary started hating James Potter. Or, in other words, she feel in love - with Lily Evans. It was the worst time in her life, incredibly confusing and painfully and full of shame once she realized what was happening, but eventually, after a great deal of effort and starting to befriend the boy she hated - James, not Severus, she wasn’t that desperate - she got over it. It was the first of a long streak of intense, secretive and somewhat traumatizing crushes.
In her teenage years, her relationship with her parents wasn’t great. They didn’t understand them, and didn’t even try to - in fact they refused to talk about anything magic with her. She later found out that they were afraid of making a fool of themselves, and even more of losing their daughter to a world they could never be a part of. However, at the time, she did not know that, and Mary assumed the worse. She spent most of the summer holidays reading every book in their library or taking day-long trips, exploring her town and everything beyond. The other holidays she chose to spend at school.
Changes/Extra Info- Connection changes have to be approved by current players. All changes are up to admin approval.
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“I started thinking about fighting back very soon after Mulciber’s attack. The thing is, I was so afraid at first, I just wanted to make myself as small as possible. To fall in line, somehow, even though I know that nothing makes people like that content as long as I continue to exist. And once I was out of that place of pure fear, I rebelled against that instinct. I was dying to fight back, so I wrote a few pamphlets about blood purity,  tried to get them out there and started looking for ways to show my opposition from my place in the school - I just wanted to take my anger and make it into something productive, really. And when you put yourself out there you start hearing about other people - making connections and learning about the ways you can get in and with whom you can get in. That made be think a lot, I’d become someone known for this, for my actions, someone people trusted enough to talk to me about these. It was very surprising once I realized what was happening, and I had to think a lot about the responsibility of it, and of course  about the dangers. I thought about my parents, who I hadn’t told any of that to until then, so I came back home for the holidays- something I usually never did - and we talked about it , a lot. It really helped me get some distance and understand my situation, and I had never talked about that aspect of the wizarding world to my parents before, so that was a very important, very hard discussion. They weren’t thrilled about sending me to Hogwarts so at first I was afraid they’d pull me out of the school, and then I got used not to tell them and our relationship wasn’t great during that time anyway. There was just a whole part of my life, a very hard part of  life, which they had no idea about, and I felt like I was alone to deal with it… Talking to them was amazing and my parents were always very insightful, and also incredibly brave. ANd they have that will to fight - not to accept a bad situation - so they encouraged me to do my part and they gave me very concrete information and advice, too, which really helped because it was the first time this started to feel like a real, concrete project. It was exhiliarating, but obviously also very scary - not only because of the dangers but because that means people would rely on me. I decided to wait until after graduation to seek anyone out and I used the rest of my days at school to spot other allies ,and meet people ,and learn other information about the ways we can fight, making the most of my time. Hogwarts was a great place to learn because there was this kind of absence of danger - obviously there was some dangers, but I knew the perpetrators would be punished, and there was never any danger of death whereas out in the street anything could happen. When I approached the Order I knew exactly what I wanted to do and how, I think that helped the process a lot. And then I just started working, and it was different from just hearing from it, in theory, but somehow it was also easier. Once you’re doing it, you don’t feel any fear, it just becomes normal. It’s only when you step back and think about it that you realise that you are putting yourself in danger, so I try not to dwell on it.
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