LORE | REKINDLED EPISODE 32 - ALEX (PT 1)

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Bit of a shorter episode this week, I mentioned a while back when I switched to my iPad that that might happen as working on my iPad slows my usual work process a bit more. That said, it means the next part is already nearly finished so we can have even more time to work on Ep 33 ! I'm glad I at least have my iPad while my main tablet is still throwing its hissy fits >:0 Thank you so much for reading! <3

Also, LORE | REKINDLED is also on Dillyhub now! This is a platform I'm using just for mirroring, but it comes with higher quality versions of the pages with better support for vertical scrolling, so go check it out if you want to read Rekindled in its originally intended format! (also comes with the added benefit of supporting other platforms <3) Episodes are still being added regularly so it'll catch up with the Tumblr uploads soon <3

Also, this episode features another old LO panel recreation, think you can spot it? ;)

Minthe in her reparations arc for the ULO discord.

Pls observe the specific hand colours and how she gets happier as she recovers.

I’d say they’re basically identical and I put in just as much effort as the OG.

LO RANT:

TRIGGER WARNING: SA

Okay I’m back again and it’s only to say this.. The comments on the new fastpass are genuinely disgusting. I don’t care how you put it or feel about both characters it’s absolutely deranged to ship or want a redemption arc for a rapist, maybe I’m being too harsh but I can’t find soft words to use for this. The fact that there’s so many people girlbossing this entire situation as a “I got the entire lineage on my shoulders!!! I slept with the brothers and the father!!!!” thing is weird to me because these fans are all missing the point of Hera’s entire story and it makes no sense that as I’m ALWAYS saying these fans are quite literally shipping rapists with their victims when the entire point of Lore Olympus was to shed light and bring awareness to Sexual Assault that is not violent or gruesome in physical action.

And we all know why this is happening, Rachel doesn’t know how to properly handle this situation and it’s clear that that’s how this is coming across to her fans. They don’t see this as a rape survivor story they see this as another dark romance since she doesn’t bother on actually addressing the assault in a respectful and dignified way, every single time she adds another sexual assault in her story she’s always glamorizing it or diminishing it whenever she gets tired of writing about it and it’s infuriating. Your fans should know better than to ship victims with their abusers and you wanna know why? Because you pride your comic on healthy relationships and mental health talks, you use the sexual assault as some kind of badge to show everyone that you know what you’re talking about when it’s clear that you will abandon all real representation of a situation that affects millions of people around the world just for crappy fan service.

Lore Olympus fans are groomed to dismiss these arcs since they’re not even treated like they’re serious and it doesn’t seem like Rachel takes it serious as well, she’s never taken any advice from survivors who aren’t pleased with how she portrays SA and she completely ignores the feelings of those truly affected by the traumatic events that she shoves into her webcomic just so it’ll stay “interesting”. I’m tired of Rachel getting away with drawing absolute trauma porn and I’m sick of her sexualizing every single woman we come across, how many times do we have to continue this long and excruciating pattern of giving the women of your comic terrible consequences and make them suffer just for drama and nothing else. How many other situations are you willing to completely spit on just to look self aware?

This is honestly the last straw because there’s been so many people genuinely shipping Hera and Kronos and also saying borderline disgusting things just to defend stuff like that. Rachel needs to say something, you cannot just sit back and be quiet while your fans openly admit to wanting to see a rapist and his victim together for the sake of your own comic and “beloved” main character hell even for a lot of your fans you need to speak up about this and address it letting a mindset like that fester in a fandom probably filled with survivors of assault is a disservice to them and it’s a slap in the face to the comfort that your webtoon gave them.

I made a collage of old sketches from Rachel.

This is what I mean by Persephone is infantilised!

It’s one thing to have an age gap but this… THIS DOESNT MAKE IT LOOK ANY BETTER

Hades fr looks like Persephone’s dad.

LO Morpheus Redesign💤

Honestly one of my favourite redesigns I ever did so far. I always wanted to give more fun (and feathers) for Morpheus' design.

Her head wings are based off of Mugler's "La Chimère" outfit.

The colour scheme is based off of dreamy scenery images I've collected for inspiration.

I kept the long nails since I honestly love it but added little more colour to them.

Mugler inspo:

Miraculous Awakening and Lore Rekindled are single-handedly reforming and reviving my love for the first two franchises with pink-coded female leads that I’ve ever loved, and I’m so happy about it

LO EDIT/REDESIGN

Decided to hop on into the trend and redesign Persephone's titan form when "fighting" Cronus, there's nothing wrong with the original design it does kinda gives off that girl boss vibes y'know, but it just doesn't feel that different from the original Persephone, like it's just Persephone with her blood red eyes and a black dress with a crown and earrings like that's it, so I decided to add a few things to further emphasize the dreadful aspect of Persephone.

About the design

Let's start with the snakes: I gave her snakes because in some versions the furies were daughters of both Hades and Persephone, and one of the main characteristics of the furies was the snakes in their hair, so I gave her snakes to reference that in my Design.

The hair: Persephone had two symbols, a stack of wheat and a torch, specifically a four-headed torch (pretty badass if you ask me 😎), so I tried my best to make it fire-like.

The face: you've probably noticed that her face looks darker in the edit than in the original, well there's a good reason for that, I wanted to make Persephone a little terrifying so I gave her a mask (I'm gonna call it a mask for simplicity) as a little emphasis on the dreadful aspects of her character.

Here's a closer look at the mask:

And here's how she looks without it:

I gave her dark blue makeup bc there's a version where it described Persephone as "dark-eyed Persephone" so I wanted to reference that, and also bc why not? I also gave her a more serious and prepared expression to make the scene more serious bc in the original she looked like your little sibling after they got you in trouble.

Her outfit: I wanted Persephone to have an ancient greek inspired dress because I thought it'll look powerful if a character who is based on an ancient story/figure wore an outfit that is inspired by the ancient culture they're based on.

Here's a closer look at the dress:

I made the dress blend in with her skin because 1) it's inspired by Persephone's dress in the later episodes 2) I wanted to give this unusual vibe and make her look like an actual powerful non-human being rather than someone who got an entire bucket of paint spilled all over them.

So yeah, that's my LO edit/redesign, what do you guys think? Unlike some people, I'm open to criticism and looking forward to improving my skills in the future

Persephone hating Hades. I once made a Hermesephone AU where she also hates Hades and this is part of that. I'll be making another Hermesephone comic in the future 💜

Not writing but the hell is episode 255 of LO?? Man, The writing sucks and everything does and-

Okay. So, Apollo said he'd take over his father's role. Alright, makes a little sense. A bit early for that, people wshould be wondering why he doesn't look upset but watever.

One problem.

HERA IS STILL ALIVE

She's like, perfectly alive and well, and does a good job at being queen (as far as i can tell). We know she doesn't like Apollo, there's no way she'd let him actually take over.

then again, she's probably been forgotten lol

LORE | REKINDLED EPISODE 33 - 1-3-4-3-4-0

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Hades has a plan and it's totally 100% not going to blow up in his face-

Finalised Dionysus designs for my comic centred around him, which is called Frenzy, and I’ll begin soon. Plus bonus Hera again. She and Dio do not get along. It started with him being yet another illegitimate child of Zeus and escalated when he found out what happened to Semele.

Click for better resolution! Reblogs > likes.

Theory: we don’t see much of Poseidon in LO cuz he’s protecting his peace by avoiding Hades.

I’ve been working on a retelling of Abduction of Persephone and there are things I might add here:

This might be a black comedy work (inspirations taken from The Good Place and other American/British comedy shows)

Persephone isn’t the “Goddess of Spring” but called and praised as one

Kore is Perse’s nickname

Hades’ design is based on Jemaine Clement (I kept imagining that)

Hades is sort of an antagonist in my retelling (he’s the main antagonist at first then became a supporting character)

Persephone wears in blue green motifs in the mortal realm

Perse wasn’t aware that she’s Zeus’ daughter until she and Hades had an argument about marriage

Perse and Hades’ relationship resembled Eleanor and Michael’s from The Good Place (their role are similar to architect but Hades focused a bit on parties and sometimes punishing)

Demeter isn’t an overbearing/overprotective mother but a cool mom to Perse and Dionysus (Perse and Dio are twins and they’re both Zeus’ kids)

Perse and Dem have no knowledge of Perse being married off to Hades (Dem was in the mortal realm when the arrangement happens)

LO REMINDER:

Forever will absolutely despise both Hera and Hecate heavily because they were never the girl boss feminists that everyone believed them to be and they quite literally take the sides of men rather than their female peers. They’re the number one dick riders for Hades and both of them failed in actually supporting and taking care of Persephone.

Hecate was studying on Demeter’s land and utilizing her own resources from that said land and knew that Persephone was not supposed to be anywhere near Hades or the Underworld. Not only did she not reach out to Demeter once when her own daughter ran away, got stuck in the Underworld, and had a place to hide away from the feds but she also allowed this grown ass man to sniff around the very naive and gullible 19 year old Persephone. When Persephone was hibernating due to all of the stress and cold temperatures that both Hades and the Underworld brought her she never talked to Hades about cutting ties with her or supplying Persephone with an apartment by herself where she can get away from all the stressors she kept her near Hades at all times. She was also the second in command of ruining her social life, she encouraged Hades to do that dumbass eye pulling thing over someone he had no business knowing in the first place and she didn’t even apologize to Persephone at all. Hecate is the biggest op ever to Persephone, she never cared for her at all and she quite literally is just Hades’ hunting dog when it comes to vulnerable women.

Next is Hera, we all know why she failed Persephone multiple times but I’m gonna repeat them anyways because the amount of shit Persephone lets Hera get away with is actually criminal. First off we have to talk about the infamous match making thing, first of all she doesn’t even know anything about Persephone? She met her once at a party while she was drunk and another time when she was literally a fucking baby that’s the only flashbacks we have of her and Persephone interacting together so why would she be in such a rush to do this anyways. Besides the fact that Hera is literally picking Persephone’s own love life for her, the girl is 19 years old Hades even said so himself that she isn’t even old enough to handle the effects of magic why the fuck are you trying to hook up this (mortally) freshly new 19 year old with someone who’s old enough to be her uncles and great grandfathers? Another thing is the fact that Hera single-handedly forced Persephone to work in the Underworld despite not having any real friends, family, or other people there was actually fucked up of her in the first place. Once again, Persephone doesn’t have street smarts and she knows nothing of the Underworld and she’s a nature goddess as well, she’s literally made of fucking plants if she doesn’t have any sunlight she’s not going to do well which is why Persephone (used to be) is always cold when she went down there in the first place. Hera did not give a flying fuck about Persephone and she quite literally only used her as a puppet just so she can get over her own fling. Not only that but the fact that Hera was actively trying to find out what happened to Persephone by discussing it with other people and not even trying to question her is wild as well. Persephone’s assault is her business and if people that Hera questioned started to catch on and question Persephone about it I can imagine that that would probably trigger her. If Hera didn’t even want to see anyone while dealing with Kronos why not give Persephone that same privacy? Don’t even get me started on the dress thing too, I swear Hera acts exactly how everyone wants Demeter to act like. You cannot tell me that Hera isn’t Persephone’s overbearing mother who forces her to do things she doesn’t want to, puts an unbelievable standard on her, doesn’t let her make her own decisions, and keeps her in the dark about things.

Anyways, moral of the story here is that along with Hades these two deserve to be up there with the true villains of Lore Olympus because they’re quite literally just like Thetis but maybe even worse honestly. They both show us where their loyalty lies and that they care more about Hades’ feelings rather than Persephone so much so that they’d throw her under the bus without remorse if he asked them to.

I read the recent FP and no I’m not gonna give spoilers however I will hate on Persephone even more ❤️