𝐗𝐗𝐗𝐕𝐈𝐈. Birth of a thought made manifest in human flesh —Dáinsleif's origins—.
◜The Winged One's regret or remorse gave birth to a thought, and as he imagined the path that could have been taken, a new soul was born.◞
As a result of the war waged against the Second Who Came, Nibelung and the ensuing chaos with the leaking Forbidden Knowledge that had to be subdued lest the world was plunged into darkness, thus left with no chances for survival, Phanes' functions were ruined and could no longer use their absolute authority to suppress the original order of this world. In combination with his severely wounded state, the Usurper glimpsed into the wrongs of his deeds and the ones bound to come after if he were to be deteriorated further due to the influence of the Forbidden Knowledge, the loathing and resentments of the world or other forces that could take advantage of his weakened state.
He who loved his human creations more than anyone, and He who cursed the gods to come after to love humans saw himself mired in hypocrisy the moment his creations were at disadvantage the most and were kept in the highest regard no longer due to his own decisions' and that of his closest circle, who should follow his will. Thus in a moment of weakness and lucidity, his regret gave birth to a thought— to a what if. What if things were different, what if his initial desire continued without struggling against the vicissitudes and personal agendas, what if he was stronger to not let himself be corrupted to this point of apparent no return.
What if he could undo everything that made his sacred plans evil.
From these last thoughts was Dáinsleif born as a soul, nurtured in a seed in Irminsul's benevolent aura out of its kindness and will for the world to cease fighting against its own natural orders and to diminish the loathing and resentments of the world that the Primordial One has caused. One day of the countless moons this seed basked under the moonlight and Irminsul's might, he was born in the material world in Celestia as a human, a manifestation of the origins never known by others of Phanes' closest circle until divine's eyes fell upon him. Unrest was among them, yet only muted at the knowledge that they could do with him as they pleased. So repeating the cycle of a once heiress of Celestia that failed in her task to retrieve the Pearl of Genesis and believed herself to be the queen of the kingdom of darkness, Dáinsleif was sent there with the intent to erase his memories of any ties he could have to Celestia.
Thus he would have no connection with the divine, nor his actions would suppose betrayal to any— for it is them who betrayed them first, abandoned him to his fortune. Unbeknownst to them, he who they abandoned would be the one to silence the source of all sins in the deepest abyss and undo the wrongs that began with the greatest Usurper, as well as reweaving all threads of fate.
It would all begin in Khaenri'ah, where Dáinsleif has drifted with a mission he recalls no more, and where he would mature his views of the world, limited at the time as they may be. His love for humanity and pursuit to defend them limitless as the Primordial Sea from where all life is born, even if his personal beliefs about the laws set in the kingdom and its deeds may differ drastically from what it would be expected of anyone who arrives to the kingdom established along the roots of Irminsul.
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in relation to what we were just talking about , but . how does grace cope with all the bullshit that happens to her in the week the game takes place in ? can she sleep ? does she cry or have any sort of breakdown privately ? or does she sort of just . not let herself stop and think about the trial ( yet at the same time be motivated by it ) and all these petty and spiteful fucks getting in her way ?
for the most part, grace is just pushing through and not letting herself stop. i think she knows there's literally no time for it; she can't give herself the luxury to process everything that's happening to her because each moment wasted on that is a moment less to figure out what happened and prove her innocence.
which means she gets terribly stressed out whenever whoever is helping her tells her to just wait. not only it's time she feels she could be using to act, waiting is when everything threatens to catch up to her and she can't stop. she doesn't wanna risk not being able to pick herself up again.
she sleeps very little, and mostly only because the stress and exhaustion of everything happening in such a short time just knocks her out eventually (i know apollo wanted her to rest but consider: she can't relax). i feel for the most part grace is either acting or considering what to do next. i could say preparing but honestly people keep her in the dark about what she's supposed to do next so often that the most she can prepare is like. preparing herself to face anything jsdnfakjsnd
and so she does! going to a club and facing down a goddess in a song battle? sure. going to the reliquary to find the minotaur? okay. going to a party no one wants to tell her anything about and adapting as she learns? will do. there's no other choice. so she just faces whatever bullshit people throw at her the best she can (as she says in my favorite reply to athena after it's determined there will be a trial, and the one reply i'd keep as canon for my blog: okay, it's unfair but it is what it is. she'll do her best. it's all she can do).
i think the only breakdown she has is very visible and it happens when freddie dies. it's also the one moment i feel she'd falter because to her, her life isn't worth more than freddie's. there's this dialogue option where she says 'it should've been me' that i feel is very fitting with how she'd feel about it. and at least with apollo, his reply ends with something like 'freddie gave you a chance' — that honestly is something i feel would lead her to keep pushing through. freddie died to give her a chance. she won't squander that opportunity, no matter how much she wishes things had been different. it's the least she can do when it's what freddie would've wanted her to do.
other than that, no, she never stops to cry or despair or breakdown even in private. all her energy is dedicated to keep going, no matter what happens. people around her might forget her life is on the line, but she doesn't. they might act like there is time, but she can't, she knows there isn't. it's definitely not stopping to think about it while keeping it as a motivator; a very serious threat that keeps her going but that she won't examine too closely so she won't breakdown.
after the trial, it'd probably take days for the sense of impending danger and the adrenaline and anxiety of being Constantly dealing with something to finally fade. and when it did... well.. that's when i think she'd really start to process it. to cry and feel the weight of it full force and be happy she's alive and be angry she had to go through all that and be devastated about freddie's loss. even then, i'd consider everything that happened pretty traumatic, from calliope dying in her arms to being sentenced to death to having a week to prove her innocence and everything that happens there. it's not like she'd get over it fast. it wouldn't stop haunting her soon after it was done. she can't just forget about it.
she'd definitely be on guard and have trouble sleeping, and i think the restlessness also lingers. i think her keeping herself so busy after the trial is also a means to cope; still not letting herself stop for too long or think too hard about what happened. hoping given time it'll be distant enough she won't have trouble with it anymore.
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He’s my favorite character, so it’s predictable that I was gonna talk about Lukas eventually. I played early season one episodes and season 2 episodes back to back, so it was really interesting to see how much his character had changed! So here are some Lukas related miscellaneous rambles under the cut. Warning, it’s a very long ramble.
(Disclaimer: A lot of the rambles are thoughts that would be from Lukas’ perspective, so if it sounds like I’m actually saying everything is his fault or something similar, I’m not, unless I explicitly say that. I’m just saying that that is how it feels to him)
First, let’s talk about his bravery and blaming himself.
In the very, very beginning, he’s really just some guy. Everyone (except Petra) is just some guy. They don’t know how deal with an event as devastating as the Witherstorm. So I can’t blame Lukas for freezing up. But he can.
He already feels bad about it in episodes 1 and 2- despite him getting defensive when Axel gets mad at him, he really does blame himself for what happened. He thinks he deserves to be left out in the rain, he thinks he deserves to not have anything to eat (too bad because I always give him the cookie).
Maybe he can keep trying. He can make up for his cowardice from before. He’s trying! He really is trying! If Jesse falls into the endermen pit (I did that because I wanted to see what would happen) he jumps down to help them. But then immediately runs away screaming when the endermen get aggressive.
Him blaming himself gets even worse when Petra (I’ve always saved her) comes back. Yes, he’s happy that she’s alive and okay, but then... we get to episode 3. Lukas knows there’s something wrong, if you watch him in the background of some of the scenes, you can see him looking at Jesse and Petra with suspicion. He doesn’t know what’s wrong, but he knows there’s something. And if anything bad happened to Petra, he believes it’s his fault. More on this later.
If Jesse tells him about the withersickness, it may ease some of the worry of not knowing what’s wrong- but now he knows Petra really is dying.
And it’s his fault.
It feels like he’s done NOTHING to help the team. Yeah, he may have given them an extra slimeball, but that was something small. He got himself trapped in the basement and had to be rescued by Jesse, inconveniencing everyone. He froze up when Petra needed his help. Sure, he did help fortify the base, but it wasn’t just him it was also Axel/Olivia. He ran away like a coward when he and Jesse were in the endermen pit. And he’s been arguing with everything Jesse or the others have said this whole time.
But depending on the dialogue options, Jesse can tell him “if you think that, then this is your chance to make up for it!” and they’re right. He’s being a burden by moping around feeling sorry for himself, he can do better. He can help.
However, being told that doesn’t make everything good and happy again. Because Lukas still does think it was all his fault. He just stops talking about it. So what he does instead is try and put other’s needs before his own. He can take care of himself after he makes sure everyone else is alright.
That’ll be brought up again later, but I’m gonna wrap up this segment with talking about episode 4.
Lukas does step up. He’s a lot braver now. He distracts the Witherstorm, trying to get all of its attention on him. That’s a lot! Especially compared to how terrified he was back in episode 1! And it isn’t like he just suddenly snapped and became braver, it happened over the course of the last few episodes. He helped build things in the path of the Witherstorm in episode 3, he led people through the End (depending on the player choices), he wanted to go out alone to find his friends, etc.
While it may not have started that way, Lukas is brave.
The next segment is Lukas’ way to cope with these stressful situations.
Lukas was the leader in his previous group, it’s what he’s used to. And when a situation feels out of control, he tries to take that control back. Unfortunately for him, Jesse is the protagonist. So he is not getting that control, and that’s stressing him out even more! This is very apparent in episode 3.
So many stressful and horrible things have been happening to him.
He nearly dies in a mob grinder. Axel keeps falling on him (which is a joke, but it still hurts and is still frustrating to him), and even after offering to help him up, Axel either gets distracted or lets him slip and fall back down. Petra is hiding things from him. It feels like he’s doing nothing for the team. Now he’s in the End! With endermen! Which he hates! Nothing is going according to plan, but maybe if he can just see the amulet, he can fix it... but Jesse won’t let him. He keeps arguing with them instead. This journey feels hopeless. They’ve come all this way, and Soren’s been building some weird wool world. And now he’s taking out all this anger and frustration on everyone else.
Jumping forward a few episodes, we can see a little bit of this during the portal arc! But not the same way. Instead, Lukas is coping by writing down everything he encounters, trying to make sense of it. It feels like getting control back in a very out of control situation.
And jumping even further ahead to Season 2 Episode 5, how does he deal with “Jesse”? By once again taking control of the situation, this time by making a new group.
Lukas is a good leader.
Next up- his relationship with his friends.
In Season 1 Episode 1, Lukas mentions that it’s great to see a team that gets along so well. Axel asks if he’s jealous, and Lukas quickly responds that he’s not. I think he is. Lukas may be the leader, but he and Aiden don’t really agree on things that much and argue about it a lot (Gil and Maya just follow whoever I don’t think they argue). But that doesn’t mean he doesn’t care about them. They’re still his friends, and he’s still going to do everything he can to try and save them from the Witherstorm.
How does he get rewarded for that? By getting kicked out of the group- or at least that’s what happened according to Aiden. If you asked Lukas, he’d say he left.
This isn’t the Aiden ramble, so I won’t derail by talking about him. But I do have thoughts about him too.
Lukas doesn’t want to lose more friends, so if Jesse parted on bad terms with him in the last episode, he goes to apologize to them. Apologize to them. When they were the one who was being so awful to him. I have watched this scene and he does try and make it sound like there were errors on both ends, it still feels like he’s putting the blame on himself yet again.
Luckily, I’ve never been mean to him so I don’t get this scene! Instead, he’s already Jesse’s friend.
And then right away, he’s gotta face his old friends. What he wasn’t expecting was for Aiden to straight up be ready to actually kill him! There was no hesitation when he shoved him over the edge of Sky City.
....I’m glad he got better friends.
In my opinion, Lukas is like me where he’ll make big threats but he won’t follow through with them. Like how I kept talking about wanting to kill Aiden but when I had the chance to push him off the edge, I couldn’t do it. I brought him with me (imo pushing him over the edge is the best option because Jesse is purposely making it so he can’t die by putting him in the water). And later Lukas says “I hope they put them in a deep hole, surround it with lava, and then-”. Again, he makes big threats. But would he actually follow through with them? He holds a grudge for sure, but I think he easily forgives too (he’ll apologize to Jesse if they parted on bad terms with him after all).
But now, he has better friends. Friends who really do care about him. In Episode 6, Petra gets really defensive over him. Jesse throws aside the Redstone Heart just to save him in Episode 7 (if he was the one chipped at the end). Ivor agrees to help Cassie Rose guard the closet he’s locked in so that he can make sure he’ll be okay. Jesse does everything they can to get him and Ivor/Petra out of the mines in Episode 8.
And Lukas cares just as much about them. Fighting as hard as he can against PAMA so that he doesn’t kill Jesse (if he was the one still chipped at the end). Saving Ivor/Petra in Episode 8 (even if that didn’t go so well). Going to Beacontown to help Jesse fight the Colossus in Season 2. And of course, how worried he was about Petra in the first half of Season 1.
Lukas is a good friend.
Finally, his habit of putting other’s needs above his own.
He was always like this, but it was never really that obvious until the Witherstorm. It was from the guilt he felt about not doing anything to help Petra, and then she got hurt.
From now on, he’ll make sure that doesn’t happen again.
In Episode 5, he does admit that he’s hurt, but I think he’s hiding the severity of how badly his arm got hurt. As soon as Jesse and Isa are looking away, he looks like he’s in a lot more pain than he had said before (or at least in my opinion. Everyone being blocks does make it harder to tell).
In Episode 7 it’s a lot more obvious (if he’s unchipped at the very end), when Jesse brings up PAMA as they follow Harper, Lukas looks upset, and Jesse apologizes. He quickly says “it’s alright, I’m fine!”
I don’t think he’s fine!! But he didn’t want Jesse to worry. I don’t think he was fine immediately after PAMA’s death as well, but again, he didn’t want Jesse or any of his friends to worry about him.
Jesse also has the oppurtunity to ask him if he’s okay throughout the portal arc, and I don’t think he’s responding with the complete truth every time.
To him, it’s fine if he lies. Now there’s less stress, right??
(There are likely more moments in Season 2, but I have only played through that once and cannot recall the episodes as well as I can with Season 1)
This post was trying to focus on both his strengths and his flaws, because that’s what makes a good character. It did kind of mention his flaws more, but that’s because it’s a topic that’s easier to analyze, haha. Hopefully he can learn to deal with his issues with blaming himself and putting others needs above his own one day.
Yes, it did get a bit rambly, but hey, that’s to be expected with my posts! I just hope it didn’t get too repetitive. I think Lukas is very neat :)
And I think that’s a wrap to this post!! I was gonna add more at the end, but I ran out of time!! And I did not feel like waiting hours to post it because typing long posts on mobile is annoying. Maybe I’ll come back and add some edits later.
If you wanna see more analysis like this, please do shoot me an ask! It’s hard to narrow down one topic to talk about sometimes. And I like talking about mcsm with people.
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1, 10, 21, 25, 28 for the comic ask game 👀
1. Who's your favorite character and why?
I love all of the five main Guardians equally (plus associated others to varying degrees) but Peter Quill is my little silly man who I want to put into an enclosure so I can study him through a glass wall. I could write various essays about his character and WILL whenever I get some free time because the world NEEDS to understand him the way I do...
Despite his many inconsistencies in personality due to inconsistent writing, I find him to be a very fascinating character with his usually bright exterior but inherent loneliness even as he constantly surrounds himself with groups of people... the never-ending cycle of reinventing himself because he never seems quite comfortable in his own skin for prolonged periods of time... his abilities that I don't think anyone else quite understand because it's too complex... No matter how many times he gets his ass beat or fucks something up he always manages to find a way to continue on even if he really doesn't want to :'/ my scrunklie...
10. Share a favorite comic panel.
Annihilation: Conquest - Star-Lord #1 and Guardians of the Galaxy (2020) #10
Sorry you're getting 2-for-1 pages because I CANNOT choose between the two nor just pick panels. The first I genuinely love just because it's soooo mundane... is there anything better than a suiting up scene... Timothy Green/Victor Olazaba really got across with so little just how completely tired he is of the universe's bullshit while contemplating alone.
The second is because that page is just the coolest with everything coming together... the payoff to Peter returning with the gained knowledge of his sun-elemental abilities... getting part of the gang together to take down a space weirdo... Juan Cabal's composition & Federico Blee's coloring are just SO good. All their issues on GotG (2020) were fantastic but shout-out to the last few they worked on together and especially with #9 as THE standout in my opinion.
21. Share a favorite piece of comics lore.
The most important lore ever is that Drax/Arthur Douglas' favorite meal was macaroni and cheese... we stan a simple king.
25. Who's your favorite villain?
This one is hard because I don't tend to keep up with any of the villains just on their own. I want to say Mysterio SO BAD but I'm not even a hardcore Spiderman reader, and he's done nearly nothing in the grand scheme of things, the mere concept of him is just so funny to me... But hmmmmm, I enjoy Galactus + some of his heralds, I have complicated feelings on Thanos... I find Shuma-Gorath interesting but his appearances are so inconsistent and lacking in giving him any real character of his own...
I actually really enjoy when the various Elders of the Universe show up. I think they work well for setting up an ongoing arc and or just to be a villain of the week thing, there's just such a big variety of extreme hobby fanatics to choose from for any occasion. I don't have a specific favorite out of them all though, maybe En Dwi Gast?
Now, specifically a favorite villain for the Guardians? I really liked the #evil Olympians in Ewing's GotG (2020) and part of me wishes they had been the main threat for a little longer. Greek mythos mixed with cosmic stuff is fun! Plus I feel they were thematically appropriate and a good foil for the team as a whole while also tying back to Peter with the usually forgotten Spartax stuff, the final battle/confrontation with them was great. Ultimately however I think Adam going Magus Mode in the DnA run and the tragedy of him turning after dealing with the fissure Fault and the team trying to do everything to prevent it, failing to do so and then Magus fucking with all of them, is still the most directly personal/effective threat they've had to deal with before or since if that counts for this... I know Magus wasn't directly their problem for more than a few issues but still.
28. What got you into comics?
I was super invested in the Archie Sonic the Hedgehog comics when I was way younger after getting a free comic book day issue LOL that eventually faded away as I grew up and then my timeline was essentially:
Saw the first GotG film > read the current (at the time) comics and was like ehhhhhhhh and fell off for a bit >> eventually went through and read the Annihilation era stuff and then went further back for individual characters >>> by that point All-New Guardians launched in 2017 and I LOVED the first half of that run >>>> Then it devolved into mass crossover event insanity and completely dropped Gamora's personal stakes in the plot to have a random soul stone monster being the mastermind of it all >>>>> Saw IW + EG and was SO HEARTBROKEN by the Guardians treatment in those movies that I completely put off reading anything Marvel related for a while LOL >>>>>> then the Eidos game came out and broke me and I read thru all the stuff I missed after Infinity Warps/etc and now I'm here.
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