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anyways i havent settled on a suitable understanding of ghosts within the dp universe which is REALLY hindering my writing about it
#ghosts sort of require mind body dualism .... which i dont love.#sort of thinking of the ghost zone as a metaphysical realm layered over the physical one#it sort of functions as an ocean w currents and stuff and a reverse ecto snow type thing that ghosts feed on like marine snow#then ghosts can also hunt for stuff on the physical side of things which gives them motivation to come and cause havoc#but theres also a ghost ectosystem that sustains deeper populations/more esoteric ghosts#also i lovethe idea of dead languages being spoken in the ghost zone lol#but ghosts come from the living - either as real physical things or dead ideas etc but from there they can change#so u can get werewolves and dragons etc - concrete ideas can warp ghosts and ghosts can warp themselves provide they have the energy to#idk im still trying to iron stuff out#fanon dp stuff is fun but i have Thoughts#phantom tag#canis speaks
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Something fanon gets wrong
Dick Grayson is genuinely one of the greatest fighters in all of DC.
I know people have trouble believing this for some reason but a man who has defeated every single one of his enemies, other people’s enemies, and has consistently come out on top should have his abilities talked about a bit more because they’re amazing.
Let's start small to big. Firstly Donna talks about Nightwing's abilities.
When I read this I was confused by what she meant. Prowess means skill or expertise and that makes sense but Dick has a lot of power behind him though...
And then I realized she meant metaphysical power.
Dick isn't a magician. He can't run at supersonic speeds, throw buildings, speak to animals, communicate with the dark, fly above the clouds, bounce bullets off his chest (Oh, wait. He can do it off his ass instead never mind), turn into animals, or other amazing abilities. But his skill is so high that he is easily able to keep up with people who can.
M'gann, the white martian with extraordinary capabilities, tells Dick, "You are just a human, with no superpowers, yet you have consistently excelled throughout your career, despite being surrounded by godlike beings."
This is incredible.
We see Dick leading teams of superheroes and metas all the time and we take it for granted but we never acknowledge the immense power and skill he must have for him to be able to do this.
Repeatedly. Time after time. He outsmarts both his human allies and outfights his meta ones.
One of Dick’s greatest OP moments is when he takes down the entire Titans team -Gar, Raven, Donna, and Jason too when he hung around with them- single handedly. And when Jason put a gun to the back of his head in supposed victory, Dick opened his hand to let the golden bullets fall, gleaming in the light with the coldest line, “with these bullets?”
We all know how amazing Bruce is, but Dick is on Bruce's level.
No?
Okay, here's the evidence.
Dick has fought Azael in a sword fight to a standstill when Azael has beaten Bruce separately and Tim and Jason combined.
He has defeated Ra's in a sword fight and Ra's is one of the greatest swordsmen.
Sometimes he doesn't even need a sword to defeat a skilled swordsman.
He's a League of Assassins member and we all know that anyone from the League of Assassins is never just good. They're excellent. The entire fight Dick is looking for Blockbuster and he's so capable and good at fighting the entire scene was like watching Thanos flick Captain America away vibes. He's not even looking at him when he smashes his foot into Shrike's face!
Most importantly, he has defeated Deathstroke
The greatest thing about Dick is he is able to defeat Slade at the peak of Slade's abilities. Slade doesn't need to be weakened for Dick to win.
Here's where people has some hesitance accepting Dick's abilities.
"Bruce has defeated Slade but Dick has never been able to!"
He literally has in Dark Crisis but I'll give you the lead up.
Dick can easily disarm Slade.
He can predict Slade's moves ahead of time and properly counteract them.
He can go toe to toe with him and in one comic, they dance down a hallway, fighting, neither able to get the upper hand. The mercenary meta, considered by the US Government to be 1 of 2 greatest assassins (the other being Katana) isn't able to pin down and defeat a 20 year old despite his enhancements.
I left out the scene where Dick twisting Deathstroke's arm and smashing his face into a bedroom mirror despite being complete weaponless and in his civilian identity. No protection and no support. But it's another example of how Dick's poweress is much greater than people expect of him.
Of course there are panels where Dick has been defeated by Slade but Dick isn't 17/18 anymore. He isn't learning to fight without Batman hovering over his side.
Also there is a panel everyone references to when talking about Nigthwing losing to Deathstroke. This one.
sure. okay. whatever. BUT WHY WON'T YOU SHOW WHAT HAPPENS NEXT COWARDS?!?
THEY DANCE-FIGHT LIKE THEY'RE ENEMIES IN A BALLROOM ON OPPOSING SIDES BUT CAN'T AFFORD TO LET ANYONE FIND OUT.
THIS IS SOME HIGH LEVEL JAMES BOND-RED NOTICE-MISSION IMPOSSIBLE- TYPE SHIT.
"Close the hold, you morons! Close the--Guuk!"
That's Slade talking by the way. To his allies. Who do you think made him "GUUK!"?
And here they were evenly matched.
But Slade had to pull out bombs he had been saving for when other people came in order to defeat dICK AND HE STILL LOST BECAUSE DICK BESTED HIM.
Yup. Dick is just that good.
Nightwing defeated Bane
Before you go into saying something like "it was a holographic construction." What the fuck difference does that make? Does a holographic construction alter the strength used by the enemy, change their fighting style, phase through when fighting, act dumber than the real deal? No, right? The fact is Dick broke Bane's back the exact same manner that Bane broke Batman's. All those scenes of Bane punching Nightwing around? Let me remind you that the guy snuck up on Dick. The second time Dick underestimated Bane's powers before getting ready to put in real effort before Batman interfered to take Bane for himself.
All those amazing scenes of him defeating enemies that we've scoffed at recently? They're just a continuation of what already is written. It's not new or unbelievable, it's expected.
Here's my final point. Dick has defeated all of the Justice League's enemies in one go.
This is Batman/Superman comic where Kara gets infected so Dick as Batman sends her to the medbay while he tears down the Watchtower to save her. As in every single defense mechanism the Watchtower has, he demolishes it with his pure skill and abilities. Furthermore, the Watchtower defenses were enhanced by cyborg Superman to be lethal. To kill on sight.
Just. Phenomenal.
He did it! He defeated all of them and made it to the electronic controls he was aiming for.
Another thing I want to point is Dick's strength is greater than what people assume it to be.
He's the world's greatest acrobrat and has a build fitting of that but the strength he packs in his body is equal to that of a meta. Maybe it's because of how he only fights with metas and has teammates that are all metas but he has raised his striking power to equal that.
He shatters cyborg superman in one blow.
He can handle blows from meta humans in a way most others can't which suggests to me that he must've done some kind of training or have maybe increased pain tolerance or have the ability to backseat the pain so it won't affect his fighting. How many can take a hit and rise up the next second?
He's not metahuman. Batman must've done several tests because he also was amazed by robin Dick's poweress lol but really Dick is just extraordinary. Give him any enemy and he will garaunteed defeat them without using cheap tricks or surprise moves which is why he is one of the greatest. The only time people have gotten an upperhand on him is when he has been emotionally weakened. Emotionally. Imagine the absolute monster he would be if he controlled his emotions like Batman.
But I would never want him to though because his emotions are the reason why he's the light of DC.
#dick grayson#nightwing#donna troy#m'gann m'orzz#shrike#dc bane#slade wilson#deathstroke#batman#kara danvers
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maybe a silly one: thoughts on crablor?
Crab-Lore
For those who have yet to encounter him, “Crablor” is a portmanteau of “Crab” and “Maglor”, i.e., the crab Maglor became after his many ages of wandering the shores in pain and regret. Crablor is fanon. It was born here.
As @faustandfurious wrote in that very post there is no canon about Maglor’s eventual fate. (You can read about the various ways Maglor ended, or didn’t, here).
But the idea of Elven crabification in general does have some basis in canon!
In his writings on Elven fading in Morgoth’s Ring, Tolkien talks about the fëa (spirit) consuming the hröa (body):
As ages passed the dominance of their fëar ever increased, 'consuming' their bodies (as has been noted). The end of this process is their 'fading', as Men have called it; for the body becomes at last, as it were, a mere memory held by the fëa; and that end has already been achieved in many regions of Middle-earth, so that the Elves are indeed deathless and may not be destroyed or changed.
The History of Middle-earth Vol. 10: Morgoth’s Ring, The Later Quenta Silmarillion, ‘Laws B’ (p. 219)
This was not, however, Tolkien’s last thought on the matter. In a marginal note on the entry for hröa published in the linguistic journal Parmasan Eldalamberon (Vol. 12), Tolkien revisits the metaphysical implications of Elven fading:
What of a hröa that resists fading? It is not then consumed by the fëa, but compressed by the process of containing it; by which it will in time be overcome, though at great expense to the strength of the fëa, for this at last takes possession of the changed hröa as its ‘casement’.
What?
This note Tolkien clearly did not intend to be seen or interpreted by anyone but himself, and its meaning is rather opaque. What he seems to be describing, however, is a slow process of shrinking and shapeshifting, from body to “casement”, in cases where a hröa resists fading.
Casement as in… shell? As in… exoskeleton? Elves who resist fading become crabs?
Okay, so that probably wasn’t what Tolkien meant, but I can find nothing to contradict it. Let us assume, for our amusement, that the hröa - casement transformation is, or can be, into a crab.
The next question is: Might Maglor have resisted fading?
If one imagines his fate in the published Silmarillion as self-punitive (a reading supported by the alternate versions in which he does in fact commit suicide like Maedhros), it would makes sense that he might resist fading as a sort of release from his punishment. Or perhaps the metaphysics of the Oath had some interference in his ability to fade in the usual fashion.
In which case, Maglor may very well have been one of the Elves who became a crab. Or something like it.
ETA: Happy April Fool's.
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Ectoplasm = The Primordial Soup
I have Thoughts/Headcanons about the Infinite Realms I want to put down somewhere
The concept of Infinity is really really interesting on a metaphysical sense and to have a REALM titled after it? I want to know MORE. What is it? Is it purgatory? An end? A beginning? A funhouse mirror? Or all these possibilities in one, as it is truly Infinite?
Fanon-wise, especially in crossovers, the ghost zone/infinite realms is a truly infinite realm that connects to every universe out there. It serves as the Main Realm of the Dead, the sea in which all the other realms of the dead are floating in, right? When Danny is written as the King of this Realm, he is often placed at the top of the chain of command, above hades/hell/whatever demon or deity the author sees fit. The crown and ring literally grant (quoted from the show) “infinite power,” so Ghost King Danny is OP for a Canon Reason.
We are also using the fact that its a ghosts obsession that keeps them on that plane. Its their obsession that powers them, they are so attached to this one thing that the ectoplasm around them forms into what they want. Aka, power of belief. Belief is what makes the ghosts exist, and the concepts exist, and as we often see in writing, the many religions that the realms of the dead belong to.
(Edit: We see this in the wide array of personalized powers each ghost has, in thier wildly different appearances, every haunt and island tailored to them.)
With all these powers gathered in one place, what is the REASON that the infinite realms is as it is?
What if the infinite realms, and ectoplasm itself, is the primordial soup? What if every universe is formed first from a being of the infinite realms? What if the beings that created those worlds are just… primordial ecto entities. Playing in the sand. Over time growing in strength and detail until they became Gods of their own worlds, seperate from the infinite realms even as these worlds were born from it? All that remains are doors into their dollhouses, windows into their dreams, and the belief of the souls they made came back through and made more gods, more spirits. Souls come through those doors, back into the cycle.
This would explain why Danny Phantom Ghosts are different from traditional/normal ghosts in whatever crossover your using. Because they are ghosts, but they’re more akin to itty bitty primordial spirits.
The rivers of the dead, the Styx, the Nile, souls they travel back through the infinite realms before reentering the cycle or dropping off at thier final destination. But sometimes, as a soul is traveling, and their connection to something is strong enough, and their will is strong enough, they catch hold of primordial soup/ectoplasm, create a body of it, and escape the cycle of Life and Death. They become mini gods of their own obsession.
This ALSO explains ghost king by right of conquest and the head canon that ghosts bond by fighting! Not only are they basically indestructible, but the power of your will and strength of your character is a DIRECT link to how powerful you become. Winning in a fight demonstrates your stronger connection to the fabric of reality and your hold on your own existence. The flavor of that connection really helps Ghosts figure each other out.
Also, to become an Infinite Realms Ghost you have to be the kind of stubborn bastard who looks at the fabric of reality itself and goes “Actually? You work for ME now. Lets go.” They are all confrontational assholes.
The primordials don’t explain Shit to the tiny spirits so they go, “ah. I ghost. This is Ghost zone. This is normal afterlife.” And they don’t know that this is a place of creation, because all they know is that this is a place of death. But they make islands and lairs and domains of which they control, thier own Miniature World they are god of. They collect weaker spirits, who fit thier aesthetic and fill out their worlds. (Uniform/crowd ghosts often band together to form a group identity, acting as a support system for those who might fade easier. And definitely not Ease of Animation. Im putting lore here, yep. Main Character Syndrome is a Health Benefit/Status symbol in the infinite realms.
Anyways, eventually the secret of what exactly the infinite realms are is hidden away.
But as King, and Ancient of Space…
Danny is in charge of organizing all these universes. These galaxies, these tiny works of art.
He is so excited for when he’s old enough to make his own.
Im sure ill be editing this when I have energy for anything other than a stream of consciousness.
#danny phantom#dp prompt#dp x dc#ghost zone#danny fenton#LORE#Danny phantom was criminally under explored#the possibilities are endless
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Having a vague thought about a metaphysical sort of crossover between American Gods and the Sandman, in the sense of how Dream changes based on who is viewing him, but maybe there is also a distinct entity based on who is viewing him, and those individual versions are distinct, culturally based, and do not necessarily mentally overlap.
Which is to say, the reason Dream is so goddamn English in the Sandman we see is because almost everything takes place in England (and bits of the U.S.??) and because what we’re seeing, the Dream we’ve decided to follow is, specifically, Dream of the English, that point of view, that lens, but also that particular entity who is also mentally somewhat distinct from say, Dream of the Japanese.
From this point of view, I actually find Dream/Hob MORE interesting and also more realistic. I’ve mentioned elsewhere that Hob’s progress through history makes him, almost, an anthropomorphic personification of English history. Or at least, a sort of middle class male version of it, but nevertheless, his fortunes, morals, and viewpoint is fairly in lock step with a large swathe of English history and the viewpoints of those who got the lion’s share of attention when writing it, so it’s interesting to imagine that this rough sell sword who becomes immortal at a time when England was rough and warlike almost grows into this expression of the character, the personification, of this particular viewpoint of this time and place, almost without Hob realizing.
AND from that point of view, the Dream of the English falling in love with this particular anthropomorphic personification of England, or English history, or the English “Everyman” also takes on interesting facets to explore that sync rather nicely with their interactions in canon and in fanon.
And to bring it full circle, somewhere there’s a Dream for every culture, and people of that culture view him as their Dream, and he IS but he is also, internally, everywhere at once and distinct where he is. Just as the American Mr Wednesday in American Gods IS Odin but there is also a Norwegian Odin who is VERY different from him, there is a Dream of Japan as well as a Dream of England, and the Dream of England is in love with Hob, this expression of the English Everyman, in a way that the Dream of Japan might not be (but might be fond of him, or not, or might have an entirely different individual within their culture that they love as much as English Dream loves Hob, for the same reasons).
Anyway, random headcanon, free to a good home, but really it’s just me grappling as an American with how goddamn ENGLISH Dream is, how goddamn ENGLISH Hob is, and how that’s actually rather sweet when you think of it, but they’re not universal at all in fact, the charm lies in just how culturally distinct they are and why not create a Watsonian reason for it?
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I was whining and bitching to my friends recently about book vs TV aziraphale and how the latter doesn't have the same bite- book Aziraphale is a bitch and that's why I like him- and bringing up that I think Aziraphale and Garak are similar characters (and that I have a similar problem with how McCormack writes Garak) is making me. Think about Aziraphale and violence again and the weird specific read I have of his character
I had these thoughts the first go around with Good Omens but I wasn't very good at dealing with them, but Aziraphale is really interesting because there's a good deal of like. Implied violence to his character. We joke sometimes about how down he was with child murder as a backup plan, but it's not just that.
Aziraphale was the Guardian of the Eastern Gate, which naturally has a lot of fanon about him having originally been a Cherub demoted to Principality. Cherubim are like... g-d there's so much about them. They draw the chariot of G-d, they carry G-d into battle, they are protectors- the same type of creature as lamassu (anthropologically speaking), they are divine monsters (and I say this as a religious bitch with love, they're incomprehensible and have distinctly inhuman, awe-some manifestations, but let's not get too carried away with my esoteric bullshit). To be blunt, they are associated with fighting.
The act which is thought to demote Aziraphale is giving away his sword. This creates War at the same time as Crowley... not creates Death, I suppose, but draws its attention. Aziraphale is, on a metaphysical level, the father of War.
Both Heaven and Hell are violent systems, though the book partially obscures the violence of Heaven by having it be literally quieter, in the narrative. Aziraphale is still part of a violent system and still serves it. Giving away his sword did not abdicate him from having to serve. He had certainly carried out violence in Heaven's name before. Aziraphale also has more faith in his 'side' than Crowley- he thinks if only he can explain to a superior, get them on the line and talk, they'll see destroying Earth is a bad idea! And if you do subscribe to the cherubim interpretation, part of this is probably because he views a level of relation between him and them as someone formerly high ranked.
Given that its also really notable that in the book, Aziraphale is incredibly indirect about violence. When they're at their last resort option with Adam, he directs Shadwell to take care of it. It's strongly implied he might've killed several mafia members for trying to bully him into selling his shop, but never actually stated. Things like that. Aziraphale is not comfortable getting his hands dirty- maybe he did it in the past, and can't bear it now, maybe he never was comfortable with it. Who knows.
And that makes me think it's also really notable that when Aziraphale makes his last stand, he picks up his sword again. I don't know what it is that's notable, but...
Anyway TL;DR book Aziraphale has strong veteran/ex military vibes for me
#cipher talk#book omens#And you could read themes of assimilation into violent systems into his character especially if you do like. POCOmens stuff#Actually you can do that anyway just with the veteran reading#Belief in the system of power and that you'll be treated well even while you're basically actively fucking ignored
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[...] vertigo—that sense of unhinged reality, a communion with death and that realm which exceeds life—seems to threaten a total loss of self as incommensurable metaphysical frameworks and sensory maps meet. This episodic experience is made possible by what Frank Wilderson has called a “paradigmatic necessity,” namely that blackness is “a life constituted by disorientation rather than a life interrupted by disorientation”. A life constituted by disorientation has as its essential feature what Fanon diagnosed as an “aberration of affect”—autophobia and self-aversion—an effect of realizing selfhood in the terms of our present global hegemonic mode of the subject: its transindividual and systemic scales of value “woven out of a thousand details, anecdotes, stories” imposes an antiblack system of meaning and affective economy. In global hegemonic terms, the African is cast “out of the world” and is thus without standing in relation to the constitution of the reality construct. It is not an absence of alternative metaphysical frameworks and perceptual matrices that produces the vertigo I describe; rather, vertigo is an effect of the inability of these alternatives to find footing within “the world” due to ever-renewed processes of foreclosure that take the nullification of black mater as the horizon of the reality concept and threshold of the sensible world.
Zakiyyah Iman Jackson, Becoming Human: Matter and Meaning in an Antiblack World
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Hello hello! Archangel anon here😁
Your response to the Gabe ask got the creative wheels turning, and I wound up coming up with more "Gabe hijacks Alastor's tower and hijinks ensue" ideas if you're interested? This time with more Lucifer🥰🐍
Also, i remember you said before you liked the tidbits and character relationships from the first Archangel ask, so I was wondering if you'd also be interested in more of those? I'm just talking about a (CONDENSED, I PROMISE) list of random facts, like character traits and dynamics? No angel research this time, just some stuff from my own dome.
I still haven't written out that one Metatron ask yet cuz I'm trying to figure out how to word it (spoiler alert, metaphysics and sacred geometry will be involved, two things that I find simultaneously interesting af but difficult to wrap my head around). So maybe something shorter and more fun would be good for now? It's cool if not, I don't want to bog you down with my own stuff if there isn't gonna be much actual angel lore involved.
I love hijinks!! Send em' over!!
I do like character tidits :3 I wouldn't mind seeing them. I love seeing the fanon people come up with, it's so fun! All these creative minds piecing together shit from the barest of crumbs we've gotten from the show 🤣
No worries! Something short and fun sounds great!!
#people can be so creative in fandoms#its awesome to see#love that shit#hazbin hotel#alastor#hazbin alastor#the radio demon#hazbin hotel alastor#archangels#archangels hazbin hotel#asks#anon#anonymous
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14, 22, 24 forrrrr Vio?
my favorite little guy!
14. assign a fashion aesthetic to this character
loooove cozy/preppy stuff for him, with a bit of a dramatic flair. light academia maybe? also scrunchie. obviously
22. what are some things you like in fics for this character? something you don’t like?
big fan of fics acknowledging how murky his morals actually are, and how questionable his actions in the manga objectively were. i also love when his “dark” leanings and weirder urges are actually empowered by the narrative—not excused or fixed, but rather posed as a valid (while flawed) counterpoint to what other characters and the reader are likely to believe is Right. in general i like the idea of his story being less about good and bad, and more about being himself, in all his ugliest and most beautiful ways, and finding peace in relationships and on his own. considering the specific way he was metaphysically created, and my personal interpretation of him as gay, those themes just hit even harder.
uhhhh i guess i don’t love overly simple depictions of him as all good or all bad, or when people ignore the fact that he had a clear internal conflict about his plan. like to play it as if he’s not uniquely affected by what happened with shadow, and also to not have the others call him on how he treated them, feels like a cop out. but like, that happens most often in fics that aren’t even about him in particular, so it makes sense!
also i’m not a huge fan of interpretations that mistake logical intelligence for emotional intelligence. vio is smart, but when it comes to feelings he’s probably the least likely person to understand what’s going on. (unless considerable development has been established during or prior to the fic)
24. what other character from another fandom of yours that reminds you of them?
OH this is fun. these are more based on my personal interpretation and fic than the funny little man in the manga, but
buffy summers - blonde, chosen one, likes bad boys way more than they should, complicated relationship with vampires (fanon for vio), morally inconsistent and emotionally dishonest, wears a lot of purple
veronica sawyer - pretentious misanthrope with a superiority and god complex, really likes bad boys, like maybe a little too much, like they both probably should have stopped being permissive of said bad boys’ actions a while before they did, ultimately chooses to fight against unhinged partner obviously infatuated with them for Moral Reasons while still leaving a lot of unanswered questions about the dubiousness of their own morals, all of their friends have the same names, scrunchies
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For the Great Soul Debate, has anyone ever asked Edward what made him so sure that humans even had souls in the first place?
(total headcanon here)
I really want to make an "Edward is a stuck INFP" post someday but generally speaking, Edward believes what he believes because he feels what he feels. He felt, in the very marrow of his bones, that he lost something during his transformation. That something human about him was quite literally burned away. Based on his assumptions and religious beliefs at the time of his death, his word for that was "the soul." He woke up feeling a gaping hole inside himself and feeling utterly horrified at what he had become and what he felt driven to do. Every time he spiraled downward, his belief felt confirmed.
In true stuck-INFP form, no logical argument or instructive example is going to talk him out of this belief once it's formed. Plus, he has that cognitive dissonance going on with Carlisle being the one who destroyed his soul and also being the best person who's ever lived. He loves to be petulantly morose about the soul thing but when it comes down to it, he always shies away from the work of really deconstructing that belief. He feels no impetus to dig through the layers and it feels a little too close to accusing Carlisle of something horrible. Meanwhile, his religious beliefs (including the idea of each human carrying an immortal soul inside their body) felt less relevant than ever (read: more damning) so he felt even less motivated to reevaluate the whole package.
You would think that hunting Bad Humans and then rejoining the Good Vampires would make him revaluate his belief (about the loss-of-soul thing at the very least), but he got only halfway there in my headcanon. He just came to redefine and idolize the concept of "humanity" more than ever and found that humanity in Carlisle and Esme more than he had found it in bad Anyone, human or vampire. So "trying to be good" equals "trying to be as human as possible." But his little loss-of-soul doctrine is a little more specific; he sees that as a matter of metaphysical presence and "humanity" as a matter of behavior and choices.
It's going to take much more than his rebellious years/return to make him truly reassess his doctrine about his own soul. Again, in true stuck-INFP form it would take an earth-shattering event to do that. Even though his outlook doesn't appear to change until BD2 with the birth of Renesmee, I would argue that the liminal event in this case was actually falling in love with Bella. It just took him three books to process all the resulting epiphanies and let himself be "talked into" agreeing that Bella becoming a vampire was truly permissible. (The word "soul" doesn't appear in BD2, but the general fanon assumption is that he's finally changed his mind or blissfully let go of the issue forever.)
But even then, there's no real impetus to reevaluate his belief about souls in general. Re: Your question about people asking him, he'll just keep saying "That's what I've always believed."
#inbox#Edward#The Great Soul Debate#beliefs#MBTI#Bella/Edward#rebellious years#At first falling in love with Bella was classified under 'wanting a bad thing' so it took a while
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aspirational chapter outline for Fallout and the Occult
CHAPTER 1:
WHEREIN THERE IS THE GLOW
HISTORY OF THE MAINLAND CHILDREN OF ATOM
CHAPTER 2:
THE FIRMAMENT
INDEX - MAINLAND TESTIMONIES OF ATOM
CHAPTER 3:
COME FORTH AND KNOW
CULT ACTIVITY ON THE ISLAND
CHAPTER 4:
I BEHELD A VERDANT STAG
INDEX - FAR HARBOR TESTIMONIES OF ATOM
CHAPTER 5:
HE IS COMING WITH THE CLOUDS
INDEX - FAR HARBOR MINUTIA AND DOCUMENTS
CHAPTER 6:
HIS BLAZING VISAGE
MYTHOLOGY, DIVISION, AND A COMPOSITE SKETCH OF ATOM
CHAPTER 7:
GO WITH THE GLOW
ATOM: CONCLUSIONS
CHAPTER 8:
SOMETHING IS COMING AND IT IS ANGRY
THE MOTH MAN AND THE INTERLOPER
CHAPTER 9:
AMARANTH
THE ENLIGHTENED
CHAPTER 10:
MAY NO TRACE OF YOU BE FOUND
THE TREEMINDERS
CHAPTER 11:
THE VOICES OF THE WOOD
INDEX - COMPLETE MOTH GOSPEL
CHAPTER 12:
THE POTENTIAL TO UNDERSTAND
DREAMS, VISIONS, AND MULTIPLANAR THOUGHT
CHAPTER 13:
THE BREAKING OF THE WORLD
TIME TRAVEL, METAPHYSICS, AND V-13
CHAPTER 14:
[...]
PREWAR OCCULTISM + INDEX
CHAPTER 15:
SAFE IN THE LIGHT
UG-QUALTOTH
CHAPTER 15:
WHERE THE TREE BLOOMED
HAROLD AND THE TWIN MOTHERS
CHAPTER 16:
THESE LANDS ARE FORBIDDEN
INDEX - HAROLD AND THE TWIN MOTHERS
CHAPTER 17:
BUT MAN WAS WEAK
A HISTORY OF THE UNITY AND FEV
CHAPTER 18:
[...]
COMPLETE UNITY GOSPEL
CHAPTER 19:
WISDOM FOUND NO DWELLING-PLACE
TALKING DEATHCLAWS
CHAPTER 20:
THE DANGER CAN SPEAK
INDEX - TALKING DEATHCLAWS
CHAPTER 21:
THIS PLACE IS PART OF A SYSTEM OF MESSAGES
MANNEQUINS
CHAPTER 22:
TO BETTER SPEAK HIS NAME
GHOULS
CHAPTER 23:
[...]
INDEX - GHOULS
CHAPTER 24:
MAKE BRITTLE THY TEETH
M.A.D. MONKS
CHAPTER 25:
[...]
SELECTED ANOMALIES
CHAPTER 26:
CHILDREN, TOO, OF EVE
SPECIAL INDEX - COMPLETE WASTELAND GOSPEL
CHAPTER 27:
HE FILLETH THE EARTH WITH SPIRITS
CHRISTIANS
CHAPTER 28:
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INDEX - CHRISTIANS
CHAPTER 28:
TRAPPED IN THEIR IGNORANCE
VAULTS
CHAPTER 29:
THIS IS NOT A PLACE OF HONOR
INDEX - VAULT-TEC
CHAPTER 30:
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GOVERNMENT ENCLAVES
CHAPTER 31:
NO GREAT DEED IS ESTEEMED HERE
INDEX - THE ENCLAVE
CHAPTER 32:
THERE IS NOTHING HERE
BROTHERHOOD OF STEEL
CHAPTER 33:
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INDEX - BROTHERHOOD OF STEEL
CHAPTER 34:
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SYNTHS AND THE INSTITUTE
CHAPTER 35:
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INDEX - SYNTHS AND THE INSTITUTE
CHAPTER 36:
THE WAILING OF THE HERETICS
SPECIAL INDEX - MISCELLANEOUS FALLOUT GOSPEL
CHAPTER 37:
MY WORKS UPON THE EARTH
SITES OF ANOMALOUS AND HOLY ACTIVITY IN APPALACHIA
CHAPTER 38:
CARRIED BY WINGED CHARIOTS
ALIENS AND PRECURSORS
CHAPTER 39:
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INDEX - ALIENS AND PRECURSORS
CHAPTER 40:
FALLOUT 3000
PERSONAL FANON
CHAPTER 41:
NEW PROPHETS
SPECIAL INDEX - SELECTED APOCRYPHA
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MAGIC STORY SPOILERS AHEAD!!!!
Ok magic story discussion time. So Squee’s story had a lot of interesting tidbits in it. I don’t even know what’s the most intriguing?
Ok so Squee’s “toy” is an ancient relic older than Dominaria itself? I wonder what that says about the nature of planes. I know popular fanon is the eldrazi are plane recyclers but we don’t actually know that’s true. I wonder if planes are like stars and explode/implode after they get to “dying” age and reform from the dust? But how would relics survive that? Even if the eldrazi theory is true would relics survive that either? Or is it less metaphysical than that and the relics (and the being Salvation) just older than any Dominarian society? I wonder if we’ll learn anything more concrete about Salvation. Love that Squee caught their attention enough to earn their boon xD Way to go little guy.
The other few things I’m interested in involve Squee’s compleation. First off, was his death and blowing up the mountain really an accident? The story was narrating as if Squee really was embracing what happened to him and yet the exact way the ropes got cut and the mana lamps got shot at seemed a bit too…. Intentional? It did say that it had to do with bad goblin luck though so maybe I’m looking into it too much.
Also his resurrection after his death in his compleated body was his original body and not with the phyrexian augments. Was this due to the exact nature of his curse from Yawgmoth (Although you’d think he’d want him to be compleated?) or because he was being protected by Salvation?
Third and main point was this. Salvation said the only reason the loop was interrupted was because when he was compleated, his soul left his body while his body was still alive. Does that mean all phyrexians/compleated creatures lose their souls? Or is the soul just damaged and Squee is a special case because of Salvation? This leads me to believe that once a humanoid is compleated there is no going back even if the hivemind/machine orthodoxy is dismantled or destroyed. Though I’d still be curious because Aron Capashon seemed to retain a lot of his mind despite compleation. He was able to at least attempt to resist Ertai’s orders and gave Danitha the ok to kill him. Also now that planeswalkers can be compleated with their spark intact does this give them a more unique ability to regain themselves? Because if I remember correctly the spark and soul are tied (which is why created beings can’t naturally have a spark etc.)
Anyway I guess I don’t have a big overarching theory or anything I’m mostly just thinking out loud here. I’ve got hope that compleated planeswalkers could in theory at least regain their personhood. Less sure about “regular” people but Aron really throws me off. Haven’t read today’s side stories yet so I don’t know if there’s additional relevant info there. Just wanted to get some thoughts out before the final story tomorrowwww
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Classpecting For Dumbies 101
Hi I thought I should make like a little guide on how I <-me specifically (this is specifically how I/ME/AARON/PERSON WHO MADE THIS POST) classpects people, since classpecting is incredibly nuanced and by nuanced I mean very obviously not a well developed system and mostly fanon in nature I just thot this would be a fun post to make for people who are starting to get into classpecting (also cuz I wanna infodump LoL)
I assume you know what classpecting is if you're reading this and if you don't then it's a system of powers that come with a class (how you use your aspect) and an aspect (the center of your powers). This "classpect" is chosen by a number of things, mainly your personality and how you interact with the world.
I'll be starting with the aspects since they are the main contributor to the classpect I'd say (as in the class bends around your aspect, not the other way around, so a knight of breath and a knight of time would be incredibly different, but knights functionally do the same thing)
ASPECTS:
Time-About the physical reality and destroying
Space-About the metaphysical and creation
Breath-About freedom and movement
Blood-About bonds
Light-About luck and the prominent things in the world
Void-About secrecy and the unknown
Doom-About death, decay, and pain
Life-About growth and abundance
Heart-About the self and feelings
Mind-About thoughts and possibilities
Rage-About convictions
Hope-About beliefs and faith
Time and space are the hardest for me to pin down what their specific meaning is since they are incredibly fluid in the characters shown, but from what I've gathered time is about reality and destruction (specifically destroying realities when necessary to build a newer one) and space is about creation and the metaphysical (specifically creating things which cannot be touched)
Also a LOT of classes have ties to things which I wouldn't say are necessarily ABOUT the aspect but are important to mention (like music and death for Time, frogs for Space, money for Life, etc)
NOW for the classes:
Heir-Embodies their aspect unknowingly (Passive)
Witch-Embodies their aspect knowingly (Active)
Seer-Knows their aspect (Passive)
Mage-Learns their aspect (Active)
Page-Grows into their aspect (Passive)
Knight-Grows to accept their aspect (Active)
Sylph-Creates their aspect for others (Passive)
Maid-Creates their aspect for themself (Active)
Rogue-Steals their aspect for others (Passive)
Thief-Steals their aspect for themselves (Active)
Bard-Unknowingly destroys their aspect (Passive)
Prince-Knowingly destroys their aspect (Active)
Also lord and muse exist except no they don't
I could go into more detail about them, ESPECIALLY since a lot of these have signifigance with growth, eg a prince of [aspect] would have too much of [aspect] and will knowingly destroy it as a way to stop it from taking over their lives, a bard of [aspect] would unknowingly destroy something which is abundant in their life by hiding it even from themselves before [aspect] is able to "break out" from said destruction and take hold of the weilder
Knights and pages are both about growth, but in opposite ways. While pages grow to use their aspect from a state where they are weak, craving their aspect but being unable to reach it, a knight is someone who is overwhelmed by their aspect and must come to accept it as part of themself.
I would like to say again this is just how I view the classpects and is not like a "YOU HAVE TO CLASSPECT LIKE THIS OR YOU'RE WRONG" I'm making this post as an autistic person who wants to infodump really really bad LoL
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15 and 17 for writer's ask game!
15. What is your favorite detail to include while writing?
Not sure if this is what the question is actually going for, but I love including little metaphysical-ish details, like strange physical sensations, weird vibes, that kind of spooky shit that probably has a scientific reasoning but makes life feel a little more odd.
On a more "normal" level, probably just all the little fanon bits I internalize and backstory pieces I think up. It feels like a shared cultural consciousness, folklore type thing when we all settle on certain things.
17. Do ideas come to you in pieces or full?
Kind of both. Sometimes I'm struck by the broad concept of a plot (what if the Party went to GenCon, what if Koragg recognized Nick sooner) and those usually spin off into longfics. On the flipside, oneshots usually come to me (mostly) wholly developed (Steddie in a Tunnel O' Love, Shassie dancing to Glenn Miller). Everything gets the WIP Development Hell treatment for a while as I roll them around in my head and figure out what the actual point is, what makes it unique and worth putting out there.
asks for writers
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frothing at the mouth at Record of Ragnarok's unfallen Adam
alskdfad like!!! this is absolute fanon by an utterly biased Catholic, but my thesis statement: this new, other, fictional Adam was created by and made in the image of God (the undepicted one who would never force humankind to fight deities out of his own pettiness, who lets Adam and Lü Bu into Heaven after everything they've been through someone stop me I'm creating spiritual metaphysics of RoR), and Adam - unlike Christianity's Adam - has never strayed from that image.
No god in RoR claims to have created Adam--honestly, I thought Zeus would and there'd be a whole father vs child thing, but no--which to me further cements that Someone Else did. The gods are all taken by surprise by his Divine Reflection. Cain and Abel, both rowdy and perhaps a little antagonistic towards each other, still seem to be loving brothers.
Most tellingly, Adam is motivated by love. He doesn't care about sticking it to the gods. He also has zero hesitation spitting on them in the face when it comes to protecting his loved ones. An un-fallen Adam, made in the image of God, would do these things. He would break the rules not out of selfishness and fear, but because someone made his wife cry, because one of his kids was scared. Does any man need an excuse to protect his children?
To me, all of this lines up for RoR's Adam to not be our Adam (in contrast of it being the "true story"--I actually think RoR's Christianity, if it has one, must have a different history/mythology, one where original sin must've crept in by some other means). And that's just!!! So interesting to me!!!
#i know i'm probably reading into it#but alskdjf it's so much fun theorizing about this#clary scribbles#record of ragnorak#Shuumatsu no Valkyrie
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Looking for spirits, Part 2: gods lost in translation and time
I had a thought the other day, that maybe trying to match our gnostic observations to an established deity’s name/profile isn’t the way to go. The spirits of this world aren’t some sort of magic bingo card.
Least of all it seems expedient trying to check boxes based on descriptions that are several generations old and have been distorted by cultural and religious influences. It’s basically inevitably setting ourselves up for ascribing traits to deities in the same way that fandoms ascribe traits to canon characters. Eventually they’re unrecognizable fanon versions of themselves because of an inexplicable need to stick to established names instead of daring to describe something new. Could you imagine shoving all newly discovered species of butterfly into a box with the already established ones, just because they all have common traits such as wings and emerging from caterpillars? If that sounds like a reductive thing to do to the physical world, why are people so keen on doing it to the metaphysical?
Not to mention that for every deity that is remembered and worshipped by modern heathens, there are countless that have been forgotten about. It's simply not sufficient to reduce the intense animistic complexity of the world to a few preserved accounts of local deities from the Scandinavian countries.
Maybe it’s time to sweep out the old dust and open our minds to a fresh start. The pagan ancestors also started somewhere, after all. Someone, somewhere, first came up with the name “Odin”, and all the names for the rest of the pantheon we remember today. Isn’t heathenry also about exploring the realms of the spiritual unknown? Isn’t it supposed to be immanent? Then why linger in the past? If we just limit ourselves to fossil records, we are blinding ourselves to the present and might as well start calling the Edda our bible.
#paganism#heathenry#alpine paganism#alpine sitte#alte sitte#deities#polytheism#animism#immanent faith
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