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Questing Through Selenopolis

So, I really like Morganth as a character. But for the people who love her, I need you to explain why she takes up all the real-estate in your brain?

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Reasons Morganthe takes up all the real estate in my brain:

The slow narrative burn of how Arc 2 revealed her backstory on how she became shadow queen. The sudden influx of reveals of what Happened while the player character is so clearly set on not doing anything else other than fighting her and beating her for good despite being show multiple avenues other than that is... its some of the best tragedy written in the game, to me personally at least.

Honestly just extending from the above, but the general character foil between The Wizard and Morganthe's lives has always been fascinating to me; both apprentices under Merle Ambrose, both having studied at Ravenwood, though having vastly different outcomes with one being Idolized and the other more Demonized, but both basically being used as pawns for causes so much larger than them as individuals. Spider also calls us the CHILDREN of Light & Shadow, as to say the both of them were always a part of the "Grand Prophecy", and not that one or the other should or should not have been the 'chosen one'. It was all just a misreading of the reality of what the Prophecy was- Spider's escape plan. They both were always just pawns.

The part in the game where the Arachna literally say they Groomed her to be a weapon of mass destruction. And like, I have no idea if this was intentional by the writers at the time, but to me the language used to describe her experience, especially within Khrysalis, is so applicable to certain kinds of abuse that i'm so curious if the writers at the time wanted to talk about that subject, but used allegory so younger audiences could engage with it more directly. Honestly there's so much allegory throughout Morganthe's life- being at all divergent in an educational setting and instead of receiving proper support, you're penalized for when you try to handle things by yourself, the general sense of not having an identity, a home, being outlasted or abandoned. (And, in light of the mr. beast silliness, i think trying to talk about heavy things that do happen to children/teens (like abuse) are absolutely the level of maturity that Wizard can and should focus on).

Additionally there are some very fun parallels between Spider and Morganthe that I quite enjoy Pondering, specifically themes of abandonment and being literally/figuratively trapped. Again, cycles of harm, abuse, etc. Abolute Crime this was no expanded upon in Arc 3.

She's the girl failure of all time. I love that she loves magic but it seems to constantly reject her, but she's so determined to find herself within a world that feels like it wasn't designed for her. Which like, the Spiral was in part created to (try) and eliminate shadow magic from the first world.

Ontop of that, I love that she is ANGRY!! Even before being turned into the shadow queen, you see this progression of her emotions, at first 'submitting' to malory and not challenging his plan despite her saying she doesn't want to go through with it, then actively questioning Merle's stiff stances on uses of magic before her banishment (not saying she wasn't in some wrong for experimenting with it herself, of course, but the point is she's thinking more for herself her than just doing what someone else is telling her to), then in her third memory, she's so pissed and explosive over not being able to control astral magic, and more openly tries to defy the arachna before they decide she's worth keeping alive. I love when female characters are complicated and messy because yea she SHOULD be with all this stuff going on, i love how dimensional she is.

Telling Malory she couldn't live on without him if his plan to overthrow King Art went awry (a plan she was already reluctant about in the first place). Guessss whooo diessssss

Begging Merle not to take her magic (deck/wand) while banishing her, also stating that "I can't live without my magic". Like her brother, that is also taken from her. wonder what the writers could have possibly implied about her mental state by using that kind of dialogue twice within one quest line of each other. such a mysteryyyyy

DO NOT!! Get me started on her 4 versions of herself in the shadow palace and how 3 of them match the colors of her memories. Thats such a can of worms i cant go into it on the stop right this second but wowowowowowoWOW makes my brain explode. Lowkey plural/system rep. TO ME....

"Her laugh could melt a winter's heart" okayyyyyy Sir Maloryyyyy break my heart why don youuu

"you, child, are the brightest star I've ever meant" OKAYYYY MERLLEEE!!! BREAK! MY! HEART! WHY! DONT YOU!!!

She;s a lesbian (to me) and i love her.

This was a bit of a word vomit of things that were coming to mind and honestly there's probably more things i could list, but yeaj. Love that spider lady. Think she's Neat. Also love the characters surrounding her story, like Taylor Colridge from Khr pt 2 is still one of my fave characters in w101 point blank because he was also taken in by the arachna and tested/experimented with, and was so wildly used, which imo lends to the theory that the prophecy was just a big ploy for Spider to get out that ended up working out. . UGH!!! Character of all time....

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Nobody in my asks has ever submitted a worse idea than Mr Beast wanting to fix the game btw.

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🚨🏳️‍⚧️ALERT ALERT🏳️‍🌈🚨 PRIDE101 TIME

hey divas it's my annual pride101 giveaway!!!!!! if YOU'D like the opportunity to have YOUR young wizard or private drawn with pride flag(s) of your choice, read on!

a winner will receive one (1) drawing of their wizard or pirate from the hit mmos wizard101 and pirate101 with your pride

rules:

REBLOG this post (likes do not count)

you do not have to be following me, but i appreciate it ;)

i will be selecting a winner once a week at the beginning of the week (sundays) using a random number generator, which means there will be a total of four winners

the winner will be messaged privately, so make sure your dms are open! if not and/or i get no reply after 24 hours, then ill select a new winner

if you've been selected but you've decided you no longer want the prize, please lmk so i can select a different winner

when i dm you, ill ask for a reference photo of your character and which pride flags you'd like featured. when sending pride flags, PLEASE send an actual image of the flag, as flags change over time with different meanings or if it's a more niche identity that i might have trouble identifying the correct one you want. there's no limit to how many flags you can have

all identities are welcome except those who inherently are harmful to others and/or nonconsensual (exa. MAPs). if you ask for that not only will you lose your prize but i will fucking block you!!!!!

remember to check out the previous years masterposts! and this years pride101 post of my characters :)

bartlebyarea2

Guy who's only played wizard101: Getting a lot of wizard101 vibes from this

bartlebyarea2

Not to bring this back but this is me every time I see the phrase "doom and gloom" btw

#also the word adept #used it as a descriptor today and in my head went 'this is just like wizard101'

that-wizard-oki

He may have caused them both an irreversible amount of trauma but at least he supports them where it matters

dailyspiral

day 8 - based on that one mob comic

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based on:

maybe the spiral doesnt have the concept of pride month and you had to explain to the most homosexual lesbian wizard about being queer

trailblazey

stormbreaker101

talking about autism with the gamers

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The wand collection is under the cut, because good lord I need to take so many pictures.

First we have a general unsorted section.

Then, what was supposed to be a "nature" section.

A weaponry section, which I was most proud of

And lastly for the wands themselves, this secret fourth thing that was supposed to be the holiday section. And then I moved all the holiday wands because they took up too much housing space.

This house also has exhibits for the retired Faithful Companion treasurecards that were accidentally released by a KI Live code

And other rare/retired collectibles, as well as one card that was given to me by a former merc work client who said this card had sentimental value to him and asked me to not sell or trade it.

One day, I'll rework this museum.

eventually. maybe.

#WANDS #hashtag yourwands

thevariousthings

Straight up wizarding it and by it.... Well...

atty-batty

just finished azteca time to be normal about it

that-wizard-oki

Morganthe takes that are valid:

Not being into her as a character or just feeling indifferent about her

Disliking her overall but enjoying her as a villian

Also just disliking her entirely and not caring for her as a character or a villain

Enjoying her nuance and having mixed feelings about her as a character

Enjoying her women's wrongs because villains are fun and cool

Enjoying her nuance point blank and finding that makes her a stronger character, villain or otherwise.

Morganthe takes that are perhaps less valid:

Saying she's a terrible horrible "person" and if anyone says they like her they're also problematic and then proceeding to bully or harass people who like her in any capacity.