HEADCANON 003 / ′ SEA MONSTERS AND DEAD BROTHERS ′
v2, remade.
i think we can draw two really important ( and the only ties to a mythology other than the greek ) paralels between leviathan’s story and the hebrew mythology --- his first name and the tale of his brother’s tragic death. as i didn’t like the first version of the headcanon because it was written in a hurry, i’d rather write another one to bring on not only missing points, but clarify other things.
PART 001 / ′ LEVIATHAN, לִוְיָתָן, LIVYATAN ′
poseidon named the boy leviathan mainly because the monster is not only a symbol of destruction or the judaic mythos ( this factor, when it came to choosing the name, was almost non-existant ), but also a symbol of power and control. in the torah, he is described in detail through job 41:1-34: ‘behold, the hope of him is in vain; shall not one be cast down even at the sight of him?’ also, in psalm 74, yahweh is said to ‘break the heads of Leviathan in pieces’ before giving his flesh to the people of the wilderness. also in psalm, but in 104, god is praised for having made all things, including Leviathan, and in isaiah 27:1, he is called the ‘tortuous serpent’ who will be killed at the end of time. the leviathan is also perceived as an enemy to israel ( against, of course, god ), and parallels with the egyptian apep and it’s contest against horus.
why does it parallel to levi’s story ?? well, he’ll be killed in the end of times, by someone who helds courage and the right blade. he went around the world, such as the monster itself --- ending up on his home, israel/freiburg, where he’d lose the battle for life. also, poseidon himself ( at least my interpretation ) is incredibly fond of hobbes’s book, leviathan, and his government idea. he wanted his son to be strong and great, such as the creature --- whose simple mention of his name would make the others tremble. unfortunately, it didn’t happen that way.
PART 002 / ′ THE MARK OF CAIN, THE CURSE OF FEAR ′
as i stated in the previous post, there is a paralel between the twin brothers, leviathan and wolfgang. while, as cain, the first was more connected to the land where he lived, the place where he was raised. meanwhile, wolfgang didn’t have the same feeling --- he was born to conquer the world, to be a shepherd around the sheep of the olympians ( by that, i mean the warriors ). it’s important to state that the twins shared the same illnesses: autism, dyslexia, adhd and depression, the main difference being that the latter knew exactly ( because of the responsibility he was given from a young age ) how to act allistic enough to pass as a neurotypical, while levi had more difficulties masking everything. hence why the ‘weak vs strong’ thing has nothing with his illnesses, but more with their personalities. while wolfgang fits the son of zeus trope, leviathan is far from the percy jackson standards, and that’s what i wanted to happen. the twins were something really special, and even the moirai had talked about them before --- in their view, they’d be the ones to crash the axe in the war to come.
but, coming back to the mark of cain, it’s clear that the gods demanded a sacrifice --- just as yahweh himself had demanded the older brother. the sacrifice was, to levi, leaving his home and his foundations, losing the routine he was adapted to and needing to fight. it wasn’t accepted. he was perceived as weak, just as his mother once had been. while wolfgang, he had been accepted. he’d lead the army of the olympians, he’d be the hero. the promissed hero. during a battle, leviathan was captured, and it twisted all of the plans upside down.
during his time in buchenwald, leviathan was called in two different ways --- and none were his actual name. he suppressed, due to the heavy trauma he went through, his own memories --- all he remembered were flashes of a distant time, a distant time where he had a happy family. it was small, but it was all they had got. there, in the KZ, there was no space for happiness and love --- only pain and torture. on 1944, a new doctor arrived in the camp: his name was doctor heinz schneider, and leviathan, as a lab rat, was given to him so he could make his experiences.
but, even though common knowledge hinted that he was nothing but a regular german man, he was, indeed, a son of phobos that had left the gods. his experiences where greater than any scientific method could provide: it involved power. he knew exactly who could win that war and be the greatest hero, and it was one of the two twins. and the daemon was on his side. he knew he couldn’t kill leviathan if he didn’t put his hands in the pegasus, which was on poseidon’s side. after multiple sessions, he found out the boy’s true fear: the fear of loss. more specifically, the loss of his younger brother, the son of zeus. if he could find a way to extinguish the life of wolfgang, he’d kill leviathan in the inside.
it was during a ‘nightmare’ that everything happened --- the killing of wolfgang sulzbach ended up being seen as a natural death, mainly because there was no cut or signs of fighting, neither had he had signs of poison in his dead corpse. he bled from inside out, as if he had been bruised on the inside. this happened because, when leviathan’s soul, during one of heinz’s abusive ‘therapies’, it found wolfgang’s. the one of the latter was going back to his body after one of his many wolf dreams, and it would have if it hadn’t met with levi’s. in a hug, he killed wolfgang, his 00003 mark seeming to be alive, to be the weapon of destruction dr. heinz schneider and phobos needed. after the killing of his brother, leviathan had been marked: a ‘קַ’ was set under the drei mark, and it prevented him from being killed, such as cain’s. he isn’t immortal, he is just waiting for the right person to kill him --- the one that’ll ignore the subconscious warnings and swing the sword through his bony body.
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