Hannah

INFJ | from the east to the west I belong| multi fandoms| not an artist, just have a wide imaginary

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Consumed by Fix an Ancient UA by @chaotickit

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Eh, changed my mind have this

Chapter 9: Healing

“And that’s what’s happened,” Athena finishes saying. “Huh. . . . . . . . . . Uh, I- I’ll be thinking this over at my loom. . .,” Penelope stutters, still in shock with eyes wide open. “So, dad’s,” Telemachus says, tears forming in his eyes. “I don’t know. But I can’t believe that he’s gone,” Athena says with a determined look on her face, “I just have this feeling.” Penelope exits the room with a cheer from a half drunken crowd. Telemachus follows her out to cover her, so no suitors get any ideas. Athena smiles at the show admiring how Telemachus figures he’d strike fear into the men, well as much as a 13 year old boy could.

That night Athena began to lie down having spent the entire day there attempting to become used to the pain in her left. However before she could rest Telemachus burst in, holding something behind his back whilst having a glowing smile on his face. “Mom’s been teaching me how to sew and so I thought I’d make this for you,” he’s proudly as he thrusts forward a crudely made stuffed owl. More so a pillow with vaguely defined owl aspects, “do you like it?’’

“Indeed, thank you so much,” Athena says, charmed by the pillow's shotty quality. “I thought I’d make you this so it wouldn’t hurt so much when you slept.” A genuine smile crept up Athena’s lips feeling the thought and care that went into the wonderful owl. “Good night Athena!” Telemachus cheerfully yelps like a happy pup, as he exits the room. As Athena lay in bed another familiar voice made itself known, “Time for sleep,” Hypnos buzzed out in his strange accent. “I think I’ll be fine on my own,” Athena says, caught off guard by her visitor sticking his head through the top of the window, seemingly upside down. “I guess you could tr-“ Hypnos begins saying before stopping and quickly taps Athena on the head causing her to instantly fall asleep. “Sleep tight princess,” Hypnos mockingly says while jumping out the window for a second time that day.

Athena woke up the next morning thinking she was still talking to Hypnos. She reached out as if trying to stop someone that wasn’t there only to realize what had happened. She felt embarrassed from letting someone get one over her. She tried to get out of bed only to slip on her pain, having forgotten what it felt like from being coddled by sleep, as she stumbled forward she caught herself with her uninjured arm. She let exhaled frustration form her nostrils. She lifted herself trying to balance on her splitting foot pushing through several grumbles and groans. Once she had gotten steady she ever so slowly began walking towards the door. Step by step she pushed forward, even though her body felt like it was stepping on a splinter the size of a branch each time. She had finally made it to the door having nearly bitten her lip off in trying to focus on something other than the pain. The chorus sang praises in her mind as she finally achieved something that took her a day to do. Walk to the door.

She pushed it open, still wobbling with each push forward. Athena gazed out into the empty dining hall where the suitors typically gathered. Seemed as if they’d retreated to wherever they camped out. She winced as the air brushed against her glowing eye. Athena moved around the house trying to get familiar with its layout when Penelope walked down from her room. “Oh, good morning Athena.”

“Morning Penelope.”

“You don’t have to call my Penelope each time, call me Penny.”

“I'd like to stick with Penelope if that’s alright.”

“Eh, whatever makes our guest comfortable. Oh do you need me to help with your hair,” Penelope said pointing towards the top of Athena’s head. Athena reached up feeling the fraying hairs that were usually curled. “Yes please, that’s be wonderful.”

Penelope led Athena up the stairs into the room her and Odysseus used to share. Penelope pulled over a chair and helped Athena to the floor. She the. Sat in the chair and began to meticulously comb and thread Athena’s hair. After an hour of work Penelope had finished. Athena’s hair now curled to perfection, shocking Athena in awe at her skills. In a moment of admiration and blind confusion Athena said, “Thank you mom,” with such familiarity that an outsider would think they were related. Her face then began glowing red having realized what she said. “I- I- I mean P- Penelope,” she said, tripping over her backpedaling. Athena got caught up in the feeling of finally being a part of a family for once that she had forgotten they weren’t related. “Your welcome sweety,” Penelope said with a mischievous smile on her face.

Athena shuffled out of the room with an awkward smile on her face. Penelope sat there smiling at how awkward Athena acted. It reminded her of when she first met Odysseus. After making her way to the bottom of the steps she decided to wander around the city. As she limped her way through the town she saw a dog laying on the porch of a house, an elderly couple cooking fish, a woman watering flowers she’d taken care of for years, and two boys chasing each other around. She had made her way to the gates. She went through the gate, into the salty air surrounding the beach. She made her way to the sand staring out into the sea.

“He has to be out there,” she says to herself as the waves roll in and out. She then sat down, reflecting. As she pondered the events of the past 2 years a dead fish had washed ashore beside her. She was suddenly ripped away having remembered the siren. What happened to her and why did she help me were the thoughts that shouted in her mind. She leaned down and picked up the fish, taking it with her as she walked back toward Ithaca.

whenever she had gotten back to the palace it was once again flooded by suitors. Astonished by their speed, Athena starred in disbelief. “Oi, you’s a beggar?” Shouted one of the swine, causing the eyes of the men to fall on her. “Maybe she’s ’ere for the throne,” chuckled another. “Perhaps she came to party?” said another in a horrid tone. “Maybe she’s in need of a walking stick judging by that limp,” snarled another. “Boys, boys. Calm yourselves. That’s no way to talk to a fine lady,” said Antinous, attempting to be charismatic. “I don’t need your help,” she said, pushing him aside by palming his face. “Is that your way of saying thanks wench!” Shouted the immature voice. Athena turned around staring down at him, her glowing eye peering at him through the shadows on her face. “Oh big bat wants to say somethi-“ he gets cut off by Athena decking him in the jaw. She turned away heading back to the guest room where she resided as Antinous lay there squirming in pain. Telemachus began cheering for Athena but was shut up by the stares of the suitors.

This night the transition from one day to another wasn’t as seamless as the first. When Athena awoke she could recall hearing singing in her dreams. This continued day after day through the years and so did her growing collection of stuffed creatures made by Telemachus. Each getting better and better, but the first would always hold a special feeling to Athena. She got into several more fights with the suitors when one of them over stepped making sure to keep the family as safe as she could in her permanently debilitated state. Hermes appeared here and there to say hi to his great great grandson and gossip with Athena, albeit he would talk and Athena would listen. Dionysus showed up once attempting to convince Athena to drink, offering that it’d make her forget about the pain she was in, but she declined. Hephaestus would have Hermes send Athena new armor and weapons that he made for her. Hypnos would always annoy Athena each night finding a way to out-wit her so he could help her sleep. She would spar with Telemachus to grow his skills and aid Penelope in weaving.

[catarufermecat]

Small contribution to the fandom

[goldenteaset]

I have finally unlocked Fallen Paradise! But since I just finished 000 I don’t think I have the emotional energy to read Belial and Lucifer’s wing flutters communication for myself. (Belial laughing joyfully in the face of forever unrequited love is still too raw…)

[Lucifer voice] Such is the struggle of free will.

[hannahwindy]

Date

Havik: We should date.

Elza: Hmm?

Havik: We have to date sometime, socially, so go ahead and kick their ass and break bones :)

Elza:...Yeah, Sure sweetheart. =^=

[lightgriffinsect]

muslim things we need more of in media

teenage Muslim guys. we've all seen teenage/adolescent Muslim girls in media, how about more guys? give me a Muslim boy in high school who plays cricket and likes Atif Aslam. idk

Muslim parents and parent figures who are chill and not overly strict. half the time the "strict Muslim parents" are not even behaving in an Islamic way.

Muslims who aren't anti-feminist. Islam is a feminist religion. Women are highly encouraged to pursue jobs and higher education. Show more Muslim women in well-paying jobs in STEM and business fields.

Muslims who don't make up restrictions out of thin air. it makes no sense for a Muslim woman to go "oh i can't do [mildly secular thing], I'm a Muslim" BEHAN THERE IS NOTHING IN ISLAM THAT SAYS YOU CAN'T.

Muslim girls who keep their hijab on in front of non-mahram people at all times. yes, this post is about Samirah al-Abbasi and Ms. Marvel. can we get Muslim girls who actually take pride in their hijab and don't take it off for non-mahram men or insist that it's okay because "you're LIKE family to me"

accurate depictions of gatherings, especially weddings, in Islam. This may differ depending on nationality of the characters.

Accurate depictions of Muslims in relationships. Samirah al-Abbas from Magnus Chase is a horrible representation of this. The vast majority of Muslim girls do not get engaged at the age of 12. Most of us do not get engaged or married until we're in our 20s.

Muslims who don't get engaged to or marry their cousins.

adding onto that, Muslims who don't have boyfriends or girlfriends or romanticize the idea of having one.

Muslim women who don't have children and don't regret it.

Muslims who don't get engaged or married at all! It's Sunnah to get married, but it is not mandatory. You can still be a devout Muslim without getting married or having children.

Muslim MEN AND BOYS WHO FOLLOW THE HIJAB. the hijab is NOT just a head covering, it is a WAY OF LIFE that ALL MUSLIMS must follow. it is about MODESTY for both the sexes. Muslim men ALSO need to cover themselves to an extent. yes, the rules differ slightly from male to female Muslims, but they STILL EXIST FOR BOTH. I suggest reading up more on this topic if you don't know much about the hijab.

Muslims who are actively working to get closer to Allah and trying to stop any non-Islamic habits. Muslims who smoke, drink, eat non-halal food but are aware that this is haram and are actively trying to stop. Muslims who show that you don't have to be perfect, you just have to try to be better than you were yesterday. Muslims who are real in their struggles. No one criticizes Christians for being secular or not following their faith perfectly, why are Muslims subjected to so much scrutiny?

Muslims who are shown practicing their faith onscreen. Praying, making du'a, fasting, going to Umrah, even.

Add little bits of the Muslim faith in their everyday life. Instead of air freshener hangings in their cars, my parents have hangings with Islamic calligraphy and the du'a for traveling. We have a stack of prayer mats sitting in a corner of the living room. We have a bookshelf where the entire top shelf is copies of the Quran and other Islamic books. We always say the designated du'a before doing anything such as eating a meal, starting a trip, or even going to sleep.

AN ACCURATE DEPICTION OF ISLAMIC JIHAD. WESTERN PROPAGANDA HAS MADE USE OF YOUR IGNORANCE TO FEED YOU LIES AND DISTORT THE MEANING OF JIHAD.

There are three types of jihad: jihad of the heart, jihad of the mind, and physical jihad.

Jihad of the heart is the Muslim's internal struggle to be faithful and practice their religion wholeheartedly. It is the struggle against temptations of evil, of haram actions. It is the most important form of jihad and one that every Muslim partakes in every day.

Jihad of the mind is the struggle against misinformation about Islam. It is spreading education and information about the principles of Islam. It condemns forcing people to accept Islam. People are meant to be guided. They are meant to find their own path to Islam with the help of knowledge and resources to learn. this form of jihad is important as it keeps Muslims and non-Muslims informed about Islam.

Physical Jihad is an absolute last resort that a Muslim nation must partake in when there is a threat of war from another nation. Islam condemns violence and murder and always pushes its followers to resolve matters peacefully. In a situation where this is impossible, only then is physical jihad permissible. and it has strict rules about who the Muslims can fight. It is haram to kill anyone who is not actively fighting from the opposing army. It is haram to kill women, children, elderly people, and any civilians. It is haram to kill animals except for food. It is haram even to take from the land or damage it in any way. If an army calling itself Islamic is not following these rules, it is not partaking in Jihad. it is partaking in unnecessary slaughter and bloodshed. there you go.

sorry i went on a rant about jihad for a minute there lol, i've been meaning to do that though anyway.

please depict Muslims in media more. please depict us with respect, and with the proper amount of research and effort needed for accuracy. thanks. Ramadan Mubarak, free Palestine <3

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[nightmarerodent]

The Kombat Kids after another failed exercise against the Lin Kuei, after which they hang out in one of the lounge rooms of the temple to rest and complain, not realizing Bi-Han was also in the room:

Cassie: Every time! No matter how hard we fight or train or anything Kuai Liang keeps beating us. It doesn’t matter how in sync we think we are, nothing works.

Bi-Han: Teamwork isn’t the issue here. It’s your own heads getting in the way of you succeeding.

Cassie: Jesus Fu-! God damn shadows!

Jin: Oh, and I suppose you know what our mental baggage is?

Bi-Han: Please, with how often you kids come in here bitching and moaning all the time, I know everything there is to know about you brats.

Bi-Han, pointing at Jacqui: For example, Briggs throws herself into her work, striving for perfection she’ll never achieve and approval she’ll never receive, at least not outwardly.

Jacqui shrinks into the couch.

Bi-Han points to Takeda: Chujin Takahashi is a bleeding heart who wants to solve everybody else’s problems except his own. The list of which is about a mile long.

Takeda: What? No. That’s not… no. I’m fine! I’m… fine…

Bi-Han: You, Shaolin, judge everyone and everything because you hate yourself and finding fault in everything around you is the only way to make yourself feel better.

Jin, flipping him off: Fuck you.

Bi-Han, turning to Cassie: Little Miss Golden Child here puts on an air of confidence and arrogance but pull back the sheet and it’s all anxiety and imposter syndrome. She has to constantly remind everyone of her achievements in a desperate bid to try and convince herself she’s good enough to be in the position she has.

Cassie: That’s not-!

Bi-Han: And Frost, tch, you don’t even what to know what her deal is.

Frost just glares.

Bi-Han: Point is, you kids only pretend to think you’re tough shit. Until you actually start believing it, all you’re going to do is keep failing over and over again. Get out of your own heads.

[dahliawilder]

Part 3! Re-uploaded bc of fixes.

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[val-of-the-north]

More observations for the trailer I am going insane!!!

I can't claim the original observation of this candle tree detail is mine, but it's from a Japanese Twitter user, here's a screenshot of the post and a link to it as well [x]

The rest of this observation IS mine though, so let's get to it:

With all the talk of cardinal sin, Messmer having a few parallels to Lucifer as pointed out by some friends of mine [x] I have to wonder if he is the cause of a speculated first burning of the Erdtree.

If this is the first time you have heard about this concept, I'll give a short summary. You know how Leyndell is covered in ash by the time we reach it in-game, and how that goes unexplained? We know for a fact that must be the Erdtree's ashes because after we claim the Rune of Death and the Erdtree burns even more, the capital is entombed in it.

We are also told that the Age of Plenty, an age in which the Erdtree gave physical blessings from its sacred sap, swiftly came to a close and the tree had to be changed to simply an object of faith...

So the theory claims that the reason why the Age of Plenty ended so swiftly was due to the Erdtree being set on fire. In theory spaces, the go-to culprit for this speculated action has often been the Gloam-Eyed Queen, with her connections to fire (Blackflame specifically) and Destined Death, but now there's the possibility that this was all Messmer's doing after all. Promotional material and dialogue seems to really denote his affinity for scorching and setting things ablaze.

This probably also means he is the inventor of that scary flame construct that according to Miyazaki as per this interview [x] was an old war machine, no doubt used during this "unsung battle".

Another important part of Messmer's design is the two snakes, which point us back to the Age of Plenty! Godfrey likely ruled during and directly after that time, and the arenas were likely built because of him. It had to be during Godfrey's rule because by the time Radagon became Elden Lord the practices of the colosseums had died down, as told to us by the Ritual Sword and Shield Talismans:

One of the more interesting aspects of the gladiatorial battles that once took place is the snake symbolism on the gladiators' armor.

So the snake was a symbol of a generic "traitor to the Erdtree", and it predated Rykard's blasphemy by an entire age at least... so what if it wasn't generic at all and it represented Messmer himself? He might have been the perpetrator of a betrayal so foul that Marika removed all traces of his existence from her empire's history, but kept the symbol of the snake as a spiteful reminder of him and all other subsequent traitors. After all, she does seem to have power over which one of her children gets remembered or not, and if not her, then the collective of the Golden Order:

Do note that we don't know when she said this. It could have been while she was still at the height of her rule or right before the Shattering. What we do know for a fact is that the soulless demigods inside the Walking Mausoleums have no known history to speak of, which is quite unlike Godwyn, one of the more accomplished members of the family. So yeah, being forgotten by history might be something the Golden Order does to those they deem unfit, so Messmer could be a likely candidate for such treatment... except instead of doing nothing noteworthy he did TOO much lol.

Now I gotta wonder if Marika hated him more or less than her Omen babies. One could argue that locking them down in a sewer close to where she lives was done more as an obligation than any true resentment. She could have sent them to the Shadow Lands if she really wanted them gone and unaccessible, as that place seems filled with Crucible-related things...

I am not saying she was a good mother to them because she didn't kick them to the Shadow Lands, but perhaps she DID have some small affection for them that she really couldn't follow through with.

Of course, maybe she just couldn't banish them anymore after banishing Messmer for whatever reason (maybe she cut-off a connection to that realm?). However, the most likely possibility is that he WAS known like the many soulless demigods and that Mohg and Morgott predate him. It's just that while those two were born undesirable through no fault of their own and were thus only hidden away, he BECAME undesirable which was worse in Marika's eyes so he gets the extra banishment and the removal of all of his history... there are so many possibilities...

[val-of-the-north]

More observations for the trailer I am going insane!!!

I can't claim the original observation of this candle tree detail is mine, but it's from a Japanese Twitter user, here's a screenshot of the post and a link to it as well [x]

The rest of this observation IS mine though, so let's get to it:

With all the talk of cardinal sin, Messmer having a few parallels to Lucifer as pointed out by some friends of mine [x] I have to wonder if he is the cause of a speculated first burning of the Erdtree.

If this is the first time you have heard about this concept, I'll give a short summary. You know how Leyndell is covered in ash by the time we reach it in-game, and how that goes unexplained? We know for a fact that must be the Erdtree's ashes because after we claim the Rune of Death and the Erdtree burns even more, the capital is entombed in it.

We are also told that the Age of Plenty, an age in which the Erdtree gave physical blessings from its sacred sap, swiftly came to a close and the tree had to be changed to simply an object of faith...

So the theory claims that the reason why the Age of Plenty ended so swiftly was due to the Erdtree being set on fire. In theory spaces, the go-to culprit for this speculated action has often been the Gloam-Eyed Queen, with her connections to fire (Blackflame specifically) and Destined Death, but now there's the possibility that this was all Messmer's doing after all. Promotional material and dialogue seems to really denote his affinity for scorching and setting things ablaze.

This probably also means he is the inventor of that scary flame construct that according to Miyazaki as per this interview [x] was an old war machine, no doubt used during this "unsung battle".

Another important part of Messmer's design is the two snakes, which point us back to the Age of Plenty! Godfrey likely ruled during and directly after that time, and the arenas were likely built because of him. It had to be during Godfrey's rule because by the time Radagon became Elden Lord the practices of the colosseums had died down, as told to us by the Ritual Sword and Shield Talismans:

One of the more interesting aspects of the gladiatorial battles that once took place is the snake symbolism on the gladiators' armor.

So the snake was a symbol of a generic "traitor to the Erdtree", and it predated Rykard's blasphemy by an entire age at least... so what if it wasn't generic at all and it represented Messmer himself? He might have been the perpetrator of a betrayal so foul that Marika removed all traces of his existence from her empire's history, but kept the symbol of the snake as a spiteful reminder of him and all other subsequent traitors. After all, she does seem to have power over which one of her children gets remembered or not, and if not her, then the collective of the Golden Order:

Do note that we don't know when she said this. It could have been while she was still at the height of her rule or right before the Shattering. What we do know for a fact is that the soulless demigods inside the Walking Mausoleums have no known history to speak of, which is quite unlike Godwyn, one of the more accomplished members of the family. So yeah, being forgotten by history might be something the Golden Order does to those they deem unfit, so Messmer could be a likely candidate for such treatment... except instead of doing nothing noteworthy he did TOO much lol.

Now I gotta wonder if Marika hated him more or less than her Omen babies. One could argue that locking them down in a sewer close to where she lives was done more as an obligation than any true resentment. She could have sent them to the Shadow Lands if she really wanted them gone and unaccessible, as that place seems filled with Crucible-related things...

I am not saying she was a good mother to them because she didn't kick them to the Shadow Lands, but perhaps she DID have some small affection for them that she really couldn't follow through with.

Of course, maybe she just couldn't banish them anymore after banishing Messmer for whatever reason (maybe she cut-off a connection to that realm?). However, the most likely possibility is that he WAS known like the many soulless demigods and that Mohg and Morgott predate him. It's just that while those two were born undesirable through no fault of their own and were thus only hidden away, he BECAME undesirable which was worse in Marika's eyes so he gets the extra banishment and the removal of all of his history... there are so many possibilities...

[val-of-the-north]

More observations for the trailer I am going insane!!!

I can't claim the original observation of this candle tree detail is mine, but it's from a Japanese Twitter user, here's a screenshot of the post and a link to it as well [x]

The rest of this observation IS mine though, so let's get to it:

With all the talk of cardinal sin, Messmer having a few parallels to Lucifer as pointed out by some friends of mine [x] I have to wonder if he is the cause of a speculated first burning of the Erdtree.

If this is the first time you have heard about this concept, I'll give a short summary. You know how Leyndell is covered in ash by the time we reach it in-game, and how that goes unexplained? We know for a fact that must be the Erdtree's ashes because after we claim the Rune of Death and the Erdtree burns even more, the capital is entombed in it.

We are also told that the Age of Plenty, an age in which the Erdtree gave physical blessings from its sacred sap, swiftly came to a close and the tree had to be changed to simply an object of faith...

So the theory claims that the reason why the Age of Plenty ended so swiftly was due to the Erdtree being set on fire. In theory spaces, the go-to culprit for this speculated action has often been the Gloam-Eyed Queen, with her connections to fire (Blackflame specifically) and Destined Death, but now there's the possibility that this was all Messmer's doing after all. Promotional material and dialogue seems to really denote his affinity for scorching and setting things ablaze.

This probably also means he is the inventor of that scary flame construct that according to Miyazaki as per this interview [x] was an old war machine, no doubt used during this "unsung battle".

Another important part of Messmer's design is the two snakes, which point us back to the Age of Plenty! Godfrey likely ruled during and directly after that time, and the arenas were likely built because of him. It had to be during Godfrey's rule because by the time Radagon became Elden Lord the practices of the colosseums had died down, as told to us by the Ritual Sword and Shield Talismans:

One of the more interesting aspects of the gladiatorial battles that once took place is the snake symbolism on the gladiators' armor.

So the snake was a symbol of a generic "traitor to the Erdtree", and it predated Rykard's blasphemy by an entire age at least... so what if it wasn't generic at all and it represented Messmer himself? He might have been the perpetrator of a betrayal so foul that Marika removed all traces of his existence from her empire's history, but kept the symbol of the snake as a spiteful reminder of him and all other subsequent traitors. After all, she does seem to have power over which one of her children gets remembered or not, and if not her, then the collective of the Golden Order:

Do note that we don't know when she said this. It could have been while she was still at the height of her rule or right before the Shattering. What we do know for a fact is that the soulless demigods inside the Walking Mausoleums have no known history to speak of, which is quite unlike Godwyn, one of the more accomplished members of the family. So yeah, being forgotten by history might be something the Golden Order does to those they deem unfit, so Messmer could be a likely candidate for such treatment... except instead of doing nothing noteworthy he did TOO much lol.

Now I gotta wonder if Marika hated him more or less than her Omen babies. One could argue that locking them down in a sewer close to where she lives was done more as an obligation than any true resentment. She could have sent them to the Shadow Lands if she really wanted them gone and unaccessible, as that place seems filled with Crucible-related things...

I am not saying she was a good mother to them because she didn't kick them to the Shadow Lands, but perhaps she DID have some small affection for them that she really couldn't follow through with.

Of course, maybe she just couldn't banish them anymore after banishing Messmer for whatever reason (maybe she cut-off a connection to that realm?). However, the most likely possibility is that he WAS known like the many soulless demigods and that Mohg and Morgott predate him. It's just that while those two were born undesirable through no fault of their own and were thus only hidden away, he BECAME undesirable which was worse in Marika's eyes so he gets the extra banishment and the removal of all of his history... there are so many possibilities...

[val-of-the-north]

More observations for the trailer I am going insane!!!

I can't claim the original observation of this candle tree detail is mine, but it's from a Japanese Twitter user, here's a screenshot of the post and a link to it as well [x]

The rest of this observation IS mine though, so let's get to it:

With all the talk of cardinal sin, Messmer having a few parallels to Lucifer as pointed out by some friends of mine [x] I have to wonder if he is the cause of a speculated first burning of the Erdtree.

If this is the first time you have heard about this concept, I'll give a short summary. You know how Leyndell is covered in ash by the time we reach it in-game, and how that goes unexplained? We know for a fact that must be the Erdtree's ashes because after we claim the Rune of Death and the Erdtree burns even more, the capital is entombed in it.

We are also told that the Age of Plenty, an age in which the Erdtree gave physical blessings from its sacred sap, swiftly came to a close and the tree had to be changed to simply an object of faith...

So the theory claims that the reason why the Age of Plenty ended so swiftly was due to the Erdtree being set on fire. In theory spaces, the go-to culprit for this speculated action has often been the Gloam-Eyed Queen, with her connections to fire (Blackflame specifically) and Destined Death, but now there's the possibility that this was all Messmer's doing after all. Promotional material and dialogue seems to really denote his affinity for scorching and setting things ablaze.

This probably also means he is the inventor of that scary flame construct that according to Miyazaki as per this interview [x] was an old war machine, no doubt used during this "unsung battle".

Another important part of Messmer's design is the two snakes, which point us back to the Age of Plenty! Godfrey likely ruled during and directly after that time, and the arenas were likely built because of him. It had to be during Godfrey's rule because by the time Radagon became Elden Lord the practices of the colosseums had died down, as told to us by the Ritual Sword and Shield Talismans:

One of the more interesting aspects of the gladiatorial battles that once took place is the snake symbolism on the gladiators' armor.

So the snake was a symbol of a generic "traitor to the Erdtree", and it predated Rykard's blasphemy by an entire age at least... so what if it wasn't generic at all and it represented Messmer himself? He might have been the perpetrator of a betrayal so foul that Marika removed all traces of his existence from her empire's history, but kept the symbol of the snake as a spiteful reminder of him and all other subsequent traitors. After all, she does seem to have power over which one of her children gets remembered or not, and if not her, then the collective of the Golden Order:

Do note that we don't know when she said this. It could have been while she was still at the height of her rule or right before the Shattering. What we do know for a fact is that the soulless demigods inside the Walking Mausoleums have no known history to speak of, which is quite unlike Godwyn, one of the more accomplished members of the family. So yeah, being forgotten by history might be something the Golden Order does to those they deem unfit, so Messmer could be a likely candidate for such treatment... except instead of doing nothing noteworthy he did TOO much lol.

Now I gotta wonder if Marika hated him more or less than her Omen babies. One could argue that locking them down in a sewer close to where she lives was done more as an obligation than any true resentment. She could have sent them to the Shadow Lands if she really wanted them gone and unaccessible, as that place seems filled with Crucible-related things...

I am not saying she was a good mother to them because she didn't kick them to the Shadow Lands, but perhaps she DID have some small affection for them that she really couldn't follow through with.

Of course, maybe she just couldn't banish them anymore after banishing Messmer for whatever reason (maybe she cut-off a connection to that realm?). However, the most likely possibility is that he WAS known like the many soulless demigods and that Mohg and Morgott predate him. It's just that while those two were born undesirable through no fault of their own and were thus only hidden away, he BECAME undesirable which was worse in Marika's eyes so he gets the extra banishment and the removal of all of his history... there are so many possibilities...

[hannahwindy]

What's funny is that Lan was a dragon babygirl, in her first months she was literally like this in Shang Tsung's eyes:

[yourocdoeswhat]

If your OC could go back in time for just one second to tell their past selves to NOT do whatever they're about to do, what event are they picking?

[hannahwindy]

..

Idris: "Whatever you do, don't trust him. Don't trust Shinnok."

[ocprompts]

Does your OC have a good poker face?

[hannahwindy]

Surprisingly, yes.

Marta has lived a long time and knows when to react and when not to. She has a poker face at times to provoke the opponent, otherwise she is kind-hearted.

Idris is a special case, the man has a naturally resting b*tch face. so, yeah, a good poker face.

Elza is a shadow creature, and her expressions sometimes do not help in expressing what she sincerely wants to express. But she has a face with a cold smile.

now Lan? Nope. The girl's face expresses her in a funny way, even if she does not speak, her face says it all.