okay but can we talk about the struggle that is obsessing over a character that doesnât have fanfics??? because iâm over here scrubbing the internet for any crumbsâŠ
YESSS, SOMEONE COMMISSIONED ANOTHER COMIC BOOK ARTIST FOR JONDAMI. THE HOLY SUPERBAT TRINITY HAS BEEN COMPLETED đđ large, medium and small đ„č each ship gets a kiss đ« đ
Saturn Devouring His (Clone): or, a short essay on an interesting mythological parallel in Pantheon!
Apologies for that cursed image! Essay under the cut for s2 spoiler reasons
S2 ep2 Holstrom deciding that, yes, he now wants Pope to kill Caspian for him strikes me as a very "Saturn Devouring His Son" kinda situation
Holstrom literally asked for and gave means for this life to be created. All of Project Caspian was his idea. He was literally created from Holstrom, for Holstrom. Despite genetically being closer to a twins situation, thematically Caspian is set up as his son.
But Holstrom, like Saturn, was terrified that his "son", his clone, would supplant him. Caspian did what he could NEVER do, he cracked Integrity, and he did it by 18. He was better, he was smarter. He was no longer a clone, he was a threatâto Holstrom's self, to his power, to his "throne" as self-proclaimed prophet and savior of the new age.
Rather than risk being supplanted, Holstrom decided to just have Caspian removed, murdered, just like Saturn/Cronus ate his children to try and prevent the eventuality of one of them overthrowing him. One could even say that Holstrom's acts such as killing Zhong Shuchun when she resisted him and harvesting her code, or sacrificing Ping to Safesurf for betraying him, and then murdering Chanda for the same reasons, are all acts of Holstrom/Saturn "eating his children". They threatened his power, his throne, so he disposed of them.
But, like Zeus/Jupiter, Caspian escaped Holstrom's attempt to kill him, turned the other UIs/gods against him (thank u Chanda bro for helping), and not just dethroned him, but took him DOWN. One could even say that his death by Safesurf , which tears a UIs code apart until it's irretrievable, is analogous to Saturn being chopped up into tiny lil pieces with his own scythe (especially since he'd used Safesurf as a weapon against others before, like Ping)
The biggest departure from the analog is Caspian's sacrifice, as he never lived to "rule" the next world like Zeus. But just like the gods replaced the titans after Saturn was defeated, a new world of UIs replaced the original ones who'd fallen.
"Family feud escalates into violent power struggle between a pantheon of supreme beings and their offspring... A new world is created in the aftermath."
hereâs the closeted furries âhey man⊠can u bum me a cigâ and âthe one uncle nobody invites to the family reunion but SOMEONE keeps telling him where it is anywaysâ
if you want an idea of what john is like, imagine hau from pokemon sumo
ALSO the ppl who kept asking me for trans thomas art, HERE heâs trans in this au (;Â
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