The Underworld | Ignihyde animatic 💀🤖 | Implied spoilers for book 6
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Chat I made this instead of studying I might be cooked… I might fail chemistry but at least I made Ignihyde angst 🤷🏻♀️
Idia is so the underworld saga coded! In the underworld, surrounded by the souls of the dead and those he lost. Filled to the brim with feelings of guilt for someone’s death, He’s also literally Hades. I found that this fits well within the story of book 6, when Idia goes down to the gate of the underworld and opens it, because of Ortho.
Sorry if the animation is a little awkward, I was trying something new! I hope you all enjoy <3
Helloooooo0, some more Idia Shroud fanart, now inspired by screenshots from Disney's Hercules. Because I HAVE A THEORY!
= I'm rambling again.
:) Note that at the time when I'm writing this I have just finished Book 6 and I haven't started Book 7 yet. So this will contain some spoilers for Book 6. And everything under the cut as always :)
Also Disney's Hercules took a lot of creative liberties with the Greek mythology. Like Hera being the one trying to kill Hercules, rather than Hades because Zeus was being a horny bastard. And Hades being pretty straight up guy compared to his contemporaries. But I will be using the Disney movie as the basis since that is where the game takes its inspirations.
THESIS:
Idia Shroud from Twisted Wonderland is more like a twisted version of Hercules rather than Hades from the Disney movie.
Here me out:
Sure, his visual design is pretty much inspired by Hades and I love it. And the fact that he has a job that was bestowed upon him by his bloodline rather than by his own choice. (Zeus forcing Hades to take care of the Underworld full of dead souls and so on. ) And how Idia is pretty sarcastic like Hades when he is avoiding serious talking or pointing out absurd things. Let's just say, I take this as the surface personality of Idia.
But underneath it all, what do we have? We have a person who wants to be normal. What did Hercules want to be in the start of the movie? A normal person. Someone who was accepted and someone who could fit in among his peers. That is ultimately what Idia wants. Idia wants to be liked. That's why I think he was inspired to be a hero when he was young, something Hercules also wants to be to gain acceptance. (Hercules does it to be with his biological family again and so on.)
They are both awkward in social situations, other kinda in this himbo way and other in this nerdy awkwardness kinda way.
They both go into Underworld to find the person who was the most important to them. Hercules - Megara / Idia - Ortho
BUT ALSO! At the end of the movie, Hercules wants to stay as a mortal because he found acceptance with Meg. Idia could have stayed with S.T.Y.X. If he really wanted. I'm pretty sure with that. But he chose to go back to NRC because he, with encouragement with Ortho, wanted to experience life before he has to go and be the Watchman of the Underworld. He has a long way to go, he really harbors so much self-hatred and uncounciously self-sabotages himself. It is good thing that he has Ortho calling him out on it.
I really hope to see him grow and like himself more in the future :)
(I just loved all the Greek mythology names and references in the Book 6, it is such *chef's kiss * Like how Star Rogue is pretty much the tale of Zeus fighting against his father Chronos who has eaten all his other siblings and so on.)
Blessings of Magic: The Norns' Goddess series continues with the journey of Lauren and Loki's children.
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By the time Loni and Einarr caught up, her men had cleaned and bandaged her wound, and Starry was enjoying a cup of medicinal tea liberally laced with honey, another Asgardian import. While a sugar-like substitute was harvested from the nectar of certain flowers, and Lycin’s fruit could be boiled down to make sweet syrups, something like candy wasn’t a thing here. Once they discovered honey was a fairly abundant harvest for Asgard, it could last without spoiling for years, did well in hot climates, and could be added to a variety of foods, the people had clamoured for it, becoming another business that Asteria was sure helped add to her father’s already deep pockets.
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