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Dark Vlad from Wakfu

"*points incredulously* PAPYRUS UNDERFELL????"

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It's Complicated

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Dark Vlad 🤝 Ghost Rider

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I was hit with the realisation that even if Echo hadn't intervened to stop Oropo, his plan, to destroy the gods and replace them with the Brotherhood of the Forgotten, would have failed nonetheless.

If I'm not mistaken, Oropo intended to weaken the gods by severing their connection to the World of Twelve and then destroying them so his followers could ascend and replace them. However, by severing that connection, he, too, would have robbed himself of his new pantheon. Because the demigods' powers aren't a result of their divine parentage, but of their alignment.

True, being descended from gods grants the Siblings semi-immortality and stronger abilities than their mortal counterparts, but they still owe their powers to their race. In other words, Coqueline, for example, is an Osamodas demigoddess not only because her father is indeed the god Osamodas, but because she herself is an Osamodas.

The best example of this is actually Flopin. Technically speaking, he is a demigod—his father is Iop's latest reincarnation—and Oropo chose him to become the next Cra God. However, with the reveal that, as an Eliotrope, Oropo shares Yugo's memories and feelings, then it becomes plain to see his insistence on Flopin and Élely joining his cause had less to do with them being legitimately good candidates and more with his desire to make the Brotherhood of the Tofu his.

Just like he targeted Amalia despite already having Dathura as his next Sadida goddess and Echo as his lover. Those were Yugo's feelings clouding his judgement.

But back to Flopin and how he proves Oropo's plan was futile since the very beginning, unlike Élely and Pin, Eva's Little Wolf has never displayed any special powers beyond those of a normal Cra, something he himself is acutely aware of in season 4. That is because, while he might be Tristepin's son, he is not an Iop, and therefore, he can't inherit any divine power because he is not actually connected to the god Iop like Élely, Pin, and Goultard are.

And that is the most basic aspect of the franchise: your powers come from the god you worship.

This all comes to show that if Oropo had succeeded in destroying the gods, his chosen ones would have not been able to replace them as he intended, because if he killed the gods and severed the Twelvians' connection to them, then the Siblings would have been rendered powerless too, maybe even gone back to being regular humans. Meaning everything Oropo had done to fulfill his dream would have been for naught.

In fact, I'd go as far as to say the only ones who wouldn't have suffered the same fate would have been Adamaï, Yugo (since, before season 4, there was no indication that the goddess Eliatrope lived in Inglorium), Echo and Sipho (due to their dragon heritage), and Oropo himself, as he draws his power from Yugo and the other Eliotropes.

But who's to say he wasn't counting precisely on that to become the Supreme God as he declared back in season 3? After all, he was a master manipulator...

Some food for thought.

You’re telling me, this zesty ass great value ghost rider mf is A Jesus?

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Dofus Manga Characters Classpect - PART II

Read Part I, pleeaase

I made this old post going a bit more indepth (not much more though) about my thoughts regarding Goultard's system, how it functions etc...

"They [Vald and D Vlad] were a creation of his mind as a means of coping with / surviving the various traumas [challenges] he faced throughout his life."

Vald and Vlad both "evolve" over time with the purpose of keeping Goultard functional. They don't do an especially good job at it but still I think it's a valid interpretation to see the system as an organism adaptating for survival by trying random chaotic things, throwing whatever at the wall and seeing what sticks. Vald And D Vlad are on two ends of an axis of mutation. Expansion : Hope, on one side, Contraction : Rage, on the other.

"The vast majority of mutations are shitty, and either do nothing or have horrifying consequences. But some are awesome." "Not all change is good, especially not change that occurs without checks and balances." "We can conceptualize Hope as the cancer and Rage as the knife that cuts it out"

You'd THINK they'd balance each other out. Maybe they do?? Their competency in assisting Goultard be a more stable and successful character is... arguable. But they sure manage to get the narrative moving forward in new, interesting, and unexpected way ! Assisting other characters along the way.

After all, Crail wouldn't have become the Crimson Dofus' Guardian and raised Arty if it weren't for D Vlad.

The question of relation to the narrative is a complex one with those two. When you think about it, they're part of a living narrative (the system) inside another living narrative (the dofus manga story). Roles within roles...

My first approach was commansalist without a doubt, it had to be! "Their success is neither fundamental nor undermined by the story they inhabit" Neither of them get any kind of personal growth or success, no big heroic act that saves the day. They serve the narrative, I'd even say they're pivotal to it, without ripping any of the benefits. But parasitic? at their own expense? They don't seem to particularly suffer from it, do they?

Vald and Vlad both "evolve" over time with the purpose of keeping Goultard functional... And maybe by the exact same process, they keep themselves functional too. In two completely different ways.

One through oblivion, the other through awareness.

Vald, TheologicallyGallant

You could easily see him as a knight, he fits the archetype on the surface, but as said before this is just appearance. Vald is like a sidekick who doesnt know he's a sidekick. He helps like a sidekick does, with none of the self-doubt that usually comes from being relegated to a purely supportive role.

I would define Vald as embodying Goultard's Hope for a normal life, free from his chains and everything they entail.

" Too little experience and time fronting to pass as a fully formed individual (but people usually assume he’s just stupid). In a way, his role IS to be too stupid to feel sadness, or anything much."

Vald in his total lack of awareness to his fate and existence, is a bottomless well of optimism, naiveté, hope... Vald manages to capture any minute bullshit and bizarre opportunity that presents itself, and reveal its potential as motivation foddder to further the story or the hero's arcs. No matter how absurd, counter productive, random it may seem. He always manages to push things forward, for Arty, for Dodge.

"Jake has an affinity for fantasy and belief, [...] He’s an easy person to believe things of, he inspires sentiment (and attachment, and attraction) seemingly without trying. He’s made of the stuff Hope is made of, which is to say, lies made real by sheer, stubborn conviction and repetition."

Then dies tragically and suddenly, to further motivate Dodge's arc and introduce Goultard.

"A Page, as a class of character, is swept up in the tide of the story they inhabit. Their narrative positioning doesn’t serve their own interests, like the mutualist used-by class, the Heir. They aren’t bound to the service of others, like the commensalistic used-by class, the Maid. Their journey is one of being kicked to pieces by the narrative, their self-actualization undermined, their connections destabilized, severed, lost."

Too drunk on hope to realize. Oblivious to fatality. Unable to believe it. Even in his last seconds "It can't be".

PAGE OF HOPE, PROSPIT

One who is wielded by fantasy, the unchecked growth/mutation and the creation of the fake and inexplicable to advance others within the narrative at his own expense

Dark Vlad, TemerariouslyGruesome

Vlad is quite literally Goultard's excess Rage. He takes over when Goultard's emotions/memories become too much for him to bear. "He exteriorizes unresolved anger and resentment by violently lashing out." Really, it all spills out of him.

In Wakfu, Vlad is very much aware that he's not "real". He's aware he's part of this system. A narrative within a narrative. He understands that he was created/exists for a defined purpose that doesn't serve nor benefit him directly, in a way he knows he's a fictional character.

So what can you do about that ? No choice, no power over the reason of your existence. How can you live with that ? It'd be easy to resent your creator, maybe in a way, Vlad does. And simply let yourself inevitably suffer at the hands of your own fate... Suffer ? But after all, it's really not all bad when you love what you were made for, because you really might as well! Maybe even a little too much, and with all abandon....

He owns this rage, consumes it, digests it, assimilates it into his sense of self .

"After all, it happened to them, and they survived it, in one way or another. Maybe it even made them stronger, knowing what they know, experiencing what they experienced. If the rest of the world can’t handle it, that sounds like a ‘them’ problem."

BARD OF RAGE, PROSPIT

One who is changed by the unchecked destruction and hatred of falsehood to advance others within the narrative at his own expense.

They're basically this meme when you think about it.

Part II

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Dark Vlad VS Tristepin (+ Rubilax) fight!

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