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You ever think about how while Snow did have quick moments of humanity for the people in the districts, even after seeing it firsthand, he ultimately saw it as natural and necessary, because without the Capitol coming down so hard on them, there would be another rebellion, and children like him from "good" (rich) families would be upended? Therefore it's justified, regardless of how many children from the districts have to suffer in order for there to be "peace"?

You ever think about how Snow's anger at his family's situation, and his desire to climb the social ladder and change it wasn't out of wanting to provide for his family like Katniss, her hunting and volunteering to take Prim's place, but rather because he felt he was robbed of an inheritance and lifestyle that was "rightfully his" (still reliant on the subjugation of the districts) and his bitter inner monologue towards his classmates whose families managed to rebuild while his couldn't?

Does this make you think about how white men who find themselves in situations where they lose lots of money, their livelihood, an important job opportunity, or even a game, they lash out, and take their humiliation out on the women and "weak" men around them? How they use the bodies of women as resources, and see them as not really human? Does it reframe the story of Snow and the 10th Hunger Games, the longer you think about it? Lucy Gray being his ticket out of poverty. Giving Lucy Gray a guitar, and giving her the stage, because it'll make him look good. Calling Lucy Gray His girl, long before they started dating. Snow seeing Sejanus' father as a source of money in exchange for saving his son. Killing Billy Taupe out of jealousy? Protection? and hating him not because he hurt Lucy Gray, but because Snow cannot stand to think of Lucy Gray's life before him. He got Sejanus killed in order to secure his place in the Peacekeepers, and to show his loyalty to the capitol. His rage at Lucy Gray tricking and escaping him was deeper than just fear of her telling people about the people he killed. How dare Lucy Gray escape him, and leave him questioning for the rest of his life? She was only supposed to win the Games so he could get his prize. She was never supposed to win against him. She must be a monster, a liar who tricked him and committed the crime of making him look like a fool, even though nobody was there in the woods that day to see him except for the mockingjays.

#suzanne collins' racial/gender politics are subtle but very interesting when you dig deeper #and I didn't even touch on lucy gray's indigenous coding and snow's desire to take her to the capitol #for another post #the hunger games #thg #the ballad of songbirds and snakes #tbosas #coriolanus snow #lucy gray baird #sejanus plinth

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𝐗𝐋𝐕𝐈𝐈𝐈. Following after Imperator's wise decision to store their core data somewhere else that wouldn't be affected by Leviathan's influence, Cartethyia took the decision of replicating her memories and convert them into stars that would join the first ones the created. Unlike the former ones that were more impersonal (which held traces of the past and the future she's come to learn from the stars surrounding Solaris-3, wishes of the people and prayers she holds dear, as well as thoughts that she may want to revisit sometime in the future), these form the essence that is herself. This choice was motivated by her own journey in battling Leviathan and the Dark Tide, by the decisions she made such as splitting herself and her power (both of them leading to an amnesiac echo).

At this point in time, she has come to the understanding that she is not the human she wanted to live as, but an extraordinary being that may be subjected to future perils. Be it the Fractsidus again or bigger dangers that she'll take arms against, she refuses to lose herself and everything she cherishes of herself just as she did back when she split those things from her. In this case, instead of removing them from her so that they wouldn't be tainted by the endless battle she had to face against Leviathan, she copies them. That way, not only she will continue in the possession of all of those experiences, but there will also be somewhere accessible to her where she can regain them if anything were to happen.

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I’ve been sort of inactive on here compared to how much I usually use Tumblr because I’ve been obsessively writing and researching DS2 theories over on Twitter (I’ve managed to come up with a lot that I may transcribe over here at some point but they’re over there if anyone’s interested), I’ve been doing a lot of digging into Egyptian mythology and history, but there was one train of thought in particular that’s changed the way I look at the first and second game quite a bit: originally I thought DS was inspired by the typical ancient Egyptian pantheon and kept trying to equate each character to a different deity through their roles and associations which led me to a lot of dead ends and confusion, but upon doing more research into Tutankhamun (which I’ve previously explained that based off the cartouches in Higgs’ bunker and some of his dialogue is someone he equates himself to, and by extension equates Amelie to Amun) I’ve come to realise that DS isn’t based off the main pantheon, but rather a ‘heretical’ monotheistic religion that Tutankhamun’s father, Akhenaten, tried to make the predominant religion in Egypt, and succeeded with for a couple of decades before his reign ended and people tried to erase him from history.

Tutankhamun’s name means ‘the living image of Amun’, which I interpreted to mean the same as ‘the particle of god’, which is what Higgs calls himself in reference to his relationship to Amelie, but Tutankhamun’s original name was Tutankhaten, ‘the living image of Aten’. As I said I thought Amelie was linked to Amun, but upon further research she’s much more closely linked to Aten: Amun is a creator deity in the original pantheon but he’s associated with air and is seen as ‘formless’ or invisible, whereas Aten as a creation deity is directly linked to the Sun (similar to Amelie, in a few of her cutscenes) and has hand symbolism in his depictions—he’s shown as a Sun with rays ending in hands reaching towards the ground, similar to the overarching hand imagery in DS. It’s also worth noting that the hieroglyphics for Ka are a pair of hands reaching upwards. Going back to Akhenaten, he was seen as a ‘heretic’ as he deviated from the established religion, similarly to how Higgs is the leader of the separatist group, and in Atenism the pharaoh is the sole divine intermediary, similarly to how Higgs is the ‘particle of god’ and the only character with a direct link to Amelie in the same way as his, he directly leeches off her powers and has a connection to her unlike other characters, and he worships her directly as well.

Again with Aten, there are similarities between his depictions and Amelie’s statue in DS2, namely the circle with rays reaching out of it.

The monotheistic qualities of Atenism could also explain the lack of other ‘deity-like’ figures in DS, currently we’re only aware of Amelie and her role as the EE, and there doesn’t seem to be anything pointing to the possibility of another ‘deity’ existing.

I had a discussion about this topic with someone else on Twitter but they also offered some valuable insight in saying that Amelie mimics Aten more than Amun also due to her more active presence and role within the story, she’s a visible and reachable entity, like Aten, rather than Amun who’s plays a more passive creator role.

There are a few links to Sun imagery, but one of the more noticeable ones is Higgs’ eye makeup: the black parts bear a lot of resemblance to Khepri’s wings, the deity of the rising sun, rebirth, and transformation, and the chiral elements resemble Aten’s rays, although these don’t look purposeful and have more likely ‘leaked’ out of him.