#indrajit

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It'll never stop being funny to me how Indra's status and power level changes throughout the different texts because initially, you have this absolute badass God-King who defeats a giant monster and gets together with his wife and holds court in heaven. Next the Ramayana rolls up and he is set as a benchmark for battle-skill: Meghnad, as the warrior who defeated him, is an absolute powerhouse who nearly kills both Rama and Lakshmana (and one of those two is a god). In fact, depending on the version, Rama and Lakshmana only survive by semi-divine intervention (Garuda and Hanumana). It is a story about how Lakshmana, an exiled third prince, kills the man who defeated the King of Gods, thereby proving the victory of good over evil et cetera... et cetera... You know the drill.

And then, you have the Mahabharata. Where Krishna, then a young boy, protects an entire settlement from Indra's rage. Which... you know what, fine, he too is a god.

But then, Arjuna defeats Indra, who is his father. Arjuna, who presumably upset the audience a few moments ago after he just burned a whole forest with everyone (including children) in it to supposedly satisfy Agni.

Then, Indra shows up to Karna's doorstep begging for his armour, and Karna who had previously angered the audience by calling Draupadi a harlot gets to demand things from the king of the gods.

See the pattern?

Also they have that absolute disaster of a ceremony and their city is called Indraprashtha.

Like come on, at this point you're just using Indra as the bonus +500 point in games to get your favourites in the audience's good books after they messed up.

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My thoughts after seeing Ramayana: The Legend of Prince Rama

Rama and Lakshman are the best brothers ever (also Rama literally killed multiple demons with divine weapons as a teenager and that’s honestly more than I accomplished at 15)

Sita has Disney Princess powers

“I will cleave your filthy brain in two!” is not a line I expected to hear from a PG rated movie

Bharata is underrated

Surpanakha needs therapy (and a nose job)

Why is Maricha kinda- 😏

Ravana seriously needs to keep it in his pants (I was mentally shaking his shoulders and yelling “when will you learn that your actions have consequences!?” at him the entire time)

Rama furiously declaring he’ll hunt Ravana to the ends of the universe and then Lakshman just casually telling him to calm down was way funnier than it had any right to be

RIP Jatayu

The sentient mountain turning out to be a demigod literally felt like an NPC side quest in a fantasy RPG

Hanuman is the GOAT

I love how Jambavan just randomly drops the bombshell on Hanuman that he has divine powers, also his voice is weirdly amusing

Hanuman gets swallowed by a sea serpent, then promptly chops the thing up into sushi

Ravana’s giving off vaguely yandere vibes and I’m all here for it

Hanuman introducing himself to Sita with a beautiful song legit warmed my heart so much, he’s so wholesome

Ravana filing his nails while listening to Hanuman’s speech only to be like “kill him” was darkly hilarious

“alright, but set fire to his tail first, then let him go home” Ravana WTH-

Then Hanuman subsequently commits arson and burns down half the city of Lanka (cue the theme from It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia)

I have only known Vibhishana for a minute and a half but if anything happened to him I would kill everyone in this room and then myself /j

Bridge building montage woohooo

Why do all the rakshasas sound either animalistic or flamboyant?

Speaking of which, there’s no way Indrajit is straight, no man who wears indigo eyeshadow, a crop top, no trousers and knee high boots isn’t at least a little bit bent

“Oh, what a nuisance! This is bothering me!” Ah yes, just how I’d describe being in the middle of a battle between literal demons and very floofy monkeys

Rama’s speech about respecting life was genuinely one of the most beautiful things I’ve ever heard

Kumbhakarna is the best boi

Kumbhakarna is the best round sleepy boi in the history of everything

His sons were absolute badasses and their deaths made me sad (not at all helped by his heartbroken expression when he found out)

I love how it literally took being waterboarded to wake up this giant

Vibhishana just casually mentioning to Rama that Kumbhakarna would become immortal after sleeping for SIX WHOLE MONTHS

Literally everything about Kumbhakarna is immensely endearing to me in a way I cannot explain, I just wanna smoosh his cheeks and feed him strawberry mochi, also he so ROUND

Kumbhakarna, don’t eat the Vanaras ffs

Kumbhakarna getting increasingly frustrated by the flying demons buzzing around him like mosquitoes should become a meme/reaction gif, purely because of how he yells “yOu ArE aNnOyInG mE!” at them

*two strikes of a divine sword later* NUUUUU MY BABYYYYY 😭

“I wish I’d known him as a friend, Vibhishana” that’s it, happy AU where everybody lives and they’re all besties let’s gooooo *crying inside*

The way Ravana’s voice quakes when he hears he’s now sans a brother 🥺

Indrajit is horrible but I love him

HANUMAN JUST AIRLIFTED A FUCKING MOUNTAIN HOLY SMOKES-

Omgggg an aerial battle this is so cool- INDRAJIT NOOOOO

RAVANA WHERE DID YOU GET AN AEROPLANE???

Yikes, Ravana, you’re really laying on the body horror here 😳

Awww Rama and Sita are together again yayyyy

Yasssss happy ending we love to see it!

Why are they flying to the moon in a glittering gold helicopter???

Basically, I love this movie and everything about it, especially Kumbhakarna 💞

(Also for the record I mean absolutely no disrespect by any of this)

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Indrajeet be like

[purseowner4thequalityanimation]

Indrajit’s model in NINE is a rescaled and recoloured version of Shiva. Model-scaling is a less prominent way of reusing models, so I thought this was worth showing off.

(Also it looks really ridiculous having Vishnu, Shiva and then Indrajit in the same party, he looks like he could be their son)

[herawell]

the fact that in the dd ramayan, lakshmana's first words after being revived from unconsciousness are, "where is meghnaad???" will forever fuel my love for lakshnad.

I’VE ALWAYS LOVED THAT SCENE FOR HOW QUINTESSENTIALLY LAKSHMANA IT IS BUT I JUST REALIZED IT’S ALSO EVIDENCE FOR LAKSHNADDDDDD

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Yeah it’s funny as the Liberators learn that later. Here’s the rest!: A former boxing champ whose body is struggling to keep up due to age, who’s appeared in previous event, family serves at the temple where Indra is enshrined as Taishakuten, both Indra and the boxer Kouki have similar fears of losing relevance due to time and age with the other trying to support the other in not giving up. Indra tries to defeat Indrajit solo after he strikes down a spy of Indrajit, only to lose again.(continue

(Continue) Indrajit continues hunting down warriors to kill to reinvigorate himself and sets his sights on a MMA tournament that Kouki will participate in, leading him and the Liberators to face him inside a building where he can’t rain down arrows endlessly upon his foes. They end up getting beaten when Indra arrives! Having consumed soma when he was suffering from injuries when Indrajit left him for dead. As the two face off the cheers of the people there give Indra power via faith(continue)

(Continue)Indra receives power via faith of the crowd, and as his name Taishakuten strikes down Indrajit for being evil. Indrajit curses Indra and hopes Indra fades away due to irrelevance for beating him, returning to the underworld via death. While Indra promises to protect humanity no matter how weak he gets with time.

Time was that if a man wanted to defeat Indrajit he had to extinguish the sacred Yagna fire, but a spirit bomb collected from the aggregate good feelings of MMA patrons would I guess also do the trick.

[kiriti-savyasachin]

Originally intended for @sundaralekhan though now it is far too late for a submission, regardless, mentioning just in case.

Day 8: Ramayana: Here’s the fic- Samnidhi

Tagging my usual mutuals: @medhasree @arjunaparantapa @shaonharryandpannisim @allegoriesinmediasres (event mod) @ambitiousandcunning @khudrang @hindumyththoughts @mitskiacoustic @iamnotthat.

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CONFLICT: Indrajit vs Chernobog