klavier is so fascinating like. i truly do see the vision and i absolutely love him but man. i just really wish there was an arc centred around him because he had the potential for SUCH an interesting perspective but we just. don’t really get to see it
it’s crazy how well done edgeworth’s character arc was in the trilogy but then for aa4… we barely see a reaction from klavier when his BANDMATE and BROTHER are arrested. i really wish they could’ve focused more on how that affected him because it would add so much more depth to his story!!! and then we never really got any kind of interaction between klavier and phoenix after the disbarment, either. especially after 4-4 i would’ve loved to see how it affected klavier.
and like. dual destinies did not improve on any of this. his cameo was fun and i really enjoyed it… but like he had so many loose ends from the last game. his appearance is so short and insignificant and like. not serving any particular purpose. if they went to all that trouble to make him a whole 3d sprite i reaaaally feel like they could’ve done more with him story wise
HIHI TWINZIEEE I SPENT A GOOD WHILE READING UR FICS AHAHAHA! I JUST WANTED TO ASK WHATS YOUR FAV CHARACTER AND PART? I’M REALLY CURIOUS!
HIHIHIHI!!! My fav part is 6 and fav character is always super hard LOL buuuut if I had to say probably Risotto Nero atm? Felt like he had a lot of wasted potential for such a cool character :(
au where Hermes burns down Cyllene as punishment for Luke
If Apollo's "involvement" in the second war leads to a six-month-long punishment named Lester, it's weird how Hermes seems to get off scot free for Luke (and honestly, Ares too for the bolt). And yeah, I've seen theories where it states Hermes didn't break the ultimate non-interference laws and therefore was not punished, buT! I think it would make sense if anyone who had any involvement in any war WAS punished, just kept their mouths shut about the details.
so what would be hermes' punishment for luke's actions in the first war? i propose this:
Zues should make Hermes burn down his birthplace. destroy it. wipe it off the map. kill whatever was left of his mother's earthly connections, thereby locking her and her sisters into their celestial forms, never to step foot on the earth again. It's the death of an immortal, and how chilling is that? According to Apollo, there is a power in birthplaces, but for a bastard of Olympus, it is only a stain of a reminder of where they came from.
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ig there would be 3 main things that Heremes would take away from this:
showing Hermes that Cyllene is the consequence of his own actions. May Castellan, Luke Castellan, now his mother, who else? Everything he has touched has turned to ash, and any life he has entered has been led to ruin. ig this mindset would also shine a different light on Hermes' deadbeatness, in a way.
1. Enforces the consequences of Zeus' non-interference rule.
Scaring Hermes into inaction by punishing the results of his rare action (giving Luke a quest, speaking to him that literal one(?) time, telling May about the oracle) would also handily explain why the hell he was so absent during the giant war and the entirety of toa. Like, communications are down and messaging systems are in complete disarray, isn't that Hermes' domain? Why the hell isn't he doing anything about it? Well, that's bc he knows what happens when he disobeys, and at this point, he's running out of family to lose.
2. Prophecy is set in stone
This punishment would also unknowingly (to Zeus) create a mindset of the inevitability of prophecy in Hermes. Aka, the literal opposite of what Apollo and his trial's entire deal. Aka Zues' entire deal! !!!This is negative character development for Hermes gang!!!
If we go with the idea that Hermes knew about Luke's fate since he was a baby, and his giving Luke that quest was Hermes trying to change his son's fate... Then it almost sounds like one of the only times Hermes broke his father's non-interference rules was in an attempt to change Luke's fate. But not only did it blow up in his face spectacularly, but if that quest was a fundamental canon event in Luke's spiral into vengeance, then this is a classic tale of a hero meeting his end on the path he took to avoid it.
Not only has Hermes failed to save his son in what he believed was a futile attempt to go against prophecy, but he has also doomed his homeland in his rash actions. By punishing Hermes through Cyllene, it enforces the idea that his ever daring to think he could change fate has inadvertently brought the mountain to its ruin.
Furthermore, Zeus' choice of Hermes' birthplace as the target is uniquely tailored to hit where it hurts the most. A forest fire can go burning on for years, after all, and a mountain of ancient trees surrounded by boundaries of the boundary god could theoretically go on burning forever. After the deed has been done and the entire mountain is up in flames, from that point onwards, Zeus would only have to point to a ruined Cyllene to quell whatever mere suggestion Hermes has of stepping out of line.
3. zues proving to hermes that he is ultimately his father's son
if nympths in the rrverse are physically bound to a certain place, then maia and her sisters would have both their stars in the pleiades constellations in addition to mount cyllene.
Say, would the offsping of a nympth and a god be a minor god themselves? another nympth? a monster? who knows? in reality, their entire existence hinges on mortal belief and how humans perceive them, but parentage still plays a role in how their stories are told. so therefore the only olympian with a nympth for a mother would also reasonablly assume that there is a peice of him, like his mother, is tied to that mountain. weather or not thats actually true doesnt matter, what matters is when cyllene burned and hermes stood at the foot of the mountain and did not burn with it, to him it was the dreaded proof that he was no longer his mothers son. that he has left behind everything good that he used to be, and through his very own efforts, somewhere between his childhood in that cave where he dared dreamed of something greater, he has forfeited what made those dreams worth chasing in the firat place. through his own efforts, he has become something terrible. he has become his fathers son.
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all this is to say that rrverse zues may be evil, but bros not uncreative lmao. isolating Hermes through cutting off some of the last of his support system (by his own hands, no less) not only ensures Hermes' reliance on Zeus but also Hermes' reliance and identification with Olympus as a whole. also ensures that when the time comes for Apollo's punishment, there's already a hurt there that's ripe and ready to be dug into.
Apollo's been banished to mortal-hood? oh boo hoo, what a tragedy (compleatly different hc but i think hermes honestly would've had a much easier time adjusting to mortalhood compared to apollo at first, mainly due to the nature of hermes' domains). Oh, Apollo nearly keeps dying as a mortal and is prophesied to perish at the jaws of Python? well, fuck, his head for his crimes is what he deserves, is it not? While Apollo's punishment is a thinly veiled assassination attempt, Hermes' punishment would be to isolate him further.
There was already a jealousy here that could be amplified to the nines post-trials. I think it's due to the sheer fact that Apollo came out of his punishment better off than how he began, divine and golden and shining once more, even though he has defied their father again and again and has acted as an antithesis to everything he once preached. To Hermes, Apollo's death-defying ascension makes the fact that while Apollo effortlessly gets everything, the only thing Hermes has received for his troubles is a dead mother, dead son, and a homeland in ashes.
forget the mordern retellings that only showcase ariadnes suffering, wheres my retelling where she just as crazy as her husband huh.
she grew up with the MINOTAUR for a brother and danced in a sentient fucking maze FOR FUN. like come onnnn. i think its high time this girlie gets to be batshit insane. tear people apart, feral in the woods, wife of the god of madness insane. wheres my modern retelling of her myth with a trigger happy slaughter loving piss drunk ariande??? listen if we're throwing historical accuracy out the window might as well make it fun
rrverse rev! apollo and hermes are tim and sasha btw, in the sense that apollos out there honeypotting his way through the pantheons while hermes is hacking his way into godly govenment records
