I don't think many people realize how much they've been turned into a bunch of casually cynical jerks.
Someone may come to their parents and say "I want to write a book" and their parents will say "it's really hard to get published".
Someone might confide in their sibling and say "I want to sell my art on "x" platform" and that sibling will say "do you know how many people you'd be competing with? Do you know how many shops are even on that platform?"
I know a kid who once told his best friend "I think I wanna start a dnd podcast" and the friend was like "do you know what the word "oversaturation" means?"
Personally, I don't know why any of that matters? And even if it did, perhaps your response should be "Do it! Do it and see where it goes!"
I made this account because I’m hoping someone out there might be able to help me understand a very strange situation.
I’m not joking. I’m not trolling. This is real, and I genuinely don’t know how to explain it.
When I was a child, I had experiences that my family always found unusual. According to my mother, it started when I was around three years old. I would sometimes react to people who weren’t there, talk to relatives who had passed away, and occasionally seem to know things I shouldn’t have known. I also had recurring dreams involving deceased family members. One relative in particular, my aunt who passed away, would visit me often in these dreams.
As I got older and hit puberty, all of that stopped. It completely disappeared, and for years I didn’t think much about it.
I’m 26 now, and recently my grandfather and my cousin passed away. For the past two months, I’ve been having vivid dreams involving my aunt, my grandfather, my cousin, and even my great-grandfather.
In one dream, my grandfather told me he was okay and asked about my father, his son. My aunt appeared with my great-grandfather and asked me to tell my family that he wanted to be buried where he originally wished to be buried before his remains were moved elsewhere. My aunt also asked me to tell my cousin’s mother that he is doing well and is happy.
What’s strange is that when I was a child, my aunt would always take me to the same place in these dreams. But when she returned recently with my great-grandfather, she took me somewhere completely different, a place I’ve never seen before.
I ignored it at first, but the dreams kept happening. They became repetitive and increasingly insistent, as they wanted me to pass these messages along.
Eventually I contacted my mother. I attached screenshots of our conversation. What started as a few texts turned into a very long phone call where I explained everything.
So I guess my question is:
Has anyone experienced anything remotely similar?
I’m a very science minded person. My first instinct has been to look for a scientific explanation. I’ve been researching, but nothing I’ve found quite explains why this feels so different from ordinary dreams.
Maybe there’s a rational explanation I’m missing. Maybe there’s something else going on entirely.
I honestly don’t know.
I’m just trying to understand what’s happening and whether anyone else has experienced something similar.
Danny stared at the young CEO of Wayne Enterprises. Mr. Drake-Wayne was five years old when the Fentons stole his dna for tgeir clone kid project. The Fentons didn't use accelerated aging, their notes said there could be developmental risks in doing so and they wanted their own little genius to be perfect.
Danny was exactly five years, nine months, and six days younger than Timothy Drake-Wayne.
Five years ago Timothy Drake was eleven years old, with his own photogarphy gallery and charming rich old ladies at galas.
When Danny was eleven he was starstruck at space camp and building model rockets in his bedroom.
Wayne Enterprises was interested in working with FentonWorks too mass produce ecto-fueled vechiels, as well as exploring ecto energy more. Danny let Mr. Drake-Wayne's voice wash over him, professional and commanding, confident.
Everything Danny should have been, everything Danny was supposed to be. No wonder his parents were never proud of him, he was a pale imitation of Timothy Drake.
"Before we go that far though, what exactly is Ectoplasam?"
Danny knew that question was coming. He came prepared but his slide show felt very childish compared to everything Mr. Drake-Wayne had presented. He clutched his usb, and plugged it into the presenter's laptop.
"Everything that lives creates Ectoplasam. It is the energy of emotions, the spark that fuels life. Everything that lives, must then eventually die, and with death is the release of the remaining ectoplasam in their body. The ectoplasam would then disperse into a demension known as the Infinte Realms, where it either forms an Ecto-Entity or is cleansed and released into a living relam as a new lifeform. This process can take from a year to a thousand years to complete. The FentonWorks Ecto Processor takes the Ectoplasam in the air and turns it into useable energy-"
Ectoplasam was fascinating, but so was the teenage clone trying to be professional. It had been so easy to find the files, to find who and how, then why made itself perfectly clear not long after.
Tim couldn't really call the kid his clone anymore. Sure that's what their invesitagtion had been sparked by, an uncanny valley look-a-like on the cover of Damian's News in Zoology magazine. But Daniel Fenton wasn't made to replace Tim. No, he was made to be the perfect Heir to the FentonWorks bussiness and research, just like Tim had been for Drake Industeries.
The slide came to a silly photo of a cartoon ghost, Fenton hastily trying to skip it, and the following slid being a cutesy diargam of the Ectoplasmic life cycle. Fenton blushed, speaking a bit quicker on where Ectoplasam comes from and how it cycles through all demensions, before skipping to a more plain info graphic.
Tim wasn't sure what to do, or if he really should do anything, regarding the cloning issue. The ones who had done it were dead, the boy himself wasn't a bad person. Frankly it was more like meeting a cousin than anything.
"We are in agreement then?" Tim asked, standing to shake Fenton's hand. "There's plenty of time to discuss the contract another time, with lawyers. Wayne Enterprises looks forward to working with you Mr. Fenton,"
"Of course Mr. Drake-Wayne," Fenton nodded. "Thank you for seeing me today,"
"Would you join me for lunch?" Tim asked. "I'd like to talk more in a more casual setting,"
Fenton hesitated, fidgiting with the usb between his fingers, before nodding.
Tim had hope lunch would go well, it'd be nice to have another tech-minded person to talk to.
Seth is an incredibly fascinating, dominant, and looming presence in the Magic Book of Spells with the potential to be one of the most intriguing characters in the entirely of SVTFOE… that was tragically underutilized, slapped in the face, and is who I believe to be the source of the biggest missed potential in the entirety of canon.
But I do not trust the writers at all to have handled him in the show proper.
The Septarians are notoriously treated like absolute dirt. Any and all of the Septarians we meet have either been humiliated, turned into a joke, villainized beyond any humanity, and overall treated awfully. They’re portrayed as this unfeeling, violent, monster species with no (biological? cultural?) ability to forgive or forget the countless atrocities the Mewmans committed against innocent people. GEEZ, It’s not like the Septarians have enhanced longevity and experience time differently than almost EVERY OTHER SPECIES ON MEWNI with most of them FIRST HAND experiencing the atrocities other species of monsters and ESPECIALLY Mewmans see as “bygone eras of the past!!”
And even with the book alone, Seth is also lumped into this stereotype, and may be one of the worst offenders. Globgor can’t stand him and has intense bias against him (I know he talked about “Septarians” but my god we all know he means Seth to some degree. Seth is very clearly a prominent figure if not the leader of the Septarians and he’s pictured/alluded to twice in Eclipsa’s chapter), bitch Crescenta smeared his name into the DIRT in a rigged election campaign and destroyed his reputation, and Comet refused to take him seriously whatsoever (but then again it’s Comet so what are we really expecting??). He was even on the Magic High Commission’s radar, labeled as an “extremist” (which just about anything is labeled “extreme” in the MHC’s eyes so they’re not reliable narrators). He’s spat upon and repeatedly villainized. He gets no breaks or even a glimpse of humanity and everyone in the fandom after the book came out was hyping him up as this huge villain.
So, yeah, I don’t think the show would have bothered to give him any humanity or depth if he was introduced in the show proper and would have made egregiously worse the show’s already bad problem of making monsters, the historically marginalized and colonized group of people, the bad guys. (Seriously, Meteora wasn’t a “real” threat until she was revealed to be half monster. That makes me frustrated.)
I love Seth. I think he would’ve had amazing potential if put in the right hands. There’s so much to do with him and I’m mostly glad he’s been left alone so fans can interpret him in any way they want.
Now… what are my opinions and headcanons about him? What’s the story I’ve concocted?
Thankfully Seth is a character I can talk about without worrying about AU spoilers… mostly (thank god).
In my mind, Seth is someone who actually didn’t see the Great Monster Massacre first hand, hatching about 200 years afterwards (due to my timeline and how I’ve designed Septarian aging). But that doesn’t mean whatsoever that he hasn’t seen the atrocities of Mewmans. In fact, he’s been put in several situations where— while not Moe levels of genocide— he has seen the cruelest and most inhumane levels of Mewman aggression against monsters. He’s a victim of it first hand and spent 80+ years through torture after being ripped away from his homeland before finally uprising against it with his sister (oh yeah he has a sister in my AU)
He is someone who wholeheartedly earned the respect and adoration of his people. He was a leader that they wanted, not because of blood or any ties to the throne he had. (He’s by blood the Prince of Septarsis, but by the time he came back to Septarsis not many people remembered him since he had changed so much). He completely changed the governmental system and put Septarsis into its golden age.
Now this is what may get me in trouble, but stick with me… I don’t think the reputation he’s acquired is completely unfounded and blatantly untrue. YES the Mewmans and MHC are incredibly biased and we can’t take what they say at face value. They have villainized him beyond comprehension and made lies about him, but some things he’s known for have some truth to them. Seth is someone who I see as extremely trigger happy in his youth.
While a great leader and delegate, he actively seeks violence and war against Mewmankind. He is NOT, I repeat, NOT genocidal… but if Mewmans happened to disappear one day you wouldn’t see him complaining. This makes him a fun foil for Toffee’s mother in my AU, Mylanie, who’s someone who strives to end the conflict and seek lasting peace.
In the early days he was active in battle and loved fighting against his adversaries. In fact, he was the one who killed Solaria with his bare hands, dismembering her and spreading her was far as he could while keeping her head. He’s not afraid to get messy when protecting monsters or his homeland, and the stories about his violence is NOT unfounded. If anyone is perpetuating ideas about Septarian stereotypes, it’s our buddy Seth.
But here’s the important distinction, he is not going out of his way hurting innocent people. He’s not this bloodthirsty monster who’s trying to commit genocide, he’s not Solaria AT ALL, he’s just someone who sees violence as the solution and thinks peace is a waste of time.
It wasn’t until the election that his priorities changed and he actually calmed down.
However, the smear campaign with Crescenta was a huge blow. It really got him to think and consider how his actions were affecting monsters as a whole but especially his own people. He knows how much influence he has over how his people are perceived… and that’s when he pulled back. He was still active, don’t get me wrong, and gets along diplomatically with the few surviving monster civilizations, but he took a lot less of a widespread role than he used to. He took a backseat and focused on his people first and foremost, and even if he was always great at strategy, he focused on playing the long game rather than just jumping into violence. Peace with Mewmans was still firmly off the table though and is still that way to this day.
When Comet sent the invitation, he genuinely planned to ignore it. He had no intention of going to the banquet— as last time he played along with Mewman rules he got screwed— but did allow Toffee to be a representative after Toffee offered to go in his place.
Under one condition: No harm was to come to the Queen
And we see how that went…
I’d gladly go into his relationship/dynamic with Toffee but this post is long enough :). Maybe in another post!!
Seth isn’t actually dead, but the idea that he is dead has been perpetuated widely (even by reliable sources). Seth’s grateful for this, since it gets him away from all the headache, especially after how pissed he was at Toffee after Comet’s death. He’s alive and well and still in charge of Septarsis, he’s just out of the public eye because everyone thinks he’s dead (except close allies).
Overall I see him as someone who reflected what his reputation said he was until he got a huge ego blow and actually matured enough to stop being so trigger happy. He was always a great leader over Septarsis and did whatever it took to protect his people, but he had some growing up to do as well.
And this is just the tip of the iceberg. My AU goes into him a lot deeper and really fleshes him out. He’s a four dimensional character with layers and depth to him. While he seems like a Mewman hating “radical” on the surface, he’s humanized and he has layers and reasonings for his beliefs and actions.
I just love Seth. A lot. He’s so silly. He’s so fascinating and I love that everyone has a different perspective of him.
Also he is Rasticore’s dad you can’t change my mind !!
Dude I could literally make a whole other post on him I love this character so much—
At this point Lila has more plot armor than Marinette salters ever accused Marinette of having. She literally gets away with everything with zero explanation and zero accountability.
