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[mooncatcherandellie]

Void pulse: *crash through the window*

[daily-shade]

*hands you a pile of pale ore* Here ya go buddy! You can upgrade your nail with this in the City of Tears once you get there!

They wonder what a city of tears is

[jyudles]

that pazz set... is pretty nice.. 

[sarangscenario]

Creeping Monsters - Part 2

Characters: EXO + OC Type: Lucky One!AU + Monster!AU Genre:Angst, fluff Length: 802 words Summary: After a secret operation in a maze, nine boys get new nurses to take care of them. The girls are in for surprises concerning the boys. And other girls… A/N: A new series featuring a ton of amazing people *-* [Rebecca x Chanyeol ; Amelia x Minseok ; Kenna x Baekhyun ; Morgan x Yixing ; Sunny x Jongin ; Nari x Sehun ; Kaeyon x Joonmyeon ; Leyla x Kyungsoo ; Margot x Jongdae]

[Credits: owner]

Once dressed in the uniform consisting of a white top, a dress of the same colour, and shockingly red stockings she had found in the bag left for her, Rebecca grabbed her folder and a pen she hid in the front pocket of her top, and left the Dorm. The Dorm was the room furnished with about ten beds and as many tables and chairs. It was supposed to be the Resting Room for the staff working in the building, for the nurses. Sarang, being their boss, had her own private office.

The young woman followed the map she had found on her bed, a map of the intricate corridors leading to so many rooms that it was too easy to get lost. Scanning the numbers of the rooms left and right, she arrived in front of the one she was looking for. Room 61. Her patient was in there. Was he sleeping like the one she had seen on the TV?

She fished out of her pocket a badge, which was to be used with care. It opened nearly any room in the building, on the ground floor. Her fingers tingled at the sensation of her seeing the man for the first time. A bip was heard upon opening the door. No sound came from inside. Was he awake? Was he asleep? Was he alive?

She tugged on the handle and entered. The boy lying on the bed wasn’t moving. At least, he was on the bed. The white tiles were the only ornament on the floor and walls. Rebecca approached the man. She could see his chest heave with every breath he was taking. He was alive, and asleep. She let her fingers linger on his clothes, on his arms, his long body. She hadn’t studied medicine to look after a grown-up man; but to heal and cure humanity. Feeling an unusual bump, she unbuttoned his sleeve and discovered a sprained wrist. Without thinking twice, she fled to look for a first-aid kit.

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Nari whined when she figured out she wouldn’t be able to have a look inside the appointed room because she was not possessing the magical key to open it. She had already spent a good 15 minutes wandering in the corridors to find Room 94. There was no logic at all in the numerating of the rooms, ranging from 01 to 99. There she was, in an empty corridor, in front of a white door, a door identical to the ones next to it, to all the doors in the building in fact. What could she do? How could she check that her brother was indeed in there, or wasn’t at all? She still hoped he was alive. She knew he was alive. He had to be alive! None of the other nurses had talked much. None of them could help. Apart from going back to the Dorm, what could she possibly do?

Turning her head left and right, she blushed at the idea that had just popped up in her mind. She jumped on the spot to try and see something, anything, in the room. Nari had always been one of the smallest anywhere she went, and her height didn’t help her in that situation either. She stomped the floor out of frustration. Life was unfair!

Looking up at the small window, she gasped when she caught glance, for a brief moment, of them. Eyes. Black as coal. Emotionless. The eyes of Subject Number 94.

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Sarang opened the door to a dark room, the one next to the empty alley. She switched on the lights, them flickering for a moment. Three bodies covered by white cloth were waiting near the other door, the one leading to the freezer. Sighing, she walked to the beds, unveiling one. A young boy was laying there, dark circles appearing under his eyes. Taking the folder that was attached to the bed, she completed it. Subject Number 68. ‘Dead’.

She moved onto the next bed. She wrote the same word for Subject Number 77.

She looked for a long time at the last body. Her own hand didn’t want to discover the next face. She wasn’t ready for it. She knew who was under that cloth. She had seen him die in the Maze. She had let him die in there. With a shaky hand, she uncovered the handsome face of a young man, his pearly-white hair stained with blood and dirt.

“I’m sorry, Yifan.” She whispered, scribbling ‘Dead’ once again on the folder, next to the case ‘Maze’. Biting into her lips for no tear to trail down her cheeks, she placed the cloth back on the face of the man and left. Indeed, Yifan, Luhan and Zitao hadn’t survived the Maze. The nine other had.

Previous chapter : Part 1

Next chapter : Part 3

[ch61nb04k]

I’m sorry..

[freechoicedreamer]

Patricide in Once Upon a Time

Patricide is (i) the act of killing one’s father, or (ii) a person who kills his father. The word patricide derives from the Latin wordpater (father) and the Latin suffix -cida (cutter or killer). Patricide is a sub-form of parricide, which is defined as an act of killing a close relative. 

I reblogged a post (right below)​, related to the three patricides that happened in Once Upon a Time (Regina’s, Rumpelstiltskin’s and Hook’s fathers), because they made me wonder about how they could be related to myths, fairy-tales and religions. I thought for awhile, trying to figure this out, but couldn’t easily find any specific or direct relation between any one of these three cases and the myths I knew, except to an Oedipus-like complex between Regina and her father. Although there are tangential points, the motivations behind each case differ from the essence of most myth’s (many are moved by a hunger for power, for a realm crown, something like that). Instead, they are motivated by a revenge that is not aimed directly towards the fathers, as in Regina’s and Hook’s case, and, in Hook’s and Rumple's case, also, by a feeling of betrayal and abandonment. Furthermore, in Rumpelstiltskin’s case, it has nuances of heroism, of selflessness. 

I made a basic search on sites with information about how typically this theme is approached, such as TV Tropes, and that led me to infer that OUaT’s has indeed a unique twist on the patricide theme, A&E are really creating an original  mythology in this sense. From the list of well known patricides in myths and religions below, we can see that:

Patricides in myths and religions

Patricide is a common archetype prevalent throughout many religions and cultures, particularly Greek culture.

In the Hindu epic Mahabharata, Babruvahana killed his father Arjun, but Arjun was brought back to life by his wife, the snake goddess Uloopi

In the Greek creation epic, Cronus killed or castrated his father Uranus to usurp his domination of the universe. In turn, he was overthrown by his son Zeus.

Apsu, in the Babylonian creation epic the Enûma Elish, was killed by his son Ea in the struggle for supremacy among the gods.

Oedipus was fated to kill his father, a king, and marry his mother. His parents attempted to prevent this by leaving him on the side of a mountain as an infant. He was found and raised by a shepherd. Once grown, Oedipus meets his father while his father is travelling and kills him. He then unknowingly marries his mother to become king, ultimately fulfilling the prophecy.

Pelias was killed by his daughters, who were deceived by Medea into thinking he could be resurrected.

In Norse mythology, Fafnir murdered his father Hreidmar to gain the cursed golden ring of Andvari that he had obtained. Some versions say that his brother Regin helped him.

In Chinese belief, people who commit patricide (or matricide) will be killed by a lightning strike as a punishment from filial and warrior deity Erlang Shen.