#prometheus academy

[avitha]

A Natural Born Leader

Asteri and Hebe

[disneydancepants]

Disney Debunking 4: Achilles's Heel?

So, I love Hercules. The Animated Series is a lot of fun, and I'm rewatching it all for the first time as an adult. I consider it canon to the Disneyverse.

Luisa is also a fan, as evidenced by her references to Greek mythology. She's a total Hercules nerd.

Side note: part of me HATES that Encanto didn't use Disney's established version of Herc. Making him older looking would have been fine! Whatever! Instead we get... Mariano with a beard? I'm pretty sure they just put a beard on Mariano's character model. This is my ONE big flaw with that beautiful movie...

Now I have to justify that Luisa's books must not have illustrations, so she imagines Hercules like the hunkiest Colombian guy she knows. Does that mean Luisa has a crush on Mariano too? I wouldn't have to be opening this can of worms if they'd just tossed a beard on Disney's Hercules like they should have!!!

Anyways... So the movie Hercules established that Achilles was Phil's most promising hero-in-training before Hercules, but his weak heel made him a laughingstock. In mythology, his heel (the Achilles tendon, I believe) was where his mother was holding baby Achilles when she dipped him into a river that made him invulnerable... Leaving that spot, y'know, vulnerable.

None of that is detailed in the Disney Hercules media. I need you to forget it. Because Disney Achilles didn't even fight in the Trojan War.

The movie only establishes that Achilles is a former, disgraced would-be Hero. He's older than Hercules. His weakness was his heel. That's about it.

When Achilles shows up in an early episode of Hercules: The Animated Series (HTAS from now on), he's an older man. This is jarring if you forgot to forget the Trojan War, so I need those who ignored me to go dip their heads in the River Lethe. Why is Achilles being older jarring though? Well, Hercules goes to Prometheus Academy with Helen of Troy. Who is a teenager, like Hercules.

So if Achilles is famous for the Trojan War, then Helen of Troy was abducted as like a 5 year old and just gross.

In episode 26 or something (I don't even know, since Disney+ royally messed up the episode order for this show), we get the Disney version of the Trojan War. Mild spoilers and long story short... The "War" is a homecoming school rivalry type situation and the Trojan Academy kidnaps Helen as a prank. Homer covers the story, but "spices it up" by turning the whole thing into a war epic.

In the Disneyverse, all of the Aeneid and Odyssey are lies. Fictions written by Homer to get on the Best-Selling Tablets list. The Muses are probably to blame as well, but... Damn if they don't write a catchy song.

Anyway, there's no Achilles paradox because Achilles had nothing to do with the "Trojan War" here. He must have just been a monster-fighter until someone got him in the heel. Like The Witcher, only more silly.

Homer's version seems to have really caught on though, as Hades even comments on the Trojan Horse during his plots to kill adult Herc. Like 3 years later.

You want to know a real plot hole though? Hades, Pain, and Panic being aware of Hercules throughout the entire series.

They needed to end the series with the evil trio falling into the Lethe and forgetting the entire series or something. I... don't think they do. Massive oversight.

Meanwhile, I'm also over here pretending that Kuzco Academy is a university, not a high school. Because Kuzco and Kronk are grown adult men (Emperor's New Groove establishes Kuzco as 18, iirc), and the whole Malina thing just got really gross if she's like 15.

[askauradonprep]

Auradon Cheer Squad: The Royal Wolves

Alright basically I was writing a plot for Audrey in an alternative D1 fanfic and part of it focused on her actually having a relationship with Carlos. Now that plus the inspiration of this pic:

So because of this, and the fact I actually botheted to count the number of cheerleaders in the movie, I literally ended up creating a roster. So here it is! But heres a few thing to mention:

1. As of between D1 and D2, there are a total of 18 cheerleaders on the squad.

2. Mascot animal: Phillips the Belgian Horse. (Can be changed to wolf)

3. Mostly girls on the team (male cheerleaders welcomed!!!)

4. Noncompetitive cheer

5. Financed by fundraisers and a grant from a few royal families

6. Coach: Megara Leos nèe Sideris (Hercules' estranged wife)

7. Treasurer: Fairy Godmother Flora

Members of the Royal Wolves

1. Audrey Rose (Captain/Daughter of King Philip and Queen Aurora)

2. Nike "Nicole" Leos (Co-Captain/Demigod Daughter of Hercules and Meg)

3. Cascade "Cassie" Clayton-Porter (Daughter of Tarzan/John "Jack" Clayton the Second and Jane Porter)

4. Asimina "Mia" Drakos (Civilian/transfer student from Apheliotia)

5. Opal Guillory (Civilian/Mama Odie's distant *granddaughter* from Bayou de Orleans)

6. Zara Asghar (Civilian/Transfer Student from the Lone Keep (Agrabah)/Part of Sultana Jasmin's scholarship)

7. Kimi Smith (**Princess**/Daughter to Chieftess Pocahontas and John Smith/Half-Sister to Anna Rolfe)

8. Anna Rolfe (**Princess**/Daughter to Cheiftess Pocahontas and John Rolfe/Half-Sister to Kimi Smith)

9. Heide Bergmann (Daughter of Doc, of the 7 Dwarves)

10. Billie Bergmann (Daughter of Bashful, one of the 7 Dwarves)

11. Avalon Hanmer (*Civilian*/Transfer from Camelot Heights)

12. Amphitrite "Amy" Seymour (*Princess*/Daughter of Attina, Heir to Atlantica)

13. Arabella Strand (*Princess*/Daughter of Alana, Second Heir to Atlantica)

14. Phoebe Vera (Civilian/Transfer Student From Auradon Capital's Public High School)

15. Lei Laohu (Civilian/Transfer student from Northern Wei) Name Translated: Thunder Tiger.

16. Eire Holt (*Civilian*/ Transfer Student from *Arendelle*)

17. Signe Christensen (Civilian/From Seaside)

18. Carlos de Vile (Civilian/Son of Cruella de Vile)

Key: (*) = More to the story, especially their social class.

(**) = Historically, Pocahontas was daughter of a chief, so labelling her a "Princess" is incorrect. Same would go for her daughters, but people wouldn't know what to call them, so they're labelled "Princesses".

Mod Notes: YEESSSSS! We love to see it. I love seeing the squad fleshed out. Thank you for sharing.

[my-merry-idle-mind]

School of Wandless Magic

How about an American (or any country really) school of wandless magic.

A war is going on, maybe WWI. Soldier-Mages are losing wands left and right. the wands that most mages came to the front lines with (the one they'd had since childhood, the one they were perfectly matched to) are casualties of war. Expelliarmus'd or accio'd into no-man's land, or broken with the force of an enemy's spell or hex. Wandmakers are having to deal with a very high demand, churning out wands day and night. wand makers are artists not assembly lines, there are shortages in the trenches. there is no time to find perfect matches for Soldier-Mages anymore, as long as the wand doesn't completely reject the individual, that’s your new wand.

At some point a group of  highly ranked military-mages started asking questions such as, "why do we use wands? they're just magical conduits, like training wheels for magic. What if a wand gets broken in battle? Most of our soldiers can't cast wandlessly." not having perfectly matched wand limits the efficacy of our people. 

WWI was a war of attrition, anything anything would be an advantage. both sides were making and breaking wands at the same rate, but if one side didn't need wands, that would be a BIG advantage. So an emergency training camp was set up for (currently wandless because of the shortages) soldier-mages. some were naturals, some were hopeless. In the end, the allies had an elite force of wandless mages that gave them the advantage, and possibly turned the tide of the war.

Fast forward decades later and Prometheus Academy exists. It is dedicated to teaching wandless magic, located in middle-of-nowhere, USA.

day-schoolers starting age 7 (this is mostly if accidental magic is a big problem for a student. the parents can connect their home to the floo system and floo the child to and fro school until they are boarding age).

boarding starts age 10

optional graduation at age 17

graduate at age 20 (age 17-20 that can do a three year apprenticeship on campus. it’s like magical college, or they can leave sooner).

they still use the archaic term “Mage” instead of the gender specific “Witch” or “Wizard.”

a/n: I will add more when I think of it. oh, and Prometheus is the titan of foresight, and someone having the foresight to teach wandless magic to soldiers is what started this school.

[avitha]

Prometheus Academy Girls - Notebook Sketch

[my-merry-idle-mind]

“If you can dream—and not make dreams your master; If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim; If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster And treat those two impostors just the same…”