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What could The Influencer's dynamic with Pomni be?
// they'll be killing each other in one second , sloppily make out the next //
It's so funny that edelstans will use Rhea calling Byleth worthless garbage when they choose CF as this massive point against her; what did they expect her to call someone who willingly sided with Edelgard while knowing full well that she supported a kidnapping attempt aimed at her niece, broke into a mortuary to steal her dead family members' corpses to fashion them into weapons, and ordered the deaths of everyone in that mortuary, even her fellow students, just for being in the wrong place at the wrong time?
Eh,
I think this wording "worthless piece of garbage" is the first one that made me check the differences between the jp version and the lolcalised version (with the dub!) because I wasn't getting all the memes and references to this line, and this made me discover Rhage lol
Yes, Rhea is pretty pissed in this scene (even if Rhage sounds more pissed because Rhage) but yeah, she says this when Billy attacks the monastery.
It's not only in the holy tomb, no, it's attacking the Monastery - for... reasons? I've skimmed way too many Tru Piss fics trying to justify this choice as "uwu protecc student" when Rhea orders her death, but attacking Garreg Mach? With all of its residents, leftover students, randoms, monks, etc etc? What is Billy protecting here?
Billy, imo, here shows complete compliance/acceptance with Supreme Leader's plan, including all the things Supreme Leader did as Flamey : Remire, Emile abducting women, breaking in the monastery killing students to steal relics, Jerry's death, popping in the Holy Tomb with Jackie to, again, steal Nabatean remains + whatever Supreme Leader said in her manifesto/declaration of war, etc etc
So this really sounds like an argument about people saying Rhea BaD because... Rhea is pissed and call you names when you try to kill her and her people and trigger her PTSD :(
AINSLEE HAS BEEN ONE FOR TWO DAYS ??!
Yep!
Man tho that focus.
Robyn’s defusing the tension, and Fiona is demonstrably 100% in sync with her--but she has NOT broken eye contact with Clover this whole time despite Penny’s distraction, and if Robyn gives the word to fight anyway she is on it.
In Palace of Illusions (I know, I know) a lot of the common women seem to hate Draupadi for dragging them into a war and getting their men killed, and suggests that she shouldn’t have been so hell-bent on revenge. Do you think that was the original Mahabharata text’s intention, or a way to demonize Draupadi?
In-text, AFAIK, Draupadi isn’t blamed--even in the Stri Parva, Gandhari’s anger is directed towards Krishna instead, and Gandhari’s meeting with Draupadi post-war is as follows:
Then Kunti, accompanied by the princess of Pancala and followed by her sons, proceeded towards the grief-afflicted Gandhari herself in greater affliction still. Beholding that illustrious lady with her daughter-in-law, Gandhari addressed her, saying, ‘Do not, O daughter, grieve so. Behold, I too am as much stricken with grief as thou. I think this universal destruction has been brought about by the irresistible course of Time. Inevitable as it was, this dreadful slaughter has not been due to the voluntary agency of human beings. Even that has come to pass which Vidura of great wisdom foretold after Krishna’s supplication for peace had failed. Do not, therefore, grieve, in a matter that was inevitable, especially after its occurrence. Having fallen in battle, they should not be grieved for. I am in the same predicament with thee. (If thou actest in such a way) who then will comfort us? Through my fault, this foremost of races has been destroyed.’"
Here ends the Jalapradanika-parva in the Stri-parva.
(That said, I can 100% see the families of the soldiers involved being angry about getting pulled into this horrible war, but honestly that blame needs to be shared throughout all the kings at Kurukshetra, not just Draupadi.)
Out of text: I would argue not. The Mahabharata itself--despite being unflinching from the costs of war--is pretty much always on Draupadi’s side, narratively. Even in terms of culture, she is technically one of the Panchakanya, and in parts of South India, a goddess herself: that said, I do have to acknowledge the generations of people who have basically interpreted her as crazed for vengeance (I suspect there’s not a little misogyny involved there.)
But as I see it, Draupadi (along with Krishna) is one of the forces that actually get the Pandavas to act--if not for both of them, the Pandavas would probably be satisfied to stay in the forest, passively. Which is an absolutely fine choice for them, but--as the story is constructed--potentially disastrous for the world, because for better or worse, Yudhisthira is apparently (in-text, at least; opinions may vary) the best choice for Emperor, such that he can make the world around him a better place. If you buy into that, which I think the text of the epic does, then Draupadi is actually passionately working to establish justice, both for herself and the world, and is unquestionably heroic.
*Jumps on the AkiShio ship without a glance back* because apparently ATeam is willing to write a better interaction/relationship between those two in two parts than MayaKuro for an entire five part chapter :]
Why in the name of the Angel would you ever do that?
Maryse Lightwood
WHO IS THIS BITCH MOVING IN ON MY MAN?
