"One often meets his destiny on the road he takes to avoid it" - Master Oogway
Now that the Planet Revolution has finally come, I just had to make a comic where Ganymede's threat foretold how the Sun was going through a self-fulfilling prophecy; he's super strict with his planets' safety because he doesn't want to lose anymore planets, but his strictness ends up driving his planets away anyway.
“half-species” refers to what mythical creature or animal each planet has. Usually, the “genes” for these mutate a lot to achieve a diverse range of species. (Ex. bird types and aquatic types in one solar system.) Sol’s (Sun) solar system is one with many mutations, some other systems may not have as much. The following list is in order of mutations in the “magic” genes.
Sun (Sol) : “Light” Spirit. Basically, an entity or being made of pure light.
Jupiter : “Light” Spirit. His magic genes were directly copied from Sol’s, no mutations have occurred.
X : “Dark” Spirit. Basically the opposite of Jupiter and Sol. Minor mutations have occurred.
Saturn : Snake or a type of reptile. First major mutation.
Neptune : Aquatic creature or shark. Second major mutation. (Minor than Saturn’s.)
Uranus: Simple feathered creature, or a bird. Beginning of ‘Feathered Mutations.’
Mercury : Simple feathered creature. Direct copy of Uranus. Second ‘Feathered Mutation.’ (in genes)
Venus : Phoenix. Slight genetic mutation.
Theia : Angelic creature. Genes of Jupiter and Uranus merges. (Third Major mutation.)
Mars : (his genes were mutated from Neptune’s, not Uranus’ like the others) “Alien” or humanoid
Proto : Takes from Mars. Humanoid.
Below is a sort of tree to display how the genes would’ve evolved and changed as the planets were forming. (Apologies for how messy it is)
Since Earth formed after Theia and Proto collided, and is mostly Proto, he takes more of the humanoid genes from Proto, however still maintains very minimal angelic aspects from Theia.
Moons are typically not born with a mutation. They are given one by their planet. The moons species does not have to match with the planet. For example, Jupiter’s “A Team” (Ganymede, Europa, Callisto and IO) all agreed to keep the basic humanoid counterpart as an oppose to adopting Jupiter’s “Spirit” counterpart. But some planets can give their moons a species counterpart before the moon is fully formed. For example, Neptune’s smaller moons (So all moons excluding Triton) were given an aquatic creature counterpart before they were even fully formed.
Dwarf’s are usually born humanoid, but can request to gain a counterpart from the Sun.
Mercury has absolutely nothing on it, because like, he has no atmosphere lol. Venus and Earth have clouds, and Mars has his little ice cap.
i also made jupiter out of yarn because he's a gas giant and i wanted him to be squishy. saturn is also made of yarn—i glued it in strips onto a ball to make it look exactly like his stripes in the show.
uranus and neptune were coated in epoxy resin to give them that icy giant look.
This is one of those episodes where I say "It's great, but some things could have been handled better".
I loved the little interaction with Earth and how nice Sun was to Ogle. I feel that since he's usually more in contact with the rockies (and the how had whas for them to survive in the early system) he has a soft spot for that kind of planets.
Then, I missed OP Sun. By that I mean when he shows how powerful he is, and the "godly" voice made it epic (hehe).
I wonder if the fact that the rogues felt him breaking the laws of physics implies others (*looking at Alpha Centauri*) also felt it, which could lead to Sun meeting the other stars again (they could even meet them on their way back!). The "I wonder if anyone shaw the solar flare" seems to imply this too.
Also, why is "Uranus" the only name Sun didn't call? You better not let him know, he'd start feeling left out again. And did Sun forget X is his planet too? I would have liked more of a conversation between them, it feels like there's a lot unresolved.
I also wish we would have seen more of the Great Tack Survivors. They just saw their star, who they thought they would never see again, after billions of years and he's showing how much he cares for his planets. I'd have been nice to see their reaction at least, but an actual interaction would have had so much potential!
I'm also wondering how the eye color thing works. They just saw the Sun and decided to go back to him, so why are their eyes still black? It would have been very impactful if, when they saw the solar flare, their eyes literally lit up back to white. Or the very last when the finally meet again.
By the way, Venus seeing the Sun crying and saying he knows he's angry made me laugh. Then, I wondered what it means for Venus to "confuse" the two...
Jupiter and Sun's encounter was so sweet. It made a mini comic appear in my head with the first drawing being the young Sun telling Jupiter "When you're afraid of the dark, look at me" and the second with "I've spent too long in the dark, Sun" from this episode (maybe adding what the Jupiter allucination said in between or replacing the first?). Anyways, I don't think I'll draw it so you're free to take the idea.
The resolution of the dwarf planets was a bit anticlimactic. I mean, they could have stayed in the Solar System the whole time and nothing would have changed. Also, I really thought Proteus knowing would have some importance, but no. So what was all that for?
I loved the "They are not yours, and they are not mine either" line, that's a good show of character development. A lot of it feels like they learnt from their mistakes with X's character arc and made the Sun's better.
I'm guessing him letting X go without protest is part of it? And it was funny how Wise reacted, he was like "I'm the only one sane here. Thank the cosmos you're staying". I wanted him to come back though... but that just my personal preference (which includes Sun taking the Great Tack survivors and maybe Ogle too).
Also, did Proteus want to say something to X too? He was just there...
Now, I'm going to point out that they will eventually be out of the Solar System because the Sun has a limited lifetime, unlike them. They'll either be destroyed during the red giant phase or drift away because the white dwarf Sun would no longer have enough gravity to hold them. Hopefully X will have managed to make a change in the Rogue Planet Kingdom by then.
I'm still curious about the Kingdom's backstory and why they came to the conclusion that all stars are evil and all planets are scared of them, though...
