following luna IV and going on from this comment that struck me with some inspo, thought i'd write out some ideas of alternative routes i think hoyo could've gone with dottore having an antagonistic appearance somewhere
he's an absolute goldmine for a villain and with so many people who he'd been set up against in the past, i feel like there's more options than what we received. and if the dude magically is alive, it's paths i hope are gone down !!
ideas under the cut & like 2 luna IV references/spoilers
all of these ideas obviously follow the premise he's somehow still alive and hoyo really did do a fakeout, but hey, fun speculation
my base would be that the dottore we killed was the omega dottore we met in sumeru, and omega being the last segment as per the name, perhaps there was still an alpha or first dottore who was kept as a sort of backup, maybe he just straight up lied, or perhaps the original dottore is somehow still alive and was not destroyed with the rest of the segments because nahida only told him to destroy the segments
— 1, a full circle return to mondstadt, aka the place where most of dottore's og opps have connections to or actively reside. while i think him fucking up columbina's life was an alright addition, there's SO many people with very existing beef and hatred for this man that could provide amazing storylines.
placing it in windblume easily allows collei to be present, perhaps even nahida, and wanderer already had a good reason to visit mondstadt (durin and albedo) so he doesn't really need the windblume premise but its a bonus
there's a lot dottore could do here; start messing around in the thousand winds temple, interfere with decarabian's tower, actively try and subdue or kidnap someone because clearly he likes to do that
durin would be a prime candidate for this given he has actively changed his fate, and this would get wanderer (alongside albedo and collei) even more personally involved.
with diluc's infinite hatred for the fatui, amber and kaeya who have directly witnessed the impacts the fatui have had in collei, collei herself, wanderer being his arch-nemesis, two archons done with his shit, i think a mondstadt cast against dottore would be fucking grand and get him to go out with an absolute bang of meaningful, emotional events and fights
— 2, a reappearance in sumeru, taking back to his own origin, and perhaps now returning for resources or information; the fatui certainly won't be keeping him around after this, so he has to head off somewhere. there could be a solid story quest around dottore posing as someone else, much like he did as escher in tatarasuna (fuck that guy), and getting close to the traveller in this way in an attempt to gain their trust and eventually sideline them, since trying to get them to cooperate hadn't worked
dottore stays on the outskirts of sumeru for a time, gaining the traveller's trust first and foremost, as both nahida and wanderer have a good chance to clock him quickly. it could be cool if it turned into some sort of 'whodunnit' with some of the sumeru cast we haven't seen in a bit (tighnari, cyno, alhaitham, kaveh, dehya, collei)
collei's presence would once again offer some amazing scene opportunities given her history with dottore
eventually he'd be found out, and a fight scene consisting of wanderer, nahida, tighnari, cyno and collei would go hard as hell
— 3, the barbatos route. effectively, the alpha/first/original dottore escapes and is now on the run from the fatui, who will absolutely murk him on sight. so he flees to the one place absolutely nobody is going to be chasing after him in; mare jivari. this finally gives us further chance to explore that place or get an actual location of it.
the hexenzirkel could easily be involved in getting information about this, given alice, nicole and barbie all have easy eyes on teyvat, and word gets to venti
perhaps dottore found some form of power source in there, and venti takes us there, alongside the little alchemical family trio present on behalf of the hexenzirkel. im not sure how to execute it, but getting most of them down and prompting venti to bring out some more barbatos would be awesome as hell. and then wanderer beats the shit out of him and he dies ❤️ the ending we need
Day 1: Long (or perhaps close?) Distance to kick off @mattmelloweek !! This is like a normal what if where Matt picks up Mello from the airport when he comes over to visit and perhaps move in *wink wink*.
im sorry but what other anime can like replicate the absolute cinema of death note. the omnious latin chanting. the blatant mental health disorders of every single character. the saucy trombone as ppl drop dead. the swoosh of the pen, hand jerking around, arm fully extended. the fucking helicopter shootouts over literally a notebook. the dark catholic imagery. the typeface. the significance of a single letter. the sexy lesbian goth model with a bubbly personality and undiagnosed bpd. ok. the autistic honor student who has to be god or else he really is a criminal. the autistic detective who immediately solves the mystery and nobody believes him. the dramatic irony of every aspect. the bury ur gays trope. the bury most of the cast. the diabolical laughter of a shinigami with a gay earring and snatched waist with a crippling apple addiction who set up the whole show. random bondage. ok. doomed yuri. doomed yaoi. everyone who uses this book is doomed.
Interest in greek mythology rises anew with the new number of retellings and adaptions...and misconceptions all around...
Claims like "that never happened" or "that's the roman version" are around a lot...but even if you wanted to learn more, where would you even start looking? Where do you begin your research for your next fic, or next discussion? Well...That's for you!
Here's a list of source names, links to access them, maps, family trees & more
Where to access the texts:
ToposText
Database, interlinks all names and places, has almost all sources translated, can find all name mentions of place or character in the sources, has a map with the places
Perseus Collection Greek and Roman Materials (and Scaife Viewer)
Digital Library, nearly all main greek and roman sources, including OG language text and dictionary for those languages (is instable at times, try coming back a few hours/days later and it should be up again)
Theoi Greek Mythology
Database, has summary posts for individual heroes, creatures, gods and events, as well as many translations, has a search function
Most of these places have older translations for the epics, poems and hymns (with older language), places like Poetry In Translation and https://www.gutenberg.org often have newer translations available for free, though…with a bit of digging most translations even recent ones can be found online :)
Comparing several translations is also good if you want to make any arguments about what a text says without being able to read the text in the original language, does the text really say that or is it just this translation?
It also doesn't hurt to research a little about the author of a work as well to get context for which time and sociopolitical and personal situation they were writing in (it helps to do a quick search into the history of ancient greece too, i.e. epic writers writing during the 7th century BC had different agendas than playwrights of the 5th century during the persian wars, athenians during the conflicts with sparta, or later hellenistic writers after Alexander the Great)
Wikipedia: CAN be used, it's a good starting point, but check the sources cited as much as you can, rather than believing what the page itself says
Links to Maps
Ancient Greece Maps – Ancient Greece: Φώς & Λέξη
User:MaryroseB54 - Wikimedia Commons
Cyowari - Professional, Digital Artist | DeviantArt
Some of the Realms of Greece in the Heroic Age by Yaulendur on DeviantArt
Late Bronze Age Mediterranean Trade, c. 1400-1200 BCE: Empires, Merchants, and Maritime Routes of the Ancient World - World History Encyclopedia
Translators:
Translate to Ancient Greek Online
https://logeion.uchicago.edu
Wiktionary
Ancient Art
Resources
Harvard Art Museums
Family Tree:
(Compiled by a friend, not exhaustive) - Note that there are often various different versions of lineage for many characters, so this only represents ONE of many possibilities)
Family Echo
Books
Oxford classical dictionary.pdf
Brief History Of Ancient Greece.pdf
168679208-Ancient-Greece.pdf
Complete Greek Drama
The Ancient Epic Cycle and it's ancient reception A companion.pdf
Final Note
These things should not be gatekept, its time to share them freely
I wish I could offer even more sources via academic books and papers but I fear this would exceed my abilities considering the vastness of the topic of Greek Mythology! But this is a starting point :D Have fun!
Google Scholar has a lot of secondary sources (scholia commentary & theories), books about history, society, politics, flora & fauna, religion, culture, etc. of the time both of history and mythical history…if you have a friend in academia with university access (if you don’t have it yourself) you can ask them to check if they have access to the papers/books otherwise hidden behind insane paywalls, because a LOT of them are available as pdfs!
I also wish I had more visual/audio sources but this is smth I cant change :") I'm sure there's some good videos on youtube out there...somewhere x)
Feel free to contact me if you have more sources you want to add or any links don't work
Here is the Post as DOCs to share outside of tumblr
Did anyone ask for... *squints* ...a domestic Death Note fix-it in these trying times with Near at the center of my rotating mind? No secondary intentions I swear
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