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Worth pointing out that what this means is that restaurants and other places selling food, THAT ALREADY HAVE A CERTIFICATE FOR HANDLING FOOD, do not have to get a separate licence specifically for selling ice cream. So no endless diarrhea in sight.
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【キャラクター】コウカ（CV：大津愛理）[Character] Hong Hua (CV: Airi Otsu)
運命の女神フォトナを「禁断の地」へと案内し、救世主の誕生を手助けした女性。A woman who guided the goddess of fate, Fortuna, to the "Forbidden Land" and helped bring about the birth of the savior.
過去に大きな罪を犯したという自覚があり、業を償うため自分の身を犠牲にしてでも戦うことを決意している。She is aware of having committed a great sin in the past and is determined to fight, even at the cost of her own life, to atone for her sins.
●好きなもの：幸せな頃の思い出 Likes: Memories of happy times
The part about her having been able to guide a goddess to the forbidden land, and her involvement in the birth of the savior, is fascinating. Does Hong Hua wish to atone simply because the forbidden land is forbidden for mortals and she transgressed a boundary between mortals and the gods? Or do we have an Anankos situation going on here, with Balor as the body and Eshmel as the soul, temporarily given flesh?
So, pinpointing all of the Berserk parallels/references in Fortune’s Weave so far have been fun. I’ve got:
Leda is in the middle of a bloody revenge quest after losing everything she held dear.
Theodora lost her right arm and has obtained a cutting-edge prosthetic.
Dietrich is a black-armored swordsman who looks a hell of a lot like Griffith, wearing a cursed item of apparel (though in his case it’s his cape, not the armor itself), wielding a dragon-slaying sword, who appears at one point in the direct to be succumbing to a curse (becoming a Demonic Beast) that will strip him of his humanity and turn him into a rampaging beast, as happens when Guts succumbs to the influence of the berserker armor.
An event occurs in which the veil between the physical and spiritual planes is pierced, which serves the purpose of being the second birth of the leader of the demonic faction. Balor’s second birth = the Eclipse.
Now, we have direct Berserk parallels with three of the lords, and that just leaves Cai. I’m honestly a little nervous about what parallel Cai could have with Berserk, since he’s shaping up to be a sweet kid who really, really does not deserve to get dropped into a remotely Berserk-esque story. But right now I’m thinking: Crest Stone embedded in hand = Behelit. And though I think all four of the lords wind up playing into the Eclipse event somehow, I really don’t like to think of what that means for Cai in particular.
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i like when fiction treats love as a more complicated force and not something that is inherently pure or redemptive. portray it as flawed and complex as any other human impulse. give me love as prejudice, love as possessive stasis, love as addiction, love as blindness, etc.
So, in this YouTube video, YouTuber Meg Sullivan posited several theories (pre-Direct) about the story of Fortune's Weave, and one of those theories was that the evil Nabatean lady we have seen was married to an Agarthan. I wanted to give credit to her for sparking this theory in my mind, though my theory goes off in a different direction than hers.
So, right now, I am theorizing that the Nabatean woman we see holding a baby and summoning the forces of the Underworld was married to an Agarthan, and the baby she's holding was their child. Her style of dress screams 'Agarthan,' and I think it would explain the apparent blending of two very different peoples we see with her.
Sothis, upon finding this out, would have been very, very angry. A lot of us have already speculated that this Nabatean woman was 'the Darkest Dark' Sothis referred to in the second trailer, as it matches the naming/nicknaming scheme she has for her children. I think she banished this woman, her daughter, to the Underworld for the crime of marrying an enemy, and either killed the baby outright, or sent the baby to the Underworld with its mother, knowing that it wouldn't be able to survive in a place like the Underworld. I do not believe that Sothis is above infanticide, not after she drowned an entire continent. And considering that, in my theory, this baby is in fact the demon god Balor, she may have seen into the chlid's future and decided to eliminate it before it could become a threat to her rule and the world she had created.
It might be slightly wishful thinking. In Three Houses, we had Rhea, who as far as she could be called a villain at all, was this wonderfully nuanced, complicated villain. The best Fire Emblem’s ever done, in my opinion. But on the other hand, we had the flat, cartoonishly evil Agarthans, the biggest drag on Three Houses’ storytelling, bar none. Any attempt 3H could have made to tell a story about the cycle of revenge between the Nabateans and the Agarthans, and the second generation of humanity doing the bulk of the fighting, suffering, and dying for them in their proxy wars was poisoned by the refusal to give the Agarthans any real nuance, let alone afford any narrative sympathy.
I have greater hopes for Fortune’s Weave. It’s not escaped my notice that the kingdom of Saramis belongs to the same archetype as Plegia from Awakening. FW now tells us that this archetype, which in past games has been portrayed as almost monolithically evil, is worthy of exploration and narrative sympathy. They could do the same for the Agarthans, for a Nabatean whose sympathies may have lied with them.
It would also serve as a neat mirror to 3H. So much of the plot of 3H was driven by the lengths one woman would go to to resurrect her murdered mother, and now, this game could show us the lengths one woman would go to to resurrect her murdered child. How much of the world she’s willing to burn down to do it.
And it would give the theme of motherhood actual weight in these two games. I’ve brought up before that the theme of motherhood and mother-child relationships is weirdly underexplored in 3H, for all that the relationship between a woman and her mother being the foundation of so much of the plot. Mothers are almost entirely absent from the game, with the only truly significant one being Anselma, and Bernadetta, Mercedes, and Emile’s mothers being distant runners up. We’ve already had hints of the mother-child relationship being given greater weight here. I’d like to see it play out, as portrayed by a truly complex, interesting villain.
Characters will make a very nuanced choice that makes sense for their story arc and internal conflict, and audience members will be like "is anyone else going to misconstrue this in the most black and white, bad faith manner possible?"
Episode 8: The Acolyte
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Also really interested in how the last section of the Direct before focus turns to Eshmel seems to position Anatolia as being on roughly the same level of importance as the Lords. People are speculating that she’s connected with Eshmel somehow, and I’ll be interested to see how it pans out. I definitely think she was given a little too much screen time for her to just be a rando.
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My assumption right now is that the items our four Lords are granted which allow them to use Blaze Arts wind up contributing to Balor's mother (I'm assuming the evil Nabatean lady is his mother) being able to breach the physical plane and open the portal to the Underworld. We've only seen how Theodora is given her prosthetic arm so far, and a vision of a god about whom we know nothing is ambiguous enough that you can't say for certain that that god really had her best interests at heart. No word on how Cai got the stone embedded in his hand, or Dietrich his black cape, or Leda her vihuela.
How the heroes might be playing into the villain's hands is shown most clearly with Leda, who appears to be opening a portal to... to somewhere else, Zahras or the Underworld if that's a distinct plane from Zahras. If my theory is correct, the four of them have each been given cursed artifacts which, when used often enough, awaken the power of Balor. They may have been given them by an agent of Balor operating in the physical plane, recognizing each of them as the contestants most likely to use the artifacts often enough in the Heroic Games to fulfill the conditions to see Balor's return--Cai, Leda, and Theodora are all desperate to win, and while Dietrich doesn't have a deeper motivation for participating beyond his desire for a good fight, he's amoral enough that he might overuse the power to get an edge over his opponents. And that's not even getting into the fact that Dietrich appears to be turning into a Demonic Beast at one point during the Direct, which may or may not be a separate event from his accidentally contributing to the resurrection of Balor.
He is straight-up turning into a Demonic Beast, Maurice-style, isn't he? Those are the same black tendrils that sprouted from the Lance of Ruin after Miklan overused it.
"Being with you makes me feel… happy. A dangerous emotion for a ninja…"
Alternate title: What's that scarf made of, 'cause it feels like husband material.
I still won’t forget how the movies tried to gaslight me AND THEN parts of the internet also tried to gaslight me that Finn and Rey’s relationship was never set up as romantic in force awakens. Like stop lying to me
If THE modern translator of the OG Odyssey text wrote this about my film adaptation I’d kill myself
Emily Wilson you’re goated
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An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
Chapters: 7/22 Fandom: Star Wars: The Acolyte (TV) Rating: Mature Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Mae Aniseya/Sol the Jedi Characters: Sol the Jedi (Star Wars), Mae Aniseya Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Obsession, Spells & Enchantments, Colonialism, Space Colonialism, local man copes with his guilt by vilifying his victims, One-Sided Attraction, Or Is It?, Stalking, Blood, Animal Death, Fictional animals WERE harmed in the writing of this fic, Cameo by the horrors of capitalism Summary:
One soul, split into two bodies. That was what Sol had suspected from the moment he saw it, one set of test results inexplicably twinned. But how was he ever supposed to prove it, unless—
But that was a journey that would take him far, far from home. Further than he had thought, or hoped.
Okay. I was on my beloved AO3 and I saw something that made me do a double take. So, now I really want to know…
What is your AO3 user ID?
I’m an OG user 5 digits or less
Six figures baby!
I’m in the millions…
I’m so curious to see how long people have been on AO3! I know some people have been on there since beta/invite only, but I would love to see what the number is on tumblr!
