DoctorSmashem, believe it or not, it sounds like you-re talking about the Dolorosa folktale, so I just combined these 2 questions together. =)
Probably almost all of you reading know about Dolorosa as the supposed =1st rainbow drinker,= but I-m going 2 talk about her early historical context be4 I get 2 that.
The Dolorosa was a popular character for a long time be4 she was even associated with rainbow drinkers, but there-s no evidence that she actually existed. The earliest documented tales mentioning her didn-t start showing up until a few centuries after the REV9LUTI9N, which implies that they weren-t talking about an actual historical character. If she WAS real, & if she was very, VERY young during the REV9LUTI9N, she might have lived long enough 2 still be around when the first stories were told, but that-s a long shot, & still doesn-t explain why she was never mentioned earlier.
Her story was first told in the style of psionic slave ballads, which is a poetic style that predates Jegus-s time. It was written mainly by gold blooded slaves & was a corruption of some of the forms of poetry they sometimes heard from their sea dweller masters. Psionic slave ballads were raised in2 a loftier & more formalized status after the REV9LUTI9N, although I think there were some groups that thought gold bloods should give up the kind of poetry they made when they were slaves & use sea dweller poetic forms, because it was more =elite= or something. People thought in weird ways a long time ago.
Anyway, this is one of the earliest poems that tells the whole tale of the Dolorosa:
Tell tale of a silph most forlorn
Syng hygh to Warydy syng hygh
Syng song of a silph most forlorn
Barred from the caves of lyfe yn scorn
Havyng met God she couldn't return
And was called the Ladi Despayr, Despayr
She the jade-blood Ladi Despayr
She lyved safe yn Mother Grub's caves
Syng hygh to Malenge syng hygh
She heard tales yn Mother Grub's caves
That God fought for rust bloods and slaves
Aflame, she chose to joyn the braves
And ascended to the fresh ayr, fresh ayr
Absconded up to the fresh ayr
Past dawn, she came to joyn hys war
Syng hygh to Asaly syng hygh
God sygned her up to joyn hys war
Sayd Y9UR KIND I HAVE N9 USE F9R
Y9U KN9W N9T FIRE N9R 6LACK RANC9UR
IN WAR A VIRGIN CAN'T C9MPARE, C9MPARE
N9 VIRGIN LIKE Y9U CAN C9MPARE
I'LL MAKE Y9UR HEART A LIVING PYRE
SING FIE 9N NANA'A SING FIE
MAKE Y9UR HEART A FUNERAL PYRE
AND 6URN Y9U 9UT WITH FLUSHED DESIRE
WHEN Y9U'RE REDUCED T9 ASH FR9M FIRE
Y9U MAY J9IN ME THEN IF Y9U DARE, Y9U DARE
J9IN MY 6LACK WAR THEN IF Y9U DARE
She took God's task and burned her heart
Syng hygh Buluubery syng hygh
She dyd God's deed and burned her heart
And joyned hys ranks to do her part
But bi the tyme she was to start
Her ashen black heart dyd not care, not care
Bi then her black heart could not care
Tyll then she'd lyved to iyeld more lyfe
Syng hygh Zambara'u syng hygh
Yn shaded caves she iyelded lyfe
But 'neath God's gaze she wyelded stryfe
To those she'd hatched she took her knyfe
And slaughtered the ioung and the fayr, the fayr
She herself hatched these ioung and fayr
And when at last the war was won
Syng hygh Iungyiungy syng hygh
When fynalli the war was won
Her gaze dropped from the blyndyng God
When she saw all her hands had done
Yt bleached the black nyght from her hayr, her hayr
The blood she spylt colored her hayr
She fled for home that veri nyght
Syng fye on Wangavu syng fye
Fled to her caves that veri nyght
But was dryven awai yn fryght
God's perverse lyght had turned her bryght
She became the Ladi Despayr, Despayr
She the jaded Ladi Despayr
There-s really a lot in this that could be analyzed, but I-m not that good at literary stuff, so maybe I-ll find some1 else who can do it later. Sorry. =/ In the meantime, I-ll do the best I can.
It-s important 2 note that, at the point when this ballad was written, =jade blood= didn-t mean =any troll with green blood=, it meant just jade specifically. Also, =turning bright= didn-t necessarily mean becoming a rainbow drinker back then (although that was one of its meanings), it just meant =cursed= or =outcast= or =goes out in the day= or other things associated with the sun. In fact, before Jegus-s time, trolls with the 6L99D were also described as =bright.= So back then, Jegus was probably called a =bright troll,= 2. (=Jegus is a bright troll= sounds really weird 2day, huh? =6LUH 6LUH, I D9N'T CARE IF Y9U'RE HIGH 9R L9W, I WANT T9 SUCK Y9UR 6L99D RIGHT N9W!= Hahaha. ...Do =low= & =now= count as a rhyme?)
The names listed in this are different gods from a pagan slave religion thing. I don-t know a lot about it so I-ll have 2 do more research on it before I can describe it much more. But even after that religion had basically totally died (I think), references to it were still made a lot in literature & stuff. & I remember reading somewhere that some things from that religion are still around 2day, but the thing I was reading didn-t explain what those things are. Bluh.
This poem actually might have been written by somebody who still followed the pagan religion, or at least by some1 who didn-t worship Jegus. It portrays him & his REV9LUTI9N really negatively. It also seems 2 imply that Jegus used the Dolorosa concupiscently, which goes against his typical portrayal as transcending the quadrants & thus a virgin. Also, he-s very specifically compared 2 the sun throughout. & not in the =but that-s okay= way that the early church tried 2 do.
There-s even a subverted rhyme in there that makes it really obvious. The rest of the ballad has an ABAAACC structure, but in the next 2 last stanza, it does ABADACC. The A lines end with =won= & =done,= but the D line ends with =the blyndyng God=. However, if it had ended with =sun=, it would have fit the rhyme perfectly, & the line would have made more sense. So, they-re saying =-God- is the same as -sun-= by not actually saying it.
Or maybe it originally said =sun= but then the word got changed in later versions. I don-t know.
But despite all that anti Jegus stuff, the psionic slave ballad style suggests it was written by one of the gold bloods that benefitted from the REV9LUTI9N, not from a bitter lowblood. & it definitely isn-t saying that sea dwellers should still be in charge. In fact, it talks about the gold bloods sympathetically at the beginning (so it-s definitely pro gold blood), but then toward the end even when it talks about how horrible it is that she-s killing trolls, it never describes the enemies as violet bloods or sea dwellers. Maybe that was because killing violet bloods wouldn-t have been seen as something that she should feel bad about, but if they don-t mention their blood color then her pain was more sympathetic? Hahaha, I don-t know, I-m making this up.
Plus, reading this with a little knowledge of the historical context (which I have ;) ) makes 1 of the interpretations less likely: that the ballad was trying 2 say Jegus seduced the Dolorosa. During that point in history, it would have been REALLY weird 4 a male 2 make the 1st move romantically if the troll he was propositioning was female. (Except in the ashen quadrant.) Like, a male could flirt & drop hints like crazy, but he couldn-t actually make the move. & that was 2x true around jade bloods. Trolls weren-t very enlightened back then. It-s true that Jegus turned a whole lot of other normal rules upside down (duh), but if he-d also gone around asking women 2 pail him, that would have been a big enough deal that it-d show up in a lot of apocrypha. So it-s more likely that in this ballad, he wasn-t trying 2 pail with the Dolorosa, he was just telling her 2 go pail with some1 else & then come back. Which is a really weird criteria 4 joining an army, because I think at the time jade bloods were thought 2 be such effective caretakers & guards 4 the Mother Grubs because they were fueled by repressed quadrant urges, but whatever.
Anyway, her story was told over & over in a lot of different formats. I did a search on Troll IMDB & there are 100s of movies that mention her within the first 5 clauses of their titles, & like a jillion times more that list her anywhere in the title at all. Of course, that-s because she-s now associated with rainbow drinkers, so a lot of them are horror movies or adolescent romance movies. But that-s just an example of how famous she is.
& you can also see from even this ballad some of the things that came 2 be associated with her later: that her hair was rainbow colored (in here, it-s dyed by blood), that she was =turned bright= by sunlight (since =God= means =sun= in here), etc.
I don-t know at what point in history she was 1st described as a rainbow drinker, but by about 2000 sweeps after the REV9LUTI9N, pretty much every version of her story described her that way.
& that-s the basics on the story behind the Dolorosa. If any1 else has any interesting info on her, let me know.
BTW, I don-t like my new quirk. =( It doesn-t feel right, but I don-t want 2 get culled. Does any1 have any suggestions 2 make it better?
