#thilda

happy wbw to you too pax!!!

disclaimers: dates are a gregorian calendar equivalent of the actual celebration. most people no longer celebrate due to the sharp decline in followers, so this description reflects what would be done when the majority of people believed in the gods.

i talked about the four big religious holidays here. they each celebrate the yearly peak of one of the gods as well as a secondary celebration of people around you/people you don't know very well/yourself/loved ones!!

the space/time mostly depends on the holiday :D for example, hyet saa skari is mostly outside and at night because. bonfires and light shows and that jazz. hyet saa aenged is celebrated during the day outside, and it's considered a good omen if it's windy outside. hyet saa thilda is celebrated inside (because cold) and during sunrise/sunset (because,,,,, because vibes). and hyet saa eltenjer is celebrated during the day/afternoon at any location of significance between people!!

the intensity is. none. because gods don't have followers alsfjldskjf rip them. BUT even while these were celebrated, location didn't matter much.

Ahhhh, this is such a good thing to theorize about! Because yeah, the whole timeline of Etheria, and the Horde, and Etheria’s interaction with the Horde, and the First Ones, and everything is such a mystery! And Hordak fits into a little bit of that mystery. My thoughts?

Well, he’s been around for greater than 20 years. If you recall the episode Light Spinner, the Horde had already become A Thing back with Shadow Weaver was Light Spinner and Micah was an innocent baby-child. He looked about.. I dunno... 13? Ish? So if we make him 13, and maybe say Glimmer was born when he was age 30 or so (that’s a normal age for baby-production, right?), then Hordak would have had to have been around for at least 34-ish years (17 years for Micah to grow up, then assuming Micah went down very early in Glimmer’s life, we have another minimum 17-ish years for Glimmer to grow). Though it could be less, I suppose, if Micah and Angella got Down To Business With Speed.

I would expect that it took him some time to rise in rank and become Hordimus Horde Prime’s right hand, but that’s hard to quantify without just knowing it. A few years? A decade? I dunno. I feel like it could be anywhere from 5-10 years.

If you do this sort of fuzzy math, you end up putting Hordak at around anywhere from late thirties to fifties in regular ol’ Earth years. 

But we all know that aliens +/- clones likely age differently, or popped out of the vitrine fully grown, so his actual physical age is anyone’s best guess. To me, he looked like a middle-aged warlord back when he had his old, bulky armor. Now, he looks much younger, especially with his hair mussed up as it’s been. Looking at him now, I feel like he looks my/Entrapta’s age: late twenties, early thirties.

What I find most interesting, though, is less his physical age and more his mental/emotional age. I’m assuming that the clones pop out of the vitrine with some level or programming, ready to murder, but I wonder what level of maturity they have in other facets of life. Emotional maturity, for example, is something that Hordak seems to lack. His answer to distress is smashing something, yelling a bunch, sulking, etc., etc. Mind, this could just be him, but it nevertheless wouldn’t surprise me if this was at least in part, if not directly due to his status as a clone. I would imagine that the clones are unlikely to get... well, a “healthy upbringing.” Even if Hordimus wasn’t the massive asshole I predict him to be, why would he bother? They’re clones. Soldiers. All they have to do is move forward and steamroll anything in their way. The complexities of civilian life, of dealing with things in ways that don’t destroy them, of accurate introspection and emotional understanding just wouldn’t be useful to them.

In addition, a lack of emotional maturity allows Hordak, and I suspect the other clones, to remain emotionally dependent on their progenitor. I mean, think about it: by the time a person turns 30/40/50+, even if they’ve had a shit childhood, most at least start to move past that. They separate themselves from their parents (usually during the rebellion of teenhood, hah!). Healthy, mature individuals become their own complete people.

Entrapta’s interactions with Hordak sort of underline this for me, and it’s part of why I enjoy their dynamic so much: Entrapta knows she has difficulties with people. She knows she’s “a failure” in terms of social interaction, but she doesn’t care nearly as much as Hordak does. At the same time, she accepts this, works on it in her own time, and enjoys life by finding her value in other pursuits. She doesn’t depend on others’ opinions of her to maintain a sense of self worth. Even if she’s bothered by her flaws, she’s not as dependent on others as Hordak is on Horde Prime to allow this to ruin her. It’s something that makes her, to me, one of the most mature characters in the series so far.

Anyways.

I think that one reason that Hordak seems so young to me now that we know his vulnerabilities is that it’s become very apparent that he’s not his own healthy, complete person. He’s not comfortable in his own skin, not only because of his illness, but because he can’t separate his being, his self-worth, his personhood from Horde Prime. And that makes him seem, in an emotional way, much younger to me.

And sadder. I find his dependency on someone who will never be satisfied with him, will never love him no matter how hard he tries, to be very, very sad.

oh gosh I’m sorry I’m getting to this so late!! things have been super busy here. but I hope you enjoy this!! I’ve really been enjoying working on this little ‘verse!!

too tired to be fightingpart i: do you have room for one more troubled soul?part ii: you’re a canary, i’m a coal mine(fic requests open)

Silence reigns once more; this time, though, it is tense and it is angry and it is paired with pacing so furious Steve thinks the carpet might burn. They are in Jonathan’s bedroom, where Joyce had ushered them on Jonathan’s offer after Billy began his pacing in the living room.

“The monsters,” El had told him, “in your dreams. They’re real.”

“You-” Billy said, and then, “You were-”, and then, “You saw-”, and then, feeling the heat of so many eyes on him, so many people watching him, so many observe his stumbling and stammering, he shot to his feet with his shoulders rolled back and his hands squeezed to fists at his sides.

“Billy,” Max said, jumping up too, and at the same time Steve said, “Take it easy.”

I'm kinda disappointed that they've used the same plot with Ben being under a love spell, a villain going after the wand, the final fight happening during a coronation/fancy party. Still hope the movie will make it work (and give us more Uma/Harry haha)

it's going to be so awkward between him and Starscream when he gets out I can't wait

i wanted to keep ask you about winter holidays this time! Is there anything similar to Christmas? Do all the districts celebrate the holidays (if celebrated at all) the same way?

And since you asked for profession asks: do people regularly work while on holidays in The Hooks? What are the most important/prestigious jobs?? And (being selfish) is there anything similar to a psychologist or therapist??

Thank you so much and sorry for all the questions oops ^^' have a lovely day!

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happy wbw!! i'm not bad, how are you?

disclaimers: dates are a gregorian calendar equivalent of the actual celebration. most people no longer celebrate due to the sharp decline in followers, so this description reflects what would be done when the majority of people believed in the gods.

the main holiday celebrated during winter is Hyet saa Thilda (21 december) !! (pronounced "yet zah" thilda) water goddess my beloved <3 don't tell the other gods shh

it celebrates the water goddess's natural peak during the year, and it's actually NOT the equivalent to christmas. it's a day to celebrate yourself because there isn't enough of that :D

during hyet saa thilda (this is part of a trend where i break all my capitalization rules after the first time i use them) common traditions include(d) solitary praying, solemn silence, lots of introspection, and just supporting other people in general.

everyone in the hooks does/did have the four main holidays off!

*deep inhale* common professions in the hooks:

merchant

blacksmith

harbormaster/dockworker

fisherman

city guards

architect

locksmith

there are psychologists/therapists; they just aren't very common!! (if i ever have a carmen insert, i'll make sure she's a psychologist)

happy wbw!!

disclaimers: dates are a gregorian calendar equivalent of the actual celebration. most people no longer celebrate due to the sharp decline in followers, so this description reflects what would be done when the majority of people believed in the gods.

the four religious holidays that i'm talking about today are related to the four gods (skari, aenged, thilda, eltenjer) and their yearly peaks!! if you want more specifics on the gods and their domains, that info is in the reintro :D

all the main religious holidays begin with "Hyet saa", pronounced "yet zah" and mean "day of". so we have:

Hyet saa Skari, 21 june, peak of the fire god, celebration of people around you, more info here

Hyet saa Aenged, 21 september, peak of the air god (i should clarify that they use they/them), celebration of those you may not know so well (really excited to celebrate this one on tumblr alskdjfk)

Hyet saa Thilda, 21 december, peak of the water goddess, celebration of yourself, more info here

Hyet saa Eltenjer, 21 march, peak of the earth god, celebration of loved ones (friends, partners, family, and everyone)