Student of the Universe

So I finally got the Super7 Vintage Orko figure and he’s adorable and uh...

...he comes with a Black Nightmare??? You know, from “The Eterina Flower.” THE DRUG? 

Like I feel like my reaction was basically the Trollan equivalent of “IS THAT A WEED????” when I saw it 

Imma gonna be real with you, I’m a total idiot when it comes to comics and if anybody like @littlesneak can help this would be great, because every time I’m greeted to a site like this:https://comicvine.gamespot.com/orko/4005-29372/issues-cover/That looks like it includes foreign titles (I dunno if they’re translations or if they’re in those languages only??) and seem to include re-releases, I start to freeze up. Buut just a few highlights, for me. 

https://comicvine.gamespot.com/masters-of-the-universe-9-the-hate-stones/4000-94311/ I’m not gonna lie I’m mostly intimated by the huge amount of classic era comics and when it comes to Orko stuff I mostly remember this particular Star Comic, which YEP, is one of those “Orko is corrupted by an artifact to be evil” stories that they seem to go to a lot and includes some hilarious re-designs of Dree and Montork with a sombrero. 

https://comicvine.gamespot.com/masters-of-the-universe-the-shard-of-darkness/4050-31620/ Since I mentioned it, hey, it’s another story with a dark magical artifact. Is it bad that I found it really satisfying when he snapped at Man At Arms? Because it was super satisfying. 

https://comicvine.gamespot.com/masters-of-the-universe-6-orko/4000-359737/ Part of an awesome series of super cool one-offs, this comic is just… look, read it. It’s great. The Battle Cat one is pretty great, too. (Kinda has flavours of the the Dex-Starr origin story comic, the cat who was made into a Red Lantern.)

https://comicvine.gamespot.com/masters-of-the-universe-8/4000-130875/ I know it’s kind of a rehash of Lessons but man this is far more satisfying.It also includes Monster Hunter Orko and his rap album cover with Dree, Montork, and his pet trinoc that I posted on early on in this blog. 

-I ain't got Netflix -I ain't got the money for it -Nor the WiFi connection to stream it -Nor the time to take from schoolwork (also why I’m non-responsive on the rp front. I’m dead you guys. Ky’s just staring at me screaming “THE WEAK SHALL PERISH”)

But on the other hand I know the only way to get over my crippling insecurities and fears of imposter syndrome is to just do it and realise that people are not reading my stuff just looking for any chance to criticize it so...

From the Filmation MOTU Series Guide.

Anywho, I was just sort of thinking about the fact that Ky was kind of MADE to be a character for panfandom/”Spooky Jam Jar” RPs and took advantage of the fact that inter-dimensional storms (and indeed, inter-dimensional toomfoolery in general) were canon in MOTU. I honestly don’t think she’d be that interesting a character if left to her own devices living out the rest of her life in Trolla. She’d probably get pretty damn complacent either with working as an Archivist or going back to doing meteorology work and probably just become a grumpy academic that everybody thinks is no damn fun because she thinks she’s “saner” than everyone else. She’ll get frustrated but she’d never face the kind of shit that would ever make her think that maybe she needed to rethink her attitude and not be so judgmental towards others. She’s established a social station among academic circles and while I doubt many others really like her personally she really doesn’t give a crap. 

What happens when she’s dumped in other universes is that she has to build everything up all over again, and most of the times, shes uh... different from most other people there. REALLY different. A lot smaller, a lot weaker, squeaky-voiced, really dumb about technology... it’s fairly natural for a lot of people not to take her seriously, peg her as “goofy and cute looking,” and view her like a child, which of course, makes her indignant. (Yes, she would totally make a sign that says “I DEMAND TO BE TAKEN SERIOUSLY.”) She feels like she has to convince everyone she meets she’s an intelligent, sensible person, not just this cute little thing to look down on but it’s impossible. 

This, of course, draws out her more lovely personality traits including the fact that she is more than willing to manipulate someone if they’re that insistent on believing she’s a dummy by obfuscating stupidity to take advantage of them that way. The fact of the matter is, though, despite the fact she often thinks she’s too good for goofy old Trollan society and constant disrespect can draw her into a yelling rage, she hates conflict, doesn’t know how to HANDLE conflict, but most of all, she doesn’t really even MEAN to shut herself off from others. She’s so afraid of opening herself up and trying to learn how to understand others and BE understood... it’s so hard and she’s so afraid of failing. It’s easier to be derisive of others and hide behind books and snark. 

Since it isn’t that obvious by just looking at it, this is inside the Crimson Council’s building.

Hysterical laughing is probably one of Ky’s HEALTHIEST coping mechanisms when it comes to dealing with the idiocy of people around her. Look, I said she was methodical and introspective, I didn’t say she was a mentally stable Trollan.

Bender quote because Bender is forever quotable.  

An oldie, but goodie. 

I was watching ‘Lessons’ and from the super-quick, super small shots of Orko’s wand we got, I just realised that it looked like Star’s…with different colours and no wing-a-lings.

(Nah when I went back and pulled out a screenshot of Star’s I was like “Nah they aren’t that similar after all” but I was also like “SCREW IT I wanna draw this anyway!”)