Worked this whole day sober:) yeah I know living BIG right now I think I may just go clean everyone…. Just kidding Doing a shot and taking down them shorts…. Need that release!!!
you wanna kno what Jak sees when he looks are your character?? send me a hecking photo and slap the tritanopia on them
while we’re on a greek mythology kick, i want to talk about the twin furies (and their late sister), because their character inspiration goes pretty deep.
most of us probably know that they’re directly inspired by the three furies, but it goes even further than that - they’re almost one-to-one interpretations of the original myth, to the point where you can single out which individual fury each sister is supposed to be.
the furies of greek myth were figures of vengeance and retribution, with particular reference to the punishment of murderers, oathbreakers and traitors. that sounds familiar - it’s exactly the duty zamorak assigned to the furies when he recruited them.
avaryss the unceasing is alecto, whose name literally means “unceasing”. she gets an extra bit of meaning out of her name, with “avaryss” being a clear corruption of “avarice” - the deadly sin of greed. as the unceasing one, perhaps her greed for retribution outshone even her sisters. alecto is additionally described as being so spiteful, so cruel that even her own sisters can’t stand her.
nymora the vengeful is tisiphone, whose name is a compound of “vengeful” and “murder”. i don’t doubt that “nymora” is a corruption or reference to an existing word just like avaryss is, but i can’t think of what it is. so if you have an idea, please tell me!
this leaves their third sister, who would be megaera - “jealous rage”. since avaryss and nymora follow their mythological inspirations so closely, it’s safe to say that their sister would have as well. I wonder what her name would have been.
a final interesting point - the three furies are described as chthonic figures, an umbrella term in greek myth that refers to beings and creatures associated with the underworld. now, obviously this is where runescape got the word, but the twin furies aren’t chthonic demons! they’re avernic.
"If what that man at the bookstore said is true, I ought to only..”
Neri murmured away to herself, drawing the shape of a pentagram on the floor with some chalk, eyeing it dubiously. She was much more of a science and logic sort of a mind, rather than opening portals to another world, no matter the fact of ending up in a damned afterlife of all things. Would this really work?
Slicing the tip of her finger with a scalpel, a single drop of her own blood hit the center of her drawing, immediately causing a reaction of blinding bright light. Everything felt dizzy. Was the room growing... bigger? Why did she have the strange sensation that she as falling?!
...Oh dear. This wasn't quite the result she’d been looking for...
Can’t sleep so apparently I’m drawing violence sorry Luke lol
Thanks for the asks everyone!!! They were fun and heartwarming and was such a nice experience cx!!!! I’ll open them up again when I have some extra free time!! Maybe another weekend thing who knows!
I had a blast! :D
maybe tomorrow i will post some worldbuilding because i really am getting too far into this to be considered normal
okay so actually my only rambling for this are:
SCISSORS MY BELOVED please you guys thought it was just my gijinka? no. in game scissors is the best character in the game in this essay i will-
okay so you’ve all seen my ramblings about them having a cool serious facade but really being energetic and bloodthirsty right? yeah. that all still holds up
the fight is way more fun when you don’t freeze them and also when you don’t use legendary items- i had too this time because im going for 102% and cant risk it aaaaaaa its nowhere near as fun-
best theme in the whole game you can’t change my mind
okay. okay thats it. for now
I'm gonna start posting chat posts of conversations between characters. I feel like that'll help get characterization down in a way that doesn't take too much effort
{ I absolutely love this interaction between Shinobu and Giyū if you pair them up in the Demon Slayer game. Like... they have other ones, but this one is my favorite. Me and my little sister cheated the system of no co-op by fighting against the CPU on hard and kept passing the control back and forth when we'd switch characters. I played as Giyū of course anf Eteif (my little sister) was Shinobu. Would have gotten an S rank like usual, but my sister got stomped by Urokodaki at some point. }
