#priest and leah and levy's are actually good...I like them

[llycaons]

studios sometimes alter character color palettes for the anime tho...see utena being originally blond, kurapika's eyes changing color, etc. I think priest should have brown eyes personally. in the manga he and leah also have somewhat similar designs in their civvies but on the cover his hair was a lot more ashy than leah's bright blond hair, so it would be a lot easier to distinguish them...there's so many blond ppl in this manga tho it's wild

another thing I noticed staring at the covers was almost everyone has pupils of two different colors - witches, humans, and demons. you see it in the manga as another ring within the pupil, but on the covers you can see they really do have two-toned eyes, or eyes with a ring of another color around the outside

it's a cool idea and very distinctive - and verge's demon mark matching his eye is fun - but some of these color choices...

[keshetchai]

okay so as i watch prince of egypt i always have two questions about it, and since your jewish and since moses is a big part of the jewish religion and i saw you answer the questions on the one post about poe i was maybe wondering if you could answer some of my questions, since i was never raised religiously at all and i'm kinda interested 1) from the start was god planning on making moses the man who delivers the hebrew people and is protecting him when he goes down the river or (part 1)

was it like just plain luck and he chose moses later on and 2) with the burning bush was he TRYING to lure moses there or was it like a first come first serve thing where whoever got there first was gonna be chosen and 3) why wasn't the killing of jewish baby boys the last straw for god like why didn't he do something when that happened?? i guess you could make the argument he did do something by giving moses if moses was always supposed to be the deliverer. thanks for answering my (part 2) for answering my questions in advance!! i'm sorry if i come across as offensive, i've never been raised religiously and after watching poe it's really piqued my curiosity 😊 (part 3)

THIS IS AN OLD-ISH ASK SORRY....

I mean, like.....good questions. 

1.) No it’s not plain luck Moses is chosen. Moses (Moshe) is a descendent of Levi, one of the sons of Jacob/Yisrael and Leah. (You ever heard of Joseph and his coat? Joseph is one of the sons of Jacob who ended up in Egypt no thanks to his older brothers.) 

OR, in a more chronological order, skipping some less memorable generations: 

Adam and Eve have at least three sons. Everyone remembers Cain and Abel, but of course, it’s Seth who continues the line of humanity. Several generations of his line later, you get Noah. Noah has three sons: Japheth, Ham and Shem. Again, we can skip two of them, and focus on Shem (which is where linguists derived the word Semitic, as in semitic languages).

Shem’s family line eventually gets to Abraham and Sarah. These are our proto-Jewish folks. Hebrews is probably most accurate. They believe in God and Abraham gets circumcised as part of his covenant with God. Abraham and Sarah have Isaac, who is real grateful that God banned child sacrifices. Isaac marries Rebecca. Rebecca gives birth to Jacob and Esau. Jacob is Rebecca’s favorite and idk, he gets to inherit because of a switcheroo. (Details are in genesis sorry). 

Then AH HA!!!! JACOB!!!!! Jacob is special! He wrestles someone (Probably an Angel of God) until they give him a new name - Yisrael (Israel), which is...literally wrestling with God. (Or prevails with God, but that less fun sounding.) God Wrestler. That’s it! There you go! Looooonnnnggg before the term “Jewish” was around, the hebrew people with a covenant with God were just all Israelites. 

Anyways Jacob ends up with more wives than he bargained for (importantly: Rachel and Leah also Bilhah and Zilpah), and his wives have 13 children in total - 12 sons, and one daughter Dinah. These twelve sons become the 12 tribes of...Israel! Anyways first Yisrael and his family dwell in Hebron, and baby Joseph gets a cool coat and prophetic dreams and his brothers, fed up with Joseph proclaiming he was going to be the hottest shit ever, sell him into slavery where he ends up in Egypt and then works for the Pharaoh. 

Later Jacob/Israel and the other 11 brothers & co reunite with Joseph due to famine in the land, and Jacob dies and Joseph carries him back to their homeland to be buried. The Cave of the Patriarchs/(in Hebrew Double Tombs) is in Hebron - which is now in the region known as the West Bank. There’s a whole political aside here but this is already long. tl;dr Jewish people were denied access to a holy site for 700 years. 

ANYWAYS......LEVI! Levi is one of the 12 sons of Jacob, and his line of descendants are important! They’re one of the few distinct remaining tribes (The Levites) and one of the following generations produces GUESS WHO?:

Yes! Miriam, Aaron, and Baby Moses! Miriam is a Prophetess, Moses is a prophet, and Aaron is a priest (and all his descendants are also priests). 

SO YOU SEE: When God makes a covenant with a man and says “LOOK: YOU, YOUR DESCENDANTS, AND I - AND ANYONE WHO AGREES TO THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS - HAVE A DEAL,” then you see, in the Torah, this is pretty literal. 

If you read Exodus, this is elaborated on a bit more (The current Pharaoh is bad, he forgot Joseph being awesome earlier in Egypt) and like, God is pretty adamant about being the God of Moses’ ancestors. 

I think that answers 1 and 2, but as for 3.) I mean...again this is where you really miss out on a few cool bits that aren’t in Prince of Egypt:

16 And he said, "When you deliver the Hebrew women, and you see on the birthstool, if it is a son, you shall put him to death, but if it is a daughter, she may live."17 The midwives, however, feared God; so they did not do as the king of Egypt had spoken to them, but they enabled the boys to live.18 So the king of Egypt summoned the midwives and said to them, "Why have you done this thing, that you have enabled the boys to live?"19 And the midwives said to Pharaoh, "Because the Hebrew women are not like the Egyptian women, for they are skilled as midwives; when the midwife has not yet come to them, they have [already] given birth."20 God benefited the midwives, and the people multiplied and became very strong.

The Hebrew midwives are the ones told to murder the boy babies. And they don’t. They basically lie and tell Pharaoh “Uh, sorry, Hebrew women just give birth before we can get there and murder the boy children.” 

Basically a Bunch of Kickass midwives saved the day (and also the babies), is the answer. 

Also in Exodus: Moses’ actual mother “pretends” to be his nursemaid/nanny because the Egyptians were like “oh, you! You’re right for this job! Nurse this Hebrew baby we’re adopting!” 

[llycaons]

reread 83: LET'S GO!!!!!!!!

DO YOU THINK YOU'RE HELPING??? MARCO???

all alone in this panel...just repeating her name over and over again :(

he doesn't even consider she's not human...he's so in denial

not too late for what? to become the enemy of the catholic church? come with us to where? to be arrested and confined? to leave imuri to die?

literally everyone who is close to priest: imuri may be a demon, but she's a mentally and emotionally stabilizing force in his life and he really needs her and cares about her. marco swanning in going welll YOU guys have missmanaged the situation! and immediately creating a situation in which priest attacks his fellows, runs away from the chuch, and seek refuse in HELL. this needed a more delicate touch!!!

oh I wonder if dante knew about imuri. it wasn't really relevant, ig. he seemed to like that priest had someone to be with and didn't really think about her more than that. hehe. verge and priest are paralled in this arc, but dante and the boy are the two catholic priests who are in love with people on the other side. and dante's gay and the boy is horny...really not the picture of a perfect catholic priest the church has in mind huh. or I guess if they can ~overcome temptation~ they are...ugh. but they're people with the right to themselves, and the series knows that and shows it in like a very kind way I think

ohh his angel halo! and it's black and smoky!

fucking hell is he trying to kill them? leah and barbara are in there!

fucked upppp. because that's her admission. he knows what she's apologizing for

the 'oh, man' is really good. very much imuri's style of dialogue

ALL ALONE....

I hadn't even remembered that this happened....what a move to pull. daniel's like OKAY we can get him now and priest pulls THE MOST POWERFUL DEMON LORD?? out of his back pocket? they're so fucked

crazyyy how immediate this is. like she is INSTANTLY there. only issue w reading on mangadex is they split up these two-page spreads so it's hard to tell what the full picture is unless you cut and combine them like this

this is the full quote from the inferno, we're about to see, btw. it's really astonishingly beautifully written

'Before me things created were none, save things Eternal, and eternal I endure. Abandon all hope, ye who enter here.'

IT'S TIME!!!!!!! oh I am grinning so hard. I LOVE these panels. definitely some of my favorite in the series. levy snaps up priest and imuri and goes, and the priests are left racing rather pathetically after him

as for the quote, it's just an intro phrase. what comes next for priest priest is somewhere he's never gone before, certainly. both physically and emotionally

bloody gun in a pile of candy. ain't that just the way. dante's jaw is a bit horrifying, but for shooting himself in the head he actually came out fairly unscathed besides from being. dead. verge pulling dante's body to the mouth to get to gehenna like that is so sad bc verge isn't too short but he still isn't the size of a grown man and he's struggling. and CRYING....yeah verge I think you might still be in love with him!!

the quote is a part of a phrase that doesn't mean a lot on its own, but I believe the entire quote essentially means 'the only things that exist in hell are things that can survive it' it's a dark and torturous way to state it, so tonally I think it matches really well

this part of the story is also the most direct reference to dante's inferno. dante and virgil, going into hell, dante as a mortal man and virgil as his guide and friend. virgil was a roman poet who I THINK was trapped in purgatory bc he was a pagan who lived before jesus. am I going to have to sparknotes dante's inferno? I really don't want to....I have negative interest in Italian poetry I'm going to be so real. just the aesthetics and some references would be great for me😭

anyway purgatory must be full to bursting. hey god this was a pretty fucked-up system you devised here. I feel like so many bible stories are god being like oh mannn that's fucked up I gotta change it and then killing thousands of people or creating a guy just to die for everyone. well maybe if you were omnipotent and all-knowing and merciful as you pretend to be and demand worship for THIS WOULDN'T HAVE HAPPENED 🙄

'eternal I endure' over images of priest over imuri's body, himself enduring, and the dream world dissolving....really neat juxtaposition

pretty straightforward. satan know they're here. ABANDON ALL HOPE!!!!!

CLAPPING AND CHEERING AND SCREAMING!!!!! I see dragons. I see collapsing buildings, I see floating ice shards, I see a ruined city, I see flames and skulls. what kind of place do we have HERE!!!!

END!!! OF!! PART!! FIVE!!! LET'S GO!!!!!!!!