ooh Lycaon begging Achilles to not kill him and Achilles denying his request, saying now that Patroclus is dead he won't spare anyone. Honestly, I get it now, I get why the opening line of this epic is about Achilles rage, I get now, why homer says "𝘚𝘪𝘯𝘨, 𝘖 𝘔𝘶𝘴𝘦, 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 Wrath 𝘰𝘧 𝘈𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘴" I get why he says his Rage brought so much suffering!
Not that I didn't before, but before reading this part it was just a fact. But while reading this part it hit me how he's gone so far in his grief. Wrath of God like Achilles indeed.
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I can't help but wonder if the Gdorf that was transported to a new land. I think Golden Mercy?
I wonder if he realizes that the entire reason that OoT Link even came after him was because he essentially killed the closest thing the boy had to a dad? And then he went on to kill OoT Zelda's dad, too. So, now he has 2 children after him.
Like, does he even recognize how much his actions upturned the lives of those 2 children?
Not only that, but he went to his neighboring kingdom, put on this show, & attacked the King's allies to steal 3 sacred relics, even killing one of them in the process! He threatened them, invaded a holy site, & stole what amounted to the holy grail.
Isn't that tantamount to destruction of cultural property? You know, a war crime??
Like, how does that man rationalize all this?
He really doesn’t, because he’s a selfish piece of garbage. That’s what happens with selfish people, they do not care about the impact they make on others, only what benefits them. To Ganondorf, it’s all just things that need to be done because he will get what he wants, and he does not care who burns to accomplish that. He’s king, it’s his right to take what he wants. That’s how he grew up.
Ganondorf hasn’t learned his lesson. The main reason he doesn’t cause a bunch of problems any earlier than he did was simply because he was kind of satisfied with what he had for a little while, until he learned that the Triforce existed in this Hyrule. Having children has helped him a little, making him gentler at times, trying to make him more rational and reasonable, but at the end of the day he never addressed the issues that led to his actions in his own original Hyrule, and therefore he hasn’t learned from it. As decent as he becomes in his new home, when the temptation strikes he doesn’t fight it, and giving in to that urge makes him completely reprehensible as time goes along. He starts a war, he eventually kills his wife when she turns on him, and he tries to kill his daughter when she teams up with Link. And by heaven did he completely upturn their lives, the Gerudo people, and all of Hyrule.
But worry not, my dear lovely, a few thousand years in agonizing captivity will make him far more contemplative. :)
I mean, I love writing the guy, but that doesn’t make him a good person. The reason I use the good Ganondorf tag is not because of his actions prior to Hyrule Warriors, it’s because Golden Mercy gives him a chance at redemption.
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Got myself thinking of the thing I said at the end of this post (tldr; Izumi would make a fine Demeter for a FMA Mythology AU) and honestly... A FMA mythology AU with the Elric brothers being in Heracles' shoes sounds really fun? Like them having to do 12 great tasks to atone for their failed human transmutation and the ramifications of it all the while getting into some other shenanigans in the meanwhile, I mean. I'm kinda surprised that I haven't actually come across something like that already, because it would be pretty easy to execute all things considered. Besides the obvious point of trying to make up for past misdeeds, there are some other things that Ed and Al are already familiar with, such as being forced to work for an disliked authority, step-parents issues and half-siblings issues - the only thing really missing here is Chimera, but Heracles does meet few of her siblings, cousin-once-removed and possibly mother along the way so that should make it up.
Also. During his 12th labor, Heracles just so happens to meet Theseus and Pirithous while in the Underworld. He knows at least who Theseus is, as the two of them went to meet the Amazons together and even left with some souvenirs (Hippolyta's girdle & Antiope) under their belts. Now why are Theseus and Pirithous in the Underworld? Because Persephone, that's why. It's a long, silly myth. Now I'm having a mental image of Ed and Al going to the Underworld, meeting trapped Ling and Russell, Ed annoyedly asking what the hell the two of them are doing in here, them trying to explain that they heard what happened to Izumi's son and are trying to help with Ed not buying it, Al saying that they should help them as they're friends and Ed reluctantly agreeing to his brother's wish all the while muttering passive-aggressively that he signed to get only one person out of here and now he has to help three instead.
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iIcntly reread a fic where the author complained about how unrealistic it for Sozin and Roku to be Zuko's great grandfathers and I've been reflecting on that in comparison to my own family.
One of my great grandmothers was born in 1924, so this year (about 10 years after her death), we're coming up on 100 years. I think my baby brother is her youngest great grandchild, and he'll be 20 this year.
Compare this to Zuko being sixteen (and Azula only 14) when his supposed great grandfathers were old men 112 year ago.
There should be at least one or two more generations in there.
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