#code antithese

[lilith-devi-nyx-elsword-theorist]

the rest, sorry. they're interesting.

[art-soboro]

an old commission of Eve/Code: Antithese from Elsword

[idkman-ijustwannamakeatournament]

Round 1: Match 25

"Two Sides of the Same Coin"- Two things that are regarded as part of the same thing. Even if they're very different, they have at least one common thread that helps them fit into this trope.

Propaganda:

Laios and Kabru:

"They're both so autistic-coded. Like, Laios's special interest is obviously monsters and Kabru's is humans. Kabru overthinks everything about Laios, he always is thinking "Man, there's gotta be some agenda about this guy." Meanwhile, Laios: Head empty, monsters tasty. The way they both react to things ooooo.... listen, they fit this category so well, they're so interesting, trust."

Dawn/The Liberator and Tsuki/The Worldkeeper:

"complete antitheses. always fighting. represent opposite ends of the protagonist's psyche. but both represent part of her all the same. no matter how much they might try to refute it they're both part of the same whole and need to be one despite their refusal to do so"

[willowbilly]

for the ships ask!! hickeysir & goodstan 👀👀

Any ship with Goodsir or Silna is automatically a Very Serious Favorite of mine, what with Goodsir and Silna being my very favorite characters, and I happen to love both of these ships so incredibly much! Hickeysir in particular is my secondmost absolute favorite Terror ship after GoodSilna, with GoodStanley close on their heels (and excluding polyships). It goes: 

GoodSilna. 

Any Goodsir or Silna ship (within my specifications), such as:  a.) Hickeysir. b.) GoodStanley, GoodSilzier, GoodSilCollins, etc. 

Other ships I like! 

Hickeysir and GoodStanley are among my preferred ships to go to for sources of angst and whump; I tend to extrapolate their antagonistic canon relationships into abusive or unhealthy ship dynamics in which Goodsir fights victimization. I’m keenly interested in the granular details of their incompatibility and the stark contrast existing between their characters. Goodsir’s personality is so different from either his captor’s or his direct superior’s, and I love how he does not meekly surrender to them in maintaining his rigid unto brittle code of manners and morality. They struggle to bend Goodsir to their will and they bring out another (worse) side of him, with these power struggles shining to me as some of the show’s most compelling scenes. Like, Stanley’s “I will do. You will not.” and Hickey’s “Don’t you also want to live?” drive me insane. “Has anyone ever invited you to a wedding, Dr. Stanley?” “Does that really work with anyone, Mr. Hickey?” There’s such an intense, prepossessing chemistry between them!!! 

I also adore pairing Goodsir with either Stanley or Hickey because they are excellent narrative foils with curious similarities, with Stanley’s murder-suicide paralleling Goodsir’s, and Hickey being in many ways Goodsir’s direct ideological inverse; they’re antitheses!!! With whom Goodsir is trapped!! Goodsir typically views others through a compassionate lens, so it’s especially alluring to turn that lens upon people like Stanley and Hickey whom he dislikes and even loathes. How might he wrestle with his own intermingled love of or attraction to them, or what resigns him to them, or how might he defy or escape them? What precisely might either do so as to keep him? To punish him? Why haven’t I written Hickeysir and GoodStanley atticwife AUs yet and why aren’t such AUs for them wildly popular? So many intriguing questions. Goodsir is basically Stanley’s wife anyway!! Not to mention that Hickey holds Goodsir captive and forces him to butcher his dear ex-partner’s body first out of all; it is in return that Goodsir uses the poison!!! Goodsir turns murderer because of Hickey!!! 

They have something special I tell you!!!

[blueisquitetired]

Questions from someone who (regrettably) hasn't heard of the No Man's Sky before Astral Shards :P

What is Atlas? Since they hide from it, is it like Giratina in this au? Or Arceus?

The Atlas is many things.

The Korvax call it a god. An intelligence beyond comprehension and judgment. It created the world and all that reside in it, and the Korvax hope that by worshiping it, they too can obtain similar greatness.

The Vy'keen feel differently. The Atlas controls the sentinels, and the Vy'keen have been at war with them for generations. They do not trust something with that much power, and insist that if the Atlas is a god, then it must be insane.

The Gek are more neutral. They care little for things like higher powers and gods, and are much more concerned with their trades and profits. Still, even they acknowledge the power of the Atlas, of its ever present nature.

(The Korvax, Vy'keen, and Gek are the three main races in No Man's Sky, each with their own language and history)

Adaman and Irida think differently. They call it a liar, a hypocrite, a false god. They have spent most of their lives avoiding its crimson gaze, slipping into the cracks between worlds and leaving its jurisdiction.

The Atlas is all of these things and more. It is the beginning and the end, the creator of everything and the keeper of order. It made the galaxy and all its wonders- every galaxy in every universe. The infinite cosmos is it's garden, and the sentinels are it's gardeners, tending to it's creations and making sure everything is in proper order.

Yet what is the point of a garden without someone to visit? What is the purpose of art if there is no one to view it?

And there in lies the hypocrisy. Because the Atlas craves order, demands assimilation- yet it created the travelers, the antitheses to all that it is. The travelers are the outliers, the mistake, the glitch in the code, yet the Atlas adores them more then any of it's other creations.

The traveler is the observer, the aesthete. Their entire purpose is to behold what the Atlas has made, to revel in its glory.

Forever adrift and aimless, doomed to always move and never stay- no home to call their own.

Is it any surprise that some rebel against that fate?

[auxiliarydetective]

now for the chaos corner ( or part seven ) of the ask extravaganza, let's talk about my beloved little fennec fox felicity !! could i please ask after questions one, four, five, seven, and eight from that list of questions ?

can't wait to see the answers, and i hope you're doing well !! <3

Yeeessss, Lily, my sweet little baby!

1. What's an animatic about your OC / OTP that you've been spinning around your brain?

So, for Lily, I actually don't think I have a specific song animatic in mind for her, just general vibes. I feel like it would probably be an angsty one about childhood innocence and her relationship with Sanji, generally pretty happy and adorable and all, but occasionally you'll get scenes of her crying and throwing tantrums in fear... Delicious angst. Specifically, the main angst potential comes from the Whole Cake Island Arc. I know you know basically nothing about it, Dolly, but all of my OCs (except for Lux) have a deep and profound trauma from that arc, some more than others. That's because that arc is peak Sanji angst. Anyways, for some happy moments, I could see little montages of them training together, cooking together, Lily showing off her ballet skills, general crew shenanigans... It's about the contrast!

4. Give a full breakdown of one song on your OC or OTP's playlist!

*checks my Felicity playlist* Well, well, well...

I could cheat and do an instrumental one. I can’t do ones that are just there based on vibes because they're... well... just there for vibes. Most of them are just there for vibes, actually. So, we'll do this one:

"Have you heard from the news? / Clouds are falling from the sky / And everything that's pink is now blue."

... is about the scary things in Lily's life and how her world is coming apart, first because of Buggy, then because of Kuro.

"Have you heard from my mind? / We gotta find a way to cope / Or else things might not turn out so fine"

... is Lily's escapism, the way her brain cooked up the automatic response of age regression as a way to cope and make things fine again.

"And I start / To give in / To the sin / To the sin"

Lily puts up no resistance against this sort of escape but it's a "sin" because devil fruits are, well, devil fruits, and she's already a non-human freak without it, but even more so when it keeps changing her appearance in tune with her mind.

"And I start / To realize / Lullabies / La, la..."

... is Lily really falling into Little Space, the last two syllables being a sort of reference to baby speech - listen to how they sound in the song!

The chorus is filled with antitheses between childish, happy things and scary things you might encounter in life and that's also the world that Lily lives in. Sort of a childish bubble she has built for herself and the harsh pirate's life of death and fighting outside of it. There's one line that's special though and that's:

"Lollipops and cigarettes"

Lily, being half mink, has heightened senses, and she's also very emotional, so a lot of times, things just become too much for her. That's when she asks her dad Sanji for a "smoke break" which is code for "mom come pick me up i'm scared". Sanji is a smoker, so he has an excuse to just remove himself from a situation and go outside for a while and Lily copied that for herself. I think the first time she pulls this trick, it's and accident. She probably mumbles to herself "I think I need a smoke break" (copying Sanji, most likely) and everyone just looks at her as if their souls had left their bodies. But then Sanji smiles and says "You know, me too" and they leave and then this becomes actual code speak for them. There's only one thing that's an issue: Lily feels left out if Sanji is smoking and she isn't. She keeps bugging him about how it isn't fair until he gets her lollipops as a comprimise. Also fake cigarettes made of chewing gum or chocolate.

"Losing innocence is easy / But growing up is hard to face. / Give me something to hold on to / Or I'll slip right into little space"

The "losing innocence is easy" part is a reference to Lily losing her parents, an event that she can barely remember and never understood. In her eyes, they just disappeared, and she doesn't know what really happened or never quite pieces it together - because she was young, still is young and her mind refuses to recall what happened. So she just unconsciously refuses to grow up. And she doesn't have to. She's still so young but also she'd rather be this little kid again when her parents were still by her side and she doesn't want to face things like losing her second set of parents - ie. Kaya's - or getting kidnapped by Buggy or the chaos caused by the Black Cat Pirates. She needs someone or something to hold on to or she gets scared and slips into little space, basically becoming a nonverbal ball of fear.

"Remember all the rounds / When we sneaked in just to have a kiss / But now we need to keep the noise down"

In the original interpretation of the song, this is more of an allusion to puppy love vs sexuality, but in Lily's version, the last line is more related to violence and screaming, maybe also her sensitivity to noise because of her gigantic ears that she maybe wasn't so accutely aware of when she was younger.

"Remember sleepy eyes / When we see each other every day / But now this is our final goodbye"

This part is about Kaya and Lily who grew up like siblings for a long time. Granted, they are quite a few years apart, but Lily has very fond memories of just napping with Kaya and seeing her every day because they lived together, but her going out with the Straw Hats means she might never see her again - or at least not for a very long time. The "final goodybe" is also a reference to Merry's death, who was another of Lily's father figures and who was also part mink.

Chorus time! The final lines function the same way, contrasting fun, childish things and scary, adult things.

So yeah, the whole song might as well be interpreted as a look into how Lily's mind works!

5. What would your OC's tumblr blog be like?

I haven't decided on whether I want Lily to be twelve or thirteen yet, but I'm currently gravitating towards twelve and... yeah, she's too young for Tumblr XD

But if she did have a blog, I imagine it would be very chaotic. Ballet stuff, Barbie movies, children's shows, aesthetics, slime videos, kidcore, pastel stuff, Disney...

7. What's your OC's ___-core aesthetic?

Probably a soft and childish balletcore, mixed in with some more pastel-y kidcore. Also fennec fox. You cannot do Lily without a cute little fennec fox.

8. What are some TV Tropes that apply to your OC or OTP?

Oh, a lot! Here's just a little list: The Cheerful Child, Curious as a Monkey, Parental Substitute on multiple occasions (first Kaya's parents, then Merry, then Sanji!) and her and Sanji get a "Like a Son Daughter to Me" moment. She's also somewhat of an Innocent Prodigy when it comes to fighting and ballet, and Cheer Them Up with Laughter is how to stop her tantrums and breakdowns. Finally, Cheery Pink. That's it.

Sorry that this took so long. I had very little free time since Christmas and I've just been working on this whenever I had the time and frame of mind. Thanks so much for your ask!

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[sageoffablesardowin]

Do any churches to a god require chastity/modesty from their followers? Are there any religious practices in Ardowin that reflect the practices of the “real world?”

Not exactly. There are some churches that encourage certain practices, but they tend to reflect moral ideologies of the corresponding deity. Pelor, for example, encourages his followers to carry an amount of candles, lanterns, or torches on their travels, so that they may give light to those in need of it. Mystra urges her followers to use their magic for the benefit of a local community at least once a lunar cycle. Even Bane directs followers of his with significant political influence to devote an amount of resources to struggling parts of their homelands, for “strong people make a strong country.”

It is more common for gods to prohibit actions that lead to direct harm or antitheses of their domains. Tempus forbids needless conflict with a weaker opponent, Shar abhores those who disturb long-past gravesites, Kelemvor forbids his followers to raise the dead, etc. Divine law also condemns personal atrocities such as rape and murder, and any gods who create pacts with mortals must include strict rules against such things in their codes.

Chastity may be a choice that certain individuals make, but such aspects of individuals’ personal lives are generally left to themselves. I imagine if Ardowin had a more conventional and influential god of romantic affection, those activities might be more customary to create guidelines around.

Ardowin’s religious system operates on a more personal level. The most notable “theocracies” have more to do with powerful individuals, spirits, or half-gods than with actual members of the Divine Court. And they tend not to last very long without facing sociopolitical backlash, as mortals are (by and large) reluctant to form societies around a divine being rather than a carefully written book of law since the events of the Great Catastrophe, in which the powerful theocratic countries led by the Dread Pantheon nearly uprooted all of creation.

The one that comes to mind is the yuan-ti empire in Southern Xeqash, led by Itzotzal, who claims to be the “Mouth of Dendar,” the Night Serpent, who is classified as an “Elder Entity” rather than a god. Itzotzal is a tyrant, and his followers are zealous, but it is important to note that many other yuan-ti cultures around Ardowin scold his practices.

[fromchaostocosmos]

Firstly the gospels were written about 300 years after the death of Jesus.

Second Christianity as religion really becomes solidified with the conversion of Constantine. It is with is that what the religion is, what is about, etc is set. That is where the foundation are laid. It is also with Constantine that the symbol of the Christianity becomes the Cross.

For most the existence of Christianity it has gone out its way to show that is nothing like Judaism.

Judaism is barbaric and backward, with vengeful and wrathful god, the people make no sense, they use loopholes to get out of their own rules. This is had been the go to statement over the past several centuries and is still used btw.

Where as Christianity is upstanding, moral, has laws, god is compassionate, loving, and kind and where the people are civil. Again this was used in the past and is still rhetoric that is used still.

Though today they won't say the god of the Jews they will instead say the Old Testament has a vengeful god or the wrath of the Old Testament god, etc. It is coded language and dog-whistles.

Basically the whole thing with Christianity was to say we are nothing like those Jews, those filthy disgusting Jews, we are something better, new, and different.

And all through out those years you had vile rabid antisemitism coming from the Church.

And when the Church branches in Orthodoxy and Catholicism they both keep that going.

And then when you have the split between Catholicism and Protestantism they also both keep that going.

All which plays a major role in the Holocaust.

Well now the Roman Catholic Church has a big problem because they did a lot of crimes during and after the Holocaust.

Some which include helping Nazis escape from facing trial for being Nazis, not returning Jewish children to their families after the war was over that they promised to return when offering to hide said children, and you know other such fuckery.

So the Church didn't want anyone looking at them and the many crimes they did during the Holocaust and try and hold them accountable for it and they were also worried that if they were held to account for those crimes they might also be held accountable for the many many many other crimes they have committed against Jews over the years.

So the Church started to push out a new phrase, especially in academia, and that phrase was Judeo-Christian values.

And boy oh boy did that become popular and take off.

And because of the fear and trauma Jews have we for a very long time did not push back on this phrase out of fear of retaliation from Christians and Christianity.

It has only been in the past decade and bit that outside of Jewish setting you see Jews calling out this phrase and calling it for the bullshit it is.

So answer OP the reason it is this way is because Christianity was built on the foundation of being the anti-Jew/anti-Judaism.

You get a really good sense for this when you look at Medieval Christian documents because it is written explicitly so in so many of them, like very plain and clear to see.

So rather then finding validation in being their own thing their validation comes from being the antitheses of Judaism because Jews and Judaism are bad and evil.

And as was pointed out by others on here Christianity also is made up of various pagan beliefs and rituals and pantheons mashed together plus a whole bunch of stuff from some real fucked up Roman cults thrown in on top.

Also just a side using Pharisee as a insult is antisemitic and disgusting so please don't. Rabbinic Judaism, i.e Judaism as it is today, comes from the Pharisees so when you Pharisees negatively or as insult you are insulting and speaking negatively of all Jews alive today.

The more I learn about judaism the more I wonder where tf christianity got all its bad shit. Why is divorce a sin in christianity when judaism has recognized the right to divorce for nearly a millennia and has codified religious laws for it. Why does christianity consider sex to be dirty (to the point where puritans considered it a sin to enjoy having sex with your own spouse) when in judaism it's considered holy and it's a literal mitzvah to have sex with your spouse on the sabbath. Why does christianity consider it a sign that you're faithless if you question your religion when in judaism that's considered an essential part to developing your faith. I'm probably stating the obvious here but I still can't get over the fact that there's no historical basis to any of this shit before christianity started, it's like christians just said "hey guys what if we took the torah and built a new religion around it but this time it was actively hostile to human life"

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[kitsuneain]

Code Antithese

[lilith-devi-nyx-elsword-theorist]

I know someones and many have done it but I also want to point out, that of ALL the Eve's, Code Esencia does not have a text relating to any of her classes compared to her sisters.

[pilferingapples]

eee ok this is an EXCITING bit so bear with me if I ramble a little

Historical Context A: The Napoleonic Era was huge for Hugo's generation of French writers. Like...what WWI was for the Jazz Age, you know? They'd all grown up with this image of the Emperor, this larger than life figure, and then POP he was gone--but he left a really massive legacy effect, not just on the macro level of new alliances, national borders, etc, but in the daily life of every French person, thanks to the Napoleonic Code (the effective legal system for AGES) , major changes that he had set up in society, etc.

which all leads to :

Literary Point A: one of the big themes going on in Les Mis is that it's time to move on from the concept of the Great Man of History and focus on regular people. That history is and should be made now by just people, that Jean Valjean is as important as Napoleon. So as you read the Waterloo section, look for the way Hugo talks about why Napoleon loses-- the emphasis on weather , on the way Napoleon treats his conscripted peasant guide, on how the effect he's having on history is out of favor with God.

Making this argument , Hugo still grants Napoleon and the French a LOT of glory, here. Saying "only GOD could stop Napoleon" is pretty complimentary, after all! And there's plenty of praise for individual leaders in the French army. Which brings us to...

Historical Context B: When Hugo wrote Les Miserables, he was in exile, an opponent of the current ruler of France , Napoleon.

...well , Napoleon III, Louis Bonaparte.

which leads to

Literary Point B: Hugo and his publisher were both sincerely concerned that Les Miserables might get banned in France, or be so heavily censored that it would effectively be banned. This had already happened with some earlier work he'd written in exile!

And Les Miserables is, frankly , a call to revolution , of one sort or another. It's extremely pro-socialism and pro-republic, and France was operating with neither system at the time. It is super political and Hugo's politics were Not Welcome with the people currently running the country.

But! the Waterloo section of Les Mis was really super positive about France and Napoleon's army, even while denouncing Napoleon as incompatible with Progress. Hugo actually pushed for the Waterloo section to be released if anyone wanted a preview , saying :

“If we give quotes, insist on Waterloo, bring out (focus on) what the book has of the national (cause/identity), what stirs the French fibers(/soul), make Persigny ashamed to stop a book in which justice is finally done to Ney, grandfather of his wife, make the seizure impossible by saying it is the battle of Waterloo won by France, etc…”

( more of that letter, and more on those background politics, here!)

As I say at that link, I don't think Waterloo is just chaff for the censors; Hugo didn't say anything he didn't mean to say. But the way he said it was always , of necessity, with consideration of his chances of publishing legally. (Hugo wasn't new to this. Writers in 19C France were always working around censors from one government or the other. It's a fun thing to think about when considering Why X Said It That Way! ) Waterloo is very relevant to that!

And, just for fun, Purely Literary Point C :

Les Mis looooves its parallels and antitheses. That's Hugo's stylistic jam. Les Mis reflects on itself and outwards in endless fractals. So Waterloo is this big grand last stand marking the end of an era... and then one of the major sequences in the narrative's present is a big grand last stand marking not an ending, but hopefully the beginning of a beginning. To be direct: keep an eye on the details in Waterloo, they will echo and counter-echo in surprising ways on the barricade.

(Also you can check out this fantastic post about it! it really helped me understand the emotional core of this section way back when)

(and all this said.... skip Waterloo entirely if you need to. The most immediately relevant chapter is the last one, with the post-battle looting. You can come back and read it later, with the rest of the book fresh for making connections, and it will still be good! But all this makes the whole digression a lot more interesting for me now. )

so part 2 is called Cosette

why the fuck am I reading about Napoleon for ages

[axirokko]

Ok, it's been a long time since my last post :"D

I've decided to return to Tumblr bc why not. Of course a lot of things happened during this year, but something will be constant – me in Elsword fandom, phahahah (idk is this good or not but who cares)

So, here is some of my arts from this year (not all of them). I think I'll be posting the majority of things little by little, so yep

You can find all my arts and other stuff here

Inst: @axirokko

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[stigerea]

Code antithese for the elsword contest

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Thank you KOG for the free $5 xd

[jira-chii]

The queen won’t allow anyone beneath her to see her tears...

I don’t actually play 4th path Eve