Garmadon and Morro, and their unused dumbassery in the departed realm, part 5:
Part 4 - Part 6
*arguing with someone, maybe Chen*
Morro: yeah? Well why don’t you go SUCK MY-
Garmadon: *covers his mouth* he didn’t mean that.
Garmadon: Well, he did, and I share the sentiment, but in a more dignified manner.
Morro: Garmadon, what’s that.
Garmadon: what is what?
Morro: *pointing at the very fast flying object hurtling towards them.* that.
Garmadon: *turns around uninterestedly to see.* hm?-
Garmadon: *look up to see his father flying full speed ahead on top of a dragon, standing with a sign saying “WELCOME SON AND GRAND CHILD, WORDS WILL BE SHARED IN THE NEXT FEW SECONDS, BE PREPARED.” In bold.*
Garmadon: *blinks up at it*
Garmadon: *picks Morro up and makes a run for it* all of our mistakes hurtling towards us, child.
Morro:…why, is your father, the First Spinjitzu master, chasing us?
Garmadon: It’s punishment in the form of torture.
Fsm: *wishes to smother them* YOU CANNOT RUN, MY CHILDREN.
Garmadon: Morro, dear child, genuinely, what is wrong with you.
Morro: *standing being half alive half not (literally half alive half dead one side of his form has a body the other does not. You can see his insides.), glowing pink, and tied to a tree as he floats upwards. He has the most blank expression known to man.* I blame Wu, and only Wu.
Garmadon: He is not even dead.
Morro: yet.
Garmadon:….what did you do-
Garmadon: Morro.
Morro: mmshshh *laying face down on the ground, just cause he can*
Garmadon: No- Morro.
Morro: what? *muffled by the grass.*
Garmadon: Child, you had a bowl cut?
Morro: *shoots up* WHERE WHAT WHY HOW-
Morro: *having just entered the Departed realm, bumping into Garmadon for the first time since the other was chained up*
Garmadon: Morro, what a pleasure.
Morro: *jumps.* Garmadon, I see you made it out of-
Garmadon: *raises an eyebrow.*
Morro:
Morro:
Morro: ah
Morro: what…are you wearing?
Garmadon, who traded his clothes with Lloyd right before he left, as a last minute gift before they never see each other again: *scowls* it’s better than what you’re wearing.
Morro: I DIED IN THIS?-
Guys please im losing ideas i gotta scrounge up the worst ones imaginable in my head.
Anyways the Fsm defo jumped Garm and Morro, bullied them, and smothered them in love. He’s been lonely for the past few years. No i do not take criticism this is definitely the fsm.
I miss Morro. And Sensei Garmadon. I rlly want smth on these two.
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I really do dunk on villain stans a lot but the thing is like. I genuinely do not care on any sort of moral level if you love a villain, or villains generally. They are pretend. The murder and the war crimes aren't real. Do whatever.
The issue is that like, this is a person the narrative is telling you to root against, and that it's okay because they are pretend. That doesn't mean they can't have sympathetic qualities but it does mean that as a rule the story is telling you "hey, here are the heroes who oppose this person, cheer for them" and also "you should boo and hiss when this motherfucker comes on stage" and a lot of people who like villains will look at everyone else and go "why the FUCK are you booing and hissing don't you see they have TRAUMA" instead of acknowledging the big "TIME TO BOO AND HISS" signs being thrown out by the story and saying "bring it on."
And I suppose you can argue that this is an overly simplistic way of looking at it, but if we're dealing with a story with at least some reasonably clearly delineated heroes and villains you're not intelligent for trying to pretend it's more complicated than it is. I'm not talking about the gray areas of antagonist who could be persuaded otherwise, nor antihero but straight up "this is the bad guy, we all but have arrows pointing at them saying it". Like, really, a lot of people who stan villains don't seem to do it for the love of the game, which I would respect, but because of a sour grapes situation with the heroes, or because they're in their edgy "subversion automatically means you're the smarter one" phase.
Anyway my point is I don't care if you woobify a villain for any sort of moral reasons but I do think that if you do so, you're a coward and not terribly good at understanding stories. I also don't care from any sort of moral standpoint if you enthusiastically cheer on the villain, but if you act confused or mad that most people aren't with you on that, I think you're an idiot and not terribly good at understanding stories.
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I've been dabbling in a project, mostly world building and not actual fic because my brain is a strange creature, but I have decided that in my interpretation of the PJO universe, Athena is ... well a strategist in all things.
Including the creation of her children.
The way I'm envisioning it, creating a child from her own mind isn't really a task she undertakes casually.
Yes, she does it occasionally as a "gift" to a mortal whose mind she admires. There's no romantic or sexual relationship, but it's an intense, consuming relationship all the same.
Children born for that reason (or for just that reason) are rare though. Athena might have many favorites, but she's also proud. Who deserves a child entirely crafted by a Goddess? Only the few.
I think, in a normal decade, the number of Athena campers is actually on the lower end compared to most of the other Olympians.
None of the Campers outside of Athena's own children every really figure it out, and Chiron, who knows, would sooner die than tell them.
But when there are many children of Athena, like there are in Annabeth's childhood, it's a sign that something strange or terrible is coming.
Athena is a strategist, the right hand of Zeus, his favorite child, the one who forsees and attempts to dismantle threats to Olympians' power. She moves the pieces into place without hesitation or sentimentality.
And the easiest pieces to control, of course, would be her own children.
Other demigods have other immortal parents to listen to, no matter how strong their desire for victory or their inherent cunning. Her own children are fragments of her own mind- much more reliable. Much easier to predict.
And if in the years leading up to whatever disturbance she forsees she chooses mortal parents for her children with calculation, with an eye for the skill sets and temperaments she predicts most needing in the dark times ahead...well, the child and their parent should be honored by her forethought.
It isn't even that she has no affection for the parent or child, in so much as she is capable of affection. But Athena is always, always three steps ahead, and her actions always have intent. Her children are no different.
A demigod, ultimately, is a weapon in the hands of the gods. It's best that the ones she chooses are well-crafted.
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