#she got a small powerboost too :')

[gammija]

yaaaayayaay my dnd character literally stabbed a valued ally in the back, because she's scared and someone from a mindbogglingly powerful organization ordered her to do it or they'd do something even worse to her and her loved ones and they were an authority and she believes in authority and they gave her the perfect opportunity to do it (showing that they're Watching) so she did it and now she feels so so so guilty and she's lying to everyone about it, even her own party, her own friends, and trying to convince even herself of the lie- but on the other hand... this organization has promised her power, more power than she's ever ever had as a run-of-the-mill lower noble lady, so powerful that she might be able to use it to protect her entire realm from destruction. to be the Right ruler. and don't the ends justify the means?

[bloodyshadow1]

so the percy jackson series was good, not just decent, but genuinely good. There are 5 criticisms that I have to make though to get them out of my system. Mostly small and 1 that will hopefully change as things move forward. Please dont take it seriously, the show has been great, but there are some things I need to get off of my chest as I watch it

I don't really like how the minotaur looked. just a preference I thought he looked too bulky and too much like a bull that happen to stand on 2 legs instead of a human bull hybrid. I was actually wondering for a while if they changed things and he was going to stay on 4 legs for the fight.

I dont' know if I like Percy having Riptide at the start. Personally Percy's first training session where he every normal sword doesn't feel right in his hands was one of my favorite scenes. I like how he does have a weakness where only certain weapons, (powered by the sea) feel right in his hands while others feel awkward to him. I don't know how they would do the scene in a show where you aren't having Percy's inner POV so I get it, I just feel sad that one of my favorite scenes is gone

Chiron sometimes just looked weird. Not the actor or anything, but the way they shot him sometimes. The scenes where he's walking with Percy, when they cut to him they show him from the waste up and without Percy by his side, like they cut back and forth between the two like the two actors were shot in different locations and they are trying to pretend they weren't without digitally editing them together. They also sometimes seemed to refuse to show Chiron's horse parts, I assume to save on CGI for it, but it looks awkward sometimes because the actor moves like he has a centaur body in some of the shots, but because they don't show the horse body the way he moves doesn't look human, like he looks very stilted and doesn't move his body like he's taking steps. Combine with the first part it doesn't even feel like Percy's talking to Chiron, the centaur, but Chiron, the 8 foot guy from a lower budget project.

I'm kind of mixed on the fight scene by the river in ep 2. It was well done, well choreographed but I don't think Percy ever steps foot in the water until Annabeth pushes him. The whole point of the scene was to show Percy gets a power boost when he's in the water, that he goes from a 12 year old to superman when he touches it. In the show, he just starts to get good, kind of like Jackie Chan mixed with the first Matrix Neo. I think it's to show him as a natural swordsman, but I liked that it wasn't just him, but the powerboost he gets due to being a son of Poseidon not just a prodigy. It is somewhat mitigated by him already having Riptide, a blade that fits perfectly in his hands instead of a basic camp sword that would already feel awkward in his hands, but still, I would have preferred it like it was in the books. Also Clarisse's scream at the end wasn't great either, should have done another take. Screams are hard though so whatever but still felt cringy. Also also, the whole strategy was to put Percy on boarder patrol near the river specifically so he would have the same advantage he had in the bathroom, not just him guarding a random road on the battlefield and stumbling into the river. The strategy still works because the main goal is to draw Clarisse away due to her grudge against Percy, but it would have showed off Annabeth's strategy chops to have multiple reasons

This one is gonna be controversial because the Actress playing Annabeth is already getting a stupid amount of hate, but I do think they sand down her edges and slightly girl power her up when it isn't necessary. Annabeth is one of my favorite characters in the series, tied with Percy for first, but I like her flaws and all. I like how she stood aside when Percy and Clarisse have their first clash, and got covered in toilet water too, I like how she has a dumb little girl crush on Luke who views her like a little sister and is embarrassed to the point of blushing when he addresses her, I like how she interrogates a barely conscious Percy about something he has no idea happened. I just feel like by reducing her screen time and letting Luke show Percy around it lessens who she is as a character and sands down her edges in attempting to making her a 'girl boss.' Which brings me to the other part of the issue, Annabeth is a super smart badass and talented action girl, you don't really need to say it if you're not going to show it. She doesn't need to be shilled, the character should just be allowed to be. That's why Luke's comment about her being the best warrior in camp kind of rubbed me the wrong way. The line could have been something about she's only 12 and one of the best warriors int he camp already and I think it would have amounted to the same thing and kept things more grounded. I don't mind her being hailed as one of the smartest or best strategists, but maybe it's just me being an adult, it's weird to say a 12 year old is the best warrior in the camp where they train child soldiers. That being said, she's only been in one of the two eps, she'll have plenty of time to show off her other skills. And again I want to be clear, it is not a flaw of the Actress, it's a flaw of the writing that I hope they course correct as a book reader

--> PS to point 5 Unfortunately, TLT doesn't have that many fight scenes compared to the later books and while Annabeth is the brains behind the quest, I'm not sure if she's going to get a chance to show off her fighting prowess unless they change the books so from a book readers perspective it just feels like a tell not shown line

-> PSS to point 5. Also another small nitpick, kind of feels blasphemous as a percabeth shipper, but I think the 'you drool in your sleep,' line wasn't delivered in the proper area. when Annabeth is being Percy's sleep paralysis demon, she interrogates him over what's happening on Olympus and the solstice, it felt weird to her just standing there just to say the line. I think she should have said the line at the toilets when Percy mentions seeing her in the infirmary and asks if she's stalking him. I think changing some things around makes it feel more real and less like a line they had to say, but that's just me

Other than that, sure there are moments that made me cringe, but I'm also an adult and the show is for kids, it's fine. I think the series is great and it's only been 2 episodes, there's plenty of time to find their groove. They change stuff sure, but eh, I'm okay with most of it and even happy in some cases. Even if I'm criticizing I'll only mention it in my posts if I think the books genuinely did a scene better.

[kyanitegemverse]

Wrath

Art from 2011,2013,2021

Next up on the list of infodumping is one of the antagonist figures of the ocverse. Though in her own story she was set to be the protagonist. Sadly for Wrath things dont go as planned you see!

There wasn’t really a backstory from that time but as I held onto Wrath as a character I started developting a sort of plot. The basic premise of it was that the personifications were released from an ancient prison by Pandora of greek mythos fame. The positive ones were then recruited by angels while the deadly sins and various negative emotions were tricked into contracts with the devil.

Which of course, having been conned into doing something, Wrath wasn’t too happy about.

So the story line was Wrath, along with Happiness, Patience, and i belive it was Courage, set out to fight the various demon lords of hell to obtain the various negative emotions contracts and finding how to make them null and void to free them. As it was Wrath’s belief that no emotion is truly positive or negative and none of the personifications should be forced to stay cast in one specific light.

I actually remember doing a project for my creative writing 12 class for a book idea that I used wrath and company for. Im pretty sure i got good marks on it? Not that it matters.

ANYWAY

The thing with Wrath is a lot of her creation is done with specific intent. While all the personifications are technically genderless, Wrath chooses to go by feminine pronouns because of just how ‘masculine’ people make her emotion to be. Meta wise it was straight up cause i was tired of seeing every single gotdamn personifications of anger being masculine. Like if everyone feels emotion why is it always a dude in the place of wrath? What the heck happened to the phrase ‘hell hath no fury like a woman scorned” (which as it turns out isnt just some saying but a paraphrasing of a line from a play called The Mourning Bride)

Her colour scheme of being purely shades of red, comes from the fact Red in colour theory is associated with things like anger, violence, and danger.

Being monochromatic in colour scheme, wrath set the basis for how the other emotions were designed. For example patience was soft shades of blue to contrast with Wrath’s dark and vibrant reds, but also because I associated patience with a calming blue tone.

But Ky, you say as I go off on a colour theory tangent, while this is interesting, what is it that Wrath can do? Well my friends, she can do many a thing.

Wrath’s set of abilities are some of my favourites outside of Jessi’s really. Wrath is technically immortal given she’s a concept given physical form. The more people in a certain proximity to her experience the emotion of her namesake, she gets a powerboost. This however can backfire where if she gets overloaded she will act less and less rationally, blinded by the fury until she reaches a critical point and will literally explode, to reform at some point later. Along with this Wrath can reshape her limbs to form any melee weapon for her to use in battle.

Her final ability is known as a shard of self. Its something all personifications can do in shooting a small dart of their form at someone to make the immediately experience the given emotion. Its used sparingly in tandem with the emotional boost of the emotion proximity capacity. Out of all the personifications Wrath uses this some of the least, considering Wrath believes using it to get a power boost in a fight is an underhanded move.

In the plotline of the OCVerse, Wrath is free of her contract with the demon and falls right back into working with another. Well sort of, Amaris isn’t technically a demon but we’ll get to that when we infodump about the shadow demon herself. She’s interested purely for herself and her own amusement at what may happen. Its not like an immortal concept has anything better to do than to help sow a little chaos along the way if it will boost her own power. Wrath works in mysterious ways though so maybe theres more to it than that.