#the variants of jupiter

[witchthewriter]

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐕𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐒𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐙𝐞𝐮𝐬/𝐉𝐮𝐩𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐫

Powerful, knowledgable, bold and arrogant. These men may be adventurous and go out to seek certain things, others are protectors, but all are quite independent. They don't mind being on their own. But all can be Kings. They have that quality utterly and completely.

𝑆𝑢𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑚𝑎𝑛

𝑁𝑖𝑘𝑜𝑙𝑎𝑖 𝐿𝑎𝑛𝑡𝑠𝑜𝑣

𝑇ℎ𝑜𝑟

𝐸𝑔𝑔𝑠𝑦

𝐾𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝐴𝑟𝑡ℎ𝑢𝑟

𝐻𝑖𝑔ℎ 𝐾𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑃𝑒𝑡𝑒𝑟

𝑅𝑖𝑐𝑘 𝐺𝑟𝑖𝑚𝑒𝑠

𝐷𝑜𝑟𝑖𝑎𝑛 𝐻𝑎𝑣𝑖𝑙𝑙𝑖𝑎𝑟𝑑

𝑅𝑎𝑔𝑛𝑎𝑟 𝐿𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑏𝑟𝑜𝑘

[expolikestoart]

I don't know how to explain this one lads

[dracaelus]

damn i'm so sleepy

[cosmicplexus]

Random Astrology Observations

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~4th house Gemini makes for someone who develops family-like bonds in friendships.

~taurus risings tend to be possessive due to the influence of their scorpio 7th house.

~pluto at angular houses 1st, 7th, 4th and 10th is a huge indicator of someone who has had intense experiences in the respective key areas of life and there's spiritual lessons to be learnt regarding that area through transformation.

~libra venus placements may find it really hard to stay single

~7° and 19° venus or moon signs may struggle with the theme of physical perfection and wanting to attain it.

~virgo moons have a tendency of creating problems if they don't have any current ones to solve

~capricorn risings really do look older in their younger days and younger when they're older.

~moon and neptune in 1st house natives may give off the perception that they need saving and may attract people with a martyrdom complex.

~sagittarius, 9th house, 9° and 21° mercuries may have an affinity to music in foreign languages while cancer, 4th house, 4°,16°,28° may enjoy music in their mother tongue

~jupiter in 2nd house and 10th house is heavy lotto winner vibes. Literally and figuratively.

~mercury in 2nd house and at Taurean degrees(2°,14° and 26°) are the born singers

~the 22nd degree is an underrated fame degree...I have a bey's🐝 fame analysis I've been sitting on for a while. That's a conversation for another day.

~pisces venus and mars are the most romantic people in the world which makes me kind of believe the astrology theory of neptune being the higher frequency of venus.

~leo moons really take their hair seriously and may feel out of loop if their hair is not well done.

~want to easily impress a cancer mars man??? Sing praises to your mom. Be dotting around kids.

~girls with 9th house, 9° and 21° Venus are so magically beautiful. Abundance of beauty.

~To a decent degree, liberation of women in society came at the expense of gemini, sagittarius and aquarius venus women being slut-shamed(This is not at all saying other women did not contribute to the liberation of women 🌻✨ That's a conversation for another day)

~neptune plays a huge role in beauty trends and that's why neptune dominant women are usually the beauty influencers which explains why beauty standards are mutable and ever changing.

~jupiter in 7th house can go two ways... extreme luck in meaningful relationships or someone who never has serious relationships and is forever on the look...

~pisces/12th house mercuries and mercury afflicted by neptune are often under fire for being the liars when the real culprit is the sagittarius/9th house mercuries and mercury-jupiter hard aspects.

~I personally view the north node as a jupiter variant. While the general consensus is that it is the purpose we're working for, I do believe that it's also an indicator of our birthrights, innate gifts and where we're lucky.

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[artbyblastweave]

A few years ago, there was a thread on r/asksciencefiction where someone was fishing for a superhero story with an inverted Omni-Man dynamic, or a setting where Homelander's initial presentation is played straight- a setting where the Superman figure actually is the paragon of morality he's initially presented as, but no other superhero is- a situation where you've got one really competent true-blue hero standing head-and-shoulders in power above what's otherwise a complete nest of vipers.

Someone in the thread floated My Hero Academia; while I haven't read it, my understanding is that that's not really an accurate read of what's going on with Stain's neurosis about All-Might being the only "real hero," that the point of that arc is that Stain's got an insane and unreasonable standard and that taking an endorsement deal, while bad, isn't actually grounds for execution. My own contribution to the thread was Gail Simone's Welcome to Tranquility, where a major part of the backstory involved the faux Justice-League's Superman analogue having a little accident because he's the only one who thought they were morally obligated to go public with the secret life-extending macguffin that the rest of the team is using to enforce comic-book time on themselves and their loved ones; while only a couple members of the team are directly in on it, the rest are conveniently incurious. And Jupiter's Legacy gets tantalizingly close to this- The Utopian, a well-meaning stick-in-the-mud, ultimately gets blindsided and couped by his scheming brother who creates a superhero junta staffed by a Kingdom-Come-style glut of third-gen superheroes, who are framed as fundamentally self-interested because only came onto the scene after most of the situations you legitimately need a superhero to handle have been neutralized. (The rub, of course, is that the comic is also highly critical of the Utopian's intellectually incurious self-righteously 'apolitical' approach to superheroism- if for no other reason than that it left him in a position to get blindsided by a coup!) While Jupiter's Legacy gets the closest, all three of these are only loosely orbiting around the spirit of the original idea, and there's something really interesting there- particularly if the Superman figure isn't hopelessly naive in the same way as Utopian. Because first of all, if you're Metaman or Amazingman or whatever brand-name alias the writer goes with, and you really earnestly mean it, and you put together a team of all the other most powerful heroes on earth in order to pool your resources, and then with dawning horror you gradually begin to realize that everyone in the room besides yourself is a fascist or a con artist or abuser or any other variant of a kid with a magnifying glass eyeing that anthill called Earth- What the hell is your next move?

Do you just call the whole thing off? Can you trust that they'll actually go home if you call the whole thing off? I mean you've put the idea in their heads, are you sure that they aren't going to, like, start the Crime Syndicate in your absence? Do you stick around to try and enact containment, see if getting all of these people on a team makes them easier to keep on a leash? But that's functionally going to make you their enabler pretty quickly, right? Overlooking "should you kill them-" can you kill them? You're stronger than any individual one of them- are you stronger than all of them? The first time one of them really crosses a line in a way you can't ignore- will that be a one-on-one fight? Are they the kind of people capable of putting two-and-two together and pre-emptively ganging up on you if you push back too hard? Do you just start trying to get them killed, or keep them at each other's throats so they can't coordinate anything really nasty? Can you squeeze any positive moral utility out of them, or is that just a way to justify not doing the hard work of taking them down? There've been works where the conceit is to question the default assumption that Superman in specific would be a good person, and there've been works where the conceit is to question the default assumption that superheroes in general would be good people. Something to be done, I think, with questioning the default assumption that everyone Superman becomes professionally close to would be good, and to explore how he'd handle it if they weren't.

[theshitpostcalligrapher]

#2: yes sir Earth is under siege by the planet Jupiter

oh i did a variant of this one

[moonyjumpers]

i present to youuuuuu:

Jupiter North

you can't tell me he's not a Jupiter variant/the most Jupiter thing outside of the fandom

(i do not own any of the pictures used, credits to all rightful owners)

[violetmoondaughter]

According to the folktale, the Giubiana was an old witch, thin, with very long legs and red stockings. She lived in the woods and because of her long legs, she never set foot on the ground, but moved from tree to tree.  On the last Thursday of January, she used to go in search of some children to eat. One mother, to protect her child, decided to set a trap for her. She prepared a large pot full of yellow (saffron) risotto with luganega (sausage) and put it on the windowsill. The Giubiana attracted by the smell, came out of the woods, and began to eat all the contents of the huge pot. The risotto was so good that the ravenous Giubiana did not notice the time passing. She did not notice that the sun, which kills witches, was now about to rise. By the time the Giubiana finished all the risotto, the first ray of sunshine had come out: the Giubiana was thus pulverized by the sunlight, and from that day all the children were saved. To remember that event at the end of January, risotto with luganega is prepared and the puppet in the guise of the old witch is burned. 

The name "Giubiana" seems related to the Roman god Jupiter, but other possible reference figures are Juno, Janus, and Diana. 

In the medieval centuries the popular narrative created a variety of legends and numerous folk tales, in which Giubiana thus became a female figure alluding to the Great Mother, sometimes an old woman, sometimes a witch, a variant of the Befana, to be symbolically driven away along with the rigors of winter. The most distinguishing element of the festival is the great bonfire, which even today is perceived by all as a symbol of renewal and a new year's restart.

[punkeropercyjackson]

I don't think Batkid Percy or Batkid Miles are interesting concepts at all tbh and neither of them would let themselves be adopted by Bruce since Percy has so much trauma from older men in power(Poseidon,Gabe,Luke and the gods)and Miles has two perfectly good parents,plus an additional mentor figure he's found family with in Peter B(and full offense to Bruce,Miles has too high of standards after them and Uncle Aaron to put up with him).It would be way more fitting if Percy was a kryptonian-human hybrid to go with her being half god in canon and how kryptonians are deity level strong and Miles should be a Blue Lantern since Atsv is all about him giving hope to other Spiderpeople that they're not doomed by the narrative,plus Percy is canonically a Superman fan and can be the Super to Jason's Bat instead of it getting repetetive by both being Batfam since they're so alike and Miles can be Young Justice's power ring holder and his personality fits right with the canon members.And y'know......Maybe him and Tim can date,i mean he's a lot like Gwen personality wise and alt edgy like Hobie so he's canonically his type and who WOULDN'T have a crush on Miles Morales?

On that note,i really love the idea of Miles ending on Prime Earth right after Utrh and meeting Jason before any other DC characters and that leads to a lot of spending time together both bonding and doing hero work and them ending up becoming found brothers with Miles redeeming Jason while not really trying to,Jason just fixed himself so he could be good enough to be Miles' best friend.And obviously Percy's got her own younger siblings in the other Superkids and she rivals Dick in the 'best eldest sister' award and adds competition to it by adopting Tim and Duke as pseudo-ones and her and Stephanie are only slightly less close than her and Cass purely because Stephcass romantic soulmates by choice in every universe and they do girl things together(doing eachother's hair and nails and makeup,playing video games,cooking fancy foods,talking about their experiences with transfemininity,fighting fascists,coping with their childhood trauma through things meant for younger girls)and her and Jason are the biggest frenemies to ride or die's case ever

Also,just some mix and match thoughts:Son of Helios and Jupiter legacy Miles,son of Poseidon Jason who's a dark parallel to daughter of Poseidon Stephanie like he is in canon(NOT a Luke but an Ethan),Jason Morales(bio kid because he is always afrolatino to me like Percy is)and Percy as either a Spiderpunk variant who's older than Hobie and Nico and Hazel as his Spiderman and Spiderwoman who're all from the same dimension or her own original Spider identity as Seaspider and they meet through dimensional animal spider crossing because they're the Dea Sea Siblings in every universe.Or a three way that stars Miles,Percy and Jason instead and they do things like going to Batburger and getting into fun greek mythos shenanigans and making art together and bonding over being afro-caribbeans.I have so much brainrot for Pjo x Atsv x DC and it's all thanks to them

[timemachineyeah]

1. Bee and Puppycat is on Netflix GO WATCH IT

2. Maybe it’s because it’s just obvious and so doesn’t need saying but I’ve never seen anyone talk about how the dream Puppycat color variants are the senshi.

Venus, Jupiter, Moon, Mars. Mercury

[archaeology-findings]

Daily French Etymology #55

Days of the Week

Lundi was derived from the Latin *Lūnae diēs, a variant of diēs Lūnae, meaning day of the moon. Lūnae comes from Luna, meaning moon, which was ultimately derived from the PIE root *lówksneh₂, meaning moon, from *lewk which meant to shine.

Mardi came from the Latin diēs Mārtis, meaning day of Mars, the god of war. The name Mars was derived from the Old Latin Mavors, from the Proto-Italic *Māwortis.

Mercredi originated from the Latin diēs Mercuriī, meaning day of Mercury, the Roman equivalent to Hermes. The name of the god, Mercurius, may have come from merx, meaning merchandise.

Jeudi comes from the Latin diēs Iovis, meaning day of Jupiter, the king of the gods. Jupiter, or Iupiter, was derived from the Proto-Italic *djous patēr, meaning father of the gods. *Djous, meaning day or sky, came from the PIE root *dyew-, meaning to be bright.

Vendredi was derived from the Latin diēs Veneris, meaning day of Venus. The name Venus originated from the Proto-Italic *wenos, meaning love, from the PIE root *wenh₁- meaning to wish or love.

Samedi came from the Vulgar Latin *sambatum, from the Latin diēs Sabbatī, meaning day of the Sabbath. Diēs Sabbatī originated from sabbatum, meaning Sabbath, from the Ancient Greek sábbaton. sábbaton was derived from the Biblical Hebrew shabát, of the same meaning.

Dimanche comes from the Late Latin diēs Dominicus, meaning day of the Lord. Dominicus originated from the Latin dominus, meaning lord or master.

* Indicates a reconstructed word.

[witchthewriter]

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐕𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐃𝐚𝐮𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐙𝐞𝐮𝐬/𝐉𝐮𝐩𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐫

These women are electric; they're leaders, the ones who make hard decisions and reap the repercussions. They're the ones people turn to when times get tough. They fight with everything they have and defend without a second thought. They're independent, forward-thinking and bold.

𝑅𝘩𝑎𝑒𝑛𝑦𝑟𝑎 𝑇𝑎𝑟𝑔𝑎𝑟𝑦𝑒𝑛

𝑀𝑎𝑔𝑔𝑖𝑒 𝐺𝑟𝑒𝑒𝑛𝑒

𝐶𝑎𝑡𝘩𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑒 𝑡𝘩𝑒 𝐺𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑡

𝐶𝑙𝑎𝑟𝑘𝑒 𝐺𝑟𝑖𝑓𝑓𝑖𝑛

𝐿𝑎𝑔𝑒𝑟𝑡𝘩𝑎

𝐴𝑒𝑙𝑖𝑛 𝐹𝑖𝑟𝑒𝘩𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑡

𝐷𝑎𝑒𝑛𝑎𝑟𝑦𝑠 𝑇𝑎𝑟𝑔𝑎𝑟𝑦𝑒𝑛

𝐶𝑎𝑝𝑡𝑎𝑖𝑛 𝑀𝑎𝑟𝑣𝑒𝑙

𝐵𝑢𝑓𝑓𝑦 𝑆𝑢𝑚𝑚𝑒𝑟𝑠

[osleeplessflowero]

some random sanses/papyri headcanons that will be noticeable in my oneshots/fics :]

- Both Nightmare and Dream can play the violin, they learned how to as children.

- Edge can play the piano, he took lessons!

- Nightmare and Killer both have fangs.

- Horror/Mars has a pet bird that sometimes likes to hide away in his skull.

- Jupiter hosts a weekly book club! He even invites Toriel's variants to it so they can discuss their favorite novels together. Sometimes the Frisk/Chara variants even come along!

- Rus and Stretch are some of the goofiest friends ever, like they're always getting into shenanigans. They're also really competitive with each other when it comes to games

- Blue goes on early morning jogs before he goes anywhere to wake up and clear his mind.

- Fell/Red can play the electric guitar, he can even make it talk! (This is a pretty common headcanon but it's mine too)

- Dream has become a coffee addict someone help him /srs

- Blueberry is a little shit and needs to have eyelights on him at all times before he indulges in tomfoolery (Blue often scolds him for doing things he shouldn't)

When he's NOT being a little shit, he's the sweetest kid ever

- Ink is just here for the vibes. Like he's just chillin half the time or otherwise he's hyper

- Killer and Dust can either share a braincell or be polar opposites in situations, it's a gamble truly

- Nightmare keeps a garden of particularly roses outside his castle. When colder seasons arrive he places magic over them so they don't wilt and he can still admire them from afar

- Ink and Fresh like to indulge in graffiti in random AUs from time to time, sometimes making patterns no one in said AU will understand. (Because it's funny)

- Red is afraid of spiders. Do not come near him with one.

- Edge often buys little outfits for Doomfanger that you can often see her wearing, varying in styles but usually being either red or black. Or, occasionally, purple. Classic Paps got her a frog hat once and that was the only suggestion he allowed from one of the others

- Stretch frequents the local arcade 90% of the time for either DDR or Skeeball

- Rus would go crazy in laser tag

- Black will call you out on your fashion choices. The man WILL correct you if he sees fit to, and will often gossip about his coworkers' attire

- Black is also a coffee addict

- Do not give Blue too much coffee, and do not give Berry any coffee. This was learned the hard way

[deathlessathanasia]

And because I'm all for the strange, unusual, alternative, less common or local variants of myths, here are most of the accounts I know of that deviate more or less strongly from the traditional version of Hesiod where all the children of Kronos except Zeus are devoured at birth and then emerge from Kronos ready to assist their brother in the war:

Diodoros of Sicily, Library of History: The island which is called Rhodes was first inhabited by the people who were known as Telchines . . . and the myth relates that they, together with Kapheira, the daughter of Okeanos, nurtured Poseidon, whom Rhea had committed as a babe to their care.

Pausanias, Description of Greece: The following story is told by the Arkadians. When Rhea had given birth to Poseidon, she laid him in a flock for him to live there with the lambs, and the spring too received its name just because the lambs pastured around it. Rhea, it is said, declared to Kronos that she had given birth to a horse, and gave him a foal to swallow instead of the child, just as later she gave him in place of Zeus a stone wrapped in swaddling clothes.

Tzetzes, Commentary on Lycophron's Alexandra 644: Arne was the nurse of the young Poseidon, who denied knowing where he was when Cronus came searching for him.

Pausanias, Description of Greece: Euboia is the name they give to the hill here, saying that Asterion the river had three daughters, Euboia, Prosymna, and Akraia, and that they were nurses of Hera.

Pausanias, Description of Greece: The story has it that in the old Stymphalos dwelt Temenos, the son of Pelasgos, and that Hera was reared by this Temenos. (also consider the traditions according to which she was raised on Samos or on Euboia, the Seasons being called her nurses in one source, or Tethys and Okeanos raising her))

Scholion on Iliad 1.609: To Kronos and Rhea were born three male children: Zeus, Poseidon and Hades, and three daughters: Hestia, Demeter and Hera. They say that in the reign of Kronos Zeus and Hera were in love for three hundred years, as Kallimachos mentions in his second Aetia, "Zeus loved [Hera] for three hundred years". In secret, they came together without their parents' knowledge and they brought forth a son, Hephaistos, both of his feet deformed, as the poet says, calling him lame. The fact that they met secretly from their parents is also attested by the Poet, saying: 'they went to bed without their dear parents’ knowledge.'.

Scholion on Iliad 14.295: Hera, while she was being nurtured by her parents, was raped by one of the Gigantes, Eurymedon, and she became pregnant and bore Prometheus.

Pseudo-Hyginus, Fabulae: When Opis gave birth to Jupiter by Saturn, Juno asked that he be given to her. Saturn had already cast Orcus beneath Tartarus and Neptune beneath the seas because he knew that if a son was born to him, he would be dethroned by him.

Lactantius, Divine Institutes: Here are Ennius' words: "Then Saturn took Ops to wife. Titan, the elder brother, demanded that kingship for himself. Vesta their mother, with their sisters Ceres and Ops, persuaded Saturn not to give way to his brother in the matter. Titan was less good-looking than Saturn; for that reason, and also because he could see his mother and sisters working to have it so, he conceded the kingship to Saturn and came to terms with him: if Saturn had a male child born to him, it would not be reared. This was done to secure reversion of the kingship to Titan's children. They then killed the first son that was born to Saturn. Next came twin children, Jupiter and Juno. Juno was given to Saturn to see while Jupiter was secretly removed and given to Vesta to be brought up without Saturn's knowledge. In the same way without Saturn knowing, Ops bore Neptune and hid him away. In her third labour Ops bore another set of twins, Pluto and Glauce. Saturn was shown his daughter Glauce but his son Pluto was hidden and removed. Glauce then died young. That is the pedigree, as written, of Jupiter and his brothers; that is how it  has been passed down to us in holy scripture.

pseudo-Clement, Recognitions: But of these six males, the one who is called Saturn received in marriage Rhea, and having been warned by a certain oracle that he who should be born of her should be more powerful than himself, and should drive him from his kingdom, he determined to devour all the sons that should be born to him. First, then, there is born to him a son called Aides, who amongst us is called Orcus; and him, for the reason we have just stated, he took and devoured. After him he begot a second son, called Neptune; and him he devoured in like manner. Last of all, he begot him whom they call Jupiter; but him his mother Rhea pitying, by stratagem withdrew from his father when he was about to devour him.

Sibylline Oracles Book 3: And they judged Cronos should reign king of all, For he was oldest and of noblest form. But Titan laid on Cronos mighty oaths To rear no male posterity, that he Himself might reign when age and fate should come To Cronos. And whenever Rhea bore Beside her sat the Titans, and all males In pieces tore, but let the females live To be reared by the mother. But When now At the third birth the august Rhea bore, She brought forth Hera first; and when they saw A female offspring, the fierce Titan men Betook them to their homes. And thereupon Rhea a male child bore, and having bound Three men of Crete by oath she quickly sent Him into Phrygia to be reared apart In secret; therefore did they name him Zeus, For he was sent away. And thus she sent Poseidon also secretly away. And Pluto, third, did Rhea yet again, Noblest of women, at Dodona bear, Whence flows Europus' river's liquid course, And with Peneus mixed pours in the sea Its water, and men call it Stygian.

Etymologicum Magnum: When he noticed that Rhea was pregnant, Kronos was getting ready to swallow the child, but, by accident the mother first bore Hera, while Zeus remained in the safety of the womb. Kronos then gave Rhea permission to raise this daughter, whom the Cretans named 'Hera', because they pronounced the word ('raise') as." ("Ἥρα·.

[scryarchives]

𝐧𝐞𝐰 𝐠𝐢𝐫𝐥 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐥𝐨𝐜𝐤 - 𝐣𝐚𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐲𝐞𝐬 | 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝟖

things go better than expected, and jaime has so much more to learn about drea than he realised

masterlist | previous , next !

– pairings: jaime reyes x oc

– warning: fluff, canon divergent, blue beetle movie spoilers

– author’s note: DREA LORE!! was extremely excited to write this chapter hhehe! disclaimer: i’m not of Hispanic or Aztec descent and used a translator for certain terms, so do correct me if im wrong!

“Ever heard of the galaxy, Cemanahuatlchan?” 

Jaime frowned in confusion, briefly about to open his mouth to ask what Drea meant as Khaji-Da’s voice filled the silence of his thoughts.

“Cemanahuatlchan, also known as ‘Home Universe’ among Alejandra’s people. A neighbouring galaxy of the Milky Way. It consists of approximately the same number of Milky Way planets, eight hundred billion, and more.”

“Actually, I guess I do now?” Jaime smiled unsurely, Drea giggling softly in reply.

“Let me guess, the scarab told you about it, huh?” She queried, Jaime, nodding his head side to side, his smile growing wider guiltily.

“No matter, I’ll tell you more anyway.”

Lifting her left wrist, the half-human tapped on the thin material of one of the matching bracelets on her wrist, the other accessory’s counterpart on her right wrist. As soon as she lifted her finger, a hologram appeared, displaying a map of the galaxy the two young adults were discussing.

With her eyes locked on a singular speck, Drea pinched her fingers, the image enlarging to display a planet, its exterior pattern reminiscent of Jupiter’s. The slight difference was the three bright rings that surrounded it.

“That’s my Mama’s home planet. To her, it’s known as Chantlemauatl, Home Flame,” She hummed, Jaime, watching in awe. 

With another quick tap to her bracelet, the hologram shifted into one of the natives of the planet, feathers adorning their headpieces, gold placed around their necks and arms, and vibrant paint swiped across their faces, more specifically, their eyes.

“But to those who are outsiders and know of its existence, it’s known as Tletlalia. Our culture, our language, it’s reminiscent of your ancient Aztec culture, I think. Even though our home planet birthed my people, the people of Chantlemauatl, the Comonqui, adapted to survive the conditions of our home.

“Our powers evolved as the climates of our planet began to change, and it would turn cooler by the year. It isn’t freezing, but it constantly rains, so to keep ourselves warm, our powers started to change to suit our needs, to benefit my people’s survival.

“Eventually, fire-related powers were one of the most useful powers we grew to have. More accurately, it’s the power of the majority of the population. Occasionally, there are a few variants to the main power, fire creation. Like mine, I have fire creation and fire manipulation. Somewhere in my ancestry, there was a variation, and it caused my mother and I to have both abilities.”

“Cool,” Jaime muttered, a small grin on his face. “What about that material you had? The one you used to fight with against Phantom?”

“Oh, it’s known as tecpatl. It’s a material that’s similar to your obsidian, except that it only hardens to that quality when in contact with flames, usually the flames of the Comonqui,” She grinned, pulling the said feather from her purse. “When not in contact, it’s just like feathers. The floating orbs, however, are called citlaltontli, small stars in English.”

“Are they made of a different material then?”

“Yeah, but they work just like tecpatl, only reacting to Comonqui flames,” She nodded eagerly. “My mother only brought a large pouch full of sand with her when she left home because it only takes a pinch of Tletlalia’s earth and a distinct type of flame to create any of these materials. I’m still learning the ropes to make it.

“In our culture, when a Comonqui is of age to be independent, they can either find their place in society or venture for new places to call home. My Mama, even though she was happy living on Tletlalia, she felt like she was missing something. So she left to find something new, and came to Earth.”

“And then, I’m assuming she met a guy, and then had you?” Jaime questioned while Drea tapped her bracelet a third time, the hologram disappearing.

“What? No, my Mama never had a lover on Earth before she met Amma,” She responded with a look of disbelief.

“Then how?”

“It’s a long, long story,” Drea sighed. “On our home planet, each person’s flame consists of a small trace of their DNA, it’s just a feature of our evolution. It makes it really convenient if there’s ever a crime committed because all it takes is a little DNA scan equivalent. But it’s also how reproduction works, especially with homosexual couples. 

“Usually, for them, there’s a different and distinct kind of flame they both produce which fuses their DNA, but I’m not sure with the whole… er… process of it,” She flushed red, Jaime’s cheeks blooming into a similar shade of dark crimson.

“R-RIGHT, right,” He muttered, ignoring the way his voice cracked slightly. “Wait, isn’t your other mom human?”

“She is, therefore she can’t produce the flame. But my Mama did actually bargain with Bruce Wayne to help fuse their DNA and create me,” Drea casually leaned back in her chair.

“Hold up, your mothers know Bruce Wayne? As in, the Bruce Wayne?” He questioned with widened eyes, his disbelief growing into a smile.

“Yeah,” She shrugged. “They’re a mutual friend of Uncle Cl– I mean, Superman.”

“You know Superman too?!” His jaw dropped, and the female across from him laughed in amusement. 

“I mean, it’s a small pool of humanoid extraterrestrials. Superman just had a little diplomatic convo with my mom, and they hit it off. He actually helped us find our home here,” She pulled her phone out, showing the young Mexican man a selfie of her, her mother and the man in the iconic blue, red and yellow suit.

Jaime’s chestnut eyes widened in excitement, and he took Drea’s phone from her hand gently as she giggled at his enthusiasm. As soon as his eyes were off the image, his eyes locked onto hers, a wide grin still plastered across his face.

“Any chance you could introduce us?” He grinned, Drea’s own smile growing from his good mood.

“Slim chance, but I could definitely give it a shot,” She winked, taking her phone back from him as Jaime’s cheeks warmed slightly, taken aback that she had it in her to wink at him so casually.

She didn’t mean it in that way. Right? Right… 

Before he could let other thoughts plague his head, he let the one thought that preoccupied his mind the whole time finally escape his lips.

“Hey, Drea?” He asked softly, watching the way she turned to face his direction in response.

“Why are you telling me all of this?”

He watched the way she swallowed the lump in her throat, the way her hands darted to keep her phone in her purse, and the way one of her hands instantly rushed to rest at the back of her neck once it was done with handling her device. 

Briefly, for just a short moment, Jaime saw a flash of fear and pain gloss over her light brown eyes, and he was struck with that sense of familiarity.

“Ah, uhm,” She began breathily, nervously fiddling with a few strands of hair, the other hand shoved into her jeans pocket. “Believe it or not, I uh… I don’t trust people easily, even if Milagro has become one of my best friends. It’s been… a long time since I’ve really told anyone who I am or where I’ve come from. And those didn’t… it didn’t go so well.”

She fiddled with her fingers, a soft yet sad smile growing at the memory of Bianca Reyes insisting on calling her ‘Tiá Bianca’, heartwarming in a bittersweet way.

“Your family though, you made me feel welcome. You all have no malicious intent, not a bad bone in any of you. You all made me want to trust you… And I mean, even though we had a rough start, you knew my secret, and I trust that you haven’t told anyone so… why not know each other a bit more before any more assumptions cause more problems?”

A teasing smile replaced her nervous grin, but the lingering emotions remained. Letting out a small, calming smile, Jaime nodded back, chuckling lightly at the joke.

“Yeah, yeah,” He huffed. “I’ve already apologised for it. How’d you know I had the scarab though?”

“I mean, it’s an alien species. And when you’re alien yourself, you get a rough idea of what’s out there. Just because we’re similar to the Aztecs doesn’t mean that we progress at the same speed as them,” She chuckled. “We do have technology there. And it’s pretty advanced, I gotta say.”

“Been there before?”

“Nah, but from the stories I heard from my mom? It sounds a little bit like paradise,” She sighed, twirling a strand of her hair around her finger. “She knows about the scarab too, by the way. She just didn’t tell me.”

“You told your mom about the scarab and I?” He frowned, a pang of betrayal shooting through him.

Instantly, Drea’s eyes widened, her hands pulling away from her hair as she waved them, her head shaking from side to side.

“What? No! Never! We made a promise, and I intend to keep it!” She reassured him, Jaime slinking back into the chair. “I just found a few of her old diaries in the attic. I rummaged through after we met. Found a whole bunch of diagrams and entries of the scarab and assumed that she knows of its existence and the extent of its powers.”

“Oh… oh, that kinda makes sense,” Jaime nodded, placing his cheek to rest on his palm, elbow hitched onto the arm of the chair. “Anything info about it that’s related to your history?”

“Oh, loads, but… maybe for another day,” She muttered tiredly. “Maybe when I actually have pictures of them. Forgot to take them when I was in the attic. Was too dark anyways.”

She then turned to face Jaime, eyes glimmering with curiosity and wonder as a small smile returned to her face. The young man across from her almost thought her expression to be cute before brushing the thought aside as nonsense.

“What about you though?” She questioned. “How’d you become the Blue Beetle?”

“Ah… uhm, I guess it’s your turn to buckle up,” He let out an airy laugh, head falling against the back of the chair. 

“And I mean really, listen well, ‘cause it was… a really rough ride.”

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So I was looking at some interviews from those involved in the show and ended up going down the rabbit hole into old interviews from season 1, seriously there are some absolute sylki gems in them. This is probs old news to most but I'm going to share them with you anyway because I really enjoyed reading them and they helped heal my somewhat wounded sylki heart after the series finale, like loki's sacrifice for her was beautiful but I also kind of wanted them to run off together into the sunset so...anyway first interview we have is from the director of season 1 Kate Herron where she addresses whether Loki and Sylki are the same person and whether their relationship is self-cest.

I just love the way she explains it here because its the same way I saw it myself, they might both be Loki's but they have very different ways of thinking, different life experiences, even slight differences in personality. To me its similar to the Roman verses Greek gods. Jupiter and Zeus are essentially the same person in the roles that they play within mythology and yet they aren't exactly the same they have slightly different personalities, character traits and skills. The same can be said for many of the other Greek gods and their Roman counterparts. Its the same for Loki and Sylvie, they play the same role within their own universe but they are far from the same person.

Kate also had this to say on the subject:

Again, I 100% agree with her, all the variants we see are very different from each other, kid loki is different from future loki who is different from boastful loki who is different from alligator loki. I mean the very term variant, its definition is 'a form or version of something that differs in some respect from other forms of the same thing or from a standard.' So of course they aren't the same. I also agree that there's something beautiful about their romance.

Sticking with Kate she also said this, which I really love, about their romance:

I love how she describes them as like teenagers when they try talking about their feelings. It's how I felt when watching their blanket scene in 1x05, you could see they were both feeling a little giddy at being near each other and wrapped up under the blanket together, but at the same time there's this awkwardness where they are struggling to communicate how they really feel about each other. Exactly like two teenagers falling in love for the first time. Sophia also said something similar:

She also talks about it being this teen like love, where they are experiencing those feelings for the first time. But she also elaborates on how it makes Sylvie feel vulnerable and that it all feels to intense and too much, which I think makes so much sense for Sylvie's character. I mean from 11 years old she has been on her own, being hunted and moving from one dying world to the next. It wasn't exactly the best environment for her to be bonding and having a meaningful romantic connection with anyone, or even any meaningful connection full stop, everyone around her was always about to die. Even though these romantic feelings are new to Loki and he also doesn't really know how to deal with them or communicate them he has one advantage Sylvie doesn't, he has formed meaningful connections in his past, he knew the love of his family. It's really sad how Sylvie doesn't find it easy to open herself up to people because you know its how she survived this far. But I also think its kind of beautiful how Loki is the first person she is able to open up to and be vulnerable around. I think there is always a lot of focus on how this is Loki's first love story, and how beautiful it is to watch him fall in love and open up to others, which I also love talking about, but it is interesting to also explore it from Sylvie's point of view.

Going back to Kate's statement about Sylki being like teens, she also covers the kiss they share in 1x6 and again I really love what she had to say about it, she talks about it some more here:

I'm so happy she clarified that the kiss wasn't just a trick, that there were genuine feelings behind it, Kate says it was important that it didn't feel like just a trick so it seems like alot of thought and care went into making sure that this kiss between them showed all the complex feelings that went into it, that it wasn't just a cold calculated move on Sylvie's part. Sophia again said something similar:

What I have deduced from all the interviews about the kiss is that Sylvie was in a bad place emotionally, which makes sense as she opened up to a person for the first time and let herself be vulnerable and now she feels like that person is betraying her, she is seeing things very differently from him, also her life long mission of finding and killing the one responsible for taking her life, home and family from her is right in her reach, but its Loki that is standing in the way of her achieving that goal. Then on top of that she has all these very new, deep and intense feelings for Loki, they haven't just magically disappeared in this moment and then he's making this very touching and romantic speech about not wanting throne but wanting her to be ok, which has to have made her feel some kind of way seeing as she's never really had anyone care about her before. I think its all of this that she throws into the kiss. Its a way to distract him to get the tempad so she can get him out the way sure, but she also wants him to be safe, she doesn't want to, can't kill him but she also can't let her mission go, she's fought for it for too long. She knows pushing him through the time door will likely break their relationship, that this could be the last time she sees him and so she kisses him to say goodbye and in a way to say thank you for the care, love and time he has given her. But also I think she kisses him because that's the natural progression of their feelings, its her giving in to those intense feelings that have been building since Lamentis.

But my favourite quote about their kiss/fight has to be this one from Sophia:

Anyone who has seen Mr and Mrs Smith will know which scene she is talking about here and honestly now that she has made the comparison I can see where she is coming from. I do find the comparison kind of hilarious for some reason though, its fun. It also makes sense to me that Sophia sees Sylvie as Angelina's character, in the film her character is the one who is more closed off with her feelings and hiding behind this persona of not really caring but through her acting you can see how hurt and how deep her feelings truly are and that she does in fact really love her husband and hates that she's on an opposing side to him. I think Sylvie is very much the same in this scene, she kind of shoves her feelings behind a wall in order to deal with this situation where they've found themselves on opposite sides.

I also think Loki is similar to Brad Pitt's character in that both characters are alot more open and vulnerable about how they are feeling but also still stand their ground and position in the disagreement. They are also both the first to put down their weapons and kind of say I care about you, I don't want to hurt you, so your move.

I also came across some interviews from season 1's head writer Michael Waldron and he also said some interesting things about Sylki:

I think its interesting that he says it was the love story between Sylki that was the crux of his pitch for the show and I do think this came through in the series particularly in season 1 where it was their relationship that drove the story, I also think that when you really look at it, whilst you've got the whole time travel aspect and this quest for free will theme etc, but the story really is a story about love and I think that is really beautiful personally.

Michael also talks about their moment on Lamentis and it adds some interesting insights:

The thing that catches my attention in this statement is where he clarifies that they both are developing these new feelings, as I said above I think alot of attention is put on Loki and how he feels in alot of the interviews out there that Sylvie and her feelings get pushed to the back a little, so its good to see that Michael is saying that both of them are feeling the same way. The other thing that I noticed, and I am not ashamed to admit that I internally squealed when I read it, unneccessairly so, is the line 'falling in love with one another.' I just get all happy and giddy whenever I see anyone using the word love in relation to Sylki. Like I feel like they have fallen in love, but it is nice to see it official confirmed by the head writers.

Speaking of, these next ones are more recent ones from post season 2, but Kevin Wright the Executive Producer for season 2 also used the L-word in relation to Sylki's relationship:

This again makes me sad but also happy at the same time, because it is a heartbreaking situation for Sylvie and Loki to be in, not to mention so complicated. The part talking about Loki kind of wanting to save Sylvie from making the same mistakes he did because of how deeply he loves her, that hit me hard, like that's a heartbreakingly tough position to be in, watching someone you love go down this self-destructive path of vengeance and anger. I also think its equally as tough for Sylvie who has these deep feelings for the first time, a person she connected with and who she could be vulnerable with but now they aren't seeing things the same way and she can't understand why because she hasn't had the same experiences Loki has and so can't see where this current path will lead her.

At the same time though, there is that beauty in it, this kind of pure and unselfish love, of wanting the best for another person, even over your own wants and desires. Kevin covers this aspect as well when talking about Loki's sacrifice at the end of season 2:

He again uses Love here saying that it is Loki's love for Sylvie and his friends that make him go through all those time loops and then ultimately making the huge sacrifice that he does to save them all and let them live the lives they wish. To me it really was the purest display of love that Loki could have made, I mean how exhausting must it have been to go through all those time loops? And then in the end he has to face his biggest fear, being alone.

Kevin also talks about how Sylki are essentially exes in season 2 who can't get on the same page but who still deeply care for each other, which again makes sense, I definitely got that vibe from them.

Eric Martin said something similar too when asked if Sylki is still a romance in season 2:

Again this makes sense to me from what we saw in season 2. I think they are following the classical romance troupes, season 1 was setting up their romance and then having them 'break up' in the final hour. Season 2 is the messy, angsty fall out of that break up where they are trying to navigate being around each other again and trying to figure out where they stand with each other. Tom said in a recent interview that they were feeling so hurt and betrayed by each other that they are struggling to even get back to a place where they can even talk to each other. Which again I think came across in season 2 especially in their reunion scene.

Luckily the most logical next step is for them to work through those messy feelings of theirs, talk it out and then forgive each other leading to them reuniting romantically. I mean Michael did say the series was about self love, self reflection and forgiving yourself, and that Sylki was partly a way for them to explore that, so if they are sticking with that theme, with Sylki being variants, it would make sense to me for them to forgive each other.

Sophia also said that Sylvie won't just leave Loki alone and walk away, she'll want to know that he's ok and help keep him in check if his ego gets too much and he tries messing with things too much, trying to control or change things. I do find the image of Loki starting to mess with things only for Sylvie to show up like 'Loki no!' kind of funny, it would be very in line with her character. But both Sophia and Tom have hinted that season 2 isn't the end of the story for their characters, so I am excited to see where they go from here and how and when they might show up again.

Personally I would love to see a Sylvie spin off show and have her character developed some more, learn more about her backstory and let her gain some more experiences now that she doesn't have to constantly run from the TVA. Maybe that way when she meets with Loki again they might be more on the same page.

Anyway, this got longer than I intended, so sorry about that. You'll be pleased to know you have reached the end of this post, thank you for reading to the end if you got here though.