#tr underworld

[alconteh]

Woo! Here's this week's schedule!

It's my last week doing planned Xenoverse 2 streams so Tuesday is story focused and Wednesday is my usual thing with @marqsensei, @fredreeeein4k and possibly @lenstaro!

Then it's 1 stream each for Tomb Raider Anniversary and Underworld!

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i cannot emphasize enough how much my entire academic situation is currently hinging on receiving an email from one (1) person

[annadeef]

Drawing more TR:Underworld for my wife @artbytesslyn

[icarodamiano]

Thomas tonight at The Underworld in Camden, UK — October 6, 2022

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[king-nyx]

The amount of people who say that Nyx killed Dio is concerning to me but, also, she kills Dio and he gets revived as Zagreus. Or vice versa, Zagreus was killed by Nyx and revived as Dio which is why she has to kill him again.

One thing that bothers me though is the voices that Dionysus hears. I've watched the scenes so many times to discern that at least some of them are saying "Save us" over and over again.

The voices are definitely related to Zagreus and/or his death. So, there are people Zagreus couldn't save and they are begging Dionysus to do it in his (Zagreus') stead.

However, aside from Nyx, I like the mythological way that Zagreus died (i.e. Hera having the titans tear him to shreds) and while I do think Zagreus is related to Hades and Persephone in some way, I don't think he's their son biologically because there are too many inconsistency with it all. Namely, that Zagreus died during the Titinomachy when Hades was still young, Persephone was wayyyyy younger.

[razzek]

Got the Tomb Raider remasters and, yep, still gives me the creeps. XD The modern controls make it slightly easier to play but I can’t imagine making it very far still. I think the farthest I got as a kid was the Coliseum. Only made it to Venice in the sequel and never got past level one in TR3. The only TR games I’ve ever beaten were Legend (the easiest) and the 2013 gay (literally) reboot that had an easy mode. I love this franchise obsessively but I suck at it. XD

[tylermileslockett]

"Songbirds and the Stars" (part 9 in my Orpheus and Eurydice" series Orpheus’ head and Lyre, still singing, float out to sea, eventually coming upon the shore of Lesbos. Orpheus head continues to sing to patrons, and is even interpreted by an oracle until Apollo interceded, as it competes with his oracle at Delphi. Eventually, the muses collect his dismembered body parts and head, and bury them upon the foot of Mount Olympus, where the nightingales sing above his grave. Through the support of Apollo and the Muses, Zeus casts Orpheus’ lyre up into the night sky as a constellation in honor of the poet’s musical powers. Let’s take a moment to review the nine Muses of mount Helicon, those feminine patron deities inspiring the arts and sciences. We’ll begin with Orpheus’ own mother; Calliope-goddess of epic poetry. Clio is the muse of history, while Erato inspires erotic poetry. Euterpe represents music and lyrical poetry, and Melpomene sings tales of tragedy. Polymnia sings religious hymns, while Terpsichore delights in dance. Thalia was patron of festive comedy and Urania was the muse of Astronomy and astrology. Ovid gives us the optimistic reuniting of the lovers in the underworld: “Meanwhile the fleeting shade of Orpheus had descended under earth: remembering now those regions that he saw when there before, he sought Eurydice through fields frequented by the blest; and when he found her, folded her in eager arms. Then lovingly they wandered side by side, or he would follow when she chose to lead, or at another time he walked in front, looking back, safely,—at Eurydice.” (Tr. By more) Im Finished with the orpheus myth!! Woohoo!!Thanks for looking! I'd really appreciate if you could share this image! Like this art? It will be in my illustrated book with over 130 other full page illustrations coming in June to kickstarter.  to get unseen free hi-hes art subscribe to my email newsletter

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[quitealotofsodapop]

So sonce Wukong is heavily associated with he earth and especially FFM, what if the mountain itself changes to fit Wukong's emotional and physical health? Like when he's sad, depressed, or hopeless it becomes more barren and cold, when he's hurt the earth itself cracks and plants wither and die, whe he's happy it's lush, warm, and beautiful like depicted in the show! It doesn't instantly change of course but slowly, the longer the time Wukong is in a certain mood, the more it affects the mountain. That'd also why the monkeys, who have EVERY reason to be distrustful of a stranger on the mountain considering literally everything in the book, are so quick to warm up to and welcome MK and his family into their midst! Because they make Wukong happy!

Ooo this is such a cool idea.

Wukong being basically the Te Fiti of Flower Fruit Mountain and the surrrounding country of Alolai.

When he ws young and unsure, the islands bloomed with new haphazard shoots and flowers.

When he jumped through the waterfall the first time, the rains came and watered the parched fruit trees.

When he travelled onto the mainland and trained with Sudbodhi, the air became heavy with the winds of his travels - A certain Macaque amongst the troop able to hear where exactly their King was based on how he sang to the breeze. Soon the skies became full of fluffy clouds so thick you could nearly walk (or rather Sommersault on them). It was one of the few joys his people appriciated whilst under the threat of the Demon King of Havoc/Confusion.

The night before the King returned, a great thunder rain occurred - startling all of them awake. A thunder of sadness and anger. But when their King landed home and cut the Demon's head in half with his new powers - the sun shined upon the island once more.

When the Brotherhood was made and friendships forged, the mountain bloomed with new life. Spider lilies flourished in the time the King had been whisked away to the Underworld, and lotus flowers sprang forth upon his return.

When their king lost himself as an attendant of Heaven, the waters in the streams became stale like a horse through, and fruits shrivelled on the branches like they had been dried for a dessert.

Oddly enough, when their King made havoc in Heaven; the most that the mountain experienced was a sudden unseasonable bloom of peach blossoms that dripped a heady dew.

When Sun Wukong was defeated and captured for the Furnance... the mountain Burned.

For 49 days straight.

They at first blamed the war god Erlang that had bested their King in the first place, but he and the rest of the brothers of Meishan rallied to save as many monkey yao as possible from the flames and the subsequent floods of murky ash.

When the Monkey King burst forth from the Trigram Furnace, it sent a volley of burning charcoal comets down to earth. Including onto the Stone Place itself.

And when the Buddha was forced to raise his hand? The island stagnanted.

For 500 years the razed island could not grow more than grass and ferns. No more fruits or flowers bloomed. The water was bitter and black with charcoal. And whats more, humans from the mainland beyond had discovered that the country of Alolai was ripe for the picking...

When their King returned once more at the helm of a fight with his religious master, the island rained for the first time in centuries. As he struck down each and every hunter he found, and saved and returned as many as his people as he could, the island seemed to Revive with the scent of blossoms and peaches.

When he left to rejoin his Pilgrim friends, the fruits and flowers still came, now just less sweet.

His subjects knew immediately knew when something terrible had happened with their King years on. The winds stopped blowing as if a switch had been struck. Stone fruit trees crumbled into dust as if they were diseased. The waters of the streams became salted as if with tears... it took a long time for the island to return to some normalcy after that. Though the plum trees never returned, no matter how ardent the efforts of those who keep mountains orchards.

A great bloom of golden flowers and fruits occurred the day their King had reached the home of the Buddha. The rush of life announced via a clap of thunder. The monkeys of the island hooted and sung for weeks at their King's return.

Many years later, fire broke out on the mountain's peak. Their King returned home with a haunted look upon his face but gave no explaination. They began to see less and less of the Western Horse-Dragon after that day... soon the fruits and waters became stale once more. The only flowers that bloomed were ones of mourning.

On a day, after many of arficially sweetened waters adn fruits, a great aurora of golden and purple lights broke forth in the skies above the island - distracting the King's subject long enough that they missed his wonder and conflict at finding a little stone monkey much like himself. The clouds rained heavy with seawater in the days to come.

And on the day a certain child appeared, the sun shone a hue so beautiful and happy that the subjects of the island just knew someone dear to the King had returned.

The plum trees returned some time afterwards, though the fruits were a little sour. They became sweet once more in the year after.

[mllemaenad]

Do you have any clear ideas about what causes ghouls to go feral? There's plenty of pre-war ghouls around who don't appear to be at any immediate risk of it, and plenty who went feral right off the bat, so time seems an unlikely option, but I'm unclear on many of the alternatives.

So – the process of ghoulification is quite poorly understood even in universe. Ghouls tend to be a marginalised and even maligned group (although how much varies significantly from place to place and time to time). There is ... really not a lot of information available even on that, let alone on what makes a person go feral. We know it happens when people are exposed to massive amounts of radiation, but we have little understanding of the variables. Some people die, some people go feral, and some people are just fine ... apparently indefinitely.

The medication used in the Fallout TV series is completely new, and I'm profoundly interested in what it does and where it comes from as it strongly suggests that someone out there has a much better understanding of how this works than anyone seen in any of the stories so far. It's completely mysterious at the moment, although it's worth noting that there were ghoul towns in the NCR, and if anybody had a vested interest in putting some resources behind this problem it would be them.

That said, there are theories.

One you've already noted is time. There was a woman in Nuka-World, Rachel, attempting to research and cure feralisation. She left notes indicating that the information she was able to gather indicated that this was just something that inevitably happened to all ghouls. However, this was anecdotal evidence: it was what people told her rather than what she saw for herself and ... yeah, it doesn't really track with what we've seen. It's the sort of thing people say to fearmonger about ghouls, rather than something that seems to be true.

Another is that it relates to the amount of radiation exposure one has suffered: people with relatively light doses are fine while people with heavier doses become feral. That's possible. Given that it's quite hard to track a lifetime of radiation exposure in the Fallout universe it's hard to conclusively prove or disprove. You will tend to find feral ghouls clustering around, and almost hypnotised by, sources of radiation where they available. Radiation typically heals, and perhaps even nourishes, ghouls so this would seem a little contradictory – but it would mean that the radiation heals their bodies, but destroys their brains.

My biggest source of doubt on this one is that, while they are rare, there are non-feral glowing ones. These people are about as irradiated as it's possible to get ... and yet. I've always wondered if people were confusing symptom with cause on this one. Ghouls who are turning feral are generally distressed and confused. They tend to find radiation comforting, so it's reasonable that people in that state would seek out something that makes them feel good, even if it isn't solving the core problem.

Then there is the case of psychological distress. There's a doctor in Underworld, Barrows, who is researching ghoulification, and he writes this about feral ghouls:

As the reasoning and high order thinking portions of the brain deteriorate, the Post-Human subject becomes increasingly hostile, giving into a carnal need to feed as opposed to the capacity for thinking that reasoning that a typical Necrotic Post-Human retains. It remains unclear exactly what precipitates this change in biology and psychology, but anecdotal evidence seems to indicate that non-social ghouls, or those in isolation, are more prone to the condition. – Fallout 3: Study Of Ferocious Post-Necrotic Dystrophy

This one seems closer to what they're actually trying to do with ghouls. Feral ghouls really only appear as a concept from Fallout 3 onward. There are hostile ghouls way back in the original Fallout, if you go and poke anybody in Necropolis too hard, but they're not really treated as distinct.

While you do find them in other places, the most likely place to find a feral ghoul in Fallout 3 is in the old metro tunnels. There's some environmental storytelling there. Imagine you were on a train when the bombs fell. Imagine you didn't die. But now you're trapped down there, in total darkness. No food, no water. The ceiling has come down in several places. No obvious way out. People screaming and dying all around you. Imagine you still don't die. You can feel your hair falling out and your skin flaking away, but you can't really see what's happening to you. You must think you're going to die – if not from the radiation then of starvation or exposure – but death just never comes. It comes for plenty of other people down there, but not you. Pretty solid reason to fall apart, right?

It fits with the TV series, too, at least where we have any idea what has happened. Cooper Howard/"The Ghoul" was buried alive by an enemy, who seems to have been medicating him to keep him sane as part of the torture (lovely). Martha, the woman who turned feral in front of Lucy, was being held by organ harvesting-slavers.

Conversely, you often find long-lived ghouls amidst strong communities. Necropolis arose from Vault 12. This was absolutely one of Vault-Tec's twisted experiments: the door was designed to stick open, so the residents would be exposed to radiation. It undoubtedly killed a lot of people, but it meant that those who became ghouls did so together, and had access to the other amenities of life. Underworld was founded by people who came out of a public shelter. They were people who wanted to hide from the violence and chaos out on the streets, so they were motivated to stick together and create a community – and they too became ghouls together.

Now. Obviously there are points of contention there too. What counts as psychological distress is going to vary from person to person. Plenty of ghouls lead adventurous lives and seem to be just fine. On the other hand, even becoming a ghoul at all is likely to be a distressing experience.

And there are extreme cases. Coffin Willie was buried alive for months in Fallout 2 and Billy Peabody spent 200 years trapped in a fridge in Fallout 4 with apparently no ill effects. The thing is ... Fallout has always been somewhat satirical in nature. These are both jokes and references, so making too much of them is probably a mistake. But people sometimes do, so ...

The other factor is the possible genetic component. Most people, when exposed to a lot of radiation, just die horribly. People who become ghouls are already a rarity. So it's possible that some people are just resistant to turning feral.

Barrows has this in his notes:

In summary: I theorize that our unnaturally long lifespan is due to a mutation within the autonomic nervous system of certain individuals following exposure to specific combinations of ionizing radiation with wavelengths below 10 picometers. This mutation, it seems, disrupts the normal process of decay in the neurotransmitters along the spinal cord. – Fallout 3, Examination of the Post-Necrotic Human

Something causes some people to develop this specific mutation. While I do not have any reason to believe that this was planned, both Coffin Willie and Billy Peabody come from actual families of ghouls: Willie is the father of your ghoul companion, Lenny, and you meet Billy's parents as part of the Kid in a Fridge quest. So perhaps what we have here is evidence of genetic resilience in some people. They're just good at being ghouls.

And, further to that, there are people who have become ghouls deliberately. I can think of three off the top of my head: Desmond Lockheart in Point Lookout, as well Eddie Winter and Hancock in Fallout 4. There are three cases of people using some kind of drug or controlled exposure to become ghouls, and three success cases from that. We could be looking at survivor bias here, of course, but you'd have to think that the experimental drug wouldn't be trying to create feral ghouls; if it did, that would be a failure.

So it's possible that there's a way to induce the appropriate mutations, and potential resilience. How is the question – but we know everybody was dabbling in unethical science pre-war.

Unfortunately there's no smoking gun for any of this. I am hopeful that the second season of the TV series will talk more about this drug. I love ghoul characters: they're so fascinatingly out of time.

[just-sp-in-inginthevoid]

Analysing Benkei & Wakasa's tattoos and clothes on their volume cover !

Starting with Benkei’s tattoo :

First, the Mitsudomoe, the spinning thingies the bulls have on their head/as their head. It is associated with samurai, martial arts and the God of War Hachiman. It can symbolize several things such as : life, water, protection, man-earth-sky, earth-heaven-underworld…

I couldn’t find much about cows/bulls in Japan. But there’s still Akabeko (‘red bull’) that I can talk about, although I don’t see how it can be linked to Benkei (maybe it’ll come to me later).

They aren’t popular animal in Japan, they don’t hold a huge cultural importance/influence (unlike foxes, turles, koi or cranes for example). They are associated with the god Tenjin, god of scholars, academics and learning. In Aizu, they are said to have saved the people from a smallpox epidemic.

And an important fact : it’s Ragnarok’s emblem.

He was barely 14 when BD was created. Actually, his birthday had been the week prior ! And he already got his tattoo, so he was 13 at most when he got tattoed. Probably when he became Ragnarok 3rd Generation leader, perhaps before ? We don’t know how he got into Ragnarok after all. And here’s the thing, 13 isn’t the oldest a tr character was when they got tattooed – Draken & Mitsuya where like 10 – but Benkei’s tattoos, 1. cover his pectorals and upper-arms, like some irezumi, Yakuza tattoo, 2. it’s Ragnarok emblems. The only other characters I can think of that got their gang/organisation tattooed on their body are Bonten members. And they aren’t 13 or younger.

Benkei got a full Irezumi, although with rather tribal art/not traditional japanese art/not how Irezumi commonly look (and also i don’t think he got anything on his back) at age 13 or younger.

The ‘why’ lies in his backstory which we can only make suppositions on (since we don’t have it ofc). He (and Wakasa) could have been around delinquents (notably, the previous Ragnarok leaders) as a child. And if that happened before 1992 and the anti-gangs laws (which were really anti-yakuza only), then, yes, he could’ve gotten a full-irezumi that young, thinking he’d become a yakuza someday (which Ragnarok leaders 1 & 2 probably did)

Ragnarok should mean a lot to him to get such imposing tattoos on his body.

Now, about Wakasa.

The only visible thing are the flowers. They’re don’t seem to be camelias like he has on his Brahman uniform but rather peonies or roses (take that with a pinch of salt, I’m not a flower professionnal). Peonies symbolize honor, bravery, courage, good fortune, wealth, prosperity. It’s is nicknamed ‘the queen/king of flowers’ as well as ‘the rose without thorns’ and is a common filler in irezumi. Roses symbolize the same things as they do in the western flower language – to name the best-known, love and passion.

And then there’s this thing

And I’m going full instinct and say it’s a komainu. Because it’d make SO MUCH sense for Wakasa (and it would for Benkei too!) to have one.

The important things about Komainu for this post are : 1. they’re guardians of sacred places in Japan (such as Buddhist temples and Shinto shrines), ward off evil spirits, are deities’ protectors, and are always in pair 2. most of the time, one has its mouth open, the other has its closed. do you see where i’m coming from and where i’m going.

I don’t need to extant on the first point, you all get it, and the second, I think you do too but –

Wakui really just decided to always make Benkei grin his teeth and Wakasa always (?at least mostly) has his mouth shut. Because. Because they’re Shinichiro’s (and possibly Takeomi’s, most definitely BD as a whole) guardians.

Wakui Ken is a very funny man imo

About their volume cover now, Wakasa keeps his peonies, and add plum or cherry blossoms. I’ll stick with plum, since cherry blossoms are Senju’s flowers. Plum blossom symbolize good fortune, herald of spring and ward off evil spirits.

Benkei is the one to have (opened) camelias (or peonies ! Opened peonies look like that, too, althought with more petals) this time, among waves. Waves symbolize movement, strength, fluidity, life. It compares life to water ; both can be strong and swift but also gentle and calm ; power and resilience.

He has several Mitsudomoe as well which come with Raijin and Fujin (one of the rare things I’m 100 % sure of).

Wakasa was meant to represent Fujin and Benkei Raijin. 1, those two are rivals and fight for the control over the sky 2, Raijin has Mitsudomoe and Fujin wears clothes made of leopard skin 3, Raijin has a red skin – Benkei was nicknamed Red Cliff because of that one time he walked out a fight covered in blood.

Futhermore, Fujin is the god of wind – Wakasa’s fighting style is light and fast – and is nonchalant ; apathetic (as he can be both the calm wind and the storm) – which fits Wakasa’s own personality. Raijin is the god of thunder and owns hammers – like Thor. Both Fujin and Raijin cause troubles but aren’t evil spirits.

And since by analysing Benkei’s tattoos I analyse Ragnarok emblem, have the only thing I figured about to Kodo Rengo’s :

It looks like a raising sun with its rays. The triangle is most likely Wakasa, while the rays (there are 12 of them) are each of the gangs that make up Kodo Rengo. The sun is the source of all life and light and has cleansing powers, yada yada, they were made to rivalize Benkei’s Ragnarok. Plus, the rays kinda look like spears ? You know, to push Ragnarok back ? And it’s also Japan/Japanese Imperial Family/Japan ‘main’ godess, Amaterasu‘s symbol. Wakasa is never beating my those young-master-from-a-yakuza-family allegations. Never.

[kamitakes]

what greek god are you aligned with?

charon

I see him there at the oars of his little boat in the lake, the ferryman of the dead, Charon, with his hand upon the oar and he calls me now. ‘What keeps you? Hurry, you hold us back.’ He is urging me on in angry impatience." Alcestis by Euripides (tr. Vellacott)

Charon, he of the keen gaze, the ferryman of the Underworld, he who carries the shades into the depths of Hades and away from the light. Before taking the souls down, he plucks his payment from their tongues with swift fingers. His eyes, like hollow furnaces on fire, Virgil says, never waiver.

[annadeef]

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[southside-otaku]

A spark of inspiration! Hades x Persephone however it is Draken x Y/n!!

Don’t know why but I can just imagine the dark clad, tall, intimidating looking man with an all white dressed, wild haired, tanned skin, petite (but plump) y/n. Fiesty spring goddess and iron ruler of the Underworld, ken and y/n. An insatiable desire they never knew they had until they met one another; this practically writes itself! Might make some head canons since I’m not sure I can make a full story on this just yet.

I totally love this idea especially because other tr characters fit so well like Mikey as Zeus and maybe even Emma as Aphrodite instead!

[tylermileslockett]

"Songbirds and the Stars" (part 9 in my Orpheus and Eurydice" series Orpheus’ head and Lyre, still singing, float out to sea, eventually coming upon the shore of Lesbos. Orpheus head continues to sing to patrons, and is even interpreted by an oracle until Apollo interceded, as it competes with his oracle at Delphi. Eventually, the muses collect his dismembered body parts and head, and bury them upon the foot of Mount Olympus, where the nightingales sing above his grave. Through the support of Apollo and the Muses, Zeus casts Orpheus’ lyre up into the night sky as a constellation in honor of the poet’s musical powers. Let’s take a moment to review the nine Muses of mount Helicon, those feminine patron deities inspiring the arts and sciences. We’ll begin with Orpheus’ own mother; Calliope-goddess of epic poetry. Clio is the muse of history, while Erato inspires erotic poetry. Euterpe represents music and lyrical poetry, and Melpomene sings tales of tragedy. Polymnia sings religious hymns, while Terpsichore delights in dance. Thalia was patron of festive comedy and Urania was the muse of Astronomy and astrology. Ovid gives us the optimistic reuniting of the lovers in the underworld: “Meanwhile the fleeting shade of Orpheus had descended under earth: remembering now those regions that he saw when there before, he sought Eurydice through fields frequented by the blest; and when he found her, folded her in eager arms. Then lovingly they wandered side by side, or he would follow when she chose to lead, or at another time he walked in front, looking back, safely,—at Eurydice.” (Tr. By more) Im Finished with the orpheus myth!! Woohoo!!Thanks for looking! I'd really appreciate if you could share this image! Like this art? It will be in my illustrated book with over 130 other full page illustrations coming in June to kickstarter.  to get unseen free hi-hes art subscribe to my email newsletter

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[onewingedangels]

wym tr underworld came out 15 years ago?