#trait: warrior

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MedievalGallantmon EX8-074 Special Rare by sasasi from EX-08 Extra Booster Chains of Liberation

[sporeclan]

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This one goes out to all the Finchpaw fans out there

[beaudesoleil]

beau it's time for your bimonthly hollyleaf redesign (...)

[shreksstepfather]

Jumping on the chimera Moonpaw hype bandwagon!!

[astray-clangen]

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New: Freckle | 6m | Female | Healer in Training | skittish Compassionate | Morbid Curiosity Ghost sense

[ Freckle gazes into the puddle, only to see the weird ripples were caused by a small frog. Freckle feels disappointed, because she really could have used some guidance. ] [ Knowing ??? is in desperate need of a healer and wanting to do something to stand out and seem more important, Freckle announces she wants to be the healer apprentice. ]

[t-5secondsart]

now that the "what sage would the lu boys be" polls are over, i thought it would be fun to draw the chain as the ancient sages from totk!

[fatedroses]

More than just the Demon.

[gingermintpepper]

In my Zeus bag today so I'm just gonna put it out there that exactly none of the great Ancient Greek warrior-heroes stayed loyal and faithful and completely monogamous and yet none of them have their greatness questioned nor do we question why they had the cultural prominence that they did and still do.

Jason, the brilliant leader of the Argo, got cold feet when it came to Medea - already put off by some of her magic and then exiled from his birthland because of her political ploys, he took Creusa to bed and fully intended on marrying her despite not properly dissolving things with Medea.

Theseus was a fierce warrior and an incredibly talented king but he had a horrible temper and was almost fatally weak to women. This is the man who got imprisoned in the Underworld for trying to get a friend laid, the man who started the whole Attic War because he couldn't keep his legs closed.

And we cannot at all forget Heracles for whom a not inconsiderable amount of his joy in life was loving people then losing the people around him that he loved. Wives, children, serving boys, mentors, Heracles had a list of lovers - male and female - long enough to rival some gods and even after completing his labours and coming down to the end of his life, he did not have one wife but three.

And y'know what, just because he's a cultural darling, I'll put Achilles up here too because that man was a Theseus type where he was fantastic at the thing he was born to do (that is, fight whereas Theseus' was to rule) but that was not enough to eclipse his horrid temper and his weakness to young pretty things. This is the man that killed two of Apollo's sons because they wouldn't let him hit - Tenes because he refused to let Achilles have his sister and Troilus who refused Achilles so vehemently that he ran into Apollo's temple to avoid him and still couldn't escape.

All four of these men are still celebrated as great heroes and men. All four of these men are given the dignity of nuance, of having their flaws treated as just that, flaws which enrich their character and can be used to discuss the wider cultural point of what truly makes a hero heroic. All four of these men still have their legacies respected.

Why can that same mindset not be applied to Zeus? Zeus, who was a warrior-king raised in seclusion apart from his family. Zeus who must have learned to embrace the violence of thunder for every time he cried as a babe, the Corybantes would bang their shields to hide the sound. Zeus learned to be great because being good would not see the universe's affairs in its order.

The wonderful thing about sympathy is that we never run out of it. There's no rule stopping us from being sympathetic to multiple plights at once, there's no law that necessitate things always exist on the good-evil binary. Yes, Zeus sentenced Prometheus to sufferation in Tartarus for what (to us) seems like a cruel reason. Prometheus only wanted to help humans! But when you think about Prometheus' actions from a king's perspective, the narrative is completely different: Prometheus stole divine knowledge and gifted it to humans after Zeus explicitly told him not to. And this was after Prometheus cheated all the gods out of a huge portion of wealth by having humans keep the best part of a sacrifice's meat while the gods must delight themselves with bones, fat and skin. Yes, Zeus gave Persephone away to Hades without consulting Demeter but what king consults a woman who is not his wife about the arrangement of his daughter's marriage to another king? Yes, Zeus breaks the marriage vows he set with Hera despite his love of her but what is the Master of Fate if not its staunchest slave?

The nuance is there. Even in his most bizarre actions, the nuance and logic and reason is there. The Ancient Greeks weren't a daft people, they worshipped Zeus as their primary god for a reason and they did not associate him with half the vices modern audiences take issue with. Zeus was a father, a visitor, a protector, a fair judge of character, a guide for the lost, the arbiter of revenge for those that had been wronged, a pillar of strength for those who needed it and a shield to protect those who made their home among the biting snakes. His children were reflections of him, extensions of his will who acted both as his mercy and as his retribution, his brothers and sisters deferred to him because he was wise as well as powerful. Zeus didn't become king by accident and it is a damn shame he does not get more respect.

[mollysunder]

I've been thinking about Ambessa and Mel and Rell. And yeah. Ambessa really knew that the way she was raised was terrible, but refused to actually unpack it. And even though Ambessa refused to investigate the wrongs of her childhood and later her own choices, the experience clearly impacted the way she raised her children. It's not a mystery why Mel and Kino weren't warriors. Ambessa didn't want her children to endure what she did, but because she can't consciously accept how her messed up her upbringing actually was she can only resent her kids for it, specifically Mel.

It is at best annoying for Ambessa to know her children don't fit the mold she broke herself into and now justifies her ambition with, but she let's them be this way. She wants Mel and Kino to be the Wolf, but she won't force them like she was. Years back she tried to train Kino and Mel in martial combat, and gave up on that early on. Ambessa refused to think on why she abandoned her children's training regimen when they were still so young.

Instead, Ambessa took on Rell who was exploited by her parents in a similar vein as Menelik exploited and abused her as a child, so it's easier to put Rell through the things she did but doesn't want for her children. By her logic it's easier to condition Rell to make the same kind of choices she would make because they're so similar. What's worse is that you can tell Ambessa is still being gentler to Rell than Menelik was to her, but it doesn't fix anything, it only makes things worse.

And Ambessa could avert all this unnecessary pain and strain puts on her family and those she cares for if she EVER tried to process any of her actions and wrongs done to her and those she's done to others in turn. But the act of reflection would risk her actually critiquing her upbringing and her own choices, and she can't have that.

[boughclan-clangen]

Okay first of all I think it’s cute your askbox is called “approach boughclan camp” also

🌷Quirks or other mannerisms? And 🐾 What do they think of nearby clans/groups? For Goldenpaw!

And 🎭 Does your clan have any specific traditions, rituals, or holidays? For you!

🌷Quirks or other mannerisms?

🐾 What do they think of nearby clans/groups?

BoughClan's territory borders FrostClan to the northwest and SpireClan to the southeast. ReefClan and BoughClan aren't close enough to share borders, so BoughClan cats don't get to see them very often now that they've split into four clans again!

🎭 Does your clan have any specific traditions, rituals, or holidays?

i'll get to show it off quite a bit later, but there is a ritual involved with granting outside cats the traits of the respective Clan they've joined. i won't say much more, but i'm VERY excited to show it off when BoughClan gets some outsiders in later moons. (for some reason clangen did not want to give me outsiders for like. 20 moons hahaha)

thank you so much for the ask !!! <3 and thank you for creating such a wonderful ask game! it's so great to have as a springboard when i want to interact with other blogs, hoohoo

[graythegreyt]

My toxic trait is that I enjoyed the Elder's Quest

(Referencing this post)

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MedievalGallantmon EX8-074 Alternative Art by Tonamikanji from EX-08 Extra Booster Chains of Liberation

[kesoyotes]

saw someone on twitter do this and thought it would be fun seeing as I draw my ocs more than I do the canon characters

Character selections were courtesy of my two irl friends via discord

[littlebloomclan]

Burnclan really saw a little dude that could be very much apprentice aged and said 'is anybody gonna kill that thang?' and not wait for an answer. like damn, what meaners.

[goofy-clan]

Confrontation.

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[thunderclangens]

thunderclan is almost ready to rumble for ClanGen! click for quality lol