#zeus poptropica

[lilyisatiger]

[lookslikethatsallthetimewehave]

Hm... call me crazy, but I don't recall any past Poptropica villains coming back to cause trouble in another story before, except for Zeus and Dr. Hare. And Dr. Hare isn't magic!

She might be talking about someone we don't know...

Is she talking about Zeus or what XD

Out of all Poptropica villains, Zeus has been the most reoccurring. He just doesn't quit!

And that weird cave that was in the Baron's Crusade, with Captain Crawfish's stuff. It had that lighting bolt symbol...

Idk... I think Zeus is somehow wrapped up into all of this. I just wanna see the payoff XD

How did Rumpel get Poseidon's trident? It could be a fake...

Zeus' face turned into Rumpelstiltskin’s face. Was he referring to himself as the pretender, or Zeus?

[redshamrock56]

Purple Shadow wondering what she's gotten herself into.

(Not the first time she's asked this, and certainly won't be the last).

[hashtag-swag]

old man yaoi

[pawptropica]

Zeus

Zeus is a white LaPerm cat!

[sgtapollo]

The gay brothers

[xxgalacticambitionsxx]

i'm not a poptropica enjoyer anymore but i still immensely respect that they let us beat up zeus. twice.

[love-3-crimes]

wanting to make something for the new song but not knowing shit abt greek mythology is heartbreaking. soul crushing, even.

[poptropi-caw]

the greek gods in poptropica are what politicians irl are to us. i would elaborate further but unfortunately i don’t think i can. you just have to see my vision.

[guardmagicskull]

Woah boy Anon you have no idea what you've just done

Basically the first change is that Zeus is actually a good caring God who wants to protect and help people, and that ended up having consequences for pretty much all other characters.

Zeus takes the form of a teacher at Harvey's University after he's had his accident, getting him the support he needs and harshly punishing those who bully him. Harvey with his help doesn't become bitter and vengeful, instead insisting that he's going to prove everyone wrong by doing good for the world through science and robotics.

Zeus turns into first mate onboard an honest merchant ship and convinces the captain to let Crawfish (who's just a kid at the time) becomes a junior officer. He very quickly proves his skill with ships, rises through the ranks, and eventually when the old captain retires Crawfish is given command of the ship instead. When his home port begins to struggle financially, he uses the ship to bring them supplies

Zeus makes himself curator of an art museum, and makes sure to catch Widow on her very first heist. Instead of turning her in, he encourages her to keep improving her art instead of stealing it from others, and also suggests that if she's good enough to sneak past all that security she could have a future as a crimefighter. She takes him up on it, and with his guidance becomes a secret agent using her public persona as a famous artist as cover.

But Mordred is the one things change the most drastically for.

Mordred's childhood going by King Arthur myths was really not good: His father is King Arthur (making Mordred kind of a prince actually!), and there's a prophecy that Mordred will grow up to overthrow him and destroy the kingdom. Arthur wants to stop that from happening but doesn't know which child is Mordred, only that he'll be born on May 1. So he finds all children born on that day and sends them out onto the sea to drown, where Mordred is the only survivor.

In my normal idea of the world, I'd imagine this is when he washes up on the shores of Astroknights where he later finds out the truth and tries to become king as it's "his right".

In the Hero AU Zeus instead decides to intervene because this whole situation is messed up. He takes baby Mordred to Astroknights himself and gives him to the King and Queen. They're horrified that another king would do something like that to his own child, and adopt Mordred as their own. He grows up as a prince, and becomes a brave and honourable knight.

He sees Elyana as his little sister and they're very close. But as they grow up, people start to pay less and less attention to Elyana in favour of Mordred since he's the oldest child and the one who will become ruler. He also begins to spend less and less time with her as he's busy learning how to be king. She's alone and upset, feeling like everyone has abandoned her.

She begins to resent Mordred for having "abandoned her just like everyone else", and angry that he "stole the throne" from her. Eventually after they get into a huge fight she escapes into space.

Everyone assumes Elyana died in space, and Mordred is absolutely heartbroken feeling like all of it is his fault. The cult pops up believing she actually survived, and Mordred joins them because he's desperate to find Elyana and being her back home safely. Instead when he manages to contact her she attacks the kingdom and takes him away because "if you're gone I can be queen".

The player rescues Mordred, and Astroknights mostly plays out the same. Except despite everything he still cares for her, and when the portal is about to close leaving her stranded in space he tries to turn back for her at the last second.

He has an arm and half his face in the portal when it closes on him. He turns himself into a cyborg to survive.

Following all of that, he doesn't want anything more to do with the kingdom. He's extremely upset and just wants to run away from all of it. He gets into a tiny boat and lets it carry him off into the sea not even knowing if he'll survive or not. He drifts close enough to the "modern islands" to be rescued.

Black widow is an agent, so she becomes involved in figuring out what the heck happened to this medieval robot man they found adrift at sea.

Harvey is one of the best scientists, so she gets him involved too because he's pretty much the only one who can figure out how to repair Mordred's robotics while he's in the hospital.

Crawfish had a similar situation to Mordred of sailing too far from home and being picked up by modern people, so he gets called in because he's pretty much the only one who can fully empathise with being lost in this strange new world.

Mordred's bad situation brings the four of them together, and they decide to stick together as heroes defending Poptropica.

[askerewhon]

Dr J: Put a better filter on your correspondence, miss Skull. If your pet project proves to be more trouble than it’s worth I might decide to do things my way.

MS: Yes sir.

[emerald194]

Meme Dump pt. 2

Steamworks, Supervillain, and Home Island in that order

[lookslikethatsallthetimewehave]

I forgot Zeus put this advertisement out there in order to lure people into the Dream Machine project. I'd like to imagine he was acting as a therapist for the inmates.

Like he seriously talked to those villains about their problems in order to see which ones were more messed up and twisted, to get their totems.

[redshamrock56]

More memes.

Sketches coming next.

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i HATE drawing backgrounds so you're getting this sorry not sorry

[exist101]

The Code

Uhhhhhhhhhhh I dunno what I'm doing either, but have some Eric content!

Eric Spinner had returned from his mission, terrified. He, under the guide of esteemed scientist Dr. Jupiter, had led a team to explore an odd pocket dimension right in the middle of the straits between Mocktropica and Fairytale Islands. Now he was regretting everything.

"Dr. Jupiter! Sir!" he yelled as he marched into the doctor's office. His gear was torn, pieces being completely missing. He had a large cut on his chin as well. "Dr. Jupiter, we need to shut this operation down."

"And why is that?" Dr. Jupiter asked. He kept his attention on other matters on his clipboard.

"Please, you need to listen. We can't tamper with this any more than we have." Eric pleaded.

"And why would that be?" He finally looked up from his studies, and noticed the state of the explorer, as well as the rest nowhere to be found.

"That place. It's wrong. It's crazy. We can't go back there." A small, pink flower was growing out of the cut.

"Where are the others I sent with you?" Dr. Jupiter asked.

"They're dead sir. Every last one of them." Eric said.

"How did it happen?" Dr. Jupiter was starting to take interest.

"All different ways. Different horrible ways. Oleander was turned into a tree. Taylor was grabbed by this thing. Morgan disappeared as soon as we turned our backs on him. I don't even know what happened to Karter. Please listen, that place wanted us out."

"Mhm. I'll take your words into consideration. You may take the rest of the day off." Dr. Jupiter got out a new sheet of paper.

"Consideration? Consideration?! Sir I told you all of that and your reaction is to take it into consideration?!" Eric started getting hysterical. Consideration he says. After everything in there?!

"You do remember where the door is, correct?" Dr. Jupiter wondered if he had to call security to escort Eric out.

"No, I need to make sure you won't send anyone else there!" Eric grabbed the desk and held on. "You don't know what's in there!"

"I know perfectly well-"

"HOW? DID YOU KNOW THAT'S WHAT IT WAS LIKE? DID YOU PLAN TO LET THEM DIE?" Eric interrupted the doctor. "I went to the college you "went" to, you never even enrolled". You're not a real doctor, are you?" Eric interrupted, dropping the bomb. He wanted to brush it all off as a mix-up before, but after that place... It didn't look good.

"You're jumping to conclusions, friend. I've always said that would be the death of you one day." Dr. Jupiter said, calmly reaching for his com button. "Security, Eric isn't feeling well."

"YOU ARE A PHONY, AREN'T YOU?" Eric yelled.

"Maybe you should make an appointment with Emma? Her door is always open if you need help." And with that, security came and one grabbed Eric by the shoulder.

"NO! YOU'RE A LIAR AND A FRAUD-" Eric was interrupted and taken to the elevator. He didn't fight the guards, and let himself be thrown out of the prison building. Into the cold middle of the ocean, in an island off the maps, with the worry that more explorers could be used and killed.

It had been a week, and Dr. Jupiter was sitting at his desk. Eric sadly had to have been let go for revealing files and telling people about this "Pocket Dimension" and even using an old friend of his, a reporter, to spread the message. It's certainly caused a mess, having to invalidate his claims and keeping the peace. And of course, having Emma go have a little talk with the explorer.