"Here's a bangin lil' tune about takin' on The Man!"
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Yeah Requiem listed "Herod's wife" and "witch" separately so I don't think she was one as Herodias either.
Also it alluded to her charm kiss:It was from world to world that she wandered, reincarnating over and over, yet retaining her memories. Once, she had been a witch; once, the consort of King Herod II. It was even said that she was once a Valkyrie, one of the daughters of the Allfather Odin.
Glad to finally know what the heck Erice meant by that after all this time.Once more, I had been careless. Her Noble Phantasm had been neither her mount, nor her lips of awakening. It had not even crossed my mind that she might possess this spear, both blessed and cursed.
In Lostbelt 6 when Beryl is dying he has a flashback to his mom, who was a Witch, and she says they're a kind of fairy who aren't supposed to have kids with humans because it rots their souls. She says she's jealous of Alice from Mahoyo, who is a half-witch like Beryl is.
reminded of that old mahoyo detail about how the ploys arent from the age of gods or whatever when talking bout like.. reversion to the age of gods? or whatever triat they talk about
I mean they are. Thinking back on it, they just freaking are.
The characterization of them being super terrible. Why would I want to read about them being terrible?
That was terrible too, if anything, she should have been wishing she was more like her. That with the self doubt was just bad.
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Constantine's lines
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Well, at the end of the day the point isn't always to show why you should feel bad about the characters living there, or for the story to convince you that you actually do want to save them (so that you can then feel worse about not being able to when you inevitably have to cull the Lostbelt). The point, sometimes, like in LB6, is just to paint an "objective" picture of the people within this alternate history. The fairies were terrible, but on the surface it did not seem like that. That's what makes the whole story here, the transition from the initial like and empathy for the fairies, towards whatever you felt at the very end when they all show their true colors. Showing how "people" are shitty even when history is nothing like PHH is just as important as showing that there can be good people in the same scenario. And arguably, LB6 manages this by showing that despite so many fairies being absolutely terrible, Gudao & co still want to save some of them because they were truly good, but simply bound by circumstance.
We can expect additional dialogues after Traum, at least.
"Here's a bangin lil' tune about takin' on The Man!"
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It sure feels like Lion King's decision to preserve the good and purge the bad even though it is done differently.
Something about Longinus was brought up in Percival's interlude, that it was separated into physical spear and its energy, and then they're fused back by Percival at the end?
She says Meinster, which is referring to Alice's mother as she's married to a human and got a child with him. She died after giving birth to Alice but I guess that's much better than what happened to Beryl's mother.
By the way, to this day I still don't know if Meinster was the name of Alice's mother (like Robin mentioned in All about Ploys) or a specific name referred to all pure-blooded Witches.
My understanding based on translating the script using DeepL on the Longinus situation is that Klingsor throws Longinus at Percival only for it to not harm him, and Klingsor proceeds to make a copy out of the concentrated magic energy, and after Percival defeats Klingsor, the magic power of the copy is absorbed back into the physical Longinus.
My understanding was Klingsor took the physical spear but Balin was able to hold onto the magical stuff that made it special and then he gave that to Percival to fight Klingsor with.
No, I skipped a line on how Percival got the raw energy Longinus. Klingsor shot it at him and he just tanked it like it was nothing and grabbed it.
Oh, so like an anime version of the fight from Parsifal.
Klingsor appears on the castle rampart and hurls the Spear at Parsifal to destroy him, but it miraculously stops in midair, above his head. Parsifal seizes the Spear in his hand and makes with it the sign of the Cross, banishing Klingsor's magic.
For me, this is somewhat undercut by the fact that the fairies are portrayed as more essentially evil and capricious as opposed to those traits forming as a result of various interacting circumstances. Not to say that people aren't just sometimes incredibly petty and cruel in a way that defies sociological analysis, but I would not say they're essentially evil the way the fairies were.