Lucas Might Have Destroyed Aeternitas Whole Life

Lucas might have destroyed Aeternitas whole life

Someone on my post just commented that Lucas even questioned if the little child (Aeternitas) was actually biologically a royal child and..woah…this careless claim could destroy a person’s whole life and possibly kill multiple others in process. 

I’m not a fan of the “Aeternitas became a psychopath because of (1) harmless insult in his childhood. Here’s my take on this:

Basically wmmap is set in a fantasy world that resembles the late middle age (?). Do you know what happened to women that committed an obscene act in the middle ages? A common punishment for adulterous women was: whipping, head shaving, and parading the adulteress naked through the streets. Sometimes people would throw rotten food at her or even stones. If she is lucky she gets locked up in a convent or chased into the wilderness. If she is unlucky she is murdered by her own husband. Alongside her supposed lover.

Now you could argue “Lucas didn’t mean it!”. “But there’s no proof!”. My answer: It does not matter. The suspicion is proof enough. Especially when uttered by a person of such high social standing as Lucas. Who would the nobles rather believe: A renowned century old sorcerer with knowledge beyond your wildest dreams or a stupid girl, that got sold off into marriage to the Emperor? Even worse if that stupid girl has a good relationship with the male servant or gardener or whatever. If the distrust is already planted it will only grow. The opposing noble families are just gonna use this rumor and blow it out of proportations, so that the seat of the empress will be empty for their own daughters. Because as we know, you can’t have nice things in the royal court.

Now imagine this innocent little child watching their life slowly fall apart thanks to someone they once admired. Imagine them witnessing the humilation of their own mother in public, maybe her execution too. Aeternitas gets stripped of his title, does he get the death sentence too and escapes? Or does he try to live quietly at the court despite the constant abuse, which could have started after the rumors grew worse ?

I’m not sure if wmmap will ever get that dark, but it is the only realistic explanation for Aeternitas intense hatred. The Aeternitas-is-just-a-psychopath-explanation is cheap and won’t do. Not all psychopaths are bloodthirsty monsters. Yesterday I’ve read an interview between a psychologist and a psychopath, or if you prefer: person with antisocial personality disorder (since the term psychopath gets frowned upon by many professionals) and they honestly admitted, even through that killing would be easy to them, they would never take the risk, because of something trivial as an insult.

(I also have my doubts IF Aeternitas is even a psychopath, duh. We don’t have enough panels to judge him. As far as I see post-dark-magic Claude has more chances to score high at the psychopath checklist. Some psychopaths are able to be law abiding citizen and care for their family/ pets. Btw I often make jokes about Anastacius being a psychopath, but I think he’s actually fairly neurotypical?? Like he doesn’t want Jennette to be hurt, he argued against killing Claude’s mother etc etc. Ana has empathy!)

Oh and calling baby! Aeternitas a psychopath is plain wrong, personality disorders usually can’t be diagnosed until the person hits 18, because until then the brain isn’t fully developed.

Short version: 1.) Lucas social game is weak. Through his foolish off-handed comment about “Aeternitas possibly being a bastard child”, he might have unintentionally caused the death of the empress and Aeternitas decline into madness.

2.) Making the villain a born psychopath is cheap, and there aren’t enough panels to prove if he is one. Currently Claude is more of a psychopath. You could convince me that Lucas might be one as well with the right arguments. My judgement on him is still hanging in the air.

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The Blade

i kept getting this audio on my fyp page and i took that as a sign from the gods to make it scar and grian coded >:) thanks to rem for caption ideas because i have no idea what else to say so here they are <3 : 

- I love him your honor 

- Idiot /pos 

- Foolproof plan

i’ll see you in the next upcoming moons!!! (fades into the dark)

Regarding Death Wolf...

Hear me out (NO, it's not the kind you are thinking)

We know Death has a job, right? To collect souls and most likely release them to the afterlife.

And for this job, he has to be there when somebody is about to die, as demostrated with him being there moments before Puss' eight death.

Supposing he is THE Death and he has been doing this since the beginning of time (or at least when there were enough stories of the Grim Reaper to adquire a physical form) that means he has seen a lot, A LOT of awful things.

Murders, suicides, massacres, death of infants, people who didn't deserve to die alone, animal cruelty, some other heavy stuff I won't mention here, etc etc etc.

And we thought "man, how is he able to cope with all of that? That job has to be utter torture for someone."

Probably many of you could think that he is able to do that because he is Death, and he was "born" with that purpose and only him can reap souls perfectly.

But while he is a force of nature, he also WAS a force of nature. Let me explain it well: He adquired a personality enough to be angry, excited, frustrated, amazed, happy, among other emotions.

While he has supernatural power and is most likely the most powerful being in the Shrek Franchise (or in Dreamworks as many say) he is also a PERSON.

Someone with a code of honor, morals, opinions, beliefs, etc.

Returning to the question "How can he bear all of that?" taking into account he is no longer an inevitable force, but a character of his own.

The answer is something you may relate to, and that is: Creativity and escapism.

To be the embodiment of Death, the guy is a very creative fella.

First of all, his design. I heard many people saying here and in Twitter that his design is something they would come up in their edgy, teen years of drawing their first fursona.

Guess what? They are right, the wolf form is someone's fursona. It's DEATH'S fursona. He clearly came up with this badass, piercing canine form to blend with the Fairy Tale Land assuming the form of the "Big Bad Wolf". He most likely had other forms he designed over the centuries and was able to present as them like if he were on a role play game in the living world.

His sickles? The weapon of choice with the little crossed cats on it to have a bigger effect of terror for Puss? Those who can become knuckles and join to create a scythe? Those are his creation, probably after thinking it for a while and writing all of those functions on a paper.

The way he presents himself? In the bar? The coins in his eyes as a "watching you" sign while being a cool reference to the Ferryman of souls? He transforming Perrito's forest into the background of a skull? The chilling reveal at the Cave of Lost Souls? The fire ring? It was all him.

As for the escapism part...

When the world becomes too heavy to deal with as real life issues tend to make us feel bad, depressed, angry... we tend to escape it somewhere. And in our time the common place would be the internet as in webpages or comics, stories, etc.

But what has to do with Death Wolf you may ask?

Well, while he would NEVER be able to escape his job entirely, he can have moments where he can enjoy a good hunt of people who don't appreciate life, like the whole plot of the Puss in Boots sequel could demostrate.

He managed to have a little time outside his eternal routine to chase an arrogant cat who took life for granted. He enjoyed it, it was thrilling, it was exciting.

It was a way to escape a monotonous, grim "life", if just for a short moment.

So, when the chase ended as his prey no longer feared him and now was ready to fight for his last life, the wolf retreats, happy for Puss' character development but resigned because he once again had to return to "The Eternal Duty"

And that's not even counting all the times Jack "I'm dead inside" Horner had to interrupt Lobo's hunt and remind him of his job even in his "spare time"

Death knew the chase had to end eventually, but he didn't want it to end.

He didn't want to return to his own world

And if we look at Death like that, then he is probably one of the most relatable characters Dreamworks has ever make.

In the Shrek Franchise:

Monsters can be loved

Princesses don't have to fit the perfect standards of beauty

Handsome guys can be possesive jerks

Love at first sight doesn't work like one would think

Happily ever afters had to be built and not just obtain them with magic

And Death is the most creative and "full of life" being in the world

Because he would absolutely go crazy with his life/work if he wasn't.

Because in a world of Kings, Poets and Soldiers, he's the Supreme King

And he's also a perky goth but none of you are ready for that conversation.

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