If you could pick any possible Denizen for Nepeta, which one would it be, anyway?

dahniwitchoflight:

hmm. well, if i were to pick it, id use my theory/method, which is basically “you get a denizen whos aspect represents something you need in order to grow/fill out/become whole as a person/achieve god tier/your ideal self etc and it depends on the person, and its not necessarily your own actual aspect”

So if I were to pick a thing that Nepeta needed more of in order to centre herself more fully in her role as Rogue of Heart/Grow and become more whole as a person/reach her personal ideal or the person that she wanted to be

the thing that immediately comes to mind is Personal Confidence

Nepeta needs to see everything she needs is already in her grasp, she just needs the faith to reach out and go get it, have a positive mindset that everything will turn out alright, she just needs to take a leap of faith and give it a try, and maybe even just a positive emotional buffer that hey, even if it doesnt work out, it’s not the end of the world, that doesn’t mean you should just give up and not even try in the first place

So I think she probably had a Denizen associated with Hope

unfortunately in Homestuck there isn’t a denizen that was ever confirmed as being a representative of Hope/having Hope-y Ideals/traits

sure Jake had Abraxas, but all we had on Abraxas was a single image and his name, none of his personality that he was actually a Hopeful Denizen, just that he was paired with a Hope player, which as we already know is indicative of nothing. For all we know what Jake needed in order to grow was anything but more Hope (and besides, I’m of the opinion that Abraxas was one of those “Special Case” denizens like Yaldabaoth, as they are the two pure Gnostic Denizens in a sea of Greek mythology Denizens, and if Karkat’s implications about his own denizen are anything to go on)

So that means, I get to pick something from Greek Mythology that I think would be a good representative of Hope-y things 😮

but I’m favorable to Nepeta having Artemis: goddess of the hunt, lady of beasts, associated with death, life, rebirth, patron of young women, her main traits are independence, courage, confidence and physical strength. She was eternally virginal in the sense that she remained unmarried, unbound to any man and was her own free spirit, not keen on being controlled by anyone (even Aphrodite’s powers over love couldnt sway her) but her weaknesses include being vengeful, impulsive and aloof

shes a pretty great almost “inverse mirror” for Nepeta too look into in order to grow, she represents many great things that Nepeta is and could be, and many things that Nepeta worries she may turn out to be or is fearful to confront/accept in herself, equally a teacher Nepeta would do well to learn from, or someone she could easily view as a Nemesis, someone to fight against. It all depends on the choice Nepeta would make to either confront her or heed her

a pretty good denizen choice if I do say so myself 😮