Yeah of course! I’m more than happy to answer any questions about it. For starters, not all the songs are LawLu per se. Quite a few are actually examinations of his own psyche or relationship with himself, while others are relationships with say Corazon (Saturn for instance) or Doflamingo (Dark Matter and Torture).
Believer I associate more with himself and overcoming his trials of youth. The rebellion to break the cogs of the world and disrupt the passing status quo. It’s a bit directed towards Doflamingo as well since he feels made by Doflamingo, taught him about pain and revenge. I also associate the song heavily with One Piece because of two AMVs. I’m on mobile right now so I can’t link them now, but I can later.
Thanks so much for the ask! Hopes it answers your question satisfactorily. If anyone has any more questions feel free to send them!
A very (very) short Camp Half-Blood au I started three months ago and just found in my drafts. There was the start of another scene tacked onto the end, but I cut it since it didn’t get anywhere.
There were three people out on the porch, if you included the skeleton. Five, if you wanted to count the peacocks.
Klaus blinked, his hand still frozen on the doorknob. The boy standing in front of the door, to his credit, wasn’t phased at all. It was probably difficult to phase a kid who was carrying a double-bladed celestial bronze battleaxe that was taller than he was.
“Hi,” he said cheerfully, his smile bright even though his face and clothes were covered with dirt. “I’m Bill Heterodyne. This is the camp for demigods, right?”
Klaus looked at him, and the axe, and the dirty, blood soaked bandage wrapped around his thigh. Then he looked at the skeleton, which was dressed in a tattered union army uniform and carrying a small haversack. A smaller boy was riding on its back, clinging to the ribs. His legs were hung over the pelvis, and one of them was secured in a makeshift splint made of bandages and driftwood. The peacocks sat serenely at its feet.
Klaus turned away from the door, angling his body towards in the interior of the house without looking away from the porch.
“Chiron?” he called. “New campers!”
YES. YES YES YES EXCELLENT. Heterodynes Hades’ kids – though the peacock is Hera’s so ??. (The answer, of course, is that she likes them – the Boys, I mean. She likes heroes periodically, so long as they aren’t her husband’s get.) I gotta assume Klaus is Athena’s – well of course he’s Athena’s, c’mon, war and wisdom and storm-grey eyes. Zanta’s an Amazon, Lu is Aphrodite’s aaallll with the charm speak – oooh how complicated are we making this? All Greeks, or was Andronicus Valois the son of Jupiter? Praetor Tarvek is all I’m- wait, scratch that, PRAETOR ANEVKA. The question, though, is are they just descendants or did Jupiter slip back into the family line at some point? (Answer: yes, obviously. Follow-up: did Lucrezia have something to do with it? Follow-up answer: probably. Lucrezia who studied with Hecate I’ll bet, and has spent decades hiding in Daedalus’s Labyrinth, or maybe just drifting as a ghost…and scratch the above, or rather, amend: Lucrezia is Venus’s daughter, not just love and sex and beauty but victory as well, and the mother of emperors.) Teodora in an loveless, abusive marriage, but her heart is cold steel over blazing gold and her eyes hold the certainty of Death, and Hades slept with her twice and twice she bore sons (to her husband’s delight, who never knew they weren’t his.) Agatha, Freud’s perfect granddaughter of Greek Death and Roman Love grows up in hiding, alone, plagued with headaches from the golden bauble at her throat that hides her from gods and monsters alike (even those who just want to help), and stops her from seeing through the Mist around her adoptive parents. Zanta gave birth to twins and whoops ha ha somehow her man disappeared with the male; how could that have possibly happened in this secure Amazon base; Zanta certainly doesn’t know; it is a mystery. no she will not be checking Camp Half-Blood. (Gil wields celestial bronze in battle, on quests, years before he ever kisses a girl or goes to anything like normal school; he has beads for every summer since his birth and he’s been trying to build Daedalus’s wings since he was eight.) (He had a best friend once; turned out the boy was Roman, not Greek. They sent him home.)
*”Don’t Stop Me Now” plays in the background*
Okay this is a very long paragraph so let’s go by a list
The peacocks are actually because Bill and Barry are Amish, because it seemed funny at the time (their names are Punch and Judy)
I don’t remember what I decided on for Klaus but I’m fairly certain it was Athena; it was either that or Zeus, but Klaus’ weather motifs aren’t quite strong enough for that
Lucrezia is definitely, totally, 100% Aphrodite
I am not even getting into the logistics nightmare that is the second generation melting pot of divine genes, you can do whatever you like with the Valois
I feel like Lucrezia should be a mix of Roman and Greek, someone who breaks the mold; probably a descendent of Venus and a daughter of Aphrodite, flitting back and forth between Half Blood Hill and Camp Jupiter to grab power wherever she can get it
I’m laughing at Klaus meeting Zantabraxus, the Amazon queen, and being like “Yes please absolutely put me in my place and do it with extreme prejudice, thanks”
So after the many many posts mourning the passing of Stan Lee earlier today I’ve started seeing an inevitable wave of backlash about how he actually wasn’t a good person and we shouldn’t be mourning them. And these posts are par for the course when a celebrity dies because no one is all good or all bad, and that’s fine. And Stan Lee was human, he was a person with a complicated life and a complicated legacy, and I’m not here to whitewash any of that. However, I’d like to refute a couple of the points I’ve seen people making.
And while your mileage may vary on how much you agree with him there, it’s a far cry from him cruelly declaring Peter Parker having a boyfriend would be an affront before God and man and an insult to his authorial intent or whatever. Also, I think the original post that started this story was about Andrew Garfield saying something while doing press for Amazing Spiderman 2 and Stan Lee writing the contract as a result, but the contract is from 2011 and the first Amazing Spiderman came out in 2012, so the timeline doesn’t work. I could be misremembering the post though. There’s also this implied narrative that Andrew Garfield got axed for saying his Peter Parker was bi, but uh, no. No, they cancelled the franchise because Amazing Spiderman 2 bombed at the box office.
Now, to wrap it up, was Stan Lee a good and perfect man? No. His legacy is very much a mixed bag, especially when it comes to his relationship with his long-time co-creator Jack Kirby (although that’s a whole other suitcase to unpack some other time). I would like to point out, however, that the posts praising him aren’t all just blindly hero-worshipping him and being willfully ignorant. When someone you admire dies it’s natural to forget about the bad parts of them for a bit and get a little misty eyed, and not everyone’s gonna be totally objective about this man that they never met but who represents something important to them. I think that speaks more to the way we interact with celebrity as a culture than it does about the way Marvel fans see Stan Lee frankly. And hey, we gain nothing by pretending that Stan Lee wasn’t an important figure in comic book history, one who co-created the first black character in mainstream comics just two years after the Civil Rights Act was passed, who fought the Comic Code Authority censors to use comics to tackle heavy subject matter, who helped bring legitimacy to the art form and humanity to its characters. So as long as I’ve got you here I’m gonna leave you with his thoughts on racism in 1968, words that feel just as relevant today:
Alright, I’ve gotten a lot of notes and messages informing me that the Daily Mail story wasn’t the only instance of sexual misconduct allegations against Stan Lee. I was genuinely not aware of these other allegations when I made the post, and I probably wouldn’t have gone to such lengths to defend him if I had realized how pervasive these allegations were. It was never my intention to gloss over these allegations or discredit the accusers. I’m not sure how I missed these stories when they first came out, but I’ll be researching them later when I have the chance and I encourage you to do the same and draw your own conclusions. I apologize for getting snippy or defensive with a few people in the notes, that wasn’t cool of me.
I’ve also seen some weird erasure of his Jewishness vis a vis him allegedly being okay with Steve Rogers being part of Hydra. The argument boiled down to Lee shouldn’t have said Hydra!Cap was okay because Captain America was created by two Jewish men specifically to fight the Nazis. While that is correct, to couch it as if Stan Lee was Goy Goyische McGoy and not Stanley Martin Lieber from West End Avenue where he lived with his Romanian Jewish immigrant parents who fled from a country that hadn’t yet emancipated the Jews who had lived there since the 1300s was…let’s go with irritating.
k so obviously Lucrezia is a waterbender, she’s too flowy to be anything else, but rather than bloodbending I think she should do something like…spiritbending? the way whatshisname Korra’s evil uncle does the thing to re-good-ify dark spirits, but in a more longterm, controlling way. or maybe she just has a load of tiny spirit minions who infect/possess people? she definitely somehow ensured that Agatha would be the next Avatar, that much is clear, then stuck around in the spirit world (like Iroh but the opposite in every moral and personality way) to possess her when she was summoned back to the material plane.
so Gil would DEFINITELY be an airbender amirite? I think Lucrezia as a spiritbender is a great idea too, since in canon she’s meant to be great at the biological stuff I think she wouldn’t NOT bloodbend (think how great that and healing would be in experiments) but using spiritbending for possession? Gold. Old Heterodynes as firebenders? Burn, rape, pillage? Bill and Barry were not, which is everyone thought was WEIRD (what are these weird new good Heterodynes), but Agatha looks like another FUN one. Agatha lightningbending the castle back online.
No no the Boys have got to be firebenders of the lightning-enthused Heterodyne tradition, because that’s why it matters so much when they choose not to burn and pillage. Like half the point of A:TLA is that your nationality doesn’t determine your personality or moral alignment.
Gil’s not an airbender either. Yes, the flying machines, and I can totally see him tearing around Paris on an air scooter, but even if you assume shifts in culture, you’ve got to look at the fighting styles. Gil doesn’t dodge and flip like an airbender, he attacks head-on. I’m inclined to Earth but Fire makes a lot of sense as well.
I’m most conflicted for Tarvek. Air? Water? Not Earth or Fire, except I can totally see him metalbending.
Bill and Barry dd canonically set fire to a third of their town (it was the part known as the Flesh Yards, so, understandable. But they definitely do fire.)
Gil and Klaus have to be Earth I think – they’ve got the solidity – but Gil mixes it up more, maybe because of his fondness for air. He can move more loosely and dodge more, even though he’s still got the refusal to budge.
Based on fighting style I think Tarvek’s probably air – he’s all dodging and feinting not because he has to be, but because it’s what he’s comfortable with. At least until he loses his temper and you meet the hurricane.
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