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scans_daily2016-05-31 10:36 pm
thanekos) wrote in scans_daily2016-05-31 10:36 pm
The Imperator of the Empirikul rose.
Stephen Strange lay before him.
The Sorcerer Supreme was beaten, like all the magic of his world, like all the others before him.
All that was left was the lighting of the pyres, the burning of the damned.
To those that'd trafficked in terrible power, the Imperator told his story.
He'd been of a people pledged to a monstrous god.
(I love this rendition- very flailing idiot god.)
" But not mine.
" My parents saved me with the only true force for good that exists in this or any other universe.. "
(He's groan-worthily exaggerated here, a bit, but the motivation at the heart of it's understandable.)
(The Empirikul've been criticized as Jason Aaron re-doing Gorr the God Butcher, creating an all-new big threat whose antagonism to the hero comes from their desire to effectively wipe one key part of their identity from all existence.
There's a definite similarity- both of them can be described as effectively trying to kill relationships between great powers and their supplicants. There's also a definite difference- Gorr went solely for the powers, which he knew would ultimately fail those who asked.
The Imperator's treating those who ask as what will fail everyone else; the power they ask for is just something to cut off. Any actual will on the other side's considered an interlocutor to let- maybe not by choice- be.)
(Dude must've burned his way through some archetypical-as-hell worlds for that to be the conclusion he draws.)
(That he's only largely burned away magic is a nice limitation of his threat, and a bit of hope for all the terrific things he's killed.)
" PRAETEREO EXEMPTUS! "
Strange and friends were taken away.
The Imperator found some consolation in burning Monako with his eyes.
(He's the last son of a dead world, rocketed away by his parents in defiance of their society. Dressed in a cape and possessed of fantastic abilities, he fights for an ideal.
I'd like to think that all spun out of him being conceived as somebody who just doesn't react well to magic.
Pagecount's 6 and just under 6/10ths of 20 from April's Doctor Strange #7.)
The Sorcerer Supreme was beaten, like all the magic of his world, like all the others before him.
All that was left was the lighting of the pyres, the burning of the damned.
To those that'd trafficked in terrible power, the Imperator told his story.
He'd been of a people pledged to a monstrous god.
(I love this rendition- very flailing idiot god.)
" But not mine.
" My parents saved me with the only true force for good that exists in this or any other universe.. "
(He's groan-worthily exaggerated here, a bit, but the motivation at the heart of it's understandable.)
(The Empirikul've been criticized as Jason Aaron re-doing Gorr the God Butcher, creating an all-new big threat whose antagonism to the hero comes from their desire to effectively wipe one key part of their identity from all existence.
There's a definite similarity- both of them can be described as effectively trying to kill relationships between great powers and their supplicants. There's also a definite difference- Gorr went solely for the powers, which he knew would ultimately fail those who asked.
The Imperator's treating those who ask as what will fail everyone else; the power they ask for is just something to cut off. Any actual will on the other side's considered an interlocutor to let- maybe not by choice- be.)
(Dude must've burned his way through some archetypical-as-hell worlds for that to be the conclusion he draws.)
(That he's only largely burned away magic is a nice limitation of his threat, and a bit of hope for all the terrific things he's killed.)
" PRAETEREO EXEMPTUS! "
Strange and friends were taken away.
The Imperator found some consolation in burning Monako with his eyes.
(He's the last son of a dead world, rocketed away by his parents in defiance of their society. Dressed in a cape and possessed of fantastic abilities, he fights for an ideal.
I'd like to think that all spun out of him being conceived as somebody who just doesn't react well to magic.
Pagecount's 6 and just under 6/10ths of 20 from April's Doctor Strange #7.)
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