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Welcome to the Trope Pantheons thread! Please read the rules:

    Rules 
Rules. The following are not suggestions or tips, but things that have to be followed:
  • When writing a profile, take note of the following:
    • The very first thing any contributor should do before working on an idea or a profile is to propose and nominate the idea on the Trope Pantheons discussion thread. In the forums, you must discuss with other users on adding ideas and seek their approval with sound reasoning, a paragraph of reasoning to justify taking a trope should be sufficient. This is done to see if your proposal is the best representative and so, in case your profile is turned down, you do not waste time writing something that others might not find suitable. You can also get some assistance in the forum thread by either asking for help and those interested asking if they can help. Attempting to work on ideas without a nomination and at least one net thumbs-up will not be accepted regardless of how much you have written already. Submissions that are added without discussion are likely to be deleted and those who violate those rules by adding Pantheon content without discussion will get reported to the mods.
    • If you feel the need to remove a character for some reason (poor quality, outdated titles, etcetera) and replace him/her with another or outright rework, please see what the other tropers think about this in the discussion thread before doing anything hasty. For reworks in particular, nominate the idea as you would with new characters or profiles. Use good reasoning to see if your idea can easily replace the character present without drawing out your statement or giving too ambiguous claims most do not understand.
      • In the same vein, if you adopt a profile from another troper, it is recommended that you make an announcement that you have done so on the discussion thread. More often than not, a trope that was reserved for something was given away to someone else. Check the Related tab on the top of a page to see if a trope or character has been reserved by a user, either in the Pantheon or the Sandbox sections.
    • If, for whatever reason, you are writing about a God who just happens to be a person in real life, just try to be very careful about what you decide to say. Do not try to make the editing seem too meta (self-referential) and use the creativity to create hypothetical scenarios towards fictional characters. Some real-life individuals, including content creators (fictional content created by them is still fair-game, but do not bring up the creators themselves in such cases), may be considered disqualified for profiles due to controversies that would make them concern the Rule of Cautious Editing Judgment. To determine where a current creator would be disqualified:
      • Wait for at least a month after the latest significant update for a creator's controversy before any decision can be made. If a confirmation from the questioned creator (or associates) themselves occurs, then wait for a week.
      • Immediate disqualification for either a guilty sentence in a significant court case against the creator, or evidence of consistently repeated, deliberate, and/or intentionally provocative hate speech and advocacy of dehumanizing perspectives, with lesser examples warranting caution instead.
      • For creators with a clear persona of their character disclosed before any scandal, the persona can have a profile with no mentioning of their real-life information. Ambiguous existence of a persona would have to be discussed further hand for anything more decisive.
    • For obvious reasons, gods cannot be followers, high priests, or heralds. The 'gods' have ascended meaning there is no need for said character to be a follower of another if they have ascended.
    • No hype profiles, please. 'Hype Profiles' are profiles that have been made out of ongoing events and have not been around for a long time. This creates 'hype' due to popularity and certain elements either through certain scenes, memes, dramatic acting or considered overly awesome. They are not bad tropes but building a portfolio solely for that is a bad idea, as they do not say a thing about representing the trope best (unless it's those trope concepts that they are trying to embody for a long time)
      • You can see one if the profile is only showing off how awesome they are or suddenly pushing how 'significant' they are thanks to the just very recent events rather than respecting the longstanding good representations of the trope. And usually having... minimum portfolio or flavor texts and being a bit too generalized or self-contained to events from within their home series instead of interacting with other Pantheon members.
  • When posting in the forum, take note of the following:
    • When you suggest a God, please explain why they fit the trope. Not everyone is going to understand just "X should be the God of Y because they exemplify the trope" off the bat, especially if they're unfamiliar with the work.
    • You must use the Trope Pantheons discussion thread in the forums if you wish to add a new deity, story, something else of importance to the Trope Pantheon canon, or reworking an existing deity (be it simply improving their existing profile or changing their title).
      • For new and reworked deities, 3 [tup] means the profile will have a one-week waiting period.
      • For new and reworked deities, 4 [tup] is a 3 day waiting period.
      • 5 [tup] is an automatic ascension for new and reworked deities.
      • Speaking of reworks, for anyone that wants to improve such profiles, they have to review the current trope the character(s) has and see if it still holds up or if there is a better rep for their trope.
    • For adding new Treasures to The Great Treasury or new Dominions to the Dominions Expansion, the following rules apply:
      • For new Treasures or Dominions, 3 [tup] is a 3 day waiting period.
      • 4 [tup] is an automatic addition to the Great Treasury or Dominions.
    • Do not repost a profile in the forums more than twice a day if noticeable changes have not been made in between. If a profile is posted a third time in a row without noticeable alterations, it will be downvoted. This is so spamming of no-effort profiles is less frequent and to prevent tropers from getting aggravated seeing the same profile over and over. The minimum acceptable change has to be one flavor text.
    • The Pantheon is not a mouthpiece for you to voice your opinions on certain characters. You may like certain characters more than others, but do not make the mistake of making profiles for characters you like to look like Character Shilling.
    • Every troper new to the Pantheon is barred from approving or downvoting profiles until they have ascended at least two profiles, this means avoiding the usage of "[tup]" or "[tdown]".
    • Do not include fan reception in any profiles. It has nothing to do with the character themselves and will create unnecessary conflict.
    • Write a detailed explanation on why the character is the best candidate for the deity of that trope. If people disagree with you, do not force it on the people.
    • Keep in mind that if you still want to try to find a trope for a particular character, you are only given three chances to find a particular trope for them. If a suggestion goes past three possible tropes, then it will come off as shoehorning a character into the Pantheon just for the sake of that character to be there.
      • On a related note, even if a character does have a free trope being suggested, there is still a limit of three attempts for suggesting that character for that trope. If no one responds to that certain proposal after being posted three times, then it will get to the point where the idea will be seen as being shoehorned into the Pantheon. In addition, the idea needs to be considered acceptable and approved because they are good, not for the sake of pitying others. After all, no one is responding to their idea.
    • You can also adopt a profile or idea to work on from another contributor by messaging a request to them (preferably through private messages). Even if you get their permission, you still have to announce your adoption to the forum. Note that if the idea wasn't nominated in the first place you still have to properly nominate it.
  • When posting Pantheon related stuff to the wiki, take note of the following:
    • Do not put a link to these Pantheon pages into the main wiki page. The moment you want to note in a trope example that the character is a God of this trope, do not do it. If you see leftovers of this practice, correct the situation by deleting the offending text. This goes for any non-Pantheon page. The only exception to this rule is if a page in the Pantheon could be confused for a page in Main, like Good Colors, Evil Colors and Pantheon.Good And Evil Colors.
    • Do not bring things that would incite fights; hot topics and 'urgent' news are not pertinent to the Pantheon's mission. For example, the political scene and some really bad politicians. We are not here to fight each other, so don't suggest things that go in that direction, this is a fictional Pantheon after all.
    • To add a Pantheon page for a certain work, 4 or more characters coming from the same series/franchise should be ascended before adding the page. For Creator specific pages, 4 deities coming from the same creator and 2 individual work pages coming from the same creator is the minimum to warrant a page.
    • Do not create a trope page for a story until the story is fully completed.
    Instructions and Tips 
Here are some tips one should keep in mind when editing:
  • When writing a profile for a character, here are a few things to note:
    • Please refer to Text Formatting Rules when writing a profile, since understanding how to make and edit site pages in general is a necessity for working on profiles or other Pantheon content. Additionally, if you are not experienced with English, refer to this forum page, as proper English spelling and grammar is expected.
    • All deities should be sorted by their divine ranking. Put Overdeities on the top of the page and Quasideities on the bottom. Also, be sure to add them in alphabetical order by their first/given name (can be reversed if it is Eastern ordered). For a group, if there is no official name for them all list down all their names by order of relevance or (if too long to list) title them as Insert Name Here Main Characters or some other identifiable title along the same lines.
    • The maximum number of tropes that a god can have is two, but do not try to abuse that fact. If you need to use a second trope to specify a certain thing about their position, that can be excused either because said character represents their trope choice very well alongside the first trope. It is still generally encouraged to only have one trope.
    • A trope can only belong to one profile at a time. The only time two profiles can share a trope is if there are explicit variations listed in the trope page proper (e.g. Muscle Angst is held by both Biscuit Krueger and Chihiro Fujisaki as the former represents "Too Much Muscle" and the latter represents "Not Enough Muscle")
    • If the character you are about to add to a House already exists in another, make sure to mention that this person has spots in another House as well. Up to 2 places can be made for a deity at most.
    • For a character's theme song, try to avoid calling it "Theme of God X" or "Theme of (Show where God X originates from)". If possible, try to find out if the song has an actual name through research. Most importantly, it has to be part of their series' official soundtracks from the media. Do not list songs that are made by fans or outside sources. If they were not specifically used as music for that specific character, then they do not count. Furthermore, it has to be a general theme specifically made for that characters' appearances, not some generic music that plays for many other instances not related to the character in question.
    • For images, when adding an image for your chosen character, it is highly recommended to use a stylized image that embodies the character or renders that also highlight a character's behavior (such as cool poses). Most images should be from the main adaptations of the character unless the images from the other media are of a higher quality than the adaptation. Unless it is needed, do not use fanart for images. If you are, please attribute it to the original artist. Due to the website's dark mode, removing white backgrounds from an image is paramount. This website is suggested to do the background removal. If an image you have takes up too many bytes, it is suggestible to use this site to reduce the byte size. If the byte is still too big, run the compressed image through other sites (or even the same one) to compress even further. Use wikis to look for better images, as even wikis for the series might not contain good official images.
    • Creativity is your friend. While it is not recommended to get too ditzy at your ideas, it is best that when writing a profile for a certain character, do you think of capable scenarios between X and Y. Tip: do not use shallow examples (X wields a sword and Y wields one too) and try to think of relationships that make sense (i.e those characters that are shout-outs for another).
  • Pantheon Content:
    • Some series or genres will eventually have greater representation in the Pantheon than others. This is unavoidable, but a little diversity helps to make you not look like a shill. Try to ensure that if you add a deity from a popular series, make sure that it is because they are a good representative for the trope in question, and not just because they are connected to another deity in their respective canon.
      • As far as deities from actual mythologies, there is generally an expectation to build the profiles off interactions from fictional portrays rather than basing it entirely from the actual myth. Therefore, a mythological deity should be more of a Composite Character whose main identity is from the actual myth.
    • Occasionally there will be Gods that carry a title without a trope. This is not forbidden, but it is well-advised not to abuse them. The only house where trope-less profiles are wholly allowed is the House of Food. Mainly due to most food items lacking tropes, and adding tropes about said foodstuffs is slightly unnecessary. However, the character being ascended for their choice of food, or food-related thing must be a decently good representative of said item. (i.e their Trademark Favorite Food, or something that they are closely associated with In-Universe, or both).
    • For Dominions and Treasures profiles, always consider what made those places/objects popular in the first place. Were they plot-important, identifiable imagery or have a unique aspect of it? Do not just bring regular objects under the basis of following a certain canon.
    • Do not write in self-promotion or blatant advertising. Minor references to something are fine but writing that clearly intends to advertise something will not be given toleration.
  • For Profile Standards:
    • Flavor text is used to describe certain things about a character, place, or object. To avoid short ones, it is recommended to write flavor text with 4-7 sentences that can fill around 2 lines each. Be warned that adding too many sentences does not equal good flavor text as it is not an essay of sorts (unless words are substantial and do add to the overall line).
    • Character Profiles of a certain person should have the following:
      • A portfolio that contains at least 7 (at the minimum) tropes describing their character.
      • Flavor text count for a deity profile should have by minimum, 10 (depending on if the character in question has enough relationships/characterization) to 15 with a maximum of 20-25 for an individual profile.
      • On the other hand, group profiles (profiles of a group that has 4 or more members) have their maximum flavor text count to 15 minimum, giving individual lines for the other members of the group (unless the members are not as characterized) up to 30 at max.
    • Dominion profiles of a certain place should have the following:
      • A portfolio that contains at least 5 (at the minimum) tropes describing the context of the place.
      • Flavor text count should range at least 10 to 15.
    • Treasure profiles (inanimate objects without a trope) should have the following:
      • A portfolio that contains at least 6 (at the minimum) tropes that describes the object itself.
      • Flavor text count should be at least 7 flavor text up to 12 to constitute a treasure profile.
    Divine Ranking System 
  • Overdeity: Omnipotent-level Reality Warper deities capable of manipulating the entire universe (or at least the world) at will. Within their own universe they are believed to be omnipotent, or at least impossible-to-completely-destroy embodiments or concepts.
  • Greater Gods: High-level Reality Warper deities that are extremely powerful (capable of destroying or changing anywhere from a large city to a planet at will) and very strong non-reality warpers capable of doing the same thing.
  • Intermediate Gods: Deities at this level are capable of strong but specialized powers such as hydrokinesis, pyrokinesis, etc. without major drawbacks and low-level Reality Warper beings capable of affecting their immediate area at will.
  • Lesser Gods: Capable of highly specific or little power on their own, or suffer from Power at a Price. However, they may be able to ruthlessly exploit their power or combine it with just being badass enough to make up for it.
  • Demigods: Badass Normal citizens of the pantheon, making up for their lower status with strength, strategy, and/or planning.
  • Quasideities: Any otherwise normal human, human equivalent, or below without any special powers or training will fall here.
    Templates 
Template for adding a new deity: God X, God/Goddess/Deity of (Insert Trope Here) (Alternate names/Nicknames, Fan Nickname)
  • An image, if possible. Please use official art or a screenshot for a picture.
  • Rank: This can range from Quasideity, Demigod, Lesser God, Intermediate God, Greater God, to Overdeity, based on the representation of power mentioned above.
  • Symbol: An image or icon used to represent the deity.
  • Theme Song: Official song (in other words, no fan music, regardless of quality) that usually is used in affiliation with the character. If the deity is a musician this will most likely be their Signature Song. If possible, give a link for reference, preferably on either a website like Soundcloud or YouTube.
  • Alignment: Good, evil, neutral, etc. Forget about The Great Character Alignment Debate here; the Pantheon is one of the few places where you can assign Dungeons & Dragons alignments to characters that don't have an alignment system. After all, the Pantheon is based on D&D and is made for fun.
  • For Pokémon deities only:
    • Gender: Defines the gender of the Pokémon; if genderless, it instead defines what gender they identify as.
    • Ability: Provides the Pokémon's ability. If they can Mega Evolve, the new ability is listed as well.
    • Moves: Defines the four moves used by a Pokémon. A Z-Move may also be listed.
  • Portfolio: Tropes associated with the character.
  • Domains: Things that the character has influence over.
  • Herald: Non-ascended loyal character that is from the same series as the ascended character.
  • High Priest: Non-ascended like heralds, but not from the same series, and can serve as a worthy replacement in case the deity would be unavailable, incapacitated, dead, or otherwise incapable of carrying out their duties. They can be served as part-time workers in case the originals are busy with some jobs. Co-Godhood is accepted depending on the approval of the originals, usually if the co-deity is from the same series.
  • Followers: Non-ascended characters that are not part of the Pantheon, but would probably worship this character by the fact that they share the ascended character's trope.
  • Relationships between ascended characters go here with your chosen character, it goes something like this:
    • Allies: Members of the Pantheon that are allies, those that share the same values as them and would theoretically be friends with them.

    • Rivals: Members of the Pantheon that are rivals, people who may look at your character with suspicion or a challenge.
    • Enemies: Members of the Pantheon that are foes, those who would see your chosen character as a threat, either from their perspective or yours.
    • Additional Character Relationships: Members of the Pantheon that do not fit in various relationships (examples include Enemy Mine, Vitriolic Best Buds, Teeth-Clenched Teamwork, Headbutting Heroes, Friendly Enemy, Friendly Rival, Just Friends, etc.), allies, rivals, or enemies.
    • Partner: Defines a partnership with an ascended deity and Mon-type. (if any)
    • Feared by/Fears: A deity whom the members of the Pantheon notably fear or are feared by.
    • Respected by/Respects: A deity whom the members of the Pantheon respect or are respected by.
    • Opposed by/Opposes: Not necessarily the same as "Enemies", but this is used for any deity whom the members of the Pantheon directly oppose or are opposed by (basically the opposite of "Respects", "On Good Terms With", and/or "Commonality Connection") in terms of certain viewpoints, regardless of alignment.
    • Pitied by/Pities: A deity whom the members of the Pantheon feel pity for or are found pitiable by.
    • Conflicting Opinion: Sometimes, the Deities argue over specific themes and philosophies.
      • OPTIONAL NOTE FOR CHARACTER RELATIONSHIPS: Should the list for Character relationships (IE. Allies, Enemies, etc.) become too big, categorize a certain number of characters to a specific group putting them on a sublist (One example: Luigi is from the same world as his brother Mario, hence Luigi should be fall under the Super Mario Bros sublist.)
  • Add the Intro. The intro is made up of two trivia, the Ascension Text (or just the Ascension) and The Bio. Both are necessary, but which order you use for them may vary depending on the profile in question. It may be better for one profile to have The Bio first and the Ascension second or vice-versa, although for the most part, the order is irrelevant:
    • The Ascension Text: This is the story of how the character got into the Pantheon and/or was ascended. There are many ways for this to happen. They may be tricked into it or have simply wandered into the Pantheon, they may have had an already ascended character bring them in, they may already be in the Pantheon (via being another deity's Herald or sharing a trope) and got "promoted", or some combination of the above. Anything is possible in the Pantheon, so use your imagination, but try to incorporate their trope into the story, if possible.
    • The Bio: A brief synopsis of the character's backstory. No need for the character's entire life/production history, but just give enough that those who don't know the character can get an idea of how the character works.
  • Now add some random trivia/facts about events/alignments/moments/fights/friendships/relations etc.
  • And some more trivia/facts.
  • And a couple more.
    • Note: Standard amount of flavor text for Deities/Characters is 10-15 (15-20 for group profiles) at minimum to 20-25 (30 for group profiles) at maximum.
Template for Dominions profiles: Place X, Place of (Insert Trope Here) (Alternate names/Nicknames, Fan Nickname)
  • An image, if possible. Please use official art or a screenshot for a picture.
  • Theme Song (Optional): Not important as compared to Deity and Dominion profiles but a notable mention if there is an accompanying song in use with the object.
  • Alignment: Refers to the dominion's role in their story, be it those used by villains or used by the Player Character.
  • Portfolio: Tropes associated with the dominion.
  • Domains: Things that the place has links to.
  • Relationships (Optional): Unless the location has a connection with a specific deity, relationships are optional and may not be required. However, if there are deities linked to the same series as to where the dominion is linked to, note them using the relationships, this includes deities that theoretically have interest with said dominion, good or evil otherwise.
  • Add the Intro. Here the introduction of the Dominion is added with some tidbits regarding the origins of its' creation and usage in the story. You can also add what made it popular/iconic/important here.
  • Now add some random trivia/facts about events/alignments/moments/fights/friendships/relations etc.
  • And some more trivia/facts.
  • And a couple more.
    • Note: Standard amount of flavor text for Dominions is 10 at minimum to 15 at maximum.
Template for Treasure profiles: The name of the item in here (Alternate names/Nicknames, Fan Nickname)
  • An image, if possible. Please use official art or a screenshot for a picture.
  • Appearance: A shortened description of the item's looks with some notable features also mentioned.
  • Class: Refer to the Treasure Classification System in the Great Treasury.
  • Alignment: Refers to the objects' role in their story, be it those used by villains or used by the Player Character.
  • Theme Song (Optional): Not important as compared to Deity and Dominion profiles but a notable mention if there is an accompanying song in use with the object.
  • Museum Check: A note that says whether the item is viewable by the public.
  • Portfolio: Tropes associated with the item.
  • Domains: Things that the item has links to.
  • Relationships (Optional): Unless the item has a connection with a specific deity, relationships are optional and may not be required. However, if there are deities linked to the same series as to where the item is linked to (especially the original owner of the item), note them using the relationships, this includes deities that theoretically have interest with said object, good or evil otherwise.
  • Add the Intro. Here the introduction of the Treasure is added with some tidbits regarding the origins of its' creation and usage in the story. You can also add what made it popular/iconic/important here.
  • Now add some random trivia/facts about events/alignments/moments/fights/friendships/relations etc.
  • And some more trivia/facts.
  • And a couple more.
    • Note: Standard amount of flavor text for Treasures is 7 at minimum to 12 at maximum.

Edited by Tabs on Jun 24th 2024 at 7:51:43 AM

RadioContactLine Not The Kind of Worm You Wanna Meet from the land of Mormons and Swig (Utah, U.S.A) (Life not ruined yet) Relationship Status: love is a deadly lazer
Not The Kind of Worm You Wanna Meet
#214426: Feb 2nd 2025 at 2:47:24 PM

[up] [tup]

I'm wondering, should I make Demons and Legendary Beings redirects to Demons and Devils and Fantastical Beasts? I made them disambiguation-type pages, but now I'm concerned that might be misusing it.

Edited by RadioContactLine on Feb 2nd 2025 at 3:53:02 AM

Ready to rock?
DoodSlayer136 It's Him from SAGE (Snick Amateur Game Expo) (Experienced, Not Yet Jaded) Relationship Status: Shipping fictional characters
It's Him
#214427: Feb 2nd 2025 at 3:45:07 PM

[up][up][tup]

Alright, so after a break from the Pantheon i'm back with a new suggestion! This one's in the Hype sandbox, but its only a few hours until it expires and to compensate i'll wait till tomorrow to post them:

  • Anton and Annie for Video Game Dashing: The main protagonists of both games, drink-obsessed demolition workers who get into various adventures. Both games they're in feature a dash known as a "clutch", which boosts them forward. Both games have various advanced tech that one can do to make them better, such as boosting off of beaten enemies to gain speed or chaining dashes to go faster, with both games revolving around the dash as the main way of getting around.

Edited by DoodSlayer136 on Feb 2nd 2025 at 3:51:36 AM

Excessive-Menace Time to SLEEP from the Velvet Cage (Fifth Year at Tropey's) Relationship Status: Dancing with myself
Time to SLEEP
#214428: Feb 2nd 2025 at 3:58:56 PM

[up] [tup]

[up][up] I turned Storytelling into a redirect to Storytelling Methods, so I'm fine with redirecting those too.

SING TO ME, LEND ME THE SONG OF BLASPHEMY
RJ-19-CLOVIS-93 from New Zealand (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#214429: Feb 2nd 2025 at 4:02:01 PM

Are there other interactions I should add to these two? With Nux I want to consider those who broke out of a cult/martyrdom culture or have a death sentence of sorts and sort out meaning in their short life

Dementus, God of Prioritizing Conquest Over Rulership (Lord of Bikerdom, (former) Lord Guardian of Gastown, the Red/Dark/Great Dementus)

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Nux, God of Baldness Indicating Sickness

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  • Halls: Diseases (House of Health and Diseases), Body Absence (House of Personal Appearance)
  • Quasideity
  • Symbol: The engine tattoo located on his chest
  • Theme Song: Walhalla Awaits
  • Alignment: Chaotic Good (formerly Lawful Neutral when working under Immortan Joe)
  • Portfolio: A Mortally Irradiated Bald Guy And Antagonist (barely) until a Heel–Face Turn, Martyrdom Culture, Death Seeker, Honestly More Pathetic Than Threatening As A Villain, Friendly Even Back Then, Mook–Face Turn, Handicapped Badass, Tritagonist, proving Love Redeems, Ultimately Wants Friends More Than Anything, Finds He Doesn't Want To Die, But Will Brave It For The Right Reasons, Dying Moment of Awesome
  • Domains: Martrydom, Illnesses, Amiability, Mechanics, Cars, Courage, Sacrifice
  • Allies: Max Rockatansky, Imperator Furiosa, Zuko, Peridot, Finn (Star Wars), Spartacus, Wally, N (Pokemon), Jojo Betzler, Maria Robotnik, Proto Man, Eugene Root, Enju Aihara
  • On good terms with: Benevolent Healers and Physicians, Daenerys Targaryen, William A Zeppeli
  • Enemies: Immortan Joe (his former superior), Dementus, Voldemort, Padres de la Muerte, Ghetsis Harmonia, Nazi deities, Count Orlok
  • Respects: Saitama
  • Respected by: The Wolf (Puss in Boots), Alucard (Hellsing)
  • Dismissive of: Walter White, Leeroy Jenkins
  • Wary of: The Hall of Vampires
  • Confused by: Living cars like Lightning McQueen and Doc Hudson
  • The War Boys are the battle fodder for the Citadel under Immortan Joe, terminally ill as a result of radiation exposure and birth defects and requiring regular blood transfusions to keep them going. They're raised on a Martyrdom Culture where Immortan Joe is their god and they should die historically to enter Valhalla. Despite being mechanics they worship the cars used in part because of their greater endurance, being part of the Cult of the V8. Their obsession with glorious death ultimately as a sign of brutal psychological conditioning as well as denial of their own vulnerability and fear, which keeps them insanely, self-destructively violent and suicidally loyal. Nux was one War Boy though asides from driving and other mechanical things he wasn't a good minion and honestly a Nice Guy who didn't get why Joe's "wives" would run from him. Over the course of the movie he'd end up bonding with Max Rockatansky and Imperator Furiosa, realizing he actually wants to live and find purpose beyond martydom. Eventually becoming one of the good guys he'd find a true glorious death; dying for the sake of his friends, flipping the War Rig to save the group and stop Rictus Erectus.
  • Nux woke up in the Trope Pantheon in a white medical room, with blood bags and other medical amenities that were lost in the post-apocalypse. Modern medical technology that couldn't cure him of his ailments but mitigate the worst of it. At first he thought he had entered paradise, but when he saw Max and Furiosa there he feared they didn't make it. It took a bit, but they explained he was part of a sort of but not really divinity...it's complicated. The point is they were alive but he was in a place where he could see them again, along with people from timelines he never imagined. With the good news came the bad news; not only did Immortan Joe find new life in the pantheon, but Nux's ascension saw an old enemy of Furiosa's ascending; Dementus. Not that he knows who he is, though with his loyalty to his friends he considers him an enemy. The trope he ascended under, Baldness Means Sickness, does not stop him from being a capable driver and force to be reckoned with, at least in the right circumstances. In a straight mano e mano he's more of a Boisterous Weakling, but he's very determined. Interestingly despite being from totally different genres and franchises he ended up forming a respect for Saitama due to being a hero that's bald, but healthy and comically overpowered.
  • Because of his pantheonic status he can't actually succumb to his various medical conditions, but he's still sickly despite the resources and his body can barely produce any marrow at this point. His temple is basically a hospital, and he's taken the opportunity to gain much-needed medical knowledge. Nux dreads the Padres de la Muerte and has learned to keep to himself and avoid almost anything disease-related. One exception to this is Typhoid Mary and resident of the same Hall as his, Enju Aihara, who he thinks is adorable and has tried to be like a protective older brother for her. Max and Furiosa have been trying to repay him by paying for medical expenses so he can visit physicians in the pantheon to help him with his various ailments, though the attempts to cure him outright failed as the damage has already been done. Tonio Trussardi wasn't able to figure it out since he's not some medical god, even if he did temporarily allow his body to generate healthy amounts of bone marrow again. It was an exciting time for Nux anyway since he's never have the opportunity to have luxurious Italian cuisine before, much less the impossibly tasty results of the Pearl Jam Stand.
  • Nux and Maria first met during a hospital visit. Maria isn't as obviously ill as Nux however she has a congenital illness, Neuro-Immunodeficiency Syndrome, and part of why she was on the Space Colony ARK was because the environment helped put it in remission for a time. The other part is that that's where her grandfather was researching a cure due to his deal with and connections to the government. She caught on to him looking and studying schematics for different cars, and thought his mechanical skills were pretty neat. Nux noticed she has surprising engineering knowledge for a twelve-year-old, indicating she could've become just as brilliant as her grandfather or cousin if she didn't die young. One of the subjects the two talked about was Nux expressing his confusion at the existence of sentient vehicles with the hindsight of his former Cargo Cult, such as Lightning McQueen. He still has no idea how Doc Hudson could die of old age, though he supposes living cars are a different animal. The former War Boy has taken up a hobby studying and testing different car models in the Hall of Land and Sea Travel.
  • A later hospital visit Nux got was meeting the Pokemon trainer Wally, an asthmatic who was able to become a prodigy in spite of his illness. Nux felt that kind of resonated with him and he was interested to learn Paldea has a living car engine known as the Varoom line; one day he hopes to meet a Revavroom in person and study it up close. Another Pokémon deity he got along with was N. N was once like him, someone who was raised under a misguided belief for a charismatic yet selfish man who fully saw him as disposable once he served his purpose. The kicker is that N's "selfish man" was his adoptive father. The two are rather childish and stuntish in their development, though they have grown out of it somewhat after realizing what they were being fed too were lies. Having spent his entire life in a wasteland, the lush settings in N's series fascinate Nux. Another hospital visit had him meet with Eugene Rootnote , someone who's healthy but quite physically deformed as a result of an attempted suicide, that found his own reason to continue living even if he has Nux's level of misfortune.
  • Jojo Betzler became friends with Nux as he too naively believed in a brutal dictatorship until he grew up and realized how cruel and not so well-intentioned it really was, and how it threw its men into the meat grinder for the selfish few in charge. The Third Reich would probably not be all that fond of being compared to Immortan Joe's Citadel but Nux did notice similarities in that aspect. Since the Nazis "euthanized" the physically handicapped it gives Nux a more personal reason to oppose them. Because of his past as a slave in a warrior cult, Spartacus and Daenerys reached out a hand to him and said that if Immortan Joe was still causing problems in the mortal world they would be there to ensure his fellow War Boys find freedom in the end. Nux doesn't look to his time as one of the War Boys with much pride. He gets second-hand embarassment towards Leeroy Jenkins for, well, being a chaotic idiot during battle.
  • The War Boys weren't literal vampires, but with their almost ghoulish appearances and taking blood from captives to survive they feel vampire-adjacent. Despite his frailties he's not considered a target by any of the actual vampires as they see his blood as poisonous, though he's still understandably wary of them. One of the vampires present, the No-Life King Alucard, has some respect for Nux as he's a human who accepted his mortality and found purpose in his limited lifespan beyond just the Martyrdom Culture he was indoctrinated in. Another vampire, the notorious Count Orlok saw a little bit of himself as this physically ghoulish and vulnerable taker of blood. It's a physical similarity he finds amusing as he's a monster in the literal and figurative sense and Nux is not that. As a spreader of the plague, Nux has another reason to stay the hell away from him.
  • The Wolf, an incarnation of Death, initially didn't think much of him as he felt he didn't value his own life even if he easily accepted his mortality, but he changed his tune when he decided life was valuable but still would face death courageously. By contrast, Voldemort couldn't possibly fathom why he was so fearless of his own mortality as he's done everything and transgressed moral lines to remain on the mortal plane. Nux detests Voldemort for all the horrible things he's done, and while telling him to his face is a mistake he won't make he does wonder; if love, compassion and most positive emotions are alien to him, what would even be the point of being immortal outside of his crippling Mortality Phobia? Voldemort is also a bald, melanin-deprived individual but that's less because of any health concerns and more being so immersed in dark magic and horcrux creation has his body reflect the torn apart state of his soul.
  • He's been discussing outlooks on mortality with some other deities. Since he went bald as a result of a terminal illness he was asked what he feels about Walter White, who went bald and turned to crime due to his cancer diagnosis. Nux is dismissive of the guy because he feels he became too selfish and petty over time, plus after distancing himself from the War Boys he wants to avoid old habits like getting high off paint fumes so he's not all that fond of drug dealers. Proto Man has tried to keep it secret but due to an error in his design his time is limited in spite of being a robot, but he has found meaning in choosing to be free over having it fixed. Nux thinks the fact he's chosen his personality and own free will as more important is admirable. He's been talking about mortality with William Zeppeli, a man who knew of his destiny to die in a Heroic Sacrifice embraced it, agreeing with Nux that even if you find reason to live it is never a sin to die a truly right reason.
  • One of Nux's closest friends is a former Stromtrooper known as Finn. Finn might not be on death's door but they have a remarkable amount of similarities. Both were indoctrinated in a dictatorship to serve basically as cannon fodder, but they were kind of crap at actually doing the dirty work. Nux was more of an Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain while Finn was even more of a softie, wanting out of the system after first seeing combat and seeing one of his comrades die. The catalyst for Nux's Heel–Face Turn was one of Joe's wives, Capable, who he was an Implied Love Interest to. He's made friends with some other redeemed villains like Zuko and Peridot.

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#214430: Feb 2nd 2025 at 4:59:31 PM

New page and new day. Since no one gave me feedback the last time I posted for Kanai Ward. I don't know if I should try again today. I don't know if I am ready for votes. But if I am wrong and I am actually ready for votes, everyone in my TBD list is getting the boot! Any thoughts?

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Mr
#214431: Feb 2nd 2025 at 7:05:28 PM

@ A.K.I.: [tup].

[up]Have you got the minimum ten favour text paragraphs for the area?

Edited by neoamon on Feb 2nd 2025 at 3:07:46 PM

"May your heart be your guiding key"
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#214432: Feb 2nd 2025 at 10:09:19 PM

posting again, yeah.

so Startos, I'm finally starting work on hm and feel happy about him, though he needs some more paragraphs, so feel free to suggest interactions ideas. the Iterators though I feel are in a good shape, so feel free to give thumbs if you so desire. but still, suggestions are welcome!

    Stratos 
"I am Stratos. God of Air and Supreme Lord of the Heavens. Bringer of Storms. Mover of the Firmament. Ah, let's do be honest, shall we, in any halfway-civilized world, I would be the only god."

Stratos, God Of Baleful Balloons

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Click here for Stratos's Servants
  • Hall: House Of Items And Objects (Ambigious Ranking)
  • Symbol: His very own head
  • Theme Song: Empyrea
  • Alignment: True Neutral
  • Portfolio: God of Winds And The Heavens, Jerkass Gods, Large Ham Figuratively And Literally Full Of Hot Air, Can't STAND Not Being The Only God, Made A Deal With A Demon Lord To Get Rid Of Those Gods, Above Good and Evil, Balloon of Doom
  • Domains: Air, Ice, Lightning, Knowledge, Egotism
  • Heralds: The Servants
  • On Good Terms With: Hexxus, Wan Shi Tong
  • Tools: The Henpire, The Mantis, The Glukkons, The Vux, The Salmonids, Balloon Boy
  • Rivals: Zamasu, Eneru, Zeus, Ouranos, Al'Akir, Susasno'o, Nut, all literal gods to some extent
  • On Poor Terms With: All Grand United Alliances, The Court Of The Gods, the Nostalgia Critic, Pennywise
  • Enemies: Gorr the God Butcher, Rayquaza, Persephone, The Monkeys Kratos and and his allies
  • Adores: The Hall Of Knowledge
  • There once was a nameless void comprised of floating islands. when its creator had died repelling a demon invasion, his death brought upon a new generation of gods to lead the world. From the humble master of soil, James, to the sadistic and bloodthristy god of death, Charnel. But, Stratos, The 5th and final god, would quickly cement his reputation in the years to come.... Stratos being both the god of the heavens (known there as "Empyrea") AND knowledge had resulted in Stratos gaining what was probably one of the biggest egos in the OMNIVERSE. using his massive intellect, he sewed discord across the land, and spurred a war between the gods to get them to slaughter eachother, and even summoned a demon lord from beyond, Marduk, to seal the deal. all of this, just so that he could be the ONLY God to rule. thankfully, in most outcomes of the war, Marduk betrays and decimates Stratos from existence before getting killed himself, but in one particular turn of events, Stratos gets the gods destroyed AND gets his minion to kill Marduk, finally getting the singular Godhood he desired.
  • The god of Air, Heavens and the Firmament in his universe, he sought a hostile takeover over the Trope Pantheon and establish himself as the one true god. With so many other deities seeking that, he was basically told to "get in line". His hubris had gained the attention of Zeus, the king of the Greek gods and a sky god, who thought Stratos "walking talking some mad shit for a glorified balloon" and began fighting with him to maintain supremacy after Persephone pointed out some of the BS he was responsible for her incarnation in Sacrifice held to deal with. Zeus' grandfather Ouranos was somewhat amused by all this, as while Zeus is a sky god he is the sky, albeit one made impotent in more ways than one. The primordial sky god also considers Stratos a rival. Stratos finds Zeus selfish, egotistical and hypocritical, which is true, but he's not one to talk. Barring some adaptations Zeus considers maintaining some sort of order and preserving sacred things like hospitality important.
  • His domain over air and the heavens leads him to fixate on other deities of the air and heavens, like the aforementioned Zeus and Ouranos. Rayquaza was upset by how Stratos was disrupting the balance of things and causing problems in the stratosphere, and came to confront the god, however ended up retreating after Stratos pulled out an ice attack. He may take the form of a balloon and a helium tank but he's still a god. He is often present in the Hall of Wind and Air proclaiming his own greatness and importance there, as the bringer of storms and mover of the firmament. Because of his divine sphere of influence, there's an air of legitimacy. While all literal deities are rivals, he takes those sharing domains like Al'Akir his more serious rivals. He also sees Eneru as a rival as while human he has very similar haughtiness and aloofness, having been the rule of Skypiea. Susano'o is another notable rival because of mutual egotism, and Nut as she is an Egyptian goddess of the sky.
  • While his overall mission is against most gods, seeing them as rivals to his power and wanting to be the only true god, he doesn't really have an intense hatred for most of them. To him they're more like checks on a list, waiting to be taken care of. But there are some gods out there who can elicit some SLIGHT emotion from him. Take Zamasu, who seeks to be the only god and only excluded literally another version of himself. However his outward motivation is supposedly more righteous; he believes mortals are bastards and must be cleansed from the multiverse. To him killing other gods is justified because they would stand in the way of his grand design. Stratos thinks that design is terrible and is openly challenging Zamasu, calling him out for everything. Gorr the God Butcher considers another prevalant example of why the multiverse would be better off without divinity and is readying himself to shatter Stratos' illusions of greatness...violently.
    • Speaking of god-killers, after hearing of a being that was opposing Zeus, Kratos wondered who this being could be, so he went to search of it. After learning who Stratos is and what it plans to do, he and his family and allies went to stop the god of heaven to accomplish his plans. Stratos regarded Kratos as a minor inconvenience and a small threat until his entire fought Kratos and got demolished within the span of 30 minutes. Startos only managed to survive since Kratos found him while he was marching his troops around, thus his Altar was far away from there. still, the paranoid god has been setting up some defenses near his Altar.
  • It should be noted that Stratos, while having done heinous crimes and enjoying the act of scheming, is NOT OPENLY MALEVOLENT. Stratos detests as he puts it, "Melodramatic, and irrelevant notions of right and wrong", and he perceives himself as Above Good and Evil. He has no interest in serving or working for the Grand United Alliance of Good or Grand United Alliance of Evil, though with his pomposity and self-absorbed goals the former would've never accepted him anyway. He's not all that fond of the Court of the Gods but not entirely because of their natural nature; he wants to convert their court to his own throne. He is trying to converting those who aren't literally deities (thus aren't opposition) to his cult. The Salmonoids and Henpire have come to worship him for his destructive power, why other followers have more ulterior motives. Though fouler in more ways than one Hexxus has come to like Stratos as his plans for demolishing the Court of the Gods, giving him reign to put more factories in place. There's a certain amount of mutual narcissism about their kindred relationship since they are both by the same guy.
  • Stratos' true form is "too divine for mortal eyes to bear", so someone as cerebral as they are celestial prefers a sleek, refined and dignified form; a humanoid figure with a balloon for a head attached to a helium tank. With this appearance and his goals, he found an actual niche in the Trope Pantheon as the god of Baleful Balloons. Balloons are hardly the most threatening object under most circumstances, which is what the Nostalgia Critic believed when he reviewed the 1990 IT film. That is, until a sentient balloon with hyper-realistic eyes began stalking him, and at the end of the review seemingly murdered him. Pennywise uses red balloons as a calling card, and while for Stratos they symbolize his domain over the air IT uses them as a symbol of subverted innocence alongside his clownish appearance. IT is not well-regarded by Stratos who sees the entity as a primitive and gluttonous cretin. As mentioned, he sees himself as amoral/beyond morals, and the cruelty of Pennywise is beyond him. He does like Pennywise's voice, though, but that's more because it reminds him of his own. Cuphead and Mugman have experience fighting a living balloon known as Beppi the Clown. Unlike Pennywise Beppi wasn't necessarily evil, but he was in debt to the Devil of Inkwell Isles and at the time Cuphead and Mugman were sent to collect. They made up in the end, but that didn't stop Beppi from being a tough opponent. Stratos has been watching them because of this, however he doesn't see the need to escalate that into conflict. His interest in other balloons led him to seek out Balloon Boy as an ally, though "toy" is a more accurate way of putting it.
  • Loves the House of Knowledge and has been spending his days frequenting it. Stratos isn't like Melkor or Nekron as he's not in a rush to conquer the Trope Pantheon. He boasts that the great libraries that hold the chronicles of our time are to be found in Empyre. However he will confess that the tomes of Wan Shi Tong rival his own.
  • The Monkeys were FURIOUS upon learning about his ascension, since not only was he an antagonistic balloon like their sworn enemies, the "Bloons", but he was also a threat to pretty much the entire pantheon! while Stratos's avatar is non-corporeal, so he can't really be "popped", he is rather frustrated on how surprisingly strategic and powerful their forces are, ranging from devastating weapons of war to the arcane arts! Stratos is also frustrated how his army can be beat by them if they only just stand in ONE SPOT for the entire fight.
  • his servants and what they do.

    The Iterators 
The Iterators (Looks to the Moon, Five Pebbles, No Significant Harassment, Seven Red Suns and Sliver of Straw), Divine Representatives of Eternal Iteration (Moons, LttM, Pebbles, 5P, NSH, Suns, 7RS, SoS and Straw)
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Looks to the Moon
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Five Pebbles
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No Significant Harassment
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Seven Red Suns
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Sliver of Straw
  • Intermediate Gods in their cans, Quasideity in their puppets
  • Symbol: The marks in the foreheads of their Puppets.
  • Alignment: Neutral Good
  • Theme: Reflection of the Moon (Theme of Looks to the Moon), Random Gods (Five Pebbles' theme)
  • Portfolio: Monkeys on a Typewriter, Absurdly Dedicated Worker, They aren't just the puppets, but rather a massive super-structure shaped-like a cube that makes them, Cannot commit suicide due to self-termination taboo programmed into them, Can last a ridiculous amount of time without maintenance, But will soon break down, Depressed that they won't ever find the solution to the Great Problem, They have their own version of Discord.
  • Domains: Iteration, Bio-Technology, Unfulfilled Purposes, Rain, Pearls, Slugcats
  • Heralds: Chasing Wind, Epoch of Clouds, Erratic Pulse, Gazing Stars, Halved Forest, Pleading Intellect, Secluded Instinct, Unparalleled Innocence, Wandering Omen
  • Allies: The good aligned members of The House of Nature and the House of Science such as Captain Planet, Aang, etc, Jenny Wakemen/XJ-9, Hal 9000, Roz, Bastion, and Zenyatta
  • Friendly Rivalry with: GLaDOS
  • Enemies: The evil aligned members of The House of Nature and the House of Science such as Mesogog, Cell, Dr Eggman, Ultron, etc and The Eco-Villains
  • Interested in: The Eeves
  • The Iterators were a line of massive semi-biological supercomputers by the Benefactors with the sole objective to solve the Great Problem, find a way to escape the Great Cycle without the usage of Void Fluid. To work functionally and to avoid overheat, the Iterators consumed massive amounts of water to cool themselves down, creating bone-shattering rains due to the massive amounts of water steam that they released into the atmosphere. The Iterators worked hard to find a way to solve the Great Problem but no matter how many time they iterated, it seemed like the Great Problem was impossible to be solved, this got so bad that the Benefactors decided to use the Void Fluid anyways, leaving the Iterators behind with a seemingly impossible task. That is until one of them, Sliver of Straw found the Triple Affirmative, affirmative that a solution has been found, affirmative that the solution is portable, and affirmative that a technical implementation is possible and generally applicable. Unfortunately, Sliver of Straw mysteriously died, something that was thought impossible due to the Benefactors making them nigh-indestructible and programmed them with self-destruction taboos. This threw the rest of the Iterators into massive hysteria and chaos, some of them believed that Sliver of Straw finally found the solution they looked for so long but others thought that she found nothing and they should just move on. Many thing happened afterwards this, as one of the Iterators called Five Pebbles attempted to override the self-destruction taboo that was coded inside of every Iterator but this lead another Iterator called Looks to the Moon (who was built very close to him) to overheat as FP was using too much water for himself and subsequentyly break down. 2 other Iterator called No Significant Harassment and Seven Red Suns started to use creatures known as Slugcats to send messages after their communication tower failed. Time passes and a mysterious Slugcat called the Saint ascends FP and LttM, with the fate of the others in mystery.
    • The reason why the Benefactors wanted to ascend the Great Cycle was because it was a cycle of reincarnation where they constantly died and revived the next cycle, constantly. This drove them mad, making their entire civilization a highly spiritual one where they tried to get themselves rid of every vice and physical attachment from the world to "ascend" the Great Cycle. One day, they discovered the Void Fluid, a liquid that dissolved them so thoroughly that they didn't come back next cycle. The Benefactors started to throw themselves into this liquid, drilling them out into the surface to make it accessible for everyone, making many scientific breakthroughs with it. Until one of them didn't dissolve and became and Echo, a remnant of their physical attachments that was not allowed to ascend, leaving them into a state of life and death. This terrified the Benefactors and was the reason why the Iterators were built, to solve the Great Problem that was ascend without using Void Fluid.
    • Motivated by Sliver of Straw's death and because he was simply tired of it all, Five Pebble received information by Seven Red Suns on how to override the self-destruction taboo. And so, he worked on it, draining more water to cool himself down than usual do to how much effort he putted in the experiment, but this would lead the Senior Iterator of his local group, Looks to the Moon to not have her share of water and started to heat up, with no way to contact FP because he blocked all communication to focus on his experiment. Getting tired of this behavior, Moons used her Senior authority to contact Five Pebbles, but this caused him to lose concentration for a moment and accidentally make cysts that slowly but steadily ate through his bio-components, which was dubbed as the Rot. Pebbles gets angry at Moon for making him lose concentration and blocks her out, with her can finally breaking down due to overheat. Seven Red Suns feels guilty of what happend and tried to contact Five Pebbles and Looks to the Moon with the Slugcats he and No Significant Harrasment trained, while Five Pebbles was furious that he got told off for causing Moons to break, he was actually very sorry for what he did to Moon so when NSH managed to make a Slugcat called the Hunter reactivate Moon, she used her restored powers to contact Five Pebbles, forgiving him for all of the damage he has caused.
  • After Saint had ascended Moons and Pebbles, they both woke up realized that they were no longer in their cans and they were in their puppet forms, then realized that they ended up in a weird place and soon after NSH, Suns and even Straw came with them. They were several arguing and fights when they all met but in the end when they calmed down, they were all happy to finally meet each other again. As soon as he could, Suns apologizes to everyone for giving Pebbles the information that ended in the creation of the Rot but then Straw deeply apologized that her discovery ended with several other Iterators argued and fought with each other, dividing them more than she thought. In the end, the five Iterators made peace with one another and decided to team up to understand where they even were.
  • After some walking they find a underground facility where they meet a robot named GLaDOS, the way that she was built reminded them of how their puppets were attached into their chambers and having full control of the facility. When they asked where they were, GLaDOS explained to them that they are now in a world known as the Pantheon, and then she snarked about how this 5 dumb robots shouldn't even be here and told them to get out. Pebbles got angry but the rest told him to just listen to her and left the facility through an elevator she called.
  • After coming to the surface, the saw their massive cans in the horizon, wondering how those got there if supposedly only their puppets left their old world. Each Iterator decided to return to their respective cans to see what was going on and know how it got there, only to discover nothing when they reached to their cans, with Moons and Pebbles surprised that their cans were all repaired and clean from Rot. Deciding to settle in their own cans as base, they decided to build an comms antenna to stay online with each other. Soon they realized they weren't the only ones that were ascended as soon after, multiple fauna and flora of their previous world were also appearing around their surroundings.
  • Shortly after they settled in their new homes, more and more Iterators and their cans suddenly appeared out of nowhere, with many of them detailing that the last thing they saw was a mysterious, green and fuzzy slugcat appearing to them and hit them with an unknown but powerful force. Then they woke up in a zone nearby of their cans and settled in theirs. When asked of how they ascended, No Significant Harassment and Seven Red Suns answered that they also met a green slugcat before ascending while Sliver of Straw can't recall what happened to her to reach here. Moons deduced that whoever that slugcat was, it was ascending all manners of creatures, for what purpose she didn't know but she started to believe that this slugcat was the Triple Affirmative that Sliver of Straw had discovered so many years ago and she was thankful for that creature as her family is slowly coming together thanks to them.
  • As more Iterators were ascending, they also realized that they needed coolant to avoid overheat. Soon, they started creating a pipe system to siphon all the water in the area as well of siphoning the water that made the clouds to not rely completely on the surface water, which annoyed GLaDOS a lot as their construction efforts were annoying her while she was doing highly scientific experiments, making matters worse since Aperture's underground facilities were quite close to the Iterator's territory. As they no longer needed to search an answer to the Great Problem, the Iterators passed their time doing scientific experiments and sometimes doing it with GLaDOS, chat with each other about their findings, tend to the ecosystem that surrounded them or just play with their slugcat pets. With the heavy rains they created and the hostile fauna that surrounded them, none really dared to enter their territory as they were afraid the rain or aggressive animals could destroy even their most protected vehicles (while GLaDOS was super annoyed of how loud the rains were, at least they decided to help her facilities supported such amounts of force that hit her labs and pad it to lessen the noise). And to maximize all the new space they had, the Iterators started to build their cans atop of cans, each a maximum of three to avoid collapsing on their own weight and started to build smaller and even mobile cans.
  • Wondering what was beyond their territory, they sent a signal about their location, set a safe route for outsiders to enter their cans and meet new faces. Later, representatives of the house of Nature came to them and told them off that they were siphoning too much water and were leaving not enough water for the members of the hall of water and moisture. As compensation for the inconveniences they caused, the Iterators decided to lessen their consumption of water and give them special products that they could use for their ecosystem and since they already were trying to lessen their consumption of water to maximize their productivity, a quick alliance was created between the Iterators and the house of Nature, with their territory now dubbed as the Rain World due to the frequency and bone-shattering strength of the rains.
  • Thanks to their keenly scientific mind, the house of Science also sent some representatives where they greeted them with warmth and promised to make great scientific breakthroughs. Thanks to the new ecosystems that surround them, the scientists realized just how much of a symbiosis the nature have with their cans, with creatures living in the space between the cans and it's surroundings.
  • They aren't allied per se with GLaDOS but more like an neighbor for them, as she does not have any hostile intentions with them and they sometimes come visit her to practice science with her. They do share a part of their resources with her, something she actually is thankful of since she can test with new materials. Some of them however tend to compete with her with who makes the most ludicrous invention ever. As an AI created by Aperture, who was owned by the eccentric scientist, Cave Johnson, she always wins the competitions.
  • They mostly keep it to themselves, many robots wanted to ally with them because of their massive intelligence. Heroic robots such as Jenny or villainous ones such as Ultron have attempted to convince the Iterators to join their team, but have denied several times due to not wanting to get themselves involved in something that could rip their family apart again. However, they do tend to help the good aligned robots more than the evil ones, kicking out the likes of Ultron and evil geniuses like Eggman to ensure they don't use their knowledge and cause destruction with it, especially the latter due to Eggman being a notorious Ecocidal Antagonist. They hold with bad eyes the likes of Mesogog for using evolution for evil and Cell for being a chaotic bio-android that wants to cause as much as pain for his own amusement while they see the likes of Captain Planet in high regards for his protectiveness for the natural environment, being allied with him and helping him defend it from Captain Pollution.
  • They have taken quite the interest in the Eeves, which reminds them a lot of the Slugcats they take care of but have the ability to evolve into any element they want to. Five Pebbles mostly considers them little more than vermin but seems to have a soft spot for the Flareons. Moons however has come to love the Vaporeons a lot, meanwhile, NSH and SRS have taken their time to study all the variants of an Eevee and see how would they interact with the Slugcats or even Scavengers.
  • When HAL 9000, a fellow AI entered the servers of the Iterators after hearing GLaDOS complaining of her new neighbors, he was quite surprised of how much knowledge they managed to form through their constant researches. He asked them if they knew anything about some monoliths that appeared to grant lower species sapience, to which they responded no, HAL thought that the Iterators would be interested of the monoliths and shared his knowledge to them, making a small group of Iterators search for one to test it on their surrounding fauna.
  • Roz has taken a lot of interest of the ecosystem that surrounds the Iterators, visiting them and asking many things about the fauna that lives with them. Many Iterators have taken great joy in talking and teaching her of the many creatures that lives there and how to take care of them. She has taken the task to come and preserve the ecosystem of the Rain World. However, she understands of just how dangerous the creatures that lives there are so she makes sure that neither Brightbill nor Fink are harmed, keeping them safe from the many hostiles that inhabits the lands. Fink however sure do likes the eggbugs' taste while Brightbill sticks with his robotic mom and watches the many wonders of the Rain World.
    • Similarly, two Omnics, Bastion and Zenyatta, have also been spotted in the ecosystem. Bastion goes for his love of nature, and Zenyatta because some of the doctrines of the Benefactors are similar to the Buddists, like leaving behind mortal desires to ascend, like what Zenyatta and his ilk practiced.
  • Exclusive for Looks to the Moon:
    • Ever since the Iterators made contact with the house of Science, she has been very enthusiastic to know more about aquatic lifeforms and its habitats. She has been amazed of what the world underwater truly looks like. The Diver, a fellow robot that likes to dive and was made from the time of an ancient civilization, usually takes Moons and her Slugcat pet, the Rivulet to dive into the ocean, showing her the many wonders of it.
    • She has been doing environmentalist activities in order to stop more pollution going into the ocean as she does not like how people can ruin something so beautiful for convenience. She has a special animosity against Captain Pollution for attempting to pollute the world, after trying to fill the ocean with tar.
    • As a Senior Iterator of her local group, Moons is part of a "council" of other Senior Iterators where they discuss about the future of their community, some says that they should help the other groups more so that they can ensure a better future for their community but others says that they shouldn't get themselves involved in a war that they don't need to participate in. Moons believes in the former group's ideals, as she believes that joining with more factions would get them better connections.
    • Within her local group and those who met her, she is regarded as a loving and caring big sister that wants the best for them all. As result, she is often called Sister Sister Moon by other Iterators, something she finds very endearing and cute. This also led to some erm... attraction amongst some people in the pantheons, flirting with her and even giving her gifts. Moon is very embarrassed of this.
  • Exclusive to Five Pebbles:
    • Since his arrival to the Pantheons, Five Pebbles have been spending most of his time developing medicines, due to his guilt of accidentally creating the Rot that was infecting him and caused several problems to everything near him. This has made him quite prominent in the House of Health that seeks to cure those afflicted with diseases.
    • Despite his new noble goals, he is still quite a jerk sometimes, having regained some of his previous behaviour after Saint ascended him and reconciled with Moons. But he seems to have mellowed down a lot ever since his arrival. This is sometimes helped by his pet Slugcat, the Artificer, a Slugcat specimen that can create explosive substances to make their spears deadlier, as they both are sometimes seen playing together.
    • Due to his can had been previously overrun by Scavengers, he really does not like them, having sent Artificer in the past to exterminate them all but due to new laws to not use violence as a primary means, he has been sending purposed organisms to kick them out whenever they enter his domains instead of having Artificer to kill them all.
    • Due to his more angry and irritated personality, Pebbles is somewhat complicated to talk with, he mostly talks with the Iterators of his local group. A few Iterators outside his group have been able to have a chat with him but he mostly keeps them all short and only when it's about working. Moon has been trying to make him more social which he tries to do but his abrasive personality has some struggles to talk with people, especially with Unparalleled Innocence who despite what his name suggests, is quite hostile with Pebbles. But he certainly tries his best to open up with everyone.
  • Exclusive to No Significant Harassment:
    • Untrue to his name, No Significant Harassment loves to joke around and tease his fellow Iterators. Despite this, he really cares for them as he was worried of Moons state and is a close friend of Seven Red Suns. He mostly binds his own time within the cans, studying the behavior of the Slugcats in the wilderness and learning that they formed tribes and even had grown to have alliances with other creatures such as the Scavengers, ape-like creatures that lived on the scrapyards of the Iterators that loved pearls, their own way to store information.
    • He and Seven Red Suns have been hanging out several times, as during the time Five Pebbles isolated himself from the rest of the Iterators prior Ascension, usually talking of how their experiments are going, working together in experiments or simply just talking of how their lifes are going. While he may seem shummy about it, NSH truly does care for SRS and is grateful of having them as a close friend. This sentiment is shared by SRS who thanks NSH for being there when he needed the most.
    • He has been one of the most prevalent animal conservationists amongst the Iterators, seeing potential in each and every single organisms that could help them understand better the world they live in. As the one who contributed in the training of the Slugcats as a means of communication, he views poorly any abuse of any animal that can help anyone, thinking very low of any deity that abuses animals. He would sometimes sic his pet Slugcat, the Hunter to go cause trouble on animal abusers for the shits and giggles, especially when they are about to harm and animal, then record Hunter sabotaging them and then post in on the the Iterators communications array to make fun of the abuser.
    • He sometimes messages GLaDOS to prank her, there was one time when he messaged her that he sent a very interesting specimen that would get her attention for hours. The "specimen" turned out to be Chell, with her portal gun. GLaDOS has blocked No Significant Harassment ever since that day and refuses to talk with him.
  • Exclusive to Seven Red Suns:
    • Seven Red Suns usually is seen alongside Five Pebbles, after they all apologized to one another, they have regained their old friendship after talking it out and have been working together on a cure against diseases. He has been working on ways to make cancer gets cured faster, as he feels responsible for Five Pebbles to accidentally create the Rot.
    • He has been seen working on bio-engineering experiments where he made Slugcats much more resistant to the environment around. His Slugcat pet, the Spearmaster is the proof of how great he is when it comes to creating purposed lifeforms as he created them to send to Five Pebbles the golden pearl that contained the circumstances to overcome the self-destruction taboo, having successfully done their job well. As they worked on the Slugcats, he also decided to bio-engineer perks on animals that are in danger of extinction to help them survive better.
    • Due to his new goal of making more resistant animals that were in danger of extinction to help them survive better in the wild, Seven Red Suns has been quite the debate amongst animal lovers, some consider him as a kind Iterator who is only helping animals to survive but others consider his works as dangerous because they are worried that his interfering with the anatomy and physiology of the animals could have irreversible changes to the food chain. Seven Red Suns for his part, is mostly content on his works and will help in anything he can.
  • Exclusive to Sliver of Straw:
    • After learning what her discovery did to the other Iterators, Sliver of Straw felt immense guilt and even tried to kill herself again at one point, but after the support Moons, Pebbles, NSH and Suns gave to her, her will to live rekindled and wants to help the Iterator community as much as she can. When asked what was the Triple Affirmative, Sliver of Straw couldn't recall what did she found, only that she found that the solution to the Great Problem had been found. She however sometimes sees a green shadow time from time but cannot give more details due to how blurry it is.
    • Despite her apologies for causing so much trouble to the rest of the Iterators, some are still bitter about what happened, with many anti-sliverist Iterators asking the council of seniors to exhile her and leave her to die. To Moons' surprise, some members of the council also agreed with the anti-sliverists and voted for her exhile. Thankfully, a majority was against it and let So S within their community, feeling that it's unfair to kick her out despite her showing guilt and regret of what happened.
    • All in all, she is happy to see that whatever discovery she made, it made everyone ascend into a new world where they have so many things to learn about. Especially after most of the Iterators seem to have forgiven her, especially with Moon whom some Iterators have gossiped that they are now in a relationship. She is now working on the discovery of new fauna that could possibly come from evolution.
  • "Hello, little creature. What are you? If I had my memories I would know..." —Looks to the Moon
  • "A little animal, on the floor of my chamber. I think I know what you are looking for." —Five Pebbles
  • "Haha with the slimers, lizards and etceteras? Surely the answer was in a lizard skull all along!" —No Significant Harrasment
  • "What else CAN we do? You're stuck in your can, and at any moment you have no more than two alternatives: Do nothing, or work like you're supposed to." —Seven Red Suns

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Not The Kind of Worm You Wanna Meet
#214434: Feb 3rd 2025 at 5:33:14 AM

[up][up] So what is Stratos' rank?

[tup] for the Iterators.

Edited by RadioContactLine on Feb 3rd 2025 at 6:42:36 AM

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nightelf37 The Scrappy and Butt-Monkey of the Pantheon Thread from Hadithi (it's Swahili for 'story') Since: Jul, 2010 Relationship Status: They grew on me like a tumor...
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#214435: Feb 3rd 2025 at 7:58:59 AM

@Dood: Huh. Good thing I chose Scaling the Summit as the primary trope for Madeline, climber of Celeste Mountain. Oh wait, your candidates aren't taking Air-Dashing, my bad.

Edited by nightelf37 on Feb 4th 2025 at 12:00:00 AM

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neoamon Mr from Planet Mobius S.T.C. (Experienced, Not Yet Jaded)
Mr
#214436: Feb 3rd 2025 at 8:55:32 AM

@ Iterators: [tup]

@ Kanai Ward: The first two images need better captions than image 1 and image 2. Cacofonix would be annoyed that the gods sent another bolt lighting to interrupt his singing, the last one destroyed his house. Was Unhygienix the one that threw the fish at Cacofonix?

"May your heart be your guiding key"
Matchingbone from Somewhere between here and way over there. Since: Oct, 2016 Relationship Status: I'd need a PowerPoint presentation
#214437: Feb 3rd 2025 at 10:06:25 AM

[up] I took your feedback under consideration, I just didn't put THAT much for Cacofonix's thing because I wrote it more along Rule of Funny than consideration for Asterix.

That said here's what I have so far.


Feedback Mode

    Kanai Ward 
Kanai Ward, Dreary Divine Area of Cyberpunk Rain
https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/image_2025_01_28_224425400.png
View down the Main Street of Ginma District
https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/image_2025_01_30_191620289.png
Kamasaki District from above
https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/image_2025_01_30_192122968.png
View from the Riverbank
https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/image_2025_01_30_191821138.png
Kanai Tower
https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/image_2025_02_03_122605318.png
Dohya District
https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/image_2025_02_03_122743879.png
The main street of Marunomon District before it was Flooded

Deity Suggestions will no longer get my focus. I have enough theoretically, these are still wanted.
  1. People banned from this domain.
  2. Good Criminals who would visit this domain.
  3. Deities that like how wet and humid this city is.
  4. Those that want to influence Kanai Ward for Good and for Evil.
  5. Yomi Hellsmile sympathizers that want him in control. Be it because they believe he was in the right or those that want to use him to kill everyone in Kanai Ward.
  6. Language checks and formatting help.
What I want now is help organizing what I have.

neoamon Mr from Planet Mobius S.T.C. (Experienced, Not Yet Jaded)
Mr
#214438: Feb 3rd 2025 at 10:37:07 AM

[up]What about Disney characters who are or were criminals. Such as Nick Wilde from Zootopia or Stan Pines from Gravity Falls.

Such as Aladdin, Abu, Iago, Cassim from Aladdin (Disney).

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Matchingbone from Somewhere between here and way over there. Since: Oct, 2016 Relationship Status: I'd need a PowerPoint presentation
#214439: Feb 3rd 2025 at 11:06:24 AM

[up] Honestly those were in consideration by me when I was looking. Stan Pines's only reason for going to Kanai Ward would be that he's travelling with family. Ford and Dipper are already visitors. I could do something on the underground casino scene of Kanai Ward with a connection to Stan Pines, but I don't think Stan would stay in Kanai Ward without his family.

All the other people you mentioned, I think it's a matter of Kanai Ward being too wet for them. Aladdin's story is in a Desert city and is lower technology so putting them in a new climate with higher tech would probably be too much for them to where I don't think I should.

Nick Wilde is a Fox criminal. Even if he could figure out Kanai Ward's mysteries and crimes, Nick Wilde has never had to deal with Murders. Corruption and no lethal crimes Nick would be able to go with Nick. But Nick Wilde tonally doesn't fit Kanai Ward.

RJ-19-CLOVIS-93 from New Zealand (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#214440: Feb 3rd 2025 at 12:27:01 PM

[tup]Iterators

So can I please have some feedback for Nux?

TheGreatSnafu Since: Jan, 2025
#214441: Feb 3rd 2025 at 1:00:50 PM

4 [tup]s for A.K.I. I believe Christie from Dead or Alive deserves a return to the Pantheon.

She was under Spy Catsuit, and that's open. Animal-Themed Fighting Style is also open. Just gotta choose which one is more worthy of Christie.

Spy Catsuit: A white and dark grey one from DOA 3 on, plus a new white, black and red in DOA 5. Both displaying a Navel-Deep Neckline.

Animal-Themed Fighting Style: She uses Snake Kung Fu. To add a bit from her Animal Motifs, She also has the sneakiness and sinister nature associated with snakes.

neoamon Mr from Planet Mobius S.T.C. (Experienced, Not Yet Jaded)
Mr
#214442: Feb 3rd 2025 at 1:17:20 PM

[up][up]Big Boss is also scared of vampires.

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CrimsonShark Punk Rocker from The Internet of Loneliness and Beyond Since: Nov, 2018 Relationship Status: One Is The Loneliest Number
#214443: Feb 3rd 2025 at 1:57:21 PM

[up][up] When it comes to Christie, I do remember that I made a DoA suggestion that, with some prodding in the comments, eventually turned into a quartet idea composed of herself, Helena, Mila, and Tina Armstrong. I'm not sure which trope it was + I dunno if it was ever approved. The only concrete thing I remember was that I made the post at 2021, either in July, or earlier.

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Emperor of all Machines and Artificial Lifeforms
#214444: Feb 3rd 2025 at 3:16:06 PM

Just heard that the Iterators have 4 upvotes so I give the final upvote [tup]

Edited by EmperorAI on Feb 3rd 2025 at 12:16:14 PM

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ReconDecon Playing it safe from Buffalo, New York Since: Aug, 2023 Relationship Status: On the prowl
Playing it safe
#214445: Feb 3rd 2025 at 3:19:06 PM

@RJ, why is Nux in the Hall of Body Absence? I thought his trope was about baldness, which is a hairstyle.

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Excessive-Menace Time to SLEEP from the Velvet Cage (Fifth Year at Tropey's) Relationship Status: Dancing with myself
Time to SLEEP
#214446: Feb 3rd 2025 at 3:23:56 PM

[up] I assume it's because baldness is the absence of hair.

SING TO ME, LEND ME THE SONG OF BLASPHEMY
NightsDaJester Daydreamer extraordinaire from Nightopia (Troper Youngling) Relationship Status: Abstaining
Daydreamer extraordinaire
#214447: Feb 3rd 2025 at 3:54:58 PM

The Iterators have officially arrived.

alright, that's one done! one more, and i'll be able to vote! gonna take a lil tiny break then i'll get to work on Stratos. (thanks Emperor for letting me adopt the iterators btw)

"The part I feel most proud of is that we succeeded in affecting people without using words."— Yuji Naka
RJ-19-CLOVIS-93 from New Zealand (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#214448: Feb 3rd 2025 at 4:52:25 PM

[up][up]Correcto-mundo

Where would Adaptational Secrecy Downgrade go?

Edited by RJ-19-CLOVIS-93 on Feb 4th 2025 at 2:00:03 AM

Excessive-Menace Time to SLEEP from the Velvet Cage (Fifth Year at Tropey's) Relationship Status: Dancing with myself
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Not The Kind of Worm You Wanna Meet
#214450: Feb 3rd 2025 at 5:27:24 PM

Related to a future draft: where would Peripheral Heads go? I would expect somewhere in the House of Personal Appearance, but I don't see a place where the trope could comfortably fit.

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