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A racist who doubles down after I beat their argument?

Fuck me lads that's insane

MY PIXELS

-Win Shi Huang Glazer and D1 Goatnidas Defender (and Elden Ring Enjoyer)

For Honor mentioned. Day ruined.

Okay aside from jokes, Apollyon is genuinely one of the most memorable characters from the original campaign story mode.

This post was inspired by some For Honor creators; Slanderous's analysis of the story, VenomousHero's Apollyon video, and my own playthrough of the story.

Apollyon is interesting through her backstory, incredibly memorable through her dialogue and actions, and immensely compelling because of what her goal is.

I'd like to start with the biblical reference of her name. From my research (I used Google don't hate pls), Apollyon (Greek) /Abaddon (Hebrew) literally translate to "The Destroyer" or in Hebrew "place of destruction" or "doom", and either refers to an "angel of the bottomless pit" or straight-up the underworld. It maybe a powerful fallen angel, a high ranking demon, or the literal personification of God's destructive wrath, of which it's purpose is to punish and unleash terror as a part of divine judgement. It kinda sets the tone for her character in FH.

Her introduction was a perfect example of "show then tell"; she appears to save our character, proceeds to beat the fuck out of the assailants, tanks a dagger through her chest, and captures everyone of them. After capture, she also effortlessly takes out an attempt to break out of it, even choosing to spare the few who tried to do so. We can already see she's incredibly strong and intimidating off of this alone.

This initial scene and the first example below establishes a tension with her character; any scene with her is hefty, with a certain weight to it. She invokes dread.

The scenes afterwards show us her philosophy;

>"Do you know what kind of animal waits for it's slaughter? Sheep... Sheep." proceeds to slaughter the remaining captured

>"Hold." halts execution of a viking "[Holden Cross] Master. This beast killed at least forty soldiers. Including Davis." "Do you know how to tell a predator from prey? You can't, of course. Unless you see them in war. [To the viking] Forty. Well done."

We can already infer her philosophy is one that prioritizes strength. Her actions and motives are already at odds with the Warden, our main character at this point, and his oath to protect the weak.

In spite of her alliance with our main character the Warden, actions are questionable even up to now, slaughtering fellow knights who are unarmed, and recruiting the forces of barbaric savages and anyone who aligns with her "vision"

Her next action is one that explains more of what her goal is, when she targets a viking storehouse. At the start of the mission, she tells our Warden that "there are wolves among them" and that she wants to "show them who they are" which is slightly ambiguous. At the end of the mission, she orders her men to leave "just enough" for the Vikings.

>If she burnt it all, the vikings could've starved to death or rallied together in time of struggle.

>If she left just enough for the vikings, they would fight over what is left.

(Fun fact, the viking she spares here actually follows what she wants him to do, hoard all of the food for himself)

For the first option, she wanted neither of them, because she isn't a bringer of death. She is "war".

Her philosophy is one built on "survival of the fittest" believing that peace encourages weakness, whereas conflict breeds strength. Her campaign's goal across Heathmoor (fictional place that is fought over) was too weed out the "sheep" and show the true colors of humanity, that they are "her wolves" and that the natural state of humanity is conflict.

She does this with the Samurai, killing their leaders and instilling other, more ambitious warriors in their place. She did it earlier with the Vikings, and before that, manipulated the Knights.

And in the end, it fucking works. She loses the battle against the Emperor's Champion, an Orochi Samurai, but she wins the war. The factions all "rallied" and came knocking at her fortress, but

>"[To the Orochi] And you brought your armies. What did you think would happen? Peace? That isn't how the world works. Don't speak to me of your virtues. Duty. Kinship. Honor. You've forgotten what you are." "You want war? Only war." "All I want is for you to admit what you are."

Yeah she wins, and sets off the events of the entire For Honor multiplayer, a neverending faction war. They attempt to bring peace to each other, but they can never agree, so they kill each other.

Her character is a master of manipulation, a strong warrior, and a leader of a clan that believes in the idea that conflict is better for humanity. I'd say she's one of most underrated but exceptionally well-written character.

Additional notes below:

Her backstory allows us to understand the "why" to her motivations; she was the sole survivor of a Viking raid, which should've never happened. A knight was apparently supposed to protect their weak farming village but abandoned his post, deeming them unworthy of his protection. She eventually tracked down the knight and publicly executed him, but the lessons stayed with her.

I also believe she goes slightly insane towards the end of her life and the FH campaign. We can see her descend into madness, but subtly, as she is consumed by her philosophy wholly. Her final words are entirely her philosophy, claiming that all people are her "wolves".

Obviously she has some ties to Darwinian philosophy, which I think is relatively unexplored in Fiction the way it's explored here. It's like extreme survival of the fittest where adaption through conflict instead of natural selection is the goal.

The other Genji, Greyghost, shout out that guy, dude was hella good and better than me

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Also the Kiriko was clutch earlier match, popped Kitsune and I popped Dragonblade too

Ey so that one Leonidas revisionism post sparked a very interesting conversation

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I wanted to try my hand in making a post at how "shocked" I was.

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So yeah guys, I apologize, Phalanx Nemesis is actually weak asf and weaker than an unnamed attack.

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-Win Shi Huang Glazer and D1 Goatnidas Defender

Yeah so I grinded SM2 for like 3 hours today to nab everything after I bought the champion skin a while back.

I was inspired by someone else's personal take on a Templar that I wanted to add my own spin with Deathwatch.

Champion skin is a must-have for Black Templar drip, it works beautifully.

Huzzah,

It is I, the Win Shi Huang Glazer and D1 Goatnidas Defender.

So uhh my Gold's Gym got taken over by EoS Fitness a while back, and I was like, "hey I think I've seen 'EoS' before!"

Turns out Hades is now a Gym Leader. Which makes sense, he is the arguably the physically strongest Greek God. So let me whip up some lore for the gym in a shitpost.

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Anyways the lore is that Leo's gym "Bronze's Gym" was taken over by Hades after a massive transaction and some controversies regarding the safety surrounding the use of "manly" gear made completely of stone and metal bars.

Hades kept the stone gear but cleaned up the Spartan Gym, having an indoor area, a pool, a sauna, and an outdoor area. The gym also expanded into Helheim with the special "demon killing exercises" exclusively available at the Helheim locations.

The gyms became increasingly popular and more "friendly" to newer people. Leo, Heracles, and Thor are common goers of the gyms before and continued to go to the new establishments.

You'll commonly see spartans like Gryphs and the 300 commonly working out in one gym then moving to the next. Lu Bu can also be seen in the corner contemplating life right next to Qin who's just there.

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Now, I beg of you, the people of ROR, PLEASE DRAW HADES AS A LEAN GYM BRO. PLEASE!

Who else in the roster is going to the gym?