lullabyknell:drewsharp: The four horsemen of the apocalypse This is an amazing idea and gifset
lullabyknell: drewsharp: The four horsemen of the apocalypse This is an amazing idea and gifset. I love it. But I’d also reorder it slightly. War, yes, War suits Gryffindor well. Fighting and dying for beliefs; fighting and dying for nothing; drafted into bloodshed and fire by bravery or chivalry or neither. Some take joy in this; some are burdened beyond repair. There was a cause, somewhere; there was good, somewhere; there was a reason for all this, somewhere. Oh, you’d have to be brave to live through this. Red and gold. Gold like armor and glory; red like blood and reality. But Famine and Hufflepuff? No. Famine is Ravenclaw, ever-hungry for knowledge, constantly starving for more and more and more, almost feral for fulfillment. Where is the wisdom in the world? The truth? Nothing is true; nothing is enough; all there is to devour is worthless scraps. Blue and bronze. Bronze like a set of scales tipping and found wanting; blue like the infinite that never satisfies… never gives the answers. Thus Pestilence is not Ravenclaw. Pestilence is Slytherin, sick with clever plans and cunning potential and corrupting desire. Ambition spreads like a sickness, a plague of greed and an illness to the soul. Maybe some might call it cruel, but here among friends it’s simple cunning at work. Green and silver. Silver like the sheen of glazed eyes; green like the complexion of infection. And so Death is not Slytherin. Death is Hufflepuff. It is a hard work; it is a work that is never done. But someone must do it, and do it fairly - do it justly - do it well… perhaps even kindly. Everyone is equal here - in the end - a bunch of duffers. Said Hufflepuff, “I’ll teach the lot… And treat them just the same.” Yellow and black. Black like loss of sight as the air leaves your lungs; yellow like the flowers that’ll grow over your grave. I think you are confused by what I meant by it. It’s not what the houses suffer by, but what they bring to the world. They are the four horsemen of the apocalypse, not those suffering by it. That said, I like your interpretation.As Gryffindor, they would literally wage war and are prepared to due to bravery and boldness.Hufflepuff to me is hard work, strength… And an evil, twisted Hufflepuff would bring famine as to actually cause one requires work and dedication. The society ramifications an evil puff could not resist. famine is often associated with poverty, the earth- the results are there. Causing poverty and maintaining it- well, a puff is definately up to the challenge.Ravenclaw is about knowledge, innovation, creativity, wisdom… And what fields are full of that? Medicine and science. The horsemen would know about that, and to cause the end of the world, would implant disease. Knowing everything about medicine, they could create a disease and give it no cure, hence, the end of the world.Slytherin resonates with death because it is cunning (you never know when it’s going to hit you, its unexpected for some), powerful (so many people die each day), mysterious (we have no idea what happens next), feared. Bringing death is an opportunity for a Slytherin to shine. You complete your goal, get the power and be feared. An evil slytherin that is too hard to resist. A lot of Voldemort’s goals were death orientated after all.It should also be noted that death isn’t fair. Some die in agony, some die peacefully. Some die alone, some are surrounded by loved ones. The horsemen of the apocalypse want to bring about the end of the world, they do not care about fairness. The point of this set was to portray the houses at their worst, how they would bring about the end of the world.Hopefully that makes sense. -- source link
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