YEESSS YOUNG HUITZILOPOCHTLI MY BELOVED

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im at chapter 20/27 of dracula rn and i love renfield so much omg

i would look him up but im so deathly afraid of being spoilered in any way

i like how he eats spiders and flies and vomited feathers once indicating he also ate his birds but he hasnt been doing that lately :(

id love for him to either turn out to be a vampire (it would lowkey make sense) or for him to become rational enough (or so it would seem) to join the vampire hunting gang

Happy new year apparently because I forgot today was the day lmao

Idk man I got bored

I am NOT answering that

Us as Chalchiuhtlicue

Chalchiuhtlicue, "Jade Skirt", is the goddess of lakes, rivers, and the sea. She's known for being the second wife of the rain god Tlaloc, and she's most commonly the Fourth Sun in the five sun legend.

Chalchiutlicue will often be depicted sitting on a throne with a stream of water flowing from her skirt.

Now, water looks like this in some Aztec codices. These are taken from Codex Mendoza, I was able to find these and the glyphs further down this post in the Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs online!

So water is parted like this, and it has these circle and tear-drop shaped shells on each end.

Here are some representations of Chalchiuhtlicue with water illustrated in the same way. Note that she also tends to have people swimming in there, and other objects.

I thought the strands of water looked similar to Us' tentacles from their bioship. They also use these tentacles to hold the others' ships in ep3, much like Chalchiuhtlicue has people inside her streams of water.

The way their limbs look in their physical form resembles the way the goddess' water flows, too

Another reference to water could be the design of Beebs' guitar. It has an ocean wave on it.

Beebs' god is Xipe Totec, and as far as I know he has no relation to the sea or water, but Us' does! The guitar belongs to Beebs, yes, but it's the fact that he uses it to communicate with Us, and the instrument becomes associated with Us, that it makes me think it's a reference to Chalchiuhtlicue, since she is the goddess of bodies of water.

Speaking of, in Beebs' post I said his guitar could be a reference to Xipe's rattlestaff, the chicahuaztli. This is an object that both Xipe and Chalchiuhtlicue can be seen carrying, along with a couple other gods.

Us makes a certain sound in Scratch's flashback, like that of a rattle (21:00) But it might be me going crazy.

I also considered Them to be designed to resemble a chicahuaztli, but that is a stretch, too.

Another important element of Chalchiuhtlicue's iconography is that she has a pair of tassels on the sides of her head, and her dress is also adorned with small tassels. This can be seen in codices as well as in statues of her.

Us has these drops of a black liquid beneath their cap, hanging by on the sides of their head. This is because they're based on an actual mushroom, the inky cap mushroom!

These drops could be a reference to the tassels perhaps?

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Next I wanna talk about this symbol on the cap of Us' bioship

This is an example of a quincunx, it's a geometric pattern consisting of five elements: four of them form a square, and the fifth one is placed in the middle.

Symbols like this one appear in monkey wrench, from subtle places like the dice in the casino

To the decorations in the bar and the restaurant, as well as the inside of Beebs' arm!

Why am I bringing this up? The Mexica used the quincunx a lot, in a variety of ways, but also with circles like we see in the show, so we're gonna focus on those here

They also used very similar circles for a couple of glyphs, such as these

I wanna bring attention to that fourth one. Chalchiuhtlicue's name consists of two words: chalchihuitl, "jade", and cueitl, "skirt". The symbol for jade looks the most similar to Us' eyes, with the texture of a jade in the middle.

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Lastly there is one more thing that Us and Chalchiuhtlicue have in common, thematically.

In the Legend Of The Suns, Chalchiuhtlicue is the Fourth Sun (although other versions exist). The way that her era ended was that Tezcatlipoca accused her of faking her love for humans to get praise. She cried for hundreds of years, flooding the whole world, and the humans that lived there turned into fish.

Us is the first and so far the only character to cry in the series, in a non-comical way. It's in this scene that the show takes a more serious tone.

Us is, arguably, a somber and sad character, especially after the loss of Them. Both Us and the goddess also seem to have strong reactions to their circumstances, seeing how Us was willing to join Them when they accepted that there was no help for their friend.

It is also worth mentioning that their bioship and their phantom form move like a jellyfish, like a sea creature.

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Do you want us to stab dictators like what

You are so right. I would work on some of these (with permission obviously) if I wasn’t so burnt out with writing 😭

Some of my aztec fanfic ideas cuz I have a essay due soon so I need these ideas out of my head NOW:

1. Tezcatlipoca down fall as the the first sun, mixed with Quetzalcoatl angst and scheming (xipe totec is watching from the side disappointed)

2. Quetzalcoatltal down fall as the second sun, mixed with tezcatlipoca angst and scheming ( xipe totec is watching from the side disappointed)

3. Tonatiuh and Tecciztecatl coming back down to earth, Tecciztecatl reconnects with his mother and siblings, but has a panic attack when he sees his dad because he internalized what he said at his sacrifice fire thing and can't get over it. Yes, he runs away like a coward

4. Xipe totec finally snaps and just fucking losses it on his brother for their bullshit, then gets angry and depressed at himself for getting in a fight with them, runs away, meet Xochipilli and he calms him down starting their beautiful weird platonic romantic non sexual relationship. (I have many thoughts on them)

5. Xipe totec evading becoming the sun like he's dodging the draft

6. Tezcatlipoca turning into a woman and being gay

7. Tezcatlipoca being gay with one of his impersonator/sacrifices (yes he switches from being a man to a woman and back again)

8. Tonatiuh, Tecciztecatl, and the transgender fire (non-binary and trans-fem respectfully)

Oh yeah there’s also this bit

“Sahagún's passage describing the Toxcatl impersonator reads like the rapt portrayal of a man whose beauty approximated that of the ideal unmarried Aztec woman”

You can technically make Tezcatlipoca wear a maid dress and it would (kinda) work

"Although Sahagún never witnessed the Toxcatl rite, he described it at length in his encyclopedic Florentine Codex, in which he included his Aztec informants’ vivid description of the ideal victim’s physical appearance...I will argue not only that the young Aztec impersonator was chosen for his androgynous appearance but also that, during the events leading up to the moment of his death, his gender—but not his sex—was symbolically feminized to the point where he transcended the male-female binary altogether. The impersonator’s increasingly ambiguous gender, in other words, served as a visual sign of his association with, and ultimate transformation into, the god himself

D-does this mean Tezcatlipoca nonbinary??????

Honestly based

If every time my sister asked me to draw my favorite male character pregnant I got a penny I would have two pennies which isn't a lot but it's weird that it happened twice

Referring to sarafangirlart’s previous tags

I always saw it as obsession. Whether you hate or love or whatever didn’t really matter. Whatever you felt either drove you to madness with the want to destroy or with the craving to have their amino acids and lipids buried within your body, a part of you.

Not saying your interpretation is wrong at all! Metaphors are flexible. I just like yapping :3

It came to me in a vision