Legacy of Kain + screenshots of despair: Raziel edition
Raziel: I am never thrown out, and I never leave quietly. I STALK out, in a HUFF! And then I get REVENGE!
Rahab: Sometimes you ask too much of people.
Kain: I do?
Kain: Give me fourteen examples.
Kain: Well, onto plan 2.
Raziel: Plan B, you mean?
Kain: That would imply I only have twenty-six plans.
““Before You Embark On A Journey Of Revenge, Dig Two Graves”. What a stupid fucking quote. I’m killing way more than two people. Idiot.”
— Raziel
Rahab: Jellyfish have survived for 650 million years without a brain.
Rahab: A ray of hope for all my brethren.
Rahab: If you had to separate your dog from forty-nine other identical dogs that were all equally excited to see you, how would you determine which dog was yours?
Dumah: I would take my fifty dogs home and live like a king.
“I’ve heard it said that we only gain wisdom through suffering, and tonight I intend to make you very wise.”
— Kain to Moebius
Kain: Once again, Raziel and I save the day.
Vorador: You didn’t do anything, it was all Raziel.
Kain: We’re a package deal, everyone knows that.
Moebius: Kain, stop lurking!
Kain: I'm not lurking. I'm standing silently in the shadows.
The ancient greeks really had graves for dogs. And they carved stuff on the stone like “carrying you here, I now feel as much grief as I felt joy when I carried you home” and “you never barked without reason, but now you are silent”. The human urge to tell a story spans centuries and millennia, and the loss of a really good dog makes you want to tell people - even people centuries in the future, who will never know your name - that there once was a dog who was a very good girl, but now she no longer is and you aren’t sure what to do with all this sorrow.
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This is my very favourite thing.
Last year, I found this one tucked away in a corner of the archaeological museum in Istanbul:
The inscription reads:
“His owner buried the dog Parthenope, that he played with, in gratitude for this happiness. [Mutual] love is rewarding, like the one for this dog. Having been a friend to my owner, I deserve this grave. Looking at this, find yourself a worthy friend who is both ready to love you while you are still alive and will care for your body [after your death].“
On so many of the other funerary carvings, the text was often more about the person who commissioned the carving than the person the carving was commissioned for. This one, which is for a dog, doesn’t even identify his owner—it’s entirely about a very, very good boy named Parthenope, who was loved so much that he will be remembered forever.
latin word of the day: ranunculus, a little frog, tadpole
Vorador: Try not to kill anyone by accident.
Kain: I’m not an idiot, Vorador. I know how to kill people on purpose.
i learned that there is a group of wolves in British Columbia known as “sea wolves” and 90% of their food comes from the sea. They have distinct DNA that sets them apart from interior wolves and they’re entirely dedicated to the sea swimming several miles everyday in search of food (x)
keep an eye out for WHALES 2!!!
Raziel: I have an idea.
Janos: Raziel, your last idea was to murder
Raziel: You're a textbook narcissist.
Kain: Please. I'm an exceptional narcissist.
Kain: I find it’s best not to be overly confident.
Raziel: I was not aware you knew any other way to be.
Moebius: One day you’re going to look back on this and laugh.
Kain: I assure you for the rest of my life, every time I look back on this, I will personally come to your house and smack you.
[Kain attempts to purchase something by tossing a coin at a shopkeep's face]
Cashier: we don't take ancient coins sir.
Kain: Raziel, stab this man.
Raziel: He's joking.
Kain: Stab him.
Raziel: [gives normal money to Cashier] Here you go man.
Cashier: Thank you so much.
Kain: [to Raziel] You kind of disobeyed me just now. And I'm noting it.