07-23-2025, 01:29 AM
okay, this imagery is going to slay me where i stand, the more i think about it.
this is definitely riffing on Hades, King of the Underworld. He is literally the King of Hell, or at minimum the King IN Hell. For a man who's definining feature is his overwhelming light, to be this black? but check out his outfit.
its all black, without color, until the very bottom where one last hang of fabric is still light on the end. his sword has gone black except one half of the last third, which remains white but black "thorns" are encroaching. the black side shows what looks like a sun in eclipse.
the reverse outfit, the white, shows black starting to drip down from his shoulders. the text at the start of the trailer/myth says he's been there for centuries, until finally, the light. and they are in shadow, in darkness the entire time under only a waning moon, we don't even see a full moon in the trailer. until suddenly there's a field of golden flowers -- that collapses back into darkness.
so what if at the very end, Xavier expels all the light he still has, everything that he's been hoarding for his long eternity to build a beautiful world for his dying queen, flowers and sunlight and love. and with that sacrifice, the sun finally rises over Hell and all the dead put to rest, perhaps to rise once more as the truly living... only they won't see it.
this is definitely riffing on Hades, King of the Underworld. He is literally the King of Hell, or at minimum the King IN Hell. For a man who's definining feature is his overwhelming light, to be this black? but check out his outfit.
its all black, without color, until the very bottom where one last hang of fabric is still light on the end. his sword has gone black except one half of the last third, which remains white but black "thorns" are encroaching. the black side shows what looks like a sun in eclipse.
the reverse outfit, the white, shows black starting to drip down from his shoulders. the text at the start of the trailer/myth says he's been there for centuries, until finally, the light. and they are in shadow, in darkness the entire time under only a waning moon, we don't even see a full moon in the trailer. until suddenly there's a field of golden flowers -- that collapses back into darkness.
so what if at the very end, Xavier expels all the light he still has, everything that he's been hoarding for his long eternity to build a beautiful world for his dying queen, flowers and sunlight and love. and with that sacrifice, the sun finally rises over Hell and all the dead put to rest, perhaps to rise once more as the truly living... only they won't see it.
