Jonathan, like Phryne Fisher, clearly hasn’t taken anything seriously since 1918.
And, I would suspect, for similar reasons.
^^^This. Jonathan being in World War I makes total sense. It’s
almost impossible for him not to have been. Given his age and background, he probably
volunteered in 1914.
Of course he’s going to not take anything seriously. Of
course he can shoot. The drinking, the skittishness, the recklessness, the
sense of ‘keeping your head down’, the scepticism about traditional heroism….
The one with more actual experience of death, carnage and
fighting is Jonathan. Not Rick. Not Ardeth Bey. Jonathan.
When Rick says ‘I’ve had worse (situation/odds)’ and Jonathan replies “ Me too”. That’s probably true.
Drop The Mummy
into the real world context and that’s a character who’s going to have seen a
lot of his school friends die, along with the myths and tales of heroism they
were raised on. Sort of makes the line where Evie’s scolding him for drinking/messing
about a lot darker…
Evie: Have you no respect for the dead? Jonathan: Of course I do, but sometimes I’d rather like
to join them.
I HAVE SO MANY FEELINGS RIGHT NOW
*record scratch*
Wait a minute. Why is it being assumed that Rick and Ardeth wouldn’t have fought in WWI, as well? Johnathan isn’t that much older than any of them–in fact, there is a good chance that he, Rick, and Ardeth are all of an age. Just because Johnathan’s hair is thinning doesn’t mean he’s a decade older.
It was a LOT easier to lie about your age back in the day. So much easier.
Johnathan is the soldier who fought in WWI and became disillusionsed with pretty much everything except wanting to live (most of the time) and live well–and where is the shame in that? He would have seen some of the darkest shit humanity has to offer, and he kept going. And the thing is, though, archaeological digs at that time were DANGEROUS. Not from curses (usually) but from assholes who would turn up with guns to try and steal anything you discovered. Johnathan never really STOPPED having to deal with dangerous pricks, it was just less dangerous than death raining down from the sky in bomb, bullet, and mustard gas form all the time.
Rick grew up in Egypt as an orphan. What paperwork? He joined the French Foreign Legion, which fought in World War I in some seriously critical battles on the Western Front in Europe. Rick is the soldier who quickly grew disillusioned with everything, but he didn’t know how to stop being a soldier. Johnathan had a career and schooling to fall back on. Rick had guns, the talent of not dying easily, and not much else. When the army finally left him behind because he was literally the only survivor of his last FFL battle, he literally didn’t know what to do. At all. “Looking for a good time” was code for “Please someone give me a fucking purpose.”
Ardeth grew up in the desert. He probably never enlisted…but if you think his people didn’t fight against invading forces during WWI, think again: that region of North Africa was swarming with soldiers on both sides, and they alll tried to claim everything they stumbled over even while in the midst of fighting each other. Ardeth spent his entire life fighting to protect what belonged to him, what belonged to his people, and trying to keep assholes from stealing things that didn’t belong to anyone (for good reason). By the time the war was over, Ardeth was disillisioned in everyone except his own people, and seriously fucking done with stupid idiots who stole in the name of archaeology. He is completely (justifiably) resigned to the worst when Rick the Magic Survivalist returns to Hamunaptra.
This has been another episode of “Actual History adding context and depth to character behavior”
I love when “The Mummy” fandom comes out to play. But it’s even better when the history side of tumblr is also in “The Mummy” fandom.
Every time this post comes around I am compelled to watch The Mummy again.
Once, a champion came late to the festivities, and was greeted by a shrine without fire, and a bell that would not toll.
It is a tragic story indeed. He was supposed to be the the new champion to link the Flame in his world and life time, yet it the bell never rang for him. By the time he got to the shrine it’s all gone, everything he wanted to protect and the bright future he was destined for. On the other side, we have a fire keeper that never met her champion, and was laid to rest then dumped in the Firelink shrine’s tower. Even crueller still, is a promise of purpose….perhaps a heroic farce of a purpose…
It’s hard to get the feels when you get a cast iron foot to the face! Or getting grabbed and thrown off the cliff when you only need a few hits to defeat him!!! This is Champion Gundyr everyone, a kinda-sorta-rematch of Iudex Gundyr, this time he’s meaner, faster, ANGRIER, with less snake. Some adept players can parry him to death, but for not so gud peeps like myself he is freaking manic on solo. You only get one to two hits per opening. Get too greedy, and you get a shoulder ram, or a METAL BOOT to the face! Also, he two-hands his halberd on his leaping attack I think :U
One night as you play Call of Duty a particularly squeaky voiced 12 year old gives out personal information leading you to discover he is your child from a long lost lover. You must now convince him you are his father and thus banged his mom, through Xbox live.
sfw (relatively) redraw of an old thing I drew on my nsfw blog. I think I like how the colors turned out on this one better, even though it’s like, 90% more toxic frog.
TG: im so mad right now TG: so apparently people got shook over the fact that stelsa the new tealblood was troll jewish TG: and it got to the point where people started posting fucking nazi shit about her in the hiveswap and stelsa tags! TG: thats right!
TG: people are posting nazi shit in the hiveswap and stelsa tags!!
TG: being jewish myself im kinda fuckin angry!! TG: so guys i really recommend you either stay away from those tags for a while, or report anyone you see making jokes or art or anything. thats right. theres art. isnt that fucking sad TG: and also if i have any nazi or anti-semitic followers?? unfollow me now and get the fuck off my blog. thanks.
I am Silver Tongue, I am an artist. I have many characters and you can check out my art in the art tag. I occasionally practice witchcraft though I don't do anything too complicated. I am girl 2 and don't know what else to put here.
