User:Eauxry

...rhymes with story.

My main focus here is to contribute detailed plot synopses and character analyses with associated art to the articles concerning Crossgen comics so that the world may know. There isn't much information online about the comics currently and I spent four years immersed in them and The Big Picture (which is the radicalist idea ever for a comic book company, IMO), so why should I not help out, right? The information on these stories could one day be so vast and easily accessible thanks to wikipedia.

...and us.

So, why do I dig Crossgen?

I love the Atlantis myth. Crux has the best storyline ever involving Atlantis.

And I've always been fascinated with gods, so my love for The First was a given. And they aren't the only gods. That includes the Lawbringers and Core Negation, and the older and more powerful Danik and Solusandra and their newer equivalants: Charon and Appolyon. The idea of older gods are even better! (Fun Fact #1138: The Titans let the Olympians take over, by the way. They let them win.) And we also find out the Atlanteans are older than The First and the Atlanteans have their own pantheon of gods. The Atlanteans even find out there are beings older than themselves!

Of note to two particular Atlanteans (two who had become gods themselves because of the Transition), it's interesting to me that Danik and Solusandra, two much hated characters, hold two of the views and attitudes about life that I have always attributed to myself. First off, the Atlanteans had five disciplines of study: Mind, Body, Spirit, Passion, and Empathy. The Atlanteans could channel universal energy for the benefit of their lives, but each discipline taught varying ways in how to focus those powers for use in benefitting things in life that would concern or involve that particular discipline. Or rather the particular part of you that that discipline focuses on would be the part of you most used to channel that energy and would be reflected in and/or through that part of you. Every Atlantean chose one to follow and to become the core of how they then live their lives. (Probably, each person naturally was drawn to the discipline that best suited their individual nature.) Solusandra felt she didn't have to choose a single discipline to follow when she knew she could do all five even when her mentor told her she could only do one. It was easy for her. She could be everything. (This can frustrate your friends when you've always been a strange jack-of-talents. Everyone in my family has.) Solusandra was right. On more than one thing. And her being right often got treated as arrogance or rebelliousness. And it frustrated many. Especially Danik (who learned too late another truth Solusandra already knew) because he soon realizes that emotions should never be discarded or purged or forgotten or unfelt or treated as a negative or hated part of our beings, because they are our being. Meaning: We are what we feel; our emotions make us what we are. They have never been bad or unhealthy and never will be. The Atlanteans who Transitioned somehow felt (irony?) that by purging their emotions during Transition that they would somehow be more godlike. (As if gods could operate without their passions.) Some change is never good (and why should we ever change?) and Danik learned, after Transitioning, that being a cold, stoic god, without feeling and with total apathy and disinterest, is miserable. ...and boring and joyless and probably painful if you're not feeling the pleasure that comes from feeling joy (pleasure being the physical manifestation of joy).

Yeah, that was personal. And that's a few reasons why I love Crossgen stories. So, I guess that means I love philosophy.

I'm also interested in anything have to do with twins. Mainly, fraternal twins (Galvan and Gammid are close enough, i.e. blue and orange), but I don't judge. ; )

Oh, and, for those wondering: Eauxry is the second half of my name. Think: Topher.

The mystery deepens...