2021/01/06 - Straight To The Top

[D-Rock]

[2021/01/06 - Straight To The Top]
Title Text: heaven has a complaints department because some mortals just don't feel at home without it

Either he took a huge step down in terms of authority with that list or our platypus friend is more than he seems.

[Harry Johnathan]

So, judging by the playtapus' Almighty remark, apparently the Christian God (as in Yahweh) exists in the HP universe. That brings up a WHOLE buttload of questions that I know will never be answered so I'll just drop it.

[Gbr23]

Will I go on a rabbit hole on the internet with the mission to understand that Elijah reference? Probably.

[MrBlueSky7]

Aw maaan. Tarot's gonna ruin it for everyone...

[Harry Johnathan]

Will I go on a rabbit hole on the internet with the mission to understand that Elijah reference? Probably.

I'll try to condense this as much as I can:
Elijah was the prophet of God during the rule of Ahab and Jezebel. After cursing Israel with a drought because Jezebel wanted to convert the kingdom to the worship of the rain god Baal, Elijah was exiled by King Ahab and hid in the desert, being fed by Ravens sent by God. After years of this, he asked God to kill him, but God told him to seek out an apprentice, a young farmer named Elisha. After training Elisha for a few years (in what was basically IRL Obi Wan and Luke), he brought rain back to Israel (but only after they stopped doing the whole Baal thing) and went into the woods and was carried by a firey chariot led by angels straight into Heaven.
Phew! The Bible is a really long book, even in individual parts.

[NHWestoN]

Apparently Tarot is also hoping to avoid having to interact with Great Kitsune who is probably on the same level of the Heavenly Hosts as Alice's Cheshire Cat.

Wonder what Cerberus is about in this contest anyways?

[Welsh Halfwit]

Good to have you here, Rydr.

Tarot’s talking tough, telling trouble
perchance perception points to power?
The ponderous Platypus perceives her peeve
but can’t connect her with anyone higher.
She irritates individuals with ire
and could have considerately cold called Cerb
but bothered to batter his brain
and vicariously vended her vicious verb.
Heaven holds no harbour for her,
especially fearing an extraneous event.
Peanut proves the peaceful position
but Tarot talks with thunderous intent.

[Harry Johnathan]

Good to have you here, Rydr.

Soli Deo Gloria!

[JageshemashFTW]

It’s comics like these that remind me that Tarot used to be the most chill, serene character in the whole cast.

Our poor girl’s serenity has been eroded over the years like waves of stupidity crashing into the rocks of patience.

[Welsh Halfwit]

It’s comics like these that remind me that Tarot used to be the most chill, serene character in the whole cast.

Our poor girl’s serenity has been eroded over the years like waves of stupidity crashing into the rocks of patience.

She's been the tool of Celestial powers for years and she's NOT going to take it anymore!!

[SeanWolf]

She's been the tool of Celestial powers for years and she's NOT going to take it anymore!!

*sings* We're not gonna take it! No, we're not gonna take it! We're not gonna take it, anymore!

Aw maaan. Tarot's gonna ruin it for everyone...

I think she may end up ruining it for herself. Since the whole idea of this temporary patch of paradise is to keep the mortals away from the action, she may feel that she needs to do something (I think she's still upset over the whole Temple Crashers 2 outcome).

[Hlaoroo]

Yay! A platypus!

I wonder if he sounds like this. (This is a character from my childhood that sprang to mind as soon as I saw the platypus. ^^ )

[Leotamer]

It is a lot easier to be serene when you know exactly what will happen and can punch out a weather system if you needed too.

I excited to see Heckraiser part 2 and to see more of Tarot.

[Vertigo Fox]

That's one beautifully drawn platypus. I immediately want to know more about her (him?).

[Were Jack]

I wonder how it looks like. I mean... They are in their neighborhood... and... when did she go? How did she now where to go to find Complaint Departament. I mean, let's think about as YOUR neighborhood is in heaven. And where do You go, knowing it's in Heaven? Or maybe it's magically like You think You want to be somewhere and You are there but You don't realize when You got here?

I wonder what Tarot will do IF (we still don't know if they tell her everything) she learn the situation. Because I pretty doubt she will go back to Peanut and just lie here doing nothing, especially knowing all this stuff. Maybe she will be the Heaven dropper after all. Maybe she knows how to leave Heaven. And I bet Peanut and the company will come too. Willingly, unwillingly or accidentally.

And we still didn't see anything about living life yet. What about ex-demigod kits. What about Eudoant? What about battle? And everything.

[vulpinator]

So what you mean to say, Tarot, is that you want to speak to the manager?

[Welsh Halfwit]

So what you mean to say, Tarot, is that you want to speak to the manager?

Cerberus is more like the bouncer.

[Cesco]

Good we see Tarot now, and she better realized to be in Heaven for a reason, and it must be an important one. But, Tarot, can't you name Cerberus from the beginning? It's like you were doing a guessing game. Still, Cerberus can't be in a so low range... Anyway, I hope they can talk about what's going on.

[Amazee Dayzee]

You know Tarot, all of that could have actually been avoided if you just said you wanted to see Cerberus in the first place. LOL

[Ash Greytree]

I think that Tarot may have just assumed that the platypus would know what she meant by "the management", given that Cerberus was the manager last time, if I recall correctly. Not sure how much she actually knows about the hierarchy of Heaven and how a lot of them can apparently manage the Displacement Quarantines.

Any which way, going off of what MrBlueSky and SeanWolf have said, it's gonna be interesting to see how many, if any, characters other than Tarot will be affected by her decision to try and find answers to her questions.

[SeanWolf]

I think that Tarot may have just assumed that the platypus would know what she meant by "the management", given that Cerberus was the manager last time, if I recall correctly. Not sure how much she actually knows about the hierarchy of Heaven and how a lot of them can apparently manage the Displacement Quarantines.

Any which way, going off of what MrBlueSky and SeanWolf have said, it's gonna be interesting to see how many, if any, characters other than Tarot will be affected by her decision to try and find answers to her questions.

Truth be told, I only forsee Tarot doing something stupid. Again, going off of events from Temple Crashers 2 and her other appearances afterwards, it's clear she still has some growing to do, in an mental state. I don't know if the comic ever out-right stated how long she was Dragon's Avatar but the way she's been acting? I fear she, if Cerberus doesn't tell her what she wants to hear, may end up breaking out of Heaven and demanding that Kitsune tell her exactly what's going on and end up in the crossfire, resulting in her demise....BUT that could lead to a scene where Steward could redeem himself by offering his life up to Bahumat so Tarot can return to life (make sense?)

[Leotamer]

I feel like we are going to see more of Tarot arc of having to deal with the resolution of Heaven's Not Enough, and I think her leaving Heaven is a likely outcome that I wouldn't be surprised by, but I can other routes for her journey to take. Temple Crashers 2 is precedence that she may be recruited, as she is a former avatar and part of their role is defending their world's from the nether realms as seen when discussing how the game is normally played and further more that the condition of being able to play the game is specifically protecting against demon invasion. She may also stay in Heaven, though I feel like in Heckraiser Part 2, we might see more of Heck being raised but it is still possible.

[dr_eirik]

I tend to think that Tarot is likely to be an asset to what is coming. In what way, that's way up in the air.

I could see her being tasked with concincing Craig and Draig that they are most than kits. Or possibly that she has some kind of special connetion still to Draig. Hard to say just yet.

[NHWestoN]

Maybe the poor platypus just works for the beach umbrella concession.

Tarot's intentions are obviously good but her abilities have already been found wanting. Yet, since Kitsune seems to be in the crosshairs for letting things get out of hand, maybe there's the possibility of an alliance there that could work. Especially if Cerberus is otherwise engaged.

[ZAR22]

So, judging by the playtapus' Almighty remark, apparently the Christian God (as in Yahweh) exists in the HP universe. That brings up a WHOLE buttload of questions that I know will never be answered so I'll just drop it.

The Christian never call him "yaweh" though it be his name in the original older abrahamic religion, hebrewism.

Christians see his name as literally "god" judging based on all the Christians I know and from personal experience, Jews almost never say his same because it's sacred but they are the ones who more so call him the aforementioned name.

Islamic faith calls him "allah".

Also, I always kind of assumed/knew there WAS a version of the abrahamic god (or atleast someone representing him) on hp! Despite the demigod thing, and dimensions and such, just that he was more of a figure in the background, sort of how in LOTR universe, which IS based on Christian themes but hidden really well and sort of subverted, the main and only god of LOTR universe sort of created the universe and then left to sit back and watch. I felt this was sort of the case. That or it was like the diablo game series were he exists, but he makes up all the souls of everyone and everything, and is the overall symbiotic shared collective consciousness of everything in this universe, thus the "almighty" is 1/3rd a concept, 1/3rd the greater force that results from a synergy like state of the soul and mind, and 1/3rd a legit dude in the housepets universe.

This is all speculation of course. But was confident in a Overseer of sorts....


But I don't know how the platypus can be naive the other Angels. I also wonder were these demi-"gods" amongst Angels interms of ranking. Judging on tarot, it seems low though...


ALTHOUGH. I always wondered if the dragon of bahamut was a seraphim form of his, though bit drastically different for gag sake in the HP! Universe! Yes, og seraphim, prior to christain, islam, and later hebrew texts, seraphim were angelic and fiery serpent like beings that came from a Egyptian follower of the abrahamic faith, adapting elements of prior Egyptian culture so people of the present culture could relate to the abrahamic faith and gather more follows. Same with cherubim, they were NOT cupid babies, and neither just for floating random animal heads. They were the mesopotamian dudes with ox bodies, lion feets, eagle wings, and a man's head. Over time to look more appealing, they were turned into the cupid babies (cherubim), and dudes hidden by 6 wings (seraphim).

Knowing how thing usually go in hp! Universe like bahamut, I wonder if they Angels will take the same route? "Monsterous" forms, BUT winged humanoid forms as well?

[Amazee Dayzee]

I'm pretty sure that there is probably one God in the HP! universe but how he appears depends on who he has to talk to. If its a Celestial, its in his dragon form. If its an animal, its in his whale form and I always assumed that if it was a human he would appear as a human. It would be easy to do since it is very RARE that Rick does draw the faces of humans so if we saw God in his human form he would just be seen up to the bottom half of his face.

[ZAR22]

I'm pretty sure that there is probably one God in the HP! universe but how he appears depends on who he has to talk to. If its a Celestial, its in his dragon form. If its an animal, its in his whale form and I always assumed that if it was a human he would appear as a human. It would be easy to do since it is very RARE that Rick does draw the faces of humans so if we saw God in his human form he would just be seen up to the bottom half of his face.

I didn't think the almighty was bahamut, but someone ABOVE him, as if you don't know, in abrahamic faith of islam, God created bahamut, so he wouldn't BE bahamut. And even then, bahamut is a misunderstanding and outlandish version of the levithan and behemoth, with the name bahamut literally coming from behemoth from a flip-flop mistake, in a attempt to make the levithan (older version) larger than the behemoth who in older stories would have been larger than the sea monster. But the largest of the 3 domain monsters that did NOT get a Islamic version as far as I know, is the ziz, who sense the sizes are flipped flopped, would be smaller than the bull/rhino/elephant that stands atop bahamut.

But yes, minus the other animals part, I could understand one form being the hidden humanoid if talking to a human, and a whale form just because, with the true-er (if he is a seraphim) being the dragon.

[Sir Chestnut]

I wonder if working one of the areas is a promotion of some sort or if it's just something everyone just rotates doing?

Breel was technically kind of like an "onboarding specialist/tour guide" if I remember correctly.

[Leotamer]

From what I remember, Breel just worked at a spa and didn't even know that Keene was new until tried to pay them with money.

[Orannis]

You know out of everything I am most surprised the Green noodle is not taking advantage of this. I mean her pup is literally in heaven.

[ZAR22]

You know out of everything I am most surprised the Green noodle is not taking advantage of this. I mean her pup is literally in heaven.

Huh? Who? What? When? Where?

[Amazee Dayzee]

I think that he was referring to Dragon when he made that statement but must not have gotten farther in the comment. Dragon is no longer in Heaven now as she and Pete got reincarnated into the mortal fox kits Draig and Craig and have to serve a lifetime of being mortal for their antics in the game. Also both she and Craig were somehow out of the zone that got moved to Heaven and are now trapped in a soundless desolate Earth at the moment.

[Leotamer]

I don't think it soundless, they were talking ti each other. They aren't hearing bird songs because the birds got taken too. Though, Pete is currently banned from entering Heaven but I will be curious why Draig got left behind too. I would guess they were not recognized as mortals in need of rescue, or maybe whoever picked everyone up was just being mean. It might also be due to the punishment, but I would think demon invasion would take precedent and that I don't remember them ever mentioning a 'no going to heaven' clause.

[NHWestoN]

I don't think it soundless, they were talking ti each other. They aren't hearing bird songs because the birds got taken too. Though, Pete is currently banned from entering Heaven but I will be curious why Draig got left behind too. I would guess they were not recognized as mortals in need of rescue, or maybe whoever picked everyone up was just being mean. It might also be due to the punishment, but I would think demon invasion would take precedent and that I don't remember them ever mentioning a 'no going to heaven' clause.

Since Bahamut has overshadowed everything GKitsune has done in "The Game", his penalty imposed upon Pete and Dragon may be lifted. Ah, so many uncertainties awaiting resolution!

[LunarFox]

Yeah, lower, but Tarot, why so rude?
Trying to save Earth from being screwed?
Not happy with roleplaying Elijah, fine,
Then get Cerb! She's next in line.

Tarot, don't become a Karen, please,
And realize that you're hard to appease,
But then again, this is Heaven, true,
And it's not time yet for you.

[Amazee Dayzee]

Tarot always had an issue with being just a little bit too blunt and in your face about things which wasn't always the best solution when looking for answers. Of course that is just who she is and maybe she will grow out of it.

[tych]

was the Platypus in charge of the complaints department a Kevin Smith Joke?

[Amazee Dayzee]

Is this because of the quote that was said in the movie he was involved in?