cal1pso | Snowflake challenge #6

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In your own space, share a favourite piece of original canon (a show, a specific TV episode, a storyline, a book or series, a scene from a movie, etc) and explain why you love it so much. . Post your answer to today’s challenge in your own space and leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

It was very hard for me to decide, but I think I'll go with this scene from Saint Seiya: Tenkai-hen Josou - Overture. Specifically the spanish Latinoamerican version:

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This movie is very trippy but even without context this scene is amazing.

The scene starts with the protagonist (Seiya) questioning the ideals of Gods, who see humanity as beneath them, and that want to wipe them all from the face of earth. He then starts to question the mere idea of God: "What even IS a God?"

Seiya: I don't understand the kind of world that the Gods want to create. The image that the Gods want to see
Seiya: God, God. What is that? What is a God?
Saori/Athena: Seiya!
Seiya: WHAT IS A GOD?

In his desesperation he attacks the Goddess Artemisa, but his attack disintegrates before it can hit her.
THEN appears the reason of why I preffer this scene in spanish
The God Apollo makes an appearence, voiced by the great Ruben Moya (R.I.P) his voice gives me chills, and that, combined with the things he says? Terrifying.

Apollo: Did you ask what is a God?
Saori/Athena:That voice...
Artemisa: Brother of mine!
Apollo: What is a God?The answer is something mortals cannot measure. They are not permitted to try, either

Now, this is not the firs time we have a God as an antagonist. We have had those before (Poseidon, Hades, Artemisa) BUT Apollo is different. This is the first time in the entire series where we finally see a God seem as powerful and almighty as him. He's above everyone, he is in another plane of existence. He is the representation of Godhood. And it's scary!
After scolding his sister he flaunts his enormous power, picking up the human Goddess of war like a doll.

Apollo: Athena, let me see your face, come on...
Seiya:Saori!
Apollo: A beautiful face.... it's a shame that it has to disappear...
Apollo:Little sister...a human God is lower than a human. Which means....

Apollo is about to kill Athena/Saori, but this is when our protagonist acts. Launching an attack that even if doesn't hurt the God, makes him release her.
Apollo mocks him, about how absurd is that he is trying to fight agains something as poweful as a God
Seiya then gives a discourse that embodies everything he represents as a character: to never give up even when the odds seem impossible,and to keep fighting for what he thinks is correct.

Apollo: How absurd you are, saint. A mortal rising his fist against a God?
Seiya: Saori believed in us, even when we had to fight agains Poseidon and Hades ¡She risked her life and believed in us!
Saori/Athena: Seiya no! Our power is nothing compared to what Apollo can do!
Seiya: There is something I never learned from Marin....
Seiya: I didn't learn to turn my back on my enemies and run away.
Apollo:The gods live forever, but still you defy us? Being immortal is the most beautiful and powerful thing in the world
Apollo: Human, die.
Seiya: There is also something immortal inside me! We fire our cosmos and create power. That's when the saints and the Universe become one and we become infinitely close to IMMORTAL!

The world is consumed by a white light caused by Seiya's attack and the scene ends

Snowflake challenge #6

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