Wednesday, October 30, 2013

"You Just Bought Yourself Another Saturday"

I'm not going to lie, this question is kind of stupid, but hopefully it will be a little fun. I'm going to presume you've seen the movie the Breakfast Club and I'm going ask you this, "If the main teenage characters from Breakfast Club were a band of Scions, who do you think would be the best fit for their divine parent?"

I normally hate questions like this....but this one was sooo ridiculous that I wanted to answer it. Plus, anne is super busy with school and so I had to take over for a bit.

For those who dont know, the breakfast club is an old 80s movie(1985). It was before I was really old enough to watch movies, but my mom(who had me very young) fuckin loved this movie. Its considered one of the quintessential movies of the decade. It came smack in the middle and encapsulated a lot of the feelings of kids that grew up in the era. It was also one of the earliest movies of the group known as the "brat pack" a clique of hollywood actors who helped define the era. Some of them are still super famous, others you probably havnt heard of unless you at least a teen back then.

The story is basically a group of kids all get saturday detention(high school). The kids are from all different walks of life(but all white....so like...3 walks of life) and through the course of the film, we learn a little about each of them. Much like scions, each character thinks their problems are like the worst possible problems to deal with. And then they realize they're probably wrong(but like....still these kids have like zero problems compared to most people on earth). And by the end we find we all arent so different after all. Its a movie about massive first world problems(except bender...he has it pretty rough(but still not that bad, relatively speaking).
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So.....if they're scions...what is their parentage? Im gonna throw some ideas out and give some explanation, and if you feel inclined you can offer some different options. I generally like to have scions that go a bit counter to their parent, but for this I'll probably be hitting it on the nose pretty hard.

Andrew Clark: Played by Emilio Estevez: Huitzliopochtli
Super athlete, kind of a bully, takes out his daddy issues on others, very insecure. Im not sure on the characters heritage, but estevez is hispanic.....(technically galatian but we're going with it).
So lets say Huitzilopochtli.

Brian Johnson: Played by Anthony Michael Hall: Thoth
Super smart nerd kid. His life is really hard cause his parents put tons of pressure on him to get perfect grades(you know...american pressure though, not real pressure like japanese or chinese family). There isnt really a lot going on with him, so any "weaker" intelligent character is fine. But my first idea was Thoth, so we're sticking with that.

John Bender: Played by Judd Nelson: Marduk
Your quintessential bad boy with an attitude problem caused by hidden factors(O LOOK PEOPLES PARENTS ARE MEAN TO THEM AGAIN!). But this guy does seem to have it pretty rough. He smokes, maybe that can help me put him with a parent I see smoking? Hes a super charismatic dude, gets all the ladies and is strong enough to be a bully. The actor is Jewish....so that doesnt help any. I guess we can go middle europe. But he has a darkness to him...so lemme see if i can work that. Im gonna go with my first inclination, which was Marduk. It doesnt quite fit yet, but hes in a growing period. Perfect scion material.

Claire Standish: Played by Molly Ringwald: Hera
Rich girl is insecure and doesnt love herself so she cant love others. Not a lot to go on here...the movie says shes hot, although I dont see it, but lets assume shes hot. Shes also ignored by her very busy parents. Hrm, this might be a good spot for a Hera...its like super on the nose....but I guess thats what we're doing here.

Allison Reynolds: Played by Ally Sheedy: Moreena
Kind of goth....attractive but hiding it....super quiet and reserved. Im gonna go with moreena.

Richard Vernon: Played by Paul Gleeson: Atar
The principal. Hes grumpy he has to be here on saturday to watch these kids, and he needs them to stay in line so he can leave the room and get other stuff done. He's painted as the "bad guy" but thats just cause most of the kids in the movie are douchebags trying to fuck around instead of taking their detention. Lookin for a pantheon we havnt done yet, just cause....I feel like 1 from each keeps me from making them all greek. We're gonna say Atar. Justice-y, Information and learning...fire is an added bonus.

Ok, there we go. If you're interested, talk about these in comments, but please dont let this fill our inbox with questions about who is a scion of who from movies, pop culture or anything else. If we get some, we probably wont do another one like this for at least 3 months(well, ....if we get a lot, maybe we'd do one for winter solstice or something).

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  1. If were are still discussing breakfast club, I've always been curious of Carl the Janitor's divine parentage...

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    1. Carl? Well, he knows pretty much everything going on around there, treats other people's belongings like they are his own, has a sense of humor about everything.
      Hermes?

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  2. OH.MY.GOD! You actually answered this. John your just...just...the best, bro. Anyways, I loved your answers, especially the one for Molly Ringwald.

    For me personally, I thought they would go;

    Andrew/Thor (The guy does have a thing against wise-cracking tricksters like John)

    Brian/Hephaestus (Yes he's a nerd (or geek, whatever the terminology) but he's not a well-respected one, and he even tries to get some revenge because of that. Sounds a lot like Hephaestus when he goes after Hera, Ares and Aphrodite for well-deserved revenge.

    John/Loki (Like Loki, John is one of the few tricksters who actually gets severely punished by some kind of authority figure, like Odin, or in his case principal Vernon.

    Molly/Hera (for the reasons you said) but maybe Ishtar works too.

    Allison/Hermes or Dionysus (Yeah, Allison looks like a goth, but for most part she's a weirdo, basket-case. Plus, she's apparently a kleptomania and compulsive liar, so that's a point for the Hermes camp.

    I would really love to see Anne's opinion on this. Hope's she's not to busy that she can't waste a few minutes on some pointless brainstorming.




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    1. Annes a little young for breakfast club....I had to explain to her what it was.

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    2. I'm 19 and I've seen the Breakfast Club at least 5 times. Anne obviously has a lack of appreciation for awesome high-school films from the 80's. John it's your solemn duty to educate her on just how great those films were. : )

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    3. I was less than a year old when that came out, so it wasn't exactly part of my childhood. :)

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    4. You really should see it. It's a damn good movie!

      As an aside, that could make for a fun "prologue" to a game; the characters spend at least some time at the same high school, then don't see each other again 'til after being tapped to fight the Titans. Fate is a funny thing...

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    5. I'm actually kind of surprised you guys haven't seen Breakfast Club. I haven't either (it came out 5 years before I was born) but a lot of people my age have seen it religiously and consider me really weird for having not seen it even once.

      so good to know we're all on the same page here.

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    6. Well, only anne hasnt. Ive seen it several times when I was a kid. I havnt seen it in like a decade though.

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    7. I had no idea people still watched it though....it was like forever ago

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    8. In my high school it was practically mandatory watching, but then again many of teacher's were yuppie's so they were probably teens when it first came out in the 80's. I guess they really took it to heart, kind of like Catcher in the Rye.

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