Discussion Question: A Thousand Ships

[browngirl]

This involves hefty spoilers for this week's DC Comics, specifically Infinite Crisis #4 and Nightwing #116.



So what fictional characters, besides Helen of Troy and now Dick Grayson, are so handsome or otherwise affecting that people have destroyed a whole city because of them?

Yes, this would be me NOT GETTING OVER Deathstroke et all nuking Bludhaven.

But it's also a real question. I'm interested in the fictional motif.

ETA: derryderrydown wrote commentfic, which is a thing of glory and which you want to read.

Comments

[solvent90.livejournal.com]

Um. Not many? There's the Ramayana, I guess, in which the city of Lanka is destroyed because of the abduction of Sita. There's a specific bit where Hanuman sets the roofs of the city on fire to punish Ravana for insulting Sita. And then later the huge big epic war in which the city is obliterated.

[solvent90.livejournal.com]

Thinking about it, it's really the kind of thing that only happens in epics. Not just stories that are epics, but epic-scale relationships, where the characters' relationship reflects some bigger pattern, something that goes beyond just them. And also where the character for whom the destruction happens is scorchingly hot (there's descriptions of Sita's breasts-and-hips-and-eyes-and-mouth in the Ramayana that go on for pages). So :) The Slade/Dick implications are, um, interesting.

[rubynye.livejournal.com]

I really like the way you think. :) Thank you, a lot.

*makes notes to write this all into her next Slade/Dick*

[solvent90.livejournal.com]

her next Slade/Dick

Yay! I can't wait to read it. I love the way you write them.