This thought is fresh and unsteady so bare with me:
While going through norse god mythologies and google pictures, trying to find some reasonable references for my work my eyes were caught by that pic and Baldur here making me think "huh, reminds me kinda of Nika but it is just a halo thing":
I know that taking such picture seriously is stupid so I started to dig. I knew Baldur from few games in my life like Baldur's Gate or God of War. Especially this one made me think, since in that game he called himself as a coward and stuff like that, what was kinda interesting too but still, it is a game so I can't take it 100% as a source of knowledge, especially since we don't have that much information about him.
To say it short: He was the most beloved god by gods and creatures around. His name mostly translated as "bold" but in some sources it can be hardly translated as "white fire" and such. He was fabulous, cheerful and all of that. He was depicted as a brave warrior who was accepting every battle and even connected to the name of a warlord.
You start to see some kind of ironic similarities? Or more like similarities to the picture of a warrior what Usopp wants to be? In here will be needed the most important myth of Baldur's Death.
The Death of Baldur starts with that mother of Baldur, Frigg, was worried about her son's dreams of his upcoming death. Dreams in norse mythology were important, giving them prothetic meaning. "Frigg, yearning for any chance of saving her treasured son, however remote, went to every entity in the cosmos, living or nonliving, and obtained oaths to not harm Baldur."(The Death of Baldur summary, it is a legit source what I visited multiple times) Mother didn't asked only mistletoe, since she thought that it is way too harmless to do harm.
It links to the prothetic lies of Usopp and his non stop fear of death, about which he always says, that he will die if he will come on a curtain island. It is a common knowledge that his lies are becoming true with each adventure there and there so we might link myth dreams with his lies. He is beloved by many, having tons of followers, being the reason why Strawhats has now a fleet. Later we can read about Loki and that he tricked blind god and brother of Baldur, Hodr, to kill him with a spear made of mistletoe, since other gods were testing his new invincibility. Oda not once linked Loki and Usopp together, starting from their similarities about being a tricksters, not fitting to others around, or straight up comparing them visually.
Many predicts that Usopp will fight him in David vs Goliath style but yet I fear that despite the result, we might see his final breath while that meeting. From beginning of the myth beings from the underworld celebrated fact that Baldur will join them and after his death, while the rescue mission done my Hermod, we find out him sitting next to Hel and learn that if everyone will mop after him he will come back to life. Everyone did that besides a giant Tokk, who was believed to be Loki. By that we might try to predict of how he will die.
My prediction is that Usopp by that death will become a real God but hey, it is just a theory!
AN USOPP THEORY-
But nah, to be serious I don't expect people taking it serious or light, cuz I didn't checked the whole myth from original original straight up translated source. I just didn't wanted to forget it as fast as my theory of Usopp and Luffy the Jesus story
Don't ask me, I had that thought in the middle of the night. Right now is middle of the night. oh well I am ready for Lynch
While going through norse god mythologies and google pictures, trying to find some reasonable references for my work my eyes were caught by that pic and Baldur here making me think "huh, reminds me kinda of Nika but it is just a halo thing":
I know that taking such picture seriously is stupid so I started to dig. I knew Baldur from few games in my life like Baldur's Gate or God of War. Especially this one made me think, since in that game he called himself as a coward and stuff like that, what was kinda interesting too but still, it is a game so I can't take it 100% as a source of knowledge, especially since we don't have that much information about him.
To say it short: He was the most beloved god by gods and creatures around. His name mostly translated as "bold" but in some sources it can be hardly translated as "white fire" and such. He was fabulous, cheerful and all of that. He was depicted as a brave warrior who was accepting every battle and even connected to the name of a warlord.
You start to see some kind of ironic similarities? Or more like similarities to the picture of a warrior what Usopp wants to be? In here will be needed the most important myth of Baldur's Death.
The Death of Baldur starts with that mother of Baldur, Frigg, was worried about her son's dreams of his upcoming death. Dreams in norse mythology were important, giving them prothetic meaning. "Frigg, yearning for any chance of saving her treasured son, however remote, went to every entity in the cosmos, living or nonliving, and obtained oaths to not harm Baldur."(The Death of Baldur summary, it is a legit source what I visited multiple times) Mother didn't asked only mistletoe, since she thought that it is way too harmless to do harm.
It links to the prothetic lies of Usopp and his non stop fear of death, about which he always says, that he will die if he will come on a curtain island. It is a common knowledge that his lies are becoming true with each adventure there and there so we might link myth dreams with his lies. He is beloved by many, having tons of followers, being the reason why Strawhats has now a fleet. Later we can read about Loki and that he tricked blind god and brother of Baldur, Hodr, to kill him with a spear made of mistletoe, since other gods were testing his new invincibility. Oda not once linked Loki and Usopp together, starting from their similarities about being a tricksters, not fitting to others around, or straight up comparing them visually.
Many predicts that Usopp will fight him in David vs Goliath style but yet I fear that despite the result, we might see his final breath while that meeting. From beginning of the myth beings from the underworld celebrated fact that Baldur will join them and after his death, while the rescue mission done my Hermod, we find out him sitting next to Hel and learn that if everyone will mop after him he will come back to life. Everyone did that besides a giant Tokk, who was believed to be Loki. By that we might try to predict of how he will die.
My prediction is that Usopp by that death will become a real God but hey, it is just a theory!
AN USOPP THEORY-
But nah, to be serious I don't expect people taking it serious or light, cuz I didn't checked the whole myth from original original straight up translated source. I just didn't wanted to forget it as fast as my theory of Usopp and Luffy the Jesus story
Don't ask me, I had that thought in the middle of the night. Right now is middle of the night. oh well I am ready for Lynch
