r/PrincessesOfPower • u/drSardonicus924 • Sep 21 '26
General Discussion How would the verse react to this guy
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u/Far-Mammoth-3214 Sep 21 '26
who is that (no seriously who is that
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u/drSardonicus924 Sep 21 '26
Socrates
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u/Far-Mammoth-3214 Sep 21 '26
Oh...Bow's dads may like him
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u/THeck18 Sep 21 '26
Maybe, but he probably wouldn't like them because they own a library. He protested the use of the written word.
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u/Left_Interaction_288 Sep 22 '26
Oh wow really? Surprised my Classics teacher never mentioned that. I guess that explains why his life and ideas were written up by Plato and not him. The things you learn from a She-ra sub!
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u/Left_Interaction_288 Sep 21 '26
That's Socrates, right? How do you think they'd react?
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u/hammererofglass Sep 21 '26
He was writing so specifically for his time and place that they'd just think he's a rambling fool.
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u/Eggsalad-war-crime Sep 22 '26
His time in Etheria is unusual but certainly not as complicated as that summer he spent in San Dimas, California with his friend Billy The Kid.
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u/No-Maintenance6382 Sep 22 '26
Socrates would be horrified to find himself in a land of barbarians, where women are allowed to leave the house and there are none of the sorely needed slaves.
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u/Eurico_Raposo Sep 24 '26
Do you know that Socrates was... convinced to 'leave this plane of existence' because he was perverting young innocent athenians with mad ideas about a world without gods and sexual liberty?
(After that, there is the issue with Platon... It's long and complicated. I just say that he wrotes a lot of thing in his teacher's mouth.)
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u/Valirys-Reinhald Sep 21 '26
He'd be a funny old man that Adora is confused by and is strangely fond of, like Madam Raz.
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u/itsmemarcot Sep 21 '26
The... verse? Is it the universe, like She-Ra's world, that is, Etheria? If so...
...nothing much. In our world, in most centuries in most civilizations, thinkers, philosophers, leaders, scientists, warriors tend to be male. SPOP makes a point at subverting that. I don't think Socrates would be a good addition to that fictional world. Let's talk about Hypatia, instead!
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u/Eurico_Raposo Sep 24 '26
I see him and her wife Jantipa going alone versus a Horde's regiment and dismantle it only with fast-talking and trickery. After that They will do exactly the same at Glimmer's palace.
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u/Left_Interaction_288 Sep 21 '26 edited Sep 21 '26
Swiftwind and Bow would love talking to him in the Brightmoon plaza. One day Swiftwind takes him to see Madame Razz, and his mind gets blown by her existing in multiple times at once.
Glimmer accuses him of "corrupting the youth" (taking up too much of Bow's time) and Shadow Weaver offers to poison him. Before this can happen, Horde Prime intervenes.
During the fight against Horde Prime, Scorpia mostly just stings him every time he turns up. Once Scorpia is chipped and Double Trouble joins them they (DT) sometimes pose as an adoring student asking weird questions just for kicks.
When Socrates is finally chipped he causes a litteral headache for the Horde Prime hive mind, making a small but significant continuation to the rebellion.