We Talk About Safety Parachutes

By Timothy Murray


When you go out with your friend for an activity such as skydiving, you do not really go do it without a precaution. Unless you actually planned for death, then that is an entirely different matter altogether. Would you really jump out of a plane without something to reassure you that you will not get flattened like a pancake as soon as you land? Exactly. That is just the worst nightmare for someone who is deathly afraid of heights. Try getting them to go skydiving and get slapped in the face for your jerkiness. Here, we are going to have a discussion on Safety Parachute.

This is going to have a lot of references from the book series Percy Jackson and the Olympians. As well as The Heroes of Olympus. Mostly because the characters there suffer a lot of falling from a very tall building or something of the like. Or just falling in general. Like the one where Percy jumped out of a building to avoid fighting a chimera.

Ever played the new God of War that was released this year? Kratos and Atreus got to fight a freaking dragon. Two gods against a dragon. We were not sure who to root for but damn it sure was a really good fight. It could even rival that final boss fight with Baldur.

Well, they landed in River Cocytus. This river is known as the wailing river, where the souls of those in regret, and probably anger, reside. Since the couple landed there anyway, a parachute would only just prolong the inevitable. Unless it made the land somewhere else. But this is Tartarus.

Fine. That was not a good example to prove our point. Those A. I can actually be harmless and peaceful. It was actually us humans that were terrible and provoked them to do a revolution that leads to a war. As usual, humans make everything complicated with the wars we so claim to hate yet we always have reason to start.

In the end, the curse lifted because of the arrows Atreus was using. That sure made Baldur go from insane to downright crazy. He was so uncontrollable too. But Kratos still ended up having to kill him. Not because he wanted to. But because he needed to. It was sort of his duty.

At the time, he kept reassuring himself that as long as he had a good reason why he was on the domain of Zeus, he was going to be fine. Up on Olympus, Zeus himself glared down from his throne and resisted the urge to throw a lightning bolt at his nephew. The only reason he did not was because he saw a reason not to.

A parachute would not have saved him, to be honest. None of that earthly, mortal technology could go up against a god. But it still would have made him feel safe if he had one.

All in all, it was a good game. Too long but it was worth it. Definitely way safer than going out to skydive and having to stress over a parachute or something.




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