Some major renaming and musings on the character who inspired him

Davit Partzankian is the same character as Anatoly Sidorov/Smirnov, but with his nationality changed to Armenian and he serves the Armenian brotherhood instead. Mostly to avoid suspicion of an anti-Russian sentiment coupled with Canada disliking the United States nowadays, though it should be noted that Armenia was also part of the Soviet Union too. Considering that Jemima Szara’s based on Jemima Shore, Davit Partzankian is also based on her captor though he was Syrian in that story (this story appeared in A Woman’s Eye). Well to an extent when it comes to being put into the same role as he did, though at this point this story could be read as kind of anti-West Asian because there’s only one West Asian in the Jemima Shore canon and he’s a bad guy.

But then again Jemima Szara herself is also based on Nancy Drew and the latter was in a kind of relationship with a Russian, which could be seen as anti-Russian in a way because that story was written during the Cold War. I don’t think writers could get away with writing such a story without getting scrutinised by Russians these days, now that Russians could always vent out those feelings online if you head over to Russophone websites a lot. Admittedly it could be said that having an Armenian villain around could be seen as contributing to anti-Armenian sentiment in a sense, but I suppose if we were to find a way to make a video game like this endear to Russian audiences, you better not step on their toes lest they start protesting a lot. So making him Armenian works around this.

The original version of this character had an Armenian relative so it’s kind of there, but making him actually Armenian is another step. Albeit in not making him offend Russian audiences, if we’re aiming this game at a global audience. Given how problematic anti-Arab sentiment is, making him Armenian also skirts around it just the same. Just like the earlier incarnation, Davit Partzankian is based on Kitty Pryde. It’s there in his surname being derived from one of a handful of Armenian words meaning pride, he’s got a pet snake named Mikoyan, knows kendo, has a temper and is no stranger to killing people in a rage. Although earlier writers like Chris Claremont don’t seem to harbour an anti-Russian sentiment, I don’t think Colossus’s inclusion in his team speaks to a pro-Russian or pro-Soviet sentiment in any way.

Colossus being the resident Russian of the team, among others like his own sister. One is that if he was introduced today, he’d be portrayed as a villain right away. Two, writers like Chris Claremont seem to insinuate that a Soviet character like Colossus is only good if they join an American team like X-Men, in the sense that America wants to be seen as the hero of the world so badly it’ll do anything and everything to intervene in world affairs, even if it risks looking villainous in other places to some peoples. So much so that America’s got quite successful at continually publishing the adventures of nationalistic superheroes like Captain America and Superman, the latter who fights for truth, justice and the American way. There was also an animated programme called Liberty’s Kids, which is about the American Revolution.

It’s not that Britain hasn’t done any nationalistic stories before, but not so often at this point compared to the United States. And even then America is something of a declining superpower by now, which means that American influence could either be undone or minimised, which already is happening in some places to an extent. But it’s kind of telling that America is so jingoistic that its closest neighbour to the north Canada can’t even popularise its own nationalistic superheroes for long until now like with Captain Canuck, since its better known cartooning exports have little to do with superheroes if you factor in the likes of For Better Or For Worse, Cerebus, Scott Pilgrim Vs The World and Binky The Space Cat. Though one of their respective authors is a superhero fan, doing recurring superhero comics isn’t Canada’s strong forte.

So is Russia in some regards and this has to do with superheroes not meshing up well with both cultures’ ethics and values, the former wants to be seen as a major peacekeeper and the latter considers the use of violence to do what’s good to be kind of anti-Soviet, given how America habitually uses brute force to reinforce justice around the world so what superheroes do is really no different in some regards. Assuming if this video game this character will appear in is Canadian and knowing native-grown superheroes may not be a consistently strong suit for Canada, maybe pitching it as a superpowered detective story would help matters. It has enough of a superhero vibe to be kind of comforting to superhero fans, but different enough to be its own entity.

A world where this character, Davit Partzankian, plays a part in as one of the criminals there. A character who bears similarities to Kitty Pryde in most regards (short temper, swordsmanship, intangibility, hacking skills, being both out for blood on a really bad day, defiant and stuff), save for that Davit isn’t just male but also an Armenian criminal on the run at that. He’s also got black hair and dark eyes to boot, though there have been instances where Kitty Pryde’s portrayed just like that. An interesting counterpoint to Jemima Szara who’s more levelheaded and even-tempered, blonde-haired and blue-eyed and a worthy ally to the real detective of the story, Jean-Louis Lumiere who’s really a natural blond himself (he got a red David Bowie mullet lately).

Even the way Davit Partzankian wears is reminiscent of Kitty Pryde, albeit mediated by the influence of the late Australian singer Michael Hutchence from the band INXS. Kitty Pryde’s often shown in black and yellow clothing (the X-Men trainee colours, though at this point she’s a grown woman and it’s like seeing a 30-something woman wear a schoolgirl uniform to work, mind you I see her as being in her thirties by now*), sometimes all-black clothing and sometimes black and blue clothing (by now), the latter kind of befits her personality because she’s really eager to give somebody the black eye when enraged (she did this to somebody in God Loves, Man Kills) and she really does have a habit of throwing fits every now and then.

Perhaps outside of civilian clothing, she rarely wears anything brighter and cheerier than that. Davit Partzankian also doesn’t wear brightly coloured clothing much either, whereas somebody like Jean-Louis is not adverse to wearing red, white, light blue, yellow and peach. It’s not hard to see how and why Kitty Pryde’s deeply contrasted with Emma Frost, not just in powers and personality, but also in the way they dress as if they represent two opposing poles of femininity in X-Men comics, in some regards far moreso than it is with Jean Grey, Rogue and Dazzler with the possible exception of Betsy Braddock, who went from one pole of femininity to another. In honour of this tradition, let’s say that Davit and Jean-Louis represent two opposing poles of masculinity.

One tend to be criminal and malevolent, the other towards law enforcement and forensics. One stabs people with swords, the other kills by blowing up with lasers in hand. As it is with Kitty Pryde and Emma Frost, one is dark-haired and the other is blond (Jean-Louis is a natural blond). Even if Emma may not be a natural blonde herself, she still stands in opposition to Kitty in many regards. In some regards it’s much more drastic than it would be between her and Betsy Braddock, especially in her Psylocke days. The fact that Pryde became a ninja herself twice or thrice gives me the feeling that she could actually out-Psylocke Betsy Braddock, if not Kwannon but this would mean she’ll make both versions kind of redundant. No really, with the focused totality of her phasing skills and her willingness to kill, she could’ve replaced Psylocke as the de-facto ninja woman instead.

Just makes one wonder what’s holding writers back from having her be the resident female ninja for long instead, given she’s got the ruthlessness to go with her rather mercurial mood swings and ninja skills, she’s shown to kill people in anger and attack others in anger just the same. Making her the ninja woman permanently wouldn’t be a big stretch, though it’s shocking why writers couldn’t commit to long when she could easily fulfil the role both Psylockes did for years. It’s really puzzling, if not that some like Chris Claremont see her as a kind of authorial surrogate, even when she could be the character Betsy Braddock ended up as for long. Another is how underrepresented other ethnicities and nationalities are in both DC and Marvel canons, sort of like how and why there are practically no Yugoslavs in the Marvel canon.

At any point where both Pietro and Wanda Maximoff could’ve come from Slovenia and be Romani Slovenes, or Victor von Doom being a Croatian himself these never came to pass. They never happened, despite DC and Marvel writers’ willingness to change the characters’ backstories every now and then, same goes for how and why Tchalla never got outed as a Cameroonian Bamileke. This is also true for the DC canon where at any point where Tara Markov could’ve been Slovak herself, this never occurred and despite Marv Wolfman’s willingness to retcon Rose Wilson into being part-Vietnamese, he never bothered to retcon Tara Markov into being a Slovak herself. Flawed representation, surely. But no representation kind of means people like Wolfman would rather not get into the messy reality of the Communist Bloc.

So he and his cohorts invent proxies in their place, no need to learn about Slovakia when he could make up Markovia instead. Also it’s as if Eastern Europeans are practically exotic white people that they could make up details with, a step removed from both white North Americans and western Europeans (i.e. they’re not NATO allies, so why bother?). As of 2025, there’s still no Yugoslav representation in any way, even if there are likely some Yugoslav readers who want to see themselves represented in DC and Marvel stories, however flawed it may be. Also no Caucasian representation whatsoever, as in those coming from the Caucasus like Armenia, Georgia and Azerbaijan. But this would mean that as a lot of DC and Marvel writers are Americans, Georgia might as well be the name of a US state and not a country and former Soviet Republic.

Armenia’s also underrepresented and despite some people’s sympathies for this country and its people, Armenian characters have yet to show up in either DC or Marvel. Actually they never show up at all, so this is how and why Armenia’s this underrepresented. At any point where Chris Claremont could’ve introduced an Armenian character himself, I’m afraid if they did show up in Marvel they’d either be the Soviet enemy (Natalia Romanova early on) or somebody who’s only good if they join an American team (Natalia Romanova later on, Colossus). Even if having Armenian villians like Davit Partzankian isn’t any better, there’s really no Armenian representation in both the DC and Marvel canons at all.

Maybe I could invent some Armenian good guys and the like to even things out, but it’s still telling that Armenia and its people are practically nonexistent in both DC and Marvel. Armenian characters have certainly shown up before, though mostly in Soviet fictions at most since Armenia was part of the Soviet Union before. Even if Armenia’s no longer part of the Soviet Union anymore, it seems American comics continue to ignore it. Better to have Sokovia in its place, than to have an Armenian show up in DC. Maybe they already did, but it’s very rare at all. As for Georgia, most Americans (including most DC and Marvel writers) would think of it as an American state, ditto Georgia the European country. Which says a lot about how American most DC and Marvel writers are.

No wonder why Russian characters are kind of commonplace in both the DC and Marvel canons, but not a single Armenian has ever showed up in either one of them. Not a single Georgian mutant ever joined X-Men, as in they come from Tbilisi and not from Savannah. An Avenger from Baku, Azerbaijan would be nice, but they never happened because no Marvel writer’s interested in Azerbaijan to begin with. It might as well be nonexistent to them, ditto mutants from Yerevan, Armenia or Astana, Kazakhstan. Despite cries for representation, characters from the Caucasus have yet to show up in DC and Marvel. But I suppose America’s declining stature and possible disappearance would shake things up for the better, moreso now that Canada doesn’t want to have anything to do with it at all.

Maybe allying more with Europe and if possible, Russia would be the viable, though more controversial alternatives given how unlikable America has gotten to the world over the years; it’s kind of astonishing that if Canada does ally more with Russia to the point of joining it, it would upend its longstanding relationship with its neighbour America all the more. But this results in a more Europeanised Canada, instead of the America-lite version we currently have. Perhaps an actually Russianised Canada this time and since Russia’s kind of politically incorrect, then Canada too will become a bit more politically incorrect over time due to Russian influence. Maybe not immediately but one less amenable to other strains of PC thinking, particularly when it comes to LGBT matters and the like.

Not to mention the DC and Marvel canons have a very strong America-centric worldview to the extent that otherwise European characters like Tara Markov and John Constantine gravitate to it for some reason, if because America likes to be at the centre of the planet’s attention and wants to be seen as such. Apparently it’s a country that doesn’t tolerate its rivals to the point of wanting to undermine them anytime they come close to outshining it, whether if it’s Japan or the Soviet Union in the late 20th century. It doesn’t want competition at all. Though with a growing multipolar world, it might as well learn to accept this. It would be all the more shocking if China gets all its Asia-Pacific allies or if Russia succeeds in getting all of Europe and part of North America, that America as a superpower is truly undone.

It wouldn’t be any better if both Russia and China became the new prevailing superpowers of the day, it will be a bipolar world again but where America’s totally out of the picture this time.

She’s a product of her times

I remember reading somewhere that Antonia Fraser created Jemima Shore to be the opposite of herself as well as representative of feminism in the 1960s and 1970s, wherein such women want to be liberated from motherhood and domesticity and to be very independent themselves. It’s unsurprising that the stories the character appeared in mostly appeared between the 1970s and 1990s, though it seemed she hasn’t appeared in any further stories until now. It seems the character’s brand of feminism resonated with a number of women of a certain mindset, ideology and time period, these stories the character appears in still get reissues every now and then, but at other times she hasn’t appeared in any further adventures because I suppose by the time the 1990s rolled in she risked being kind of outdated in some regards.

She’s not necessarily this irrelevant as her stories do get reissued but I feel one possible reason why the character doesn’t appear in any further stories, perhaps until now, is that she seems way too tied to a certain ideology or school of thinking that was popularised in the period she first showed up. I’m pretty much running around in circles but I feel it kind of limited what else Antonia Fraser could do with her once that school of thinking went out of vogue as time went on, whereas characters like Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple as well as Nancy Drew not only continued to appear in further written stories, but also get to constantly appear outside of prose fiction. Like I feel the way Jemima Shore’s characterised is way too tied to this time period, that of a professional woman who does whatever she wants to do.

Whilst the earlier Nancy Drew stories do have some dated elements, yet the titular heroine continued to appear in further adventures well onto the 21st century. Miss Marple might also be seen as belonging to a different time period, but I feel the way she’s characterised feels less dated. Actually in general, the ways both Miss Marple and Nancy Drew are characterised feel less dated than Jemima Shore is, the latter would also get into romantic relationships herself and even has the same hair colour but the vibe isn’t that of an independent, liberated woman who does whatever she wants to do. As with these two, the overall characterisation is simply that of a female citizen sleuth, though it is simplistic it’s also more timeless than say a liberated woman who does whatever she wants to do.

In fact to the extent that there were still Nancy Drew books being written in the 1990s and 2000s, not just short story anthologies but also full blown novels. In this same period Jemima Shore would appear sporadically but not necessarily appearing in full blown novels, so it seemed as the feminist school of thought went from wanting to be super liberated to embracing femininity and rectifying negative attitudes to it, at any point where Jemima could’ve reclaimed traditionally feminine pastimes like sewing and even homemaking as feminist activities she continued to be characterised in the mold of 1960s-1970s feminist thought. It’s not that these stories she appears in went out of print at all, but it’s kind of hard writing further stories with this characterisation in mind.

If both Nancy Drew and Miss Marple are any indication, sometimes a relatively simpler characterisation is what it takes to make a character practically and truly timeless. Social trends and phenomena do have a way of influencing the way people write characters and stories, sort of like how Jemima Shore’s a byproduct of second-wave feminism. But as feminist thought continues to change, the way Jemima’s characterised practically keeps her stuck in that time period, in fact to where Antonia Fraser couldn’t write further stories with her, maybe until now. Even then it’s not hard to see how certain stories and characters remain painfully dated, whereas others continue to feel fresh and timeless.

Nancy Drew and the superheroines

When it comes to Nancy Drew, she’s created by Mr Stratmeyer and his associates but under the name Carolyn Keene, she’s portrayed as having an inquisitive mind, recurring friends in the form of George and Bess, and sometimes a boyfriend named Ned. In the earlier stories she’s described as having plain blonde hair, in later stories she’d come to be characterised as having reddish blonde hair instead. She’s often in her late teens and also blue-eyed to boot, sort of like you’d expect Supergirl to be and Nancy’s the character that I suspected may’ve influenced earlier writers to depict their Supergirl. It’s not just that both Supergirl and Nancy Drew were generally around the same age range, Supergirl’s sometimes shown as having a similar number of friends too, but also having a pet cat (Nancy’s own cat is Snowball, Supergirl has Streaky) and being college/university students.

Whilst Nancy Drew may not be largely relevant to a lot of people these days, it should be noted that she was a popular enough character back in the day to star in not only a couple of movies, but also receive her own televised series twice (the most recent one happened sometime between the 2010s and the 2020s) and her video game. In this regard she’s really a good example of a famous YA fiction character before the Harry Potter days, but one might wonder if she’s really bigger than one realises and much moreso in the past. She would’ve been famous enough for some writers to draw upon, unconsciously or not as it would be with the Supergirl writers of yore. She’s also the sort of character who would’ve been a gateway drug to crime fiction, much like how Harry Potter is a gateway drug to fantasy fiction for some people.

Another noteworthy mention would be Spider-Woman/Jessica Drew, who not only sports the same surname as she does, but also at some point the same hair colour even. She’s dyed it black since then, but it still makes one wonder how influential Nancy Drew really was in those days, to the point where Jessica Drew was going to be refashioned as a detective, much like her. There were Nancy Drew stories written and published sometime between the 1980s and the 2000s, so she was still relevant enough for others to keep using her in stories in those days. Although she’s not a popular character these days, she was popular enough to be influential to subsequent writers and their characters, whether if it’s DC’s Supergirl or Marvel’s Spider-Woman.

One other mention would be Antonia Fraser’s Jemima Shore and though I recall that she’s actually inspired by a historical figure, but since Nancy’s fame loomed large so her influence on her’s going to be there in some form. Most notably having a set of female friends in their lives, having pet cats and being inquistive, Nancy would come to attract other boyfriends sometime in the 1980s whereas Jemima kind of did before her. A sort of trans-Atlantic osmosis between similar-looking characters, since Jemima’s also described similarly as she is and she’s the reason why I really got into Nancy Drew, believe it or not. Even then I still think that Nancy Drew’s a much more influential character than one realises, moreso in the twentieth century than today.

Take me out of the dark

I had another dream where I was praying for another relative who appears to be unsaved and living in sin for now, that’s an aunt and I was praying for her to stop doing bad things and this took place at night, as if she’s still living in sin, still living in the dark despite contrary appearances. There are instances in my dreams where I do pray for something, praying for someone like close relatives or celebrities like Antonia Fraser. Then there’s this dream where I prayed to God to cope with PD James having had an affair with a man like Adam, only to be taken to an art gallery where I saw a painting of them in medieval clothing, indicating that PD James saw the affair as similar to courtly love. But this means she still committed adultery, no matter how hard she tries to bury it, it will be revealed soon this week and it will be known through news media.

Sometimes some of my dreams of my relatives take place at night or in the dark, indicating that they still live in sin though it wouldn’t be any better with myself, but when it comes to this aunt being unsaved she really does need to be delivered. In this dream I felt that she was kind of hedonistic, the sort of person who’ll do anything to bury anything terrible in her mind by distracting herself with worldly media. In that sense it’s like drug addiction where somebody tries to take their mind off with an addictive substance, instead of actually turning to medical professionals for any help they know they need. The darkness dreams might also indicate that they have something in themselves that they’re aware of, but not willing to confront out in the open for fear of looking terrible.

Even if it’s needed to shed light on their problems so that they can be delivered, like they’re aware that they have problems but their solutions usually keep them in the dark. Perhaps being in the dark also represents the folly of human efforts, especially without God involved, that it becomes a particularly futile battle against whatever problem somebody runs into as it is with me many times over. If God is the light and the world and the Devil represent darkness, perhaps no matter how good somebody presents themselves in public, in private they could be fighting battles they can’t win on their own, so they really need God to set them straight. My aunt might be battling battles she is aware of, but resorts to her own efforts as if these are practically drugs to her. Using them to ward off whatever problems she faces in life a lot.

I sometimes have dreams of my cousin in the dark, so even before I prayed for her to help her overcome her own, it’s likely that herself in the dark represents the sins she falls into often. It’s a darkness she’s aware of and wants to fight, but can’t fight entirely on her own so she really needs the help of others (God and other people) to lead her to a better, more productive path. From my own experience with them they do anything to avoid reading things that make them feel bad, which is understandable if they might be highly sensitive, but it also risks coming off as drug addictions of sorts if they don’t turn to God to help them relax and deal with these problems, or even turn to him to provide solutions and alternatives to problems and losses. I’ve been through a lot of losses and I do turn to him to give me something similar to those, like nearly identical substitutes for the pets we’ve lost.

But I feel the need to feel good all the time makes it harder to be actually vulnerable and upfront about the problems we face, even if we know we have those on some level so it’s like this with my cousin. And the more I pray to God to help her overcome them with the help of others, the problems she faces become true that she is facing them on some level as well as the accompanying consequences. So both my aunt and my cousin know they’re facing their own demons everyday that they’re aware of, but lack the better means and God’s help to actually fight them properly. As it is with me from time to time, it’s easier to get high on something to calm down, than it is to confess to God because it’s kind of shameful to admit you have a problem for fear of angering him in some way.

And it’s even more shameful to admit you yourself have a problem, because you don’t want to be looked down upon by others, even if it’s something you personally know it’s true about yourself. Like if my cousin has a raging lust problem that she knows it’s hard to overcome, then she really needs the help of others to stop doing this as it has caused problems to her and her husband, who’s gone by now. She might even be dealing with other problems with lust as an ill-conceived solution to those, as it is with me a decade ago in a way. I’ve dreamt dreams where I actively pray for somebody, sometimes twice, to the point where it becomes clear they really need me to help them overcome something.

In my cousin’s case she needs me to help her overcome her own problems that I may relate to on some level, as well as needing somebody else to help her care for her kids now that her husband’s gone for good. In my aunt’s case, it’s a matter of being actually upfront and vulnerable about her problems, things she’s aware of but isn’t particularly open about them in public. Or in the case with Antonia Fraser, a byproduct of having been prayed for to help her stop writing this character in a particular way. And in the case with PD James, it’s a confirmation of the things I’ve been praying for that will come to light this week. It’s weird that I’ve been getting these dreams where I pray for something or somebody this weekend, that it’s a sign that God’s not only answering my prayer but also having me help others confront their demons.

Or at least a possibility that they too have problems that they’re aware of, but aren’t really this open about for fear of looking suspicious or something. The fact that in this dream I had, I felt that this aunt’s worldly so seeing her at night whilst praying for her confirms that she really is living in sin, or at least has problems she’s fighting but without the help of God, she’s unable to stop on her own and could need the help of others to confront them and learn to be open about them. There’s also the possibility that indulging in worldliness actually causes more problems than it solves them, especially if it seems nice and good though one that makes it harder to overcome sins as it is with me before, that I have to get rid of the things that lead me to sin and cleanse myself this way. It wouldn’t help them overcome them overnight.

But it does lessen the dependence on anything worldly and unholy, since it’s those things that make it harder to grow up spiritually. Like you can’t effectively overcome lust if you read the books that cause you to lust, so getting rid of those would be the more sensible option. I felt before that even with all the niceties in life, it wouldn’t make you truly free of sin, especially if these are worldly in nature that you’re better off living without many of those if it leads you to sin and more unhappiness. To the point where true happiness comes not from having as many niceties in life, but learning to have faith in God to endure no matter what life throws at you if Job’s any indication. God did recompense Job for all the losses he’s endured by giving him better than what he had before.

Including a daughter named Jemima (this is the name of one of Antonia Fraser’s characters and also the name of a woman who got mentioned a lot in the sermons I listen to in one radio station), so this is also a sign that God answered that prayer last year and finally this came to fruition as months passed. If interceding for somebody involves freeing them from bad habits, then they’re better off for it as it involves sins they’re prone to or condone in some way. It wouldn’t just do wonders if Antonia Fraser does get saved before she dies, but that she is precluded from hell altogether. Also it would also help others overcome whatever sins they’re prone to, for as long as they’re still alive they will need God to help them fight battles before they die.

The sign of the prodigy

I wrote somewhere that around the time I encountered somebody named Shannan Howlett on the website 444ProphecyNews, it rang a bell because she has the same surname as a certain member of the band The Prodigy (i.e. Liam Howlett). I had been praying to God to save both members of the Prodigy and Ace of Base, another band that I’m into, that a prophetess with the surname Howlett means something. Or rather what the words prodigy, sign, wonder and omen meant, especially in earlier times, wherein they had a lot of semantic overlap. Also the word prodigy had a lot of semantic overlap with the word monster and at some point, miracle in their original Latin forms, as they all denoted things out of the blue that are sent by the gods. Whilst the association of Ace of Base with prophecy might not be immediately obvious, especially in the band’s name, unlike that of the Prodigy, but the connection’s there in some of their songs.

The most obvious one is the song ‘The Sign’ which contains lyrics like ‘under the pale moon’ and ‘where I see a lot of stars’, which becomes more obvious that keywords relating to both bands’ bodies of work may relate to not only God answering this prayer, but also how they show up in Livy’s list of prodigies. By prodigy, Livy meant both extraordinary and ominous events, anomalies and deformities alike, which include things like sun and moon eclipses, plurality of suns and moons (the sun is a star by the way), frequent mentions of light appearing inappropriately, a burning sky, a sky getting torn, rainy earth (Liam Howlett had a studio called Earthbound and the song Thunder has the word ‘rain’ in it), appearance of wolves, repeat references to fire, an inflamed palm (Maxim’s real name is Keith Palmer), the sun struggling with the moon and the moon falling in rain.

The songs relevant to Prodigy fans with the same keywords (as well as their extracanonical synonyms) found in Livy’s list of prodigies are ‘Light Up The Sky’, ‘Run With The Wolves’, ‘Fire’, ‘Firestarter’, ‘Baby’s Got A Temper’, ‘Weather Experience’, ‘Out Of Space’, ‘Omen’ and ‘Thunder’, the songs relevant to Ace of Base fans with the same keywords and synonyms found in Livy’s list of prodigies are ‘Doctor Sun’, ‘Everytime It Rains’, ‘Wonderful Life’, ‘The Sign’, ‘Dancer In A Daydream’, ‘Lucky Love’, ‘All That She Wants’, ‘Into The Night Of Blue’ and ‘Living In Danger’. This becomes more telling if you look into the lyrics of these songs. Interestingly, some of these keywords also show up in Shannan Howlett’s prophecies*, which kind of proves that God really did answer my prayer and in a way that made me realise what these words meant. This semantic overlap also shows up in some Biblical passages.

Most notably Hebrews 2:4 (God also testified to it by signs, wonders and various miracles, and by gifts of the Holy Spirit distributed according to his will), Acts 6:8 (Now Stephen, a man full of God’s grace and power, performed great wonders and signs among the people), Exodus 7:3 (But I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and though I multiply my signs and wonders in Egypt), Daniel 4:3 (How great are his signs, how mighty his wonders! His kingdom is an eternal kingdom; his dominion endures from generation to generation), Acts 14:3 (So Paul and Barnabas spent considerable time there, speaking boldly for the Lord, who confirmed the message of his grace by enabling them to perform signs and wonders),Romans 15:19 (by the power of signs and wonders, through the power of the Spirit of God. So from Jerusalem all the way around to Illyricum, I have fully proclaimed the gospel of Christ) and Acts 4:30 (Stretch out your hand to heal and perform signs and wonders through the name of your holy servant Jesus).

It should be noted that just as the Prodigy released an album called ‘Music For The Jilted Generation’, as parts of the Bible are written in an earlier version of the Greek language, the word for wonder is teras, which is also the word for monster and deformity. The word sign speaks for itself, but it was also the synonym for omen. The word miracle is derived from the word miraculum, which is the synonym for the words prodigium (prodigy) and monstrum (monster). To relay what I said before, I had a dream of the Prodigy in church, Jenny Berggren is a practising Christian herself and Liam Howlett’s something of a monster movie fan himself. Because I prayed for these two bands together, so there’s really a semantic link between otherwise somewhat unrelated things. But it’s also God’s way of answering this prayer, albeit in a way that kind of shocked and fascinates me. This becomes even more obvious what these words meant centuries ago, where the words prodigy and monster were as much as synonymous with wonder, sign and omen as they are to anomaly, miracle and deformity.

So it’s appropriate that a woman named Shannan Howlett gets these prophecies from God, as prodigies were thought to be portents sent by the gods. Last year when I prayed for this writer Antonia Fraser to have one of her characters stop cheating and get married, I often received a series of dreams featuring her in another book, solving cases and getting a new surname, as well as her having strawberry blonde hair. There’s also the time I prayed and then read a devotional that mentioned the word ‘shore’, which is part of that character’s name (Jemima Shore), so this is one way he answered this prayer along with recurring dreams of her. God does answer prayers, though not always in a way one expects. In the case with both the Prodigy and Ace of Base, it had more to do with both semantics, etymology and Shannon Howlett having the same surname as a certain Prodigy member.

Biblical writers know that words have power and in some cases, they may be connected in a way that reveals something. One prophecy by somebody else said that God told her to look up on the word genius in an old dictionary where it meant a spirit presiding over a person’s fate, guarding them and directing their actions, when it referred to the Genius Act meant to do something with cryptocurrency. So in this same dictionary, the word prodigy also meant monster and omen. Recall how the Prodigy released a song called ‘Omen’, so when coupled with Liam’s love of monster movies, that this is actually very appropriate. It’s just as appropriate for somebody like Shannan Howlett that God used to portend something, as prodigies were just as associated with prophecy as signs and wonders are (recall Ace of Base’s ‘The Sign’ and ‘Wonderful Life’).

The latter two words are often mentioned together in the Bible, with another mentioning a generation witnessing signs and wonders. Recall how the Prodigy released an album called ‘Music For The Jilted Generation’, it’s kind of there in a way if God answers prayers in a surprising fashion. Liam Howlett’s wife is named Natalie Appleton, the name Natalie means ‘birthday’ and by extension ‘the Lord’s birthday’, her daughter’s named Rachel (Ewe) whilst the apple is the fruit commonly thought to be eaten by Eve (Adam’s wife). Paul is also the name of a certain apostle, Jonas is the Portuguese form of Jonah (a prophet in the Old Testament), the name Ulf is obviously based on an archaic Swedish word for wolf, Andrew is another New Testament apostle as is Peter (the Swedish form is Petter), the name Sofia comes from the word for wisdom.

Liam Howlett’s full name is Liam Paul Paris Howlett, Maxim’s real name is Keith Andrew Palmer, Linn Berggren’s real name is Malin Sofia Katarina Berggren, Joker’s real name is Jonas Petter Berggren and Ulf Ekberg’s own name is an archaic Swedish word that means wolf (the current version is varg), wolves are frequently mentioned in the Bible just as Livy’s list of prodigies also includes a pack of wolves and the Prodigy has a song called ‘Run With The Wolves’, so it’s really God answering this prayer mostly through names and words. So the connection’s there in the Bible, in this case this has a lot to do with names. So God kind of confirmed this, not through dreams as it is with Antonia Fraser and her creation, but through words and names that are found in a variety of written sources.

Well most of the time but it does make one realise that God does answer prayers, whether in dreams as it is with the heroine Jemima Shore or in keywords like this one. It took a prophetess named Shannan Howlett on 444ProphecyNews to make me realise that God did answer this prayer, though in a way that was initially really surprising. So it’s really surprising to realise that God answered this prayer not through dreams, but mostly through words and names, that the connections are always there but one that made me realise this. There’s another prophetess on 444ProphecyNews known as Cassandra and like her mythological counterpart, she has the gift of prophecy from God. So God can make connections and answers through words and names, so the answer to my prayer to get both the Prodigy and Ace of Base members saved is present in not just extrabiblical texts like those of Livy but also in the Bible itself. Actually Jemima is also the name of one of Job’s daughters, this was mentioned in one sermon I listened to before, so it’s really another way of God answering that previous prayer.

Another radio station that I listen to for the sermons has the preachers mention somebody named Jemima from time to time. If God can answer prayers, he’ll answer them in an unexpected way. Because the dreams involving Jemima Shore were so recurrent that sermons and devotionals mentioning her name in some way is also God confirming things, a prophetess with the surname Howlett is also God’s way of confirming this. But one that made me deeply realise what the word prodigy historically meant and why it was synonymous with wonder, sign, omen, prophecy, monster and portent, to the extent that after praying for both members of the Prodigy and Ace of Base to get saved that this is kind of connected in not just etymology, polysemy and semantics, but also in the Bible itself regarding their Biblical namesakes and certain keywords in their songs.

The Bible also calls God a consuming fire, the light and the rock (Peter’s name means rock and the French name Pierre also doubles as the word for rock), so this is how my prayer for these two bands to get saved is answered mostly through words. Let’s not also forget that Queen, one of the bands the Prodigy sampled from, had an album or song called ‘The Miracle’, miracle being a word that also appears in the Bible and the root word miraculum being the synonym for both monstrum and prodigium. In the Vulgate, the word used in some passages is prodigium, which means wonder or portent in this case. Since Ace of Base put out a song called ‘Wonderful Life’, being the other band I prayed for its salvation alongside the Prodigy, so that’s pretty much killing two birds with one stone.

Considering that Eve is Adam’s wife and her name either means ‘to breathe‘ or ‘to live‘, there’s a Prodigy song called ‘Breathe‘ and Ace of Base has three life-related songs called “Living in Danger’, ‘Beautiful Life‘ and ‘Wonderful Life‘ as well as the song ‘Lucky Love’ containing the phrase ‘life is a paradise’ (heaven?). Since I also prayed for another band called Tokio Hotel to get saved, it should be noted that Thomas means twin, so appropriately Tom Kaulitz is the twin brother of Bill Kaulitz. This is a way that God answered this prayer, but through names and this epiphany about them. So God did answer this prayer, not so much with recurring dreams, but rather through semantics and etymology. So it took the prophecies written by somebody bearing Liam Howlett’s namesake to realise this really.

*The word hound is related to the German word for dog, that is ‘hund’, Shannan Howlett has a Rottweiler dog and the Prodigy released a track called Rok-Weiler.

Praying for a writer

Given how utterly disowned JK Rowling is by some of her own fans, especially regarding her stance on the transgender community, that it’s about time for Christians to not only welcome her into their arms, but also pray for her salvation. It’s not something she may not immediately accept nor understand, but it’s about time for Christians to actually pray for her, not only because of her own sins but that she’s so disowned by her own fans that Christians should really intercede for her. Keeping her from going to hell and stuff, believe or not I did this with another writer. This writer is none other than Antonia Fraser because one of her characters has a notorious habit of cheating that I not only prayed for her to stop her from cheating, but to also save the author in question. Have her read the Bible, listen to sermons and read devotionals.

Around the time I prayed to God to help her finish her stories, he told me through a devotional that she may be on her way to finishing those, along with the recurring dreams I had involving her character, that it seems to be on its way to becoming real and getting answered at the time. Praying for her salvation also works in that it keeps her from going to hell, as what one devotional said to me whilst praying for her to write a story where this character no longer does that. Fraser might be on her way to becoming a Christian, before she dies or something like that. So it’s a good thing to pray for her to keep her from going to a worse path, no matter how wide it appears to be. Better for her to go to the narrow path to Heaven, than to go to Hell forever separated from God. One can do the same thing for JK Rowling at this point, now that she needs God more than ever, regardless of what she thinks.

If JK Rowling deserves to be saved, especially at a point where she’s been disowned by her own fans, then it’s about time for Christians to intercede for her now that the path to fame and fortune isn’t turning out well in her favour. It would be awkward to realise that you need God more than ever, but I suppose committing social suicide’s a thing needed to see him again in her case. If God’s been telling me or somebody else to pray for her, then God could be the harbour JK Rowling needs at this point now that she’s been disowned by her LGBT fans regarding her stance on certain things. If the secular community no longer wants or welcomes her, then the church should be eager to welcome her and perhaps God would be the one to protect her from then.

It would be very awkward but it’s necessary at this point in her life, then God could be the only one who loves her. Moreso than some of her fans, who only love her if she supports their views. Perhaps a loving God is needed in her life who’ll always be by her side, even if she fails from time to time. Something she needs to realise and accept, now that her fans have turned against her this time. To paraphrase the Bible regarding moral failings and failures, though she stumbles she won’t fall because God will uphold her no matter what. This would have good implications for her right now, perhaps God would be around to support her now that her fans won’t and don’t. It’s like some fans only support her when it’s convenient to their worldviews, but God loves her unconditionally enough to want her to be with him in Heaven.

So let’s pray for her to be saved now.

Recurring dreams and what do they mean?

I have recurring dreams of somebody else’s fictional heroine called Jemima Shore, an amateur detective by the way, where she not only solves new mysteries but also appears in a new book and even has a new surname. Kind of last year, I prayed to God to help her author write a story where she no longer cheats and is married or something like that, which is something I prayed for multiple times in several months or possibly less. Then there came a time when I prayed to God to help her author finish the story, and there’s this devotional telling me that I forgot something when I got the blessing underway at the time or it’s already there. So not only was the prayer answered, but it’s getting confirmed again and again.

At this point, this character’s already a married mother of two or something like that. In the latest dream I had of her, she even has a new surname. So she is definitely married, so this is a sign that my prayer’s been answered. I remember reading somewhere else that recurring dreams are sometimes a sign of God confirming something to be true or underway, that in this case it’s a confirmation of what I’ve been praying for. It has been underway and is already something of a thing, though it’s also something that I’m not always aware of. Though it may not be in the form I’d assume it to be, there’s probably already a new story where she juggles between parenting and solving another case, where she’s happily married to a pastor or something in the lines of this.

So if this is true that a recurring dream sometimes means it’s being confirmed, then her own author must’ve been writing that story for a couple of months until that devotional came to me. That and a few other dreams where this character’s set to appear on television again, and also where this character’s described as having reddish blonde hair or something. So it’s a sign that it’s been confirmed time and time again, regarding what the character looks like and what she’s going to do next.

Recurring dreams

There’s a post about what a recurring dream means for Christians is that it could sometimes be God’s way of confirming what’s going to happen or what’s already happening in their lives in some way, to tell you the truth I have been praying to God to help somebody like Antonia Fraser write a story where one character of hers no longer cheats but is married instead. I had have like 3 or 4 dreams involving this character in some way, like appearing in a new book and solving another case, doing new things, that there came a time when one early morning, I prayed to God to have Fraser to complete her story and he said that she’s already finishing those in some way relating to him providing abundance.

Not to mention I prayed for this author’s salvation and have her read devotionals and the Bible, so she’s on her track to the right path. It’s not perfect but the reason why I prayed for her salvation is because I remember reading a devotional stating that one could prevent somebody from going to hell through intercession, so I prayed for Fraser’s salvation as well as getting her to read Christian texts. Her own journey to sanctification wouldn’t be perfect, but for as long as she has enough time on Earth, she will turn to God and write to him in many, certain ways like one of her characters becoming a Christian wife in another story and stuff. She’s not there yet, but it’s going to be a thing in the near future. It may not be answered in the way I expected.

But it’s a confirmation of what’s to come and what’s already happening.

Evil

Celestial said that there are demons who are out there to win souls in their own twisted, malicious way and one of those methods involves dominating things like games and toys. To be fair, there are some authors and producers who have a chance of being saved. To be very, very honest I didn’t just pray for the salvation of a certain crime fiction author, but also have God help them write a story involving where one of their characters no longer cheats and is married. That will happen in my lifetime and theirs, though I have no idea when will it happen. But it could come when God wills it to, possibly greater than I have ever imagined.

Or for another matter, the salvation of those in the video game and cartooning industries. It could happen and turn out far better than I have ever imagined or assumed, so it’s a matter of timing and trusting in God enough that he will make these come to fruition. I don’t know when will these actually happen, since I prayed repetitively for one of those. I don’t know if God will ever bring back the Hoimancoi website, the Vietnamese website that I have been going to until now. But if he’s going to bring it back, I have to wait and trust in him that he will bring it back in due time.

But I’m getting off-topic here so getting back on-topic, demons dominate nearly every industry. Sometimes not in ways you expect and for every musician and author who do turn to God, sometimes due to intercessions made by others for the Lord, there are those who lost themselves to the dark side for good. It could be a super-wholesome musician that you wouldn’t really know that they dabble in the occult or something, sometimes it’s a superhero story franchise that seems well-intentioned and admirable until it talks trash about Christianity.

I could be referring to Taylor Swift and the X-Men, the latter barely ever gets scrutinised by Christians. Not even during the Satanic Panic years where surprisingly it managed to fly under their radar, even if it’s just as heinous when it comes to advocating evil things like blasphemy and the Devil himself. One of the characters is demonic herself, her name is Illyana Rasputina and she sometimes looks devilish. Pretty strange why not a lot of Christians scrutinise X-Men for this, even if it’s just as bad as Harry Potter in some regards. Or perhaps even worse since it advocates even more things they detest the most.

It could be evolution, LGBT matters or polyamory but that would involve holding it up to the same standards they do with Harry Potter, which means they lack critical thinking as X-Men stories seem very innocent and innocuous even if its writers are just as culpable. Let’s not forget that one of the X-Men villains is a pastor and whenever Christians do show up in those stories at all, they’re usually portrayed in a questionable light. They needn’t to be perfect but when there are so few positively portrayed Christians in the X-Men stories, it does make you wonder about writers’ agenda.

I still feel for every author who do convert to Christianity, some due to others’ intercessions like mine with Antonia Fraser (I spoilt it, finally) there are those who remain apostate. There are those who remain anti-Christian, so anti-Christian that they make it known in their stories and viewpoints. I’m afraid there will be more of those anti-Christian writers in the future, they wouldn’t be fringe anymore but that would mean demons have the final say in those. They will make themselves apparent, as if aliens really do exist in the universe. That’s the point Celestial’s been saying in her blog.

But this would be the most frightening part of some of her prophecies to date.