In my experience having read about it, the most war like moments are the small ones. Pitched combat between two soldiers. A friend comforting his comrade while he slowly succumbs to his wounds on the battlefield. The desolation of a town or village after war has come through. War isn't big and grandiose. It's a bunch of small moments.
Exactly. There aren't a ton of these MASSIVE world war moments but there are thousands of these small little moments that war absolutely thrives on. War is war after all. And where there is blood to be spill, you'll see that red hair, weapon in hand
I'm at work, what's the coin flip? Original or Abridged? I'd say weighted toward abridged, since I see that quoted more often, but both Majors' war speechs are iconic.
yeah, you try reading a book about it and so much of war is just... walking. sitting. waiting. every once in a while there's a skirmish or attack or a patrol that goes south. but nine times out of ten its just... a wet hole, waiting.
That was my thought. People don't realize getting into fights messes you up physically, war is the only one with actual scars on them.
Also, maybe it might be a bit of a stretch, but the person looks sickly. Like someone who is going though chemo i.e. a thing people call a horrifying war.
Was thinking the same thing. That's either a decapitation attempt or someone tried to strangle them to death. Either way they're still standing and something tells me the other person isn't
Why would War need to be good at winning them.
Wars end when they're won, don't want an actual ceasefire either as those barely count as wars, no the trick would be ensuring active conflict drags out with little hope of victory in sight, but too much on the line to give up.
I actually think it's pretty apt considering the history of war. War used to be considered a more honorable thing in society and you were always incentiviced to be stronger, bigger, and better.
But the World Wars broke her. War reached it's peak of pure death, suffering and destruction leaving almost everyone involved worse off in some aspect. Not only did the idea of war being honaroble die, but it became clear that continuing on the way it was would literally destroy the world.
Wars these days are always being tried to kept constrained and limited as to keep the scales small so things don't get out of hand.
Kind of like a old athlete getting injured trying to do something they did when younger only to get injured and realize they can't get away acting like they did in youth.
So it makes sense the personification of war today would seem far more mellow then she was in her youth.
There’s two versions of the Four Horsemen, where the White Horsemen is either Pestilence or Conquest. In the latter context, War specifically means civil war where Conquest would be international war. So, I think you’re onto something with the “small conflict” thing.
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u/shellbullet17 Gustopher Spotter Extraordinaire 6d ago edited 6d ago
Poor War looks so....tired. I guess all the thousands of years of never ending conflict will do that.
Also love that he's small. War is always this GIANT HULKING BEING so it's nice to see him on the smaller size. Cause not all conflicts need to be big.