> ... First being Vinnie's uber-competence, and second being the concern with Order on the part of the Egyptian sorcerer.
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Vinnie's far more confident around demon temptresses than with normal Earth girls. He's on familiar ground. He only gets nervous when he cares.
> I've actually been thinking about how to reconcile an Agent of Chaos with being a culture hero for ancient Egypt, which was astonishingly conservative and obsessed with universal Order, in the form of Ma'at.
> One theory I have is that, in the Parodyverse, ancient Egypt might very well have been a perfect time and place, in the sense of representing all three forces (Creation, Order and Destruction) equally.
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I'd argue that just as chaos encompasses creation and destruction, order can encompass preservation and progression.
> The Egyptians were impressive architects, by the standards of any age (Creation), who managed to engineer their pyramids to a degree of precision that would be hard to rival even today (Order), and yet, their pyramids were merely vehicles to take their Pharaohs into death (Destruction).
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Of course that could just be an assumption. There's also the possibility that the pyramids were seen as actual vehicles to transport people from one life to another, and were therefore instruments of change. And pyramids are only the product of one small segment of Egyptian culture from a couple of eras of a culture lasting a millenium. The temple culture certainly seems to have had strong interest in the dead and the memory of the dead, but likewise it seems to have concern for fertility, for conquest, for the sciences.
> Ancient Egypt may very well have been the first and last place and time in which an Agent of Chaos was also a Force of Order.
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You could argue that Koo's "ideal unchanging Egypt" was actually soured order, whereas any Agent of Chaos would be promoting Egypt as the cradle of civilisation that transformed the world.
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