the many shiny things of mrs strife

[jukeboxhound_backup]

In Eir's Tomorrow, I imagine Cloud's mum to be the type of woman who wears far too many necklaces and lots of swishy, peasant-style skirts (maybe a blue dirndl for holidays).  I don't know what it is about her that I'm starting to love so much...



When I go to another country I decide ahead of time what I'm looking for, if anything, to avoid spending money on otherwise meaningless souvenirs.  Before going to Germany, I chose to look for a pendant of Mjolner, or Thor's Hammer, and/or a set of runes.  I found the first one:



Now imagine it carved from an Ice materia, and you'll have the necklace that Cloud's mum gave him before leaving for Midgar.  (I tried googling for a Mjolnir made from glass or something, but metal was all I could find.  This one's solid sterling silver, and while it may not look like much, it was worth every euro to me.  Even if the streetseller woman was a total bitch and treated me like the typical American tourist who didn't know what the hell she was talking about, but damn it, I knew exactly what I was looking for and talking about.  Condescend to me, will you... *grumbles*)


Slight spoiler: the necklace Mrs Strife was wearing with a 'B-shaped carving' was meant to be this rune, Berkana.  Think of the word 'motherhood,' and everything that comes along with it is what Berkana represents.  (I got this pic off Google, but strangely enough, I had one exactly like it about six, seven years ago in the beginning of high school...o.O)
 

Off to write essays on folklore~


EDIT: I misspoke.  Rather than 'peasant skirts,' I meant something more like this - which isn't quite German dirndle enough, but it still makes me happy.

Comments

[fateofshadow.livejournal.com]

The necklaces are beautiful and the top one is a real help for visualising- a little between an anchor and a hammer and not at all how I pictured it to begin with.

On another note, I've re-read the last chapter of E'sT three times already and it is still made of awesome. >_>

[jukeboxhound.livejournal.com]

*frowns* It really is a strange-looking thing, isn't it? Maybe that's part of its 'mystique'.

[sensitise.livejournal.com]

cloud's mommy spends too much time in new age stores l:

[jukeboxhound.livejournal.com]

Too bad none of those unthinking morons bothered to ask her how it was done.

[jukeboxhound.livejournal.com]

It wasn't until later I realized how poorly my first comment could be taken, and for that I apologize. What I meant was that I have just as much disdain for 'new age' stores and people as you seem to, mostly because of past experience with such types and their frustrating inability to think about their eclectic 'spirituality' critically. Nevertheless, I still love these kinds of objects and symbols in and of themselves, so perhaps I'm of the same ilk after all. :)

[(Anonymous)]

lmao, nooo, i have the exact same opinion of them as you do and didn't take it wrong at all. i cannot stand most of the people, but i still wander into depths of libraries to find out the origin of the symbols they sell, DON'T APOLOGIZE. we are on the same wavelength.

[sensitise.livejournal.com]

...and that was posted as anonymous, for some reason.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm going to buy so much crap when i come see you.....(if i can afford it...) >_>

[canopywalker.livejournal.com]

oops, wasn't logged in! lol

[cloudstrifejen.livejournal.com]

Such wonderful necklaces! Hmm... If I were Cloud, I'll give Sephiroth a necklace too! ^^ Afterall, he is Cloud's "godson". Lol!

[faicinn-rocais.livejournal.com]

The thing you're comparing the peasant skirt to--the 'this'--the link is broken. Just thought I'd let you know.