It makes sense to me. I don't see how it contradicts itself.
Well then, let me break it down for you.
The 'myth arc exposition episode' starts with a fairly simple premise. Beautiful princess locked in a tower for nefarious reasons; handsome young hero comes to rescue her. Simple, straightforward, classic, a story that can be compellingly told a thousand different ways with different variations, so long as the writing is good.
Enter the first twist; instead of having a 'happily ever after,' or a more realistic 'and then they learned to build a life together, and work at having a healthy relationship,' the handsome young hero gets sick and dies. The fantasy adventure turns into a tragedy.
Sick with grief, the princess goes and begs a god to bring her beloved back to life. He refuses, because 'that would violate the balance between life and death.' Princess doesn't take this well, so goes to the god's brother to ask
him to raise her beloved. At first, he agrees, and this almost starts a fight between the brothers, until it's revealed that second brother was second option, so he's pissed about this.
So to punish her, they...
make her immortal. This kind of contradicts the 'balance between life and death' thing. But okay, we're looking at some
Greek tragedy shit here now. She wants to kill herself to be with her beloved, but the gods won't let her until she admits that she was wrong to try to bring him back. Rough story, bro.
...Enter the
second twist. She takes her unkillability, and uses it to persuade mankind to rise up against the gods with her. To be fair, she
does have a literal divine power to use as a persuasive tool in bringing people to support her argument that the gods have been holding out on mankind, and that it's time to go make them distribute the good stuff. At this point I've concluded that the gods are idiots for letting her wander around unchecked, and not making an announcement that the princess is under divine punishment and why; they're literally sowing the seeds of their own rebellion here.
The gods respond to this rebellion, by
exterminating the entire human race, and then GTFOing off the planet.
Wow. Uh. You sure you know what you're doing here RT? I mean, this doesn't seem a little crazy here? I thought the Princess was supposed to be the
antagonist, not a sympathetic deuteragonist? She literally
hasn't killed or hurt anyone up to this point, whereas the gods who've pronounced judgement on her, just committed
genocide.
Not sure what message you're trying to send, RT.
Of course, since they didn't lift her curse of immortality, princess
is now the last living human on the planet, and has to walk the world alone. We have transcended Greek Tragedy at this point, and are looking at a cross between HP Lovecraft and bad fanfiction. It
really sucks to be her.
But wait,
we're not finished yet. There are two more 'big twists' to throw out.
First, the human race magically reappears from...
somewhere. I guess princess literally walked the world alone
long enough for mankind to evolve from apes? Is that what we're supposed to conclude here? That she spent
tens of millions of years alone in the ruins of human civilization? That's a pretty good way to go completely insane.
Oh, just to make sure she's
completely nuts, she takes a dive in the evil primordial soup, and gets thoroughly saturated with the stuff. Unlike
every other effect on her, the auto-rez curse that keeps her from doing (and also forever young) does
not remove the evil crazy juice, because, you know,
only bad things can ever happen in the mythology arc.
And now finally, we come to the cherry on top the bow on top of this box of shit, the dramatic climax of the entire thing!
The hero gets brought back to life anyways.
Yes, the thing that the gods would not do, because it would 'violate the balance,' the thing that started princess's
entire feud against the gods and spiral into crazy-town,
they go ahead and do that anyways.
But not until
after the princess has gone completely batshit crazy.
And it's not just 'bring him back to life.' Oh no, no no no no, that would be too simple! They don't just bring him back for one life time! He gets put into a reincarnation loop that is strictly in all ways inferior to the immortality that crazy-princess gets, and told that he has to ensure mankind (who were wiped out) learns its 'lesson' (regarding gods that the magically reappearing future mankind has no idea exist), or when the brother gods come back, they'll render judgement and wipe mankind out.
Again.
Now our shit cake, with shit icing, and a shit cherry on top is
complete.
Not only do RT show a basic lack of understanding of how human psychology and civilization works. (You can't teach 'mankind as a whole' anything. Each individual has to learn a given lesson themselves, and taken as an aggregate, within any given civilization, each lesson needs to be passed down from generation to generation deliberately.)
Not only are the 'gods'
complete morons, not only are they capricious and vindictive (
I'd fight in a moral crusade against 'gods' like that), but they
completely violate their own supposed principle in the most destructive way possible.
The
entire conflict of the mythology arc, centers around the gods refusing to bring Ozpin back to life, then refusing to let Salem die, then
actually bringing Ozpin back to life after Salem had gone batshit crazy! It's not just self-contradictory, it's mind-bogglingly stupid on a level that I
still cannot understand how the hell they came up with this shit in the first place!
I don't know if I could make a story this bad if I was
deliberately trying to be as stupid as possible.
So yes. The mythology arc of the setting
absolutely contradicts itself. It is irrational on a level that it has driven me away from writing in it; I love a lot of the characters, but I'll cross them over into a setting that has more internal logical consistency and common sense defining it, thank you very much, like Twilight or Harry Potter.
