[✐fan essay] kul elna speculation spectacular part 2
First off, after watching way too many videos of snakes eating mice, I have to retract the whole "just gulp 'em down" thing Diabound has been doing. Killing one's prey first does make sure it doesn't, you know, claw your throat going down. Yeah.
That said.
I was thinking more about timing and the Yugioh pharaohs, and had a thought. What if the Pharaoh known to us as Akhenaten is replaced by Akunadin - who the manga translates as Akhenaden? He did have an elder brother, Crown Prince Thutmose, who never quite made it to being the Pharaoh for some reason. What if instead of Thutmose, Amenhotep III's eldest son were Akhenamkhanen, Atem's father, who survived? It'd certainly hand the brothers a very powerful, very Pharaonic Egypt. And the Akhenaten-Akhenaden connection sort of fits in that the former historically upset everything about the culture.
The name similarity, if on purpose (which I doubt, unless Takahashi went "I need a strange person in a position of power - ah, okay") suffers from the same issue that the mention of Deir el-Medina does: that's not what he started out being called. Akhenaten was Amenhotep IV until inventing his own religion situated around the Aten or monotheistic sun god. But that's the nature of Takahashi Egypt: you give a little, you get a little wrong, you make a little up. ^_^;
I'm not suggesting this is a timeline everyone should use for the AE arc. But until I think of a better idea, I'm going to place the Yugioh pharaohs at this point in history - starting around 1353 BCE. It does deprive us of Tut, but we get Set and Atem instead. (Besides, it makes Set's mom Nefertiti. Which is just cool.)
That said.
I was thinking more about timing and the Yugioh pharaohs, and had a thought. What if the Pharaoh known to us as Akhenaten is replaced by Akunadin - who the manga translates as Akhenaden? He did have an elder brother, Crown Prince Thutmose, who never quite made it to being the Pharaoh for some reason. What if instead of Thutmose, Amenhotep III's eldest son were Akhenamkhanen, Atem's father, who survived? It'd certainly hand the brothers a very powerful, very Pharaonic Egypt. And the Akhenaten-Akhenaden connection sort of fits in that the former historically upset everything about the culture.
The name similarity, if on purpose (which I doubt, unless Takahashi went "I need a strange person in a position of power - ah, okay") suffers from the same issue that the mention of Deir el-Medina does: that's not what he started out being called. Akhenaten was Amenhotep IV until inventing his own religion situated around the Aten or monotheistic sun god. But that's the nature of Takahashi Egypt: you give a little, you get a little wrong, you make a little up. ^_^;
I'm not suggesting this is a timeline everyone should use for the AE arc. But until I think of a better idea, I'm going to place the Yugioh pharaohs at this point in history - starting around 1353 BCE. It does deprive us of Tut, but we get Set and Atem instead. (Besides, it makes Set's mom Nefertiti. Which is just cool.)