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Detroit: Become Human

The #1 thing that convinces me that the name ‘North’ came from Riley and not from Marla.

North is not a Biblical name.

All of the names connected to Jericho have their roots in Christian mythology, including the name ‘Jericho’ itself. Jericho, for those of you that don’t know, is the sight of the first battle fought by the Israelites during their conquest of Canaan following their exodus out of Egypt. According to Biblical texts (historians/archeologists have discovered no proof to back this up, btw), the Israelites marched around the city’s walls once a day for six days and then seven times on the seventh day, before blowing a horn and causing the walls to fall. The Israelites then slaughtered any man and woman that was of age (save for the family of their spy, a prostitute named Rahab) and took the city for themselves.

The guy who wrote this text? Yeah, his name was Joshua.

Joshua was Moses’s assistant throughout the Exodus, went up with Moses onto Mt. Sinai to receive the Ten Commandments, and eventually took over for him after his death, leading the Israeli people into the promised land of Canaan and allocating the conquered territory amongst the various tribes.

Another major Biblical figure that you might be familiar with is Saint Peter, an Apostle of Jesus who is widely considered to be the first Pope and was eventually crucified by the Roman Emperor Nero for practicing the Christian faith, thus making by him a martyr. What you might not remember is that Peter wasn’t Peter’s birth name, but rather the Anglicized version name that Jesus gives him later in life.

So what was Peter’s birth name?

Simon.

Even a character like Lucy doesn’t escape this fate. In fact, it’s quite likely that Lucy’s name came from Saint Lucy (or Saint Lucia), a Roman Christian who was executed after a disappointed suitor accused her of being a Christian. Supposedly, her eyes were gouged out prior to her execution, thus transforming her into the patron Saint of the blind. Our Lucy, for context, was mailed after a psych patient she was caring for attacked her, mirroring her namesake ever so slightly.

Then, of course, there is John, who likely takes his name from John the Baptist - cousin of Jesus and prophet of the lord. John, interestingly enough, also goes by Elijah, and was considered by many Gospels to be a precursor to Christ himself - similar to how Elijah Kamski was to consider himself to be a successor to his ‘new god’ androids should they all have failed in their duty during the Revolution.

Phileas, Markus’s old Fight Club buddy, also has his name steeped in Biblical lore. Saint Phileas was an Egyptian bishop who was tortured and beheaded for composing works praising Christain martyrs, and thus became a martyr himself in the process.

And then, of course, we have North. Or rather, we have her original version: Marla. The name ‘Marla’ is a variant of the name ‘Marlene,’ which— in the most unsurprising twist known to humankind— is a blend of the names ‘Maria’ and ‘Magdalene.’

Mary Magdalene, aka the most devoted follower to Jesus Christ and potential sex worker (though the sex work stuff actually first comes into her character just under six hundred years after her death, before which she is actually portrayed to be incredibly wealthy and actually funding a lot of Jesus’s escapades). She is mentioned more times in the Bible than any of his apostles and any other woman in the entirely of the remaining canonical gospels. She was implied to have had ‘seven demons driven from her’ by Christ, witnessed the crucifixion and burial, was the first and (potentially) only person to be present during the unveiling of Jesus’s empty tomb, and was the first person that he came to following the resurrection. Many gospels portray Mary as Jesus’s closest and most beloved disciple, similar to how North is portrayed as Markus’s closest companion amongst the Jericrew (with Simon, the St. Peter connection, coming in close second).

And of course, if you’re a fan of Dan Brown’s Da Vinci Code, then there is also the unproven belief that Mary Magdalene was supposed to be the original inheritor of Christ’s Church over Peter, both as the ‘Apostle of the Apostles’ and as Jesus’s wife.

By comparison, Riley does not have the same nomenclature. ‘Riley’ is a version of ‘Reilly,’ an old Irish surname turned given name that simply means ‘rye clearing.’ Even Markus’s name, while not Biblical in nature, is still divine, as it is an old Roman name meaning ‘Of Mars/the God of War.’ And while there is far more historical/religious arguments about the various Christain Emperor states being the successors to Rome than I wish to get into right now, the fact is that there is a direct connection between Rome and Christianity, not forthstanding the fact that the Vatican currently exists within the city of Rome.

By comparison, the name ‘Riley’ does not fit into the clearly purposeful Christain namings of the Jericho characters, with her current inheritor of ‘North’ being an incredibly modern name that only came into popularity very recently. And it’s for that reason that I do genuinely believe that, when the Riley-Marla merge occurred, North inherited her name from some aspect of Riley alongside her appearance, simply because ‘North’ is the only non-Biblical name to exist amongst the Jericho characters and that we know that there was a highly important non-Biblically named character that was cut from Markus’s story that was also seriously involved in North’s creation.

Jericho crew concept art from the game extras.

I’m glad they changed North lol

Ben Lambert, Minka Kelly, E.Gaffney, Jesse Williams & Parker Sawyers on the Set of ‘Detroit: Become Human’. 

I'd really like to see Josh wearing glasses. Just for the aesthetic; like he's a cutie, but I'm imagining a human AU of Professor Josh wearing glasses and I'm thinking he'd look damn fine, you know?

Hello professor 👀

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Everybody loves Markus. Experimenting with Clip Studio's comic layout. Based off a text most I saw once upon a time.

EDIT: Tumblr continues to be a little shit so I gotta repost all the panels in ONE big photo or else it posts the individual panels OUT OF ORDER

He will lead us from the box

This is Sora's fault btw:

Markus: Release all of the sounds that are trapped in your body All the deviants: *high-pitched unholy screeches and aggressive beeping* Markus: … Markus: guess that works, too

Public opinion: #MOOD

Josh - Stratford Tower

Poor Josh. Based on this post.