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Wild Thought: PROJECT: Reckoning Skins Give Me Norse Mythology Vibes.

Umbral Regent·8/2/2019, 8:47:54 PM·2 votes·4,719 views

So, it had occurred to me last night that the new PROJECT: skins feel strangely linked, moreso than the "product of a bad situation" that does unify the new cast. Call me crazy, but I think most of the new PROJECT: skins, if not all of them, may have some nod to Norse mythology.

Pyke - With his abilities and emotes involving snakes and serpents (even bringing up a big serpentine machine in his recall), Pyke has a lot of visual cues pointing to Jormungandr. Warwick - If there is Norse mythological inspiration involved in these skins, Warwick's would be very on-the-nose, since his being a mechanical werewolf likens him to Fenrir. Jinx - A fragmented personality and even, to some degree, a noticeable physical split in her augments (her arm, specifically), Jinx could be likened to the half-rotting goddess Hel. Akali - Similar to Warwick, Akali's potential inspiration would be fairly obvious, since as a conniving, duplicitous double-agent, she has a lot of similarities to Loki.

I can't really place Irelia, so she may be the odd one out of the group, but there may also be something else to her that I'm just missing.

And, of course, wrap all this up with the fact that the outcasts are trying to bring an end to PROJECT: - or at least, Pyke is, while the others are out to take down Warwick, and you have an event at least somewhat analogous to Ragnarok.

But, of course, I could simply be imagining things and creating inspiration where there really may well be none, but somehow I feel like the skin bios and visual thematics link up too well for it to be a stray coincidence.

If anyone has any thoughts on this idea, or perhaps an idea as to what Norse mythological figure Irelia could take inspiration from, I'm certainly open to hearing it.

2 Comments

IlyaK19868/3/2019, 3:03:50 AM1 votes

Freya.

From Google: Freya is the Goddess of love in Norse mythology, but she is also associated with sex, lust, beauty, sorcery, fertility, gold, war and death. The name Freya (in Old Norse “Freyja)” means “lady”, and can also be spelled (Freya, Freija, Frejya, Freyia, Fröja, Frøya, Frøjya, Freia, Freja, Frua, and Freiya)

So, obviously some things that don't quite apply here (fertility, gold), but beauty, war, and to a certain extent, love sort of do apply in that Irelia has that goody-goodness aspect about her. I mean the reason Freya immediately sprang to mind was that in Seiken Densetsu 3, when you went Light -> Light class changes with Lise/Riesz, your ultimate spell was "summon Freya" (her light dark was Marduk, Dark Light was Joromungand, and Dark Dark was Fenrir), so I decided to google Freya and how she applied.

But yes, I do think Freya comes closest here.

GreenLore8/3/2019, 10:45:04 AM1 votes

I really doubt that norse mythology played a big role here.

Because if Riot really wanted a champ to represent Loki, thne someone like Neeko Zoe or even Fizz would have made more sense(not counting Leblanc, since she has a program skin)

And the connection between jinx and Hel is really weak, after all, the whole project-line is based around high-tech cyborgs, which always combines humanity with machines. So you could always make a point how about how every Project skin could be linked to Hel to some degree. Besides if they were really going for a Hel-design, then they could have made the split much more prominent, but the way Jinx looks, it simply looks like Jinx is an unfinished Project, where one arm was replaced and then they simply stopped working on her.

Pyke using snakes isn't so off either, as Pyke is a fisherman, who hunts sea monsters and sea snakes are one of the most well known sea monsters of all, so they were likely used here, to still give the imagery of a monsterhunting fisherman to some extend.