For discussion of the male half of our avatar duo, Askr, the first male human in Norse mythology. How should he look? What is his personality?
I'm migrating over some archived comments from the original pol thread so we can continue the conversation here.
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Our male avatar presents a challenge. There is already a decidedly volkisch male avatar: Iron Pill Man. We can't make Askr, the husband of Embla, into a simple knock-off of Iron Pill. He has to be qualitatively distinct, be completely his own person, but be volkisch at the same time.
I'm thinking of having Askr portrayed as a sigma male. He's scruffier, he has stubble, he has scars, he's an outsider. "Outsider" perfectly personifies what we are trying to build.
He should NOT be the dark, silent brooding figure though, like Batman or like Shadow from Final Fantasy 6. He needs a sociable personality like Han Solo or Tyler Durden, even if he's abrasive sometimes. His volkisch-ness would be less intellectual.
Iron Pill likes to read books by Julius Evola. Askr, the first human, lives it in a more instinctive, non-verbalized way.
Iron Pill's relationship to his wife would probably be portrayed in an idealized way that emphasizes chivalry. Askr would more likely be portrayed as refusing to take any of Embla's shit, with crazy make-up sex afterwords, and then Embla walks around the house wearing his shirt. His rough masculinity frees her to be perfectly feminine.
He's a swashbuckler and a brawler who makes his own rules. But, like Tyler Durden, is still perfectly capable of self-discipline and goal-setting.