Don’t forget Truth (Coming Out of Her Well to Shame Mankind)
This must be why the Trump administration hates them all
The Four Horsewomen of the Trumpocalypse.
Somebody draw this. These four ladies on horseback, ready to wreak havoc on all things fascist.
(I’m torn on giving Victory a head versus having her carry one Headless Horseman style, or just be headless and it not slowing her down one bit.)
Victory would thus be the opposition of Death, for Victory is the defense of it all in the way Death is the end of it all, and Victory is what people die in the hopes of. Her horse is black, deep black in opposition to Death’s pale horse, and represents mourning—for the dead, and for what soldiers and warriors lose of themselves to the ravages of war.
Truth is the counterpoint to Pestilence, for what is a lie but a specific type of pestilence, spreading and infecting and sickening wherever it touches? She carries a scourge, because Truth hurts when you’re accustomed to pretty and convenient lies; unlike the sword of Justice, it is not a killing weapon, but it is still feared, and many are the enemies that flee before it.
Liberty, I’d say is the counterpoint to Famine, because Famine is the tool that undermines liberty: false shortages, deliberately unequal distribution of resources, rent-seeking, exploitation of poverty, and the undermining of people’s ability to support themselves so that they can be forced to depend on their oppressors and pay dearly for that support—these are the destroyers of Liberty. Hers is the torch raised up against the oppressor, and hers is the shining beacon of freedom.
Justice, then, is mirrored to War. More like her counterpart than others, sometimes, in that justice can be cruel, she distinguishes herself from the cruelty of warfare by her fairness, by her careful weighing of the circumstances involved, and by her capacity as well for kindness, which War does its best to wipe out in all involved. Unlike War, who wishes the destruction of the enemy, Justice seeks fair treatment for all involved and the possibility of rehabilitation and recompensation wherever possible.
