That's really fascinating and I like the way the color scheme changed too.

Well no, because while the allegorical ship of Theseus may change out all it's component parts and still, debatably, remain the same thing, this definition of ship is defined by the parts.

A more interesting question may be if the ship between, say, the Hades version of Theseus and Asterius remains the same ship after it's been passed through to an audience of people who have only heard of the characters through fanfic.

I mean I'd say it stops being the same ship when the monster changes. Because then it's definitely no longer the same ship. :p

Ok, the gag is fun enough but gd are the sphinx and Minotaur you made just the cutest damn things

It depends on how they use the thread rope.



I don't think it's the same fic; with a sailing vessel, the parts and their relative locations remain roughly the same - the execution between these shipwrights is similar enough to match what was there previously, resulting in the final vessel . With romantic stories, however, the execution varies - sometimes lightly, sometimes heavily - between members of that class of shipwright.

Also? Excellent pun.

For the first few seconds I thought this was a romantic tg/tf sequence

and then I realized that even in context it still might be