Muri

Artist, love Alina Gray & Levia Barisol

[alinananmuri]

first of all really excited for that MV and thanks for reminding me about Nyoze because it inspired me to come up with some great skits! And second of all, I love how young looking he looks in the MV while in the actual novel illustration he looks so tired lol that’s what a quest to kill a bunch of random children and save the world will do to you! I also like now that I noticed it how you incorporate his vision. Also, I like your Gumillia second period design! Sorry if this is a mouthful, I’m just happy to share my thoughts!

Thank you! I’m happy to hear my MV is interesting, always willing to sharing thoughts!

For a sec I couldn’t remember where the 2nd Period Gumillia was, thanks for bringing her up! Actually after drawing her this way I found out that in the Heavenly novel it was said that MotHY Gumillia’s face was the one she’d had in the 2nd Period, so now I wonder whether it applies to her green hair or not🤔 Though I like to imagine most of the earthlings to have natural hair colours with Luna and Held being ones with coloured hair

[alinananmuri]

Luna’s position of not interfering in how things go x Levia’s tendency to ignore unpleasant reality and disliking to do anything about it

[alinananmuri]

Your version of Rahab is so pretty and hot! It should’ve been me!!! (she wouldn’t be a good partner and would kill anybody else I’m seeing out of jealousy, but still! Also love your design for the other characters like Luna (very creative and I kind of like how you added traits of the Vocaloid she was probably based off of while also giving her a unique look even though I don’t personally imagine her looking like that but I can definitely see it)

Thank you! Designing characters with very little known about their appearance (especially in Luna’s case) was an interesting experience. I mostly based them off my own associations. This includes other fan designs and also some characters from other media. I also originally tried to make them closer to the official designs in terms of details and shapes, however then I decided to give Rahab and then Luna wavy hair despite that there’s only a few characters in EC with not straight hair

I’ve also worked on the designs for Gumillia and Michaela though they were left as sketches only, mostly because I couldn’t decide which hair colour I’d prefer. Writing this gives me some inspiration so maybe I’ll return to them!

[alinananmuri]

Thinking about how EC is Levia becoming every other character she originally despises, who she sees as broken, weak or evil. For some reason she always tries to make herself seem as the one morally superior. She doesn’t care about appearances, but when it comes to her mindset, she constantly makes it so she’s doing whatever for some right reason. Not for someone else, just for herself. Because when she comes to thinking about herself as inadequate or *evil*, the MoN plot happens

She can’t be broken like Eve, defensive like Kyle, corrupted (literally and not) as Gallerian, evil as the Mayu patient… there were certainly more examples but these are the first I remembered. But the thing which distinguishes them is Levia’s self-control over her thoughts. The MoN prologue gave me a strong feeling that she has a massive grip over her head even when she’s alone. She does it only for herself to prevent her sense of self from shattering (the MoN plot).

MoN shows how Levia denies her malice, and the Gift novel shows how much she avoids feeling pain. She puts herself into anything to keep her mind busy and not think how tired she is of everything. Throughout the series she interacts with other characters who are similar to her, and makes herself sure she’s not like them, she’s still holding onto something. Eventually, she has to face Nemesis — broken, dependent, ill, weak, etc — and realise that’s who she, Levia, is

[alinananmuri]

Levia’s eye bags appreciation post. I hope as Elluka she finally caught up on sleep

[evilliousheadcanons]

-`♡´- Levia knows that the 2nd period is a simulation, because Behemo straight up told her when they first met. Unable to accept the truth, she ignored it for 1500+ years (since no one has ever confronted her about it again she doesn't have to deal with it).

submitted by anon -`♡´- send your headcanons!

[alinananmuri]

I wish there were more interactions between Levia and Kyle because they are awfully similar, but their only dialogue starts with Elluka accusing Kyle of being shameless and ends with her being jealous of Gumillia and it makes it an absolute masterpiece

[alinananmuri]

One thing about the MoN novel writing I like is the way how Bloodstained Switch is referenced. In the prologue we learn about a girl patient who committed suicide, and Levia words it as “pressing a switch”. The Mayu character in the song talks about her “Other me”. Later in the novel Nemesis shows her own “Other me” too. The song makes a parallel between a literal dangerous switch and the switch between two personalities; the book prologue makes a parallel between the switch and suicide. And in the end of the novel, Nemesis attempts suicide (as Levia herself calls it) with Punishment by her other self’s influence. The song’s overall meaning in story is mostly possibly just to be an explanation of HER, but the book could include its lyrics in the narrative with making an interesting parallel for Levia

Bonus parallels: the “I’m not to blame” thing which is repeating in the song and has a weight in the MoN final. Also Mayu gets injected with a drug in the song, and Levia was turn into the dragon by being injected with a drug which is revealed in the Memories of God sequence — both injections were made to control their destructive behaviour as HERs

[clockworkrequiem]

I think what really sets Nemesis and Margarita is that their perception of reality is so warped, they actually believe that committing their respective Sin actually benefits others.

Margarita thought that poisoning the people of Toragay would make them happy - she was depressed and wanted to take the easy way out instead of solving her problems proactively, and assumed that everyone else felt the same things as her, so she poisoned them.

Nemesis, on the other hand, was regarded as a hero after the Levianta civil war for killing Gallerian, even though she did what she did because of her own selfish intentions. After Nemesis became dictator, she sought to destroy the Sins by destroying Evillious itself, believing that Evillious was “hell” and, as its Master, it was her duty to cleanse it.

As opposed to Venomania, Banica, Riliane and Gallerian, who all committed their Sins due to selfish reasons, Nemesis and Margarita were heroes in their own mind. And to me, that’s really something else - if a person as powerful as Nemesis thinks she’s doing a good thing by causing mass death and destruction, that’s something to be scared of.

[nemesisautism]

HEAR ME OUT.

NEMESIS SUDOU WITH DID (dissociative identity disorder)

and some of the supernatural encounters she had are actually her alters , like Hansel and Gretel

[alinananmuri]

I’ve recently dived more into DID and yes!! Though in the book DID is mentioned directly but only as a symptom of HER, it seems natural if Nemesis could develop it outside of HER. Not only she has a split personality, but also amnesia about the traumatic childhood experience. Alters “contain” the unbearable memories, and it could easily be the case for Neme’s «other me», that Nemesis redirected her memories to this certain personality, not just simply “forgot” it all

With Hänsel and Gretel, in one album booklet there were a mention that the Theatre servants are copies of original H&G, but later this whole point wasn’t used at all. I guess them appearing in Girl Went Mad could be connected to this cancelled plot line. Though with how it is now, I think it’s a good theory to say that these voices were her earlier alters

[nemesisautism]

THIS IS SUCH A GOOD ADD ON unfortunately I can’t reply to u directly cus u reblogged my post so the interactions go back to my post 🥲🥲

my friend (who’s a system !!) originally came up with this hc actually , she specified that her childhood was unhealthy and can have serious affects on her brain including developing alters as a coping mechanism so I rlly like ur point on the amnesia abt her childhood trauma.

I also like to think that during the time she was Themis eight nemesis herself wasn’t fully fronting , (I could be making this up , I can’t remember much abt the details) she was shown feeling numb during the events of TLR until the Leviathan civil war (but to be fair she’s prolly depressed )

also, this part is a bit more wild , but I also hc that

Either :

1. The Ma that shows up is an alter, every interaction happens in her headspace

2. Nemesis has herself as an alter , that came up with with the yearly Ma visit memories

3. Both of the above and all the interactions are an effort to keep nemesis sane.

ALSO ALSO I rlly think nemesis is psychologically underdeveloped in the book but maybe that’s just meeee🤔

[alinananmuri]

I totally agree with her being emotionally undeveloped though I think it’s a case for Levia and Elluka just as well, she never got a chance to learn how process almost any emotion. And I like your point about Nemesis feeling numb during Four Seasons ch and up to the Civil War, it really felt like that as I recall. I guess it makes sense since she had to assassinate at the same time with getting loved for the first time in her life, dissociating seems to be a very possible outcome for her mind. Maybe the “Other me” was active while doing the tasks, because I don’t remember the killings being shown in moment in the novel (though Neme doesn’t have amnesia on them)

Also Levia is extremely prone to dissociation too (literally the whole MoN novel), with Nemesis it could just become more severe due to circumstances. As I got it, the brain/psyche should originally have some aptitude for forming a disorder as a reaction, and it seems to suit Levia’s case. As Levia she was neglected but was relatively safe and reacted with detachment from her feelings, but as Nemesis she was left in a forest with no safety and reacted with an actual DID

Ma imagined interactions are surely a way to keep Nemesis sane, alters or not, but there was also a scene where Levia while being inside Neme’s mind saw Ma. This thing can be seen as an alter I think now, as it’s literally another identity in her mind. Actually the way MoN is written makes a lot of material for psyche analysis with how we go inside Nemesis’ mind while being inside Levia’s mind

[piiledrivers]

tagged by @gingerpeachtea to share 13 songs i've had in heavy rotation rn !!!!!!!!!!

pool by paramore

you oughta know by alanis morisette

slow cheetah by the rhcp

(one of those) crazy girls by paramore

scar tissue by the rhcp

sick love........ by the rhcp

charlie by the rhcp

one for the road by the arctic monkeys

knuckle velvet by ethel cain

everything is embarrassing by sky ferreira

bags by clairo

paul by big thief

dani california by the rhcp

no pressure tagging @whore4deetress @morgangillorybrainrotted @fawnvadi @macmcdyke @avapilled @theswiftbolter

[applesauce1739]

1. Terrible Lie - Nine Inch Nails

2. Down In It - Nine Inch Nails

3. Sin - Nine Inch Nails

4. The Only Time - Nine Inch Nails

5. Capital G - Nine Inch Nails

6. Meet Your Master - Nine Inch Nails

7. Less Than - Nine Inch Nails

8. The Lovers - Nine Inch Nails

9. Jesus Built My Hotrod - Ministry

10. Black - Pearl Jam

11. Would - Alice In Chains

12. Nutshell - Alice In Chains

13. 18 and Life - Skid Row

Idk I think Nine Inch Nails is alright

@infinite-dragon-loop @bedheadreblogs @novaiswithering @winstonartofficial @tchtra @kaeruutv @fatherfigurefusion @buttsauced

[fatherfigurefusion]

Thanks for the tagging, son!

1- Still Into You - Paramore

2- Ancient Dreams in a Modern Land - MARINA

3- Never Ever Getting Rid of Me - Waitress

4- Top of My School - Katherine Lynn-Rose

5- After the Storm - Kali Uchis and Tyler the Creator

6- Rather be Me (Than With You) - Mean Girls

7- Nerdy Prudes Must Die - Nerdy Prudes Must Die

8- Bonfire - Childish Gambino

9- Who's That Chick? - Rihanna

10- Camouflage - MILGRAM

11- The One Who's Running the Show - The Amazing Digital Circus

12- IRIS OUT - Kenshi Yonezu

13- Nancy Mulligan - Ed Sheeran

Tagging the following: @mythgirlimagines @peckforlovingheck @jiducks-semitoness @rachelcommitscrimes @elithebi @lordcryosrealmoftrash @wolfshystuff @starlightscarsyt @biggestlen @star3synth @mystiqmemory @chikainowingbeat @harrowharr0w @runawaysfromthepride @utsukurou @deersgutss @lostmotivation2draw @finleyforevermore @magical-sweet-kitty @scootoot @frankensteinsayo @rickypottsirl

[biggestlen]

thanks for the tag!

Farewell -- Lena Raine

Scattered and Lost -- Lena Raine

Reach for the Summit -- Lena Raine

Feedback -- MonochroMenace

Lost Media -- MonochroMenace

Death in Paradise -- Duck with a knife

Human -- Flavour Foley

Worried about Ray -- The Hoosiers

Against the Kitchen Floor -- Will Wood

Kill you all in a hip-hop rage -- Mindless Self Indulgence

Fly Away -- Teddyloid (Panty & Stocking)

over x dosage -- Ponkansoup

It wasn't me -- Shaggy

A lotta vocaloid recently as well as the Celeste OST that i've gotten obsessedddd with after beating the game, but also some other things. Had quite a few long car rides lately... anyways, tagging time!! -> @ashemellow @cosmic-giraffe @schrodingerscat-girl @anonyymoose @dysmei @shin-tsucommunist @strwberrymist @king-of-anxiety @mainteddybearty @mushromix3 @sirshelf @angiebiite and any other moots I might've missed when hastily typing this up -- or anyone who sees this post if they want :3

[strwberrymist]

HEHEHE THANKS FOR THE TAG

1. yanderenka - lelelep

2. me!me!me! - teddyloid & daoko

3. super anime groove 3d world - android52

4. tri poloski - davay

5. sneakernight - vanessa hudgens

6. moonlit bear - mothy

7. love love nightmare - kiichi

8. freie deutsche jugend - ifa wartburg (shut up. it's a banger)

9. system zero - -45

10. växeln hallå - janne lucas

11. ggrks - aaminp

12. that "i'm yer son i'm yer dad" song?? by speighty and sp80 jnr

13. whistle - pochonbo electronic ensemble (yes that one north korean pop song)

wow... wish i wasn't so cool and unique *twirls hair* no but actually it is occurring to me smth may in fact be wrong and i do feel shame admitting some of these uh. anyway🤑 @hffghhf @vaal-ko @nostalgicmermaaiid @elliotbjr02 @rainbowghostcat @b-eater BUT ANYBODY JOIN IF YOU WANT :P

[hffghhf]

Thanks for the tag game!

I thought I saw your face today by She & Him

Cradles by Sub Urban

My Pray by Madame Macabre

Balloon animals by Madame Macabre

Yield by Sound Horizon

Heart Has Value by Madame Macabre

The Mind Electric from miracle musical

The Murders from miracle musical

The Night by Voltaire

When You’re Evil by Voltaire

Swing you sinners by High Hatters

Scylla from epic the musical

Under Our Spell from MLP Equestria Girls Rainbow Rocks

It’s either Camouflage from Milgram or Flame by KATSEYE also my brain ate the original other answer.

@kyanako5972

@themoderncryptidcrypt

@edettethegreat

@sundewhasaudhd

@tothepointofinsanity

@genderqueer-miharu

@strawby-fields

@alinananmuri

@key0-m0ve-al0ng

I wanted to add more but couldn’t because it’s only 13😭.

[alinananmuri]

Tag thing!

Shite (Yurry Canon, Meika Mikoto)

Elle Est Avant-Garde (Yurry Canon, Hatsune Miku)

Forbidden Goddess (Tsubaki, Misora Mimi)

Mado no nai Atelier nite (Yurry Canon, GUMI)

Kokuhaku (Naisho no Pierced, N25)

Toward X (Yurry Canon, GUMI)

Todestrieb (Yurry Canon, GUMI)

Suicide Parade (Yurry Canon, GUMI)

Slow Suicide (Eight, Hatsune Miku)

Slow Downer (Rokuro, Mizuki Akiyama)

Saviour (Yurry Canin, Tsukuyomi)

Blank and Summer (Nulut, Kasane Teto)

Tagging @nemesisautism

[nemesisautism]

HEAR ME OUT.

NEMESIS SUDOU WITH DID (dissociative identity disorder)

and some of the supernatural encounters she had are actually her alters , like Hansel and Gretel

[alinananmuri]

I’ve recently dived more into DID and yes!! Though in the book DID is mentioned directly but only as a symptom of HER, it seems natural if Nemesis could develop it outside of HER. Not only she has a split personality, but also amnesia about the traumatic childhood experience. Alters “contain” the unbearable memories, and it could easily be the case for Neme’s «other me», that Nemesis redirected her memories to this certain personality, not just simply “forgot” it all

With Hänsel and Gretel, in one album booklet there were a mention that the Theatre servants are copies of original H&G, but later this whole point wasn’t used at all. I guess them appearing in Girl Went Mad could be connected to this cancelled plot line. Though with how it is now, I think it’s a good theory to say that these voices were her earlier alters

[alinananmuri]

I need to start talking about Levia and NPD

[alinananmuri]

What’s so wrong with my favs’ posing

[alinananmuri]

MURII HII 🥹🥹 first of all tysm for liking my nemesis art daily!! Feel free to like send over some nemesis drawing ideas as well 👀 . Ok my question is. What fascinates you the most about Levia? And why do you like her ? I’m curious 👀 I like ur analysis on evillious Reddit too btw

Hii!! Thank you very much too💚

The question made me think a little, though I’d say the one most fascinating thing about Levia for me is the complexity of her character’s image. By this I mean the amount of references, cultural context of Japan, strong narrative connections with other series’ characters, themes upped throughout her whole arc. And it all works together, making a character who you can analyse using all the original material. That a character like her has been created by the creator’s thoughts and now can make me think — I find it truly fascinating

That’s probably why I like her: she makes me think. She gave me a whole new perspective on things (and also the interest in psychiatry which had its own influence I guess). Also, I really like to see such a mistaken person with flawing empathy who isn’t justified by the narrative (right the opposite) and yet is written with enough care you can feel connection with

Thank you for asking this! It was interesting to word these thoughts I had in mind for a while