Anathemalthea

30ish | fic writer + artist | your local Potemkin appreciator

[amalfiyalee23]

Amalfiya D Lee on Ao3~! 😉💖

Hey! Welcome to my blog! (there's more on the web version!)

In case it wasn't super obvious, I love Potemkin! 💘 He's my favorite Guilty Gear character, and maybe also my favorite character from any piece of media ever...which brings me to the reason this blog exists:

Other than gushing about my blorbo, and reposting fanart (A.K.A. relentless Potemkin-posting!), this will be the secondary posting hub where I will link chapters for an upcoming fic I'm writing called "Heart of a Hero." (tagged as "#GG:HoaH (fic)")

I usually log on every couple of weeks or so. If you need something, leave me a message, and I will respond as soon as I can. Thank you!

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Fic Progress Tracker: as of 6/10/2026, 4:40 PM...Don't worry, still here! Just been a crazy month! (lol, just as I thought I was heading for some downtime, too.) 😅

Recent Progress: Chapter 31!

Total Progress: [226 pages, and counting!]

New info is highlighted in green! Major Updates: (None, currently!) Minor updates: (None, currently!)

With the exception of a medical emergency of which I am otherwise incapacitated, I will always make some sort of official announcement if I ever intend to go on an extended hiatus!

(If I ever stop updating this page, assume that I have somehow met my end...because I never intend to stop until this story is finished! 😉👍)

💘

[papersnatch]

just making some straight bullshit

[amalfiyalee23]

whenever I draw Potemkin, I'm always torn between making him either:

most beefed-out STRONKest fighting game BOI!! 💪💪💥

or

soft gentle boi~ 💕 absolute sweetheart, artist 🖌️🎨

...sometimes i pick both

[aw-colorcat]

Aquarium

[amalfiyalee23]

"🦀"

[papersnatch]

every day my eyes must lay upon this mimicry of fabric and Wonder what beauty we could have had if Makeship Didn't fucking Hate Potemkin fans for 0 Reason

[aw-colorcat]

Yeah can I get a pizza with everything?

[daemoncastro]

Potemkin

[papersnatch]

Gift for a friend of mine who has NOT shut up about faustemkin in my dms

[estrogenpatchnotes]

Okay I’m curious about something

Did you know Potemkin from guilty gear has dark skin under his helmet

I play Guilty Gear and I knew that

I play Guilty Gear and I did not know that

I do not play Guilty Gear and I knew that

I do not play Guilty Gear and I did not know that

Voting ended onJun 7

[estrogenpatchnotes]

Pictures for context

He received a new costume in Xrd which his strive costume remains based on

[rammliedmania]

[papersnatch]

i miss my wife also elphelt is here for some reason

[manybackflips]

Zepp as a nation sounds insane.

First Indian billionaires fund a giant war-class airship, then the slaves in the country revolt, taking the airship by force and making it into an independent nation, the nation itself is lead by a leader of the slave revolt, and they don’t shy away from using black tech that almost summoned the Universal Will into the physical plane during the Dawn of Revival. AND they’re recognized by the World Leaders! Ex: the scene in Strive’s story mode in which the White House’s emergency phone goes directly to Gabriel, the leader of Zepp. Demonstrating that the United States and the nation of Zepp have a close bonds.

Also turns out the Potemkin was just born like that, no genetic modification whatsoever.

[amalfiyalee23]

There is such a disparity in how Potemkin’s character is interpreted between different parts of the community, and that astounds me.

I was so surprised to learn that people who play as him, and the people who like the character are two completely different fandoms that don't even always overlap. The amount of people I've talked to who main him and know nothing about who he is as a character is more than I would have ever thought.

He tends to get pretty joke-ified in the playerbase, so the interpretation tends to be 'lul funny big hands man from all the memez'

i mean, it's fine to make jokes, and i get the fact that grapplers have a certain reputation in the FGC--believe me, i had to literally ask someone what the heck the term "glue-eater" meant when i was starting out...but he's just so not that???

like, yes, i can accept your interpretation of the character from a gameplay perspective for fun and funny memes and jokes and funsies, but you are also wrong.

(i must also add for clarity's sake that this is no way meant to be any sort of call-out post or an attack on that part of the community, for as a grappler main myself, i too enjoy a sensible chuckle about the consumption of paste and crayons every now and again heehee haha, anyway, back to business.)

This man has a kind heart and above average intelligence. He is SMART BOI. He has EMOTIONAL DEPTH and STRENGTH OF CHARACTER beyond the physical, and I will continue to evangelize about my favorite Zeppian until morale improves and people stop thinking he's just another 'big dumb grappler' because he's NOT!

also, ArcSys can we plz stop trying to lobotomize my boi's gameplay...

...for FIVE MINUTES???? 💢😅🙏 (challenge: impossible)

[amalfiyalee23]

can we all just appreciate/acknowledge for a moment that Potemkin is, in fact, a man of color?

I'm aware his ethnic origins are kind of ambiguous since Zepp is a fictional country, but like there is also absolutely no way in hell you can convince me that this man is white.

[papersnatch]

Trying to remember how to draw humans after Months of being in Fandoms with Bullshit Character Design

[papersnatch]

been a while since i drawn this guy.... hi Potemkin.......

[kisek]

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