this place is dedicated to my thoughts about twisted wonderland and my ocs! i'll also be posting about my own twisted wonderland au : in memoriam.
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i go by aster, astrellis and polaris !
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my favorite characters are malleus and the first years!
i'll mostly be inactive, but i'll attempt to update frequently.
We as artists and writers like having sources for stuff, right? And we like giving credit to other artists for their work, right? Well, I've compiled a collection of resources I've personally used and thoroughly believe would benefit others.
[NOTE: THIS LIST IS UNDERSTANDABLY GOING TO BE INCOMPLETE. IF YOU HAVE OTHER RESOURCES TO ADD, PREFERABLY BY A PRIMARY SOURCE, PLEASE ADD IT IN REBLOGS]
Alchemivich's collection:
Ripped Assets
Backgrounds
SD Sprites (navigate via Excel Sheet)
Login Font (free download site)
Robo-Milky: (Info Pulled from TWST Discord server)
im rarely ever on that side of twst tumblr but im so tired of yandere!twst boys x reader. let me be insane. I want to be the crazy fuck in the relationship
Instead of asking like a normal person what he wants, he starts talking in riddles, expecting you to get the hint.
After a while you get used to it.
He’s also pretty spoiled so most of the time you’ll have to give in to him.
AGHHH, it’s so difficult to write malleus dialogue since he has a pretty fancy way of speaking (dhu S you dumbass he’s a prince of course he speaks like that).
But imagine you’re just chilling of the couch with your popcorn and suddenly you feel this presence behind you talking about some “I wish someone shared their popcorn with me”, CAN YOU BE NORMAL PLEASE?
Also gtfo you can’t just teleport in people houses as you please we talked about this.
yuuvi’s voice is described to be melodic, but odd. there’s a strange accent to their words that none of the characters can truly describe. it sounds like francos, but there’s a cadence to it that doesn’t sound like anything seen in twisted wonderland.
this is mostly due to yuuvi’s native language, deilsis. it’s a language that sounds like rook’s francos and briar valley’s franbryr, but is completely different from them in all other aspects. they’re not actually speaking in deilsis in twisted wonderland, rather they’re speaking in another language, saeian, which coincidentally is quite similar to common.
deilsis has some sprinkles of ancient greek and ukrainian (in terms of sound), as those were the two other languages i was inspired by for the sound of deilsis. please note i did absolutely no research, so if any french, greek or ukrainian speakers want to correct me on anything, please dm me so i can do so.
Blot and the physical form of negative emotions
An observation.
We know that blot is a toxic substance that accumulates in a mage's body as they use magic. While it doesn't appear only from negative emotions, unstable emotional states - such as stress, anger, sadness - can greatly accelerate the accumulation of blot.
Then there are phantoms - which are formed from overblotting and feed specifically on negative emotions (until they kill the host - mage).
This made me think about how in many cultures negative emotions such as anger, envy, or sadness were described as real, physical substances.
In ancient Greek medicine
emotions were linked to the four humors - blood, phlegm, black bile, and yellow bile.
Melancholy, for example, was caused by an excess of black bile.
Anger was associated with an excess of yellow bile.
This physical theory of emotion placed emotional well-being directly in the body, not just the mind.
In Tibetan Buddhism
emotions like anger, desire, and ignorance are known as kleshas - often translated as mental poisons.
But they aren't just mental afflictions. They are seen as pollutants that affect the mindstream, affect karma, influence future rebirths, etc. The fact that the term can be translated as "poisons" is especially interesting - it's a literal mental toxicity.
In Japanese folklore
emotions like hatred, jealousy, or resentment can remain even after death and become onryō (怨霊) - vengeful spirits (often portrayed as women)
Negative emotions in general are viewed as polluting energies kegare (穢れ) not good for mental and physical space (so many stories about haunted places in Japanese folklore).
In medieval Christianity
sinful emotions were frequently personified in art and sermons as demons.
Wrath or lust could literally be shown as creatures attacking the soul.
Envy, in particular, was sometimes described as a green fluid that eats away at the heart.
*Green has been asociated with jeaolusy or envy for a long time
From Merchant of Venice, Portia:
How all the other passions fleet to air,
As doubtful thoughts, and rash-embraced despair,
And shuddering fear, and green-eyed jealousy!
I also learned that there an italian expression - "green of envy" -"verde dall'invidia". Also "verde come la bile" (green like bile).
I think it's similar in many languages (in Europe at least).
But in Ukraine and Russia, for example, there are "black envy" and "white envy" - a bad and good envy.
Anyway, in medieval Europe It was more about the sins, but logically, sins are born from emotions and desires.
Not a substance, but a physical representation I like are on a painting from Hieronymus Bosch - The Seven Deadly Sins and the Four Last Things
In Sufism
negative traits and emotions were thought to be rooted in the nafs (ego/self) which creates veils or clouds between the soul and God.
In Kabbalah
negative emotions and actions give rise to klipot ("husks" or "shells") - impure spiritual barriers that cling to the soul and block divine light.
These are just some examples I remembered and looked up to check, but it seems to be a universal human idea that strong emotions, especially negative ones, should have form.
Often imagined as fluids, miasma, smoke, demons, spirits, poisons, etc.
And it makes sense, because emotions do have physical effects on our body. We all know what it's like to be anxious or sad that we feel physically ill. Or how falling in love can literally cause a rush of dopamine and oxytocin that feels like getting high.
That's why I love how twst uses this motif for blot and overblot. One of the game's core themes is trauma and psychological distress, and blot visualizes this in a very literal and creative way.
(It's especially powerful in the manga, where the buildup and consequences of blot are shown visually, in my opinion).
So I really love this detail of worldbuilding - it's not just a cool plot mechanic, but a metaphor for emotional overload, repression, and the sad consequences of never processing your inner pain.
Plus what they mention about how to avoid overblotting - if a mage sees too much blot accumulating, one should rest, eat well, and get into stable and calm mental state.
Just like in real life.
*too many links, idk if it's ok to just add them all, sorry
You chose the name of a goddess of death for your online handle and kept it for games, websites and social media. You thought it was cool until the goddess herself came and wanted to have a word with you.....
i wonder if twisted wonderland bothered to make new sprites for book 5 and we got new outfits for the VDC performance, that we'd get something like this?
i think it would be really cute!! especially if each performer were given individual details (ace with hearts, vil with crowns, epel with apples). if vil got a seperate outfit as the center, it could even be a more simplified version of his overblot outfit!!
Crowley and Yuuvi's Relationship : A God and his Angel.
*based on the assumption that crowley had summoned yuu, and the timeloop theory is canon. please ignore if you don't like people using religious imagery.
yuuvi despises crowley, from head to toe. if given the chance they would genuinely kill that man. crowley reminds them of their helplessness, how useless they are in this world. they can have the autonomy to be themselves now yes, but one word from him and they're being thrown to the streets.
they try their best to treat him with politeness (as they do with everyone else,) so most people think they're a pushover. but at the same time, they can't help but wonder what's going on in his head.
crowley views yuuvi as a tool to get what he wants. yuuvi was summoned after going through several, hellish timelines. their arrival was born from a prayer, and so far? It's working. no one has died, and the overblotters have survived with minimal effects.
over time, he becomes curious about yuuvi. he wonders how they were able to get his students, so infamous for their inability to get along, to form such strong bonds. maybe these friendships were the key to surviving the overblots?
it devolves into idolization. he thrusts yuuvi into this messiah role, portraying them as an angel ― his angel. the tool to enact his will. they should be grateful that he summoned them here, after all, it is his kindness that got them such a prestigious role.
it is the biggest irony of all; the man who freed them from their cage binds them with the very same shackles they just escaped.
has anyone else thought about malleus and leona as exes?
i'd imagine their relationship would have ended somewhere last year, after the interdorm tournament when malleus beat savanaclaw AGAIN. combined with them both being too immature to actually handle their feelings healthily, malleus constantly being late to dates, leona being Avoidant and them being well— them, it makes for a ticking time bomb of a relationship.
the aftermath of the break up is good for no one, leona becomes worse and the sky is overcast for days. it's a genuine miracle when the first sunny day finally comes in weeks. the worst part is that no one actually knows why they're so pissed off, and they refuse to tell anyone that they were in a relationship of any kind, so the school is sort of forced to put up with it.
it doesnt get any better when it arrives to the game's timeline because of leona's and malleus' overblot. they're still messy and complicated and even with yuu's free therapy it still gets worse.
the others only find out during book 8 when they have a massive fight and suddenly everything makes so much more sense (and so much more complicated.)
