Island of Doom

mainly Vertigo V1 LuciferMorningstar&MichaelDemiurgos

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You are his death.

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亿万人来法尔斯，，，，，，

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kiddo

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A bunch of ⭐

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Santa Anna and her daughter Mary

The inspiration comes from this portrait of Saint Anne from the Byzantine period.

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sketch>>> final

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Et Labora

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Straniero

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I often think a lot about the hypotheticals of placing Lucifer and Michael in different cultural contexts ...... The kernel of each national culture is different, and how these two culturally-influenced characters from a long line of sources would have a new understanding of the same thing.

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We also talked about the derivation of Gnostic teachings. My friend thinks that the antagonistic relationship that Michael and Lucifer exhibit in the episode actually corresponds to the Gnostic vision of the material world as having a false god representing evil and a true god above it representing good, but given the cumbersome nature of many of the complementary explanations that have been typed up later in the episode of this vision, we can only speculate that it's representation still remains at this most basic level.

V1's characterization of Michael is closer to the "middle ground" of Taoism than to the absolute positivity of the character's position, and the power and violence that are often associated with the traditional image of Michael have been minimized, and he is seen more as an intermediary, as a mediator, and as an interlocutor in their relationship.He appears to Lucifer as an intermediary, a mediator, and their brotherly relationship moderates this conflict (despite Lucifer's intention to arouse his anger, he remains introspective and stops the emotional charge). I found the treatment of these various religious ideas intermingling to shape the characters very interesting.

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Had a lot of conversations with friends about twin brothers. I've always thought that Mike Carey's approach of treating the relationship between Lucifer and Michael as a mirror image of each other, rather than a simple and superficial dichotomy, was really clever. It's because of this brotherly bond that Lucifer displays rare guilt and nostalgia, and even though these emotions are subtle and hard to detect (Lucifer doesn't seem to be a person who displays such emotional vulnerability so easily), they are evident in his conversations with Michael, or with others. What surprised me most was that Lucifer doesn't try to hide these emotions; he admits frankly and openly that he feels sorry for Michael, that he is responsible for his brother's sacrifice, and that he uses the word "grief" in front of other people, just to let them know he keeps Michael's death in his heart.

This is a rare and unique situation for Lucifer, or may I say, this brotherhood, this relationship between he and Michael, is one of a kind.