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Haruki: So bad day at work, huh?

Soleum: -In the tone of someone who has seen the face of a flayed demon and is now heavily dissociating- I've never been more scared in my life. (′д｀;;;)

Haruki: ...There there.

#DS7 Draws #Cell of Empireo #Ghost Story Gotta Work #Haruki Atou #Kim Soleum #Solarium 🦌🌱#Nothing like crashing on your (technically long distance) partner's couch after a long day of dealing with The Horrors (of work)...#They watched kiddy anime with the lights on until he managed to fall in the other's lap.

that makes sense! i like reading people's character analysis and discussing it. you also don't have to worry about spoiling me if you want to discuss it in depth, i've played the whole series.

how far have you gotten, though? asking just in case, i don't want to accidentally put DLC spoilers or spoil an ending you haven't played yet

That's fine, personally I've worked through the main Route E (my current favourite) and A and am slowly making my way through the other routes on my way up to S+ so I can personally do the DLC and Hermit's Room (and Interlude) but I do have a general working knowledge of what's going on in the other routes (like what happens with Nina, Shinano, and so on) but I just didn't want to spoil stuff for anyone else who might stumble across my post.

#DS7's Log #Cell of Empireo #Though to tell the truth I *have* seen a fair bit of an (as of this date) unlisted Japanese Language Playthough.#So I'm kind of just comparing the versions and their translations right now.#Also Cell of Mirage seems kind of interesting.

how would you have liked haruki's situation to be explored more? you don't have to answer if you don't want to, i'm just kind of curious

Well from my personal experience, it's just kind of rare to see a game (or any media really) with a canonically plural character without it being made to be a whole Thing™ where they must "struggle against the enemy within to overcome their evils" or something like that without going into the without going into the complexities about human nature or that people, kind of don't really work that way? At all???

Yeah, I know it's trope viewed that's supposed through a fictional lens so naturally there would be some liberties taken (which I won't really go it detail because I don't want to get too much into spoiler territory) and that you also have to take into consideration the background of the work in question.

Like, mental health (and Haruki's situation in particular even removing a bit of the more fantastical psychic elements) deal with stuff that has been viewed as kind of a tricky thing (not just in the west but particularly so in countries such as Japan and other eastern nations where Cell of Empireo takes place; like I think I remember reading a paper that mentioned an anecdote that it was actually pretty recently, around the mid '90s, that the concept of PTSD was introduced over to Japanese psychs or something like that as an example.)

So taking into the account the whole cult background (and everything that can do to a person in of itself) and slapping on the aforementioned social considerations (because remember the "Current Day" story of COE takes place around 2015 with the flashbacks going even further back to about the Soviet Era) and taking in these added factors into the the understanding of things it would be just kind of neat to see, I guess. Though to keep things short, I honestly just really like the idea of of characters working through traumas through the various concepts of 'self' in the many forms that it might take.

If that makes sense.

#DS7's Log #Cell of Empireo #I guess this is a bit of character/story analysis?#I just like plural-coded characters.#They're like matyroshka dolls.#-Slaps Haruki- You can just fit so many multitudes in this traumatized bitch.

nice to see someone else playing coe!! thank you for your art, what did you think of it?

Thank you! I just wanted to give back to a somewhat smaller fandom with a little bit of my own. What I thought of it? Well, the game itself was very interesting in a technical standpoint (I gained some interesting experience in how to do local changing with games which was nice) and I can appreciate the spritework and art design (the face Atou's sprite makes when he's straight up dissociating is kind of a nice touch and I can appreciate the nice pink colour of his hair of that one particular form.) The game's music when in the church before everything goes to shit is pretty and it really does give a nice calming juxtaposition to the horrors that you had faced before with the psychic zombie virus type thing brought about by the whole weird christian-coded cult. I am weirdly invested in that whole sort of queer coded narrative going on along with Haruki's whole plural thing which I kind of wish was explored a bit more.

I've been reading through the manga as well (hurray for mediocre Japanese skills!) and I really dig the artist's depictions of Haruki and how expressive he is in it and I hope that they can at least finish the series in its entirety and that the run isn't cancelled before then or anything because that'd suck. But honestly there's also the fact that Haruki's kind of a fucked up skrunkly little guy going through the horrors and I can dig that in a man.

#DS7's Log #Plus he's pretty easy to draw which is definitely a bonus.#Coincidentally I've also somewhat gotten into GSGW at this time and somehow the two have crossed over in my head and...#I have a new ship now.#It's Atou Haruki x Kim Soleum.#I'm calling it Solarium (because that sounds like 'Soleum' and a Solarium is a glass sunroom where you put plants and stuff).#It is consuming me and I am being driven mad by a vision no one else shares with these two skrunkly guys being tossed together.#Send help.#Cell of Empireo

How many of these little tumblr milestones are there??? I wonder if there's a list somewhere detailing them all.

#DS7's Log #Thank you???#Like I know there's the ones for how long you've been on and how many posts you make but is that it?#Tumblr Milestone #250 Likes...#Is this a new thing or am I just too much of a lurker to have have shown up to a party years late with diet dr. pepper.

Breaking News: Perfectly Normal Traveling Korean Salaryman Has a Meet Cute with Perfectly Normal Local Detective!

#DS7 Draws #Cell of Empireo #Ghost Story Gotta Work #Haruki Atou #Kim Soleum #Guys help this was just suppose to be a meme crackship but I'm actually invested in this now.#Also Kim is genuinely hilarious and deserves something good to happen in his life for dealing with the Horrors™#Even if technically Haruki could be considered a “Horror” himself.#Let the plant man and the high functioning anxiety sufferer bond over mutual trauma and watching people die in front of them. It'd be fun.#Wait if I invented a ship does that mean I get to name it?#I'mma call it “Solarium” because it fits.#🦌🌱

[Spring Before the Rain]

They first met when Kojima was kind of having a real bad time because of plot-relevant reasons and just straight up spiraling so to avoid having to deal with the whole thing involving his Feelings™ he decided to camp out in the school bathroom. Suddenly, and out of complete nowhere this scrawny and wild-eyed looking first year with leaves in his hair and god-knows how much dirt on his once bright white uniform literally comes sliding in. The two of them stare at each other for a long awkward moment before the other boy (who he eventually comes to learn is named Ishida) offers him the following rush of words:

“Sorry‚ I got thrown off a cliff on my way here. Can I use the mirror and sink while you have your panic attack so I can clean up and not be late to orientation?”

What the actual fuck?

“...Y-Yeah???”

The other proceeded to smile beatifically at him as he offered a chipper word of thanks and then proceeded to ramble on about something the other hadn't the slightest presence of mind to even begin to parse out but there was something about the sheer absurdity situation coupled with the bespectacled boy's nervous-but-bright smile as he chattered along that settled that darkness deep within and had him slowly unclenching his hands so when the morning bell rang and the other hurriedly snagged it to haul him along he didn't even protest.

(They were still late to their first day and had received quite the earful from their new homeroom teacher but as he focused on the taller boy beside of him as opposed to his usual modus operandi of nodding along and appearing contrite to appease the irate authority figure he found that couldn't really bring himself to really care.)

#DS7 Draws #[That Which Protects The Falling Rain]#Mizuiro Kojima #Uryū Ishida #A somewhat relevant note to mention is that in the new timeline that Mizuiro and Uryu went to the same private middle school together.#They were actually relatively close though for what values of “close” well...#You can of that what you will :)

For the Father, whose forgiveness are you seeking?

#DS7 Draws #Cell of Empireo #Utsugi Noriyuki #My first introduction to this man was Root E and the whole.../thing/ with him and Haruki.#So mentally he just became “Father Badtouch” to me and sorry not sorry dude.#Your aesthetics are on point but your vibes are rancid my good sir.

Let's argue about the career decision to be a detective with Great-Grandpa!

#DS7 Draws #Toichiro Yuri #Famicom Detective Club MC:#Jōuske Yuri #Ayakashi Romance Reborn #Jōuske is an adult by human world standards by the time the events of the games happen the kitsune blood just cursed him with perma babyfac #The rest of the family does like to fuck with him because of this until he manages to find a partner and have kids of his own.#The whole detective thing was just him getting back at them for enrolling him in a human school (as an adult) to get some “socialization”.#Because even though they're pretty rich he's *very* petty.

A Quick Meeting.

#DS7 Draws #Sanemitsu Isoi #Haruki Atou #Cell of Empireo #The entire time I drew this I was craving some glazed donuts. I blame Kanou for this.

[Lexios Zikas] This is my Obey Me + Nightbringer OC. He's a 29 (give or take a few centuries due to meddlesome time shenanigans) year old Greek man with Oni blood in him because his Great Great Grandma decided to have a harem full of various supernatural creatures. He has wholeheartedly decided to follow in her footsteps.

(Also to dye the tips of his hair pink because why the heck not.)

#DS7 Draws #Obey Me MC #A fun little bit I like to do is to try and make my Game OCs related simply because them having this buckwild family tree is hilarious.#So far we have Akiya Yūkishima (Ayakashi Romance Reborn MC) who is Lilith's Reincarnation's Daughter (and a reincarnation herself)#And from her resulting harem route we have Akihito/Mr. White (Twisted Wonderland MC) who is her and Yura's (unknowing) descendant #Lexios who is the result of Koga shacking up with her and their kid falling in love with a Greek Sailor and deciding to elope #and then the (Famicom Detective Club MC) Jōuske Yuri (who is very much an adult but has a babyface because of his Kitsune genetics.)#He is just as unhinged as you would think but you can blame their mom who was a contract lawyer for his people and time management skills.

[You are ██████] No, who are you really?

#DS7 Draws #Cell of Empireo #Haruki Atou (?)#Alpha #There's a bonus version without the pink filter under the read more for those who want to see that.#I had to make something to go with the other Atou piece.#Doing my part to contribute the small english-speaking side of the fandom.

[You are Haruki Atou]

#DS7 Draws #Cell of Empireo #Haruki Atou #Associated with tricksters that change forms and have mysterious powers #canidid adjacent beings that live in the forest and are surprisingly loud and reactive gremlins #this man is so fox coded it's not even funny.#Also I really like how light pink hair looks on him.#Shame it comes with severe trauma.

Story Idea:

A bit of a continuation of the E Route staring that pink-haired alter of Haruki (who I am henceforth dubbing as "Calamity") where Otowa (reluctantly) agrees to go along with Calamity's bullshit (partially because he feels slightly responsible for letting Haruki go alone to that shitshow with the cult so at the very least he might as well try and see if there was any way that he could mitigate even a little bit of the damage from this new alter of his friend and partially because if he said no the unstable esper would most certainly kill him and that would not be ideal) and Calamity (because they are very fucking traumatized and not at all okay) immediately turns into a clingy yandere towards the other (along with Aiba who was kidnapped sometime prior because the other was also clearly worried about him after that whole thing.) And because of aforementioned events Calamity is also kind of convinced that if they let the other men out of their sight then something will happen and they cannot watch anyone else close to them die. So the two become his (only somewhat unwilling because Aiba is also dweeb chuunibyo at heart who would jump to serve at the hands of a fledgling 'Dark Lord' and life is weird enough already) second-in-commands (and maybe eventually hosts for the cells as well because of the whole need to keep them close thing.)

While all this is happening outside we also have Haruki and Alpha playing cards (and cheating at it) with a reluctant and very much dissociating Atou in headspace while his other headmates watch Calamity on the proverbial big screen unintentionally try and fail to woo his new qpp partners.

#DS7's Log #Cell of Empireo #COE Spoilers #Look I just went through Route E and o o f #I need a little bit of levity and dark humour because holy shit did this skrunkly man go through the torment nexus #Also I really like System!Haruki and the others trying (unsuccessfully) to reign this feral and traumatized esper #who has decided to live in the woods and photosynthesize like the weird plant cryptid he is #and somehow fumbling their way into a disaster polycule.

The Great Hououin Kyouma and his Pokémon Partner Celebi!

(Who is an absolutely normal pokémon with no permanently life-altering abilities that he managed to stumble upon while getting groceries one day whatsoever.)

#DS7'sLog #Steins;Gate #Hououin Kyouma #Rintaro Okabe #Celebi #I think in a PMD AU with Kyouma as the human protag would wind up with him being a celebi completely by accident just because it'd be funny

[Waiting for the Rain to Pass] ((Bonus clean version without the rain under the cut))

#DS7 Draws #Ayakashi Akashi #Enju Yoinara #Rokuro Yamakagashi #Kashima Akebono #Shion & Nerine #This little freeware visual novel has honestly captured my heart.#The artstyle is so unique and the plot has me pretty intrigued plus it is also available in english on vgperson's website.#The only downside is that it's really short and ends on a cliffhanger as well as the fact that there's pretty much no fanworks of it either #Like the kids are hilarious but I genuinely just want to know what Yoinara's deal is.

#DS7 Draws #Just the lineart for the Augurex post I made a bit earlier.#Honestly I think I like this version better.#At least you can see the details without the BLUE getting in the way.

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