mephisto hate mail

I condone and support all his actions in fact he should have been worse

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My Mephisto posting containment zone

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An UNSAFE, HOSTILE space for people who hate on/tokenize female characters to glaze Mephisto. UNSAFE, HOSTILE space for anyone who characterizes Faust as some weird abuser.

Asks welcomed

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beleaguered transhet engineering major faust for a college au

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white monster

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reunion gc

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more mephisto birds

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its actually absurd how mephisto stans still hate every character around him that isn't miss payola fraudnova specifically the idea of her having a purely positive uncomplicated relationship with him and faust. TAKE ALL THEIR PITY FOR HIM AND GIVE IT TO FAUST GREY AND TAL LORD WE ARE READY

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faust and talulah are victims of his white boy gravity well and peak has and will forever be paid dust for it. we are in the worst timeline

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inside my mind mephisto survived to stay at rhodes island to be the evil and intimidating horse to rosmiya. i want amiya to look at meph and ros in the same place at least once

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make him jealous of rosmontis over miya for the most part. that she's a "monster" who struggles to relate to others but has a purpose and is accepted. i like that better than him being jealous of miya i think he hates her too much. except for with the new content where kal'tsit dies and comes back. so obvious but the mephiami dynamic in my head is stuck all the way back in 2020 so i didn't even think about it. i want deep ugly resentment and bitterness

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inside my mind mephisto survived to stay at rhodes island to be the evil and intimidating horse to rosmiya. i want amiya to look at meph and ros in the same place at least once

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its actually absurd how mephisto stans still hate every character around him that isn't miss payola fraudnova specifically the idea of her having a purely positive uncomplicated relationship with him and faust. TAKE ALL THEIR PITY FOR HIM AND GIVE IT TO FAUST GREY AND TAL LORD WE ARE READY

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this is how i look whenever i bring up mephiami but i swearrr he was supposed to be her foil and they had smth special and they were meant to have more interactions after ch6

[temperveto]

mephisto and faust are foils to amiya and rosmontis and nothing will ever ever ever change my mind. amiya is a nice girl who goes down the right path and mephisto is a troubled boy who goes down the wrong path. rosmontis is a troubled girl who goes down the right path and faust is a nice boy who goes down the wrong path. waving my hands in the air. its patterns its connections its foils its parallels. let me into hg right now i just want to talk about things

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EXACTLYYYY. i hateee that famp has always been put in convos with sorry industry plant crackships like flamexe and arene/corro but never rosmiya (wonder why 🙄). ur so right ^^^ them and their themes of hatred revenge monstrosity loyalty family memory being raised by so much more powerful people to be given power to use in service to them and still being so young through all of it.

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look at his gloves with red palms on the right and his earrings and his long armband like his sister

[dawnbrigayde]

in my opinion it is so critical that in being robbed of his ability to sing mephisto was specifically robbed of his preferred method of self-expression and therefore an avenue of self-exploration and it made him perfect for kashlulah to manipulate.

May I enjoy my life and practice my art Respected by all men and in all times

the above is rhodes island's motto. art and expression in and of itself is already a critical part of arknights' themes, being a major factor in differentiating anything from the seaborn hivemind as well as forming the entirety of leithanien's basic cultural consciousness (to the point that the güldenesgesatz exists)— there are several other instances and details (priestess' heat-death soundcloud mixes, seamus williams and taran folk songs, or the word for originium arts in lessing and czerny's german dubs specifically being originium-künste), but these are the two most notable places with it as a central theme. thus, it's unsurprising that it persists in the rest of arknights' writing.

the thing that people might overlook while observing this part of mephisto is that narratively, it did not have to be song: abuse and oripathy could've easily taken any other kind of art from him. it could have been his feet and dance, or his hands and any kind of handicraft, his ability to string words fluidly and poetry or theatre, or even his pitch and any kind of other music; the important part is that he was denied the most comfortable, established avenue of self-expression and discovery available to him.

while, of course, not the sole reason he became the way he did, it definitely exacerbated it. besides being robbed of the one thing he actually wanted to do, the relationship between eno and sasha is characterised by reciprocality in every aspect but company and song. eno provided food and literacy, while sasha offered emotional refuge and physical safety against peers. in this space, cause and effect seemed to lie in their hands. sasha was always eager to help, and eno was already eager to please.

FAUST All I know is that he gave me food. I only know that he could read, and I wanted to read, and he taught me. I only know that the other kids liked to bully him because he gave me bread and I was stronger, and I hit them and they hit me.

FAUST Just because I thought my place was too cold and dirty, I sent him home?

song was the one active thing that laid outside the realm of service-as-worth, likely the one thing he may have felt like he could identify with and offer in a way that is not reciprocal. without, he was already unlikely to try and seize his own worth outside of action, and his own happiness and contentment alone would never be enough for him, because he doesn't value those enough in himself.

MEPHISTO I am the only one who can perform such Arts! And it is only through my Arts that we can escape!

TALULAH We can't do it without you. You can do anything, and you can accomplish anything.

his arts and tactical acumen are what give him worth; he starts melting down the instant the plan truly starts going south. he needs faust and talulah both to give him worth; he needs to be actively doing something for them to not be left behind. and if faust will not give it to him (in wishing solely for his survival, in his living), he will gladly take it from talulah; if one person tells him stop, and the other person tells him go, he will follow the person who tells him go. anyone who wasn't the two people he trusts and loves could go directly to hell, including himself if we wasn't making himself useful. he failed to develop a sense of self, refused to reflect on where talulah is going and to where he is following, counted on faust staying, counted on talulah keeping him around, and just started fucking killing people.

FAUST Most of the sheep who blindly take orders aren't actually dependent on anyone. They just haven't started thinking for themselves... And those who have no direction in life, they're just empty machines looking for a sense of accomplishment, and meaning. You activate, and perform your function, you input a goal, you achieve your goal, until you consume everything around you, and you consume those you serve.

MEPHISTO Don't you know that you're only going to become his pawn, to be discarded when you've served your purpose? CH'EN You can have those words back.

establishing, then, art as a vector of self-actualisation that was taken from him at an important stage makes this whole series of events a little clearer, doesn't it? as a hurdle to connection, and as a hurdle to the self. it was never impossible, just further to reach, but how do you blame a scared kid for not reaching a little farther? being 14 fucking sucks.

TALULAH/FAUST Mephisto, I can't change your ideals. If you don't have it, go find it. We'll help ourselves.

TALULAH/FAUST No, you don't need anyone to save you...

framing, then, the singer as a critical moment of self-reflection within said frame of art, state of mind from a time where he could still practice it... well, it just works.

(then again, i am an artist with a somewhat idealistic view on the importance of art, so grain of salt applies.)

(then again, when are visual novel writers not also artists?)

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how it feels to like mephisto

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bird photos that reminded me of him

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this is how i look whenever i bring up mephiami but i swearrr he was supposed to be her foil and they had smth special and they were meant to have more interactions after ch6

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