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i jus realised that ive never drawn marcus b4 until now..
also the hands piss me off so much half my time drawing this was just the hands.
this is kind of unfinished, i lost motivation to draw actual things (i didnt even put my signature on it </3 )
mtp of the brain.
another drawing of adam whiteley. i like to think I improved but its kind of debatable. this ones sketch has been also rotting in my drafts for a while so i just tweaked it and fixed the hands up a bit
after lots of work, studying and many, many hospital trips, i have finally found the motivation to post. yippe!!
ruskin was inspired by the polymath, john ruskin, who had a passion for geology, which he claimed his art was entrenched in. milverton owned a seaside manor in brighton, and i sometimes like to think that he bought it for ruskin, saying that the manor was situated on a rocky cliff near water, which (imo) is plenty to inspire art of.
There was something with the yesterday's chapter what caught my eye but didn't have time to write more so I am gonna do it now. I also needed to check if I am right.
It's something what might be very minor to others, but I still found it strange. First.
Sherlock was seen to read the Daily Standard newspaper.
The Daily Standard was the newspaper what we saw doing the Jack the Ripper propaganda - what was spread by Milverton - and we can also seen it right after Milverton explains why he didn't mind to change the already arranged news from Whiteley being a murderer to the Lord of Crime, so we can safely say that it was his newspaper. (Milverton was a media mogul with several major newspapers, he didn't only own the Daily Londner) And before Part 2's current happenings, the Daily Standard last appeared when the Lord of Crime's identity got revealed. After that, we don't see the newspaper again - which is logical, since Milverton hints that he manages his companies through blackmail, so when he disappeared/died, his companies needed to go bankrupt. The manga even mentions that the unemployment suddenly increased after the start of the Final Problem arc.
So the Daily Standard is not supposed to exist anymore - except if someone restarted it, of course. That's a totally possible option but I actually don't think that's what behind it.
During Part 1, Sherlock was NEVER seen reading the Daily Standard (John read it, but Sherlock always preferred the London Chronicles) - as Milverton owning it, it makes sense why he didn't read it and why he now has no problem to read it since it doesn't own by Milverton anymore. However, first, people rarely switch from newspapers they got used to - and also, during the Remains, we see Sherlock reading Daily Standard too. Chronologically, it is fine since the Fugitives from the Fire sets before Two Criminals but we are here again that Sherlock didn't read the Daily Standard during Part 1.
But Remains came out AFTER Part 1 and that arc was the last what was serialized into manga version. Since Part 1, lot of time passed when that came out and the same goes for Part 2. So my assumption about the whole situation that it is a minor inconsistency and the author simply forgot about the newspaper's howabouts.
It is good to see the Daily Standard again actually, I just got so hyped when I saw it and immediately wanted to theorize and now I am a bit sad that nothing came out of it. Still, I am very, VERY happy for the new chapter and can't wait to see the next part!
the official album cover of dying wish has tasuku hatanaka holding an apple, which is highlighted to stand out.
in both the manga and anime, the temptation to sin is talked about a lot, especially during the arcs where milverton shows up
(i couldn’t find any of the anime references :b)
however, during the first part of the series where this opening is used, milverton has not been introduced. and he’s the like super fan of this idea of causing the good hearted to sin. so was this a hint to milverton’s appearance? yes!!
there’s also a very heavy theme of roses throughout the entire manga/anime so expect something like that in the coming days :3
hey guys i’m back my phone got stolen i had to get a new one. anyways posts coming soon </3
The Yuumori anime tried to English.
But here you go, The DAIRY 🥛Londner
(With strawberry milk since he likes strawberries so much)
WHAT HAPPENED TO STURRIDGE'S FAMILY?
There is one question what keeps coming back to me whenever I re-read the White Knight arc. Milverton got Sturridge's wife and child - one of the police officers guarding Whiteley - kidnapped to make Sturridge murder Whiteley's family and tempt Whiteley to sin. But what happened to Sturridge's family in the end? Did they left alive after Sturridge fulfilled his task or did they die, too? The manga never stated their fates... so now I am trying to theorize a little over the case, which just goes back to Milverton again.
Before I get to business, I need to note something. In the anime, one finger of Sturridge's wife was sent to Sturridge with the letter what told about the kidnapping. There was no such thing in the anime and Sturridge even mentions that if he commits the murder, he gets his family back unharmed. So the finger thing is a change what the anime made - and the anime made lot of changes especially in the White Knight arc - while my analysis will be entirely based on the manga happenings.
Milverton is evil and doesn't care for how many people he kills for his plans - however, he is not your average sadist. He is not there for the blood or to have the highest body count as a villain, he is more sophisticated in that sense. Two things motivates him: power and tempting the good-hearted to sin and murder is a mean to achieve these, not the end. We can see that he gets people assassinated for two reasons - for his safety or if he needs it to a plan. Officer Fowler's death, who got money from Milverton to murder Whiteley's assassin in the prison ended up dead for both reasons - having someone at the police who can possibly investigate further and connect Milverton to the crime, and even more, because Milverton wanted to let Whiteley know that he was after him, using the officer's dead body to make Whiteley feel unsafe and paranoid (a state where he will more likely to murder Sturridge later). Now, let's try to look at the Sturridge family case from these two perspectives first.
It is sure that Milverton didn't need them dead for his plan - what about his safety? Would their existence make Milverton feel threatened?
Milverton's plan was to make Whiteley murder someone and publish it in the newspaper to put dirt on his name. One thing we didn't learn - how exactly he wanted the news go? Whiteley killed everyone in that house in one unstable moment? Or he only wanted to blame him for murdering Sturridge? Then who would have he blamed for the Whiteley family's death? Because if it gets revealed that Whiteley's family was murdered by Sturridge and Whiteley killed him for that, he would risk people feeling sympathy for Whiteley - since who wouldn't do the same if this happened to their own families? But Whiteley murdering his own family was also just not logical. (But somewhat plausible because all murders were done by the same knife.) We will not know the answer for this question so let me speculate on it. Whiteley going half-mad already from the threatening letters and the assassin's attack, once goes home and finds his entire family murdered, only a police officer survived - the one who could most likely survive an attack due to being skilled. Whiteley, without thinking through this, blames the officer and murders him in blind rage. Now that would be a juicy article what could turn people against Whiteley and make them lose hope in him, just like Milverton wanted.
Back to the question - would Sturridge's family being left alive threaten Milverton? If the kidnapping was done well, not necessarily. If Milverton's bodyguards who arranged the whole thing, won't tell them the reason behind the kidnapping, then their kidnapping can only be connected to the Whiteley family murder by assumptions, that they were used to blackmail Sturridge with them. But getting the wife and the child killed poses the exact same assumption. What if someone kidnapped them to use them against Sturridge and murdered them after they were not needed? So actually, them being alive or dead wouldn't really matter. Harry and Gosling usually hides their faces when they are on missions so it would be basically impossible to connect the murder to Milverton. Also, they are a woman and a child, who, in that era, were basically nobodies. Even if the wife gets to know about Milverton, she couldn't do anything against him. Milverton doesn't kill his blackmail victims - the Lady Eva type of blackmail victims he uses their secrets against - who gets to know about Milverton's dark side either, because they wouldn't pose a threat and powerless against him. Just like the woman and the child.
Another possibility - did Milverton actually need to kidnap Sturridge's family? He just needed Sturridge to think that they were kidnapped. Sturridge wasn't home for days because of protecting Whiteley, if Harry and Gosling lured them out of the house somewhere, so Sturridge will find his home empty after he goes to check if the letter he got says the thruth. That would leave absolutely no trace what would make anyone go that Sturridge murdered Whiteley's family.
(Additional thought here - what happened with the other police officer, Robinson? The public later only talked about one dead officer, Sturridge. Robinson's job was to guard Whiteley outside, while Sturridge guarded Whiteley's family. However, Robinson didn't accompany Whiteley to Milverton, we last see him at the house where Whiteley parted ways with him after Patterson's report. So either Robinson went back to the police for some reason or he stayed at the house. In that case, he probably also got murdered by Sturridge. We can see signs of a big fight outside the house. Sturridge was either fighting with Marcus or with Robinson - but those heavy vases broke into pieces in that fight, so either Marcus is much stronger than he seems or his fighting partner was truly Robinson. However, Sturridge only confessed three murders to Whiteley - but when Whiteley asks about his family. Both options are possible, but I would say Robinson truly went back to the police before the murder happened and he survived. There is still only one dead police officer mentioned later.)
There is another thing to note regarding the kidnapping. When Harry and Gosling went to report to Milverton that everything is in order... and Gosling still wears the helmet he uses on missions. Gosling wears that helmet for missions, we can see that he doesn't wear it when he is just there as Milverton's bodyguard. So Harry and Gosling probably straight away when they came back home, went to Milverton's study to make a report and they didn't change clothes, that's why Gosling didn't put down his helmet. But if they murdered the wife and the child, they would be bloody - their method of murder is usually bloody - what would be seen on their clothes or they would change them and Gosling would take off his helmet. But there's no blood or sign of clothes change, so they probably didn't do anything what was involved with blood.
Third thing what we can see from the previous case with Officer Fowler is that Milverton fulfills his part of the deal. Fowler killed the assassin and Milverton sent him the money he needed for his mother's hospital bill, when he could have killed the officer and not send money at all.
Milverton is also said to ask a price from his blackmail victims in exchange to whatever love letters/documents he has on them they could never pay, he always make sure of this. (But again, we hear this from Sherlock, we don't know the fullf thruth behind Milverton's blackmails - now let's assume what Sherlock said is true.) Making sure that they can never pay him wouldn't matter to Milverton at all if he wouldn't feel a weird need to fulfill his part of the deal if the other party fulfill theirs. In that case, if someone can pay him the money, he can just say "no, I changed my mind, lol". So Milverton most likely also fulfilled his part of the deal with Sturridge - he returned his family, even when Sturridge was dead. And for some reason, Sturridge felt sure that the kidnapper will truly return his family if he does what he was asked, despite that he also expected to get killed by Whiteley so he will not be able to check if his family was truly safe.
After taking all of these into consideration, I would say Sturridge's family was indeed left alive - not because Milverton is so nice, but because he had no use or reason to kill them in the end. Of course, this is just mere speculation again and we will never know the truth.
WHICH LANTERN RINGS YUUMORI CHARACTERS WOULD WEAR?
This is a more silly post, beware. I am also a big fan of comic books (more into DC) and I often wonder what lantern rings characters from other media would wear if there happened to be lantern rings in their universe. The lantern rings are specific weapons in the DC Universe what powered by certain emotions. The emotion connected to the ring needs to be the driven emotion of someone to make them able to wear the ring. The different rings are (now I am leaving out the more obscure white/life, black/death and ultraviolet rings and concentrate on the basics):
Here's a little introduction to each ring, I try to keep it very generic now, since the Lantern lore is quite confusing.
GREEN 🟩
Emotion: willpower
Weakness: yellow/fear, red/rage and orange/greed rings
Strength: the blue/hope ring makes its power stronger
Oath:
"In brightest day, in blackest night,
No evil shall escape my sight.
Let those who worship evil's might,
Beware my power, the Green Lantern's light!"
RED 🟥
Emotion: rage
Weakness: the blue/hope, the violet/love and the orange/greed rings
Strength: able to overpower the green/will ring
YELLOW 🟨
Emotion: fear
Weakness: the blue/hope and the orange/greed rings
Strength: able to overpower the green/will ring
BLUE 🟦
Emotion: hope
Weakness: needs green/will ring to function well
Strength: immune to orange/greed, overpowers the red/rage and yellow/fear rings, makes the green/will stronger
VIOLET 🟪
Emotion: Love
Strength: immune to the orange/greed rings; through its light, a Violet Lantern can see their true love and even teleport to them anytime
(At DC, usually only women wear the violet ring but now I overlook this rule since this post is rather just to analyze what emotions are the main motivation behind the characters' action.)
INDIGO
Emotion: compassion
Strength: emotional spectrum emulation (able to copy the other rings' powers)
ORANGE 🟧
Emotion: greed/avarice
Strength: can create an avatar (a corrupted version of their victims) from anyone they killed, can absorb other rings' energies
Weakness: blue/hope and violet/love rings are immune to them.
Oath: Mine, mine, mine!
Now, onto the characters and my choices for them.
SHERLOCK:
Green/willpower. Especially with the lantern oath.
JOHN:
As one of the purest characters in the series, blue/hope. He is also one of Sherlock's greatest supports, both morally and in his fight against criminals. John would cleaely be a Blue Lantern.
WILLIAM:
I can see either green/will or indigo/compassion for him, but somewhat also blue/hope - tho, because of his methods of how he tried to bring that hope, I would be hesitant to give him the blue.
LOUIS:
I don't know what would I give to post-timeskip Louis, but pre-timeskip, he was clearly driven by the love he felt for William (the love lantern ring is not necessarily powered by romantic love. It can be familial love, too), so I would say violet/love.
MORAN:
Currently, I would say maybe green/will, but I'm sure that before he met William, he would have worn a red/rage ring. Especially after what happened to his comrades.
FRED:
Fred gives me indigo/compassion vibes, especially his love for the garden, the stray cats and how he acted during the Baskervilles arc. I would give him an indigo ring.
MYCROFT:
As the personification of the government, I can see both green/will and yellow/fear 🟨 for him.
MILVERTON:
With his power hunger, I think he would totally be greed/orange. I can see the yellow/fear, too, with how much fear he causes with his blackmails, but his power obsession rather makes him to be orange, especially that only one person can wear an orange ring at the same time at DC because of their overweening greed. Also, creating and using the corrupted version of anyone he killed as avatars would be a very Milverton thing to do. Merciless and evil.
RUSKIN:
Ruskin would be clearly violet/love since he is very much motivated by the love he has for his boss (and what he demonstrates by running after him to the burning room instead of escaping). A violet/love ring is also immune to the orange/greed light so he would be capable of being Milverton's company. Throught the violet light, a Violet Lantern can see their true love and even teleport to them anytime what would be very useful to Ruskin serving his boss.
I left out the others because I have absolutely no idea. Feel free to suggest ideas! I am interested in what you think!
whiteley would definitely have the blue/hope or green/willpower lantern ring; however, red/rage would fit him too since one of the major sins he did in his life (killing sturridge) was because of rage.
the burtons would quite obviously have the violet/love ring as love is the motivation of most of their actions (benjamin consulting william for his wife, michelle killing the count of whom i forgot the name of out of love for her deceased son) |this might be wrong it has been an extremely long time since i’ve read this arc|
harry and gosling were very hard to do — we don’t get enough information about them. i’d say they’re yellow/fear in a way since they both ran away when sherlock set the brighton manor on fire, but to be fair, if i or anyone else i can think of was in a burning house that could collapse at any second, i/they’d get out there as fast as i/they could. (except ruskin, of course..) they’re destructive but rage definitely doesn’t describe it. i’d assume they were avarice/greed since they work for milverton, but not all assumptions are correct. i think, oddly enough, violet/love describes them. it’s been a long time since i’ve read the yuumori manga (it’s only been three months, but with the amount of work i’ve been doing, it might as well be a year) they do seem to be quite close, and i am pretty sure it’s implied that they have some sort of friendship from their work relationship.
Made some Milverton/Ruskin color-themed nutcracker decorations! 💜💚
The norus are happy for them!
Happy Holidays!
No one seen Santa and Milverton in the same room at the same time. So...
harry is his elf and gosling is his reindeer!! and ruskin is mrs claus :3
in the victorian times, there was a mourning period for the death of a loved one. for husbands to their wives it was three months, for the death of a child it was nine so on.
the mourning time for a sibling was six, but i like to think albert and louis extended the period for william :3
i jus clocked this shit could also go with milverton/ruskin!! and most otwer ships asw :3
I’ve been mostly avoiding tumblr because I don’t want to see any spoilers before the translation is out but the way I see if the translation is out is on tumblr ahhhhhh
I now feel that it's time to bring this analysis back since I still see the topic coming back again and again. I already did a longer version of this back in my early days of joining the fandom here, but now I do a shorter one again.
MILVERTON WAS NOT STUPID IN TWO CRIMINALS. HE WAS INCONSISTENTLY WRITTEN.
Because everything related to his plan in the last chapter was completely against of how he acted before that. Let me explain it in four points.
1, The one thing people always bring up - not knowing about Sherliam
I will be honest, this is what bothers me the least and if that would be the only thing I could list, I wouldn' even keep ranting on the topic. But still, even this doesn't make any sense.
Milverton knew about Mary's past in France (France!!) and as a media mogul and blackmailer who lives from information, he wouldn't know about Sherliam? Come on, the train incident where the celebrity detective Sherlock solves a crime with a noble would totally end up on the cover of the newspapers - "the great detective and the aristocrat: an unexpected crime-solving duo!" - because there is no way this could be kept as a secret, people always gossip over things like this. Because of Sherlock Holmes, even London newspapers wrote about the case since Sherlock can make the papers sell. And it would especially end up in Milverton's noble-supported newspaper too, since with it, he could please his patrons who would be overjoyed to see a fellow noble solving a crime committed by a commoner.
Furthermore, Milverton thinking that "Holmes and Moriarty's social circles could have never collided" doesn't make any sense. Milverton dealt with Sherlock before in blackmail cases when Sherlock was hired by noblewomen to negotiate with Milverton. Also, Milverton is a prime example of that every social circle can collide - he is a commoner who takes up cases from and blackmails both nobles and commoners alike. He really shouldn't be so surprised - and really, he perfectly researched Mary's past in other country and he wouldn't be able to research if two men met when one of those meetings even needed to end up in the news? (And now I didn't even talk about the Noahtic because I don't want this analysis to last forever.)
2, Threatening William to publish his identity as the Lord of Crime
Before this one occasion, we always see Milverton using his victims' loved ones against them to make them act as he wanted - just remember the police officer, Sturridge or Whiteley. Ruskin and the bodyguards also point out that this is Milverton's tendency. Then, knowing about William's brothers, why didn't he used them against William instead of threatening his name going public? He could just say "all three of you guys will end up in my newspaper as the Lord of Crime" and William would probably rethink everything since he wouldn't want Louis to get hurt. So yes, in the most crucial case, Milverton used a different method instead of his usual, surely-working one. Changing his ways suddenly doesn't make any sense.
3, Miscalculating Sherlock
Why was Milverton so sure about Sherlock's morals that he will definitely arrest the Lord of Crime and leaves Milverton live when his entire plan was based on that Sherlock will definitely act immoral and break in his house? How could he be so sure that Sherlock won't just shoot him and takes what he want after this? Especially as a person who believes that everyone is capable of evil and has a hobby of tempting the good-hearted to sin. He was already sure that Sherlock commit at least one act against the law on that night so Milverton knew that Sherlock can be totally dragged to make questionable decisions. Like, shooting him.
4, Not caring about his own safety at all
Yes, we got to the point what angers me the most. Because Milverton travels with a shielded carriage, has two - with Ruskin, three - bodyguards who always accompany him, he always drops any case he took up for the sign of the smallest danger, so he is very serious about his safety and basically a coward. How could he face two of his greatest enemies alone? It is completely against Milverton's coward nature. We could see that even for the blackmail negotiation with Sherlock, at least, Ruskin was there with him. And what he did with Sherlock and William was also a blackmail negotiation, with people where he knows that one of them already murdered several bad people - bad people like Milverton - and the other one loathes him more than anyone else. It was an extremely dangerous situation even if he thought that he could win. Milverton would have never done something so dangerous on his own.
+1, Ruskin's absence
And here's also an additional plot hole - where was Ruskin the whole time? Ruskin, who was basically always on his boss' side. Ruskin, who loves his boss enough that even when his life was in danger, he chose to go back for Milverton into the about-to-crash house. Ruskin was not shown fighting with the others in the manga. He was completely forgotten in that chapter until he went back to the burning room to search for his boss.
And here we reached the end. For the record, yes, I know that from a writing perspective, Milverton needed to get out of the picture so the Moriarty Plan can keep going. But this could have been done without a character massacre - especially that the reasons for Milverton's inconsistent actions was never adressed. That's why other than this, I never made analysis of that chapter. There is no logic in it when it comes to Milverton.
As the first chapter of Part 2 came out, here's my little theory time (or chaotic ramble)! I won't use any manga panels here, but still, beware of spoilers!
Someone spreading drugs in England - what the MI6 determines that it most likely originates from the German Empire - what makes people having dark, scary hallucinations and turns them violent. (The chapter's title is "The Scarlet Footsteps" so this might be a Devil's Foot reference. I really wanted one!) The chapter also hints that a big war is coming. (However, it is not mentioned how much time passed between Chapter 76 and 77 and no one got remarkably older so I suspect that it's still some time to World War I, but the political situation was already messy that time.)
Also, interestingly, in one hallucination, similar claws (or whatever) appears like at the back of Liam's chair - I don't think it's just an accident, really.
(I'm talking about these)
Okay, I quit the ramblings and get straight to the theory: I think someone/someones behind the shadows trying to get Great Britain and the German Empire against each other's throats by spreading this drug. In James Bond movies, the Spectre criminal organization tried to get countries against each other by creating conflict as the third party behind the shadows. So I still suspect that the Spectre can be behind this. The Spectre is the MI6's greatest enemy in Bondverse, after all.
But also, spreading a drug like this can on its own can unleash total chaos in Great Britain. War and a drug like this can totally cause Great Britain's full ruin - so what if it is a vengeance plan, either against Great Britain itself... or the Morigang/William who was all about making Great Britain a better place? What if someone tries to take revenge by ruining Great Britain what is so precious to the Morigang/William? The word "Spectre" also means vengeful ghost and Spectre is also the shortening of Special Executive for Counter-intelligence, Terrorism, Revenge and Extortion. What if someone specifically made the Spectre to take revenge? (You know that I wish that it would be Milverton - but now, I really just want to talk in general as someone from the Morigang's past who wants revenge.) That plot could also lead to lot of angst and analyzing over the Morigang's past actions.
This is again just a chaotic theory. I can't wait for the next chapter!
Bruh did I just get clocked wtf
