Yall this took forever to finish. So glad I actually decided to continue it instead of abandoning it in my drafts🎀🗿 I love this brush so much and have been using it for a while now, I might make more arts like this occasionally bc they take forever.
Other than that, pray for me yall🙏🏽or help me manifest bc things have not been going well for me for a while. I just have not had any luck this past yr. Anyways I love berumin and the handful of us berumin truthers out here (🤭you know who you are🗣️)
😭 berumin yapping below⬇️🗣️‼️⚠️
I think this is my first actual Berumin art, wherein it’s obvious💀 all of the other ones I’ve made of these two are so all over the place and parts of aus I made, but this one is just something I did for fun a yr ago and left the sketch alone(it was so close to being abandoned fr) until I got back to it two weeks ago and decided to pull through. At first I was just gonna do a simple lineart and got carried away and then had to go all out to make everything match and make sense. It rly was a process doing the limbs and having to change a lot of the posing.
Idk what it was but I added those nails to armin on one hand and had to do it for ALL of them, it just rly played into the demon aspect so well I couldn’t resist. This originally didn’t have all the smaller details and I rly just made a lot of it along the way.
I rly liked thinking of this dynamic where Bert is more gentle/pure? And Armin is more deceptive and controlling? Idrk how to describe how I imagined it in my mind when I first made this but that’s the gist of it. Armin at first had a curious expression than the sly one he has here in the old sketches, and there was even a very rough sketch version where he’s an angel instead but I didn’t find it that appealing as a concept and I remember that sketch being so frustrating to get the wings right and I think that’s why I dropped this drawing at first.
Anyways 🗣️🗣️I LOVE BERT and MIN🗣️🗣️🎀🐢🐚
I actually like how ambiguous I left the context of this because there rly is a lot of possibilities this could go story-wise. Like, does Armin appear to Bertolt physically and everyone can see him but he’s only befriending Bert for demonic(?) purposes or is Armin manifested by Bertolt subconsciously. Is Armin a representation of Bert’s corruption? Who knows? I honestly couldn’t tell you but that’s probably why I was happy to make this more detailed than my usual stuff.
Other than that I do like the idea that perhaps Armin was a fallen angel that was casted out and became a demon? Something like that. Maybe Bert became a man of the cloth as a result of shame and guilt over something he did and that mirrors Armin’s fall from grace in how they both have to mask who they used to be???? Maybe none of this is real and this is Bert’s divine punishment in purgatory? What if there was a universe in which Bert wronged Armin in someway and Bert’s psyche takes a hit because of it?
It’s possible this isn’t even Armin but who knows?
Yall maybe I’m cooking with this actually.🤭👀👩🏽🦯🗿
What do you perceive this as and what is your take from just this alone? I kinda wanna know how everyone else would interpret them in this👁️👁️😳🥺🙏🏽🎀
Should I do another version of this but with concepts around demonology or something? Idk.
Btw I plan on finishing another berumin drawing I started last yr ,but based on a rly good berumin fic I read, I just haven’t gotten back to it.
Rly old art I made for the revival Armin/Historia(not as a ship) AU I have. I had a painted version but I never finished it and it looks wonky, I wasn’t painting it seriously and whatever possessed me when I was doing it is long gone. Other than that slight Berumin??!? Lmao.
Bert becomes a bit delulu in this AU and Reiner’s delusional ass ain’t helping. Annie is just minding her business but is now glad she doesn’t have to deal with Bert being awkward around her bc now he has a new crush/hyperfixation.
The actual context/idea behind this is Armin asking Bertolt a lot of personal questions(like what’s his birthday bc then he can use that info against him in the future)but I thought it’d be funnier to just have his text instead of the block of whatever I wrote. Bertolt misinterpreted it as Armin taking an interest in him and that’s that.💀🗿
Anywayssssss, Armin is an MP in this-😨👀🤭he basically is undercover and avoids being in the Survey Corps. He couldn’t even be there if he tried (plot reasons I will not spoil yet) and he already spent enough time there with Historia’s body (this is a secret don’t remember this detail). Marco is alive, Armin befriends Marlo/Hitch, is a social butterfly basically and attempts to befriend Annie as well (I have an art of that here but you’ll have to dig around to find it).
Nile sort of views him as a kid bc of his frail body (guys this is a detail in the plot oop) but also sees his potential so he tries to push Armin into the Survey Corps business bc of how much he reminds him of Erwin, in hopes of Erwin taking him under his wing to be a potential successor(Armin is a liability in the MPs lmao😭he does not want him around bc he’s fixing everything)
Erwin doesn’t rly pay mind to it or care that much but Levi is so suspect of him and Bert and Reiner keep their eyebrows raised bc who is this babe?!?but also why is he out here uncovering titan secrets so casually?!??
Funny tidbit:I used a Lupin ss as the reference for this lmao. I’ve never watched lupin
