"Not a devil, I'm not a devil!" "Oh no, I'm dead, I'm gone... aaahhhh, aahhh"
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Rambling is below as per usual!
Click at the bottom for a bonus art, the stand alone art for each of the characters in this piece and two poems. Yes, TWO whole poems! Pretty shitty ones at that. I quickly typed them into the file for the background to capture the vibes from the OG MV. That's how elaborate this one was.
Hey! It's me again. Sorry for going silent for so long, life and stuff got in the way. I got a job, but I didn't last long in it because I didn't pass the trial period. So here I am popping back in with an elaborate art piece loosely related to the paracosm with the main duo, the Jellyfish Duo.
Here's the music video this is inspired from by the way
There's a reason why I picked out which Miku the two would cosplay as for the Bit.
SpongeBob ended up with the slutty Deco27 Miku because it reminds me of how he sees himself as well as the fallen imagery. He plays the good guy in his show and even everyone sees him as a good person (Angel), but he sees himself as a bad person and actor because he thinks that it's his fault that acting out some bad/not so great episodes lead to forsaking the Nation into being raided by Weblings who took their reaction too far. It's also because he was at his peak during his golden age before "taking the fall" (being a black angel instead of white). Hence the fallen angel
Lusamine gets PinocchioP's Miku for obvious reasons. She plays the villain who happens to wear white, and hides a dirty secret behind the clean reputation. The less obvious reason is that the lyrics for White Devil Miku fit her paracosm counterpart, especially the "I'm not a devil!" bits (they'd sound like it's her insisting she's not "Her"/The Persona and pleading people to not see her That Way™). She doesn't want to be seen as a devil, she doesn't even WANT to be the devil. But she has to play the part in order for the game to move forward. "So sayeth the devil," even sounds like the rolcists stamping the label on her without taking another look at the actress and giving her another chance.
"Smile and play the part," just reminds of the paracosm in general, everyone has to play a part of their story just to exist. It could also fit SpongeBob because he has to play the part of an angel.
Bonus art
A chart :>
A jokey version of the chart (people said SpongeBob is the hot one as a joke because of this art work)
The stand alone art works of the characters in the "Not a devil" piece
Some additional notes:
• SpongeBob's wand is a spatula in the heart shape
• I really could have drawn SpongeBob in a, ahem, more modest outfit, but I thought it was funny to put him in a suggestive one. Plus, I somehow made his legs look really good, so now I HAD to play for the bit.
• Lusamine's outfit is based on Kartana, the origami Ultra Beast. I think it became a running gag or bit where she'd cosplay an ultra beast even if she didn't mean to. A friend even imagined that she has a wardrobe full of UB-themed outfits
• I could not for the life of me add in the wings on their back. So what I did to make up for it is them sitting on their respective jellyfishes. They're both shinies too, both to go well with their colour schemes and just to match in general.
• Their "mini me"s floating by them are based on their jellyfish forms
• I know that this piece would fit a different pairing better if it were to be a smaller crossover (like Squidward being the devil to SpongeBob's angel or Cynthia being the angel to Lusa's devil), but crack platonic ship duo who are obsessed with jellyfishes...
• SpongeBob's sun is based on Mr. Sun from the Best day ever episode
• Lusamine's moon is basically the moon logo from Pokémon Moon. What I did to achieve that look is pretty much cheating. I basically looked for the og picture, copy and pasted it onto the file, cropped out the unnecessary bits, and then colored over the logo in another layer. I got lazy, okay.
Ah! Before I forget, the poems!! Some of their bits are hidden behind the characters, so I'll just copy and paste them here.
For Lusamine's side:
The unfortunate actress, so young yet so unlucky
Ignorant to the core, glad to be born
She plays a part with a heart so murky
And pays the price for the flesh she worn
Darker and dark have her days gone by
As she bid her rights good bye
On set, her mouth left her with a scorn
Off stage, hell awaits her in full
Now she regrets being born
For her script played her like a fool
For SpongeBob's side:
The fallen actor, how sleek, how serious.
Once youthful, once a prodigy.
Sad to say his episodes became nefarious.
Now his nation and his life turn into a tragedy.
One by one, his comrades die.
As they look at death in the eye.
One neighbor taken, another hung twice over.
Of course it left him wailing.
He directed his final act with a game over.
But he can't, for everyone wants him to keep sailing.
