#ditoeftv

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im back in the fucking house agan

[og-penelope-eckart]

recently a friend lend me their copy of The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes and a small detail that made a strong impression on me while reading was that the villainous protagonist has a rose powder box of his dead mother which he smells when he is upset and it comforts him. He later gifts it as a container for poison to the girl he loves who reminds him of his mother. I thought it be nice if Callisto has a similar memento of his mother. What if it was exactly a rose powder box and its scent has no one been able to replicate since the war started, because the roses were imported from Delman? Callisto arrives in Delman and everywhere it smells like her. Iklies hides in the royal garden and survives only because Callisto can't bring himself to burn the rose bushes that his mother loved so much and instead orders them to be uprooted and bought home. Callisto growing attracted to Iklies, because he reminds him of his mother, because Iklies surrounds the same intoxicating, sweet-smelling flowery cloud of his mother's perfume. Let's change the rose powder box to healing balm. Both Callisto and his mother were using it on their injuries from the abuse they suffered. It could also serve as a metaphor for how their love can be both a cure and a drug that makes you addicted. A love that could kill you if you wanted too much.

[og-penelope-eckart]

this also happened to my guy Iklies and if Callisto realized Iklies was like his mommy (used and abandoned lover who went mad from lovesickness/the betrayal and had to take it out on the Empire) then we'd have the gay yandere enemies-to-lovers threesome of my dreams

[og-penelope-eckart]

Created a new Iklies playlist for my AU. It's about the horrors of surviving a genocide and failing to rebuild what you have lost. It's about revenge and turning into a monster to fight a monster. Love is hidden somewhere too.

[og-penelope-eckart]

Esther Vane

[abielaabitalescarraglimnt1]

I think the lady on the left is probably Penelope’s direct ancestor, simply judging from the color of her hair

[catsscradle]

i fucking hate you, but i love you

[kazuko-chan-place]

Yvonne Eckhart analysis: How Symbolism of Innocence and Naivety is weaponized and grief distortion

Spoilers alert

As someone who has read parts of the DITOEFTV, seeing Yvonne in flashbacks of characters shows how their grief have distorted the real personality of Yvonne.

When Yvonne is first seen as the protagonist of the Daughter of the Duke - Love Project in Normal Mode, she appears as the ideal shojo protagonist : Cute, innocent and kindhearted, who is too kind for a cruel world.

However when Penelope saw the real Yvonne, she’s actually a feisty girl, who also have a heart of justice. This also implied Yvonne may have been more tomboyish underneath the princess image she had in her childhood.

In many flashbacks of the duke and the brothers, they painted Yvonne in a rose tinted glasses of her being very innocent, delicate and fragile thus forgetting Yvonne’s other traits. In the current episodes, one scene of Yvonne crying and Derrick comforts her of the wilted flowers, since his idealization of his sister is a sweet, delicate girl who needs protection from the cruel world.

The Laila preyed on this by acting the ideal Yvonne towards the Erkhart family. Acting innocent, by preying on Derrick’s trauma of letting go of Yvonne’s hand in the festival. Acting all happy and cute to the duke, when the duke realized her body had no reflection. In a way they were brainwashed by their own idealization of Yvonne because they forgot the complexity of the real Yvonne. If the real Yvonne saw the truth, Yvonne would have horrified of her family’s actions.

These idealization is common in grieving ( although it doesn’t justify the Erkhart’s treatment to Penny). They used a simplified version of Yvonne and expect penny to act in that role.

One could also say, Yvonne sheltered lifestyle is what got her killed. Yvonne and her brothers were taught the Erkhart name is a fortitude but it crumbled the moment Yvonne got lost. Her vulnerability is what made her a target to Laila’s cultists because she never got exposed to the world’s cruelty because she got accustomed to her brothers and father protecting her. The Erkhart ways on handling of Penelope didn’t work because she got used to the world’s cruelty at a young age.

In a way, Yvonne’s innocence and naivety to the world’s cruelty is a foundation and a bandaid to her family’s underlying issues. It is when she went missing, the pressure finally showed who they were under that mask. Penny just end up becoming the mirror of their own truths they don’t want to confront

In a way, the Erkhart family saw Yvonne as a symbol and dependent on her for the happy family they want to be perceived as.