#evillious rant

[fadedcrayondrawings]

If there's one thing I love about The Daughter of Evil song, it's how apathetic it sounds. I don't know if it's just me, but the song sounds apathetic, and I think it fits very very well with the tone of the story. I especially love how it fits with the final verse when The Daughter of Evil is beheaded. The lack of emotion conveys the songs story very well. Riliane had no sympathy/empathy towards anybody in the story, and she had no guilt for her murders at the time, so it's only fitting that her songs sounds emotionless.

I think that Mothy has a special way of conveying emotions in his songs. In Regret Message and Blink, it's very clear that Riliane is experiencing heavy guilt and regret for her actions. In regret message, Rins tuning perfectly conveys her emotions. It's clear (to me at least) that Rin regrets her actions, and is mourning the loss of her brother. While in Blink, she sounds like she's (almost) come to make peace and move on.

I also like how The Servant of Evil sounds like Allen singing confidently. To me the tuning sounds like Allen saying "I would do this over and over again just to protect you, I have no regrets."

Trying to properly get this across—

Regret Message sounds like Riliane saying "I'm such a horrible person, I feel so bad. I miss my brother so much, but there's nothing I can but send my feelings to the sea in hopes that it'll make me feel better."

Blink sounds like Riliane saying "I've come to terms with the fact that I can't change the past. But, even so— I wonder if the world will ever forgive me." (Also headcanon that Blink was Rilianes apology to Michaela for The Green Hunting but that's a whole other rant)

Holy rant oh my ?? I hope I got my point across I fear I may have gone on a bit of a tangent 💔 I could low-key go over how every single song makes me feel but I'll save the 6 hour rant

[mask131]

Another Evillious rant - though the last, because I don't want to rant too much... SPOILERS for people who just begin the Evillious Chronicles

But another thing I disliked was the "Adam is co-riding Grim the End with Seth as the Demon of Wrath". For me that was... too much and too overtly complicated.

I do see now why mothy did it. It was to create "Contradictory Grim the End", which is a beautiful song and very cool, massively poetic. But lore-wise... I don't think it was the best choice? See, starting from the Evil Food Eater novel, we had a series of reveals that some of the Demons were humans we knew very well. Which is a reveal that worked because it relied on the idea that the Demons were inhuman entities, which made the reveal that humans could "turn" into Demons that much more impactful and explored very well the idea of "What is evil? How does human evil can equal or compare to inhuman evil?". And we had in line three set of reveals that felt quite "balanced" because each relied on "The Demon is someone else" but with a nuance making each twist feel more unique. Gluttony is Banica - but she replaced the existing Demon. Eve is Sloth but it is because there was never any Demon in the first place, and she just faked it until she could make it. Seth is Wrath, but he was always a Demon, he just happened to have escaped early on from the ark before returning to being a "Demon".

But then you have Adam thrown in as being also the Wrath demon and... it doesn't add much? Especially since it was established early on in the songs that Adam would always end up connected to the Spoon and in the Spoon (to make Gear), and that Kaito was always going to be tied to Greed (Gallerian of course, but then further implied with Kaspar for example), and all in all Adam does end up in the Spoon after the Duel of the Plateau, so had Seth been the Demon of Wrath all along it would have changed nothing?

I would have preferred if it had been done otherwise. Either I would have preferred what was hinted at originally by the Daughter of Evil novels before being retconned - that Adam had been trapped into a cycle of reincarnation, that would have included Kyle and ended with Gear. Either, I don't mind keeping the idea of Adam being a "parasite" to one of the Vessels of Sin, it offers a fourth nuance to the three ones I brought above, but it could have been easier if he had been in the Spoon all along and been a parasite to the "Greed" demon? Like this, again, it makes sense why he would remain in the Spoon even after Ma took away the Demon of Greed. (Because I really do love the reveal that Gallerian's greed was his own all along and for once there was no actual demonic influence to make him into the "sinner" that he was, after so many demon deals and possessions it is a very nice twist)

I wrote before that mothy seemed to be biased towards Envy by "neglecting" it somehow, but I feel I need to explain I didn't meant so much about the Vessel and the Demon itself (the Demon of Envy gets enough development), as rather about its use in the history of EC (between the twist about Kayo's motivations in the novel of Enbizaka, and the fact we never actually get to explore or see the Neo-Apocalypse event despite the Four Horsemen Incident being the major Envy event of Evillious). However the sin of Greed seems to actually be the one that is truly the less explored of the seven? I know it sounds weird to say this given how important the Spoon was and how it was present as early as the Story of Evil series but the Demon of Greed truly is the less present/developed/used of the seven if you ask me? The Vessel is very present but the Demon not really there... Had Adam been the "parasite" to the Demon of Greed it would have allowed to shine some light on the entities within the Spoon.

Heck, I know it was likely a lie from Prim just to get miss Freezis working for her - but the idea talked about in the Daughter of Evil novel, that the Demon of Greed doesn't just take the soul of his contractors but also the one of their next of kin due to its "greedy" nature and "consuming" nature as a fire demon... There was something to possibly explore there. It was one of the earliest depiction of the nuances between the various "without-personality" Demons. Nuances that for other Demons turned out to be early hints at later reveals (like how the Demon of Sloth's laziness and disinterest in making deals, preferring to sleep within hosts, was preparing the BIG TWIST). Maybe this "over-cost" of souls could have been tied to the fact there's two spirits in the Spoon, not just one?

Anyway I know making these kind of rants is useless because the lore is made, years have passed, the series concluded (sort-of? I know the prequels are still being written, and let's not talk about the parallel universe adventures, sort-of spin-off)... But I just feel like I need to get this out of my chest, and I don't have anybody else to talk about EC lore with X)

[fadedcrayondrawings]

"I think that Allen and Riliane should've ran away and lived happ--"

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO THE WHOLE POINT OF HER CHARACTER ARC IS THAT ALLENS SACRIFICE MADE HER REALIZE HOW MUCH SHE WAS HURTING OTHERS, LEADING TO HER VOWING TO NEVER BE SUCH A HORRIBLE PERSON AGAIN,, GUILT IS THE PRIME FACTOR OF HER CHARACTER ARC YOU CAN'T JUST TAKE THAT AWAY AND THINK THAT SHES GONNA CHANGE

[fadedcrayondrawings]

Imagine if The Lunacy of Duke Venomaina was released in this year, people would probably be calling it problematic and making a huge deal out of it WITHOUT even bothering to read the story or understand the context. Oh wait, that still happens.

I hate when people hate on The Lunacy of Duke Venomania without knowing the true story. No, he isn't just a horny guy who wants to fuck every single girl he sees. He's a complex character who has suffered being abused and hated on his entire life for his appearance. The love of his life called him ugly in front of everybody. And when he was finally going to kill himself, he was given an option out.

I love the detail that during his first days of being possessed, he actively tried to resist it. He locked himself in his mansion and did his absolute best not to have any human contact, besides for IR.

I'm not trying to defend his actions I just absolutely hate it when people who know nothing about him dumb him down to "Horny guy with no depth, horrible person." Obviously he did horrible stuff that shouldn't be forgiven or excused.

Being hyper fixated on Evillious means that everytime somebody judges Evillious songs without knowing the true story means I have to rant about it and explain why it pisses me off so much. At least learn the lore or the characters reasons before dumbing them to stereotypes.

[fadedcrayondrawings]

Whenever I see those "Rating YOUR vocaloid songs P#" I scroll through all of the videos of ratings to find if they've rated any Evillious songs. I rarely ever find them rating any Evillious songs but when I do they always give them such bad reviews????

I get that everybody is entitled to their own opinion but one of them rated Servant of Evil 3/10 (something like that) because it "sounded like AI" and I've never wanted to crash out on an internet rando so much at that point

Having a hyperfixation sucks because you feel the need to protect it like a child, and when somebody says something bad about your hyperfixation you wanna get mad, but then you remember that social norms and common sense exist, and it's better to just swallow your pride

[mask131]

Since the fandom has reached the point of feeling very open about ignoring newly released parts of the canon with Original Sin Story, I just want to share my own "I pretend it doesn't exist" part in the Evillious canon...

The whole thing about Arth being made out of mud. That's my personal "I'll pretend it does not exist". I understand why this whole reveal was made - it was made to give a backstory and flesh out the character of Lich, who was a late-game introduction and thus needed to have a presentation retrospectively to show where he was before in the Evillious timeline... But mothy went the easy (and worst, for me) way by returning to the "iconic" Story of Evil/Daughter of Evil segment, but the result was just overtly complicating and almost bloating what was already a pretty full, complex and complete saga in the Evillious world... Which is even more jarring when you look at the other big gaps in the Evillious history that were teased at for a very long time and never actually got any proper material or decent development...

I am thinking about The Four Horsemen Incident and the whole Neo-Apocalypse deal. Given the way it had been hinted I expected it to have been something quite big, you know, and for a whole story to be behind there... Yet it was just dropped to the side and, while touched upon, never actually explored or at the center of anything. (It is part of what I feel was a very biased position of mothy himself who seems to have been quite under-using Envy as a whole? But that's a talk for another day)

I would have preferred had Lich's "pranks" and misdeeds been involved in a different historical part of the Evillious...