#maquech

[naruhate]

Can't draw very well but I had this abnormality idea: Still Beating Heart (sounds like steel beetle yk... a reference to the ironclad beetle).

You can guess what it means before I spoil you below:

It's not wrong to call it the Still Beating Heart when it embodies the concept of being reduced to an object while still being alive. It's based on the ma'kech or maquech, a Mexican traditional jewellery brooch made of live insects, specifically shown here a subspecies of zopherus beetle (also known as ironclad beetles). It's stated to be large, docile, and wingless, with extremely thick exoskeletons that will have jewellery glued onto them.

I have combined it with the iron maiden, a torture device meant to enclose on a human with internal spikes. You might definitely die from that, but the point is that it will render you motionless and still.

It's about.. Teth at most. I made it Zayin at first but it can still eat you. This thing kinda works like a tool abnormality. Maybe you trade an employee to get a wearable brooch that gives protective effect.

This thing shows up in Fajie's Canto. As for EGO gears, I'm thinking about who would fit it. Maybe Faust and Gregor (Morgen and Fajie).

[noovorous]

Beetles that des Eseeintes would keep:

Zopherus beetles would enable him to realise the project he attempted with a turtle with far greater success. Those beetles are frequently used in Mexico as living brooches, fake jewels glued onto them as well as a chain to pin to your clothing. Jean des Esseintes would definately glue some semi-precious stones to their exoskeletons and then enjoy a terrarium full of shining creatures. Perhaps he'd even wear one as a brooch.

Musk beetle (Aromia moschata) not only glimmers like a piece of stained glass in a cathedral, it also emits a musk like scent. That little gentleman is born a dandy already clothed and perfumed.

Madagaskar Giraffe Weevils (Trachelophorus giraffa) would be in eyes of many decadents a delightful display of unorthodox beauty. They move in a manner more reminescent of a clockwork toy than of a living creature and I think this appearance of artificiality would be so alluring to aesthetes and decadents.

With that being said I'm afraid a beetle collection in hands of duke des Esseintes would share the fate of his flowers, that is die of neglect as soon as he experiences his next period of malady.

[babymuriel]

I haven't posted my art here on awhile. Mostly been posting it to my Twitter. But here it is.

[mglnrd]

MAQUECH!

Bejewelled beetles sold as accessories! All sorts of wrong.

[yolandachapa-blog]

¡Tengo un Maquech! ¡Un animalito Maquech!

Todavía no tengo fotos, pero recibí un precioso maquechito, fuente de inspiración para uno de mis personajes más importantes :)

¿Qué es un Maquech? Esto es un Maquech: