#red beetles

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Fight at the Masquerade! The second of my #pinktober palettes, combining a couple of #TheArctober prompts as well! (No familiar though since Celeste doesn’t have one!) This took so much longer than I thought 😅 So I hope you like it!! 🤞

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Red Beetle Pins

YALL I FIGURED IT OUT. The significance of the courtiers’ pins. Including Valerius’ ram pin. I knew they had something to do with the loyalty of each courtier, and it just clicked for me while I was thinking about Valerius’ possible past with Lucio.

The Red Beetle: the other courtiers are all obsessed with the plague. They’re not loyal to Lucio, they’re loyal to the disease that he happens to spread everywhere he goes. They would sell him to Satan for one corn chip if it would bring back the plague forever.

The Ram: Valerius is loyal only to Lucio. There’s definitely something that separates him from the others, visibly, personality-wise, and with the pins. I’ve thought for a while now that it’s because Valerius opted out of whatever deal the Devil offered the other four during the ritual, but now I understand why. He and Lucio have history together. They’re a lot closer personally than Lucio is with the others. My theory is that Valerius has some sort of strong feelings for Lucio, either platonically or romantically, and doesn’t support the plague because of what it’s done to him or other people Valerius cared about. He’s not in this for the power and glory of the plague, he’s in it because he doesn’t want to abandon someone he cares and is possibly worried about.

Overall, my conclusion is that there’ll be a turning point where Valerius will join MC’s side. Once it becomes clear that Lucio and the Plague aren’t one and the same and that Lucio is in danger, Valerius will want to stop him for Lucio’s own good. He’ll be counting on us to save his friend before it’s too late.

(Also thanks @starry-seafoam for letting me overwhelm your post. This came to me while I was writing a reply to you.)

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Valdemar Mood Board made for people in my FB group

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Red Beetle Mystery

 I have been thinking about red beetles and it’s possible connection to the red plague and I got an idea. This idea came when I was listening to some music from the movie Prince of Egypt. 

Disclaimer that this is simply a thought and not a concrete theory or possible answer to the importance of red beetles, but perhaps it could be an answer who knows? I am not here to simply state that I am right so no discourse please <3

If we take a look at the Bible, specifically Book of Exodus with the story of Moses, Yahweh (God) unleashes horrible things to happen in Egypt; blood red water pestilence in a means to force the Pharoh to release the Israelites from slavery.

If you want to read more look below the cut as I don’t want people to suffer from my wall text ^^”

Reference to blood red water:

“Thus says the Lord, “By this you shall know that I am the Lord: behold, with the staff that is in my hand I will strike the water that is in the Nile, and it shall turn into blood. The fish in the Nile shall die, and the Nile will stink, and the Egyptians will grow weary of drinking water from the Nile.”” (Exodus 7: 17-18)

Reference to pestilence:

“ For if you refuse to let them go and still hold them, behold, the hand of the Lord will fall with a very severe plague upon your livestock that are in the field, the horses, the donkeys, the camels, the herds, and the flocks.” (Exodus 9: 2-3)

Many plagues are inflicted against Egypt, but let’s focus on the 4th plague. The 4th plague is a swarm of insects or an assortment of animals. Some Christians interpret these assortment of animals to be flies but again that is an interpretation. Now scholars have been very wishy-washy of what this could mean or what version is true. However, these creatures were capable of harming livestock and humans. 

Reference to “flies”:

“...let My people go, behold, I will send swarms of flies upon thee, and upon thy servants, and upon thy people, and into thy houses; and the houses of the Egyptians shall be full of swarms of flies, and also the ground whereon they are.” (Exodus 8: 16-18)

Despite the possible interpretations, I think the beetle possibly among these insects harming the Egyptians in the Book of Exodus is an open idea. Therefore, a swarm of beetles is like a bad omen that could do harm.

(Insert Prince of Egypt clip of the plagues)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tVTEyuCKn4 

Arcana connection: (I couldn’t screenshot the scenes as my phone crops a bit off the bottom :c)

 In the Strength chapter (Asra’s route) the Apprentice and Asra help a town where they have little water and suffer from this. The well is empty and when the two try to use their magic to drag out the water from deep within the soul all the Apprentice see’s is red. Soon the ground shakes violently as a swarm of red beetles emerge and leave. As soon as they are gone water begins to pour back into the well. In the same chapter when Asra and the Apprentice go back to the small house, the Apprentice tries to draw out water for the plants but inside its red water.

Other mention of beetles:

-Julian’s beetle drawing found in his old desk of the palace library

-Vlastomil wears a red beetle broch of something on his tunic 

I don’t know man but the Prince of Egypt ost was blasting in my head during that chapter. Again this is just a theory!

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The Beetles.

251/365 - September 8, 2011