#servan

[vhs-rat]

IN THEATRES: NEVER

[negax79]

More of some of my favourite doofuses. This one features a lot of Fubuki...and a lot in general. I believe I did say I made a lot of these! ...I should make some for the train detectives I have sorely underutilised them.

[bestlaidplansproductions]

After eight round of Save the Villainess' dream lover contest, we finally have a winner... Servant, the mysterious (not monstrous, we promise) maid/butler of our story!

It looks like Servant is rather puzzled by your desires... but as always, eager to serve.

In any case, Servant's reward for winning the Best Lover contest is a 'date' with Jane. You'll see how that goes soon...!

[galleryofart]

A Woman in Turkish Costume in a Hamam Instructing a Servant

Artist: Jean-Etienne Liotard (Genevan, 1702-1789)

Date: 18th century

Medium: pastel on paper, laid down on canvas

Collection: Private collection

Description

The subject is a lady and her servant, standing beside the kurna, the stone wash basin that is found at the entrance to the hottest part of a Turkish bath, the calidarium, where visitors to the baths would begin the process of washing, before entering the baths themselves. They are both extremely elaborately dressed, the tips of their fingers coloured with the traditional henna that the servant carries in the pot on her tray, alongside a double-sided ivory comb, but the lady must in fact have been a European – possibly Greek, Jewish, Armenian or ‘Frankish’ (a term generally applied at the time to people originating from Northern European countries such as France, England or Holland); Liotard would not have had access to Muslim women. The lady’s heavy costume consists of no fewer than five distinct layers, and would surely have been far too hot to be worn inside the baths, though the tall wooden slippers with blue embroidered bands (takunya) are indeed what she and her servant would have worn into this part of the baths, to avoid burning their feet on the heated stones.

The costume is, however, consistent with how a Turkish woman would have been dressed in preparation for a traditional pre-marriage visit to the baths.  Only on that occasion would she go to the baths dressed in garments such as the white fur waistcoat embroidered with gold threads that we see here, with a string of gold coins around her neck (one side bearing the first line of the Koran, the other the official monogram of the Sultan), and other lavish gold and silk adornments. The virtuosic depiction of this extremely elaborate costume therefore takes on something of an ethnographic function, as a faithful record of an important aspect of Turkish culture and customs – a very different function from the more contrived portraits in exotic costume that made up so much of Liotard’s output during his time in Constantinople.  Even the colour scheme, with the intense opulence of the costumes set against a rather misty, greyish-brown background with only the faintest of shadows, somehow mimics the visual effect of seeing these sumptuously dressed figures through the steamy atmosphere of the baths, further emphasising that this is a snapshot not so much of the individual people as of the location and the specific event.

[geodraws04]

is is. it obvious i have a favorite type of character. Because i do. it is these scrunklys. All of them :00

I love all of my children equally. I wish for nothing but good in the world for them. They don’t deserve any trauma or sadness that they have experienced. :)

[kanai-ward-census]

Happy Birthday, Iruka + Servan! 5/4

You've been invited to both of their parties!

Who's party are you going to?

Iruka's party

Servan's party

Neither

Voting ended onMay 5, 2024

[hopeymchope]

How do we feel about this uhhh character design in Master Detective Archives: Rain Code?

While playing through Rain Code (I'm midway into Chapter 4 now), I've so far been a little disappointed to find that everybody in Kanai Ward seems to be similarly pasty. I mean... I get that the city has been under a constant cover of clouds and rain for three years now, but I still thought there could be some indications of more diversity among the citizens. Not that I'm surprised by this, but it's still occurred to me.

Then I finally met SERVAN. And right away, he's contributing to Kanai Ward's diversity by being one of the "This guy's design style isn't the same as most everyone else" characters we've come to expect from games where Rui Komatsuzaki is handling the designs.

HOWEVER...! There is more to it than that.

Despite looking almost as pale as the rest of the citizens in this godforsaken city of eternal night, I'm confident that Servan is supposed to be a person of some color. At least part-African by descent, certainly. I say that because of his hair, sure, but also... his lips.

Yeeeeeeaaah. YEAH. He's got the dreaded donut lips we still see too often in manga/anime — the ones inspired by old racist caricatures from the Jim Crow era. It's a choice that made me uncomfortable from the moment Servan appeared.

So, like... how do we feel about this character design, gang?

Are you like, "That is some racist-ass shit that should be patched out ASAP"?

Are you like, "I'm not at all happy about this but I don't think they meant any harm through their ignorance so I'm not sure what to do/think"?

Are you like, "It's so common to see this in Japanese media that it just rolls off my back without me noticing at this point so meh"?

Are you like, "None of those previous things describe me bc I'm feeling something in-between all of them"?

Let me know. Very curious.

[milian-aran]

Wearing her favorite shirt <3

(BTW it says "My hubby is a simp 💙"