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[oforian]

I finally got a TikTok account (@oforian), where I’ll try to upload edits similar to this one, I’m not dead yet!!

[luciferiin]

Ergo Proxy (エルゴプラクシー)

[dayblu]

Take a moment to look at this sweet cinnamon roll

[johananalisis]

Ergo Proxy analysis

Ergo Proxy Analysis

 Caro m'è 'l sonno, e più l'esser di sasso,

mentre che 'l danno e la vergogna dura;

non veder, non sentir m'è gran ventura;

però non mi destar, deh, parla basso.

 My sleep is dear to me, and more dear this being of stone,

as long as the agony and shame last.

Not to see, not to hear [or feel] is for me the best fortune.;

So do not wake me! Speak softly.

  The truth, the truth must be discovered.

The importance of truth is valuable to us as individuals and society. Knowing the truth we can grow and mature and especially blind ourselves with the truth that suits us, “find” our meaning and a purpose. In the show we often see different characters ask themselves their purpose.

The show rejects a human’s deeper meaning but the irony are the Autoraves, which exist only to fulfil their predetermined purpose and play out a role they have been given at their creation.

In this analysis I will be focusing more on the nihilistic and existentialistic side including the majority of the characters, such as Re-l, Raul Creed, Mayor and others.

 In the show they mention raison d’etre. It means “a reason to be, reason for being”. Each of them, Autoraves and also humans have their primitive raison d’etre on which they rely to continue living and delusioning themselves with an illusion of a meaning, believing there is a reason they were born, a reason why they are alive and a reason to continue living. But as soon as the raison d’etre is demolished and annihilated, for them it equals in death and in psychological despair.

When humans reach this point they are unable to continue living. Their ideals and motivations shatter. Dreams are a fuel to move forward and very important to us, that is why they have such a great importance in life.

The need for purpose is one the defining characteristics of human beings. It’s a fundamental component and one of the biggest reasons we continue to strive ahead in life.

Ergo Proxy talks about going on a journey to find the truth and the acceptance of it.

 The biggest role has Re-l. We find out, that every citizen in Romdeau, was made artificially in an underground laboratory. That’s why the idea of having a role to play out is much more powerful and real-looking than if they would been born biologically. As a grandchild of the town mayor, she bears a lot of responsibility and has high standards for others and as well for herself. When she meets Ergo Proxy or Vincent in form of a Proxy in her bathroom, starts wondering even more, striving for an answer. Re-l is aware that knowing the truth doesn’t equate to being happy, but despite this, her mental states goes for the worse.

But why are residents of Romedau so sure they have a meaning. It’s not just the artificial birth, but also the Proxys. Humans’ long time ago created this fake hierarchy, which gives them and us a sense of a reason, resolve, which again is fake. We find out that Proxy, even if granted “immortal” life are not any kind of gods they take themselves for. They were made nothing more than a tool to do a certain job. Proxys are a key to why humans exist, nonetheless it’s just a coincidence without any deeper meaning.

 After a long time she finally accepts an obvious reality, there’s no escape from it. Once you know the truth you cannot flee and forget it.

That’s why most people stay unknowing, in ignorance of their true nature, inebriate in false reality. The one they create to keep living and breathing.

“Ignorance is bliss.”

The most significant probe is how you cope with knowing the truth. How will a human react and behave when it finds out there is no meaning to its life, that it values nothing? That it’s just a coincidence we were born.

In this case Re-l accepts it, when she could broke and even reject the truth. With this we can see her responsibility and maturity.

In the contrary Daedalus does not possess these traits. Instead of accepting that his feelings for Re-l are not mutual, he goes and creates a new version of her, which results in another disappointment and self-destruction. Throughout the whole show he turns eyes away from reality.

 Let’s talk about Proxys being god for a bit more… They are immortal and have powers, such as inhuman strength and they even created the cities, so we could call them gods, right?

In the show they use a term “incomplete god” for Ergo Proxy. The Proxy is an incomplete god, since he was not made to be one. There is no such thing as Proxys being gods, which led them, to self-destruction.

One thing that’s unquestionable, is that the Romedau and countless other cities exist and were made by them, the Proxys.

 “I think, therefore I am.”

But it’s “I think, therefore you are.”

There is this ideology in Ergo Proxy that the humans exist because Proxys think. The world exists, since it is being created, when a Proxy is looking at it. Without those who recognize this world as the world, it cannot exist.

They are not in this world when they are only observing it, but as soon as they are observed they exist.

Here we also see a mention of idealism. The subjective idealism holds that only minds and mental contents exist. That emotions, desires, beliefs do not exist, but are sheer illusions. When no one can hear, feel or see us, do we exist?

It denies an objective reality, but it asserts that this reality is completely dependent upon the minds of the individuals that perceive it.

 On the other hand, Raul Creed reacts completely different from Re-l. He does not reject the truth, but his self-importance and high status makes him want to be a winner, even among losers. Raul understands despair, but something in him is telling to destroy it. To destroy the light of destruction, which their despairing world is yearning for. He wants to bring despair over the city before it’s due as an act of rebellion against the flow and sequence of events and as well to the Mayor himself.

As he finds the truth he wants to destroy it, but not out of rejection, but because he simply can and as I mentioned before, his egoism and self-righteousness makes him do it. However he’s equal to others, that’s why he fails, which results in death.

 We can see another perspective in reaction knowing the truth with the Mayor and the statues he is with in the hall.

They all know the proxy granted them power, Autoraves and many other things.

They all know there is no answer, however they still ask the questions.

“Why do we exist?”

“Who will ease our solitude?”

“Why did you abandon us?”

“Why did you not love us?”

They ask questions they know there in no answer to.

 Here is once more stated that if the Creator or the Ergo Proxy/Proxy One thinks, therefore they are, but it does not go other way around. If they think, it does not mean the Creator exist.

The world does not exist when the Creator does not think of it, so they wish he would think of them. This is their raison d’etre.

 One of the episodes that gives the clearest message of nihilism is episode 19, where Pino goes to the Smile Land. The designs there want to ask their creator why did he made them, they desperately wanted to find out the meaning to their creation, however shocked when the creator itself says, that there is no meaning. He created them without any purpose. There’s nothing more to it.

 Our happy fortune, not to see or hear,

Awake us not,

Till the end of time, hush, whisper low.

 You have to sleep if wish to live, however it means also “the sorrow and melancholy of one who has lost something great and worthy.”

[oforian]

Hice este pequeño boceto intentando descubrir como usar Photoshop, amo mucho al Vince con el cabello aplastadito. 

Any drawing request? (ergo proxy) 

[oforian]

Ergo Proxy-Manga!

I made this manga panel in CSP trying out the tools, I would like to make a complete page with a scene from EP if someone has an idea which scene I should make, leave it in this post, I accept suggestions ^^💗

Hice este panel en CSP para probar las herramientas, me prometí que si me gustaba el resultado haría una página completa de una escena de EP c: si alguien tiene alguna idea de cuál escena debería de hacer comentenmelo xfa! ^^💗

[oforian]

Slipping through my fingers

La historia de Raul me parece muy triste y siento que no se habla mucho de eso así que hice este edit. Perdonen por desaparecer meses je.

[oforian]

Dibujo sugerido por @miko-hikari34 ^^ 

Al fin sirve mi pc así que hice este dibujo rápido de Vince y Re-L dándose un besito uwu, espero que les guste