This fanbase has been so inspiring that it got me back into my art!😭 Here's a sneak peak of my piece I made for Elucien Week: AU prompt! Can you guess the AU? 😏
The funniest thing about the Marquis Machina identity reveal is that it recontextualizes the shoes in her current outfit from "quirky Mochijun design choice" to "Francis Varney is a Japanophile."
guhh okay okay.okay. this idea came to me and i had to draw it. vanessa and vanny are extremely similar to jekyll and hdye and you HAVE to hear me out on this
jekyll created hyde to see what would happen when he separated the good and the bad in himself. he ended up splitting into these two personalities; jekyll, the kind scientist, and hyde, a scruffy and mean young man
vanny is vanessa's hyde. vanny was created so these vile acts could be taken out, but its not as thought vanessa doesnt have a choice. its in the same way jekyll chooses to drink that potion, despite knowing what hyde does.
vanessa enjoys playing the part of vanny. she enjoys this freedom, and keeps coming back in a similar way jekyll cannot stop himself from longing to turn into hyde. she knows fully well what she is doing is wrong. but she keeps putting on that suit.
anyways you should read the strange case of dr jekyll and mr hyde thank you for your time
A little comparison of Lieutenant Lyste's voice in the English and German dub (+ a little bit of Kallus too); because I find languages interesting and this made me really think about how a voice actor can influence how a character is perceived.
First of all, I've watched Rebels primarily in German so far (though I've seen a good amount of scenes in English as well), partly for nostalgia reasons (I was in my teens, probably around 14 when I first watched the series and my English wasn't that good at the time to just casually watch an entire series, plus I was watching it with my younger sister), but also because I think the voice actors especially for the main and recurring characters are genuinely doing a really good job. Heck, for some characters I might actually prefer their German voice because it is that good! Kallus might actually be a good example for this if he's already here, I think he has such a pleasant roughness in his voice. For Thrawn it's also a pretty close match, he sounds wonderful in both variants but I might prefer his German voice just by a teeny tiny bit.
Who I actually wanted to talk about is Lieutenant Lyste though. I'm mainly familiar with his German voice, and as he's a fictional crush of mine, this is also the voice of his that I've fallen in love with. When I imagine him talking - regardless in which language - the sound is that of his German voice. Personally, I feel like that voice makes him seem a little younger and more naive compared to his English voice. I've always headcanoned him to be fairly young, in his early to mid twenties, and that by the start of the series he had just completed his military training recently (his position as supply master might have been the first one where he had to bear more responsibility). I've always seen him as a guy who's motivated and just trying his best, but at the same time he's lacking experience, plus, if we're being honest, when it comes to his military career he's a pretty average guy. I think he'd learn and improve over the years, but he isn't the "best of his academy year" or "promising young talent with innovative ideas" kind of guy, and he's far from a mastermind like Thrawn. He's literally Just A Guy, and personally, that's actually something I really like about him and that makes him endearing to me.
In contrast, I think his voice in the English dub makes his age a bit more ambiguous (I still wouldn't guess him older than 30, also based on his appearance but I feel he seems less "boyish" than in the German dub). I think it also gives him a bit more of an arrogant tinge and less of the playfulness that at least I hear in his German voice. He still conveys that dutifulness, but he seems a bit more uptight as well. I wouldn't go so far to say that that's bad, and I still like his English voice as well, but I think for me it won't come close to the charm that his German voice has to me.
Towards the end I want to point out though, that the voice, while being an important aspect, is not everything that makes a character. Appearance, behaviour, body language, actions and decisions contribute to that as well. What I found interesting is that most headcanons that I read about Lyste actually still overlap closely with my own as well, even though I heavily assume that not all people who wrote them are familiar with his German voice. I would say that this is a good thing, because his core personality is still conveyed across language barriers, even though the way that different actors voice him may emphasise different aspects of his character more or less.
Something about two stars being pulled into each other’s gravitational orbit and moving so fluid and in close proximity that they essentially become one, or whatever 😬🤷♀️
Doublestar Duo/Binarystar Duo fans rejoice ⭐️⭐️
Can you tell I’m obsessed with them?
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Golden Princess and Little Knight 💛🗡️👑 (this one’s criminally underrated)
I recently finally played Omori for the first time, no spoilers before hand which honestly I’m happy about. Like in the past I’ve said I’m always fashionably late to most popular things.
The game was a very beautiful experience and hit close to home for me.
Soooooooo since it made and impact on me and the fairy odd parents new wish is something I’m still hyperfixating on.