#I'm supposed to be coming up with shit for a lighthearted thing before Angst happens

[cryptidforestwitch]

Love being physically exhausted but then getting 300 ideas for d&d like sir it is 5 to midnight why are you fucking doing this

[well-shit-im-a-morosexual-now]

Ah! I forgot to ask what you think of the Angel event. In my opinion, it's not a bad event, but god was it weird. Maybe I'm just weird and I think people being super nice is too suspicious (considering I am STILL sus of Simeon). I think I would have liked it more if the ending wasn't the party but instead them turning back and we get to tell them that we like them just the way they are

I have pretty mixed feelings about this. I didn’t like the actual content of the event but I did like the potential hints of a backstory that you can dig outta it. Hear me out;

WHAT I DIDN’T LIKE:

How they were lied to and forced into the clothes and into their roles during this event

How uncomfortable, angry and scared they initially all were

How this was more or less rather cruelly making them live through their past trauma (for a party?????) not to mention digging up Satan’s identity issues

How this was essentially brainwashing because the brothers’ personalities did a complete 180 and didn’t even seem to notice it when in reality, we were previously told there weren’t any major personality changes between their time as angels and demons (for example as angels, Lucifer was still arrogant and prideful, Mammon was still a troublemaker, Asmo was still vain and Belphie was still lazy)

It casts a very black and white image on what angels and demons are like when om! has proven countless times before that it isn’t like that.

WHAT I DID LIKE:

So on the surface level this event was messed up, but like what if it was supposed to be messed up? Maybe I’m looking into it too much but this event gives a beautiful view on what the actual angels and celestial realm is like. This event, to me, states three points:

1.     The event itself is meant to be perceived as messed up:

The devs went to the extra trouble of adding scenes where Solomon and Luke are distinctly uncomfortable with what is happening and Solomon even calls the magic used ‘scary’, they didn’t have to waste time doing this if the event was supposed to come off as endearing and lighthearted. It’s also distinct that it’s Solomon saying this given that he’s ancient, has pacts with 72 demons, and the game hints at his meeting with Asmo being similar to Asmodeus and Solomon’s biblical meeting which was messed up and dark af. So I think it’s safe to say whatever he sees as wrong and scary would not be an exaggeration

2.     The Celestial Realm has a set black and white view of what demons and angels are like, and the bangles are supposed to make the wearer act opposite to the Celestial Realm’s view of demons, even if the wearer’s actual personality is not actually like that view

One main storyline hint for this is from lesson 40, where the voice in the light (presumably Michael) says that given how much the brothers like MC he would have expected them to be wicked, EXCEPT while yeah the brothers do heavily show their sins none of them are outright evil?? Like if they are pissed they’d attack but overall in general they’re all just kinda…chill? If anything given their personalities it would make more sense for them to be attracted towards someone who accepts and loves them for who they are than they would be towards someone who was wicked. But Michael just assumed ‘demons = evil so someone they like would also be evil’

The biggest hint at this within the event is MC’s interaction with ‘angelic’ Mammon cause he says a bunch of things that go directly against what has been established so far.

a.)   Mammon apologizes for the way he treats MC EXCEPT he’s being by MC’s side since like a week after meeting them? He makes a pact with them even though he just as easily could have just grabbed Goldie from them given that he’s the fastest. He never steals from them and later actually starts working legit jobs to earn money when he wants to buy them something, which is apparently fairly often. He bandages their wrist even though he told them he wouldn’t go out of his way to help them. He agrees to their stupid plans even though he knows he’ll get in trouble. He goes against and stands up to Lucifer for them despite being scared of Lucifer. He forgives them almost instantly after they lie about Belphie and all of this is just from season 1 cause the man’s even softer for MC in season 2

b.)   Mammon talks about selling his things to provide for human kids EXCEPT this is something he already does? One of the main reasons he’s always in debt is cause the Witches take advantage of him and the fact that through them he’s providing for a homeless orphan human child.  

3.     It paints a picture of the Celestial Realm as a controlling, ‘this and only this is the right way’, ‘we’d do anything for our notion of peace and order’ kind of world and it’s something the game has hinted at before:

The Celestial Realm decided to execute Lilith for loving and healing a human, while the Devildom (Diavolo) just reincarnated her and let her live amongst the humans

While in Celestial Realm the twins and Lilith had to sneak off to the human world while Diavolo straight up just brought two humans to the Devildom so he could bring about peace between the realms

The angels seem to be raised to view the demons as evil without any evidence to support it (Lucifer as an angel refusing to even look at Diavolo, Luke’s whole initial attitude towards demons) while as far as we know demons don’t really do this (Diavolo’s pov of his meeting with angel lucifer, lots of the background demons seem to just view Luke as a cute puppy)

Lucifer’s obsession with needing to follow the rules, needing to bend over backwards for Diavolo, being strict with his brothers, being this calm and collected, perfect always in control being. We learnt in the Celestial Realm that Lucifer was more callous and outspoken, and given that he rebelled against his father and started a war probably had less regard for rules and authority figures. The reason why Lucifer is the way he is in the Devildom could be due to him blaming himself for Lilith’s death because not only did he let her break the rules but he broke them himself which then led to the war

The celestial Realm was willing to do this whole magic bangle with which is highly amoral for a party? That’s like peak control freak, and as someone who is very much 100% a control freak I feel like I have the right to judge

So yeah, overall while I don’t like the actual event I like all its implications and the irony that the event with the angels is one of the darker events

Hated the ending though, I’ve more or less made an outline for a personally more satisfying ending for this event based around the magic ending almost immediately after the last chapter and a lot of hurt/comfort, angst and talking through feelings, their sense of self and their actual life in the celestial realm between all the characters but my work ethic is shit rn so :/

Obviously this is just my interpretation but I’d be more than willing to talk about this with you guys!

[rippedjeansandloudmusic]

So you've been posting a lot about all for the game and I'm considering reading it but even after some research I don't really get what's it about? Could you enlighten me?

honey I’m fucking ready for this so are you ready im ready let’s go

i kinda also wrote what happened in the first chapter but ignore that

SO

Neil Josten is a bag of angst and death that is asked by the coach for a really shitty Exy team if he wants to be signed after his last year of high school since they think his parents are abusive (they aren’t his mom’s dead and he’s on the run but ignore that right now and the team recruits Exy players from fucked-up homes to give them a second chance to get back on their feet

(exy is like football and lacrosse had a really fucked up baby and was like thirty)

 and Neil’s like ‘nu uh’ but literally get’s hit with an Exy stick until he agrees by some other piece of angst (and he’s high but ignore that small bit)

and he’s been on the run from his dad for like eight years and in the past year or something ever since his mother died he’s been on his own (his mobster dad killed her but he thinks she’s still alive but nope ha)

his dad’s a fucking mobster that made Neil and if you read the back it says he stays in town/the team for someone and this is that someone one of the three guys that’ve come to pick him up chop a man into a hundred pieces so yeah trauma 4 dayz

after coming back to the US after like a year or so from running from the police his mom gets murdered and he’s left on his own

he was raised on Exy but hasn’t played it in a hella long time and he joined the closest school’s (Milport’s) Exy team because it was the closest thing to a home he could have  (and he played it before he ran away w/ mama dearest)

and he’s never supposed to be one person for too long, Neil Josten is a fake name, but he has no idea what to do so he’s still Neil

and he’s wanted for the Foxes in North Carolina for Palmetto State University

he knows it’s a bad idea since he’ll be in the spotlight and will most definitely get murdered but when the coach (Coach Wymack is my spirit animal) throws him a stack of papers to fill out and give to his high school coach he doesn’t argue because he needs this.

and it’s mostly about how he fights for his place on the Foxes’ Exy team because he wants a concrete life and wants to continue playing Exy but how his father, nicknamed The Butcher, wants him dead since him and his mother stole 5 million dollars from him before running away

(oh and it’s really gay you should know that too)

This book 110% is not for the lighthearted. It contains themes that I didn’t even know it would have, so trust me when I say it’s dark. I wouldn’t read it if you’re easily triggered by anything like torture, child abuse, sexual abuse, sexual harassment, or being in the foster system. Once again, this book isn’t for the lighthearted. But I fucking love it and it’s now my favorite book series but don’t read it if you’re not ready for some dark shit