#Isolde Dittarsdorf

[cheshanoneko-draws]

[teablogreal]

This idea came to me in a vision apologies if somebody else did this already

[ladyhyakinth]

A tragic and traumatic life is normal to those who know nothing else. She belonged to all of Vienna, she belonged to everyone...except herself.

But then that familiar world is gone.

The suitcase has its unusual but united inhabitants. Slowly but surely, the empty void of her heart made its way to new friends and new experiences.

Then it hits her.

She was too young to be the star of Vienna.

Too young to be the measure of perfection, too young to be subjected to perverse obsession from so-called admirers, and too young to hold the weight of a world-ending war.

Now it's all gone. Vienna, Theophil, Trista, her mother and father, and her. The golden key she hoped to open her empty door was only brass. If her only anchor to the crashing tides is also broken, then how can't she drown?

Where will she go?

[pang3l]

[kane-turu]

Fractured desire

[wouldtheybecomeafearavatar]

Would Isolde from Reverse:1999 be an avatar of the lightless flame?

[yuri-lover4lyf]

Gay people can’t say “I still love you despite everything” to each other, they pull something like:

“If this is the salvation you brought, I will embrace it with joy.”

“If this is the salvation you’d hope for, I will accept it. If I must.”

These two…. I really can’t take this anymore..

[anesidoraa]

say the rest kakania don't be shy

(isolde's singing part is from act 2 scene 1 of tristan und isolde, and kakania's response is from act 3, tristan's lines ofc)

[anonymocha]

scary dark-haired lady polycule

[bandfrmlyf]

Imagine them showing up to a ball together

🦋💜🤍🖤💜🦋

[stari-hun]

The Dittarsdorfs

A concentrated pot of poison.

Mr. Dittarsdorf is only Dittarsdorf we see zero trace of. The story itself makes the decision to show you the interaction between Theopil and Arcana, the origin of The Salvation. But as for Mr. Dittarsdorf the only appearances we get from him are talking about Theopil behind his back and weighing his expectations for the family name onto Isolde. But what’s most interesting about Mr. Dittarsdorf is how he was the one to get Evangeline into therapy. Mr. Karl saw Evangeline as a daily product, and the rest of the manor was too young or didn’t have the status to suggest it. Their doctor, although paid off by Evangeline’s stalker, must’ve brought it up and he agreed. But after he still neglected his family, being a person she could never ground herself to. Theopil haunts the narrative however Mr. Dittarsdorf despite putting many things in place that led to the way things turned out for the family, ultimately slips through the cracks. A part of this is due to the fact that Isolde herself is both an unreliable narrator, but also her disinterest in anyone but Kakania.

Theopil is the ghost that haunts the narrative. He’s engrained in every corner and crack of the story because of how he seeped into others lives and minds. He created The Salvation as a hope for Arcanists and humans against the storm, but it ultimately lead to his death from extending a hand to someone who had no intentions of taking it.

The main story and Isolde’s character event talk at length about how the talent of the Dittarsdorfs is always inherited most by the women in the bloodline. It’s why when Theopil created The Salvation with the immunity ritual painted into it, it only gained the status of a masterpiece when Isolde added to it.

Evangeline is the character who proceeds the plot. Through her parallels to Isolde and Trista we can gather her backstory as well. Evangeline likely became a medium at Trista’s age or slightly older, but not as old as Isolde was. Her attitude and dialogue before Trista’s death implied her eagerness to awaken Trista wasn’t entirely from family tradition but instead because she was fearful for keeping the art alive. Her attitude towards making money and her frantic nature implies she might not have been financially stable enough to enjoy the arts at a young age, but did after discovering her own talent for opera. Mr. Dittarsdorf then married her for her status as the Star of Vienna before neglecting her along with the rest of the family. However a lack of being seen and cared for is what led to his death, as she killed him in a fit of mania after not giving her the right access to cope. Instead letting her kill the animals of their garden time and time again while disposing of them without her knowledge. Nonetheless Evangeline had a strong connection to life. After Trista’s death she couldn’t let go. Even in her fateful act of killing her own husband, Evangeline hummed Trista’s lullaby.

An interesting fact about her though is how much Isolde and her are parallel. Besides them both killing off the other side of their family, Isolde was also talked about in the manor as being sick in the same way Evangeline was. Theopil would’ve seen the parallels growing up which is why he created The Salvation for Isolde after learning about The Storm.

An early cause of Isolde’s sickness was Trista. Isolde was too inexperienced as a medium to make spirits obey her command, and Trista took advantage of that in her jealousy that Isolde lived and she didn’t. Many of her scenes lean into her being unstable in a far more malicious way than Isolde or even Evangeline. In her own chapter she was melancholy about not growing up with Theopil and Isolde even aloof and amused at the way they were growing up. However in the next chapter from an outside view of Isolde’s childhood we see how Trista took pleasure in making Isolde sick and in pain, her comments about it being a shame she didn’t join her far more serious than a child’s comment. Trista was deeply and violently jealous at being “forgotten” by her family after her death in the same way her world did. Every Dittarsdorf is given their own lullaby just for them when they’re born. Much like Trista’s door, she sees both of these things as forgotten fragments of everyone’s memories. Trista’s mentality being older than her age reveals itself when Isolde talked about Mr. Karl’s door and how the opulence was a facade to embarrass and degrade her. It was a scene to show how distressed she was while around him and how it stacked under him teaching her for every class. Isolde started becoming ill and her mental stability started crumbling from spirit’s interference. As Trista choked her as a child until she threw up for growing older than her despite being younger, Isolde later commanded Trista along with many other spirits to take control off her life for her. Despite this, it’s implied Isolde is easily able to take back her place from them at any time.

[cheriafreya]

Isolde's new garment 'And All That Jazz'

[salmonpiffy]

I love drawing her so much

[ladyhyakinth]

I find it frustrating when one half of the pair frequently gets flanderized, overlooked, and overshadowed because they are shipped with another character. And I feel that towards Isokania; When the fandom talks about Kakania, they can still separate her from Isolde and talk about what she is going through but when it comes to Isolde I don't see that same level of respect.

It's often(if not always) about her agonizing/being obsessed over Kakania, being crazy, and being so tragically beautiful as to subject her as the muse for one's art. Why can't she be happy! Where are the fics, fanart or discussion where she is getting her stuff together (since it's been obvious from the start that she's been trying so hard)! Where are the posts that analyzes how she was affected by the values of her time?

She depended on Kakania because she was one of the only people who treated her properly when everyone else placed her up on a pedestal. But what happens when she finds other people who could treat her right, if not, even better? What then? Would she still feel the same way towards Kakania?

[harrowharr0w]

yeah i know i didn’t finish sweetheart’s thingie but i liked this one better 😓😓

im kind of proud of the lyric matching i hope it isnt wildly ooc

"submissively, obediently,

the elegant aroma, the stylish film

a charming girl holding a white flag

dyed red by a popular song

a slip of the tongue won't get it across

if i express my will, then i'll raise your hackles

ahh, the acetate reduced to ashes

a mise-en-scène diving through stitches"

[kane-turu]

"E lucevan le stelle"