#alicein mikuni

[acediathemelancholy]

Some portion of the fandom seems to have missed the mark, but this idea that relationships should be defined into specific roles with specific reciprocal terms is what Servamp seeks to tear down in its narrative.

Platonic, romantic, parental, fraternal, servamp and eve etc. - those are relationship types with preconceived expectations. Servamp ends with the destruction of Saint Germain and Mikuni's fabricated world where everyone was slotted into standard roles against their will. The servamp chains were broken but their connections remain. The moral here is that individuals should be able to define their relationships to each other mutually on their own terms.

[katzkinder]

New mini acrylic stand illustrations to celebrate the publishing of the final volume! These are available to anyone who collects and submits a total of three tickets from relevant Servamp books released between October 2024 and January 2025. Unfortunately unavailable to people outside japan, but we can still enjoy the cuteness!

Seriously, look at the Alicein bros. Look at them. Look at them.

They’re so cute I wanna eat em. If they could just read books together forever I’d be happy always

[yarrayora]

alicein family drama vs shirota family drama

[hiddensolis]

[dusty0x0]

[ 人のが愚かさ... ]

[tipzycat]

[tsurukunichan]

Sunday Filled With Vampires!

Happy holidays! I've never seen a translation for the tracks from "Sunday Filled With Vampires" drama CD before, so I'm sharing my translation for the second track: Greed Pair's Love Affairs 🫰 (first and third track will take a few weeks for me to work on!)

Also! @tenshitan gave me a big help to crosscheck on who's talking and checked my English too 🥰

Notes:

Non-professional translation! Feel free to kindly correct me if you find any mistakes.

I'm also including the audio from my own copy in the GDrive, if you want to purchase the CD as well, you can go here.

Don't repost outside of Tumblr without permission! And don't edit into videos for Youtube/Tiktok please.

You can access it here, please enjoy 💕 I'll also give an update when I upload the tl for track 1 or 3!

Right now I've actually done a translation for the first track (Fireworks Display) of the Summer Festival drama CD, but I was torn to upload it now or when I've finished the second track (Misono's Exciting ☆ Summer Camp) ｿﾜ( •ω•` 三 ´•ω•)ｿﾜ will do my best to finish it asap though!

[ax-lll]

More drawings, more practice ✨️ (still can't recover from the recent chapter)

[mahi-does-some-art]

If Mikuni never makes an "a little birdie told me" joke I will never forgive him lol

Alternate!Mahiru decking the shit out of Mikuni because he made a joke (NOT CLICKBAIT) (GONE WRONG)

ALSO STRIKES FORESHADOWING GAME IS INSANE because now we know Germaine's animal form is a crow and Tsurugi has an affinity with crows since, like, the beginning of him being there. I'm going to chew through drywall.

[sabaramonds]

so alin @wildcatfourteen and i got up to something tonight 🤭 bad sex.png. you can find the template here!

[mizunoensui]

Mikuni, I still don't want you to be a bad guy. Despite everything, I still love you.

I have a weakness for weird sadistic animanga characters. haha

[acediathemelancholy]

Servamp's Pandoras: Kiriko and Akira

So the choice to make Saint Germain's headless monstrous form "Pandora" comes with a lot of baggage from ancient myths. I discussed this focusing on Tetsu's association with Prometheus in this post here, but Pandora herself deserves more attention.

There are many characters who could be associated with Pandora in the context of Servamp, but the most interesting to consider are Kiriko and Akira.

The legend of Pandora was that the Greek gods sent the first woman down to Earth to punish and tempt mankind, and Pandora dropped a jar (mistranslated as a box) that unleashed evils into the world. Only Elpis, Hope, remained in the jar.

Kiriko unleashed the vampire war onto Tokyo by stealing the Alicein family head's key and releasing Tsubaki, dispersing evil into the world. Pandora's myth later often became intertwined with the biblical tale of Adam and Eve. Eve was tempted into consuming food from a forbidden tree in the Garden of Eden by a snake. Kiriko was tempted by the power of Envy whose form is a snake in a manor associated with a garden (Alice in the Garden). Both were punished after obtaining power, Eve with painful childbirth and Kiriko with the madness that eventually consumes all of Jeje's eves. The children she raised, Mikuni and Misono, are associated with the children of Eve, Cain and Abel.

The child of Pandora, Pyrrha, is associated with the Ancient Greek version of the flood myth. What was Mikuni's Re-Servamp other than a biblical flood destroying everything that existed because the world was too sinful in his eyes? Mikuni clearly saw this parallel as he named the Ninth Servamp Noah, the chosen survivor of the biblical flood myth. Even Mikuni's vaguely incestuous wish to recreate his brother by marrying his father's mistress has its roots in the explicit incest from the flood myth in Genesis.

Akira unleashed evil on the world through the study of forbidden magic and by tempting Touma with a path to infamy. (As it's highly implied that the study of revival/immortality magic is what gave him the idea to try to use Saint Germain's revival to intentionally cause a disaster). One of the Greek gods who sent Pandora was Zeus, the Greek god of Thunder. Akira's brother, Tooru is full of thunder and lightning imagery and is directly given a C3 role named Thor, another mythological deity associated with thunder. After Pandora dispersed evil on the world, hope still remained. Mahiru's attack that he uses to come to understand the hearts of his enemies is Elpis. Mahiru himself is the hope left from Akira's Pandora's Box.

[katzkinder]

Ohhh my god. The official Servamp account shared this photo confirming that yes! Yes indeed, Misono and Mikuni are designed so that if you place them side by side, they can hold hands with one another! I need these immediately. I need these yesterday.

Also! Now that I’ve got a better image of them both, two things I noticed! Number one, if you look closely at Misono’s bouquet, he has two white lilies amongst his roses! Meanwhile Mikuni has two beautiful red roses, symbols of romantic love, but also respect and passion. They may also be there as an additional Alice in wonderland spin, for our two Alices here. Interestingly, his yellow rose also symbolizes jealousy, while Misono’s purple can symbolize love at first sight, but also royalty (of course), mystery, and delicate, pure emotions.

The second thing I noticed is that Jeje and Lily each have a flower (of the same variety) in colors for their Eve. It’s hard to be sure of what they are, but they might be poppies? Since they have a strong association with dreams. But again, it’s difficult to say!

I also really love how Mikuni has red and Misono has white, echoing their colors in the Red or White color spread that hilariously tipped us off to who was a sneaky sneaky traitor years before it became relevant. Strike’s so funny.

Anyway. I’m a mess and I’m happy about it, I love this family so much……

[yarrayora]

do you think we won't notice the running theme? do you think tanaka strike will make an exception of you two? get real

[hiddensolis]

yehaw

[dusty0x0]

🤔