#dgm aesthetic

[surrealsunset]

my page for @dgm20thproject that i forgot to post...! i worked on the glitch effects on this until the very anguish of this page was screaming at me straight into my burnt out retinas lol

[lyamurchik]

Allen Walker aesthetic

🎈🎈🎈

[rainee-painee]

i love allen so much...

[karo-li]

okey, bc of new chapter 😭🥺 i made myself a wallpaper, and well i thought, i'll share

[ascendedheavenly6]

very elaborated but also draft band + idol au with dgm x no.6

so this is the situation:

there's also the past :down_arrow:

--> So, Allen + Kanda + Alma were in a band before they disbanded. Then all three of them created their own unit with themselves as the leader -- two bands and an idol unit.

some quick aesthetics and surface introduction to each unit's names and members (currently):

Red Band: Beat4Beat !! - Allen (Main Vocalist + Guitarist), Inukashi (Bassist), Safu (Drummer):

Sypnosis: Beat4Beat is a rising band performing in cafes and festivals. With an upbeat and motivated attitude, they embody 'liveliness'.

Song Aesthetic: Haru Uta -- Ikimonogakari

Purple Band: SKYDIVE - Kanda (Main Vocalist + Occasional DJ), Shion (Keyboardist), Lavi (Guitarist)

Sypnosis: SKYDIVE's only reputation is around private, downtown music areas where they conceal their identities. Even so, their music has an unshaken, unforgotten feeling.

Song Aesthetic: MISTY MYSTERY - Garnet Crown

Green Band: K.O !! Alma - (Leader + Face of the group), Nezumi (Choreographer), Lenalee (Composer)

Sypnosis: K.O. strives to put their prestige and fun all in the same category. If it's something new, exciting, and inspirational, K.O. is an unstoppable force.

Song Aesthetic: Kuufuku - Konya, Anomachikara (+ VALSHE)

Need to make a backstory for them so stay tuned!

[introvinta]

i brought you some wip 👀✨

[no-light-left-on]

the outsider deserves to dress like a 2000's anime goth

[poppystheories]

An Eye Theory

There's been a lot of debate, over the years, about whether Mana ever loved "Allen".

In the flashback, we clearly see Mana is a compassionate man who wanted to help a kid in a bad situation; in his final moments as himself, he wanted to take Red away from the circus with him. He wanted them to leave together. But that was compassion, not love.

And then Apocryphos used Red's Innocence to shatter his mind. After that, it's very much a question of if Mana was even capable of loving "Allen", as mentally unstable as he was. From what we've seen, he was very affectionate, and though he got Allen the dog and Red the kid mixed up, he eventually went on to introduce "Allen" to the symbols. You don't try to teach a dog to read your secret code. He understood "Allen" was a person, but more than that, we don't really know.

But the soul the Earl excised out of himself and had Allen put into an Akuma did some stuff that doesn't line up with it being the soul of a completely clueless man.

If we go on the assumption that the Earl was trying to rid Mana of any inconvenient memories through this process, we can assume Akuma!Mana is a conglomerate of just more than "Mana Walker". My best guess is that when the Earl excised Akuma!Mana, the memories he was trying to get rid of included stuff that re-stabilized Mana Walker, including knowledge of what actually happened when he met Red. If we consider that as a possibility, a lot of other things become more explicable.

First: If he remembered their first meeting, Akuma!Mana could know that "Allen" was an accomodator with an already activated Innocence capable of combat, perfectly able to destroy a level 0. He also would know “Allen” was fated to be an exorcist, and the threat that Akuma therefore pose.

Second: Akuma!Mana could have gained access to some of the original Mana's knowledge, including stuff about the Earl, Akuma, and souls.

Akuma!Mana said the usual Akuma stuff, and did the usual Akuma stuff, which Akuma cannot seem to help. But Akuma!Mana also did more than that: the "I'll curse you!" wasn't just bluster. He actually did manage to "curse" Allen, which the Earl clearly didn't know about. The Earl must not have thought the Akuma even capable of it, so he certainly wasn't making the Akuma do that specifically.

Mana couldn't control all the instincts of the Akuma, but he could use them to his own advantage.

As evidence, we gotta go on a bit of a tangent:

In the second volume, Hoshino mentions a play that inspired Lala and Gozul. The play goes like this: Old servant falls in love with high-class young lady. She plays with his feelings and he dies. As a vengeful spirit, he decides to curse her. But in the end, he changes his mind, and decides that as a spirit, he'd rather protect her instead, so long as she promises to remember him.

I've seen people dismiss this play in the analysis of DGM before, because let's be real, the premise here is kinda creepy. And it doesn't seem to actually have much to do with Lala and Gozul besides the aesthetic of "old man" and "beautiful maiden".

But the concept of a vengeful spirit saying they'll curse someone they once loved, only to overcome their negative feelings and decide to protect that person instead is present in the story, in a pair of characters the deliberately parallel Lala and Gozul.

Or maybe even more than one pair of characters that parallel Lala and Gozul.

We'll be focusing on Mana and Allen for now though.

I pointed out before that Akuma!Mana didn't need prompting by the Earl to attack, unlike Claire. I think Mana was using the programming of the Akuma to his advantage; if he attacked, he could place the anchor (the star) he'll need on Allen's face without the Earl finding his actions suspicious, and Allen's Innocence would activate to protect Allen, destroying the Akuma shell and freeing his soul to latch on to that anchor.

This gave Allen the ability to see souls, probably because it was Mana's power originally, ensuring Allen would be protected in the future. Thanks to this ability, most of the risk of being ambushed as an exorcist is minimized, so Allen’s career as an exorcist would be relatively safer.

Mana was the "vengeful spirit" (aka Akuma) that decided to become a guardian spirit of someone he loved instead, just like in the play. Allen is "younger loved one" that, in exchange for that protection, must carry Mana's memory.

But it's not just Mana's memory Allen carries, but Nea's too. Nea's also a spirit haunting a loved one, but he hasn't decided whether he wants to destroy or protect yet.

Of course, there’s no guarantee any of this is true. I might be completely off base here. But it’s my current theory, and I’m gonna roll with it, because it does explain a lot of things.

And, most importantly, means Akuma!Mana did mean it when he said he loved “Allen”.

[edge-of-innocence]

Quite an aesthetic panel

(DGM chapter 249)

[futurefind]

//I DID THE THING FINALLY!! 😭😭😭The years on first one indicate when they first inspired me/influenced how I wrote/saw Sa!! Hence them being absent on the latter

Elaborations/details below the cut!!!

Element Valkyrie: (Kit) Literally how/why Sa has her main gimmick of fire + water/ice lmao!! In fact I think fire was her original main...? Ice became a focus post-atla (all of like... a year later lmfao)

Link (Twilight Princess): (Aesth) What can I say I really loved TPs, well, 'edgier' aesth (my second zelda after all of wind waker). Also, probably the first wolf association...? Less consciously, perhaps the first taste of cryptid drifter that goes around solving problems? (Kit) Why Sasume has a sword!! And why it's at her back/shoulder!! Also, sort of, ass kicking with said sword, but as a video game YMMV lmao. (Chara) The silent protag stuff could not hurt? Esp w the contrast with being good w kids, implicitly (Heart) WHAT CAN I SAY I'VE SAID IT BEFORE Sa is very much HeroTM, in broader loz/link sense, at heart. Saving and helping people is her priority!! Even when it's hard!!

Naruto: (Kit) Tbh... the source of Shinrei's aesthetic effects wrt eyes, teeth, claws, etc? (Bg/Lore) Samehat with her bg. With an emphasis on samehat, as the two were connected 1:1 in those early days. But unlike canon Naruto even baby Nori went 'reality ensues' 'edgier' variant where shit is traumatizing as fuck. (Heart) As I've also Also stated elsewhere... she's very much a shonen protagonist at heart??? A Knight in Sour Armor but a Knight all the same

Sasuke: (Aesth) Do I even need to say it...? The grumpy/angsty edgelord Lancer surface level absolutely came from here, lmao. Not as conscious as Naruto (iirc, I gave her blue hair bc my brown marker ran out when doing that design? lmfao) but definitely couldn't hurt. (Bg/Lore) Probably colored/inspired taking the aforementioned 'reality ensues' traumatic framing for Sa's bg. And a bunch of other plot-y stuff that's sliding scale of preserved to scraped entirely (ie being Nth distant relative survivors to the Uchiha clan lmfao). (Chara) What can I say... aren't we all familiar w the broadstrokes atp?? Loner angsting edgelord who's just afraid of letting people in... A staple of the archetype, and undoubtedly helped staple that archetype onto Sa. (Other) Far more nebulous, but did inspire a general 'special heritage/family line' power stuff. Though what said family line stuff was wouldn't be figured out 'til further down the line.

Kanda: (Aesth) For a hot second I literally intentionally looked to Kanda for aesth inspiration for Sa lmao... in my NLOG phase I even did an inverse of him being confused for a woman by having Sa be more Bifauxnen bc 'feminine = weak' lol (gag). Also, while from DGM's uniform as a whole rather than Kanda specifically, codified Sa's token look of skintight slevelees turtleneck + fingerless gloves— as well as remove previous aspects of color from her wardrobe. (Kit) Again, a side effect of DGM as a whole rather than Kanda specifically, but this is why Shinrei's kit isn't just so thought out but so specifically staggered (the 'Levels/Stages' aspects present across many Innocence). As a direct inspo, though, Mugen fucking with his pupils/eye is what I used to preserve Sa's emotive angy vfx (and what made it, and her entire kit, 1:1 with her sword rather than being innate). (Chara) Do I need to elaborate...? Lol. He also fits into the archetype of Sasuke that Sa was already in, so nothing too big, particularly as DGM made me develop Sa so much more and breakaway from copypasting him. However, he's liably the source of her more overt tsundere tendencies, as well as her aversion to using people's names (also for tsun reasons). Also probably why Sa's surface level is outright Jerkass and not just ominous stoic dude deal lmao.

Dean Winchester (s1-5): (Aesth) Gets some lite points for styling themselves against/for a parent, jerkass with a reckless heart of gold, and bravado/masculinity that oft loops back around to disingenuous/insecure. (Bg/Lore) What can I say? The idolization of a lost mother, comparing oneself against a parent (derogatory), the deadbeat dad (who's like the younger sibling), and the parentification and resulting over-protection and -devotedness toward their younger sibling/'child'. However, not much direct inspo here, especially since one of his hallmarks is his dysfunctional jackassery toward his sibling and one of Sa's is that her jackass exterior breaks away for hers. (Chara) While I remember Sasume's snark being unintentional irp, passive Deanfluence def couldn't hurt to cement the snark, lmfao. (Heart/Other) Lumping these two together bc man!! Man!!! What if you were forced into a life of violence and endangerment and self loathing and you 'reclaimed' it by putting how much you hate it and life and yourself into something meaningful, heroic. What if you were meant for greatness and it destroyed you. What if you wanted nothing more than a life of domesticity as a partner and parent and thought your only way to get there was through dreams and death. What if the only way you can get through the day is by chasing thrills and throwing yourself into risk after risk for others and half-hoping it kills you.

GRAVEYARD/REVERSE INSPO BOOGALOOS!!

As these are blorbos you can use to 'find Sasume in' instead of vice versa, these'll hopefully be more brief...? Things to make you point at and go 'omg just like Sa :)', rather than unpacking the building blocks of inspiration that helped codify her into how she is.

Geralt: (Aesth) The wandering enigmatic monster hunter with an extremely dangerous rep but with more heart/morals than you'd think... yk? Bonus spn gold eye points. (Kit) Nothing overt, but general hyper-competence wrt combat. (Bg) Witchers' sliding scale of dubious rep, yk? As well as his Butcher legacy. (Chara) As stated, gruff bastards with a caring heart that's variably concealed, depending on the moment. Notably (vs some prev examples), very okay with killing human monsters, even if it's not ideal.

Alucard: (Aesth) Pwincesses The supernatural & enigmatic auras that are both intimidating and inspiring reliance/protection yk? (Kit) Again general combat competence, but also healing factor and resulting being a gd tank, relatively. (Heart) Hearts of gold!! More overt since he's not a tsun though lol

Mizu: (Aesth) Edgelord wandering blue eyed 'samurai', lol. (Kit) Violence hypercompetence, pragmatism, and being a disturbing levels of tanking severe wounds. (Bg) What can I say Mizu's entire traumatic backstory and hardening into who she is is because of being othered and seen as nonhuman (if due to racism, vs Sa's). Plus some spoilery stuff I'm not gonna say bc oh my god guys go watch BES :') Esp if you like Sa. (Chara) The terrifying determinism, raw brutality/pragmatism, being stubborn idiots who need to be forced into accepting help... but also going to extreme lengths once the loner walls are breached. Also, the sass and taunting and blood knight aspects??? Peak Sa. Chef kiss. (Other) Holy fucking SHIT the insecurities? And self perception?? Seeing oneself as monstrous and inhuman and that inhumanity linked with an 'inability/failures of' being a woman yk......... augh,

Ed: (Kit) Having fun with 'bending' elements in utilitarian ways. (Bg) Orphaned big siblings whose main priority is saving/helping baby sib yk... Also, in retrospect, the hypercompetence being developed for the sake of said sib. (Heart) Again!! Shonen protagonist at her core!! Though ofc focusing more on the unironic softness, as well as her 'aspiring' for pacifism and hating having to kill but having no qualms doing so when necessary.

Rengoku: (Kit) Badass swordsmen with fire related aesth? Badass swordsmen. (Bg) While far more... mundane in the tragedies of his upbringing, the overlap in the themes and impact of their traumas are :') very much similar :'))) (Heart) Shonen protags but also mentors!! Staring very loudly at and ignoring even harder how as a kid my intent for Sa's story would be to kill her off. Tbf she's a very solid candidate for the Obi-Wan type 'crutch' characters whose death symbolisms an emblematic turning point...........

Vash: (Kit) Again: See: Hypercompetence in combat, now with more overt inhuman uncanniness!! (Bg) While far more fantastical and sort of... spread out? Impersonal? Than Sa's, it's impact and his view on it are very Sacore!! (Heart) SHONEN PROTAG OF ALL TIME??? And also see: aspirations of pacifism and how, just like Vash is able to be so extremely pacifistic because he's nonhuman levels of sturdy... Sasume cannot be because she's still very much human, and so can only take so much before she's forced to retaliate :') (And also being long past the point of breaking pacifism for sake of necessity/saving others... and p much Only breaking it to protect others... yk.......)

[lyamurchik]

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[zarinthelwrites]

I was Rereading Blooming from the Mud recently and i wanted yo ask about the shadows. Feel free to ignore if ur not doing that fic anymore tho.

Where did the idea come from? And if there's an infinite amount of souls societies then does that mean there's a chance for the whole dgm cast being scattered across the afterlife and eventually overrunning just the one soul society becase theyre all feral family oriented codependent little freaks (affectionately)? Because if they all come over here where Kanda is and the bleach people just watch the many many Many Friends that little Kanda has.

Also also. The thing about not growing up until hitting a mental milestone. Like reuniting with a spouse. Is Allen gonna be teasing Kanda for growing up for him? This gives me life for the comedic angst 😊 😊😊

I don't really know if I'll ever update it again but I can answer your questions about it! The idea came from the fact that I was like. Well, Allen's not going to be in a japanese themed afterlife, that doesn't make any sense. So, how can I justify him eventually coming there? So I decided that I'd just need to worldbuild in an explanation for why Soul Society only seemed to have a small proportion of souls in it compared to total deaths, even taking the potential for reincarnation out of the question. And so the shadows. Why shadows as the medium? Because its cool. But more importantly its cool in a 'bleach' aesthetic way, so even though im making it up out of whole cloth, it still has a general feeling of being cohesive with the setting. So yeah, the whole dgm cast is out there scattered around, and its up to kanda to reuinite them in this specific little slice of the afterlife! Who knows what will make Kanda grow up?

[bazythsonline]

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[stepswowdsen]

【KagePro】 Kuroha x Envy Baby ♦️ ♥️ 🃏

"I'm ready for this this lover baby My garden of love is in danger from a drawing hand Truly, this this lover's crazy In the garden of harm, the bud of a human is a lie-ai-a"

(EN TL by Magenetra)

You can see the translated lyrics above! Magenetra has the best translation of Kanaria's Envy Baby

Original Song by Kanaria (illustrated by LAM)

Envy Baby Fan-cover by Utaite Mafumafu

Envy Baby Fan-cover by Raon Lee

Envy Baby (Douman UTAU Jinriki) by Doskoi Tsukimiyama

My doodle is based on the Envy Baby MV illust by LAM, and Mochizuki Kei's illust of the Mafumafu (Utaite) fan cover. Their art styles are so strong… LAM has a great painting style, and MochiKei has really strong lineart and colours

Raon Lee's fan cover of Envy Baby is my personal favourite! She has such a powerful belting voice and I love her growls. Since she's fluent in KR, JP, and EN, she makes really good translations/song lyrics for her song covers.

Kind of a shame that the card covers up the dots on his face, but oh well 😭 Quick 1 hour sketch cuz I just wanted to get the concept down, I'll draw more interesting patterns on the balloons and playing card eventually

Literally no one fits this song more than Douman (FGO). Envy Baby is a song about "twisted love" and love being an obstacle, with the center character being drawn with clown and circus motifs.

Douman is an evil gay clown demon (major FGO antagonist) who hates humanity and doesn't understand love, but after being defeated by Ritsuka (FGO's protagonist), is trying to learn how to love this human. LimGuda (Douman (Limbo) x Ritsuka (Guda)) is spicy as hell and deadly romantic... My fave FGO ship forever!!!

It is PERFECT for Douman and the LimGuda ship.

But I wanted to try my hand at a Kuroha crossover.

Also cuz Tsukimiyama already drew a Douman x Envy Baby crossover with their gorgeous art (and also did a Douman UTAU jinriki cover). For a UTAU jinriki, the tuning is nice ^^ They have a great painting style. I LOOOOVE the Douman UTAU fan-cover sm... UTAUs are fan-made Vocaloids, and the people who make UTAUs and UTAU jinrikis usually make art and tune their fan-covers as well ^^

The only second runner ups that I can think of who would fit this song almost as well as Douman, would be Nikolai (BSD), another GNC gay clown - go figure, and Tyki (DGM) due to his playing card aesthetic.

Funny how the song starts with "Hi I wanna people save" All these bitches are doing the opposite of people saving LMFAO They're murderous as hell!

When I'm free, I wanna draw JuAli soon I miss them weh weh...

This is mainly KagePro but since I mentioned the others, I might as well tag them...

[piduai]

top 5 character designs/outfits?

sesshomaru hands down i still think he's got the bestttt design ever like uncontested... white hair+yellow eyes is a winning combo at any rate but the overall aesthetic is top notch because it's a lot of white with poignant vivid accents, such as the red face markings and eye-liner and sleeve hems, and the yellow +purple on the armor. i just find him so pleasant to look at, the color balance is impeccable. i usually HATE pointy elf ears but his are so appropriate because they emphasize the fantasy feel. i really am really fond of his aesthetics

not design overall but outfits, mai and dai li soldiers from atla, mostly because that's how i would dress if it didn't look weird irl. i looooove the áo dài/quing dynasty-inspired silhouettes, i love the flowy fabrics with dramatic sleeves and large pants that are cinched in strategic places, the form is stylish and beautiful but not impractical, it looks easy to move in, and it's full coverage! i wish it was possible to dress like this

nezuko from kny, i hate the orange ombré and the mouth gag but love the combination of black hair and pink eyes, which is super rare for some reason? it gives her a really pretty and delicate look (eyes complimented by the ribbon), she's pleasant to look at (when not gagged and from the waist up)

cithis from dungeon meshi, dark skin + white hair + yellow eyes is 10/10, very beautiful. complimented by the forehead markings, though i'm not a fan of the nose tattoo

tyki mikk from dgm, WITH LONG HAIR ONLY. i watched dgm Only because i saw a screenshot of him from the new anime and loved his design soooo much. and it has Over 100 Episodes, all of which are bad. but everyone in his evil family or whatever is slay after slay, dgm in general has very good character designs, as much as it's lacking in plot

[sattosugu]

I just did that a few days ago.. Spam the DGM posts all in a couple days (because I kept surpassing the post limit).

yeah that happens, i wish tumblr would allow us to reblog as much as you like.

just got back into dgm, with watching the anime and reading the manga. i'm at the very start but i really love the whole vibe of the show and the aesthetic of the series, plus 19th century is one of my favorite time periods since a lot of my favorite shows and favorite book series take place there. wish there was more edits of dgm.

it's really amazing series.

hope you are doing well anon and staying safe.