#drakengard 1.3

[gothimgem]

dod1.3 sirene designs finally done

[gu6chan]

With the implication arioch wanted into the village in 1.3 but was just waiting for the right time to get in i like to think leonard just swatted her with a broom until she backed off and sulked back into the woods all the previous times she tried snagging a kid or something and this went on enough times she's like "i'll just wait until he doesn't have the broom 😊"

[vindaya]

[i-hear-a-sound]

3D model of Arioch from Drakengard 1 I made in blender! I somehow managed to get her rigged (I say somehow because usually it doesn’t work out for me, plus weight painting actually took off 5 years of my lifespan) and I’m actually really proud of it, as goofy as she looks. She is the goober.

[astralartefact]

Caerleon's Legacy 20 years of Drakengard

[blindedguilt]

I need Leonard and Cain to do toxic yaoi together...the two of them deserved more interaction in general

//YOU GET IT OMG YOU F U C K I N G GET IT //It's the duality. It's the difference in background and how they deal with tragedy and how that's absolutely APPALLING to both, because Leonard, who has and is dealing with a deep sense of wanting to inflict violence on the inside, and Caim, who just wants peace and to have never dealt with any of that on the inside, SEE the other's outward actions doing just the opposite and both are reminded of JUST how much they're trying to ignore that part they see in the other inside of them and how they're trying to put that down and HERE this motherfucker is, just doing it //AND ITS THE SENSE OF SOLIDARITY THESE VERY DIFFERENT PEOPLE FROM VERY DIFFERENT BACKGROUNDS GET WHEN THEY SEE THAT, BECAUSE BEYOND LOSING THEIR FAMILY TO THE EMPIRE WHICH BRANG THEM UNDER THE UNION'S CAUSE THEY'RE BOTH OLDER BROTHERS WHO KNOW DEEP DOWN WHAT IT'S LIKE TO FRET OVER AND CARE FOR YOUR YOUNGER SIBLING, OUTSIDE NUMBNESS TO THOSE FEELINGS BY OUTWARD CIRCUMSTANCES BE DAMNED. THEYRE BOTH PART OF A VERY SMALL MINORITY WHO HAVE MADE A PACT, AND EVEN SMALLER OF THE ONES WITH SOME SEMBLENCE OF A MIND LEFT AFTER DOING DO. THAT THEY BOTH CAME OUT OF THEIR TRAUMA AS THE ONLY ONES LEFT FULLY UNTOUCHED AND ARE BOTH STRUGGLING TO FIGURE OUT WHAT THE FUCK TO DO WITH THAT, AND THAT LATER ON THEY BOTH FIND SOMEONE TO CARE FOR IMMENSELY THAT THEY'RE FUNDAMENTALLY INCOMPATIBLE WITH THAT GIVES THEM THEIR REAL SENSE OF WORTH AFTER THE WAR AND THE PROFOUND ISOLATION FROM BEING SO FAR DEEP IN YOUR OWN HEAD AND TRAUMA AND KNOWING THE STUPID PIDDLING WRECK OF A HERMIT OR THE NEEDLESSLY VIOLENT BLOODTHIRSTY CRACKHEAD MERCENARY NEXT TO YOU CAN SHARE IN THAT GRIEF BUT AT THE SAME TIME IS A MIRROR INTO YOURSELF AND WHAT YOU CAN BE THAT YOU REALLY DON'T WANT TO SEE //ITS ABOUT THE PROJECTION. IT'S ABOUT THE DIFFERENCES THAT FORCE THEM TO LOOK INTO THEIR OWN SELF AND THEIR INABILITY TO COPE WITH THAT AND WHY THAT MAKES THEM FUCKING HATE EACH OTHER, BUT ALSO THE COMPANY AND RELATABILITY TO EACH OTHER'S POSITIONS THAT DRIVES THEM TO THAT AWKWARD STALEMATE. ITS ABOUT THE MISLED "I CAN FIX HIM"'S MEANING TWISTED BUT WELL-INTENTIONED "I CAN MAKE HIM MORE LIKE ME THE WAY I WANT SO I DON'T HAVE TO BE SCARED ANYMORE" ON BOTH SIDES FROM PEOPLE WHO CAN'T EVEN FIX THEMSELVES BECAUSE THEY CAN'T LET GO, AND THEN MY FAVOURITE PART

//HOW THAT RESULTS IN PSYCHICAL VIOLENCE AND/OR LOATHING AND RESENTMENT AND DISGUST. i watch this scene with SUCH yaoi-tinted glasses anon you don't even know

[bioswear]

Okay - I picked up the nier anime from episode 9, and I can see the 1.1a differences

[strongcrimsonwings]

🖋 |[GIB ALL DA PLOTS. ♥]|

Oh boy, where do I start?

How about I start with Drakengard 1.3. I'd love to write a thread or two for that verse. I'd also like to write for Drakengard 2 a little too, but we'd need to do some major finagling to do that. I wouldn't mind throwing them into Drakengard 3 as well, but again, I think we'd need to do some major finagling for that too.

I'd also love to do more of the enemies to lovers stuff, but maybe if we did some other relationship stuff, like two spies undercover or something, that'd be cool too. Adventurers would also be cool, or scientists. (What they'd be researching, I don't know, but Angelus and Caim in lab coats was a good mental image to have. :)) I also just had this crazy idea that Angelus is the knight who saves Caim who's been kidnapped. Or we could do that with Dragon!Angelus, too. I just want Angelus to save Caim once. :)

It would be interesting to bring them into college too. (Partying Caim, anybody?) I also had the idea that they could be coworkers in a corporate setting too. (Blame the image I just had of Angelus in a button down and pencil skirt with tights and heels on for that one.)

[shinigxmi-muses]

Muses Coming Soon...

[ ...the devastating twins from Drakengard will- eventually- be added to the muselist! Primary verse will be within Drakengard/DOD, as well as a separate one for 1.3... Have seen very few involving DOD2, so I'll likely be looking over that and also making it a verse-by-request. ]

[mxgbf]

Oh to be a genderless and sexless dragon who's humanoid/angelic form is completely androgynous

[gothimgem]

𝔇𝔯𝔞𝔨𝔢𝔫𝔤𝔞𝔯𝔡 1.3 𝔖𝔦𝔯𝔢𝔫𝔢

TW for mentions of violence, assault, war, murder, abuse, bloodletting and death under the cut, also spoilers for 1.3 ending A

similar backstory to her dod1 universe but with some revisions.

for starters, sirene was to be a precautionary heir for the kingdom of rheged. she was to be arranged to marry to a king's eldest heir by queen buer's request, but sirene rejected as she believed that her parents were going to abandon her like her creator/"mother" did to her.

when the red eye disease spread her kingdom, sirene was forced to watch her parents become possessed, killing them in the process and went days on end killing red eyes outside of her home kingdom, worsening her homicidal curse

she was captured by the empire by the orders of one of the priests of the cult of the watchers, whom she later killed, claiming he was "old and cruel" to her; she suffers severe nightmares as a consequence of the abusive behavior from him

sirene joins the union for hatred on the cruel suppression the empire and the cult endured on her, having been aquianted with caim and leonard before he left the union

the former she had been rumored to have become close to due to their shared interest of revenge on the red eyes; during their time within the union, sirene and caim have developed a mutual respect and interest for each other, with him being one of the few people to make her genuinely smile. after the empire's defeat, the two were married yet verdelet would later exploit their growing powers within their blessed union...

knowing of her status as an intoner, verdelet allowed the union between sirene and caim in hopes that their consumation of the marriage will bear children to serve the union with her abilities and his strength yet this never came to light due to rumors of sirene being unable to conceive

eventually the utilization of her song power that started to turn soldiers to slowly become insane gave the idea of verdelet promoting her to commander, having her use the power of her song to craft more super-soldiers who only answered to her

spreading terror and malice in her wake lead to her killing anyone who betrays or leaves the union, such as the village leonard forms and the anti-allied forces led by furiae; this exploitation of using her curse to the point eventually begins to lash out at him when sirene breaks verdelet’s legs to the point where they will never heal and begins losing any hope of humanity as she dives into nihilism...

as the years passed, being a woman of a high position with immense magical power, her connection of being somewhat immortal rendered sirene being afraid of nothing anymore that she becomes cold and cynical and views everything in a nihilistic take; almost everything becomes meaningless to her after living for so long; every day, she does her job, murdering innocent villagers, exploiting the abuse of dragonkind, as if it's just another day of a soulless productive day; she still commits to the horrible atrocities by the union as well as her own curse without batting an eye, becoming terrifyingly detached

she is tired of the responsibilites that come with her position, she never asked to be a commander of the union or marry caim for verdelet's twisted purposes of having powerful soldiers with their abilities, the endless suffering of her immortality and control over the people

with even her own husband and the man she once loved becoming insane, sirene meant to make an attempt on his life when they began attacking the cult of the watchers, embracing him with a knife but finding herself unable to kill him when the dragons went berserk

this leads her to allowing berserk dragons to taking her left arm and right leg until she bleeds of her injuries is laid to rest beside caim's half-eaten corpse by the dragons as the red dragon consumes her in a blazing fire...

[gu6chan]

reading arioch ripping a newborn baby fresh out of its mothers womb before eating it alive moments after popping two melatonin and heading to bed:

[mordogeira]

A_4030: 「Sister」 - Furiae 1.3 Novella summary

Hello all! I decided to make a detailed summary of the Furiae 1.3 novella featured in the Drag on Dragoon 3 Guide. Ever since I learned about it I wanted to know more, so now that I can finally read it, I wanted to share it with you all. 

This is not a translation! However, I did try to go as much into important detail as possible. I added some direct quotes here and there too. Huge thanks to @disilllusions over on twitter for proofreading this!

Author: 白本奈緒

Enjoy!

The novel starts with Furiae being awoken in her tent, which is part of a currently deployed troop of soldiers. It's established that contrary to the distant past, dragons and humans now work closely together and form unified corps taking part in battle. It used to be unusual, but is now considered normal.

Furiae notes that the boy who came to fetch her wields an intimidating sword which is completely unlike the slender frame of the one wielding it. As he tells her that the Commander asked for her, she thinks that just like him, she now too needs to wield her sword alongside the one's fighting. ("そうだ。もうすぐ私も同じように剣をてにとり、あの人と戦う.")

The situation of the army is thoroughly explained, mostly in favor of it. As she goes looking for the commander, Furiae encounters a dog she's seen around a lot. The dog is excited to see her, and she notes that he reminds her of her younger self, when she used to follow her brother around. However, as she does not want him to be accidentally crushed by a dragon, she tells him to stop and stay, but the dog is having a hard time following orders. The soldier notes that just like that dog, the soldiers morale is only up, because Furiae is present at the frontlines. The other soldiers laugh, and Furiae smiles back, because she is „a good girl“. (“フリアエはいい子ね、と微笑みかけた.“)

She moves on to meet a silver colored dragon, who seems to enjoy Furiaes presence and her soft touch. The dragon remains silent, but reacts to her petting him with satisfied sounds. Furiae notes that the fighting will start soon as preparations conclude. Behind her, she notices boys running around as they get ready, with one particular being followed by a younger girl, who desperately calls after her brother. He seems bothered, but takes her hand and matches her speed as they move on. Furiae remembers the distant past, when she too used to follow the back of a particular person in hopes of them turning around, just like that girl, and just like that dog. („あの少女のように、あの犬のように、ただ振り向いてほしくて.“)

And as she used to call out to her brother, he did turn around to grasp her hand. But as her hand remained small and fragile, her brothers grew stronger, dirtier, muddled with blood. Still, she wants to keep on grasping that hand.

Furiae remembers the past once more, and how good it made her feel that Caim always made sure to turn to her and grasp her hand. There is a big emphasis on his kindness and the warmth she feels from his actions towards her. Caim is described as taciturn, but welcoming person who always cared about his sister. The days she spent with him in the Carleon castle were the most carefree, loving and beloved days she had ever experienced.

But once Caim picked up the sword, he became completely absorbed in his training, to the point that he would not respond to Furiaes calls' as before. Overswept with anxiety that he may come to hate her if she bothered him too much, she resolved not to become a hindrance to him. From then on, she would only look at him from afar. He was still kind, so she did her best not to be in his way. Or to fall in love with him. But to her dismay, it happened still.

She remembers the day Caims' birthday celebration. During festivity prepation red eyed forces suddenly appeared as out of nowhere and starting slaughtering everybody. The kind, the serious, the kitchen staff, the good soldiers, everybody Furiae knew. So much blood flowed, she did not know whose it was anymore. Once the black dragon appeared and started devouring everybody, all she could recount was the stench and color of blood.

Ever since, everything had been stained red to her („あのひ、視界も世界も全て赤く染まった.“)

The memories of this event stress her to the point of a near panic attack, but she manages to think of different memories to calm herself.

After that incident, the lands were sent into turmoil as fightings started to break out. Amidst this chaos, dragons and humans started working together. Caim became one of them, commanding a red dragon. Caim became consumed by the thought of revenge, and threw himself into battle together with his dragon time and time again. He stopped hearing his sisters calls.

But in this messed up world, both would only have each other as family, and Furiae kept on clinging to that.

Saddling the silver dragon, Furiae gets ready for the next planned assault. She was to attack the retreating Prince of the opposing faction, as he was evacuating through the mountains with his forces, ambushing him. The assault is a success, and the slaughter commences. Just like back then, the stench of blood fills the air, screams are reverberating, fire burns all. And just as the battle reaches its highpoint, even more screams herald the arrival of another dragon, Caims’ red dragon.

Seeing him, Furiae gets overwhelmed with emotions. Her only objective is to get to him, and so she dodges every enemy attack on her dragon while Caim and his dragon attack the opposing force.

Furiae rushes after Caim frantically, continuously calling out to him, but he does not seem to react to her. She turns more desperate the longer he ignores her, until she gets overwhelmed by her feelings and her surroundings. She keeps calling out to him, telling him about how much she changed herself so she could become worthy of him. She tells him she's dirty and stained now, and begs him once more to turn around and look at her. Caim continues to not react, so Furiae takes more drastic measures: Commanding her dragon to attack the red dragon, reading her sword to reach out to him, it rushes towards the red one. Though to her surprise, instead of hitting both, she loses her arms, bitten off by the other dragon. No longer being able to reach out to her brother, she starts questioning her worth. Before she can do anything more, the red dragon attacks both with another bout of fire, making both fall to the ground.

As the opposing forces celebrate the defeat of the silver dragon, Furiae laments that Caim did not look at her until the bitter end, he never turned around to her. But still, she loves him. To her, he is still the kindest person she's ever known. Her vision turns red, just like the day they lost their parents. Once more she tries to call out to her brother, but she cannot.

[shadouko]

some angelus'.... she has a lot of designs... they're neat!

[blindedguilt]

About Leonard and his life in the village (Childhood: Part One)

Leonard was born on July 23rd, 1067, in a small village hidden away in the Silent Forest. His father was a well-known blacksmith in the town, and his mother, a frighteningly stern, yet loving girl, had notably enough conceived him at a particularly young age in her teenhood. 

Despite their sociable nature and the high expectations that the firstborn son would continue in their footsteps which were set upon him not only by his parents, but the village, Leonard quickly proved to be somewhat of a disappointment in his earlier years. Though there was nothing terribly wrong, Leonard was oafish, clumsy, had trouble making friends, and was exceedingly slow to pick up the family trade. He recalled being particularly close to his mother during this time, as his greater capability in assisting with her own chores had significantly lessened the pressure he felt in comparison to trying to live up to his father’s expectations of him. His parents’ had never been harsh with him, despite their growing disappointment, just the opposite - Though they made their expectations clear, and for much of his childhood Leonard had struggled especially to try and make them - And his village - proud, they remained supportive and relatively patient tutors and teachers (Which the exception of a few particularly bad mishaps on Leonard’s end). As his father had once put it, “The smiths are the soul of the village. All that is made and done here is by our hands.” Following a particularly horrible incident where he had tripped rather horribly and ended up damaging not only the eggs he had been carrying, but his leg and a few important smithing tools as well, Leonard attempted to atone for his mistake (after being horribly scolded) by creating a weapon, a polearm to string up, carry, and hopefully hunt most manners of animal, to show his capabilities and prove he wasn’t a lost cause - Yet the joints collapsed completely upon presentation where the mollified preteen gathered them up and tossed them to the corner of the shop with the intention never to be touched again... Leonard would eventually stumble back on this project at 26 years of age. Though the weapon had been a failure, it had caught the attention of one other boy from the village, a boy with age and features similar to his own. What was different lied in personality- Unlike Leonard, he happened to be far more outgoing and a bit of a tease (Though all in good nature). Having taken an interest in his project as it was being built, the two began to chat and gradually became friends. For Leonard, this friend was the beginning of many new things as he began his transition from child to adult. Though he later on was introduced through him to the other children of the village and took that gradual change into friendship with them as well, he often spent the fairer portion of his time with that boy instead. Despite both their better judgement they had spent a fair time exploring and talking in the forest, taking their charms meant to protect against the fae, building small shelters for the night at the clearing they always visited together, and discussing a variety of topics with each other: Their memories, what was currently going on in their life from idle conversations to crushes, and future aspirations they hoped to reach. Leonard merely sat and listened to some topics more than others; not only due to the face that he perferred to listen more than talk overall, but above all, he enjoyed the sound of his friend’s voice. Gradually, as he matured and was helped along with the bright nature of his friends, Leonard began to take his slow first steps in growing into the man his parents had always hoped him to be. ... As Leonard grew older, he grew increasingly curious as to why he didn’t seem to have any interest in things like love or girls in comparison with his friends. At first, he had brushed it off with the simple answer that he didn’t have any crushes yet. Naturally, he held faith in his parents and friend’s reassurances of “The right one for you is out there, you just haven’t found her yet.” Though as time passed, his friends gradually finding their lovers for life, and Leonard finding himself increasingly isolated from their conversations, he grew more and more consistent in confiding his worries and asking his parents how - How he would know it was love. How one fell in love to begin with - Yet, their answers only provided further confusion and frustration to the boy. He had wanted the same as all his friends, of course - If there was one goal Leonard had ever had, he had wanted to do his family and village proud, and it was in large part because of his friends that he managed to break from his shell and achieve those goals. He grew more comfortable with the close-knit community in the village and forged various relationships using and passing along his parents’ knowledge. He had helped countless people in all different natures of problems, and spent restless nights working to improve his crafts in metal-smithing and hunting... There were times he had refused to come home until he had caught something, no matter how late the hunt had ran. He was loved among his family, friends and community, and naturally thought as he grew older that he would be among the first of the village youths to marry - But no woman had ever caught his eye. He wanted to start a family of his own, more than anything. When his friend had asked, he always responded that two boys would be the ideal; it was what he thought of most constantly when it had come to entertain him: Two sons to pass down the tradition of metal-smithing with just as much patience and honour as his father had done with him.  Yet, he could never think of anything in regard to a wife in what he could possibly want, or even what she could possibly be like. The concept of being able to hold any romantic thoughts towards a woman, where, as his mother had defined it, she was all that stayed in his thoughts from morning to night, where each and every little gesture and action was done with their sake in mind, if even to just see them for a moment, where something like a smile or a small touch could send your heart racing, had seemed completely foreign and unnatural to Leonard. The way he thought it, it was impossible to comprehend being able to do any of that with a woman - His mind had always drawn a blank space where his friends would so easily talk, and no matter how he tried to think of those sweet moments, or tried to interest himself romantically in the girls of the village and think of life with them, the thought just never materialised or was crudely shut out with a feeling of repulsion.  Instead, Leonard’s mind always turned itself back to his friend - He wondered where they would be together when they were both older. He thought about how his voice was among the last to break, the way he spoke when he teased him... How soft his hair looked and how he wished he could be allowed the chance to simply run his hands through it, if only once - How his heart skipped a beat whenever he took his hand to lead him along to take a leaf from his hair. They were things he had hardly even noticed at first, yet once he caught on... The realisation was only caught in retrospect, far after he had lost his interest in him. If there were any time he had to pinpoint it, it must have vanished alongside the strange sadness that had washed over him in the time he became a man. At the age of 15, growing and starting his family...  But, even with as long as he had those feelings, Leonard was only able to identify them the day he saw his son. 

[bioswear]

Also the fact that NieR: Automata and NieR: Automata Ver. 1.1a and Drakengard and Drakengard 1.3 are similar in that they’re the same story only with KEY differences is HMmm

Speculative and wishful at best, but also… why would he name it like that