#hanahaki men-jen

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Now HERE is a Lore Accurate meme!

Red: Daemyn, Hanahaki

Purple: Menefer/Jennifer, Hanahaki

Was between playing Message Man by TØP & Mind Electric by Miracle Musical, both Daemyn accurate. In the end, the piece felt more Message Man.

Fun Fact!

Message Man is Daemyn’s theme song!

I don’t know why, but it always has been. Could’ve been anything, Mind Electric, Run And Go, Bad Bad Things… But Message Man always came out on top in terms of overall “DAEMYN” theme. *shrug*

Of course Bad Bad Things by AJJ also always reminds me of Daemyn, but in a specific scene sense, rather than his overarching storyline.

Anyway.

To explain the scene a little, character-wise, we have Men-Jen in Purple, pleading for Daemyn’s innocence. While she is entirely good-intentioned, she fails to see how “far gone” & fucked up Daemyn really is. Not to say he isn’t a good person, he’s just incredibly sick, both mentally & even more physically.

In the chair we have Bad Alter, one of Daemyn’s most persistent alters almost always fronting with him. Bad Alter, frankly undeserving of a name, and he wouldn’t choose himself anyways, is the devil on Daemyn’s shoulder. He constantly berates, belittles & pushes Daemyn to his limits. Daemyn blames him for all of the merciless killings & his ceaseless anxiety & insomnia, but the shut-eating bastard doesn’t have the balls to commit any crimes himself. He’s content taking blame & fancying himself a sort of puppet master. Bitch.

In the second version, we have pencil-drawn Daemyn screaming at Bad Alter, who has taken over as the fronting personality. He looks like a ghost for a reason, as no one else can see him. He is crazy after all.

Short Story Description:

Hanahaki - Comic Novel about a young man’s fast decent into madness, illness, and inevitable death. (Another story I’ve had since middle school, and one I’ve recently picked up again!)

It’s a story about a mentally ill lunatic. He’s terrified to live & even more petrified by the thought of death. He’s stuck between living & dying. Pummeled by anxiety attacks, never catching a damn break. He fights with his worst enemy & most persistent alter “Bad Alter,” who wants nothing more than to make Daemyn’s life a living Hell, encouraging him to end it all, but Daemyn can’t.

Eventually he meets a friend, Jennifer, whose name sounds like the name of the girl who shattered his heart a few weeks prior, & constantly calls her Menefer instead.

He meets & loses people on his journey until he’s alone & dying with himself.

A conversation between selves, really.

Self, terror, trauma, mental illness, grief, regret & acceptance. Flat Line.