#himmel statue

[mokkenene]

My husband, one of my besties, and I went to Japan, and while we were there we went to go see the Himmel statue before it was taken down. We handmade our costumes, and had a lot of fun going around the park in cosplay. We got asked for a few photos, and received lots of friendly waves. I even got called Frieren sama a few times! So happy we were lucky enough to be able to have this experience!

[mintybytes]

a familiar traveler

[akashis-waifu]

Neuvillette and Furina | Frieren and Himmel

Belated happy birthday, Neuvillette!

[cinnamonsikwate]

watching the first 2 episodes of frieren last year shook me so bad i still can't get myself to continue it, but between what i remember of it and the nightmares episode of dungeon meshi i can't stop thinking about the ways laios would prepare marcille for his death. what would he leave behind to remind her that he (and by extension all the people she loved and who loved her) are still with her in spirit, even if not in body?

[hazzzyrider]

I don't have the guts to watch the Frieren anime. I already cry on the regular when I read the manga every three months. It literally breaks me when I think about the premise alone. You're telling me to witness a near-immortal self actualize affection and intimacy for people she already outlived AND is in the process of outliving???????

Pretty sure I'll end up eating my whole fist if I watch it animated and voiced.

[everydayfrimmel]

May 29th, 2024

“Polishing”

500 words, canon-compliant

This one got his chin all wrong.

There's no reason at all for Frieren to take note of that. She has seen dozens, hundreds of these statues, most of them imperfect in some small way. A good three-quarters of those don't look quite right: he is too tall, or his build too lean or too stocky; his nose isn't quite right or his facial expression is one that, in all of ten years, she never saw on the real Himmel's face. She's no longer surprised that even people who sculpted Himmel during his lifetime couldn't get him right all the time.

But there is really no reason she should even remember what looks right and what doesn't anymore.

It's been eighty years. His face should be fuzzy in her memory by now, and when she tries to recall it, it is. But the moment she is presented with an imperfect replica, she purses her lips, displeased, and remembers with clarity that shocks even herself how different he looked in life. Even though she had been the first to argue that all of these statues were excessive back then, the wrong ones make her a little bit peevish.

Even after half a life spent away from the rest of the world, Frieren has seen more faces than she knows what to do with and forgotten them all. She tries to tell herself that it's curious that she remembers this one well enough to criticize a statue for failing to capture him well, but if she is honest with herself, she knows why.

Just like she knows, whether she will admit it or not, that he knew what a mirrored lotus meant, and that she knew what the way he looked at her meant, somewhere in the back of her mind, only chose every single time to pretend she didn't know as much as she did. Just like she knows now that she was very, very foolish to hide, to be so confused and frightened of something as warm and safe as Himmel. Perhaps the statues - the immense, gaping knowing that it takes to look at a bronze rendering and be able to point out how it fails to capture the original - is her strange sort of penance for that hiding-away. She comforts herself with the thought that it has to be.

"You'd have hated the way they did your chin," she murmurs, polishing - by hand, there is no spell that gives the feeling of having done her proper duty - a rusted cheek. The cloth rubs off nothing but a thin layer of dirt, and the copper of his face is still green beneath. "You always were too vain for your own good."

Perhaps she should thank him for that, though. It's that vanity that's kept his face so fresh in her mind, years after she ought to have forgotten what it looked like.

(Or maybe she's lying to herself. Maybe there is no preservative in the world as powerful as affection.)

[amethystsoda]

Me: surely this episode of Frieren won't make me cry this time

*narrator voice* she was wrong

[microwaving-tesilid-argente]

saw a comment on youtube about how himmel was probably so obsessed with having statues not just because of narcissism, but because he wanted to leave behind his image for his long-lived friends. i am in shambles.

[lanarchive]

fav part of frieren so far <3 also ily

hello hi i love YOU! my favourite part omg………. i have so many and i literally JUST got to the thirtieth chapter….. most recently tho is frieren picking a random ring for himmel to give her only for it to be a ring of eternal love (which he NOTICES and his face goes so soft and im just 🥹🥹🥹🥹)

[reckless-rider]

the animation for Frieren is so pretty

[haru-rain]

The biggest reason Himmel wanted statues of him and his group was so that Frieren wouldn't feel alone...

He didn't want her to be the only one to remember the faces of the hero and his group. He didn't want their adventures to become a fairy tale.

He wanted everyone to know that the hero Himmel and his group really did exist, and that their adventures were not just a myth that people told themselves without really believing it...

[tayasui-mono]

It's honestly so fucked up that there is a Himmel statue in every single town that Frieren visits, that kind of love is so heartbreaking and pure and comforting. He wanted to comfort her and be remembered and take care of her even in death. And it hurts so much that they have to separated by death, but it's also, it doesn't matter that he's dead, his feelings for her surpassed his lifetime. Whenever you see a Himmel statue, it's like he's right there anyway, so there is no opportunity to grieve him because he's right there and he cares so much.

[nnobara]

you're always getting statues made, himmel. because i want everyone to remember us. unlike you we don't live that long. but i guess the biggest reason is so you won't be alone in the future. what does that mean? we're not fairy tales. we really existed.

[pardon-my-scifi]

I will never be okay about Himmel and Frieren. Dude had statues built of the party so that she could always remember their faces and never be alone. Dude made sure debts were paid to Frieren far into the future. He wanted a chef's recipes to be the same 100 years into the future so that she could remember them and have something to look forward to. And now everything Frieren does is influenced by what Himmel did/told her. She spent months trying to find his favorite flower so she could cast a spell to plant them at his statue. Just AAAARRRRRRGGGGGGGHHHHHH!!!!

[whimsicallywiddershins]

Frieren is full of little impactful moments but the one that really hit me hard is when we learn that main reason Himmel wanted all those statues of him and the group is so people would know that they weren't a fairy tale, that they were real. That Frieren wouldn't be the only one to remember them. That in a thousand years the statues would still be there, people would still talk about Himmel the Hero, and Frieren wouldn't be so alone. It really made me realize all of the little things Himmel did for Frieren, to keep Frieren company even after he died. I can't wait to see what else he did for her, what other gifts he left for her.

[philosmene]

First frieren fanart and it's a MEME to cope with the tragic lovestory plotline 🗣 anyways do you think Himmel asked her to do that pose for their commissioned statues

😸 Meme based on that labru meme by @/sweepswoop_ on twitter