#i will smite you asagiri

[gothicmatter]

asagiri really thinks he can just take vampire dad away from me and live, laugh, love with no consequences

[transsexualhamlet]

@kaus-quietis YEAH i feel exactly the same way I think about him every day and am consumed by the need to study and classify this creature like a bug but despite so much searching of canon and his source material,, there is really not much to go off of. We don't have Fyodor's canonical age and height, for gods sake, much less a backstory or explanation of his ability.

So my idea goes off of what we have, which is what we've seen of the ability, what Fyodor has said about the ability, what we know of Fyodor's motives and personality, and possible derivatives from like, Crime and Punishment the book.

So yknow, every time we've seen Fyodor kill someone with his ability- the only two times I can think of being Karma and the police guard. (there might have been more, correct me if I'm wrong.)

And from looking at those scenes, a spray of blood splashes dramatically out of the victims, though there is no apparent wounds for them to come out of.

We know that his ability works through fabric- hence his ability to get the guard even though he was covered head to toe, and No Longer Human works the same way- though, of course, we don't know that Crime and Punishment even requires physical touch.

We also know that Crime and Punishment is apparently its own singularity, presumably encompassing halves as crime and punishment separately, meaning that it's a contradictory ability that could not attack Fyodor,,, however what that even means is currently very much up to interpretation since we get like. Zero context or idea of what is contradictory about the ability or what it even does in relation to Fyodor.

My thought is that we can be fairly confident that Fyodor's ability at least has some sort of relation to or control over blood. Throughout the story there has been honestly a lot of imagery and ideas surrounding him that have to do with blood: what we see of Fyodor's victims, the fact that we know that he has anemia despite not knowing his FUCKING HEIGHT, the imagery early on after his character introduction where he's shown filling a chalice with drops of his own blood, and the fact that Bram Stoker is a part of the DOA with him. That shows an interesting dichotomy about his relation to blood- does he have power over other people's blood, yet his own blood has power over him? That could relate to the singularity of it.

Though I couldn't tell you much about it at all, that makes me really suspicious that the end of this vampire arc might actually reveal about Fyodor. There's clearly still much to resolve in the bsd plot, it seems that some sort of climax is coming near, at least to the vampire arc. And if there is something about Fyodor and blood and I'm not fucking crazy, that would be a better time than any to reveal it.

Do I know anything about what exactly his ability does? No fucking way. But you can clearly tell that on him it's something that wears him down no matter how good a weapon it is. I believe it's something of a double edged sword, with a sort of punishment for the crime of using it. Whether he can literally pull the blood from bodies like that art of yours, or the blood is symbolic towards some more religious way of killing as he does (whether he considers it Smiting or mercy), regarding sin or souls or whatever *makes generalized gesture* You Know

But yeah, my very general and vague idea of what Asagiri might be trying to show us about his ability is that it functions paradoxically, that it liberates something from the victim that results in their death (maybe literal blood, maybe something represented by blood) and either physically or spiritually it hurts Fyodor a lot to use it, and that just existing with that ability takes a toll on him. And despite the fact that he feels it a curse, he also clearly considers it his duty to use- and like in your art where he seems to pull the blood he's poured from the rose into himself, he may metaphorically take on that sin himself.

So I really like that art because I feel it represents that a lot!! ghgngngn i have so many thoughts about fyodor all the time

Greetings, Rowan Merlin Septimus Pandemonium, I am pleased to sit here (un)invited in your askbox. I would like to leave the following message and then disappear into the time-blog continuum again: your recent, single tag #WHAT DOES THIS MEAN on my latest BSD Fedya fanart made me laugh SO MUCH, it's like the culmination of all the VERY entertaining tags you left under my fanarts that you reblogged lol (I appreciated them all a lottt). So, to put it shortly, thank you xD have a nice day/evening~

WSERHgihFIOEWSED well you've been posting very pretty and abstract and symbolic fanart and im usually able to parse it out but this one just. I'm dumb and I think it's very cool but WHAT DOES IT MEAN SDHGIFEWSD i literally love what ur doing tho

(and every single time i see one of ur fanarts i send it to my boyfriend in 0.5 seconds so he can froth at the mouth and cry and sob with me)