#im just enthralled with the visual. of someone approaching what used to be a popular area

[boyheros]

Some symbolism I've been sitting on and not mentioning (bc I kinda wanted to show it visually, not with words...) is the "inverted man". In the past Mizrieta were kinda considered like "people but off" or. Y'know. Inverted. They're so similar to humans but so Not. So they got called that sometimes. "Beware the inverted man" and all that. The symbol of the inverted man eventually became synonymous with death, either because Mizrieta aren't considered alive (and when humans get mizrieta sickness, they're considered dead!) or because well....it's not uncommon for mizrieta to kill humans. so the inverted man is a symbol of death and people will flip street signs with human figures upside down as warning. It's a signal that the area has been killed off, or maybe that you'll die if you enter here. and that warning spread to just flipping anything noticeable upside down, or drawing upside down figures on any plain surface, or turning the photos of a deceased person upside down, or or or ....