#mairinnen tearza

[chaos-of-the-abyss]

i go absolutely completely totally just a little bit insane when i think about tearza and the red emperor. him building a statue in her honor despite it all. his disbelief and devastation and rage and grief when he realizes what she did to herself, just like nezha's disbelief and devastation and rage and grief when he realizes what rin did to herself. history moves in vicious circles

[sweeetsh]

alphonse mucha paraphrase

mucha’s is partially about cultural pride, which i found to be fitting for rin. rin had to represent a culture she never knew, she never had any connections to speer outside of what altan told her, what she was showed through the phoenix, and through text books (which were horrendously racist for sure), which gave her a very limited understanding of speer and speerly culture. yet, despite not knowing speerly culture, she became its face. so in my paraphrase she’s wearing a hanfu (traditional chinese clothing = nikara) instead of the clothing that tearza is wearing in the background (inspired by traditional taiwanese clothing = speerly) to simply show her discontent from the culture she’s supposed to represent. this is also why the necklace she is wearing is breaking.