#nelly limbus company

[livisart]

literally all i can imagine seeing ryoshu's new ID:

[neonmetro]

happy new years! this year vivisection will be your present ❤️❤️

[saphirdevil]

[erlkink-heatcliff]

git him! ooh git him !

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extra doodles too

[556ch0cl8]

nelly 🥴

[kellllerrs]

my artstyle changing for the limbillionth time after switching art programs

ily nelly

[akimame-log]

N corp's uniform is so cute…

[slotumn]

Finished Canto 6 and I have Thoughts™ about Nelly

I think she's a great example of a character whose gender is implicitly relevant to her role and problems without The Woman™ being her entire (or even main, depending on how you choose to see it) thing. She's basically a domestic worker and a mother figure for Heathcliff and Catherine, and she does take a lot of pride in that role, being the Chief Butler and all

But at the same time, when she sees the mirror worlds she has the realization that at this rate her entire life, her entire being and identity, will only ever be dedicated just to caring for/serving other people. Yes she genuinely cares for Heathcliff and Catherine but at the same time, will her life ever be her own? Will she ever get to be Nelly, instead of Nelly the Butler/Nelly the Caretaker— Nelly the (implicit) mother of those kids? Does this sound familiar, wink wink nudge nudge

Also notice that Nelly isn't the Chief Butler of Wuthering Heights at present time even though that's where she began, she's the Chief Butler of Edgar family. She basically got transferred like dowry when Catherine married, and while she does seize the title of Chief Butler, she's still tied to the family hiring her at the end of the day.

Like it's interesting that while Catherine is the one who got married, I feel like Nelly is the one who has the role of the new wife being given a hard time by her husband's family. That thing you see a lot in K-dramas about how much the in-laws suck? Yeah that. And not just after Catherine got married, her entire position throughout everything is the person doing all the emotional and domestic labor for the sake of others and it's just expected she keep doing that for the rest of her life.

Nelly's design and role being contrasted with Josephine is interesting, too— Nelly is younger, wears a maid dress, is the closest to Catherine (young woman and new wife) before betraying her because she wants something other than being bound to someone else's family. Josephine is older, wears a suit, is still loyal to the dead madam, is very proud of her position in relation to the family to the end.

And I know Josephine didn't get a lot of screentime nor did we see much of her relationship to Nelly, but from the above I can guess exactly what their dynamic was. It's the Korean (probably eastern in general?) grandmas who have "climbed up the ladder" within their husband's family through age/experience + having a son and bully their new daughter-in-law even though they once used to be in that same position. Yeah if you know you know

And what makes it perfect is that in the end Nelly leaves while saying "You understand right, since you're a good kid, Heathcliff" (playing in Korean so idk what the exact English translation is but you get the gist). That is such a Mom Line of her to say but not necessarily in a positive way, literally perfect no notes

[sunshades]

okayyyy been talking with some friends about how pm is def better at making women in suits than women in dresses, so i tried a couple redesigns for fun. more clearly flamenco-inspired barber and la dulcinea valenciana since we were thinking it'd be cool to have more spanish inspo in canto 7, then a catherine in georgian era fashion cuz what the hell is she wearing, and a matching nelly just for fun.

+ t corp filter versions

[balis77]

I love how when the Sinners are asking Nelly why she betrayed them/Heathcliff and Cathy, she responds with "Imagine finding out your entire life is cosmically destined to be spent being the third party to those two's relationship drama" and literally everyone, including Heathcliff, just go "ok yeah, that's fair."

[materialistvampire]

Tbh, I'm surprised that in all of the various posts and analyses of Outis I've seen, I haven't seen anyone mention the fact that two of the most defining events of Odysseus' journey are his men specifically disobeying his orders behind his back and bringing about disaster as a result - opening the wind bag gifted by the god Aeolus and thus causing them to be blown off course (and making pretty much all of the events of their journey happen as a result), and slaughtering the cattle of Helios, resulting in all of their deaths and the destruction of his ship. Like...

Idk guys, I think she might have some baggage about this subject or something.

[wolvzephyr]

miss ellen dean (nelly)

[astragatwo]

I liked her a lot, actually

[picaroroboto]

(guy who is perpetually a single Canto behind voice): I think Nelly from Canto 6 might be my favorite single-canto NPC so far. When I read the book Wuthering Heights I spent a lot of time thinking about her role as narrator of the story retelling it to Mr. Lockwood - at the point where she's telling it both Cathy and Edgar are dead and Heathcliff is pretty far along a downward spiral, so she's the only one who knows the complete story of the manor from the beginning (iirc she's only slightly older than Heathcliff and Cathy, so they basically grew up together) almost to the end, from a perspective close to the action but not part of the central drama. When reading you have to suspend your disbelief at the fact that she remembers conversations and scenes from years ago, but even so she's far from a perfect narrator, and sometimes not even a good person (one of the fun things about Wuthering Heights is that there's no "moral center", no completely innocent victim - even Mr. Lockwood, who's barely a character, is a bit of an asshole). There's times where you think that if she'd been kinder and more understanding to Heathcliff and Cathy things would have turned out better, and other times where you feel sorry for her and the fact that servants couldn't change households/careers easily in this era because oh my god girl you need to get out of that place. But being the only one who knows a story must be a burden, that's why a story must be shared so the burden can be shared. And the story of wuthering heights is equal parts tragedy, horror, and the most fucked-up romantic gossip you've ever heard in your life so it's the kind of story that demands to be told to someone else.

Limbus's Nelly, when she looks through the Mirror Worlds and sees herself in every one get dragged down by Heathcliff and Cathy's drama, she's essentially reacting to that role of narrator and passive participant that she has in the novel, and trying to escape it. The circumstances that cause everyone to forget Cathy means that she no longer knows the full, correct, story, in a way granting her the escape she wanted - but in betraying Heathcliff and forgetting Cathy the cost was breaking relationships that she had for years. Now the only ones who know the story, who know that Cathy even existed are Dante and Heathcliff himself, sharing that burden of knowing. I think there's a trend too of Dante being an observer to stories that others don't know or forget, like how they're the only one unaffected by the memory wipe that caused the Sinners to forget the Tearful Thing at the end of Canto 4.

[saphirdevil]

A Special Night

[cowabinah]