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[marimondart]

Ruler of My Heart (Sua ver)

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[uwibbit]

🌕 when our darknesses overlap, let me take it all away ✨

[bringmebrightness]

i was pausing a frame of Round 5 to use as a pose reference and

this blank, maybe even disdainful or bored expression, right after we're shown luka's fans going wild and before the line "Make me your God, I can give you everything"

for some of the song he's acting interested and trying to act charming (mimicking sua either intentionally or unintentionally), and at other points he's blank and distant again

man...

[beanmaster-pika]

I think if he ever actually said this the whole sect would faint from shock (not ship)

[music2keepsane]

Ruler of My Heart - Hyuna Vers. Alien Stage

[htegiantpeach]

emerld srstrai.... my wife emerald sustry.......

[sqwigeon]

another one for the pmmm x alnst crossover

[atrophiedemotion]

i love seeing more people talk about mizisua not being as healthy as people make it out to be, because their relationship is partly based in deception. and i just find it fascinating to think about the fact that sua, in lying & hiding the truth of the world from mizi and sacrificing herself for her to keep going in alnst, makes it so that mizi doesn't even get a chance to consider sacrificing herself for sua in turn. which i personally think might've been something mizi would have considered if she'd known. sua, by keeping the reality of alien stage from a sheltered mizi, (sort of) basically takes away her autonomy in that decision.

that isn't sua's intention of course, but it ends up that way anyway. sua trying desperately to keep mizi happy and innocent ends up hurting her more than helping in the long run, and i think sua knew that, but she wanted her to at least have happy memories of growing up and of being with sua. unfortunately those memories are stained now, stained by the truth and the omission and the fact that sua knew but mizi didn't, but now she does. it's heartbreaking. it really lays the groundwork for the 'selfishness and selflessness go hand in hand' theme in alnst.

and mizi, afterward? "hatred is easier than a word as vague as love" makes a lot of sense when you consider that mizi's rage at luka could've been pointed at sua as well, or even completely. not that she doesn't still love her with everything in her, but she is still able to feel anger at her for lying and turning her world upside down with her death. those feelings can exist simultaneously (another theme in alnst visible through every couple).

[crustyfloor]

hehehenenehreneenh

Ruler of my heart is a song about obsession, devotion, in almost the religious sense as you look up to the person as a god in your life, your only person.

There is hesitance in Mizi and Luka's ruler of my heart as Mizi is still grieving Sua, just on the cusp of breaking, and Luka is manipulating her into falling into his whims, directly pressing on that wound. In Sua's version of Ruler of My Heart, she is Mizi's god. The song expresses her etherealness in the way she sings.

But in HyunA's version of Ruler of My Heart, she sounds more wistful and distracted like she's reminiscing. Her tone isn't strong like her personality, she sings softly and deeply like a murmur, in the solace of her own mind she doesn't feel as free as she is. She still feels stuck in the past. Luka still lingers in her mind even after all these years, in this song, too, his voice lingers in the background just barely as if he’s haunting her. HyunA sings ROMH with such an air of disinterest, yet she breaks at certain moments when it's so obvious she's thinking about Hyunwoo, her only person.

She's also thinking about Luka. HyunA is obviously mad at Luka, mad might not even be a strong enough word for just how angry she was, he's the reason she lost her brother after all, how could he take him from her and dare to try and take his place, as if he could be her everything like hyunwoo was, as if he could heal her. She wishes she would've never met him at all, but while singing, she sounds melancholic because that day, she didn't just lose her brother. She lost Luka too.

The anniversary covers feel like foreshadowing for each of the characters' stories, so in Round 7 I think there will be a moment to address this lingering ache, but I'm not sure just how it will play out...probably not anything good (due to my doubts)

NOW IM SO EXCITED TO HEAR THEIR VOICES EDITED TOGETHER I WILL DIE

[ochiody]

OHH MY GOD HYUNA. RJKWNSNJBGBHVJM

[chiisana-lion]

they had to kill sua in the first round bc they knew she'd outcunt luka if it ever had to come to that point

[l-0puko]

just rewatched the alnst prologue and was like. huh. i knew there was something familiar about the latest poster

[frill-s]

Mount Hua's Divine Dragon. That's what Cheong Myeong's title became after the contest between Zhongnan and Mount Hua. I never thought about who gave CM his first title. I just assumed it manifested into existence.

And then later in the novel, Jin Geumryong refers to CM as the Divine Dragon. CM is confused because has a new title that has been used more commonly. Jin Geumryong is so nonchalant as he says that he bestowed the name "Divine Dragon" to CM so of course he's going to keep referring to CM as Divine Dragon.

So there was a reason he was dubbed as the Divine Dragon, right? He beat Jin Geumryong, whose namesake was dragon. How did I miss that? Were there clues I overlooked? I just never thought about how he got the title, other than it was because he defeated the second-grade Zhongnan disciples.

[bringmebrightness]

Thinking about the biological elements in the stage decor in Round 5

[beanmaster-pika]

She’s so the favorite

[damiiimidassss]

"Home"

Medium: oil paint

I painted how I imagined mount hua sect mountain!!🩷