#shades nier

[miel128]

my friends

[cursoulla]

The World-Ender; Alternate Lad

🩸 bloodied version 👇

[hoshizoralone]

louises

[cartooniste2z]

Day 2 of Lixmas!

Lix as 2B

Let's keep the streak going!

[guavie]

Prototype YoRHa Gunners! I got inspired by the designs in the manga (except No. 16 who existed already)

[catluniscia]

The Hopeful Mermaid

My Card where you can find my socials, where to buy my merch, and commission information, and places to support me like ko-fi  https://blackmoonrose13.carrd.co/ Speed paint: https://youtube.com/shorts/830HB1RBFZY Louise is a character exclusive to NieR Replicant ver.1.22474487139..., appearing in a new main story quest based on the short story The Little Mermaid from Grimoire Nier. Yes I just quoted the Wiki to explain her. Her story is so sad, she is a shade who just wants to be a little girl and human and happy and stuff and just...I got emotions okay! Nier is gonna twist the knife and  Yoko Taro will feast on our tears and sadness and become more powerful!  The hopeful mermaid, nier, nier replicant, louise, Yoko Taro, shade, panic, pain, sadness, video game, gaming, nier fanart,

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[ouzikiart]

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[wieldsrage]

when kainé in route [E] said she has a strange feeling like somehow not all shades are bad, don't think for a second she was referring to tyrann. that dude can choke...

[miracleheart]

whenever I see people try to blame Kaine for not telling Nier, that the shades are people and not monster. I cannot help but wonder if we played the same game...

[bioswear]

Updates to my DrakeNieR themed jacket /wearable collectible !

Zero and Furiae imagery before I tackle finishing the back panel

[sxlphie]

Ignore the fact that she has literally just passed away but when is Devola going to tell me the shade of her lip gloss/balm

[irregularjohnnywiggins]

Actually, okay, I'm curious about this point and couldn't find any concrete answer either way, so I figured I might as well use this new fangled 'poll' system them kids are having fun with:

[cinderblocksplashzone]

finally... after 260 hours i've beaten shadowbringers and unlocked access to the NieR crossover raids...

this is genuinely the only reason i bought the ff expansions

[kikizoshi]

In the spirit on NieR-related stories never to be written, here's a what was once meant to be an opening line: two paragraphs I wrote with the concept of Nikolai hailing from Facade, in which he'd been sentenced to that thing where you have to stare at sand for a long time:

In the ever-flowing sludge of quicksand, Nikolai Gogol felt two long years of his life drift away. Should someone have went up to him at that moment, to ask him for a favour or to otherwise simply ask how he was doing, he wasn’t sure that he’d be able to resist hurling them in with the skiffs floating endlessly along the canals. ‘Though, I can’t, of course,’ he thought. ‘Such a thing would break Rule 89: "Intentional murder of another citizen for no discernible reason is hereby strictly prohibited…" Then again, who may blame me, were it naught but an accident? I could hurl myself into the river, along with him…’ Nikolai’s face fell into a grimacing smile. ‘Ah, but then that breaks Rule 338: "Throwing oneself into the sand is forbidden." They truly do think of everything…’

[sphealingit22]

FUN FACT

Did you know that Yoko Taro was deeply influenced by the world's response to 9/11 when directing the development of Nier? As an outsider to the politics of the war on terror, he contextualized it as a conflict between two sides carrying a dogmatic notion that their brutality against the other was justified, an this perspective's influence on his work is most visible in the conflict between humans and Shades which gets further and further recontextualized as the game continues.

It also means that this is true

Happy 9/11

[toskarin]

as someone who knows about the drakengard plotline in question, i'm kind of curious on how it's paralleled in later titles. that's a detail i hadn't picked up on in my playing of the drakenier games, i'd like to hear more on that

I'm a bit out of it today, so I won't get horribly into things besides pointing out the vague shape of them. apologies for that

enormous spoilers below the break for the entire drakenier franchise, naturally

at the core of the mainline drakenier games, imperfect protagonists are navigating doomed relationships with their siblings (or the closest things they have to them) and finding out just how miserable their situation really is by trying to solve what they view as a simple problem

Nier and Yonah are a very easy comparison, with how they're more of a normal sibling relationship in a horrifyingly bleak world. where Caim's distorted connection with Furiae stems from the distance between them, Nier's healthier connection to his sister exists in a world that is distorting all on its own. they were dead before they even knew they were alive.

in SINoALICE, it's even confirmed that Nier never finds a cure for Yonah and goes on to kill her when she becomes a shade. whether he wants to or not, he has to walk in Caim's footprints

I probably don't need to elaborate on how Drakengard 3 is "kill my sister world" echoed out into flowering fractals, but in general, a lot of the plots echo the ways in which Caim's simple act of existence unknowingly kills his sister

see also: Emil and Halua, and the general horrors of having a twin in a Yoko Taro setting