#twst ariel

[zr-art-world]

More RSA and NRC exchange program shenanigans

Rielle sneaking back into RSA dorms after sneaking out to a music venue (Based on the little mermaid prequal)

Yuu, sneaking back into the dorms after meeting a certain fae in the RSA botanical gardens

🎶Prolong eye contact🎶

(Low key gave up at the end)

[nuitthegoddess]

Omg guys I cannot believe this has been leaked about part 3 omgggg

It's tru my RSA bois are in this episode and are gonna frickin fight mal and save everyone ommgggg

[silent-dragon]

TWST OC Profile ~ Cary Holger

"I am doing my very best to be part of your world." ~ Cary

Template by @/piraticusdorm

Merman form art below ⬇️

Personal Info

Name: Cary Holger

Nickname: Little Starfish

Gender: Male

Age: 19

Species: Blue Green Chromis Merman

Birthday: 10/5

Zodiac: Libra

Height: 199cm/6ft'5in"

Orientation: Pansexual

Eye Color: Umber

Hair Color: Scarlet

Homeland: Kingdom of Shellticthalassa

Family: King of Shellticthalassa - Father

5 older brothers

Older sister 

Twist of Ariel from Disney's The Little Mermaid,mashup of musical & live action versions

School Info

School: Royal Sword Academy

School Year: 3rd

Occupation: Prince,Vocalist,Item Collector

Best Subject: Music,Biology(Sea)

Other Info

Dominant Hand: Left

Favorite Food: Seaweed Cookies

Least Favorite Food: Seafood(Fish)

Dislikes: Strictness,Seafood,Being Upstaged,Silence for too Long,Confusing Surface Logic,Unfulfilled Dreams,

Likes: Music,Learning New Things,Forks,Collecting Random Things,Dancing,Hair Care,Musicals,R&B,Jazz,Pop

Talents: Singing,Swimming,Oceanography,Marine Biology,Flutist,Getting Lost,Asking Questions

Unique Magic: Spiral Song - While in water with focus can stir up a small to large water cyclone around him that persists longer if Cary sings to it. It protects him from most harm like sharks,etc.

Personality: Cary has a very sweet and carefree personality. Most will say he is just a pleasure to be around but needs some guidance as sometimes clueless to some modern surface logic. He can get kinda sassy when it comes to singing and often doesn't get along with other singers except his siblings and other merfolk musical people.

Fun Facts: Cary is the youngest child of the royal merfamily of Shellticthalassa,a small sea kingdom in the Coral Sea known for Musical performances.

He transferred to RSA from an undersea school. Convinced his father to allow this by showing him all the musical wonders he was missing and his father gave in cause Cary is his baby boy.

Cary has a big collection of random stuff most on the surface would call junk but he sees them as so interesting. His favorite is metal utensils and has found them useful as hair tools.

Can't help but return to the sea when he can to visit fish friends and family. Has gotten the hang of his legs but may stumble from time to time.

Is so friendly and always looking to make surface friends and even new sea ones now that he can meet so many more.

Loves to serenade someone if he is seeking their attention. May come off as flirty but he doesn't mean that way usually just hopes his voice makes others happy.

Sings in a group with siblings for years but now that he on his own mostly wants to go solo and try to make it big on the surface so he can probably stay longer.

Needs a paper map of rsa or often a staff member goes to find him as he gets lost very easily. He has ended up at NRC on accident twice.

Is quick to get sassy and jealous of other singers with established careers on the surface cause feels like they are judging him because he is not human. Sometimes wishes he fully was so didn't feel this way.

Art credit

Pose Refs: Utapri Live Renji - UK Street Snaps,Shining TV Style cards

Assets: TWST RSA Student assets used

[raven-at-the-writing-desk]

octavinelle washroom

Heartslabyul | Savanaclaw

Ooh, Octavinelle’s washroom reminds me of a cavern, especially with the mirrors that look like rock shelves jutting out and the far right looking like a stone bench in the wall. It seems like there are also mirrors on the walls that resemble bubbles. And some kind of open-shell basin in the center of the back wall? The floor has that signature Octavinelle squiggle pattern (which I’m just now realizing much be a reference to those wiggly plants hanging from Ursula’s lair).

The ceiling has three… skylights??? But I don’t think they actually show the outside because otherwise it would look a lot more blue since Octavinelle is underwater. Maybe the glass is frosted or something. I’m not sure why this is, the best I can think of is maybe it’s supposed to look like sunlight coming from above?? Like in Ariel’s trove?? It seems to cast a watery effect into the washroom.

Looks like there’s a separate room for laundry. The boundary between the rooms is marked by an arch that looks like two tentacles forming a heart. (I don’t know if this was intentional, but live action Ursula does this.) There’s also two glowing orbs that remind me of the sun rising and setting in Ursula’s cauldron.

bdksbdkenkw THE TENTACLE LIGHTS ARE SENDING ME 😭 How do you think Azul and the twins feel every day walking into the washroom and seeing what looks like disconnected octopus tentacles lighting it… Does Azul feel disturbed and the twins just get hungry for breakfast????

Their washroom looks a lot different than I expected… I’m not sure if I entirely like it or maybe I’m mildly salty because they didn’t give them Ursula’s cool vanity? Notably, it also looks different than the Octavinelle “shower room” that is referenced in Rook’s Ceremonial Robes vignettes. These terms must be referring to two different rooms—either that, or maybe the newer washroom is a retcon 😂

[punkbunny]

Legendary Cards 👑😈

[veilofthorns]

[twistmusings]

Character Analysis of the Twisted Wonderland Dorm Rooms - Octavinelle

Dorm Room Character Analysis Series

Heartslabyul | Savanaclaw | Octavinelle | Scarabia | Pomefiore | Ignihyde | Diasomnia

Azul Ashengrotto

Azul actually has a lot of little touches in his room that are very cute. For one thing, his general decor lends itself to the idea that Azul likes the finer things in life. Truthfully, all of the dorm rooms are have shown a lot of attention to the character's actual stylistic preferences in the Guest room and Azul is no exception.

Rather than having a bedside table, Azul has a second safe in his room in addition to the large one he has in his office. This is interesting because, well, that means that there's things that are likely more important to him than the contracts he kept in his vault in his office. I'm certainly curious about what sort of thing Azul would choose to keep in a personal vault - are they especially important contracts to him? Money? Or, perhaps, just other things that are especially special to him. I know the kneejerk reaction for a lot of folks is to be that it's where he stores his coin collection, however...

Azul actually displays his coin collection in a frame! He has them mounted in velvet.

Several of the other characters have featured a feather pen and ink bottles in their room, however a cute touch is that Azul's pen is actually fish bones. This is a cute little insight into what they may use for pens underneath the Coral Sea. Or, perhaps, Azul just has a flare for the dramatic.

Azul has a trunk and several potion bottles on top of his wardrobe. The fact that Azul has these out in the open on top of the trunk likely means that all of the items in the trunk were potion bottles, and then because they were stored up so high, he placed the ones he commonly uses on top, rather than storing them back inside the trunk. Azul is otherwise very organized, so it would make logical sense that if he's not putting these away, they're likely out because he knows he's going to reach for them again.

This is honestly probably my favorite detail in Azul's room because these are terrariums. Azul never mentions having any interest in Terrariums, but Jade does, meaning that these are likely terrariums that Jade made for Azul and gave him as gifts. This is actually really cute, because though the Leech twins joke about leaving Azul as soon as he becomes boring in canon, this shows that Jade at the very least thinks of Azul in his free time when he's not at work or around Azul by obligation, enough to have given him gifts. it's also worth noting that Azul has these displayed, which means that they aren't a gift that's rotting away in a drawer or stowed away somewhere. It's also worth mentioning that the ones that have plants in them are alive, which requires at least some level of attention to them in order to maintain the environment inside. Little things like this show how much the characters actually care about each other.

Azul's hidden Mickey is next to his shelf of terrariums.

Jade Leech

Jade is an interesting case because he, like Ruggie and Trey, doesn't actually have much displayed in his room in terms of decoration. That being said, what he does have displayed are his terrariums. Jade being the sole member of the Mountain Lover's club, it seems like he probably spends a lot of his free time out and tending to either his plants in the greenhouse or actually hiking.

This isn't likely directly because of Jade, however it seems like Octavinelle as a whole have coat hangers and hat racks that are themed around octopi, which is possibly the cutest thing I've ever seen.

Jade is notably organized - he has his shoes on his shoe rack, his hat and scarf hung up, and his bed made. This will become more important when you see Floyd's half of the room.

There is also this object. While I'm not certain and it doesn't seem to be mentioned in any of Jade's vignettes outright, I suspect this may be a jewelry box. It's a little hard to tell in comparison to a lot of the items in the student rooms, though, so if anyone has any additional input, please let me know! Neither of the other two from Octavinelle have an object like this one in their rooms.

Jade's Hidden Mickey is on one of his terrariums.

Fun fact, Jade AND Floyd both have errors in their Night 2 versions of their backgrounds, as they are both missing the hidden Mickey.

Floyd Leech

Oh, Floyd, sweetheart, you live like this?

Jokes aside, Floyd actually has some things of note! While his side of his and Jade's room (canonically they share a room) is messy, he's messy in a different fashion than someone like Leona. Where Leona doesn't hang his clothes - Floyd does. Or at the very least, it seems like someone does it for him. (Given the haphazard hanging of his jacket, though, I would guess that he probably does it himself.) What does that tell us? Well, more than likely, Floyd gets small bursts of motivation to clean certain aspects of his room, and then grows bored and gives them up. To be quite honest, for those who know of or experience it, Floyd's organization style reminds me a lot of how ADHD folks tend to struggle with forming sustainable cleaning habits, as it's often easier to put something down rather than to put it away.

Snacks, literally everywhere. Floyd has snacks on his desk as well as on the shelf above his bed. It would seem that Floyd has a serious sweet-tooth, given the amount of sweets that we see in his room.

For the life of me, I could not tell you if this is a trash bin or not, but if it is, it looks like whatever Floyd put in there has teeth marks on it.

Another thing of note about Floyd's room, while there's a lot of things that are strewn around, there's not actually all that much trash around. He has a single empty container on his desk, but otherwise his floors are clean, and it seems like things that need to end up disposed are. Again, whether or not that's Jade intervening because they share a room, it's hard to say.

Floyd's hidden Mickey is on his pillow.

As was mentioned in Jade's section, both Floyd and Jade's Night 2 versions of their backgrounds are missing the hidden Mickey. Floyd's background has an additional error however!

Floyd's box of cookies is actually missing the box in his Night 2 artwork. If I had to guess, since I have experience with digital art, more than likely, the layer containing these details was accidentally deleted when making the edits for the Night 2 cards, resulting in these things disappearing when the background were published. It's a minor error, all things considered, and gave me a little giggle because now it just looks like Floyd has haunted cookies floating in his room.

Addendum

Excellent catch by @twistedminutia that Azul's fish bone pen is likely in reference to the pen Ariel signs her contract with in the original movie! (To be quite honest, and I know this is ironic given that this blog has such a heavy octavinelle theming, but the little mermaid was my least favorite Disney movie growing up, so I never would have caught this myself!)

[deeva-arud]

I'm honoured to be granted the opportunity to visit a place like this on its centenary. Seeing these paintings in person is a unique experience for me.

[thelamentknight]

I wanna redo these pics that I made a year ago (the art makes me want to bang my head on my table)

[oddberryshortcake]

7.10 COMING OUT THIS MONTH BABYYYYY

[avalon-knightly]

Someone new has been added to our display, which means...

[zr-art-world]

some doodles of twst oc

yuu in a different outfit, kid Yuu, Rielle, zain, twst Flounder (not named yet, and Zolio

[nuitthegoddess]

Im working on Rielle’s sprite ever since I posted the other video but I cannot help but to make this KDNSNDND

[violet-hijinkx]

It took me over a week to finish this project💀 I’m so glad she’s finally done you have no idea😭😭😭 She was gonna just be based off of Ariel (The Brother’s Grim Version) and Princess Mipha (Zelda Breath of the Wild) I was trying to combine elements of both these characters without her looking too much like the characters she’s based on (which I realize now, is SUPER difficult when both Ariel and Mipha have really similar if not the same color palettes😭) plus I was trying to give her a custom uniform like I did with my past few OC’s but trying to combine a beachy look with the NRC school uniform was so much more difficult than I thought😭💀

I was days into this project (almost a week) at this point and after scrolling through Pinterest (to find ideas) on and off throughout this project I was ready to give up, but I wanted to try one more idea first. To see if maybe the problem was that I needed another character to use as inspo along with Ariel and Mipha so I chose Captain Hook (Peter Pan)

The Captain Hook inspo is what saved this character😭 I absolutely LOVE how she turned out🤩🥰

If you remember in The Brother’s Grim version of “The Little Mermaid” Ariel’s human legs made it feel like she was walking on sharp glass with every step she took. I did the same thing with this character, because walking is extremely painful for her she uses crutches to get around on land and when she’s in water aka her siren form she can use magic to fuse her crutches together to form this super cool trident modeled after Mipha’s trident from the game🥰 She uses the trident to fight under water, but on land she can turn her right crutch into the top half of her trident so she can still stand and fight at the same time. However, only using half the trident means she can only use up to 50% of her magic. Plus only having use of one crutch limits her ability to move around

Even though I almost gave up on this project I’m so happy I made one late attempt on her overall design🥰🥰🥰

[raven-at-the-writing-desk]

The Current event makes me smile since it kind of confirms a headcanon I had that the Great Seven have animated movies based on them. Makes me wonder about the plot of the movies

Disney should get on the Twisted Wonderland AU Animated Remakes. What is Ursula was a good witch, what if Scar was right to take the throne and did he take it from Mufasa? (Or whoever is the stand in for him)

The Evil/Beautiful Queen...actually GOOD?

Yeah, it makes sense! Since the Great Seven are historical figures and the stuff of legends, surely there would be popular media made in their image. It’s like how the Disney fairy tales borrow from stories in the public domain or how there are historical retellings and reinventions (Hamilton, anyone?).

I believe TWST has mentioned films based on their own stories and history before too, but purely in the animated sense rather than live action. In book 3, Ace and one of the Atlantica Museum guards talk about an animated movie based on the tale of the mermaid princess and her prince; this movie is said to have come out ~30 years ago, which corresponds with Disney’s animated The Little Mermaid. Ace compliments the movie’s soundtrack too way to stroke your own ego, Disney/j.

Later on in Tapis Rouge, the characters discuss other films based on the Great Seven, including one Queen of Hearts movie. A Sea Witch movie is also mentioned; in it, she “goes gigantic” and also sings as she brews potions. The Octatrio quite enjoy this particular film.

(Side note: Another anon once suggested to me that people probably also write fanfics of Neige and Vil since they’re celebrities… Think like “My mom sold me to One Direction?!” Wattpad kinds of fics, but replace One Direction with Vil or something. You can read those post here!)

It’s… interesting this event specifically has Vil promoting a live action adaption of an in-universe animated film about the Beautiful Queen—an animated film which was the first full-color animated movie AND it originally released close to 90 years ago. They also reference the funding issues that Disney suffered while producing Snow White + inviting bank employees in to preview the movie to acquire more investments, stating that the studio that made the animated Beautiful Queen experienced the same. The in-game live action is even slated to come out “NEXT YEAR”. They’re not being subtle here with TWST’s references to their own version of the irl Disney Snow White (the live action is coming out in 2025, the OG is also almost 90 years old, etc.). I wonder if the EN server will actually get Tapis Rouge around the time of the irl release of Disney’s live action Snow White as part of a promotional campaign? 😂

UPDATE: There are even more not-so-subtle references to Disney animations in part 4 of the event, including discussion of cel animation, rotoscoping, adding blush to the characters, and how Disney brought in real animals/observed the “real thing” to help with animating similar scenes or subjects. They also cheekily say that most animation nowadays is CG 💀

I know some books under Disney publishing try to show alternate tellings or show the villains in a more sympathetic light, but I don’t know that they would ever commit to fully animating a film like that. It definitely would not happen in the style of traditional animation, Disney no longer seems well-equipped to handle that task 😔 I feel like it would also be pretty niche or might not get overwhelming positive reception with recent audience calls for “true bad guys” instead of twist or sympathetic villains (though I’m not sure what percentage of people watching Disney actually have this opinion).

I do wonder how those “AU” films would work though…? It wouldn’t be as simple as suddenly turning the G7 into “good guys”. The scenario and other characters would also have to drastically change. TWST doesn’t necessarily make the original “good guys” “bad” in a world where the villains are historical figures; we still hear plenty of positive or neutral stories about the achievements of the mermaid princess and other Disney heroes.

There are also times when the same story diverges into multiple separate stories that seemingly have no connection to one another. For example, there is a story where a princess marries a street rat (clearly referencing Aladdin) and they live happily ever after in spite of the difference in their social statuses. However, there simultaneously exists a story in which the Sorcerer of the Sands saves a princess from being deceived by a fake prince (also referencing Aladdin). The same goes for the mermaid princess (Ariel)—there is both a story referring to a “mermaid princess” who married a human prince and also a different story (clearly still pulled from the same film) about a mermaid who made a deal with the Sea Witch to find true love but broke her contract in the end.

Very cool idea, just not sure where it would lead or it it’s feasible or worth it monetarily for Disney.

[lemonrin-i]

I just realized that jade (and floyd to some extent) probably views the land the same way humans view the oceans. Mystical, mysterious and full of unknown wonders. I've just realized this now after noticing his room had terrariums in it, and considering the size and number of terrariums he has, he probably been maintaining them for many years now (I GUESS IN MER SOCIETY THEIR SORT OF THEIR OWN VERSION OF A FISHTANK) Not to mention he's in the mountain lover club