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Game 5 spades hcs

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Sometimes I wonder: was Edgar actually mean or did they just hate their abusers? Cause like… in literally any context where they aren’t getting actively abused and exploited they’re described pretty chill and even friendly

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Edgar hunter design doodle

I mainly based it on haunted paintings and the impressionist art movement. I thought it’d fit because:

1. Edgar is constantly talking about not feeling understood and ppl making assumptions about him so an art movement based on portraying the impression of something instead of the actual details goes with that.

2. Since Edgar was sacrificed and had his soul handed over to papa Legba, his soul wouldn’t be free so I felt the chained up design could reference that.

3. It has a bit of dramatic irony since Edgar’s main desires seem to be freedom and being understood but in the end he gets neither.

4. The way he’s tied up is slightly reminiscent of a straight jacket which plays into the way Orpheus pathologizes Edgar a ton in the experiment file.

I wanted his design to lean into being largely unrecognizable (face obscured by bangs, body obscured by longer cape) to highlight the way he continued to be misunderstood even in death, especially in things like his experiment file. The giant ghost hand thingies were to add something recognizable to the silhouette since I noticed netease likes to have over-exaggerated silhouettes on hunters to make them recognizable. I wanted to slightly incorporate the way Edgar draws hunter faces on the default paintings, but I wanted to keep some of his face visible so it could show a very arrogant & scrutinizing stare which is a major part of people’s assumptions of Edgar since this design tries to lean into ppl’s initial ideas of Edgar as a person. Then I used a bunch of swirls to make a nod to Van Gogh.

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Another year, no Edgar coa skin 🙂

Yay.

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And you know what, I do think some Patricia fans use their “love” of her character as a vessel to be hella misogynistic to Chloe.

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Wouldn’t it be crazy if Ella was designed to look kinda similar to Chloe which sets up the parallel in Chloe and Vera’s dynamic with Edgar and Ella’s dynamic?

(One kid that’s heavily praised and loved while the other gets overshadowed. So overshadowed that their disappearance is something only their sibling would notice and care about)

I’m just saying… consider the following

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This is such an oddly specific pet peeve, but I get a little sad about Antonio’s letter retcon because a huge part of the narcissus plot line hinged on Antonio obsessively following Edgar (or rather the princess Edgar was the reincarnation of) ignoring the fact Edgar wanted nothing to do with him. So committed to pursuing her that he couldn’t even pass on. I have a feeling that dynamic was supposed to parallel something for both Antonio’s character and Edgar’s (Antonio still chasing a woman that doesn’t want him & Edgar trying to distance himself from someone he doesn’t want anything to do with). Since that part of Antonio’s character is gone, it doesn’t work anymore for either of them. It probably won’t deeply affect the plot of T&I since they probably just won’t address it. The “curse” was bound to the school and they’re probably not gonna return there and narcissus definitely isn’t going back there. Again, just a small pet peeve

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Kevin Ayuso:

Call me insane if you’d like, you wouldn’t be wrong. But look at their 5th letters and tell me there isn’t a stagnation in Kevin’s character that isn’t present for the other 3 that have 5th letters

Patricia: Had a character shift with her connection to her hometown drifting apart (which is pretty major given her whole mission was to reconnect with her home)

Jose: “Awakening his inner pirate” which a pirate is kind of the opposite of what a first officer is as well as “correcting the sea chart” Another character shift literally and figuratively

Vera: Arguably the most blatant of them all, realized her true nature is the opposite of what she dreamed of

And then there’s Kevin: Still stagnant, still that same “helpless boy”. He hasn’t grown, changed, or recognized anything new about himself. Instead he went backwards, back to the prairies. He shielded himself from reality to avoid facing the truth. He still holds onto his flawed beliefs of “all men bad and all women good” with no nuance. The others grew with their time at the manor, but since he left early with that “fine wine” he stayed ignorant to the flaws in his worldview.

And based on what I’ve observed of the themes in game 5 (enacting justice without nuance, depth, and context is dangerous and can get innocent people harmed) Kevin feels like an accident waiting to happen

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So like… if euphoria got a commercial release, does that mean Vera survived game 5 to release it to the public or…

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Been driving myself insane trying to figure out what the other 2 perfume bottles are, somebody HELP ME!

My best guess for the 3rd one is that it’s like an inverse to regular Euphoria that brings memories back. Margie brings up that the perfume has a damp smell and when she starts to hallucinate about her past she’s floating in water. Also from a symbolic standpoint, Margie is always trying to run from her past so since she disliked the scent of the 3rd perfume it could be an indication that she also dislikes the smell that takes her back to the past. And lastly, with her past at lakeside, a damp smell would be familiar to her and also something she dislikes and wants to escape cause she hated her life there.

As for the first one, I don’t even know. I genuinely have no clue what that could possibly be. I know lily of the valleys have really positive meanings and I know Margie liked it, but I haven’t got any idea what that could mean. Vera brings up a reeky floral scent of a lily in her 2nd letter so that could be something but I really don’t know.

The middle one is obviously Euphoria. Iconic purple bottle and everything. Could even go further and say the scent of “wood burning” is symbolic for Margie and escaping her past with the fire from the circus. Could also be that fire has the ability to completely destroy something and turn it to ash with no trace of what it used to be. To top it all off, when Margie starts stressing she immediately goes for this bottle because it relaxes her. This is also why I’m hesitant to say that it was Euphoria that caused her hallucinations in the room. Euphoria has always been tied to relaxation and taking away painful memories so unless there’s a drawback to Euphoria that brings memories back in full force (which we haven’t seen any mention of as far as I know) I don’t think Euphoria caused it.

Going back to my theory about the 3rd bottle, I wonder why Vera would make something like that in the first place. Vera wants to escape her past, so why make a perfume that brings memories back? Also, damp smells aren’t all that pleasant in general and Vera has a particularly sensitive nose so I can’t imagine her wanting to make that. My best guess to that is it could be a character arc thing. Her 5th letter already mentions this whole mission to erase her memories thing isn’t fulfilling her. Maybe she turns around and makes a perfume to bring her memories back since her portrait does say her true nature is “opposite of what she once fantasized about.”

I could even tack on the fact Vera acts way different from how her deduction model theorized she would. Making a perfume that brings memories back could be a part of that since Orpheus might’ve underestimated her ability to face her past at some point and even go as far as to use the provisions he gave her to break out of the plan set for her in the deduction model for game 5 (small reference to Judith the dove using the key Murro gave Vera to trap her and turning it around to liberate herself and the other actresses)

I don’t know, I’m scraping for game 5 scraps in an event that has almost nothing to do with them and I know game 5 isn’t getting an event like this until I’m probably a junior in college (being generous). I am desperate.

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And if I see one more person call Patricia evil or crazy, I’m crashing tf out

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“That was painful and took way too much time. I hate art, I’m never gonna draw again” he says as he thinks about what he’s gonna draw next

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I wonder if there’s a false equivalency with Luca and Edgar. Cause I’ve been thinking about how Orpheus said he brought Luca in because he thought he’d make a good replacement for Edgar because they were similar enough, but when you put them side by side they aren’t that similar at all. From the little I know about Luca (and it is very little) wasn’t the reason he attacked Alva because of hurt pride/ego and misunderstanding? He thought Alva stole his father’s transcripts not knowing that they had been partners before and lashed out. Comparing that to Edgar who doesn’t care about how he’s perceived or other people’s opinions, as well as his reason behind killing Sarai being rooted in Sarai being a legit groomer, it makes them super different. Not only that, but every time they’re in essences together, it’s like Netease makes a point to emphasize that they are not the same.

Golden Ratio: the whole thing is the alchemists are foolishly trying to recreate the philosopher’s stone not knowing a) they’re doing it wrong by focusing on either technological or biological and b) that the philosopher’s stone itself is a scam and hurts the user more than helps them. Luca is one of the alchemists trying to recreate it and would be considered one of the “fools” in their context while Edgar knows how to create the philosopher’s stone and the futility of it. It portrays Edgar as being more enlightened than Luca and understands something he doesn’t.

Man in Red: man in red doesn’t have any real blessings and plays on the fear, hatred, and ignorance of the people to get them to make sacrifices. Luca is one of his followers but Edgar recognizes what Naib is doing which shows this pattern of Edgar seeming to understand something Luca doesn’t get. It makes me wonder if Orpheus made a mistake in trying to replicate Edgar with Luca because he might’ve fundamentally misunderstood how Edgar functioned

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I’ll never forget the time I posted a single tiktok about a tfem Edgar Valden hc and had like 8 different people tell me it was disgusting and wrong. It was a while back but I still think about it a lot. Mind you, the tmasc hcs never got that kind of shit (including tmasc hc of originally female characters like Martha). That was my misogyny moment with the fandom I’ll never forget.

Wanna weed out a misogynistic Edgar fan? Just say you hc her tfem and they’ll make it real clear for you