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.⋆𓇼𓆉. 𝒀𝑶𝑼 𝑨𝑵𝑫 𝑴𝑰𝑫𝑺𝑼𝑴𝑴𝑬𝑹

╰ 𝑹𝒂𝒇𝒂𝒚𝒆𝒍 LOVE AND DEEPSPACE: YOU AND MIDSUMMER

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He’s waited 800 years to bring you flowers <3

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MC: Oh my Rafayel.

Thomas: Don't you mean 'oh my God'?

MC: You worship your God, I'll worship mine.

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RAFAYEL: If this vow actually represents eternity, will you give me the chance to prove myself worthy of your devotion?

LOVE AND DEEPSPACE — Witnessed by Deepspace

↳ CALEB | RAFAYEL | XAVIER | ZAYNE | SYLUS

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this is so precious to me

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this is gonna be stuck in my head for a long, long time.

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The way he's holding her 😭

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face card so hard and body so tea even the british want it

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i’m so so so in love i will never recover…

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Very upset rafayel……

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pink house under pink tree

no one asked but

- my COMMISSIONS ARE OPEN. you can send me a dm for more info

- you can buy prints on my inprnt (https://www.inprnt.com/gallery/teller-of-tragedies/)

- you can also find me on tiktok (https://www.tiktok.com/@teller.of.tragedies) and instagram (https://www.instagram.com/teller.of.tragedies/)

have a nice day :)

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ARTSY BLOBBU I MISS U SO MUCH ALREADY

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RAFAYEL: What we're doing… is giving wisteria a new source of inspiration.

LOVE AND DEEPSPACE — Spring and Flowers

↳ RAFAYEL | XAVIER | ZAYNE | SYLUS | CALEB

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҉ ⁀➷ 𝑺𝑷𝑹𝑰𝑵𝑮 𝑨𝑵𝑫 𝑭𝑳𝑶𝑾𝑬𝑹𝑺

╰ 𝑹𝒂𝒇𝒂𝒚𝒆𝒍 LOVE AND DEEPSPACE: SPRING AND FLOWERS

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IT'S SO BEAUTIFUL

LEECH | MASS

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DEBUNKING SOME MISCONCEPTIONS ABOUT RAFAYEL’S LORE + THEORY

(may contain spoilers for rafayel’s myths “sea of golden sand” and “forgotten sea”, his main story branch “land of secret flames”, his third anecdote “siren’s song” and the memories “fragrant dream” and “your fragrance”)

• “lemuria was destroyed after the sea god’s ceremory”

this one is a very curious one to me since his myth explicitly states rafayel saved lemuria and the kingdom only sunk many years after his death

• “rafayel betrayed his people by choosing mc over lemuria”

ok, here is when i feel people get a little confused about what really happened with lemuria in the three different timelines (main story, forgotten sea and sea of golden sand)

i think it’s very complicated to take what we are presented in “sea of golden sand” at face value since what we see in the “forgotten sea” myth directly contradicts what we learn from it, for years lemurians believed mc stole the sea god’s heart in the coming-of-age ceremony what we know isn’t true and rafayel was the one who offered his heart to her

the true is we don’t know why the seas dried out, we don’t even know if mc really has the sea god’s heart since the myth invites you to follow rafayel’s skeptical perception on lemurians legends

we aren’t supposed to believe these legends, so we cannot really tell what rafayel did that angered the deep sea since, in “forgotten sea”, we only have the mention of a lie rafayel told the deep sea to save both lemuria and mc

i’ve seen many fans saying that rafayel is facing the consequences of his actions, however the main story lacks sufficient information about what happened to lemuria in that timeline, but one thing we can be sure of is that rafayel was just a child when it disappeared

claiming rafayel betrayed his people for mc isn’t just a simplification of his personal conflict but isn’t even canon accurate since not only he was just a little boy but the text clearly hints ever may be involved

• “rafayel had his scales and tail cut out by mc”

i keep seeing this being thrown around as a “sad rafayel fact” and i don’t know where people got it from

what i think happened is that people mixed information from two very different sources (rafayel’s “siren song” anecdote and the “fragrant dream” memory)

in his past, rafayel met a detective who is convinced he’s a merman seeking revenge after being deceived by a human woman, however, these claims are purely speculative and there’s no evidence to support the idea that this actually happened in any timeline

there’s also the 4 stars memory “fragrant dream” where mc has a dream in which she becomes a sea witch and rafayel appears to her in his merman form and requests a potion that would transform him into a human, the dream is heavily inspired by “the little mermaid” tale, making it difficult to fully discern which parts were merely a dream and which ones were based on real events

i personally believe it the dream could also be her brain processing trauma from when she was stuck as ever’s lab rat since the “ingredients” she asks rafayel are the same substances extracted from lemurians during the experiments and we know rafayel was also one of their victims

+ my interpretation on their bond

in “forgotten sea” we learned that the bond serves two purposes: igniting the temple’s flame and allowing the sea god to access the tome of the sea god, where lemurian prophecies are recorded

since we know rafayel successfully ignited the flame and we saw him and mc using the bond to read the tome in both “sea of golden sand” and his main story branch, we can only assume rafayel and mc concluded the ceremony that day, they are bond, mc is the sea god’s follower

but then, what happened to anger the deep sea?

well, i believe mc was the one bonded to obey any order that rafayel gave her, however he fell in love with her and wanted her to be free as he himself felt trapped there, directly mirroring princess mc’s feelings in the “sea of golden sand” myth

his resolution to save his people and not condemn the woman he loved to a life of subservience was to pledge devotion to her, sacrificing his freedom for hers

the lemurian bond symbolizes their love but also symbolizes control, in rafayel’s “siren’s song” anecdote, the detective who accuses his of being a siren and the responsible for the man is the audience’s death, he references something that seems to be similar to rafayel’s chest mark as an indicator of lemurians’ influence on humans

due to rafayel's love for mc, the sea god is now subordinate to a human woman, what obviously would displease the deep sea since we know from his main story branch, the deep sea spirit can take over rafayel’s body and mc is able to bring him back to himself through their bond

as long as their bond exists, the deep sea will never be able to use rafayel as its sea god, this could explain why the sea is angry at him and wants him to kill mc at the “sea of golden sand” myth, their bond is the only thing granting rafayel freedom from the influences of the deep sea