#lcb nelly

[lahartea]

it's heathday

[astragatwo]

I liked her a lot, actually

[limbus-milkbowl]

Send the maid to the bowl.

- @jia-huan

[bloodiegawz]

repent again today

[lexia-solve-e]

happy gubohuan morning everyone

[mizukamen02210906]

lcb - the heartbreaking anniversary

this was a hit on twitter, so i'm reposting it here too.

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[nmoroder]

A batch of birthday pics for askblog colleagues; each pic was done for their birthdays, not the characters'. Check ALT for translation to English.

[neonmetro]

happy new years! this year vivisection will be your present ❤️❤️

[aqours]

honestly thank god they didn't send nelly in as part of the main team because she's like, the only member of the new league that isn't a bum lbr.

like. can you imagine if they sent nelly in there with ego gear. she probably would've killed xichun, got the worm fully in-tact, kill the elders, and even grab the golden bough for good measure on the way out. she even carried out her mission as backup support without problems apparently. i actually think the worst thing that could ever happen is n corp dispatching both her and aseah for a mission we're fucking cooked if they team up

[unowers]

[lahartea]

[erlkink-heatcliff]

git him! ooh git him !

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extra doodles too

[ch1h4ru3]

The fact that he picked the suit himself is funny as hell like ,seriously? Bro looks like a golden pineapple with wings and a face of a good looking Chinese man.

He and Gubo is in a funny relationship I can’t quite explain. Ahhh colleagues cooperating while perfectly minding their own businesses,so charming.

[slotumn]

Finished Canto 6 and I have Thoughts™ about Nelly

I think she's a great example of a character whose gender is implicitly relevant to her role and problems without The Woman™ being her entire (or even main, depending on how you choose to see it) thing. She's basically a domestic worker and a mother figure for Heathcliff and Catherine, and she does take a lot of pride in that role, being the Chief Butler and all

But at the same time, when she sees the mirror worlds she has the realization that at this rate her entire life, her entire being and identity, will only ever be dedicated just to caring for/serving other people. Yes she genuinely cares for Heathcliff and Catherine but at the same time, will her life ever be her own? Will she ever get to be Nelly, instead of Nelly the Butler/Nelly the Caretaker— Nelly the (implicit) mother of those kids? Does this sound familiar, wink wink nudge nudge

Also notice that Nelly isn't the Chief Butler of Wuthering Heights at present time even though that's where she began, she's the Chief Butler of Edgar family. She basically got transferred like dowry when Catherine married, and while she does seize the title of Chief Butler, she's still tied to the family hiring her at the end of the day.

Like it's interesting that while Catherine is the one who got married, I feel like Nelly is the one who has the role of the new wife being given a hard time by her husband's family. That thing you see a lot in K-dramas about how much the in-laws suck? Yeah that. And not just after Catherine got married, her entire position throughout everything is the person doing all the emotional and domestic labor for the sake of others and it's just expected she keep doing that for the rest of her life.

Nelly's design and role being contrasted with Josephine is interesting, too— Nelly is younger, wears a maid dress, is the closest to Catherine (young woman and new wife) before betraying her because she wants something other than being bound to someone else's family. Josephine is older, wears a suit, is still loyal to the dead madam, is very proud of her position in relation to the family to the end.

And I know Josephine didn't get a lot of screentime nor did we see much of her relationship to Nelly, but from the above I can guess exactly what their dynamic was. It's the Korean (probably eastern in general?) grandmas who have "climbed up the ladder" within their husband's family through age/experience + having a son and bully their new daughter-in-law even though they once used to be in that same position. Yeah if you know you know

And what makes it perfect is that in the end Nelly leaves while saying "You understand right, since you're a good kid, Heathcliff" (playing in Korean so idk what the exact English translation is but you get the gist). That is such a Mom Line of her to say but not necessarily in a positive way, literally perfect no notes

[ncorp-nelly]

I know I was told not to look into the mirror worlds...but this one is quite peculiar.

[cowabinah]