#lucio discourse

[rozpach]

Does anyone think Muriel could have ever forgiven Lucio?

Edit: At this point I wanna know if anyone at any corner of the world thinks yes?

[fatehbaz]

At the inauguration of the First Brazilian Congress of Eugenics in July of 1929, the physician and anthropologist Edgar Roquette-Pinto [...] exalted “eugenia” as the new science that, together with medicine and hygiene, would guarantee the efficiency and perfection of the race. [...] [This] agenda [...] brought architecture to the very core of the eugenics [...] movement [...]. [M]edical scientific discourses, first articulated in France, crossed the ocean [...]. [G]lobal movements, hygienics and eugenics, [...] became the dual vehicles for bringing architecture into active dialogue [...].

In Brazil, the nation was seen as a sick organism [...]. In the center of Rio de Janeiro, this mission brought together a diverse cast of characters: from the physicians and architects of the Parisian Musée Social, the early French think-tank [...], to the physicians and architects of Rio de Janeiro who formulated [...] Brazilian modernism, to Le Corbusier, who began consolidating a eugenicist ideology precisely during the months he spent in Brazil in the mid-1930s.

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In the early 1920s, [...] a dramatic event occurred in Rio. [...] [A] sanitary and urban reform [movement] [...] reached its climax with the demolition of an entire populated mountain, the Morro do Castelo, in the center of the Brazilian capital. This mountain was no ordinary mountain; it was the original site where the colonial city [...] had been established in 1567. [...] As far back as 1798, a medical report had argued for the mountain’s demolition [...]. [T]he mountain came to be seen as the very negation of modernity itself; a reservoir of vice and disease with a motley “marginal” population, including poor Blacks and formerly enslaved people who, according to the elites, invaded the center of the city [...].

The extensive territory that resulted from this demolition was immediately occupied by the 1922 International Exhibition. [...] Promoting itself as a tabula rasa, the exhibition represented a literal “triumph” over the territory - a territory now cleansed of its history and unwanted inhabitants. It’s more than 500-page catalog is striking in its complete elimination of all traces of the African and indigenous components of Brazilian culture. [...] Its images demonstrate a new alliance between beauty, health, tropicality, and modernization that Brazilian elites adopted [...].

Shortly after the exhibition, in 1922, and lasting until 1938, neo-colonial architecture was declared by the government to be the national style, mandatory for every building that would represent Brazil abroad. [...] It was not a coincidence that all this - the demolition of the mountain, the elimination of Rio de Janeiro’s original urban nucleus, the displacement of its poor residents, and the construction of the exhibition pavilions - was executed almost simultaneously with new policies and mandates such as the “white only” decree of 1921, which prohibited the immigration of Blacks to Brazil. [...] No one illustrates this connection between race and architecture better than Lucio Costa [the architect of Brasilia, the new modernist national capital city] - who, in 1928, made this racist link in a newspaper article: [...]

All architecture is a question of race. [...] Everything is a function of race. If the breed is good, and the government is good, the architecture will be good. Talk, discuss, gesticulate: our basic problem is selective immigration; the rest is secondary [...].

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When Le Corbusier traveled for the second time to Brazil in 1936, his discourses were centered on nature, death, and the racial and sexual “other.” [...] In 1936, while preparing his series of talks in Rio de Janeiro, Le Corbusier made a sketch on a piece of cardboard that distilled and concretized [...] rationales of modernity: change the environment, change the man. Written at the top is the word “Castello,” followed by the name “Lucio Costa,” the phrases “pedro aller police” and “Castello coûts clichés,” the name of architect “Carlos Porto,” and the phrase “Acheter livre Carrel.” The latter was a reminder for him to buy the new bestseller by the French Nobel prize-winning physician Alexis Carrel, Man The Unknown, an unmistakable call for the implementation of eugenics and manifesto for white supremacy. What made Le Corbusier think of Carrel while thinking of Rio de Janeiro?

It is not a mere coincidence that Castelo, one of the most significant eugenic laboratories in Latin America, is the first word that appears on the cardboard.

But Castelo was not only the name of the pulverized mountain from which thousands of “undesirable” inhabitants had been displaced, or the stage for the 1922 international exhibition with its neocolonial pavilions and its image of white Brazil, or the epicenter of the master urban plan that Agache had designed for Rio. Castello was also where Lucio Costa was designing the new building for the Ministry of Health and Education, the institution charged with developing and enforcing Brazil’s eugenic policies under Getulio Vargas’ new authoritarian regime, for which Le Corbusier had been invited to be a design consultant. This sketch links the dramatic transformation of the urban territory of Rio de Janeiro to Lucio Costa’s project and to Carrel’s vision for remaking society. [...]

In his Oeuvre complète 1934-1938, Le Corbusier included a sketch of the Brazilian Ministry of Health and Education building. This new ministry [...] later became the symbol of Brazilian modernism [...]. Gustavo Capanema, the first Minister of Health and Education, had commissioned both the building, which he called the Ministry of Man and was destined to “prepare, compose, and perfect the Brazilian man,” [...]. Capanema pondered, “How will the body of the Brazilian man be, of the future Brazilian man, not the vulgar man or the inferior man but the best exemplar of the race? How will his head be? His color? The shape of his face? His physiognomy?” [...] When Le Corbusier came back [from Brazil] to France and began collaborating with Alexis Carrell under the [Nazi] Vichy regime, his vision of a clinically inspired habitat where all human needs can be met reached a new level of specificity. [...] He was convinced that the human body, the anatomo-politics of its productivity, and the built environment should be managed by the State. In a 1941 broadcast he affirmed that "[...] The degeneration of the house, the degeneration of the family, are one."

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All text above by: Fabiola López-Durán. "Fantasies of Whiteness". e-flux Architecture. Sick Architecture series. April 2022. At: e-flux dot com slash architecture/sick-architecture/461057/fantasies-of-whiteness/ [Bold emphasis and some paragraph breaks/contractions added by me. Presented here for criticism, teaching, commentary purposes.]

[lavenditsy]

asra alnazar

being in the arcana fandom in 2019-2020 (which i had no business being in since i was like 12-13 LMFAO) was so crazy because i remember the insane discourse around asra...

personally their route was my absolute favourite (i'm soft for the white-haired ones..) and in the friendgroup i was in at the time they would all be caught up on their 'emotionally manipulative behaviour'

dude... if someone you had loved for years died and you had the chance to bring them back and help them return to who they were before you lost them and despite all you did they chose someone else wouldn't you be a little distraught too !?!?!

ESPECIALLY !! if they got with their / your ex situationship ?!?! (for julian route) or the guy whos the reason behind their death via the plague !??! (lucio route)

idk.. reminiscing on discourse from way back then ..

[nabesthetics]

I find it kinda funny that now, with the fandom being generally much less active than it used to, I see a lot more Lucio enjoyers around, relatively anyway.

Are there just fewer active people to judge/spark discourse? Did we persevere somehow? Is it tumblr-style bias for terrible men? Who knows.

[xaharadesert]

Are They Watching Barbie or Oppenheimer? - Headcanon

Arcana Characters (Main 6)

A/N: this is important data that I have decided to provide (can you tell which one I’m more excited for)

❤️Julian❤️

Says he’s going to see Oppenheimer, but is really going to see Barbie

Thinks he sounds cooler and more mysterious because he’s choosing Oppenheimer

But if his friends or significant other are excited for Barbie, then he’ll admit that he’s a lot more excited for it

He will still watch Oppenheimer at some point because he is a bit interested, but Barbie comes first

🧡Portia🧡

A Barbie girlie through and through

Has been the biggest fan from day one, and mocks cishet men who aren’t going to see it in favour of Oppenheimer

You can watch both, but if you’re only going for Oppenheimer, then she’s judging you

💛Lucio💛

Barbie, of course

This man could not be less interested in Oppenheimer

He gets really defensive when people judge him for wanting to see Barbie, but mostly because of the idea that people who choose to see Oppenheimer are more intelligent

The masculinity is not the problem, he’s just not a fan of the elitism that some Oppenheimer fans are spewing

💚Muriel💚

Not a fan of movie theatres, will not be seeing either

Might watch Barbie illegally on his phone in a few months, but isn’t in a rush

Will not be watching Oppenheimer, it looks too depressing

💙Asra💙

In what world would they watch Oppenheimer

They are simply not interested, and don’t care for the discourse

They’ll watch Barbie because it seems fun, and they’ll definitely be wearing all pink

💜Nadia💜

Quite possibly the only one who will watch Oppenheimer first, but she doesn’t brag about it

She goes on her own, and then joins her friends later to watch Barbie

She enjoys both of them for very different reasons, and doesn’t pit them against each other, like a civil person

[gelatoisland]

ive been on tumblr since i was 13 and that means i was on here through like peak su discourse and shit but i didnt participate in it at all i was too busy drawing pastel lucio overwatch

[ruby-red-selfship]

Oh, I know we’ll meet again, some sunny day…

Hi, Welcome to my self shipping side blog :3

I’ve been self shipping for quite some time for coping/fun and I figured I might as well make a blog about it. So here’s some lil guidelines and helpful info!

- follows back from @sillygamertime

-doubles welcome, though I understand that’s not everyone’s thing!

-will generally be SFW due to my raging asexuality, though swearing and suggestive themes are likely

-current favorite will be on the banner!

TAGS FOR F/Os are as follows!

#ceo entrepreneur = Handsome Jack from Borderlands (platonic, what if we were fucked up doomed besties energy)

#missed me sugar? = Moxxi from Borderlands

#a rowdy raven = Julian Devorak from The Arcana (INCLUDING REVERSED ENDING!)

#sparks in the dark = Stolas Goetia from Helluva Boss (platonic, found family energy)

#consummate flirt = Sylvain Jose Gautier from Fire Emblem: 3 Houses (qpr? Platonic? Figuring it out)

#lavender roses = Camilla from Fire Emblem: Fates

#radio isn’t dead = Alastor from Hazbin Hotel

#sanguine stars = Astarion Ancunin from Baldur’s Gate 3

#practical as hell= Jason Todd from DC comics

#making a future = Count Lucio from The Arcana

#heal the world = Harry Osborn from Earth-1048/Marvel’s Spider Man continuity

#eddie my love = Edward Nigma/Nygma from DC comics (Arkhamverse/Gotham)

#both haunted and holy = Viktor from Arcane (qpp)

#my baby my baby = Jinx from Arcane (familial, daughter/little sister found family vibes)

ALMOST CERTAINLY MORE TO COME

Anyway STAMP COLLECTION AND DNI TIME

-DNI is pretty basic, this is a discourse free blog but just to touch on “problematic sources” as long as you are avoiding monetarily supporting awful people we’re chill. No ethical consumption under capitalism and all that, you find comfort in what you find comfort in. I self ship w Alastor and hate Vivz*e, Stolas too but tbh that one is fading, regardless the point is if I see a Draco Malf*y f/o haver interact I’m not gonna block you unless you’re extremely annoying ab JK support

- also I’m uncomfy with minors following due to the fact that I’m 21+ restating that here bc it’s important!

-Also if I self ship w someone you’re not sharing and I missed it, let me know. I try to catch that and read every F/O list, message me if there’s confusion or I fuck up and I’ll see myself out!

[rhazberriquartz]

Never thought I'd get dejavu over The Arcana of all things...

But the discourse around the villain in WISH and a lot of the discussion about him that I'm seeing is so similar to the Count Lucio talks that I am a little gobsmacked.

Especially on tiktok it's like a dang time portal 😂

[creepyscritches]

I've only been playing overwatch for like a year or so bc it's a fun thing to fill 30-60 min w my partner and I can honestly say it has never not sucked ass once. Don't get me wrong, I still play it, but it's mostly for the rush of enabling stupid team mates or scaring the enemy team with my mentally unwell Lucio or beach bod torb. God speed to any of you that still care about this game deadass I don't know how you do it. Blizzard drops lore I don't pay attention to, but I get glimpses of discourse beyond belief when I get onto Tumblr Dot Com. Didn't even realize the omnics were like people. I thought they were just like. Idk. An intelligent microwave. What a world to discover. Zenyatta apparently can NOT get my poptarts warm and it is apparently racist to ask him to. I can't catch up with this

[fox-daddy]

Incorrect quotes now with my MC's because nobody can stop me.

TW: swearing, mild nsfw jokes

Hunter: You know Julian, because of pregnant people the average number of skeletons inside a person is never one

Julian: what the f-

valdemar: no, let them speak

~~~

Asra: your future self is watching you through your memor-

Julian: not if I drink enough alcohol. Take that you prying creep!

~~~

Asra: for some reason people are scared of staring into the vast depths of the ocean that is actually only a few miles deep. Yet find comfort staring into the endless abyss that is the sky above us

Kyle: that's because gravity doesn't drag you into the abyss

The Magician: not yet :)

Kyle: And what the fuck does that mean?

~~~

Bluebell: someone has drunk more alcohol than anyone else in the world and they don't even know it.

Lucio: of course I know him, he's me

~~~

Asra: what is C for?

Hunter dressed up as cookie monster: C4 is a fucking explosive

Asra: No, what is, C, for?

Hunter:... C is for Cock

Asra: what's your costume?

Hunter: cookie monster

~~~

Hunter holding a gun to a mushroom: tell me- tell me the name of god you fungal piece of shit!

Mushroom: can you feel your heat burning? can you feel the struggle within? the fear within me is beyond anything your soul can make. You cannot kill me in a way that matters

Hunter cocks gun tears streaming down their face: I'M NOT FUCKING SCARED OF YOU

Julian: hey, Hunter, what the fuck does this mean?

Hunter: decay exists as an extant form of life

Julian: That's a- that's a terrifying answer, have a nice day

~~~

Hunter: I love cheating, if you don't cheat what the hell is wrong with you?

Nadia: have you ever been cheated on?

Hunter: Oh shit, I forgot some people are in relationships. To clarify I love to violate academic integrity on exams

~~~

Bluebell: top hats imply the existence of a bottom hat

Kyle: cat ears

Hunter: why would you say something so controversial yet so brave?

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Kyle: how to start discourse. 'insert favorite person' is a 'insert favorite Hogwarts house'

Hunter: Julian is a power-bottom and not enough people talk about it

Kyle: I don't think that sentence starts discourse so much as ends any conversation before it even starts

~~~

Hunter: nature documentary but the narration is just weird enough to make you question it

Bluebell: Some fish can walk out of water, so remember that next time

Kyle: you might think your safe, but horses are omnivores

~~~

Hunter: standing up and blacking out for a few seconds is just transitioning from a cutscene to the actual gameplay

Julian: you need to eat some salt is what that means

~~~

Hunter: the cis are all like 'but won't children be confused' but every interaction I've ever had with a child who didn't know what to call me has gone verbatim like this

"why are you wearing a dress"

"because I can"

"Okay. Do you like animals?"

Bluebell: kids are very busy and have got much more important things to think about, such as their favorite animals

~~~

Hunter: okay, brain, don't freak out, but we've come across a minor inconvenience

Hunter's brain already dousing itself in gasoline: that's unfortunate

~~~

Kyle with ADHD, ASD and mild dyspraxia/Dislexia: I'll stop making jokes about mental illness, when mental illness stops making a joke out of me *laugh slowly turns into pained chuckle*

~~~

Kyle: isn't it crazy how depending on your mental state you can either spill a glass of water and be like 'HAHAHA OOPS CLUMBSY ME' or spill a glass or water and be like 'MY LIFE IS A FUCKING NIGHTMARE, I DESTORY EVERYTHING I TOUCH, NO ONE WILL EVER LOVE ME AND MY WET FUCKING FLOOR'

~~~

Kyle: It's Halloween let's do something REALLY SCARY

Hunter: we could go to bed early and be alone with our thoughts

~~~

Kyle when trying to force themselves to learn something they have no care about nor interest in;

~~~

Hunter: why do I feel terrible?

hunter's body: coffee is not a meal, eat a vegetable, sleep, PLEASE!!!

Hunter: guess I'll never know

Hunter's body screaming internally: Oh my god!!!

~~~

Kyle: checking the clock before starting something*

Kyle's ADHD: well it's 9:14 which might as well be 9:30 and that's basically 10 which is almost 11 and I have to be in bed by 11 so I don't have time to start anything

~~~

Kyle: everyone is so much taller than me, I get to be picked up so often, just whenever I want! I just have to ask and it's GREAT! Now if only I could actually see where I was going through this stupid crowd.

Portia: I will make them pay for the way I was treated. The streets will run red with the blood of those who mocked me. All shall perish before the rage of the opressed. My vengeance draws near-

[duskglowraider]

- Aux

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- No written DNI, I judge you myself (Just be a normal person please I’m begging)

- This is a canon x oc/self insert blog. I’m here to be cringe and free

- I like my men pretty and my women able to kill me

F/O, OC, S/I list and more below the cut

- I don’t consider myself truly dating any of my F/Os. I live vicariously through my OCs most of the time. I actually love and support doubles but if it makes you uncomfortable, I have a specific tag for each that you can blacklist if that helps. It’s with the lists below.

- I am 24 and MAY mention NSFW things but it’ll be rare for this account and tagged as .suggestive and only be in txt form.

- All of my OCs are transmasc. Sorry pal I don’t make the rules I just follow them.

- My writing may include violence or darkish themes along those lines. It’ll be tagged appropriately with TW/[trigger here]. Technically you could say wh.ump, I do like the ‘hurt then comfort’ part of it since that’s why I write that sometimes. We like to see bitches heal and get loved here, but also the drama of it.

- I don’t like getting into discourse and will try to keep my blog free of it. Not that I’m ignoring the issues, I just want a space where I can be cringe and free. If I ever say or do something stupid, let me know privately so I can correct it.

- Lastly, I don’t vet everyone I reblog from. I only vet when I intend to follow someone and even then sometimes things get past me. Let me know right away privately if there is an issue from someone I follow/reblog from and I’ll take care of it.

- Other interests include; Horror movies/games, mythology, philosophy, history, how video game AIs work, THYLACINES, VtM, Bloodborne, Dark Souls, Pathologic, Thief, etc.

- I am a CSA survivor and Abuse Survivor. I have ADHD and intense body dysmorphia.

- I like masculine terms used for me such as dude, guy, etc. I also don’t mind. The use of queen with me either. Whatever terms/pronouns will make the joke funnier. If it’s not funny, I get to drink all the soda in your house and sleep in your bed. (/j)

Primary

Typically shipped with an OC but know I live vicariously through them.

Elaine (Dislyte) | .The Moon And The Sea | Levi (OC)

Ahmed (Dislyte) | .Overnight Radio | Kieran (OC)

Ranni (Elden Ring) | .Age of Stars | Iris (OC)

Ji-Woon Hak (Dead by Daylight) | .Show Stopping | Fytch (S/I)

Gerard Keay (The Magnus Archives) | .Midnight Glow | Gwyn O’Cleary (OC)

Artemy Burakh (Pathologic) | .Madmen’s Insight | Phaenon (OC)

Secondary

I love them I just don’t talk about them as much as the others. They also tend not to have a personal tag.

Lucio (Overwatch) | .Lucio

Lifeweaver (Overwatch) | .Lifeweaver

Helen (The Magnus Archives) | .Helen

Dorian Storm (Critical Role) | .Dorian

Timur (Destiny) | .Timur

Hypnos (Hades) | .Hypnos

Shin Mulphur (Destiny) | .Shin

Gwyndolin (Dark Souls) | .Gwyndolin

Ollie (Dislyte) | .Ollie

Cuthbert Beckett (VtM) | .Beckett

Secret

These ones are secret because I’m embarrassed about them or their source. Maybe one day I’ll actually say who they.

.Royalty in blood

.Hacknet

[alnazarcana]

BEFORE YOU FOLLOW ! things you should be aware of before you follow me.

this is an arcana archive for myself, meaning i reblog nearly everything pertaining to the game. this includes fanart, fanfics, memes, etc. it may also include ships i'm not necessarily a fan of but reblog anyway (jucio, asrian, &c.) i'm here bc i love these characters and this world, and i'm having fun ! :)

lucio is my favorite character. he's horrible and i like that about him; i don't excuse any of his behavior and i use "stan" ironically. if you infantilize/baby any of the characters, i would prefer if you didn't interact.

i am very critical of dorian. i don't necessarily support nix hydra either, but i am especially disappointed with how the arcana is currently being handled. if you're a dorian fangirlie, we probably won't get along.

asra is nonbinary. lucio is bi. the devoraks are jewish-coded. half of the m6 isn't white. these are not debates. if you're a weirdo and erase any of the characters' canon traits, just block me.

i am an adult ('00). sometimes i reblog 18+ content. if you happen to be a minor, do not interact with that content. it may be best if you don't follow me at all.

my brain has been stuck in the mental illness blender since childhood and i will write essays in tags for extremely inconsequential things. peace and love :)

furthermore, typical dni criteria fits. no anti-lgbtq+ in any capacity. no bigotry. the usual. i also don't participate in discourse. i'm just here having fun with media i love.

[lunifrforilyadevorak]

Quick about me post just to introduce myself to the fandom space.

Hi. I’m Luni and I go by any/all pronouns, though I prefer he/them.

I don’t really share often online my views on shipping, but for the sake of the type of content I’ll be posting on this sideblog, yes, I am pro-ship. I’m not big on DNIs and I really do not care if you choose to interact with my posts anyways as an anti, but I’m not really looking for discourse here.

I ship Ilya and Lucio. Like a lot. (I go hard for toxic old man yaoi across all fandoms I’m in it seems.)

Not a big fan of Ilya and Asra together as a pairing. Sorry.

I am not a self-shipper. I have two OCs currently that are not self-inserts that I might share information about in the future. I do sometimes pair them up with different characters, but I don’t even really strongly ship them with anyone.

I am basically Asra. Like, he is literally the most relatable fictional character I have ever encountered. Used to hate him a while back only to realize I did just because he reminded me so much of myself.

My favorite route is Nadia’s.

I live for Julian and Portia sibiling angst.

I’ll often switch between referring to him as Ilya or Julian, it just depends on my mood.

I will mainly be posting and reblogging theories and lore related stuff. Actually, I wanted to create this side blog in the first place for the purpose of reblogging stuff specifically for fanfic inspiration. I might even reblog stuff that doesn’t necessarily relate to The Arcana but I’ll use as inspiration for my own personal projects that do relate to it. May occasionally reblog art and share some of my own, but I don’t draw often anymore so that might be rare.

I will likely not post or reblog a lot of explicit NSFW. But still please do be weary when scrolling through this blog in public.

I’m probably not going to be as active on here as my other sideblog, @luniviravosshipper which is a TDP focused blog. But anytime I get interested in Arcana again and hyperfixate on it, I’ll probably come back here and become active for a period of time.

Anyways, that’s all you need to know about me for now. Might update this in the future.

[vesuvian-vampire]

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gore

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My opinions about Dorian are mixed at best. I’d rather ignore the app and do my own thing.

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『 About the Blog! 』

Hello! Call me Asphodel. I’m a digital artist seeking to study The Arcana’s art style, both out of appreciation for the game and as a challenge to myself. My post schedule is fairly sporadic on account of my health, so I can’t really predict how often I’ll use this blog, but I figured I’d make one just in case.

I got into The Arcana for the first time all the way back in 2017, around the time of its release. I remember impatiently waiting for the bottom three LIs’ routes to update, as they were completed post-launch. Over the last few years, I periodically would hyperfixate on the game and then grow bored of it for a little while, before the cycle repeated itself. The Arcana was one of my inspirations for me to start taking my own art seriously, back in 2020.

I’ll be using this blog to document my study of the game’s art style. I’ll share headcanons from time to time. I’m also interested in meeting other fandom blogs, especially other artists!

『 Other Info! 』

I don’t currently take commissions.

DM me if you want to do an art trade or a collab! I may decline if my health’s flaring up/I’m too busy, but I’m happy to do them when I can.

Constructive critique is welcome on my style studies, with these conditions:

Be respectful. Don’t insult my work for the sake of being an ass.

Be descriptive. What works in my pieces and why? What doesn’t work and why?

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[icharchivist]

The Paa-san Paa-shi discourse is similar to how Lucio calls Sandalphon San-chan, but Belial calls him Sandy, but both are the same in English, even though, like with Percy, one just annoys him while the other one would probably make him throttle you if you called him that

Yeah pretty much the exact same issue.

I know they can't really go around that as long as they decide to translate the nicknames, but those two in particulars are unnerving.

Paasan and Paashi annoys me a lot as a Paa fan, mostly because by having both nickname translated Percy it really loses how personal Paashi is and that Percival isn't like, just giving a pass to his family (though he is) but also just that the nicknames are very different. Like, when Vane first calls him Paasan Percival blows up bc "what sort of stupid thing did you do to my name" which doesn't really track if it was the same nickname as the name his family lovingly give him (though he would still be mad at Vane calling him that, he just wouldn't be this offended by it) but yeah ultimately to me it's when Belial started to use it that i got upset the difference didn't exist in English, because there's miles between calling someone a nickname everyone call shim as, and specifically crossing bondaries that only belongs to his family yaknow? esp since in the fight, the line he calls him Paashi in is "The perfect kingdom? Don't make me laugh. You should be thankful, Percy. I've saved you from heartbreak, and a long search with no happy ending.". Which is especially making fun of Percival on the promise he made his mother, so rubbing it with the nickname his mother used on him is another level of vile yaknow?

Sandalphon's situation is similar, though it has less of a double reading of "it's because one nickname is okay for people who matters to him", he hates both nickname, but both do serve a different purpose yeah. Sanchan is much more affectionate, which makes the fact it's Lucio doing that to be just very annoying for Sandalphon, and Sandy is just shortening his name*. But it does kinda stop at it being two equally as annoying nicknames. I do think it would have been better to make them different though, if only so no one would think Lucio reminds Sandalphon of Belial or vice versa. Letting Lucio being hated on for his own merits yaknow?

* (though i have an overreading for this one, over the fact that all the angels have a name ending in "Eru" (or "aru" for Belial), including Lucifer (bc his name is an alternative pronontiation on Lucifer, Lucilius's name is the official pronountiation of Lucifer, as rushifaa), and "eru" being the Japanese pronontiation of the suffix "el", which, in Hebrew, is originally the suffix to say "of God". All of the "eru" angels are angels who answers directly to Lucilius, so they're "of their own God". Meanwhile the two angels who don't fit this patern, Sandalphon and Metatron, are two angels defined by their loyalty to Lucifer and being outsiders to the rest of the angels Lucilius originally planned to use. So an argument could be made that the suffix "on" there is representing a distance from Lucilius and their loyalty to Lucifer in a sense. With that overreading in mind you can read Belial's nickname as a way of stripping Sandalphon from Lucifer's connection. Albeit, he calls every angels a shortened version that cuts the "el" too, so something something Belial removing them from belonging to Lucilius as well so he can be Lucilius' one and only and/or to "give them back their own freedom". This was the overreading corner which was probably not intended by canon but it's not like anything disproves it so, like, have fun with this one?)

so yeah this is kind of a shame how some of the nicknames really lose their nuances due to the translations. I'll never forgive the Paashi one but i'm a Paa fucker, i overthink everything, so. well.

but yeah it's the type of things you might miss unless you catch it by ear, which can be a bit sad imo. alas...

[faust-the-danger-noodle]

I wrote this post before but Tumblr mobile ate the changes I made to the draft, so here is the re-written version that isn’t nearly as good.

So let me just start out by saying that I really like Lucio’s route, and I’m glad to see him grow and change. But honestly? His “redemption” doesn’t feel fully earned without him answering for what he did to Julian and Muriel.

Like, Lucio has at least answered for a little of what he did to Asra and his parents, and he has apologized to Nadia for how he treated her when they were married. He’s even made amends with his mother.

But for force-feeding Julian a plague beetle? It was at least acknowledged during the Moon update, which is something. But since he wasn’t actually dealing with the real Julian, it lacked gravitas. This one I can almost look past not being properly addressed since it’s tied in with the Plague and his fear of death, which is being worked on. But it just feels like a disservice to Julian’s suffering for this to not be explicitly talked about.

And for enslaving Muriel and forcing him to kill in the Coliseum? This hasn’t even been touched on in Lucio’s route, and being that there is only a few updates left, I seriously doubt that it will ever be addressed. I mean, obviously Lucio and Muriel will never make amends, but considering it’s one of the worst of Lucio’s transgressions, it’s frustrating that he hasn’t acknowledged how horrible what he did to Muriel was.

Idk, I just wish these things would have been given the attention they deserve in Lucio’s route.