#Rayscent Crazyrabbit

[azaleaartpal]

Servamp fanart from July

Here's a redraw of a picture from July 2022

Here's the chair I used as reference.

[fireflysprincess]

gilberto weasel and rayscent crazyrabbit are beautiful names for a baby girl

[joydoesathing]

the wrath vampires

[seeyabythemarina]

Caring For Sis

No way in. All these years Freya was hunted for being a wolf. Either for being a possible threat to farmers or for a hunter for her pelt. When she get really hurt one day her subclass and brother find the human and give them heckfor hurt their big sis.

[kiwi-the-servamp-addict]

Merry Christmas!!!!

Here's my secret Santa! @punsparcethesnake!!

I hope you like it!!!

[servamp01]

The new splatfest themes came out and most people think of their starter pokemon but if you know me you know I'm asking

Are you team shuuhei (grass/rye) team higan (fire) or team Ray (water)

Team Ray personally

[fictional-birthdays]

Happy Birthday! (May 14th)

Grip (Assassination Classroom)

Reiji Amaha (TSUKIPRO)

Jun Toda (22/7)

Orion Stephanopoulos (Prince of Tennis)

Canberra (Animal Crossing)

Rayscent Crazyrabbit (Servamp)

Marge (Pop’n Music)

Baron Tamago (One Piece)

Tanaka-san (Pop’n Music)

Keisuke Yamanoi (Big Windup!)

Luigi (Seven Deadly Sins)

[puns-parce]

Once again thinking about how funny servamp is for Gil and Ray.

Like I will tell you that there are two men. They grew up in the same village, grew together, drank together, loved together, messed up together. But were also sent to fight in a war together. Suffered together, saw horrific things together, and died apart, were unable to return home together. But at least they were brought back as vampires, right? Even if it’s brought them more time, it’s also brought more suffering. pushed them to cause each other pain in order save each other (see: Gil cutting off ray’s arm in order to save him from disintegrating) while also being brought into another war.

and that sounds fucking tragic. but then they look like this.

LARPing furries in suits.

[faith-gigliorosa]

“Isn’t that how it’s always been on the front line?”

[incorrectservamp]

Gil: Rosemary? You mean spicy pine needles?

Ray: Are you insinuating that regular pine needles aren’t spicy???

Gil: Regular pine needles are regular.

Ray: Not by rosemary standards.

Gil: …Have you eaten pine needles?

Ray: We’ve been friends for like four hundred years, do you seriously have to ask if I’ve eaten pine needles or not?

Gil: I mean, I’m pretty sure you have, but I don’t want to assume.

Ray: Of course I’ve eaten pine needles. Various kinds. Singleleaf pinyon is weirdly the best.

Gil: Are they…spicy?

Ray: You know, I’d love to tell you but I’m pretty unclear about what marks the difference between “spice” and “strong-tasting plant that isn’t considered a spice”.

Gil: I’ll have to eat some pine needles myself then to find out.

Ray: Okay, but it only counts if they’re PINE needles and not just any old needle-like leaf off a tree.

Gil: I’m going to eat every needle-like leaf I see.

Ray: Please Don’t Do That.

Gil: Needle-Like Leaf Roulette!

[katzkinder]

Wrath Group and Jeanne D'arc

Wrath Fam Posting never ends, because I like them and thank you all so much for encouraging that 💕

idk what it is about this group that keeps drawing me back to them. Maybe it's because Norse mythology is one of my special interests, maybe it's because the story of Wrath arc moved me so much, maybe I'm just gay as hell. Who knows, who cares, they make me happy, and I'm glad I get to share that joy with all of you~

--Alright enough sappiness, down to business

As the title of the post says, this is going to focus on the ways Strike uses references to Jeanne D'arc as a character motif for the Wrath group, which I consider to consist of Freya, Gil, Ray, and of course, Iduna.

First up, Freya. This one's super easy. We all know Jeanne was executed under false charges of heresy, but the thing that did her in, the one accusation the English levied at her that somehow stuck was... Cross dressing. Now, Freya as we see her is a very feminine woman, but her battle outfit when paired with Iduna is undoubtedly a military uniform, and canon shows us that it was quite common for Freya to be wandering around battlefields, picking up subclass as she pleased.

The "men's clothing" Jeanne wore was armor, and her short haircut she had throughout her military career was for the sake of convenience, not because she was attempting to dress as a man. (@redlanternchild also makes note of this in her post here! Very reassuring that I am not, in fact, an insane person ww. I love her analysis in general so please give her blog a look through if you haven't already; It's super duper worth it!)

It's also a common misconception that Jeanne was executed as a witch, one that might be due to how she was depicted in Shakespeare's Henry IV part 1, where, spurred on by common English propaganda at the time of writing, she was portrayed as a witch and a promiscuous woman (This makes Freya's one-sided adoration for her baby brother rather... bitter, in a funny way). And, well... Gear went and rescued Freya from a witch trial, so. There ya go.

Second comes Freya's subclass, Gilberto Weasel and Rayscent Crazyrabbit, aka, Gil and Ray!

Using Italian pronunciation of Gil's name would make it sound closer to "Jill," while Ray, is, well, Ray! Put em together, and you've got something remarkably close to Jeanne's compatriot and the commander of the French army, Gilles de Rais!

Now for birthdays. Birthdays for characters in Servamp are NEVER chosen Just Because, and Freya's subclass are no exception.

Gil's birthday is February 12th, which also falls on the day the Battle of Herrings started, allll the way back in 1429. It's a really minor battle within the Hundred Years War, but, it was the date Jeanne met with Robert de Baudricourt and ended up, ahem, convinced to help her. It's actually really funny; she basically cornered the dude and then proceeded to publicly lecture everyone present until he relented. This is significant because Jeanne's encounter with Baudricourt is considered by historians to be her first major step towards her career and fame, much like Iduna's first meeting with Gil was what pushed her to really think about what she was creating, who for, and why.

Now, time for Ray! Ray's birthday is May 15th, which just so happens to coincide with the day Gilles de Rais kidnapped a cleric during a dispute at the Church of Saint-Étienne-de-Mer-Morte. This ultimately prompted an investigation by the Bishop of Nantes, during which evidence of Rais's crimes as the infamous "Bluebeard" was uncovered. ... Basically he murdered and did Other Things to a bunch of kids but let's just move past that, ayup.

Finally, we have the Star (lol) of our show... Iduna! She's the most obvious of the bunch with her connections, to the point that I almost feel silly bringing it up? But I also realize that people genuinely might not realize some of these because it just never came up in their lives before.

First, Jeanne's nickname was the Maid of Orléans, and she wasn’t just a flag bearer who rallied the troops. She also carried a sword into battle, a fact that for whatever reason is often left out when discussing her accomplishments. Iduna's combo with Freya is literally named "Maid of Orléans (Draw your sword)", and its effect is to give Freya the weapon she is lacking to become a perfect bastion of offense and defense. I'd have to be a total idiot to miss that given that even FGO, which, as I mentioned in a different post about Freya, plays it VERY fast and loose with history, gets this right, and how popular Jeanne D’arc is as a person to take inspiration from for fictional characters.

(side note, but i wonder if the design of Freya's demon was inspired somewhat by Fate Extra CCC's Karna? Strike's definitely a Fate fan and has even drawn Ildio in Gilgamesh cosplay, so it's entirely possible considering she loves to sprinkle in homages to series she likes within character design)

Second, and I've mentioned it in a previous post, Iduna's birthday, May 30th, is also the day Jeanne died at the hands of the English.

Jeanne was also only 17 the day she first rode into battle, just like Iduna! She's also the patron saint of prisoners (of which C3 was keeping the subclass as, and they were freed and safely guided out of the collapse thanks to Iduna intervening with the battle between Shamrock and Shuuhei) and soldiers, especially female soldiers like Freya. However, she's much more well known for being the patron saint of France ww

Finally, there’s one of the charges leveled at Jeanne during her trial. While she was captured by the Burgundians, there was an incident where she jumped from a 21 meter(!!) tall tower, and she safely landed on the ground despite the height (but was quickly recaptured). Now the reason for this seems to have conflicting sources, and I… Do not speak French |D

Some say she was merely attempting to escape, others insist that she did so to save a nearby village. Point being, she leapt, survived, was captured, and maybe did so for not her own sake, but for others.

Anybody remember the end of chapter 106 and the entirety of chapter 107? Iduna, using a new invention, leaps from the window of the hospital (much to Gil and Ray’s distress lol) in order to more immediately tend to the injured Nicco, and her kindness is met with being taken hostage. I just thought this one was a funny little coincidence and probably not intentional, so take it as you like~

[azaleaartpal]

Servamp fanart from December

I wanted to draw izuna and inner wrath dancing, but I just kept going.

Also, happy birthday, Tsubaki :•)

[hello-vampire-kitty]

My OTP is Gil x Ray and my other favorite pairing is Youtarou x Gear and y'know what these pairs have in common? The fact that each character is represented by an animal, with Gear actually being part wolf, so we have Gil (weasel), Ray (rabbit), Gear (wolf) and Youtarou (sheep), the first kanji in his name is "hitsuji" 羊

meaning sheep. It's interesting that weasels and wolves are predators and rabbits and sheep are prey, each pairing can be considered an unlikely friendship and we also have another one, the friendship between Kuro and Gear, cat and dog, wolf in this case. Also, another contrast of these relationships, the ones represented by the animals that are predators, Gil and Gear, are smaller than the prey, Youtarou and Ray.

[joydoesathing]

what if freya and odin (male!wrath) switch places for a bit

odin wondered what it would be like if all his siblings would be the same sex as him. well, just magically zap him into freya's place.

BONUS DOODLE

[crowteabar]

[nyanberri]

10 year old Gil and Ray designs for my Ashford Island AU. They went from thieving orphans on the street to the assistants of a company CEO. They might not be humans but no one really knows for sure, not even Gil and Ray themselves.