#it's Beasts Embrace i think? smth like that

[daemon-in-my-head]

The more I think about it the worse Durge x Minthara, either romantically or as besties, is rotting my brain. Some of the reasons are as follows;

They've potentially met before, cuz the whole Minthara came to Moonrise before she started smth with Orin and got tadpoled bit. So there's a good chance she's been in Moonrise when Durge was there. Durge may have been the first true soul but nobody said by how long (Orin babe did u tadpole ur sibling and ur gf right after?)

Their mutual quest for vengeance against the orchestrator of their fall; Orin

Literally the same backstory, prestigious valiant killer/high ranking society member who fell due to sheer arrogance. Bonus; Minthara was originally a Cleric/Priestess of Lolth, her MTG Card still claims her to be a cleric. She knows what it's like as a leading figure in an evil cult

Both got fucked over by Bhaal and the Absolute

Both very pragmatic, albeit not in an ethical way

Evil bitches that enjoyed being evil bitches

Both killed an ex lover(?) (Minthy killed one of her exes in Menzoberranzan, Durge killed Gortash)

Both like decorating their homes with corpses of their victims, well Minthara prefers to decorate her gardens

Minthara Nr1 fangirl of the Slayer (sry Gortash)

Minthara had at least 1 pet displacer beast, Durge loves Gnolls and Worgs

Both can ruin Gale completely, one physically and the other one emotionally (savage drow)

Yeah durgestarion is cute, but two people who abandoned their home once and for all finding a new home within one another? Two people shunned by the entire world embracing each other? Two very legitimate monsters that are oddly gentle with one another and who express their love in fucked up ways like poisoning each other to build immunity?

Did I mention she is a fan of Gortash? And she thinks his ways could improve to be more efficient?

Also potential for enemies to lovers depending on who your durge is?

I'm actually not well about this anymore. This is literally Durgetash 2.0 limited tadpole edition.

[quartzskies]

big fan of your eeveelution investigation team art! what other pokemon do you think they would have?

thank you sm!! <3 i'm so happy people like my silly little drawings

on that note, i am so sorry anon you've awoken a beast

this awoke soooooo many brainworms in me btw i will be thinking about this for so long. i don't have entire teams planned out for everyone (...yet) but i'm gonna try to go off of a mix of elements + Vibes

ok so like souji/yu for SURE has a team full of super powerful, intimidating ass pokemon. debating putting arceus there bc of izanagi... i'm thinking like serperior, garchomp, that type of stuff. of course he also would have a luxray or smth bc cat 😸🥰

yosuke was honestly so easy for me to come up w an entire team for him 🫣 imo his team would include stuff like greninja (obligatory) and staraptor/noivern and, hear me out, meowscarada. magician arcana

chie would have a team full of heavy-hitting physical attackers 💪🏼💪🏼 she would def have a gyarados and either a mienfoo or a kubfu. small bestie perfect for training

yukiko i have had SO much fun thinking up ideas for, i wanna try to make some drawings w full teams of 6 for everyone but if no one else i wanna do one for YUKIKO. volcarona bc fiery dance shit, but i think she'd totally embrace the Weird. what i'm saying is she would so totally have like a gengar and hydreigon. i am debating giving her giratina for shits and giggles 😋

kanji!! my boy, my dude!! i saw some tags on my kanji art that mentioned how he would have a team full of pokemon that evolved w high friendship/affection and they are all SO right. he'd def have a milotic in there, probably a crobat or krookodile?? also hear me out: leavanny. they could make clothes together 🥹

rise i think would have kind of a gimmicky team!! shit like whimsicott, maushold, ofc paired w support like an altaria. i just think she would get the cute ones that can also piss people off just for funsies 😈😇

teddie needs to have all baby pokemon. cute ass shit. i'm talking togepi. definitely some wack shit like shaymin (ground forme) and jirachi. and, once again, hear me out: darkrai. think of spooky ass shadow teddie. he would totally have the cutest sweetest most innocent team and then A Horror From The Shadows 👻

naoto was also super easy for me to imagine a full team for!! lucario DUHHHH. and other cool shit like a samurott and flygon. i can't explain it but they all fit naoto's Vibe do you get what i'm saying. they’re all like🕵️ yknow

okayyyyyyyy that was so long i'm so sorry _(:3 」∠)_ BUT this gave me so many ideas and i think my next project may be to draw them being all swag w their teams... or if nothing else definitely get yukiko's team drawn. that girl would be full of horrors i know it <3

[sakumasmut]

wait waiy can u make a tierlist on what monsters wld the idols be if ur not busy i wanna see smth

okay in general a “monster” is a very vague category so I mostly just went with common ones

vampire-rei, ritsu, shu

sakumas are pretty self explanatory. shu already acts like a victorian era vampire so that’s pretty easy

lycanthrope-koga, jun, mao

I just think these guys would make good werewolves, though they’re on a sliding scale of embracing their wolf side or being terrified of it. jun of course is in the middle since he just treats it as an inconvenience

other theriantrope-kuro, rinne, ibara, madara

kuro could be a lot of beasts, but I lean towards werewolf or dragon. rinne’s a fox/kitsune, ibara is a naga and madara is a minotaur

shapeshifter-wataru

can’t decide what to make him so I guess this works. he just likes messing with you and taking on different forms. tentacles? double dicks? you name it you got it

sacred deity-kanata, nagisa

these two are shapeshifters like wataru, but are bigger deals with their own religions. kanata prefers to take on a half kraken form and nagisa usually is humanoid with maybe wings. form changes are just for whatever’s convenient, like nagisa turning into a dragon when angry, etc.

demon/oni-subaru, eichi, kaoru, hiyori, yuzuru, keito, natsume

these guys are mostly humanoid, just with the typical horns and a tail. eichi and hiyori might have shrines dedicated to them but the others only really are guardians of a certain area

succubus/incubus-izumi, arashi, himeru, mika, mayoi

demons, but fueled by lust! don’t usually guard anything and wander around to satiate their cravings

humanoid with monster features

-chiaki, souma, makoto, hokuto, adonis, nazuna, niki, tatsumi, leo, tsumugi, anzu

aka, I don’t have good ideas for them. I think souma is some sort of merfolk and nazuna is some bunny person, but that’s about it. anzu is either human or an elf

[hvtqo]

diona | rainy night

⇢ ˗ˏˋcharacters: diona, diluc [other mondstadt cast]

⇢ ˗ˏˋgenre: angst

⇢ ˗ˏˋ tw!: death of a parental figure; a long, long internal monologue regarding grief and failure; parental negligence; anger.

⇢ ˗ˏˋnote: this is not a ship fic pls don't turn it into smth weird. i wrote this awhile ago (like legit years ago) and i just found it, idk, it made me tear up a bit. when i wrote it i was wondering how diluc would be if he got to be a sort of father/big brother figure for dio.

about:

diona heard the news of draff's death. absentmindedly and unable to grieve properly, she finds herself going to the dawn winery in order to find answers.

↓ read under the cut ↓

When Allan pushed through the Cat's Tail door that night yelling and shaking with a nervous look on his face, Diona's ears stopped being capable of audition. Perhaps her heart registered what the young hunter was saying, because the hitting inside her ribs became stronger, until it was all she could feel. The bar fell silent. Nobody dared move. All the cats' hairs bristled and Margaret dropped a cup as she carefully glared at Diona, but the child did not notice the glass breaking.

Deep, deep down she knew it would happen some day. But... did it have to be today? Diona pressed her hands around the piece of rag she was holding as if her sanity depended on it. As if that insignificant slice of cloth was the only thing keeping her here. Heartbeat going louder and louder, like a desperate bomb. She couldn't blink, and she couldn't breathe.

Allan's words rumbled inside her skull like the faint whisper of a midnight breeze.

“Draff is dead.”

Draff is dead.

Daddy is dead.

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Diona could not make sense of it still.

Two days had passed since Draff was wounded by a boar.

“He died of blood loss” she heard the people of the village saying. They would turn their faces when she passed in front of them, as if that gesture would keep her from hearing their words.

Adults are so stupid, she thought every time. “If that young hunter could've been faster... Perhaps Draff would still be here with us”.

Diona did not blame Allan. There was nothing he could have done, anyway. If he had been faster and carried Draff to the cathedral, the nuns would have just been able to prolong his death with bandages and prayers. Diona would have been summoned and Deaconess Barbara would have told her “little one, what I am about to tell you breaks my heart... I am so sorry”.

No difference.

Diona's heart would be troubled nevertheless. She would feel the same void inside her chest, growing towards her stomach.

She would repeat the same words to herself when trying to think about what happened: stupid old man. The day finally came. You left me. Stupid old man.

Diona had not shed a tear. She knew what death was, of course. She was not a toddler. She understood the implications of being gone. And she knew it would happen eventually. If Draff's alcoholism did not kill him, it would be a beast. Diona should have had expected that the real cause of his perish would be a combination of both factors.

She looked up at the sky. The sun was starting to turn bright orange, coloring the clouds in low toned palettes of pink and purple.

I hate you, daddy.

And as if he had heard her thoughts, the sky roared. The rain came down faster than a breath leaving a man's lips for the last time. The villagers of Springvale begun carrying their stuff inside their homes, covering their heads, and taking their children to their warmth embrace. They quietly and carefully glanced at the cat girl sitting over the roof of her house, but none dared speak.

Diona hated the rain. It made the fur of her ears and tail feel sticky and unclean. It also left a scent on her clothes reminiscent of daddy's. A smell of wilderness and sweat.

Diona sighted. Her eyes were stuck on the small taps of the drops vibrating over a puddle. She was cold, but she did not care about the sensations of the rain falling on her skin. Even if a part inside of her was yelling to get inside the house and cover herself, the bigger, more stubborn part that dominated her actions lately, decided to jump down the roof and walk the road towards Dawn Winery.

Her steps worked by themselves, without her fully knowing her real intentions. Why was she going to Dawn Winery in the middle of a storm? What did she expect to find there? Answers? That place could not give her answers.

She knew it was her all along —daddy was dead because Diona failed to take care of him. She should have ended the wine industry sooner. She should have agreed when Klee said to go bomb Dawn Winery.

“I don't want to destroy the industry in that way, Klee” she told her as many times as Klee came up with the idea.

“Well, then Klee doesn't know what you could mean by ‘destroy’.”Diona would try to explain to her that the term was not being used in a literal sense.

But how could a child make another understand that what she really wanted was the comfort of her father's embrace? How, when not even she could explain that to herself?

Diona stopped when she arrived at the Statue of the Seven and looked towards the chimneys and walls covered in ivy of Dawn Winery. The place seemed almost peaceful under the light of the moon and the aggressive sounds of the rain. She took a breath in and ran towards the mansion, her wet clothes sticking to her skin, her tail brushing the grass and her lips trembling as her throat swallowed the tears. Diona did not make it past the entrance —she touched the door and could not knock it.

Her knees bended and the concrete hit her bones with force. That second she perceived the tears starting to fall. Her heart throbbed with the violence of lightning and her cheeks burned.

She left out the loudest scream she had ever held inside her throat. The scream that had been waiting there to be free since the first day she saw Draff take a sip of wine. The heavens carried her feelings and sent them back even louder.

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“Did you hear that?”

Adelinde nodded. “It sounded like a scream”.

“Yes” Diluc agreed. “And it come from outside the door”.

Diluc strode towards the entrance of the mansion with a confused look on his face that only got wider when he opened the door to see a pink haired girl knelt in a defeated pose.

“Diona?” he got down on one knee and reached out to touch her shoulders, but Diona pushed him with aggressively. Her small hands felt weak as she punched his chest. “Di– Diona, what–”

She wouldn't stop. Diona kept punching Diluc as if he was a mere thing. One. Two. Three. Desperate hits of her feeble knuckles against his thick skin, grunting, pressing her teeth, tears covering her face.

“It's your fault!” she yelled, once and once again. “It's your fault!”

Diluc grabbed her hands with force yet gentle enough to not hurt her, and Diona struggled to free herself combatively.

“Diona, calm down” Diluc said, “please let me get you inside the Winery”.

“NO!” the strength in Diona's voice was like that of a lioness'. “It was your fault!”

For a second she looked at him in the eyes. Pools of sadness filled her irises but Diluc could not find hate inside of them, despite her words. Instead, he saw himself. He saw his own eyes when he was fourteen and Crepus left. He felt the desperation and anger that filled him, the resentment towards himself and the world. For a second he held a breath.

Diona's lips trembled and then the tears rolled down her cheeks again. Diluc felt the hands he was holding lose vigor. She let her body fall over his chest and held on to him, grabbing the folds of his shirt toughly. Diona buried her face in his chest and cried there.

“You did it” she was saying, this time softer. “You killed my daddy”.

Those words felt like a cold sword piercing his heart. Not because of the slight accusation of murder, but because of the feeling they carried. Because that's what he had been telling himself for years.

Wary, he let his arms fall around Diona. She was freezing. Diluc felt her small body quivering, but unexpectedly, Diona did not push him away. Instead, she buried herself deeper in him. He had been planing to visit Diona and give her his condolences, but now that she was there... he considered that his intended plan would have been a bad idea.

When he felt her cries were getting weaker, Diluc whispered calmly, “let's get you inside”.

He carried her gently and closed the door behind them by kicking it. Diona did not move, but she kept shivering and she let out a small hiccup. Diluc felt her arms get tighter around his neck, and gave Adelinde a glare that she quickly understood. The maiden rushed to return with warm towels in hand and helped him make their way up the guest's room.

[fawnghuleh]

here is !! smth i wrote to myself that i feel someone else might need <3

they will call you cold, bitter and cruel

for not showing them your kindness

when they never showed you any at all

and when they bit, it bruised - they blamed you for your tears, lashed out

and got angry for your leave.

their idea of you is crushing, persistent

and s h a r p

they will only ever think of you as someone who refused to submit to the idea of toxic purity, perfection and a lie painted gold,

they will use your defense as their own, project and twist sentences. they will frame a situation for their benefit, gain sympathy, and repeat.

everyone you have talked to who has known the sting of their teeth and the dog in their heart will tell you how their wings were ripped away too, and how horns were crafted to fit them fine.

the truth is that you are not a monster, a bad person, or a being that only causes pain. when people are deeply hurt and cannot accept a fault deep in their own singed, bleeding hearts, they will turn a mirror to you and preach to beings alike that you were the one who tore into them like a beast with no repose - but find comfort in the fact that you have the scars to prove it was the other way around. know that you are not how you are held to be in the minds of those who don’t understand you at all.

you are not a m o n s t e r for wanting peace. you are not. keep finding your own way within your ever-growing heart, feed the light seeping through your core, embrace darkness you find and show the ones you love what light you have to offer. you are not one certain wonder, you have the right to be anything you want, and you don’t have to stay the same. they will always take the parts where you messed up and mold them together - they will create someone who is not like you at all. you don’t need to understand it, pursue your own image of yourself and improve.

not every wrong means you are corrupt, not every right means you are pure.

reject what things tighten your chest and bring tears to your eyes - don’t you understand you deserve more than this? you are worth every thing they told you that you didn’t deserve. you are here, and you are whole in yourself; human, loved and hated. let your wings grow back, the wild feathers sprouting from your back will inevitably hurt, but it is a pain worth knowing you are healing once more. let yourself feel every emotion they have demonized and more, let yourself fall in love with the idea of emotions. you are everything in the world and nothing at once. you are loved. you are known and seen for who you truly are, and one day when you become one with the stars again you will love who you were for that short blip in time.

[foxgirldick]

c1# pure vibes alone please tell me if this is accurate

oooh definitely a fun one!! glad i seem to be vibing with the Burial Blade :3

[mistleaneous-chaos]

Elden Ring thoughts because I’ve been watching Woolie play it and thoughts keep poppin’ up somethin’ fierce

It’s fucked up of Castle Sol to have eclipse imagery after how much Dark Souls 3 made me worry so much about the game ending on a similar note

At the same time though if there is a connection between Souls and ER like people theorize I really fucking hope Elden Ring is in the FFAAAAAARR future because I honestly cannot handle it being a prequel because I cannot emotionally handle everything just leading to the literal wasteland that is the Dark Souls 3 DLC

Also btw, nobody’s been talking about it but the Elden Beast arena is literally surrounded by Erdtrees so that really makes me think that Erdtrees are possibly corrupted Archtrees from Dark Souls, like you fight it in a lake with a bunch of trees around so like, it’s not impossible?

Also it’d make sense considering the fact that after everything in the Souls Games, Ash Lake still fuckin’ exists?? Like it never disappeared or got destroyed or anything it just kept existing because nobody knew it even existed besides the Chosen Undead and uh, I don’t know if they’re still around, personally. And also it’d be fitting for the main driving force of the plot to have taken over the dregs of what came before and just infecting it. It’d also go with the theme of creatures taking refuge in that which came before like the claymen infesting the old cities, the creatures taking refuge in the Haligtree, etc

Man Albinaurics have it rough. They either wander Liurnia and can’t talk, get killed for existing in their village if they’re first generation, try to find their way to a land that they don’t even know if it exists for certain, or live in a Dynasty based entirely off of blood-worship… which ironically is the only one where they’re not actively in danger. Like it’s weird how the Albinaurics in the Mohgwyn dynasty are just, chilling??? Like it is a really dangerous place and there’s probably some dead ones or smth I missed but like, it seems chill? So yeah points for Mohg for doing more for the Omen and Albinaurics than Morgott did? Still pretty fucked up for that Miquella stuff though.

Speaking of, it actually does kind of make sense for Mohg to feel a sort of kinship with Miquella. Not only did they both have the same mother, they both tried to create new sorts of orders outside of the Golden Order, Mohg with his dynasty and Miquella with his Haligtree. Along with that is their use of blood in pursuit of their goals, specifically their own. Miquella uses his blood to try and spur the Haligtree to grow, and Mohg embraced his own blood in order to rise above the Order, so it’s not improbable for Mohg to have heard that and decided that Miquella could be useful

Also keep in mind Mohg is still definitely a fuck and I don’t wanna excuse ANY of the shit he did

I think a lot of people disregard the fact that like, a majority of the Runebearers are insane. Like not just Radahn, but like it’s made clear that almost, if not all of them were driven insane by the Great Runes and tainted by them according to Enia, and if I had to guess it’d be due to how long they’ve had them. Hell the only person who may be ok is Malenia and that’s just because she’s been in a coma for fucking forever. And keep in mind that likely includes Miquella, because when bringing up missing demigods Gideon says Ranni doesn’t matter because she discarded her great rune, implying Miquella does, so he’s probably a bit insane too. But overall it adds more depth to the demigods’ actions like Godrick possibly having had those ambitions before but them being enflamed by the great rune driving him mad, Morgott’s self-hatred and fixation on the erdtree maybe being stronger than it was because of the Rune, etc.

[littlx-songbxrd]

PLS

MORALLY GREY THOMASTAIR?

WHY HAVE I NEVER HEARD OF THIS

TELL ME MOREEEEE(only if you want to tho-)

OH NO I DONT TAKE CREDIT FOR THAT BEAUTY @lifewouldbebetteronmars SAID MORALLY GRAY THOMAS AND I COLLECTIVELY LOST MY SHIT FROM THERE

Have you ever watched fantastic beast? If you havent its alright but thats just a basis

So like imagine in a world where CC wasnt writting tlh and whoever was knew how to correctly potray this

And Alastair was the villlain

Only Alastair isnt actually a villain when you look into his motives and things hes just been screwed over by everything too much to take the *nice* rute

His goal?

Destoy the clave

See that does seem like a villain motive bit you see, its not. He doesnt wanna just destroy tye clave because of the power. He wants to destrot it because its all wrong, because they wont awcknoladge that theres anything wrong with the way they run things.

They do things that are mostly influenced by mundane culture and when called out on it clame they do not associate with mundand culture

Meanwhile those prejudiced are made to feel insane under their eye

The fact is unless your not a white straight neurotypical cis man the clave isnt build for you

The same as the mundane world

And Alastair (a gay poc man) is tired of this bullshit and no one willing to do anything

So he has one goal

Destroy the clave

But hes smart and brilliant and the clave doesnt even know whats going on until he already has spies planted on the inside

Alastair doesnt plan to take the power for himself he plans to have the clave reformed step by step

Basically he has secret meetings (this is where fantastic beast comes in) with people he finds would be good for his cause

Where he explains his plans and gives them an option to join him

If they dont he does let them go but he has a warlock that agreed to help that erases there memories of the proceedings

(See alastair has the downwormders on his side cause he promises them better rights and actually DOES plan to carry that through)

So Christpher is invited to one

Thomas goes with him because he has heard of Alastair Carstairs and he thinks hes insane

So after everything Christopher DECIDES to join him (so does Kamala, Eugenia and Grace)

Thomas follows them because he doesnt want Christopher hurt and hes not convinsed of Alastairs causes

He really does think hes insane

But Alastairs intrigued by him

Its rare someone decides to turn there back on their entire world unless they are 100% convinsed by his cause

So hes very very intrigued by Thomas Lightwood because he knows hes not into this plan completley

But theres smth about him

SO ANYWAYS ITS RIVALS TO GRUDGING RESPECT TO FRIENDS TO LOVERS

Basically Alastair slowly shows exactly what his thoughts on the clave are and how unfair everything is

And slowly lets Thomas embrace that part of him that lets him make his own decisions

And by the end he does tell Thomas hell let him go if he wants

That if needent stay here if he didnt want to, he'll take care of Christopher and his sister

He makes it a promise

And he knows from months of wirking with Alastair that he never breaks promises

But Thomas has slowly begun to see how messed up the clave was turns down the offer and just embraces moral grayness and stays

Then kinda feelings start being awcknoladged

I have a scene Alastair gets hurt and hes fine just needs to take it easy but hes kinda refusing and just goes back to actually work because nothings gonna get done if he rest

And like Thomas just appears takes the papers of his hands and just

*rest*

AndAlastair fights him and they have the *fight* where Alastairs like

Why do you care so much

And thomas BECAUSE I LOVE YOU

So yes morally gray bfs taking over the clave💞

[bullets-and-masks]

Fantastic Flustercuck: Lore, Interesting points, and a little thinking through

Here we go! This list is really, really big. I’ll do a short analysis/critic later on, but I want to get this out now! We’ll have 4 sessions: 1. Krieg and the Crimson Raiders 2. Krieg and Maya 3. Krieg and Himself  4. Final Notes 

Session 01: Krieg and the Raiders

Sane Krieg starts by calling Psycho Krieg him; and dividing their mind between two minds, as if there are thoughts only Psycho Krieg has that he can’t access and/or understand 

There’s a constant JACK voiceover that can be heard anywhere. Sadly, I didn’t catch the words, but sounded like the pre recorded messages at the preserve in Bl2

The first section of the DLC, the Castle raid, is considered imporant because it’s the first mission Krieg did along with the Crimson Raiders after a while 

During this section, we fight the raiders

Brick and Modercai come first. They talk about how Krieg is too crazy to be a part of the Raiders. Sane Krieg does not want to fight them. Psycho Krieg fights - but it’s fear

Tannis quickly accesses it as fear of rejection. Krieg always had an issue with how the Raiders see him 

Despite this Sane Krieg does know they’re friends, his family 

Also sane Krieg uses the word oaf and that’s like... really funny 

In this, Tannis says she relates to fear of rejection, but quickly corrects saying she doesn’t care 

There’s the implication that Krieg’s eye was clawed out by a skag 

The “Evil Lilith” inside his head calls him an animal, a beast, a weapon just to be used. Says they never cared if he lived or died

Sane Krieg quickly corrects this isn’t how she spoke to us

Lilith is tagged as “Scary fire lady” and that’s kind of adorable

Sane Krieg shows Psycho Krieg an old memory about how the Raiders treat him, and it’s the Raiders inviting Krieg to a bar. They don’t mind how he acts and laugh along with him 

But Krieg follows from a distance

The Raiders guard his buzzaxe = strenght and attack

Krieg has a dialogue with himself that goes sorta like: Sane Krieg: (smth about finding out who is he, really) Psycho Krieg: Fragile Things

Sane Krieg also mentions wanting to learn dance, saying he has to exercise to keep his abs, calling it “lean muscle”

Session 02: Krieg and Maya

Oh boy

As soon as they see a memory of Maya, Sane Krieg wants to be careful. He doesn’t want the memory corrupted like the Raiders’. 

Krieg KNOWS she is dead

Sane Krieg says Maya is the only thing he and Psycho Krieg ever agreed on 

despite this, during the DLC they seem to get along better and better, Krieg is really working on themselves

Maya drops her book before proceeding. The player has to go after. Flowers grow on the ground where we walk

Tannis states diferent brain activity readings at this point, saying Krieg can really focus on Maya 

Maya is taken by Locomobius, the monster train, and Sane Krieg says it’s because at the time they met, Psycho Krieg thought the train was taking her

Maya tells him in a goodbye ECHO: “No matter how far appart we are, I’ll always be with you.”

The name of the mission to catch Locomobius and free the memories of Maya is what love remains 

Sane Krieg says the memories are all he has left of Maya

There’s a flashback to when they met, and it shows that Maya invited Krieg to come with her because he showed knowing how to fight 

She does call him Big Guy constantly

Krieg has memories of Athenas, implying he has been there 

Athenas is guarded by eridians, here funcioning as guardians to the memories of Maya 

This is all viewed by Tannis as the protections of a grieving mind

The flashback about when they met also reveals that Krieg expressed he didn’t think he had anything to offer Maya and she understood him 

It it’s not explained, whoever, how she understands him, but it’s very strongly implied that she sees his through thoughts/the translation of psycho speech

Maya guards his gauntlet = his defenses and hope 

Even now, Maya is still a figure of hope for him 

Sane Krieg complains about how Psycho Krieg lost a watch that he cared for

Session 2.5: Maya’s Spirit

Maya’s Last ECHO Maya leaves for Krieg one last ECHO that explains why she’s staying on Athenas for an indefinite time - to teach Eva.  She says she knows she’ll pass her powers to Eva which implies she suspects her death could be soon.  She says she can feel all the sirens that came before her like energy flowing, and says that if she days she’ll be among the stars waiting for him.  There’s the quote, from her: “Even death and time can’t keep us appart from each other.”

The Spirit Maya stays in Krieg’s mind in a shining black and white form. At first, It looks like it might be his perception of her, the way she appears in his mind, but upon further triggering dialogue, there’s a lot of things told from a perspective that make it sound like Krieg didn’t know, and that also Maya is aware of this new form for her.

Quotes say: 

that she never thought she could care about anyone the way she cared about Krieg

says that Krieg’s mind is less messy than she thought it’d be

had noodles in Minus-Prime, and loves it 

she dyes her hair!

Maya says with all the words Siren’s have the power to leave memory on objects, memory that are almost a spirt 

So this could be a fragment of Maya, alive in Krieg’s mind through the last ECHO he ever got from her

Also her spirit also mentions that one day a hotel showed up in Athenas, she slept there, it was a super interesting place, and she woke up lying on grass the morning after. Mancubus’ traveling hotel? 

Session 03: Krieg and Himself 

And Hyperion. 

Krieg was at Hyperion to do a job at a lab

but then was “taken” by them. also not specified if he was taken for doing the wrong job, or he was there not hired by them and was captured 

It is not specified what job, but he does mention he was a mercenary

The scientist responsible for him was Dr Benedict, and the called the subjects rejects of society

Sane Krieg says the lab saw the subjects as just meat. This is easily read as way Psycho Krieg registers meat as something that matters so much

Dr Benedict considered/might have done it: sweing the mouths of subjects shut or extracting their tongues so they couldn’t complain 

Sane Krieg was really soft y’all... He fights a rat while imprisioned and names it Tawanda - unclear what happens to it - but Krieg says they’ll take care of each other

Krieg tells Tawanda “I’m called Krieg”. In a further ECHO, Dr Benedict calls Krieg Subject 24C. So Krieg really isn’t his name, and he can’t remember it 

There’s an audio from Dr Benedict about an non specific subject asking to see his son, which the dr considers crazy, but all the others audios, even if not mentioning Krieg by name, seemed to be about him...

Sane Krieg sits along with Pyscho Krieg in an aparent crumbled cell space watching shadows that he calls The World. It’s Plato’s Allegory of the Cave, here showing Krieg is content with the world presented to him, unable, weak or even afraid to explore. It speaks to a false meaning he found to have the sense of living without having the strenght to do so

the player destroys the allegory, thus freeing Sane Krieg to see the actual world, a further step in regaining his mind as a world to really live in - he truly was trapped in himself

Bloodlust is a type of psychosis studied by Dr Benedict. It’s unclear wheter he created it, or what is behind it, but he uses a gas to infect people

considers making a gas bomb to infect whole populations

there’s a line from the Dr about how brain probing worsed pyschosis

the gas didn’t affect Krieg like the others - it is also unclear why 

a mission with a Fear Mom, completely referencing the Clockwork Orange, tells Krieg to drink Milk to grow strong so “no one will hurt you ever again.” This could be read as remnants of his past self, creating a place to feel cared for someway, but also embracing the ultraviolence of his being and the brainwashing he went through

this side mission rewards a gun with the flavor text our eyes are yet to open like a baby, or like someone who lacks clarity 

Krieg cared a lot about people before going insane. He holds strongly to a sense of right and wrong he calls goodness, and values innocence a lot

The Psycho personality is a schism that showed up in several test subjects that manifested the same personality

Dr Benedict wanted to change the subject pool to see the relation and considers an elementary school class

Also considers putting the gas in water supply to infect people since the gas won’t work on open areas

Psycho Krieg saves Sane Krieg when he had given up on scaping 

It is a bloodbath Psycho Krieg calls Tea Party

Sane Krieg sees this realization, about being saved and the Vault Hunter being inside his head, as Psycho Krieg letting people in

Hyperion kept his mask from him = “false face is protection”

Upon defeating the boss, the Gigantic Krieg tied to an experimentation bed fades.

After taking the mask, this Three Figures walk into a portal in his mind and disappear forever. Sane Krieg doesn’t remember who they are and remarks that he forgot his past entirely.  But looks at Psycho Krieg and decides on Forging a future.

They tell jokes to each other constantly, though Psycho Krieg only tells a decent joke by the end of the DLC. The joke is the one coherent sentence he can make; showing a lot of progress in how he communicates, but not changing who he is.  By the end, his mind is empty, and both Kriegs work together to fill it slowy with new memories and thoughts. They start with Maya, and keep creating until she says “Enough for now. Come in and tell me about your day”, to which Krieg responds FUSING INTO HIMSELF, WHOLE, and walking into the house with her. The voiceover from Krieg tells us we’re always breaking and hurting, but we put ourselves together again, never perfect, but close enough. Always fixing ourselves. 

Final Notes:

This DLC was really good, imo. I really liked the direction it took and I’m glad it wasn’t TOO wacky, loosing all the meaning and more seriousness it could have. It is a great character exploration, respects Krieg as a character and the one around him and their relationships.  Krieg comes out as not needing fixing, and instead making peace with all he is and growing.  Canon things confirmed:  Worked as a mercenary, was a Crimson Raider, was one invited by Maya, was loved back, was experimented on by Hyperion, was saved by himself.