#lcb Rim

[offshore-brinicle]

Why is Dongrang the only member of the League with a weird fantasy hair color while everyone else has normal colors actually. What is his fucking problem

[zen17hdee]

! Canto 7 spoilers !

As soon as I saw Sanson I guessed that he’s part of Demian’s mysterious blue people crew

And then I saw someone posted Sanson’s profile image

He’s got that same bisexual background as the other two blue dudes we’ve met

[pobopolybius]

[minnowoooo]

I like this weird orb

[howdyadoitsnatty]

(CANTO 5 - PART 2/3 SPOILERS)

I think I have a bit of an idea of who Rim is

[demianasks]

Hey, Demian!

Got a question for you about one of your compatriots, Lim? I think their name was? Have you ever tried to sneak a fish into their fishbowl head?

~ Mist

The liquid in his head isn’t pure water. His fishbowl acts very similar to a prosthetic, and because it is clear you can see his brain inside it. As such, the liquid is some sort of mixture of water and cerebrospinal fluid like substance that I’m not sure would be good for a fish.

// this one’s very important to me because my dad has a condition called hydrocephalus where his body has too much cerebrospinal fluid putting pressure on his brain. I think if his head was a fish bowl that mixed his CSF with water to thin it out, maybe he wouldn’t have the negative symptoms affect him so much.

[lulamadison]

WIP Game

Rules: post the names of all the files in your Work In Progress folder regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. Let people send you an ask with the title that most intrigues them and then post a little snippet of it or tell them something about it! And then tag as  many people as you have WIPs.

Thank you @secondclassfangirl and @wicked-jade for the tags!

Here are my titles...

1 - LCB Final

2 - CK Pacific Rim AU 

3 - Body Swap 

4 - CK Grosse Pointe Blank AU

5 - Ear Infection whump

6 - The Deuce style Prostitution AU 

7 - CK Small Town Cop AU

8 - Appendicitis 

I am tagging @backinblack-80 @phoomwhoosh @pohjanneito @usaonetwothree @findmeinthealps @libertinepast @forbiddenfandom and anyone else who wants to do it but who hasn’t been tagged by anyone so far! 

[offshore-brinicle]

OK SO. WE FINALLY HAVE A GOOD LOOK AT THE PORTRAIT OF THE LEAGUE IN THE BACKGROUND OF RING YI SANG'S CG

Turns out the red markings are that he actually drew faces over them????? It feels so unsettlingly child-like.... And then the likes of Gubo and Dongrang who were traitors and benefited from the bad things they did are smiling the widest. And then Dongbaek, tall lady and hat guy are the ones with sad faces and then Yi Sang himself has... a very different kind of smile. Man there are So many possible meanings here, either about who is in despair and who has found satisfaction in their resolutions or as suggested by suoweiliuli on Twitter "who changed and who didn't".....

[offshore-brinicle]

One of these days I'm gonna make a full post analysis on Rim and his inspirations but for now, looking back at the Canto IV flashbacks knowing Faust is playing Rim from the talks about butterflies crossing the sea he was absolutely talking about Demian here wasn't he

[offshore-brinicle]

I hope we finally find out what the fuck this means next Canto with the "The Dream Ending" title. I hope Yi Sang suffers.

[offshore-brinicle]

Yi Sang a butterfly with how a flap of his Wings caused like 700 events

You heard of The Butterfly Effect, now get ready for The Crow Effect

...Speaking of butterflies, because that made me laugh and I like having opportunities to ramble because when left to my own devices my head is all over the place, I've been wanting to talk about Rim for a while. So it's been brought up for a while he's based on another irl author (who was also a literary critic) Kim Kirim, the wiki has a pretty concise summary of his history having also being abducted and dissapearing during the Korean War, but it's also missing some details in how he relates to the real Yi Sang which might indicate his role in Limbus.

The wiki skips out on mentioning that in real life, Kim Kirim and the real Yi Sang were very close friends much like Park Tae-Won (Gubo) and Gim Yujeong (Dongbaek) though it doesn't seem like there is as much of a personal connection between Rim and Limbus!Yi Sang from what we saw in the play and their very brief interaction in Canto V.

(and for the record irl Dongrang and Yi Sang seem to have had no specific relationship beyond belonging to the same organization, their dynamic and specific friendship was only added to the Limbus characters for narrative purposes which I find hilarious)

Either way, it is thanks to Kim Kirim that a lot of things about Yi Sang are known to the public, from one of the most popular stories about how he decided his penname to a lot of details about his death, having even written a memoir after his passing, I did some quick digging through Korean internet and found out some very interesting things about it, first this more formalized article which talks more about Kirim's education which tells us some about his ideals as a writer, though since I do not know Korean I can only offer the automatic translated version.

(original link: Kim Ki-rim, a poet who dreamed of a new literary revolution | Read in Gwanghwamun Walk Walk Feel (kyobostory.co.kr))

Then we go unto his actual thoughts about Yi Sang, also mentioned at the end of this article but go much more in-depth in the following one (which sadly has a pretty broken translation but hopefully it's comprehensive enough through context clues)

(original article link: Seven letters to the poet he admired the most (brunch.co.kr)))

And then we get onto this very interesting interpretation of The Sea and The Butterfly as also being inspired by grief over Yi Sang's death

Seeing this reality it makes an odd contrast with how cold and indifferent Rim is portrayed as in Limbus, both in the play flashbacks and his Canto V appearance, but if the writers are working with the interpretation of The Sea and The Butterfly as being symbolic of Yi Sang's death it also raises a lot of questions about Demian's group, since Demian is also reminiscent of the snake from The Little Prince which is also representative of death but I might have to make a full post about that. If I remember to

Either way thanks for giving me excuses to remember to share information

[watcher-servant]

Yeah it gotta be him

(CANTO 5 - PART 2/3 SPOILERS)

I think I have a bit of an idea of who Rim is