#man from hjelmdall

[bleed-in-black-and-white]

I painted The Man from Hjelmdall on the cover of my sketch book ~

[theanxiousbookdevourer]

Me: Disco Elysium isn't THAT text-heavy.

Disco Elysium:

And, of course...

[www-pinkhearse]

LOGIC – To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to understand Man from Hjelmdall.

RHETORIC (Medium: Success) – The humor is extremely subtle, and without a solid grasp of infra-materialism most of the jokes will go over a typical viewer's head.

ENCYCLOPEDIA (Formidable: Success) – There's also Hjelmdallermann’s nihilistic outlook, which is deftly woven into his characterisation - his personal philosophy draws heavily from Yekartina Dahl literature, for instance.

EMPATHY (Challenging: Success) – The fans understand this stuff; they have the intellectual capacity to truly appreciate the depths of these jokes, to realize that they're not just funny- they say something deep about LIFE.

HALF LIGHT – As a consequence people who dislike Man from Hjelmdall truly ARE idiots.

ENCYCLOPEDIA (Godly: Success) – Of course they wouldn't appreciate, for instance, the humour in Hjelmdallermann’s existencial catchphrase "Wubba Lubba Dub Dub," which itself is a cryptic reference to Blue Ocean Hell.

YOU – I'm smirking right now just imagining one of those addlepated simpletons scratching their heads in confusion as Man from Hjelmdall’s genius unfolds itself on their pages.

AUTHORITY – What fools... how I pity them.

YOU – “And yes by the way, I DO have a Man from Hjelmdall tattoo”

KIM KITSURAGI – The Lieutenant looks unimpressed.

YOU – “And no, you cannot see it. It's for the ladies' eyes only- And even they have to demonstrate that they're within 5 IQ points of my own (preferably lower) beforehand.”

BIRD’S NEST ROY – “Alright then”

[bisexualcell]

oh no not the white supremacy book.

[arakisminot]

I'd read Man from Hjelmdall and the Snow Crabs

[couldtransitionsaveher]

THE MAN FROM HJEIMDALL from HJELMDALLERMAN: THE MAN FROM HJELMDALL and THE MAN FROM HJELMDALL AND THE HJELMDALL MAN from THE MAN FROM HJELMDALL SERIES from DISCO ELYSIUM

JUSTIFICATION:

"You remember that part in The Man from Hjelmdall and the Devil Woman where she says she envies the women of Cloud City for her "youthful yet rugged beauty?" what was that about? Not to mention the part in Gates of Tomorrow where she does a whole flip on Lady Macbeth's "unsex me here" speech." - Anonymous

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[disco-archetypes]

YOU - "He killed the mercenary hoping to start a war between the company and the Union."

CUNO - "Yeah. Check this shit -- he's like some fucking old school warrior. Man From Hjelmdall shit. Only against rich people and... pederasts I think? Cuno doesn't know what a pederast is, Cuno's not a university..."

CUNO - "But he did that shit. To get the Union fucks killed, so they'd get the other fucks killed. Boom! Giant kill-storm. Mastermind shit -- only, like, a really old mastermind who's fucking stupid."

JEAN VICQUEMARE - "Okay. Mastermind."

LOGIC - He's not getting it.

YOU - "Wait -- Jean. Was there *not* a giant kill-storm?"

CUNO - "You were *just* up his asscrack for the mass murder shit. Now it's nothing? Why do you think that shit *happened?*"

JEAN VICQUEMARE - "..."

CUNO - "You ain't saying shit, because you don't got shit to say."

[cupboardgods]

Dora and Harry in The Man from Hjelmdall and the Devil Woman

Thank you @harriereveryday for the suggestion that ended my fanart dry spell!

Original Frank Franzetta painting under the cut

I really appreciate that he didn't paint the feet lol. Also he draws men and women with the fattest of asses. I really struggled with scaling down his bodacious bods.

Harry and Dora, me vs. The Mastermind of Mars, Frank Franzetta

[kindgreenape]

DNI: contact mike haters, racist lorry drivers, cuno, moralintern stans, the bourgeoisie, people who consume man from hjelmdall uncritically, garte (he knows what he did), anyone who hates my buddy kim, anti infra-materialists

tag mentions of apricots with #harry don’t look

[junomoder]

Man From Hjelmdall: The Orc Wars

[ladyhedoniste]

While I'm on the subject of Harry Du Bois' bisexuality, I think it's interesting to know that in the course of the game you learn a lot about Harry's taste in men, for all that he seems to be heavily in denial about being queer.

Other than The Smoker on the Balcony and Kim, when he does think about other men, he seems primarily interested in men who are strong and muscular. (He also very much seems to want to be dominated). Here are some examples:

His interest in Man from Hjelmdall books. When he's reading about an orgy at a blood ritual in the forest, in answer to whether he's here for the blood stuff, Half Light chimes in: "No, beautiful naked people fucking in the bushes is what you came for. Sweat, cocks and and titties please!"

He is obsessed with Contact Mike, a big strong boxer

If you hug the Working Class Woman, Harry has the optional thought "It's good, but I'd prefer a man. A solid muscularity would support me better." and then "Muscles, I said muscles! I want manly-manly muscles."

When he reads the pale medicine book, his brain chimes in about being thrashed by a big man with a branch, while lying helpless and naked on a cool slab

If you go down the fash route, it becomes clear through talking to Measurehead that Harry is sexually attracted to him and would be interested in "light bondage" with him. From what I've read about this route, it seems pretty likely that a lot of Harry's bigoted views in this version of the story stem his insecurity about his disabilities, his serious internalized homophobia, and having thoughts about being sexually dominated like he thinks Revacholian women are by "big foreign men in faraway countries who are better at sex than he is".

BONUS: Harry also seems to be sexually attracted towards people he sees as cool.

Harry was so attracted to Guillaume le Million that he modeled his fashion, "champagne cork smile", and some of his personality on him. Unfortunately it was not possible for him to copy Guillaume's "perfect ass".

The Smoker on the Balcony is constantly referred to as mysterious and cool. This twink with an open shirt and a terrible sugar daddy had Harry so entranced. Is he really mysterious, Harry, or are you just very closeted and very lonely, and immediately drawn to the first visibly flamboyant person you saw after you woke up with your mind wiped?

Kim. Just Kim. He is so besotted with him. I could fill paragraphs, but I'm just going to leave it at "How did you get so cool, Kim?" and that moment where he sniffed Kim's neck during the Communism vision quest. The smell of him set Harry's GABA receptors aflutter. Don't you also get a little bit high when you smell your friend's aftershave and the motor oil from when he services his car?

[mail-me-a-snail]

making a separate post about this since it's spoilers but ill keep it vague since ik a lot of y'all want to play de (ooo you want to so sososo bad)

during the final day of the endgame i completely forgot to do the 18 hour mind project and had no time for it. i was mourning the fact that id never get to hear what the skills had to say about the homosexual underground.

but then. then i remembered i had the man from hjelmdall book in my inventory. so i made harry read that over n over til 18 hours passed and it was near midnight and the mind project finally finished

can you imagine. can you imagine being kim kitsuragi, tired and sore and just wanting to go home, on both an isolated sea fortress and on the cusp of solving THE HANGED MAN after a hell of a week. when your partner. pulls out a macho man fantasy series and reads uninterrupted gone from this world totally invested in fantasy violence

only to turn to you 18 hours later and go "kim i think i like men"

[theanxiousbookdevourer]

I love learning all these little, weird things about the characters in Disco Elysium. Like, is Bird's Nest Roy not one of the weirdest little guys you've ever met?

He doesn't like beaches.

He doesn't like music...

... but he records random sounds...

... including the Col Do Ma Ma Daqua.

He also spends about 10% of any given interaction spacing out.

But to get a little more serious, I think there's a lot more to him. I even think it's possible to draw parallels between Bird's Nest Roy and Lt. Kim Kitsuragi.

He, like Lt. Kitsuragi with the RCM, was part of a voluntary clean-up organization...

... despite knowing it wouldn't do much good.

He's also very willing to look away and distance himself from things of which he doesn't approve or doesn't want to get entangled.

In this very same exchange, you can see Lt. Kitsuragi try to distance himself from your bad decisions in the same way, if you choose to take Pyrholidion.

I think the biggest difference between Bird's Nest Roy and Lt. Kitsuragi is that Bird's Nest Roy acts like he's a cynic...

... but the fact that he tried to help with the People's Pile makes me think he's not.

In fact, he likes imagining, losing himself in his own thoughts, more than anything real.

Did you see that? Did you get what he's saying?

The Man from Hjelmdall may not have been real before the stories were written and read, but he's real now, because he's in the stories.

I don't think Lt. Kitsuragi agrees with that.

But I do.

And if you're reading this post, I bet you do too. You had no idea who Bird's Nest Roy or Lt. Kim Kitsuragi or Raphaël Ambrosius Costeau was.

But you do now.

[yellow-yarrow]

"Now some of you might want to know whether demons still exist in the Elysium world in some way or form, I’m going to leave it hanging)." (x) okay well what is this then

Joyce Messier - "*A Deuill*," she pronounces: "*Who being of great Charme and Guille, sneaketh into the homes of the Godlie*." Conceptualization - That dialect is Ubi Sunt?. You recognize the quote from somewhere. A play, written way back in the Franconigerian century... Electrochemistry - Beneath her waterproof raincoat and silk shirt is a body imbibed in Numb 12 perfume. You are suddenly and intimately aware of it. You - "*And perswades them to addict themselues to his seruice...*" Joyce Messier - "Ah, you know more than you let on..." She gives you a coy little smile. "Philosopher-Detective of Precinct 41." You - (Nod.) "Devil Woman."

Harry is quoting from Daemonologie by King James VI (x)

Daemonologie [..]was first published in 1597[1] by King James VI of Scotland (later also James I of England) as a philosophical dissertation on contemporary necromancy and the historical relationships between the various methods of divination used from ancient black magic. [..] Daemonologie included a study of demonology and the methods demons used to bother troubled men. The book endorses the practice of witch hunting. This book is believed to be one of the main sources used by William Shakespeare in the production of Macbeth. (x)

the funniest thing is that I couldn't find Joyce's quote in Daemonologie. The sentence before Harry's quote is this:

Their mindes being prepared before hand, as I haue alreadie spoken, they easelie agreed vnto that demande of his: And syne settes an other tryist, where they may meete againe. At which time, before he proceede any further with them, he first perswades them to addict themselues to his seruice:

The only place I found that exact quote, was an article about Tony Blair, (published in 2014) (x), where he is described as some ancient evil demon. (it's pretty funny)

I think it's interesting how "Devil Woman" is mostly mentioned when there is something that reminds Harry of his ex

Joyce's perfume, which is "Sweet like the scent of chewing gum on some letter, long ago..."

Klaasje (blond young woman in disco era clothes, has birthmarks on her face - Dora had freckles)

Man from Hjelmdall and the Devil Woman book

another smell that is related to Dora is cinnamon

Apricot Chewing Gum Wrapper - There it is again -- the scent of apricots, with a touch of cinnamon. Smells like the end of some distant summer. The surface of another planet, or some ancient temple.

From Sacred and Terrible Air:

(..)was whispered into Fakkengaff’s ear by the very soul of debauchery. She had the white wings of an angel, but the breath against the disc jockey’s ear had been hot with passion, smelling of cinnamon and primal evil.

^ again with the evil thing (and aren't demons fallen angels?)

Daemonologie was written to endorse witch hunting and through the game there are times where Harry can say some pretty sexist stuff about women (calling them whores and devil women) so it's fitting

so. don't know where I'm going with this but pretty interesting stuff

[jnr-officer-cuno-here]

you're pretty literate for your age, cuno the junior officer

What the fuck does that mean?

Cuno's TWELVE, course Cuno's fucking literate. Cuno's a fucking pig now. You need to know how to do this writing shit when you're in here. Always writing shit down, none of that Man from Hjelmdall shit.

Fucking bitches still thinking Cuno doesn't know shit.

[a-fan-of-gary-the-cryptofascist]

Here's a drawing I did a while ago and just forgot to post.

This is pure vibe-based speculation but I feel like Gary had a mildly melancholic childhood.

I imagine he grew up relatively poor.

I also think he never really had his "thing", you know? That one thing a child can be good at that can build a healthy self-esteem. Not great enough at anything to stand out or be particularly popular.

He probably spent a lot of time reading. It's cute to think that the Man from Hjelmdall interest could be a lifelong thing.