#tschäggättä

[philoursmars]

Carnaval !

Une assez longue série sur une expo du MuCEM, à Marseille : "le monde à l'Envers"

busò (Hongrie) + gschell (Forêt Noire)

masque à double visage (Venise)

filonzana (Sardaigne)

busò (Hongrie)

kalogeros (Macédoine grecque)

skoromat (Slovénie) + survakar (Bulgarie)

survakar (Bulgarie) + Tschäggättä (Suisse) + beuffon (Courmayeur, Val d'Aoste)

[vro0m-but-not-cars]

Nothing I love more than the widely held tradition of getting dressed like some kind of hairy monster in winter

[bobbile-blog]

Okay so I've finally gotten to Jessicalter's Oprec and now feel qualified to talk about Come Catastrophes or Wakes of Vultures. holy shit. This went straight into my list of top Arknights events. Fantastic event, spoilers will be under the cut so I HIGHLY RECOMMEND reading the event first. It's really good and worth your while.

Anyway, what follows is a scattered mess of thoughts about this event and things that stuck out to me.

First off, plot stuff! I'll probably cover this when I do my next plotline recap post, but what I took away from the end is that Clip Cliff seems to want to make Blacksteel independent, or at least more self-determining than it is now. He seems to be gathering resources and assets like mobile city plates and investing in long-term infrastructure like merc training, so he definitely has a long game he's pushing for. I don't think we know enough go speculate about his goals, but we'll definitely be coming back here again. After all, Tila has an infection monitor in her art, which probably means she's going to be playable at some point in the future.

Next, having looked into this a little on my own, I was interested in some of the previous places Raythean has shown up. Specifically, the ones that stood out were the drones in the Kazimierz Major and arming Silverash's forces in Kjerag, which might be referring to the Tschäggättä. It's not just notable for their apparent level of technology, but also as a faint connecting thread between three separate capitalism plotlines. I don't know if that's going to be meaningful in the future, but I found it interesting enough that I thought I'd bring it up.

Now on to more narrative things. While I love Liskarm and Franka, I do think it was the right choice to give them less screen time in this event. They're both (for the most part) fully-realized characters who understand their own motivations and morals. This is above all else an event about Jessica learning to stand on her own as an adult, so it makes sense that they're more here to support her than they are to play their own roles in the story.

Speaking of said roles, I liked the event's commentary on cops. It pointed out an interesting distinction that I wouldn't really have ever thought of, that between mercenaries and cops. To start: cops exist to protect property, not people. The police exist to protect things and do not have an obligation to err on the side of people over things, and in fact are supposed to do the opposite. This event understands that, and that role os the core of how the bank treats the Blacksteel mercs. CV, however, raises an interesting point that mercenaries are bound by the letter of a contract and not the larger obligation to property cops are, so they can actually raise moral objections and point to their contracts, sort of a Lawful Evil/Lawful Neutral to cops' Neutral Evil. The independence of their position with respect to cops allows for more of an independent morality than you'd get in a cop story and I like that, I think it's a really smart direction to take your writing in.

On a (mostly) separate note, holy shit Arknights is really good at writing cowboy stories. Between this and chapter 9 (and I would argue An Obscure Wanderer), Arknights has repeatedly made it clear that they Do Not Fuck Around with their cowboy stories and I'm surprised I haven't heard more people talking about it. It kinda has everything:

- It takes place in a rural, working-class setting undergoing a larger imminent societal shift that can inform the larger narrative, and deals with a semi-mythologized past that is rapidly disappearing.

- It has a protagonist and an antagonist that serve as foils, both very heavily affected and defined by the (same) violence in their past that they've both had different reactions to. Our protagonist has come to terms with the violence as a tool to maintain order, while our antagonist has used it for personal gain and in some ways lost control of it.

- It's a story about community, and heavily emphasizes local and personal community over larger artificial corporate "community". That's my reading of the recurring motif of the cold btw, warmth represents the close, personal community Davistown used to have and the cold that now pervades it comes from how the bank has systematically dismantled that community.

- And, I'd argue most importantly, it understands the narrative power of a bullet. The Showdown at the end of a cowboy story is powerful because we've spent the entire runtime of our story with these characters, and they are now facing each other down with the intent to end one of their collective two stories. The entire weight of the narrative so far comes to rest on a single moment of tension. It's really hard to gather up the kind of narrative momentum you need to make that hit like it does in CV. For example, it requires a really light hand with actual action in the story, so that it really does feel like it's an even standoff between our protagonist and antagonist. On the other hand, though, you do actually have to establish the relative skill of both parties and actually sell the danger of the moment to the audience. It's really hard to toe the line between tension and actual action in a way that makes for a satisfying resolution, and CV does it extremely well.

Honestly, Arknights just seems really good at getting the vibes of American media right. This is something I noticed in DV and Lonetrail too, and I haven't really been able to put my finger on what it is about them, but the vibes are just really on-point. I want to write more about this at a later point once I actually figure out what it is that I'm feeling, but maybe it's the setting, maybe it's the cast, maybe it's the plot points, maybe it's something in between — it just seems to understand the spirit of period cowboy stories in a way that I can't describe. Good shit.

Finally, I wanna end this with where Jessica is now. The events of CV take place In between the events of Loneterail and Ideal City, so the current "now" of the story is a few months ahead. Jessica left for the frontier along with Woody, Helena, and Miles. They live together in a small new settlement, building the place from the ground up with Woody and Jessica acting as town sherrifs. At the point we're at now, rhe town is fairly well-established and Woody has temporarily left on other business, leaving Jessica the sole sherrif of their new settlement. However, she's risen to her new station, and is growing into a stronger person than she ever was before.

[halmarut]

1. both silverash and vayne are political leaders who had to sacrifice their sibling

2. the concept of necessary evil.

enciodes silverash is among the top-meta dps in arknights, he is a warlord of kjerag, chairman of karlan trading co., and head of silverash family; one of the three ruling clans in kjerag. silverash has unique methods on economics, trade, international politics, diplomacy, and strategic planning.

behind the scenes, he is notorious for adopting a machiavellian method to end kjerag's centuries-long isolationism, notably installing forcing his sister as the saintess, and forming his own elite forces named tschäggättä.

sounds a tad like vayne, if you ask my co-translator.

silverash also used his longtime friend, gnosis, to become a traitor so silverash could have an excuse to get rid of the two opposing clans and the court.

admittedly, silverash is easier to sympathize with, because his sibling is not dead, just forced into a life she didn't ask for. and silverash is a playable character (dev has to make sure he's not too antagonistic). whereas vayne is indeed the final boss. he framed basch, a sympathizeable main character. he killed vaan's brother. and vayne tried to kill his own younger brother too. it is a challenge to make people sympathize with him.

what does this has to do with necessary evil/media literacy?

nothing is black and white. what silverash did is not entirely 'antagonistic', nor his actions make him a flawless protagonist.

it is the same with vayne. one cannot call him an entirely bad baddddddd worst guy in the world. nor he is a pure cinnamon roll who did nothing wrong.

one must be able to recognise their crimes, and still look at them with their character intact.

addendum: remarkably, the majority of arknights fandom has managed to dismiss silverash's grey-morality, painting him as a great villain. but that is not all, a number of people in xii has dismissed vayne's crimes and made him a fangless little cinnamon roll.

do what you will with these characters and read them however you want, but dismissing a core aspect of this grey morality is akin to eating plain rice without seasoning or any side dish. there are flavors to discover, if you give them a chance.

[exxay]

Babe, new arknights Country's Elite Task Force Group dropped "Mascelle del Lupo" which is Italian for "Jaws of the Wolf", who are most likely an Elite Task force of Siracusa Loyalty.

So, as of now, the currently active Special Forces as well as their Factions that we've all know so far are:

Aegir: Abyssal Hunters Columbia: Union Army Iberia: The Inquisition Kazdel: Way too many Factions and respective Elite Forces. Kazimierz: Silverlance Pegasi Kjerag: Tschäggättä Laterano: Apostolic Gun-Knights Leithania: The Leithanian Knights Lungmen: Shadow Guards RI: Elite Ops Sami: Snowpriest Sargon: The Zhayedans Siracusa: Mascell del Lupo Ursus: Emperor's Blades and the Wendigo's Victoria: Steam Knights and the Tower Knights Yan: Imperial Guards

[pinkiepour]

Tschäggättäs / Carnaval Valais suisse

[maskenmoodboard]

Zwei Tschäggättä um 1900 © Friedrich Gottlieb Stebler/Lötschentaler Museum, Kippel

[sephiratales]

Really thinking about inserting some Swiss culture in my BG3 ocs. Pretty sure Selene used to battle in the "lutte à la culotte" type sport.

I would also like to put some Tschäggättä on one of my char. They are masks worn during the Carnaval and they spook people who are in the streets when they come to town.

[alltagsarchiv]

26/3/22 Vertierung von #paulklee im @zentrumpaulklee hat da ein paar Erinnerungen an die letzte Fasnacht geweckt. #tschäggättä ahoi! #paulklee #zentrumpaulklee #bern #museum #kunst #angieverlaine #angelawerlen #zeichnenimmuseum #unterwegs #instaart #zeichnen #sketchbook #skizzenbuch #vertierung #larve #tiermensch (hier: Zentrum Paul Klee) https://www.instagram.com/p/CbjmZtnKOsi/?utm_medium=tumblr

[nethacreationtattoo]

Le bras complet de l’ami @ripoux66 ( le bracelet celtic n’est pas de moi ) #valaistatouage #valaistattoo #valaisfan #terroir #terroirvalaisan #drapeauvalaisan #vachedherens #reines #edelweiss #masque #loetchental #löetschental #tschäggättä #tirebouchon #vins #vinssuisses #vinsvalaisans #corkscrew #suissetatouge #tatoueursuisse #swisstattoo #swissink #suisseart #swissmountains #valaiswallis #nethacreation #davidroduit #ripoux #tattoomodels #inkedboy (à Valais - Suisse) https://www.instagram.com/p/CQqHfMFgLTl/?utm_medium=tumblr

[philoursmars]

Carnaval !

les 3 premiers : Marseille , Fort Saint-Jean (MuCEM) =

Ioana Nemeș - L'Equipe Blanche (Satan)

masques d'ancêtres, notables et d'ours (Roumanie)

masques pour le tschäggättä - Valais, Suisse

la dernière : Marseille, le F.R.A.C. - N.Ghisoland

[useless-switzerlandfacts]

Tschäggättä

Tschäggättä is not exactly considered to be a “carnival” nor to be part of the rest of fasnacht. Still, the tradition has the same roots and aims as all the other customs. Originating from pre-christian religions, it was a way to drive away winter demons and to welcome spring and summer. Tschäggättä might take this to a whole other level: While they do not compare to the noise level of the Solothurner Chesslete, the cow bells combined with the horrifying masks and the long fur are surely a sight to behold. Carnival is mostly about fun, and you can also see it. Tschäggättä on the other hand… It might be fun, but you need to take more than just a second look. The word “Tschäggättä” roughly translates to sorcerer or wise woman and refers to both the fur clad creatures and the whole tradition itself. If you are interested, here is also a video!

[jackredfieldwasmyjacob]

I just saw this thread on Twitter on the photography of Charles Fréger, who travelled all across Europe in order to capture all the traditional pagan-rooted festivals with strange figures, vegetation spirits, wild men and monstrous creatures. As an Ancient Historian, I've always been fascinating with the pre-Roman cultures of the continent, and festivals like these ones give us a glimpse of how could've been religion, culture and thinking during the Bronze Age and early Iron Age.

He compiled all of these wild men in his book Wilder Mann, you can find the complete gallery here. Here are some of those creatures, below I'll add what each represent and a bit of geographic info.

1. Hombre de Musgo, from Béjar, a town in the province of Salamanca (Castile and León).

2. Babugeri / Kukeri, from Bulgaria.

3. Strohmann, from Empfingen, a town in the district of Freudenstadt (Baden-Württemberg).

4. Arapides, from Nikissiani, a town in the regional unit of Kavala (East Macedonia and Thrace).

5. Momotxorro, from Altsasu, a town in the autonomous community of Navarre (Spain).

6. Caretos de Ousilhão, from Ousilhão, a town in the municipality of Vinhais (Bragança).

7. Nuutti Pukki, from Finland.

8. Merdule, from Ottana, a town in the province of Nuoro (Sardinia).

9. Tschäggättä, from Lötschental, a valley in the canton of Valais (Switzerland).

10. Survakari, from the Pernik region (Bulgaria).

[transparentgentlemenmarker]

Les Tschäggättä Haut-Valais Wallis 🇨🇭

[muse-matrix]

“Oh! You’re...”

“You... Kjerag...?”

“...Ahhh. You must be one of them. What they call ‘Tschäggättäs’.”

“You... remember us.”

“I remember them, yes. Though I don’t remember you, little miss. Do you have a name?”

“Brionac. I am the... Brionac, of now.”

“I see... I think I understand. It has been a long time since last I met with one of you. I apologize.”

“No... not... your reason. Um... Fault. Not your fault. You are... not the reason. Everyone... afraid. Fear is... hard.”

“Hmhm... Yes, fear is a powerful motivator. But at least let me give you my sympathies. For a supposed ‘Tschäggättäs’, you’re quite an elegant little miss, aren’t you? I hope you can come to forgive us one day.”

“One day......... May...be.”