#twst ch 7

[fearmeeeee]

Knight of Dreams Knight of Lightning

[equestriagirl16]

_Overblots 1-3_

MC: Lightwork no reaction.

_Overblots 4-6_

MC: Lightwork no reaction..

_Overblot lucky number 7_

MC: OOOOO..ok it’s got a little kick. OOOO-

[twsted-seas]

Idia: *tentatively leaving his cave to figure out why the WiFi is out/where Ortho is*

Malleus, popping out from behind a corner, full fancy overblot form: Hello! Do you want to play a game?

Idia, who has seen all of the Saw movies:

[nobody3xe]

Chapter 7 spoilers

Ik this isnt the time to be simping

but holy fuck 🤭

[suntails]

reality

[neoninky]

Meanwhile on the ENG TWST Ch 7 update…

Crowley: Everyone stop Draconia at once!! *chucks entire cast into battle without any consent whatsoever*

Inky’s team vs pre-Overblot Malleus:

UMMMMM SIR

[cozymochi]

⚠️ TWST BOOK 7 SPOILERS ⚠️

You tellin’ me Sebek’s special boy magic is literally becoming lightning?? OKAY GO ‘HEAD…

POV: you are Silver about to be swallowed by the darkness.

Ko-fi

[overthattwilight]

Campaign which supports your process on the main story

Starting from April 26th, in JP server, a campaign will be held for supporting the players on processing the main story. This campaign is a long one, and will end at June 17th. Yes, at June, not May

Following is the contents given during the campaign

Awards like 10 pull keys and SSR awakening perfumes will be given for finishing each chapter(called as book in EN) of the main story. For chapter 7, if you finished episode 116, the award will be given

All lessons will have exp and madol boost

Easy mode will be available without the need to use easy mode tickets

There will be a special page which you can receive awards up to 10 days

The Mystery Shop will be selling item packages

So this whole campaign is to help the players process the main story easily. You can earn more exp through lessons, easy mode is free, also free pulls as a reward. This is actually good

I guess this will be a good opportunity to try the main story(which gets harder as chapters proceed) and go the distance yep, this is a pun

And in other words

I AM COMING TO SEE YOU MELEANOR-

[curekibouka-writing]

Analyzing the lullaby motif in book 7 (+translation of lyrics)

MAJOR SPOILERS for book 7 chapter 1-5

I hope everyone remembers the lullaby Malleus sang for everyone when he overblotted because that motif came back FOUR times in chapter 5 and I am going to analyze them all because they make me way too emotional 😭

Please feel free to find the lullaby motifs in this post and this post if necessary (although one of them is not included).

Translated lyrics of the lullaby:

A warm cradle

Starlight and joy

My eyes are watching over you still, let's be together

With no fear, even if we wake from this dream

Sleep, sleep, my beloved child

In dreams, I pray you would be guided to walk toward the light

(Analysis begins under the cut:)

The melody of the lullaby has been used 5 times at least in the story, they include:

When Malleus hummed it to everyone he put to sleep during his OB

When Meleanor sang it to Malleus

When Lilia sang it to Silver

When Malleus sang it to Silver

In the bgm when Sebek was helping come out of the darkness

The themes of this piece of music are love and farewell.

Motif use 2 is chronologically when the lullaby was first sung, it’s a song of love from a mother to her child when she knows they must part. I believe that when Meleanor sang this lullaby, she had already made up her mind to fight and let her guards escape with her child. She was taking the last moments she had with her child to name him "Malleus" and sing him this lullaby (7-75). Lyrics include sth like “I will be watching over you even if we wake up from this dream” and “may you be guided and walk towards the light”. But the beauty that comes with the theme of farewell is the theme of legacy. Because even though Meleanor is now gone, her song, and thus her love, never died.

Because Lilia remembers it. Motif 3 is Lilia singing it to Silver, and he’s also sung it to Malleus before. In a musical story, even if the characters lie or don’t have perfect information, the music never lies. Even if Lilia once doubted whether he could love Malleus and hatch him properly (7-77), and even if Lilia may still doubt whether he could love Silver, a human, properly (7-81), the motif symbolises love which tells us the truth — Lilia is capable of giving love. And the legacy is not just that Lilia passed the song to Malleus, it’s that Lilia internalized the song and sang it to his own son. He has seen what kind of mother Meleanor was, and he’s learnt from her kindness, her pride, her love and he has put that into how he raise his own child. Lilia has Meleanor’s legacy too.

And then to address the two Malleus motifs. First of all Malleus never sings it with lyrics, which would imply Malleus himself doesn’t fully know the true meaning of the song. However, he knows that he’s felt happiness and protection from hearing this song, so he sings it to Silver when Lilia asks him to as motif 4 (7-81). When he sang it to Silver he sounded confused, it must’ve been a long time since he’s heard the song. But he still remembers it, which means Meleanor’s love never died because Malleus remembers it all the same. It’s still in Malleus. It’s still there.

But when Malleus overblots, the song gets twisted a little bit (motif 1). However, in Malleus’s mind, it’s still a song of happiness and protection, because he overblotted trying to protect everyone’s happiness forever. But the music sounds creepy to show you the true nature of the song is not like this. The nature of the song is that "even though I cannot be with you always, I will still love you and wish for your happiness". This is the part that Malleus did not understand and did not cope with. It’s also interesting to note that Malleus sang motif 1 with a smile and no hesitation, he was completely confident and sure in what he was doing. Meanwhile, in all other three sung versions, each singer had their own different emotions in their singing, and those emotions were a lot softer, a lot less certain.

And the fifth and final use of the motif is used in the bgm when Sebek yells at Silver for him to get a grip (7-86). The song is arranged into a victorious piece with certainty and assurance. The use of the motif reminds us of the themes: love and legacy. It calls attention to these themes and entrenchs the truth that Silver IS Lilia’s legacy, and that’s only possible because of the love that Lilia has given him. The exact part where the bgm starts playing was when Silver said "Even in the darkness, I could always hear it. 'Stand up' 'Don't give in' 'Live'... it's father's voice. [...] All that he taught me, that's the proof that he had loved me. It's not a dream and not an illusion... it's true love." (I'm serious he really said "true love" for real this IS a translation T^T). When Silver saw Lilia's memories of the song, he denied the love, he said he should not deserve it. The motif had to come back because this is the moment when Silver can finally realize “Ah. This song is full of love and father sang it for me.” The motif HAD to come back because Silver has to come to accept it.

But the bgm arrangement is also made for Sebek. The bgm is full of certainty because Sebek has no doubts in what he’s telling Silver. Sebek, who has grown up alongside Silver, has witness all the love between Lilia and Silver. He KNOWS Lilia’s love is true and he’s conveying that to Silver with certainty. This bgm summarises what Sebek was doing so well, Sebek sees the love Lilia has for Silver and was literally blasting it in Silver’s ears.

As Disney's Sleeping Beauty (1959) puts it, "true love conquers all". And we've been shown that there's love in every direction among our Diasomnia found family. Let's hope that, soon enough, Silver and Sebek would wake Lilia up, and they can finally show Malleus the true meaning of his mother's lullaby and the wish she entrusted to it — that he would walk towards the light, even if she cannot be the one guiding him...

[fukuchh]

twst b7 spoilers  Lilia in the new chapter is really hot-

[fearmeeeee]

Wip because I'm going insane

[bluesylveon2]

Malleus: I'm going with Idia!

Riddle, Leona, Azul, Jamil, and Vil: 🤨

Malleus: What? Everyone else went on a life-changing field trip with Idia. Now it's my turn! 😊

[magnus-cinis]

guilty son

[nobody3xe]

Chapter 6 (maybe 7) spoilers

Best thing bout Shroud family gotta be the fact that they treat Ortho as an own individual instead of just a humanoid mimicking their dead child/brother

[suntails]

200 years

[whitenoface]

ALSO, ALSOO can we talk about how despite being significantly weaker as a human and the fact that Lilia was a feared general with 1000x his power, Silver still stepped in between Meleanor and Lilia to protect Lilia?!

Silver has always valued his family over his own life. This goes in hand how he thinks he doesn’t deserve Lilia’s love after finding out the truth. The guilt and fact he was the son of the enemy that hurt his family overshadows anything else.