Liveblog 7: episode 4
Sorry for the long wait. First I had finals in uni, then I spent a week drinking and replaying disco elysium after celebrating new years eve, sooo yeah. But, for now, until the exams, I am back.
Let's begin! :)
Joris is so quick to find him and look at what he's doing. I love how dedicated he is to it. Kerubim is just... immediately tired.
Glad to know my fic's characterization of him being tired of Joris's questions the second they're asked is still holding true.
Very well said for the guy whose house even, after cleaning, is a major death hazard. But ok.
I LOVE YOU JORIS. I won't read too much into this, because there really isn't much here, but really, Joris knows how to manipulate Keke.
Manipulating adults is kinda THE thing kids have to learn. He's very good at this.
To come back to the past post's Lou Divorce Theorising, it's important to note that both of them were equally unhinged and prone to breaking up with one another. A very deep and meaningful relationship.
We will see later what he means by "It's not my fault I have fans," in the depictions of his relationship with her that aren't censored by him being the storyteller.
AKA the fact that mostly, it means him cheating on her. Lol. I'll talk about it during one of the most important episodes of this entire show.
Anyway,
The thing is that, despite how awful they are together, he really does love her.
He can't really stop playing the role of the macho playboy who gets all the chicks, even for love, because that's his entire self-esteem, but it doesn't mean the love isn't there.
(Something-something, I will elaborate on the role of masculinity in Kerubim's story, and how it worsens his already bad, uh... mental everything. But that's a talk for not-the-literal-fourth-episode-of-the-show.)
When he thinks about her, he thinks about her silliness first and foremost, instead of her looks. Even after they part ways, he blames himself for decades. And that's love.
To be fair to him, Lou can't stop manipulating & stringing him along herself. Neither of them is a very good person.
As I've said, thats a very, uh, deep and meaningful relationship they have here.
God, I really, really love the art style of this show.
"My very own puppy-girl was catomized" that's a whole ass new sentence that's never been said before.
ANOTHER character analysis moment: What really bothers Kerubim the most isn't saving his lover, but being The Hero, especially to her. And I really think it says a lot about him, even if he does love her.
He just immediately starts congratulating himself on being a good boy, and asking her if she also thinks he's a good boy. His self-esteem is so, so bad.
Another theme of the show that is introduced early on is luck, and Kerubim's relationship with it.
I think Ecaflip just got tired of watching Keke suffer, honestly.
She only likes him on her own terms. When she gets to make him feel indebted, or lucky, but not as if she were a damsel and he were her savior.
It makes their relationship sort of one-sided, but it's far from the thing that is most toxic about it.
Let me be pretentious about this for a second, since this shot composition WAS chosen by someone, and put into the show on purpose.
The whole shot, including the two of them, is blue: the color of being non-confrontational, stagnant, and predictable. It can mean honesty and deceit, being unforgiving or free, and most of all, it is a color that often represents sadness and loss.
They are walking on water here, which is the first thing that one might notice. I will not reference the bible, in a cartoon analysis, but it does conjure up connotations of being at one's prime, and having the strength to do anything.
In comparison to the clouds which surround them, they seem like giants, walking through the sea, which conveys well how his youth must have felt — the whole world is on a platter, and his strength was larger than life.
But the storm clouds surrounding them above and below, in turn, just seem even more giant and looming.
It also brings to mind the connotations of the saying "to have one's head in the clouds." Absentminded, unknowing of the facts of the whole situation.
Overall, this shot puts their relationship well: They were young, beautiful and capable together, travelling the whole world, — but in the end, their bond is marked by sadness, because they were never willing to address their faults in time, and it drove them apart.
And most importantly, the colors disappear when she slaps him, so in a way, it is a very romanticized view on things.
Pretentious tangent over.
This is our first clue in the show that Kerubim might lie and change the stories he tells, but it is also our clue to take what we are shown seriously regardless.
True, everything shown might be in-universe fiction, but despite Kerubim's narration, we get to see exactly what happened here. So it's best to just take things as they are presented, but with a small grain of salt.
There's something to be said about the way they are both walking towards more of these storm clouds, or the way she is walking to the left (in cultures with languages that go from left to right, characters walking to the left often symbolizes moving towards the past and stagnating), with him running after her, but eh. I think I may just be reading a lot into it.
It is still fun though, no?
This whole show, in a way, he is chasing the past, telling stories of their lost love. And in a way, he'll always be chasing after her, no matter how doomed their relationship was.
Though it's a very bleak depiction, compared to one that will follow later in the show.
...Perhaps, judging from some concept art, he'll keep chasing her that way, even centuries after she stops living. But that remains to be seen, if Waven takes us there.
If that's the case, it just adds a layer of tragedy to their relationship.
Even if she never left him, they wouldn't be able to live together forever. She was mortal. He is not.
And that's all there is to say on the matter, I suppose.
(This is a small edit from future me: Kerubim can't stop talking about Indie and Lou in Dofus MMO, even though it happens 200 years after the show. Which is depressing. But I'm still waiting for him to talk about them in Waven, to decide just how depressing this all is.)
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Well, I already showed the cover of the story and one of the villains of “a classic hero story” but I didn't show the synopsis or the world
Here's a little synopsis:
a country/kingdom called Ciivet is at war, three brothers are fighting each other to decide who will be the legitimate heir of Ciivet
A girl, daughter of a resistance against the brothers, is chosen to be the guardian of the future “homeland hero” who has royal blood (she is part of the family of the brothers who are at war). But he's not “the incredible one” when it comes to courage
Keylah, Rutty and Catom will have to help Connan find at least a drop of courage to save Ciivet from the horrors of war.
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well about your world:
the ciivet has a somewhat strange flora, its forests are gigantic not only because they are many kilometers long or because there are more forests than civilizations, but also because the trees themselves are gigantic! They are so big that it is very difficult to break the trunks because they are also very thick and resistant.
Although there are many forest territories, there are also civilizations (not many, but they exist)
cities mentioned or shown in the story:
RiverMeadow:
it's a place full of rules
there you need a license to leave the city and there it is also taken over by Soberaneah's guards(Soberaneah is a kind of owner of the city) there the guards are the ones who have the right to leave and enter without needing a license, and they are responsible for the safety of the inhabitants
Even though what Soberaneah does for the city is neither bad nor very bad, it is part of his plan to rule Ciivet: he will be the kindest to get votes to keep the crown and in the end leave the people in poverty again, just like everyone else. the others. the other kings did
Swampy village:
now an almost abandoned place
It was a very peaceful city, without robberies or dangers. it was full of houses stuck in the trees and there were several bridges over the swamp waters
but the city was devastated by the brothers' war and now there is almost no life in that place except for a single creature that lives there
Most things were destroyed except for a library that still exists in the swamps.
ciivet farm:
there is the home of mystical dragons
The city is on the slope of the ciivet mountain, in the city there are giant houses to house the greatest ciivet mystics, there is also the house of the guards of the current queen of the country(queen superba) the guards also act as police in the city, but sometimes they exceed the Limits
This city is not forgotten by kings because it is there that they send their children to “learn” to listen to their subjects
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There are more things about the world and history but I have to hold the line
Ok aah…. Bye XD
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