“the angel's price is paid, I burn atop a bizarre plate”
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Okay, thing that just occured to me about Drakengard 1: At the end of Chapter 1 Verse 9, Angelus tells Caim directly:
And, the thing is, she's... right. It's part of the commentary Drakengard 1 makes on the nature of violence, that violence for violence's sake inevitably leads to death. In every Ending except A, Caim remains unchanging right up until the end, obsessed with inflicting as much suffering on the Empire as possible, and in every Ending except A he encounters something infinitely stronger than him and dies because all he can do is kill or be killed. And Furiae also has a part in this as well - the opening cinematic clearly shows that the only thing that can even temporarily draw Caim out of his violence-fueled worldview is Furiae being in danger, and so the fact that she dies in every route is symbolic because it dooms Caim to death, as well - all he is at the start is protector and killer, and now that the thing he protects is gone all that is left is the killing. The only thing that saves Caim in Ending A is that he finds something else aside from hatred to live on - Angelus herself.
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A traditional media Furiae
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A woman turned into a stake will dominate the world on a blazing plate.
Fanart of Furiae from the original Drakengard, watching her crazy eyes and her scream altered my brain chemicals as a young teenager. This horrifying form is her most interesting and I’ve been meaning to draw her for a while, my brain had to fill in a little because the game is so old that a lot of details were a bit blobby.
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Shin Megami Tensei NINE's demon roster consists of new designs, returning designs and REPEATED designs. And no demon demonstrates this better than Harpy, whose model appears in NINE's roster no less than 5 times. Rather than just post 5 gifs and be done with it like I normally do, I have decided to curate a short overview of the BEST Harpy appearances in MegaTen! Hit "Keep reading" (after viewing this post in my blog because the formatting gets fucked up if you don't) NOW!!!!
Harpy and Furiae appear in Shin Megami Tensei 1 but they don't share assets yet so who gives a crap. Siren is a blue harpy, I guess.
Furiae returns in Shin Megami Tensei II with a new sprite, joined by
Ocypete, Celaeno and Aello! There's some slight asset resharing among them as Aello and Furiae share the same base sprite, but the others share with non-harpy demons so as far as this post is concerned they're original. Combined with artist Kazuma Kaneko's tendency to embellish demon designs in artwork and you'd never expect that all these birds were destined to be textureswaps for an underperforming 2002 XBOX JRPG.
But they were! Now we're cooking! In Shin Megami Tensei NINE the 5 bird-ladies return in one fabulous package. If you love Harpy then you'll love Harpy being given a haircut and a dyejob and reappearing four times. You'll love how they appear alongside themselves for hours of gameplay because they're within the same 10-28 level range. As an added bonus for the asset-reuse lover, said gameplay takes place in looping CG render backgrounds arranged into dungeons so just imagine leaving the town square in Ocarina of Time and arriving in that exact town square except mirrored. By the end of NINE you will love asset reuse, because you will not make it to the end of NINE otherwise.
(The harpies are also in Shin Megami Tensei IMAGINE but without the looping backgrounds it just isn't the same.)
Honorable mention to Persona 1 which squeezed in the named furies Megaera, Tisiphone and Alecto by using the same upperbody sprite as the three named harpies. Unfortunately Atlus were too afraid to include the named harpy Podarge for a total of 7 unique birdladies, so Persona 1 will only be commemorated by an opacity-reduced overlay of the six they bothered including.
Only regular Harpy survived to the DS-3DS era, using her Soul Hackers design where her head kind of looks like a pinecone. After gracing us with her presence in Strange Journey (+ Redux) and Shin Megami Tensei IV(+ Apocalypse), the Harpy disappeared from the pages of SMT history never to be seen again. As for actual history, I think Harpies were evil birds in Greek mythology but don't quote me on that.
Special thanks to @veskscans for the SMT1/2 art of Harpy, Furiae, Ocypete, Celaeno and Aello, and @eirikrjs for the Soul Hackers Harpy scan. NINE gifs by me, other sprites from the MegaTen wiki.
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Furiae! Furiae! Furiae!
A figurehead of the Cult of the Watchers. The Cult plans on offering her digitized consciousness to the Watchers in their plan to bring down the Blackwall.
Continued work on my DrakeNieR 2077 AU project and also tested out a new coloring style (painted AO) and I quite like the results even tho it basically doubled the time it took to finish a piece.
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