Evillious Headcanon!
Behemo had heard of the legends of El Dorado and Atlantis and wanted to make them real physical places with their own societies, but Marie Annette, a historian who knew how much of a historical shitshow both of them were, disagreed with the idea and warned Held and his colleges to turn him down to.
Spoiler alert:
He did it anyways and had El Dorado placed in a country South of Maistia and Atlantis placed as an island nation West of Levianta's coast, Held wasn't having any of that when he found out and them had smited, the destruction of Atlantis ended up contributing to Held being called an evil god by its neighbor, Levianta.
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This is the second part of a comic of the "quartets of evil" book by akuno-p featuring a false goddess and an angsty teen.
I don't have a lot to say about this one, except for a few facts about Held, in the series:
Held would be regarded in the japanese culture as a [御神木]("sacred tree"), the likes of which were worshipped a lot in the japanese history, especially in the shintoist religion.
Held directly references another "sacred tree" from the norse mythlogy (yggdrasil), hence Held's family name ("Yggdra").
Sometimes I'm tempted to call Held's name "Eld" instead of "Held", and that's for a few reasons:
one of those is how akuno actually translated the name of the tree as "Eld" in the official english title of the song "tree maiden ~millennium wiegenlied~": "spirit of Eld" (as Michaela is one of his underlings in the series).
Another reason for this is his role in the series: he is a senior (in the "Cambridge" dictionary also known as "elder", if you look up the meaning of "elder" there) of the facility in which Levia, Behemo, and a few others who worked or studied under (like Seth, in the construction of the original "black box" or Rahab Barisol, another one from the same clinic, and so on...).
The ‘swap’ was a special psychiatric examination technique discovered and advocated for by the head of this facility, professor Held Yggdra. ("muzzle of nemesis" novel, prologue).
Held was always regarded respectfully as a "professor" in the series by his ex-colleagues, as he was someone who used to be their boss or teacher, in the second period.
I also imagine Held to be a man of old age, even (considering the time he may have had to become a judge and a boss of a clinic in the second period) and in the third period he was an old tree that sleeps frequently (as a lot of old people do, even in real life).
Held was also the boss and a senior compared to every character that has died before the Held-Luna vs Levia-Behemo controversy in the "climb one" and reincarnated as an animal, in the series.
Therefore, I think that Held's name is supposed to be a reference to the fact that he's probably an old man and a senior professor and chief both among his colleagues in the second period and among the "forest spirits" in the third period.
A third reason why I think Held's name is actually supposed to be "Eld" is because of the "sns" group chat Levia, Behemo, Sickle and Held after the false utopia of the "fourth period" is established.
E:<…Is this really alright?…>
L:<It’s fine, isn’t it? This is the world he wanted. It’s not up to us to speak up on it>
[...]
B:<Your old-man complaints are getting tiresome, E. We’ve got no choice but to watch over it, now. That’s what you guys originally wanted from the start, isn’t it? –Well, S?>
S:<Ha ha, it’s as B says. I don’t mind this outcome myself. …by the by, I found this article on a news site> ("master of the heavenly yard" novel, chapter 12, section 3).
If you notice, the characters are identified by their initials (Sickle, Behemo, Levia...) and Held's initial is not "H", but "E" as in "Eld".
A similar speech can be done regarding the name of the "black boxes" of the second period, as they're named after the first letter of the name of their constructor (or rather, the character that is the boss over their construction) :
"black box type l" -> Levia
"black box type s" -> Seth
"black box type e" (the first model of the "black box", for which Held was the overseer of the construction) -> Eld.
Important disclaimer (must read):
Of course, this is not for the purpose of scolding whoever calls the character Held (as I did the same in this very post lol, for habit), neither to cause controversy. This is just a reflection. For me you can call the evillious characters and Eld in whichever way you like, as long as I understand what you are talking about, even "Heldoh", "Eldoh", "Eldo" or "Erudoh" (even though this last one sounds pretty bad, honestly).
As for me, I simply like sticking to the assumed original intentions of the author, as I usually do here, trying to stick to the "canon" of the series as much as possible.
For that reason, I may end up using the name "Eld" for "Held", and in that case, I don't want anyone to question which character I'm referring to: with "Eld" I don't talk about any oc or unknown character, I'm talking about Held.
Also please, you're invited to avoid correcting people about what they decide to call this character, we have been using the name "Held" for so many years and I don't expect anyone to suddenly change that unless they want to.
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Allen, what do you think of Held, Sickle, and Behemo (omit Levia for now)? Which one is better, do you think?
Allen: That's a hard question, but if I were to chose the best out of the three of them...
Allen: A man going around while wearing a maid dress is...quite unsettling... (kinda ironic, Allen) So that leaves me with Held and Sickle.
Allen:...I think I'll go with Sickle. Why?
Allen: And that's my reasoning. Thank you for asking. :)
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Ok guys why are all the question about Allen??? What about someone else like the Sinners or something???
Pls ignore if this is very inaccurate its been like months ever since I read Cloture of Yellow
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