was doing an apostasy run and i did leb's first date before ditching her completely to focus on the horrors, at some point i just decided to ignore her even for the nightly bread just for the maximum angst immersion
i just find it really funny that part of my love for leb is partly ironic yet weirdly fitting because i'm actually catholic, like this fictional nun just is the quintessential gay cradle catholic experience it's not even funny
whoop whoop bday time! gonna have some nice coffee to start off the day!!! no bc i bought fresh beans yesterday, been so long since i got coffee from that roaster i'm genuinely so excited
fun fact when i finished freya's route for the first time i had to look away from my screen a bit because holy shit she was so pretty i actually got flustered lmao
@UpdateAOU
oooooo are you experimenting with this piece? bc it looks so good i love the little visceral detail of her neck, and the trinkets on her hat!! interesting that she's holding a flower(?) shaped like a moth...
like imagine elise gets so engrossed in the notes that she tunnel visions so hard she ignores leb of all ppl. she didn't tell leb about the woods, why would she tell her about father hans' walpurga investigation...we don't get that choice in game at all
amidst the angst fest though i picked the bitchy options during the friday church confrontation just so that i could watch elise and leb tag team the townsfolk. leb's quite assertive on her own already there, might as well join in on the shit talking
and we all know how the apostasy route ends! so that's fun. god an apostasy + leb route simultaneously run is just going to be so many layers of painful irony all just swept under the rug in her good ending. either that or that makes the apostasy ending infinitely more painful
i'm such a lesbian for assertive leb actually. shame that her gf/best friend/whatever the hell they are is about to get possessed by the same deity she's unsure if she even believes in anymore
@meta_magician2
i genuinely dropped my phone the moment i saw this, how are they so!!!!! AGH my gay little heart can't take it. leb's cheeky little grin and elise's flustered expression have me dead on the floor i screamed i cried i tossed in my grave i barked i woofed i
speaking of freya's route, when we were already in the woods on saturday i just felt so much dread, i knew (or at least heavily suspected) that i would have to make a choiceโto push through with the sacrifice or save freya somehow
@UpdateAOU
i'm noticing how you're incorporating backgrounds more into your art and it's so nice to see!!! especially the lighting between freya and lebkuchen, ofc there's the freya = sunshine associations, but that juxtaposed with lebkuchen's more lackadasial, resigned attitude +
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+ and more glaringly her more apparent apathy towards faith, all shoruded in stark, darker lightingโi love how all these show the different ways they'd probably approach their roles in kieferberg! freya still trying to hold on to her optimism while leb just succumbs to the +
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takes one to know one huh? also the contrast between rozenmarine being a wanderer and leb being confined to her nun duties; rozen almost feels like a "what if" scenario for leb i think
@lesly_oh
ASDIUUHIUYAWHDJASDAKSJDHASKJDHAJNUYAWBD I'M SO UNWELL!!!!!!!!!!! lebkuchen must've waited so long to kiss elise like that, the way they stare at each other really does feel like two best friends making up for all those years of mutual pining by being so tender and gay
update about the lebkuchen printout: i got it back from my prof last week and i asked sis to tape it on the doorframe leading to our bedroom like a good-luck charm. every time i pass under it i slap that paper with as much superstitious conviction as i can muster
seeing some parallels (even if surface level) between ayumaya and freylise actually: rivals whose competitive streaks turn into admiration with a dash of inferiority complex, and how that leads them to deeply understand one another. also ojou sama meets ray of sunshine
ok update is...kind of a downer, felt kind of alienated from the class discussion since we were talking abt attraction through a very cishet and allo lens, could not relate to 90% of it at all. however!!!! the end of the class was pretty funny +
gotten so used to the feel of a pencil in my hand that trying digital just throws me off. like i need that physical feedback to know if i'm drawing right and doing digital feels floaty? idk
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walpurga possessing lebkuchen specifically would make for some great angst bcus of the irony, tho rozenmarine is also a really good candidate bcus of the kiss ending
i forgot to take screenshots of some of freya's dates so instead of just getting some from a yt playthrough or smth like a reasonable person i will simply play the freya route again for the third time
@DianaSoraVtuber
YUUAOAAKADBIEJAKAHS ELISE IS ABOUT TO GET IT. MY GOD LEB THAT TONGUE ACTION SHE IS ABOUT TO HAVE ELISE AS A 3 COURSE MEAL I LOVE SEEING HER THIS BOLD
+ since one of my friends watched me turn in my photo of lebkuchen (labeled with my name and all) to the teacher. he said, and i quote, "i will keep a close eye on you if we go to a nunnery". +
@Minoritwit
GAJSKFABHAIFJ yeah she even told us to bring a printed out full body photo of them and everything, let's see how palpable her disappointment will be later this week
@UpdateAOU
oooh i wonder what the potential symbolism of their meals are! everyone looks so regal here it's great (elise as always is incredibly handsome), also wondering what the string connecting freya and leb's cups could mean...lmao muffy that post-meal drowsiness hits different