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I haven’t really thought about the more lighthearted aspects of the dynamic yet. I think pre-usurpation Narinder has feelings for the Lamb beyond just seeing them as a useful tool, that he denies or tries to rid himself of because he’s committed himself to the pursuit of power. He’s probably now cynical of love, considering the love between his family also gave way to the self-interested struggle for power, so he thinks that’s all that really matters in the end. To him, any feelings that would come into conflict with that are a sign of weakness. Though I do enjoy headcanons where Narinder still wishes to keep the Lamb around and treat them well in the afterlife though in a position that could never interfere with his ambitions. And I think it’s fun if the Lamb is sharp enough to piece this sad fact about Narinder together, and have to deal with what that means for the future of their relationship.

I sometimes think I make the Lamb too sad in my art - unrestrained I imagine them to be very sassy and childishly silly. I paint them as someone who is deep down very sentimentally bothered by injustice and holds a lot of repressed guilt, though they try to project an image of pragmatism and strength to maintain their reputation, and therefore protect themself. The guilt is even to the point of excess, the result of all the hatred they receive both from their enemies when they succeed and from their followers when they fail.

They see their enemies not really as intrinsically evil, but as profoundly flawed people, who are recklessly selfish, ironically to the point of self-destruction. But they are also very distrustful due to their own trauma and will hurt people out of paranoia if they think it will prevent further harm, which contributes to their guilt that they too might be recklessly selfish. They feel like this makes them undeserving of real love, not just the idolizing worship their followers give them, which they also feel undeserving of. I’m not sure how much Narinder can piece together about the Lamb. At the very least, he is aware that performing as a god takes a toll on the Lamb.

I see Tongues and Teeth as their low self esteem anthem in which they are both critical of Narinder’s ambitions, and the role of submission he expects them to play, but also fully aware of their own destructiveness in resisting to submit to those ambitions, and at the core of that is the sentiment “Even after how you treated me, I still care about your happiness. I want to be with you, but I am suspicious of you and will hurt you, but (probably vainly) hope you would still want to be with me despite that.”

The Lamb can tell when Narinder is hiding feelings of affection but is unsure whether he’ll ever want to act on those feelings or whether he’ll shut them out forever and just succeed in no longer having them. They don’t know which one would be better for him, so they don’t bother pushing him either way.

Ohh I will ruin you

It’s a habit - I can’t help it

i can always just draw temi with a gun

So may I request Temi cooking or baking something?

-UAs-Art :3

Marchosias would think “I could capture this ghost to find a way to cure the Rot through interrogation or experimentation on exorcism methods”

Temi would think “Ooh his lab and dissection tools look cool. It’d also be really cool if the stitching on his face came loose and his head split open like a melon”

I don’t know, maybe they could build a friendship off that.

I think this song’s lyrics fit any of the Woolhaven lambs and Marchosias (non-romantically mostly):

You have the thing I love

But the need in me is way too much

(But the fear in me is way too much)

If I, open wide

One of us may get lost inside

Me or you, one of us is going to need to die

My interpretation about how the song fits (in a non-shipping way) below:

That sudden, powerful urge to stop and take it all in. Every noise, every sight, so on, so forth. Like you've been mesmerized by the scene itself, and to pry your gaze from it and get on your way again would be a disservice to oneself, and to the scene itself?

...Anyways, I suppose you could draw Temi like that lol.

Maybe with a mass grave/execution site/destroyed village. The most morbid and depressing scene one could imagine; and meanwhile there's Temi over in the corner all like, "Woooaaaaahhhggg ✨️✨️😲✨️✨️ "

Just thought it'd be funny. And yes, that whole 'Temi enjoying violence not for the cruelty of it, but rather the brutality' thing? I absolutely see the vision 😌🔥💯

Two souls dancing on the edge of life and death

Okay, so this isn’t exactly what you asked for, but I do think Temi would reach that state of sensory euphoria in the midst of a bloodbath. She might stumble on the aftermath of battle and think like “oooh eerie” or “oh I missed a breathtaking scene.”

I see her as someone with no fear of and all thrill for injury and death. She has a peculiar mindset where for her these things are neither bad nor to be regretted.

Like this carpe-diem esque Epicurus quote:

Chidoriiiiiiii rough rough WIP

Derek Parfit’s philosophy writing is so so entertaining (for its own ideas but also just the frequency of offhand funny comments or passionate phrases)

one more scribbly nier replicant reference for the road

I see the lamb’s ambivalent feelings toward Hagar as like:

“I’m nothing like you.” (most of the people I was tasked with and obeyed in killing were not completely innocent)

“I’m nothing like you.” (I never showed as much compassion and remorse over the people I killed)

Yeaaah Yngya go off wooooh

I absolutely love your artstyle! Specially of you Cult of the Lamb Comics! Would it be okay if I could make Voice-over dubs for them?

With credits to you, Of course! :3

Thank you! ^\\\^ And sure, I’d love to see a voice-over of them. It’s very heartening that you think they’re worth lending your talent and effort to dub over. Um…just out of curiosity which one?

Hagar and Yngya as Devola and Popola from Nier

They should sing this chaos language duet: