what a strange world we live in

i randomly remebered ikerev a few days ago and holy shit the devs do not give a shit about it lmao, i cant even play it on my current phone cause the game hasnt been updated in years so it doesnt work

Wonderland tea party ☕️🌹✨️

[commission for lancelotscloak]

The Lake of tears

✧ Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays, Everyone! ✧

Zero is such a good boy pulling the sleigh. Edgar means well! (Probably!)

[For the record, the original text bubble said, “There is an event soon,” but it’s too late for that! Good luck to all of us in the Snowflake Fantasy Story Event!]

I’ve met so many fantastic people in this fandom the past few months. Thank you all for sharing the love and the laughs and all your clever thoughts! A big shout out to my mutuals (I love you!), my sweet followers (I adore you!), and those I follow (I admire you!)

There is another lovely version of this around but I had a few different thoughts on the matter~ I filled out my own chart just for fun and wrote up some blurbs under the cut for my amusement! Merry Christmas to all of you and to these funny, adorable guys!

as a bleach painted hoodie ◡̈

SHOP: if you would like to own one ♡

HELLO NEW BIG FAV(≖ ͜ʖ≖)

Tagging @shiranata, @be-my-prince, @saizoswifey and @otohoe

“Lying, deceiving, and killing– I never batted an eye at the thought. I didn’t feel anything. That is– until I met you.” [Edgar’s Route]

Edgar in Lancelot’s Route 2/?

(Warning these posts could contain spoilers of any and all other routes!)

I like to think of this as the Gone-In-60-Seconds scene. Efficiency, thy name is Edgar Bright!

An important aspect here is how Alice isn’t afraid of Edgar. She’s not afraid but she is unnerved. Right away she observes how his smile “is off,” which is a strange thing to say about someone she’s met only once before. Keep in mind her first impression of him when they met in the Garden was “Edgar seems nice.” (Although Jonah was putting her in handcuffs at the time so “nice” is relative, but I digress!) She also notes in the alleyway about how his “seemingly calm smile sent a shiver down [her] spine.”

A sad but important truth we are witnessing is this is Claudius’s Edgar at his most polished. Recall how Claudius, in Edgar’s route, kidnaps Alice by using a trap to lure her to him. He has something she wants and she comes willingly. More than that, she even feels sympathy for Claudius, a nice older gentleman, for having such a terrible nephew. (Woe is her when all is revealed.)

Edgar here has nothing Alice wants and so, by comparison, his strategy lacks finesse. At least at first glance. He literally drags Alice off the street and into an alleyway. This is followed-up by an invitation to join the Red Army. This invite is a pleasantry at best. What we have here is the Gentle Demon at play. He knows what she thinks of the Red Army (nothing good) and he knows she is bound to refuse. And so the scene flows like a dance. (Edgar mentioned before his skills were getting rusty, but I ask you: where!?) He moves smoothly to threaten the Black Army soldier and announce he’ll take Alice by force instead.

Claudius, in Edgar’s route, goes from gentle to rough with Alice once he has her. Once the pleasantries have run their course, he shoves a gag in her mouth. He binds her wrists and legs, showing how little he wants to bother dealing with her further. She becomes a package for delivery. Just as Edgar kidnaps Alice for Lancelot, Claudius kidnaps Alice for Amon. But while Amon needs Alice alive for his research, Alice is useless to the Red Army as a tool. She is only a threat. As such, kidnapping or killing Alice would have the same result: the Red Army’s continued prosperity.

If the mission had come from Claudius instead, this scene could have ended very differently.

But Lancelot orders Edgar not to kill her. Lancelot is the key in sparing both Alice and Edgar from a horrific moment. Edgar holds onto his king’s order, holds onto it enough that he even shares it with Alice and the Black Army soldier.

This is also the turning point. Edgar very tactfully has created the want Alice needs, the want he didn’t have in order to persuade her when all of this began: her desire to keep the Black Army soldier safe. With her own safety guaranteed, she hands herself over to protect another. With her kindness manipulated, Alice thus falls for the same trap used by Claudius.

And yet what we see here is how Edgar is the opposite of his uncle. Edgar enters this scene roughly but emerges with Alice held gently in his care. He admits in his own route how he doesn’t feel anything about lying, killing, or deceiving, but we see he escapes this whole situation without having to do any of those. He doesn’t deceive Alice with false kindness, he never lies about his intentions, and no one is killed in this pursuit.

“That’s more like it,” Edgar says when Alice announces she’ll go with him at last, because she shows she’s exactly the type of person he expected her to be.

Edgar in Edgar’s route: Please don’t touch my hands. I’m sinful and, if I express my love for you, I’ll make you dirty.

Cybird: Hey! You know what might suit this guy?

Me: The power of friendship, TLC from his Alice, and some healthy therapy?

While there is sadness in this smile so perhaps not quite the same, you’ve captured such an incredibly soft and kind expression. And Little Creek Jr. nestles right there as close to Edgar’s heart as anything ♡

Zero:

🍬 Sweets treats makes people feel better 🍭

Zero carries around lollipops for others but never seems to eat them himself. He seeks relief by offering relief because he wants to be someone who can help people. He chooses his words carefully and puts in the effort each and every time. Considering his already sweet demeanor, he’s still trying to overcome a past where his outstretched hand was frequently rejected. A sweet treat can offer something more when his kindness and words are still found wanting.

Harr knows firsthand the effect a sweet treat can have on someone. Loki, with his upsetting childhood, still needs a lot of comfort even as an adult. Harr gained experience by making sweets for him over the years. Harr’s smile gentles as he acknowledges the benefits of sweet treats as a more universal truth. They aren’t to be saved for only when times are rough–they are an important part of the day. Any day.

Edgar snacks all day because they taste good and make him feel better. His boredom is tied to his loneliness, both of which are constants. Eating too many sweets looks unhealthy and gets him chastised, however, and so he takes to eating them in secret. And yet he finds happiness in sharing–he offers often–although Lancelot and Alice are the only ones who dare indulge alongside him. But his candy turns tasteless when he looses his grip. Sweet treats are only a relief, not a cure.

──── 𝑹𝑬𝑳𝑨𝑿 𝑻𝑰𝑴𝑬