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You people can call me Lisa/ Juni. I am an INFJ and I very much love aesthetic stuff (especially when it is vampire/ academia/nature). I also am very much obsessed with ferid bathory, nature and the entire goth subculture. Might not post as much due to personal reasons. I also feel like adding my age I am 18 years old and also since some people want to say my opinion isn't valid because I am apparently straight, I am a raging lesbian. If you are a woman in your 30ies hit me up please :3

When you do want to chat/ interact with me or this blog, please note:

🥀I do not tolerate hate speech. Hate speech such as racism, homophobia, antisemitism and making fun of mentally Ill/disabled people.

🥀Please respect my boundaries when it comes to venting. Please don't ,unless you ask me for permission whenever you plan on venting.

🥀When we do chat about Ferid, note that I might get defensive about certain topics that surround him. I don't like that he is being shipped, sexualised and his character getting butchered down.

Mainly because the ship is either illegal (aka. The yuu squad, mika, Krul),Proshipping [aka. Guren, Crowley or Saito-> they all have blood from the same person making them related. Plus I think if Crowley and Ferid would be in a romantic relationship, it would be toxic from both sides.

Also If we do talk about his sexuality, I will mainly base my reasoning off of what ferid said in the novel and how i interpret it. Because he is flirts with anyone I'd assume is a straight guy who is just a quite eccentric(like most straight men do.). And I want to make clear that I do not tolerate hate speech. We are having a discussion on a friendly basis. You don't need to get aggressive over a characters sexuality.

!!Please also note that I don't hate on you if you ship this, I am just uncomfortable with the ship. I do not know you as a person and therefore I feel it would be unfair to just judge based off of that.

🥀my other interests🥀

: Genshin impact (yae miko/ arlecchino/ columbina/ ayato kamisato and neuvilette specifically)

:Honkai star rail

:Resident evil village (Mother Miranda and the four lords are my favourite :O)

: Monster high

:Twisted Wonderland

:Ghost in the Shell

:Horizon Zero Dawn/ Forbidden West

:Maleficent

:dark myths and horror stories

:dark fantasy art

:Victorian art

What do I mainly post about?

Anything related to Ferid and to just appreciate his character :) Because the fandom is becoming tinier and Ferid isn't all too popular among the fandom, I think it's important that we can get the ferid simps together.

I got emo Mall goth ferid for my birthdayyyy 😋😋 kagami thank you sm for giving my husband and my wishes for alternative ferid bathory. Kisses 🩷🩷

(He looks so German in this it looks like a Latzhose 😭)

-ferid understands body horror all too well: his transformed body was experimented on for 40 years right in front of him. He then had to witness that his body not work anymore once Saito abandoned it. He then had to regrows a new vessel. His new vessel was however no the same like it was for most vampires. Most vampires are able to keep their human body and don't have to regrow it.

So how does that come back to ferid knowing body horror? Vampires are predators and in fiction they are presented as sadistic killers, torturing their victims until they crack (think of Nosferatu- he set out a plague to get his hands on Ellie and killed her friends). Vampires in Owari no seraph are sadistic by nature yes, but ferid knows how to take control away. By breaking down the boundaries of Crowley and Mika, by breaking them psychologically. He understands better than anyone else how you rip a human away from their humanity. By taking away any form of control, secrecy and comfort out of their vessel.

. How did he break Mika? He played a lot into their classist dynamics and made Mika enslave himself to ferids bloodlust. He purposefully manipulated Mika into a state where Mika thought he knew vampires enough to escape. And then, ferid does the Nosferatu move by murdering Mikas entire family. That broke Mika's understanding. See it as an iceberg ferid broke the first level of the depravity of vampires. Then when he sat up after Mika thought he killed him. Even if it wasn't on purpose it made Mika feel powerless, his understanding of what it takes to neutralise a vampire was again broken. Ferid afterall was alive and well. In that moment Mika realised just how monstrous vampires are. They can survive a gun shot, they are sadistic for the fun of it and then the Queen of them comes to morph you into that monster. Like.. that is horror. You can't even do anything to keep your humanity.

And that in itself is selfish, depraved and most importantly it is what a vampire is. In any form of media where vampires are actually vampires, this is their main purpose.

But let's also not forget how vampires physiology works. Technically speaking, in myths they are seen as dead corpses who latch onto the living. They are described as demons and creatures made by the devil. Kagami however wrote vampires so that drives the horror home: he made vampires look human. While they live underground some mingle with humans (think of ferid in the light novel). There's nothing more horrifying then not knowing that a murderous being could strike you at any moment. And ferid being beautiful, showing himself as fragile to lure his prey into false security, is exactly what the vampires do, present as the perfect human from a vampires perspective.

Vampires in modern media also represent sin: noseferatu (2024) is a representation of the cardinal desire that the main protagonist has. Vampires in OnS aren't much different. They however use their allure to capture their prey. Their looks are what makes people feel safe cause again, vampires cover their distinct features. Crowley didn't even notice Ferid's physical attributes only his behaviour like being tired in the sun. So quite literally, ferid presenting himself as fragile, forgetful and beautiful yet perverted/ seductive is the entire thing of a modern vampire. Until he shows himself to be ruthless, sadistic etc. he is This he ultimate vampire: down from his body, to his presence in society and his understanding of what makes humans tick HE IS THE VAMPIRESTY VAMPIRE.

Some thoughts I had (idfk)

I feel like Urd is going to die cause we got his backstory.

Lest did not even get the decency of two panels before getting cannibalised.

Ferid is a massive hypocrite when he criticises other people for being power hungry. Brother I love you but my man is literally taking power hungry too seriously. If I I had to give ferid a sin it would be greed (he ticks off the boxes since the early age: determined to get more, thirst for knowledge which can be interpreted as greed I guess, and the pain he puts other people in as a way to gain control over them to then exploit them.)

Imo Kagami really did went with the : son who admires his neglecting father. A few examples:

That disappointment of Rigr definitely set off ferid's perfectionistic tendencies. Either it is so he lives up to a subconscious thought that he is not good enough, kind of proving to himself but also Rigr he's capable of more.

Perhaps ferid wanting to crush Rigr's plans is to show him he is so much more worthy that he can even sabotage his father's plan.

So not only that but also a one sided relationship between son and father can lead to the son developing some serious issues with forming healthy relationships, desensitised to emotional neglect and continuing this neglect.

And we all see these traits in how he treats Crowley: ferid is literally repeating the cycle of his own father. We also see ferid be so cruel perhaps due to the mixing of emotional unawareness but also the normalisation of killing. So when he slaughtered Crowleys friends and family, it was truly just because of the same reason Rigr did: for the victim to be part of their own interest. Crowley being a kimchi for Ferid's power and Ferid being kimchi for Rigr's knowledge about the Micheala Gene.

ot only that but I also noticed: ferid learnt Rigr's more eccentric features. He observed Rigr and has taken on what he saw as his personal cover up. Because before ferid was turned he wasn't so theatrical (?) similar to what we saw Rigr be.

For me ferid came over as a much more determined, cold-blooded yet very deep and philosophical character. So him using what he learnt from Rigr to cover up what he had planned? EIDKWLC STOP 😭

You can do so many analysis points just alone on that: ferid watching Rigr despite being nothing to him, copied him like a son was guided by a father into a new world. But that also leaves Ferid's morality open: why and where did he learn to basically have no standard for moral choices? Apart from letting let down so often, I can also imagine Ferid partly looked as to how ruthless Rigr used Ferid. I can highly imagine ferid understanding that not only is it important to stick to yourself but also be ruthless as to how you achieve this. Ik this is kind of obvious but it is so interesting to see that connection to where ferid may have learned that or even realised that ruthlessness.

And apart from the torture aspect, it sounds so familiar to crowleys torture, having to hunt down a man for 50 years just to realise you are loosing that wrath of revenge.

Ferid literally repeated the cycle. Crowley once said "he doesn't know (father) rigr." LIKE NO YOU DO FERID CARRIES OUT WHAT RIGR MADE TO HIM. In a sense Crowley was raised into vampire hood the same way ferid was.

But this also draws the Conclusion to Ferid/ Crowley and Rigr and what family constellation they had (considering every type of group dynamic is based on a family dynamic or most): Theirs being what happens when you are raised by a neglected father and how that can go on for generations.

(Ferid has proven he is more than intelligent and thinks more than 5 steps ahead and y'all wanna tell me this man would not think about if people could turn his body on command 💀💀?? What??)

Like idk I get that Kagami could play on the "ferid sometimes lets his "pride" get the better of him like in season 1 where he didn't see the counter attack after Guren told shinya to shoot at him! It's him actually working with Guren and giving him the upper hand!!". Later it did turn out that was on purpose ig so I hope Kagami uses this new information to do so?? But that also doesn't make sense cause ferid was surprised by that move and not planned. So ig good on Guren/ mahiru to install a dog leash in ferids body but ferid would have seen that from a mile away that there's a possibility his body could be weaponised. The way Kagami wrote ferid before, in the light novel ferid knew his spiel. It just feels a lazy way of writing a literal genius character make a mistake. Like yeah Geniuses can make a dumb mistake but there's a difference where this mistake is a plot device versus this is mistake is going to have consequences and ferid will work his way around it cleverly. The problem I have is he knows how to write characters and intelligent ones at that but man.

And that is around 2145 years ago. So ferid is 2145 years old.

Edit : @vamppirr pointed out that there's a historical inconsistency. E.g ferid being raised as a strict saint despite living in times before Christ so Kagami doesn't do his history lessons 🙂‍↔️