𝐵𝑜𝑢𝑞𝑢𝑒𝑡 𝑜𝑓 𝑑𝑒𝑎𝑡𝘩.

ㅤㅤ/ @apotelesmati and fool's gold are holding hands | closed.

ㅤ✨ The birthday boy ✨ drowns an entire bottle of pálinka

/ On that note, someone I've never really been able to tag as many thoughts behind their design is Aesop;; I like that his color palette consists mostly of grays compared to what one would usually think an embalmer during the victorian era would wear (mostly blacks, so far i'm not even sure there was even an 'uniform' for this to begin with) i feel like it puts him between the two ends (life, often represented with white) and death (often represented with black) as the intermediary (gray) that delivers the recently decesed to their next destination, other than that,, there's the obvious makeup box he carries and the face mask (that again im not sure were even used) BUT HE'S THERE;; CERTAINLY-

/ I find it find it kind of funny that his bound arm is only held together by the two belts of his attire. One would think that if he really wanted to keep the parasitic swamp goo in control, he'd use more things to keep it tied, but no, just two belts... He could easily just slip his arm over the belts and voilá ! free from restraint ! It's also not like he doesn't make use of the swamp goo, so he's not really trying to prevent it from spreading further; in fact, he's already internally stacked with this bacteria thing, it's like, if you cut him in half, a lot of this stuff would pour out bc he was literally drowned in this thing, and we see it consuming him in his character trailer as well;; all this to say that the belts keeping his arm tied doesnt really have a functional reason but serve more as a nudge towards the concepts around his character's story, of being restricted/bound/forced onto something (the swamp)

ㅤㅤWith a couple of torn tendrils almost shredding from his skin, a hint of amusement seeps beneath his usual calm indifference, intrigued, through only slightly, over her persistent scrutiny. Such medical evaluations were, after all, pointless for both the man and the entity he's become. ❝ ―Have you concluded your assessment, Ms. Jinluo? ❞