Oct 13, 2025
Trinity 🌕🌔🌑
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Trinity 🌕🌔🌑
Another Pin Up drawing
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continuing on the demetrio talk, i drew this yesterday- a version of alceste ( alceste demetrio, not alceste admeto ) for a limbus company fanbranch @finchisinanest started in a discord server we're in. the theme is secret identities and so most of the members are from superhero comics and the like, but me being me, i just had to slide a guy from a baroque opera in there.
alc's secret fixer identity is demetrio, and... i have not designed them yet! and i haven't quite finished alc's design either ( the colours here aren't their actual colours, i just really like funky palettes ).
Falling victim to art block, have some Napoleonic OCs
bjourrr je peux suggérer Alceste du Misanthrope de Molière ? merci
alceste est ajouté aux candidats ✅️
Have some fun OC introduction sheets! I did a lil collage stuff over them <3 this is for a story in which a coffee shop is magical and sentient, Alceste, a regular patron is new to magic and Quinn, member of the local coven is just fucking fed up with the shop. <3<3<3
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Hercules wrestling with Death for the soul of Alcestis
Artist : Herbert Thomas Dicksee (1862-1942)
Hercules snatching Alcestis from the Underworld
by Joseph Franque
something i do think people forget because of the prevalence of the french Alceste over the italian and even the original play is that admetus and alcestis are uniquely selfish characters who act on behalf of a state, not themselves, much like real life monarchs.
alcestis dies for her husband to prolong their royal lineage. admetus' parents refuse to die for their son failing to see alcestis' reasoning, and admetus does not offer his life in exchange for hers because he knows what her sacrifice preserves.
in the italian version, it's more about the love but the undercurrents of preserving their rule is very much there. in act 2, we have this (quoting sav here) a jaunty ass tune about suffering
which is like half the point of the opera, no one sacrifices themselves for their country, they'd only do it for something they held dear (idk i keep thinking about Gluck as Marie Antoinette's court composer...like.... was this a warning...no loyal citizen is truly loyal to their country).
Alceste herself makes the demand that Admeto does not remarry, much like in the original play, because to do so would put their bloodline in danger.
BUT this is where the third act strikes a compromise between love (something i think gluck was putting as his sole propaganda for his reform operas) and loyalty, Admeto tries to die anyway, disregarding the whole point of the play and opera (in the play his life is exchanged in the first place by apollo for someone else's to also lengthen his reign). It is the disregard for the state that sets this version of Alceste and Admeto apart. On the surface level they are willing to sacrifice everything to ensure the continuity of their nation, but when push comes to shove, you see how this selfishness is a selfishness of marital love and not for their country anymore (BTW THIS IS WHY THE ITALIAN VERSION DRIVES ME CRAZY. THEY WERE JUST WILLING TO FLUSH DOWN EURIPIDES LIKE THAT.)
WHICH IS WHY THE FRENCH VERSION IS not as good. it focuses on the love aspect which disregards the whole political theme of the story in the first place. It's not quite as simple a story as Orfeo ed Euridice,, which worked in its french adaptation, because Orpheus and Eurydice are ordinary, and it is relatively easy to project ourselves onto them. Sort of a man vs. god story. Alcestis and Admetus are not-- they are holders of power, almost equal to gods of death and life in their own right. Their story is man vs god but they were once god too, something like that