Between Two Worlds 🐣

Canto x Mili song [4/?]

“The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Who would be born must first destroy a world. The bird flies to God. That God’s name is Abraxas.” ~ ‘Demian’ by Hermann Hesse

I think this piece has the most research I’ve done before starting on it… literally sat through Canto 3, checked the canto wiki, song wiki, sinclair’s wiki while analysing his official arts with the song on repeat… hopefully my research wasn’t in vain, and that my Sinclair fans out there get the references in this one!

Canto 3 is one of those cantos where our sinner remains mostly unresolved (but still changed of course) at the end. I hope our dear Sinclair who’s breaking out of his shell learns to reconcile his two inner worlds, and fly as the best version of himself he chooses. So that is what this piece mostly focuses on.

I got a couple of asks recently. I promis I'll get to them. I'm still thinking about the chudlings.

I can't draw him without thinking HOLY SHIT IS THAT THE FULL METAL ALCHEMIST?!