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The parts I did for an art swap meme with @teethhoarder. I drew the line art for Gilbert and Teeth drew the line art for Arthur.

SO.

My Main Bitch @teethhoarder​/Seb, and I were talking about the venues dotted throughout each country that Representatives no doubt use for meetings and conferences, much like the ones we see in canon.

I used to go along with a very underdeveloped headcanon that they’d use secluded areas for their meetings. Unassuming and dingy places like doors set into the walls of back alleys and the like, only for the doors to lead into lavishly decorated and hospitable venues fit for important, global discussions. BUT, considering how linked in a lot of Nation Reps are with their respective governments, I now don’t think it would be too far-fetched for them to meet in specific venues allocated by the government. 

Whenever we see a world meeting in either the anime or the manga, they seem to be in a pretty swanky place, right?

Those big windows and that marble bust in the background looks pretty fancy to me. While this particular room design seems to be reused a LOT, it would make sense for them to hold their deeply important talks in a building that’s big and fancy enough to accommodate every single Nation as well as the fights that seem to break out every time they hold one of these damn things. So it makes sense to me that since the guests look and act.. Strangely at best, there would probably only be 2 or 3 venues per country, and said venues would probably be places that ordinary people don’t usually hold meetings in. Art galleries, big exhibition halls, performance halls, anywhere grand and artsy that can be rented out and also closed off to the general public for a certain amount of time. To me, at least, the building up there kind of looks like one of those fancy dining halls that rich fuckers meet in, rather than your average conference room. Of course, it would be fancy if this was all organised by the government.

Naturally, the staff would need to be in on the whole thing too as to not raise suspicion, my guess is that they’re probably affiliated with the government in some way too, perhaps just enough to know that the “people” currently using their venue probably ought not to be disturbed, and that everything they discuss has to be kept hush hush. That’s just my take on it, but what I really found interesting about these venues was something Seb mentioned to me in our discord chat.

N☾un:  ALSO I'm thinking about the venues these guys use. I'm willing to bet there's like one or two in each country. All the staff are government hired professionals, they all know what they are, stuff like that. And whenever humans use the venues they're like: "huh, this place is spooky..."

TeethHoarder: wood is known to absorb spirit energy so it probably absorbs theirs too

THAT got my brain box thinking. This is probably getting a bit personal, but, have you guys ever been in a place that just gives you the creeps for some reason? Even if it’s a place you’ve been in before, you know it, but sometimes you just feel uneasy? The V&A Museum in London is kind of like that for me, normally I’m fine going there, but once in a while, the general atmosphere weirds me out a little, and I cannot for the life of me explain why.

I think that after a long and intense meeting, the humans that then go on to use the venue kind of feel.. Awkward, like they’ve just heard snippets of a conversation that they weren’t meant to hear. I’ve only really just begun to develop this little concept, but right now I’m calling it an ‘echo’, a side-effect that can sometimes occur if more than two or three Representatives have been in the same room together for an extended amount of time. This side-effect can be anything from simply a strange feeling in the air to one hearing what almost sounds like whispering, or a ringing in one’s ears that they can’t quite explain, it’s freaky and it makes them want to get out of there as quickly as possible. I think that in some cases, after big world meetings, the humans working in the venue can accidentally end up hearing snippets of what their recently-departed guests were talking about, an echo of their conversations.

Going back to what Seb said about wood absorbing energy, what if that ‘energy’ they mentioned takes its form in a type of vibration? I am pretty damn sure that a Rep’s voice is not the same as a human’s. Their intonation isn’t quite the same, the volume they can reach is far higher than ours, their vocal range is much more flexible, and the vibration their voices produce is bound to be a little different too. Not only that, but Representatives as a species are incredibly linked in with the natural world, and since wood is absolutely a natural material, it could theoretically work as some sort of sponge. A sponge that just so happens to end up leaking out the ever-so faint echoes of the words spoken by a group of near-godly beings.

Oddly enough, this is one of my more simpler lore-related posts, but somehow it feels far stranger to write than any of the others. The concept of wood absorbing energy and then spitting it back out at the unsuspecting humans just trying to do their job is absurd, but then again - so is the rest of my lore! 

Commission for @TeethHoarder 💚 their lovely OC Carmine with Mad Mod

Hey y’all! I thought I should definitely promote my best irl friend after receiving this beautifully drawn picture of Nonna that they made for me for Christmas. So go check them out! Their art blog is @teethhoarder ! Their stuff can be nsfw sometimes but their art is all round amazing so please take a look, and heck you could even commission them if you wanted/have the money too.

I love this.