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kerubimcrepin · 2 months

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Live-Read: "Dofus Manga" - part 3

+ A big Atcham Analysis

I'll only briefly point out that he has an ear ring, or that Ancestral Z draws him with hair tufts for cuteness' sake. We have to keep moving towards the point where I analyse him.

Atcham seems to be quite famous, — to the point Dodge is chastised for not knowing him, despite being an ecaflip, — and one of his nicknames is "the killer of killers". Very, very interesting...

"You're the one who made a huge mistake, Katar, by stealing the sword I had taken to repair... It belonged to my family for generations."

Obsessed with all the implications this has. You have no idea just how obsessed I am. To Atcham, swords aren't just weapons, — they're objects of sentimental value, a way to protect himself, a tool.

And it turns out that Katar threw his, and I quote Katar, "piece of shit sword" to the moon.

We've discussed Atcham and Kerubim's dead family, lack of support system, and young age when they lost everything plenty here. Same for their irrational hatred for one another.

No need to tell you how awful this must feel for him. Imagine someone throwing your dead father's picture into the river. For fun.

"And the smith was a good friend of mine." Man :(

(He's either not that good at telling that someone is scared of him, which is sad, — or the smith that Katar killed was joking, when he said that he was afraid of Atcham.)

What follows is the most important scene I have for characterizing Atcham:

"The... the six Dofus. You have reunited the six Dofus! And what are you planning to do with them? Do you have an idea already?" "They intend to defeat Cornu Mollu."

If I speak on Cornu Mollu, this post will devolve into a 5-hour lecture on how much I hate the Twelve gods, — how Oropo "Did Nothing Wrong", — and how Sadida, Iop, and Ecaflip in particular need to be [VIOLENT LANGUAGE OMITTED] for the things they have done. Let's just say that he's a demon guy who rules Brakmar at the time of manga, ok?

"You guys are comedians. PHAHAHA! The guy is stronger than a god... And your Dofus can't change that! And his armies have only continued to expand — they're invincible."

Atcham laughs them out of town like clowns for thinking they can defeat Cornu Mollu. Which is more than understandable. But it is interesting, how he speaks of Brakmar here... Not very patriotic, he.

"I wish you courage in your collective suicide. As for me, I'm going to find myself a little island, hoping to escape all this!"

The thing about Atcham, is that mostly, he just cares about himself, and the things he likes.

He doesn't care about the city he's in, — outside the fact that his brother is on the opposing side. He doesn't care about the world, or saving it, — because the world certainly hasn't cared about him!

And he WILL flee, if it saves his skin from any unnecessary pain or danger.

What he cares about is his own damn self, because nobody else is going to.

For this reason, his personal moral compass is entirely dependent on saving his own skin, because he has only ever had himself to rely upon. He tries not to be too cruel, — yet, if the mood strikes him, he becomes hyperviolent just for the sake of fun.

But the thing about him is that he will leave, if things aren't going well. He won't stay.

This includes fleeing Brakmar at the first sight of trouble. And chances are, it also has, multiple times, included Joris and Kerubim after the movie.

While I will go more in detail on this later, sometime after Leorictus's nightmare reign and Joris's huppermage horror beyond our comprehension, Atcham has left Kerubim and Joris to return to Brakmar's side.

As far as I am aware, it is not because of some deep falling out, — they still seem to love one another. Kerubim has an instance of mentioning Atcham, in a pretty teasing manner, — and in the quest that involves catching him for his crimes, Kerubim comes to bail him out with a defense attorney speech at the ready to explain away why the atrocities are both a misunderstanding and completely justified, — but the thing is that Atcham left them, and began doing weird stuff, like crimes. In Kerubim's own Ecaflipus temple.

My personal thought is that Atcham keeps leaving because he's scared.

He cares a lot, — because they're the first people to ever care about him, and it drives him crazy how little they care for themselves. It hurts seeing them in pain.

Leorictus's reign probably was hard, emotionally speaking, — Joris wasn't even legally allowed to live in Bonta, or anywhere else, as a huppermage, — and yet, in Dofus MMO, judging from NPC dialogue about how Kerubim only moved back to Astrub somewhat recently,

— and Joris's presence in the game before the implementation of Huppermages as a class (I.E. their return from Rok Island), all signs point to the fact that this whole time, as Huppermages fled to Rok Island, — The Trio stayed in Bonta despite the danger, for some insane fucking reason. Probably heroism. Probably trying to save people. (people who have read my fic Fragile will uhh. Recognize this premise. Yeah. I think a lot about this all. To the point of writing a fic about this insane era of their lives.)

I think Atcham hates how responsible he feels for them, and the batshit insane things, — heroism? saving the world?! helping other people?!? self-sacrifice!?!? — they make him want to believe in, and how afraid he is of losing them. It is for him, to agree to do things he would never do before, for them, — and it's scary, just as scary as how dependent he is now, despite being ok with loneliness before them.

And sometimes, it's just too much, and too fast. So, he leaves, again, and again.

But on a positive note, I want to believe he is mostly over leaving them whenever he gets too stressed out, by Wakfu times. Maybe it's the maturity that comes with age, — or realizing how much they need him after Ogrest's Chaos, but I want to believe that he now expresses his frustration in other, more productive ways: herding these two idiots away from danger.

Ranging from: subtly insisting that Joris doesn't go on insane suicide missions all alone just to protect them (Just like Atcham, Joris's anxiety for his family makes him very irrational at times.), and trying to get Kerubim to always be ready for battles, while protecting him because he isn't,

To just plain having the willpower to tell the world's most stupidly self-sacrificial man "Did you consider that the floating eyes in the sky aren't any of our business? :)"

Which is pretty funny.

Anyway, yeah, Joris is not surviving the things Kerubim and Atcham will do to him, after he tells them that he went to something called "The Necroworld", almost got trapped there, and then almost died 20 times.

#ro liveblogs dofus #dofus #wakfu #krosmoz #dofusmanga #atcham crepin #atcham crepin the leaver of unfortunate situations....

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jorisjurgen · 6 months

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reasons crepinlore studies are fascinating, with citations

>"I, kerubim crepin, am the only crepin remaining alive to this day! and that is funny. please laugh, yechti. my brother is dead to me." (aux tresors series)

>"MR PRIEST WHEN I GROW UP, I WANT TO BECOME A SUPPER HUPPERMAGE TO RESSURECT MY MOMMY DADDY SISTERS AND BROTHERS! and if nobody likes me and leaves me alone again i will kill myself for real. anyway orphans (me) are the most specialest most important people and i will help them forever. my heart goes out to all the orphans out there. amen." (dofus heroes comic)

>"atcham crepin aren't you tired of this shit. arent you tired of your piece of shit older brother. don't you want a dofus. don't you want to use my dofus for evil haha." (julith movie)

>"DID YOU SSSSEND MY FAMILY HEIRLOOM SSSWORD TO THE FUCKING MOON, KATAR?!?!?!? THE FAMILY HEIRLOOM SSSWORD WHICH HAS BEEN PASSSSSED IN THE CREPIN FAMILY FOR GENERATIOS?!?!?!?" (dofus manga 26)

>the oropo game implies that crepins have been selling shit for generations i can't do this anymore. kerubim started a store because he grew up in a store and then everyone died and he fucking returned home metaphorically and he taught his ORPHAN son how to be a salesman. while being an orphaned old man. is ankama trying to fucking kill me. (one more gate)

>"kerubim i will be real with you, as your god i may be manipulating you into hating your ugly ass brother. like he looks like a fucking rat right? and you understand that if you don't love me everyone will hate you as much as they hate his uggo 10yo mentally ill psychotic ass, right? with that out of the way, omgggg i love you so muchhhh sonny can you give me a hug." (wheel of destiny)

>"ngl you had it better than me becasssse at leasssst ecaflip cared enough to manipulate you. while he jussst kinda thought it was funny when i got beat up or fell down the stairs or whatever. and brother, for the sssin of him liking you enough to ruin your life, i am going to beat you to death forever and ever." (aux tresors)

>atcham meets an orphan and learns intersectionality by gaining the desire to kill the orphan's family for throwing him out for being too hairy (dessous de dofus)

>atcham draws a crayon doodle of himself beheading kerubim (in a costume) with hearts around and shit. he doesn't know it's kerubim because of the costume. he just hates people that much on average. (dessous de dofus)

>atcham chased katar through fields and countries and continents to kill him for sending the crepin family sword to the fucking moon.

>trying to kill kerubim is like a habitual hobby and something he returns to once in a while

>"bur yeah i do underssstand this is kind of deranged and will bring absssolutely no peace to my life. i just kind of want to kill you for the fun of it. i don't know man. i do know you didn't actually hate me and i know you're a decent perssson, at least i know that enough to lisssten to your weird kid you didn't make fun of like you did with me when we were kids. but like. i do wisssh i could beat you to death... or do i??" (julith movie)

>"my brother is a bald mentally ill twisted psychopath. i hope he dies. he definitely doesn't live in my head rent free. he's the ugliest motherfucker ever. he wants to kill me. but if he dies i will cry instantly and scream in despair." (dessous de dofus + julith movie)

>atcham's habitual nightmares of being bullied and belittled as a child by kerubim and ecaflip (dessous de dofus)

>"papycha would NEVER do something bad to you, i know that, he's not that kind of person :(" [Dessous de Dofus and Wheel of Destiny flash behind Atcham's eyes] "even though you're wrong you're actually completely right. he'sss too sstupid to be a real hater." (julith movie)

>ecaflip demigods retain their memories after death?!? (dofus mmo's explicit canon + remington comics and ovas implications)

>"...kerubim can you lend me your fur" is the second funniest crepin-jurgen family injoke about traumatic events after calling joris their dad.

#ro.txt #dofus #krosmoz #crepinposting #wakfu #they're like two birds on a wire. one tries to fly away and the other—#kerubim crepin #atcham crepin #if this post is incomprehensible...#don't worry. i don't understand it either.

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