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hiya-im-mary · 7 months

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So I finally found out about that whiteboard Webiste everyone uses…

Random thought,but I think it would be cool if Mystery Man was like this urban legend,or boogeyman type figure to those of Vinyl City!! To those who haven’t seen his mural in NSR tower,he’s basically a rumour!!

#NSR #no straight roads #Mystery Man #Mural Man #NSR Mystery Man #NSR Mural Man #whiteboard #whiteboard fox #art #My art #sketches

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whatudottu · 10 months

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Not sure if this has been brought up before, but I don’t think that there’s that significant of a secret behind the mural man. LIke? Apparently the political figures of Vinyl City are determined not by public voting (alone) or running for candidacy, but through the Lights Up competition for a combination of 1) completing the arena, 2) ‘lighting up’ the stage as the competition implies, and 3) passing the final vote from the NSRtists and the Head. If there was only 5 musicians and a head with NO vacancies, why would any of the Charters vote ‘yes’ to the contestant/s if there’s a risk in getting replaced?

I would think that the mural man filled in that 6th artist slot present even on DJ Subatomic Supernova’s satellite, and I suppose the mystery then would be if their absence was either through retiring, quitting or simply the end of their term as a Charter. Like, instead of an election season or whatever, Vinyl City holds Lights Up Auditions during a set period during that 6th Charter’s crossover or something; on the satellite again, it’s not as if we see the mural man’s name in 6th (we see Bunk Bed Junction’s), maybe they’re already gone or are archiving stuff from their district. Does Tatiana temporarily hold ‘charter’ to the district? Does she hold the platinum disc until a new position is filled? Is Festival Plaza that district that once had mural man as a Charter? Do you think with the Rock Revolution and the subsequent approval of indie bands that the position was left empty or even completely abolished?

idk, lmao-

#mural man #no straight roads #nsr #i mean i could be completely wrong on 1) this being a thing that's been mentioned and 2) clearly not knowing the mystery enough #i mean i played the game back in 2020 and only noticed it playing it again this year 2023 so lmao #a little bit blinded by the tatiana fight because i cannot carry a rhythm for my life and only like idk... sometime recent #that i got the achievement for 'don't get knocked out idiot' lmao #but like i just wanted to think about the politics (even if surface level) of vinyl city lmao- it's just so odd #take out the music part of their political system and you've essentially got idk a talent show arena election system #without that extra slot of ambivalent 'i'm retiring/quitting/ending my term' charter seat #it's like 'who hasn't met the standards of chartering their own district'

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puppyeared · 1 year

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Callbacks to older episodes

#the last one is kind of subtle. theyre from edas childhood bedroom lol #the hospital and amity’s ship are probably my fav references.. considering we saw at least 3 different precincts in the show it prob implies #there are way more of them all over the isles. also the sheer symbolism of the precinct being changed into a hospital fucking got me man #also amity’s ship with the little cat paws and face bc of luz making a cat face out of her abomination… I love them #HHHHHGGGGG IM GONNA MISS THIS SHOW MAN #if you notice to the right of eda’s office THERES a mural of raine and a small photo of Luz and King #there are also symbols of the titans skull replacing the emperors coven and the attention to detail is insane #they even managed to sneak one into 1 or 2 backgrounds which I did not expect #the owl house spoilers #toh spoilers #toh #the owl house #toh watching and dreaming #watching and dreaming #watching and dreaming spoilers #wad spoilers #toh finale spoilers

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carma-tjol · 4 months

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Show me your worst. I love it all the same.

As long as it's me. As long as it's you.

#heaven official's blessing #hualian #tgcf #xie lian #hua cheng #carma art #tgcf spoilers #i think book 6 was my fav. not totally decided yet tho #severe trauma lets gooooo #xie lian’s *how can i be a person again after what happened to me* arc went CRAZY #god.#and hua cheng.#the way he draws himself ugly on the murals. his reaction to the homophobia/getting called disgusting. him expecting cruel rejection from x #KILLLLLLL MEEEEEEE #like man this guy *HATES* hates himself.#sorry for posting this literally the day after the last one but i’m obsessed

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even-disco-baby · 2 years

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KIM KITSURAGI — The lieutenant’s expression is difficult to place as he ponders the mural.

THE NEXT WORLD MURAL — “TRUE LOVE IS POSSIBLE ONLY IN THE NEXT WORLD— FOR NEW PEOPLE. IT IS TOO LATE FOR US. WREAK HAVOC ON THE MIDDLE CLASS.”

INLAND EMPIRE — Right on.

CONCEPTUALIZATION — What a slogan! So many layers in so few words. Perfectly crafted to grab one’s attention and keep hold of it for long after you’ve passed by. You wish you’d thought of it.

“Truer words were never spoken.”

“What a fuckin’ bummer, am I right?”

“Not bad, but I like the one we painted in Martinaise better.”

KIM KITSURAGI — “You mean, the one *you* painted,” he says pointedly. “I had nothing to do with that.”

ESPIRIT DE CORPS — He did like your mural. He’s just never gonna admit it. He’s too committed to the bit.

THE NEXT WORLD MURAL — The words seem to tower over you as you and your partner take them in. Once again, you can’t help but wonder how the Belles Lettres managed to paint this monstrously massive mural without being seen.

VISUAL CALCULUS — Surely there must have been scaffolding involved, or some kind of machinery.

LOGIC — They were seen. Just not by anyone who would disturb their work, or sell them out to the police. Which, if the results of the vote are anything to go by, would be most of the people of Jamrock.

“What do you think about the part about true love, Kim?”

“What do you think about the part about the middle class, Kim?”

“Did you know there was a vote on whether or not to remove the mural?”

KIM KITSURAGI — “We did hear about it back at 57,” he admits. “It’s rare for your district to organize a vote like that. Or any district, for that matter…”

He frowns slightly, peering up at the embracing couple. “I’ll admit, when I heard about it, I had no idea how *big* this thing was. I’m surprised that they voted to keep it. You must be able to see it for miles…”

CONCEPTUALIZATION — Eight stories loud, painted over the corpse of a failed real estate venture. A reminder, a call to action, and a threat, all rolled into one. Constant and inescapable. Oh, yeah. *This* is good stuff.

EMPATHY — It makes the lieutenant uncomfortable.

CONCEPTUALIZATION — That’s the point.

YOU — “How would you have voted?”

KIM KITSURAGI — “I wouldn’t have,” he says drily. “I didn’t live here.”

“All right, fair enough.” (Drop the subject)

“Cmon, Kim. If you *did* live here, which side would you be on?” (Press him)

KIM KITSURAGI — “I don’t know that it’s about taking sides…” His sentence trails as he considers the mural.

PERCEPTION (Sight) — He glances at you for the briefest of moments, and then away. Almost as if he hadn’t meant to do it.

ESPIRIT DE CORPS [Godly: Success] — You make him uncomfortable in much the same way that the mural does. Representative of truths that he doesn’t know what to make of.

There was a time when he dreamt of things like true love. And heroic deeds, and brilliant discoveries, and aerostatic pilots. A home that belonged to him. A table laden with food and crowded with people. The future and the past were polar opposites in his eyes— one a painful collage of loneliness and ostracization, the other a blank canvas, and all the more beautiful for it. It could be anything.

It did not take long for the present to beat it all out of him. And then he blinked, and he was forty-three and alone, having spent twenty years of his life on stubbornness and spite, trying to prove himself to people who didn’t and still don’t care, at the expense of the people that he should have cared for. And he realized it was too late for him.

YOU — Too late for what…?

EMPATHY — To do or be anything different.

KIM KITSURAGI — “…I don’t know,” he finally says. His voice is level, but quiet. “But I can understand why people wanted it to remain.”

He tears his gaze away from the mural at last and looks at you. “What about you? How did you vote?”

YOU — “I can’t remember.”

KIM KITSURAGI — He grimaces slightly. “Right. Sorry…”

“But I think I would have voted for it to go.”

“But I think I would have voted for it to stay.”

KIM KITSURAGI — “That doesn’t surprise me,” he sighs. “I’m sure the part about wreaking havoc on the middle class especially appealed to you.”

“You know it, comrade.”

“No, it was the part about true love being dead.”

“No, it was the part about new people.”

KIM KITSURAGI — He looks at you strangely. “…Oh? What do you make of it?”

“There’s no such thing as new people. We’re all the same, and we’ll always be the same, walking in the same old circles.”

“Fuck the new people and their new world that we’ll never get to see.”

“I think anyone can become a new person if they try. It’s a call to action.”

“Even if it’s too late for us to be new, I think we can still change. And we can still love each other.”

KIM KITSURAGI — He looks for a moment as if he’s going to say something… and then nothing. His lips purse slightly.

EMPATHY [Formidable: Failure] — It’s hard to say what he thinks of your little thesis. Matters of love are tough on him.

COMPOSURE [Legendary: Success] — But you get the feeling that *something* is happening within the lieutenant. There’s a crack in the dam that’s widening every day, and he knows it. He’s afraid to let it happen, but he’s equally powerless to stop it.

INLAND EMPIRE — You’re afraid, too. You’re both the same brand of coward.

VOLITION — You’re both a lot of things that you don’t have to be. It’s too late to have never been them. But it’s not too late to stop.

ESPIRIT DE CORPS — Stopping is precisely what he’s afraid of. He wonders what of himself will be left if he ceases to be *this.*

That’s selfish. We’re both so selfish.

It would be better if we ceased to be anything at all.

Whatever is left, I’ll still love him.

INLAND EMPIRE — How do you know he *wants* your love?

YOU — I don’t know. But he has it, anyway.

THE NEXT WORLD MURAL — A cold wind rushes past you, sending a chill deep into your bones. Unconsciously, you both step closer to each other. Seeking warmth.

#disco elysium #harry du bois #kim kitsuragi #harrykim #kimharry #man idk whatever their tag is #anyway. the next world mural huh.#btw for clarity the cracks in the dam that kim and harry are both afraid of are like.#the realization that they need to stop being cops LSJDHXGXJX #like yeah also the love. but mostly the cop thing. they’re not unrelated i feel #hence why the mural ends with ‘’wreak havoc on the middle class’’

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yardikins · 18 days

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Hi Skyblr is this anything

#Resh is the immense self-hatred Corrupted King is the delusional god complex #I love this man so much #It’s a problem #Being a King Resh lover is so difficult fr #Been surviving off this concept art and some murals for three years (Performance moth)#sky children of the light #sky cotl #eden elder #King Resh #Corrupted king #Resh #Sky king #text post memes #shitposting on main #Resh come home

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detroitlib · 24 days

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View of mural triptych on Man's Mobility by John S. Coppin located in Adam Strohm Hall at the Detroit Public Library. Printed on front: "Adam Strohm Hall, Detroit Public Library." Printed on back: "Detroit Public Library, Detroit, Michigan. Adam Strohm Hall. An exhibition center for the display of books and other cultural materials. This room of outstanding architectural beauty is enhanced by the mural triptych on Man's Mobility, designed and created by Detroit artist John S. Coppin. Photo by John Penrod. [copyright] Penrod/Hiawatha Co., Berrien Center, Michigan 49102, phone 616-461-6993."

Burton Historical Collection, Detroit Public Library

#john s. coppin #art #murals #library #john penrod #detroit #man's mobility #adam strohm hall #libraries #library buildings #postcards #triptych #detroit public library

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inquisitor-apologist · 11 months

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All the problems in the Mandalorian could’ve been solved if Sabine had kept the Darksaber

#that girl could use it #Gideon shows up like surrender or we’ll bomb Mandalore and she’s just like ‘nah’ and whistles for Ezra and his Purgil #she’d wipe out all the imperials in the sector with homemade bombs 1000x more effective than the empire’s and paint gorgeous murals about it #could totally see her working with Luke and Ezra to build a the New Jedi Order on Mandalore #creating a culture of the most badass light side users in galactic history #man I love writing banger fanfic ideas in the tags and never using them #star wars #Mandalorians #sabine rebels #Sabine wren #Mand’alor Sabine wren #Mand’alor Sabine #the darksaber #darksaber #the Mandalorian

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spotsupstuff · 11 months

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as i'm workin on my Ancient stuff- i've got to say that it is really interesting and neat (read: nasty) that there's a good chance most of the Ancient population probably didn't actually wear masks. but We think they did cuz the only really solid evidence of what they looked like at all all comes from places of the higher social circles. and those strived for religious... superiority, i guess. brownie points, not actual dedication to the religion for the sake of its teachings but either because it made them look good, put them higher in the social hierarchy or whatever manipulation have you (or the flawed look upon the religion aka "we gotta get out of this cycle no matter what")

all we are left with are the bastards. the simple people and their cultures that were left to weather the Iterators' rains were simply washed away. nobody cared for their way of life- as long as it served the higher circles well and they stayed submissive (enough so that at the end everyone would take a dip in the void), nobody had to give a singular shit

just how much do we not know about the Ancients' *everything* because of this disregard? how much do we think we are right about, when such is true only for the small but privileged piece of the species?

#Spot says stuff #rw #which is why i -goes insane over oc lore again-#VIVA LA REVOLUCIÓN BAYBEEEEEE #this came to me cuz like. sparrows is very much a Bruh girl. shes a yeehaw if you know what i mean. shes kinda stumpy cuz she grew up in-#-the farms of Euros' facilities n had to haul things around. ancients from the iterator cities? or the ones on the murals? very much dont-#-look like that nah. theyre like twigs without any muscle to hold their bellies in some kinda form so they look like That. the masks-#-themselves originally became a thing for religious reasons. what reason would a farm girl have to wear a mask while workin in the fields?#yanno? it sounds mostly impractical. n down there they prolly werent such religious nutcases like the ''Higher Ones''#sparrows' granda would have some choice words bout her havin a mask now JKVLDSMLKC he constantly complains about Euros cuz like #he remembers what it was like before Euros was turned on- man had an iterator rain free childhood n now he has to deal with This bullshit #''back in M'day we didnt hefta be runnin fro' some rain generated by an overgrown *Toaster*!!! we played in da grass for however long-#-we wished!!! sure aye it was standin there n overshadowin us from time to time but-" ''ya ya we kno granda settle down before u pull smth'#iterators r so fucking terrifying

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hiya-im-mary · 2 years

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About Mystery Man!

So,I’ve Been Looking At DDaddyStars Rocktober Art That “Hinted” At Mystery Man,And Here’s What I Picked Up For LORE

Here’s What I Can Say-His Fight Would Rely On Three Things

Brass,Water,And Shadows,As Well As Complex,Confusing Environments

Looking At The Art,It Contains Staircases Going Nowhere,Aswell As Brass Instruments (Or Probably Clarinets) Stickinv Out Of Everything

It Also Has Elements Of What Could Be Plants And Extra Hands,But We Can Skip Those,Due To Yinu And Even Respectively Having Such Things In Their Boss Fights

He Would Most Likely Be A Jazz,Blues Or Electro Swing NSRtist…It Makes Me Think…He Could’ve Been A Previous Charter,Or From A Theory I Heard,Back When Tatiana Mentioned There Used To Only Be One Charter In Vinyl City…Could That Have Been Him?

Mystery Man Also Got Mentioned In The Intro By Djss/Uncle Ali,Though This Was Mainly To Reference The Game Itself,What He Mentions Is Interesting

“An NSRtist Who Does Not Wish To Bs Found”

For Whatever Reason,Mystery Man Went Into Hiding,Wishing Not To Be Seen Again…He Could’ve Willingly Removed Himself From NSR For Whatever Reason…The Only Thing Is Now,What Are His Motives?

It Could Be That He Could Be A Villan,But We Are Yet To Find Out,The Only Evidence We Have Is That He Has A Ominous Smile In Both Pieces,As Well As Him Staring At B2J In The Second Piece

Over All,Mystery Man As Of Now Is Well…A Mystery! The Only Option We Have As Of Now Is To Wait Until We Get More Lore Hints By The People At Metronomik!

#No Straight Roads #NSR #Mystery Man #Mural Man #NSR Mystery Man #NSR Mural Man #NSR Theory #NSR Offical Art

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viperra1 · 1 year

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y'know, i have FEELINGS about this parallel.......

#the way there's just wreckage and violence around him on that vase and THEN on the mural there's people and there's worship and hope and-#man...... this game........#this might not even be intensional parallel but my brain shortcuts EVERY TIME i think about it #god of war #god of war ragnarok #gow #gowr #god of war ragnarök spoilers #god of war ragnarok spoilers #gowr spoilers #spoilers #spoiler

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topnotchquark · 5 months

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I let out an audible laugh. He knows he's that bitch.

#religion and performance and spectacle etc etc #his own mural his own face his own clothes his own empire his own disciples #my man #valentino rossi #vale #motogp #and of course #qunty #as all hell

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eiirishi · 9 months

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im thinking about cindy again

i need to replay the game but in my mind i remember her as a creature pushed into a corner, hiding her pain and love behind a mask of indifference, nihilism and smug disdain

i liked her well enough then, but then she painted the square in that blood red motor oil

UN JOUR JE SERAI DE RETOUR PRÈS DE TOI

and it almost made me cry, it felt like a hope that is kept alive even in the darkest of times, even with the veneer of nihilism she actually still cares and wants things to be good

this hits so very different after reading A Sacred and Terrible Air

#man i don't know #i could be just making things up #thoughts jumbled from a long day #but there has always been something that struck me about cindy and i could not get it out #the mural really was the point of no return for me #before i was enjoying the game #i really really liked it #but that dragged me deeeep #anyway #cindy the skull #disco elysium #blbl

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justamagicalpurpleshark · 7 months

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Doc casually building his mural:

*server breaks down*

Doc: *sighs* *turns to the sign on the wall* *resets the count*

Days since Docm77 broke the server: 0

#he wasn't even doing anything with redstone or bugs #just building #and that makes it so much funnier #hermitblr #hermitcraft 9 #docm77 #i like to imagine doc has a sign on his base like the “days since last accident” meme #doc accidentally farming wither skulls while building his mural is peak ironic comedy #the man breaks the server on purpose and on accident no matter what he does

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imminent-danger-came · 1 year