haha what do you mean i’m into blondes lol

annus draconis by kakeku [Twitter/X] ※Illustration shared with permission from the artist. If you like this artwork please support the artist by visiting the source.

ソドムズビースト/ドラコ

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★ 【ねこのけだま】 「 ドラコー 」 ☆ ✔ republished w/permission ⊳ ⊳ follow me on twitter

in her final moments a miracle occurred and nero died knowing a human love. that miracle is the core of the heroic spirit nero claudius, the dream that "there will eventually be someone who will reach out to me". she says if it hadn't happened she would still be in that wilderness, slowly dying while waiting for something impossible. that is the death that belongs to the person nero claudius, freed from her mother's suffocating love even if it happened too late to change anything about her life.

draco did not receive that miracle. the shade of nero who continued to slowly bleed out in that wilderness without anyone to care for her in her final moments, whose evil love is in devouring all the world so that she will be there in everyone else's final moments instead. she calls herself draco, and beast VI/S, and sodom's beast, but not nero claudius. she did not get to die as a person, as the her who is herself, instead of the convenient tyrant and star of calamity that others saw in her. the beast drinking filth from the holy grail is the child still drinking from her mother's poisoned cup.

ドラちゃま実装おめでと再掲よ🌹 いつき (@ipomoea_alba) EN Translation by @TheParacite

Must keep child warm

had an idea for a draco edit

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To contrast Tamamo and Nero rivalry Koyanskaya and Draco actually are very good friends, best friends even, gal pals, two bosom buddies, some would even call them.... roommates

Good for them

Of course there are a lot of loud, angry fans of anime-styled entertainment that start seeing red as soon as a character doesn’t look “perfect”. I can’t imagine being so tedious. I do think a lot of it is not even enjoying the work as art but rather the power it instills in them (lbr it’s men) to see women drawn for their consumption first before anything else. It’s why they can consume so much visual junkmail in the shape of AI anime titty art. this is also why you see them get so fucking heated about gacha game designs specifically as well, the character-for-audience-consumption is the closest and most extreme in those situations. When they see, for instance, a hypersexualized child girl in a microbikini called “the whore of babylon” or a genderbent paperwhite Indian goddess wearing only fire on her tits and pussy in a popular gacha like FGO, they see a cultural juggernaut appealing to their view of women which pleases them. But when an extremely popular gacha like Genshin Impact releases a male character in short shorts, stockings and a garterbelt - sexualized in the same way that the women are sexualized - many male fans (specifically Korean) shit their pants and lost their minds in anger. this isn’t to say any of these games are doing something revolutionary in character design nor is it grounds for some new litmus test where a gacha is measured as good or bad depending on how much it pisses off incel gamers. that is missing the point. the male character can appeal to women but he always must first affirm his strength and masculinity to the male fans. This is why you see many male gacha fans saying they don’t mind more “bros” being added to the game and thinking male characters showing muscle and having their shirts off is fanservice. Look at the difference in female swimsuit characters in FGO versus the male swimsuit “costumes”. This both flatters their sense of masculine power and rigidly upholds a stark gender divide. by creating a male character that is sexualized in the same way female characters are, both of these aspects which men see as patriarchal standards are flipped on their heads. They have such an extreme reaction because they don’t want to lose patriarchal power on any front. You can see this in many aspects of life, regarding entertainment after gacha games it’s usually video games as a whole and movies that men will have shit fits about; they think a female character who looks normal has been made ugly on purpose to spite them specifically (see the “Stellar Blade screenshot vs the Spider-Man game screenshot” being passed around). They lost their damn minds about the fucking Barbie movie. That type of thing.

draco♥ by kakeku ※Illustration shared with permission from the artist. If you like this artwork please support the artist by visiting the source.

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i like her

nero draco please be my valentine 🥺

Been meaning to put this to words, but Draco is so good because she's so Nero.

She doesn't change herself to fit into Chaldea's structure, to become another chess piece. She got too much of that under her mother's thumb.

She says she will stay a Beast. Unlike Tiamat and the other playable Beasts, Draco does not compromise on her own self.

She acts as arrogant as Nero- perhaps more, even. She is clearly somewhat selfish and self centered as Nero, yet she does not apologize. Less 'UMU' and more of what made Nero so compelling in the first place.

She refuses to change herself for ANYONE. Instead, Draco makes it clear that instead of losing herself i.e. turning to an Alter Ego, she will remain a Beast.

Because to deny her Beasthood means to hide Draco's true self.

And what she really wants is to be free. Free to be HERSELF.