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astralartefact · 1 year

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Divine Akeha Analysis Post

the gacha game gives us another lore bomb on a random thursday and i felt a calling, this is my moment to shine

this is your warning, voice of cards forsaken maiden spoilers below. seeing as it is legit canon nier now, you might want to check it out before looking at this! i will spoil my personal favorite reveal of that game, so be warned

this hastly made conspiracy board is brought to you by a "I told you so"-induced fugue state

The Pink Petals

The Lunar Tear is firmly on the spot of "most notorious flower in the NieR universe", so much so that people more often than not conflate them with Zero's flower - and while her flower is probably very much purposefully similar to a lunar tear it actually was precedented by something else too:

Pink Petals have actually been a thing since Drakengard 1, where they were used with Manah to give her a "flower girl at a wedding" sort of thing, probably just to make her creepy man voice even more creepy or to serve as a visual side piece to Furiae's twisted romance.

Even if they didn't intend this to mean anything back then they later picked that back up with Zero's pink eye flower which now continues this symbolism for the 'influence of the watchers/gods'.

2. The Black Flower (sword not entity)

Divine Akeha's sword kind of resembles Zero's sword from her Collab Design, mainly in the way the sword neck (?not the handle, the part right in front of the handle) is decorated going down into the blade and the shape of the blade towards the tip. While I'm not as convinced on this point as on the others, this might be on purpose too: The Black Flower (this time the entity in Zero's eye) is as we know some extension of the watchers/gods. Symbolically it makes sense to me to now take that blade as a reference point for weapons based on the power of gods - and especially since the "Black Flower" in Zero's eye is actually pink, this would serve as a full circle moment too.

3. Lac and Mommy

Her design is 100% based on Lac. There's just absolutely no way it isn't. The colors are the same (grey, red and black), she wears a crown like both Lac and the Ivory Spirit and has two red hair ornaments where his red horns would be - but especially the area around the ornamental piece on her obi is strikingly similar to the button on his belly, the design on the metal piece itself is very similar and then above it is red just like his mouth and below it she has the white of his belly..

For the people that haven't played Forsaken Maiden, Lac is one of your party members and as it turns out towards the end of the game he is a god who's out to sacrifice Laty for his own survival. Laty then sacrifices herself to basically imprison the gods into her dream realm.

There is this other god though, she barely has a presence in the story, but she eventually appears as the person who held Lac's puppet body the entire time: The Ivory Spirit. You can read more about my thoughts about her here, but in summary even if she is not the Mother Beast from Drakengard, she very much could be Mommy, who I miss dearly and I just want to see her again.

(That's btw the reveal I mentioned in my warning blip, the moment when the game non-chalantly turns Lac's card around and she's just there is just so eerie, even knowing that it's coming takes so much away from it and combined with the "THAT'S HER RIGHT???" of thinking she has to be the mother beast, especially given that lanca/mini-zero is her maiden... hands down my favorite moment of all VoC games, I think about it so often)

And now we're here and Divine Akeha with a pink petal sword wears a Lac outfit.

Basically, Voice of Cards is 100% confirmed NieR canon. Expect some of the other Divine costumes to look like the other spirits.

Btw, the Lead Scenario Writer of the Sun and Moon arc Yuki Wada was also the Lead Writer of Forsaken Maiden, just so you know whose name you can curse for this.

(This also fuels my Laty => Seeds of Destruction => Cage theory btw)

edit: character story

How many times have I heard. Have I seen. How their words fade into the air. Drown in fresh blood. Is someone there. Is someone present. Yes. If so, there is no reason for me to exist in the same space.

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May salvation come to those who wait for it. May punishment come to those who need it. We worship. We pray. We believe she who sits on the heavenly throne is listening.

weapon story

Flowers bloom when she smiles. Her joy spreads vitality. Buds bloom as she does.

Birds sing when she sends word. They lend their wings as she speaks to us.

The wind howls as she despairs. The heavens rage as she weeps for our tragedies.

The moon shines when she comes to us. She leads our human sacrifices away as we sleep.

(thank you nierrein.guide, you provide a most valuable service)

There aren't any particularly outstanding references in the stories as far as I can tell, even the mention of flowers isn't particularly noteworthy tbh. The most !!! to me is the line "We believe she who sits on the heavenly throne is listening" since it refers to a female god, but that doesn't have to be the Ivory Spirit/Queen Beast, that could just as much be referring to Divine Akeha or an entirely different god such as Amaterasu or something like that, same with the entirety of the weapon story.

I personally also like the line "May Punishment come to those who need it" using "need" instead of "deserve". Very CrimePun of them.

#Nier #Nier Reincarnation #Drakengard #Yoko Taro #Voice of Cards #Forsaken Maiden

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astralartefact · 2 years

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a blood sacrifice on her majesty's demand her watchers fervent

The Ivory Spirit Voice of Cards - The Forsaken Maiden

Queen Nilla // Crym & Lanca

I haven't seen anyone talking about her, but... uhh... spoilers below!

So...

I'm like 75% sure this is the watcher queen...

Don't worry, I have proof!! Maybe!!

Her 'smile' is the same as the red girls, which (after Automata heavily implied it) Y:DA confirmed to have a deeper connection to the watchers. (Might be on accident, it 'might just be a creepy smile hiding a third eyeball', but might as well mention it)

You know how the card backgrounds from this game are also on Zero's clothes? Well. There's more!

The sigil associated with the Ivory Spirit is very similar to a symbol on Zero's artificial arm (They're not exactily the same, but they are notably similar (a holy woman with a halo holding a cross))

edit: actually it did appear before somewhere else, once again on mikhails sinoalice design (still minor differences, but even closer to the voc one)

Speaking of Zero's artificial arm, in her monster fusion form the Ivory Spirit grows a bulb on her left arm, just like Zero underneath her prosthesis (at least according to some concept art, I don't know if that's actually canon, might just have been an idea) (still, the concept art looks kind of similar to Lac and thats who the Ivory Spirit is connected to)

you can also see her mouth eyeball in the picture above. if she has a third eye underneath her hair that would make her three eyed like the symbol of the cult of the watchers... just another 'neat if true, but not something that proves anything' i wanted to mention

the ivory spirit's outfit is very very similar compared to one of furiae's concept artworks (the one in the middle, just without the belts)

[Speculation] Lanca (Mini-Zero) is a synthesized maiden that is made to be as fitting for the Ivory Spirit as possible. Given that she's 100% supposed to resemble Zero (see picture below, they do the drakengard thing with her), I think it would be plausible that Zero is maybe something like a descendant of a Lanca that got away or something like that

[Speculation] Given that the stories in Voice of Cards are stated to be fairytales, I think they are fairytales from the Drakengard world. And while a fairytale might tell kids that "Laty invited the gods into her heart out of kindness so they could live on" in reality that might actually have been "Laty had to lock the gods inside of herself or humanity is doomed" - which is very similar to the goddesses from DoD 1. And with that, it would make a lot of sense to me that the Spirits are actually actively trying to escape - like the watchers.

Which could also make Furiae a Laty to the Ivory Spirit - which might be why their clothes are so similar.

And if Zero is a descendant of Lanca, maybe that's why the flower was able to choose her and why her clothes are so similar to the Ivory Order. Note of course that Lac's eyes are pink flowers, too.

Anyways those are just my wild speculations and observations, would be wild if they turned out to be correct, but who knows!

The only thing I know is that something Drakengard has to be on the horizon, he just keeps bringing it up again and again and again.

#voice of cards #forsaken maiden #drakengard #drakengard 3 #yoko taro #i needed to get my feelings out that's why she comes before anogg and konogg #but they're next! i'll post them during the live letter i think #as an april fools joke you guys can be in on #also i posted most of this before but deleted it quickly after #if you saw that no you didn't see anything

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