Sorry This Isn't An Art Post, It's More Of A Vent Post.

Happy birthday to Malleus! I hope everyone who wants any of his birthday cards gets them!

Also the reference I used for this picture is pretty funny, so it will be below the cut.

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I sent that ask about Malleus's treatment being unfair and now that it's over I'm going to make my point more clear, since it seems it wasn't last time.

Malleus's crimes:

-Putting people to sleep on a wide scale

-Less injuries that a *sports* tournament (according to Epel)

The other overblots' crimes:

-Attempted murder, including targeted murder and wiping out *all life* (aka murder on a wide scale)

Malleus's consequences:

-Accidentally killed his own father

-Physically maimed

-Magically disabled

-Losing the entire foundation of who he is and having to rebuild his identity from scratch

-The trauma of his actions

The other overblots' consequences:

-Riddle was socially shunned for a while (and even this is shown mostly in other media, not the game)

-The trauma of their actions

Meanwhile the other overblots say that Malleus deserves further punishment (to which Crowley thankfully points out they have no right to speak) as does a fair chunk of the fanbase. How does this make any sense? Might I also add that the only ones who ever apologized for their actions are Riddle, Vil, and *Malleus.* So why is it that Malleus is seen as being so much worse than the others? Why is Malleus called a monster, a living disaster, and the enemy of mankind (all things said in canon) and nobody else has anything similar said about them? I'm not arguing that there shouldn't be consequences, I'm arguing that the scale of it does not align with twst's previous messaging and themes. Whether or not Malleus's consequences are fair in general is one thing, but in comparison with our previous standards it's wildly unfair. And yet people are still calling for more, and fans are being rude to Diasomnia fans about it. It simply doesn't add up.

As for Silver, nowhere did I say Silver should pay for his father's crimes. I said that his *father* never earned the right for his image to be restored because he stood idly by against what he thought was wrong. Silver shouldn't have to be used to restore his *father's* image, when that image doesn't align with who Silver is.

Dear Anon,

I was writing a well thought out and sincere response essay to your initial take, but since you're back and doubling down I'm just going to tell you why you're wrong.

WARNING: The following response is pretty rude. Malleus gets everything he had coming to him and here's why. . .

No, really.

This is going to sound "mean."

You didn't even bother to address the questions I presented in my previous response.

You aren't going to like this.

Stop scrolling. . .

WHAT PART OF, "MALLEUS DRACONIA IS CAUSING A WORLD-ENDING MAGICAL CATASTROPHY," DO YOU NOT UNDERSTAND?????

The story established that PEOPLE WOULD DIE if the spell wasn't broken. Malleus had absolutely no intention of stopping what he was doing. He didn't stop at just Lilia, or the party, or the school, or even stop at Sage's Island. He was going to curse the whole of Twisted Wonderland. If he wasn't stopped by force EVERYONE WOULD HAVE DIED, and you're trying to tell me that it's not as bad as Riddle (whose overblot never affected anyone outside of the unbirthday party), Leona, and Vil (who's rampages were contained to a sports stadium) because he "Wasn't trying to hurt anyone"? Because "No one actually ended up getting hurt"?No. I'm not going to feel bad about the sentient manifestation of a mass extinction event being referred to as, "The enemy of humanity." If something or someone is threatening the entire population of the world (including beastmen, merfolk, and other fae) then he is in fact an enemy of everyone under threat, REGARDLESS OF WHAT HIS INTENTIONS ARE. You ever hear "The road to hell is paved with good intentions"? Yeah. That. Malleus didn't want to kill people, but that's effectively what he was doing and ignoring that fact is blatantly irresponsible. On a better day? Everyone's fear of Malleus is largely misplaced and of course calling him an enemy of humanity would be inherently prejudiced and way out of line. BUT THAT WAS NOT THE SITUATION AT THE TIME AND YOU ARE IGNORING THE THREAT HE VERY MUCH POSED IN FAVOR OF BABYING HIM OVER HIS INTENTIONS!

Let's recap here: MULTIPLE PEOPLE TRIED TO TALK MALLEUS DOWN AND GET HIM TO STOP OF HIS OWN ACCORD. Pray tell, dear Anon, what should they have done after that? You want to compare overblots? Let's compare overblots.

Every prior overblot in this story has been resolved by every nearby available person beating the ever loving snot out of the guilty party until it was over. As a result, five out of six previous overblots were ended within an hour of them occurring. Idia at the time was an exception and had been overblotted for several hours by the time he was knocked back to his senses. In the case of the Tartarus crisis, they even used STYX most powerful anti-blot weapons (the thunder spears) to attack the Shroud brothers because it was necessary to use potentially lethal force to stop the phantoms from breaking out of the facility and effectively save the world. THEY DID WHAT THEY HAD TO DO AND THEY DID NOT HOLD BACK! THEY DID NOT KNOW IF THEY COULD SAVE IDIA! In this way, Malleus is being treated EXACTLY like the other overblotters. When Malleus Draconia overblots, they tried the usual tactics. They tried to collectively overpower him at the farewell party and no one could touch him. Everyone was helpless to stop him. They all fell to his magic quick as winking. Malleus Draconia has TERRIFYING AMOUNTS OF MAGIC. So when he won't listen to reason, WHAT IN THE NINE HELLS ARE THEY SUPPOSE TO DO TO STOP HIM FROM ENDING LIFE ON THE PLANET AS THEY KNOW IT?

. . .

I know.

How about something they've been doing since the start of the story?

TAKE AWAY HIS MAGIC!

You know, what Riddle's signature spell does? What he did to Grim in the prologue? What he did to Leona when confronting him about the sports sabotage? Remember how in order to STOP RIDDLE FROM KILLING PEOPLE Trey overwrote his signature spell so that they would stand a fighting chance? Remember when the previous overblotters (and Grim) were immediately dressed in anti-magic collars to avoid issues when they were brought to STYX to be vetted? It's almost like we established that this is a thing people do in Twisted Wonderland do to handle magical emergencies.

Truly and honestly, what are you supposed to do when one of the five most powerful mages in the world poses a threat to your very existence and those you love? Try talking him down AGAIN? It makes complete and total sense to try and make Malleus weaker. How are they supposed to fight and beat him to stop the world as they know it from ending when he has access to the UNHOLY AMOUNTS OF MAGIC that they have repeatedly established he has? That they have been bested by repeatedly. NO ONE IN ON OR OFF OF SAGE'S ISLAND HAD BEEN ABLE TO TOUCH HIM OR DO ANYTHING AGAINST HIS POWER FOR DAYS! HE HAS BEEN OVERBLOTTING FOR DAYS WITHOUT A STOP TO HIS EXPANDING SPHERE OF INFLUENCE ENVELOPING THE WORLD! Cutting off his horns was a perfectly valid step to take because THEY QUITE LITERALLY HAD NO OTHER OPTIONS!

As for leaving him dismembered and disabled. . .

First off, let's remember that I just pointed out that the fate of the world was resting on that decision, and they had no other choice.

Secondly. . .

You have got to be kidding me.

Are you really comparing Malleus losing a PIECE of ONE of his horns to someone losing a limb? It's not even like losing your pinky finger! It's maybe sorta kinda like getting a nail torn out. HIS HORN WILL GROW BACK.

"But magic is second nature to fae so it IS like losing a__"

Shut up. No it's not.

He can still use magic. HE IS NOT DISABLED!

Oh no! One of the top five most powerful mages on the planet can't casually use magic to deal with every element of his daily life and fix every minor inconvenience he's presented with anymore. He might have to struggle to do things now. WHAT EVER WILL POOR MALLEUS DO NOW THAT HE'S NOT EXPONENTIALLY MORE POWERFUL THAN ALL HIS PEERS AND TEACHERS!? I GUESS HE'LL JUST HAVE TO GO TO SCHOOL LIKE EVERYONE ELSE! HOW DARE HE BE HUMANIZED! HOW DARE THIS PRECIOUS TRAUMATIZED MAGESTIC PRINCELY OVERPOWERED DRAGON IN HUMAN FORM BE FORCED TO LIVE LIKE THE COMMON FOLK!

I guess he'll just have to learn to see things through the eyes of his peers and have a new perspective on life he wasn't privvy to previously now that magic isn't something he can fling around casually. Seriously. How dare Malleus be given character development potential when none of the other overblotters were treated like this. IT'S SSOOOOOO UNFAAAAAAIIIRRRRRRR!!!1!1!1!1!!

Oh yeah, do you want to keep comparing him to the other overblotters? Because with how much of his horn he lost, he's about as disfigured as Leona. You know. The guy with the scar? Malleus has a scar now, however, unlike Leona's, Malleus' scar will disappear.

Have I mentioned how Riddle was in the same boat of abusing his power because he thought he was doing "the right thing" because he was also traumatized as a child? Riddle is so weak by comparison and caused so little a comparative fuss that a punch to the face and getting hassled by his dormmates is justice by TWST standards (we all know this is a writng problem for this game in general, right?). And you REALLY don't want me to mention how every other person who overblotted acted out of their minds with rage and pent up emotions as they did violent things that they ordinarily wouldn't consider while Malleus was oddly lucid and could actually consider being talked to while he cursed the world. Malleus was destroying the world and in enough of his right mind to consider stopping. But no, Malleus is the one being treated unfairly.

Dear Anon, Malleus Draconia has always been an extreme character. He's always been extremely powerful and used his magic flippantly with little regard for how others feel about it. His overblot caused an extreme situation that the rest of the cast was forced to take extreme measures to deal with. Him being treated "differently" from all of the other overblotters is DIRCTLY PROPORTIONAL TO THE DANGER HE POSED. On the extreme scale Malleus is working on, he is certainly not worse off than any other previous chapters' final bosses. So, no, I don't care that people called him mean names when he was slowly destroying the world. I don't care that his magic was "nerfed" and now he has to come down off his high horse and live a little like everyone else now. And I really don't care that fans are asking for more justice to be done JUST LIKE THEY DO WITH EVERY OTHER OVERBLOTTER WHO GOT OFF WITH A SLAP ON THE WRIST! WE DEMAND MORE FROM ALL OF THEM! Malleus is NOT an exception.

"Thank you for your take."

And yes, saying that Silver should not have his heroic moment as a knight in shining armor because that armor was worn when committing war crimes IS devaluing Silver based on his father's sins. Being a knight in shining armor is completely in character for Silver (AS A FREAKING DISNEY PRINCESS), and the fact that he is doing a good thing is meant to CONTRAST with his father who did bad things, NOT absolve said father of wrongdoing. The same tool that was once used for evil is now being used for good. IT'S POETIC!

Happy new years everyone! I hope you have an amazing 2025 :D

Oh and happy birthday to Lilia too ^^

I made a short comic on why Sora (my oc) didn't participate in VDC, I hope you enjoy it (˶ˆᗜˆ˵)

How it's supposed to be read:

The comic:

When you get the chance can you draw my oc?

Here he is:

You can draw him doing whatever you want, or you can draw him in the pose I drew him in I don't mind either way. Thank you :)

I LOVE YOUR OC SO MUCH. AND IS HE PERHAPS BASED ON DIAVAL OR DIABO? ANYWHERE HERE IS THE ART WORK!

FOR SOME REASON I THINK HE LOOKS LIKE NEIGE IN MY ART STYLE. I DONT LIKE IT BUT I HOPE YOU DO :3 (PLEASE REQUEST AGAIN I DONT BITE)

( ˶°ㅁ°) !! Malleus Draconia in the woods with a bouquet of flowers? Who are they for??

(Also yes, I did take the background from twst, but I did make the fireflies)

Different versions of shading below, and announcements for this blog below the cut

I didn't like these ones as much, but I'm sure someone does ^^

Announcement: I will be making a masterlist for my blog! However, I will most likely not put the polls I've made on my blog on the masterlist. That's all! Have a good morning, evening, or night (˶ˆᗜˆ˵)

Here's an alternative version of if Leona gave Jack a lion garb! This was inspired by @twst-hottest-takes post where an anon said that Jack should have had an outfit in the Bead Brawl event (link to post under the cut).

Also originally I was going to draw this, but because I was already working on a separate drawing, and my medical issues flaring up I decided to edit the picture instead.

Comparisons between the Deuce lion garb card, and my edit of it below the cut.

And here's the link to the post mentioned in the beginning:

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Don't get me wrong, I love Deuce, he's my favorite Heartslaboy, and this is a good look for him, but he doesn't need more cards. He's anothe

Idk if you saw that new deuce card that is coming out… but all I gotta say is that IT SHOULDVE BEEN JACK HOWL GOD DAMN IT!!!! He already go

To be honest with you, I personally thought that once someone was fully puppetfied they couldn't be turned back. I felt like it worked that way just because the NRC group never lost their faces. Now I know twst isn't that deep, but I felt like visually it was implied that if a puppet doesn't have a face, it doesn't have a soul/free will. Since the NRC group never lost their faces they could still express themselves, and have a soul/free will even though it was hard for them because they were loosing it. However the puppets without faces have no thoughts of their own because they've lost themselves. (You could also think of the puppets like the donkeys from Pinocchio because it seems that's what they were going for).

I also feel like the puppets are repairing the ship to be honest because that's their whole job, and it showed the group destroying property not puppets.

Sorry for jumping around with my thoughts on your post, but honestly Gino and Ernesto are terribly written. I mean, it was literally said by Jack that there are schools for non magic people, and there are non-magic jobs mentioned in book 5 (I think). Somewhere in the main story Trey does tell MC the different jobs that don't require magic. And Ernesto is 26, so these definitely aren't new options in the world of twst to Ernesto.

Also while I do agree that Ernesto and Gino's riding into a sunset was underwhelming, but I do think it fits them because it seems like a lot of people are out to get them, for their shady reputation.

[twst Playful Land spoilers]

so like, what the fuck happened to all the other park guests??? did they stay as puppets??? are they still on the sinking ship???

can't say ive been too satisfied with this halloween event story, i was hoping the english localization would explain some things that i thought were lost in the fan translations. but no it just really does have nothing to explain the other guests.

also, i wasn't sure why there was such a focus of Gino having the interest in the NRC boys talking about school, if it wasn't even him that convinced Ernesto to start a school. idk that was just like a character plot that didn't seem to have much of a conclusion.

and also like, it feels weird having this human trafficker get off scott free of what he's done to, not just the NRC boys, but like presumably a lot of people. like, weren't the puppets working at the park previous guests that were turned?? and then the guest that were there on that day being turned into puppets?? and all the puppets from before that were sold off to high bidding people?? did THOSE rich people know the puppets they were getting used to be people???

like i appreciate that Ernesto's whole deal opens the discussion about the magic discrimination/classism that the world of Twisted Wonderland seems to have in its systems, but like this human trafficking thing is also opening up a lot of questions about the worldbuilding that i feel like is more important/weighty. so him just....running off into the sunset just feels....dissatisfying? i guess?

idk, maybe my appreciation for glomas is making it hard to not compare the two halloween events and what they bring to the table in terms of The World Outside of NRC i guess. if that makes any sense.

I drew Idia, but I'm not sure if I should color him in or leave him as is.

Edit: I have colored in the Idia picture 👍

For everyone who wanted me to color my drawing in, here you go! :D I had a lot of fun coloring this in, and hope you like it as much as I do.

Here's an alternative version of the picture: