Summary:While waiting No.10 to take all your things to his car. Mephistopheles take full advantage to provoke and antagonize the brothers with him taking over as your new guardian. Which Mammon doesn’t want a part of it.
Warning: Swearing, Death threats, Mention of trying to die, Human sacrifices and Blood drinking
Summary:You ask Mephistopheles to give you a tour of his mansion before discussing about the deal. But in reality your trying to find a way to escape his pompous ass.
Warning:Swearing, Mention of trying die, and Mention/implied sexual content.
Summary:Two days after Mephistopheles came and took your things. The brothers has to attend a “Make-up” dinner with the Suitors at the pride ring. They are all shock to what they serve there.
Warning:Demon politics, Swearing, Blood drinking, Eating Human flesh and Mention of Hunting
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@lesson-anon hey I hope you’re doing okay! You didn’t ask for the last two lessons but since this was more or less started for you…
That stupid show still has me in a chokehold and then om! has to roll out the fucking pirate event in the same fucking week what the actual fuck im trying so hard to be normal about this (again sorry @ anyone following my main blog) I also spent a fuck load of dv to get mammon’s new UR and still nothing im this closeto losing my shit
I’m gonna start answering asks after this & open my ask box again
As Usual;
• Links (to screenshots and theories) are in bold!
• Dialogue is HEAVILY paraphrased & the events are HEAVILY summarised/edited so this is in no way a substitute to playing the actual lesson
• Each paragraph represents one chapter of the lesson, I write each paragraph immediately after playing the chapter and so in one paragraph I might theorise what’s gonna happen in the next chapter/paragraph
• Solely gonna focus on “Mammon’s Route”
• language and (somewhat vague) situations
LESSON 72
MC goes to ask Mephisto to help get the opinions of the RAD students about the exchange program but he’s being a racist little bitch about it (Mammon calls him out , Mammon vs Mephisto 1 , Mammon vs Mephisto 2) & MC pulls out the “oh man that’s too bad that you can’t help me, Diavolo was really counting on it. He really sang your praises. That’s too bad. Maybe I can ask Lucifer, I’m sure Diavolo won’t mind. He might even like it bett-” Mephisto agrees to help. In the council room everyone is working. Lucifer who is working on their ledgers with Barbatos leaves to go fix their copier after Beel broke it and Barbatos asks MC if they want to help him with the accounting. MC, who is canonically bad at maths, agrees. Barbatos is impressed by their positive attitude but Mammon ends up correcting their mistakes. When Mammon complains about not being allowed to work in the math side of the council work Lucifer says it has nothing to do with his ability and everything to do with his trustworthiness around money. Belphie tells MC that their 2nd trial feels a little too easy
MC meets with Simeon at a restaurant and the two of them see Luke talking to a demon outside. They share classes together and both like sweets, they had stopped Luke to tell him about a new menu at another restaurant. Simeon says people seem to really love Luke which makes him blush. MC tells him about their report and asks for his opinion on everything and Luke has just grown up so much and I’m so proud of him! Simeon suggests that MC interviews Thirteen as well and Luke gives them some of his home made sweets. At RAD they come across Solomon and ask if he could get in touch with Thirteen for them.
MC & Solomon meet Thirteen and get instantly attacked by her, only for them to leap out of the way. Solomon, bless his heart, defends MC against something Thirteen said except unmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm. MC bribes Thirteen with Luke’s sweets to get her to help them. Solomon, just now realising that Thirteen has a sweet tooth, offers to make some sweets for Thirteen which leads to them talking about the first time Solomon brought Thirteen food. Thirteen says she has no opinion either way about peace or the exchange program but for now as long as she’s not bored she won’t cause any trouble.
Thirteen asks Solomon what his thoughts are but they’re cut off by the bell, Solomon asks to take MC on a little date after school and they go to buy potion ingredients with him. He later takes them to The Phantom Spring, a place he’s wanted to take them to for a while but they haven’t gotten to spend time alone since the human world and he says they should use this as a breather from the trials. They thank him for caring. They ask what else they’d get for being his student and he offers to massage the tension from their shoulders.
Solomon says as long as the human world isn’t put in danger he doesn’t mind Diavolo’s plans/exchange program and that he’s actually enjoying being a student at RAD. He then gets serious and asks MC how much they know about what’s going on with Simeon and they say Simeon hadn’t been ready to talk about it with them. Solomon however says that the more people Simeon feels comfortable talking with as things get bad the better it’d be. Back at the HoL Lucifer asks how the report is going and tells them Mephisto was looking for them , (Mephisto vs the brothers?).
Mephisto is upset that MC didn’t go find him immediately after they found out he was searching for them and instead came the next day. He’d finished collecting all the data from the RAD students but all the pages + the final draft of the newspaper had turned blank. Later in class when they tell this to Luke he says that it’s one of the 666 mysteries of RAD. Mammon says that happened to him once but no one believed him & Belphie suggests MC take the half finished report to Diavolo for now. MC goes to see Diavolo, who is happy for the distraction from paper work, he notices the report in their hand and asks to see it only to find out all the pages had turned blank. It’s at this point that I’d have gone on a homicidal rampage
Mephisto catches MC before they break their neck after crashing into him on the stairs. The documents that vanish are only ones that can be deemed important and the two of them decide to team up to solve the mystery. Diavolo overhears and offers to help but is dragged back to his office by Barbatos (rip). The two go to the library where they find Satan and fill him in on what’s happened. Mephisto asks Satan where the especially rare books are and Satan says they’re kept in the restricted section
Anyone other than student council members who need access to the restricted section need permission from Diavolo. But Satan says fuck the rules and breaks them in, MC follows their tingly magic senses towards the section on cats and you know what…why are the books on cats in the restricted section?????????????? The pages in some of the cat books are blank and Satan obviously freaks out and changes into his demon form. Mephisto spots a lesser demon and stops Satan from trying to kill it. MC uses their magic to trap it. Satan & MC take them back to the council and according to the Reference Guide on Lesser Demons this particular type likes playing pranks on others, specifically hiding peoples’ important information (*someone sent an ask about lesser demons some time back, I’ll answer it as soon as possible). Diavolo reveals that MC’s real second trial was to solve this particular mystery as it was bothering all of them (and MC really is unpaid labour at this point right?) And doesn’t this mean MC’s officially part of the council now? Since there were only 2 challenges and 1 preliminary challenge? All of which they completed?
In the locked lesson, in the council room, Diavolo has read MC’s 2nd ed. report that Mephisto had calculated the stats of the results (because once again MC is canonically bad as maths). Diavolo is being an optimist about the results while Lucifer’s being a pessimist.
The hard lesson shows the time Solomon first brought food to Thirteen. She still had it out for him to an extent and he had to face a trap that took the form of angel Lucifer which Solomon saw through as Lucifer had just (somewhat recently?) fallen. The two argue for a bit (well Thirteen argues) and Solomon hands over a home cooked meal to her :)
In the chats:
Thirteen messages MC for the first time because she sees them as being not as bad as they could be and MC asks to meet with them for the interview
Barbatos was to punish Satan, Mephisto & MC for breaking in to the restricted section but Diavolo & Lucifer brush him off
@lesson-anon hey I hope you’re doing okay! You didn’t ask for the last two lessons but since this was more or less started for you…
That stupid show still has me in a chokehold and then om! has to roll out the fucking pirate event in the same fucking week what the actual fuck im trying so hard to be normal about this (again sorry @ anyone following my main blog) I also spent a fuck load of dv to get mammon’s new UR and still nothing im this closeto losing my shit
I’m gonna start answering asks after this & open my ask box again
As Usual;
• Links (to screenshots and theories) are in bold!
• Dialogue is HEAVILY paraphrased & the events are HEAVILY summarised/edited so this is in no way a substitute to playing the actual lesson
• Each paragraph represents one chapter of the lesson, I write each paragraph immediately after playing the chapter and so in one paragraph I might theorise what’s gonna happen in the next chapter/paragraph
• Solely gonna focus on “Mammon’s Route”
• language and (somewhat vague) situations
LESSON 72
MC goes to ask Mephisto to help get the opinions of the RAD students about the exchange program but he’s being a racist little bitch about it (Mammon calls him out , Mammon vs Mephisto 1 , Mammon vs Mephisto 2) & MC pulls out the “oh man that’s too bad that you can’t help me, Diavolo was really counting on it. He really sang your praises. That’s too bad. Maybe I can ask Lucifer, I’m sure Diavolo won’t mind. He might even like it bett-” Mephisto agrees to help. In the council room everyone is working. Lucifer who is working on their ledgers with Barbatos leaves to go fix their copier after Beel broke it and Barbatos asks MC if they want to help him with the accounting. MC, who is canonically bad at maths, agrees. Barbatos is impressed by their positive attitude but Mammon ends up correcting their mistakes. When Mammon complains about not being allowed to work in the math side of the council work Lucifer says it has nothing to do with his ability and everything to do with his trustworthiness around money. Belphie tells MC that their 2nd trial feels a little too easy
MC meets with Simeon at a restaurant and the two of them see Luke talking to a demon outside. They share classes together and both like sweets, they had stopped Luke to tell him about a new menu at another restaurant. Simeon says people seem to really love Luke which makes him blush. MC tells him about their report and asks for his opinion on everything and Luke has just grown up so much and I’m so proud of him! Simeon suggests that MC interviews Thirteen as well and Luke gives them some of his home made sweets. At RAD they come across Solomon and ask if he could get in touch with Thirteen for them.
MC & Solomon meet Thirteen and get instantly attacked by her, only for them to leap out of the way. Solomon, bless his heart, defends MC against something Thirteen said except unmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm. MC bribes Thirteen with Luke’s sweets to get her to help them. Solomon, just now realising that Thirteen has a sweet tooth, offers to make some sweets for Thirteen which leads to them talking about the first time Solomon brought Thirteen food. Thirteen says she has no opinion either way about peace or the exchange program but for now as long as she’s not bored she won’t cause any trouble.
Thirteen asks Solomon what his thoughts are but they’re cut off by the bell, Solomon asks to take MC on a little date after school and they go to buy potion ingredients with him. He later takes them to The Phantom Spring, a place he’s wanted to take them to for a while but they haven’t gotten to spend time alone since the human world and he says they should use this as a breather from the trials. They thank him for caring. They ask what else they’d get for being his student and he offers to massage the tension from their shoulders.
Solomon says as long as the human world isn’t put in danger he doesn’t mind Diavolo’s plans/exchange program and that he’s actually enjoying being a student at RAD. He then gets serious and asks MC how much they know about what’s going on with Simeon and they say Simeon hadn’t been ready to talk about it with them. Solomon however says that the more people Simeon feels comfortable talking with as things get bad the better it’d be. Back at the HoL Lucifer asks how the report is going and tells them Mephisto was looking for them , (Mephisto vs the brothers?).
Mephisto is upset that MC didn’t go find him immediately after they found out he was searching for them and instead came the next day. He’d finished collecting all the data from the RAD students but all the pages + the final draft of the newspaper had turned blank. Later in class when they tell this to Luke he says that it’s one of the 666 mysteries of RAD. Mammon says that happened to him once but no one believed him & Belphie suggests MC take the half finished report to Diavolo for now. MC goes to see Diavolo, who is happy for the distraction from paper work, he notices the report in their hand and asks to see it only to find out all the pages had turned blank. It’s at this point that I’d have gone on a homicidal rampage
Mephisto catches MC before they break their neck after crashing into him on the stairs. The documents that vanish are only ones that can be deemed important and the two of them decide to team up to solve the mystery. Diavolo overhears and offers to help but is dragged back to his office by Barbatos (rip). The two go to the library where they find Satan and fill him in on what’s happened. Mephisto asks Satan where the especially rare books are and Satan says they’re kept in the restricted section
Anyone other than student council members who need access to the restricted section need permission from Diavolo. But Satan says fuck the rules and breaks them in, MC follows their tingly magic senses towards the section on cats and you know what…why are the books on cats in the restricted section?????????????? The pages in some of the cat books are blank and Satan obviously freaks out and changes into his demon form. Mephisto spots a lesser demon and stops Satan from trying to kill it. MC uses their magic to trap it. Satan & MC take them back to the council and according to the Reference Guide on Lesser Demons this particular type likes playing pranks on others, specifically hiding peoples’ important information (*someone sent an ask about lesser demons some time back, I’ll answer it as soon as possible). Diavolo reveals that MC’s real second trial was to solve this particular mystery as it was bothering all of them (and MC really is unpaid labour at this point right?) And doesn’t this mean MC’s officially part of the council now? Since there were only 2 challenges and 1 preliminary challenge? All of which they completed?
In the locked lesson, in the council room, Diavolo has read MC’s 2nd ed. report that Mephisto had calculated the stats of the results (because once again MC is canonically bad as maths). Diavolo is being an optimist about the results while Lucifer’s being a pessimist.
The hard lesson shows the time Solomon first brought food to Thirteen. She still had it out for him to an extent and he had to face a trap that took the form of angel Lucifer which Solomon saw through as Lucifer had just (somewhat recently?) fallen. The two argue for a bit (well Thirteen argues) and Solomon hands over a home cooked meal to her :)
In the chats:
Thirteen messages MC for the first time because she sees them as being not as bad as they could be and MC asks to meet with them for the interview
Barbatos was to punish Satan, Mephisto & MC for breaking in to the restricted section but Diavolo & Lucifer brush him off
There are always 666 Mysteries. MC & Mephisto just solved one? There’s a new one the next morning. It affects RAD for the whole day as a debut and then settles in with the rest of the mysteries, spontaneously popping up at random intervals
edit:
Apparently according to one of the audio dramas this is canon
There are always 666 Mysteries. MC & Mephisto just solved one? There’s a new one the next morning. It affects RAD for the whole day as a debut and then settles in with the rest of the mysteries, spontaneously popping up at random intervals
edit:
Apparently according to one of the audio dramas this is canon
“Mephisto’s looking for you but you don’t have to go if you don’t want to”
“Mephisto’s looking for you but feel free to keep him hanging”
“Mephisto’s looking for you but I highly recommend you ghost him”
“Mephisto’s looking for you but he’s a real fucking douchebag and it’d make my whole fucking day if you just pretended he didn’t exist. I’m letting you live in my house for free. Think about that.”
“Mephisto’s looking for you but you don’t have to go if you don’t want to”
“Mephisto’s looking for you but feel free to keep him hanging”
“Mephisto’s looking for you but I highly recommend you ghost him”
“Mephisto’s looking for you but he’s a real fucking douchebag and it’d make my whole fucking day if you just pretended he didn’t exist. I’m letting you live in my house for free. Think about that.”
Amidst the excitement of the new season, new characters, and new cards, we gotta talk about something that is sadly still an issue, even after Solmare talked about inclusion.
Adding Mephistopheles and Raphael to the cast has increased the number of PoC characters from three to five - which is a great thing!
What isn’t great, is that the two new characters have joined Mammon, Diavolo, and Simeon in being lightened and whitewashed in the in-game card art, and their skin tones made grey when in shadow, and WHITE when in light.
All the pictures on the right above are not how darker skin looks.
Mammon and Raphael are given white skin. Mephistopheles is given grey undertones. Simeon is lightened, and greyed. Diavolo is portrayed as white more often than he is with his actual skin colour.
Dark skin tones do not look like that in direct light or in shade.
And given that some of the card and game graphic artists can clearly manage this task very well, why are Solmare not making sure other artists adhere to the correct colour palettes?
Colour picking from the sprites does not work for these characters - it does not work for ANY characters - as those are extremely small file sizes, small resolution, and small detail.
But it is not difficult to find real world references for any skin tone.
[Please do not infantalise artists in cultures that have institutionalised colourism and/or racism. If you would not excuse it happening in an English speaking country, it is not excusable anywhere - especially in a game that was originally released for an international English speaking audience!]
And note, I am not directly blaming the artists.
I have absolutely no idea what privileges or marginalisation apply to any one individual, and that is a very important thing to remember.
Butas a company, Solmare does bear the responsibility to ensure that all the game art matches, both for aesthetic design purposes and, in this case, to avoid characters being white washed.
Racist and colourist coding can occur in any society that has institutionalised racism or colourism.
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Sidebar: Fanart
The fault of the above lies with Solmare.
The fault of fanart though? Yeah, that’s on fanartists and those who support fanartists who whitewash.
Because again, there is art in the game that shows the right skin tones, that matches the diversity Solmare seem to be striving for (that they aren’t consistent with).
And there are no shortage of fans who support fanartists who know that whitewashing is wrong, and yet… Many fanartists who whitewash still get support from the fandom.
Every time you reblog or RT any art of an artist who whitewashed, you are endorsing and popularising whitewashing and racism in art.
Every time an artist blames their tools, their medium, their style, their lack of knowledge that other people(??) of different skin tones exist(???), they are endorsing and popularising whitewashing and racism in art.
You don’t need to start or join in a dogpile but at the very minimum, you should not be supporting such people.
Otherwise, next time that artists opens commissions? How many people have you advertised a whitewashing artist to? How many people think whitewashing is okay because a popular artist does it, with support?
Nope.Do not support.
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tl;dr
No, I highly doubt Solmare is doing this to be intentionally racist.
But yes, the effects of white washing media characters are still harmful regardless of intention.
And yes, it is easy to fix!
Some of the artists who work on the cards past and present seem to have no trouble managing different skin tones.
Solmare should ensure all art shows all characters as they are meant to look. Artistic interpretation does not extend to changing skin tone.
And they absolutely need to remove the canonical skin tone difference Diavolo has in his human and demon forms. If he has darker skin as a demon, he should have darker skin as a human. Easy!
