isn't the clown outfit meant to make him look demonic? Horns, tails, exposed chest, etc
isn't the clown outfit meant to make him look demonic? Horns, tails, exposed chest, etc
Mephistopheles plays the role of a fool in the beginning of Goethe's Faust, Part Two. That might be where it's from, I guess.
He's not a fool in The Historie of the damnable life, and deserued death of Doctor Iohn Faustus, though. Going even further back to the Historia von D. Johann Fausten,Murmurs From the Crowd:
A newer fool – for newer cares –
Where’s he from? – How’d he get there? –
The old one fell – He’s all done in –
He was fat – Now this one’s thin –
Of course, Shimokoshi didn't comment on any of this in the mats - just that "I designed and viewed him in the image of an abnormal, visual-looking clown". Who knows whether this is a reference to an obscure posthumous Faust sequel or just another Edison thing.Now a devil, or a spirit, appeared in the figure of a gray friar, greeted Doctor Faustus, and asked what his desire and intent might be.
Tbh, at first I thought Mephistopheles design may have been inspired by Harlequin and this character connection to devils, but I got dissapointed when the Mats didn't talk about the why he looks like that at all
I figured the reason was just that clowns are scary.
Clowns confirmed to be a species of demon in the Nasuverse
Just like in the real world
It confirms this is true
Pennywise
Spoiler:
Wandering on internet
My cousin has coulrophobia so he burns all Mephisto and skip every scenes he is in. So yeah clowns are evil.
Honestly I always thought that they were just thinking Kefka when they designed him
Localizationing stuff
I can kind of see the logic in turning Mephistopheles, a tempter who led Faust into ruin, into a Fool-type character who forces people to shed their masks by manipulating them into evil.
Thanks for the translation.
That's it?
AzraelThe Angel Who Foretells Death
Rank: C
Classification: Anti-Unit Noble Phantasm
Range: 1
Maximum number of targets: 1
Azrael.
Decapitation with an ordinary large sword.
It is ingrained with the faith that this individual continued to believe in, and spent a lifetime wielding.
For those who lose their lives to this sword, they say there is fear, but no pain, there is dread, but no suffering, there is repentance, but no regrets.
Spoiler:
Well that answers why it's so low rank for what it does. Really from the look of it when he says Azrael he's pretty much just combining his At the Boundary and Evening Bell skills in one attack isn't he?
"Only in my company, will you not be a monster"
anywhere than here
I find it very cool that with many-many EX Rank bullcrap philosophical NPs.
The first two playable Grands only has C Rank NP with relatively straightforward effect.
And Solomon's main one he used was D also pretty straight foward tho he had others. I wonder if we were thinking of Grands wrong
"Only in my company, will you not be a monster"
anywhere than here
A thought occurs: Protection of the Faith is a skill that only manifests in particularly fervent zealots (for example, none of the Saints have it despite being obviously very devout). So it's practically impossible for anyone to have it at a low rank. Interesting.
There he goes again. THEN WHERE DID HASSAN COME FROM「Call me as thou pleases. I hadst no name from the beginning. There is no insistence or agreement.」
WHAT DID YOUR MAMA CALL YOU WHEN YOU WERE A WEE LAD DAMMIT
shit BL says
Once and always and nevermore.