#lingering echoes

[cenpede]

#arknights #ebenholz #ebenholz arknights #kreide arknights #lingering echoes #hhhhhhhhh’ #I’m so mentally unwell #these guys holy god all mighty

[writemeverything]

"If the sky darkens above you,

I'll stay by your side in the Afterglow."

ー"Die Alone", Finneas

#sketch #my art #illustration #rkgk #arknights #アークナイツ #lingering echoes #ebenholz #ebenholz arknights #clip studio paint #Please forgive me if his hair looks strange #I kinda struggled with drawing that

[cherry-blossomtea]

Btw as a chronically ill person who berates myself constantly about not doing “enough” this line snapped me in half. I can will myself to push through incredibly difficult things but ultimately I cannot will myself better. It is real and that means the failure is not mine.

#arknights #lingering echoes #oripathy is every chronic illness tbh it is just #OUGH

[adorablegorilla]

Final Boss of the previous Arknights event: A dear friend who has sacrificed himself to evil to save everyone. Now the only way to save him is to end his life. Even when he's transformed beyond recognition, he still tries to help us.

Final Boss of the current event: The city's architect won't stop sulking inside his Idiot Box, break it open and slap him until he stops being a self-pitying little baby

#arknights #lingering echoes #ideal city #arknights spoilers #i do think a mostly lighthearted event is welcome after the previous one but it's just so funny

[burstfoot]

Have some bonus LE reactions:

#arknights #lingering echoes

[tsukishiroism]

requiem

#arknights #ebenholz #ebenholz arknights #pixel art #pixel illustration #lingering echoes

[maounosekai]

*racking my brain over my comic*

*Ständchen starts playing in the background*

*makes low effort dramatic Edgyholz doodle*

#arknights #arknights fanart #ebenholz #arknights ebenholz #ebenholz arknights #lingering echoes #fanart #maounosekai

[simayeeet]

love lingering echoes

#arknights #arknights czerny #ebenholz #kreide #lingering echoes #arknights ebenholz

[edo-sama]

Ebenholz

#arknights #ebenholz #lingering echoes #cello #my art #here u go my fav chara in AK currently #he and kreide make me cri

[leithanienwnt]

I really like where we pick up in arknights' leithanien side stories. We start after where most stories would end; the evil witch king has already been deposed! The heroes of his defeat now rule the country! This should be the happily ever after!

But instead, many still fear him, and his remnants are constantly working to regain power. Meanwhile, even the heroes are not all they cracked up to be, still pursuing racism and segregation, not to mention maintaining spy networks and extrajudicial executions.

There are plenty of good stories about the defeat of an evil king, but ak has something unique, and I'm really looking forward to finally reading zwillingstürme im herbst

#arknights #lingering echoes #zwillingstürme im herbst

[nero-draco]

#Awww #arknights #lava #hibiscus #lingering echoes

[potatoescanbesadtoo]

new sheep npcs from the event are so ebenholzed kreidecore

#arknights #arknights fanart #ebenholz #kreide #what am i talking about #man i havent posted in forever #:( #sheep.................... #lingering echoes

[cremechees]

schicksals - remember that we've fought together against cruel fate and won.

(2nd version with slight spoilers under the cut)

#arknights #明日方舟 #ebenkreide #ebenholz #kreide #lingering echoes #spoilers in tags #shoutout to the homies for playing lethal company for me as a baby stim video while i drew #everyone said its been hard to tell but kreide is dead in this photo. he is limp like a corpse and i didnt put any blush in his cheeks #im still not done grieving

[qekouu]

They are my current obsession

#arknights #arknights ebenholz #arknights kreide #lingering echoes #明日方舟 #アークナイツ #sketch

[adorablegorilla]

Now that it's the start of a new year, I figure I may as well talk about something I said I would back when I first finished Lingering Echoes: the parallels between Ebenholz and Gertrude. Spoilers for the story of the event under the cut.

Both Ebenholz and Gertrude are from noble lines that lost their power and standing due to the defeat of the Witch King; Gertrude's family as followers of the Witch King, and Ebenholz as the bloodline of the Witch King himself. While they came to have different outlooks on their noble lineage, it still led them both to look at the world from a place of privilege.

Gertrude desperately clung to her privilege as a noble the way her father did, going as far as to assassinate her own brother to preserve the little power her family had left. Ebenholz came to despise his Noble position as Graf Urtica, but he undoubtedly still benefited highly from it. As much as he hated being called "coddled" - understandably so since he was essentially locked up raised with the intent of turning him into a useless figurehead - a gilded cage, while a cage, is also still gilded. His indignation at Czerny's criticism, his shock at Kreide's living conditions, and his not-uncommon use of his noble status to get his way all speak to his pampered life, as much as he hates the idea.

The greatest connection between the two of them however, and the point that inspired me to write this, is they both ultimately desire the same thing: Freedom, and more specifically, Freedom from the Witch King's legacy.

Ebenholz was experimented on as a child to become the Witch King's host, and then made into a figurehead with his title of Graf Urtica. He desperately wishes to be free of both the voice of the Witch King within him and his title of Graf Urtica, so much so that he was willing to go along with Gertrude's plan to extract his Voice of the Mundane, at least at first. Gertrude may have arguably been even more trapped by her nobility than Ebenholz; raised in a family that taught her to cling to whatever power she could, she saw no option but to bow to the loyalists of the Witch King because without the power and standing only they could grant her she would essentially have nothing. So she let them control her and played as their puppet until she couldn't take it any longer, until she gave up and decided she would have her revenge and freedom both. Her plan was essentially to lash out at the Loyalists; it wouldn't have destroyed the true masterminds - she admitted she didn't even know who they were - but it would kill the ones monitoring her, destroy the last of the Witch King's bloodline, and finally granted her the freedom she wanted through death. If she could have that, what does it matter to her if a handful of nobody Infected die? Her plan came from a place of callous privilege and suffering equally.

I believe that if the events of Lingering Echoes hadn't happened, if Ebenholz hadn't met Kreide and Czerny, he may have ended up like Gertrude: A bitter, arrogant, callous and lonely noble, blinded by their own privilege and suffering to the rest of humanity. When Gertrude made his proposal to him, he was so desperate he was willing to go along even though he knew it seemed shady, and although he did become morally opposed to it when he realized that the Resonance between him and Kreide's Voices was hurting the Infected, a large portion of his thoughts was on the possibility of him being implicated. I'm not even entirely sure if he would've said no outright to the idea of killing Kreide if him and Kreide hadn't bonded together throughout the story.

But that is where the crucial difference is: throughout the story, Ebenholz bonded with Kreide, came to learn how the poor and the Infected live and of their own plights and struggles, and was humbled by Czerny's lessons. Through all of this, he grew as a person, and came to realize he didn't have to be alone, that he didn't have to suffer alone, and that despite the tribulations he'd faced in life it didn't mean his life was defined by his suffering. While Gertrude's story was essentially about her giving up, Ebenholz was about him realizing there are things in his life worth carrying on for.

That's what I love about this event, and about Arknights. Just because a story ends in tragedy, doesn't invalidate the hope and joy and bonds that were made. We can still grow from it. We can still move forward.

#arknights #arknights ebenholz #arknights gertrude #lingering echoes #arknights meta

[burstfoot]

#le liveblog time! mute lingering echoes if you don't wanna see it #itll all be in this thread #lingering echoes