I haven't seen anyone share these banners yet, so enjoy! The artist said we can use them wherever we want (respectfully!) to "spread the good word about Welcome Home!" [ ★ ]
I remember this one being super popular on DeviantArt and LiveJournal back in the day! I always adored the style, and I just thought it would be cool to share it with a new generation of fans! 🖤 I tried to reverse image search because it's been a long time, but all the links that I could find leading to it (including the original post) are now broken or have been taken down. 😦
In any case, it was created by DrKav on DeviantArt and first posted in July 2009.
Hello hello me and @koppitules made some subtitles for today's radio show (YleX) that Käärijä and Erika Vikman were on, these are their subs and I'll upload mine separately!
Had a vision that the demon brothers set up a small, cozy area in a forest for their shared baby. A group of trees, each one decorated with each brother’s likeness - Asmo’s tree with fairy lights and heart stickers, Satan’s tree with a bookshelf carved into the middle full of child-friendly fairy tales, Levi’s tree with anime merch and fish paintings - and “age-appropriate” gifts resting against the tree at the bottom.
Now, their baby didn’t yet know they were a baby. So image their surprise when Beel carries them there in the middle of the night - no different than a nap! - and tells them about the brothers’ plan. They’re confused and scared, poor thing, but then the brothers come together and console them with their presents and presence (even though there’s no real difference to them). The brothers try so hard for their little baby to assimilate into the family. That’s why they made this little area. To help indoctrinate manipulate brainwash remind their little one of their place before safely bringing them back home to the family where they belong.
And as this place is for their baby, they shouldn’t ever mention the corpses in the foliage, or the pentagrams carved into each of the seven trees, or the many other activities that take place there… But maybe one or two slip ups can occur when trying to console such a fussy baby…
Taking place in a forest is unlike the brothers, giving it an almost ritualistic element, but an interesting idea nonetheless...
The idea that the tree's have symbols carved into them lends even more to the ritualistic aspect of your idea, as if the choices their darling makes (or refuses to make) will have lasting consequences to their psyche, and perhaps their physicality!