#solphisto

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sorrysorry you dont have to answer at all but would u ever consider drawing solphisto?? ur art is 👌👌 i eat it up everytime

your wish is my command!

i was intending to do something goofy but it ended up tender instead... this is some dead wife montage type material

#art #answering asks #anon asks #obey me #i can imagine solomon having a dead wife montage sequence when him and mephisto have that joint backstory reveal actually #visualising it right now and it's. majestic #obey me solomon #jtta mephisto #solphisto

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i've been holding back from making pure-newspaper club content before now since they're ocs and most are here for the canon cast, but i've since decided that I Don't Care and you WILL look at them

that being said, here's a bonus featuring solomon

#art #obey me #it COUNTS. solomon is here #newspaper club #jtta wiz #jtta alecto #jtta mephisto #jtta astaroth #wizlecto #belpheroth #sort of #obey me solomon #every time i draw mephisto i hate myself for giving him those stupid shoulder frills #(and every time we kiss i swear i could fly) #i mean i'm getting better at drawing them in one flourish but STILL #solphisto #obey me ocs

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mephisto feels like the type to jokingly call solomon his wife

solomon would unironically get giddy about it too like "omg *twirls hair* your WIFE ✨💖? what an unexpected thing to say... 🤔🫢 but i'm not opposed to it 🤭❤️"

lmao im so sorry-

somehow the emojis rendered this like hieroglyphics to me and it took me a good moment to decipher the quote

that aside, you're so right on both counts. mephisto keeps doing it because solomon genuinely enjoys it and eventually it becomes a completely unironic thing they do

#answering asks #anon asks #solphisto #mephisto at the purgatory hall front door: hello i'd like to see my beautiful wife :) #simeon who answered the door (bewildered): we. we don't have any of those here #(solomon shows up a moment later and they leave without even explaining things to the poor man)

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friends are currently debating whether 'lost in the citadel' or 'montero (call me by your name)' is the better solphisto song and here are the main points for each side of the argument:

"lost in the citadel works for both perspectives and their tragic yuri romance" (lines 'i need time to get up and get off the floor / i need time to realise that i can't be yours' given as main example) - jo

vs

"montero cos those two definitely want to f-" - james (perhaps better known as captain bhole)

#on a more serious note jo's point did make me a little insane #again: the line 'i need time to get up and get off the floor / i need time to realise that i can't be yours' #this is so solomon-trying-to-recover-from-mephisto's-perceived-abandonment coded #but it is also so mephisto-unsure-of-how-to-go-forward-after-disappearing-on-solomon-for-millenia coded #obey me solomon #jtta mephisto #solphisto #there were arguments to be made for some of the other songs too but these were the main contenders #personally i also nominated life after salem #it feels like something solomon would listen to that abandonment aftermath once he's hit the bitter anger stage of grief #(at least he would have if music recordings had been invented and also lil nas x had been born back then) #i just feel in my gut that he went full teenage-girl-after-first-break-up for a period afterwards #(the other nominee was 'thats what i want' for the time they had together before mephisto left but that one was less talked about) #you know i didn't realise it until i went back and re-did some stuff but solphisto ended up with such Divorced vibes #believe it or not i didn't actually intend for them to be romantically involved when i first wrote their backstory #(you can see that in the first asks proposing the pairing i was kinda hesitant lol) #but looking back. the tragic yuri was always meant to be #to the anon who first called them yuri btw: you've changed my life

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wizlecto is wlw and solphisto is yuri and belpheroth is mlm and zhaolu is Married™️ to me

im so sorry

i get everything but the solphisto part.... but then again who am i to question what is clearly expertise in yuri diagnosis

you have my seal of approval! they can be yuri if that is how you feel in your heart <3

#answering asks #anon asks #do i tag all the ships #ah heck sure #wizlecto #belpheroth #solphisto #zhaolu #looking at these and now i'm thinking i have GOT to get more sapphics on there #i need to design aunt lisa already so i can set her up with thirteen or something

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Now I'm curious about Solphisto in the RPG AU... so if Mephisto going missing was a catalyst for Solomon's downfall, but he presumably appears again during Ik's adventure. Would that be before or after Solomon reincarnates himself?

ok so!!! it goes like this

solomon is an aspiring sorcerer learning all kinds of arcane arts. barbatos and mephisto are both allies who are both teaching/learning alongside him

solomon becomes more ambitious. he starts going for forbidden rituals, cursed spellbooks, etc, etc. barbatos feels he is going too far; when solomon refuses his warnings, he leaves and cuts off all contact

mephisto sticks with solomon for about a year, during which he just kind of makes him worse (despite attempting to be supportive - he indulges him too much)

mephisto goes looking for a very powerful ancient tome that they've had their eye on for a while; upon touching it, he 'goes mad' - it's a sort of time-leakage that completely messes up his perception of the world

royal guards find him on the outskirts of the kingdom, muttering nonsense to himself, casting spells at random - occasionally bursting into fits of hysterical laughter and lunging for the nearest person's throat

the king (sonno) spares him execution (mostly for his own designs) and instead locks him up in a remote cave

solomon does not know any of this. from his point of view, mephisto left for the tome and just never came back

in an attempt to rationalise his grief, presumes that mephisto ran off with the tome, and starts rapidly getting even worse - going too far, causing too much damage

at some point he manages to tempt asmo (a brother from a once-noble family whose bloodline comes with the ability to turn into powerful weapons) into allying with him

however, asmo very quickly grows uneasy with the nature of solomon's methods, and leaves

and so he gets even worse, now becoming the tormentor of the people that he will forever be known as

however, sonno doesn't actively try to stop him - after all, if everyone's worried about this sorcerer, no one will have the time to stop him from enacting his increasingly sinister royal policies

then sonno dies (possibly because of a curse set by solomon himself) and diavolo comes to power. he is much less tolerant of solomon's deeds and declares that the sorcerer is to be found and punished

now with the whole nation rallying against him, solomon decides it's too risky to stay around, and so uses his arcane knowledge to 'reincarnate' himself as a hapless adventurer

(he didn't choose this personality, it just turns out that that's what he's like once all the trauma and developing evilness is removed)

the sorcerer disappears, and isn't seen for two whole years. most think he's been secretly killed by some vigilante, or else slain himself to avoid persecution

during those two years, diavolo, now able to focus on things other than that blight on his people, learns of what happened to mephisto and travels to his cave-dungeon to investigate

it turns out that mephisto's ostensibly back to normal; he behaves cordially and cracks jokes (though if one looks him in the eye for long enough, one can see that his gaze is never quite focused)

so diavolo releases him

mephisto has mostly forgotten what his life was before the dungeon. after spending some time re-visiting all the places he's been, though, he does start unearthing memories - of a sorcerer he was fond of, and of a mutual want for knowledge and power that they were both willing to watch each other be corrupted for

and then he hears that said sorcerer has been dead for two years, and really isn't sure what to do after that

he meets astaroth soon after being freed, who sort of takes him in and shows him the ropes of living a normal life again, over time they (plus wiz and alecto) become an inseparable little group, and thus their little robin hood-style gang is born

some time after that, ik the travelling hero finds solomon the hapless adventurer trapped in a well and rescues him

we know the rest - they get arrested upon entering a nearby village, etc, etc.

mephisto doesn't quite remember what his sorcerer looked like, so he doesn't recognise this solomon upon meeting him - and of course this solomon has no memory of his past life

nevertheless they find each other strangely familiar

solomon only figures out why once he's touched that artifact and starts regaining his old life's memories, while mephisto only does so once he's heard that solomon has confessed to who he used to be, and that the news wasn't received too well

eventually, once everything's calmed down and solomon's reconciled with his old life and is making amends, they find time to talk about what's happened over the years

then they kiss or something idk

#answering asks #anon asks #rpg au #jtta au #solphisto

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hhey can we. can we talk about solphisto pwease 👉👈 i just got to the part of the castle arc with mephisto's backstory and i need them so bad

i've got something you'll like! the gang was actually talking about them a while back, here's my favourite thing from that discussion:

#answering asks #anon asks #solphisto #for context someone called mephisto the rizzler like five messages before this #also if anyone wants to make fun of my friend's overuse of like please do so because we do all the time as well

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stopppp astaroth calling belphie cute in the new chapter literally made me squeal..... i just know belphie was kicking his legs and giggling about it in his head

ALSO IDK IF ITS INTENTIONAL but the scene in majolish.... where solomon's looking at a 'very low-cut' shirt..... and then he's like "hot damn. i think that's mephisto's style" oh im sure you'd love to see him in that YOU AINT SLICK BABE

first he short-circuited and then as soon as he got home he went to beel like "bbbeel oh my god youll never guess what happened" like a teenager with a crush

ALSO i did partially intend it to be "lol solomon thinks mephisto would look hot in the shirt", but in-context it was more of a freudian slip because solomon hasn't acknowledged he thinks mephisto is attractive yet

#answering asks #anon asks #solphisto #belpheroth #i also didn't actually realise how the 'hot damn' joke could correlate to that at the time #i was just thinking 'haha solomon misuses old slang' #(setting up simeon doing the same thing and calling the cane 'very hot damn' later) #but you know i think it does fit into his freudian slip. 'hot damn' is also what he'd think if mephisto wore the shirt

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@ the Mephisto ask.

2 questions

1. Would Asmo want to get in on that? Either as also wife or "this is my wife Solomon, and his wife/husband Mephisto :)"

2. Family outing with Mephisto, his wife Solomon and their two kids IK and Luke

1 - i don't think asmo would have any genuine desire to be in the relationship, BUT i think the three of them would end up in the sort of dynamic where mephisto will start jokingly referring to asmo as 'the mistress', but whose mistress he is changes depending on whichever is funnier in the current situation

and 2 - the joke runs DEEPER! now luke is a stepchild - simeon of course being his singular legal parent. when asked about the logic of this mephisto shrugs and goes "he osmosed him" (he heard the scientific term 'osmosis' from ik and has no idea what it means, but ik is supporting him in his incorrect usage of it regardless)

ik is of course already lucifer's child/daughter/all those other terms, so mephisto refers to her as their son instead. ik loves it

#answering asks #anon asks #solphisto #typical nuclear family except none of it is typical in the slightest #on that note (the son thing) i've been meaning to explain something #so ik is just kinda disconnected from the whole gender thing #like she'll say her pronouns are she/her if asked but she means it in the same way you use them on boats and spaceships #she wouldn't use trans to describe herself but she's definitely not quite cis either #ik's true gender is something no one can understand

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Hello hello, sorry if its a dumb question but, is Solphisto canon to JTTA in the same way that Belpheroth is/will be?

(Also anon who dubbed them yuri is so right, I can't see them differently now)

don't worry, it's not a dumb question at all!! the lines can be kind of blurred between what happens in the actual fic and all the stuff we talk about here...

so, statuses of all our significant couples:

wizlecto: together and married in all ways except legally in every universe forever. i WILL one day write something that gives you more details on their story (probably in the newspaper club chapter of that jtta after-story minific)

belpheroth: canon to jtta in that i do have concrete plans to develop their relationship in that direction; also do end up courting each other in the aus where they're acquainted (established relationship in the infernal friends au)

zhaolu: canon to ddvd, also canon to aus where zhao has a significant presence (e.g. infernal friends, rpg). probably WILL end up happening in the classic jtta at this point - tentative plans to start off their development in the mini-fic, might end up doing something extended later

solphisto: established in that i sort of operate on them being a thing when it comes to asks, canon to aus where both characters are involved (mostly just rpg au rn) - in terms of within jtta itself, still debating whether or not to get the ball rolling in-fic (like with belpheroth) or to wait til the post-story (as with zhaolu)

aunt lisa and thirteen: still just a concept at this point but i do want to think more about them

#hope this hasn't made things more confusing or anything haha #answering asks #anon asks #wizlecto #belpheroth #zhaolu #solphisto #some background on how these couples came to be within my mind #wizlecto of course has been established since the beginning #belpheroth was an idea i had while laying out belphie's arc for the fic and got fond of #zhaolu came from (of course) the ddvd au and slowly became nearer and dearer to my heart until it became canon to me #and solphisto actually sort of crept up on me #i didn't plan on writing them in that direction but then an anon asked me about them and i suddenly realised #the potential for their tragic romance #before that we had twophisto which i do still have a small soft spot for just bc it's funny #but solphisto just sorta Are to me now

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im so sorry for asking you totally dont have to answer but i wanna know so bad. did solomon and mephisto ever fuck

HAHAHA okay so technically this goes against my no-nsfw rules for asks, but seeing as this is fairly tame (and i sympathise with your need to know)

unfortunately they did not but honestly whatever the hell they DID get up to was probably on the same level

#answering asks #anon asks #solphisto

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i'm the anon who asked for solphisto I OWE YOU MY LIFE, MY FIRSTBORN, WHATEVER they're so ughh

i'm glad you liked it!! tbh i'm not sure where the inspo came from but they have grown on me like moss on a tree

#answering asks #anon asks #one of my friends said something along the lines of #'those two would've been so toxic you had to separate them for 100000 years before they could be normal' #and you know thinking about it. yeah #i've been realising i do this a lot. where i write something and then come back to it months later and go #now how did i not notice i was doing that. how did i not notice i was setting them up for divorce #one was isolated by choice and driven by sheer ambition #one had been ushered out of his home world's new era and didn't know what to do with his own agency #both were extremely extremely lonely and probably co-dependent to some degree #and then one of them fell in a hole and disappeared leaving the other to assume he'd been abandoned #then when they met again they were arguably completely different beings #and also the one that fell in a hole nearly immediately called the other one sexy upon first meeting again #solphisto

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Ok but why am I so my feels about Solphisto rn. Like it doesn't even have to be romantic, just THEM. Outcasts from their respective societies who encountered each other and weren't so lonely while they were together for a little bit. And then they parted ways untimelily and THE FACT THAT MEPHISTO THOUGHT HE'D BE COMING BACK BUT HE COULDN'T AND HE'S JUST BEEN LIVING WITH THAT LINGERING REGRET THIS ENTIRE TIME. HIM. MEPHISTO JUST IN GENERAL BUT BASJHDBAJBDSAH

And Solomon's heartache I feel like really seals the deal for me. Being so different from his entire race and having taken on this sorta burden to protect his realm as just this one uber powerful guy, I bet Mephisto being his company for that time was so special. And then he just disappeared and Solomon spent all that time thinking he'd just been up and abandoned.

And now it's been so long and they're both jaded and neither are sure they can really fill in this giant gap. But silently they both miss being as close as they used to be.

I just.... them. <3

they are also very precious to me :,) honestly sometimes i get soulmate vibes when i contemplate their initial encounter and relationship, since they were both in a sorta position where the other was exactly the companion they needed when they first met!

#answering asks #anon asks #as you said though the soulmates thing doesn't have to be in a romantic way either #solphisto #two bros chillin in isolation... zero feet apart bc they're lonely and need company (platonic) #then later two bros chillin in the devildom........ twenty feet apart bc they have very recently resolved History (romantic?) #honestly cannot decide what dynamic i like best #romantic initially and then the split happens and then resolution and now they're just peaceful friends?? #or romantic initially and all the way til now with all the mutual longing and unsureness after resolution that comes with it?? #or platonic initially and then romance after the resolution???? #or just a really messy but lowkey predestined sort of friendship?? #leaving it open to interpretation y'all just pick whichever you like best

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Meme where A goes 'I wonder what I taste like' and B says 'I can help with that' and they're having a lil blush but A is imagining a smooch while B is imagining a giant BITE, but it's Mephistwo. OM Mephistopheles is A and Mephisto is B

Meanwhile alternate version with Solphisto, where both Sol and Mephisto are fully aware he means biting

perfect dynamics indeed <3

#answering asks #anon asks #mephistwo #solphisto #mephisto definitely seems like the biting type

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For Mephisto's two mainly viable ships, the dynamics seem to be...

(Mephistwo)

Mephisto: I don't know how to tell you this, but you're in love with me.

Mephistopheles: What?

Mephistopheles: Oh, damn, I am.

Astaroth: ....what kind of confession was that????

(Solphisto)

Solomon/Mephisto: I think I'm in love with him.

Asmo/Astaroth: Congratulations, you're the last to know.

yep, sounds about right!

#answering asks #anon asks #solphisto #mephistwo

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THE CRK ART IS SO GOOD AHH IK'S SO CUTE also mephisto being affogato kinda hits different after finding out his own connection to his king... plus thirteen,,,,, whew ^////^

but also after their moment in the newest chapter.... solphisto? 👀

obvs mephistwo has a special place in my heart bc their dynamic seems so fun, but also the Potential that their past gives them in a solphisto ship...... imagining what kind of relationship they had when they knew each other before, Please Author I Am Starving

they would’ve been pretty close back then!! solomon had been isolated with his magical study for ages, mephisto was kind of being cast out of society, so they were both lonely, meaning they ended up latching onto each other’s company quickly

mephisto would’ve lived with solomon for that period, and honestly it’s not implausible that they strayed into romantic territory in that time - though neither of them would’ve ever acknowledged it, so they’ve never considered themselves a couple, so to speak

if there were to be a hypothetical solphisto get-together post jtta.... they’d be spending more time together after that sort-of reconciliation at diavolo’s castle, there’d be awkward ‘exes who parted unwillingly, but both think it’s too late to rekindle the relationship’ vibes, but they also keep being drawn to each other’s company instinctively - so they get closer again...

#answering asks #anon asks #though i reckon mephisto first would work through some other stuff (with solomon but also with levi and others) #before allowing himself to actually commit to a relationship #i feel like it'd take these two FOREVER to actually admit to it #they dance around each other for ages and even once they fall into a sort of unspoken dynamic (that's most definitely more than platonic) #they just refuse to acknowledge the romance and subsequently drive everyone around them crazy #solphisto #also i'm happy you liked the art!!