Dolores Dei - Blog Posts

wanted to try ryoko kui's artstyle :)

Apricots and Ancient Sadness

jean and dora

i feel like there SHOULD be a parallel on how jean wears a blonde wig to connect to harry and dora/dolores with blonde hair being idolized by harry

its definitely not the first time someone's posted about this but jean is like an ironic parallel to dora because like dora, jean is harry's ""savior"" and is subject to all his issues but unlike dora who harry obsesses over, puts on a pedestal and idolizes, he's told to fuck off and bear all his emotional weight and is incredibly bitter and jaded as a result

and harry only idolizes dora because she left and isn't here anymore. jean's patience is abused and he is treated harshly because he still manages to stay and begrudgingly clean up after harrys shit like dora probably once did

while dora is characterized by harry as dolores dei, fictional, kind, and godlike jean's reaction to harry is realistic and the damage inflicted by harry is still fresh. he's much less forgiving than dora is and he's tired and vocally depressed

jean does have a halo signifying his "saviorlike" position to harry, but its black and square and bitter; and holy, he has blonde hair, just like dora! except its a joke jean attempts to cheer harry up that harry doesn't even get because of his amnesia

jean is like a parody of her

Dolores Dei (and Dora) for the tiktok trend. Or is it for my broken heart?..💔🥹

Disco elysium ruined me beyond belief I can't wait to replay it five more times

Plus alternative colours beneath the cut bc I am INDECISIVE!!!

Watching her drift away

literally the sorriest cop on earth

The comparisons between Dolores Dei and Kim by having Kim be slightly dolorian is so intentional and driving me crazy like. Kim does not seem religious At All and doesn’t believe anything that isn’t based in reality so at first this really surprised me. Learning dolores was a real person and ruler made this understanding more clear, but what really got to me is how Kim is kind of Harry’s own personal dolores dei. Harry sees him with a halo present in religious iconography, he’s a perfect representative for the moralists and Moralintern in everything he does and stands for, likes the old RCM motto better, a shoe in for liberalism still benefiting from capitol. If Dora is also represented as Dolores, a physical manifestation of codependency, then I also believe that this applies to Kim. Harry sees those important to him, those he relies on. as impossibly tall and imposing, surrounded by light and beauty, while also recognizing they may also have beliefs and practices more befitting to a capitalist and internationalist delusion (thinking realistically unlike communism).

And Harry knows this. Of course about his past love, but I think this also applies to the lieutenant standing right next to him becoming more and more ecclesiastic the more time we spend in this church.

And what if all those Harry loves also had a fondness for figurines. I remember who was first yacking about francogerian knights…

Spoilers

I was very inspired by this song😔

(There is a stained glass window in the crack on Dolores Dei's face)