AAAAAAA FINALLY!!!!

"when they lay me to rest beside you, may they see this scar and think i am a part of your matching set. may they never know how i was alone."

happy birthday shoko my love 👏

OOOUUUGGGHHHHHHMYYYYDAYS.

RATMARIRATMARIRATMARIRATMARI!!!!

AND YES!!! YOU GOT ZIEMIA RIGHT!!

pls don't call urself dumb!!! ( ;｀Д´)

I GOT ABSOLUTELY JUMPSCARED BY THE NOTIF FOR THIS POST BUT IT WAS SO WORTH IT???

I LOVE LOVE LOVEEE THE USE OF RATS, SINCE THEY ARE MOSTLY ASSOCIATED WITH PLAGUE AND ETC!!

AND YEAH IM POLISH!! SO IF U NEED ANY TRANSLATIONS JUST TELL ME!!! ( ＾ω＾ )

AAAAOOOUUUUUGGHHHHH I NEED TO DRAW HER BUT MY CSP IS TWEAKING RN.. (ｙﾟﾛﾟ)ｙ

I ALSO HAVE TO KNOW HOW AUBREY LOOKS IN THIS AU OR ILL EXPLODE

but take this sol sneak peek I did a quick screen of... (ohmygodwhathappenedwiththequality???)

the moment you’ve all been waiting for

Ziemia

Or as I’ve been calling her up until now- Rat Mari! Now to tell you the truth Rat Mari/Ziemia took me AGES to properly figure out and when I was first getting started with Marzenie I had no idea what to do about Mari- then I had the rot metaphor idea and decided “rats in the shape of a person is pretty horrible I could do that!”… thus, Mari shaped rat pile and some wooden limbs in there too for vague symbolism reasons? Which. What I mean by that is that I’m drawing a similarity between her and Sol

The whole thing with Sol is the idea of perfection, a person is not capable of perfection and so he must be a doll, must be wood and light and no more- Mari was once perfect too, but her idea is tainted and gone and all that remains is rot. Do you see what I’m saying here? I’m not sure honestly I’ve been brainfogged as hell lately and started this drawing two days ago only to finish it NOW, and to be totally honest the design isn’t everything I wanted from it… but it dawned on me sometime lately that what I do want would be very tedious to draw

I cannot physically draw enough rats for me to be happy with so I compromised with not that many rats- and they aren’t very good rats either I’m not that great with animals … anyhow! Why Ziemia? Well. I think I’ve brought it up before but the in-world explanation for this character is that she was once a nature goddess, like how Sol is a god of the sun- but she was tainted by something terrible and consumed by pests, so Ziemia (in my rudimentary understanding of the polish language thanks to imperfect software because I don’t actually know polish and am doing my best to choose correct translations) is a word that means Earth. There were alternate translations and other words I could’ve used, but I picked Ziemia because it’s 1: a relatively simple word that matches the other ones I’ve used and 2: sounds enough like a name that I find it easy to call a character that and 3: is relatively easy to pronounce for … what I imagine to be my mostly English speaking audience? What five of you there are- other then @/birdzman ! Who I think might actually be polish? Not sure but shout out to you if you’re reading this!! Not fully sure if I’m right but if so then uhhh I apologize for being a dumb little American because I doubt I’m doing these translations right, anyhow!

Rat Mari/Ziemia isn’t just accociated with rats, I also want her to have themes of decay and other scavenger animals such as maggots or worms, the focus on rats is to do with Marzenie’s setting, I guess the idea is that Rats invade homes in winter to survive, whereas bugs mostly die off in winter regardless of available human homes to inhabit, so rats are one of the only pest animals which persist through the snow, which is why they might appear in some places outside Ziemia’s tree area, whilst other associated creatures would be unique to that area

Last but not least of my statements on this character, Ziemia does not represent the grief of Mari’s death, but rather the tangible brutality of it, how death feels in the eyes of a child, the inherent horror of a corpse, of knowing a person was once alive is no longer so, the horror of feeling their body stiff and cold in your arms, arms that once held you … this is what the rot theme comes from, one of Basil’s frequent hallucinations is of her body, decaying on the rope, decaying where he left her.

Cough. YAY!!!!!

A SCULPTED VISAGE

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Aka a little sol face I made with clay!

So I’ve never mentioned this but I make decorative masks as I hobby? I’m not great at it yet but I thought the occasion warranted it, and by occasion I mean that I have 100 followers! Yes yes this is the 100 followers special, I’ve actually had 100 for a little bit but tumblr didn’t tell me because I’d technically already gotten to 100, but whenever bots follow me I remove them so I didn’t notice when it happened again but with real people! So thank you, thank you so much for all the time and attention you lovely people have given me…

I’ve gotten to 100 and over on other platforms plenty of times, but this feels different, I’ve been putting a lot of my soul (pun intended) into this account and into Marzenie and it’s brought me so much joy, it isn’t just that I got to the big number but also just how many of those usernames I recognize, how many of them appear almost every day in my notifications and how many of them are people that I followed first because I thought they were cool

I can’t wait to keep making things for you, Marzenie and whatever comes after it… if I ever stop that is, Pft, I’m not sure I will! It’s lovely and I like it a lot…anyhow, you all have a nice day

FIRST TIME POSTING FANART WOOOHOOOEYOOW

Marze plushie...save me Marze plushie..

this is actually from one of the coolest omori au's i've ever looked at

YOU SHOULD GO CHECK IT, NOW!!1!!1

I also have more fanart that I cooked up, but Im not ready to post it yet :]

(take him with you) (he looks pretty excited) (...or scared.)

Marzenie time guysss

Here’s the Basil design!

Other versions plus a little elaboration on the design:

Cloakless + wing design versions

So for the sake of specificity I’ve been calling him “Marze” whenever I refer to the in-dream version of Basil, Same naming convention as (Hikik)Omori, but don’t be mistaken, Marze is not an individual like Omori is, Marze is a costume- just the suit that Basil wears while venturing the horrors of his mind, Marze is merely how Basil conforms himself to the world of Marzenie, none of the characters there are really human so it’d be out of place if Basil himself was (this can be viewed as a form of self-dehumanizing on Basil’s part but it’s mostly for the artists sake- the meta explanation is just as important as the in-world one)

Now for the design itself:

maybe the symbolism here is really obvious but I wanna explain it anyway, the Deer parts (antlers and legs) are representative of Basil’s general personality as a whole- he’s skittish and vulnerable yes but when forced deer do fight back, an idea that’s very important to Marzenie given it displays Basil LITERALLY fighting to survive against his inner struggles, that and the creator (me) really likes deer … so there’s that

Otherwise, the wings are Moths wings, which seems like it’s a really simple connection to Sunny and the idea that Moths are drawn to light but it’s a little more literal in Marzenie because it’s not just that Sunny is Basils sun in a metaphorical way it’s that in Marzenie he actually IS, in the world of Marzenie there is a Sun-God character that is very obviously just Sunny, which is both about bit about Basil’s view of Sunny as someone without flaw but also about just how much Basil relies on him… or rather the IDEA of him

Sun-God-Sunny is a very important presence in Marzenie because it’s his very absence that’s made Marzenie what it is, returning to that Map art I made for a moment here

Within Marzenie it’s not just that Sunny is a god but that he’s a dead/‘sleeping’ god, and in his absence the world has become cold and dark (which necessitates that lantern in the desgin above)

Yes Basil had issues before the incident but having friends and having SUNNY made that bearable and something he could have gradually put behind him, being abandoned so suddenly in such a traumatic way has thrown Basil’s mind into a state of eternal darkness, the world of Marzenie is cold and dark and dangerous, and all of this is the most literal possible representation of the damage Sunny’s absence has inflicted on Basil’s mental state

Sunny’s character in Marzenie being the Sun god is also why the center of it and the beginning of the journey is a church, the only hope Basil has anymore is that Sunny will return and they can be friends again, so he’s build an alter in his mind dedicated to this hope, this prayer

Also religious imagery is fun <3, also it’s a parallel to the church of something and how Basil’s house is at the center of Vast forest (and thus the center of Sunny’s mind, they center their places of safety around each other, even if for Basil that place is a tiny candlelit alter in the center of a dark woodland while for Sunny that Place of safety is EVERYTHING in his mind, so vastly different and yet sort of the same <- does any of this make sense? Probably not, who cares, it’s my AU and I WILL ramble as much as I like ok)

hehe..Birdz art...

That's def going to be one of my bigger projects, considering that I usually draw one person per art, and this one will have around 13, if I counted right.

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I think the Basil brain rot is getting to me somehow

AU MASTER POST

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What’s Marzenie?:

Marzenie is my Omori AU which explores the idea of Basil having a headspace and sets the game from his perspective, this masterpost compiles all relevant information on the AU to read below the cut !

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First post/further introduction/Marzenie map:

First post! <- click here!

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Character’s:

Basil/Marze

Sunny/Sol

Polly/Sister Pollene

Kel/Alter boy | Kel/Alter boy ALT

[this is where id put Aubrey, IF ID DRAWN HER! /ref]

Hero/Reflection

Mari/Ziemia

Basil’s mom/The pale maiden

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Mikhael/Maverick

Kim/Bone Collector

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Misc info:

Marze’s wings post

The lantern post

Nephilim (Angel) The Church An Ask reply where I ramble about Sol HIM

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@ask-marzenie , both for in character and ooc questions (although I definitely still take asks here on my main and you’re welcome to send them!)

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Obviously this isn’t everything, it’s just everything I consider important … and it’s nice to have all this information sorted! There’s a myriad of other random Marzenie things and there’s been posts where I offhand mention plans I have for Aubrey, Charlene, Vance and Angel but for now this is well enough

Thank you for reading! I intend on giving this post actual tags, I usually wouldn’t but the small group that’s interacted with this content before have motivated and encouraged me to share it a little more so special thank’s! to all of my kind mutuals! Without you’d I definitely wouldn’t draw as much, teehee :}

nham nham hmmmm delicious

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DAY, AUBREY!

I luv my angy bnuuy girl :3

SQUEAAAAAAAAAAAL

IM ACTUALLY SO HAPPY THAT YOU LIKE HOW HE TURNED OUT :)))

I WAS SO STRESSED POSTING THIS, BUT NOW IM SOOOO HAPPY I'M LITERALLY JUMPING UP AND DOWN

I'LL PROBABLY POST ANOTHER FANART OF MARZE MAYBE IN LIKE 2 TO 3 DAYS??

I even have a few little Marze plushie doodles in my math notebook, coz I was waaaay too bored..🤷

Buuut....That motivated me to actually draw the plushie 🙇‍♀️🙇‍♀️🙇‍♀️

AND THE IDEA WITH THE LITTLE CARE PACKS??? AWWWW

FIRST TIME POSTING FANART WOOOHOOOEYOOW

Marze plushie...save me Marze plushie..

this is actually from one of the coolest omori au's i've ever looked at

YOU SHOULD GO CHECK IT, NOW!!1!!1

I also have more fanart that I cooked up, but Im not ready to post it yet :]

(take him with you) (he looks pretty excited) (...or scared.)

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