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Damn, that is sooooo embarrassing Werner. Just go inside man.
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unbearably horny omg
this is literally act 3 werner/andreas to me
Sucks for Andreas to have his crush be disappointed in him amiright
what not to say to someone who just came out, pentiment edition
(act III spoilers ahead)
andreas and werner are literally foils. man who got what he wanted but was deeply unhappy anyway vs man who found a way to be content despite his circumstances not being what he wanted
Good morning! Itās Werner Wednesday!
Werner and Diana headcanons mwuhaha
They sleep in separate small rooms (I think itās normal around the time for married couples to have separate bedrooms?)
Diana is a heavy sleeper, she can even sleep through a fire if god willing, wait-
She used to wake up super late, has worked on the habit somewhat
Werner, despite keeping the tidy and prestigious exterior, has a room cluttered with notes and books. Nerd.
He can be an all-nighter if he must
The inhabitants of Kiersau Abbey (plus Amalie and Andreas) and, roughly (roughly), where they're originally from:
Aedoc - St. Ives (Cornwall, England)
Amalie - Vƶlklingen (Saarland, Germany)
Andreas - Nuremberg (Bavaria, Germany)
Cecilia - Augsburg (Bavaria, Germany)
Ferenc - PĆ©cs (Hungary)
Florian - PoznaÅ (Poland)
Gernot - Munich (Bavaria, Germany)
Gertrude - Hof (Bavaria, Germany)
Guy - Dijon (Burgundy, France)
Illuminata - Perugia (Umbria, Italy)
Lijsbet - Utrecht (Netherlands)
Lukas - FĆ¼gen (Tyrol, Austria)
Margarete - Krimml (Salzburg, Austria)
Mathieu - NeuchĆ¢tel (Switzerland)
Matilda - Kempten (Bavaria, Germany)
Piero - Verona (Veneto, Italy)
RĆ¼deger - Bad Tƶlz (Bavaria, Germany)
Sophie - Birgitz (Tyrol, Austria)
Volkbert - Mittenwald (Bavaria, Germany)
Wojslav - PlzeÅ [Pilsen] (Czechia)
Zdena - TƔbor (South Bohemian region, Czechia)
(obviously these are modern national borders and names, not necessarily how these characters would have perceived themselves vis-Ć -vis ethnic and cultural and contemporaneous national background, etc etc)
Sebhat - Sadai, Ethiopia
Sadai is the only one of these cities/towns that no longer exists; it was destroyed in the 16th-century Ethiopian-Adal War.
sorry if this isn't too thought out or anything but else mĆ¼lleryn is one of my fav pentiment characters so I wanted to talk about her a little (spoilers ahead)
I think what I appreciate a lot about her characterisation is that her victimhood isn't her whole personality. I feel like some writers tend to (consciously or not) play into the 'perfect victim' trope, especially with women, and make abused characters completely unflawed. they're often depicted as loving, kind, caring, and weak, but I don't think else falls into that stereotype. this isn't to say else isn't loving or kind or caring, she definitely is. she isn't weak though - meek and shy, sure, especially in the first two acts when her abuser is alive and actively casting his shadow over her. but it takes a strong woman to survive in her position and raise a son who, against all odds, ends up becoming the stark opposite of their abuser.
at the same time, what I like about how else is written is that she is not perfect. there are a few moments, in fact, where she's very mean. like when magdalene brings up her scepticism about else's ancestors - I don't have the conversation to hand, but I do remember else can be very rude to magdalene, shutting her down when she brings up valid doubts. of course that doesn't make else evil or anything, she's defensive over her family history which is perfectly natural when it's something she clung to in secret for so long in the abusive environment of her marriage, where lenhardt tried to deny her her personhood. I think that reaction makes else feel very human; it makes sense she's quick to anger about something so close to her heart. I just like that she's written like this, rather than what we might expect based on other fictional characterisations of abused women. she doesn't let others trample over her just because she was a victim once. she defends her beliefs, however irrational they may be, just as someone like ill peter might. rudely and bluntly.
but this isn't just the case in act III, surprisingly. one of the first things else can say when andreas meets her in act I is actually much more mean-spirited. she asks andreas what it's like boarding with the gertners, and when he says they seem to enjoy having someone new staying with them, else responds with something along the lines of "perhaps eva more than clara, hm?" and then she backtracks, knowing that was perhaps a little too rude. it's somewhat vague what she means by that jab, especially at this point in the game, but I took it as slutshaming towards eva. we can later piece together that lenhardt and christine had an affair (although personally, this reads more as rape via coercion to me, given how lenhardt talks about his 'affairs' during the hunting scene), and that eva is lenhardt's illegitimate daughter. knowing how her husband treats women, knowing that his affair was likely not consensual, knowing that eva is just a byproduct of his violence and misogyny, else still makes that remark about her. it's less about eva herself, I think. it's the suppressed frustration and hatred she holds towards lenhardt and how he treats her and others, displaced onto a woman who exists only because of that behaviour.
else is a victim, of course, but she also perpetuates the misogynistic values that her husband upholds. 'eva is a whore because her mother was too' - that's what else seems to be thinking, because she can't think 'lenhardt is a disloyal rapist' if she wants to maintain her role as mother and wife. she can't be a 'good wife' if she hates her husband, so she projects that hatred elsewhere and adopts lenhardt's misogynistic, unempathetic thought processes. it's a very interesting and refreshing characterisation, I think. because it means that else isn't a perfect person just because she's a victim: on the contrary, it's her victimhood that makes her say and think things like this.
I especially believe that's the case because of how isolated she's been from the community since marrying lenhardt. correct me if I'm wrong but I seem to remember someone (maybe agnes?) mentioning that else is mostly avoided by the other women in town because of how her husband acts. she's the miller's wife. the miller who selfishly raises his tolls without showing remorse for the families who might starve because of it, the miller who coerces peasant women into sleeping with him. because of the sexist views of the time, a lot of the blame would have fallen onto else's shoulders. she's the miller's wife who can't keep her husband in line, the miller's wife who sits up on the hill outside her expensive townhouse looking down on all the poorer people she hates to mingle with. in reality, it's lenhardt who keeps her home (e.g. during st. john's eve) and prevents her forming meaningful relationships with the townswomen who might otherwise have offered her support. but the townsfolk don't know that, and some definitely believe she shares her husband's views.
I realise that's a lot of speculation, and that there are people who sympathise with else, but in the first two acts at least she is definitely not made to feel like a part of the community, and it isn't just physical means that keep her alone. domestic abuse completely isolates the victim from others psychologically as well. lenhardt's prejudices against the townsfolk are one aspect of it, as he constantly reiterates that he and his family are above them and shouldn't mix with 'their kind', which else has to obey in fear of him. but after years of hearing this, it'd be impossible for those prejudices not to leach into else's own worldviews. and knowing how some of the townsfolk view her unfavourably, it makes sense that she'd eventually give in to how lenhardt has been conditioning her to think, by speaking unfavourably about the townsfolk (like eva) in turn. it's a vicious cycle, one that only makes else more and more isolated. which, of course, is what lenhardt wants.
this is why it's so significant that how else ends up in act III hinges on whether andreas affirms her personhood or not. she has to learn to see herself as more than just 'the miller's wife' in order to end up forming meaningful connections with the townsfolk. if she doesn't, she ends up withdrawn and bitter towards everyone else. lenhardt doesn't need to be alive for him to still have influence over her mind. else has to actively work on bettering her psychology after his death to become an involved member of the community, rather than just staying as isolated as she was when lenhardt was still around.
so yeah, idk. to me, that's a very realistic and human way to characterise a victim who has escaped the abusive situation, and I appreciate that the writing doesn't shy away from the uglier parts of what abuse looks like.
you should know your art almost singlehandedly convinced me to finally like werner/andreas after not really being into them for a good 7 months after playing the game... do you have any fic recs? :3 also, do you prefer them in act I, II, or III?
If I get a nickel for every time my random on-an-impulse sketches convince someone to like Werdreas, I get two nickels, which isnāt a lot, but itās funny that it happened twice.
Aw! Thank you!!! I trust I have no motivations of manipulation whatsoeverš Idk what actually made me like them sm, first game through, I just saw the tavern scene in act 2 and just be nice to him, had āThe Subwayā in the bg and then bam. I donāt even know Werner and North Town existed in act 1 lol. Thereās surprisingly a good but small handful of short fics out there but my absolute favorites were Tell me do you Think itād be all Right? And Contemplation and a Candle :-)
imagine you grow your hair out thinking you look cool and respectable only for your biggest opp to come back after seven years with the same exact hairstyle. also he's richer and more successful than you
Tenacious.
werner pentiment x reader sickfic pov you have a sore throat but it's the 1500s so your boyfriend the town physician sics the leeches on you
pencil doodles ^_^
I'll never get over the art parallels in pentiment (spoilers & sources below the cut)
Albrecht DĆ¼rer, "Melencolia I" / Lucas Cranach the Elder, "Saint Maurice" / Fere Seyon, "Diptych with Mary and Her Son Flanked by Archangels, Apostles and a Saint" / Unknown, "ŠŠ°Š±ŠøŃŠøŠ½Ń Š“ŃŃ Š¾Š²Š½ŃŠ¹" (The Spiritual Labyrinth) / Albrecht DĆ¼rer, "A Boatload of Fools" / Limbourg brothers, "November" in TrĆØs riches heures du Duc de Berry (The Very Rich Hours of the Duke of Berry) / Marek Czarnecki, "St. Hildegard" (restoration) / Unknown, "Artemis depicted on a frieze, with her hunting bow and hound" / Unknown, "Reconstruction of the Mithraeum at Carrawburgh on Hadrianās Wall"
also I've decided I'm actually going to use this account instead of just lurking so here's an assortment of Pentiment memes I've made since first playing the game last year (act II spoilers for the last one)
Random 20 min doodle of Werner from last night (Bc I feel weird for not drawing anything for this week or even a day in general,,)
Watercolor practice after so long!!! Some our my favorites, I should do more āsingle comic panel ishā drawings (Edit 4/7/25 - Made a new separate post on the Werdreas drawing bc the scanner broke for this one lols)
(Thereās also more below the break)
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playin video games again
Ok move Werdreas, time for indulgent oc forbidden romance one sided pining aroace I just want to be in your presence aah cringe shit
(Omg I just realized their ship name is Floriana, omg thatās kinda cute)
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I have been changed for good.
hell yeah welcome
ok
Probs spoiling for myself (after two play-throughs with respected doctor Werner) but this is my first ever time seeing this and I never felt gut punched in my life.
The girls are fightinggggg
If Obsidian ever released a Pentiment art book I would literally buy that so fast š
Itās my birthday! š Also happy 491 years since the legal declaration of death of Andreas Maler! Anno domini 1534!!! ALSO FINALLY made an official reference for my pathetic self insert OC that no one asked for!!!ā¤ļø (but no srsly this is my first OC I actually took seriously to plan out so Iām happy that some yall like herš) Here are some Diana funfacts on this special indulgent day! (cringe)
Diana is the second eldest child of many siblings in Florence! Her father is a physician? Merchant? and her mother is a noble woman? so they are somewhat well off financially (Stillā¦a work in progress on that fact). Her favorite uncle is a sculptor and artist. Diana is kind of the odd one out of her family but she has a fond relationship with her younger brother, Jacobo.
Her father signed her off to marriage, one of the reasons is that she is considered ātoo oldā to be living at home, while her younger sisters were able to find suitors much quicker than her. (āI hope she ends up with a cruel old man, that will discipline her for sure!ā whispered one of her sisters, gleefully.)
Diana is prone to anger outbursts but these have somewhat subsided after being away from home. She can oddly throw a good punch, her brothers taught her to.
She is classist and finds it hard to empathize with others. This is much like Werner before Act 3.
Oh, Diana hated Tassing when she first arrived here. It took her a while to open up to most of the townsfolk. Sheās good friends with Else? but still kept her distance. Distance especially from Lenhardt.
She canāt sew, sheās bad at baking, she tries to help Werner around the house and his job, but heās fine handling it himself. She feels like sheās not as hardworking and resilient as the other townswomen (That's how she thinks though. Ofc itās more complicated than that, it is their lifestyle after all. Diana does have the luxury of not working on a farm everyday).
No one in town knows why she avoids the St. Johnās Eve bonfire every year. As the player, if you go to North town before joining everyone at the fire, you could see Diana sitting outside her house, drawing. If you strike a conversation with her, you get the choice to say hi to her and simply leave or allow her to continuously talk and reminisce about how her hometown would celebrate the same holiday. You get to even look on what sheās drawing, if youāre willing to. With that, she will open up to you more.
Andreas: Why are you not with Werner at the bonfire this evening? Diana: Oh. I have a terrible migraine today.
-If you failed the persuasion check for Werner at the inn in act 2, in act 3, Werner will be a drunkard and rude to Magdalene. Diana will be a shut-in and her depression is now her normal. They both don't fit in Tassing anymore.
This is such a coincidence bc I was looking at ao3 which I havenāt in a WHILE and said āSigh I wish thereās more Werner/Andreas fics I havenāt read yetā and BAM, THERE IS A GOD. EEEK CANāT WAIT TO READ IT
This oneās for all (five) of you Andreas/Werner fans out there!
HOLY FUCKIN SHIT HOW IS THIS NOT UNDER RADAR?! BYE KICKING FEET IM BEING FED WERNER/ANDREAS CRUMBS GUYS AAAH
Dante, get out of the inferno / It's kicking you while you're on the ground, Dante / Oh boy, you're too young to burn / Oh, won't you stay the night? / It'll be alright / We'll turn out just fine
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