Servamp Rambles - Blog Posts

I am a HUGE fan of this concept. I think that Hyde could be a VERY good influence on Tsubaki if they ever got the opportunity to just…. talk things out. Seeing how much loss Hyde has experienced, how much growth he’s had, and his ever so growing role as an older brother over time, Hyde could honestly be REALLY understanding toward Tsubaki, and maybe even try to take Tsubaki under his wing.

Hyde’s been through a lot…. his human family ended his life, the Count seems like he saw Hyde as a toy or science project (and Hyde was basically told about the Count’s planned murder), the servamps for the most part shot down any recognition of being family, and Ophelia, who we don’t even know the extension of her treatment of Hyde, was killed right in front of him. Seeing Tsubaki, a brother he never even knew that he had, still grieving over the Count, probably sees a lot of himself in him. He knows what it’s like to grieve over family. And he probably doesn’t want his younger brother to fall into the trap of how he used to process his grief, and hurt everybody else in the world for it.

Tsubaki has a lot of similar values to Hyde when it comes to family. He cares just as much as Hyde about family. Granted, he’s not a big fan of his servamp siblings, but that’s understandable. They were the only ones that could even kill off the Count, who happened his father figure, and Kuro almost succeeded. But that doesn’t mean that he doesn’t want to be in a happy family. I mean, look at the amount of subclass he has, saving most of not all of them based on the assumption that they didn’t exactly have great lives or families and he wanted to give them a second chance. He’s loyal to each and every one of his subclass and they may even be the only reason Tsubaki has ever cried. As he grieves over his lost family he tries to protect the one he’s made and let them thrive.

Hyde and Tsubaki probably have a lot to talk out. Tsubaki and Hyde both had PLENTY of aggressions toward each other, and both did plenty of damage, but if there’s anybody that might be willing to give Tsubaki another chance, or at least talk things out, Hyde is probably pretty high on that list. Once he figures out why Tsubaki has been rampaging I think it’d be nice to see Hyde willing to reach out a helping hand to Tsubaki because he can probably recognize that Tsubaki isn’t a monster and doing it just because he was never known, but because Tsubaki’s missed out on a happy, healthy family, losing them again and again, just like he did.

AAH LOOK AT MY 1ST ASK TO UUUUU :PPPPP u know who else could relate to tsubaki abt watching their loved ones die? lawless. tsubaki watched germaine die, lawless watched ophelia

AAAHHHHHH YAYYYY 😊😊😊😊

And fucking hellish fuck Reya, you're right omg. 👀👀 But does Lawless know that Tsubaki's problem comes from Sensei's death? 🤔🤔

But damn their confrontation would really be amazing because Lawless too used to hate Kuro for the exact same reason. It'd also be such a growth for Lawless as a character to tell Tsubaki "I understand you." and just... reason with him. Bring him on the right path and show him that healing is possible when he himself used to be lost and miserable and hurt and angry. Because he lost someone he loved.

Damn now I need this. I don't want anything else, I want this.

Very many Servamp characters are on my gender envy slide presentation currently, and many more are going to be added

Honestly I can’t remember what started my gender crisis a couple years back but I think besides all of my homies also having gender crises Servamp played a decent role in that too

I don’t think younger me would have expected to hear that gay vampires were able to trans my gender but you know what that’s for her to ponder

I am definitely not the first person to say this but as an autistic person I just wanna say that Licht makes me honestly REALLY FUCKING HAPPY

Whether or not Strike wrote Licht to be Autistic coded I don’t know, but that does NOT stop me from slapping on my neurodivergent headcanon. I love him and he makes me feel seen and I get a HUGE confidence boost because I see him as somebody like me and Licht is SO LOVABLE AND WONDERFUL HONESTLY….

Being Autistic has given me a range of experiences, good and bad, and some parts have made me feel like a burden many times, but Licht honestly is a comfort for me because, since he can be loved and accepted, then I feel like I can too. I feel more proud to be who I am in a way because of him

I’m back from my absolutely bonkers quest. Today’s edition: Kuro’s handheld game console

This is what we’re working with:

After some observations, I think that Kuro plays with a Sony PSP (Playstation Portable)

Honestly, at first I had NO idea where to start with this one. The only thing that I knew is that it was a handheld gaming console and I honestly didn’t know any brands, but I did remember that Gameboys exist, so I looked at previous Gameboy models from before 2012.

I did end up finding the Gameboy Advance (which came out initially in 2001). Its shape matched enough to consider it later, but I did have my doubts, so I kept looking outside of Gameboys.

At this point… I had COMPLETELY forgotten the term “handheld gaming console”. I was STUCK I tell you. I had no idea what to look up next. But then…. then I saw a fucking Walmart ad for a Sony PSP, and I was like: “Holy shit. That’s the one.” Also, in the name of the product it had stuff about handheld gaming consoles so I was like “OHHHH…. THAT WAS THE TERM!” and then to make sure, I decided to look on the wiki article for handheld gaming consoles for everything up to 2012. Particularly, I was looking for the ones that have the different colored center thing. Kinda like an Oreo, but with really interesting layers.

Besides the Gameboy Advance, I did find two possible candidates: The Sony Playstation Portable and the Playstation Vita.

Gameboy Advance (2001):

Sony Playstation Portable (2004):

Playstation Vita (2011):

I quickly eliminated Gameboy Advance from the list for three reasons:

1. The Gameboy Advance has two buttons on the right half of the front of the console, meanwhile Kuro’s has four.

2. The back of the Gameboy Advance has no circle, meanwhile Kuro’s does.

3. The Gameboy Advance’s frame isn’t as slim as Kuro’s console.

Using a similar approach, I ended up being able to eliminate the PS Vita. The reason? The PS Vita has no circle in the back. The Sony PSP still has that circle in the back that Kuro’s has, and seems to still match otherwise when I look back at the design. IT’S EVEN STILL GOT THE BIG SQUARE ON THE BACK SURROUNDING THE CENTER CIRCLE TOO

So yeah Kuro most likely plays on a Sony PSP

Thank you for joining me in my bonkers nerd session

Oh hell yes

Strike is giving me so much to work with here. I hope you guys know I’m going to go absolutely bonkers with this next analysis for what Kuro’s playing on

Ngl Mahiru’s computer has a lot of neat stuff too I might work on analyzing that in the process too

I hope you guys are ready. I’m going to be having so much fun with this

Here’s my in-depth analysis regarding Licht’s Nintendo DS

With proper evidence and analysis, I have a theory….. and I spent time fact-checking this analysis (since I originally I figured this out a couple of months back). My findings tell me that Licht’s Nintendo DS is a Nintendo DSi.

For reference, here is what Licht’s DS looks like:

In order to narrow down our answers, first we have to figure out: which ones were already released during the events of Servamp?

From what I can best guess, the events of the C3 arc and everything up until chapter 118 takes place in August of 2012? From what I know, Servamp (or at least the Japanese release of it) was originally released in November of 2011, and the main story’s technology seemed to line up with the technology present in real life at the time. For the most part, it’s easy to find details that point out the date or present spot on the calendar while reading but…. with years, not so much. Also, I can’t find very much on how much of a time skip there was before or after volume 4. However, I do know that on August 31st, 2012, there actually was a full moon, just like what is supposed to happen in the manga (mentioned in chapter 100 I believe, where Tsurugi was discussing with Mahiru some information he learned from Touma). Going with this information, I will be using the estimate for the current events of the manga, which will help us narrow down what generations of Nintendo DS were released before late August 2012.

Here are the ones that I could find that fit in the time frame:

Nintendo DS (November 2004)

Nintendo DS Lite (June 2006)

Nintendo DSi (November 2008)

Nintendo DSi XL (November 2009)

Nintendo 3DS (March 2011)

Nintendo 3DS XL (July 2012)

Now what I did next with this was analyze the shape of each of these DS models and eliminate any of them without the rectangular shape of Licht’s DS. Due to their far rounder edges and overall thicknesses, I eliminated the Nintendo DS and the Nintendo 3DS XL as a possibility. Now, that leaves us with the Nintendo DSLite, Nintendo DSi, Nintendo DSi XL, and the Nintendo 3DS.

Here is where I thought I reached a crossroad. I thought to myself, “What else is there? What else can I use to differentiate them?”

And then, in a moment of astute observance, I had a realization. I could investigate the volume control.

Right off the bat, I knew I could eliminate the Nintendo DSLite. That is due to the fact that the volume control on Licht’s DS is a set of two buttons, placed on the left side of the DS. On the Nintendo DSLite, however, the volume control is a slider on the bottom of the device. Also, I was able to eliminate the Nintendo 3DS, because although its volume control is on the side of the device, it comes in the form of a slider.

Now, I’m left with the Nintendo DSi and the Nintendo DSi XL. From what I found, the main difference between the two is the size of the screen. Considering that I found that Licht’s DS is drawn with a notably smaller screen, I don’t think that is could have been the XL version.

And now…. that means we’ve finally reached the last possible option. The only DS that could have fit the requirements by the date and the DS features…. is the DSi model. Therefore, I believe that Licht Jekylland Todoroki’s Nintendo DS model is the Nintendo DSi.

Do with this what you will and thank you for reading through my absolutely bonkers analysis/theory/headcanon/ramble

Recently I’ve been talking about Servamp a lot to a couple of trusted friends and it’s made me realize something: Explaining Servamp to someone who’s never heard of it or doesn’t know very much about it… is actually SURPRISINGLY DIFFICULT?? /lh

First of all the first thing I’m always asked to explain is how to spell it and what the name means and I’m out here internally thinking to myself “how am I gonna get myself out of this one boys” because I have to explain that Servamp literally is just “servant” and “vampire” combined and I think from an outside perspective that’s probably a VERY bad first impression because… you know…

Another thing is also explaining the plot without spoilers because basically I sound like I’m saying “Okay so the protagonist gets in a fight with a vampire and he ends up having to make a contract with the vampire that he picked up himself on the street”, and from chapter 1 up to 118 everything’s got darker and WAY more intense. There’s also the vast plot and dramaturgical differences between the anime and the manga so unless they’re looking for spoilers I have to ever so subtly explain how we got from what I wondered was gonna be an action comedy to receiving extreme emotional damage every chapter as well as emphasize the value of watching both the anime and the manga as they sometimes feel like two completely projects but charming in their own ways

There’s also one more warning that I always have to give out about a certain someone…. do you know who the warning’s about?

Yeah I’m talking about Lily

I MEAN… DO I GIVE THE WARNING AND CONCERN MY LISTENER RIGHT AWAY?? OR POTENTIALLY SCAR THEM WHEN THEY’RE READING OR WATCHING SERVAMP FOR THE FIRST TIME?? It’s either I explain “you’re gonna see a half naked man on screen in volume 1/episode 2 doing what seems to be flirting but isn’t actually flirting” or I let them come to me being like “WHY IS THERE A HALF NAKED MAN ON SCREEN FLIRTING”

Servamp is my favorite manga actually so I love it with all my heart (I even have a WIP 200 slide google slides presentation on it if anybody wants to see it when I finish it). Servamp out of context though is very interesting per se because I’m sure that I’m not the only person here who’s noticed these things and if anything they’re actually HILARIOUS TO THINK ABOUT

In summary I love Servamp and it’s even better when you get to be the one explaining it

Y’ALL I’VE GOT A FUCKING ANNOUNCEMENT

I have no idea if anybody else has posted about this but you guys remember Howl from Howl’s Moving Castle right? Okay so I’ve been thinking about this for a while and I keep thinking to myself about how similar Lily and Howl are

HEAR ME OUT HOLD ON I’VE GOT A COUPLE POINTS TO MAKE

Okay okay okay so first of all we gotta fucking talk about their appearance and I think it’s even more prominent in all of the Lily art after Strike’s art style notably changed. Like look at this shit??

Lily is strawberry blonde I think but y’know he’s technically a redhead and a blonde at the same time and Howl has been BOTH OF THOSE THINGS

I also firmly believe Lily would and should wear some of Howl’s clothes or adopt some of his fashion because THEY FIT HIM SO WELL I THINK (I even have an old drawing that I did about that that I might post eventually just to prove my point). But even then they already have similar fashion because they both like to wear pink and earrings and a necklace of sorts (I still consider the pocket watch as Lily’s necklace because of how he wears it)

There are so many things about them too that I honestly find to be REALLY FUCKING FUNNY

Remember the time that Howl had a temper tantrum and turned into slime because he got turned into a redhead and (according to him) not being at his top tier sexiness? I watched that scene I was like “Why do I feel like like Lily would do something like that” until I realized THAT HE TECHNICALLY DID IN I THINK VOLUME 2 WHEN HE WAS FIGHTING BERUKIA

I am still absolutely cackling over the fact that Berukia cut off a tiny bit of Lily’s hair, and as a result, Lily got so pissy that he was politely like “Oh you crossed the fucking line” and after beating the shit out of Belkia with his scythe and being like “that’s what you get for cutting my hair”, he ended up cutting off Berukia’s entire goddamn ponytail off-screen (I think he was the one that did that but correct me if I’m wrong)

Also if I'm correct the servamps can fly I think because how the fuck would Lily have gotten onto the top of that lamp post in volume 3 to do his gay little glitter gaslight gatekeep girlboss magic (let alone without falling) which means… technically Lily can do Howl’s sky walk if he got enough practice with it

The main summary of this post is that if I had a nickel for every time I’ve seen a blonde magical man with shoulder-length hair who likes pink and wears earrings and a necklace throw an extreme tantrum over his hair I’d have two nickels