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This is the second page of me explaining the Gothika series. In case you don't know what Gothika is or have not seen the my previous theories on the first 5 songs of this series, please click on "Previous Page" at the top left corner of this journal.

If you are still here then I assume that you already read the previous page, so let's continue, shall we?


After they both go through the mirror, they get lost in the labyrinth. They both seem to be chased by something which causes fear to run in their veins as they try to escape whatever is trying to kill them. In the end, the man gets caught and killed, not being able to run any longer due to one of his feet having gotten ripped off by the creature. The woman, let's out cries for help, yet no one comes to her aid as she ends up getting killed by another creature (this being reinforced by the female scream heard at the end of the song).

In case you haven't gotten hold of what is happening yet, I shall explain it to you.

In this song, the labyrinth is actually the forest of this strange world (the forest where our main protagonists live on). The red and black forest that were introduced at the very beginning of this album (in its first song). It makes quite a lot of sense considering that forests are in a way a natural labyrinth on its own, capable of getting people lost if you wander in it for too long.

Taking that into account, this song is about a couple who managed to create a connected nightmare between each other. Yet, strangely enough once they were inside the nightmare, they had lost the memory of each other but since they were part of each other's life in the real world, their bathrooms were identical, having things belonging to both the man and the woman. The mirror, is an invitation to the labyrinth, if you choose to pass through it you'll get stuck in the forest trying to survive whatever horrors that await you in it. They both "accepted" the invitation by passing through the mirror, though, they both ended up in different/separate places of the forest. Once in the forest, they ended up being chased and then killed off by one of its many residents/creatures (they could have been killed by the Wolf, Carmilla or some other resident that we don't know of since the song never states how the creature looks nor acts like).

In the song there's also this seemingly off parts about "someone inventively watching them", "an old music box crying" and a "deserted old room". And its those parts that brings us to our next song.


07. パンズ・ラビリンス (Pan’s labyrinth)
This song was probably one of the most interesting and most difficult songs in this album. Since, my trustworthy english translator didn't make any more translations after the 6th song in this album, I had to search for someone else's translation. I, unfortunately, don't trust spanish translations when it comes to this album due to the massive wave of misinformation the most popular one of those spanish translators spread towards the community. Though, luckily enough, I found a spanish translator that actually accurately translated this song, to which I thank you from the depths of my heart, GhoulTamer. With that out of the way, let's continue.

I'm particularly excited to share the story of this song, because I believe that this song is somewhat special. It introduces to what I believe to be yet another main character to this series (even though they only make an appearance in this song). That main character, being none other than Pan himself.

Before I dive in on what  story this song is trying to tell us, I will explain to you who Pan is in order for it to make sense.

«A long, long time ago, there was a black and red forest that was abandoned by man.» That man that the intro refers to, is Pan.

Pan is, what I believe to be, the God of Red Cap's world. This can be backed with the fact that he shares the same name of a well known god from greek mythology, Pan the god of nature. Though for as interesting as that would be, I don't think the Pan from Red Cap's world is the same Pan from greek mythology, I only think he shares the same similar characteristic elements from the greek god (kinda the same way Red Cap shares a few characteristic elements from the original Red Ridding Hood, yet not being Red Ridding Hood herself).

He created the world where Red Cap resides (which I believe that is nothing more than the forest) and is the one who has summoned the various strange yet deadly creatures onto his own world that he monitors from a distance. He is also responsible for inviting people from other worlds onto his own world, via a nightmare, as seen in the previous song «THE OTHERS».

This song takes a more direct approach to his character and let's us know just a little bit more about him.

The story starts with Red Cap hearing a strange song coming from outside her window at night. She, can't help but follow the melody as she runs through the obscure forest. While she runs through the dark forest, she can't help but to notice the glow from the neighboring fairies and the few mushrooms that seem to follow after her. Eventually, she reaches a strange house/room and, once inside, she sees seemingly antique dolls walking around freely. Red Cap is filled with fear towards this strange house as she tries her best to keep herself calm. Though, in the seemingly old abandoned house, she hears a noise, once she looks in the direction of where the sound came from she sees a guy (Pan), who invites her to come closer to him. She hesitantly did so, then, he said in a language that she couldn't understand «You don't want to go back, right?» he then hugs her gently as he continues speaking in the unknown language «This love won't ever fade away.», even though Red Cap couldn't understand what he was saying, for some reason she couldn't help but have a bad feeling towards all of this.

After an unknown period of time has passed, Red Cap notices the mirror in Pan's house. Realizing that in the other side of the mirror was her own world, she saw it as a way out of the house. She ran as fast as she could down the hallway towards the mirror, not even paying attention to the big red box as she ran. Continuing to run through the darkness, she misses seeing the sun's light, and with gentle and tearful eyes, the dolls tell her «Quick, don't let him trap you». Much to Red Cap's unfortunate fate, Pan caught her just before she could reach the mirror. Killing her and turning her into one of his dolls so she could never escape him for all eternity.

I believe that in this ending, Pan fell in love with Red Cap, then attracted her with his song to his house. In the song its stated that he has a small heart (probably hinting to lack of empathy) and that he's very devoted into this one sided love (since Red Cap didn't share his feelings back, yet he blindly believes that she loves him). Red Cap was most likely trapped in that house for months (for her to wish the light of day) and once she saw the mirror that reflected her own world (the mirror being how Pan probably monitors over his own world) she ran as fast as she could towards it, as the dolls (probably previous love interests of Pan who became his victims, so I assume all of the dolls in the house are woman) tell her to quicken her pace before she ends up trapped like they did. Unfortunately, Pan caught her, then turned her into one of his dolls.

But you must be wondering, "What about the big red box? What makes it so important?" 

Well you see, this big red box isn't a simple box. Its a music box. The reason why it's so important is that this music box is actually in the album's title. Gothika ～赤羊音戯箱～ translates to Gothika ~Red Sheep's Music Box~ which is Pan's music box (since the greek god is said to share traits with sheep/goats in its physical appearance, I believe that Pan is the human personification of a sheep/goat just like Red Cap is the human personification of a hare). The role of the music box to make it this important? Well, that I'm not exactly sure of. It can be important because it might be what Pan uses to lure his victims (the strange song that Red Cap heard from the forest) or it could be because its the music box itself telling us the story of what's happening to our main protagonists (since this album is made out of songs that are telling us stories, I think that's a most likely reason as to why its important. Since the music box resides in Pan's house, it probably "saw" the horrors that Pan has made in order to get entertained, so the music box is telling us, in a form of a song, what it saw. Though that's only a theory of mine). 

Either ways, I think its quite neat to have Pan hinted at us from the title of the album itself. Its quite a shame that only very few people know of his existence.


08. DARK LUNACY
This song was actually yet another of the hardest songs in this album. Mostly because there's only one available translation on Youtube and it was spanish. After re-listening to the song over and over again, I felt like something was off, so I went deeper to search for any kind of lyrics to this song and I managed to find lyrics in japanese. Even though I'm nowhere near at being an expert in japanese, the song has some english words mixed in it. Which was enough for me to realize that the spanish translation was wrong. So I tried my best to translate it and bring to you the actual meaning of the song.

Unlike the other songs from this album, this one doesn't tell a story in specific. I believe that this song vaguely talks about the reason as to why so many unfortunate events happen throughout the songs in the album.

An interesting thing about this song is that it talks about someone falling insane because of love, though it never specifies on who falls in into this dark lunacy. I believe that was intentional, since it could be literally anyone falling in this dark lunacy. It could be either the Wolf, Black Cap or even Pan himself.

I also believe that this "Dark Lunacy" that the song talks about is actually a curse cast upon Red Cap's world, a curse that almost no one is able to escape, and whoever falls victim of this curse is doomed to go insane because of their love for someone.

As for the reason as to why this curse exists, I will actually need to explain the 9th and 10th song first since they are huge pieces in this whole puzzle. So, with that in mind, I will add in the parts that I didn't explain in this song in the other songs in order for it to make sense.

But basically, this song talks about those who fall insane upon falling in love.


09. Child’s Play
Finally we reach the most popular and most theorized song in the album. And with it, I shall bring the story that mostly everyone, including myself, believes to be the actual events of what happened in this song.

There once lived two twins, Red Cap and Black Cap. They both fell in love with the neighboring Wolf. Though, Black Cap noticed how the Wolf paid more attention to Red Cap than herself, growing more and more jealous each day that passed. «Why doesn't Mr Wolf notice me?» she would wonder through her jealousy.

Until one day, she got an idea. She proposed to play a game in the forest with her sister. Red Cap smiled in response as Black Cap visibly frowned. Red Cap couldn't help but feel that something was wrong as she followed her sister through the forest, and, once they came to a stop in the middle of the forest, Red Cap looked at her sister with concern and slight hesitance. 

Black Cap harshly pushed Red Cap to the ground, looking down at her as she slowly pulled out a knife. Red Cap stood there, eyeing her sister in pure confusion as Black Cap approached her.

Black Cap then took out her sister's eyes, then her hair and then her lips so she could never look beautiful ever again. She then cut off her feet so Red Cap wouldn't be able to run back to Mr Wolf.

While Black Cap was doing this, Red Cap kept remembering all the times where they used to laugh together and was puzzled as to why her own sister was doing this. Eventually, once the deed was done, Red Cap's screams had long been gone and she was left completely unrecognizable, having died of blood loss.

As Black Cap eyed her dead sister, the thought of Mr Wolf finding the corpse of Red Cap ran through her mind, and, along with it, came another idea. She then took out her own eyes, hair and lips, then replaced them with Red Cap's. That way, the Wolf would never realize Red Cap had been killed.

From time to time, Black Cap would regret what she had done, but it didn't matter now since she could be with Mr Wolf, forever.

This is the most believed theory in the japanese community and I honestly believe its way more well thought than most english/spanish theories that I've seen out there.

People say that the broken english in this song is because Red Cap is dying and having trouble speaking. The laughs, obviously belonging to Black Cap.

Though this song could also refer to the various bad endings that seem to always await Red Cap and the various times she has died. Having the phrase of «Who is killing me?» being her questioning who is killing her this time.


10. 終りの童話 (Ending of a tale for children)
This was, without a doubt, the hardest "song" in the whole album. I only managed to find two translations to this song, one from the trustworthy blog but its full of english mistakes and the creator of the article says that one of the parts (the most important part) might be wrongly translated because not even they could understand what it meant (and adding that with the broken english only made my job harder), the other translation is spanish, and, once again, its wrongly translated and has things that weren't said added in it. After searching and researching as much as I could. After looking for anyone who could possibly tell me what the lyrics are in either english, spanish or even japanese. I eventually had to give up and stay with the translation from the blog.

With that into mind, this translation will have a lot of mistakes (way more than I'd like), so if anyone manages to find the lyrics or even translate the song correctly I would be really thankful.


«Oh, I wonder when it has become this late?

Hm...The time of my tale is over.

Now, time to go to bed!

...

Hm? What's Wrong?

Ah! Why were the black and red forest called like that/mentioned? Its interesting, isn't it?

Hum, that's a secret of the forest. If I tell you what I know, you will tell everyone else about it.

But even so, I will tell you...

That's because the Wolf fell in love with Red Cap in the red forest, though in the black forest, his motives would either stay the same or change completely. (*)

Now, I wonder, what color will the forest be dyed in?

I hope we will encounter again. Good night!

Dream of the forest.»

*That translation is mostly wrong when it comes to exact words. Though after finding the meaning and the "secret of the forest" I tried to write whatever I could understand into the enigma in a way that makes kinda sense and that sounds like an enigma.


In this final "song", I personally believe that the Wolf is actually giving us the last clue to find out why the black and red forest are important and why certain things happened in the songs the way they did. Basically, this is the last piece of the puzzle in the Gothika series.

I shall now proceed to explain to you the secret of the forest, along with the things that I didn't reference back in the song «DARK LUNACY».

The secret of the forest is, that in reality, there isn't a black and a red forest like many people had thought. There never were two forests to begin with. The black and red forest are the same forest. A singular forest. 

For as hard as it is to believe that since the first song (the intro) and the last song (the ending) clearly reference this two forests. The rest of the album never states a difference in between forests. Actually, it only refers to the forest as a singular forest rather than two different forests. There might be songs where it refers to the "obscure forest" but I have an explanation to that as well.

You see, its possible that this red and black forest are in reality the same forest.

"How?" you might be asking, well, that's really simple. The forest changes colors. Though, its not in the magical way that you are thinking.

I believe that the red forest is the color of the forest during the day and that the black forest, is simply the forest during night time. The forest doesn't change colors on its own, its still red, but during night time it gives the illusion that its color is black, just like every other forest.

Now, that seems quite dull on its own to even be considered a secret of the forest, doesn't it? Luckily, there's more to this secret than it seems.

A lot of people theorized that the red and black forest were representations of Red Cap and Black Cap that took a human/hare form. That doesn't make a lot of sense now, considering that there's only one forest and they are two different people. You could argue that Red Cap and Black Cap are the same person, but, once again, that wouldn't make sense considering the last events in the previous songs.

Though, the line of thought that people were taking isn't wrong. I honestly believe that the forest is a representation of Red Cap that takes a human/hare form. But what about Black Cap? Well, her representation is the other big element that's almost always been present throughout the songs, the moon.

I know it sounds kinda stretched, but it does make sense since the moon appears during the night and, along with it, dyes the forest black. Not only that, but there's something else to it.

I believe, that the secret is the very reason why most of this horrible and unfortunate deaths happen in this world (at least, the deaths that have no explanation).

You could say that the reason why all of this events and unfortunate deaths happen because of Pan, the god of the world himself, and, while I do believe he is responsible for causing the deaths of the innocent people that he brings into his world, I don't believe he is the main reason why our main characters seem to never meet a happy ending. In a sense, it doesn't make sense that he's killing the very creatures that he created. And yes, he did kill Red Cap in «Pan's Labyrinth», but I do have an explanation as to why he did that.

You see, I believe that the reason for all of this unfortunate bad endings to our main characters is the Dark Lunacy itself.

I also do believe that this Dark Lunacy that can struck anyone, is caused by falling in love, like it was said previously in the song «DARK LUNACY», then whoever has fallen in love becomes insane.

For as weird as it sounds, this has been constantly happening throughout the whole album. Right in the second song (Wolf and Kin), Red Cap is killed by the Wolf, who had supposedly fallen in love with her but then ate her alive as soon as night time came. In the third song (Glass Step), Black Cap fell in love with the Wolf, but the Wolf had fallen in love with Red Cap, so out of jealousy she poisoned him and killed him. In the fifth song (The Moon to the Ends of Earth), the Wolf has been clearly cursed and had this uncontrollable desire of being evil, which causes him to hurt his own beloved one (Red Cap) and in the end, Red Cap frees him by sacrificing her own life. In the seventh song (Pan's Labyrinth), Pan falls in love with Red Cap and lures her into his house, in the end, when she tries to escape, he kills her and turns her into one of his dolls so she can never escape. Finally, in the 9th song (Child's Play), Black Cap gets jealous of the love between Red Cap and the Wolf, which causes her to kill Red Cap and disguise herself as her in order for the Wolf to never find out Red Cap had been killed.

The 4th and the 6th song are the only songs where the deaths aren't caused by lovesick insanity/dark lunacy, but even so, they do have themes related to love. Having Carmilla (the fourth song) being a lesbian vampire that only takes interest in woman and girls, getting interested in Red Cap and killing her by sucking out her blood. Then having in the sixth song (THE OTHERS) starring a couple who makes a connected nightmare but are eventually killed by the creatures of the forest that Pan created.

The theme of "love" seems to be constantly present throughout the album, making me believe that its the very reason as to why this dark lunacy exists.

But even so, it feels like something might be missing in this secret. Something important.

This dark lunacy doesn't seem to be caused by the very feeling of love on its own, after all, there are small and subtle cases where love doesn't make someone go insane. Such as when the couple in «THE OTHERS» doesn't go insane with dark lunacy when they enter Pan's world or when in «The Moon to the Ends of Earth» the Wolf still loves Red Cap even after she's gone but is no longer insane. Of course, those two songs can be arguable, either because the couple doesn't remember each other or because Red Cap did sacrifice herself in order for the Wolf to be free.

But even so, I believe that this dark lunacy is somewhat of a curse. A curse caused by something other than just love on its own.

I believe that this curse is caused by the moon itself.

This theory is further backed up in the fifth song (The Moon to the Ends of Earth), where Red Cap makes a contract with the moon itself to break the curse of the Wolf. Now, I believe that if the moon is strong enough to break a curse, why wouldn't it be strong enough to be the cause of that very own curse? Not only that, but this curse always seems to occur during night time (either because the song either references the moon or the obscure forest) making it most likely that the curse is indeed caused by the moon (not only that but the fact that the word Lunacy does come from Lunaticus which means "of the moon" or "moonstruck").

Though, this leaves us with a question "Why would the moon cause this curse?" it seems quite weird for the moon to just randomly curse whoever falls in love.

The answer to that, is the fact that Black Cap and the moon are connected.

Like I had said previously, Black Cap is a reference to the moon who takes a human/hare form. Making me believe that they are somewhat connected in a way or another.

Not only that, but if we pay close attention to each song in the album, the only main characters that seem to ever get a truly bad ending is either the Wolf or Red Cap. Black Cap seems to always escape somewhat unscathed, either because she was the one responsible for the bad ending or because she had absolutely nothing to do with the story at hand.

Its quite strange how Black Cap never dies in any of the songs, not only that, but she always seems to get a somewhat happy ending. In most of the songs, the main obstacle that keeps Black Cap from being together with the Wolf (Red Cap) seems to die. Leaving no one stopping her from getting the Wolf. Even in the only song where the Wolf dies, it was caused by Black Cap. She killed the Wolf because she chose her own sister on top of her beloved one, probably killing him because her jealousy was ruining the friendship between her and Red Cap (contrasting the events that happened in «Child's Play» where she chooses the Wolf over Red Cap).

With that in mind, the secret of the forest is that the moon is in Black Cap's side, having the power to create a curse in order for Black Cap to always have a good ending no matter what. I guess in a way, you could say that the moon is always protecting her. Or I guess, you could also say that Black Cap is responsible for all of this.

Ah, and to answer the Wolf's question, the next color that the forest will be dyed in is white. Since, the forest changes colors not only during the night time but also when seasons change, so for it to be red it must mean its currently Autumn. Meaning that it will be dyed white when the next season (Winter) comes by. Its quite interesting in a way, that the next color the forest is going to be dyed in is the same color of the moon. Perhaps its hinting at us that the moon was responsible for all of this all along or perhaps it just means that with Red Cap gone, its finally time for Black Cap to shine and live her happy ending with Mr Wolf.



And with that, we are finally done covering the story!
Took me quite a while to write down all of this but I believe that I covered everything. It was quite hard to understand a few of the songs but even with the difficulties it was overall pretty fun!! I hope that you all enjoyed it as much as I did!

Now, time for the links:

Gothika ～赤羊音戯箱～ (Full Album Playlist without any translation)

Gothika English Translation Playlist by GlassColoredRoses (Sadly they didn't translate anymore songs after the 6th song, which is a shame since their translation is amazing)

Gothika Correct Spanish Translation Playlist (traducción correcta en español) by GhoulTamer (Once again, unfortunately this amazing translator didn't translate any more than this three songs: «Glass Step», «THE OTHERS» and «Pan's Labyrinth». But if you still want to check it out you are free to do so)

«Gothika ～赤羊音戯箱～ lyrics and theories» (Blog created by Meriole) (This was the blog that helped me understand most of the story of Gothika. It's full of incorrect english and had quite a lot of things wrong in its theories, that upon further inspection, I ended up fixing in my article, but I still really appreciate it for making me interested in the Gothika series. If you wish you are free to check the blog out, even though I already covered the Gothika series and pretty much covered what they covered, they made more theories in other albums of Yura. So, if you want to look out and see if you find more albums, that's the right place for you)

Gothika Full Album (Wrong Spanish Translation) (WARNING: This playlist is filled with WRONG spanish translations made by Alioli723, xMechiiStar and Mirtha magaña silva [this last one made their "translation" in the comments of the last song in that playlist]. For as mean as it is for me to point this out, I believe that its fair for me warn the community of the wrong translations that I've stumbled upon and almost believed (and that I saw most of the community believe) that were true due to the lack of translations that there were out there. You are still free to check the playlist out but please take into mind that their translations spread misinformation that's not cannon to the story. Many of them even did admit that their translations were influenced by what THEY thought was the actual story of what was going on (which were just theories without any evidence backing them). So take into mind before diving in that the only correct translation in that playlist is made GhoulTamer of the song «Pan's Labyrinth».

With that warning out of the way, we are truly done!

I hope you enjoyed this story and album as much as I did and that I did a good job at covering this amazing series! 
I also hope you all have an amazing day/night!

And remember,

Dream of the forest~   

Recently, I found myself really curious about a mysterious song from my childhood. Turns out, the mysterious song was called "Child's Play" from a CD called Gothika. Since I was curious about what the story of the song was, I decided to search a little more about it.

Eventually that "little search" ended up in a full hunt for the story of the mysterious CD, since very (and I mean VERY) little information is known about the story of Gothika.

After a lot of research, I found various sources of information that, after putting them all together, gave me this final result on what I think the story of Gothika is. I got most of my information from a person who has made their own blog about not only this CD but various other works from the creator of Gothika (while giving their own personal opinion and mixing it with popular theories of the songs). I will give the links to the songs and sites that I took as reference at the end of this article.

The reason why I'm doing this is because I have been seeing a lot of misinformation spread on the english and spanish community of Gothika, so I've decided to make a journal explaining (what I believe to be) the actual true story of Gothika.

With that out of the way, let's begin.



So, what is GOTHIKA?
Gothika is a CD with a series of songs created by Yura Hatsuki. The CD's full name is Gothika ～赤羊音戯箱～ and it has in total 10 songs (well, it actually has only 8 songs since the first and the last "song" is actually someone giving both the introduction and the ending of the CD's story).  

According to the person who has provided me all of this information through her blog, in Yura's old blog, the only comment she had made towards the songs and the album itself was «Will you succeed to help Little Red Riding Hood to surmount all the traps of the obscure forest?» . And, as you might have guessed, the songs explain the story of Little Red Ridding Hood (which people have named Red Cap), Mr Wolf and Black Cap (Red Cap and Black Cap being both two hares), along with more information of the strange world that they live in. 

About the story of GOTHIKA:
The story of Gothika is actually way more interesting than what one might think. Since, neither the person nor I had success in finding a continuous story between the songs. Though there seems to be constant themes between the songs, such as the color red and black (that are always present in the songs), a mirror and a forest/labyrinth. Which led them to believe that the CD is actually about the three main characters (Red Cap, Mr Wolf and Black Cap) and their various different bad endings. (which I totally agree with, since the songs and the comment of Yura make more sense if we look at the songs that way), so the CD can be considered like a Game of Goose but in a different way: You choose a song in the album and the destiny of our protagonists is in your hands, though, no matter which song you choose, someone will always die at the end (though the one that tends to die the most seems to be Red Cap, making her the main protagonist of Gothika).

So with that in mind, I will explain the most believed theories of each song (and what I personally believe its the actual story of Gothika).


01. 始まりの童話 (The Beginning of a tale for children)
Since Yura never posted the official lyrics, the person only gave a rough translation of what they understood. Since their translation had a lot of broken english, I went to someone else who had a more polished translation and made a rough translation from both the translations. Credit to the majority of the translation goes to GlassColoredRoses.

«A long, long time ago,

There was a black and red forest that was abandoned by man.

There lived an old woman whose mail post read: Red Ridding Hood (Akazuki)

That was a disturbance to the neighboring wolf...

That was where a small king once asked, "How much farther does this path go?"

It’s was a very, very strange forest… 

In the distance, a monster smiles as the moon plays a game of tag.

As today begins two rabbits appear!»

I believe that this introduction explains a little about the world that Red Cap resides in and that this album is actually a collection of stories and themes put together. Anyways, I believe that the black and red forest can be the representation of Red Cap and Black Cap (I will explain more about this in the end of this article). They were both raised by their grandmother who lived in the same house as them (however that can be argued, since the mail post clearly belongs to "Little Red Ridding Hood" aka Red Cap and we never hear about this "old lady" anymore throughout the rest of the whole album. Though she's probably just a secondary character and maybe that's the reason why we don't hear about her anymore).

People believe that the reference to mail post was how the Wolf found Red Cap and Black Cap and that the Wolf had "sent an invitation" to a game of tag with both of them, though that he could only catch only one of them since «If you run after two hares you will catch neither». The game of tag being a slight metaphor on how the Wolf can only choose one of the hares to love. This game could also be a reference to the different endings of this album and how sometimes the game of tag could be because they are all playing together and are friends or that they are playing the game of tag because the Wolf wants to hunt them both (In certain endings the Wolf is a good guy and in others he is a bad guy). Everyone, including myself, also believes that the one who is speaking this introduction is the Wolf himself.


02. 狼の血族 (Wolf and Kin)
This song is probably the most simple bad ending for Red Cap. (Also before I begin, the story I'm about to narrate is from someone who had originally translated the song to spanish . The story isn't canon but I thought it was nicely interpreted by the person who translated it and that it somewhat fits the actual story of the song, even so, I made a few changes so it fits the actual cannon story. So take into mind, the song truly is only about the very last paragraph of the story I'm about to narrate, either you want to accept this initial story as your head cannon or not is up to you.)

This story occurs during fall, just when the ground begins to be covered in lovely crimson leaves. Red Cap was happily taking a walk, laughing playfully as she did so. Though, being so distracted in her own thoughts, she ended up tripping against Mr Wolf. Embarrassed, she apologized to him, to which he replied «Its okay, don't worry about it.» as he gave a gentle smile. She thanked him and said that she should start heading home since it was starting to get late, wishing him that he has a rest of a good day. He wished her the same and they both started heading their own ways. Though, just before Red Cap could start heading home, a question refused to leave her mind. Eventually, she mustered up the courage to ask «Sir, which one of us does your heart belong to? My sister or me?» that, was a question the Wolf had refused to answer various times before. The Wolf looked at her with a serene smile as he gently caressed her cheek and answered «My heart only has one color, red, the color of love.»

In this ending, Red Cap had accepted an invitation to meet Mr Wolf during the night (after having encountered him earlier that day), though, when she encounters him, she ends up being eaten by the Wolf. . . .in the literal way.


03. ガラスのステップ (Glass Step)
(This one gets no story because the spanish translator misinterpreted the story of the song).

This song is from Black Cap's point of view.

Though before I explain anything else, I have to mention that there exists two big theories for this character:

The first one is that she is Red Cap's sister and that she was jealous of the love between Red Cap and Mr Wolf. 
The second theory is that Red Cap and Black Cap are the same person, meaning that Red Cap has split personality.

In my personal opinion, for as much sense as it can make that Red Cap and Black Cap are the same person in the majority of the songs. In the last two songs of the album, that theory would completely make no sense since the events that happen in the last songs can only happen if they are two different people (I will explain that later on). So, taking that into consideration, I will say that the first theory is the canon one since its the only one that makes sense in all the songs of the album.

Anyways, continuing on,

The title of this song Glass Step refers to the "Steps" Black Cap has to take in order to eliminate the Wolf. The "Glass" part is the object she uses to kill him. She mixed poison in a glass cup of wine and offered it to him, ending up killing him.

In the song, many people wonder why she references herself as the "Black Cinderella", my theory is that perhaps that's either her other name (just like Red Cap has her other name to be Little Red Riding Hood) or that perhaps it was just a clever way to refer to the glass cup of wine she gives to the Wolf to the crystal/glass shoe that the prince gave back to Cinderella, making her the "Black Cinderella". Since in Cinderella, the prince giving her the glass shoe made them have a happy ending, while in this case, Black Cap giving the Wolf the glass cup made her have a unhappy ending. Her being the "Black Cinderella" could also be because after realizing what she had done, she regrets having killed the Wolf and now she only wears black dresses in mourning of the loss of her beloved one. Giving her an unhappy ending and making her the "Black Cinderella".

This unhappy ending being the Wolf getting poisoned and killed by Black Cap.

Now when it comes to the reason as to why she did this is a little more unknown since the song barely gives any hints about her reasoning. Though my theory is that Black Cap had fallen in love with the Wolf, however, the Wolf had fallen in love with Red Cap causing Black Cap to be jealous of the love between the two. I believe that her jealousy was ruining her relationship with both Red Cap and the Wolf, leading her to eliminate one of the two. In this case, she chose to kill the Wolf in order to for things to go back to normal between her and her sister, though since she still loved the Wolf, she will forever mourn his death.

I am aware this theory doesn't make much sense when we analyse this song alone, though it soon will make more sense towards the end of this book once we have all of the songs analysed. 

04. Carmilla
This song is actually interesting because Carmilla isn't a character that was created by Yuri.

Carmilla is actually a vampire from a novel written by Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu back in 1872. This novel being one of the first novels exploring the theme of vampires and being the first novel to introduce a female vampire. The story of Carmilla being a direct inspiration to the creation of Dracula itself.

Anyways, many believe (including myself) that Red Cap got lost in the forest and ended up finding the castle of Carmilla. When she entered the castle believing that she would find help, she ended up being locked up in a cell and being tortured by Carmilla. Which makes sense, since Carmilla is only interested in women and little girls. 

Many people also believe that this song is from Carmilla's point of view and her describing how she is a vampire that catches women/children that get lost in the forest, keeping them with chains in some room in her castle (even though the castle is never mentioned, it is mentioned in the start of the song that Red Cap is trapped in chains and that she can't move) and then describing what she does to her victims (which is, well, suck their blood every once in a while, until they eventually die).

So, in this ending, Red Cap dies by Carmilla sucking out all of her blood.


05. 最果ての月 (The Moon to the Ends of the Earth)
In this song, Red Cap succeeds in becoming the Wolf's lover but, unfortunately, the Wolf seems to have gotten cursed with the uncontrollable desire of being evil, making him a «Mad Man» and a «Corrupted Beast». 

Since the Wolf can't control the constant desire of being evil, he can't help but hurt Red Cap and possibly torture her. Making him be in constant despair since he loves Red Cap and doesn't want to hurt her, but he just can't help being evil because of the curse. In the middle of all of this despair, he asks for his beloved to save him from the curse, to which she agrees on and makes a contract with the moon in order to remove the curse from him.

In the end, the Wolf's curse is removed but it came with the cost of Red Cap's life, so whenever he passes by her old house (and sees the mail post) he starts remembering of her and can't help but tear up, knowing that Red Cap will never come back.

Towards the end of the song, its stated that his thoughts of her turn into hate. The hatred possibly coming from the fact that he wanted the curse removed in order to not hurt her but now that the curse is gone, he had lost his beloved one that he so desperately wanted to protect. He hates how unfair the contract was. Making his thoughts, turning into hateful ones.
It is also stated something about a Rosario at the end of the song, the Rosario possibly means the fulfillment of the contract that ended up freeing him from the curse, since a Rosario is used to purify evil souls.


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Ey so I got tagged by this lovely people and !

Rules:
1. You have to post these rules
2. Answer the questions and make 12 new ones
3. Choose 12 people
4. Tag those people
5. Tag backs are allowed

K so let's start da questions by Zara-Stardune :

1. Out of the characters you've created, which is your favorite? (If you haven't created any characters that you like the most yet just name a random character from a fandom you like).
Well I don't really have a favorite character that I created but if I really need to choose then I guess Beatriz. Because she was my first ever character that I ever created and without her, I'm pretty sure none of my other characters would have ever even existed in the first place! Plus, she kinda grew along with me as I learned art! So yeh-

2. Do you like the Russian language?
The Russian language is literally my family's native language XD (Idk how to speak it tho ;w; ) so yeah, I like it -w-

3. What games can you relate to? (Example: Mysterious ones, depressing ones, adventurous ones.)
I usually relate to games that tend to be mysterious and transmit the creator's feelings and thoughts cleverly. Those are the games that intrigue me the most and that I relate to-

4. Do you usually shade when you draw?
Like I always say, "If you know how to shade your drawings well, no matter how bad they are drawn, people will be deceived enough to like it" so yeah, I always shade the drawings that I intend on post...the ones I don't post are usually just sketches-
 
5. Do you always listen to music when you draw?
If I can listen to music then yes, though sometimes I forget to put on the auto-play in my playlists and spend like half an hour drawing without even noticing that I'm not listening to any music XD

6. Do you usually draw digitally or traditionally?
I usually draw digitally, but since lately I had to be more concentrated on designing and planning things for a project I intend on making, I would say that I'm equally drawing in both ways.

7. Does it usually rain in the area you live in?
Well, currently is summer so its not raining much, but around winter and fall tends to rain a lot! A few times on Spring too! Ya know, the normal.

8. Have you ever liked an anime of any sort?
My whole childhood was anime-
I liked anime so much that I actually am trying to adopt that style! I think it mixes realism and cartoons in a really beautiful way so yeah!

9. Do you like calming stories or chaotic ones?
I'm unsure... I guess I like both! If they are well written and done creatively then I can submerse in any story really.
 
10. Do you read comics or literature more?
I usually read literature more, though I really enjoy reading comics as well!

11. Do you like prefer fantasy or horror?
There's nothing better than having both mixed. Then again, like I said, if they are well written then I pretty much like any of them.

12. When you go out, do you have a bag with you to carry items, or do you just use your pockets?
. . .*inhales* both.

Now, DarkArtzYT 's questions:

1. Do you have any siblings?
Does my dog count?

2. Is anyone in your family artistic other than yourself?
Funnily enough, no one else from my family ever got an interest in art. Just me. My grandparents weren't artistic, the grandparents of my grandparents weren't artistic either- and my mom can't draw a horse without making it look like a pig.
So yeah, I'm the only artist in the family

3. Do you draw cartoons or realistic?
Both. I draw ANIME-

4. How many characters do u have?
  ((I have 90+))
Hmmmm I have around or close to 20 characters. Though I would like to say that it doesn't matter if you have more than 100 characters, what really matters is how much thought and love you put into them. A well made and loved character is 1000 times better than having 978688376478467 characters that were lazy, without any thought to them and that you probably will forget and not use them ever again. So remember kiddos, always concentrate on how much a character has rather than how many characters you have.

5. Do redesign characters often?
Yea. Its really rare for me to be satisfied with my first design so I keep on redesigning them until I'm actually satisfied.

6. Nature or technology?
Why not both?

7. Which gender do u draw more?
I tend to draw girls more....but I guess its even since I also draw Sans a lot and Sans is a guy soooo yea-

[]GIVING UP[]
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8. Sweats or shorts?
Uh...I prefer leggings-

9. Pencil or Pen?
Whichever one I have with me at the moment that I am bored somewhere and need to draw-

10. Long or short hair?
Long hair.

11. Hoodies or zip-ups?
I only wear zip-ups-

12. Do u snap ur erasers in half or keep them full sized?
Well, when I was a kid I used to break them but not that I have grown I don't see why I would even break them..?
I mean it only makes them more difficult to use and more easy to lose so yeah I keep them full sized.

AAAAAAAAAND ITS DONE.

also I'ma break one of the rules cus I'm lazy and idc-

You guys are free to choose which pair of questions that I just answered  that you want and answer them. I'm too lazy to make up any questions-

I tag:

Zara-Stardune (you are gonna need to answer your own questions huh? XD)

CarrotPotato (you better do this or I will kill you and your whole family)

yanadianarainbowchan

B1U3L1GHT

Cryptid-Noah

MoonBlood64

CAPSbruh

Jolibe

aI guess its all the peps I have-

You don't need to do this I was just tagging cus I wanted to fill up the space-

ya'll free to do it if you wish even if you weren't tagged!

So...I was doing a speedpaint of my latest drawing and I forgot to pause the recording when I went to sleep....

I just woke up, started to chat with my friend and decided to continue recording and then I see this-



FREAKING 17 HOURS OF RECORDING-

SCREW DA SPEEDPAINT! I AINT EDITING THAT!

SOMEONE JUST DREW FANART OF ONE OF MY FANFICTIONS ON QUOTEV!!!

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LOOK AT IT!!



LOOK AT IT AND PRAISE IT!!

AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH ITS SO BEAUTIFUL!!! I'M GONNA CRI-

Oh in case you were wondering what I'm talking about, I write fanfictions on Quotev (x reader ones cus I can)  and this is fanart of my most recent chapter on my story Dusty Winds (Dusttale Sans x Reader)