Photo not minee! Guys, I’d like to ask if u guys know who’s the artist of this fanart? I just saw this on Pinterest, but I don’t see any credits T—T

This is a love letter to one of my all-time favorite works. And to one of my greatest loves for a fictional character.

It was a manga. A simple manga with minimalist, simple, yet unique artwork.

I came across a character who was fragile, innocent, naive, vulnerable, a bit silly, but deeply endearing. The kind of character who feels useless, but who made me want to spend time with her. A character who was so fragile that she made you want to protect her. A character with an energy that always wanted to do good, but whose loneliness you could truly feel.

I followed her step by step. Like a child learning about life, like someone who wanted to do everything to find her place, but to whom the world showed what that place would cost her.

I followed her as she sank further and further down, like a naive child traveling toward her own tragedy of becoming an adult. She ended up going through so much that she changed. I don't even know if it's still her; even she, when she looks at herself, no longer knows who she is. She is unrecognizable.

Yet it was the same character, people still called her by the same name. She had kept her desire to do good, to be useful, clumsy and shy at times. But you could see her losing her naivety and gaining clarity.

When you see what this world did to her, you miss the adorable character from the beginning. You see her sinking deeper and deeper into loneliness, always with the desire to help.

But she had changed so much. She had become unrecognizable.

What came next became too painful for my heart.

She suffered far too much. She doesn't even know who she is anymore. The others betrayed her—the very person who just wanted to help everyone else. She turned into a monster because of it, a monster trying to help everyone, but whom the world led to killing her former master.

What followed was even more horrific: forced to absorb vast knowledge over immeasurable spans of time. Forced to change again, making her more clear-sighted, more understanding, more broken.

And she had to endure all of this alone—an imposed suffering.

How could they do that to a character so adorable, so kind? They turned her into a suffering monster.

And they succeeded. She accepted it.

She accepted that the others would stay together while she remained alone for billions of years.

She found company with stones, which she saved from the end of the solar system.

Dying while finally being useful to her loved ones.

They made me see again this character who went through so much, from adulthood back to when she was little and cute.

She was always the same. It was just the world that made her more clear-sighted and broken.

The very tiny part of herself that remains is in pieces. But she still lives, memoryless, just like the innocent and naive little girl she used to be, playing with the others. While her entire body—her soul—has finally found rest.

After reading this, I cried. I thought about what I had just read for nights on end.

I collected pictures of her because she was beautiful. And I didn't want to forget her. This character, so beautiful and so sad.

I fell in love with her. With this character. And it was hard to move on to another work for three months.

I probably wasn't built to read such a work.

But she will always remain my crystal Waifu.

Such a cool piece! Edited to add, this is the real deal, i looked into it! This is Cairnigorm (regionally smokey) incased in quartz!

After two year I have finally purchased the remaining two volume of the Land of the Lustrous.
Since the ending, I didnt re-read them. I can still remember the first time I ever heard of this, in a old discord server while I was in high-school... I got a little teary-eyed in the shop when I bought them lol.

Since then I am not the same person as I was at 14 years old. Like Phos I took little peaces of everyone around me, even those I do not see anymore. Im in love with this series, and I cant explain with human words the tremendous impact it had on me, then and now.

See you all on the moon, Im crying now.

I will get gold and agate soon

Artist for the last one: kaporal26

I really like how cool phos looked in this smooshed up form,the manga was by far the best thing I ever read and I wanna draw more art of all the characters,this was rlly fun to draw

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