Uploaded December 2020 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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You thought this would be a regular Daughter of Evil edit, but it was I, the lesbian nun propagandist!
hi everyone it's Red again & this time I'm here to preach about this underrated ship from an underrated HELL of a Vocaloid series I accidentally fell into when I was like 14. but before I do that here's some quick notes;

-yeah it looks like garbage I'm Sorry it was a vent edit
-yes I know the PV I used is not canon-compliant. I think it looks pretty and I needed moving images that weren't super cutesy and also even if Ney is the one who killed Michaela I STILL LIKE THE AESTHETIC OF ALLEN RELUCTANTLY STABBING HIS FIRST LOVE TO DEATH IN A FOREST leave me alone ;w;
-for those of you who don't know, yes, the characters look familiar because they're based on Vocaloids -- this is an AMV for a series of Vocaloid songs (which were adapted into light novels & manga)
-shoutout to Mitzi for beta'ing the first 10 seconds of this and also listening to me infodump about evichro in the hopes that she'd get into it
-shoutout to Jo for putting up with my evichro BS for like, 5 years at this point

with that aside!! I was really excited to edit this because I haven't edited Evillious since, what, 2017 maybe? and those were really bad MEP parts. it's nice to be able to dedicate a significant amount of effort to interpreting one of my favorite series as a video. this video was actually supposed to focus solely on Clarith and Riliane, but because they have NEXT TO NO CONTENT available on the internet (I have no access to the Act 3 and 4 manga chapters), I had to pad it out with some of the other DoE characters in the first half. which kind of worked out because one of the most interesting things about these two is the fact that their backstories are so similar. they come from completely different places and are of wildly different social statuses. for almost the entire story, they're bitter enemies, even if they've never met each other. but one thing's for certain: they were lonely, miserable people before their respective "special person" came along.

in Clarith's case, that "special person" was someone she came to love romantically, while for Riliane, that person was simply her brother -- but either way, Michaela and Allen both served as the reasons for them to smile and go on.

but unlike Clarith, Riliane doesn't know what she has until she loses it. the war takes both Allen and Michaela in the end, and their two loved ones are left to cope on their own. it's a really beautiful thing that Riliane found her way to the monastery where Clarith fled to; somehow, they became the best of friends, when unknowingly they had hated each other not long before. if Clarith had known who Riliane really was, there is absolutely NO way she would've treated her as kindly.
so when Clarith overhears Riliane in the confessional, she's faced with a dilemma. this lovely, beautiful person she's gotten to know is the stone-hearted genocidal lunatic who laughed as Michaela died. what is she going to do? well, Seth interferes because of course he does, and Clarith ends up deciding she'll stab Riliane that night. but like.

when Allen's spirit jumps in front of Riliane to protect her, it's literal sure, but it's also metaphorical to me. as if in that moment, Clarith realized that Riliane had her own special person in Allen. just like Clarith, she was also a lonely little girl who had nothing until someone else came along, and then that very very important person was taken away from her. in a way, the only difference between Clarith and Riliane had been circumstance.

and it's that moment of hesitation, when she breaks free of Seth's influence and opts out of killing Riliane, that means everything to me. it's why I ship this. because of the idea that someone could forgive another person, no matter how evil they had once been, all for the fact that that person was a human too. it would be hard to stop ourselves from bringing the knife down if we were in Clarith's situation. the fact that she was able to realize for herself that Riliane had also been through a lot, and genuinely wanted to change; and she was willing to control her own anger for the sake of giving someone a chance to be better: that's the bottom line. Clarith truly becomes the kind of person Michaela was, in that moment

would Clarith have even planned to kill Riliane if Seth hadn't manifested there? I don't know. maybe it's spelled out in the manga, maybe I'll find out when I finally buy and read it for myself. but does it really matter? in the end, regardless of why she found herself on that beach in the first place, Clarith was able to come to terms with the fact that even the Daughter of Evil was a human being too.

thanks for watching, and if you've gotten to the bottom here, thanks for reading.