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So, Demonbane OC masterpost

They’re my specialest little group of OCs at this point, intended as original antagonists for Kuzaku, accompanying his thematic arc.

Thaddeus “Teddy” Gardner: an unfortunate survivor of the color out of space. As his family died horribly, he — perhaps because of his blindness — happened to unknowingly store the cosmic radiation inside of his own body, thus becoming a kind of prison and a kind of bomb. A certain two members of the Anticross took on a role of his guardians, so that the bomb wouldn’t blow up on them, and gave some certainty and care to his miserable existence without ever intending to.

After the time loop reset, since there’s no one to come for him and save him, he grows up bitter and even less sane that you would’ve expected from a walking talking nuclear threat. The only thing about his condition that he knows for sure is that somehow, somewhere he was supposed to live a different sort of life, and that’s the worst part of it.

Eltdown Shards: a single genuine clay tablet from the Triassic era and eight copies, translations and other kinds of fakes of eight other tablets. A grimoire composed like that was never supposed to have a soul, but Teddy’s uncontrollable cosmic powers forcibly brought them into existence to be his guide dog. They don’t have a grasp on their own identity, as a composite being, and exist in a state of constant torment. However, this is the only kind of partner that would fit Teddy.

Della Kline: in her occult group, she was supposed to be the priestess of Dagon. That way, she would have been consumed by something so much larger that herself, at the peak of her youth and beauty, and her will would have shaped the world. However, the summoning rite was thwarted. Now she’s an office clerk at a publishing company, just an ordinary middle-aged woman, but she still dreams of the sea every time she closes her eyes.

Not a descendant of Deep Ones from Innsmouth — she checked it.

Confessions of Clithanus: a grimoire born of both Christian humility and Lovecraftian resignation to one’s helplessness before the unnameable, she denies her own will. To her, there’s no point in doing — or even wanting — anything, since nothing will matter in the end. That’s what makes the ambitious Della, her accidental owner, despise her apathy and despondency; and that’s what makes her love Della dearly. As she amplifies Della’s unfulfilled ambitions and deep-seated dreams, she grows into a terrifying creature who enables Della to act upon her worst impulses.

Ogawa Haru: an immigrant princess and the spoiled daughter of the famous Ogawa Shinjiro, the second most important business man of Arkham-city after Hadou Kouzo. She claims to be seventeen, a high-schooler in the prime of her youth, but she’s actually twenty two. Her father always took on responsibility for her, wanting to shield her from the horrors of the world, and the mere idea of having agency terrifies her. As she grows older, she becomes fixated on the idea of magic that can stop her physical growth for good, and she’s ready to do anything — and kill anyone — for this power. Overall, a hopelessly shallow girl with an affinity for murder.

Dhôl Chants: a complete failure of a spell book. Her benevolent spells don’t work nine times out of ten, and malevolent ones activate only after the caster’s death. However, she is at peace with her own uselessness — if your entire existence is an arcane joke, what more do you have to lose? All in all, she’s the jester to Haru’s queen, as she freely tells her the truths she doesn’t like pointed out. Whenever Haru isn’t hurling her at the wall, she’s dressing her up in neat girly outfits.

Ambrose Hicks: the owner of Hicks Antique Shop, as was his mother and her mother before her. He’s the only man in an ages-old dynasty of conjure women and female magic practitioners and had to crossdress as a child so that he could be taught properly. He still feels some lingering fondness for his “Rose Hicks” persona, as it’s forever interlinked with his mother being content and happy with him. As he inherited the shop, he attempted to reform it and put its reputation as a rundown hoodoo shop full of fake magical knickknacks to rest, but for some reason that didn’t work out. The only employee of the shop besides him is Teddy (he’s not particularly good, but it’s easier to keep an eye on him that way).

He’s unmarried but considers his grimoire his life partner. He claims that she allowed him to look at the world in an entirely new way — which is a sentence that never brings about anything good.

Book of Thoth: a heavily flawed translation of the original Book of Thoth into Ancient Greek, which — due to a translation error — implores people to look beyond the Ultimate Gate instead of warning them of its dangers. Full of internal inconsistencies, she thinks that the only way for people to go on is to destroy their civilization itself and build everything anew. She is Ambrose’s lover and partner of more than twenty years, manipulating him with the promise of unconditional love and convincing him that Arkham-city has to burn for its people to be happy. To prove their bond, she took one of his eyes and gave him in return the power to glimpse beyond the Ultimate Gate and see other worlds every now and again.

Her plan mostly depends on using Teddy as a bomb and turning Arkham-city into a wasteland. Still, it’s not that she’s evil: it’s just that a fundamental change in meaning fucked up her priorities. At the very least, the affection she feels for Ambrose is genuine.

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5/18 - dark room

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Huevember (2024) 9/18 — Medals 🎖️

GKxHUEVEMBER 2024 prompt list

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Birth of a Spider 🕸️🕷️📕

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Tulpar’s very own! Headed for bigger and better, right?

Curly from mouthwashing hehe

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coming to a theatre near u

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i can perform miracles but i wont cause everyone gets all weird and worshippy , okay fine just one miracle (snaps my fingers and a random dog on the street suddenly explodes like a firecracker)

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falling comet, silver star, beautiful scourge

wandering ghost

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my wife’s love nourishes me after i’ve fought in the trenches of online arguments. it refills my heart with kindness. she sends me a citrus gif and it feels like the familar, homely scent of a lemon pie

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love you so much. wife

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Yeah, it’s just so easy. It’s so easy to perceive Jimmy as an amalgamation of everything evil in the world, this ultimate hateable guy who’s evil because he’s evil. His actions are not to be examined, his thoughts and motivations are not to be looked into, because he doesn’t have them. He’s worse than pure evil — he’s pure unlikeability. That one special person who’s been created in a lab specifically to be evil, bad and wrong.

And we — all of us — are fundamentally different. We’re good just by the virtue of being Good People, not being Evil (an inherent quality of some people and not others). Even when we wish death to others over fictional characters, even when we insult and police others.

I think the true genius of Jimmy’s character lies in making people afraid. I’m hardly new to fandom spaces, but it’s difficult to name another main character hated so universally, so much that any attempt to think about him in depth is considered a crime. It’s because he’s a painful reminder of your own capability for evil, the danger of convincing yourself that you’re good, and others are in the wrong. Of course, most people’s misdeeds are not nearly as grave as Jimmy’s, but it’s a scary thought: what if you yourself may have done something evil, thinking it’s no big deal or convinced you’re in the right? And this fear gives birth to vehement denial of anything even remotely human in Jimmy. Because if you give him some thought, you may discover something deeply unpleasant about yourself.

So yeah, he has to be completely unlikeable. No one should like him. Picking him apart, looking for why he does what he does, is equivalent to being an apologist for him. Bad and wrong.

But for some reason I keep thinking that the people who admit to kinning him are not exactly talking about rape and murder. Don’t even know why is that. Not a single guess.

I've seen some "I low key like Jimmy like I hate what he did but I like his character" posts already and.

If that's you, this game is a commentary on people like you, and you don't even realise it. It's about how he and his actions can't be separated. If you really think he's well written or whatever the hell, appreciate the amazing job the devs did by hating him.

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the true 20th century boys experience is finishing the manga, having a good old laugh at fukubei’s expense, chatting a bit with your friends about how he is a foil, of sorts, to johan liebert — a very ordinary, very human, everyday evil hidden beneath layers of pompous mystery and specialness, — then re-reading the beginning and having another laugh at his pathetic multi-level marketing cult, then re-reading his flashback and musing, bittersweetly, on the way he is even more of an ephemeral existence than sadakiyo and he needed to take on the identity of such a seemingly invisible person as him just to hold on to life, saying “damn. what a sad evil man. no wrongdoing he’s ever committed could make him happy and content” and then fearfully realizing, for the first time, that you kind of sort of like him. a lot.

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the guy

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nine persons

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My gorgeous pookie Tearer drawn by the amazing @vikab ! In love with the brush and shading here, his hat looks amazing!

Speedpaint under the cut!

Some flashing lights warning!

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gonna be honest i think we don’t need a franchise reboot for demonbane. we need an actual good anime, i need a nero figure, and all of us need the right to hunt powerscalers for sport. anything else is way too much.