#blame phantom of the opera and the fact that my inspiration came from listening to the songs on repeat

[wanderingchocolateeclair]

Masquerade of Sinners au… may I introduce you to one of my most recently favourite AUs?

Seeing as it is spooky month now, I think it’s quite fitting to share this one! Starting with simply some of the doodles I did over the past few months in my spare time! Edgejeanist and ectoloader designs only at the moment-

The lore for this one is. Fairly Complicated. And. A Lot. So I shall do a separate lore post!

For now have some basic info for the au:

(Includes stuff revolving around angels and demons, the divine, heavens and worship and religion and all that sort of stuff as a heads up:)

Shinya is the devil!

Tsunagu is a fallen angel that fell(literally) in love with him. Is known simply as the devils lover.

Ecto is a demon with a Backstory

Higari is. Complicated /lh (He’s a demon but there’s a Whole Ass Backstory, he has died and reincarnated twice)

This au was meant to be a simple edgejeanist centric au. It is now VERY ectoloader. They’ve taken over my brain for this au in particular.

Anyway, the Sinners (human sinners and certain demons/fallen angels) are individuals that get to attend special masquerade balls hosted by Shinya.

This is the Masquerade of Sinners, and they have their disguises for when regular humans pop up sometimes.

The masks are specially made by Shinya, through the eyes of these masks you can see the Sinners for what they truly are! Their demonic forms are shown.

These masks also help to contain the dangers of so many sinners being grouped together partying on unholy land.

Tsunagu’s a special case, the divine’s grasp on him hadnt fully let go out of spite and basically one night decided to dish out extra punishment.

Tsunagu’s mask broke and unleashed a wave of divinity across the ballroom, turning everyone inside into statues and causing him to crumble away and cease to exist.

They’re all kinda stuck like this now. For a long time.

Long enough for Random People to turn Shinya’s house into a museum. (Like 100years perhaps)

However, they notice that the stone(?) statues that have masks on them seem to move and murder at a certain time period in the night. Demonic presence is detected also

They decide to lock up the ballroom and create fake statue replicas out of wood and wax and simply move the masks to these statues for presentation.

This doesn’t fix anything as the masks cause them to possess these as well.

The main plot follows a reincarnation of Tsunagu, as he feels drawn to the mansion.

He relives events and goes through helping each statue receive their respective masks around the mansion, befriending demons that he can see and learning about himself.

Eventually he manages to free Shinya and then everyone else and dies in the process allowing Shinya to bring him back as he was before. As a Sinner <3

There’s some spooky aspects and plenty of backstories for each of the characters! But that’ll be in another post!!

As for ectoloader… they’re gonna need their own long post. Let’s just say that Ecto is a sad and traumatised yet murderous lil demon and Higari is deeply deeply in denial about being a sinner heheh :]

I have several more wips and doodles for this au! So I hope you enjoy <3