#fanby: raze

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I keep writing narrative foils where one gave up their humanity or divinity willingly and the other had it ripped from them.

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Thanks for the tag, @song-writer-melo-wrath ! <3

I did more than one too, lol. I’m not going to tag anyone in particular, but if this post is on your dash and you want to participate, consider this your invitation to do so! :3

Picrew – @/milqueandtoast

Raze – Love as a Flaw

Cowering, your love hides in the dark. In shadows and under cover of night, your love runs from corner to corner, afraid to linger, afraid to be caught. Afraid, afraid, afraid of everything. When you fall in love, it is with alarm bells ringing. Your love is a mistake, a flaw in the code, a purchase you don’t remember making and desperately want to return. You didn’t ask for this. You didn’t want this. It’s a problem–– your problem ––and you would do anything to pass it off, burn it away, scoop it out of you with bare hands, or carved out with hooked knives before it can destroy you. Get it out, just get it out now. You don’t care who you hurt in the process, only that you can’t afford to be hurt first. Being loved by you is to be loved by a figment of the imagination. It is to be loved in halves, or not at all.

I also have some aromantic irony in my choices for this, mainly because I don’t have many OCs that are fleshed out enough to do this with. The feral Fallen aroace OC got ‘Love as a Flaw.’ Yeah, that checks out.

Dual – Love as a Choice

You choose to love. Love does not come to you easily, but every day you wake up and choose it. It would be so easy, wouldn't it, to grow cold and callous and grim. But you rise to greet the world, making the conscious effort to find something, anything to love. When you fall for someone, you do not kid yourself of their flaws. Instead, you resolve to see them for who they are, mistakes and all and you love them all the same. Your love is work, and it does not come easy. Your love sweats and toils. It is calloused and sunburned; it bears scars and comes with stories. Your love is worn, but it is no less valuable for it. Being loved by you is like being loved by a gardener, a mother, a teacher. Your love may not always be the simplest, but it is worth the effort.

Oh-ho-ho, this also checks out in perhaps the worst way possible. No, I will not be elaborating. :)

Also, this is not helping the urge to start shipping Raze and Dual. They’d be such a nightmare for everyone around them (and occasionally for each other). Queerplatonic FWB, but the “benefits” in question are hard kink, keeping each others’ secrets, and murdering each others’ enemies.

Picrew – @/wervty

Eve – Love as Religion

Devotion, that is the name of your love. Your love is an act of worship. Your love is like witnessing the birth of Venus, like seeing the sun come alive, or the stars fall. When you love, it is because you have found God in a lover. You have found the meaning of life itself in the heart of the one you adore. They are everything to you; they are your Maker, and you are their lamb, their flock, their first and holiest worshipper. When you fall in love, it is as a baptism. You are born anew, made a believer in the divinity of the one you love most. Being loved by you is an ascension; it is holy and golden. It is all-consuming, and all-faithful, loyal as the dog. You will never, ever bite back.

No surprises there, lol. This is how Eve describes meeting Lilith: “She was blasphemy and salvation, she was glory and grace and safety and sin, and she was the most beautiful person Eve had ever laid eyes on.” I was not subtle on the religious themes. She’s still figuring herself out – something she never had the chance to do under Adam and God – but she’s nothing if not devoted.

oc insight | What kind of love are you?

take this quiz as one (or more, in my case) of your OCs

So, thank you to @treshmind , @1000punks , and @neckromantics for all tagging me in this, haha!

I, as always, have many characters, so I'll pick two pairs of them. And before I get into it, I'll tag @fanby-fckry , @cannibaclysm , @rosewritesstoof , and @spiderin-space , since I know you folks have some pretty cool OCs.

First off, Pathos:

Athmoth | Love as a Choice

You choose to love. Love does not come to you easily, but every day you wake up and choose it. It would be so easy, wouldn't it, to grow cold and callous and grim. But you rise to greet the world, making the conscious effort to find something, anything to love. When you fall for someone, you do not kid yourself of their flaws. Instead, you resolve to see them for who they are, mistakes and all and you love them all the same. Your love is work, and it does not come easy. Your love sweats and toils. It is calloused and sunburned; it bears scars and comes with stories. Your love is worn, but it is no less valuable for it. Being loved by you is like being loved by a gardener, a mother, a teacher. Your love may not always be the simplest, but it is worth the effort.

Mythos | Love as a Flaw (as a side note, the irony of choosing both one of my grey-romantic characters and one of my aromantic characters for this is not lost on me)

Cowering, your love hides in the dark. In shadows and under cover of night, your love runs from corner to corner, afraid to linger, afraid to be caught. Afraid, afraid, afraid of everything. When you fall in love, it is with alarm bells ringing. Your love is a mistake, a flaw in the code, a purchase you don’t remember making and desperately want to return. You didn’t ask for this. You didn’t want this. It’s a problem–– your problem ––and you would do anything to pass it off, burn it away, scoop it out of you with bare hands, or carved out with hooked knives before it can destroy you. Get it out, just get it out now. You don’t care who you hurt in the process, only that you can’t afford to be hurt first. Being loved by you is to be loved by a figment of the imagination. It is to be loved in halves, or not at all.

But also, doing Melowrath with this quiz feels necessary.

Melody | Love as Youth

Your love is buoyant. Your love is bountiful. It is ageless, and it will never age. When you fall in love, it is breathless. It is joyful and endless, it is magnificent. You think it, like your youth , will last forever. Youth is eternal, and so is your love. Your love skips rocks and tells stories, your love roasts marshmallows over fires, and laughs freely. Your love does not take itself too seriously. Your love is jumping into puddles just to watch the water splash, and dancing in the rain, and it is watching Sunday morning reruns of cartoons to feel young once more. Your love is forever, forever young. Being loved by you is to be loved by the summer months. And those never end, do they? Well, I won’t tell if you don’t.

Wrath | Love as a Threshold

Your love does not ask for much. Your love does not take. Your love is free, and unquestioned, and here for wherever needs it. When you fall in love, it is as gentle as a breath in the night. It is quiet, and it is effortless. It is tender. If your love was a house, it would readily welcome all who come through. If your love was a hearth, it would warm the hands of whoever stopped by, whether for a day, a month, a year, or forever. When you fall for someone, it is without strings, without conditions, without need. You love for the sake of loving, for the sake of caring for those who need it. You love with a giver’s heart and a giver’s hands and are made so much stronger for it. Being loved by you is to always feel at home. Your love may not always be well-received by those unprepared to linger, but it is unforgettable all the same.

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Saw this tag game and wanted to play, but I wasn’t tagged, so I’m starting my own chain, lol.

Character and Creator

Make you and your OC in this picrew!

Raze didn’t work super well in this one, so I made Eve from the Unholyverse! Her hair is actually a bit curlier than that (more 3a or 3b), but I worked with what I had!

Tagging: @i-write-sin-not-tragedy @moonrose91 @song-writer-melo-wrath and anyone else who wants to play!

And here’s Raze:

The cross should be inverted, and its hair is supposed to be a side-shave on one side, not this. But what can you do?

And ya know what? Fuck it. Human!Dual.

Of course they have blue hair and pronouns (reference/joking). (Sorry, I had to.) They’ve also got the best approximation of grunge I could manage here, because they died a broke 20-something in the 90’s. I haven’t decided on a human name for them, so they’re still just Dual.

Dual’s Sinner form is impossible to make in a picrew. They’re un-picrew-able. Elemental demon that’s half water, half fire; half femme, half masc.

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WIP Wednesday!

I was tagged by both @minimosquitogirl and @grownupchangeling!

No pressure tags for: @i-write-sin-not-tragedy, @vestadragon, @there-and-gone, and anyone else who wants to play! :3

This is uh. A snippet of my entirely self indulgent, OC-focused fic, because all my other active WIPs right now are so short that it doesn’t make sense to post snippets.

No real content warnings to give; the fic is pretty tame given the fandom, and the snippet is even tamer.

“Could be, but…  I don’t think they’re with Heaven anymore.” Vaggie’s heart leapt into her throat and stuck there.  Another Fallen Exorcist?  That couldn’t be right, could it? “Why do you say that?” Vaggie asked, trying not to sound like her entire world view was being flipped on its head again. The Exorcists were an indivisible force.  They acted as one, obeying Adam’s commands unquestioningly and without hesitation.  Vaggie had never seen any of her comrades put so much as a toe out of line.  She was the first, the last, the only.  The black sheep, the prodigal daughter.  And she was punished accordingly. Angel shrugged.  “Vibes, mostly.” Vaggie blinked.  She could feel a migraine coming on, pain radiating behind her remaining eye. “Vibes?” she repeated. “Yeah. They’re outta uniform. And they look pretty Hellish for an angel. Sharp teeth, black claws, stuff like that.” Vaggie’s teeth had grown sharper since her Fall, slowly shifting into something more demonic as she spent more time cut off from Heaven and her Grace.  Lucifer looked like he’d gotten the same treatment a million times over. How long had this mysterious Exorcist been living here to have teeth and claws that matched the Hell they’d Fallen to?  And how had Vaggie never heard so much as a whisper about them until they showed up on the hotel doorstep? “I need to see this for myself.”

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Raze Ref Sheet

Introducing my edgy Fallen angel OC! 12 year old me would be proud. :,)

Reference Pics:

Picrew – @/milqueandtoast

Picrew – @/Potato Lord

Picrew – @/thereisteainmyshoes

Content Warning: Self-harm (not-detailed), self surgery (not-detailed), canon-typical violence and murder

Basic Info:

Name: Raze Pronouns: It/its (but won’t correct anything other than she/her) Gender(s): Agender, boything, nonbinary, transmasc, transneu Gender Expression: Butch, masc Sex: FTX Orientation(s): Bi-angled aroace, bi-sensual, bi-aesthetic, bi-queerplatonic, romance-oscillating, sex-averse, kink-favorable Species: Fallen Exorcist/Fallen angel Age: 20’s (biologically), 50’s (chronologically)

Appearance:

Distinguishing Features: White feathered wings with patches of light red resembling bloodstains; black claws and black fingers Hair Color: White Hair Texture: Straight; brittle Hair Style: Side shave (right), hair goes down a little past its shoulders Eyes: White irises with dull red scleras Skin: Very light grey, almost white; black claws and fingertips Face: Square jaw; sharp cheekbones; crooked nose; large eyes; thick eyebrows; sharp teeth and lopsided smile Body Type: Relatively thin with wiry muscles; flat chest; boxy/androgynous frame Height: ≈ 5’5” Scars: Top surgery scars; multiple scars on arms and legs of various sizes (all from angelic steel blades) Body Modifications: Septum piercing, multiple ear piercings in right ear Clothing: Black, backless, sleeveless turtleneck; black, men’s jeans; black, angelic steel-toe boots; silver chains on its belt; two sheaths for angelic steel daggers, one on either leg; angelic steel arm-guards on both forearms, hidden under black fabric; black leather choker with an inverted pentacle; aroace rings (black ring on right-hand middle finger for ace, white ring on left-hand middle finger for aro)

Backstory:

Once a formidable Exorcist, Raze Fell when it killed one of its comrades during an Extermination.  It had a reputation among angels for being “difficult,” and often fought with other Exorcists, including its superiors; it generally avoided Winners. Its destructive tendencies extended to self-injury, and it discovered that angelic steel can cause permanent damage to Exorcists after one of its self-inflicted wounds scarred. Its decision to kill its comrade was impulsive, but it was fairly sure the damage would be permanent.  The two Exorcists had fought before, and Raze certainly harbored a grudge against her.  Once the deed was done, Raze opted not to return to Heaven, knowing there was nothing for it there. It found Heaven boring and restrictive, anyway, and disliked most angels—especially Adam. Damnation was an escape from a gilded cage, and it regrets nothing. After Falling, Raze shed the name (and pronouns) Adam gave it, and chose to name itself after the destruction it harolds.  It no longer identified with its Heavenly nature or femininity, and embraced inhumanity and gender nonconformity. Through some experimentation with self-expression, it began making alterations to its body, including piercings, top surgery, and testosterone shots, as well as growing out its hair, except for one side which it keeps shaved. Some changes were simply a natural result of long-term exposure to Hell.  Its halo dropped, its wings changed colors, its teeth sharpened, and its fingernails morphed into claws and changed colors, claws and fingers turning black.

Currently:

Raze lives a transient lifestyle, wandering the seven Rings without calling any of them home.  It seldom makes friends and often makes enemies.

Personality:

Volatile, impulsive, destructive.  Prone to violence, both towards others and itself.  Easily bored.  Earning its loyalty is near impossible, but if you manage it, you will never get rid of it.

Abilities:

Enhanced strength and reflexes

Skilled with multiple weapons (daggers, swords, spears) and hand to hand combat

Regeneration and accelerated healing (from injuries not made by angelic steel)

Night vision (tapetum lucidum)

Flight

Multilingualism (English, Enochian, Tongues)

Voice:

Raze has a strong, somewhat rough, androgynous voice with a higher pitched, cackling laugh. It can switch tones quickly, from distant and condescending, to sadistic and manic, to dark and threatening.

Music:

Leitmotif: TBD Song-Style: An unholy combination of folk, country, rock, and alternative Singing Voice: Strong, powerful; generally in alto-tenor range, but can hit some impressive high notes; can be very animalistic when singing: growling and howling when the mood calls for it. Dance Style: Dances like it fights (idk; I’m not a choreographer)

Fighting Style:

Angelic steel daggers deal slash and stab damage

Occasionally bludgeons opponents by kicking them with its angelic steel toed boots

Can use other weapons and fight hand-to-hand, but prefers daggers and boots

Uses its angelic steel arm-guards to block attacks

Prefers to parry or block over dodging

Uses flight to improve mobility and gain advantage against non-flying opponents

Quick, rough, unpredictable

Fights dirty; doesn’t pull punches

Misc. Facts:

Raze was created by Adam using the rib tree method.

Raze gave itself its piercings using angelic steel needles

Raze preformed its own top surgery using angelic steel, after several practice runs with non-angelic tools; the non-angelic surgeries were subject to regeneration, but the final project healed roughly the way it would on a human

Its halo fell off on its own shortly after Falling; sometimes a dark/shadowy version of a halo is visible above its head while fighting or emotional

Raze likely would’ve been expelled from Heaven for infighting and disregard for authority. I once likened its Fall to “…being a few writeups shy of getting fired, and deciding to stab your least favorite coworker, steal a bunch of office supplies, and flee the country about it,” and I stand by that.

I know Hellaverse characters don’t have ears unless they’re animal ears, and Raze’s design does, but I like humanoid ears, ok? 😭 It wouldn’t have ears in the Hellaverse style, but if I ever draw it, it’s getting ears.

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RAZE

Raze is a Fallen Exorcist who lost its grace after killing a fellow Exorcist, and now lives a mostly secluded life in Hell.

It has a volatile and unpredictable personality, and is prone to fighting allies and enemies alike.

Audition Song: “Raise Hell” by Dorothy or “Blood // Water” by grandson

Voice Notes: Raze has a strong, somewhat rough, androgynous voice with a higher pitched, cackling laugh. It can switch tones quickly, from distant and condescending, to sadistic and manic, to dark and threatening. Nonbinary or genderqueer actor preferred; any age or ethnicity.

(Picrew Credit: milqueandtoast)

Let’s be real, though – Raze doesn’t need a casting call, because I would play it. >:3c

Let’s do some casting calls for our Hazbin OCs!

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I completely forgot that I scheduled Raze’s ref post for today. I did it last night at like 3 am while unable to sleep.

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Also, remember when I said I wanted my icon to be more creature-shaped? Raze is very creature-shaped. :3

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This is a slightly unserious response cuz I think there’s probably a better answer out there I’m not paying enough attention to give you 😔 but: guy you can make aroace with mad game anyway

#new ask game just dropped whats my certain character archetype

Lol, yeah, unfortunately, I think that’s just Alastor.

Lilith is aroallo with mad game, and UHverse Arackniss is aroace with zero rizz. He has no game whatsoever, to the point where I’m thinking of writing a fake dating fic where he makes an arrangement with a lesbian to be each other’s beards so Henrion gets off his back about “having two [insert slur here] sons.”

Bonus points if the lesbian gf uses this as a way to get closer to Molly and they wind up together. I still think the idea of all 3 of the spider siblings being queer is funny as hell.

In terms of OCs, Raze has some game, I suppose? But only in the sense that it’s decently attractive and insanely feral, which a lot of people are into. It’s not trying to be any kind of appealing (unlike Alastor, who is purposefully charismatic for (usually) non-flirty reasons and accidentally attracts other kinds of attention), it just has sharp teeth and bloodlust.

Nice unserious answer, though! Gave me a chance to talk about aroace Arackniss and my feral Fallen angel OC.

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Also, I feel I should state that while Raze is edgy as fuck and has a fashion sense more in line with this, its musical inspiration is actually more of like…

Idk how to explain this.

It’s that specific overlap of folk/rock/country with themes of religion and violence and rebellion and revenge where the string instruments are awesome and the vocals are strong and a little growly.

Does anyone know what I’m talking about?

Thinking about switching Dual’s DOD to be in the late aughts-early 10’s so that I can tap into my emo/alt/numetal music phase (is it a phase if it never ended?) for their song inspo.

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You are totally welcome to add on!

And I’ve been trying to make character playlists for both Dual and Raze, but the decision paralysis is getting to me. I can’t decide how I wanna organize them. 😭😭😭

There’s like 3 kinds of songs I want for each of them:

Musically (but not necessarily narratively) relevant

Narratively (but not necessarily musically) relevant

Voice claims

Like ‘Highway to Hell’ is pretty perfect for Raze, narratively, but doesn’t fit its voice and isn’t exactly what I’m going for sound-wise. Meanwhile, ‘Hell’s Coming With Me’ hits 1 and 2, but Raze is not an underdog dispensing vigilante justice, it’s a fucking maniac who lives to cause trouble for no good reason.

I think I’m just gonna have to make 3 playlists for each of them and then maybe a 4th to stick it all together.

Thinking about switching Dual’s DOD to be in the late aughts-early 10’s so that I can tap into my emo/alt/numetal music phase (is it a phase if it never ended?) for their song inspo.

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Unintended consequence of trying to work on their playlists:

I’m now making a ship playlist. I’m shipping them. By Talos, this can’t be happening…

Thinking about switching Dual’s DOD to be in the late aughts-early 10’s so that I can tap into my emo/alt/numetal music phase (is it a phase if it never ended?) for their song inspo.

[i-write-sin-not-tragedy]

YEESSSS GIVE ME THE OC SHIP LORE I LOVE

But oh my god i get it kwkdkek

I have a playlist for Dustcloud, for Cloud and Sunlight, one for just Cloud and then one for Fixer Upper overall (which is mostly musical songs that narratively fit what tv-fucker and I have written out so far. Sunlight also has a playlist lol)

I might. Have a voice claim for Cloud. Maybe. I might make a playlist around that bc the singer im thinking of for him has a lot of songs that could suit him

(I actually landed on picking the voice claim not, because its a singer i love but because he did a cover of a song I've been using as Clouds main character song and hearing it made me go !!!!!!)

Anyway yes my discord is always open to hearing you talk about these two♡

Thinking about switching Dual’s DOD to be in the late aughts-early 10’s so that I can tap into my emo/alt/numetal music phase (is it a phase if it never ended?) for their song inspo.