#kethmannoth

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forever adjusting keth's designs

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keth redesign part 2 — I've decided to go with a more skeletal look and less towering height for keth's chosen form, with an emphasis on him making himself still imposingly tall with prominent fangs but very slight and thin (and there's a whole ton of reasons for that, things he both would and wouldn't admit). I also wanted to resign his true form to be scarier, more nightmarish, and bigger / more threatening that his chosen form. keth is by no means a big scary tough guy, but his true form betrays his demonness and his capability for violence and harm. I also wanted to play more with animal inspirations, going with more of a vaguely feline and/or greyhound look for his chosen form, and some kinda huge fucked up nightmare horse-inspired build for his true form

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keth's true form <3 originally a sloth demon, keth learned to shapeshift to be able to engage with humans, with whom he is fascinated. this is why he created his chosen flesh form, which is comparatively much closer to human size and shape, and less frightening. as a trickster and deceiver through and through, even his true form has a mask, and it is unclear whether it is physically part of him or not. if there is anything underneath, no one has ever seen it.

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some marker style bedevil posters / covers

[ID: two digital drawings and two detail crops of the drawings. the first shows keth, a lithe demon with black patchy fur, red skin, and a skeletal face bound in chains. it stands casually, it's all white eyes streaming white smoke. the second shows father eli, a young pudgy priest with light skin and short light hair, who is standing with his back to the viewer while smoking a cigarette, looking mildly annoyed. the detail crops show close ups on each of their faces. end ID]

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wanted to try out a more stylized redraw of this piece with keth's updated design <3 I like how skrungly he looks

[ID: a digital drawing and a detail crop depicting father eli, a young priest with light skin and ginger hair, kissing keth, a red skeletal demon with black fur on its head and shoulders. eli is blushing and has his eyes closed while keth's are narrowed, all-white, and streaming white smoke. there is white smoke coming from their mouths as well, and eli is holding onto a heavy iron collar around keth's neck attached to a chain. the background is pink and glowy. end ID]

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lucifer revealing (my first design for) keth's true form

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someone who's willing to burn the world down for the one person they care about... that's a man I understand.

some old paintings of eli & keth that have been sitting in my drafts for ages

[image ID: six digital paintings of father eli, a thin young priest with light skin and short strawberry blonde hair, and keth, a demon with red skin and black fur bound in chains and with smoking pouring from its mouth and eyes. the first is of keth standing in the dark, eyes, teeth, and chains the only things clearly visible. the second is of eli in his usual black shirt and clerical collar standing in front of a sunny window in a cobbled wall with his arms crossed, smiling very gently. the third is of eli seen from slightly below as he stands in the dark, sweaty and panting, lit from the right by a red light. the fourth is of eli laying in a bed with white sheets, his head on his arm and his hand reaching cautiously out of frame, wearing no visible clothes. the fifth is of eli standing on a train platform in the amber glow of sunset as a train streaks by, shown from behind in his jacket and wide brim hat, smiling wide. as he looks off to the right. the sixth is of keth again, an animated version of the first painting that is brighter lit, showing keth is crying. the smoke is animated to move. end ID]

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they're a package deal

[image ID: two versions of a redraw of the barbie and ken mugshot meme. on the left is eli, a young thin priest with light skin and short strawbwrry blonde hair, looking serious as he holds up his name plate reading "elias leon." on the right is keth, a very tall demon with dark fur, striated red skin, big sharp teeth and white eyes streaming white smoke, who is smiling wide as he hold up his name plate reading, "and keth." end ID]

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winners of the most terrible oc couple poll, father eli & keth (shown here in their possession form)

[image ID: a digital drawing and detail crop of eli, a young priest with light skin, short strawberry blonde hair, and a clerical collar, who is possessed by keth, a demon who gives eli sharp fangs, all white eyes streaming white smoke, soot all over, claws, and slashes in his cheeks. they are giving two big thumbs up and smiling and wearing a t-shirt over their collared clerical shirt that reads "worst guys of all time." the background is a muted pink and the detail crop focuses on their head & shoulders. end ID]

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"forgive me, father—there is something very wrong with me."

happy halloween, here's some bedevil art <3

[image ID: a digital sketch page in greyscale featuring father eli, a thin young priest with light skin and shortish hair, and keth, a tall lithe demon with long skeletal limbs and patches of dark fur. the are shown together with keth sliding its hands under eli's clothes and saying "relax, elias..." eli is also shown taking communion, breathing in thick smoke with keth's hand on his chin, turned to the side as a roasry around his neck is pulled taut, and with longer scraggly hair and a beard, peering up with a deep etched misery as someone says "eli? what the hell happened?" end ID]

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trying to simplify designs for bedevil to make comics easier

[ID: three drawings of father eli, a young thin priest with light skin and short light hair, and keth, a tall lithe demon with skeletal features and fur. they are shown in several busts, some full bodies of keth, and some with keth possessing eli. end ID]

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some possessed eli pose practice. you're welcome /lh

[image ID: five digital sketches in blue of father eli, a thin young priest with light skin and short light hair, who is possessed by a demon that makes him appear taller, more muscular, and with all-white eyes, slashes in his cheeks, and a long thin tail. the first shows him from behind holding an axe at his side. the second shows him in a dramatic standing pose holding a hand forward and smiling, his clothes ripped. the third shows him holding a skeletal demon with wings in a headlock, saying, "quit squirming." the fourth shows him curled up on the ground naked with a dark cloth draped over him and lashes visible on his upper back, his eyes closed and brow furrowed. the fifth shows him seated on a block and leaning on his hand, looking bored. end ID]

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oc phone doodles part 1

[image ID: four images of simple drawings. the first shows father eli, a thin priest with light hair, burying his face in the chest of keth, a tall muscular demon with striated skin and patches of fur. text below the drawing reads "[muffled screaming]." the second shows ocelot, a tall muscular man with tattoos and light shaggy hair, standing next to glasses, a short skinny man with short dark hair and round glasses, who is holding a sniper rifle. both of them are covered in blood and one of ocelot's hands is behind glasses with the label "hand on his ass" as glasses furrows his brown and blushes. ocelot smiles calmly. a screenshot of a textpost by angelhannah is above the drawing, reading, "Guy who's a shameless flirt and guy who's too autistic for this." the third shows xavier, a tall fat clown in a jester hood, wearing a t-shirt that reads, "I'm the dog they put with cheetahs to keep them from going crazy in captivity." clutching their arm is puck, a short thin clown with shaggy hair in short pigtails and a pleated shirt wearing a matching shirt that reads, "I'm the cheetah that is threatening to go crazy." puck is wide-eyed and there is a text label with an arrow pointing to him that reads, "thought too hard about a creepypasta." the fourth is a two panel comic that begins with a screenshot of a tweet by EmmaJanetPettit that reads, "Boyfriend is sitting by his computer eating sausage with Wikipedia opened to the page 'Sausage.'" the first panel shows ronin, a strong fat person with a spiky undercut sitting at a computer eating a sausage while looking at a picture of a sausage, expression neutral. the second panel shows gil, a soft-bodied guy with messy hair and square glasses, holding a cup of coffee and looking confused. end ID]

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who is the coworker eli is in love with 👀

i assume is his demon bud?

if you asked eli he'd say no one, if you asked keth he'd say "me, obviously," and if you asked anyone else eli works with they'd sigh and point to bentley. eli denies he has feelings for them but has been in love with them for years. they're also the only person eli considers a friend (which keth is offended by)

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Another question about the sillies! How did Elias meet Keth? in an animation you did it seems like Elias was going to exorcise it, I assume he had mercy on it?

tyvm for asking ! I love talking about them :)

I realize that animatic was fairly unclear. at the time when the animatic would have taken place, eli and keth had already met and had been working together for a few years, give or take.

a brief rundown of eli and keth's history:

eli worked as a solo exorcist for several years through his twenties, alongside a psychiatrist, dr. massey, and bentley, a paranormal & demonic phenomena expert, both assigned to work with him after the death of his exorcist mentor, monsignor bonaventure. during that time, he learned about and encountered many powerful demons, including keth. they first crossed paths very briefly while eli was working a completely separate possession case in germany. they saw each other in the forest one night, but nothing actually happened--the demon just left. the encounter sat strangely with eli, so he began researching records of demons with similar manifestations, where he learned some of keth's many names and some of its tricks. years later, when he was called into a small town in the states that was in shambles after a plague of demonic activity and found keth at the center of the chaos (which it did just for fun and found endlessly amusing), he knew he would have to handle the situation very carefully. keth wasn't intimidated any by eli showing up to exorcise him, even knowing enough about him to be aware he was the world's most renowned exorcist, because it had always been very good at escaping traps, and wanted to continue his game in the town with eli as a new toy in his playset. unfortunately for keth, eli had come up with some of his own tricks, and had frankensteined a trap that keth couldn't escape--a special binding sigil and the reliquary necklace. while bound in it, eli could still talk to and hear keth, but was immune to its demonic manipulation and sweettalk. keth was very frustrated and a little panicked when none of its usual tricks worked, and after exhausting all other tactics, it began to fear it was truly trapped forever. in some experimentation, eli found out that using the same binding sigil from the reliquary, he could allow keth to semi-possess him, but he never lost control of himself while possessed, allowing him to utilize keth's demonic strength and abilities. seeing the situation as a potential benefit, eli offered keth a deal--if keth helped him exorcize 500 demons using its "insider knowledge" as a demon itself, then eli would set it free. in truth, eli had no idea how to release keth from his binding and made up a random and completely hollow deal, but bluffed his way through it well enough to get keth (who was desperate) to agree. then they started working together--fighting, exorcizing, binding, and banishing demons (like the one that was possessing the girl in the animatic). in other words, eli and keth fight possession with possession, lol.

overall eli has very little mercy for demons. he had absolutely none before meeting keth. once they become bonded, however, that (like everything else in eli's life) becomes much more complicated.

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i have questions about the silliest

so was father elias ever a good charming priest? or has he always been so tired? (idk how else to word it)

also it seems like he has some substance addiction, is he aight

also have people that go to his church (if he does have a church idk if exorcists have churches) caught up, yknow, the whole demon creatura living in his necklace

absolutely delighted to talk about bedevil

[cw: christianity/catholicism, parental death, addiction/alcoholism, mental illness, exorcism]

father eli has never really been a "good" priest per se, though he wasn't always so tired (love the wording of the question /gen). his life has always been challenging, as he's been extremely sensitive to sensing / perceiving demons ever since he was born, which is understandably scary. he was abandoned by his birth mother at a convent and raised by nuns; his upbringing was fairly strict and not super fun, so to speak, though the two nuns that fostered him did love him. the church saw his sensitivity to demons as a holy calling and paired him with a notable exorcist, monsignor bonaventure, to train as an exorcist. bonaventure became a father figure to him, and the happiest time in his life was probably in his teens when he was apprenticing with bonaventure and still under the loving care of his two foster parents at the convent, even though the work was scary and the pressure of being a "holy gifted kid" was a lot. he went to seminary in order to become a fully fledged exorcist, having proven very gifted at dealing with demons because of his sensitivity (and in the human aspect of exorcisms, as he has an uncanny ability to get the truth out of people), though he had never had very strong faith; it just seemed like the thing to do. bonaventure was killed on the job shortly after eli completed seminary, and that really hit eli hard. he essentially had a breakdown and ran away from his whole life, but isolation only made things worse, and eventually the pleas from the church to use his gift / fulfill his calling convinced him to start doing exorcist work again. he's been pretty tired for a long time (aka he's got a lot of trauma and mental health issues). hope that gives some insight into his disposition; he's had it rough for a long time

he definitely does have substance abuse issues, especially alcohol and sleep medication (has had insomnia for a very long time). it's a pretty unhealthy coping mechanism for him but he sees it sort of as a necessary evil

also in fiction exorcists can and sometimes do have parishes / work for specific churches, but eli doesn't. because he's like the most renowned exorcist in the world, he doesn't have time to have a parish of his own, and that was never really something that he wanted for himself, as he never really wanted to be a priest, he just felt like he had to (and in a way, wanted to, but that's complicated) fulfill the holy purpose everyone always told him he had because of his gift. the people he works with in the church do know about him keeping a demon in his necklace, and it's somewhat of a scandalous rumour to anyone else who's heard of him; some believe it, some don't, and some experience keth firsthand, so they know it's true. the church sort of begrudgingly lets eli do whatever he wants so long as he does his job, and as much as they dislike their arrangement keth makes eli an even better exorcist, so they tolerate him as long as he's contained. so keth isn't a secret, but most people don't believe eli really has a demon necklace or believe in demons at all, so it's also not commonly accepted knowledge.

hope that makes sense! I am always happy to answer questions about the freefallverse (or any ocs / stories of mine). tyvm for asking !