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activatebutterflyshield · 8 months ago

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The Muses hit me with some random inspiration today so here’s a proper design sheet for He of the Lingering Smog and the Glittering Lights, aka Hollywood Angel, aka the God of Los Angeles, featuring the script Chahvinik by @thecrazyneographist.

He’s mostly based on the name of his city, the fashion sense of the famous bit of Humanity that calls him home (clothing is half gala dress, half black tie suit), all the ink those writers use up, paparazzi, Hollywood’s history of censorship, the smog that blankets his land, the manipulative nature of the industry, and the horses of the Spanish who took the land for the Angels.

#worldbuilding #layered earth #character design #angel design #i mean hes literally the god of the city called ‘the angels’#and when hes playing at being human his name is ‘Angel�� if hes feeling male or ‘Holly’ if hes feeling female #gods dont have set genders around here #most of them just get called ‘he’ or ‘she’ or ‘it’ or ‘they (singular)’ or ‘they (plural)’ and roll with it #san francisco is only a she because she has known a lot of ships who are usually shes and just went aight seems neat #while los angeles learned that the article in his name was male and went okay that works #now san diego is a they (singular) for no particular reason #and san jose is a they (plural) because they represent a number of smaller cities not represented by oakland or sf #and oakland is a she for the same reason as sf #theres also the collective god of california who is some abomination named it of the golden poppies and the mountain-tall evergreens #though it really should take on some epithet to reference the earthquakes and fires and other nonsense #traditional art #oc

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