#ugh I feel self conches writing all this outtttt but I’m tryna Not be that way so.

[domesticangel]

Can you tell us more about your guys? Like do they just hang out or are they in a story or something? What’s the Lore there?

YES I will try to do this in a way that makes sense because I have thought a positively insane amount about them.

First things first: they’re monster girls and everyone in this universe is a monster person. the reason for this is. Monster People Cool. it’s not much deeper than that. its licherally just a modern setting except with monster humanoid species and said species’ lore woven in as it fits in a modern setting. lilija is a selkie and neale is an angel.

anyway OKAY so basically their whole deal is that they’re a hitwoman duo that work for the same agency called REX, which masquerades as a vague “risk reduction” agency but actually just employs mercenaries and takes on jobs for them to carry out. legally they’re pretty sketchy and an extremely toxic work environment but their owner and CEO Madame Rex has enough money and lacks enough morals that it doesn’t really matter 👍🏻 their story is set in an alternate Vague SoCal Area where crime and corruption is pretty rampant, thus why an assassin agency has a pretty substantial market in their universe and why the Madame has enough local law enforcement in her pocket that they can get away with a lot. ok I can feel myself getting in the weeds here. moving on.

ANYWAY. lilija fell in with REX after being discovered by the Madame on the shooting range of a weapons dealer REX often worked with. lilija’s father was also a hired gun and a hunter so he taught her to shoot from a very young age and by the time she was grown she was a very skilled markswoman, so the Madame was impressed and offered her a job. lili was already on the tail end of a years-long bender sparked by a bad relationship and a car accident that may or may not have altered her brain chemistry so she was like yeah fuck it I’ll kill people for money.

(this is a VERY cliffnotes version but. lilija had a pretty traumatic childhood marked by her fathers’ extremely abusive treatment of her mother, and although she was once a fairly quiet and reserved girl, certain life events triggered an extreme fear of being controlled the way her mother was and she became very controlling and power hungry as a result. as such a career as a ruthless killer appealed very much to her psyche, esp since selkies are often seen as a defenseless species that are captured and kept by others; she has quite the complex about that and made herself into a predator rather than prey)

after lilija had already been employed by REX for years and worked her way up to the top ranks, neale appeared on their radar when lilija suddenly kept running into her on jobs. again very cliffnotes, but neale also had a rocky childhood and eventually ended up on her own in NYC where she fell in with a crime ring that put on fixed underground boxing matches. this was pretty underhanded on the bookies’ part since in this universe angels have the ability of constant regeneration, so she made a pretty good puppet that could either win a fight whenever she needed or go down as she was told. however she’s kinda naive and lonely so she didn’t really care, she kinda just liked having people to hang out with and the money didn’t hurt either. eventually that ring broke up and couple stragglers planned to go out to the west coast and take root there, and neale came with since she didn’t really have anybody else. they tried to set up their own sort of rag-tag mercenary group to get their footing, but REX quickly realized someone was trying to shoulder in on their turf when certain jobs started to line up.

this resulted in neale often getting in the way when lilija was sent out on jobs, which is where their rivalry, love-hate thing began. neale was pretty okay with having a mean, pretty girl beat her up every weak, but it drove lili insane since she’s a workaholic lone wolf type bitch. when neale’s interference began to noticeably trip lilija up, the Madame demanded to know what the deal was, and lilija begrudgingly told her some stupid angel bitch was getting in her way and not to worry about it because she was going to take her out. except when the Madame heard angel, a fairly powerful and near indestructible species, all she saw was dollar signs babeyyy and was like no fuck that, recruit her ass so we can take on even MORE clients 🤑🤑🤑 also worth mentioning angels have varying elemental abilities, neale’s being fire which is great for evidence disposal……and then since lili was her top dog she forced her and neale into a partnership and the rest is herstory girlies!!!

OH and mari is my ram girl, she’s one of many side characters but she’s the most main side character….she’s Madame Rex’s daughter and is very much a spoiled princess type, but her and her ma have a pretty strained relationship since the Madame is ummmmm Not a great mom. as such she often gets peddled off on neale and lili to “babysit” and they’re more or less her main bodyguards LOL

anyway. idk if any of that makes sense like I said I left out A LOTTTTTTT of the specifics but I basically created them to play with and indulge in various interests, likes and loves of mine LOL. a lot of their universe was inspired by things like TF2, archer, kingsman, the nice guys, etc….like THAT level of over the top, just-have-fun-with-it, sometimes goofy sometimes serious. I wanted that stuff but like, with big lesbians and monster girls I nstead.