shiro no zeon

hiiii this was so long ago sorry. brago actually doesn't meet zeon for a very long time. in the canon, brago and sherry were going around specifically picking off weaker demons, since sherry wanted to end the battle royale quickly.

brago and sherry go after gash in europe. zeon and brago are definitely aware of each other though. i feel like a lot of the more powerful demons leave each other alone for the first few months, until they can recall enough powerful spells to go after each other.

in my head, zeon and brago would consider it a waste to finish each other off without having an epic battle with powerful spells. like, where's the fun in that?

this is probably super late because I haven't been on tumblr for ages sorrrrryyy but I was planning on tweaking a whole lot of details and reframing a lot of the arcs. in this au, the first thing dufaux does is make gash come with him in a vengeance quest. in classic kng fashion, gash does a heartfelt but kinda cliche speech and convinces dufaux not to commit first degree murder (unfortunate)

meanwhile in japan, kiyomaro and zeon encounter tio and megumi. tio almost gets her ass beat by almost mistaking zeon for gash, but luckily, mars opens his mouth first so he gets his ass beat out of the human world. kiyomaro and megumi become friends. zeon and tio do not.

afterwards, tio and megumi go to europe for their photoshoot. (in the canon, this was a throwaway comment where tio talks about seeing 'a guy who looks like gash!' for the first time.) in europe, tio meets gash and dufaux and they actually come along for the baltro arc.

anyways, tio tells gash about zeon's atrocious vibes. combined with dufaux' hesitation (answer-talker,) gash is persuaded to not go to japan just yet. or something.

Thank you! I’ll definitely be posting a bit here and there, though I don’t know about how often I’ll get to work on it.

I do have further arcs planned. In fact, I have most of the story figured out, up until the millennium demon arc and a little bit going into faudo.

It’s quite interesting, I think. I think all four main characters develop quite a bit in the end, but zeon & dufaux, unsurprisingly, end up changing the most from the source material. I don’t want to spoil too much, but at the same time... I’m obviously not going to redraw the entire series. It’s unlikely that I’d get too far in the first place.

So I’ll share a few notes.

Dufaux gets an arc where he confronts his abusers. 

Zeon gets a signed autograph from ooumi megumi. (he doesn’t want it)

Rops survives to see the millennium demons arc.

Gash eats a bear. 

Umagon is still called umagon, Yes, gash still has his memories. 

Zeon gets the kolulu flashbacks. They won’t leave him alone. They haunt him.

There were a number of things I changed regarding the dialogue.  And by a “number of things,” I mean that the script is completely different. 

Obviously, with zeon’s introduction, there had to be a number of changes. I originally wanted to keep the dialogue for the first few pages kinda the same, but uhhhhh-

The original was just really melodramatic. I love how over the top it is.

I did end up trying to tone things down a bit though. Partly because I think it’s buckwild how quickly his mother started yelling and crying.z It also just didn’t sit right with me that she was essentially telling her 14 year old that it was his fault he was getting bullied. Like ma’am, come on. 

There was also one panel of zeon where he was blurry. I did have the drawing fully rendered because I love making extra work for myself.

Disappointingly, this ended up being one of my favorite drawings of him. Alas, the world was never meant to view him in a somewhat pleasant looking depiction. Look at him. He’s a baby. Infant !

There are a few other moments like this, in which I draw more than is necessary. I feel like I’m posting out of bounds secrets, like in video games. Y’know where you hack through the camera and you see things that game devs hid off screen?

Well here’s another one. Dufaux actually had his whole ass face, but it was cut off by the panel sizes. 

And here’s a version of gash without the frost. Honestly, this last panel ended up being my favorite in the project.

He deserves his ghibli tears. He cries so much, damn. 

zeon gave me a lot of grief too, the little bug-eyed bastard. 

I got through three pages of him but something about the way I drew him was bugging me. It’s obviously now, but zeon just doesn’t look like zeon without them big ol eyes. It also makes him look more like a toddler, which he literally is.

So I ended up going back to every panel and redrawing him with those big ol eyes.

At one point, I also noticed that... for some reason ... I’ve been drawing his hair shorter and ‘neater’ than what it’s supposed to be in canon. TBH, I like the idea that he wouldn’t have the exact same hairstyle as gash. 

And maybe as a prince, he’d have to keep his hair neater? But it also doesn’t fit with his absolutely feral personality. He’s a messy lil bug so I mussed up his hair while I was at it. 

More bug eye conversions. 

And this panel in particular was another that I just couldn’t get right for a long time. There were maybe around four or five redraws of this one, but I didn’t save all the versions. 

After this page, all further zeons were made bug-eyed from the start. 

... i did also name my layers that. bug eyed zeon was a running joke for me.