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Alright! Here's hoping Tumblr doesn't do horrible things to the quality on this one. It did not do well when put through my messaging app...

Anyway, this is Lucifer and Alastor's first meeting! I went on Google maps street view and dropped the little guy into the middle of a forest in Louisiana and then took a bunch of screenshots to base the environment off of. The northern foresty bits of Louisiana are surprisingly coniferous, which I wasn't expecting. I knew the Bayou was mostly in the southern part, but I thought the northern area would be more deciduous. The more you know, I guess!

This one took me literally forever. Mostly because of Rosaline and the background, not gonna lie. I draw people relatively quickly. Anything else takes me hours and hours to do. I am rather proud of how it turned out, though. I tried a new thing with the shading, too! I usually blend my shadows to give them more of a softer look, but I didn't do that here. I think I like it? For the trees, at least, I think it looks cool.

Here is the first proper au picture that I've drawn on my tablet! It's also the last pre drawn piece, so we're gonna be slowing way down from here on out. Fighting with the perspective was so tedious, but definitely worth it on this one! I'm also rather proud of the lighting.

This is set very far in the beginning of the au. Like, before Lucifer even met Alastor. Lucifer still wants to be part of Charlie's life (and he's still friends with Lilith), so he calls them from various payphones whenever he has spare change. He does this throughout the entire road trip.

Lucifer doesn't actually tell Alastor that that's what he's spending all of their change on, which leads to their first real argument. Alastor thinks that Lucifer is wasting their money calling some girl (and he's also kind of paranoid that he's calling the cops) and Lucifer is afraid that somehow Alastor finding out he has a kid will lead to him guessing that Lucifer is trans (which doesn't make any real sense, but he's really afraid of anybody finding out (he does tell Alastor eventually, but they don't know each other well enough at this point)). Lucifer finally admits that he's calling his daughter and Alastor decides that that's much more acceptable.

Anyway, all of that happens way later. For this one I really wanted to emphasize how alone Lucifer felt at this point in his journey. I wanted the darkness in this one to feel much deeper and a lot less friendly than it was in the gas station picture, which I think I accomplished.

The last of the character sheets for this au! (I told you guys in the last one it would be a little silly) This is the first one that I did on my drawing tablet, so I was still trying to figure out the tools and stuff. I still think it turned out pretty good, though.

I say this one is silly, but I honestly believe that Rosaline is the main character of the au. The whole entire point of it is the road trip vibes and you can't get road trip vibes without a vehicle to drive with. She's kind of like the Impala in Supernatural to me. She'll be in literally all of the main pictures for this au in one way or another. That being said, I have no idea why I, a person who has never really drawn vehicles before, decided that I needed to make an au that would require drawing a detailed truck from seven million angles...

Anyway, I chose this specific kind of truck because I wanted something that would be kind of old when the story is set (we're in the late sixties, I've been imagining it as '67, but it's not set in stone) but not one that would be so old as to require special maintenance. (Also, trucks older than this look kind of goofy to me...) I picked a Ford f100 mostly just because I'm from America, so when I think of A Truck I usually picture a Ford F-150 or something similar and the f100 is the predecessor to the F-150. Also, a lot of the pictures of f100s are this same red and white color scheme, which fits with the colors of the characters well.

Alastor's character sheet! This is the last one I did on my phone. I used the show proportions for this and then halfway through realized that I hadn't been doing that in the previous drawings. I'll probably stick to what I was doing before, honestly, because it works better with the proportions of the in universe stuff. A funny thing that I noticed, though! If you make Alastor's head the same size as Lucifer's head then Lucifer ends up taller.

Anyway, I mostly put events in the little detail column, but most of Alastor's character development is internal in this au, so it looks like I've put more thought into Lucifer's story. Secretly Alastor's going through it just as much as Lucifer is, though.

First of all, he's still grieving his mother. She died of a sickness, so it wasn't unexpected, but it still hit him really hard. I think that he's had symptoms of antisocial personality disorder since he was a kid (particularly the inability to form close social bonds and the entertainment seeking. I also think that when he was upset he'd go out into the forest and take it out on bugs and small animals). I think that the only person he really connected with was his mom and she worked really, really hard to try to help him fit into society as he grew up (Smile, cher, people are nicer to you when you smile back.) Then she died and he was left with his father.

He's also struggling with the fact that he liked killing his father. Kind of a lot. And he'd kind of like to do it again maybe. (Not every person with aspd turns into a serial killer. I feel like we'd have way more serial killers and way fewer businessmen if that were the case. For Alastor, though, I think that he wouldn't be in character of he wasn't at least a little murdery. I think the only reason he doesn't just go for it is that he knows his mom wouldn't approve. She'd understand killing his father (because he can justify that he saw no other way out of that situation) but she'd draw the line at murdering other people just because he wants to.

He's also experiencing his first crush. On a man. In the sixties. (Lucifer is surprise emotional attachment number two. I don't necessarily think that Alastor is replacing his mom with Lucifer, but that are parts of him that remind him of her.) I, personally, head canon him as asexual but demiromantic. I figure he has the potential to form romantic feelings toward a person that he's built a deep connection with, but considering his trouble with actually forming those connections I feel like he's probably never had a real crush before. Poor guy. Lucifer already knew he liked men before this, at least...

Anyway, I think that's all the relevant information for now. Tomorrow's is another character sheet, but it's a little silly. Very important, though.

Lucifer's character sheet for the road trip au! I was still drawing on my phone for this one, but it was done way more recently that the first two. This is actually the first character sheet that I've ever done, so it was really fun to figure out how I wanted to lay it out and stuff.

I was gonna do a character specific lore dump for him with this one, but I can't really think of much that isn't already covered here or won't be covered in the lore dump for future drawings...

So I guess I'll just talk about his design! I didn't really want to change his overall shape too much from the actual show, so nothing too drastic changed there. I did want his hair to look a bit choppier, though, because he cut it himself. I imagine that he probably has wavy hair, but it doesn't really start getting wavy until around his jawline, hence the little bit of flicking out at the bottom.

As for his clothes, he decided to disguise himself as a hippie so that he wouldn't be found by the law enforcement that he's convinced is chasing him. The thing is, though, that he doesn't actually know anything about hippies, so he's less "dressed like a hippie" and more "dressed how Lucifer imagines hippies dress." He knows they wear tie die and bell bottoms, so that's what he wears. (Not gonna lie, mostly it's an excuse for me to draw him in bell bottoms and a crop top because I think it's cute.) He also thinks they don't wear shoes (although I'm not sure where he got that idea), so he runs around with his hooves out. I think he actually preferred that before anyway, but it wasn't "proper" so he had to wear shoes. Now he takes full advantage of the fact that nobody can tell him to put shoes on.

In regards to his gender presentation, he just doesn't really feel like the kind of person who would go full on hyper masculine when they start transitioning. I don't think that he necessarily liked wearing traditionally feminine clothes before he realized he was trans, but I don't think he hated it really, either. I think it was the fact that it made other people perceive him as a woman that made him uncomfortable. I think that he likes feeling cute.

Second au picture!

This one was also drawn on my phone. I started it shortly after I finished the first one, but then I got discouraged by how difficult drawing on my phone is, so I didn't actually finish it until maybe a month or so ago. At some point the layer that had a bunch of the little details in the line work got deleted and I tried to put them all back when I noticed, but I definitely forgot some things, like the tassels on Lucifer's shirt. Just know that they're there in spirit.

New au! For some reason I've been really reluctant to post about this one? I kind of wanted to wait until I had more pictures built up for it, I think, so that I could do it in chronological order, but I've decided that I'm just gonna post them in the order that I drew them and fix the timeline later if I ever compile them.

Anyway, the basic premise of the au is that Alastor and Lucifer are on a road trip in the sixties (around sixty seven in my mind). Alastor is a draft dodger and Lucifer is trans and has disguised himself as a hippie. For some reason. There's some more lore and stuff that I'll get into later, but that's the main stuff you need to know. Also, know that I've done minimal research for this au. Mostly just enough to make sure that I was remembering correctly that the hippies were protesting the Vietnam war. If you're looking for historical accuracy you're definitely not in the right place. And everyone is demon shaped because I prefer drawing them that way. It's still set in the real world, though. The fact that they're demon shaped has no affect on anything.

As for this specific picture, it's the first one that I drew for the au, the one that gave me the entire idea for it. It was drawn over a year ago, entirely on my phone. I'm actually rather proud of the truck. It was the first time I've ever drawn a vehicle in probably my entire life. I've never really been a car person... I'm also rather proud of the gradient in the sky. I figure this one is relatively early on in their acquaintance, probably somewhere in rural Missouri. Maybe Iowa? Somewhere with a lot of corn, so it could realistically be anywhere in the Midwest.

I drew today! So, this one was actually in a dream I had a while back. The one in my dream was more of a bubble gum punk color, but I'm in my bright colors era, so hot pink it is. I'm thinking that this is in the same universe as my OC Vali. I figure on their planet these were imported as exotic pets at some point in the past and now they're an invasive species you see everywhere. (Kind of like real cats.)