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Here are their nightmares btw

SO. The character in the top half of that image has been the biggest pain in my butt to design. But I just can't bring myself to drop them. They came to be when someone showed me an edit they were doing of an image a while back. One of those with the harshened shadings and the sparkles in key sections of a character design. And I got the idea for an emo character with glitter. So, glitter vampire. But then they showed me another edit and said this character is such an angel, and I went and made the character an angel companion because why not. But anyways, we got into a joking custody battle over the vampire and yada yada they're my child. But I wanted to give these two a world to live in and slapped them into the world i've been chattering about occasionally, and lucky vampire, there was a role to fill. Think of them as that character who values beauty and that's like, their entire character. But they're also a mentor figure who helps another character work through their feelings about the terrors of the world they've been thrust into. Idk.

But over the course of the story they just disappear for a while before reappearing as though nothing happened. Where they eventually show their vulnerability and lead the rest of the main group to a beautifully decorated monument surrounded by splendid white flowers. Within this monument is the character's old friend.

Now quick worldbuilding, these characters (who's placeholder titles are "desires") Desires are formed when a human builds such a strong, well, desire for something that it manifests into its own life. Yet despite becoming separate entities, they are still fundamentally connected. The separation between these two creates an emptiness into the duo because they've effectively been ripped in two. Now, when a desire's other half dies, they go berserk. They've lost their tether to reality. In this state they've lost their minds. Their only thought is consuming other desires to fill the deep void within themselves. Lest they fade out of existence. Yet because of desires manifesting away from their other halves and the nigh extinction of the human race, many desires do not know about humans. So to cope with the sudden loss of fellow townsfolk, towns of desires had gotten together and had decided that desires who bein to go berserk would be sent to an old battlefield to fight other berserk desires. If they defeated enough other desires they would return to their right minds and return to their normal lives, now without the threat of going berserk again. And if they died to another desire, atleast the townsfolk had already had the time to mourn.

Now, our resident vampire and angel both realized that the angel was beginning to go berserk. The angel had spent their life protecting others and didn't want to end however many people who were also fighting for their life just so that they may wake up again and told the vampire to lock them up so that they wouldn't hurt anyone. So that's just what the vampire did. They poured their heart into building a tomb for their friend to spend their final awake, and dying moments. But the stronger the berserk desire, the longer it would take before their fizzle out. Years go by as the vampire routinely returns to lay flowers at the tomb and to see their friend again. (Even though each of these meetings end in a fight for their life)

So yay, another oc of mine who can't move on. But that's just backstory. With desires going berserk being such an integral part of their character, what's a more fitting finally for them other than to go berserk themself?

The vampire's human counterpart isn't exactly important to their story. The human never knows they exist, and the desire never knows who the human is (when they learn they are connected to someone else). But in the finally of the story our main group must return to the paradise where the remainder of humanity lives to conflict. Desires are causing chaos in the paradise and long building tensions among humans have broken out. My current idea for the fate of the vampire's human is that they are simply found dead in a random hut in a random forest. Basically, other humans came to the hut seeking shelter and thought to scare out its owner to secure control over the spot. The owner, not wanting to be kicked out of their home resisted. In response someone in the group grabbed a gun and shot the owner in the back of the head. The intruders fought, and ran away not wanting to stay near the murder scene. This is important because i've come to a very particular idea of the vampire's transformation sequence. A big thing about them is flowers. So, to replicate the blast effect of the human being shot, the vampire's face would erupt into a kaleidoscope of flowers. Dark? Yes. But I've also come to terms with the fact that my characters are obnoxiously edgy.

Now, how the hell does one convey these in a design? I have no idea. A joke character with a super dark story. I have kept the bangs and cape /w eyes on it and glitter inside the cape and collar from initially designs sketches while adding white feathers on their head to reference the angel. And uh. Yeah. Also I dropped the vampire details because it's not necessary. Though I still refer to them as the vampire because it's easier than always saying "the emo glitter flower character."

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In the bottom left is me playing around with the angel's design. ANOTHER pain in my ass. I wanted the character to be long with many arms because I imagine them crawling around the inside of the dome shaped roof of the tomb after transforming. And I also wanted them to have a strange non-descript face. From there it's just wackyness. Also there's some contrast between the angel and the vampire's fates. Angel is held in a monument whete they slowly die so that they won't hurt anyone, but they also won't die because thr vampire can't let go of their hope that one day the old angel would return. Meanwhile the vampire cannot be afforded that same fate. After transforming they are surrounded by a bunch of weak and afraid civilians and desires who were swept up in the initially stampede to the humans. They are too strong to be tied up and returned to after the group goes and fight some final boss, and too clever to be simply thrown somewhere where they can't hurt anyone. So they must be swiftly killed before they can wreak any more havoc. Why specifically are they surrounded by a bunch of humans and weak desires? Not that extensive but this post is already obnoxiously long and I have more to ramble about.

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Bottom right is just an old design inspired by carnivorous plants. They weren't really designed with a purpose, but they're neat nonetheless.

AAAAND some extra old drawings of random designs

Two characters inspire by flowers for a story idea I've put on hold. They're meh. Designed withput purpose in mind. But I'm also biased against myself.

Some basic ideas for some characters related to the Tangled Angel. (The maiden who holds the human's paradise from the ruins of the world and the leviathan that drowned the world)