#episodic characters

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"MÓJ WOJOWNIK” / “MY WARRIOR” / “MEIN KRIEGER”

Marout met Ammen while fleeing from persecution from Germany to England. Ammen was assigned to him to protect him from harm. At that time Marout was still slowly changing his appearance to a more demonic one - it happened subconsciously, which is possible only in Hell. Both of them instantly became attracted to each other and began their sexual relationship, which ended just as quickly as it started, as Ammen had to relocate on another mission. He was a soldier after all...

Second artwork I finished in CLIP STUDIO PAINT PRO, this time testing its oil brush. I painted it on one layer to achieve a more natural look, even though the brush is pretty primitive.

Drawn on 11-22.11.20.

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Lucifer was a Lightbringer as an angel in Heaven, which means he participated in enlightening Transcendents with secret knowledge. He was a revolutionary type who deemed pure blood angels to be in one way inferior to humans, as their theoretical strength (flat affect) limited them in gaining real experience of the world. He observed how humans act differently when the sun shines and when it doesn’t and how it apparently doesn’t impact angels, and so one day he tried to fly closer to the star to see if it would affect him somehow. When he looked at it, he saw something unexplainable (at the time) and immediately went blind. He was caught mid-air and later banished for an apparent transgression, though no one (aside from gods) truly knew what was his real blame in the whole ordeal.

After falling into Hell he found home among high class demons and later became an influential figure in many political affairs of Hell’s history. It was only after the building of the Tower of Babel has begun that he was advised to change his identity, because of Hapax Legomenon’s instructions to find and kill all fallen angels. As Verrelux he became the patron of prostitutes, ironically reminiscent of his time as the Angel of Generosity in Heaven.

Verrelux is a hermaphrodite leaning towards masculinity, so I decided to refer to them as "him" in English for convenience. I don’t have that choice in Polish anyway.

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I will refer to Spica as “he” from now on, as they’re masculine-presenting and it’s easier for me that way.

Genu was a feral child that Spica found when he was ten years old. He named him “Genu” and treated him a bit like a pet, because the child was mute and had an animal-like way of moving, a bit like a mix between a crab and a human. Spica’s older brother was more curious about Genu’s pain tolerance than his wellbeing, which was badly influencing Spica. One day the three of them went to a tall cliff to look at the scenery below and the older brother decided to teach Spica about the fragility of life by pushing Genu off the cliff. Genu’s death on one hand begun Spica’s moral decline, on the other it brought death to his brother sometime later.

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A more defined drawing of Ammen. I think I’ll stick with this design or change it only slightly in the future.

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Ammen is a soldier who’s related to Marout’s past. I’m still searching for the design for him that would work just right. More on him later.

Drawn on 26.04.18.

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This is a redesign of my undeveloped character, Somna. I only drew him once back in 2013, but I haven’t forgotten about him, I just didn’t have any more interesting ideas back then. The only feature he had was the ability to put people to sleep with his gaze, so I figured he may be some sort of incubus.

So now, Somna is a son of Morpheus, a rare type of incubus that puts his victims into a coma. To humans living on Earth, this is a mysterious and unexplained phenomena that’s only talked about by people interested in paranormal activity, as science turns a blind eye to it.

In the coloured version I was vaguely inspired by tribal body paint.

Drawn on 19-27.09.17.

And next we suddenly have something very unusual for sailor moon. It’s this whole scene with new characters, who we don’t know yet, and who are here only for this episode. They weren’t introduced through Usagi (except for her listening to Amade’s CD), this is their first appearance, and we’re already thrown into a scene with them going on with their life, without any explanatory dialogues. It’s a very movie thing to do, and it’s something very different from the last 5 episodes.

We’re introduced to Yuusuke Amade and Akiko, and and this scene they get more personality than main characters do in sailor moon manga (sorry, I don’t like the manga version). I love when episodic characters have personality! It makes it so much easier to be invested in the story and to care about them!