#mephir

This is a long post but I don't CARE all in one baby

“Such beautiful red eyes.”

Tbh people should consider this ship.

Will I ever shade my art? Probably not.

stimboard request for mephir by @purechamp! -mod glasses

Oops crackshipped too hard.  This was actually my first time drawing Mephir.

I have a lot of new headcanons I haven’t put onto my pagebut this is what I have so far:

The only things we know about Mephir is that he likes red andhe likes to be stepped on by Reficul.  

Liking red is a very interesting choice as red is symbolicfor love and bloodshed.  I find it aninteresting choice because that’s a nice duality I’ve played with and being ademon it makes sense for Mephir to hold a certain obsession of violence.  After all, do you know what’s red?Blood.  

Personally, I have no basis for the way he acts other thanlooks but I find he’s probably charismatic at the least and maybe even a bitflamboyant since he seems to really like jewelry.

I also believe him to be reminiscent of Mephistopheles.  Fun fact Mephistopheles is a derivative ofthe Hebrew word Mephir meaning Destroyer. Mephistolphiles is among the seven chiefs of Pandemonium and is keeperof the book of death.  He is known tohave knowledge, secrets, sorcery, ambition, hatred, anger, vengeance andwar.  He is a companion or servant toLucifer.

Mephistro is associated with red and is said to have long,red fingernails, which is prevalent in Mephir’s art piece the one that isn’t asprite gif.

The second point I want to make is that most of the demonsin Reficul’s world are all animals/insects. Lowrie, Lzet, Grief, ect.  Mephir’s horns are shaped like an ibex andRefi’s like a ram.

This has relevance.

In conjunction with two friends, I’ve come up with the factthat Mephir more than likely used to be an angel with Reficul and Alibe.   I believe a lot of the demons used to beconsidering in biblical ‘lore’ demons are fallen angels.

Since Mephisto always admired Lucifer according to oneversion of mythos.  I believe this istrue with Mephir and as a result when things went sour with Elux it was Mephirwho sat back and waited for the right time to rebel, while Elux was thinkingLzet would be the first one to do it considering his love for Reficul.  The fact that Lzet undoubtedly covered forher while she was off wandering around or seeing Sin and what have you.  When Reficul was tempted into doing sinfulthings I feel Lzet covered for her and Mephir helped him make excuses but wasnever so much in Elux’s bad favor that he got away with his actions.  Then when Mephir sided with Reficul and wentagainst Elux it was a genuine shock to them.

In Paradise Lost and even in some Biblical mythos animalsare viewed as lowly beasts of burden.  Inold scriptures, Beelzebub is depicted as being the same as the god Ba’al.  Ba’al was cast out and his followers calledvermin.  He was referred to as a fly thatclings to shit.  Going off of this thenLzet was someone Elux had a particular dislike for, being able to be caught forhis ‘misdeeds’.

Devils/demons Elux favors seems to stay closer to themselvesi.e. Alibe and Refi.  I think it’s safeto say Mephir didn’t get a complete transformation into an animal having somegood grace from Elux.  But his fall wastragic and painful just as Mephisto’s.