#motionless beloved

I’ve been working (finally!) with my OCs, and they still need a lot of work, but this is a nice start. I worked on mainly in the colours I want for all of them (Akbal is looking quite better now, don’t you think? And I made Emil have lighter hair just for fun, I’m still not sure about this colour). I have to work also on simpler lines, since I think them all still look too much like their references and not enough like them (I think Leonora is the one I like the most right now).

Aesthetic for Akbal.

Akbal is Emil’s best friend and companion since the 18th century. He’s of Mayan origin and his name means “blue night”. He was turned into a vampire as a sacrifice or offering to the bat god Camazotz (which means “death bat”), which happened to be (in my canon, at least) a vampire. The god, whose actual name is forgotten, decides not to kill Akbal, but to make him like him, so he turns him into a vampire.

For quite a long time, Akbal lived in a deep cave with “the god”, but with time the sacrifices that people made (a.k.a. food for them) stopped, and Akbal decides to leave the cave. Long time had passed, and people didn’t look like him anymore (with his body modifications and adornments), but if I had to say a key characteristic of Akbal, it is grit. And he has decided long time ago that he will not fail in whatever he gets into.

That’s how he meets Emil, getting together (as the invisible members of society that they are in the colonial times, a child and a native young man), and making a business and a fake life for them both be able to be successful and keep a low profile.

Getting into the 20th century, he joins Leonora’s quest basically because Emil decides to, and he will not allow them both to fail.

He’s VERY fashion conscious so he’s always dressed perfectly, hair cut in the latest fashion, but he has decided to keep his ear expansions in a more discreet manner than he would have worn them back in pre-colonial times, since he does not want to forget where he comes from and who he is.

So, this is straight from my sketchbook (one day I swear I’ll make proper illustrations for this stuff XD), and this is one of my OCs: Leonora.

I plan on making a comic (or something?) with this story. No actual name yet, but it will be set in Mexico in the 1900s (I’m thinking about 1902-1906, because I love the fashion!) during the time period called Porfiriato, and Leonora is the first character of that story. (For the time being it will be called “Motionless Beloved” and all related posts will be tagged like that, inspired by the poem by Amado Nervo, “La Amada Inmóvil”). The story will feature vampires and witches and spirits and fist fights because why not.

Leonora is a young woman living in one of the northern cities of the country, her family is wealthy because of the mining business, but she leaves to Mexico City looking for her fiancée. He disappears one day with no clues, and she starts looking for him even though she thinks that he just left her. But he did not, he’s been taken away by, according to information she’s given by a witch, some kind of warlock or necromancer and he’s in the capital.

So, she decides to go rescue him, and she plans thoroughly what she needs and who she should need to have close. There is nothing that gets between her and her goal, since Victor (her fiancée) is everything to her. She’s not afraid to hire frightening people to achieve her goals, and neither fears to use whatever and whoever gets in her way to get Victor back. And of course, that will cause her a lot of trouble.