#red dead devotion

Striker found Creon passed out and stranded in the Wrath Ring. The nature of Creon's death has given her a broken-AF glitch that enables her to rip dimensional tears through other rings. Creon had jumped into the last fight between Vox and Alastor and barely escaped from being snatched up by Vox. She was severely injured and exhausted from warping straight to Wrath.

Striker adopted a wait-and-see approach with allowing Creon to recover in his base. Creon still maintains a healthy level of distrust from the smarmy vibes she gets from her rescuer. Over time they get used to each other's company and become roommates. Creon's soul-drain bite eventually allows her to create hellborn-disguises (she ate a very weak goetia). This allows Creon to go out and interact with the denizens of Wrath. Slowly she starts integrating with the various communities and towns scattered around Wrath. At one point they had a huge disagreement, forcing Creon to flee to other rings.

Creon will work temporarily at Ozzie's, and Asmodeus himself helps perfecting her disguise magic. She'll have a short stint of fame as an occasional performer. Don't worry, she and Striker will make-up from their fight, and he'll try to visit her in between jobs. After a year, Creon will eventually return to Wrath.

Creon was from the future of 2085, where bio-engineering has made leaps and bounds. Creon is one of mutants created illegally, and one of two chimera mutants in existence. It’s no surprise that Creon died just as she was; a bio-engineered vampire. So her strengths and power as a mutant would carry over even in death, along with her appearance. The forced cannibalism that came with her full mutation gave her a broken ability to soul-drain. Her soul-drain is how she created her first hell-born disguise.

Due to her arrival, a butterfly effect sent a low-ranked, weak goetia stumbling into Striker’s hideout. While Creon was hiding out with Striker and healing, She would ambush and kill the Goetia to save Striker. Unfortunately, she was hungry, so ended up devouring the Goetia, and absorbing whatever miniscule power he had.

Creon would adapt to Wrath quickly. When Striker is off doing assassin work, Creon would do a lot of random jobs available. Sometimes Striker will check in on her and sometimes Creon will come back to the hideout when they’re both free from work. Over time she’ll build connections and foster community in Wrath.

The only way she time-travelled to the past was through an experimental time machine. Creon had been living as a latent metahuman, who was forced to fully mutate and brain-washed into rampaging her city. Despite being a puppet of the whims of a deranged mind, she was banished to a research base on the moon, since she was too dangerous to contain.

For a decade she basically mined materials and minerals from asteroids, with only a few scientists and restaurants brave enough to befriend her. The moon base was invaded by foreign saboteurs who wanted the rumored time machine. Creon killed all the invaders and set the time machine to self-destruct, knowing that she and the moon base would be destroyed.

By some miracle the time machine activated and sent her back in time. The machine self-destructed the instant it reached the early 2000s. This is how she got her glitchy portal powers. The first time she found out about this ability was out of desperation to escape Vox’s forced brainwashing. She got better with creating dimensional “tears.” If she makes too many or tries to rip a “tear” beyond the living world, she will fold like a wet napkin.

In this AU, I made a BS way for imps being capable of magic. Striker has made his grievances over Goetia and Sinners lording their superiority over the rest of the hell-born. Creon never liked how magic and knowledge was being gate-kept by essentially the Ars Goetia. Striker was willing to take risk of burning his hands to test Creon’s crackpot theory; to find someway to access magic or create your own core.

The burnt hands were worth it. I really wanted to draw Striker’s potential signature magic. Imps are capable of magic if they have access to spells or magic foci/artifact. In this AU, imps were completely different monsters in prehistoric times and harnessed Hell’s ambient energy before Satan subjugated them over time. I’m not sure I can trust that Satan was truthful about creating imps from scratch. He’s already lied about ruling Hell before Lucifer fell.

The power trip went to Striker’s head that he took a risk and successfully assassinated a low-ranked goetia family, at the behest of Cyrus, an obscure, low-ranking goetia. Creon was horrified that her helping Striker got a family and a child killed. She was even more disgusted when Striker showed no concern that a bunch of innocent imp servants were accused of the murders. Striker believes the “filthy little traitors” deserved to die for serving “blue-bloods”

Creon was never shy with arguing flaws with Striker’s prejudice and hypocrisy. She rightfully calls him out even more before cutting ties with him. Striker doesn’t take her rejection well and threatens to collect the bounty Vox has on her. Creon is deeply hurt by this and leaves before he can pull the trigger.