#valac

“Hurray.”

Presenting~ Evil Clara!!!

Finally starting to lean into a more anime style of manga coloring

Redoing the line-art sucks takes a lot longer than actually coloring the panel

Evil Clara is so cute I love her so much

6 hours of work and tbh I’m pretty proud of it considering I haven’t colored in months now

So it's pretty much established that each of the Love Trio™ has a secret they are trying to keep, and Clara has a few unexplained things about her that I think are actually inter-connected.

#1 of the questions that im pretty sure that the fandom has agreed on are her Wings™ and has been consistently foreshadowed in the manga.

But I don't see a lot of people talking about why her father is never shown, why he's always away.

I know this can also just be attributed to the "one parent syndrome" of anime BUT considering that a core theme of Clara's story/arc is family and how strong her bond is with them (as seen in the spin-off mafia AU manga) its worth noting the strong absence

My theory is that part of the reason why Clara's father is away is because of the wings, at least partly. I don't know exactly what's wrong with her wings (are they short? feathered? clipped?), but I know that the reveal will have some sort of impact in the story.

I have always wondered why Urara (the 2nd eldest) doesn't go to Babyls, although it might have been explained in canon, and I just didn't pay enough attention or forgot. Maybe he also has some alternate reason to be there, like his father.

There is also a possibility that someone in the family could be responsible for Claras wings situation. Be it an accident or her father's bloodline.

So much of the mystery is also because we know so little of Clara's family in general (the lore), and the manga will probably give some time to explore it later on, similar to how Soi, Kerolli, Jazz, and Lied have been explored. [idk if im tweaking but Garp, Agares and Caim, also have had their moments involving their family during the Harvest Festival Arc but i might be wrong]

A thing to also consider is why her family isn't as highly regarded as the rest of the demon families, considering how powerful their bloodline ability is. And the fact that they have their own territory so well protected that Sullivan himself thought it was safe enough to hide them there after the (Walter Park?) fiasco, where they had to lay low from the media.

MAYBE they are related to Shura (the flower deity that we see Baal sucking up to). This theory has its merits, noting the similar body type, general connection to creation, and similarities with an obsession with those who give them attention. I swear if Shura's canon colors are revealed and she's ALSO green I'm going to pat myself on the back.

MAYBE Clara's father is related to Shura's bloodline. This theory also explains why Clara's family isn't really part of the demon nobility despite their power and arguably notable status. Its because they belong to something entirely different or they were excommunicated because of their overtly deviant nature of because Clara's father had children with a demon