Introducing… Pentious, the Inventor!
Born March 15th, 1842 in Wermelskirchen, Prussia
Died September 23rd, 1888 (age 46)
The youngest of 8 children by far, the second youngest sibling was 8 years older than him.
Only really was close with his second youngest sister, Greta.
Greta ended up dying of scarlet fever when he was 6 and she was 14.
Not very good-looking, not overly charming either.
On the more introverted side, though he is good at talking business.
His parents died when he was 18
Using what they left him in their will, he went to the UK for university.
Used higher education as a distraction, didn’t have a passion for his studies initially.
Attended the University of Edinburgh, School of Engineering.
Courted a woman for a few years while attending college
He thought of marrying her, but she ended up being betrothed to another man she had no feelings for. She moved to another part of the UK afterwards, leaving Patrick heartbroken.
Returned to Prussia shortly after
He was very depressed at this point, so one of his older brothers introduced him to a daughter of a friend of theirs.
Her name was Susanna, and she was 8 years younger than him.
Patrick and Susanna fell deeply in love shortly after meeting, and ended up getting married close to a year later.
Moved to Wuppertal after getting married and started working as a coaler and machine manufacturer.
Felt self-conscious about how much money he was bringing in and felt like an inadequate breadwinner.
Began not laying his workers suitable wages and selling faulty machinery to sweatshops in order to rake in extra cash.
Became paranoid his actions would cause the people around him to conspire against him.
Had lots of fertility issues with Susanna, and many of their children died in utero or shortly after being born
Eventually had a son, Heinrich, who survived.
Patrick was a good father and husband, but a shitty person outside of that.
Eventually, Patrick died due to a carbon monoxide leak in his office while working.
After his arrival in Hell, Pentious lost his mind. Due to lasting effects of CO poisoning, he suffered paranoid delusions and memory loss of most of his mortal life, including memories of his wife and son. He holds the belief that most of his fellow sinners are his enemy. His mechanical engineering skills have persisted in his afterlife and he is bent on creating war machinery in order to secure his self-defense. He is introduced to Novus’ ward when one of his employees is caught scoping out their land for mineral deposits.
One of my biggest problems with how hazbin handled him is that like. They kinda didn’t let him be a bad person… Like, he’s this big megalomaniac who presumably participates in turf wars, only to reveal that he was just this uwu baby loner who watched a woman get murdered and he doesnt have to atone for all the shit he did in hell???
I mean that could be a cool point for another character, but having this guy’s sin be THAT??? What a let down
Also his human design was nawt doing it for me, so i sent him to the beach that makes you old because i designed him before s2 came out
I wanted to focus more on his paranoia for my version of Pentious, as I thought it would be a good way to play around with his canon eye motif. I originally gave him physical eyes all over his body, but I decided to make it more of a pattern on his body, since the extra eyes would be 1. Hard to draw and 2. Wouldn’t really make sence for the worldbuilding i have on why sinners look the way they do.
^^ some of my earlier designs for him, I leaned more into the snakey appearance for his head shape and got rid of the eyes all over his body in place of an eye pattern
For his human story, I decided pretty early on that I wanted him to have a wife and child. I thought with his memory loss as well as his actions in Hell would be a cool point of internal conflict to focus on with his story.
With his design from when he was alive, I really wanted to play around with the more historically accurate styles of men’s hair and facial hair hehe, of the pictures i’ve longest men’s hair would’ve been grown out to was around jaw-length, but the FACIAL HAIR ON THE OTHER HAND!!! So many possibilities!1!!!1!! I decided to give him mutton chops, since I already had that sorta shape going on with his face in his sinner design, so i carried it over here.
I wanna say Pent died around 5-6 months after Heinrich was born, and after his death Susanna went to live with her brother where she raised Heinrich with him.
Okay!!! I think my rambling is over! Hope yall like him lolol 😭