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I love Art.

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1903, Lousiana.

Thirteen year old Alastor and his father's horse Junot. Alphonse left him to do some chores involving Junot, an arabic dapple grey horse he used to escape his own home.

That horse really loved to bother Alastor just to get a reaction out of him.

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I have done nothing productive on the week so I'm going to post some of my old art.

And yeah, the last one is the one I painted for Father's day. If you remember, the other one had his hair brushed back and softer eyes. That's because this one is the original and the other one is a re-made.

The original was made in August of 2024, the re-made was made last year.

On the original the story was very different to a point he wasn't very fond of Gabrielle when she was a baby... You can see it in his eyes and the image of him holding Gabby on a basket. Her mother (Not Mimzy on this story) left her on his doorstep.

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Quick doodles! I did them while I was bored.

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Mimzy doodles!

I love her so much!

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I am so sorry for the people who read my posts and find spelling errors. English isn't my first lenguaje so if you see any word repeated too many times or a word spelled wrong is because of that... Again, I'm so sorry if I confused you with words, paragraphs and sentences weird writed.

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Old sketch from 2024 simbolizing Alastor and Gabrielle bond.

Back then didn't existed Raphael and Sebastian was still a concept. Alastor wasn't married to Mimzy either, so it would be just the two of them alone.

Still this drawing stays grounded because on the present story their bond is very strong and layered father-daughter relationship. Not the best, not perfect, but strong anyways.

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Time later...

Mini comic here! Just wanted to show a little of the dinamic of Alastor and his eldest son Sebastian on my Au.

1924, New Orleans. Sebastian is sixteen here.

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1920s. Alastor and Mimzy on a peaceful day

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So I been thinking about shoes... Shoes on hell.

Not all sinners are the same, some have more animal features, others objects or simbols so I figured that trying to buy shoes on the Pentagram is really difficult and there's only human-averege sizes or just a few shoes-made for few animals. Maybe half of the sinners are shoesless because of this reason or have personally customized shoes.

In my Au, Alastor have the second option. Personally custimized shoes.

Hooves are one of the most comun type of feet on hell, including all types as sheeps, deers, cows, buffaloes, goats, moose, horses, zebras, donkeys, etc... So between centuries and fashion people started making shoes that fits every type of hoove. Often sinners with bigger hooves doesn't use shoes because is more a nuisance for them when running but they can use!

It also highly dependes of the size and form of it so while being aesthetically pleasing, keep also practical.

We have seen Alastor have this

Alastor would use this shoes but I started thinking how... Because deer hooves are difficult to fit on a normal shoe without bending on an uncomfortable way.

So I did this!

Knowing Alastor he would like to have shoes that looked like when he was human, back to the 20s and 30s.

To fit a normal hooves it needs to be considered something important like the form of his hoove and how tall he is. On demons not all foots, including a specific animal type, are the same. It can vary greatly, even deers hoove can vary. This is hell, there's no anatomically rules for how the features would twist when getting in it.

But thankfulky he does have normal deer hooves.

So to fit on them correctly I think there would be a shaped hole on the shoe to fit the hoove so when stepping it would feel normal.

This is a sketch of how his legs and hooves would looks like. He more than two meters tall so his hooves are considerable big. So...

How would it fits a 30s shoes?

Like this

Which end up like this

I suck at drawing shoes so this is more or less how the shoe would look like on the outside. Is different from the one on the first image but again, I dont know how to draw shoes in general.

On they would look like this:

The heel would look taller. This is just a sketch so is not as accuarate I would like it to be.

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Gabrielle's base face!

Did this on march of last year and never end it. This was not made with the porpuse of a full drawing but a way I can visualize how my ocs would look if they were real and to keep their features as accuarate as posible.

But again, I never end it. Noticeable since her hair is just poorly sketched and her vitiligo is missing.

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Details about how is the world of my Au on hell!

I wont really says many important things, just small facts about how it is because I dont really focus a lot on that part of the story. This is like a sketchs of Ideas for my Au.

I often discard many of them because later I consider them absurd or just dont fit on how this world works.

Lets start with the political area of the pentagram.

Thanks to the series we all know how the Overlords works, how they get to be on that position because of contracts, getting territory and other bussiness that makes them win power.

They work the same here but many of them are quite competitive about winning followers and visivility to increment their numbers on contracts with souls (which as we know influence on their power) on the scale of the Overlords.

Obviously people/sinners are not stupid enough to sell their whole soul to an Overlord. When it comes to contracts people are extremelly careful and hesitate before signing because once you sell your soul you cant have it back unless you manage a way; but more influential people, especially Overlords are very careful when writing them so in most of the time you wont find any loophole.

Most of the sinners who sell their whole soul are employees, souls who need work and money. But the sell of a whole soul is when sinner is a direct employee of the Overlord.

Like...

Landlords

On my Au, Overlords are not the ones directly controlling their territories (they have a lot of other work to do and they often have little time of being constantly aware of what is happening around it) so they put someone in charge of them. Landlords.

Despite having control of how it works the territories and bussiness, they still belong fully to the Overlord so every move they do soon or later would be seen by them and judged.

Is like being against the wall and the blade.

Then comes...

Vassals

This are mostly optional, when a bussiness is too big or expanded that the Landlord cant control it then they have their own right hand which are the Vassals.

They are mostly in charge of service. When there's areas that haven't been looked by the Landlord or an extra inspection whatever being physical (going to the place) or in simply on paperwork: contracts, taxes, letters the Landlord do as a report that would be send to the Overlord making them aware of the state of their bussines.

If the Landlord's leash tighten, theirs too. Loyaty or death.

Managers

Doesn't really need much explaining, the only things is that they are personally promoted by either the Landlord or Vassal. Obviously there's not only one as the Landlord and Vassal, on difference of them, they are many.

Like normal, on all bussiness that are from the Overlord.

Employees

Normal, hired by the manager. Temporary contracts instead of permanent ones because for the hierarchy on the Overlord's power they aren't much important. Of course this highly depends of the type of bussiness the Overlord is controling.

Their contracts could be either loose and remain like that or get suffocating and demaning by time.

Costumers

The people who buy the product they are getting from the bussiness of the Overlord from the actual locals or from resellers at normal stores. Since the resellers also buy the product to give it to the normal costumer, is just better for the company/bussiness because it mades visibility of their product and more sinners would buy it. Even hellborns that have bussines on the pentagram.

This is how the hierarchy would look.

And you might be thinking that how the contracts that doesn't come directly from the Overlord or are temporary like from the normal employees helps the Overlord to win more power...

Is a good question! Well, even if is not handed by the Overlord themselves is still have a legal waterkmark from the them that automatically connects the sinner to them.

"What about the temporary contracts??"

Well, let's clear something first. Owning the soul itself is not what makes them win power, BUT, the energy they suck from the soul.

Souls here are full of energy, the energy are the last ties they have from their human form. The smalles human part that was left of them after dying.

Full permanent contracts makes the Overlord be owner of their energy. The sinner can still have it but now share it with the Overlord. If the Overlord want, they can suck the full energy for themselves and leave the soul empty.

This would create a "Phantom soul": This ones are not sinners anymore but either become part of the ambient of the Pentagram like the nature, air, floor, etc... Or if the Overlord refuse to let it go then becomes a minion, Like Alastor's dolls on the series which in my Au would be shadows instead.

Or Sir Pentious' eggboys! In my Au he would been an Overlord but for a very short period, maybe even historically the shortest time an Overlod been on the place because of getting too greedy, consuming immediately the full energy of the souls and lacking of character for the position.

Some dont have personality... Others do but created ones, like eggboys on my Au. They are silly, pleasing, helpers but only that, nothing deeper than that. Their whole world goes around their master.

Anyways, getting back to the point! The temporary contracts that comes from normal employees, the Overlord gets a small fraction of their energy. But considering the amount of employees that small amount is still quite a lot.

Well, this is just the basic of how Overlords bussines are. I think they might be more complicated but I dont know.

I would like to talk about the beaty standars of the Pentagram but it would be for another post because this one is already too long. If anyone have any opinion or idea please comment, I would love to hear your opinion about this. Would mean you took the time to read this.

Even if you see flaws and have opinions about it I also would love to hear them!

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1932.

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1902 Louisiana. Alastor and his father feeding the gators near the house.

Alphonse was just bored and Alastor curious. His mother is going to get really mad.

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Right, I also had this for Father's day. Happy Father's day to Alphonse too

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LeBlanc family as hamsters! Aren't them cute?

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Funfact: This was made 12/20/24 which was way before it was revealed the real name of Vox. So you can imagine how I reacted when it was showed. A giggleling mess. I WAS RIGHT, but I didn't have an account back then so there was no one to boast to about my prediction😭

Anyways, my main inspiration for him was Cary Grant because of the time. The only thing that changed is that on his human form he is actually 1,85 meters tall (6,07 feet tall).