In the effort to continue learning procreate, I felt the urge to draw my two favorite liars. These two would so be good friends, you can’t change my mind.
Been working on some character refs since the start of the year, finally got these weirdos done, but still hot more to do! still wanted to post them anyway
It took me a hot bit to get this wrong, had to fight myself to draw this man with very little face hair and no scratches on his cheeks....felt like i stripped away his character 😭
Basic Info! (Subject to change or be edited, Markus is a fairly new character for me and I am still developing him)
WARNING - Markus' lore does have mentions of abuse, for the games this is all based on...not really surprising, but I know there are those who would still like the warnings. So please, read at your own will and stay safe!
Basic Info! (Subject to change or be edited, Markus is a fairly new character for me and I am still developing him)
Name: Markus Graves
Age: 27 Before YKMET
28 During YKMET
56 During TPOF
Deepest Fear: Water
Markus Before YKMET
Markus grew up as a stray, for lack of a better word, and learned to very quickly that he had to hide his ears and tail to keep.
As he got older, Markus started to get into the tech side of things, mostly learning to hack, and Markus was good at it. Eventually his hacking skills got him noticed by a local trouble maker (yet to be drawn and named, I will work on it! I am sorry!) who thought he could use Markus' hacking skills for his own operations.
Markus willing accepted this mans offer, since he really had no choice due to having a hard time getting jobs that would let him cover his ears and tail. He figured this would be easy money since he could so what he was good at and not have to out himself, but it turned out to not be as easy as he thought.
The man he joined up with was of course, not not so kind to Markus. He was outright abusive. Markus did his job well, but a lot of the times, it was never good enough. The man would "punish" Markus anytime he felt like Markus was slacking with the assignments he would give him, or if he just felt like blowing off steam, which was usually the case. The punishments would range from beatings to slashing him up with a knife.
Things only got worse when the man finally found out what Markus' was. Markus did his best to hide it well, but one day during one of the punishments, his hat had fallen off, revealing his ears to his employer. This opened up new insults and punishments to be thrown at Markus, the favorite of his employers becoming one where.....lets just say it involved a bathtub filled with water and something covering the top of it.....needless to say Markus ended up with a fear of water.
This continued on for a while, Markus putting up with it for the money he got out of it, but eventually the hate and anger he started to feel for the man started to build up to the point where he had enough. One day during one of the really bad punishments, Markus finally snapped. He finally had enough and decided it was his employers turn to know what a punishment felt like. Markus fought back, and he fought back hard. He wanted to make it hurt, wanted to make him suffer, and he want to make it last for a long time, hours if it could.
Eventually it came to an end, and the man was no more, Markus standing over what he had done and instead of feeling happy or regretful.....
He just felt numb
Markus in YKMET
Markus of course met Strade about a year after what had happened with his employer, the same way many had met Strade before Markus, and probably many after him as well.
At first when Strade took Markus, he obviously wasn't a fan of his situation, and a bit of him saw his old employer in Strade. Much like many others, Markus was fearful of what Strade could do to him, but that fear did not last.
Sure Strade was abusing him in all the ways his old employer would have, or worse then he did actually. But Markus started to notice something different when it came to Strade. He noticed while yes, that the man who had him tied to a pole in a basement was having his fun hurting him in different ways, even at some point taking his eye, Markus noticed that Strade had a weird way of showing care as he did what he did. Strade hurt him, but also patched him up. He fed Markus, if he remembered or Markus asked at least, even let Markus lean on him after he finished what he was doing.
Eventually the connection Markus saw between his previous employer and Strade vanished, and instead of hating him like he had his employer, Markus became obsessed with Strade, to the point he wanted to learn from him. He became fascinated by how Strade would do different things, tools and machines to cause the most pain, and the charm Strade had as he had his fun, well at least Markus saw the charm.
He wanted to learn it all and use the skills he would learn to please Strade, and weirdly enough, Strade liked the idea. Other then wanting to keep Markus for his beastkin traits, he found Markus want to learn to do what he does interesting, and thought it would be fun mentor him. So the collar came out and Markus became a new member of the house. Strade even got him a cute little cat bed for him to sleep on, which Markus cherished like it was gold
In terms of Ren, Markus never got alone with him. Call it a poor match between a feline and a canine, or they just had different views of the going ons in the house. Markus would tend to get annoyed by all the weird anime things Ren would keep rambling about, and Ren would probably not like the fact that Markus spent more time with Strade due to "learning the ropes" as it was put.
Markus in The Price Of Flesh
Eventually, we all know what happens, Strade....no longer being around and Ren not doing anything to help. Markus was sadly asleep that night, having been up for a long time helping Strade with something prior and was exhausted, but of course he found out and the moment he did, he both broke down and snapped all at the same time.
By that time, Strade had became Markus' whole world, the man who he felt gave him a purpose, and now he was just gone and Ren didn't do anything to help! To Markus, that was just as bad as holding the knife. He went from just not getting along with Ren, to straight up hating him, blaming him for what happened.
He wanted to badly to take the anger he felt out on Ren, but the other feeling inside him was now.....Ren was all Markus had left. He had no family, no friends. He had no one before Strade, and he had no one now either. Whether Markus liked it or not, he was stuck with Ren, and in a way Ren felt the same. The two of them had no one but each other now, no matter how much they didn't like each other.
Eventually things went on like normal. Ren learning he was good at putting on a show for people, streaming and bringing home his own guests, and Markus.......struggled a bit, never fully letting go of Strade, to the point he would go out and get Strades tattoo just to feel connected to him in anyway he could. He would also bring home his own guests as well, using all the things he learned from Strade, with a bit of addition with his hacking skills, he was good at taking what he wanted and getting away with it.
The two of them started to learn to work together, albeit reluctantly, setting things up to where Ren, Becoming Fox, would put on the shows, be the face of things, and Markus would use the skills he had to get Rens "co-stars" and eventually the "products" for his auction. Markus would also step in as a bodyguard if Ren needed it, which wasn't a part of the job Markus was happy about. It may had not been ideal, but the deal worked for the both of them.
However Markus started hearing roamers on the internet about a strange and sadistic demon that craved blood and sacrifices. For some reason, he felt it in his gut to look into it more, research what he could on the demon. He combed through websites and articles, what ever he could....and eventually he saw some vague of what the demon looked like....and Markus knew in his gut it was the man that gave him purpose.
Markus, while doing his best to keep things hidden from Ren, started to work on a way of summoning, or at least getting into contact with said demon. Learning everything ritual he had to, getting the necessary items he needed. He even bought a warehouse, using the excuse that it was to store things for their business, which Ren, while not completely buying the excuse, wrote off on it, not really wanting to bother with what ever Markus wanted to use it for.
Markus got to work, and eventually did get into contact with the demon, and the demon remembered him, which of course made Markus happy, almost to the point of crying. The two talked for a while, eventually leading to a pact being made between them. Markus was more then happy to give his soul to the demon, and the demon gave him a special gift to help him stay in contact and even listen in on things if he so chose too, and in exchange, Markus would keep feeding him sacrifices, turning the warehoused into a revamped base of operations, complete with its own pole.
And thats everything! at least for now. I did end up writing a lot more then I thought I would, and I apologize if a lot of this sounded like rambling or I repeated somethings or if its just not very well written, but if you read all this, I hope you like my weird freak of a character and his story!
Hello folks of Tumblr! I wanted to make an intro post but I am not good with words. Mostly gonna post art here of things i like and OCs, if that's a thing you like, then drop a follow!
Hope you enjoy the cringe i post!
My YKMET/TPOF freak, Markus Graves.
I would put more info but i got obsessed with fully righting out his lore and im not done so 😭
Take him as the strange Strade obsessed freak that he is for now! enjoy him won't you!
Also I made him a unique heart as well, nothing special really lol
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