Minzi I'm here to ask you about your OC's, I have Many Questions.
For your yaoi/yuri coded set (I am TERRIBLE at names but their designs is just *chefs kiss*) I was wondering what your biggest inspirations were for how they look, how they act, how they flirt with each other WHO SAID THAT
For the world design around them all, is it all super well thought out or a "X shenanigan is caused by Y, Y is caused by Z, and we need Z for X" kind of thing?
Lastly: if your favorite of ALL your ocs (or more than one if you're torn between 2-3) got picked up Right Now and put into a different work of fiction that you also enjoy (with whatever changes needed so they, like, survive. Like it they get plonked in space they get a free space suit with oxygen type shit) where would they cause maximum chaos and where would you have the most fun writing them into?
OH! OH! YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT ZAHIR AND MIA!
These two right? Boy do they have HISTORY
Like really, really long history, you could say there are the same two ocs I first created when I was like... 11, them and Cadu, but he changed too much to actually be a continuarion of the same character but more like a spiritual sucessor
Bc I tecnicaly did write a book when I was 10 about a war between two kingdons where two spys fall in love with each other, very clichê, very first story written, but the two main characters, Maya and Magnus, survived in my mind as 8 diferent ocs to wich only 2 or 3 pairs now survive
Mia and Zahir are one of them, mixed with a way better remix of my first ever written book series at fucking wattpad of all places, when I was 12, bc Mia has a bit of Natasha, the "cooler older sister" archetype I had to Cadus' Will(the main character and little brother archetipe of the series)
So Mia, Miranda, is... a mash of so many characters, more than zahir I feel like
Inspirations
Mia
Mia,before I settled down in the story(bela lua), was actualy a secondary character and her mother Melissa the main one, this was way before when I considered making an anthropomorphic world of mice and cats, but I wasn't that practiced on drawing furries so I changed to humans and the design became more to my liking
The idea at the time was, exactly her curent backstory, but focused trough the less of her mother eyes, who was staying to stryke a deal with an evil AI to take down his creator in enchange that he stfu about her and her daughters location
At wich point in daydreaming I imagined damn it would be cool to have a time travel moment were we see adult Mia and she has like this whole plot point of seeing her mother again bc by that time her mom is dead and this heart warning but also breaking moment of Melissa realizing damn her daughter will grow up but the weight of the world will still be on her shoulders all alone bc profecy and magic blood mumble jumble
I got so fascinated with this idea for Mia, that I expanded on it taking mains insp from ff7, you can see she already had some Aerith insp in her original kid design
And then... then enters my spiral
Here she is in uniform but the idea was making her wear skirts and a pink jacket
That spiriled in me going, wouldn't it be fun to have a sephiroth like character? And that's when a character caled Mael started to form
Mael is important bc he was tecnicaly a proto Zahir
So the story went that they would be paralels to each other story, Mia would be created around love, only bc her mother loved her was she able to scape the circle of the cult family, only through comunity in her mother's friends and soon her own did she find herself and acceptance and empaty
Meanwhile Mael would be surround by nothing of it, he would be a shell of a child and a shell of a man, be this, do that, kill that, only a machine in human form, by this point he was very much just a copy of the concept of sephiroth
But soon things would change when I remember a very fun detail of that same character, if you look at the original models of polygon in ff7, sephiroth has clearly a female body tipe, not a twink, a woman's body, that added to the fact that Genova is possesing him and has some short of shape shifting powers(its really complicated this is the bare bones break down if it), some really good long time ago I saw something online of the lines of "what if the more mako he got the more like genova his body becomes" and all that, then I found really good artists with a trans female sephiroth headcanon used in their art and that's when Mael got a better story
From this point Mael would be a trans woman, the idea would be tension between the two characters but I wouldn't follow throught on the romance bc at the time I wasn't sure icould pull it off, still ain't tbh, however maybe Mael would apear in kid form quickly emought just to stablish this fact and bc I don't trust myself to make a good enought research to actualy do a full on trans character arc, so time skip it is
Hell Mia even had a moment she was in an orphanage just to have an excuse for her and kid Mael to meet at least once
By this point I started to change focus on the characters, from Melissa now Mia had a focal point, but I still wanted her main apeal to be a mistery aspect, what was her family? Who is her family? Why is she so scared all the time? What is she?
So I created Cadu as the main character of Bela Lua, and soon Emily as well, the problem of maintaining this aspect of Mias character, she became more quiet but also interesting to me especificaly, from a bubbly child now to stares at your soul untill you run off
For her CHILD design, she has aerith(ff7), pidge(vld), Frosta(shera 2018), and like her mother Cassandra Jones(Rise of the teen age mutant ninja turtles 2018)
As for her adult design there is a fun history to go to
I always wanted to make a story about betrayal, the original idea with Maya, the first spiritual iteraction of Mia, was that she would be betrayed by her comrades and left behind, to wich would finaly prompt a truce with the romantic interest and actualy make the romance kick off
But I could never get to that point bc I never gave her comrades to actualy get betrayed by bc I was a ut bitty cowardly to get attached myself and make them do something só perssonal and heartbreaking as betraying a freind
I now am grow and love angst so TRAGEDT IT FUCKING IS BABIEEEEE HAHAHAHAHHA
Anyways
I wanted it to hurt and leave a really good scar behind as a physical proof of an unhealing wound and all that
So first she only had a face scar, a tinny sitting more like a slit, you know? Babys' character designer first scar tipe of things
But then... then I watched the entirety of a Brazilian rpg series called Ordem Paranormal, keeping in mind that I also had to just finished arcane, I literay could not get out of my mind the visceral potential of a face scar that actualy looked grotesque, something that like it or not would affect how others see you forever, yes there is mising hair, yes it is ugly, and yes it looks painfull as fuck, it doesn't mean the character is evil, it only hamers home his sacrifice at the end it was glorious
And in this same show, there is a character, named Arthur who loses an arm, and in a q&a the player said it was his choice to keep the character with ZERO protestcs even if the dm allowed it, do you know why? Bc it would make 10× coler everything he does
Driving a car, playing the guitar with only one single hand, it is works, it made Arthur one of my favorite characters bc now I knew that it was a deliberated choice, the player and the character, to not ask for a prosthetic and to try everything anyways, to be a hero and happy and fun, to keep on going, to become the next godamn boss
This stuck with me so hard I took one of Mias arm off♡
That's the price of being one of my favorites becoming a little lab rat. Moving on
By this point as well Mael would going insp from another gremlins of this rpg show called Gael, yes the name is also born here, as well as the orphanage plot
Adult Mia before I decided to actualy burn her face and torn her arm off^^^, the prison plot point was also being born here and me going yo fuck it all Mia deserves a gf
So some story development time coming from worlds like Troll hunters, yu yu Hakusho and ordem paranormal Mia finaly had a solid enough magic sistem for me to play around to what is she
That's when I made her a changeling, the initial intention was making her a werewolf but the design wouldn't stick so now she is more like a fae, until I decide to change her again
But with a solid magic sistem I finaly could answer who was her family what sorta magic do they made what makes of her and alllllll of that
Finaly. We can go to Zahir
Zahir
Is far more simpler than Mia, in the way that he was first made with two simple inspirations
Lotor(vld) and Drago(jackie chan adventures)
Bc at the time I was watching jca and searching more about yu yu Hakusho, and these two things mashed togheter to create the other world, the "veil" part of Bela lua, inspired also by the promised neverland
In where demons lie bc long ago war thingies, the thing is these demons needed rulers and jca was perfect base with the 8 demon Brothers, and one character that I was fascinated as a child that is underutilized and very much useless besides his introduction, the son of Shendu, so why not?
I like dragons, and the idea to explore this other world political trauma would be fun, so mix it will earlier season 3 lotor from vld with his two face nature
And you get, a demon prince, who is the outsllier of the magic sistem
Now to continue his origins I gotta explain the magic sistem bc they were made one and the same
The magic sistem of Bela Lua is what I call the Soul Mage sistem
There are humans, there are demons, separed in two worlds that were originally one(the promissed neverland, yu yu hakusho), demons were feared by humans bc they could eat humans soul
But here's the thing, this, isn't and never will be a survival things
Soul magic(undertale insp), is a power play thing,the more souls a demon eats, the more magical he becomes,but he must keep consuming souls to keep his own intact, your own soul it's not a renewable resource, and his magic alive
But here's the catch... it's a two way street, humans that eat demons soul, also become mages, it's the same thing, there is no diference. The whole humans fearing demons things? Propaganda long forgotten after the veil was made, so much so that in today age only folklore remains of what once were two races interacting with each other
Zahir would inherits his dad magic problem. while his father had to consume an absurd amount of souls to even just burp a flame, zahir can't even do that shit. Zahir, no matter how many souls he eats, how much flesh he consumes, he will not be able to use soul magic
Now... natural alchemy however is another story...
You know the snake bites, two silver dots? He would use those, dosed in some kind of demon realm/nightmare realm substance, that when reacting to gold(his rings) would create fire that he could then blow like a torch, zahir can't use magic in the conventional way, but he is still a sorcerer by studing and alchemy, alchemy that needs things form both worlds to work(hamering home the two worlds were once one)
This lead me to think in demon jewelry and how few time I see copper used in designs so I decided tomake it a low magic reactional ore so in their world that know much about magic coper would be the neutral things to use around people to not ignite acidentaly a fire or something
From this point I was working on the ADULT arc of Bela Lua, zahir would only apear here and he would be Mias kinda boss kinda "first friend", wich was more.likehis first actually friend than hers since she did had emilly(complicated we get on her soon)
And then I remember Mael exists and for a while Mia, Zahir and Mael were a trio.... until Mael starts to become too underdeveloped and Zahir too stagnant (besides their trio dinamic becoming too similar with anotehr trionthat i have the imortalis triumvirato)
Zahir was too much like Drago(jca), emo punk, daddy issues, and less the more cunning kind, but who had the confidence that was needed for the cunning ti work? Mael, and I couldn't make them friends bc the whole point is that humans, ocultst like mael was bc of the orphanage plot point, didn't know how to cross the vai but only bend it enough to pick what they wanted
And solitude, no, isolation, is a big point of all 3 of them, what make them work is that they are 3 lonely children that found each other in their adult years
And as I continued on I couldn't fit mael back in more team dynamics,couldn't find a reason to make her important bc the story had evolved far away from the original enemies to lovers solo duet mael had with mia
And Zahir was kinda boring
So... why not... join them in one?
That would make the prince character actualy two faced with a more flamboyant persona, what Mael had, while he was actualy an introverted anti social, and keep stronger ties with Mia bc she is also an outlier of the magic sistem, being born form a ritual, rescued by zahir acidentaly
So that's what I did and zahir became the flamboyant prince regent character that works more tha his father bc the old man is too preoccupied with trying to get souls like an addict rather than run his own fukcing kingdom
So now I had Mia and Zahir... but what about what Mia and Mael had? Should I just forget about it? Just leave an esteregg or something?
Oh... that's right, emilly, she was one of the whole point that I also wanted to make Mael and Mia a couple
Bc emillys character, in the child arc, is that she has a big fat crush on Mia... but more on the idea of her. You see Emilly is built around... well, the toxic concept of forced femininity that I grew up around when a kid
The idea is that emilly will force Mia to be more feminine, it IS inocent on her part, it's a way for her to bond with this other little girl that she finds kinda cute... but could be cuter, could be better, could be perfect, could be prettier, if only she would followe her trends, her ideas, her tutorials and all of that
Mia... at this point in her character design,was not an overly feminine girl anymore and will never be a feminine woman, that's a bunch my guy. But Emily is pushy, bc they are girl friends, bc they are the two girls of their group, bc from what Emily knows mia doesn't have any friends besides her and Cadu, who doesn't count bc he is praticaly Mias brother and a boy
It's the mess of a first crush, but one sided. The idea that Mia later on would date a "boy" that emilly grew up around and was a little pain in the ass for them at some point, would enrage Emily, it's a whole arc overcoming her own homofobia and transfobia and moving on from her first crush that she idolozed and put on a pedestal bc she thought she was dead and saw the past with Rose tinteiro glasses
This jealousy is intrisical to Emily's character and even if it would be possible to keep it that way with only Mia telling her to fuck off, it wouldn't be as impacting as the jealousy that can arise from seeing someone you desire with another person you, judge that isn't worty
That's drama
And I like drama :) that's what growing up with Brazilian soap operas does to you
And it isn't even that hard to make zahir and Mia fall in love is it? He gives an opportunity for her to enact revenge on the organization that killed her mother, and imprisoned and tortured her for 12 years, and in theory killed also her brother and second mother as well
Then she is introduced to the whole new side of the world where this other aspect of her, that she had to suppress her whole life is not only normal but encouraged, a side of herself she didn't even knew she could bond with with these other people that she can easily see as people bc of her adventures in the child arc and bc of who she is
And to zahir? A stranger that is a reflection of the loliness he fells behind the mask, someone who saw him without it first bc he wasn't even prepared to put on a smile when checking the cells he was breaking for his father's plan to work, someone who refuses to put up a mask of smiles, and prefers to that your know very well how pissed and tired and depresses she is with the world and even if she holds her tongue her face tells it all
Bc an aspect of Mias character, when she discovers that her brother is still alive, is that she will continue her plan to end the ORGANIZATION, however Cadu works there now, and she refuses to belive he knows that she was there, much to zahirs disbelief, someone so pessimists has one hope left after all
A kindred spirit in a way, too tired of it all but spite moves them forward, and someone who exales loyalty
But here's the twist and the tragedy, he knew, he knew she was down there by all tense years, but from his perspective that things wasn't his sister anymore, the justification he keept telling himself is that he saw her transform in a demon si she is gone gone. But no justified action will settle the fact that he knew and he never went to see her
Zahir is a paralel to cadu, both the next generation of leaders, and for a while zahirs main trait is envy, he envies cadu For having an actual team, envies the guy for having relationships and a good relationship with his parents and mentor, even envies he even has a mentor to begin with and eventually envies the blinding trust Mia had in him
So when that trust is broken, and he sees Mia shift that loyalty to him? That's a power trip.
So it is ironic, that when her last ties to humans break, is when she will fell the most human, finaly letting go and expressing frustration out loud, bc she too had cadu in a bit of a pedestal, as she did her mother, and other mother. Allowing herself to actually get in touch with this other side emotional suppressed, things she was already doing in small doses with Zahir
Mia was never blind nor polite when an adult, years of isolation making her blunt to a fault, that means she confronts him when he is being stupid or hesitating in speaking his mind about some aristocrat being a dick, her loyalty to him will in theory build as time goes on and she finds friends in the demon realm as well as solidifies her status as a knight rather than a "pet"
Their relationship is based on my interrpretaion of narilamb(narinder and lamb form cult of the lamb), but also the posts on the tags of knight and knight x King, knight x princess here on tumblr, maybe even a bit of stobotinic(agent stone and dr robotinic from sonic live action movies) if you squint, and what solidified this policall save guy x stoic right hand woman idea if them was sentinel prime and airachnide from transformers one, these two are the actual reason Mia has a damn job on the demon realm instead of... wandering aimlessly now
And that's when I bring back Mael trans woman arc, when working in the dinamic and Zahir design I git the idea that Mia at some point would start to be referred as Sire, as a way to indicate her rising in ranks and power position, so why not make her jokingly call Zahir her lady, that turned into: why not make a gender dimosphsm in draconian demons? and Zahir is more like sephiroth in the way he has a very female body by demon gender dimosphsm but very masculine by human standards? Mia already is gender non conforming by human standard so why not make demon woman standards more like her so to them she is peak femininity (and this is were i screamed in excitment as i remember emilys arc)
So yeah they are both yaoi and Yuri and hetero and bi and pan and everything and nothing at all times pick the flavor and the answer is yes
Favorites
MANNNN DONT MAKE ME CHOSE THEY CHANGE EACH SEASON XD
And each story, I have like... 4... in production by now
But today I would say Mia(WHO WOULD HAVE GUESS I KNOW), Cassandra and ivan
But for maximum chaos? Ivan. This little shit would cause chaos anywhere on purpose, but it would be so funny to put him in the same universe as one of his inspos, that being valdemar from the arcana, he would try to dissect that demon alive
I wrote thsi all from midnight to two am ungill I passed out thank you for the opportunity
