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Valphas + Dante

Valphas and Dantelion first encountered each other in a world which has now been destroyed.

Both were in the same library, and the puppet Dante was possessing at the time had gone back to read a book that he had already read, simply to double-check a fact. The entire book was different. Actually, the entire shelf. And at the opposite end of the room, somehow staring them down, was a weird little freak with no facial features. They both clocked each other based on vibes and Valphas pulled Dante's into its domain in an attempted kidnapping and assumed corruption of data. Dante (the manager) was not happy about this, and entered the world as an attempt to prevent this. This resulted in that world collapsing as the void ripped into it.

They've had a few encounters since then. Mostly, they've been indirect through various puppets disappearing completely off the radar, and now, in a slightly worrying progression of events, some of the world/universe managers.

Valphas was created when a human messed so much with the occult that it reached out and touched an entity in the void, which consequently destroyed everything they were completely. It was entirely inspired by the concept of strange matter, and it doesn't actually have a design yet LOL.

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Concept of angels, demons, and gods in Dante verse!!! :

There is one 'God' and it is the multiverse itself.

Angels are beings whose nature and/or actions protect, aide, or compliment the multiverse.

Demons are beings whose actions harm, destroy, or go against the multiverse.

Angels are not necessarily 'good', whatever that means, and demons are not necessarily 'evil'. An angel can commit horrific acts but still be an angel due to those acts protecting the stability and structure of the multiverse. Likewise, a demon can spend its life spreading fortune and committing acts of kindness and charity, but is still a demon due to those actions harming the multiverse.

It isn't really possible to switch roles. There might be extremely rare cases but more or less just by design demons work against, and angels protect.

They don't really work in groups, nor is there a heaven or hell or any like place. Angels aren't part of some angelic organisation working to quash the demons, or anything like that. They simply exist. Oftentimes, they don't even really think about 'this action shall protect this corner of the multiverse from destruction', they're simply taking that action.

The multiverse/God is a neutral entity. It simply encompasses and is all that there is to exist.

The void too is entirely neutral. It simply is nothingness. The spaces between everything that exists is filled by the void.

Sometimes angels and demons exist as inverses of each other. For example, Dantelion. Dantelion is the demon of knowledge. There is also an angel of knowledge, called Zephkial (subject to change).

Dantelion is the demon of knowledge due to the way that he acquires it, and how he uses and distributes it. She actively saps the life from worlds and universes if she enters them, and due to her governing principle of 'knowledge above all else', is, if it gains her more information, not against torturing or killing people, or even destroying worlds and universes, if doing so would obtain her more information than not doing so.

She enters worlds by forcing her way into them from the void, causing damage and collapse, all in the name of gaining more knowledge. She also does not distribute it freely, hoarding it in her domain of an infinite library. Only rarely can beings enter, by her invitation or if they manage to find their way in. To access this information someone may need to make a deal with her, but they will recieve the information in full.

Zephkial on the other hand, the angel of knowledge, avoids taking lives or causing harm. He wishes to obtain information to distribute it to others, allowing free access to his library domain. They believe any information that causes harm or death is not worth obtaining. Anyone asking specific questions of her will receive answers to what they asked, but if the information they requested is perceived as 'dangerous to know' they will be given a vague or nondescript answer and the knowledge withheld in the name of protecting them and others around them.

Someone choosing who to attempt to work with for information would have to choose between these two options:

-information given completely for free, obtained without harming others. However, the information might not be complete, as some may be withheld due to being uncomfortable to hear, or potentially dangerous to know.

-information at a hefty or dangerous cost, obtained possibly at the expense of multiple lives. However, in return, you learn everything; no matter how dangerous the knowledge might be to use.

Outside of angels and demons, there are also entities that do not fall into either category. They simply exist in the void and do not tend to breach into realities.

Another point on the void is that it is incredibly rare to encounter anybody within it. Distances go into multiple light years. It is quite literally infinite.

One other entity I wanted to mention in this is Valphas, the demon of corruption. This is Dante's antithesis (she doesn't even know Zephkial exists, and corruption is far more antithetical to information). It exists entirely to corrupt the information contained within worlds. It is incredibly hard to detect when it has done this as it's near impossible to know what the original information would have been. Unfortunately, or fortunately depending on how much you hate her, Dante is acquainted with Valphas. And I'm gonna write about this more in another post LOL

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I found out today that she's two years old. Someone has a hamster older than her. She gets insecure if you ask her how old she is btw

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I'm drawing them both properly kind of but here's the new manager that oversees the web world bc the old one essentially got fired for being a messy bitch

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Backkkk on this acc bc I gotta update about how worlds and universes are managed. There are essentially three levels to this.

Level one - the puppets. These are the generally completely unaware people being created by Dante and dropped into different timelines and worlds and such. They are the ones from which she gets her information. Most of the time they are regular ass humans.

Level two - the managers. Essentially carbon copies of Dante with less power who watch over the worlds and universes with the puppets in. They kinda have their own free will but it is literally just. Dante. On a smaller scale. And bc they are Dante they are susceptible to fucking losing it and if they do that they might get. Fired. And replaced with another version that has its act together. All their info goes directly back to Dante the second they learn it. Like these people are literally just her.

Level three - Dante. What is she doing if not directly observing these worlds? Uhhh. Sometimes finding new ones and creating new versions of herself. She is constantly mentally observing everything she's connected to at once which gets turned immediately into writing in a book which appears in her infinite library. But mostly um. She's lowkey just sat reading and watching. It's so difficult to arrange a meeting with her and not her copies because god are you seriously asking her to stop reading? Really? Yes she already knows what's in the book but reading it just means she knows it even more. And there's plenty of interesting things going on in the lives of her puppets. Meeting with you better be fucking good if she's missing that.

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She is doing really well guys

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writing goals for 2026 ✨

to write

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Ugh Dantelion brainrot so bad I spent 35 minutes writing about her and I want to continue but alas I must sleep

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I'm just posting this bc I keep seeing it in my camera roll and giggling

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Quaking as I realised the potential of being able to write down a bunch of the small canon things I've stored in my head

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Dantelion's appearance can be indicative essentially of her mood. This is already established but to get more into the specifics/revised ideas:

This form: whilst it can be used to intimidate and is likely to occur if her control over her body slips a bit, I think I'll write it so she uses this form also when she's being dramatic or silly, essentially. The more inhuman she looks, the more silly or unserious she's probably being, until she hits a certain point at which it's serious again. There's basically a window of silly. Because she looks more demonic/monstrous, she conforms less to human like actions and conversation, and is more likely to be deliberately antagonistic/provocative, and chase knowledge and what she wants with little regard as to the side effects.

This is the less common form. It may occur after something goes wrong, she exerts herself a little too much, or if she's engaging in physical combat.

She's also more likely to attack people in this form or behave in an animalistic way.

This form however (the above) is used in more serious situations. She requires more control over herself and thus has a more restrained conduct. This is much more similar to her base personality; serious, almost flat, manipulative and only concerned with the information she can get out of a situation. She is less governed by pure impulse and controls herself more easily. Essentially, this form she is like a very cold and calculated person/human, and will also appear as such if the situation calls for it.

This is the form she is in the vast majority of the time, just watching everything that happens, possessing, and such. She might seem a bit subdued if talking to her but generally it's just because she's chosing her words carefully, and is paying attention to every piece of information flitting about her head. She's also probably draining it from the person she's talking to.

Less controlled but more serious forms:

Excuse the incomplete concept art but appearance more aligning with these - so basically once she has 'cracked', it basically goes back to serious again. There is the odd exception but for the most part she's going to be very serious but more in an inhuman way. Speech may or may not be used, depending on form. The closer she is to her true from, the more likely she is to just kind of. Stare at you. Mainly because in said form, and provided you have eyes and/or are not more powerful than she, she can essentially just access your mind. Speech is unnecessary, and besides, she doesn't have a mouth in this form.

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I've come to terms with the fact that I probably for the most part have to sacrifice Dante being a silly little freak for the horror aspect of this that I really want to invest in. It's that, or I have to make even more layers to the story and make the Dante we know be the representation of the entity, less of an instance and more of an avatar of sorts, who is just part of the larger entity. Then I can have both. But also, idk if that's too complicated to write or understand??? Augh I don't knowww

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I enjoy the overexpressive and overdramatic one way too much to get rid of it I think. Okay maybe that's just her entertaining herself but the second it comes to locking in she is much more. Creepy??? Horrifying??? Idk guys I want this to be a horror story but I love her dramatic selffff

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I have a workaround for this now yay. Update to follow

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I've come to terms with the fact that I probably for the most part have to sacrifice Dante being a silly little freak for the horror aspect of this that I really want to invest in. It's that, or I have to make even more layers to the story and make the Dante we know be the representation of the entity, less of an instance and more of an avatar of sorts, who is just part of the larger entity. Then I can have both. But also, idk if that's too complicated to write or understand??? Augh I don't knowww

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I enjoy the overexpressive and overdramatic one way too much to get rid of it I think. Okay maybe that's just her entertaining herself but the second it comes to locking in she is much more. Creepy??? Horrifying??? Idk guys I want this to be a horror story but I love her dramatic selffff

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I've come to terms with the fact that I probably for the most part have to sacrifice Dante being a silly little freak for the horror aspect of this that I really want to invest in. It's that, or I have to make even more layers to the story and make the Dante we know be the representation of the entity, less of an instance and more of an avatar of sorts, who is just part of the larger entity. Then I can have both. But also, idk if that's too complicated to write or understand??? Augh I don't knowww

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Sickeningly excited to start doing more with this CREATURE. This THING. I cannot wait. I need to start animating or something because I also finally think I got her face exactly right. It takes so many tries bc she looks so specific in my head and I'm used to drawing the malnourished, half-dead, pathetic wreck that was websoup

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Omg she also has a playlist. I'll send it to web at some point before start of next season but here it is for now if anyone is interested :DDD

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Sickeningly excited to start doing more with this CREATURE. This THING. I cannot wait. I need to start animating or something because I also finally think I got her face exactly right. It takes so many tries bc she looks so specific in my head and I'm used to drawing the malnourished, half-dead, pathetic wreck that was websoup

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I decided Dantelion wasn't suffering enough so I created her an antithesis. I've barely started designing them but they're going to be inspired by strange matter, if that tells you anything at all

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It has been named. Subject to change BUT. Valphas, name taken from a demon called Malphas (but changed a letter bc it otherwise sounds too similar to my friend's oc's name lmao)

Screensnot of wiki entry where I found it :D and also Dantelion's source bc I feel like that's also important considering I looked over the lore before naming lmao

And my knowledge guy :) you can definitely tell why I named her this I think