Satan, or the concept of the adversary, manifests itself in countless ways in our lives and faiths. The devil exists not as a single entity but as a concept of opposition, and corrupts those who become obsessed with the temptations that opposition brings. For Electra, a boy full of hate for everything he casts his gaze upon, Lucifer is all consuming, existing in everything he knows-- love, friendship, family, they are all adversary, and he thinks of nothing but overcoming the overwhelming weight of a world he is certain is corrupting him. This is how Sam fell in love with him.
A while back i talked about redesigning all my OCs and sort of rewriting them. Some got major rewrites while others got just a few touch-ups to better fit into how i imagine their world now and how my taste has changed as a person (as opposed to when i was like literally 15 or 16)
So meet Alaa, an Egyptian 17 year old mutant girl who lives in Masr El Gedida, Cairo with her grandparents. She lost her mother at a very young age and her father 2 years ago, and is kind of still trying to cope with it all
She has a big love for robotics and machines and tinkering with them! Was a big joy to her as a kid to show her father little toys she'd create from combining different toys by taking them apart and putting them together. Besides that she is also a big nerd and loves comic books and superheroes and the like, and loves playing video games despite being bad at most of them. Very loser interests overall
And a loser she lowkey is.. being a mutant Alaa is somewhat of a social outcast who hasn't had many friends throughout her life, and is kinda used to getting bullied and being considered a "freak"
Besides her very long arms and creepy 6 fingers with retractable claws, her cat-like giant eyes and unhinge-able monster jaw with retractable sharp teeth make her.. really off-putting to most non-mutants at best and a target for hatred at worst. Her teeth are also pretty uncomfortable so she prefers to have them retracted, causing a lisp where she cant pronounce her S's that also gets her a lot of teasing.
Mutants are a minority in this world and she doesn't have many people to bond with, except for her best friends and classmates Lu'lu' and Shahd who will get their own posts
And while being a mutant is hard on Alaa's social life there are other factors, like her autism. Alaa has trouble reading social queues most of the time and in general has a very unexpressive face more often than not. Her attitude and quietness makes her seem very cold, aloof, and sometimes creepy (mostly because of the big eyes and weird arms). She can kind of mask but finds it exhausting and usually doesn't
What most people don't see beyond the surface is that even if Alaa has trouble expressing herself to people she is an extremely compassionate and kind person. Really she can be described as having a heart of gold, she loves helping people out and tries to be there for the people in her life that she loves. She's stood up to bullies in school for picking on others more than she stands up for herself, despite how scared she used to get
She's a very scared person in general, living in fear of a lot of things. Fear of trying to do good at school and failing, fear of trying to share her interest with others and being made fun of, fear of what's the next bad encounter that's about to happen because of her freaky appearance, fear of petting any animals lest they bite her, fear of classmates somehow discovering that she's bisexual. Or doesn't believe in god like everyone else does or likes to use they/them pronouns sometimes. Fear of the next time a big mutant animal might terrorize the city
Though the fear in that last part is a bit unconventional. Alaa isn't scared of monsters because she needs to run away from them. She's scared of monsters because
she's the one who's gonna be fighting them.
That's right Alaa is so inspired by the superheroes she reads about that she went on to become one
After watching her father die and being too scared to try and save him, Alaa decided that she doesn't want to let her fears consume her anymore. She doesn't want anyone to feel the helplessness that she did and wants to use her powers to help people
A little after hitting puberty Alaa discovered there's more to her mutation than what she inherited from her mother (her dad was a human but his genes didnt even try it seems). But even then she didnt realize the scale. She found that her hands can glow in the dark and produce sparks of electricity. But as she grew older, and tried experimenting with these weird abilities more.. she found that her hands can shine a bright light, not just glow in the dark. Sparks of electricity is just the beginning she can produce a shock more powerful than the average taser!
She didn't let anyone know about the extent of these powers, choosing to keep it secret even from her friends. Overtime she learned the nature of her powers. Alaa can absorb any form of energy, store it for an indefinite amount of time, and convert and discharge it at will
Hypothetically there is no limit, but it needs alot of practice. As it is now she can absorb heat, electricity, and chemical energy although it is a bit tricky. And she can discharge electricity, heat, lightrays and xrays, and kinetic energy. That means she can shock people, use her kinetic blasts to deliver powerful punches or leap great heights or slow herself down in the air, and if she practices more she can focus her light rays into laser beams. And much more as the story would go on and she gets the hang of more forms of energy
The amount of energy she absorbs and discharges is a matter of practice too. She absorbs energy through her extremities, her hands and feet (and theres a radius of effectiveness that does go beyond her clothes, so thankfully she doesnt have to burn through her clothes to absorb electricity or blow up her shoes to do a seismic kick) the obscure unique organ on her hands and feet needs to be trained like a muscle to let in and let out certain amounts of energy, and going beyond that can really hurt her. Training that "muscle" is also necessary for more focused use of her energy
Of course thats not to say the mutant features that everyone sees are useless, you would never want to be at the receiving end of her mean bite or scratch. And her body is extremely extremely flexible, which allows for amazing acrobatics (helps that she had a love for gymnastics her whole life anyway). Besides all that there is of course, her brain! Nayzak is physically not a very strong person and her powers are still at a point where they can't carry her through everything. She has to use her wits just as much as her powers to beat enemies. And she also makes great use of her love for science and machines, as she has a lot of gadgets and devices she uses as a superhero that i will write about in another post!
After making the decision when she was 15, she had to get to work on a costume. Most of her costume is a sort of makeshift mishmash of multiple different parts she bought and customized (mysteriously she's been to broke to go out with friends for several months at at some point!) The most noticeable motif, the teeth, is something of a cultural symbol for mutants. Its common across most parts of the globe and due to it's use in mutant liberation movements teeth imagery have become a political symbol more than anything. The logo on her back is a meteor, which is what she named herself after (نيزك, arabic for meteor)
As the story goes on Nayzak has to learn what it truly means to be a hero. She took her names from meteors, but when a meteor strikes it changes the course of everything on the planet. And soon she will learn what it truly means to cause a cataclysm to the status quo and what it takes to change the world she lives in for the better
I dont have much to say about these 2 so im putting them on the same post, since these were actually the 2 designs i made first so it was before i got any ideas on any major differences from the show
I dont even got any sketches for angeldust lol he was the first design i did and it was just a like "i kinda have a vision in mind i wanna draw out"
I LOVE Keith David's performance as Husk he's one of my favorite voice actors OF ALL TIME and one of the reasons i had my eye on the show lol. So I took some inspiration from one of Keith David's most iconic roles, Goliath from Gargoyles, and gave Husk a cloak out of his wings. But more than just a cheeky reference i also felt the more "batlike" wings feel more demonic, AND the cloak helps out with his magician powerset
While the magician aesthetic is a sort of choice by husk (the mask, the gloves, how he wears his wings), the cards motif is not; it's more related to poker than card tricks. This is because for husk as a demon i went in a less creepy direction and more of mockery (mockery being also the reason i leaned so heavily into the deer and wood aesthetic for alastor)
Husk's demon form is punishment not by turning him into an ugly monster but rather by making his body a constant reminder of his addiction. Thats why he's a fully black cat, because he has bad luck (an idea my friend gave me)
Angel does get the creepy treatment though, sorta comes with being a spider i feel. Although by hell standards he is indeed sexy as fuck. And that was kinda all i was really thinking of when designing him i just wanted him to look like he is fr a demon. He has spider eyes, with the pink normal looking eyes being just makeup (also my friend's idea) I believe he is my tallest design being even taller than charlie, which again contributes to how creepy he is
I think the dynamic angel and husk has in the show is probably the single most well developed dynamic in the whole show BUT one change i want is for them to actually have a conversation about boundaries. I think its interesting that someone so used to abuse like angel would then go on to sort of inflict something similar on husk constantly making him uncomfortable, but i hate that he never apologizes for it. Angel should know more than anyone in the whole hotel how awful that is and yet it just gets sort of brushed off
I imagine husk ISNT against the idea of having a sexual romance with angel, it's just that he's the kind of guy who wants to take it slow and serious. And so once they sing Loser together angel is much more respectful of Husk's boundaries, which makes husk a lot more open to angel's jokes. I think this makes angel love husk even more because for once someone is interested in him as a person and the sex is just an afterthought. He feels comfortable not looking dolled up in the hotel 24/7 mostly because of the vibes husk gives him, and in return there's been nights in the hotel where its just husk and angel at the bar talking and husk has his mask off (which is not something he usually does, husk hates taking off his mask mostly as an extension of hating his demonic body)
I imagine Angel and Husk are actually charlie's favorite humans to talk to (vaggi dont count thats literally her girlfriend). Alastor is kind of crazy and also hes cryptic and not one for conversations that benefit someone other than himself, baxter is some annoying nerd, and pentious IS sweet but nothing can compare to the amount of experiences Charlie can learn about from Husk, who has been all around vegas in life and been an overlord in the afterlife, and Angel, who came from a family of mobsters in life and has done sex work through all parts of hell in afterlife. In a way thats even more than what she can get from Vaggi, who doesnt talk much about her past because of how much of it she has to hide
It makes both of these guys have a lot of.. i dont wanna say wisdom persay, but just alot of experience that charlie can learn from. Theyve seen alot of both good and bad, though mostly bad. Husk is especially interesting to talk to about the normal world since hes lived far longer than angel did, while angel is more interesting to talk to about hell as he's less powerful and thus more on the "normal" authentic typical side of demons
I imagine charlie learning about angel's "relationship" with Valentino (who btw is the reason why 2 of angel's eyes are permanantly injured) is very confusing for her. Not being a human, charlie doesnt really understand sex and sexuality. She's not asexual, she loves exploring this stuff with vaggi, but she just never understood it before that. And as a result of this she doesnt really have a grasp over concepts like SA and what it does to someone. This makes the part of the story where charlie confronts valentino a lot more horrific for her as she learns what its about, and i imagine it would be a major part of the story just how much it would challenge her ideals about redemption
Last thing is i imagine husk is the one charlie talks to when she learns vaggi was an exorcist and is the one who chopped off her leg, yk "seems like you need a bartender to talk to". He talks to her about how the emotions she's feeling, hurt and betrayal, are human feelings that shes been too sheltered and too big to feel. And that its kind of pathetic and kind of funny that the moment she feels an actual human negative emotion, all her beliefs about humans shake down and fall apart. But it is a pep talk that ultimately reinforces for her that yes humans hurt each other all the time, but humans can fix things with each other. Not always, husk has been in many examples where he got hurt by someone AND hurt others that have never been fixed. But he cant tell charlie if its possible or not, thats something she has to decide for herself. Now that she's experienced what its like to be a human hurt by another human, does she still believe in redemption for everyone? Or does she feel like this hurt is worth punishment?
Alastor!! Hopefully this post will be shorter than the last one since this is only 1 character this time and also not the main protagonists of the story so hopefully i have less to yap about
woops spoilers for my husk and angeldust designs in there
So for Alastor i think i imagine him as a more Bill Cipher type. That's the energy i got from him in the pilot and it felt so fitting for him! He's insane and creepy and as pilot charlie put it, sketchy as fuck, but he's not. Trying to be. He simply IS kind of insane. He does weird things and kinda talks to himself sometimes and says out of pocket and creepy shit casually, but doesnt really expect a reaction from it
Like in the show he was a charmer who clawed his way through racism and white supremacy to get a passing chance to follow his dreams as a radiohost in the 1920s, but was also a serial killer. I think for my take i just want to focus a lot more on his dynamic with rosie and how kind of fucked up it is. Did alastor deserve to go to hell? Yeah prolly. But does he deserve the very personal hell of being "owned" by a white woman and being "her pet" ? Now thats a very interesting conversation. In any case its pretty tragic to think about
My alastor has a very weird mouth. Like the show he can't un-smile but on top of that he doesnt really Have anything inside his mouth its just the radio speaker in there. Thats actually how he talks! He doesnt actually need to open his mouth and it can get super unsettling when hes talking without paying attention to syncing his lips to what he's saying
Last thing of note alastor's demon form is blind. And although he does have a white cane it's mostly for show, as the way he actually sees is by recieving sound and radiowaves. A sort of radio cartoon logic echolocation. He also sees by using his shadow!
I really dont like the appropriation of voodoo thats present with alastor so ive chosen to kinda just walk away from it. He doesnt use dolls or curses or anything he instead simply has "shadow magic"
He can feel and manipulate his surroundings by touching their shadows with his own. He can also teleport by phasing in and out of his own shadow. His powerset is a lot more focused on his shadow as its the closest thing to "vision" thats not actual vision ala TV. Neat thing is also that his shadow emotes more honestly. So despite his inability to frown, and maybe even if he does want to frown but chooses to fake smile through it, his shadow will still involuntarily show that frown
It is with heavy heart and out of sync chakra that i must admit... i have made...
hazbin hotel fanart....
I just think that the show despite it's many many shortcomings (and i definitely do not consider it a good show) has a lot of interesting ideas. And it really gets me thinking about doing my own redesigns and putting in some of my ideas cause i love seeing fanart like that
So for my take on Charlie i think i want her to be more in-human. She doesnt understand humanity very well, and is kinda fascinated by humans. Where angels are kinda locked into their grand duties humans lead such small lives and yet go on so many different paths. We have such a capacity to change, to be who we want to be, and as the daughter of a fallen angel Charlie is fascinated by that
It's why she believes in humans too. If a human can be anything they want to be, why CANT they be good and have a heart of gold, if they just put their minds to it?
And of course how can she not be so inspired by humans when her mother was one. Like in the show one of the major inspirations for the hotel is charlie's mother. In my take Charlie fought back against the exorcists each year to try her best (and fail) to minimize the deaths. On the first year she lost her leg in a certain encounter while defending a sinner, who in gratitude defended her back and ended up dying. This random sinner's small act of kindness is kind of the main driving force that makes up for Lillith's absence. How even though she's gone Charlie still sees her human values echoed in the sinners in hell who have the capacity for redemption
Charlie spent alot of time pre-hotel exploring hell and observing the sinners and getting to know them very well. She has that naivete that comes with being an immortal unkillable creature princess who never interacted with the actual earth, but not quite to the extent she is in the show because she actually takes the time to be around her subjects. It was in that roaming of hell that she met a certain wandering Vagabond...
In my take Vaggi was a human named. Idk Vanessa or something idc
She was a kind and compassionate human with unbreakable loyalty, and so of course went to heaven. As an angel she was recruited to be part of the exorcists and celebrated for her strength. She definitely made an impression on Adam when she started off the first year of exterminations with a BANG by... retrieving the severed leg of the princess of Hell herself!
That's right it was her who chopped off Charlie's leg. A life changing moment for both of them! Even though deep inside she felt something very wrong when she saw how charlie and the random sinner were so devoted not to saving themselves but saving each other, she repressed those feelings in the name of loyalty to her holy mission. But it only took a couple years for that faith to be broken and be banished to hell
She roamed hell a few years as a vagabond (thats where she gets her name) where she eventually met Charlie (who obviously didnt recognize her because she only saw her in armor). She decided to pursue charlie to truly learn about hell and sinners, and charlie's thoughts of redemption
Vaggi has a lot of complicated feelings about morality as someone who DID go to heaven and then ended up going to hell for a decision that to her felt like wholey and entirely moral. She's dealing with a deadly combo of religious guilt over betraying her faith and all her friends in heaven AND the guilt from being surrounded by people who shes killed thousands of, and of course the guilt from talking to their princess who she personally hurt permanently. She talks to charlie alot about these feelings (without slipping details that could expose her) and charlie always talks to her about redemption and how she believes in her
Vaggi being the first person to seek charlie's guidance like this serves as another big motivation for the hotel. If she already got one soul onboard then its only a matter of time before winning over the rest! And its in building the hotel together that they fall in love with each other
Eventually of course the truth has to come out that not only was vaggi lying about being a sinner but she was also an exorcist and killed alot of people that charlie probably knew by name. Let alone personally made Charlie disabled and lied to her face for years. It puts a huge dent in their relationship that they have to be strong together to face. Charlie has to truly confront what it actually means to redeem a sinner and how might a human feel about it by for once experiencing human emotions like love and betrayal
Charlie's strong though, her beliefs dont falter and in fact they only get stronger as they face scrutiny yet she comes out of it still believing in it and believing in vaggi, and vaggi of course finds ways to prove her loyalty and that whatever she was before she truly does want redemption. And they dont need no cannibal slave owner's dating advice to do it!
Cannot believe this game has been with me for 10 years of my life. Thats literally half of my life thats kind of insane. I have so many emotions for this game
I think the best way i can describe this game is that it has become a part of my soul in a sense. It didnt exactly inspire me to start drawing nor are most of my creations or ideas inspired by it persae
But i can feel every ounce of love that was poured into this game i feel it so strong in my heart and i carry it with me everywhere even when im not hyperfixating on this game
This is one of those stories that no matter how old i grow, the moment i hear a song or remember an important line of dialogue or see a specific scene from, im gonna remember when i was 10 years old and when i was so so so invested in this world and in this story and in these characters. This game is so important and so dear to me because of that feeling of remembering being a child, remembering getting lost in stories. I think its genuinely why, or at least a big reason why, i can get so lost in stories now and forever. Why i can get so attached to fictional characters and hold on to them so dearly and cry and learn something from them. And i think thats so so important. Thank you Undertale, and thank you Toby Fox, always and forever
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