#alrick

[niuniente]

Death-Head's Deal #44 - Old Pals

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Specifically for Alrick, does he stomp his foot when he's pissed like a rabbit does when they're pissed at their owners? Or is the rabbit percentage too small in his genetics and it's more prevalant in more "pure" half-faces? I don't really know how to phrase this ask lmao, I had a brain worm about Alrick stomping his foot like in a tv sitcom

All animal features within Death-Head's Deal are aesthetics only and don't give anyone the said animal's ability or traits. (and for my convenience so I don't have to invent 50 different human faces but can resort to animal features). Like Lou-Lou, while a dog, can't smell any better than Alrick, for example. Albeit, some cat like people have an ability to purr in certain circumstances.

However, since Alrick doesn't speak, stomping would be a good way to express frustration :)

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Chibi Alrick

Alrick belongs to @niuniente and appears in Death-Head's Deal, which you should all go read.

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more #alrick coming soon

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Alrick and Lou-Lou are inspecting weird sounds coming from somewhere outside. It can't be anything else but something natural because ghosts don't exist, right? Right?

Happy Halloween! 🎃

Read 2024 Halloween comic of Death-Head's Deal, also featuring Alrick and Lou-Lou, from here.

I'm sorry that there has been no Death-Head's Deal update yet... I've been slowly recovering from a long art burn out. I noticed that I have drawn only 4 updates for Death-Head's Deal in the past 12 months so that is an alarming sign of a burn out is slowly creeping in. That's how it went with FUZZY and took years to recover... I'm letting myself to rest from drawing DHD not to sling myself back into the burn out pit because the other option is that there's never any DHD anymore and that will break my heart.

But I really wanted to draw something for Halloween! I love that Lou-Lou and Alrick neither believe in ghosts but Lou-Lou is still terrified of them and Alrick's not so confident either lol.

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Voting ended onOct 6, 2025

[niuniente]

hello niu!! recently ive been having terrible dreams (adjusting to new medications) and last night lit a candle and asked for anyone who was free to help let me rest before a 12 hour shift. halfway through a nightmare about being stuck in a mall with no end who came up but mr alrick deathhead with a map of emergency exits. o7 thank you bunny man for walking me to my car, i managed to get up and go to work today with only the usual amount of bone-deep fatigue

AAAA REALLY?! I'm SO HAPPY, thank you for letting me know! This is especially important to me (as a spiritual person with my personal world view) because you intentionally asked for help and it was Alrick who appeared.

You'll never know how and where the help comes when you ask for it. Wishing you a quick adjustment time to the new medications!

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Something was sticking in the back of my mind after the latest DHD update and seeing you mentioning that Alrick would be in a lot of trouble if Rena found out about him sparing the baby, and I finally can put it into words. Maybe this was already stated somewhere/obvious to others, but I still think it's interesting 😅

But it comes down to reputation, doesn't it? I can only imagine what that would do to public opinion if word got out that a Death Head went back on a client's final wish post-mortem. How unreliable and untrustworthy that would seem.

It also makes me think of the second episode of the whole series, when he took that young lady as his payment, and Rena asked him about it. Sure, technically he followed the rules that time, but again: how many people would want to make a deal with a Death Head if the idea that they could just take away whatever they got you (barring somebody's death) right after a deal ends?

Sure, someone canny would try to ensure it wouldn't happen to them. The mother could have asked for the child to be shot before her, to guarantee the deal was done in full. But the second episode's client was simply out of luck. It's no wonder Alrick has been noted walking a thin line several times, not even mentioning the incident that cost him his tongue.

It's no wonder why Dio punished him so harhly. Death Heads operate on others' willingness to make deals with them, so if they gained a reputation for being unreliable, at best that single Death Head would never be requested, and at worst, all of them would be assumed to be as fickle.

A very good point and I raise it with an extra point: fairness among Death-Heads.

If one of them is allowed to bend rules and do as he pleases (without consequences), then how the other Death-Heads feel about this? Alrick is not only playing with fire when it comes to the reputation of the organization, but also when it comes to fair treatment and common rules among his colleagues.