#apocalyptic fantasy

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The world has fallen in the face of demons spilling out across the Earth from the Hellmouth, a portal that ripped its way into the central United States. Angels with fearsome spirit animals descended from Heaven to wage war, but humanity has been caught in the crossfire. Nathan and Jeremy Sanders, along with a small band of refugees, are just trying to survive in the eastern woods of Texas, aided by a fallen angel named Ash. But they’re about to be drawn into the conflict when demons come looking for Nathan, claiming he’s marked to help them raise Lucifer. With the Devil inbound, Nathan, Jeremy, and Ash set off on a quest to retrieve a lost key that could close the Hellmouth, and Nathan discovers he may not be so helpless in the face of such cosmic forces. If he can learn to wield an angelic power unwittingly bestowed upon him, humanity might just have a chance—and a champion.

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In a world ravaged by demons, two brothers and a fallen angel are just fighting to survive, until Hell targets the eldest brother. If he can learn to wield an angelic power unwittingly bestowed upon him, humanity might just have a chance—and a champion.

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Date With Destiny

He straightened, only to tense when he suddenly found a man standing on the other side of the fence, staring at him. By the way he was dressed, Nathan was guessing he wasn’t as human as he appeared. The guy wore all black—trousers and tunic, leather belt with iron studs cinched about his waist, and a cape, of all things. The only other color of his garb was a necklace of ivory bones that looked like phalanges.

His hair was black as well, tied back at the nape of his neck, and sharp, angular features framed equally dark eyes.

“Nathan Sanders, you were a hard one to track down.”

Nathan’s blood ran cold. “Who are you?”

“Your escort. You have a very important engagement with destiny, and we can’t afford for you to miss it.”

Nathan backed up a step. “What the hell are you talking about?”

The man’s lips curved upward in a smirk. “Yes, Hell, exactly.”

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Lifestyles of the end of the world

Nathan missed coffee. Like shaving every day, the caffeinated brew had become one of those luxuries they couldn’t maintain on a regular basis. They had some stocked in the kitchen, of course, though the pot Frank made every morning was a severely watered down version that couldn’t really be called coffee. Nathan didn’t partake. Those first few weeks on the road, trying to stay ahead of the demons, he’d gone through caffeine withdrawal, and now that the habit was kicked, he didn’t want to let himself fall back into it. Not when they couldn’t even count on coffee being in the next supply shipment. Nathan had asked Ash to look out for things like food, batteries, gasoline, weapons…toilet paper. Coffee seemed frivolous compared to the staples they needed for survival.

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I’m casting Benedict Cumberbatch as Lucifer in the original novel I’m writing.

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Angels and spirit animals

Ash pushed forward, planting himself between the hounds and the brothers. “Nathan, Jeremy, stand back.”

Nathan sidestepped a few paces to give the angel space, knowing exactly what was coming next. Ash was about to unleash his other form.

Ash stood with feet apart, chin lifted high and posture composed. An ethereal aura began to ripple along the outline of his body. His hair billowed around him as the light gleamed brighter, and then the swirling bands of lightning suddenly surged up and out into the contours of a great cat at least nine feet tall.

The iridescent specter gave a mighty roar as Ash’s panther slammed crackling paws on the ground with enough force that Nathan and Jeremy staggered back a step. The hellhounds flinched but didn’t retreat. They merely gnashed their teeth angrily and hunched down. Inside the candescent aurora of spirit armor, Ash’s human form stared down the hellbeasts in challenge.

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experimenting a bit with lineart for this ref!

Character lore under cut (meow)

Rasberry (11) is a young kid from a bunker far away, escaping a YA dystopia and finding himself in what could probably be Narnia in his eyes. Extremely sheltered, he has a large lack of understanding of the surface and its goings-on. He makes amateur mistakes, messes up and social situations, and doesn’t have much of a grasp on where exactly the food he eats comes from. All he wants is to get back home, but is that REALLY what he wants?

At first, he’s a bit shy. Though, “shy” is more of a kind word for “extremely scared of something he’s been told to fear his whole life”. But he quickly adapts to this new world, gaining much more confidence and revealing his much more grumpy yet boisterous personality. He tries to maintain a closed off, secretive “big-man” persona, but it comes off more as a young kids attempts to be edgy, because it is. He keeps a lot of secrets from everyone, especially his real name. Mostly out of a secret fear they’ll steal it like his parents told him they could. He enjoys typical kid things, like drawing edgy wolf ocs, listening to banging tunes, reading old fantasy stories, and playing pranks. And he still wants to do that on the surface, duh.

Being an acrobat in his family’s circus, he’s very athletic, and quite strong in his own way. His small size is also beneficial as he’s able to weave through any situation with ease. 

Though, There is something strange about him… He’s easily sick, but barely feels pain. He recovers from injuries oddly quickly, and has been feeling some odd cravings as he’s been on the surface… could it have something to do with the pink hair and purple eyes?