#backstage world

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Oc posting again - a quick sketch of the girls

Lucy is a writer of this stage play we call reality, which makes her very powerful (basically a god)… if it weren’t for the fact she is terrible at making allies and most of the staff are bitter exes of hers. It’s gotten so bad she was banned from the writer’s room and has to go on stage (live among us humans) and script doctor her way to make our reality gradually improve itself and work up to a good ending. This is why she’s assisted by two former actors (humans), Mephie and Nic, who she promoted to writerdom. These two also have to contend with Lucy’s many failed relationships, up to and including Queen Mab, who runs the costume department… and when you even managed to fumble her, you really got a problem.

As bad as Lucy is, she’s still in better standing with Queen Mab and Oberon (who run the costume and makeup department, respectively) than with anyone else. So when she needs extra help in altering and rewriting characters she comes to them (reluctantly).

As a little bonus and a repost of something I’ve posted here before - the main crew that manipulates our reality and make sure everything moves smoothly - from the light of the sun to the motion of the planets to how we die - are called the stage hounds (they’re unionised)

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Designing Lucy, Mephie, and Nic’s ‘true’ appearances - the way they look when they’re backstage and no longer seen through the filter of the Play (our reality): descriptions in alt and also here below:

Lucy, the oldest and least human, is a a combination of influences - she’s obviously Lucifer, but also Prometheus (the giant wound on her stomach bleeding through her clothes), as well as a bit of a Gorgon (wings, eyes). She was banned from the Writer’s Room long ago & has to be a script doctor now…

Nic and Mephie used to be actors playing humans before they graduated into Writerdom, so they still have a human form while also appearing like they are decaying. Nic, with her ‘honeyed words’ is a husk filled with a bees’ nest. Mephie ‘may a thousand roses bloom’ has a blooming rose bush inside her

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I am avoiding writing essays so I am drawing ocs instead - Lucy is doing some script doctoring and Nic can’t appreciate where she’s doing it

(Actors carry character scripts within themselves and a handy writer knows how to access them to rewrite them.)

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Breaking news - these three lesbians write our reality as we know it

OC posting a bit - I have been rethinking and redesigning these ladies over and over and I think I finally have their human forms down - meet Mephie (Mephistopheles), Lucy (Lucifer) and Nic (Niccoló), the three daemons who try their best to make our reality into a compelling narrative and ‘helping’ us along the way

Of course, all my Hazbin Noir posting has had a huge influence on their designs, and the idea for them is one I’ve been developing parallel to my fanart and that I like to call the ‘Backstage World’ or ‘All the World is a Stage’ - what if our reality is a giant stage play held by and for extra-dimensional beings? Our lives are played by actors whose characters do not know they’re being acted out. If you die, you die, but ‘your’ actor goes on to take on a new role. All the while these three are trying to script-doctor their way to making our reality into a compelling narrative… if you are willing to undergo the existential crisis, you could even try and make a deal with them, but be warned - tinkering with your own reality isn’t a victimless crime

Here are some older sketches of them, going for a three fates kind of deal

While these three seem evil - they’re really not. They’re just out there trying their best to spruce up a terrible, terrible stage production that just seems to get worse with time. They’re VERY overworked and they have to deal with other writers who are all pursuing their own agendas and moments of glory

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Making some late night doodles - Lucifer the writer being ominous as usual, and Patron Saints Peter Lorre (animation) and Bette Davis (the gays) playing poker with each other.

Also some quick and rough doodles explaining how some of the hierarchies work in the backstage world

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He makes those hearts with love and some fine bone china. (Guess what kind of bones)

Doodling my porcelain Doctor because I’m starting to get obsessed with him again.

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A little indulgent drawing: my oc Lucifer the Writer together with dr. Gogol. He's whispering ideas in his head.

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Have a few doodles of my ocs - Lucifer (a supernatural writer who writes and rewrites our reality, also known as a 'Daemon') and Michiel de Hollander (a lil' guy, just a lil' guy, a sweet delicate lil' guy made out of porcelain). These two do not get along at all

This is important! Fairies, ghosts, Michiel… they all give you what you want when you ask them nicely, or give them your beating heart. Daemons however? Call upon them and they’ll be finding all kinds of issues you were NOT waiting for, NOT expecting, and they’ll take it upon themselves to straighten all those out (and straighten you out in the process)