DVMNINKTOBER Day 11 Satan x Zennon
So I've been slowly, slowly been working my through this year's Devilman Inktober by nozoshii created for the community https://www.tumblr.com/nozoxshii/763169423585673216/i-made-a-devilman-inktober-prompt-list-for-the?source=share
For day eleven is fave pairing or duo and wellllllll, you all know that I have a lot of ships for Devilman so I decided to draw out five different pictures of each of my ships, Ryokira, Akira/Miki/Ryo, Satan/Zennon, Ryo/Miki and Akira/Miki and as I've said before I had gotten sick around the time I was working on the first of the pictures for this prompt and it really delayed things a lot and not to mention I was challenging myself a lot with these pieces, I want to really craft some good backgrounds like the old masters and while I don't think I've quite captured their ability to do those backgrounds I am pleased that I did go the extra mile for these pieces, I learned a lot making these especially since I was so limited in working in only black and white, so making sure the values were good was extremely important here!
The forth picture is Satan x Zennon enjoying each other's company on an cliff side, this piece referenced this Gustave Doré illustration for Paradise Lost https://www.pinterest.com/pin/87398048990638800/ for most of the background and a little bit of Satan's pose. I enjoyed painting this background a lot here, it was fun trying to work out how to make the rocks look good and I got to play with some different textures and effects here too. Satan's were tricky for me to draw as always but I'm happy with how they came out, you can see a little that I referenced the shape of Gustave's Satan's wings a little too.
Now for Satan and Zennon, unlike the previous three ships I've drawn this one doesn't really have anything in canon that actually points to this ship aside from my own brainrot theories about them! XD But because we have next to no idea about the depths of their relationship I can make up a lot of what they would be like as a couple! And once again we have some doomed by the narrative yaoi! :3
Satan and Zennon in my verse are so wrapped around each other that they understand each other so deeply but they are horribly co-dependent too. They are both horribly traumatized by their shitty fathers and yet slowly become exactly like their fathers despite all of their efforts. Both Satan and Zennon are beings who don't know how to live in peace, all they've ever known was violence and war. And yet that is something Satan craves so badly even if he doesn't 100% understand it yet and its the one thing Zennon can never give him. At least not without being able to unpack everything that's happened them both but that's not possible sadly.
In some verses I've given them children but events force Satan and Zennon to make their beloved children into child soldiers and make them as screwed up as they were despite Satan's reluctance to… That had helped to make their relationship colder than Zennon wanted.
Satan loves Zennon deeply but also feels smothered by his love too, and as time goes on Zennon gets more and more jealous and possessive of Satan in fear of losing him. And in a lot of ways he does…
And yet even Satan finds a new love(or two) he can't help but be still drawn to Zennon, after all, Zennon has always been loyal and stayed by his side…
I know I focused a lot on the tragedy of this ship but I also do love showing them being loving and caring for each other too, they've hurt each other but there was love there too…
I would like to one day explore their relationship in a fic or a comic since it is a relationship I like exploring it a ton.
