My Grand Academy for Future Villains OC, Daphne Blackwell!
I started this on Kleki and did most of the lineart there. I really love Kleki's chalk brush, even if the resolution is significantly limited.
There's a Daphne post from long ago but I never got around to post anything else. Roxana is still my main inspiration for Daphne, but I simply can't keep up with her beauty!
This was supossed to be one image, but it was too much so it ended up split.
I added the snake and the oleander because I associate Daphne with those symbols the most. They reference two songs that describe Daphne perfectly: Aurelio Voltaire's The King of Villains - specifically the white snake on the cover of The Black Labyrinth - and Mother Mother's Oleander.
So now if you're asking, "but op! The Grand Academy for Future Villains doesn't have a dress code! It says so on the very first chapter!" yes I know. Daphne dresses like an evil snob on purpose. Maedryn argued in favor of the student body's self expression only for her literal clone to come up like she was the model student of a Dark Academia prospectus. She WILL get a flowing and majestic costume for Homecoming Tyrant tho.
I purposefully try to make her hair as chaotic as possible, as it hints to her hidden nature! The bangs are essential to obscure her true expression.
I really enjoyed the first book and the attack of the sequel, and I'm longing for a third release so my villain can get her comeuppance. I must admit that it was hard for me to play the sequel because of how little of the first book went into the second. Daphne had A Grades, high School Standing, high Social Capital, and then also completed her monstrous transformation into a creepy bone-chilling specter of hunger and shadow before going to a summer intership at MacroWorld. But then the sequel came and it was like you could only do one thing and not the others, so it felt limiting in comparison. Good thing the sequel has Val!
The font I used for Grand Academy of Future Villains is Wicked Queen BB Font by Blambot Comic Fonts and Daphne's signature is Vtks Academy Font. Both of these are available for personal use!
