#halfbloodsix

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One, two, three, four, five, six

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I promised a post about my ocs, so here's a partial summary of their backstory and who they are. Visuals incoming. I have eleven total ocs so far - and they're all demons. Well. Most of them. I'll get to that part in a second. This is a Part 1 post; let me know what you think. Because I have uh, way more where this came from. I'm just tryin not to post five mile long infodumps.

The place these demons come from - Hell, as we call it, but something much more to them - is populated with millions, billions of demons. Otherworldly beings living their lives in an Underneath world, most of them managing the many afterlifes, some of them managing magic, and a few at the top just hoarding the magic instead. Demons are everywhere in this world, doing all sorts of tasks, living in houses and generally existing. However, there's one rule about these demons: it's against the law to have children with humans. It's possible to travel to Earth, and it even happens quite often for business, but even simply befriending humans is a bad idea. In the eye of those who govern, demons are much more powerful beings, ones that live much longer and have so much more control over things than humans do. To mix with them would reveal the way of the demons to humankind, and put everyone in jeopardy. Or so they say. Also, they think it's gross. As a precaution, every time a "halfblood" child is found, they're taken away. It's assumed by mostly everyone that they're killed.

One day, a halfblood child is born. His mother doesn't want him to be killed, so she sets up a team of well-trusted demons to protect her child. She sends four demons with the baby across the dimensions to stay on earth, and sets up a house for them to live in, hiding in secret from the other demons. To ensure secrecy, they swear to use only numbers to designate themselves, and to forget their old names. Numbers go in order of volunteers/who was chosen to take part. The child is known as One. The other four demons do their best to keep One safe, but not long after they get there Five disappears. The rest of them don't know exactly what happened - and don't think it's safe to try to find out. They worry Five might have defected and turned back to send someone after them, but they can't do much about that anyway. So they live on earth for 22 years, surviving using supplies sent to them from their homeland by One's mother, and get pretty comfortable.

Until they aren't. They get found out, and Two, Three, and Four get taken back to the Underneath. One somehow escapes and goes to live far off somewhere he can't be reached - it's unclear where that is. In an instant, a family of four vanishes, and little information is left behind about what happened. The house, left in a hurry, stays abandoned for over two decades, and fades away from familiarity beyond being the haunted house on the street.

And then another halfblood child is born...

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Full disclosure I am so bad at naming characters that my roster of ten ocs from my one "comic" are all just numbers (1 through 11) and then after that I came up with a reason for them to all go by numbers instead of actual real people names because I just couldn't come up with anything satisfying

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Also, are your halfblood OCs from our world but different, or a whole new place?

This ask is so interesting to me because I've posted in the tag "halfbloodsix" only a handful of times times across all my different tumblr accounts... Not that I haven't been posting the OCs more than that, but I just haven't been working very hard to link "halfblood" to them, lol. I'll put this under a readmore since the post is gonna be long...

To start off, only one of them is a halfblood:

Six. Also known as Mazhaven, after I started getting help with the names. He's half demon, half human. But he was raised on Earth, normal Earth (with a few exceptions), BY DEMONS. He grew up thinking he was a regular demon. His story centers around him finding out that he's been lied to, by everyone in his life, and he's actually being hunted, and he has to figure out who he can trust and make the right choice quickly.

I have had a lot of help from a friend building the lore, naming and designing other characters, and everything, but that, at the basic level, is all my original work. If you're curious about some of the stuff we've worked out together...

Basically in this universe, Earth exists as we know it today. The average human is not aware that there's anything magical out there at all. There is a demon world, which we haven't named yet (i cannot name anything to save my life), and that's where demons come from.

Most every demon has a sort of magical reserve within them that is kept alive and charged by the magic inherently flowing through everything in the demon world. All their abilities and strength come from this reserve. It's pretty normal/easy to visit Earth, because it turns out it's not that hard to make a portal there... but not a lot of demons do it very regularly because you run out of power eventually - it's different person to person, but you have to be careful when visiting because you need enough magic left to make a portal BACK HOME, or you're stuck there.

Demons that are also half human, however, don't have this limitation. Due to them being made from both worlds, they can go between freely without worrying about draining their power reserves. Halfbloods have been banned by the demon government because they are deemed "too powerful to exist," which is why Six has been living on Earth this whole time. He doesn't know it, but the others that raised him are acutely aware that since he exists, the government will want to track him down and use this power to become more oppressive of the general public, which is bad.

The story has been through so many rewrites and i have new ideas even now that haven't been implemented. but a few of the demons that Six lives with that i wanna show before i close out are Eight (Tay), Ten (Solara), and Eleven (Nova'Dak).

I draw Six and Eight together a lot, and Nova and Solara together a lot. I'm sure that doesn't mean anything :) heres a buncha random doodles

Also, there's a twist somewhere about Six's mom being someone in a very powerful position, which adds to why he was hidden in the first place. she's sure that he will grow up to become a powerful demon one day, maybe to overthrow the government, maybe to serve a greater evil purpose? who knows...

also, all the demons that Six lives with have human forms, but you don't get to see any other ones other than Six's, sorry... just don't wanna share that since i've been mostly dissatisfied with my design work on that front. all this art is from a period of time going back about 6 or so years, and i could stand to refresh... certain things.