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My Guilty Gear OC Mephie

She's a 200 years old gear and a morally-grey trickster with chaos magic abilities. Likes to troll people, be silly and drink strawberry milk. Acts out a demon persona for fun.

HERES SOME CONCEPT SKETCHES!! She worked in a gear research lab in 2016, died by accident and was non-consensually injected with experimental gear cells, and turned into a gear. Her magical abilities were deemed to dangerous and unstable, which ended in the scientists locking her up in a dimensional prison, a form of magical stasis, where she was fully aware but without any mental stimuli for several years, driving her insane.

By sheer accident, she happened to have a copy of Ghoete's book "Faust, Part One" with her. Robbed of all other choices, she read the book (which she didn't enjoy at all) over and over again in her imprisonment until it was ingrained into her psyche. She started to identify with the devilish villain of the story Mephisto or Mephistopheles, who despises humans for thinking so highly of themselves while yet being just another animal. She starts to feel less and less human herself and blames them for treating her as lesser now just because of her being a gear now.

Once she finally breaks free, her mental state is so damaged that she massacres the lab staff in a frenzy. She frees the other test subjects, a herd of sheep turned into monstrous gears, who become her new family.

Her hatred for humanity gets kindled still by having to exist in a world that hates her for being what she was turned into. But over the almost 2 centuries of her life, it turns from a fiery lust for revenge into a jaded, mocking revulsion where she will turn everything into a joke, clown around and bully the humans who cross her path in a silly instead of harmful way. She will reconsider her low opinion of humans when she meets a certain 9 feet doctor. Because I totally didn't only create her to ship her with Faust :)

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Comic sketch of my silly OC Mephie's and Dr Baldhead's first meeting. Mephie can magically transform into a tiny black poodle to inconspicuously move around.

Some poodle form concept sketches!

Mephie is a chronically bored gear with demi-god like powers and the mentality of a court jester. She's roaming earth trying to find anything that will bring a momentary distraction from her centuries long existence in a world that hates gears.

When she stumbles over an insane serial killing doctor, she feels fairly entertained so she starts stalking him. Somehow he doesn't try to harm her, maybe because he's not a vet and wouldn't operate on animals. Instead, he comes to enjoy the random appearances of his little dog friend every now and then.

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(read from left to right) Dr. Baldhead remembered that murder is bad after the Second Holy Order Selection Tournament.

The ominous tiny dog who seems to occasionally appear out of nowhere around him has a gift for him to make her favourite serial killer feel better.

She's sure a good doughnut will bring the joy of murder back into him :)

This is part of my OC Mephie and Faust's story that has been ever expanding in my brain for the past months and a bit of a continuation to my last story comic which you can read here.

Their shared story is inspired by Faust I by Ghoete from 1829. That's also why Mephie turns into a small black poodle to get his trust. It's how the devil character in the book does it...

Here is a bonus panel that I ended up changing because it felt illegal to draw his face this exposed.

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The bald horse

I made him even more inconveniently tall than before

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Faust and Mephi, wandering doctor and his goofy demon.

Pardon more of my self-indulgent Oc x Canon content🤦‍♂️

Top image shows Wagner, Mephi's gearified sheep friend. She can do portal magic like Faust but hers look like screeching goat mouths as seen in the second to last image.

Mephi will accompany Faust on his journeys from time to time.

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It's absolutely not Easter anymore, but I was too embarrassed to post this when I actually drew it Anyways.... have some Faust and Mephi in bunny suits 🐰

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Now kiss

I'm a master at corny Oc x Canon self-indulgence

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What if the cure to an alone infection is a pool and a goat girl?