#ophana

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One more alternate outfit sketch, this time for Ophana, the nephilim protagonist against all the evil demon ladies I've been posting.

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A saucy pin-up drawing of my nephilim OC, Ophana, with two outfit variations.

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Redraw of Ophana, the nephilim protagonist to all my angel and demon lady stuff.

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Redrew one of the monster forms for my nephilim girl Ophana, specifically her child self's monster form.

Her monster form changes from her childhood to adulthood. There's a strong "parent" theme to her monster form, though the parent elements get less dominant as Ophana grows up.

As a child, Ophana doesn't actually have control of her monstrous nephilim form, and only transforms involuntarily and when under great stress or fear. The parent elements on her childhood nephilim form are more autonomous and dominant--they control Ophana's body while Ophana herself is actually unconscious. As a result, Ophana's childhood nephilim form is much more bestial and monstrous, running almost entirely on instinct.

As an adult, Ophana is more aware of her power as a nephilim, and has much more control over her transformation. As a result, her nephilim form's parent elements are smaller and serve more as proper limbs for Ophana herself, who is now self-aware in this form.

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Day 14, my demon lady Delphine showing the young nephilim Ophana that maybe it’s not the best idea to recklessly go after an archdemon on her own.

Also a certain avocado’s there to watch the action I guess.

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Finally added the new angel/nephilim characters to that one height chart I whipped however many months ago. I wanted the angels to be generally larger than the demons, even though Minerva and Ceres are kind of extreme examples of the size range for angels. Minerva is supposed to be considered pretty small for an angel, though even then she’s still taller than most of the demons. And obviously, Ceres is huge, outsizing even Rhea, who’s considered huge herself for a demon.

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So, if you remember my six demons (and one nephilim) from a few months back, here’s Minerva, one of two angel ladies to oppose the demons I drew in the summer. All the demons have Greek names (not for any particular reason), so I thought it’d be fun for the angels to have Roman names to contrast. I also wanted the angel women’s actual angel forms to really be kind of scary and unsettling despite their holy and divine nature giving people a different assumption. They’re more alien and eldritch than any of the demons.

Also beware, cuz here’s a big ol’ block of story bits.

The six demons essentially rule different parts of a sprawling metropolis--not literally in governing positions, but indirectly with their human forms’ influence through fame or popularity, as well as semi-directly with subtle use of their powers and other lesser demons. Minerva was one of two angels sent to the city to remove the six demons however they could.

Between herself and the fellow angel sent with her, Minerva was the much more traditional and virtuous one of the two, really presenting herself as the usual idea of an angel. But she carried a secret, having unexpectedly met and fallen in love a demon (who isn’t really fleshed out yet), even before she was sent to the city. The result of that relationship was Ophana, the little nephilim girl I also drew a few months back.

But Minerva’s secret paramour was also incidentally under one of the six demon women who ran the city--specifically Delphine, the red one. Delphine eventually discovered her subordinate’s discreet rendezvous, and used the opportunity to trap and eliminate the angel, disposing of her demon as well. Delphine did not, however, know about the couple’s nephilim daughter Ophana, leaving her as an orphan.

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Just a couple coffee shop doodles of my nephilim and angel ladies. The first one is of baby Ophana and her totally-gonna-die mom Minerva. And the other one is adult Ophana and her kind-of-a-dick stand-in "mom" Ceres.