#pibery

[calistozom]

Is Destard protective of Pibery? I don’t know the full story between Pibery and his uncle but he definitely seems scared of the older man. At the very least I would think that Destard wouldn’t take kindly to someone messing with what is now essentially HIS property.

Yes and no. From the very beginning of their acquaintance, Pibery was in a state of permanent horror and shuddered at any Destard’s word and/or action. Pib's uncle’s pretense also confused Dest a lot and only made him more convinced that it was quite normal for the boy to be scared of anything and everything... and that he should "mind his own business".

Also, Pibery himself would hardly complain about anything. For him, Destard - with his yellow eyes, cold gaze and supernatural powers - is just another Master. Another family member and the same monster as his uncle and all the rest of his "relatives". Now, in order to protect himself, at least for a short time, Pib needs to "prove what an obedient "good boy" he is"… again. And how he was taught well that "good boys" should never whine or complain. 

However, later (my lil bat is just not a quick thinker), when Destard understands what's going on, he will try to protect Pibery from his "closest relatives" and try to teach him to fight back. Although it isn’t in Destard’s rules to get into "other people's family squabbles", but Pib (in fact) is his Great Grand Nephew, and so therefore – it’s HIS "family squabbles".

P.S. – I also wanted to attach a sketch from the moment of their first meeting, but I got a little too carried away. There will be a version through the Pibery’s eyes...

+ the same moment, through the Destard’s eyes.

[cryspyglassorb]

Second part of previous pic. Hold your newfound grandpa gently like a hamburger

Also... I haven't decided yet, but this may be a real size comparison of human and galvanian. (Dest can change his body size, and became bigger on Earth, so he could be more compare to humans)

[calistozom]

An add to the prev post, mostly because I want to practice some horrific forms of protective bat-grandpa (or great grand uncle).

+ Few more forms of ma lil smoky boy as bonus QwQ

[calistozom]

Is Pibery still part of your story? He always kinda intrigued me🧐

So far, yes, although it's not that simple. The first time I drew him, I thought to make Pib a part of a side story in the Ghost AU (also I wanted to draw something in "hurt/comfort" genre). Now I would really like to give him his own separate story, but I don't know how to yet.

According to the original idea, the meeting of Pibery and Destard occurred when the latter one was saving Meteora. It happened at an underground auction, where a bunch of other descendants of Pestilence wanted to dismember the girl to get her powers. Pib was a servant (more like a slave) of the auction’s owner and became the only one who managed to survive after Destard’s "rescue operation". In a desperate attempt to save his life, Pib swore in eternal servitude to Dest, to which he surprisingly easily agreed (Destard didn’t mind getting an assistant).

In general, the further relationship between Pibery and Dest can be described as – "Fear and tremble vs Awkwardness and poor attempts to calm the first person down" (here’s a scene for example)

P.S. – Also, according to the original idea, Pib had an uncle who makes up the extremely huge part of "hurt" in boy’s story.

[calistozom]

Day №11.

A small sketch and third appearance of Destard (now entirely) and his... Symptom – Fatigue (human name – Pibery). Since the posts are random, here are a couple of things about Destard and lore of the Pestilence’s Descendants.

So, Destard is a First-generation descendant of the Rider and is about 90% disease (i.e., a huge intelligent colony of one type of virus cells) and 10% representative of the Galvan race (magic anthropomorphic bats). This percentage is due to the high aggressiveness of the Pestilence’s genes (as, in fact, any viruses is), but it is the remaining 10-15% of the genes of the second parent that allow the virus to form an " intelligent colony".

Descendants of the First generation very rarely experience a craving for reproduction specifically in sexual terms with multicellular organisms, so descendants of the Second generation are incredibly rare.

In the Second generation, Pestilence’s genes become weaker and make up no more than 60 per cent. The second descendants are already multicellular organisms, and have the powers of the First generation - turn into "fog", infect enemies, be invulnerable to material weapons, and be able to resurrect even from the smallest piece of their flesh.

Descendants of the Third generation are already more common and have less than 30% of the Pestilence’s genes. They can be described as "Asymptomatic or Healthy carriers" (those who can carry the virus without getting sick themselves). They are many times weaker than the Second Generation, but they can also infect their opponents and, very rarely, pass through objects.

However, sometimes in the Third generation, there are "defects", which are called Symptoms (to whom Pibery belongs).

Symptoms depend on the descendants of the First and Second (sometimes Third) generation because the Pestilence’s gene in them could not balance the "second side", which is why their bodies sometimes "eat themselves" at the cellular level, but cannot regenerate what was lost. Like satellite viruses, they need a host-virus nearby so that their body can heal even a scratch.

However, the Symptoms have only one special power – to cause enemies to have a certain "symptom" of the disease (fever, rash, exhaustion, etc.) through just a touch (also if Symptoms train long and hard enough, they could do it even without touch directly through the look). Unfortunately, Symptoms often don’t live long, especially if they remain for a long time without an "older" descendant and because of this critical dependence, they often become servants for their "older gene relatives".