who is deraph... can you yap about deraph...
YES I SURE CAN..... hes my darling character that i made for fun one day and then proceeded to make two minicomics about and be strange about him!!!!
he's immortal, he's fucked up, hes a science fiction freakazoid, ive written over 40k words of just short stories starring him, and hes my everything,,,, hes a very self indulgent character and i mess around with a lot of stuff in order to torture him
i had an early timeline document somewhere but ive lost that. which sucks. but i do have a bunch of snippets of short stories so take some quotes out of that!!! because im insane about him
The reporter stands, clicking the recording device off and placing it in his pocket. Deraph watches as the young man bows and exits the room, closing the door behind him carefully. As quick as he appeared, he left. The door closes with a soft click, and not a moment later, another person enters. The oldest of the Jaymin siblings.
“Deraph,” Pulse greets, and he feels his battered chest lighten slightly at the sight of a familiar face. “I’ve brought you some pastries. Some of the grain crop from last year grew in. Make something with it, according to the recipe you dropped off. Had to substitute the berries, but hopefully this tastes just as good.”
Pulse makes his way to the edge of the bed, placing a small package in front of Deraph’s arms. He feels his chest tighten with emotion as he opens the small pastry box.
A raspberry muffin faces him. A little piece of a place he could’ve once called home.
Excerpt from Versian - CAFFINE.
in this excerpt, he's just been sent to the nearest facility for him to heal after being BLOWN UP by a BOMB planted by his EX BOYFRIEND and then his friend visits and gives him a GIFT its awesome ily pulse jaymin they could never make me hate you....
Deraph looked away, and grabbed his brush. He’d made it himself to help with situations like these. It had a little current of air weave between each bristle, drying as it went.
He began to brush his hair, and wanted to not. It was always a struggle, and this occasion was no different. It wasn’t like he didn’t enjoy the action of it, he just missed…
What did he miss?
What was it that he got used to the feeling of hands, fluttering and warm across his head? Was it the feeling of not being in control, with that trust? Did he miss those early mornings, before filming? That quiet comfort on set? Or, did he just miss her?
His techwatch pings from across the room, an alarm set for an hour before the gala begins. He’s finished his hair, partially dry, and does another towel pat-down. Drying away those stray droplets, he looks at himself in the mirror again.
He doesn’t recognize the beast that stares back at him.
Excerpt from Marsian - HEARTBEAT's first draft.
in this one, he's preparing for a gala. at that gala he'll learn he has a son, but for now he's just thinking about his ex-wife (WHO HE ABANDONED FOR MILITARISTIC LOYALTY!!!! HE SUCKS!!!!!) and then is weird about perceiving himself.
HE SUCKS BUT HE GETS BETTER AND THEN WORSE AGAIN AND THEN BETTER AND THEN WORSE AGAIN.... my cycles.... my awesome cycles.....
Deraph winces as the creature screeches. That is going to be… harder than it sounds.
He pushes himself upward, wrenching the knife from its hold in the creature’s flesh and slamming it back in, using the momentum to shove himself upward. He slams the knife down again and yanks it back out as he slowly climbs the beast’s head. The fluid within the creature covers his hands and arms, but he is frantic.
He slams his knife down a final time, and clicks the button. Flames burst from the blade’s tip, and the creature catches fire. Deraph grabs the knife and traces the flaming obsidian edge across the creature’s feathers, watching as embers flicker across the metal demon.
It is screaming, but Deraph hardly hears it.
Excerpt from INTERLUDE II's second draft.
HES MY EVERYTHING YOUR HONOR. HES STUPID. HES MISERABLE. HE HAS A COMPUTER WIFE A FEW TIMES. HES A FATHER MULTIPLE TIMES OVER. HE BECOMES JESUS ACCIDENTALLY A FEW TIMES... HES MY EVERYTHINGGG.....
HES AWESOMEEEE .... my lovely little creature.... taking a break from him since i've actually been working on a short film starring him and that burnt me out so fast. but ive finally finished the script and a lot of the storyboards for the first few shots so. after this break we're working on that again....
i also have a huge project idea list where i write down my morbillion ideas about him and his storyline and EEK!!! its a big document.... my deraph.....
if you wanna read the comic stuff... it and more is available on his toyhouse page... all art featured in this post was my own, but so many kind people have also drawn deraph its awesome and i love them all.... deraphh <3333
