#samael

[caelestifer]

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Wip

[durch-hali]

Day 1 of bottom alastor week!

demon nun alastor behave for cardinal samael to get a treat 🍬🍬😋😋

[blleackki]

Mephisto Anime panel redraw

[notesz-b]

The prince of annoying ass horns_ _

[doodlerh]

LORE ACCURATE SAMAEL <3

ACTUALLY SHORT LORE:

(it looks like i didn't write it out anywhere before rip???)

tw violence/death

samael is a guardian of a small village, he dotes on the village orphans and loves playing with them when he has free time. one day some bandits attack the village. samael abandons his post to protect the kids when bandits sneak in, which leaves his two fellow guardians unable to hold the gate (for long) and they are killed. the village chief orders samael to get back to the front and he remorsefully leaves the kids, promising to come back.

the bandits set fire to the village, pillaging resources and dipping. samael helps the chief and remaining ppl evacuate the survivors. he goes back in to find the kids, since they aren't out with the others. the orphanage collapsed in the fire </3 he is devastated, clawing through the burning rubble and getting severely burned in the process. he ends up passing out from his wounds and the smoke and the burns, and eventually he wakes up in the evacuated villagers' makeshift camp with his wounds being treated.

the chief berates him for abandoning the main gate and letting the bandits in, and the devastated villagers sorta blame him too. they say they could've protected the orphanage, he should've stayed with his comrades. the chief is extremely upset and severs ties with samael on impulse.

once he is well enough to function on his own, samael--now a ronin aka wandering samurai--is super depressed and leaves the ruins of his village behind. he dons black and red armor to forever wear his shame and grief for the kids, his fellow guardians, and everyone else he failed to protect. but he can't let go of the ribbon in his hair, which the orphans of the village gave him his "birthday" (the day he himself was taken in by the orphanage many years ago).

(dlc to come at some point)

design notes:

since samael is based off a samurott, which are based off samurai, i wanted to give him some more samurai-like armor than the ??? he was sporting before.

BUT, since his name is samael, i guess he's canonically wasian now?? and bc of that i'll give myself the Slight liberty of making his post-trag shoulderplate slightly more western-core than it already is. overall these designs are certainly not 100% accurate to historical jp armor but at least they're better than Gold Ingot

he has gingko leaf motifs <3

idk why they have sclera either

rip i didn't record the process this time, i actually started recording then deleted it midway through the lineart (skull emoji)

here's also a version of post-trag samael with an incorrectly-worn jinbaori SDFHJSD it's a light outer coat worn by some samurai, but like. OVER their armor. and unless samael's has holes for his shoulder spike, i fear he cannot wear it properly so this is just. a coat lowkey

[kitsunesongs]

What if Pre-Fall Samael fell through time and landed in modern day Hell as a white snake?

(Lucifer’s divine punishment senses Samael and it extended a bit to him but since he didn’t give the Apple yet it’s more benign but it does bring him to Hell stuck as a snake with limited powers.)

Samael was barely avoided being stomped, beaten, stabbed and chased by animal trafficers before finding a safe-ish area to try to hide.

Unbeknownst to him, his pursuers hesitated to follow because they were close to one of the Radio Demon’s territories. They decided to continue cause surely the Overlord wouldn’t care about them chasing a tiny snake.

They are later proven wrong when they managed to corner the snake and were greeting with a smiling shadow before everything went dark.

Alastor stepped out of the shadows and contemplated if any was worth to eat with his eye spotted a trembling white snake.

Samael was trembling because he is currently weak and whatever killed his pursuers should be worse.

To his surprise, the deer(?) creature cut up some meat from the bodies and proceeds to lay it out for him.

He saw the deer turn to leave and in a panic Samael rushed and quickly encircled their ankle. This was the only one who treated him nicely in this strange realm. He can’t let them go!

Alastor was surprised when he felt something wrap around his ankle. He looked down and saw it was the little snake holding onto him with surprising strength.

Alastor bent down and tried to gently unwrap the snake only for it to wrap around his wrist instead.

Alastor was intrigued. He had never witnessed this kind of behavior with wild snakes perhaps this was a domesticated one that was abandoned.

Alastor had always had a fondness for reptiles and he couldn’t simply abandon such an interesting specimen so he decided to that it home.

Unbeknownst to Alastor and Samael, that day was the first in Samael’s journey as Alastor’s pet.

Awwww. I like the idea of Alastor just walking around with a white snake around his neck and shoulders and occasionally feeding it bits of his victims, and Samael seeing this other universe - and that this is happening before Alastor went to the hotel, so Samael accompanies Alastor and meets this girl who looks sort of like him!

I want to see poor baby angel Samael see Hell and be so scared and distressed and then overhear Charlie's intro and think this is all HIS fault and see his future self and wow hes such a dick! But also - Alastor. Alastor, who is cruel and ruthless and sadistic - and kind. Who kills and tortures and eats people - and cares for Samael and who Samael loves and relies on.

Also, snake!Samael joining the other pets!

[imagine-darksiders]

Trying to reason with a Prince of Hell while he plays with you like an over-curious cat.

[little-miss-bioweapon121]

In the canon complaint timeline Samael’s existence is hidden until he’s old enough to fight and lead his fathers legion. Fulgrim joins a battlefield hearing rumors of Sanguinius’ return and, well, the first meeting with his nephew ends up a little more traumatizing than expected.

Bonus: No motion blur

Double bonus: Post-battle aftermath