Ive seen so many of your wonderfull art tagged as "gd au" but i have no idea what it is! Could you explain ? The art is just fabulaous !!!
First off, thank you for liking my arts!!
Now, to explain gd AU. The full name is guardian demon AU. It's basically in the realm of demon summoning au but with my own take. This is a summary bcs there's a lot... and I mean A LOT, of world building, that I do recommend to check the AU tag (that I have linked on my pinned page)
The initial idea for this AU is demon Rumi being summoned by kid Mira and her taking on the mantle of being her pact demon (unofficially, basically no soul exchange as Rumi is very unequipped to deal with a child). Then, kid!Zoey summons her and made a pact to her (also unofficially). Reason, their desire is strong (companionship, family, bond) and Rumi has a special condition that makes her different from other pact demons. She can only be summoned when the summoner's desire is really strong. Hence, she doesn't get much contracts due to this and any information on her is hard to find. Rumi is different from other demons as she is a creature born naturally in the demon realm, not like demons who were once humans.
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Miyeong was once human and she took the throne from Gwi-ma when she successfully overthrew him. In all honesty, she just wants to get revenge for the death of her husband. She is a widower whose heart was broken and only seek revenge. It took careful and a lot of planning to kill (using this loosely) Gwi-ma. She learns to fight him with cunningness instead of brute force. I can say she's the one and only Hunter a century ago when the Honmoon (and the Abyss). I want to say she made a deal without a second thought, as long as she can kill him, consequences to herself be damned (literally). She was really lucky it only involves her and not, yknow, people. When she succeeded, she was changed and warped by the Abyss as Gwi-ma's power flows to her. It was an excruciating process, one that the demons who were there that time still remembers to this day. Now, she is still the Demon Queen and occasionally receives summons from cultists that fills her summoning condition.
To that point of Rumi being born a natural demon. Miyeong had a deep seated desire of having a child of her own when she sees mortal parents with their own children. You see, she and her now perma dead husband planned of having a child of their own. But fate has been cruel. She's remembering her former mortal life and oh, how she yearns to have one. A miracle happens and she has a child of her own, born from her desire and want. Being the Queen allows her to survive the ordeal as the very natural order trembles at this blessing/curse. As no demon shouldn't birth a child.
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For Celine. She was kidnapped by a cult and the only survivor before she manage to wrest control of the ritual from the cult master. That instead of her being the sacrifice, he's taking her place. The cult was attempting to summon the Queen and make her their demon. Celine was not in a great place emotionally and she basically wants Miyeong to protect her. And she did until the inevitable night. Their relationship was a hate situation at firsy. Both wanting to get out of this forced pact theyre in. Even willing to find a way to kill but those didnt come. It took a while before they learn to accept each other until theyre relationship evolves to romantic love. In living and death after.
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Poppy (Thirdlight) comes along and she was Celine's oldest friend who just started reconnecting with her long lost friend. But once again, fate was cruel when she learns Celine was by a cult the night after their dinner. She summons her own demon and made a pact that lets her hunt down the cultist. She was cruel and efficient. The world knows this ghost as a serial killer (not that she cares) while the cultists knows her as the Reaper. No matter how hard they try to hide, she'll always find them. In death, she descends to the Underworld and surprising to her, she meets Celine once again. She vows to never let anything happen to her friend ever again.
