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[fathergrimm]

Fan art of Orchidtail from a comic on deviantART. And this is there tumblr

https://wcstarless.tumblr.com/

[cinnasketches]

Inking nose boops. Pencils by @lilindar for the comic Starless. ✨ . . . #inking #wip #filthyfigments #starlesscomic #boop #boopthesnoot #lineart #comic #webcomic #blackandwhite

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Starless Original Characters now have last names!

Jay Keeley, Stone Rookard, Charlie Bookerson and Angel Pixton 

Starless is just Starless

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I think I would really like it if Starless wasn’t the only one, and that he was actually the weakest of his kind. Something difference, strange, they consider him ‘good’ because he has the option to save and heal people though he chooses not to.

I kind of want to show a side of him where he is willing to save things now and again?? Maybe he’s really taken by animals. And one day he happens upon a group of people who were bullying one, maybe a cat because I HATE people who hurt cats, like even for comedy in movies, that’s NOT funny that’s downright fucking CRUEL. And I want jay to beat the shit out of some people.

Maybe Jay doesn’t do as much harm as Starless wanted to them so Starless, pissed off, possesses Jay. Which is another thing I sorta wanted him to be able to do in dire situations, and uses her to do more harm to the people who were hurting the cat. But he doesn’t kill them. He doesn’t want their life, he just wants them to suffer. But possession is harmful to Jay, so the longer he possesses her the more hurt she gets. When Starless is done he leaves Jay, Jay not being able to take the pain passes out. Starless catches her and gently lays her on the ground before rushing to the animal, he speaks to the animal and tells it he wants to help it, that he’ll save it’s life if it just lets him. And it does, it’s a re-peat of what he did with Jay when she was younger, he carefully picks the cat up and lays a hand over it and heals it. Slowly it comes back to life and is 100% healed. I’m thinking maybe, bonding with a human and saving them are different. But saving and healing someone or thing costs a lot of energy for Starless. So when he saves the cat he grows weaker and so does Jay’s powers.

When the cat gets healed Jay wakes up, she wasn’t out for too long.Maybe the cat once healed licks Starless’s face and then jumps out of his arms and runs over to Jay and licks her face (I like to call them cat kisses, if you tell my cat “kiss” she’ll lick your cheek) causing Jay to wake up. She’s still hurting a lot but she’s happy the cat’s okay now. And maybe they end up keeping it?? that’d be really cool if Jay had a cat, it would make me finally learn how to draw them better!

fuck yeh more progress

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I still have the problem of wanting Jay to have these shadow like power but nothing to use them on.

I keep thinking maybe something is after Starless?? But I have no idea who or what. 

Should it be a human? a real angel? Another demon? Something different? 

All I know if the thing is after Starless to get rid of him. They were after him before but Starless barely got away. I still don’t know if I want Starless to have 2 forms, a true form and the one he has now or not. that’s still up for debate as well.

I want the thing to find out Jay is with Starless, but I don’t want the thing to get TOO close to them? because then they’d have to constantly be in fear/hiding? But that would give a reason for Jay to use her powers to protect herself and Starless. And the stronger the connection between Jay and Starless is the more powerful she is, since she’s bound by him and that’s the only reason she even has the powers is because of him. So it just makes sense that if the bond between them is strong that day then she’s stronger.

And the thing doesn’t have to be ‘good’ it can very well be an evil after another evil, Starless could be good if he wanted, he still has that choice. but this thing after him is absolutely downright evil maybe. But it never attacks during the day or in crowds? They don’t want humans to know or something, if they’re evil they both shouldn’t care but I dunno, it just makes sense that it’d be an unspoken law that they do not cause commotion to humans. Cause if they were to find out they do exist then they would blow up and suddenly try to find ways to get rid of them? And they don’t want that, they want to ruin human lives secretly.

It makes more sense for the thing to be evil since it’ll go after Jay just like Starless, and Jay can protect herself. But I don’t think Starless can protect himself? Like, he’s totally defenseless in this form. He can only protect himself if they allow him to touch him, but at that point he can become aggressive instead of defensive and actually attack (but he's weaker than Jay maybe?)

So I doubt the thing would allow Starless to touch it since Jay exists, it doesn’t want them both to attack at the same time, it’d try to get rid of her first before going after Starless once it finds out he bonded with a human.

But Jay usually wins the fight but never kills the thing because she doesn’t believe in that. MAybe...

But something I’d love is if they are evil, which will probably be the case, and they first find out about Jay and Starless and Starless faking being an “angel” it laughs and says “oohhhohohoho, an Angel Starless? That’s sooo cute, You know what? I’m an angel too, we’re both angels, but he’s broken some rules so I have to punish him now.” Which isn’t true but they want to get rid of him for some reason. (need to figure that out as well)

Maybe Starless could be a type of species like he originally was? but a rare species that theirs maybe only 3 of. And usually they’re VERY powerful beings but if they bond with a human, which is un-heard of because they’d have to find a willing human, they become unbelievably stronger. But the human is the one that becomes strong, not the demon. But the demon can kill off the host if it tried to betray them. The demon species are all shape shifters and usually they can shift into what ever they want and actually LOOK like the thing unlike Starless who when he shape shifts it’s a shadow. Like, maybe Starless is the weakest of all three demons, he was never able to turn into his true form or into other objects correctly like the others?

I’m not really sure about that one.

I dunno, this post is long enough;;;

edit:: what if Starless has healing powers that the other two don’t and they think of him as weird and different so they want him gone since he’s not ‘true evil’ or something.

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Ohhh mY GOD what if one person sees starless and screams “DON’T TOUCH ME” and that breaks the contract and suddenly he can’t do shit to that person. And maybe it happens just a few times, not too many but enough for rumors to happen. That way when Stone keeps telling Jay he’s a demon she starts to second guess herself.

I also want to start the beginnning of the comic, like a listtle test thing. Where Starless first meets Jay and he saves her, which he has the power to do, he can SAVE people if he wanted, he can heal someone if they allow him to though them but he can also take their life. He could so easily be a good person but he chooses to be bad.

What type of illness can a child have that could be fatal but it’s kind of rare to be fatal? the Flu? like if she never got the vaccine and they did all they could but she just isn’t winning the battle.

ooooo and Starless WAS going to pass her up and let her die but her mother tells her “Don’t worry Jay, your guardian angel will look after you” and starless stops in his tracks and suddenly has a huge grin because he just realized he could fuck with her head and pretend to be an angel so she chooses her because it ‘sounds fun’

Ohh man, but I wanted Starless to become more violent towards her because Jay basically has stockholm syndrome to him. What can I do to cause him to be angrier and more violent to her? hmm...

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I’m still trying to figure out how exactly Starless steals the life from the humans using Jay. Originally I had her with a knife but I thought that’d be too much for a child growing up as a christian believing this demon is an angel. So what else can I do? Starless cannot touch people without their permission.

So I thought what if he can take part of himself and turn it into a bracelet or necklace or watch and when Jay offers it to someone they’re basically signing a contract that yes, you can touch me. And later when Jay goes to bed Starless goes out and collects the life out of those humans and it kills them. 

Starless tells Jay which people to offer the things to maybe, so that way theirs a ‘reason’ behind giving them to people. Maybe Starless tells Jay that these go to people who need them most, it’ll help them be happy while they’re in a bad spot, and maybe he does like to take the life force to those who are more negative than those who are happy, like the happy people actually hurt him while the less happy negative feeling people fuel him.

This way Jay doesn’t kill people by her hand, she can still believe he’s an innocent angel. And when she finds out later it’s most shocking, but Jay will refuse to believe it, even if she knows deep down that it’s probably true. Because he’s all she had for the longest time, she doesn’t want to be without him.

Only problem is the ending I wanted to do might not work out- actually... It might work out a lot better this way. Yeah, actually it’d be so much better because it’d make more sense and I wouldn’t have to deal with that problem I had earlier. fUCK YEAH MORE PROGRESS.

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The origin of Starless.

When I was REAL little, like in 3rd grade or something? I use to stay at my school way past when school was over, my mom, grandpa and grandma all worked so I had to wait in the after-school program or have a baby sitter, most the time I was in after school.

But the sun would go way down by the time I was picked up, and when I walked through the blacktop with who ever picked me up my shadow would be in front of me.

I use to jump up and down and try to make my shadow move independently from myself. I always thought it would be so cool if my shadow was someone else, someone like me but not me. I wanted to befriend my shadow. I had trouble making friends when I was little. Nobody really wanted to speak to me so I learnt to be by myself. Even today it’s so hard for me to make friends in person. So I made Jay the same way. She grew up like me, having no friends, being picked on, bullied. Un-happy. I use to pretend to have a friend a lot of the time, and I always turned to my shadow and pretended that it was my friend. 

So back in Highschool when I first tried to think of a story I remembered my childhood and decided to make Jayde. Someone who grew up like me, but her shadow was someone else. He originally was suppose to be nice and happy and they basically protected the city. They saved people from their evil shadows, the shadows made them bad people so they killed the evil and replaced their shadow with another shadow, but what ever object they took the shadow from it would make the object disappear from life. If anything or anyone had no shadow they didn’t exist.

But I decided to change Shadow, I made him un-connected from Jayde, I made him evil but ‘good’, I changed Jayde’s name to Jay and her looks to look more like a girl,(I was tired of people mistaking her as a guy) I changed her skin color because I’m tired of having all white as shit characters. I changed the story to something that seemed innocent from the surface but once you change perspectives nothing was good about the situation Jay was in.

I changed the story because there needed to be conflict, and I didn’t want it to be /me/ I wanted it to be it’s own thing. And that’s basically it. I’ve been trying to figure out the details for 5 years now.

Starless was born.