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AJW art collection pt. 1 - Hell Followed With Us

Edit 29/03/2026: The art below is NOT MY ART, it's all by Andrew Joseph White.

This is a compilation of drawings by Andrew Joseph White of characters and scenes from his first novel, Hell Followed With Us. Some of them are significantly older than others, so his artstyle isn't always exactly the same.

Let's start with a few artworks of Benji at different points in his transformation:

I was personally pretty shocked by how AJW imagined Seraph, especially the fact that the nose is still so intact.

Also, here's a tiny little very simple sketch of Benji being tucked into bed and getting his well-deserved rest:

These are some drawings of Benji and Nick:

This one I love especially, it depicts Benji and Nick in their twenties, showing that they did find happiness together:

This WIP of his is the only piece of AJW's that I think also depicts Theo:

Here are some specific scenes from HFWU that AJW drew:

These are some various other things AJW drew for HFWU promotion, mostly teeth and Graces:

This is a drawing of a generic Angel soldier:

And this is Benji's mom Reverend Mother Veronica Woodside:

This is Benji and Wyatt, the MC of H. E. Edgmon's The Witch King, hanging out:

And to end this off, here's Silas from TSBIT being fascinated by Benji's Grace-tongue:

I think this one is super cute, with Benji winking at Silas and encouraging his interest for once, and Silas being so fascinated and nor scared at all.

Which of these artworks was your personal favorite? Whose design was exactly as you expected, and whose surprised you? Let me know!

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Which character from HFWU do you find most interesting?

As always, I can only include a maximum of ten characters in these polls, and I try to limit it to the most plot-relevant ones. So if your favorite character isn't on here, that's why. This is an especially big problem in this case, because HFWU has so many loveable and interesting side characters, I'm sorry for having to exclude most of them. I ultimately decide to only include Nick, Erin and the Watch members of the ALC people because they pop up most often, but sorry to Sadaf and Alex lovers in particular, those two were really hard to exclude. If you find Seraph most interesting, please vote for Benji, as Seraph is mostly treated as a part of him. The Graces are treated as a unit and not listed individually here because while they are central characters in some cases, they are not very well characterised individually and treated somewhat like a hivemind. So if you think any Grace is the most interesting HFWU character, just vote for all of them.

The AJW work the next poll will be about will be determined by lottery, unless someone specifically requests something. There are only three short stories left now. I won't be doing Dead Air because it's autobiographical and that would feel weird.

Okay, so:

Which character from Hell Followed With Us by Andrew Joseph White is most interesting to you personally?

Benji Woodside

Nick

Theo Clairborne

The Graces

Erin

Salvador

Faith

Aisha

Cormac

Reverend Mother Veronica Woodside/Benji's mother

Other (please tell me, there's too many cool characters to include)

I don't know/I can't decide/I haven't read it/results

Voting ended onMar 8

So which character from HFWU do you think is most interesting? And why? Please tell me, especially if it's one of the characters I didn't specifically include here!

I personally am also one of the people that'll vote for the "other" category here. I find Sadaf SO interesting, even though we don't see much of her. Like, the fact that she's so startlingly well equiped for handling the medical care of a bunch of reckless teenagers with very limited ressources in the post-apocalypse and this is justified by the fact that her parents were doctors tells me that they put a lot of pressure on her to follow in their footsteps (which, at least she seems to be interested in it, I guess it could be worse) and to amass a crazy amount of medical knowledge at a really young age. (That, or she just has a Silas-esque special interest in it, which might still be accurate, but I just don't get why AJW would've mentioned her parents if they weren't relevant to her character.) Given that Aisha leaves Sadaf according to the HFWU post-canon TikTok AJW did shortly after they marry to find her own family and they fight about that, I wonder if part of why Sadaf hated that decision is because she has a bad relationship with them and felt somewhat freed by being cut off from them, as seems to be the case for some ALC kids. (She's probably also mad because it's super risky and kinda stupid, though.) Maybe that's how she and Faith first became close, as Faith is so young and was already in the military, and most of the people who do that (if they're not conscripted, which I'm pretty sure she wasn't) come from really bad situations and are desperate. I also wonder if despite all that, she ever wished her parents were with her to help her take care of everyone and take some of the pressure off of her. Or maybe she enjoys having noone make rules about her life beyond what's necessary for survival, and feels bad about that. All of that aside, I also love how kind she is to everyone without being a pushover and that she is super perceptive, as evidenced in the fact that she knew Benji was sick and that it couldn't be standard Flood, but still trusted him and Nick and Erin enough to just leave it be and give quiet support until Benji was ready to tell everyone. The scene of Benji telling the ALC he's Seraph brings me to my favorite part of Sadaf's character: her mad scientist tendencies! I love how she's just fascinated by Benji's transformation and isn't afraid at all, seemingly wanting to understand it on a scientific level, but that all this doesn't cancel out her empathy and care, as she first makes sure he's not contagious for the good of the others who's health she's responsible for, and then that he's not in pain, as she still sees him as a person and her friend and someone who's pain she wants to alleviate if possible. Ahhhh I just love all the understated dimensions of her character so muchhhh... (Also sorry that half of this is just wild Sadaf headcanons, she just lives rent-free in my brain, I love her...)