Taiwanese artist, I draw whatever I want. Do not train/edit my works with AI.
Other platforms: Bluesky, Pixiv, Cara (illustrations); AO3 (fanfics)
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i'm glad everyone's finally decided to have always been against leaving disabled trans women to die. hey, can people do me a big favour? related?
this website has left my disabled trans sister to die a few times now. she used to be a regular heavy user of it before it repeatedly did to her what it does to trans women.
aside from me she has essentially zero social contact with the outside world so and the two of us are trying to build a decent nest egg so that over the course of the rest of this year or so i (and I have a lot going on in my own right!) can start moving towards vocational training to take care of us instead of ebegging on here
our social support system is each other and then tumblr, which i hope we can all understand is a dangerous situation for especially her to be in. she has been repeatedly homeless for her whole life and her pinned post is a medical fundraiser she gave up on. the severe isolation has been very difficult on her mind and body
two wires got crossed in my brain (sprites and my thought process under the cut)
satan was easiest to draw because thankfully there is no shortage of naked angels in smt compendium that i could draw inspiration from; mainly i used virtue, angel, and narcissus's sprites as a visual guide.
the pose is in reference to a scene from crybaby and also this panel from amon (which i haven't read properly yet, just flipped through volume 1 to ogle at the art lol):
for the race i was choosing between divine, tyrant, and fallen (all among previously attributed to smt's various versions of satan) but ultimately settled on fallen because it feels more accurate to this version of satan, at least in name.
the stats + resistances are taken from smt iv apocalypse's satan, with the exception of the level (in smtiva satan is lvl 99) just because the screenshot i used as a base to edit had a long "next xp" window and i didn't feel like editing it further to say 0 xp so i just made it 98 lol. the number is a silly reference to that "i love you" equation (128√e980) that was going around on the internet a million lifetimes ago except obviously without the root sign & e. so i guess it just says iloyou. but it's the thought that counts.
the skills (both satan & devilman's) are taken from devilman grimoire which hand on my heart i thought was really stupid but it was very funny to me that the artist assigned names to the attacks that they yell out during fights:
i love that they made satan straight up screech like a harpy... i wasn't sure whether to make the cosmic (...) skill a support or a recovery skill because in the manga satan uses it during a fight with miki & akira to undo being chopped in half (taste of their own medicine...) so i reasoned that as a videogame skill it could undo a previous round of enemy actions, but since smtiv doesn't have skills that are this specific it would be something like hp recovery + removal of ally debuffs and enemy buffs, if there were any, and buff/debuff stuff seems more fit for support category. then again it could also be hp recovery + ailments removal making it akin to smtiv's salvation (not the lameass nerfed smtiva variant... no offense krishna) therefore a recovery skill, but in the end i thought agaisnt making it a recovery skill simply because recovery skills have a heart icon and there is no such thing as love, as per crybaby satan (oh well).
the almighty skill wasn't in grimoire, my wife just argued that it would make sense for satan to have an almighty skill & i thought it might as well be the beam of light that crybaby's satan shoots at devilman (to shorten him up a little, you know). to elaborate: i really loved how in smtiv chaos and neutral routes when you fight merkabah (who i've compared to devilman satan on this blog a couple of times before), it has an almighty skill called "shalt not resist", a name i found to be very poetic. satan's almighty skill & its name are similarly thematically appropriate, with a little bit of ironic "symbolism" woven into it, which is that with almighty skills being un-dodgeable by default, you could make a reach and say it's sort of metaphorical of how satan's multiple lifetimes on earth are cyclical & (almost) always leading to the same outcome (making it un-dodgeable, in a way, but always a result of their actions). and it's the very last thing they say to akira in the original manga:
now onto devilman... i'm ashamed to say i put way less thought into him LOL
for visual inspiration i couldn't think of any specific demon designs to lean into, he's sort of an amalgamation of a lot of different sprites (namely baphomet & camazotz), and the thought process for the pose was just "it should be something devilman-y"...
i was stumped for a bit as to what to choose for the race, my options were fury, tyrant, and fiend, because fury seemed fitting, and a post on reddit (i know) said that apparently in the original japanese version of smtiv the name for the races tyrant & fiend mean "demon lord" (which is why i also considered it for satan) and "demon + man" respectively. i thought of demon lord because amon is very powerful and a lot of demons seem to be afraid of him, but thinking more on it amon =/= devilman so it wouldn't make sense to use that race specifically. fiend also felt off (and a lot of people in the comments under that reddit post were fighting with op about translation correctness) so in the end i settled on fury because i recently played through the first raidou kuzunoha game and in it the fury race was reserved for more physical-combat-oriented demons, essentially fighters, and i thought that would fit devilman just fine.
the stats + resistances i wrote in mostly at random; the level obviously just a haha funny number, the next xp number is the date the original devilman manga started running (as per wikipedia). like i said above, the skills are from devilman grimoire, but i also wanted to give him an electric skill because he does electricity-based attacks with his eyebrows/antennae (at least that's what i interpreted them to be), but i couldn't come up with anything for the name so i just put it in the learnable skills section since you don't know their names until after the demon learns them lol.
also, as a general fun fact, since i wanted to have all the text be written in smtiv's font, but didn't feel like assembling each word letter by letter from screenshots, i went through a very convoluted journey to make it an actual typeface font. here it is (google drive link), in case you'd like to use it too. it's kind of really bad because the site i used to process it rounded all the edges, and for some reason the default kerning is absolutely atrocious (and i don't know how to fix it), but thankfully the program i draw in lets me adjust kerning & leading of text so i was able to make it look more or less presentable (5% horizontal spacing in ibisx, for reference).
to see the uncensored inks, clean lineart, my mockup screenshots, and uncropped sprites (and satan's TITS!!!), click here (google drive link)
Couldn't resist my urge to draw Lucifer after dreaming of him for 2+ years. Though I don't take anything from dreams literally and I'm agnostic.
Decided to draw the child form because that's how he looks recently (in dream), and it could help my art to stand out more... You could totally see the SMT3 influence here.
Tumblr is rolling out a new reblog/notes system that completely disregards creators. In their new system, they're taking a twitter-style approach where reblogs will have their own notes that DO NOT contribute to the original post's notes.
Because of this, creators will no longer be able to see an accurate display of likes/reblogs/etc. This is completely altering the way feedback and responses to works are going to be received on this website.
If you come across a fan work that you enjoy, please take the extra step to go to OPs original post, and leave your comment/like/reblog there. Or go one step further and send an ask to OP directly to tell them what you liked!
I really hope Tumblr staff reverses course and reverts to the original reblog system for the sake of the large base of creators who use this site to share their works, but until then, please be considerate and make sure the creators here see/feel the love.
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