Hide & Seek

(neither of them remember it now, but Sal and Ariel totally played together as kids, before everything broke bad)

part of the band

The Nine Lucifers, a bunch of demons that committed crimes and atrocities to the denizens of the Seven Circles of Hell. More info down below~

Archibald, the Lucifer of Limbo, punished for his desire of a union between Hell and Heaven, a thought no other demon would share with him. He had since been banished into a separate realm outside of Hell, but with some negotiations, he had managed to turn the realm into a neutral area where any and all entities, be they demon, angel, or mortal, can enter and relax. Named the Purgatorium, being within its confines will also affect one with a pacifistic spell that prevents any sort of hostile actions being taken.

Jezieka, the Lucifer of Lust, punished not for a crime that she had committed, but her lover's. But it was not an act of sabotage or deception, but a willing sacrifice. Jezieka's lover, Sarah, had a livelihood and a hobby that involved indulging herself in the literal taste of other demons' flesh that she could not bear to end. Jezieka, unable to either help her end her addiction nor ease her worries of losing her life, she offered herself to be branded as the Lucifer in her stead. In an esoteric ritual that the couple had committed to symbolize and sanctify each other's mutual love, Jezieka had offered her eyes to her lover, as a promise that she may never look at another person's face again, and that Sarah's would be the last she'd ever see. Sarah, meanwhile, had offered her womb, promising that she may not harbor another person's love nor lust within herself. Lady Vylke, the Lucifer of Gluttony, and the Lady of Harvest in Villam, also known as the Circle of Gluttony. Her title gives her the authority and responsibility of managing the resources that sprout from Villam, which are then shipped to the other six circles. Her importance to Hell's economy prevents her from being truly punished as a Lucifer, of which she was branded for consuming demon flesh in copious amounts indiscriminately, so much so that those that demand to see her must offer her a gift for her to consume, lest they be consumed themselves. Placed under house arrest, Lady Vylke manages Villam from the safety of her manor, still satiating herself with the occasional unfortunate soul every now and then.

Tytus and Dima, the Lucifers of Greed, infamous for their dastardly deeds of raiding ultra secure banks within Fodere, also known as the Circle of Greed. Tytus, hailing from Auctoritas, the Circle of Pride and demonic law, knows his way through legal loopholes to avoid capture for so long, while his wife, Dima, a native of Fodere, knows the ins and outs of high security vaults and locations of potential treasure. But after one heist that went awry, the two were finally captured and branded as Lucifers. Forced to stay physically together by a holy bond, the two remain as thieves that trek the lands of Fodere, but now unable to keep any treasure strictly to themselves, rather having to share.

Ariel, the Lucifer of Anger, punished for her extremely destructive and violent nature, that in an ancient war she fought in, she destroyed both friend and foe in her rabid frenzies. Causing a brief truce between angel and demon, Ariel was held down and branded with angelic seals to suppress her wrath, and then exiled since. Now tempered by these seals, Ariel is a barely restrained core of pulsating white-hot rage in each and every single waking moment, always on the verge of snapping but unable to truly unleash her fury. She is still deemed a danger, however, as attempts to calm herself down had caused the untimely death of one too many an innocent denizen of Hell.

The Lucifer of Heresy, whose name had been lost to time, urged all demons of Hell to break its treaty with Heaven to overthrow the angels and set demons back to their former glory. However, after being faced with too much backlash and criticism, Heresy had set her sights no longer against the angels, but her fellow demonic kin instead. After slaying one too many naysayers, Heresy was branded and exiled from hell, her disfigurement so great that she no longer even remembers her own name and face.

Red Lady, the Lucifer of Violence, is the embodiment of an instigator. Where there is strife to be had, there will be Red Lady, the start of it all. She thrives off of conflict, creating it whenever she can, and after demonkind had taken notice of her antics, she was branded and exiled. In addition to these, her body had become extremely frail and weak. No longer able to directly cause conflict herself, she has learned to instead manipulate and trick others around her, gaining a metaphorical silver tongue in the process. Now wreaking havoc in the mortal plane, there had been rumors spreading that major events in that realm were actually caused by Red Lady herself, wearing a facade.

Adarahiel, the Lucifer of Fraud, a compulsive liar and manipulator, having spent centuries deceiving her kin with a mask she so meticulously crafted so that she will be perceived as a kind and caring individual, when she was anything but. Now, deceiving the commonfolk is no severe crime, but after tricking the wrong person at the wrong time for the wrong things, Adarahiel was captured, convicted, and branded. In addition, an angelic sword had cleaved her upper body in twain, but instead of perishing instantly, she instead found her two halves regenerating, forming new flesh. Her head, formerly two halves, now two full ones, but one gained the personality of the mask she had created for herself, the other her true self, forced to gaze into and keep company the mask she had fabricated.

Abaddon, the Lucifer of Treachery, the lowest of the low, a soul so ancient that he had grown tired of this existence. He wants to end it all, and see something new, and to achieve that, he must find an angel to bear his seed to create a spawn that bears the blood of both angel and demon. Such a creature would bear strength and power that even gods would fear, and with this power, Abaddon would finally have the means to make his dream a reality. After convincing an angel to bear his child, his plan would've slowly started to come into fruition... if it wasn't for the angel to catch wind of his schemes. After a heated argument, she ended her own life, but scattering the essence of her child away from Hell, onto the mortal plane. Not one to give up, however, Abaddon had set his sights onto where mortals tread, determined to find the child that was rightfully his and use their strength to burn this reality down, and create something new from its ashes. All this child had to do... was let him in.

drew full bodies of my main ocs for their th !!! so so so happy with all of these <33333

redraw cuz i miss them (2020 on the right 2023 on the left)

“I’m about to open my mouth to say something—to ask where his mother is now, or about what he remembers from all those years past, when something shifts among the shadows of the wings. The only light source between those tremendous dark dividing curtains are the faint industrial lamps high above among the catwalks and railings, but their light seems so far away, barely penetrating to the floor. 

An eerie sensation itches at my spine, and I feel the urge to turn around for a moment, despite the fact that there is nothing behind me but exposed brick and mirror and the makeup counter. 

I do not turn around, and a willowy figure steps out from the shadows into the amber light.”

[introducing...]

🎭🥂ꕥ  ARIEL  ꕥ🥂🎭

@saplingdraws did this lovely commission of Ariel from The Great Glavenisean Theater, and I’m so thrilled with how it came out!

I’m in the process of implementing my line edits and some ending tweaks to the first draft, but I’ll be putting out a beta call by the end of April, so keep an eye out!

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wake up babe another heavily unfinished sketch dump dropped

toby-heavy this time and very work in progress bc i keep jumping from an idea to another and also am busy w/ work & other extracurricular shit 😭

some thoughts and stuff abt the sketches

based on this small text i wrote :3 toby meeting a weird guy who seems to know too many things and wants to know even more

ehehehe minister clarke hiiii *twirls hair*. who said that. ANYWAY tfw ur having a meeting an a mercenary who's been after u for a long time breaks in.

our mysterious guy appears again! after the dimethyl sulfoxide heist and telling akande to fuck off via space zoom, tobias suddenly remembers that he forgot to send the message clarke asked him to send. he goes back (alone) and makes his way to prosperity plaza, when suddenly someone pulls him into a building. this guy again, snarky as always. he tells toby that he's very brave to show his face in byzantium again. "how so?" toby asks. the mysterious guy shows him a wanted poster with toby's face on it. at least printers work fine and quickly in byzantium!

horizon au! simply bc i started playing forbidden west again. i think toby would be a quen diviner. who appears in a wrong place at the wrong time. also he's probably part of that group that want to free the quen from the tyranny etc etc

i love the view in the beginning of the game once u get ttd. i think he stopped for a moment to look and think, where the fuck am i. might add a ttd-looking effect if i ever finish this <3

I can't believe you were hiding an OC! :D

Now that the cat is out of the bag - tell us about Ariel! Who are they? What's their story? Share a screenshot or a drawing, please? ^^

Haha! 😄 Thank you so much for the ask! And sorry for taking so long to reply, I wanted to do a little drawing of him to include

Ariel is my Durge. He's a human fighter who keeps finding increasingly bigger axes to fight with XD (he recently upgraded to a halberd). He is also a sleep deprived mess whose sanity is hanging by a thread. He is so scared, all the time. He is trying his best to resist, but his control keeps slipping and it's getting worse.

I think, prior to visiting Moonrise, there was still a part of him clung to the hope that the Dark Urge was a result of something that was done to him, that it was forced into him, and that he'd had a life and a self before that, a life and a self that he could maybe reclaim if he could just remember. And then he gets to Moonrise and starts to remember bits and pieces from his past and realizes that no, this horrible thing inside him is who he's always been and also he was actively working with the bad guys in some capacity and just basically

He's uh..... he's not taking it well.

But the others (mostly) have his back. Especially Sal.

💕

The beloved trio…

💕 OC in what they would wear on a first date

THE BELOVED TRIO!!!!!!!!

Ariel, Weslley on their first date ( the fact that they're already dating is just a detail..) and Rubem making presence as well, as she should...

[oc] possible new hairstyle for ariel plus a few different outfit ideas

my resist!Durge from BG3, Ariel

oc doodles from last night

ꕥ if you were extended a ladder out of the light, would you not take it? ꕥ

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sneak peek for the next part of that one text i wrote. as a treat <3

@vitanithepure here are the companion reactions as promised! :D (at least the ones I could get reactions for. Wyll, Lae'zel and Astarion were either bugged or had nothing :( )

Spoilers for Act 3 Durge below cut

The dialogue screencaps don't really capture how angry they were at him.

(Shadowheart, i need to know how you think amnesia works...)

Ouch.

(ie. 'I always knew you were a monster')

As for how Ariel is taking it..... I am honestly still trying to wrap my head around it. The news from Gortash just straight up broke him. But then the rejection immediately following it? I don't know how he's gonna come back from that.

Because it's not just the rejection, it's the way it re-contextualizes and invalidates any previous affirmation or acceptance. Just a day ago it was "You are my friend and you get to choose your own destiny" and now it's this.

So from Ariel's perspective, none of those kind words were real. That wasn't faith that he could be a better person, it was denial that he was really as bad as he is. And now they know the truth, and the truth is that he is so much worse.

He can't change. He can't 'choose his destiny'. There is no redemption. There is just blood.

The game doesn't really do anything with it (companions immediately switch back to their normal dialogue options), but like, narratively I assume the party would leave and go back to camp at that point (especially since they just got warned of a doppelganger amongst them). So Ariel is left alone in Wyrms Crossing and i think he just completely shuts down and starts dissociating. Sal finds him later, near the gates to the city proper.