…in universe…also I wanted to take a break and do something a little different. I actually need to get my ass in gear because there are a few things I forgot to do…Like update the instagram/facebook page showing updates…the deviant art too. I’m terrible at this.
This year marks the first year since my mother past. It’s a bit surreal to think about. She leaves and hell breaks loose. Granted that’s not her fault, obviously. Maybe it’s just what we notice when we lose a loved one. We become sensitive or more attuned to it…
Phew…January was crazzzy right?…Seriously fuck everything right now. Fuck the president, his followers and the goons who support him. We’re in a really odd spot right now, where we have to both watch the train wreck and be on the train at the same time…all while we have a hold on the breaks. I said once before that hashtags are becoming the new constellations, and I’m at a point where I regret making that call.
Back to business. I’m gonna start doing sketches for the main characters to celebrate their in universe birthdays. Some will be on random days because the months to actually exist, so I’m gonna start with Hanu-el, also I actually had a lot of fun drawing the card, and look at it. It looks soooo damn good. The music below the image, assuming he code works; you should be hearing it, is the theme I chose for her. I honestly think it matches the allure and joy I try to express coming from her towards Damascus. I saw the video when I came out and I lost track of the song for A LONG time, and had to reverse, reverse search it because I couldn’t remember the name of the band. Thank you Jill Scott, because they did a collab with the group and I found it again. That however was a recent thing.
I created her back in 2007-’08 to replace Mai. I mean that. Mai was originally the main female lead up to a certain point. The original name for the series was Dreamers Dynasty. As college went on, I grew to hate the name, and the to point of the story kinda fell off because I wasn’t happy with the development of Ae’. She was always busty, blue eyed with heterochromia, and brunette. She also had scars, but she hid them with magic. She was deeply ashamed of her body. She wasn’t familiar with Damascus, but was kind of a groupie. She lacked a lot of agency in her story. I got to a point in her story where she’d meet her family, but they’d be antagonistic towards Damascus. She’d have a familiar that acted as the “key” but also as a psuedo daughter…I split that concept off into the “keys” themselves and Ah-Reum, her actual daughter. I introduced her with Richard Ignis, he didn’t have a last name yet. I later made him into an abusive ex and I will work on that eventually. I’m very satisfied with her as she is now. She has way more to work with, and I can change her hair color. She’s proud of her body, and sexuality.
Canonically she’s bisexual, and out to her family. They adore her, she’s her fathers favorite child, and her mothers third, but find her to be the most dependable/capable. She experiences shame, but not because she wants to fuck, because she feels she was too weak to prevent the things she’s survived. She’s far more powerful than her previous version, and I’m very proud of her character growth.
I intend to drop more like these as I move a long. Writing these are actually a lot of fun.
The next issue is halfway drawn and rendered. I’ll have it out to you soon. I need to go update the Deviant art and Instagram pages.
Kindest regards,
Brandon
