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Lily (Patreon commentary)
🕑 Added 2023-08-18 20:53:05 +0000 UTCI hope you like reading because here come the lore.
I decided to flesh out one of the reapers I've sketched in the past. I'll continue giving same treatment to all the others and discover interesting things about them and the world.
This one I decide to call Lily, I still like old design with the flower and the lamp as well, maybe I'll find a place to put the flower on her.
I don't have too many idea when I go into these design sheets. Especially for secondary/incidental characters like this. I tend to discover a lot of ideas as I draw.
Even so, I still don't have too much idea of who Lily is but I am getting better sense of the reaper entity as a whole. I've had this idea of two types of reapers. They are, ancient reapers and modern reapers.
For example, Kristopher is one of the ancient reapers, they are more like a force of nature. Leading souls to after life is less of a 'job' for them but more of their second nature. The ancients do not have emotions or at very least show any signs of emotion. They don't remember anything about themselves but they might have been human very very long time ago perhaps with some kind of sinful/criminal past that landed them in the current position of eternal servitude.
The ancients are often seen with physical erosion on the body. In case of krisopher, he is actually missing the jaw bones. For Lily, her right hand and some back plating of her skull. I have not yet decided if the ancients cannot talk at all. Kristopher never talks, Lily, if she has anything to say, I'll have her speak telepathically.
Briefly the modern reapers, the major difference being, is that they have a lot of human emotions left in them as well as ability to visibly emote with the skulls. I've attached example of skulls emoting. "The Boss" and my sona "Q" They are rather cartoony in visual nature. much different than stoic ancients that never emote. The modern reapers also recall some tiny fragment of their past memories and have retained certain personality from their past life as well.
I'll stop writing for now, I'll perhaps have more to talk about the next time I do another reaper character sheets.
Thank you for reading.
Comments
Kyu-bum
I want to change few things that happen in the old webcomic but I also want to keep as much as I can. That talkative Reaper in the webcomic, "Rosa" I also want to draw more and see what would make her unique.
Kyu-bum
Thank you. I'm glad you find the writing interesting. It will help me to solidify ideas faster if I write here than have them floating around in my head.
Lourde of the Ruin Haunters
Fleshing out the reapers, that's neat.💀 Granted, I did remembered the other reapers in your webcomic, it's really cool that not only you added them again in design wise but also in personality and story wise. Oh yes, I'm not sure if I remembered it right but maybe in the past, there's a commentary of your concept of Kris similar to this, but in a form of a illustration or a concept art of sorts? Like a character sheet, yeah.
tim the fiend
Really like Lily's design, and it's interesting reading your commentary.
