Sketches of Asha's and Starboy's redesigns for my au (well, or the rewrite, I don't know). I wanted Asha and Starboy to contrast with each other. Asha symbolizes the starry night sky, and Star, well, the star (it sounded more beautiful in my head). And speaking of the Starboy. I want to make him more feminine.
Why, you may ask? I just personally didn't like the whole plot twist in the show with Vaggie being an angel and Charlie not knowing it. Since the pilot era, the whole theory that Vaggie is a former exorcist seemed far-fetched to me ('cause the evidence was mostly based on the fact that Vi has an angelic spear, even though anyone can buy a weapon from Carmilla, and that she has an X on her blindfold). And like, why was Valkyrie afraid to tell her all-forgiving and understanding girlfriend about this secret? Why didn't Charlie figure out that Vi was an angel (like, Charlie had never seen her girlfriend's blood, or what?)?
In short, my idea is as follows: Charlotte pitchs her idea of redeeming sinners in her hotel, instead of a mass g*nocide every year, to the upper classes of heaven, and they listen. The higher angels give Charlie a test year so that she can find out and prove that a sinner can redeem themself. And if Charlotte succeeds, then the extermination will stop, and if not, well, everything will remain the same. And to make sure that everything is going well, and Lucifer's daughter is not making evil plans, one of the exorcists is assigned to Charlie — Valkyrie (it's a fake name, btw). Valkyrie doesn't really believe in the idea of redeeming sinners, but since she's been assigned to do something by the old angels, she'll get to work. She and Charlie agree that maybe the sinners won't like having an exorcist in the same room with them, so they decided that Valkyrie would pretend to be a sinner (a moth demon, to be more specific). And according to the hypothetical development of the plot, Valkyrie will begin to understand that maybe sinners are not as bad as they were taught in paradise, maybe not everyone is here deservedly. Would she side with Charlie?... But this is just a hypothetical scenario.
In the meantime, Valkyrie is a cold and non-empathic person. She feels disgust and contempt for all the hellish inhabitants. She firmly believes that heaven's policy is correct, and everything that has been drilled into her head since birth is true.
Well, that's it for now. Bye.
The bride and the beautiful groom.
Y'know, I have a couple of problems with Lucifer. I don't like how the Lord of Hell himself, the personification of pride, was made some kind of misunderstood sweet goofball. Like, why does this nice guy personify pride? Well, the sin that made him a fallen angel. I just hope that later on in the show it turns out that Lucifer and Lilith told their daughter an untrue version of their story. That Lucifer was not a misunderstood sweet goofball, that his ideas were really dangerous, that he was not the best angel. But these are my hopes. In the meantime, I will tell you a rewritten version of the story of Lucifer, so that he really was the personification of pride. I must say right away that I personally haven't read the Bible (like Vivien), I have only heard a retelling of the story about the Fall of Lucifer, and I will rely more on the version from the show. In short, you'll figure it out later. In my version, Lucifer is a kind of control freak. He considered himself the most competent of all the angels, believed that only he could do the job properly, believed that only he had the best ideas, but he didn't listen to others and didn't want to listen. Other angels, of course, didn't like him and decided not to allow this tyrant to create the Earth, and then people. This couldn't help but anger Lucifer. Therefore, to prove that he was the rightmost, he secretly entered Eden and persuaded Eve to taste the forbidden fruit. Because he thought it was better for humans to know about good, evil, and so on. He believed that he knew better what was best for others. But the plan failed, Adam and Eve were kicked out of Eden, and Lucifer and Lilith (I didn't talk about her because I didn't know how to fit her into the story) were sent to hell, and you know the rest yourself. Lucifer fell because of pride, because he believed that he knew better, and refused to think otherwise or listen to others. When he first became the ruler of hell, he gave sinners the freedom to do whatever they wanted without any consequences, still believing that he was doing the right thing. But later he began to understand what mistakes he had made, seeing that people, that sinners, were doing brutal deeds. And now he has to watch the consequences of his mistakes every single day, that's what his punishment is. That's all. Thanks for reading this messy fanfiction.
Edit with my redesign of Vaggie!
The redesign is filled only with my preferences and headcannons. I'm not trying to fix anything.
I did not draw a full-fledged full-length art with Vaggie, I only edited the promo poster with her (that is, I traced the body and added my own details, I'm sorry).
To be honest, I don't really like the final design of Vaggie, or rather her clothes. I don't know, she looks like a gothic/emo schoolgirl with those stockings, gloves and choker. With her serious and responsible nature, I think she would have dressed more professionally/in a business style. That's why I dressed her in the uniform of the hotel staff.
Concepts of the redesign of Angel Dust (need to work on his outfit)!
And of Charlie! I'm trying not to deviate too much from the original design, just to add details to it so that it looks more interesting.
What do you guys think?
I have a headcanon that Astrid and Snotlout had excellent student syndrome. Astrid — before and during the events of the first film. And Snotlout has until the second film. Like, it seems to me that killing monstrous nightmare was a way for Astrid to restore her family's honor. And Snotlout's arch in the series literally stop going out of his way for the sake of universal approval (well, more for the sake of his father).
I don't have any problems with the design of Cadence, except, probably, how casual and relaxed her hairstyle looks (yeah, Tia and Luna also have loose hair, but Idk, since their hair is fluttering, I don't have a similar issue with them).