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Believer and Gasoline Q&A Episode 3 edition!

Why does Shadow have long hair in her flashback?

Andrea didn’t cut Shadow’s hair right away because he couldn’t care less. THEYRE lesser demons, their lives already belong to him just for being animal breeds, cutting hair is usually more for higher ranking demons, since they’re actually going to be shown around to others that they got defeated. When Shadow found herself worthy to be by Andrea’s side rather than just silly mid tier bounty hunter traffic, he got to claim her life, but it was never hers to begin with.

Clips from episode 1 and episode 2.

What’s the deal with Andrea having long hair in episode one?

Alessandro is an unreliable narrator with a messed perception when retelling events, sometimes we don’t get the whole picture, sometimes he lets things out(like his sister not being there when clearly they were both on the streets together, the doctor didn’t have to know that), and that includes forgetting things. He just assumed Andrea had long hair since he’s a powerful man who owns a lot of people, he thinks he has long hair subconsciously but it’s tied and he can’t see it. However Etsuko, who has way less respect for higher power (and doesn’t understand it, Alessandro didn’t even tell her before he didn’t enjoy being owned, or the whole hair cut symbolism), sees him for whole, having short hair. I’d say pay attention during flashbacks or recalls that seem to contradict one another. Just as how Andrea’s eyes were grey during episode 2’s finale, and we see that his eyes turn grey when he controls people. I’ll definitely keep doing more of that!

What’s the deal with the red hair strands? Why does Alessandro sometimes have one and sometimes doesn’t?

Alessandro is a natural brunette, he was born with brown hair and only started dying his hair as 13 but it wasn’t hair dye. Demon customs that soldiers would put blood in their hair from their victims, it’s pretty washable. Once he met Etsuko and left hell, he stopped. Then once Etsuko turned seventeen, he dyed his hair red because demon hatred was particularly strong and he felt like honouring some heritage of what good came out of hell as a ‘fuck you, look at my horns and my tail and my bloody hair’ to the active protests against demon’s rights on earth. Etsuko, who loves her brother, started also dying her hair red to copy him, so now they’re matching. Alessandro’s protest calmed down in 1968, when demons were being persecuted on the daily basis, but now the red hair is a more of a thing for him and his sister, rather than anything related to demons for him. He never really liked hell, despite it being the place where he grew up, but he didn’t hate being a demon. His only real home is with Etsuko. Now for Shadow she isn’t a solider so she’s not dying her hair, and doesn’t have the means to access cosmetics. I think she just has red hair genes from distant parents, and she styled it over her carved out eye because that’s where she’s ever bled the most. She can get symbolic and poetic from time to time. It’s mostly for her, so many people loose limbs in the mafia it’s hardly noticeable and people won’t ask about it, I could draw her scar one day, its pretty cool.

What are your favorite scenes of episode 3?

So many of them were hell to edit for my patience I’m glad it’s over. My all times favorite has to be when Andrea looses his shit at Alessandro and we see this demonic blurry version that gets cut when he snaps the knife out of his hand. I love villains and especially body horror, it’s going to get a lot worse in the books. I think the scene where Etsuko cries with Alessandro is really cute and sad, my favorite lines are ‘I know I’m not the best brother…’ and ‘before being the hybrid, you were my Etsuko’. I like the shadow effect I got going on with the sound effects in the dog fight. I also really like the whole atmosphere of Alice’s house. It’s a nice break and change from the dark chasing scenes. I really liked introducing three whole new characters and sexual romance, I got really creative with it! And I’m about to get my fill of romance on episode 4. I think Yuko might be my third favorite character? If we count the two siblings up first.

Who’s the brown haired girl with the bunny suit?

Yuko! We see her in episode one but she’s more than a background character, we’ll see much more of her in episode 4 and she’s Alessandro’s love interest!

I love you all, thanks for all the support. I’ve also got ideas of a movie (Well, one where all the episodes are mashed into a giant file, but also another sequel/prequel movie that takes place after the ending. We’ll see how this goes.)

Watch episode 3 here !

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I always wanted to do this, it’s even better with three ladies! Happy pride month.

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Coming soon…

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HEAR YE HEAR YE ITS DONE ITS DONE ITS DONE ITS FINALLY DONE 3066 SCREENSHOTS AND MY MENTAL HEALTH HAVE COSTED ME THIS!!!

Im so happy and excited its out!! I hope it does well, please tell me what you think, it’ll mean the world to me! Now I’ll have more time to work on more extra posts dedicated to believer and gasoline!

Thank you so much to everyone who supported me so far, I love you all and I can’t wait to hear what you guys think!

The big three 😻😻😻

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I’d let her have those cookies if you don’t wanna loose a finger, thank you so much for the ask! Episode 3 coming out in less than an hour as of now, I’ll make another post soon with the link, stay tuned! 💜🫶

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Holy shit I edited too much without even realising it. Episode 3 might be 25-30 minutes long. I mean, I love my long episodes, and that’s good because plot is progressing! But the longer it is, the least likely people will want to watch it. I have around 10 chunks of what I call ‘scenes’, and right now I’ve edited 8 out of 10, so I’m getting closer to finishing it! I can’t wait to make an actual trailer for episode 4. Who knows I might go faster if episode 3 does well!

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A daily occurrence for Etsuko and Andrea’s girls that are part of her entourage when Alessandro’s busy, very cute cat

came home drunk last night and got way too excited to see my cat

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Im halfway done with editing, the episode will be done this week, don’t know when but it will. Im very excited to rush to episode 4 because I NEED the angst of Alessandro x Yuko that you will see realllyyyy soon because I won’t slackkkkk offffff. It’ll probably be from 10-20 minutes long as is all episodes. Right now my format seems to be one episode in the present, then one as a flashback. I like it. I really hope episode 3 does well, this editing is killing my sanity I’m so tired!! Thank you for all your support, I love you all. 💓

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I finished all the screenshots! Editing for episode 3 here I go!!

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Small post, exams are ending in two days and I wanted to say how grateful I’ve been for the support I got on Tumblr. I wouldn’t have finished episode 3 this fast if my community wasn’t there supporting me and liking my every post. I’m so grateful I might cry ehhehrhrhfh Anyways, I’m almost done with all screenshots and I can safely say I upped the quality, as I will in every episode, but this one really has a few hand drawn scenes that I’m proud of with some gore and magic and I finally found my spell circles from Pinterest. Also I’ve already written episode 4, so you might not wait six months! Can you believe episode 1 is going to be one year old in two months? Ahh I’ve been slacking! I’m so happy that my little creation is bringing people together, that’s all I ever wanted when making this series and sharing my art. I’ll make more posts soon after the episode about some memes I always wanted to try, and some content about the three kingdoms, and I also wanted to dedicate a few posts about me pointing out details that I put in episodes that I think are neat and don’t want anyone to miss because I take so much time on the little details and even things that look like inconsistencies aren’t plot holes. As far as I know…haha you’ll have to let me know if you notice something in an episode that doesn’t look right but everything should be as planned.

I love you all.

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First fully edited and lighting screenshot of Episode 3, it is breathtaking for me. I love it so much they’re adorable.

Thank you so much for all your support, I could have never imagined how much love I’d receive for Believer and Gasoline. I love you all.

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Experimenting on some magic for episode 3, can’t have a series about magic without showing it being used. Although it is incredibly annoying to edit.

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Want to be a background character in the series Believer and Gasoline?

I take all my backgrounds from random or Pinterest. But I don’t mind including fans! Send me your oc and if it’s simple enough to blend in I’ll add it in when I can! Some modifications may be changed to fit the specie’s physical caracteristics/outfit of culture/kingdom’s color. If you’re wondering if your oc can perfectly blend in check out my two Q&A !

Most demons have red/dark horns and a darker color palette. They dress in red and have slit red eyes.

Most angels have blue/light color palette and white wings. They dress in blue and have diamond blue eyes.

Humans are average, only royals wear green the most and the story starts in Tokyo 1968, here’s the uniform for Andrea’s mafia men:

Thank you ! I love you all.

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I made this I’m very happy

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Believer & Gasoline Q&A 2 !

So many new questions! I'm very grateful. Episode 3 coming out realllll soon. My exams are over in 4 days and I already have half the screenshots. Of course editing is the worst part. But I promised myself I'll do episode 3 before starting on my sewing projects. Im still in writing the post of the three kingdom's politics.

How long do each species live ?

On paper it should all be the same, receiving magic does not make you last longer, however there are spells that can make you live trough old age much longer by improving your health but no one lasts longer than 200, especially since your condition only worsens the more you use magic, and it’s no easy to survive if you’re already old. When Queen Evangeline’s mother, Adeilatya, stepped down after her 100 years of rule, she was already near 200.

How can we tell a baby is a demon/angel ?

The way to recognise demons/angels trough infancy if they haven't grown their extra limbs yet is through their eyes. A demon will always have strong red eye genes and a slit pupil. An angel will always have strong blue eyed genes and a diamond pupil. I couldn’t convey it well on gacha life, but Etsuko’s eyes are extremely blurry and her pupils are messy slits that form a cross, where really they're just a slit and a diamond intertwined. I havent drawn it yet, I should. But I have lore in store for why she only has empty eyes in my art.

Do demons have wings? I saw Alessandro had some.

Not all demons born with wings exists. If a demon has wings, they must be extremely close to their ancestors as since they lived underground, they slowly didn’t need to use their wings anymore, thus they evolved without them. Demons with wings now are worse at flying than angels. Wings are hideable, you just need to retract them far into your body, they sit behind the ribcage, which can cause discomfort, but it’s better than nothing, since horns don’t budge. This is why Etsuko had a hard time hiding her full adult sized wings into her adult body.

Is Alessandro good at magic?

He has extreme potential to get good but he refuses for Etsuko’s sake, he can’t protect her if he has to deal with the side effects of gaining power. He’s born with blood manipulation which is incredibly rare for a regular demon who’s not part of the royal bloodline to have. The laboratory incident of him snapping and killing the scientists was only an adrenaline rush from being discovered and contained, he usually deals his problems with a gun and with much more...human methods. No matter what he does anyway, any kill will always be bad propaganda of demons to the human press. What he lacks in magic he has in weaponry and hand to hand combat, it just gets trickier when magic’s involved, or...when he’s taken by surprise. Demons have an aura that the more strong they get, the more they can unleash or conceal it, and also track the other demon’s auras. A demon could be behind you but his aura under control would make him seem invisible. Or a demon could unleash his massive aura and make you kneel from intimidation. If a demon sneaks up on Alessandro, he wouldn’t be able to sense them since he hasn’t learned that sort of skill.

What’s the magic system? How does one learn spells?

If you’re magically adept, the power source is already within you, and you can make this invisible force and it’s particles bend to your will. At the dawn of time, it used to be fairly simple, magic was used as an extension of one self, it was an independent energy like if you were to just control water. You can move it around, make shapes, use it for slashes, control a large or small quantity based on how strong you were and so on. The longer you train to bend magic to your will, the longer you’ll be connected to it and be able to extend that magic, you’ll be able to transform it, use it for other properties than it’s pure form, you turn water into ice, crystals, mud, blood (still a metaphor, they don’t control water at it's pure form, it’s two different forms of light descended from space rocks as magic.) Trough time the use of magic has started to be studied, documented, so others could master the same concentration and ways to use the magic within you, now finally metaphor over, magic could be used for healing, levitation, mind connection, creation, destruction, illusions, immunity, repair, evolution, manipulation, multiplication, protection, purification, enhancements... The more you bend magic to your reality, the harder it becomes, which is why some spells are easier to master than others.

Every spell is learnable, a demon can heal and an angel can kill. Magic is only connected to your body, how much magic is in you? Are you strong enough physically, mentally and emotionally to be able to use certain spells? And your personality can reflect what you truly want to use your magic for, you won’t master spells you won’t find the need for, especially if it already damages your body. However, not all magic is accessible, you might not find a certain spell to be public knowledge. Spells are infinite to an extend since they come from the holder, so there’s a LOT, a lot that might not even have been taught or written down depending on the areas of the world. People living near seas could have way more spells for water manipulation than people living in deserts who are experts on spells to control sand and heat. Well that was before the angels and demons were divided from earth into their own separate lands, which now reduces the amount of spell one kingdom could have. All angels live on clouds and all demons like underground. The basis of spells were developed when the species were still in hiding on earth.

You don’t have to learn spells to be able to use magic if your subconscious is strong enough to master and bend it. You could also study every spell perfectly and not be able to bend them, studying them is just a help guide at to what made others able to perform it trough a certain training or headspace. Magic usually manifests and bends much easier trough the wielder’s deepest desires.

Now about this blood magic, it is accessible to everyone, but only the royal family besides Alessandro so far has been strong enough to use it. Alessandro didn’t learn any spells, it simply manifested trough his vision as he grew older and bending it was hardly of an effort. It’s similar to the telepathy spell that he learned trough needing to keep Etsuko safe at all times in an environment where they’re always watched. Alessandro has extremely high magical potential, so his physical body hasn’t been injured too much while performing those spells, but he knows the risk, and won’t exploit it further.

Getting side effects trough magic is inevitable, it’s all about not going past your limits : too much and for too long, it’s draining your lifeforce per se, and you only have a certain amount before you’re more magic than body, and suffer from it. The effects get worse the more magic you have in your body because that’s more magic for you to consume, since you have the potential for high drain spells. If your magic takes more place within you than your human core, then your original body has a smaller life energy bar, and it’s up to you to manage to not get hurt. Of course if you’re strong your magic doesn’t insta-kill you, side effects are a very long process and only the strongest die from the side effects to the full extend, getting life altering body changes in the process.

Etsuko, being an hybrid, has no limit, the magic within her is already bended and can be obedient to any reality altering she could conjure. In theory she shouldn’t have to go trough the process of mastering her magic since it’s more than an uncontrollable invisible force. She sees magic in everyone and everywhere, she sees those invisible particles and her vision is severely oversaturated.  As stated in the last QnA, she’s not an all powerful goddess who can bend all to her will because this magic is still too much for her to control, it hurts like hell even when she isn’t doing anything, she hasn’t been taught any spells, and she doesn’t want to die trying.

Why did magic started manifesting in the middle ages?

It did earlier but only very lightly, hardly noticeable. It was a long process of the compatible human body to be connected to the magical particles and it took a few thousand years for the genes to spread and for it to be strong enough to be recognised as an actual mutation. A mutated today has a way longer tail, and wings, and horns, than a mutated a 1000 years ago. The most noticeable magically adept people before the first documented cases were just seen as demons/animals from the bible or other religious myths. I really like to meddle history with fantasy. I mean if people back in the days saw snakes and thought they were dragons, imagine how they'd be seeing horns and tails and wings on their fellow humans. We already know of the great blind purge to seek for demons but I also like all history majors like me who have headcanons on certain events being meddled by angels and demons. Im sure during the black plague everyone thought demons were behind this, that they were poisoning waters and wilting their crops. Natural disasters from the skies like intense rains and tornados could be blamed on angels, as well as sinking ships. The potential is infinite. You can even give me in my question box historical events you like and I'll try to link them to my world lore.

Does Etsuko also have blood manipulation?

What you saw in Episode one was just what Etsuko knew of magic, from watching her brother use it. She has infinite potential to do all kinds of spells, including blood manipulation, but she doesn’t know much besides observing and copying what she thinks she’s seeing. And that was also a “special case” scenario, she doesn’t know the spell as well as her brother, she just, bended reality to her will with her magic. She didn’t manipulate their blood like Alessandro does where he has the whole grasp on the bodily liquid, her magic destroyed them for their insides. She’s capable of a little magic not destroying her completely, after all she did grow up with it, but she bears it like a curse. In the book, the aftermath of this shows Alessandro and Etusko coming home and before they change clothes and go out to diner, he stitches her skin back up because she injured herself greatly, her body is taking time to recover which is why she won’t use magic on a certain someone attacking her later on. And he scolded her, even if that was a special life or death scenario and she killed those people with ease he doesn’t like it. One for her safety, and two for others. Etsuko can kill weak humans so easily she’s growing dissociated with the idea of life, of sparing someone. Everyone in her way should be killed. But that’ll be tackled on in episode 3.

Is Etsuko emotionless?

Cute, but no. She wasn’t very expressive in episode one because that’s the way she’s been taught to act. If she’s too sensitive or emotional, then her magic is bound to burst and someone will get hurt. As a child her emotions were the reasons her magic was found out and Alessandro had to give up his new established life and run away. Now she feels bad and contains herself as best as she can, although as you can see in episode 2, even as she tries her hardest, they still have to run away, so the mask slips and cracks. She has a pretty calm personality in general and is an introvert who only tolerates a little amount of people. But growing up in a unhealthy environment with a child for a parent, being in constant magical pain and a runaway criminal is bound to leave some scars to your behaviour and the way you cope with things, leading to a lash out. This gives her traits of childishness when she can’t bottle up her emotions because Alessandro just didn’t realise he needed to teach Etsuko about how to deal with her frustration. He loves her infinitely don’t get me wrong, he had a lot trough his mind while raising a child and he was one himself, but their relationship isn’t perfect (although it’s my favourite of the whole series). Their argument is about to get a lot worse in episode 3 coming end of June.

Since it’s pride month, are any of your characters queer?

In general I won’t get mad about any ships, you can headcanon all of my characters as bisexual/pansexual even if they’ve only dated one gender trough the series. I really like rare pairs, oc ships and even cross fandom ships! As long as they’re not incest (adopted siblings/parents counts as incest) or pedophilia, go wild. Just don’t start wars about canon vs fanon ships, or straight vs lgbtq ships. The main cast of believer and gasoline is all adults anyway.

Etsuko has had her time to get bored in the mafia, and being a pretty cute girl could have gotten her some attention from people. But men know better than to risk getting beaten to death by Alessandro, and she’s not very responding to flirt, which creeps men out. She can also look very scary when she doesn’t have foundation on, and she doesn’t try to dress very sexily either, so people just cast her as “Alessandro’s little sister, do not touch”.  However, her time spent with the women, and especially Andrea’s prostitutes is much more pleasant. They don’t judge her appearance or behaviour, whether it’s bottled up or an emotional lash out. Andrea’s chicks are happy to be around Etsuko when they don’t have work because they find her cute. They always apply her foundation for her and give her make up tips on how to blend in as a human. The girls are also very happy when Etsuko brings them street food and snacks that Alessandro originally bought for her. Etsuko feels bad when they come back bruised or vent out what they had to go through, but she’s no great emotional support. She’s old enough to had her try at the sex thing with women but she doesn’t feel much while doing it. I’d say she’s found on the aroace spectrum but she tells herself that if she could feel romantic/sexual attraction, she would have liked being in a relationship with one of these women. I don’t blame her, Andrea’s girls are very pretty.

My trio of episode three which are Shadow, Peko and Alice are in a fem polysexual relationship. Alice is disgusted by men but demons in general with her trauma. Shadow hardly had any strong feelings for anyone before meeting Alice, since all her friends died in the mafia before she could make real relationships. Peko used to be way too busy in the military to ever engage in a relationship, especially seeing the kinds of scums she had to work with all day. Peko could fall under the aromantic spectrum, but she definitely likes sex. Angry sex with Shadow even better. Alice and Shadow care about each other on a deeper level than just sex, but their fun with Peko is still pretty romantic and intense. Yuko has had her share with men, still feeling real attraction towards Alessandro, but not her clients. She’s also had her share with women, they’ve got plenty of time to relate to each other’s problems, see each other naked, and eventually explore their bodies.  

Is Etsuko Albino?

She was born from pure light, she doesn't descend from any human characteristics. But still passerbys think she is, which is still pretty rare to see a white haired chick in Japan, but they won't call on her being a demon or angel, just odd. Thus the unwanted attention shown in episode 2.

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She gets scarier

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Another shitpost that resumes episode 3

Happy pride month, I’m ur local lesbian agender author