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Flat colored a part of this set of inked drawings!

June 2025

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Late night pen doodles featuring some of the boys from my phone

May 2025

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What had started as figuring out Miri's outfits for Obey Me's various seasons and AUs in my sketchbook soon turned into a coloring and inking technique practice session with Lucifer coming along for the ride.

May 2025

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Wanted some refs for Abby and I had missed doing splash pages, so I did a lil of both.

May 2025

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"If I really have to name the thing I need to do, it's being here with you."

Thanks again @dododrawsstuff, I still think this is the cutest thing ever!

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I'm really intrigued, why was Miriam crying because of Solomon? Did he do something to her?

Hi nonny!

The short answer (I'll get to the long answer below the cut as it goes to spoilers for OG Obey Me's season 2) is that it's an accumulation of things that have happened up to this point and Solomon is urging her to do something she is very much not keen on doing, thus being the tipping point of making her cry.

For the long answer, let me preface this that this isn't quite how it happened in canon. MC, for the most part, seems not too influenced by the events happening around them. I'm sure it's for the sake of keeping the MC as a blank slate so that it's easier for the player to insert themselves, but I guess I wanted MC to be more affected by the events leading up this moment, thus why I'm making Miri more affected by what had originally happened in canon. Solomon is also a little more amicable upon rereading the lessons this scene draws upon in canon than what I make of him here. He does care when MC is upset with him and willing to make them less upset if he can (he's a silly little wizard that really likes us at the end of the day) but he never got the chance because Lucifer steps in, sensing a disturbance in the force.

With that in mind, I'll be going into a summarized version of Miri's journey through OG season 2. Sorry that this does get long, but this is probably my favorite season for Obey Me and I have a lot of feelings and thoughts pertaining to it.

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When the season begins, MC is having disturbing dreams where they're holding an ornate dagger, with Solomon behind them, telling them to stab the person in front of them. No specific faces were mentioned but they usually wake up before the stabbening happens, usually in a cold sweat. This remains true for Miri as well, having disturbing dreams with the ornate dagger ever since she returned to the Human Realm after the end of the first season.

After finishing up a call from Mammon, Solomon texts her to catch up and all that kind of niceties. She begins to text him about her recent dreams, but he suddenly appears behind her (because magic man gonna magic), startling the living daylights out of her. He then proceeds to take her back to Devildom unceremoniously (she lands on top of Satan during a student council meeting, lol).

Solomon had brought her back because he (and Diavolo) had sensed a change going on and it seemed to be centered around Miri and her pacts. They want to keep an eye on her, something they don't tell her or the brothers about, since they know protective the bros are of Miri, especially Lucifer, and they didn't want to say anything in case it turned out they were worrying for nothing.

Except… yeah, there was a reason to be worried.

Unbeknownst to MC, there were increasing disasters that were occurring in all three of the major realms. Ancient lakes drying up, millenniums old tombs collapsing, large holes appearing the forest, and other strange phenomenon were occurring. All of it seemed to be connected as it started after MC had finished getting all their pacts. Solomon and Diavolo decided to test MC (without their knowledge) to see if they actually were connected with these disasters via exam season at RAD. This is also the same for Miri, save for a difference where I'm diverting from the game's MC.

See, since I like a little drama once in a while, I made it so Miri is affected by her rapidly growing powers (since that is what's happening). It manifests itself in little ways as the season progresses, mainly in a way similar to an illness. She's fatigued more often, gets periodic fevers and chills, more irritable, has dizzy spells, headaches, and various other little ways that on their own might not be so worrying, but the fact that they don't go away after the exam ends would be a tip off that something isn't right with our little human. She tries to wave it off because it's exam season. It's normal for humans to push themselves a little harder when faced with exams, she'll be fine once it's over! No need to worry at all!

What clued Miri in that something was seriously wrong was when her pacts went off without her meaning to. There had been a travelling carnival in town and the gang took the opportunity to have a little bit of fun during exams, relax and all that. Beel was having a food tantrum at one of the carnival restaurants. The brothers, being the brothers, don't act maturely either when they try to stop Beel (all of them were being brats and having a food fight). Miri, having a bad headache, yells at the brothers to shut up for one minute, please! Next moment, her pact marks start glowing and all the brothers present at the restaurant hit the floor. Hard.

Miri's, understandably, horrified, having taken down six powerful demons at once (one of them being Lucifer) without meaning to. She's quiet and sullen the entire trip home. Lucifer keeps an eye on her as he's putting together that something is going on with the little human, but he isn't sure what. He tries to talk to Barbatos about it and about Diavolo's recent behavior (because, again, he's keeping what he knows secret until he's sure something is going on with Miri and the various realm disasters), but Barbatos is vague about it too, not letting on that he does know something is going on, but he absolutely does know something and is being cryptic about it.

After that, Miri's magic illness gets worse, culminating in causing amnesia in Lucifer. After an adventure to the Reaper's Cave to save Beel, (Miri helped to save the Avatar of Gluttony by a miracle that none of the other brothers could do before her by pouring a drop of her life candle into Beel's and it fixed his candle; it's a whole thing, I can get into it at a later date). Once they return to the House of Lamentation, Lucifer collapses and wakes up with amnesia which, yeah, really super worries everyone. Diavolo and Solomon decide to come clean at this point, about Miri's growing magical powers and how it's basically destroying the three realms.

To fix her unstable powers problem, there's two options: Find a way to suppress Miri's power or get rid of it all together. To suppress her powers, she would need the Ring of Light, a ring that used to belong to Lucifer when he was an angel, but it had been lost since his Fall in the Great Celestial War (allegedly), so that option was out.

The second way was to sever the pacts she had made with the seven brothers with a special magical knife, the Night Dagger. Miri wasn't excited about this plan as the brothers were her brothers. She wouldn't be able to see them again if she severed their connection, never able to reforge those pacts again. Solomon gives her some time to think about it and look after Lucifer for a bit.

Now, we're getting to why Miri is crying in the above picture.

Solomon comes back with the Night Dagger (he nicked it during the Reaper Cave adventure) and explains that it's ancient artifact that had lost its power over the ages. In order for it to be powerful enough to sever her pacts, it needed to kill a demon (since it was originally known as a demon killer). For bonds as powerful as Miri's, the demon killed needed to be at least at Lucifer's caliber, if not Lucifer himself.

This is what greatly upsets Miri. On top of not feeling good for an extended amount of time, not only was she supposed to break the bonds she had with the brothers, which, dude, that's her family!! She has to kill the one she loves the most to have enough power to separate her from her family and save the three realms.

Needless to say, Miri isn't happy about any of this. Her nightmare was coming true.

She tries arguing with Solomon, pleading with him to find another way, *any other way*, but Solomon's already exhausted all the resources he could before coming to this decision.  He tries to apologize, but this is for the best, in the end.

And, now Miri is crying, overwhelmed and upset. Lucifer intervenes when he can sense Miri's distressed. Despite the amnesia, he still feels this close bond to her and urge to protect her even if he doesn't remember specifically why. He puts himself between the two humans and tells Solomon to get out of his house. Solomon tries to argue with Lucifer, but he's not having it. Either Solomon has to leave on his own willingly, or he's gonna be leaving the hard way.

And that answers why Miri is crying because of Solomon. He's just the shit icing on top of an already shitty shit cake. Her reasons to cry also don't stop here (as the bottom of the original pic has her crying (harder) with Simeon) but that can be a different ask for another time. I did make a WIP Wednesday of the entire scene (Solomon urging her to sever her pacts, Lucifer's interference, and Simeon solving everything (kinda)) if that would be of your interest, nonny! It is a little choppy as it had originally started as an attempt to take notes for my reference but then the notes took off on their own and started weaving the notions of a future fic together.

Thanks again for the ask!

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Did some inking practice with latter Season 2 shenanigans over the last few days that I might color someday.

April 2025

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Some more sketches of Takashi and some of the gang from today!

Did a digital coloring experiment where I took a traditional sketch, duplicated it, then colored between the layers with an airbrush. It's kinda got the vibe between a like and a painted look (sort of?) and it's an interesting look!

Tis one of my high school era OCs Takashi. He's a former angel that now does part time as a wizard.

March 2025

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Did a digital coloring experiment where I took a traditional sketch, duplicated it, then colored between the layers with an airbrush. It's kinda got the vibe between a like and a painted look (sort of?) and it's an interesting look!

Tis one of my high school era OCs Takashi. He's a former angel that now does part time as a wizard.

March 2025

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Two posts in one day? It's more likely than you think!

After finishing up my Nokto and Clara piece, I spent a few more hours back and forth-ing with myself if I wanted to make Hideyoshi art this year (something I don't often do), but I was feeling a little nostalgic and missed my main IkeSen man, so drawing bday art won out this year.

March 2025

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Former Belle declares her love for her king in front of the neighboring nobility. It's super effective!

I speeded through Nokto's sequel a few days ago and I had fun time with it! Nokto has a way of surprising you with how much depth he has and his sequel definitely delivered on that.

March 2025

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Been busy lately so haven't had the time to come up with finished art in time for Abby's birthday, but I did get this cute sketch of her and Sebas washing dishes together done.

So, happy birthday, Abbygail!

January 2025

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This one I started in late December so it wasn't finished in time for my year end summary and it had a lot of different elements that I needed to fuss with, but finally finished it for the new year.

Twas inspired by a scene from early on in Vincent's route where he carries MC piggyback style back to the mansion after they have a heart-to-heart talk.

January 2025

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Had an impromptu snow day from werk, so I busted out my wacom tablet to practice some digital stuff. So I did a Thea and Clara.

Happy first art of 2025!

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And here's my art summary for 2024!

I felt like I was getting bolder with trying some new things this year like working on my anatomy (I drew a lot more full bodies and hands this year! Huzzah!) and I was facing my background and environment responsibilities a lot more this year. I think I'm growing more powerful as an artist the more I go out of my comfort zone and I'm liking the results of that.

For last year's summary, click here! For a list of previous years' entries, here's a link to my 2022 summary that has my other previous summaries on it!

January: The Chain Plays In the Distance

February: Forboding Goku

March: Look Ma, I drew 13 characters, oh god

April: Houki and Mitsunari Chibi Doodle

May: Draw Yourself in Your Fav's Clothes

June: Miri used glomp, it's super effective sketch

July: Miri and Diavolo in the rain

August: Pink Sketching with Mitsunari and Kennyo

September: Houki and Masamune's birthday party

October: Ophelia tells a bad joke, lol

November: Houki Pen and Pencil Sketching

December: Brothers Under A Pact but irl

Thanks for sticking with me and I hope 2025 will bring bigger and better things!

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At some point, I wanna design Miri's angel outfit to be like Queen Serenity's dress (and I will at some point), but that decision has made me wanna make more of Miri's outfits based on some fits in Sailor Moon, so I went hunting and found a Vogue article that had some of the fits from the series and I just copied them for Miri. The pink overalls are a look I'm considering for OG Season 3 when everyone is in the Human Realm (and everyone should put their characters in overalls at some point, it's fun I think). The blue stripe top I saw on a screenshot with Sailor Neptune and thought it was super cool looking, so I put Miri in it. I'm considereing this one for her outfit she gets from Lucifer for that train ride in Nightbringer Lesson 35, where she's so done with his shit, lol

December 2024

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Did one layer of the gouache that I said I was going to paint this in, but then chickened out and did the rest of it with markers and ink

I also attempted a more complex background, so that's something.

December 2024