Onto my favorites of the entire thing, these are the clubs! I had a lot of fun contrasting the dark and monotone colors with the bright drippy neon colors! And, you know, the colors for the ace flag are in there for Reasons LMAO
Hehehe Commission me!
Daniel ~ King of Clubs
Daniel is the whole reason any of this started! I made a character who had ADHD, was immortal, and wore an Asexual themed hoodie! I couldn't fit him in anything so I ended up making a whole world for him! XD despite these beginnings, however, he's gone through a lot of changes!
Nowadays, instead of being depressed and rich, Daniel is a punk graffiti artist! He doesn't give a damn about money and is much happier for it! He still has a terribly angsty backstory, but he got over being emo and is ready to fight the bourgeoisie.
Yet, he's still a bit young when it comes to Immortals. He's 400 years old, and only learned about other immortals in the last 150 years or so. Still, he's used to masking and hiding his supernatural aspects to seem normal. He doesn't want his friends to think of him differently. He's very loyal to his friends, they mean the world to him, and he's terrified that he'll lose them if they knew.
Ashe ~ Queen of Clubs
Ashe is.... Definitely different than most of his kind. Most Reapers are personifications of neutral concepts. Intangible things like Time or Gravity. They don't have much personality or zest. Ashe is the personification of Humanity, so they're allowed more wiggle room! They can be pretty chatty when they're guiding souls to the other side.
Ashe is pretty familiar with Daniel! He's always stoked to see him, as it breaks up the monotony of their job. Plus, Daniel always seems to bring some color to the drab world! Not to mention Ashe has saved Daniel in the past. For mortals, addiction is a lifelong disease, but for immortals it never ends, and some things will prey on that addiction...
Addiction ~ Jack of Spades
Again, no name for this one, but for a very different reason. This mushroom lady is actually the Demon of Addiction. Or rather... The tentacles are. The upper body is an unfortunate immortal soul, and is slowly being fed upon by the demon. As you can see, Addiction is quite literally eating away at them.
Demons feed off of souls, and immortal souls are like almost unlimited batteries. Reapers and Angels can scare them off, but... Addiction has a way of luring in its victims and enticing them to stay. Escape, indulgence, community, all reasons souls keep coming back to it. And it doesn't forget its victims either, it will call out for you, again and again, trying to tempt you back.
Daniel has a nicotine habit. He's gotten better, thanks to Ashe, but Addiction is patience. It can wait for him to have a slip, for the stresses of life to be too much, and it can offer him escape again. And maybe it'll be able to replace its withering form.
show devil’s minion has to be so wild to outsiders because they’re seeing gifs of armand making what seems to be a disinterested face at daniel and everyone’s tagging it “he wants him sooooo bad”. like they have to assume they’re on the part of tumblr where people just ship whatever two guys interact with each other they have no clue that he actually wants him sooooo bad
do you guys remember when daniel "supposedly heterosexual" molloy wrote an incisive yet touching exploration of the aids crisis. based on years of reporting. while he was still in his 20s. like oh my god. oh my god.
no one talks abt how louis must have been dumbfounded when mister “you must not do this interview again for absolutely no reason this man is evil and will ruin everything” started wearing the sluuuuuuutiest skimpiest little outfits as soon as daniel arrived in dubai
¹⁷ “You can throw us into the blazing furnace. The God we serve is able to save us from the furnace and your power. If He does this, it is good. ¹⁸ But even if God does not save us, we want you, our king, to know this: We will not serve your gods. We will not worship the gold statue you have set up.”
so not only did armand finally make a fledgling. he made a public figure into a fledgling. a public figure who was already poised to dive headfirst into even greater mortal notoriety before armand turned him by virtue of planning to publish. a book about vampires. which also flagrantly breaks one of the great laws. and armand, armand, who has spent hundreds of years culling other people's problem fledglings... apparently isn't going to do anything about his own! in fact he kind of can't do anything without worsening the problem, because the problem fledgling he made is a 2-time pulitzer winner who was going to get interviewed about said book no matter what! and the good news is nobody really seems to believe him about vampires being real, so at least there's that, but. when your brand-new problem fledgling who's still going forward with shattering a great law after being turned has now gone viral about it, you can't just set him on fire! people are going to notice if daniel molloy, previously respected journalist who just went off the deep end and published a book about vampires that he is insisting is non-fiction, suddenly disappears off the face of the earth! nobody’s taking him seriously now, but that would get conspiracy theorists’ ears to perk up, and it’s all downhill from there. as far as the scale of the Problem here, armand turning daniel is like magnus turning popular commedia performer lestat but times a million because there's the internet now. how do vampires hide from the cloud, armand? no wonder he's not picking up anyone's calls.
I kind of have a headcanon that Daniel has gynecomastia. (Gynecomastia is the enlargement of one or both breasts in men due to the growth of breast tissue, often caused by a hormone imbalance between estrogens and androgens.)
It’s a common condition that eunuchs develop over time. Honestly, Daniel having larger breasts would be more accurate than him having a beard if he was a eunuch to begin with.
I also fell into a rabbit hole reading about men documenting their experiences with having larger breasts—how it felt to start using chest binders, the mix of shame and happiness they experienced by themselves and from others, and whether they decided to have surgery or not.