#reused yesterday's doodle lmao

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I’m super duper attached to Shiver and Deathblow and gonna talk about their world and spill my love all over here so bear with me >:U Huge ramblings ahead~

World

So they have no story or anything, just a fun idea I have to doodle and have fun. So they live in a world where it’s essentially the Afterlife and it’s inhabited by ghosts of every color honestly. It’s the same as Earth, just more supernatural. It’s always night, lotsa spooky/funky aesthetics, and the setting is in a city called Putridine City.

The main thing going on is that Shiver and Deathblow’s family is super rich. Their dad runs Accursed Inc., which is a famous haunting agency that aims to assist with creating the most terrifying and appropriate hauntings for ghosts stuck on Earth. You want a revenge story? They’ll curate that in the victim’s dreams! You want a slasher movie? They’ll provide you chainsaws and gore extravaganza! Just wanna be an annoying poltergeist?? They’ll provide you energy to do that. I literally have no legit idea how Accursed gains profit,,, maybe fueled by amount of fear??? I dunno :I

But yeaaaah when Deathblow was old enough their dad gave him the company and dayum that boy runs it good (though he’s pretty tired most of the time). He’s also known to be super scary and horrifying so Deathblow’s reputation helped the company’s PR. A few years later Shiver was old enough to do her own thing- but she never had a direction in life? She stayed at her parents for a year or so being lazy and they were like, “bby u need to adult” so they sent her to Deathblow.

She got offered a normal position called an Omen Organizer. Essentially she just goes to the surface and helps organize all the horror props/magic/etc. that’s supposed to go down and make sure that it goes down correctly. Like a wedding planner but for The Grudge. Shiver super hates horror though so really,,,, she’s scared half the time and just procrastinates and stuff. Deathblow yells at her a lot. She tries better, but you know it’s the same thing, and he’s not ready to fire her yet so :ppp

Honestly there’s only a few reasons why Shiver decided to accept the position:

She gets to hang out with her brother ‘cause it’s been a while

She’s just biding her time while trying to figure out her true calling in life

Hot business ladies. They’re everywhere. She’s thirsty.

There’s a whole other mess of story things that go down (like Shiver finding a girlfriend, Deathblow making deals with demons, rival businesses, silly road trips, etc.) but yeah that’s all I got for that.

Quick Fun Facts

The Afterlife can hold ghosts and have ghosts go back up to the surface to be reincarnated if they are able to. Lots of ghosts choose to stay though because hey why not?? also they gotta keep the Earth from overpopulating so not everyone gets to live again.

Cryptids exist in the Afterlife but are wildlife

All the names of the ghosts in this world are horrendously punny or just spooky™ to the max. But hey, Deathblow and Shiver don’t share the same last name you ask??? Well that’s because in this world those are "fake” names. If you have a real name, you hide it. If you don’t, you are given one. Which leads to the next bullet point:

How are ghost babies made? Usually, you get a dead baby as horrible as that sounds. However, if you want one of your own you gotta do things differently. You take some “essence” or energy of you and your partner’s and give them to the baby maker facility. Based on how much money you give them, you can curate how your baby can come out- as in what ghosts your baby is made out of. For example: Deathblow was created from some of the worst serial killers, murders, crime lords, etc. ever and they were mixed into one ghosty bby. Being erased and reused to create something new is punishment for those guys, so don’t feel sorry lmao. Shiver was supposed to be like that too but the concoction is faulty so she wasn’t as horrifying

Ghosts don’t like demons and demons don’t like ghosts. Demons roam the Afterlife but don’t live there and are a danger in a sense to ghosts for obvious reasons. Their businesses are tempting but oh so bad for you. They’re also richer and better too, those pricks

Their Bond

I drew these guys a lot and they’ll be more pictures coming featuring them. The reason I’m excited is because the type of relationship these siblings have is based off of the relationship I have with my own sister. Some similarities are that we love each other a lot, we also like to tease and annoy the fuck out of each other, we throw memes and stupid shit into each other’s lives, and most of the time we’d rather be in each other’s company than anyone else’s. Just yesterday my sister T-Posed at me 3 different times and I jabbed her in the ribs with my hand at the final, thus defeating the horror. And then we had dinner.

My sis is my best friend, so putting that sort of thing onto these two is fun and special! Obviously the relationship is not an exact replica nor are the characters personifications of us UvU They’re just ghosty dorks who dork around. Seriously, Deathblow doesn’t look it but he can be silly like Shiver too, and Shiver is just an accumulation of all things dumb and stupid that sprout from our minds, it’s hella dope.

Welp enough needless rambling, that’s all I got so far. Just wanted to write this down for personal record keeping and for anyone interested because I’m in love with these two, so aw yeah