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Art Trade: Morgan Fayes

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I actually meant to upload this a few days ago... the 600+ deviations and messages that piled up are intimidating, and my overall neglect of this account a bit embarrassing >.>

But! I still check my notes routinely, and was excited to see I was asked for an art trade. I'm a sucker for these things it seems, even though its made me some enemies. Oh well!

So, here we have our Myrtek hero once again leveling and loot grinding without his friends. Selfish jerk or just impatient? Either way, it seems karma cought up with him in the form of one Morgan Fayes. Not one to get her own hands dirty, it seems she let Shay handle the temple's guardians and merely have one enemy to face to acquire the treasure it holds. And in a tactic characters I play often use themselves, she turns foe into friend via sinister magic.

But, to what extent does this possessing creature have control over Shay? Who knows! This was actually going to be a two-parter, but 2 factors made me decide to cut it short: one, I didn't want to railroad the circumstances or progression too much, and two, I'm horribly lazy. Therefore, I can't really say what's going on, but I can offer some largely useless information.

First, this is actually based on the THIRD idea I had for this trade. I kept changing my mind and finding different ways to go about it. The forms I was deciding upon though were what made it difficult. One option was a fairy, but that idea died off 'cause of the scale difference and I had done something like that before. The other two were tough to decide between. One was a black catgirl. Every "witch" needs a black cat familiar, and I figured Shay might make a good candidate. Ultimately, this was knocked down... I figured cat girls are a bit too cliché, even in what I figured might be an appropriate context, and I wanted to give the page a more sinister angle. Also, demonic possession I felt could be expanded upon and used for more creative purposes if I wanted to borrow from this piece as I try and do with a lot of my concepts.

Second, the wings and tail are definitely representative of a succubus, but they're different from the kind I used before. Although Kaelriyu's overworld is more or less strictly defined in each of its incarnations, because its underworlds are timeless places where each of its timelines and universes combine, the variety of demons is incredibly vast. What we had before was a Shay depicted as a "high horn" succubus. These are more garden-variety succubi. Here, Shay's becoming a "heelhorn" succubi. Although they fit the "succubi" classification, being demons of lust, they have several notable differences. They have more vivid and colorful skin tones (here we have the more common pink variety) have thicker, shorter tails (lacking the usually addictive poisons, aphrodisiacs, or paralytics other succubi have) have horns growing from the heels of their feet, and are more likely to be hooved (though this is not always the case.)

Personality-wise, high horns are aggressive and manipulative, often abusing men to get what they want (souls and sex) where heel horns are submissive and compliant, a better fit for a servant. In general, heel horns are too overwhelmed by lust to resist for the extended periods of time high horns need to extract souls to either profit or earn their freedom from their demonic nature. Because of that, heel horns tend to exist on the lowest social rungs of the underworld, and don't make for the great movers and shakers the high horns do. Generally, you have to have committed numerous sins in life in the realm of lust to wind up a heel horn.
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Do more TG please