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Mmm, I said I wouldn't, but I did. Another piece with Darkness (from Legend) and the saint Agape (from Barbucci & Canepa's Sky Doll).

I sort of hated it when I was halfway through coloring, because I hadn't thought out where all the red would be, and it just looked junky and mismatched. But what with her vaguely green skin and his greenish cape, it actually turned out really nicely. I don't do enough stuff with black backgrounds or serious lighting, you know?

I started this because of a latent, predictable crush on Darkness, and Agape was just kind of a convenient stand-in for a love interest -- someone to totally cripple a dark heart, to make the Devil bend and break. But the more I draw her, the more I like her.

Agape wasn't perfect. She was fallible, highly suggestible, prone to her desires and the desires of others. From the books, we don't learn too much about who Agape was before being martyred, but her love and compassion were her obvious defining traits. She's always pictured as full of sorrow, which makes me think of the Buddha Avalokiteshvara, who, upon realizing that he couldn't alleviate the suffering of all the people in the world, was so overcome that he split into a thousand pieces, to better see the world. That's how the story goes, anyway. Compassion is beautiful but excruciating.

So from Darkness, she can gain a little selfishness, a little bit of the animal lust that can be so totally therapeutic when we need to escape our own heads. And Darkness, well... he's broken for her. But he doesn't mind.

materials: ink, paper, PS7
music: Frou Frou, "Flicks"
Do not reproduce without my explicit permission.

Description
Mmm, I said I wouldn't, but I did. Another piece with Darkness (from Legend) and the saint Agape (from Barbucci & Canepa's Sky Doll).

I sort of hated it when I was halfway through coloring, because I hadn't thought out where all the red would be, and it just looked junky and mismatched. But what with her vaguely green skin and his greenish cape, it actually turned out really nicely. I don't do enough stuff with black backgrounds or serious lighting, you know?

I started this because of a latent, predictable crush on Darkness, and Agape was just kind of a convenient stand-in for a love interest -- someone to totally cripple a dark heart, to make the Devil bend and break. But the more I draw her, the more I like her.

Agape wasn't perfect. She was fallible, highly suggestible, prone to her desires and the desires of others. From the books, we don't learn too much about who Agape was before being martyred, but her love and compassion were her obvious defining traits. She's always pictured as full of sorrow, which makes me think of the Buddha Avalokiteshvara, who, upon realizing that he couldn't alleviate the suffering of all the people in the world, was so overcome that he split into a thousand pieces, to better see the world. That's how the story goes, anyway. Compassion is beautiful but excruciating.

So from Darkness, she can gain a little selfishness, a little bit of the animal lust that can be so totally therapeutic when we need to escape our own heads. And Darkness, well... he's broken for her. But he doesn't mind.

materials: ink, paper, PS7
music: Frou Frou, "Flicks"
Do not reproduce without my explicit permission.