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He wanders libraries, always carrying an old book along with him. The fear of getting old and forgetting, if he writes your name into his book, you will forget your childhood. Your childhood will belong to him.
Next up, the Black Dog.
The Black Dog is the fear of being found, your secrets put out for all to see, and the truths that nobody should have to know. The Rapture interpretation depicts it as the fear of the feral unknown and the fear of “body horror.”
So earlier today I started reading about this thing called the Fear Mythos and just got inspired to try and create Heromachine versions of each “fear”, so going in the order that the mythos’ wiki lists them, lets start with The Archangel.
The Archangel is the fear of religion, religious dogma and all things associated around them. In some cases it is portrayed as the afterlife (or at least a twisted bastardization of it).
And for those who might want it, here’s a text for the gasmask I made for him.
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Even evil demonic overlords need their nap time. Side note, these are really fun to make. You might be seeing quite a few of these Chibi Acedia images.
Doesn’t seem like Chibi Acedia loves ya back, General. But don’t hold it against the little guy, it’s in his nature to be an asshole to everyone.
Decided to do another rehash of ol’ Acedia since he’s become one of my new favourite villains. This time something a bit out of character for a ruthless, powerful demonic overlord. I now present to you all… Angrily Arm Flailing Chibi Acedia.
Here we have Darkstreet’s big bad, Darwin Black. The man is a walking mystery who many of Calle Oscura’s residents simply refuse to believe exists. He’s the leader of the equally ominous criminal organization known as “Noir”… Nobody really knows who they are or what their agendas are, and many theories constantly spring up surrounding the organization’s purpose. Are they some sort of secret shadow government controlling everything and everyone in Calle Oscura? Are they responsible for the creation of Evo? Are they plotting to take over the world? As it turns out… At least two of those theories are true.. “Darwin Black” is actually the name of Calle Oscura’s original founder who had very specific plans for the city’s future, planning several centuries in advanced. He created Noir to make sure that the city met its “ultimate destiny”, and wrote every detail of his plan in a special journal. After the original Darwin Black’s passing, the journal with all his plans was passed down to each new leader of Noir along with his name as a sort of alias for each leader of Noir to carry. The current Darwin Black is cold, calculated, manipulative, and widely believed to be downright evil by those who actually know of his existence…
Next up is another Darkstreet remake, Roach. He’s the smallest of Calle Oscura’s small-time criminals, both in stature and in his influence within the city. A petty thief, low-level drug dealer, coward, and all around a general pest… Some call it karma that his first dose of the Evo drug gave him a bad case of dwarfism along with heavily mutating his body to gain insect features, most notably his head and wings. Although he’s such a minor presence in the city on his own, he always seems to be in the loop about what the other criminal organizations in Calle Oscura are up to, which lands him a spot as one of the COPD’s prime informants. They turn a blind eye to his minor crimes, and Roach gives them all the information they need on the bigger fish in the city’s criminal underground. He’s also the first Evo mutant that Frank encounters.
Radiohead
Hey hey out there all you loyal listeners, this is everybody’s favourite digital disc jockey, DJ Radiohead at 83.6, “The Fiend”! Your number one stop for music that’s so mind blowing that the feds don’t even want your little human ears to enjoy it! And you can hear it all here, all the time! Because remember, once you start listening to The Fiend, you just can’t stop…”The animatronic DJ known as Radiohead is a secret agent of FIEND, though many believe he promotes the agendas of even more powerful forces. An automaton built by IQ following DJ’s turn to heroics, he repurposed much of the technology from her gauntlets to machines capable of manipulating soundwaves and frequencies for a variety of useful effects. Although these effects can be powerful in combat, Radiohead instead uses them to brainwash people through his pirate radio station, 83.6 The Fiend. The station’s music is filled to the brim with mind-controlling sound frequencies and subliminal messages hidden within all of the music that the mechanical DJ creates himself.
Continuing on the Darkstreet series, here is the first character I actually created for the story and one of Frank’s constant rivals and foils, “Father”, formerly known as Gravedigger before I decided to give him a name more fitting of his backstory. Father/Gravedigger always stuck out as one of my favourite villains in Darkstreet, due to being an example of how in Calle Oscura, even the kindest of men could be corrupted into a sadistic killer.
His backstory is that originally he had been one of the few good people in Calle Oscura; a loving father and grandfather, a respected priest in his neighborhood, and a constant help to the city’s smaller communities. However a late trip to his church to pray tossed him right off the slippery slope to insanity when a gas leak within the church caused him to have hallucinations of a higher power speaking to him and telling him to brutally punish the sinners of Calle Oscura. From that point on he became of one of the city’s most notorious serial killers, leaving a trail of mutilated and dismembered bodies where ever he goes, carving a cross into the blade of his weapon of choice for each murder he commits. It is later revealed that not only was the gas leak and his hallucination orchestrated by a mysterious organization known as “Noir” to intentionally create a foil for Frank to keep him busy, but that the gas was also an altered version of Evo that’s granted Father immortality.
And to be completely honest, he mostly just started as a homage to the character Alexander Anderson from Hellsing.
So, I’ve decided now to revisit and overhaul one of my oldest story universes, Darkstreet. This is a setting/story I’ve been constantly fiddling with for several years now, back in the old days of HM 2.5 when HM 3 was probably just a faint thought in Jeff’s brain.
The idea was basically revolving around the fictional city of Calle Oscura, nicknamed Darkstreet by its residents. It’s known as a haven for criminals and all manner of scum and murderers, with violence and corruption around every corner, and stories followed the attempts of a COPD detective trying to bring law back to the lawless streets of Calle Oscura. Things grow a bit more complicated though as a mysterious drug known as “Evo” emerges in the criminal underworld, a powerful chemical with mutagenic side effects that scrambles a user’s genetic code to grant them strange and fearsome abilities, thus introducing a super powered arsenal to Darkstreet’s criminal element. Where did Evo come from? Who’s supplying it? How can it be stopped? Those all become questions that Detective Frank Henson must try and find the answers to.
First up I’ve made a very simple mock-up comic cover for the story/universe, as well as redesigned the two main protaganists Frank Henson and his short tempered, muscle-bound partner “Bruno”. I’ve decided to go with close-up portraits for these Darkstreet redesigns, partly as some practice in face design, and partly to focus in more on the characters rather than their outfits.
