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Preparations for the Lion’s arrival continue
Small bit of Kitty lore: her mother was a retired serf from a whole line of serfs running back to the start of the Great Crusade, so her ineptitude is more than a little personally embarrassing
Also-forgot to include her tooth gap in the last panel. Whoops
Local Astartes accidentally induces transhuman dread in innocent serf by demonstrating something she definitely didn’t ask him to demonstrate
The cartwheel post
Bit messy cause I was tired when I inked it and kept moving my hand over wet ink. Enjoy
Not the cartwheel post.
And here we come to the end of our little intro into this story. From here on out it’s basically gonna be little episodes of whatever I find funny and fun to draw. I hope y’all enjoy Kitty-she has consumed like thirty sketchbook pages so far and shows no sign of slowing down lol.
That unfortunate feeling when you thought you were freeing some poor human but turns out she’s an honest to god chapter relic and so now she’s sneaking around like a horror movie villain into your office
The second installment of my ongoing little warhammer project. I’ve decided the armor is like the anatomy-whatever I think works that day. I forgot my brush pen at home unfortunately, so I inked this in a random school pen.
Behold, the project I’ve been working on all week. Turns out drawing a beat up church is exactly what I needed to stay calm about midterms. Enjoy part one of whatever this is
More messy practice for the little warhammer oc project. I’m gonna have to figure out what space marines wear in the day to day soon cuz I am not drawing all that armor on a regular basis. And why is Ezekiel blue??? Asmodai is really fun to draw tho
azrael is a cool name ngl.
Thank you! It's what my dad wanted to name me when I was born, it just took 18 years for him to get his wish lol. He chose it because of the Batman character, my ma vetoed it because of the cat in the Smurfs, and I chose it because of the angel of death
Working on the next few chapters of Ghost Helpline-
Anyone here an Azrael fan ? Cuz I need some demon slayers for drama
Like what even is Jean Paul’s personality - is it straight up DID or????
Like no knight fall cuz we love Tim in this house and I dunno how to even deal with it but I also haven’t really read Azrael outside of Kightfall so yeah.
Like I assume the Azraels weird ass cult to be pretty anti -demon so yeah….
Your opinions mean Aalto to me thanks!!!!
Merry Christmas byeeee!!!!!!
The Torch Carrier—Child of the Pyre, Child of Death
(yes, more Royalty/Fantasy AU Suga art—so sue me 😤 and apologies for the abysmal gif quality)
-> ATKB Masterpost
(and once again this is gonna be some massive spoiler for anyone actually reading this AU, but like... pls, I can't stop myself)
The Crossed Torches are an old symbol for a gateway to the realm of the dead. Karasuno in particular has a deep connection to death and its manifestation—The Angel of Death, Azrael.
Once every blue moon, the angel, who has no permanent physical form in the realm of the living, chooses to take hold in a human who then becomes their vessel. The vessel provides their body and their soul as new habitat for the angel and offers themselfe as tool for the angel should they decide to take action in the corporeal world—whenever they act, angels usually choose to modify the body of their vessel to reminiscent their ethereal form. In return for hosting the angel, the vessel can use its power and call favors from the entity.
Suga was offered as a vessel by his father, in the hopes of Areal being able to cure his sickness. Not knowing the details and conditions of vesselship, Suga accepted in the hopes of now being able to die. However, it did neither what he nor his father wanted, as vessel ship is a soul-bond under the protection of mother fate and made his live her property (so that fate alone could influence it—he can neither take his live nor can Azrael prolong it). Since then their relationship has been rocky. At first, Suga was angry at Azrael for deceiving him but eventually came to the realization that he now had to make the best of the situation—from there on he quickly learned how to call upon the angel's powers, for example by reassembling the spirits of authors of rare books and make them help him reconstruct their works, translate them from their original languages or teach him in their field of expertise. Over time, Suga has gradually grown into his role as vessel and managed to find a harmonious co-existence with the universe-shaping entity making snarky comments inside his soul. The only things they repeatedly clash over is Azrael's increasing interest in Natsu (and Daichi's adamant dislike of the entity, although Suga is more annoyed with Azrael for teasing his husband than angry).
"I know what effect such horrors have on the delicate psyche of an angelic being!"
Archangel of Death Azrael by @umulata
So he was teased a little in chapter 3. To my surprise, a couple days after I posted it, Umu messaged me with the final product! I'm telling you, they did wonders on this thing. Off of barely anything too.
SO! Azrael! For those who haven't seen Dogma, Azrael is a demon who's kinda working behind the scenes to erase all of existence. There's more to it, of course, but you know. I've played around some with his character in Good Dogma. For one, he's an Archangel here. The name Azrael wasn't his original name, but it's more of a title at this point. As is the status of Archangel, but you'll see.
He has a role he needs to play. Luckily, he knows how to play the system.
Here's a little spoiler I kinda wanna give... Many years from now, he's gonna start calling Crowley 'Beloved'. "Because you are oh so loved."
Jean-Paul Valley & Azrael: Complete Reading Guide
Who is Jean-Paul Valley? / Who is Azrael?
Jean-Paul Valley first entered the post-Crisis DC Universe in the 1992 4-issue miniseries 'Batman: Sword of Azrael', written by Dennis O'Neil and penciled by Joe Quesada. A former graduate student at Gotham University, Jean-Paul's life would irreversibly change when his father would crawl to his door dying, dressed in the garb of Azrael, the Avenging Angel - an assassin for the Catholic cult Order of Saint Dumas. Thus began a series of events that would activate 'The System', conditioning that had been programmed into Jean-Paul since birth that allows he - as his father and his grandfathers before him - to give control over to the Order's personal punisher and access latent superhuman skills and abilities.
Jean-Paul and Azrael would go on to become Batman in the stead of Bruce Wayne as Bruce recovered from spinal trauma inflicted by Bane, star in their own 100-issue solo series, escape (and destroy) Jean-Paul’s father’s sect of the Order, and become members of the first iteration of what is most well known as the Bat Family until their death. They played a vital role in DC's Knightfall, Contagion, and No Man's Land story arcs.
After the New 52 reboot, they would go on to play big roles in Detective Comics: Rebirth, Justice League Odyssey, and star in a second solo miniseries. As part of the New 52 and Rebirth initiatives, Jean-Paul and Azrael's backstory and details would be changed, though as of 2022 it is implied that aspects of their New Earth origin have been re-established.
What does this guide include?
Linked below is a spreadsheet including most/all of Jean-Paul Valley and Azrael's comic appearances from their debut up to their most recent issues. Sorted chronologically and divided into sections based on arcs and events, each row features information such as title date and writer/penciller, which identity/mantle is most prominent in each appearance, personal notes on the contents of each issue, and a section for any content warnings that may need addressed.
This spreadsheet is continually updating/a perpetual WIP. New issues are added as they release.
Happy reading!
The Guide
AZRAEL Azrael (en árabe عزرائيل) es el seudónimo de Jean Paul Valley, un personaje de DC Comics. Jean Paul Valley, un estudiante de la universidad de Gotham City, no sabe que él es el último de los asesinos de la "Orden de San Dumas", una antigua sociedad secreta. Sin él saberlo, ha sido entrenado desde antes de nacer, cuando en el momento de la gestación se le añadieron esencias de varios animales y, tras varios años de condicionamiento y sugestión hipnótica, junto a un proceso derivado de la alquimia, se logra un verdadero asesino experto en distintas formas de combate. MATERIALES Trabajo realizado en papel tamaño Oficio y lapices mecanicos de 0.5mm, 0.7mm y 0.9mm de color.