#reaper is based off sad drunk girls in the bathroom at parties who give the best advice but hate themselves too much to see they’re so full

[minionwater]

concepts of some supporting cast star crossed lovers for D★SENT >:3 design notes in tags!

#so these two r reaper and muse until I can think of better names for them #essentially they’re a grim reaper and a guy who can’t stop reincarnating. and unfortunately they r in love #i have no idea if they’ll get together at this point but they see each other for like fifteen minutes every once in a while #yknow. whenever muse dies #reaper’s design is based off skeletons you find in the forest - nature and calming death essentially. decay as a form of life #those silver bands r all centipedes #muse is based off fancy candles - the everlasting endurance of fire. you can put it out but it comes back #as for personality in design language #reaper is based off sad drunk girls in the bathroom at parties who give the best advice but hate themselves too much to see they’re so full #of life and general exuberance #and muse is based off the song ‘the cat came back’ which I was forced to sing in elementary school n thought I made up for a decade somehow #if I have to think about the cat came back for 10+ years straight. so do you #reaper is calm enough. she shows up to dying people in projections as a guide - taking the form of their most comforting memory a la black p #arade. muse is so fucking sick of being alive at this point but they can’t resist the draw of art anyway - after all that’s what they keep b #eing pulled back for #they’re much more tricksterish than reaper. at this point they kinda don’t have morals anymore tbh. but morals r a very loose concept in thi #s world anyway. they just deal with being alone much differently than reaper does. she pushes it down and they bring it forth #also the design language for dsent is that only the dead have uncovered faces. something about it being the purest form of truth #so reaper’s face is uncovered for obvious reasons. but muse’s face is partially stripped away to show just how many times they’ve seen truth #and come back anyway. for everyone else it’s one and done yeah. #there’s also their face being stripped away for the lasting impact of art beyond death even after a person n their body r gone #original character #oc #character design #sander ocs #sanders art tag #dsent #D★SENT