#aka michael

[wikimb]

Devil Trigger 3.0 for Michael!

A 3rd attempt at designing his DT since 2021 when I made Michael (or rather revived and remade/fleshed out his character from a DMC fanfiction written in 2019...).

I could explain in length the ideas behind this DT, why such a theme, why so... tall. The ramble includes serious explanation of the origins of demonic powers he has as well. If you like to read about it then just check what's under the cut.

Below you have some drawings of his face and also his brother's (name's Gabriel) reaction to his DT form. Michael was more scared of Gabriel's reaction than he actually was and the relief he felt was quite overwhelming.

More in depth below. It includes links to the 2 older versions of his DT for fun comparison.

The theme of his DT is very birdy. The first time I designed his DT it was rather heavily inspired by pre-existing DT designs of our main characters. Nothing wrong with it but it didn't stand out and I also never really vibed with it. It didn't help that I had no experience with any kind of monster design to begin with. I still kinda don't but I can see I got slightly better seeing the 3rd version of his DT. You can check my 1st and 2nd attempts here.

Anyway there are a bit more specific reasons why it's so birdy-looking or angelic-looking (and not just because of his name). Michael was born a human in a family, which was never exposed to anything demon-related. They didn't know demons existed (to a degree... when it comes to his father but I think that'd deserve a separate post as his backstory is a bit wild and how it affected Michael in the end).

As a teenager he got lured into a cult and manipulated into abandoning his family eventually. He didn’t know how evil the cult was and didn't even realize they were a cult to begin with.

It was a cult worshipping Mundus with a leader being one his generals. Her name was Lilith and she was great at making Michael feel that she truly cared for him like a mother figure. She manipulated him into believing his family didn't care for him. Sadly, it was all a game and ever since he escaped the cult, he deals with a lot of guilt and regret. He is not sure if they're even still alive... and if they're dead... what if it's his fault?

The cult's purpose was to turn humans into demons, who would serve Mundus. To ensure that they were forced to undergo a ritual stripping them of all of their humanity, their human personality and replace all of that with Mundus overwhelming power. The power, which was great but taking away all of their free will they could have. These people were technically demons at this point. If the ritual failed then it was usually fatal. Thing is, the ritual was a stolen concept from the time when Lilith infiltrated Fortuna's Order of the Sword. In a way she influenced Agnus to come up with such a ritual, then she took the idea and modified it a bit.

Michael's case could be qualified as a failed ritual after, which he should have died but the amount of demonic power he received was not big enough to kill him (because human body would be able not to handle more) but instead keep him alive. And as a result it continued transforming/mutating him into a demon-hybrid like Dante or Vergil, but artificial.

Even if using demoning powers was causing various unpleasant side effects for him but with each use, it hurt less and less. He was reluctant to use his powers actively, fearing that they could make him loose his humanity. He still used the passive abilities such as sensing demon magic.

After certain events he unlocked his Devil Trigger. As a side note I do have 2 ideas for what these moments were but for now I am not sure which one is better.

Anyway, yes, Michael underwent a modified version of Ascension Ceremony! That's why he has such an angelic look, just like the guys from Fortuna. The demonic powers are originating from Mundus but failed to take away his free will, his personality, his humanity, his memories. In other words, he is the same like before - just juiced up with Mundus power (which he is afraid to use anyway). Certainly a result which a Demon Lord would actually hate to find out about as it has a potential to backfire. Not like he has to "worry" about three Sparda descendants already. But if you saw Mundus himself, he also looks rather angelic too. Or at least that "statue form" if that orange weird blob is meant to be really him.

Compared to DTs already seen, he is quite massive. I think it can be simply a feature of Mundus power, in which Devil Trigger state makes one much larger than in human form. Mundus is a titan-sized demon himself, while Sparda was shown to be rather human sized. Heh, maybe if Michael had Sin Devil Trigger form then he could be Mundus-sized.

Though, Michael has the ability to go Berserk (but it's not controlled by his will and it triggers under strong distress), which enhances his power in human form and in DT form. It manifests as blue fire instead of orange fire. Maybe Berserk DT can get this big maybe. Could wrestle demons like Goliath then xD

#devil may cry 5 #dude #aka michael #original character #oc #dmc oc

[cloud-based-and-rainpilled]

I love Our Flag Means Death because you can clearly feel the chemistry of two close friends who just love working together, and are so comfortable with themselves, they can act intimately as a gay couple without being insecure about it. Same with Good Omens except one of them won’t shut the fuck up about wanting to powerfuck the other on Twitter

#i just wanted an excuse to use the word ‘powerfuck’ tbh #our flag means death #ofmd #rhys darby #taika waititi #stede bonnet #ed teach #blackbonnet #gentlebeard #good omens #aziraphale #crowley #david tennant #michael sheen #<- aka the thirstiest man on this planet #my man really fell in love with dr who for the bit huh #ineffable husbands #lgbtqia #gay #bisexual #<- this one’s for noted disaster bisexual michael sheen

[mobius-m-mobius]

how it started vs. how it's going: Staged (2020) // BAFTAs 2024 edition

#david tennant #michael sheen #bafta #aka they're not gonna rest until everyone knows the rituals huh 😭😭 #they really said y'all aren't going anywhere until you figure out our situationship and honestly i love that for them #was unfortunately gone all day and missed the fun but it wouldn't feel right to go without celebrating their dynamic or that kilt 👀 #bafta 2024 #dtennantedit #msheenedit #dianagifs

[scanlans-and-shorthalts]

Aftons and Emilys

#william afton #henry emily #elizabeth afton #charlie emily #crying child #/ #evan afton #sammy emily #mrs afton #aka #clara afton #mrs emily #she doesn’t have a popular fandom name idk #michael afton #okay sorry I will do the requests I will I just needed to get this out of my system #my art #fnaf

[mitsies]

❊ turn me down - michael kaiser . . loving you might just be the unluckiest fate.

there is an ache in kaiser's chest that he can't get rid of.

it's been lingering for far too long to be normal. like a broken wire, sparks fly down his spine, burning from the inside. he's already tried writing it off as bad sleep. he's tried explaining it away as lifestyle, or certain foods, or other irrelevant factors. but no matter what he tries, this dull pain, it persists. it lives inside him; a parasite.

he feels it when the train slows to a stop. he feels it in his history lecture when his professor says something dull. he feels it on the football field when he really, really shouldn't. kaiser can't escape the sensation. it follows him like a shadow, like a bad omen, like a ghost.

and the only solution, he's found, is your touch.

this is discovered on a rain-soaked monday. the both of you had been taking cover in your apartment, and your roommates were all out. it hadn't been awkward, not at all. because before anything else, the both of you were friends. you'd met in a chemistry class a few months back. your friendship was new, and it was easy; it was even easier for him to fall for you.

maybe it had happened that night, when the two of you had shared your first kiss together. when you'd both agreed to be a little more than friends, but not much more. when he'd first touched you the way he wanted to. or maybe he'd fallen for you before that— back in the class, back to your first study session. or maybe it was sometime after. he doesn't know. he may never know. but as it stands, that's where he is; hopelessly, pathetically infatuated with you.

he thinks of it as something like a blessing. the way you talk to him makes him feel tethered and real. the way your hands trace familiar pathways down his back on late nights makes everything feel right. the way you care about him makes his whole body burn enough to forget the stupid ache in his chest.

you've always been hard to read. he can never quite tell what you're thinking, although he itches, burns, to have every single piece of you learned and memorised. is it just for fun to you? or is it more, like it is to him? do you think about him when he's not there like he thinks about you? does his touch make you feel okay for once, too? he hopes so. he needs it to be true, really. because there is something desperate about the way he loves you. like he's grasping at something that's always just out of reach. like you're the only cure for his pain. like you're the only good thing he has, like he can't let you be just a friend.

but that's all you are, really; just friends. nothing less but also nothing more. an unfortunate conundrum. and even more unfortunate is the fact that in his blindness, he'd neglected to account for the fact that friends-with-benefits was no kind of commitment, either.

the bar is muggy and crowded on friday nights, and tonight is no different. kaiser is usually by your side, but he's let himself get pulled away by some of your friend group for a game of pool. but when he's done, and searches for you, you aren't alone. there's a stranger seated in the barstool where he once was, making conversation with you— and you look amused. a hand is propping your head up and your body is tilted towards the stranger, and your eyes crinkle a little around the corner like they do when you find something funny, and kaiser is angry. his body aches, it burns. an ugly feeling melts into his bones, mixing not-too-well with the alcohol already in his system as he moves to where you're sitting.

maybe it's ego. maybe it's envy. or maybe, just maybe it's desperation, as he inserts himself between you and the man with a crooked grin in your direction. "everything okay here, darling?"

you might be hard to read at times, but there's no mistaking the venom that burns behind your eyes as you glare at him. it should hurt. but you're looking at him, so how bad could it be?

you feign a smile and play along, presumably to avoid embarrassment. "yes. yes, actually, more than okay. in fact, i'm ready to go now. mind paying my tab?"

he likes you when you're irritated. he likes you all the time. he'd pay your tab even if you didn't ask. kaiser can feel your anger swell as the man you were speaking to dismisses himself, and as he leads you out of the bar. but he can't be angry. not now, because you take his hand when it's offered. he knows it's to avoid a scene, but he'll pretend it's more than that. your hand in his sends warmth down his body in sparks, enough to make everything else disappear.

"what the hell was that?"

you're mad. he knew you'd be. but he loves you so he just smiles like an idiot.

the street outside the bar is mostly empty. no one is close enough to hear your conversation, and only a few bar hoppers remain, waiting for a cab or stumbling to their next destination. a streetlight shines down on you, turning you amber in its light. you look beautiful. you might've been waiting for him to respond, he's not sure; but when he doesn't, you keep going.

"kaiser, what is your problem?"

something about your saying his name snaps him out of his haze. oh. what was he doing?

"we agreed," you continue, "we're just friends. just friends. we're not anything, kaiser. we're nothing, got that?"

you're mad, you're so mad. and your words burn and sting, like whips on skin, like fire on flesh. he's silent. he doesn't have anything to say, now that the fog has lifted around his brain. you and him were nothing. he loves you like a godless man, but you and him are nothing.

"right," is all kaiser says. he lacks his usual conviction or confidence. he fears that you may be the only person who will ever be capable of reducing him to ashes. you cross your arms and stare at him with a sardonic, "yeah. right."

he loves you. he loves you like a saint, he loves you like you're all he has. and he realises, right there on the sidewalk in front of a dingy bar, that loving you does nothing but hurt.

he never ached the way he does now before he met you. he never burned with emotion too strong to contain. knowing you brought on the pain, and loving you made it worse, and being around you ruined him. this was not a blessing. this was a curse. your touch was not a cure as much as it was a cause.

it hurts to love you. it hurts to love you this much and get nothing back. he knows he shouldn't, now, he's realised that it'll only make things worse. he shouldn't. but he can't let you go, not now. he's addicted to the pain, he's addicted to the melancholy of it all. which is why he smiles. which is why he says, "can i take you home and make up for it, then?"

your face is unreadable, you're sure. and he'd never know how you were feeling at that very moment. because you're hard to read on purpose. because you're not ready for him to know. but that same pain, that same hurt; you feel it too. that same love. unrequited, in your eyes. nothing but trouble. that same love, that makes you smile back. that same love that makes you say, "it's the least you could do," as you take his hand and leave.

maybe one day one of you will have the courage to shut it down or open up. maybe one day, you'll both really end up as either something or nothing. maybe one day, the ache of love's burden will lift. but for now, the pendulum swings as one of you waits for the other to finally put them out of their misery, and turn them down.

flower chosen: yellow rose . . jealousy

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#aka fwb but he's in love with u #michael kaiser x reader #kaiser x reader #blue lock x reader #bllk x reader #bllk #kaiser michael x reader #blue lock kaiser #kaiser michael #michael kaiser #blue lock #inspired by “turn me down” by julia jacklin! #mitsies 5k #sorry about this MESS i have not written in 5ever and my brain is meltingrn over kaisers recent hairstyle and also finals ig

[just-warlock-things]

Insert "With you, I forget my goddess" line from Gale.

Backgrounds aren't my speciality and neither are kisses but I got the idea. Imagine it happens right after you finish Gale's quest.

#bg3 tav #baldur's gate 3 #bg3 #bg3 gale #gale of waterdeep #gale dekarios #my art #original character #dude aka michael #gale x tav #they are an ace mlm couple btw

[bylrndgm]

GOOD OMENS (2019 - ) 2.01 The Arrival

#good omens #good omens 3 #aziraphale #crowley #aziracrow #ineffable husbands #david tennant #michael sheen #mine #mine:gif #**try to not gif the f out of tv shows you love: mission failed** #here i am #giffing for the first time in months just for them <3 #i wanted to try the pale gif effect that was oh so trendy in 2015 and add a little thing i love AKA GLOW effect #hope you all enjoyy i had so much fun making this **i was in an anxious state of mind on the verge of a breakdown** but they make everythin #better

[doctorsiren]

Day 29 of Sirentober / Doctober

Technoblade / Jerma

They’re watching the FNAF movie 🤭

#doctorsiren #technoblade #jerma985 #jeremy elbertson #FNAF #five nights at freddy's #michael afton #william afton #jerma fanart #technoblade fanart #art #digital art #my art #fanart #procreate #he’s the second worst thing to happen to those orphans #and then jerma got put in the meat grinder AKA the scooping machine #sirentober #sirentober 2023 #doctober #doctober 2023

[whenim64]

#mike nesmith #michael nesmith #the monkees #one man shy (aka peter and the debutante) #64post #64monkees

[wikimb]

I wanted to make a redraw of 2021 sketch used as a sticker on one of the Discord servers I am in and I obviously decided to go more serious about it. XD

Featuring my DMC original character Michael, who is about to shoot a demon.

Under the cut you can see the sketch from 2021. It was taken from this big sheet of essential expressions I made for Dude/Michael. XD

The next thing I want to redraw is the laughing expression.

#devil may cry 5 #my art #dude #aka michael #original character #oc #dmc oc

[purpleghoul87]

Michael using ol’ reliable (American accent)

#fnaf #five nights at freddy's #my art #Fnaf 2 #i love drawing Mike in fnaf 2 sorry not sorry #Michael with a mullet in 1987 absolutely essential btw #michael afton #fnaf mike #mike afton #fnaf art #fnaf michael afton #mike fnaf #fritz smith #fnaf michael #michael fnaf #The manager is nobody AKA I haven’t really thought of him yet

[meep-meep-richie]

But the real question is; who wore it better?

#i’ll go for miles tho #queen #miles maitland #jim #aka gabriel #bright young things #good omens #good omens 2 #michael sheen #jon hamm #good omens fandom #goodomens

[marchentraume]

Don’t mind the barking that’s just me losing all control 🗣️🫶😮‍💨

#olivier awards #olivier awards 2024 #david tennant #michael sheen #anna lundberg #georgia tennant #Anna and Georgia doing accidental aziracrow coord looks aka me screaming

[ginger-commander-is-tired]

Do not look into mesmer eyes.

#dude aka michael #original character #my art #guild wars 2 #gw2 fan submission

[just-warlock-things]

Here, finally finished this. It took me like 2 weeks or more because life decided to make me very busy.

In this art, my character (Michael) was distracted by Gale's infodumping about something... and as he followed him to some inn, he forgot to tuck his head to go through the door. Ouch, his horns!

So I overall want to work on incorporating more background in my arts. That includes using perspective, so that's what I tried to do here... and while it's simple for non-organic, geometric things... but for humans? I had to use so much refs! Gladly you can just use the game itself.

#bg3 #bg3 tav #baldur's gate 3 #bg3 gale #gale of waterdeep #gale dekarios #original character #dude aka michael #my art

[wtfgaylittlezooid]

have art block? swap your fave art styles from your two hyperfixatons!

ft: my fave ships for both fandoms lmfao

#aka arkhamaniacs jeremike and fnaf minigames scriddler #my art #doodles #fnaf #dc comics #jonathan crane #edward nygma #scriddler #michael afton #jeremy fitzgerald #jeremike