I cannot protect him from himself (originally: Önmagától nem védhetem meg)
2023
Acrylic on paper
Or from his misaligned boiserie, apparently. Which was horrible to paint, because I felt responsible for how bad it is, even though it's supposed to be bad. But anyway, have a Sheriff worrying over his stupid Prince.
The Sheriff's head isn't meant to be glowing; there's a lamp on the wall behind him, and his face is more lit than the rest of him. I'm actually quite sorry to have painted his eyes closed, as they are remarkable. But it seemed to suit the situation more. I should like a better-lit picture of just him someday, where he gets to look more colour-correct and detailed.
And don't let me get stated on the drying times. I made some very unfortunate discoveries over this particular tube of paint, and to be specific, the way that the surface it leaves behind affects the drying times of the next layer. No more of that will be entering my house, in the interest of finishing my next picture sometime this year.
What I mean: I have slaughtered vampire the masquerade and desecrated it’s corpse to pull out the useable and interesting concepts contained within its graphic design nightmare of a rule book. I have then become Frankenstein and brought to life my own monster that I call VTM and show to my friends while desperately hiding the rest of it with the skeletons in my closet. It possess the capacity to explore very serious themes and trauma in an interesting way-
Out of the blue question, but what is the Sheriff doing in your Sabbat LaCroix au? Is he apart of the Sabbat or the Camarilla? I just like the idea that he ran off to join the Camies and Lacroix is all sad bc his best friend (one-sided) is gone.
LaCroix: Where did you go!? I made us friendship bracelets!
Sheriff, whose relationship with LaCroix was equivalent to two office workers who sometimes chatted around the water cooler: I don’t even remember your name.
So! In my head Sabbat LaCroix never goes to South Africa, and in turn never encounters the Sheriff, as his pack and sire are best established in Eastern Europe, and after Brynn's death they move to North America. I could see the Sheriff either remaining in South Africa and establishing a pack/meat monster army in a dark enclave deeper in the country, in a mine mayhaps, before a Camarilla incursion forces him out of the country.
Maybe they do in fact cross paths in New York City, with the Sheriff/Nagloper drawn to the flesh cathedral underneath the urban landscape, and Sabbat LaCroix is busy aiding Polonia in fighting the growing Camarilla faction. I can see them interacting at the height of the tensions and maybe fighting alongside each other.
Ough - but maybe something happens and the Sheriff defects to the Camarilla, his aid helping push the Sabbat pack by sabotaging the Tzimisce cathedral etc., and disappears after the Battle of New York and crops up again in Los Angeles as The Sheriff. Sabbat LaCroix lost his water cooler buddy #tragic #devastaed
I hope it's okay to send you Yet Another angsty ask, but I listened to this song and it made me think of Sebastian LaCroix/the Sheriff ship?? It's "Say My Name" by Bed Woodward. Here's a lyric video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzVraHoOMjY
In the song, the singer confronts their lover for acting strangely and pleads for the lover to say their name, as like, a touchstone back to normalcy. In the VTMB scenario, the singer is the Sheriff, who witnesses in horror LaCroix's increasingly erratic behavior over the game events. This adds another layer of bleakness to the song, because we never learn the Sheriff's name--LaCroix doesn't say it, like literally or figuratively. Maybe the Sheriff is okay with throwing his life away by fighting the PC fledgling, because the loving LaCroix he knew is gone. If that makes sense. What actually happened is I listened to this song 10+ times, held up the VTMB blorbo to it, and this is want I got. Maybe it also works for Devilman?
In any case, I wish you well this day! :D
@badass-at-cuddling it is always okay to send angsty asks :D
And man this song does bring more feels when you bring in the VTMB LaCroix/Sheriff context, especially with him wanting desperately wanting LaCroix to say his name and him being okay with going down with a fight because the man he once knew is gone. 😭😭😭
So thank you for sharing that song :D
And it could also work in a Devilman context, Akira begging a Ryo who is about to find out he is Satan to tell him what's going on and to come back to him. But sadly like in canon, he can't :(((
The Esperantist (originally: Az eszperantista)
2023
Acrylic on paper
For @meatcrimes. Wishing you a happy birthday and many pleasant thoughts.
This is the Sheriff, spending time in his haven; I imagine that at the moment he's studying Esperanto, as a hobby. I think he would find it interesting to compare it, a constructed language, to naturally emerging languages that he (I imagine) knows many of. The normal-sized pen is so tiny in his huge hand, but I have always imagined that he would have very beautiful handwriting.
I know his right hand is the one he uses for the sword, but for some reason I imagined he might prefer writing with his left, so that's how I painted him. I suspect, as someone who doubtless made his own body himself, he would likely be ambidextrous anyway.
The skulls are fused together; I expect he had to have done that while the bodies they were a part of were alive. That must have been an interesting sensation. Well, who am I to stand between a Nagloper and his home improvement atrocities?
Oh boy time to look at some official VTM lore- I sure hope I don’t find anything fucking insa- IS THAT - HOLD THE FUCK ON THE NOS ANTEDILUVIAN IS ABSIMILIARD- FROM DA BIBLE?!
for me it's the werewolf. something about that fight triggers some kind of ancestral flashbacks of being hunted by a saber-toothed cat. also i got attacked by a pack of dogs as a kid. that's actually probably why
LaCroix: Why is he not answering his phone... Nobody loves me. Everyone abandoned me. Even my own bodyguard...
Sheriff: …Boss has overworked himself again.
Collaboration with my best friend @r-you-kidding-me