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Sometimes I wonder if creativity builds up when you're not doing artistic stuff, and explodes when you get going again.

It took quite a long time doing this, mostly because I couldn't get the right sketch of Macheviel's form. I picked one out, inked it, scanned, and worked on his colouring.

Afterwards, I worked on the background, which is something I'm obscenely proud of. It's a product of a combination of lighting filters, layers and masks. The complex design behind him is at least four months old, and I've showed the original inkwork to some furs in a local meet-up. Don't know if they remembered it at all, haha, but I finally found a place for it. I worked on this on my laptop with an LCD screen, but somehow it got brighter on a CRT instead of the other way 'round. Merf.

Summary: Took about 10 hours. Pencil, Ink pen, ruler, compass, a Canon LiDE scanner, PhotoShop 7.0.1.

Macheviel is a veteran hackpointer in my Scape story universe, who became a cybershaman and a creature of pure information. The story of his ascension is in a novella I wrote called "Requiem For Nephilim", which I plan to release in the future. This form is actually the one he takes in his return to the material realm, though.

Anyway, time for a bad habit: Shin Megami Tensei biodata thing. :XD:

LV70 (Fallen) Macheviel
St:16 Mg:28 Vt:15 Ag:22 Lu:18

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AFFINITY:
Drains Electricity and Physical; Repels Fire, Expel and Death; Strong to Ailments
SKILLS:
*Maziodyne, *Maragidyne, *Khamsa Balance, *Diarahan, God's Bow, Soul Hack, Nephilim Fang
PERSONALITY:
Male, adult, gentleman, divine
DESCRIPTION:
Once a man who descended from the union of data angels and mortals, Chevise achieved enlightenment and transformed into the transcendent being called Macheviel. He exists as pure data, has mastery over the flow of information across the world, and sometimes hacks into Netizens to offer digital revelations from his mysterious world. However, when demons of the mortal psyche begin to invade material life, he returns to fight alongside his non-digitised comrades.

*initial skills, only if recruited and not evolved
(Nephilim Fang is an Expel version of that awesome skill, Death Flies. Chance to get Criticals like a physical attack.)
(Khamsa Balance spell casts Dekunda and Dekaja at once.)
(Soul Hack is an all-target Almighty attack; if hit, targets get damage and the equivalent of being cast Debilitate... FOUR times.)

Makes for a very nasty Boss fight, too. :mwahaha: