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‘key to hope’

‘2 angles’ is the working title for my story [manga/webtoon/comic] with the main characters of Hope and Rit. The name originally was just a lulz joke for me only but it kinda stuck and I’m gonna use it for tagging here at least haha.

This story takes place in a modern setting on earth. In this world there are creatures who identify as angels or are identified as demons as according to human folklore/religion, but they came about after the tales existed. (Meaning: the folklore was not based on these creatures, but upon finding these stories they took on the names and characteristics of these described ‘angels’ and ‘demons’) the general age of these angels is about 1,000 years on earth.

Hope is a human angel with silver/grey wings and a barbed halo. Within the Angel hierarchy the wing color is significant to your role. No other angel seems to have wings like Hope’s. No one even knows who hope is or how she got here. She is found by Rit, who is a higher ranking angel performing duties on earth, within the dimension that humans can perceive. Rit’s wings are black.

Rit enjoys human vices. Rit is very skilled at their job, so gets away with excessive drinking and smoking. They constantly are smoking cigarettes, even though it causes angel’s skin to become incredibly weak. Rit is often covered in bruises and bandages because of this. It is hard to do true lasting damage to an angel, but recovery times can be very long. Bruises may take weeks or even months to heal once they form.

Rit begrudgingly takes hope under her wing (lol) mostly driven by trying to find out why hope has silver wings. Hope being of human origin is not something that Rit would know immediately. Hope does not realize angels are not human either. It’s a quest to learn about how to become an angel for hope, and a quest for *why* hope is an angel for rit. The answers for these questions may disrupt the entire angel system. :3c

i hope it’s not gonna be forever…

so easy

to be

nihilistic

‘drifting’

mixed media, 2023

Key to hope process.

Hope

Hope is an angel, but also a human…. which isn’t supposed to happen in her world. She has silver wings and a barbed halo.

Her general demeanor is quiet, but meekly positive. Even when things seem awful, she still thinks it will be better soon. She is musically inclined and favors the flute and harp, however can easily play most instruments she picks up. Hope is a personification of hope persevering in the darkest of moments.

Her theme elements are stars and clouds, and the colours grey and shades of purple/lavender.

Hope meets Rit, a true angel with black wings in a higher level of the hierarchy of angels. Hope sees Rit as a mentor, albeit reluctantly.

I wanna break up the teen art with … 30’s art lmao.

I sketched this thinking I would do a stamp carving, but I ended up just mounting it to a wood plaque. I really like it, it has some shiny micro glitter in it :3