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| Alistair's Last Stand
 Gnostic85  Original Characters  2007/6/28 13:59
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17 Years Earlier
"You have reached the Alistairs. We're not home right now, obviously. Please leave a message after the beep."
*beep*
"Alistair? It's Foxman. Please for the love of god pick up. It's been a bad night already, and it's about to get worse. We were still driving Lady Romata to the hospital when the word came in. Klein and his whole family have been killed, and we just got a call from Finn. His family barely escaped a similar fate. It's the KEB, obviously. The bombing was just a distraction. Alistair, they're already on their way. I know you would probably prefer to take your chances and fight it out, but I'm begging you, please just grab Stephanie and Jona and head over to the safe house immediately... Oh god, I hope this reaches you in time..." |
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| Beetle's Revenge (1st Take)
Gnostic85 Smackdown 2007/8/13 19:56
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| Suzie Dibney takes out a hit on Ruse for her insult against Black Beetle. Mind you, it was only one hit, so not much damage was done... |
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| Beetle's Revenge (2nd Take)
Gnostic85 Smackdown 2007/8/13 20:00
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| A second take on "Beetle's Revenge"... |
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| Birdeater
Gnostic85 Original Characters 2012/9/15 15:53
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A jorogumo (spider woman), the woman who calls herself Birdeater possesses the ability to feed off of people who have connections to birds. For centuries, her peculiar diet led her to prey on chicken farmers and the occasional takagari enthusiast, but during WWII, she became a nemesis to Tancho, Imperial Japan's crane-themed champion. After his death in the war, she preyed upon his widow, convincing her to take up his mantle to ensure that she herself would not go hungry, but the two women eventually fell in love, and lived happily together for many years.
When her lover died of natural causes in the 90s, Birdeater left Japan and migrated to Boston. As luck would have it, the industrialist Sam Ibis had become the vigilante Thoth to clean up his old neighborhood, and so for a few years, she bedeviled him, before one of his other enemies crippled him, ending his career.
Her next meal may not be far away, however; Ibis has passed on much of his old equipment to the new Red Owl. Barely into her twenties, the young superheroine might be able to provide years' worth of sustenance.
Possibly thousands of years old, Birdeater has potent mental abilities, enabling her to manipulate others, and can change her shape, though usually takes the shape of a beautiful Japanese woman in her early thirties. She draws sustenance by biting and drinking the blood of her victims, all of whom have some sort of connection to birds. As a rule, she takes only enough blood to sustain herself, and does not prey on the defenseless. Though she often prefers to feed upon one victim multiple times, she often develops romantic feelings for repeat victims... |
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| Black Eagle
Gnostic85 Original Characters 2010/1/20 17:26
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When Arber Besnik was a young man growing up in rural Albania, he discovered that he could fly. His neighbors believed him to be an abomination, and he was shunned. Then the Fascists invaded Albania, and Besnik offered his services to them. They decided to pit him against the Red Owl, the masked figurehead of the Albanian resistance, hoping that the Red Owl's defeat would demoralize the resistance. They drew inspiration from Albania's flag, and thus Besnik became the Black Eagle, a visual slap in the face to those who claimed to represent the Albanian people.
Of course, even though Besnik could fly, and even though he was faster and stronger than the Red Owl, his archenemy always prevailed. When the Fascists and the Nazis were driven out of Albania, the Black Eagle sought refuge in Italy, fearful of what his countrymen would do to someone who willingly collaborated with the Axis powers.
Besnik is dead now, but he may have finally gotten one over on his old foe, even though he never learned of it. You see, Besnik disowned his daughter, who emigrated to America and married the Red Owl's son (since the Red Owl never revealed his true identity to anyone, even his son was unaware of his lineage.) No doubt the old hero would be horrified if he were ever to discover that his beloved granddaughter carries his nemesis' genes... |
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| Black Vendetta
Gnostic85 Original Characters 2007/11/16 10:37
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| Just an idea I came up with. What if somebody decided to go all "V for Vendetta" on the Saudi monarchy...? |
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| Blonde Phantom II
Gnostic85 Marvel Comics 2008/4/12 23:14
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| Continuing to develop my pitch for Marvel, I'm trying to find some characters for my proposed team that nobody else is using. With that in mind, here's Blonde Phantom II (or Phantom Blonde). The daughter of a semi-forgotten WWII superheroine, Wanda Mason can technically claim to have been a superhero for over 40 years, because she first adopted her superhero identity after traveling back in time with She-Hulk... |
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| Cmdr. Emmanuelle Sharon
Gnostic85 Video Game 2011/5/8 23:43
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| This is a portrait of Cmdr. Emmanuelle Sharon, the character I created for my main Mass Effect playthrough (in the game, of course, she's Emmanuelle Shepard.) I think this is probably one of the best renders I've ever done in terms of technique; I'm especially pleased with how the lighting and textures came out. |
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| Countdown to Smackdown: Ruse Gets the Call
Gnostic85 Smackdown 2007/7/26 21:47
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Somewhere in China...
"<Damn it, I'll never get out of these stupid handcuffs...>"
*BOOM*
"<What the hell was that?!>"
"RUSE! You have been selected to appear on Smackdown!"
"... 'Kay. Could you help me out of these handcuffs?" |
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| Countdown to Smackdown: Ruse's Interview
Gnostic85 Smackdown 2007/7/26 22:17
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"Hiya, Ruse! Welcome to Smackdown!"
"Erm... Hi."
"So we're gonna ask you a couple questions. First question: Who the hell are you?"
"I'm Ruse. I don't really have any superpowers. I just kinda get tied up and dominated by people. Sexually dominated, I mean."
"... Seriously?"
"Yes. I mean, not every girl in a costume has impressive abilities. You figure there's gotta be a couple of super-submissives in the mix, right?"
"What the hell kinda schtick is that?
"Well, I also steal stuff and assassinate people... sometimes..."
"So does my housekeeper, but you don't see me interviewing her. I'm sorry, but you just plain suck."
"But I'm hot! And Asian! And I like sex with girls!"
"... Well, why didn't you say so in the first place?" |
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| Dr. Reinigend
Gnostic85 Original Characters 2007/7/10 21:35
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Need to exorcise a demon or monster from another dimension? Well, there's God only knows how many experts you could go to - Dr. Strange, Dr. Fate, Dr. Occult, etc. But if you need to eliminate a large army of demons in a short amount of time, you might need a specialist. And that's where Dr. Reinigend comes in. A former Nazi scientist who spent the bulk of WWII figuring out genocidal applications for magic, the doctor is the ultimate authority on exterminating hordes of demons, and now works for a black ops unit code-named Merkwurdigscheiss, which deals with . He approaches exorcism the way that the Nazis approached the extermination of their victims: efficiency over ethics. He sees nothing wrong with using spells that wipe out whole neighborhoods if it eliminates a few elusive demons. Thank god he's on our side... right?
(Just a weird idea that came into my head. A completely evil bastard who might be needed in an emergency...) |
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| Find Him
Gnostic85 Original Characters 2007/7/16 22:34
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Continued from "The Hospitalization 2"...
"... Grr... Laban!"
"Yes, boss?"
"Abdal is now Missing In Action, apparently passed out in a hospital phone booth. Find him. Now."
"Yes, boss."
*cell phone rings*
"Hello? Abdal?"
"You bastard..."
"Ahh, Daran..." |
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| Gevruh/Qlipoth
Gnostic85 Original Characters 2007/10/8 22:13
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Once a great hero of the Israelis, Gevruh snapped from the strain of trying to defend a bitterly divided country. He went on a rampage, killing dozens, including his brother, the Promise, before he was finally subdued.
Gevruh has superhuman strength and endurance, and an ability to generate bursts of destructive energy. But his real talent is his brilliant strategic mind. He managed to pull off his rampage by stirring up racial/religious tensions so that while he was randomly killing civilians, the police force was stuck dealing with an epidemic of rioting. Because of his tactical abilities, he was transferred to a top-secret bunker and given a new codename Qlipoth ("husks" in Hebrew - has negative connotations in Jewish mysticism). Among the most hawkish members in the Israeli government, Qlipoth is viewed as the ultimate trump card in the seemingly unending struggle for the Holy Land... |
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| Gevruh: CHEREM
Gnostic85 Original Characters 2007/10/11 21:49
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"On the night that Gevruh declared war on his adopted homeland, he wanted to give the people a message. Raising his arms to the sky, he fired beams of his horrible red energy upwards, moving them in what looked like random motions. Within an hour, though, he had carved a single, enormous word in the sky..."
CHEREM
"It was a very clear message, aimed especially at the religious among them - Gevruh intended to consecrate the Holy Land anew by annihilating the people occupying it.
"He then spread his arms out and released all the energy inside him in all directions. For twenty horrifying seconds, everything and everyone within a mile radius experienced disintegration at the molecular level. Those who survived described feeling as though they were burning alive.
"Then, having made the first strike, Gevruh flew off to await the inevitable response from the IDF..." |
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| Juna
Gnostic85 Marvel Comics 2007/11/10 19:56
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I had this idea to do a story with Quasar, but I don't know enough about her yet. So instead I have invented a distant cousin named Juna. A bored young woman from one of the Kree colonies, Juna heard about Quasar's exploits and thought, "I could do that, too!" Of course, she's nowhere near as experienced, so she often ends up getting defeated and humiliated, but she's the type who just picks herself up, stitches her costume back together, and rushes into the next adventure...
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| Kiss & Tell
Gnostic85 Smackdown 2007/8/16 19:20
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"So you spent all of last night having sex with Blue Veil, huh?"
"... How did you know...?"
"She smokes like a chimney and you smell like an ashtray. Plus, I detect a faint whiff of cynochlor, or whatever it's called..."
"You've met her then?"
"Teamed up with her and the Isralien-1 a few years ago in order to stop a super-powered psychopath who intended to bring peace to Israel by indiscriminately killing everyone."
"Israelien-2...?"
"The IDF's answer to Supergirl. Can't say much more - they want to keep her as a secret weapon in case Black Adam ever goes nuts again..." |
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| Kouros
Gnostic85 Original Characters 2009/2/18 21:43
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| Wanted to try something new, so played around with a little gender-bending, trying to create a cute trans-superheroine... |
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| Lord-General Romata (second take)
Gnostic85 Original Characters 2007/6/1 21:19
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| I wasn't satisfied with how my original render of the Lord-General came out, so I did a new one. My main priority was making him look big and menacing, because he's only a few steps away from being a military dictator. However, at the same time, he's obviously old and tired. |
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| Paryan
Gnostic85 Original Characters 2007/6/25 19:26
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"See your face every place that I walk in,
Hear your voice every time that I'm talking,
You will believe in me,
And I will never be ignored..."
- Garbage, #1 Crush
Paryan Romata
Daughter of the Lord-General, Paryan seems to have something on her mind lately. She's never had the best self-esteem, you see, but it was figured that the news that she had a boyfriend was a sign that she was finally blossoming. Of course, now people are starting to find out who the boyfriend is, and they're starting to worry again... |
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| Perihelion
Gnostic85 Original Characters 2012/10/9 20:10
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"Roy Henry Harris was a washed-up former actor who was chosen by mysterious forces to become a solar-powered champion. As Perihelion, the Human Sun, he fought crime and protected the Earth from extraterrestrial threats throughout the 60s and 70s. However, in the 80s, he mysteriously disappeared, and has never been seen since..."
One of my older ideas. Lately, I've been trying to revisit some of the older superheroes I created so that my current superhero stories have more of a backstory to them. Of course, some of the older heroes, I can't even remember what the hell the underlying ideas were behind them... |
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| Prince Fryderyk
Gnostic85 Fantasy 2007/6/13 22:12
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"Didja hear there's a natural order?
Those most deserving end up with the most.
The cream cannot help but rise up to the top.
But I say, $#!^ floats.
If you thought things had changed,
Friend, youd better look again.
Simply put, in the fewest of words,
C**ts are still running the world.
C**ts are still running the world..."
- Jarvis Cocker, Running the World
Prince Fryderyk Andorov
The son of King Aleksander and Crown Prince of the Trove, Prince Fryderyk believes in the supremacy of the Trove over all other nations on the continent, and perhaps even over all other nations, period. He envisions a complete refutation of the idea of non-monarchial states that has become popular in Elis, and sees this movement as something that endagers his family's status.
Though not yet in power, he has turned his beliefs into an ideology around which he intends to unite the entirety of the Trove. Whereas his dad has ruled with some semblance of tact, avoiding war when possible, Fryderyk welcomes the opportunity to get his hands dirty. He is ruthless, cunning, and, worst of all, completely self-assured.
The worst part is that his power is growing. He is attracting followers, and one of them may include the Lord-General's own daughter, Paryan... |
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| Red Howlet & Allies
Gnostic85 Original Characters 2009/4/11 1:33
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It's never wise to become a neighborhood superhero without allies who've got your back. For Red Howlet, these are Enver and Qitta. Enver's a Turkish-descended powerhouse, super-strong, super-durable, and able to create shockwaves that can level buildings. His powers are mystical in origin (he creates shockwaves by speaking a magic word), and he's been told that one day he will be forced to use them in a way that will harm or kill many people in order to destroy a great evil. For the most part, though, he's a nice guy who enjoys playing a white knight for pretty girls, though occasionally, he overdoes it, as in this pic.
Qitta, by contrast, is not so much of a powerhouse. Born in Somalia, her family came to America during the war and relied heavily on the charity of 'Allam al-Wafiyah. When the man called Beit took over the Boston offices, he decided that her family owed a debt, and took her as payment, using her in an experiment to see if his powers were great enough to bestow superhuman abilities upon others. He turned her into a feral creature and unleashed her in Little Yugo, hoping she'd be enough of a threat to make the Red Howlet turn to him for help. The transformation crapped out, however, and Qitta reverted back to human form. Of course, Beit has not called off the debt, so Qitta still has to go out in costume whenever Beit orders her to make trouble. She usually ends up helping Red Howlet fight crime. (Thankfully, Beit never bothers to send anyone to make sure Qitta is actually making trouble.)
Of course, every alliance has risks. Both Enver and Qitta have ties to Beit, and Enver in particular believes that, whatever Beit's personal intentions, the coalition that Beit has formed can help him in his efforts to clean up his neighborhood, and would help Red Howlet if she were to join (not to mention the fact that part of him fears that Beit may be the great evil that he is destined to fight.) As such, Red Howlet is constantly aware that one day she might have to fight her friends. |
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| Red Howlet: Busted
Gnostic85 Original Characters 2009/7/8 0:01
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Hey all. Been some time since I've posted here. Been caught up in other things - got a job prospect out in Texas that starts in August, so been trying to prepare for that.
At any rate, here is my latest work. Hopefully the next time I do a comic page, I'll remember that they're supposed to read vertically, not horizontally.
BTW, fajr is the pre-dawn prayer in Islam. The other non-English words are Albanian; you can probably figure out what they mean just through context. |
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| Red Owl: Glory Days
Gnostic85 Original Characters 2009/5/1 18:50
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| Kreshnik Veton, the Red Owl, back in the days when he was still young enough to beat up on those Nazi bastards (and back when there was no shortage of Nazi bastards...) |
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| Red Owl: Glory Days (Aged Variant)
Gnostic85 Original Characters 2009/5/2 18:28
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| A variant of my Red Owl pic... |
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| Red vs. Black: Blackface
Gnostic85 Original Characters 2012/11/7 22:22
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"When the black costumed vigilante Thoth began waging a campaign to wipe out crime in his neighborhood of Hughes' Point, white real-estate developer Randall Bates moved to try and stop him, fearing that if Thoth's campaign were successful, his own efforts to buy up and gentrify the neighborhood would fail. As the makeup-slathered gangster named Blackface, he plunged Hughes' Point back into chaos and left Thoth (and his alter ego, Sam Ibis) crippled.
"Bates is dead now, but Blackface lives on in the person of his spoiled, vicious daughter Tara, who uses both her business skills and outright violence to rule Hughes' Point with an iron fist.
"But her reign may be coming to an end. Ibis' prot?g?e, the Red Owl, is coming to Hughes' Point to end the makeup-wearing menace once and for all..."
Another rogue for my original superheroine, and some new experimenting with style. I'm planning to render a fight scene between Blackface and Red Owl with a minimal palette of just black, white, and red (although whether or not this will actually work in D|S has yet to be seen...) |
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| Romata vs. Andarov
Gnostic85 Original Characters 2007/7/23 22:17
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| I love a good swordfight. And thus was this pic born, featuring two of the major characters from my book, Prince Fryderyk Andarov and Lord-General Atreus Romata, in a fight to the death. Whether this actually appears in my book or not, I've not yet decided. From a visual standpoint, it looks cool, and it's exactly the way the Lord-General would want to go down - taking as many pounds of flesh off his enemy as possible - but on the other hand it wouldn't make sense for an egotistical prince like Fryderyk to strip down to his skivvies, especially since, as one can see in the picture, he looks much less impressive without his soldier's uniform. |
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| Romata vs. Andarov (Cold Blue Version)
Gnostic85 Original Characters 2007/8/5 19:49
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| A second version of my picture "Romata vs. Andarov", this one rendered in cold colors... |
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| Ruse (Disco-Style Costume)
Gnostic85 Original Characters 2007/8/31 13:39
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| This is what comes of listening to too much funk while working in DAZ Studio... |
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| Smackdown 3! Part 1.5: The Ambush
Gnostic85 Smackdown 2008/8/4 0:29
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In a strange reversal of the order of things, the poor bastard sent to ambush and teleport Ystina is himself surprised...
"Shining Knight! You have been selected for OH SHIT!" |
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