Comission Info

SECRET SANTA WISHLIST
Here is my wishlist for the Secret Santa being run by *Skwinky

I warn, it is long. I picked 6-7 characters that I have a decent amount of reference for to link to for your convenience, and provided some character description for in case I got a writer-type, but if you happen to know my characters well and/or see someone else in my gallery you'd much rather draw, please, feel free! :3 Surprises are also fun!

TRISTAN / NIKODEMUS (protagonists)

full colour: [link]
character design (expressions, turnarounds): [link]
ATC: [link] (Nikodemus is "The Magician" card)

Tristan and Nikodemus are two personalities that share one body, that of a somewhat lanky 17-year-old boy. Most people call this "Dissociative Identity Disorder," or "Multiple Personality Disorder." Tristan, due to Nikodemus, has spent the majority of his life in the Treatment Centre for Troubled Children, the only real residential treatment centre in the area (which is in dire need of funding).
Tristan is cautious and careful and wants desperately to be sane and rid of Nikodemus, so that he can be released from the Centre and finally live a normal life. He is a good student and an obedient patient, working hard to please his psychologists and keepers. Though he tries hard to remain calm, he's actually very emotional and easily riled up, and has an unfortunate tendency to forget that talking to Nikodemus = talking to himself like a crazy person.
If one of them were to be considered the "original personality," it would be Tristan, though he's been aware of the presence of Nikodemus since he was very young.
Nikodemus is passionate, spastic, and magic-obsessed, dedicating every moment he can get "out front" to studying magic and learning how to stop the twisted magic that he is very, very convinced is leaking into the world. Unfortunately, his constantly coming out and chanting in strange languages and writing weird runes on the walls of his room and yammering on about how evil magic is seeping in through the Centre's basement doesn't go over too well with his keepers.
Despite being far less nervous than Tristan, Nikodemus is bizarrely more fragile. He is extremely oversensitive to any kind of medication and far more likely to get sick or hurt than Tristan is. Unlike Tristan, he doesn't want to be alone; he wishes the two of them could work together.


ALISTER (antagonist)

batch of sketches: [link] (he's the dark-skinned guy with the lisp)
Closer up:
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Alister is newer, and has no canon colours as of yet. I've played around a bit ([link] and [link] and [link] ) but haven't decided on anything yet, so you get to pick whatever you like! :3

Alister is a faerie from the dark part of Europe's history when faeries were actually scary magical beings who toyed with humans for entertainment. He serves the Fey Court as a master of curses, scrying, and… not much else; he prefers long-distance magic, since going out into the light makes his eyes bleed if he hasn't taken pains to shield them.
He's got sort of a mad scientist's demeanour, being simultaneously very serious about his work and giddy with sadistic glee over the prospect of doing horrible, horrible things to mortals. Alister likes to believe he is suave and confident, but in reality he is a desperate schemer, and he'd be pretty frightening to encounter if it weren't for an extremely prominent lisp that undermines his every attempt to be impressive.
The dark faerie occasionally tries to disguise himself and slip unnoticed into mortal society to do his queen's bidding, but with a lisp he can't get rid of and limited illusion magic, he's not hard to identify if you're looking for him -- though these shortcomings only make him all the more desperate to prove his worth and competence to his superiors.

If you can imagine an Affably Evil version of Invader Zim, you're on the right track. He'd invite you to tea while plotting your dooooooom.


SEVERIAN (protagonist)
expressions: [link]
turnaround: [link]
chibi: [link]
full colour image: [link]
transformation: [link]

Severian is a 20-year-old runewriter; that is, a magic-user whose spells involve writing very precise runes beforehand and activating them later. His magic is exclusively shape-changing, and it's not always super-reliable -- the most noticeable example of this being the tentacled-hands he now can't get rid of. His favourite form is that of a large dragon, a creature he grew familiar with as a child, but he can turn into other animals as well.
His clothing does not shift with him, thus he wears very little.
The shape-changer's job is to serve as a bodyguard for his best friend, Tareth, and protect his town from demons and other monsters. He is rash, taking courage to the level of foolhardiness, a bit hot-headed when he gets riled up, and thrives on having a dangerous job, but he takes his role as "protector" very seriously -- for those he loves, especially Tareth, he is protective and self-sacrificing to a fault.

TARETH (protagonist)
expressions: [link]
chibi: [link]
colour images: [link]
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[link] (by *zimmay - I actually like her portrayal better than mine. XD )

Tareth is a 17-year-old mundane girl, best friend of Severian, and profoundly deaf. Though extensive schooling and speech therapy have enabled her to read lips, sign, and speak, her lack of friends -- other than Severian -- has left her shy and self-conscious. She depends heavily on the older boy, sometimes for translation and sometimes simply for emotional support, but really wants to be able to help herself.
With those she is comfortable with, Tareth can be more open and teasing, but with anyone, she is truly empathetic and caring. She has difficulty believing that everyone does not have some good in them, which makes her both very accepting... and very naïve.

JONAN (jerk protagonist)

chibi: [link]
ATC: [link] (he's the Death card)
assorted sketches: [link] (he draws blood to power his magic, just btw)
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Jonan is a 29-year-old runewriter who specialises in Necromancy. Arrogant, haughty, powerful, and entitled, it was quite a blow to the man's ego when a miscast spell accidentally sealed his lips shut. He is -- or was, before the miscast -- the most powerful necromancer in the country… and he still acts the part, despite his handicap.
Physically, Jonan is extremely thin for his height (6'4"), frail, and prematurely aged (looking in his 40s rather than late twenties) due to the draining nature of the death/life-magic he wields. He is currently unable to speak due to the whole 'mouth doesn't open' thing, frustrated by his inability to communicate, and compensates for this humiliation by treating everyone around him like dirt.

MASTER QUENTIN AGORATH (antagonist)

sketch reference: [link]
ATC: [link]
older reference for all his crap: [link]
assorted sketches: [link]
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the room he works in: [link]

Master Quentin Agorath is the sleep-deprived head of an extremely devoted cult of ritual magic and general spooky occultish-ness who has become obsessed with his work and run himself ragged, keeping every magical component he can possibly carry strapped to him at all times.
Though he is a genius in the field of magic, he’s absent-minded in all others, so while he can be trusted to have every word of every incantation memorised perfectly, remembering things like “the keys to his study” or “the Order’s secret password” or “the name of his wife” is sometimes difficult for him.
He is almost always intensely serious, but somewhat distracted by his own thoughts, and falls just a little bit short of "sane."