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Man, I just love delinquent characters and stories! Some of the best manga I have ever read were about badass banchos and sukebons fighting it out after school.
I love that character archetype so much that I made two of my characters have delinquent backgrounds.
Ariel is the youngest human retainer to participate in the 3rd Tryfing, he was the second character conceptualize and his deity was already chosen to be Lugh from the beginning.
Ariel feels lonely and isolated from the world, he doesn’t fit in and is unable to truly understand or articulate his feelings and thoughts to others.
He wishes to make his father proud but doesn’t exactly know how, there’s this big rift between him and his father (who also doesn’t know how to convey or articulate his feelings to his son, as he never had a true father to show him how)
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The only thing that bridges the two is their love of music from the 70s-80s. I just think there’s a lot of beauty in something as sad as this, two people who want to show affection and love but something mentally or emotionally hinders them from doing so. Causing this big misunderstanding between them that continues to make the rift grow.
So Ariel story is going to be one of understanding one’s self and acceptance of one’s self. Lugh story reflects that as well so putting the two together as a team was a no brainer.
Honestly it’s almost as if Ariel and Lugh are the same person hm…. Weird…
Music has played a big role in my upbringing and my relationship with my own father. I wanted to do something that the creators of JoJo or guilty gear would do. Use a band and have that band either appear on the character or become a part of their design (like sol badguy had all the Queen references)
Joy division is probably my favorite or second favorite band (next to the smiths) so I wanted them to have an impact in all of my works. Joy disorder is a reference to that band and even their iconic band shirt is apart of Ariel design.( his battle form will also have a lot of references to the band and his status as a delinquent knight)
This is the updated re-design I cooked up, drawn by the talented Aru(Check him out on insta aru_artss)
If you want to know more about the influences that went into this character please read “rookies” the baseball Shonen jump manga(underrated and phenomenal series by the way), “slam dunk” basketball Shonen jump manga, “Crows” manga, “shonan junai gumi” and its sequel series “Great teacher Onizuka” “Yu Yu Hakusho”,
The high and low live action shows and moves “Crows zero” and Crows zero 2” movies for all your bad-ass delinquent action.(crows zero 2 is the best of the two tbh.)
There’s a lot more to Ariel and the deity he represents in this Tryfing and I can’t wait for y’all to learn more about the bancho of San Juan!
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( Drawn by the other talented artist, Todrawki)