Duke in Yesterday's Skit

With art and explanations! 

But before that, I have to say something. No school tomorrow and Friday. Yay! 

Oh and as for those weird-looking letters in yesterday's post title, cw Exp means content warning Explicit. Just in case. Because of the context in it at some parts. Like towards the end. And for the swears too. Censoring the vowels just in case. Might stop doing that though. 

So yeah. :) 

So, uh, I drew something today. Less than an hour ago, to be more specific.

Haha yes. Of course I had to draw him like that. :'D 

I drew Duke in the part of yesterday's skit when he opened the bathroom door and is standing in front of the bathroom. 

This part: [Duke opens the bathroom door. A room full of steam is behind him. His hair is wet, a towel is wrapped around his waist with one hand holding part of the towel and the other hand in a fist that's emitting orange flames.]  

I was too lazy to draw two eyes, so he's winking in my drawing. ;) 

Here it is: 

That wink tho. 

Drew him silly like how he is in skits. :3 

Pfft, he looks like such a wimp. XD 

That's how I imagined the towel. Yeah wow, it's not red or black. He probably looks best in red or black, but I'm trying to imagine him wearing other colors. 

I drew this in less than an hour. Used no refs. The anatomy is off, I'm pretty sure. 

The light gray lines in the background are supposed to be the steam from inside the bathroom. There's a steam cloud at the top as well. 

And yes, I know. I drew his hair shorter than in my other recent Duke drawings. Yeah, I already know that. 

Have an awful explanation: 

I imagine there being two universes involving my characters. The first one is the actual canon Twinkle's Story (the chapters) and the second one is basically the skit posts. 

The time for a lot of recent skits takes place after the actual Twinkle's Story is finished. Except unlike the actual story, Duke doesn't die and become the part of Fierdan that Fierdan lost to create Duke. In skits, even if they're all human, Duke and Fierdan are two separate people. 

In some skits, I know Duke talked about seeing other characters die, being tortured, and severely hurting other characters. Well basically, skit Duke is talking about scenes that will happen in the story. To make it simple, the story is the sad tragedy version while the skits are more lighthearted and funny. 

Duke also talked about the deaths of characters in other skits. Remember how I just said that the recent skits take place after the events of Twinkle's Story? Yeah of course you do. Anyway, certain characters that are in the skits do die in the story. So when Duke is referring to their deaths, he means the story universe which is separate from the skit universe. 

And as for why I drew this skit Duke with shorter dark brown/black hair, it's because Duke's hair gets chopped off and his head shaved in a few more chapters. So it'll take a while for his hair to fully grow back. Which is why his hair is a little shorter than before it got cut off and shaved.

Oh shoot yeah. I drew Duke with wet hair. There are drops of water about to drip off the tips of his hairs.

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That line where Duke was shouting/singing in yesterday's skit also has deep meaning. I'll go more in depth in another post about it. I'll just be basic and vague now though.

Anyway, that line in the skit is supposed to be more ridiculous and bad sounding than another version of it.

Just like how I said I imagine Twinkle singing a song about herself in certain fairly recent chapters, I imagine Duke singing a song about himself in several chapters in the future. 

For the beginning half of the Duke song, it goes like: "I'm called a demon. You heard me screamin'."  

For the ending half of the song, Duke is shouting as he sings, and it goes like: "Oh, 'cause I'm a demon. I heard you screamin'." 

So like when Duke said that in the skit, it's me trying to show that those words are parts of a song I'm working on. 

The context of the song is very violent and graphic story material. Basically, it's a song summarizing the torture story arc. Featuring lots of pain, body horror and blood, deaths, rage, and losses of sanity. 

The beginning half says "you heard me screamin'" which is referring to when Duke is being hurt severely and screaming in pain. The ending half says "I heard you screamin'" which is referring to Duke severely hurting the same person who hurt him. 

When Duke would give the person who was torturing him that iconic sadistic look, he's gonna say one of my favorite lines in the story. And it'll go something like, "Now it's my turn." 

And the karma basically means that Duke is gonna severely hurt the person who has been torturing him in the same ways he was tortured the most.  

In the skit, Duke said something about "my two blackened eyes and blood dripping everywhere". It's worded vaguely, and those are the two main results of the torturing. There are more, but those are the most common and often.

Injured, burned out eyes. Being forced to bleed excessively. Yeah, painful. I won't go into specifics on how though. Definitely not now. Can't reveal all the specifics, haha.

How it happens is more on the creative side though. Pretty different. 

Since the torturing makes Duke lose his humanity, he becomes someone who's brutal and full of years of anguish and rage let out at the fullest extent. Because of Duke evolving from civilized human to impatient demon, the injuries he gets aren't as fatal and damaging to his body. So he would be able to go on the offense and switch the roles around to become the attacker. Not much effort and strength is needed to cause the injuries that Duke is gonna do to the person who previously tortured him, and Duke's unnatural body chemistry due to being the fusion of Fierdan and Soulless finally being let out at full power and effects lets him be able to cause severe pain to others more easily than before.

Yeah eesh wow. Duke.. what a guy. One minute a funny fool, the next a person who could cause a ton of pain and even death.

And now it's hard for me to decide on whose past was more terrible. Duke's or Fierdan's. It's probably Fierdan's, but Duke's is actually a lot of pain and messed up stuff. Duke lost his memories of how bad his childhood was, and it gets a lot worse than what was already mentioned in chapters.

Dawn made Duke forget his connection to Fierdan and his Fierdan memories. But Duke also forgot his own past memories.

Poor, scarred boy. ;; 

Harassed. Violated. Less than human. Being told they're burdens that shouldn't be alive. Being told to die. Not being shown proper care and affection by parental figures.

That's something Duke and Dawn share. In very different ways. Things they can't remember anymore due to how bad those things were. Repressed so much all memories have been erased from their minds. 

Yeah, guess I should mention that Dawn's past is also very sad and messed up. Thinking of her past makes me want to cry, it's that horrible. 

Before the whole Soulless thing gets deeply involved with Fierdan, I really think Dawn's past was the worst.

Whew.. ok then, Cutepups. Geez. 

Ha, ha, aaaaaaaa. 

Bye now. 

~ Cutepups <3