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Zael

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The Oriental World is a place like Earth, a sort of parallel universe linked
to the Humans' world. There live several tribes, all different and unique.
The first tribe who settled in this world is the Oriental Tribe, a village of
elves who worship deities for their natural beauty and skills they have
for contortion. This is the main art of all tribes in this world. Each tribe
has his own skills and specialties. They all practice contortion, waist
cinching, tight lacing, and other forms of art which require a lot of
flexibility, but they all have their own way of doing it. For example,
the Oriental Tribe is better at backbending and waist cinching, while
other tribes are better at dancing, with some very impressive and
limber moves, or better at frontbending. It really depends on the
tribe's past, people living in it and also geographical location. 

The Oriental Tribe is settled in the middle of a huge island, that can
be compared to a continent. There live other tribes, such as naga
tribes, mermen tribes, kemonomimi tribes, or even demon tribes.
And one of these tribes live near the volcano of the island, where
nobody else could live because of the weather there and the heat.

The Demonic Tribe lives down the volcano mountain, which is also
called Peril Mountain because nobody else can live there. The weather
is too hot, the air seems thick and it's hard to breathe properly for
elves or other tribes. Except for the demons who are used to heat and
couldn't live in a colder place. This is the perfect place for them actually
and it even allows them to do some extreme contortion, because
demons' body would feel way more flexible in a very hot environment.
And if they would want to visit other villages, they would need to wear
a special pendant with a magic pearl of magma in a bottle made with
glass that only Demons can craft. This would allow them to move
anywhere they want. It would regulate the temperature of their body
so they would never feel cold.

While elves go to a contortion school to train at a very young age,
demons practice with their family or friends and even sometimes some
of them have a private teacher. That means this teacher will only
teaches to this demon and no other ones. There are only a few of them,
so children having a private teacher are very very special and lucky. 

Zael is one of the most special demon of the Demonic Tribe. He never
learned contortion from his family or friends, never had any teacher either.
What makes him special and very unique is the way he can easily do
extreme contortion without any help nor advices. He would just sit, fold him
back and go further until his legs go behind his back, then along his chest,
to finally rest on the ground, his back making a nice and impressive curl. Not
only that, while all the other children would need help for achieving this pose,
Zael does it on his own. “No need of a teacher, I can do it by myself”, he
would say. And that would impress everybody in the village, and even the
other Tribes would be amazed by such a prodigy. 

Zael is not only an impressive child because of his skills, he's also the most
beautiful and adorable child in the Demonic Tribe. Some children would
even feel jealous sometimes. Because they are children after all, and can
be jealous easily for things they can't even change, such as appearances,
hair color, eyes color. In the Demonic Tribe, having blond and fluffy hair,
blue eyes and soft skin like this is a sign of nobility that is very much
respected, admired and loved. This is also part of why Zael is so special.
He's actually the only one of the Tribe having such hair color and eyes.
In his family, quite long ago, when even his parents were not born yet,
there was a demon who had blond hair like this with deep blue eyes.
He was considered as a noble and would be respected a lot by not only
the demons of his own Tribe, but by everybody else living on the
continent. 

Zael is going to become such a demon when he's older. He's already
very much like it and demons from the Tribe already love and admire
him a lot. His parents are very proud of him and couldn't ask for a better
child. They take great care of their child and give him a lot of love. 


This is a collaboration with yuni
I drew the sketch of this character and Yuni drew the final artwork.
Here is the other submission: Demon Zael

Character and story by Aldric-Cheylan ©
Illustration by yuni ©
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WaspWaistLover's avatar
Well, THIS collaboration worked very well, Aldric. Of course any DA member would see at once the 'touch' of the Yuni Master but your basic pose is indeed your work, although similar to the Bendies. Yet, Zael has such a long tail! I do not remember Yuni using tails, at least on a well known character. My characters, The Canids, are large, powerful wolf-dog beings living on a distant world of Erd, and they have long but thick prehensile tails with two 'fingers' on the end. Despite being tremendously heavy, they can actual hang by their tales from tree branches in an emergency! My best, WWL