EmptyDeath Kiss
[oc Lord Death, The Empty Knight]Very much inspired by Klimt's "The Kiss"!
I just think the grim reaper should have a charming knight husband, y'know? Human rights and whatnot.
But real talk: Lord Death and The Empty Knight are like... The Kevin Bacon of my oc universe. Other than being a really sweet couple with a HUGE storyline, they have knock on effects for baaaasically everything, from Gallow's Creek to the pantheon. I'll lore dump the premise of their relationship below; don't feel inclined to read it, because it's a doozy!
So The Empty Knight was cursed by his sister, right? His sister was evil and saw a terrifying amount of good in her brother, so she dumped him with a curse that made him strong, durable, and near invulnerable to near everything! But in exchange, upon her death, he would have that power sucked from him and be left to die a slow, agonising, emotionless death, leaving him and all close enough to the curse empty. Tl;dr she gave him the tools to do all he ever wanted to dissuade him from enacting justice on her.
So he took it on the chin and made the most of it! Even branded himself as it! And travelled the land as a free-to-hire mercenary who took pride in saving the less fortunate and freeing slaves. Upon these travels he met Lord Death. His curse is why he became friends with him. Death was like "Grief is nothing to me, so I'll be your friend. I'll even wipe that curse off your soul when you die" and they became void buddies.
Thennnn fast forward to the first crusades (oh yeah this story goes between roughly the 11th-18th centuries), where Clerics of Death are beginning to be harassed and assaulted for performing unions of marriage between homosexual/polygamous/"not acceptable" folk, something which is not at all a big deal in Lord Death's mythos, and Death is real heckin mad. But if he just, what, smited all those crusading, what would he accomplish? It's not his job to step in like that. He's a god; he only cares about keeping order in his domain. BUT HIS CLERICS BEING HARASSED IS REALLY PISSING HIM OFF.
So Empty, a good friend of his by this point, just goes, "Listen pal. I'm really popular among the common folk. The magically and spiritually aligned love/fear you. Could you imagine how much attention we'd grab if /we/ got married? Plus how much hope we'd inspire?"
And Death goes, "Plus it'd be really damn funny"
"Oh of course my friend. This'll be fucking hilarious"
So they get married for the bit. And they both assumed this wouldn't inspire anything within them.Feb 4, 2023
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#originalcharacters
#doodle
#thekiss
#romance
Comments
“Hahaa. Wouldn’t it be funny if we kissed dude?... Like ironically?... DUUDE it would be SOO wild if we actually got married and pretended to be a couple and did couple stuff as a joke... but not seriously married just jokingly it’s not like we’d hold hands or anything haa”
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