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The tragedies they’ve been through and the way they see deep into the other’s soul will always fuel me 🥲🩷

#OC #Sariel #Ephiel

Share your red art! 🩸

Little vampire AU doodle between Ephiel and Chamuel~

#OC #Ephiel #Chamuel CW: blood

A watercolor painting of Ephiel, an angel with gold skin, white robes and white hair with a big red scarf flowing around his outfit. He has a gold and white snake wrapped around one arm with a lot of jewelry on him and is holding a floating red book. A tree with golden bark and white leaves is growing from behind his back and yellow light is radiating out from behind him.

Art Fight OC Intro #4: Ephiel 💛

#Ephiel is the Keeper of Records—protecting the memories and potential futures of all living things and plays a role in the Day of Judgement. He’s agender, disabled, and a survivor of familial trafficking/abuse!

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Although he’s not human, #Ephiel is intersex! His body has a mix of sex characteristics and he (very happily) has quite a lot to work with! He was my very first intersex OC. It’s also nonbinary~

(NSFW art in replies)

A traditional ink illustration of Sariel holding an injured and stabbed Ephiel, lying on the ground curled up and bleeding from a big gash in his chest. Sariel's wings are broken and torn, and both are naked.

#Sariel and #Ephiel are two of my most notable survivors (TW: child sexual abuse)

These two were raised by the same father figure, who abused them and used them both against each other to try to break Ephiel's spirit enough that he'd give him access to the Records (and a lot of power).

(con't)

Ephiel does! Technically this form of his is held up by glimmers. He’s actually very sick and looks somewhat…horrific? A lot of missing or almost rot-like parts to him. His abuser essentially poisoned him his whole life, and it takes a toll. Even with glimmers, scars still show!

#Ephiel #OCLore

#Ephiel hasn’t changed all that much, but he has a bit! He’s become more ornate and androgynous, but kept his gold skin and white hair. His eyes have shifted colors throughout the decade between blue and red, or both!

The newest bit is actually drawing his scars~ #OC

A digital painting with flat tones, of Ephiel floating before a dark nebula background. He has dark gold skin with curly white hair and undercut, with simple gold jewelry on his hands, arms, and ears. A long red scarf flows around the composition towards the viewer, and a yellow sun-like halo surrounds him.

One of the last digital paintings I made of #Ephiel, before I switched nearly full time to using watercolor~ Even though my work has improved a lot over the years, I still love the swirl of his red scarf in this one!

#OCSky #SaplingArt #DigitalArt

A digital drawing of a wingless angel with gold skin and short white wavy hair, in thick covering white robes. A red scarf swirls around him, with a sash at his waist as well. A soft gold gradient illuminates him from the back.

This is one of the first paintings I ever made of #Ephiel! Besides getting more details, his basic design really hasn't changed all that much: always the red scarf and fully covering robes. #OCSky

An intricate watercolor of Ephiel floating in space, with a golden tree of white leaves rising from behind his back, with streams of gold light around him. His hair is white and fluffy, framed by an intricate gold halo, his skin is golden with delicate scars, covered up with swirling sigil patterns, wearing robes that mostly cover his body except for his hands and shoulders, with a long red scarf sweeping around. A gold and white snake sits in his hand, mouth open towards a levitating red book with gold sigils.

A watercolor painting of Ephiel, a gold skinned, wingless, masculine angel with a lot of small scars and long raised on his body, from his torso to face to arms and legs. He is wearing a tiny black robe and skirt, and his hands are posed in front of him in a delicate manner. He has wavy short, white hair and behind him is a textured wall with a stained glass design, somewhat reminiscent of peacock feathers in a circle.

A lot of my OCs have scars with stories, but #Ephiel has the most! His came from millennia of being trapped and hurt by a father-figure, who wanted to gain Ephiel's spiritual power.

Ephiel's scars are a "glimmer" meaning they mask the real deeper damage, and his gold sigils follow the scar pattern!

A watercolor painting of Ephiel, an angel with gold skin, white robes and white hair with a big red scarf flowing around his outfit. He has a gold and white snake wrapped around one arm with a lot of jewelry on him and is holding a floating red book. A tree with golden bark and white leaves is growing from behind his back and yellow light is radiating out from behind him. Written character details share his role as Record Keeper and more. His pronouns are he/they. His personality is friendly, optimistic, tired, and resilient. His hobbies are dreaming, dancing, exploring the Records, and mentoring others. He likes emotional music, plants, the Tree of Life, and traveling and dislikes orange, green, abrasive music, people who judge others without knowing them, and sweet foods. His patron animal is an amelanistic ball python, season is early fall, plant is a canopy tree, card is Wheel of Fortune, sin is sloth, and stones are sodalite and lapis lazuli.

#Ephiel: Keeper of The Records, guarding and maintaining a holy Record of all memories, futures, pasts... Because of this job, his abuser wanted to control him and use the power for his own, to basically change fate and become as God.

Ephiel is agender, w/ CPTSD, chronic pain/fatigue, and scarring!

A watercolor painting of Ephiel standing in a demure pose, with only a small black wrap dress around his waist and chest. His skin is gold with many scars, with white hair and gentle closed eyes. The background of purple patterning and a peacock-like stained glass contrasts his golden skin.

A skimpy little costume for #Ephiel tonight~

#OCSky #Watercolor #OC

A close up of the same portrait of Ephiel at the start of this post, but with light gold geometric sigils on his skin.

A photo of liquid melted gold, with bright and deep warm brown tones.

5. Are they a color?

#Ephiel is definitely gold! Their skin is literally a gold color, plus they're often glowing with lighter gold sigils that cover their scars.

Their colors are from the Tree of Life at the center of the Records they keep. The Tree has gold branches and white leaves!

A masculine person with sunglasses and brown skin wearing a loosely tied silken gold scarf over their head.

A long gold and black 'kimono' style, shown from the back, with intricate floral details and a little fringe.

A long black and gold abaya, with fine details, with a gold trimmed headscarf.

Small heeled boots with a rose gold and gold details embroidered on black fabric.

3. 4 pics that describe their fashion sense!

(Oooooo #Ephiel is a gender honestly)

An image of a questions meme for OCs. From top to bottom, text reads: One like, one question! OC Vibe Check Answer the questions with pictures or links! Share their vibes! 1. What song are they? Link below one example! 2. What animal are they? Why that animal? 3. Share four pictures to describe their fashion sense! 4. What flower are they? Any symbolism? Explain it! 5. Are they a color? Let's see it! Tell us why! 6. If they were an instrument, what would it be? Why? 7. Share four memes that remind you of them! 8. What drink? Non-alcoholic or alcoholic! Why? 9. Of the four elements, which are they? Why? 10. Share a quote that reminds you of them! @cannibalanders

A watercolor painting of Ephiel, an angel with gold skin, white robes and white hair with a big red scarf flowing around his outfit. He has a gold and white snake wrapped around one arm with a lot of jewelry on him and is holding a floating red book. A tree with golden bark and white leaves is growing from behind his back and yellow light is radiating out from behind him. He also has bright gold sigils on his skin.

One like equals one answer! Let’s do this for #Ephiel ❤️💛

#OCLore

A digital painting of a pale slender masculine angel, with huge blue and black wings, sitting posed in a powerful yet subtle way, holding a golden sword. He has piercing dangerous bright blue eyes and short wavy black hair.

10. Villain OC: Siren

He’s the only villain OC I have, and he’s the father-like abuser of #Sariel and #Ephiel. He’s a spirit who claimed to be as powerful as, basically, God—convincing a lot of other angels to follow him and tyrannical rule, stealing power from Ephiel’s connection to the Records.

Watercolor painting of Sariel and Ephiel. Ephiel is leaning against Sariel‘s chest in an embrace with Sariel’s arm wrapping around him. Sariel has brown skin and fluffy brown hair in a bit of a bowl cut and damaged purple wings. Ephiel doesn’t have any wings and has curly white hair and gold skin with a red scarf and white robes. The painting is tender, both of their eyes closed, with floating lights of purple and blue around them.

8. Fav OC ship:

#Sariel and #Ephiel! They were basically raised together by an abusive (false) father-figure, with Ephiel protecting Sariel the whole time (but in complicated, difficult ways). Once free, their bond became even more unbreakable ❤️‍🩹

A grid of nine illustrations of Ephiel, ranging in quality and media from 2014 to 2023. In all of them, he has gold skin and white short wavy or curly hair, with an androgynous demeanor. Sometimes he has gold markings on his skin and he always has some form of a red scarf and white flowing robes.

1. Oldest OC: #Ephiel!

He’s been around in concept so long that I’ve completely lost my very early art of him, but here’s his designs over a decade!

Ephiel is definitely the most self-inserty of all OCs, ofc. Normal for old childhood OCs 🤣 He’s also the insp behind my name ‘Sapling’

#Ephiel (he/they) is an agender spirit who guards a dimension that holds the memories of all living beings~!

#watercolour #painting

An older watercolor of Ephiel, a young slightly more masculine spirit with gold skin and white fluffy short hair, holding a book and writing with a red feather pen, in a simple white robe with a red and gold scarf.

A watercolor painting of Ephiel, an angel with gold skin, white robes and white hair with a big red scarf flowing around his outfit. He has a gold and white snake wrapped around one arm with a lot of jewelry on him and is holding a floating red book. A tree with golden bark and white leaves is growing from behind his back and yellow light is radiating out from behind him.

#bweirdOCtober 5: Redesigned OC

#Ephiel has gone through the biggest redesign! His skin (minus scars) and hair was mostly the same, along with the red scarf he’s known for, but his outfit became more ornate. It better represented his agender-ness and gave the spiritual vibe he always had! #OC

I will probably very rarely post a process video (as I know watercolor painting can be fun to watch!) but I truly hope still images of mine get the most love 🥰 You can see the finished painting under my tag #Ephiel ✨

A digital painting of a delicate gold skinned wingless angel with a skinny and scarred body, holding his arm behind his head to lift it. He has light hair and a halo. He’s laying back, legs spread, revealing someone inside his front hole, and also has a penis above that.

I love this intersex angel~ #Ephiel #NSFWart #OCs

Here’s #Ephiel! He’s an intersex spirit that guards the divine Records and Tree of Life, and he was created farrrr before gender was ever a concept!

So, Ephiel is agender (he/they) and often wears flowy clothes, scarves and head coverings, and (of course!) lots of jewelry. #OCLore #TransArtist

Oh...I love this! #Ephiel is my oldest #OC and he's stayed true to a lot (hair, skin, gender, story) but his outfit has changed a ton over time~ And I finally started painting his scars too!

Watercolor painting of Sariel and Ephiel. Ephiel is leaning against Sariel‘s chest in an embrace with Sariel’s arm wrapping around him. Sariel has brown skin and fluffy brown hair in a bit of a bowl cut and damaged purple wings. Ephiel doesn’t have any wings and has curly white hair and gold skin with a red scarf and white robes. The painting is tender, both of their eyes closed, with floating lights of purple and blue around them.

#Ephiel and #Sariel are a sadder story of survival. They were controlled by a spirit who acted as their father for most of their lives, surviving some really horrible abuse together. Its hard to kill angels, but they got close a few times 🥹

Now they’re safe and much happier though! Strong babies 💗

A detailed character sheet of Ephiel who is listed as a guardian of the records and a record keeper spirit. There are a lot of text boxes describing his personality, likes, dislikes, and patron symbols. Ephiel is painted in watercolor and has gold skin white robes, a red scarf and short white hair in ethereal way and has a book floating in one hand with a snake wrapped around that arm has a lot of ornate jewelry in the background makes it look like there’s a golden tree out of his back.

Another watercolor of Ephiel, but this time he only has a small black robe on which shows a lot of the scars on his gold skin. His short wavy white hair is cute, and his expression is delicate with his eyes, gazing down, and his hands gently held in front of his stomach. The background is an interesting purple watercolor with his stain glass design that somewhat resembles a peacock feather circle behind it.

First #PrideMonth OC: Ephiel!

He’s agender/fluid and is kinda just an ancient…tree spirit/ethereal librarian? Anyways, he’s adorable and queer.

Ephiel represents a lot of trauma healing in his story—a narrative a lot of us nonbinary folks (unfortunately) can relate to. ❤️‍🩹

#OC #Ephiel #QueerArt

A watercolor painting of Ephiel, a wingless angel with gold skin and short wavy white hair, floating with a gold tree growing from his back. He wears flowing white robes with a red scarf, and a black under suit covers most of his scars. He also has an ornate halo.

A simpler watercolor portrait of Nzuzi, a young Black man with some of Ephiel’s facial features apparent (being a human reincarnation and all). He has dreadlocks tied back into a ponytail and gold hair jewelry and eye shadow—matching the gold tones in Ephiel.

Ohhh yes, pretty boys! Tbh that’s ALL of mine…but rn I think I wanna share #Ephiel and one of his human forms, #Nzuzi! 🥰 (Ephiel, being an angel, has human reincarnations hehe)

A watercolor painting of Ephiel, an androgynous spirit with white robes and a red scarf, gold skin, and gold branches growing out of his back.

The same watercolor, zoomed in, with bright gold sigil decorations on Ephiel’s skin.

Ephiel doesn’t always have plant-like growth on him (but often can!) but he’s essentially a “Tree of Life” spirit and sometimes has the branches growing out of his back, in place of wings! When the energy is strong, he has sigils (like branch patterns) all over, following his scars, too #Ephiel

Oh, fun topic! Outfit design has never been my strength, but over the years I finally got a grasp on Ephiel’s. It started with basic white robes and a red scarf…but the gender vibes felt wrong until his final!

Now, it covers up some scars, plus the jewelry gives him princely vibes~ #Ephiel #OC

Ohhhh I’ve made so much Ephiel art I’m not sure I can squeeze it all in! #Ephiel #OCArt #AngelArt